A proposal by fertility researchers to “harvest” female gametes, “ova,” from the dead bodies of aborted children to create in vitro embryos in the lab has created a small buzz among the pro-life websites, blogs and Facebook in the last couple of days. But the buzz is over a story that appeared in the Daily Mail nearly ten years ago, about research that has very likely moved along considerably in that time. In July 2003, the Daily Mail wrote about the work of a team of researchers from Israel, revealed at the annual conference of the European Society of Human […]
The abortion debate is about whether you “should or should not dispose of things in your uterus.” So said MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry during a debate on Easter Sunday about morality. This comes only a week after another appearance on MSNBC in which Harris-Perry spoke of the unborn child as a “thing” that “might turn into a human.” (As if it has ever turned into anything else!) Even more ambiguously she repeatedly referred to the unborn child as simply “this,” saying: “But the very idea that this would constitute a person, right?” Later she added, “But the reality is that if this turns into a person, […]
British Supreme Court Rejects Case of Marriage Registrar Forced to Perform Gay Ceremonies by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The case of the Christian civil registrar being forced by her employers to perform homosexual civil partnership ceremonies does not raise issues of “general public importance,” according to the Supreme Court. The court rejected Lillian Ladele’s request for an appeal and Ladele is now considering taking her case to the European Court of Human Rights. Ladele, an evangelical Christian, had worked for 16 years as a registrar for the Islington council. In 2005 the Labour government […]