Abortionist repents, surrenders abortion instruments to Pope Francis

ROME, September 30, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this month, an Italian gynaecologist met with Pope Francis in an audience and handed over the surgical “instruments of death” he had used as an abortionist. The pope told Dr. Antonio Oriente that he would keep the instruments, to “pray upon” them. Oriente had come to Rome to attend the meeting of gynaecologists who were scheduled for an audience with the pope. Upon meeting Pope Francis, he said, “Holy Father, I already don’t do abortions, I am in favour of life. I’d like a blessing for physicians who want to form a medical […]
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Sandra Bullock: If somebody said ‘You have five more kids,’ I’d be totally OK with it

A tip of the hat to Christina Martin. Writing at Live Action News, she alerted me and everybody else to a wonderful interview actress Sandra Bullock recently gave to Vogue magazine. As Christina began, “Who doesn’t have a soft spot for Sandra Bullock? From ‘Miss Congeniality’ to ‘The Blind Side’ her funny, sweet performances have captured the hearts of movie goers worldwide.” (My entire family would add to that list, “While You Were Sleeping.”) Vogue writer Jason Gay, like most men, clearly is in love with Bullock. But the profile is more than a 3,396-word-long hosanna. Mr. Gay makes us […]
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Forced caesareans in India surrogacy clinic

The San Francisco Chronicle has a long and amazing story on surrogacy in India. It reveals how terribly the “gestational carriers” are exploited. For example, in one clinic three-quarters of all the children are born surgically by caesarean–and, it would appear, with inadequate post-surgical pain control. Since these women have no power, one could say they are “forced” into surgery along with being exploited in surrogacy. From “Outsourcing a Life:” On a mattress in her room at the clinic, Manisha struggled through the early stages of recovery. Even eating and sitting hurt, thanks to the incision on her abdomen. Her cesarean section, […]
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MP withdraws euthanasia bill after pressure from Labour Party colleagues

A bill to legalise voluntary euthanasia in New Zealand has been withdrawn amid fears it would become a political football. Labour MP Maryan Street (left) withdrew her End of Life Choice Bill on 26 September before the member's bill ballot saying that she didn’t want it debated in election year. She claimed that the move was ‘simply pragmatism’ and that she ‘absolutely’ planned to put it back in the ballot after the election. Street was believed to have been pressured by Labour party colleagues to withdraw the bill amid concerns that some would have to campaign against it, distracting from the rest […]
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Google Accused of Liberal Bias After Refusing Conservative Ads

Google Accused of Liberal Bias After Refusing Conservative Ads by LifeSiteNews.com ATLANTA, May 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The world’s most popular search engine just lost points with Political Conservatives by turning down ads placed by RightMarch.com. William Greene is founder of the firebrand conservative web site that dispatches millions of emails to its grassroots base. His organization has published full page ads in national newspapers supporting US conservative politicians Don Rumsfeldt, Tom DeLay and John Bolton. But just as RightMarch.com attempted to launch a new wave of ad buys with Google.com, much to their amazement, Google refused the paid ad. […]
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Regaining conscience

Through manipulation of language, promoters of the culture of death have successfully accomplished numbing the moral sense of a majority of people around the world.
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36 babies saved so far during 40 Days for Life…that we know of

If you need a reason to look forward to Mondays, this is it! Mondays are the days we update all the reports of babies spared from abortion during your 40 Days for Life vigils. Thus far during this 40 Days for Life campaign, we have reports of 36 babies saved … that we know of! Here are just a few of those stories. —————————————————– MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN —————————————————– Dan noticed a young mom he had recognized from earlier in the day, sitting on the doorsteps. “I asked her if she was going to be OK,” he said. She responded, “What did you tell […]
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While Critics Blame Catholic Church for AIDS Deaths Stats Show Just the Opposite

While Critics Blame Catholic Church for AIDS Deaths Stats Show Just the Opposite by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, March 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Church is killing “millions” because of its teaching on chastity and fidelity in marriage and needs to change its “policy” on banning condoms in the fight against HIV/AIDS, according to a popular and apparently perpetual theme in mainstream journalism. Commentators, especially from Britain, regularly pronounce that the late Pope John Paul II, and his successor Benedict XVI, are personally responsible for the deaths of millions of people because of their opposition to contraception, particularly […]
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40 Days for Life off to a great start outside giant Planned Parenthood in Aurora, Illinois

Though the fall 40 Days for Life campaign kicked off Wednesday nationwide, we got an early start here in Aurora, Illinois with an early opening ceremony last Saturday. It was a beautiful morning as over 100 pro-lifers gathered on the vacant lot across from Planned Parenthood’s mega-center, and Fr. Matt Lamoureux of St. Patrick Church in nearby Yorkville, Illinois opened the service in prayer. Coordinators Kathleen Dietz and Karen Moore introduced themselves and welcomed local musician Karl Miles, who performed an original pro-life song. 40 Days for Life’s Steve Karlan Shares His Story 40 Days for Life national representative Steve Karlen shared his story […]
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‘I feel like I’m actually doing something to end abortion!’

—————————————————– PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA —————————————————– I just wrapped up a great visit to Pittsburgh, helping kick off their 40 Days for Life campaign. Here I am at the opening event with Nikki Bruni, the local 40 Days for Life coordinator. Around 125 people turned out to hear the great praise-and-worship band, Intent … along with Georgette Forney, co-founder the of Silent No More Awareness group. The vigil location is on a busy downtown street. If you’ve never had a chance to actually pray at a 40 Days for Life vigil — here’s your invitation! The first step is to find the nearest […]
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CNN’s Tapper on Gosnell interview: ‘Is he a mad man?’

The media are finally taking the hint: Kermit Gosnell is a figure worthy of attention. CNN’s Jake Tapper interviewed Philadelphia Magazine’s Steve Volk on his in-depth correspondence with Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell. Tapper began the dialogue by probing, “so much of his case, who he is, why he did what he did, and how he got away with it for so long, well that all remains a mystery.” “The Monster Speaks” segment aired September 25 on “The Lead with Jake Tapper.” Tapper asked Volk, the only one to speak with Gosnell during his time in prison, “Is he a mad […]
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Germany Forcing Unemployed Women into Legalized Prostitution

Germany Forcing Unemployed Women into Legalized Prostitution by LifeSiteNews.com BERLIN, January 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – News agencies around the world are carrying the story of a young German woman, a qualified information technologist, who has been told that she faces suspension of her government relief benefits if she refuses to take a ‘job’ as a prostitute in a Berlin brothel. The unemployed woman, who has not been named, had indicated her willingness to take jobs outside her field and has worked in a café. Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported that the woman, who has not been named, received a phone call […]
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World Contraception Day: No celebrating, please

John Seager, president of Population Connection, has written an article at the Huffington Post regarding World Contraception Day. Entitled (and I don’t think he meant for this to be a non sequitur), “A World Without Contraception Is No Place For People,” Seager mournfully asks the reader to envision a world where there is no birth control because “right-wing anti-contraception crusaders” have gotten their way. Now, he says, sex is only for procreation. (I’m not sure where he got this assumption; even the Catholic Church, which tends to have the strictest teachings about such things notes that sex is both unitive […]
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Canadian Armed Forces Permit Gay ‘Marriages’ at Military Bases

Canadian Armed Forces Permit Gay ‘Marriages’ at Military Bases by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, January 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian military has told its chaplains to go ahead and “marry” same-sex couples if requested. “It’s essentially a statement of the way the law is going,” said military chaplain Col. Stan Johnstone, who helped draft the new guidelines. “We don’t put any expectations on people. We expect them to function as we always do, according to the tenets of their church, their own conscience and the laws of the province,” he said, according to a Sun Media report. Johnstone said the new […]
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UPDATE: $40,000 TAXPAYER DOLLARS PER CANADIAN ARMY SEX-CHANGE

UPDATE: $40,000 TAXPAYER DOLLARS PER CANADIAN ARMY SEX-CHANGE by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, Sept 3 (LSN) – Yesterday Reuters news service reported that the sex-change operation, “along with mandatory hormonal and psychiatric treatment,” that the Canadian Forces agreed to afford its soldiers will cost Canadian tax-payers between C$20,000 and C$40,000 per procedure. Colonel Scott Cameron, director of medical services for the military told Reuters that the decision was a moral and medical obligation calling the desire to have a “gender reassignment” an “illness.” One pro-family observer noted that it is strange that while some provincial health plans refuse to cover circumcisions they […]
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“Sex-Change” Lunacy and Judicial Activism Cripple Canadian Correction Facilities

“Sex-Change” Lunacy and Judicial Activism Cripple Canadian Correction Facilities by LifeSiteNews.com EDMONTON, October 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week, Synthia Kavanagh, a 43 year-old man previously known as Richard Chaperon and who is officially considered a woman, in a fit of rage trashed the medium/minimum security women’s prison in Edmonton in which he was housed. He fought off guards and threatened the lives of others. He is being transferred to a maximum security facility in Kitchener, Ontario but the policies that put him in a position to be a danger to women prisoners and guards is being questioned only by […]
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Another Indiana Planned Parenthood Caught Covering up Felony Rape

Another Indiana Planned Parenthood Caught Covering up Felony Rape by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert INDIANAPOLIS, December 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The group responsible for an undercover exposé of a Bloomington Planned Parenthood clinic’s disregard for Indiana law has just today released more footage, revealing nearly identical behavior in an Indianapolis clinic. The pro-life student group known as Live Action Films went to the Georgetown at 86th Health Center, where UCLA student Lila Rose posed as a 13-year-old seeking an abortion after having relations with her 31-year-old “boyfriend.” Rose first told a Planned Parenthood staffer that she was 13 and wanted […]
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CANADIAN MILITARY PURCHSES HOMOSEXUAL EXERCISE VIDEOS FOR TROOPS

CANADIAN MILITARY PURCHSES HOMOSEXUAL EXERCISE VIDEOS FOR TROOPS by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, September 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian military has purchased 26 episodes of a fitness show created for an all-homosexual TV network. The Department of National Defence has purchased episodes of “Urban Fitness” which airs on Pride Vision. The show carries the motto: “Feeling fit. And doing it in style.” According to Yahoo News, the show will be shown by closed circuit broadcast to troops in Europe and the Middle East. See the Yahoo News coverage: https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/po/20020906/co_po/canada__military_buys_gay_tv_shows
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A prose for World Contraception Day

Today is WCD – World Contraception Day. Today Our world has chosen to celebrate one class of pharmaceutical product that stands above all others. For there is really nothing like world vitamins day, or world analgesic day or world antibiotic day. No, the world has just picked out what it considers as the most important drug to celebrate – Contraception. So it surely must be a real day of jubilation and celebration for many among us. It is a day of celebration for radical feminists who equate motherhood with slavery. It is a day of celebration for millions of men […]
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Resisting the population control elite hovering over Africa

Some days ago, a good friend of mine brought to my attention a recent article published by the Telegraph on Sir David Attenborough's thoughts and opinion on the topical issue of hunger in Africa.  For people who do not know him, Sir David is a highly respected and celebrated broadcaster in the UK who has been featured in many documentaries on nature and life science.  So as anyone would expect, I was very eager to glean his thoughts and insights especially as it pertains to the alleviation of hunger and poverty among my people.   But, with all due respect to this […]
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Pray for abortion workers

Thus far, we’ve seen 83 abortion facility employees have conversions and leave their jobs during 40 Days for Life campaigns. You heard from two of them — who not only left but then joined the vigil — in the video we sent yesterday. If you missed it (or just want to see it again), watch it and share with friends: I can’t say where, of course … but we’ve heard that abortion workers have already reached out to prayer volunteers on Day 1 so keep them in your prayers! For these 40 days, we pray for the babies, the men […]
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Video: What happens to kids after they’re rescued from sex trafficking?

“Victims who are rescued from their captors can’t just return to regular life as though nothing happened,” notes Laura Willard. So what happens to them when they are saved from slavery? Love146, an organization that provides holistic care for survivors as they are reintegrated back into communities, shares the tale of one woman’s recovery. Reprinted with permission from Acton Institute
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Militant Abortion Rights Campaigner Named to Toronto Women’s College Hospital

Militant Abortion Rights Campaigner Named to Toronto Women’s College Hospital by LifeSiteNews.com TORONTO, September 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Self-styled feminist, abortion campaigner and former Toronto Star newspaper columnist Michele Landsberg has been elected to help lead head up Women’s College Hospital, which the province has just announced will divorce from Toronto’s Sunnybrook hospital to focus on women’s health. The hospital had been merged with Sunnybrook by the previous Progressive Conservative government. Michele Landsberg is well known to be an extremely outspoken advocate of abortion rights and radical feminism and has for years been an often harsh opponent of the pro-life […]
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40 Days for Life has officially begun in 306 cities around the globe!

40 Days for Life has officially begun in 306 cities across America and around the globe! I just spoke at a 40 Days for Life kickoff event in California, David Bereit, our national director, helped get things started in Birmingham, Alabama, Steve Karlen, our North American outreach director spoke at the Dallas, Texas kickoff event, and Robert Colquhoun, our international outreach director, is launching campaigns in London. To celebrate the launch of this campaign, here’s a BRAND-NEW short video that shows what God is accomplishing through 40 Days for Life — and how YOU can make a lifesaving impact over […]
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Kermit Gosnell isn’t sorry

I’ve often thought that one of the best things that could happen to the pro-life movement is for the “pro-choice” movement to get its own 24-hour cable channel. Just give them a camera, give them a microphone, and let them talk. And talk. And talk some more. The more they try to justify their position, the more self-evidently appalling their arguments become. This is what went through my mind as I read excerpts from “Gosnell’s Babies,” a story released today in Philadelphia Magazine. In it, the country’s most notorious abortionist, Kermit Gosnell, is quoted as saying: In an ideal world, we’d have […]
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Our response to Donald Low: Legalizing euthanasia has consequences and is not safe.

On September 18, 2013, Dr Donald Low, the Canadian Mircrobiologist who became famous for his response to the SARS crisis in 2003, died from complications related to a brain stem tumour. Eight days before he died, Low participated in a short video where he spoke about his fears related to dying with the disabling conditions that may result from his disease. Low spoke about his wish to die by euthanasia or assisted suicide in Canada. He points out that it is simply impossible, in Canada, to die by euthanasia. Low suggests that in countries, such as the Netherlands, Belgium and […]
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Euthanasia deaths continue their relentless rise in the Netherlands

According to Dutch media reports today, euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands in 2012 increased by 13% to 4,188. This follows increases of 13% in 2009, 19% in 2010 and 18% in 2011 and comes in the first year after the introduction of 'mobile clinics' which euthanize people in their own homes. In fact from 2006 to 2012 there has been a steady increase in numbers each year with successive annual deaths at 1923, 2120, 2331, 2636, 3136, 3695 and 4,188 – an overall increase of 118% in just six years. Euthanasia now accounts for over 3% of all Dutch deaths. In addition 42 people with […]
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The cutest video ever? Quite possibly. Watch this duet between a father and his daughter

Being a parent has its challenges. But as a young dad with three kids (Four, really. But the fourth is keeping a low profile for the time being.), I know that there are joys associated with parenthood that surpass just about anything else I've ever experienced. It's quite simply impossible to put into words that feeling you experience as you watch your children quietly playing with their toys, or reading a book, or tearing through the house chasing one another amidst peals of laughter, or sleeping peacefully after a long, hard day of play.  Non-parent outsiders often see nothing but […]
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Hundreds of Thousands in Canadian Lent Collection Money Funding Pro-Abortion Groups in Mexico

Hundreds of Thousands in Canadian Lent Collection Money Funding Pro-Abortion Groups in Mexico by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman TORONTO, March 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The official international development organization of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is funding groups in Mexico that are pressuring the Mexican government to legalize abortion, LifeSiteNews has learned. The five pro-abortion groups have received $170,000 in total this year from Development and Peace. In an interview with LSN, the Director of International Programs for Development and Peace admitted that the issue of whether or not a group is pro-abortion is not a determining factor […]
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Adult Stem Cells Used Successfully to Cure Diabetics, Heal Broken Jaw Bone

Adult Stem Cells Used Successfully to Cure Diabetics, Heal Broken Jaw Bone by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski April 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study carried out in Brazil and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, on the use of adult stems cells to treat diabetes, has found that most of the patients in the study group were partially or wholly healed of the disease after receiving injections of stem cells from their own bone marrow. The procedure, called autologous nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), was carried out on 15 patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus […]
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Newest book on Matthew Shepard story explodes gay movement’s false narrative of his murder

There is just too much evidence now to deny that the Matthew Shepard murder has been one of the most exploited and fictionalized incidents by an ideological movement in US history. This is a very significant development that everyone should be made aware of. Most of the American public has been abused and used by the sad, true story that was highjacked and distorted to falsely stigmatize opponents of homosexual activity. All the angst, large public events and media saturation that has carried on for years after the brutal murder of the young man strongly appears to have been a […]
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Former Kansas singer’s powerful music video tells how his daughter was nearly aborted

Click “like” if you are PRO-LIFE! Oh, my goodness, another incredibly powerful pro-life video, this time from John Elefante, the former lead singer of the group “Kansas.” I learned about “This Time” from Charisma News which explains that the video shares the story of the birth of Sami, Elefante’s adopted daughter, whose 13-year-old mother came perilously close to aborting Sami. “I can’t imagine life without my daughter, Sami, and it just breaks my heart that pregnant young women much like her birth mother, instead of choosing life for their babies, are denying them the chance to be born,” Elefante tells […]
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Vatican’s handling of Pope’s interview “another public-relations debacle”?

It has been a wild ride for the pro-life, pro-family movement since the release last Thursday of the lengthy Jesuit magazine interview with Pope Francis. Most of the world's secular media have taken the most self-serving interpretations of what the pope said. And those reports have just kept coming and coming. One particular AP story was picked up by many news outlets. Friday morning I sat down to read a national newspaper, and had to endure the following disturbing, front page intro to that article which I knew millions of others were likely also reading: “Pope Francis has warned that […]
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How did the silence of hundreds of thousands of students save hundreds of babies?

In the spring of 2004, a student from McNeese State University asked me, “What can I do to work with other students around the country, in solidarity, to help end abortion?” I hear things like that all the time from the students I speak to. “What can I do? I have ideas, but I don’t know what to do with them. Can I really make a difference? I’m just one person.” When this student asked me, a spark went off in my head. I replied, “What if we got students to not only act in solidarity with others, but also […]
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WaPo editorial: ‘No evidence of serious, widespread unsanitary conditions’ in VA abortion clinics.

The Washington Post published an editorial this week that almost reads like a press release from NARAL or Planned Parenthood. The WaPo editors say that if Ken Cuccinelli is elected governor of Virginia, “most of the remaining 18 (abortion) clinics are likely to shut their doors within months.” Would that a governor could actually shut down a double-digit number of abortion clinics, just like that, in one fell swoop! As pro-life blogger JivinJ points out: Their evidence for this assertion is nowhere to be found and how Cuccinelli would go about this is left up to the reader’s imagination. Being […]
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Arizona man pleads guilty to manslaughter in assisted suicide.

The Arizona Daily Star reported that Tyler Christopher Gunn, 47, pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter in the courtroom of Pima County Superior Court Judge Paul Tang on Friday. This case is the prime example of why assisted suicide must be prohibited. Gunn was accused of assisting the suicide of Katherine Lemberg 37, and researching the plan to commit suicide in Redington Pass on the far east side in January. Gunn admitted to police that he helped Lemberg commit suicide by placing a bag over her head, taping it closed and directing helium gas into the bag. Police found Lemberg dead […]
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Brazilian Gay Groups Launch Multiple Lawsuits to Silence Christian Opposition

Brazilian Gay Groups Launch Multiple Lawsuits to Silence Christian Opposition by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BRAZIL, August 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com)—In recent weeks, homosexual groups in Brazil have attempted to silence their opponents with a flurry of lawsuits that take advantage of Brazil’s pro-gay political climate. On August 5th, the Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgender People (ABGLT) filed a criminal complaint against several websites for exposing the fact that the leader of Brazil’s homosexual movement, Luiz Mott, is a promoter of pedophilia and pederasty (see LifeSiteNews’ recent coverage at https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/jul/07073011.html). The sites, Media Without a Mask, the […]
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European Campaign to stop public funding of destructive embryo research gains one million signatures

Last week, 'One of Us' announced that 1 million EU citizens had signed its initiative to protect tiny human lives.  There will now be an official public hearing on the need to ban EU funding for activities that involve destroying human embryos.  It's an amazing achievement – and this week, European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič officially congratulated the campaign. The ‘One of Us’ campaign underlines the moment of conception as the beginning of human life, and aims to prevent any funding of activities which result in the destruction of human embryos, particularly focusing on areas of research, development aid and public health […]
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Why Peter Singer is dangerous (and it’s not what you think)

I recently watched a fascinating TED Talk.  The theme was altruism, defined by the dictionary as “the principle or practice of unselfish concern for, or devotion to, the welfare of others.” In usual TED form, the presenter was engaging and made some great points.  Demonstrating great skill as a speaker, he began with a story to draw the audience in—he shared a most shocking news clip about a toddler in China, Wang Yue, being hit by a vehicle and, perhaps more brutally, how her dying body was ignored by passerby after passerby. It pulls at the audience’s heart strings and […]
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Brazilian Homosexual Leader Posts Home Addresses of Pro-Family Activists

Brazilian Homosexual Leader Posts Home Addresses of Pro-Family Activists by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BRAZIL, May 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The most eminent leader of Brazil’s militant homosexual movement, Luiz Mott, is lashing out at pro-family activists by posting their home addresses and filing charges against them for “defamation”. Among those targeted are “Jael Savelli”, the pseudonym of a Brazilian woman who authors the blog “Pedophilia No!” Last year, Savelli exposed Luiz Mott’s advocacy of pedophilia and pederasty in a famous entry entitled “Luiz Mott: Pedophilia Now!” Pro-Family activist and author Julio Severo is also targeted in Mott’s screed, […]
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GATES DONATES $1.7 MILLION TO POPULATION CONTROL

GATES DONATES $1.7 MILLION TO POPULATION CONTROL by LifeSiteNews.com UNITED NATIONS, Apr 23, 1998 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday, Bill Gates, the head of the multi-billion dollar Microsoft Corp., gave $1.7 million (US) to the UN’s population control arm, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). No stranger to Malthusian population-control fanaticism, Gates specified that the gift was to support a 3-year plan to reduce the populations of developing nations. Last year The Village Voice reported that three of the richest men in the US (Ted Turner, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet) strongly support the de-population agenda. Noting Ted Turner’s 1 billion […]
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Four US Bishops Did Not Take up Collection for Embattled CCHD

Four US Bishops Did Not Take up Collection for Embattled CCHD by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine WASHINGTON, D.C., November 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While many U.S. bishops have publicly acknowledged problems with the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) has confirmed that at least four bishops opted to not take up this year’s national collection. A controversy has erupted in the U.S. Church in recent weeks after evidence came to light showing that numerous CCHD grantees have promoted issues and practices in violation of Catholic teaching, including abortion, contraception, and same-sex “marriage.” In response to the revelations […]
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A gay icon falls?

If Matthew Shepard was killed strictly because of drugs by his sometime gay sex partner, what will that do to his martyr status in the gay community and in the larger world including at the United Nations?
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Pope Francis certainly has a way of stirring things up

Pope Francis certainly has a way of stirring things up, as we can see again from today's report on his lengthy interview with the Jesuit magazine America. That magazine, by the way (which I don't mean to imply reflects on the Pope), has for over 30 years been the intellectual flagship of the leftist dissident movement within the Catholic Church, especially on issues related to Church teachings on sexual morality. I appreciate Francis's strong encouragement for clergy and other Church leaders to get out of their parishes, head offices and NGO social agency and other institutional mentalities. He insists on […]
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Planned Parenthood 2006 –  289,650 Abortions, $112 Million Profit, $336 Million in Public Funds

Planned Parenthood 2006 – 289,650 Abortions, $112 Million Profit, $336 Million in Public Funds by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, DC, March 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The newly released Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) 2006-2007 annual report shows that the abortion behemoth has increased the number of abortions it committed from 264,943 in 2005 to 289,650 in 2006. Total revenue amounted to over one billion dollars, with the organization’s profit margin – “excess of revenue over expenses” – soaring from $55.7 million in 2005 to $112 million in 2006. Taxpayer dollars played a major role in that profit with […]
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Cardinal George joins pro-life mourners at gravesite of 2,000 aborted babies

Along with offering assistance to the leaders of more than 100 memorial services held this past Saturday, September 14 to mark the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, the Pro-Life Action League also spearheaded the planning for the service at the final resting place of over 2,000 aborted babies at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois. The League’s executive director, Eric Scheidler, served as master of ceremonies and began the event by leading the crowd of 200 faithful pro-lifers in receiving the Prayer at a Gravesite of the Unborn [PDF] composed by Father Frank Pavone specifically for the […]
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Michigan could eliminate abortion from insurance coverage after petition drive

Back at the end of May, NRL News Today carried a story about an important new opportunity in Michigan—the “NO Taxes for Abortion Insurance” citizen initiative intended to keep tax dollars and insurance premiums from paying for abortions as a part of health care. Michigan’s Constitution allows the people to initiate legislation through a petition. To qualify, RTL of Michigan, the state affiliate of NRLC, needed to collect 258,088 signatures. RTL of Michigan President Barbara Listing told volunteers during a teleconference Tuesday both that they had reached that goal but also to keep collecting signatures so that they “have a […]
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Lord Monckton Warns Obama Will Attempt Use of Executive Authority to Commit US to Copenhagen Agreeme

Lord Monckton Warns Obama Will Attempt Use of Executive Authority to Commit US to Copenhagen Agreeme by LifeSiteNews.com By Steve Jalsevac COPENHAGEN, December 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a brief video released on the Internet, Lord Christopher Monkton is seen giving a speech today in Copenhagen warning that President Obama will try to use his Executive Authority to sign an agreement, rather than a treaty, to commit the United States to undertake measures against climate change that will seriously damage the freedoms and prosperity of America. Monkton states, “President Obama is going to come here (Copenhagen) and sign the Copenhagen […]
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Bishop Bruskewitz on CCHD: Bishop Morin Was a “Bit Too Dismissive” of Concerns

Bishop Bruskewitz on CCHD: Bishop Morin Was a “Bit Too Dismissive” of Concerns by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine LINCOLN, Nebraska, November 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska explained in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com today his reasons for dropping the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) collection in his diocese, saying that CCHD head Bishop Roger Morin was “a little bit too dismissive” of concerns brought against the organization. Bishop Bruskewitz is one of four bishops confirmed so far to have chosen not to take up the collection this year for the national CCHD, the USCCB’s […]
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Pro-life groups don’t really help women? Nonsense.

Earlier this month the Christian Science Monitor ran an op-ed by Marymount University undergraduate Elizabeth Jahr entitled “Pro-Life Groups Do Not Really Protect the Unborn.” As the pro-life position has gained in the court of public opinion, our opponents are spending less time arguing about the morality of abortion. Instead, they often try to make the case that pro-life efforts are either ineffective or misguided. Jahr’s op-ed was a prime example of this. She argued that the money spent on the March for Life and other political efforts would be better spent assisting women facing crisis pregnancies. This op-ed was reposted byYahoo! […]
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New York Times weighs in on fetal pain debate

The capacity of the unborn child to experience pain in all likelihood poses as great a danger to the reign of Roe v. Wade as anything we’ve seen in 40 years. Medical science for decades has treated the unborn as a patient. That makes pro-abortionists nervous enough. But what if part and parcel of treating the unborn as a patient is the mounting evidence that by no later than 20 weeks she or he can experience pain? But if fetal pain is as much of a threat as I believe it is, you knew eventually the New York Times would […]
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Cruel and unusual death with dignity

A commentary in the Washington Square News, riffing off of the suicide of Ariel Castro, argues that prisons should implement euthanasia for people sentenced to life in prison. From the piece by Nikolas Reda-Castro: Castro made a plea bargain, surrendering his property and his possessions, to opt out of the death penalty, but it seems he only did so just to take his own life a month later. The ACLU does many good things for prison reform, but I find myself — knowing full well how contentious the argument of suicide is — against the notion that a prison should protect […]
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To Karen, the woman who hung up on me yesterday

When you called last week, our administrator said you sounded nice.  She said you said it was urgent that you speak to me, so I had my assistant call you as I was out of the country.  When she spoke to you, you told her you’d really like to speak with me.  You wouldn’t give her any details about the reason for your call.  She said you sounded sad. And so my first day back in the office I called you.  I took your call seriously.  When you told me about your 7-year-old daughter being so troubled by the bloody […]
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Stephen Hawking is a great scientist but a bad source for opinions on assisted suicide

Scientist Professor Stephen Hawking has spoken out in favour of assisted suicide for people with terminal diseases (See Independent, BBC, Telegraph).   In an interview with the BBC, he said:   ‘I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their lives and those who help them should be free from prosecution.  But there must be safeguards that the person concerned genuinely wants to end their life and they are not being pressurised into it or have it done without their knowledge or consent, as would have been […]
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We The Sheeple and baaaad government

It seems we have a government who increasingly, since the establishment of this great nation, feels that in order to ‘promote the general welfare’ thinks that it needs to generally promote welfare for all. Our federal government has an addiction, and the cure is found in those amazing words signed by fearless men on this very day, back in 1787. But that fearlessness has given way to recklessness. Under the guise of offering solutions, both parties have contributed to the dissolution of our sacred Constitutional rights. Despite the fact that we’re all taxed enough already, the June 2012 Supremely wrong […]
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Thousands of pro-life mourners gathered at hundreds of graves of aborted babies on Saturday

On Saturday, September 14, thousands of pro-lifers gathered at over 100 gravesites of aborted babies and other memorials to the unborn located nationwide to observe the first annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children. With attendance figures still being tallied, the current total stands at over 2,300 attendees nationwide. The date of September 14, 2013, was chosen for this event because it marks the 25th anniversary of the burial of several hundred abortion victims at Holy Cross Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where a crowd of 300 mourners attended a memorial service this past Saturday. Among the speakers at this service were Bishop Fabian […]
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Stephen Hawking creates confusion about what constitutes assisted suicide.

Reuters reported today that scientist, Stephen Hawking, supports assisted suicide.  At the same time, the comments made by Hawking in the Reuters article create confusion as to what actually constitutes assisted suicide. The Reuters article reports Hawking as stating: Speaking ahead of the release of a documentary about his life this week: Hawking said he backed the right to die but only if the person involved had chosen that route.   He recalled how he was once put on a life support machine after suffering pneumonia and his wife was given the option of switching off the machine but this is not […]
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We are at war

While it’s true that the war I’m talking about doesn’t look like your typical war, it just might be the greatest war that the world has ever witnessed.
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Big Fertility’s dark side

The IVF industry–Big Fertility–is no different than Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Biotech, and Big Defense. It provides a product–in this case, a baby–for big bucks. It expands markets and technologies–egg buying, commercial surrogacy, selling extra embryos, etc.–advertises, and fights the political wars with high paid lobbyists in Washington DC and state and foreign capitals like any other industry. Big Fertility has a very dark side often not explored in the media. Women have had their health and fertility destroyed selling eggs. Poor surrogate mothers–now dehumanized as “gestational carriers–rent their maternal capacities to nurture a child in the womb and then have it […]
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New Research Confirms Condoms Not Effective in HIV Prevention

New Research Confirms Condoms Not Effective in HIV Prevention by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, January 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Culture of Life website (www.colfi.org) reported today on troubling statistics regarding condom use and associated increased HIV transmission rates. The “safe sex” message, as promulgated and promoted by groups such as the UN and Planned Parenthood, is still the message of choice being delivered to sub-Saharan Africans. This, despite the fact that the availability of condoms statistically increases promiscuity and risk of contracting HIV according to medical experts who presented their findings on the HIV Pandemic in Washington, DC last week. Dr. […]
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PBS AND AMA SLAM BOY SCOUTS WHILE HELMS BILL TO DEFEND THEM MOVES IN SENATE

PBS AND AMA SLAM BOY SCOUTS WHILE HELMS BILL TO DEFEND THEM MOVES IN SENATE by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, June 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Tomorrow, PBS (the Public Broadcasting Service) will air a ‘documentary’ which slams the Boy Scouts of America for excluding practicing homosexuals from leadership. While the PBS claims its publicly funded film represents both sides, Peter LaBarbera, senior policy analyst at the Culture and Family Institute in Washington points out that the documentary’s producer, Tom Shepard is a known homosexual activist. Moreover the video has been shown at “Gay Pride” events in an attempt to mobilize homosexuals against […]
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I’m tag teaming with Michael Voris Sept 20-22 near Steubenville

Michael Voris, the outspoken and fearless defender of faith, life and family is speaking at the Catholic Identity Conference in Weirton WV this coming weekend.  He’ll be speaking on ‘Homosexuality in the Catholic Church.’ I’ll be there too, speaking on “How soon till blood? Growing Christian persecution in America”  There are plenty of other great speakers as well. Conference Location: Serbian American Cultural Center 1000 Collliers Way Weirton WV 26062  To reserve your spot contact Eric via email at: [email protected] For more info on the conference click here: https://www.catholicidentity2012.com/
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Harshest pro-abortion criticism reserved for those who have left the abortion industry

Naturally my eye was caught by the title the pro-abortion author, Robin Marty, gave to her essay: “I Read a Bunch of Anti-Choice Memoirs So You Don’t Have To.” I read a lot of anti-life material so YOU don’t have to. As a matter of fact I read a lot of Marty, whose work I most often see at Rhrealitycheck.org. Going from best (in a manner of speaking) to worst, you could say her opinion pieces range from not bad, to recycled abortion-speak, to incredibly myopic. Marty, who has co-authored a book which they no doubt think is cleverly titled […]
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Nitschke continues to sell suicide over the internet.

Philip Nitschke, is once again promoting the illegal import of veterinary euthanasia drugs in Australia. Yahoo 7 news in Australia interviewed Nitschke in a manner that almost promoted the illegal import of lethal drugs. The interview did state: “Be careful, because it's illegal.”  The penalty for importing or possessing Nembutal is a prison sentence or a fine of up to $825,000.  Dr Nitschke says hundreds of Australians have illegally brought the drug into the country over the past couple of years.  The Australian Federal Police have told the ABC's Lateline program that they have seized almost 15 kilograms of the […]
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67% of American doctors oppose the legalisation of physician assisted suicide

An on-line poll of readers of the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the majority of American doctors are against physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Based on 5,205 respondents from 72 countries, the poll showed that 67% of US readers opposed legalising PAS and a majority supported the practice in only 18 US states. Interestingly, this did not include Washington or Oregon, where PAS is already legal. Overall, 1,712 readers cast votes in the US. The main reasons provided for opposing the practice were that it violates a doctors' oath to do no harm and that it would likely lead to the legalisation […]
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How to communicate with a friend considering abortion

“I’m pregnant, and I want an abortion.” How should one react when a friend says those words?  My colleagues and I are routinely (and as recently as the day I write this) contacted by friends (and strangers!) who have friends who are considering abortion.  “What should I do?” they ask. “What should I say?” they wonder. Their concern is the well-being of their friend and her pre-born child; they don’t want her to go ahead with the abortion, but they come to us because they recognize a noble desire, while necessary, is not sufficient to save a life.  How do […]
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Reduce UK Population by Half: Leading Government Green Advisor

Reduce UK Population by Half: Leading Government Green Advisor by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, March 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the British government’s foremost advisors on environmental policies will tell a conference this week that to make Britain “sustainable,” its 60 million-plus population must be reduced by half. Jonathon Porritt told the London Times this week that he will tell the annual conference of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), to be held at the Royal Statistical Society, that in order to reduce “pressure” on the world’s ecosystems, Britain must halve its population to 30 million inhabitants. “Each person […]
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Shanghai Starts Backpedaling One-Child Policy in Face of Demographic Implosion

Shanghai Starts Backpedaling One-Child Policy in Face of Demographic Implosion by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith SHANGHAI, July 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although 2009 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the one-child policy, China’s second largest city is not celebrating. Far from it. The Times Online reports that far from fearing overpopulation, the city of Shanghai has pleaded with married couples to help them stave off the looming crisis of demographic implosion by having a second child. Shanghai has announced pro-procreation policy, that contrasts sharply with the rest of the nation’s strict enforcement of the “one couple, one child” policy that […]
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Chinese Women with Abortion Experience 17% Increased Breast Cancer Risk

Chinese Women with Abortion Experience 17% Increased Breast Cancer Risk by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski SHENYANG, China, November 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chinese researchers at the Department of Oncology at the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University who conducted a case-control study examining reproductive factors associated with breast cancer found a statistically significant 17% increased breast cancer risk among Chinese women who had induced abortions. Peng Xing and his colleagues also found that, although breastfeeding protected women from any subtype of breast cancer, an increase in risk of breast cancer was associated with having more children among women […]
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Chinese Breast Cancer Deaths Jump 40% since One Child Abortion Policy

Chinese Breast Cancer Deaths Jump 40% since One Child Abortion Policy by LifeSiteNews.com BEIJING, October 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chinese state media has reported a sharp increase in the number of cases of breast cancer in China in the last ten years. According to official statistics from the Ministry of Health, about 40% more women are dying from breast cancer and the disease is striking women at younger ages than ever before. According to the officially released statistics reported in China Daily, the fatality rate of breast cancer rose 38.7 percent for women living in urban areas and 39.1 percent […]
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Efforts to Boost Birth Rate Failing in China

Efforts to Boost Birth Rate Failing in China by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White December 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The city of Shanghai’s efforts to reverse more than 30 years of anti-child government propaganda, and boost the city’s flagging birth rate are not being well received by the public, a report in the Washington Post says. The Chinese government is allowing couples to have second children and are considering more easing of the country’s one-child policy. But the results of the new permissions, some officials say, have been disappointing. In Shanghai, posters and leaflets telling people how to apply for permits […]
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Carbon Scheme: Offset Your Jet-Set Lifestyle by Eliminating African Babies

Carbon Scheme: Offset Your Jet-Set Lifestyle by Eliminating African Babies by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White December 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Population control groups have been using the hype surrounding the Copenhagen climate change conference to promote their solution to hypothetical impending environmental catastrophes. Earlier this month, two pieces appearing in the same edition of the Guardian revisited a report by Britain’s Optimum Population Trust (OPT) that suggests that people in wealthy first-world countries should “offset” the carbon cost of their jet-setting lifestyles by paying to prevent the births of poor children in the developing world. John Vidal, the Guardian’s environment […]
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New Study Shows Abortion is ‘Best Predictor of Breast Cancer’

New Study Shows Abortion is ‘Best Predictor of Breast Cancer’ by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, DC, October 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons published a study yesterday entitled, “The Breast Cancer Epidemic.” It showed that, among seven risk factors, abortion is the “best predictor of breast cancer,” and fertility is also a useful predictor. The study by Patrick Carroll of PAPRI in London showed that countries with higher abortion rates, such as England & Wales, could expect a substantial increase in breast cancer incidence. Where abortion rates are low (i.e., Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic) a […]
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‘Plan Now for Suicide’ Australia’s Dr. Death Encourages Elderly Irish

‘Plan Now for Suicide’ Australia’s Dr. Death Encourages Elderly Irish by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White DUBLIN, March 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Euthanasia and atheist campaigner Dr. Philip Nitschke, Australia’s “Dr. Death,” told an audience in Dublin this week that he had traveled to the country after receiving “significant interest” from elderly Irish wanting information on how to end their lives. Nitschke’s visit was opposed by pro-life groups, which have charged that his activities constitute a violation of the country’s criminal code that warrants police investigation. Speaking in Dublin in Thursday night, Nitschke encouraged his audience at the Seomra Spraoi social […]
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Setting the Record Straight: The Toronto Star’s Sting on Crisis Pregnancy Centres

Setting the Record Straight: The Toronto Star’s Sting on Crisis Pregnancy Centres by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, August 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this month the Toronto Star published an article about a sting operation purporting to expose the “deception” used by Toronto’s pregnancy resource centres – an account that has been dismissed as “inaccurate,””misrepresentative,” and full of “twists” on the truth, according to its targets. After infiltrating eight centres claiming to be six weeks pregnant, Star reporter Joanna Smith wrote in an August 7th article that the centres use “misleading information” to scare women out of […]
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Bishop Soto Crashes National Homosexual Ministries Conference with the Truth: Homosexuality “is Sin”

Bishop Soto Crashes National Homosexual Ministries Conference with the Truth: Homosexuality “is Sin” by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert LONG BEACH, CA, September 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Coadjutor Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento shocked his unsuspecting audience at the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries conference with a keynote speech that gently but firmly condemned the homosexual lifestyle as sinful, and celebrated extra-marital chastity, according to the California Catholic Daily. “Sexual relations between people of the same sex can be alluring for homosexuals,” Bishop Soto told the conference, “but it deviates from the true meaning of the act […]
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New York Times Ombudsman Admits Paper Was Caught in Misrepresentation by

New York Times Ombudsman Admits Paper Was Caught in Misrepresentation by LifeSiteNews.com by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, January 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Byron Calame, the Public Editor (ombudsman) at the New York Times, in a 1,500 word article published on December 31 in the New York Times, admits that LifeSiteNews.com was correct in exposing a grievous error in reporting by the New York Times Magazine. In November LifeSiteNews.com published an article titled, “New York Times Caught in Abortion-Promoting Whopper – Infanticide Portrayed as Abortion.” Based on information from Julia Sol de Cardenal, a pro-life leader in El Salvador, […]
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Vatican to Catholic Homeschoolers: “I truly admire parents, who take on this great commitment”

Vatican to Catholic Homeschoolers: “I truly admire parents, who take on this great commitment” by LifeSiteNews.com VATICAN CITY, December 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Three veterans of the United States Catholic home school movement spent Thanksgiving week in Vatican City meeting with officials of various congregations and councils of the Holy See to discuss the positive results of Catholic home schooling. Dr. Mary Kay Clark, Director of Seton Home Study School, as well as Dr. Catherine Moran, President of the Catholic Home School Network of America, and Mrs. Virginia Seuffert, home schooling mother of 12 and a frequent speaker at Catholic […]
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The human machine?

The creation or destruction of a person is looked upon as something akin to the quality control standards in a factory. Devaluation has become commonplace.
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Two-thirds oppose physician-assisted suicide in New England Journal of Medicine survey

The headline on the story is encouraging enough—“Most Doctors Oppose Physician-Assisted Suicide, Poll Finds”—but that’s only the beginning. Here’s the opening paragraph of Steve Reinberg’s story for HealthDay. He is writing about a poll conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) of the journal’s readers, mostly health-care providers. Whether doctors should help patients die continues to be a hotly debated topic within the medical community, a New England Journal of Medicine poll finds. The journal questioned readers about a hypothetical near-death case and received more than 2,000 valid responses. Roughly two-thirds worldwide — including 67 percent of replies […]
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Jewish pro-abort uses faith as justification for helping women get abortions

I joined Haven because I am Jewish, and I embrace the tradition of social justice. I wanted to act with ometz, the courage to take risks in pursuing a just cause, and fulfill my obligation of tikkun olam, the call to repair a world rife with inequity. One member of Haven, Rabbi David Adelson, dedicated a Rosh Hashanah sermon to Haven’s work. He told his congregation that we are created equally in the image of God — b’tselem elohim — and it is our responsibility to ensure that all people are treated equally as well. “Rights are rights only if […]
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Sex Ed Gone Wild: Canadian Mag Covers Trend toward “Pleasure-Based” Sex Ed in Schools

Sex Ed Gone Wild: Canadian Mag Covers Trend toward “Pleasure-Based” Sex Ed in Schools by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine Warning: The nature of this article required the inclusion of sexually explicit language that some may find offensive. TORONTO, Ontario, September 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lianne George of Maclean’s magazine has penned a piece published this week on a new trend in schools’ sexual education offerings to focus on the pleasure of sex. Her article highlights the work of Toronto’s Carlyle Jansen, the owner of a ‘sex shop’ for women, Good For Her, who has launched a new not-for-profit organization […]
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Homosexualist Anarchists Storm Michigan Church During Sunday Service

Homosexualist Anarchists Storm Michigan Church During Sunday Service by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac LANSING, MI, November 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Sunday, November 9, a band of about 30 homosexuals stormed a church in Lansing, Michigan. Some were well dressed and were stationed inside Mount Hope Church, where they pretended to be normal Sunday worshippers; others were outside dressed in pink and black. The group of self-described homosexual anarchists, Bash Back!, claims the evangelical church is guilty of “transphobia and homophobia.” The group says that it fights for “liberation,” opposes “all forms of state power,” and urges members not to […]
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Guttmacher study overstates travel distance to abortion providers

Supporters of legal abortion frequently make the case that there exist significant barriers to abortion access.  They argue that pro-lifers have succeeded in imposing burdensome regulations that are forcing many abortion clinics to close.  They say that these closures have forced many women seeking abortions to travel considerable distances.  Indeed, this summer the Guttmacher Institute released a study which tried to make this exact case.  The announcement on the Guttmacher website indicates that the mean distance traveled by women to an abortion facility is 30 miles. However, a closer look at the Guttmacher study reveals that the vast majority of […]
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Are cities becoming family-free?

American cities have developed in the last half century from places which traditionally supported and nurtured the family to places where only the childless and the hopeless dwell - and families flee.
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“Idol Gives Back” Project Supports Abortion

“Idol Gives Back” Project Supports Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, March 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Once again, “American Idol” is aligning itself with pro-abortion Save the Children and UNICEF. On March 8, 2007, “American Idol” unveiled its “Idol Gives Back” project, the stated goal of which was to “raise awareness of the effects of poverty on children and young people.” Last year the project generated more than $75 million. The second Idol Gives Back program will air on April 9, 2008. Like last year, several celebrities will appear on the show to urge Americans to make a donation. “For years […]
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PRI and Stephen Mosher should receive an award for exceptional report on CRS Madagascar scandals

The conclusions at the end of the Population Research Institute's 119-page report on Catholic Relief Services scandals in Madagascar are very frank. The matter is obviously far too serious for PRI to beat around the bush and exercise false diplomacy. For me, reading the PRI report and our series of articles on the issue made my blood boil. Any conscientious, sincere Christian, after reading this report, would be hard-pressed to also not be angry at such scandal not only being allowed, but also continuing to be shamelessly denied and defended. PRI has done an incredibly thorough job of documenting its […]
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If spoon feeding is no longer a right, I will be afraid for my life

Introduction: Today, I received an email from a person with disabilities concerning the spoon feeding case in British Columbia. This letter explains the problem with granting the family the right to withdraw spoon feeding from a person who is considered incompetent.  From the email:  In regards to the spoon feeding case. I find this to be quite terrifying.  When I needed life saving care my “family” did not want me to receive it, my friend fought for me and I lived. When I was released from the hospital my “family” fought to have me put in a nursing home, once again my […]
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A pro-life news piece from CNN!

After seeing the mainstream media's pro-abortion bias for years and years, it is a total shock to come across a pro-life CNN report. But here it is.  Once you watch it, you'll realize that the reporter is of course trying to be neutral on the matter, going after the moving story as he should.  But, it's CNN! The three-minute CNN exclusive interview with Remee Lee, whose boyfriend pleaded guilty to tricking her into taking an abortion pill, had me checking to make sure this was indeed CNN and not a pro-life news network. Here are some interesting quotes from the […]
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UK Doctors who Allowed Suicidal Woman to Die Acted Lawfully: Coroner’s Inquest

UK Doctors who Allowed Suicidal Woman to Die Acted Lawfully: Coroner’s Inquest by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, October 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Doctors who allowed a young British woman to die in hospital after she swallowed poison and declared her intention to commit suicide acted lawfully, according to the findings of an inquest this week. Under the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the coroner’s inquest ruled that doctors had no choice but to allow the woman to die after she had written a letter saying she did not want to be saved. The Mental Capacity Act, passed […]
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NBC Rejects Super Bowl Pro-Life Ad Featuring Unborn Baby Obama

NBC Rejects Super Bowl Pro-Life Ad Featuring Unborn Baby Obama by LifeSiteNews.com CHICAGO, IL, January 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – NBC has rejected an uplifting and positive pro-life ad submitted for its Super Bowl broadcast this Sunday. After several days of negotiations, an NBC representative in Chicago told CatholicVote.org late yesterday that NBC and the NFL are not interested in advertisements involving ‘political advocacy or issues.’ Brian Burch, President of CatholicVote.org said, “There is nothing objectionable in this positive, life-affirming advertisement. We show a beautiful ultrasound, something NBC’s parent company GE has done for years. We congratulate Barack Obama on becoming […]
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UK Fertility Specialist Warns Women are Being Experimented on With IVF

UK Fertility Specialist Warns Women are Being Experimented on With IVF by LifeSiteNews.com LONDON, September 11, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A prominent UK physician has serious misgivings over the use of many fertility treatments that are now standard practice in IVF facilities. Lord Robert Winston, head of fertility at Hammersmith Hospital, London, said that more clinical trials were needed before many of the standard IVF “treatments” could be made safe. He feels also that experiments should be carried out on animals and “spare” embryos left over from IVF procedures. Lord Winston surprised an audience at the British Association Festival of Science […]
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German HomeSchool Teen Moved, Parents not Informed, Local Media Refuse Coverage

German HomeSchool Teen Moved, Parents not Informed, Local Media Refuse Coverage by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen NUREMBERG, February 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The horrific situation which exploded in Germany last week with the forced removal by police of 15-year-old Melissa Busekros from her home to a psychiatric institution, has escalated. New reports from Germany indicate that the child has been transferred from the clinic to another location and the German Youth Welfare Office authorities are refusing to inform the parents of Melissa’s location. Another very disturbing revelation, which comes from an interview given by Melissa’s father Hubert Busekros with the […]
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Feds Accuse Catholic Belmont Abbey College of Sexual Discrimination for Not Covering Contraception

Feds Accuse Catholic Belmont Abbey College of Sexual Discrimination for Not Covering Contraception by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert BELMONT, North Carolina, August 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has accused Belmont Abbey College of discriminating against its female employees by not covering contraceptives in its health insurance plan. The EEOC stepped in after eight teachers filed a complaint over what they considered a discriminatory health insurance policy, and what Belmont Abbey says is simply faithfulness to basic Church teaching. In December 2007 Belmont Abbey, a conservative Catholic campus in North Carolina, stopped offering abortion, contraception, […]
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Soap opera Coronation Street must handle assisted suicide story with great sensitivity and care

The BBC has reported this week that the ITV Soap ‘Coronation Street’ is to run a story on assisted suicide centred on the character Hayley Cropper (pictured). Hayley, the first transgender character in a British soap, has been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer and the show has revealed that as her health deteriorates she will decide she wants to take her own life. Cancer of the pancreas is not uncommon:  7,065 people in England and Wales died from the disease in 2010. However, the overwhelming majority of those with pancreatic cancer, or in fact any other physical disease or disability for that matter, do not […]
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Woman: I’m proud of my husband’s decision to commit suicide over Alzheimer’s

And we wonder why there is an epidemic of geriatric suicide. The Humanist has published an article that could have been a perfect fit for the oldHemlock Quarterly, in which a wife (“non theist”) wholeheartedly supports her husband John’s desire to commit suicide because he has Alzheimer’s disease. From, “The End:” The day we both faced the inevitable, we gazed at one another with tears in our eyes. He took a deep breath and then told me that when he could no longer follow his intellectual pursuits, when he could no longer drive legally, when he was not yet incontinent or blaming me for his own […]
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The March for Life is a waste of money? A response to that Christian Science Monitor hit piece

In her hit piece against the pro-life movement Ms. Elizabeth Jahr, a senior at Marymount University in Arlington, Va., pens a missive about the perceived colossal waste of money spent by pro-lifers in our annual March on Washington, D.C. Read her article here. My response to Ms. Jahr… Dear Ms. Jahr, First, allow me to congratulate you on having had an article accepted for publication in a major and widely respected outlet such as the Christian Science Monitor. Such publication is always an immense source of pride and validation when one is still a student, so heartfelt congratulations! In your article you […]
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Why libertarians should be pro-life

I am morally aligned with Republicans on almost every social issue – pornography, gay marriage, prostitution, etc. – but find I have begun to disagree with the party establishment on the proper role of government when it comes to these things.
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Correction RE: San Antonio LGBT anti-discrimination bill

CORRECTION: A story published on LifeSiteNews.com on Friday, “Christians may be barred from office, city employment, or contracts under new San Antonio LGBT law,” incorrectly reported that the law in question passed with a section that was in fact removed prior to final passage.  The section stating, “No person shall be appointed to a position if the city council finds that such person has, prior to such proposed appointment, engaged in discrimination or demonstrated a bias, by word or deed, against any person, group or organization on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, […]
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Past three years have taken a ‘dramatic toll’ on number of US abortion clinics

This kind of change is incredibly dramatic. What we’ve been seeing since 1982 was a slow decline, but this kind of change … [is] so different from what’s happened in the past. ~ Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager at Guttmacher Institute, commenting on a Huffington Post report  (“Anti-abortion laws take dramatic toll on clinics nationwide”) that “54 abortion providers across 27 states have shut down or ended their abortion services in the past three years,” August 26.) Reprinted with permission from JillStanek.com.
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Even pro-aborts appalled at decision not to prosecute for sex-selective abortions

When we wrote yesterday about the waves of opposition to the decision by the (British) Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute abortionists who were willing to abort female babies, I began by remarking that a “hornet’s nest of outrage” had followed this indefensible [non-]action. (See “Controversy follows decision not to prosecute British abortionists accused of willingness to practice sex-selection abortion.” But that’s proven to be not the half of it. Understand that abortion on demand in Great Britain seems to woven into the very warp and woof of British culture. If you think we’ve had a long uphill battle, we […]
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Why I avoid arguing that doctors shouldn’t do abortions based on ‘conscience’

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an article that should compel pro-lifers to think seriously about how they frame the abortion debate.  Dr. Lisa Harris writes, “The exercise of conscience in health care is generally considered synonymous with refusal to participate in contested medical services, especially abortion. This depiction neglects the fact that the provision of abortion care is also conscience-based [emphasis added]. The persistent failure to recognize abortion provision as ‘conscientious’ has resulted in laws that do not protect caregivers who are compelled by conscience to provide abortion services…” This is a very real reason why I […]
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Alimony for egg freezing commodifies children

We have seen egg buying, paying poor women to gestate, eugenic IVF, etc.–and now alimony to pay for egg freezing? That’s the gist of a request in a New Jersey divorce, supported by Sarah Elizabeth Richards in the New York Times. From, “Alimony for Your Eggs:” All of a sudden, fertility has been assigned a value. If the point of a divorce settlement is to take inventory of a couple’s joint life and divide the assets, then that commodity belongs on the negotiating table — alongside vacation time-shares and projected earnings from his and her M.B.A.’s. No! This idea must not be […]
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UK decision to trial three parent embryos for mitochondrial disease ‘premature and ill-conceived’

Christian Medical Fellowship has recently published a paper on ‘three parent embryos for mitochondrial disease’ which was strongly critical of this new technology on both theological and scientific grounds.    This followed submissions that we made on the issue to both the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and the Nuffield Council.   I have also argued on this blog that the technique involved is unsafe, unethical and unnecessary (see here, here, here and here).   I was therefore most interested to see these same views expressed this week an article in Nature arguing that the UK’s decision to trial […]
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New Country Music Star Born as Pro-Life Ballad Climbs the Charts

New Country Music Star Born as Pro-Life Ballad Climbs the Charts by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith NASHVILLE, Tennessee, February 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new country music star has been born – and with a pro-life ballad, no less, that is steadily climbing the country music charts. Matt Kennon’s debut hit single “the Call” has risen to No. 39 on the Billboard 200 list of top country music hits and packs a compelling pro-life, or what some may call a “whole life,” message. Accompanied by his guitar, Kennon sings about the lives of two individuals that would have ended […]
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California’s pro-abortion governor ready to allow non-physicians to perform abortions

Given how relentlessly pro-abortion the state of California has become, it is a minor miracle that pro-lifers were able to stave off a bill to enlarge the categories of non-physicians who will be allowed to perform a kind of early-term surgical “aspiration” abortion as long as they did. The bill—AB 154—is now on pro-abortion Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk, or will be imminently. Short of a miracle Brown will sign the bill into law. What will happen? Physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives will perform these abortions. (Unlike the vague suggestion in a supportive Los Angeles Times editorial, these non-physicians […]
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Euthanasia out-of-control in Belgium: Quebec’s Bill 52 is based on the Belgian euthanasia law

Quebec is currently debating a medical model to decriminalize euthanasia. Bill 52, the Quebec euthanasia bill, uses similar definitions as those used by the Belgian euthanasia law.  The following information is based on data from Belgium. Deaths without request or consent.  A study that was published in the (CMAJ June, 2010) concluded that 32% of euthanasia deaths in the Flemish region of Belgium are done without explicit request. A similar study that was published in the (CMAJ June, 2010) concluded that 45% of euthanasia deaths involving nurses in Belgium were done without explicit request.  Many people claim that the Belgian euthanasia law is controlled and yet […]
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If you can stand and pray, you can save a baby from abortion: here’s the living proof

Here at the Pro-Life Action League, we put a lot of time and resources into organizing “clinic witness” presence where people stand in prayer outside abortion clinics nationwide. Stories like Maddox’s are why. Maddox is the adorable baby boy on the left in the photo. The building on the right is where Maddox nearly lost his life. This is an e-mail I received recently: Hi, my name is Stacy and I wanted to thank your group for saving my baby. I went to that terrible facility [Planned Parenthood in Aurora, Illinois] on a cold Saturday morning in November, scared to […]
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Church Should Give ‘More Consideration’ to ‘Quality’ of Homosexual Relationships: Cardinal Archbisho

Church Should Give ‘More Consideration’ to ‘Quality’ of Homosexual Relationships: Cardinal Archbisho by LifeSiteNews.com ROME, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Church should “give more consideration” to “the quality” of homosexual relationships, the cardinal archbishop of Vienna said this weekend. Christoph Schönborn told the far-left British Catholic magazine the Tablet that the Church should also consider allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion since “many people don’t even marry at all any longer.” “We should give more consideration to the quality of homosexual relationships. A stable relationship is certainly better than if someone chooses to be promiscuous,” Schönborn said. […]
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A double standard at Catholic Relief Services

Catholic Relief Services has criticized the report we released last week on their decision to end a longstanding contractual relationship with AKA Printing & Mailing, a Virginia company owned by the husband of American Life League president Judie Brown.  But we believe it was an important development to report, in particular because it seems to show that CRS has adopted a concerning double standard. CRS’ own response confirms the concern. They ended their contracts with AKA, they wrote on Aug. 27, because the CRS board felt that it could not support, even indirectly, a group that launched unfair smear campaigns […]
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USCCB’s Social Justice Arm Caught Funding Pro-Abortion/Prostitution Groups: Takes “Decisive” Action

USCCB’s Social Justice Arm Caught Funding Pro-Abortion/Prostitution Groups: Takes “Decisive” Action by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine September 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the U.S. bishops’ domestic social justice arm, says it has taken “decisive action” on a new report that reveals they have been funding groups that support abortion, contraception, same-sex “marriage,” and legalized prostitution. The organization’s funding practices have been the subject of growing scrutiny in the last several years, especially after it was revealed that CCHD had funded the scandal-plagued ACORN organization to the tune of millions of dollars. The report […]
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California Homosexual Organization Admits HIV/AIDS is “Gay Disease”

California Homosexual Organization Admits HIV/AIDS is “Gay Disease” by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz LOS ANGELES, California, October 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center has abandoned a long-held homosexual activist contention by declaring on billboards posted throughout Southern California that HIV/AIDS is a “gay disease.” According to a report by the Los Angeles Times, the Center is trying to address rapidly increasing HIV infection rates among the homosexual population by rallying the gay community to increasing vigilance against exposure to the disease. Activists for the homosexual lifestyle have, until this current development, strongly, and sometimes vehemently […]
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Peter Singer is a eugenicist

Eugenics has always been about promoting desired utilitarian outcomes. The old eugenics wanted to improve the human herd through the crude manipulation of who could and should be parents. And, it also promoted the idea of infanticide–to rid the society of those who would drag it down. Margaret Sanger infamously referred to these as “the human weeds.” The new eugenics doesn’t use such a crude lexicon, but still has the old goal of improving the human herd–as well as a new one of satisfying the personal desires of parents–through the more sophisticated weapons of genetic manipulation, eugenic abortion, and someday, infanticide. Of […]
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Pedophilia Party Launched in the Netherlands

Pedophilia Party Launched in the Netherlands by LifeSiteNews.com by Hilary White AMSTERDAM, May 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The newly formed Charity, Freedom and Diversity (NVD) party of the Netherlands has introduced itself to Dutch politics as a champion of children’s rights and has vowed, “We are going to shake The Hague awake!” The NVD is Europe’s first political party dedicated to promoting and legitimizing pedophilia. In a press release, the NVD’s spokesman and co-founder, Ad van den Berg said among their goals is lowering the age of consent for sexual activity from 16 to 12 and eventually eliminating it completely.“A […]
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Reform CCHD Reps Reveal on EWTN Shocking Evidence Against USCCB Anti-Poverty Arm

Reform CCHD Reps Reveal on EWTN Shocking Evidence Against USCCB Anti-Poverty Arm by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine and Steve Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., November 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Friday, EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo hosted, on his The World Over program, representatives of Reform CCHD Now, a coalition of Catholic groups calling for reform of the USCCB’s domestic anti-poverty arm, Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). Arroyo and his two guests presented strong evidence that the CCHD is funding groups that are subverting Catholic teaching. The interview was aired only 9 days before American Catholics will be asked to contribute to […]
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New Study Finds Strong Evidence for Abortifacient Effect of Plan B “Emergency Contraception”

New Study Finds Strong Evidence for Abortifacient Effect of Plan B “Emergency Contraception” by LifeSiteNews.com Analysis by Dr. John B. Shea, MD. FRCP(C) TORONTO, May 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a recent article in Fertility and Sterility R.T. Mikolajczyk and J.B. Stanford proposed a model experiment that estimated the effectiveness of the disruption of ovulation by Levonorgestrel used as an “emergency contraceptive,” based on the prevention of fertilization. They also demonstrated what was termed the “effectiveness” of levonorgestrel with or without “mechanisms acting after fertilization.” If disruption of ovulation were the only significant mechanism of action of levonorgestrel, its “effectiveness” […]
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Doctor’s ‘abortion-first’ mentality featured on PostSecret

Pro-Life Action League Vice President Ann Scheidler recently wrote about a bill in the California state legislature that would allow nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, and physicians’ assistants to perform abortions. In it she noted: There seems to be a general consensus among the medical community in favor of easy “access” to abortion, but when it comes to actually performing the abortions, most doctors want respectability among their peers and their friends, and so they don’t want to stoop to that level. With that in mind, note this postcard that recently appeared on the website PostSecret: Here’s hoping this woman finds […]
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The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik champions modesty in sex-obsessed Hollywood

I’m shallow and materialistic. I admire some movie stars for how they look and how I think that I measure up to them has an effect on me. I thought I’d get that out of the way straight off. I go to the gym and I am careful about my diet, and it’s not just about my health. I’m not immune to the effects of celebrity culture. I wish I were.  I was raised in the 70s when the television celebrity culture was really getting going, and women started turning emulating movie and TV stars into a lifestyle. One of […]
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Is assisted suicide a turn-on for some people?

Does assisting suicide have a sexual–or perhaps better stated, sensual–component for some people? I have thought it might ever since reading A Chosen Death by assisted suicide advocate Dr. Lonnie Shavelson. Shavelson witnessed Sarah, described as a Hemlock Society leader, murdering “Gene,” who changed his mind before dying, only to have Sarah put a plastic bag over his head. Demonstrating Shavelson’s moral hollowness, he not only didn’t stop the woman from killing Gene, but didn’t report the case to the police. But this is the part of Shavelson’s account I want to focus on for the moment. Why does Sarah do it?  He quotes her waxing […]
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Group of Christian leaders step forward to tell of battles with same-sex attraction

After Steve Chalke and Rob Bell joined the ‘Accepting Evangelicals’ Group in affirming faithful same-sex erotic relationships earlier this year a new group of ‘post-gay’ evangelical Christian leaders has emerged. Their testimonies are clear, powerful, hugely encouraging and most welcome at a time when many young evangelicals are genuinely confused about the issue. These are men in pastoral ministry who admit to feelings of same sex attraction but who also see the Bible’s prohibitions on same-sex relationships as non-negotiable. The core of this new group, recently interviewed by Christianity magazine, are Sam Alberry, a church leader in Maidenhead, Sean Doherty, a tutor at St Mellitus College, […]
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Couple adopts baby whom others called a curse

August 30, 2013 (LiveActionNews) – For nine months, Adam was carried in his biological mother’s womb. He was safe with her, until the day he was born. Shortly after his birth, in a hospital in India, Adam was abandoned. He had been born with severe physical deformities. No one in his family wanted him. Not one of them opened their heart or home to him. He was a child whose life many in this United States of abundance would deem unworthy of living. When doctors told Adam’s family that they could not just abandon their child, their response was quite […]
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Director of Planned Parenthood at 40 Days for Life Birthplace Resigns after Watching Abortion Ultras

Director of Planned Parenthood at 40 Days for Life Birthplace Resigns after Watching Abortion Ultras by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert BRYAN, Texas, November 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The director of the Texas Planned Parenthood abortion mill where the 40 Days for Life campaign began has resigned, saying she experienced a conversion after watching an ultrasound video of a child being killed by abortion. “I just thought I can’t do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that’s it,” said Abby Johnson in an interview with local news network KBTX 3. Johnson had […]
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