Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize to the Shock of Journalists and Pro-Life Leaders

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize to the Shock of Journalists and Pro-Life Leaders by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine and Steve Jalsevac OSLO, Norway, October 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Early this morning, the Nobel Committee awarded U.S. President Barack Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, prompting shock both from journalists and pro-life leaders. The award, the Committee says, was given to President Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” The Committee says that they have “attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.” They credit him, further, […]
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President of USCCB Congratulates President Obama for Nobel Peace Prize

President of USCCB Congratulates President Obama for Nobel Peace Prize by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, October 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), issued the following statement, congratulating President Barack Obama on being honored with the Nobel Peace Prize: “In the name of the Catholic Bishops of the United States, I would like to offer congratulations to President Barack Obama on his receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. As he has graciously said, much of the work of realizing a more peaceful and just world for all persons and nations remains […]
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Cardinal Who Returned Order of Canada Says He Refuses “Pro-life” Label

Cardinal Who Returned Order of Canada Says He Refuses “Pro-life” Label by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac September 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Recently Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte of Montreal made headlines with his decision to return his own Order of Canada as an act of protest against the decision to induct abortionist Henry Morgentaler into the Order. While many pro-life advocates have welcomed the Cardinal’s decision and congratulated him for his public stance which has grabbed headlines throughout the country, a recent newspaper article has suggested that the Cardinal’s attitude towards Canada’s “father of abortion” and abortion itself may be more ambivalent […]
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Coquille Indians Legalize Same-Sex “Marriage”

Coquille Indians Legalize Same-Sex “Marriage” by LifeSiteNews.com PORTLAND, Oregon, August 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Coquille Indian tribe of Oregon has admitted same-sex unions to the legal status of marriage. The legislation, affecting the small group of about 200-300 Indians, changed Coquille law to include homosexual unions, after a lesbian couple expressed desire that tribal officials sanction their union as a “marriage.” According to tribal experts, the Coquille tribe is the first American Indian tribe to adopt such a law, reports the Associated Press. The Navajo and Cherokee tribes prohibit same-sex “marriages.” The Coquille law does not change the lesbian […]
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For the Vatican it’s Clear – Pro-Abortion Politicians ‘Must’ be Denied Communion

For the Vatican it’s Clear – Pro-Abortion Politicians ‘Must’ be Denied Communion by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen November 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the Patrick Kennedy Communion flap and the recent action of the Bishops of Spain having opened up the issue of denying communion to pro-abortion politicians, it is worthwhile to review the position of the Vatican on the matter. Since the controversy came to a head in 2004, the stance from the Vatican on the matter has been clear and consistent. For the Pope and top Curial Cardinals in charge of the matter there is no question about […]
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Last Call!

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Nebraska Enacts First-Ever Abortion Ban Based on Fetal Pain

Nebraska Enacts First-Ever Abortion Ban Based on Fetal Pain by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith Updated: 7:16pm EST, 04/13/10 OMAHA, Nebraska, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law today another landmark bill banning abortion after 20 weeks gestation, on the basis that an unborn child feels pain at that age. Just hours before, the Nebraska legislature had passed the legislation, the first of its kind in the United States. Pro-life advocates believe it could pose a direct and historic challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that deprived the states the […]
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What the Pope Should Know about Nancy Pelosi

What the Pope Should Know about Nancy Pelosi by LifeSiteNews.com By Deal W. Hudson February 16, 2009 (InsideCatholic.com) – This week, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will meet with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican. With the debilitating illness of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Pelosi has become the de facto leader of dissident Catholic members of Congress. It’s only appropriate that Pelosi should take Kennedy’s place. When she became Speaker in January 2006, she chose Rev. Robert Drinan, S.J., as the celebrant of the Mass held in her honor. The late Father Drinan, a longtime professor of law […]
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Life on GLAAD’s Blacklist

Readers will have to forgive me for sounding angry, but the recent news involving GLAAD has enraged me. Mark Steyn's most recent piece in National Review sums up some of the worst aspects of the epic saga known as GLAAD v. Duck Dynasty.
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Children’s Hospital Oakland’s PR disaster in handling Jahi McMath ‘brain death’ case

Children’s Hospital Oakland has a very good reputation where I live in the Bay Area. But its public communication around the tragedy of Jahi McMath’s ”brain death” has been astoundingly insensitive, bordering on arrogant. The hospital’s statements quoted in today’s San Francisco Chronicle continues the maladroit insensitivity. The hospital states it will remove the ventilator the moment that can be done legally. From the story: Children’s Hospital Oakland officials confirmed Sunday they will turn off the machines sustaining Jahi McMath’s body as soon as a legal injunction expires at 5 p.m. Monday unless otherwise ordered by a court. “Barring any other court-order legal action by the family, the ventilator will […]
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Alert! Only 3 Days Left

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Forgotten Study: Abuse in School 100 Times Worse than by Priests

Forgotten Study: Abuse in School 100 Times Worse than by Priests by LifeSiteNews.com By James Tillman and John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, DC, April 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the last several weeks such a quantity of ink has been spilled in newspapers across the globe about the priestly sex abuse scandals, that a casual reader might be forgiven for thinking that Catholic priests are the worst and most common perpetrators of child sex abuse. But according to Charol Shakeshaft, the researcher of a little-remembered 2004 study prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, “the physical sexual abuse of students in schools […]
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Star Trek Actor Who Paid for 3 Abortions Now Condemns Woman’s “Right to Choose…to Kill Her Baby”

Star Trek Actor Who Paid for 3 Abortions Now Condemns Woman’s “Right to ChooseâEUR¦to Kill Her Baby” by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert LOS ANGELES, February 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Actor Gary Graham knew that by writing about his personal experience and rejection of abortion, he would be incurring the ire of not a few among the Hollywood elite. Yet a blog column posted last Tuesday by the seasoned actor, known most recently for his roles as Ambassador Soval in the TV series “Star Trek: Enterprise” and Capt. Ingles on “J.A.G.”, took an unflinching look at truths almost entirely ignored by […]
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Spending Christmas in the Hospital

I wanted to wake up from this horrible nightmare as our daughter was put in a hospital gown and a day later, given a feeding tube, through her nose and into her throat. What was going on?
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Study Confirms Estrogen in Water from the Pill Devastating to Fish Populations

Study Confirms Estrogen in Water from the Pill Devastating to Fish Populations by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ST. JOHN, New Brunswick, February 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study by Dr. Karen Kidd, of the University of New Brunswick and the Canadian Rivers Institute, found that estrogen from birth control pills flooding into the water system through sewage adversely affects fish populations. The researchers added estrogen to an experimental lake at a level commonly found in the treated wastewater from cities with about 200,000 people. The researchers discovered that one consequence is that exposed male fish become feminized, producing a protein […]
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A short Christmas message with a movie suggestion

One thing I want to share, even though it isn’t really a Christmas item per se, is a wonderful 90-minute on line video that I just recently came across. I found the dramatized true story of world famous Paediatric Neurosurgeon, Dr. Benjamin Carson to be really inspiring and very appropriate for Christmas.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all LifeSiteNews readers

The LifeSiteNews team wishes the peace and joy of this wonderful season to you and your families. There will be very minimal reporting until after New Years Day. Please enjoy the Christmas reflections that several LSN journalists have written. Note that our Christmas campaign continues until the end of December.
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Unplanned parenthood: The Christmas story

This Christmas, as I see unbelievable and frightening events unfolding around the world, I have to remember one thing: God is in control. I don’t have to know the outcome of what is happening, because I know God deeply loves His creation, and He continues to enable triumph to arise from tragedy. Christmas embodies everything that is good about humanity: a King who humbled Himself, unlike the elite of the day, to be born in a stable…a father who chose adoption over abandonment…two parents who risked everything to keep their child safe…and a courageous teenage mother who proved that she was stronger […]
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Pro-Life Pastor Faces 2 Years Jail and Fine for Peaceful Sidewalk Counseling

Pro-Life Pastor Faces 2 Years Jail and Fine for Peaceful Sidewalk Counseling by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert OAKLAND, California, February 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Oakland pastor arrested last May for peacefully counseling and picketing at a local abortion clinic has been found guilty of violating a new city ordinance that his lawyers are claiming is unconstitutional, and now faces up to two years in jail and a $4,000 fine. Rev. Walter Hoye was convicted on January 15 of two counts of unlawfully approaching women entering an abortion facility, a misdemeanor enshrined in city law last spring, which holds a […]
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Mega Analysis of Over 100 Years of Research Shows Treatment for Unwanted Homosexuality Beneficial

Mega Analysis of Over 100 Years of Research Shows Treatment for Unwanted Homosexuality Beneficial by LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new report in the first edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Human Sexuality has found that sexual orientation is not immutable and that psychological care for individuals with unwanted homosexual attractions is beneficial and poses no significant risk of harm. The study, What Research Shows: NARTH’s Response to the American Psychological Associations Claims on Homosexuality, examines over 100 years of professional and scientific literature as well as over 600 reports from clinicians, researchers, and former clients […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

LIFESITE NEWSBYTES by LifeSiteNews.com AUTOMAKER CHEVROLET CRITICIZED FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN EVENT “Chevrolet Presents: Come Together and Worship” presentation, which debuts next Friday in Atlanta with famed Christian recording artist Michael W. Smith. SPUC MARKS 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF LEGAL ABORTION IN BRITAIN The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children in the UK reports that last Sunday (27 October) marked the 35th anniversary of the passing of Britain’s Abortion Act. Since the Act came into effect on 27 April 1968, nearly 6,000,000 unborn children have been killed under its terms. Despite assurances by the original supporters of the bill in parliament […]
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Vatican Official: Bishops Have no Choice But to Refuse Communion to Pro-Abort Politicians

Vatican Official: Bishops Have no Choice But to Refuse Communion to Pro-Abort Politicians by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROME, January 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Raymond Burke, in an exclusive interview last week, told LifeSiteNews.com that the issue of pro-abortion politicians continuing to receive Holy Communion is still one of major concern and that it is the duty of bishops to ensure that they are refused. He told LifeSiteNews.com, “I don’t understand the continual debate that goes on about it. There’s not a question that a Catholic who publicly, and after admonition, supports pro-abortion legislation is not to receive Holy […]
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Poland Appeals EU Ruling of “Wrongful Birth”

Poland Appeals EU Ruling of “Wrongful Birth” by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith STRASBOURG, June 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Polish government announced Tuesday that it will appeal the landmark ruling by the European Human Rights Court of “wrongful birth” made last March. The European Court of Human Rights ordered Poland to pay €25,000 in compensation for “wrongful birth” after ruling in favour of Alicja Tysiac, a 34 year mother of three who wished to abort her third child in 2003. Tysiac claimed her gynecologist destroyed her referral to an abortion clinic, denying that her health was in danger. At […]
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Quebec Kills Parents’ Rights To Choose Religion Instruction – Protest March Scheduled For Saturday

Quebec Kills Parents’ Rights To Choose Religion Instruction – Protest March Scheduled For Saturday by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MONTREAL, October 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The new mandatory Ethics and Religious Culture program that was introduced this fall in Quebec schools has parents fuming, with many complaining that the program effectively removes their right to choose the kind of religious education their children receive. To show their displeasure a group of Quebec parents has organized a protest march for tomorrow, Saturday, October 18. Three years ago, the clause in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms that guaranteed […]
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Opponents of Duck Dynasty try Pope Francis strategy

The huge, on-going backlash against the gay Gestapo that has exploded from A&E's suspension of Duck Dynasty's Phil Roberston for his straight up Christian response to a loaded question on homosexuality is incredible. Cracker Barrel is the latest to succumb to the pubic's refreshing new outrage against those who grovel and succumb to gay demands that they punish anyone who violates the free-speech-rights-smashing “gay code”. Folks, this is tyranny that must be resisted. I am amazed how, bang! so suddenly, this has happened. Maybe it will end up like the fall of Soviet Union totalitarianism. What gay activists have been […]
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Confusion as faithful Catholic order is brutally disciplined while dissidents left to fester

Among the most faithful of all of the new Catholic religious orders, especially in regard to their pro-life commitment, was an order known as the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate (FFI). They were made a pontifical institute of religious life by His Holiness John Paul II in January 1, 1998. The order has thrived and been considered stellar in its evangelization efforts. However, recent actions by the Vatican against the order have generated a firestorm of controversy and confusion about what priority the Church is now giving to the fidelity of religious orders to all Church teachings. Many pro-life Catholic […]
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Gary Herbert for president!

No, I'm not really endorsing Utah Governor Gary Herbert for president in 2016 – but the way he handled an activist judge's decision to redefine marriage proves Herbert would be better for the job than Chris Christie. On Friday, an Obama-appointed judge overturned Utah's state constitutional amendment protecting marriage – one passed by two-thirds of state voters in 2004. U.S. District Judge Richard Shelby said the amendment violated the U.S. Constitution – arguing, in effect, that George Washington would have taken a bullet to protect sodomy. Governor Herbert has done all he can do to protect sane jurisprudence and the […]
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Reflections on a year with LifeSiteNews

It’s nice to know there’s a group of people who understand completely how emotionally difficult this job can be, and support each other through the tough moments while celebrating our wins together.
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We need a boost

If we can make it halfway by Christmas, we will have a strong chance of meeting our $200,000 necessary minimal goal by December 31st.
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The Kennedy Funeral – A Golden Opportunity or Capitulation for the Catholic Church

The Kennedy Funeral – A Golden Opportunity or Capitulation for the Catholic Church by LifeSiteNews.com Editorial by John-Henry Westen August 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Saturday’s grandiose Catholic funeral for Senator Ted Kennedy has the potential to be a scandal that will make Notre Dame’s Obama Day a walk in the park. With all four living former Presidents in attendance and an address from President Barack Obama, the funeral is set to be a royal crowning, right inside a Catholic Church, of a man who betrayed the most fundamental moral teachings of the faith. What example will this give to Catholics […]
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Quebec Court Hears Jesuit School Case against Quebec’s Mandatory Religion Course

Quebec Court Hears Jesuit School Case against Quebec’s Mandatory Religion Course by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MONTREAL, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Loyola Catholic High School has finished presenting its case in court against Quebec’s mandatory Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) program. The case was launched after the Department of Education refused to allow the school to continue teaching its own Catholic-centered religion course. The private Catholic boys’ school objects to the province’s mandatory course on the grounds that it conflicts with the school’s Catholic character and presents a relativistic world-view of religion. “Our parents send their sons to […]
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Cardinal Marc Ouellet Calls Out Brother Bishops for Lack of Support for Pope

Cardinal Marc Ouellet Calls Out Brother Bishops for Lack of Support for Pope by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen PHOENIX, August 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a short but stunning talk before some 90 Bishops, eight Cardinals and 1000 Knights, the Primate of Canada, Quebec City Archbishop Marc Cardinal Ouellet, addressed the subject of unity at the 127th annual Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus last night. Ouellet spoke of the “hard winter” Pope Benedict XVI had to “suffer” this past year as he was “harshly criticized both within and outside the Church and was not adequately defended by those […]
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Late-term Abortionist: Man is “Malignant Eco-Tumor”

Late-term Abortionist: Man is “Malignant Eco-Tumor” by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith BOULDER, Colorado, August 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Warren Hern, one of the last abortionists willing to perform very late-term abortions in the United States, has written published works describing man as a “malignant eco-tumor” destroying the earth. Esquire magazine reports in a story entitled “the Last Abortion Doctor,” that Hern, the director of the Boulder Abortion Clinic since 1975, argued in a work called Urban Malignancy: Similarity in the Fractal Dimensions of Urban Morphology and Malignant Neoplasms that growing human populations act like a “malignant ecotumor.” LifeSiteNews.com […]
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Judge: Quebec Gvmt ‘Totalitarian’ in Imposing Relativism Course

Judge: Quebec Gvmt ‘Totalitarian’ in Imposing Relativism Course by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine MONTREAL, Quebec, June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Quebec Ministry of Education’s decision to impose their course in moral and religious relativism on Montreal’s Loyola High School assumed “a totalitarian character essentially equivalent to Galileo’s being ordered by the Inquisition to deny the Copernican universe,” said the Quebec Superior Court in a strongly-worded ruling released Friday. Justice Gérard Dugré ruled that the Ministry’s attempt to force Loyola, a private Catholic boys’ school in the Jesuit tradition, to teach the strictly secular course, entitled Ethics and Religious […]
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Following Meeting with Pope, News of Secret Meeting between Pelosi and her Bishop on Abortion

Following Meeting with Pope, News of Secret Meeting between Pelosi and her Bishop on Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, February 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of House Speaker Pelosi’s closed-door meeting with Pope Benedict XVI this week, news has erupted that earlier this month Pelosi secretly met with her own bishop, Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco, to discuss her stance on abortion. Pelosi had publicly accepted an invitation to meet with Niederauer after the Speaker attempted to justify abortion in light of Catholic teaching last year during an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press. […]
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Catholics Can’t Vote for Pro-Abort Politicians: Cardinal-Designate Burke

Catholics Can’t Vote for Pro-Abort Politicians: Cardinal-Designate Burke by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac and Kathleen Gilbert San Diego, October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Americans approach the eve of election week, Cardinal-designate Raymond Burke has said in a new interview that they must recognize their solemn obligation to defend their unborn brothers and sisters when approaching the voting booth. “You can never vote for someone who favors absolutely the right to choice of a woman to destroy a human life in her womb or the right to a procured abortion,” the archbishop told Thomas McKenna, President of Catholic Action for […]
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Vatican Archbishop Burke: Public Repentance is Required for Pro-Abort Politicians

Vatican Archbishop Burke: Public Repentance is Required for Pro-Abort Politicians by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen ROME, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking at the Human Life International World Prayer Congress Saturday, Archbishop Raymond Burke received sustained applause when he noted that Catholic politicians who support abortion are required to repent publicly. Speaking to pro-life leaders from 45 nations, the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (the highest Vatican court) also noted that those who recognize the scandal caused by such public, dissident Catholics assist the Church in repairing a serious breach, but are nevertheless often ridiculed for it. (Read the complete […]
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Chicago Mayor Daley to Sign Abortion “Bubble Law” Ordinance

Chicago Mayor Daley to Sign Abortion “Bubble Law” Ordinance by LifeSiteNews.com By James Tillman Chicago, Illinois, October 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)—Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago has said he will sign a new ordinance passed by the City Council at the behest of Planned Parenthood. The ordinance prevents pro-lifers from coming within 8 feet of a woman entering an abortion facility without her permission, for an area extending fifty feet around the building. Mayor Daley said that the ordinance would “try to make sure nobody is harassed.” He said that he did not want people to “harass and scream and yell” at […]
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Notre Dame’s Bishop Will Not Attend Obama-Honoring Graduation, Criticizes University’s Decision

Notre Dame’s Bishop Will Not Attend Obama-Honoring Graduation, Criticizes University’s Decision by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, March 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The bishop of the diocese where the University of Notre Dame is located, Bishop John D’Arcy, released a statement this afternoon strongly criticizing the university’s decision to invite President Obama to offer this year’s commencement address and receive an honorary law degree on May 17. The bishop said that he would boycott the event. This past Friday afternoon it was announced that President Obama had accepted the invitation put forward by the university. The announcement sparked […]
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Looney England: UK Parents Sue Hospital For “Wrongful Birth” of Disabled Son Born 14 Years Ago

Looney England: UK Parents Sue Hospital For “Wrongful Birth” of Disabled Son Born 14 Years Ago by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LONDON, UK, May 4, 2009 (LIfeSiteNews.com) – A couple who are claiming they were deprived of their chance to abort their disabled son are suing the Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust for £1million in damages and compensation for the cost of caring for him. The couple told the High Court in London that staff at Blackpool Victoria Hospital should have detected anomalies in their son’s brain structure during an ultrasound scan carried out at 20 weeks […]
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Couple Receives over $21 Million Dollars for “Wrongful Birth” of Handicapped Son

Couple Receives over $21 Million Dollars for “Wrongful Birth” of Handicapped Son by LifeSiteNews.com By Elizabeth O’Brien TAMPA, Florida, July 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A judge has awarded over $21 million dollars to a couple for the “wrongful birth” of their second handicapped son. The couple would have aborted the child if they had known about his disability, the Tampa Bay Tribune reports. Daniel and Amara Estrada have two sons who are both physically handicapped with the same genetic disorder, Smith-Lemli-Opitz, which does not allow them to properly synthesize cholesterol. The children have difficulty walking and must be fed through […]
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The President of France will face a strong opposition to legalizing euthanasia

A panel of French citizens recently recommended that the Government of France legalize assisted suicide and a limited form of euthanasia. The panel of 18 French citizens were chosen by a commercial polling firm to examine the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide. The decision of the panel of citizens supports the campaign promise made by French President François Hollande during the last election, but it contradicts the position of France's official Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique (CCNE). In December 2012 the CCNE in France examined the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide and concluded that assisted suicide may be legalized but euthanasia must […]
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Is your conscience protected by the First Amendment?

December 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this week, LifeSiteNews.com published an article describing how the New Jersey State Senate pulled a bill that would have codified same-sex “marriage” in the state. The bill was pulled because, despite concerns among conservative Democrats, national homosexual advocacy organization Lambda Legal and a number of politicians said its religious freedom protections were unnecessary. One of the people who believes religious protections in the bill were unnecessary is openly gay New Jersey Assemblyman and Assembly Deputy Majority Leader Reed Gusciora. Gusciora told LifeSiteNews.com that he believes “religious exemption[s are] just a codification of the First Amendment. While […]
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More Teens Losing Virginity at Early Age, Study Claims

More Teens Losing Virginity at Early Age, Study Claims by LifeSiteNews.com By Terry Vanderheyden NEW YORK, April 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new survey claims that over 40% of young teens in the US have lost their virginity by the age of 14. The survey of 2,311 youth was conducted in the city of Baltimore by Dr. Danielle Ompad and colleagues for The New York Academy of Medicine and published in the most recent issue of The Archives of Sexual Behavior. “I don’t think other cities would be too different,” Dr. Ompad told the New York Daily News. The study […]
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St. Francis of Assisi: Not a Birkenstock-Clad Hippie But a Converter of Muslims

St. Francis of Assisi: Not a Birkenstock-Clad Hippie But a Converter of Muslims by LifeSiteNews.com By Michael Baggot The relationship between Muslims and Christians received added attention this past Easter when Pope Benedict XVI publicly baptized Magdi Allam, the most prominent Muslim journalist in Italy. Allam knew that publicly renouncing his Islamic faith would bring attempts on his life from angered Muslims, but expressed conviction that his newfound faith would sustain him through any difficulties. “You asked me whether I fear for my life, in the awareness that conversion to Christianity will certainly procure for me yet another and much […]
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Coming soon: An ObamaCare sales speech at your grocery store

December 19, 2013 (Acton Institute) – President Obama, in a move that highlights exactly how out-of-touch he is with most of America, is recruiting mothers to spread the good news of Obamacare…in the grocery store. In a meeting with “eight moms from around America,” according to a White House pool report, President Obama encouraged the mothers to sing the praises of Obamacare while they’re out shopping at grocery stores. Obama, speaking to the moms in the Oval Office, acknowledged that there have been problems with the roll-out of his signature health legislation, but insisted that a solid P.R. campaign will […]
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Motherhood is “the Most Rewarding Experience of My Life” says Feminist Icon’s Daughter

Motherhood is “the Most Rewarding Experience of My Life” says Feminist Icon’s Daughter by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White July 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It was the love of her little son and her joy at being a mother that rescued Rebecca Walker from the unhappiness of life as the neglected daughter of a feminist icon. Rebecca is the 38-year-old daughter of American feminist author and activist Alice Walker and she has written that, despite the feminist dogmas that guide her mother’s life, being a mother has “opened my world.” The Daily Mail quotes her saying, “Having a child has been […]
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Nelson Mandela’s Group of Global “Elders” a Who’s Who of Pro-Abortion, Pro-Population Control Moveme

Nelson Mandela’s Group of Global “Elders” a Who’s Who of Pro-Abortion, Pro-Population Control Moveme by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – World famous opponent of South African apartheid, Nelson Mandela, celebrated his 89th birthday last Wednesday by announcing the formation of a Global council of elders, known simply as “The Elders.” So far The Elders includes Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Mary Robinson, Jimmy Carter, Li Zhaoxing, Muhammad Yunus, Ela Bhatt, Graca Machel, and, of course, Nelson Mandela. The group of high-profile international leaders is intended to be an independent body of […]
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Bishop of Fort Wayne: Notre Dame President is Wrong to Allow Vagina Monologues

Bishop of Fort Wayne: Notre Dame President is Wrong to Allow Vagina Monologues by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac FORT WAYNE, March 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The bishop of Fort Wayne, Bishop John D’Arcy, has released a public statement berating the president of Notre Dame University, Fr. John Jenkins, for deciding to allow a performance of The Vagina Monologues at the university. LifeSiteNews.com reported yesterday that Fr. Jenkins released a statement on Mar. 10 in which he announced his decision to allow the performance of the play to go ahead on Mar. 24-26. “My decision on this matter,” wrote the president, […]
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Commentary: Barbaric Tribal Practices Open Window to Dark Future of Infanticide and Euthanasia

Commentary: Barbaric Tribal Practices Open Window to Dark Future of Infanticide and Euthanasia by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BRAZIL, February 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The courageous journalism of Brazilian reporter Hugo Marques, published today for the first time in English by LifeSiteNews.com, opens a window to a dark vision of Brazil’s savage, pre-Christian past, and the horrifying future that awaits the Western world should it decide to fully implement the ideology of death that is increasingly supported by the global intellectual and political establishment (see article at https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08022604.html). As LifeSiteNews reporter John Jalsevac revealed on Friday, the world’s most […]
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Girl Once Comatose and Scheduled for Euthanasia Will Testify against Attacker

Girl Once Comatose and Scheduled for Euthanasia Will Testify against Attacker by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BOSTON, March 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Haleigh Poutre, now 14, was so brutally beaten more than two years ago by her adoptive parents, that she was left in a coma from which she was never expected to revive. However, she may now be well enough to testify against the man accused of assaulting her. Haleigh has spent the last two years recovering at the Franciscan Hospital for Children near Boston. On Sept. 11, 2005, Haleigh was taken to hospital in “an unresponsive state”, […]
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Death of a Taboo: Acceptance of Sex-Selective Abortion Growing

Death of a Taboo: Acceptance of Sex-Selective Abortion Growing by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White February 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An article in this weekend’s Los Angeles Times reports that more North American women are using inexpensive genetic tests to determine the sex of their children before birth. These tests may then become the determining factor in deciding for abortion. The tests, which cost $300 or less, are often used to determine the sex of a child before birth. The LA Times reports that they have been found to be unreliable and more than a hundred women have launched suits against […]
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Potter Author JK Rowling Equates Christians Who Avoid Potter with Islamic Fundamentalists

Potter Author JK Rowling Equates Christians Who Avoid Potter with Islamic Fundamentalists by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen EDINBURGH, March 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The newly released edition of the Edinburgh University Student newspaper, the oldest student newspaper in the UK, includes an interview with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. In the interview Rowling claims to have received death threats from Christians opposed to her novels, calling Christian ‘fundamentalists’ “dangerous” and comparing them by inference to Islamic fundamentalists. Asked if there were not some Christians who dislike the book ‘intensely’, Rowling replied, “Oh, vehemently and they send death threats.” Questioned about […]
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Was having kids ever a paying venture?

As any parent can attest, kids are expensive. They take up space (increasing the cost of housing), eat everything in your kitchen (increasing the grocery bill), never remember to turn off lights (increasing the cost of utilities), and find dozens of other ways to drain your banking account. From birth to high school graduation, the average cost to raise a kid is $241,080. The high cost is often proffered as an explanation for why families today are much smaller than in the past. But as Bryan Caplan explains having kids was never a paying venture: One popular story about the […]
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2013 was banner year for discipline of abortion abusers

Several abortionists came to the attention of regulators due to complaints and publicity from Operation Rescue, which took their complaints to medical boards, health departments, and even to the Federal Election Commission and into court to shut down shoddy or illegal abortion businesses.
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Pope Praises Americans’ Efforts to Defend Life and Marriage to New US Ambassador

Pope Praises Americans’ Efforts to Defend Life and Marriage to New US Ambassador by LifeSiteNews.com By Michael Baggot ROME, Italy, March 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his message to new United States Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon on Friday, Pope Benedict praised the pro-life and pro-family work of numerous Americans. In the address marking the Pope’s acceptance of Glendon as US ambassador, the Pope celebrated “the efforts of so many of your fellow-citizens and government leaders to ensure legal protection for God’s gift of life from conception to natural death, and the safeguarding of the institution of marriage, acknowledged as a […]
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Appeal to be Filed in Case of Photographer Fined for “Discrimination”

Appeal to be Filed in Case of Photographer Fined for “Discrimination” by LifeSiteNews.com ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., December 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) will appeal a New Mexico judge’s decision to uphold a ruling by the New Mexico Civil Rights Commission against an Albuquerque photography company. The commission ruled that the company, run by a young Christian husband and wife, was guilty of “sexual orientation” discrimination under state antidiscrimination laws for declining to photograph a same-sex “commitment ceremony.” “Christians in the marketplace should not be subject to predatory legal attacks for simply abiding by their beliefs,” […]
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Christian Company Fined for Not Taking Photographs of Same-Sex Ceremony

Christian Company Fined for Not Taking Photographs of Same-Sex Ceremony by LifeSiteNews.com By Michael Baggot ROSWELL, NM, April 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a case challenging freedom of conscience in the workplace, a family-owned New Mexico company was fined $6,600 in attorneys’ fees on Wednesday for refusing to take photographs at a same-sex ceremony. Vanessa Willock complained to the state Human Rights Commission (HRC) that Elane Photography LLC was discriminating against her and her partner on the basis of “sexual orientation.” On Wednesday, the HRC ruled that Elane Photography LLC violated the New Mexico Human Rights Act. “The Constitution prohibits […]
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Christian Photographer Hauled before Commission for Refusing Same-Sex Job

Christian Photographer Hauled before Commission for Refusing Same-Sex Job by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac New Mexico, January 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The case of a Christian photographer who refused to photograph a same-sex “commitment ceremony”, was heard before the New Mexico Human Rights Division on Monday. A same-sex couple asked Elaine Huguenin, co-owner with her husband of Elane Photography, to photograph a “commitment ceremony” that the two women wanted to hold. Huguenin declined because her Christian beliefs are in conflict with the message communicated by the ceremony. The same-sex couple filed a complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Division, […]
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Homosexual ‘Hate Crimes’ Law Violates Pennsylvania Constitutio

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Homosexual ‘Hate Crimes’ Law Violates Pennsylvania Constitutio by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, July 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a short per curiam order, in which it agreed with the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania that the state legislature violated the Pennsylvania Constitution when it added “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to Pennsylvania’s “ethnic intimidation” law. Eleven Christians of the evangelical group Repent America were arrested due to that same law in 2004 for reading the Bible and singing hymns at Outfest, a homosexual rally. Though the case was […]
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What would (a prochoice) Jesus do?

Sometimes we achieve clarity when we put an ideology into a different context. Our news media superficially celebrates those who fight for “equality” while denying it to millions through the violence of abortion. They go all Lady Gaga over someone who will stand for a whopping 11 hours to demand the death of innocent human life. Christ hung on a cross for a lot longer, and I’m pretty sure it was more physically tasking than standing in place in comfy pink sneakers. The difference? His sacrifice was so others wouldn’t perish. But what if Jesus were to have embraced a […]
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PETA to bear-mauled girl: You deserved it!

I really do believe that PETA is a people hating organization, at least among its leadership. Alpha wolf Ingrid Newkirk, for example, expressed the wish that humans had never appeared on the planet. Recently, a young woman in Florida was out hunting and badly mauled by a bear. No one asked PETA’s opinion, but they sent the recovering girl a letter that basically told her she got what she deserved. From the letter: As this mother bear demonstrated, animals form intense bonds with their young, just as we do, and will go to great lengths to protect them, just as your […]
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Confession: I have no idea how to talk to my kids about sex. How do YOU do ‘the talk’?

At nearly ten, my eldest son is a bundle of contradictions.  The world of demographics and marketing calls him a “tween,” and the description seems apt.  He is somewhere between a child and an adolescent, a gangly boy five feet tall with a video game addiction and a touch of acne who still sleeps with stuffed animals and sometimes pretends to be a car.  (Vroom.)  One minute, he’ll roll his eyes at me and tell me I don’t know anything; the next minute he’s crying and asking for a snuggle.  He’s tech savvy and computer literate, but he still can’t […]
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English and Welsh women eight times more likely to abort Down’s Syndrome baby than Irish women

If you have Down’s syndrome and your mother lives in Ireland then your chances of making it to birth are considerably greater than if you have the misfortune to be conceived in England or Wales. English and Welsh women are 7.6 times more likely than Irish women to have an abortion for a baby with Down’s Syndrome, 6 times more likely to have an abortion for Edward’s syndrome and 4 times more likely to have one for Patau’s syndrome. Furthermore the Irish birth rate for Down’s syndrome babies is about twice that for England and Wales. The way these figures […]
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Scranton Bishop Says He will Refuse Communion to Joseph Biden

Scranton Bishop Says He will Refuse Communion to Joseph Biden by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman SCRANTON, PENN, September 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, has confirmed that pro-abortion vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden would be refused Holy Communion in his diocese, according to the Scranton Times. The Times reports that “when asked whether the Democratic vice presidential candidate would be refused Communion should he tour the region, the diocese held firm” to a statement made by Bishop Joseph F. Martino in 2005 declaring that he would not “tolerate any politician who claims to be a […]
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Don’t ignore gun violence among black Americans

Published in USA Today on December 14, this article by LifeSiteNews journalist Dustin Siggins, notes that the horrific gun violence of occasional Sandy Hook types of incidents in white suburban towns are a far more common fact of life in US Black communities due especially to Black family, moral and other issues desperately needing attention.   With the one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting, gun violence is back in the news. With it are solutions that are questionable on both a constitutional and practical level. Likewise, many of the solutions ignore the real gun and violence problem in America – […]
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Editorial: Pope’s New Encyclical Speaks Against, not for One-World Government and New World Order

Editorial: Pope’s New Encyclical Speaks Against, not for One-World Government and New World Order by LifeSiteNews.com Editorial by John-Henry Westen July 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Newspapers, blogs, talk-shows on radio and television are full of discussion over Pope Benedict XVI’s supposed call for a “new world order” or a “one-world government.” These ideas are, however, neither based in reality nor a clear reading of the Pope’s latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, the release of which yesterday spawned the heated discussion. The Pope actually speaks directly against a one-world government, and, as would be expected from those who have read his […]
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Judge’s ruling puts polygamy on the way to legal recognition

“This ruling confuses the private desires of individuals with the institution of marriage as a whole,” Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of The Ruth Institute told LifeSiteNews.com. Also cited same-sex "marriage" and abortion-on-demand decisions as precedents justifying his decision.
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I lost my way

A father has serious obligations to his children. Besides letting them know that they are always loved, he must guide them to seek and to treasure truth, and to know where they can find that truth.
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Factchecker: Obama’s ‘If you like your health plan, you can keep it’ is the ‘Lie of the Year’

By now, many of you have undoubtedly heard or read that PolitiFact has named “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it,” the Lie of the Year for 2013. In case you don’t know what PolitiFact is, it’s a “fact checker” produced by the Tampa Bay Times’ PolitiFact project. It bills itself as non-partisan, which it is decidedly not, which is why even though the President’s whopper richly deserved the award, the announcement did come as a surprise. (See www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it.) Let’s talk for a moment about the way PolitiFact handled the substance of this phony baloney assurance […]
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The First Amendment: Curtailed for pro-life activists

Lately, pro-life speech in front of abortion clinics has been in the news. Here at LifeSiteNews.com, we reported last week that Pennsylvania state senator Larry Farnese introduced legislation that would provide a 15-foot buffer around all abortion clinics in the state. Also last week, in Washington, the Supreme Court heard arguments about a 35-foot buffer around clinics in Massachusetts.  When it comes to the First Amendment, it can seem as though protest and activist speech is well respected across America. However, beneath the surface is a disturbing trend against social conservatives, and especially pro-life activists.  Again, in most of the […]
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Personhood for primates?

The only reason to seek legal personhood for chimpanzees is to further blur the line between us and animals, to promote “a nonbiblical, naturalistic worldview that threatens to denigrate the unique moral status of human beings.”
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Have a Coke, a baby, and a smile

A new Coca-Cola ad is a jarring exception to the television industry's usually unrelenting negative coverage of family and parenthood. The advertising firm Santo Buenos Aires produced the 60-second spot to promote Coke Life, a new 36-calorie product sweetened with Stevia extract that may soon hit the shelves in the United States. The director films a couple's journey from pregnancy to the sacrifices of parenthood – the all-night crying sessions, stepping on LEGOs, interrupted intimacy, watching carefree couples jogging through the park – against the musical backdrop of “To Love Somebody,” a pre-disco Bee Gees tune with the refrain, “Baby, […]
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Irish MP overinflates abortions for fatal fetal disability 300-fold to advance political agenda

The Irish ‘Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act’, signed into law last July, will allow abortions to be carried out where there is a threat to the life of the mother. It does not, however, allow abortion when the life of the baby is at risk. Campaigners in Ireland are now seeking to change this and are up to their usual tricks of inflating statistics. On 13 November the Irish Journal reported on a campaign by a group called ‘Terminations for Medical Reasons’ (TFMR) who argued that 1,500 Irish women per year carried babies with fatal fetal abnormalities: ‘About 1,500 […]
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“Christianity in Europe Coming to an End”: Vienna Cardinal

“Christianity in Europe Coming to an End”: Vienna Cardinal by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White VIENNA, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna has warned that Christianity in Europe is dying out. Christoph Cardinal Schönborn said at St. Stephen’s Cathedral on Easter Sunday, “The time of Christianity in Europe is coming to an end. A Christianity, which achieved such great things like this cathedral or the wonderful music we will hear today.” Cardinal Schönborn’s Easter homily follows comments he made earlier in which he criticised Austrian Church leaders for their failure to accept and promote the watershed 1968 […]
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Pro-Life Organizations to Donate to for Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts

Pro-Life Organizations to Donate to for Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI, January 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The devastating earthquake which hit Haiti last night, leaving over 100,000 dead according to the Haitian Prime Minister, has called forth aid from all corners of the globe. Pro-life individuals wishing to make donations to the relief efforts have wondered where to donate without compromising their morals by donating to agencies that do not respect the right to life of the unborn. Certain aid agencies, while ostensibly respecting the right to life, have nevertheless funded pro-abortion […]
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Boycott of Dove Products Urged As Nude Ads Air Prime Time

Boycott of Dove Products Urged As Nude Ads Air Prime Time by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, New Jersey, March 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new series of prime-time ads for Dove beauty products featuring shots of naked senior women is coming under criticism by pro-family and women’s groups for contributing to the sexualization of women as a commercial tool, as well as exposing children to adult nudity. Billed as “pro-age” under the slogan ‘beauty has no age limit,’ the ad campaign is the latest in Dove’s series of ads promoting a more natural beauty standard. The use of […]
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New Jersey Legislature Votes In Favor Of Same-Sex ‘Civil Unions’

New Jersey Legislature Votes In Favor Of Same-Sex ‘Civil Unions’ by LifeSiteNews.com By Meg Jalsevac TRENTON, New Jersey, December 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Jersey’s legislature voted yesterday to label the same-sex partnerships allowed by the State’s Supreme Court earlier this year as ‘civil unions’, joining Vermont and Connecticut as the third state to legally recognize same-sex relationships as “civil unions”. All three states officially recognize same-sex ‘civil unions’, creating a relationship status that enjoys all the civil privileges of marriage but stops short of actually being called ‘same-sex marriage’. As previously reported by LifeSiteNews.com, on October 25 of this […]
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Lesbian Couple Files Complaint against Church for Refusing Civil Union Ceremony

Lesbian Couple Files Complaint against Church for Refusing Civil Union Ceremony by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith OCEAN GROVE, New Jersey (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New Jersey lesbian couple has filed a civil rights complaint against a Christian seaside retreat association that refused to facilitate their “civil union.” Harriet Bernstein and Luisa Paster filed the complaint June 19 with the state attorney general’s office on the grounds of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation after the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association declined the use of their Boardwalk Pavilion for their civil union ceremony, planned for September. Bernstein and Paster demanded […]
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New Jersey Rules against Christian Group that Declined to Host Lesbian Civil Union Ceremony

New Jersey Rules against Christian Group that Declined to Host Lesbian Civil Union Ceremony by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert MOUNT LAUREL, New Jersey, January 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New Jersey Christian group has lost a case against a lesbian couple who brought the group to court for refusing to rent out their oceanfront grounds to the pair for a civil union ceremony. The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights on Monday ruled that the Methodist Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association had violated the public accommodation provisions of state anti-discrimination laws. A remedy has not yet been settled. “What this […]
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India Pro-Life Leader Explains How West Hurts India with Imposed Population Control

India Pro-Life Leader Explains How West Hurts India with Imposed Population Control by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen MURINGOOR, India, August 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this month LifeSiteNews.com sat down with Sunny Kattukaran, the leader of a pro-life group in India known as Trust God (Pro-Life) Ministry. Firstly, Kattukaran explained the group’s evolution from anti-abortion to pro-life, from a focus on opposing abortion to a focus on promoting openness to God’s gift of life. He explained that even in his own family, that struggle was present. After a few years of marriage he and his wife were blessed with two […]
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Santorum Admits to Pondering Run for Republican Presidential Nomination – Asks for Prayers

Santorum Admits to Pondering Run for Republican Presidential Nomination – Asks for Prayers by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen ORLANDO, FL, September 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to a room full of prominent US Catholic leaders Friday night, Senator Rick Santorum was challenged to run for the Republican Presidential nominaion. Responding to a room already thick with applause, Santorum revealed that he was indeed “thinking about it” but asked for prayers and detailed his thinking on the matter. His remarks came after his address to the closing dinner of the 12th annual Catholic Leadership Conference – an invite-only gathering of Catholic […]
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Study: Abortion More Than Tripled Breast Cancer Risk for Sri Lankan Women

Study: Abortion More Than Tripled Breast Cancer Risk for Sri Lankan Women by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study out of Sri Lanka has found that women who had abortions more than tripled their risk of breast cancer. The study focused on analyzing the association between the duration of breastfeeding and the risk of breast cancer. But the researchers also reported other “significant” risk factors for breast cancer, such as passive smoking and being post-menopausal. The highest of the reported risk factors was abortion. The study, entitled “Prolonged breastfeeding reduces […]
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BILL GATES’ PLANNED-PARENTHOOD-PRESIDENT DAD INSPIRED PRO-ABORT FUNDING

BILL GATES’ PLANNED-PARENTHOOD-PRESIDENT DAD INSPIRED PRO-ABORT FUNDING by LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, May 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a lengthy interview with Bill Moyers released today, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates reveals the inspiration for his funding of pro-abortion population control measures. Responding to a question by Moyers on how he came to fund “reproductive issues” Gates answered, “When I was growing up, my parents were always involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. And so it’s fascinating. At the dinner table my parents are very good […]
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HuffPo: ‘We can have morally good abortions’

While it’s almost nice to hear a pro-abortion argument that isn’t some version of the “Keep Your Rosaries Off My Ovaries” shriek, Huffington Post blogger Donna Schaper’s contention – that abortion is moral – isn’t any more effective, and it's rather more insulting. The left-wing United Church of Christ minister recently argued that “Abortion can be a highly moral choice for a woman.” Surprised? You’re not alone. The post is titled, “Most Women Under 40 Haven't Heard the Pro-choice Moral Argument.” Perhaps because there isn’t one – or if there is, it’s not the one Schaper made in her piece. Schaper referred to […]
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Time to ax California’s stem cell agency

Proposition 71, which brought the misbegotten California Institute for Regenerative Medicine into being, was sold to voters in a blatantly mendacious campaign based on embryonic stem cell hype of CURES! CURES! CURES! and outright lies about the then state of regenerative medical science. Its administration has been marked by arrogance, conflict of interest, cronyism. And the CURES!? Not so many. In fact, none. And the human trial CIRM helped bring to that stage of experimentation? Non embryonic. Now, hopefully, with its time running out and requiring voters to re-authorize its existence, the media is being ginned up to revise history and repackage the agency–as […]
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Sound, images and passion video tells story of great depth and joy

Jon Fidero, in his 4-minute video monologue, with rapid fire images throughout those 4 minutes, conveys a very powerful message of what we at LifeSiteNews are all about, but more importantly, what this life is all about – for all of us.  Please watch it, if you have not done so. And then watch it again and again. Each time reveals more. There is so much packed into this brief time frame and dynamic, cutting edge production that if we tried to write all that is presented it would take many pages. The combined sound, images and passion naturally blend […]
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Divorce: the proto-sin to launch a Sexual Revolution – Pope Leo XIII

ROME, December 11, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When did the Sexual Revolution start? It seems like a no-brainer doesn’t it? Most people would place it about the early to mid 1960s. The publication of that book by Germaine Greer, or the invention and marketing of The Pill, right? Given a moment to think about it, most people would probably amend that and say it probably had its roots earlier than that. Maybe it goes back to whenever Germaine Greer and other academic feminists were in university working on their ideas and Dr. Pincus was working on his science project. Nearly everyone […]
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Mary Wagner takes witness stand at her trial

Asked by Lugosi if there had been violence during the incident, Wagner said there had been. “Twenty babies were killed and I was assaulted physically and verbally.” She characterized her actions as truthful, peaceful, non-violent and in no way a verbal assault.
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Pope calls on Americas to accept life ‘in every stage,’ from womb to tomb

In a message to the people of North and South America for the December 12 feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron of the Americas and of the pro-life movement, Pope Francis said “America – North and South – is called to be… a land prepared to accept human life at every stage, from the mother’s womb to old age.”  His full address, delivered in Spanish before a large crowd in St. Peter’s Square after the Angelus yesterday follows: Click “like” if you are PRO-LIFE! MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAS FOR THE FEAST OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE Tomorrow is the […]
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RU-486 COMPANY HAS LINKS TO NAZIS

RU-486 COMPANY HAS LINKS TO NAZIS by LifeSiteNews.com FRANKFURT, Germany, May 26 (Lifesitenews.com) – Survivors of Nazi era death camp “experiments” are suing Hoechst AG and another two pharmaceutical companies for their participation in the suffering of victims of the holocaust. Hoechst is the company most actively involved in the distribution and manufacture of RU-486 throughout the world. Pro-life researchers have often pointed out the sinister connections between the Hoechst AG company (originally called I.G. Farben Chemical Company) and the Nazi’s. Farben aided the Nazis in waging aggressive warfare and perpetrating crimes against humanity by manufacturing Zyklon B, the cyanide […]
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Kenyans value children, but their government doesn’t

In the nation of Kenya, large families (4-5 children) are the norm. While it is difficult to make blanket statements about a nation as diverse as Kenya, children are typically valued in Kenyan families. One woman, Isabela Samora, recounts her experience of awaiting her first child: I can’t wait to see my baby. To be able to hold those tiny hands and see those feet that give me some serious kicks to the ribs. I can’t wait to look at those eyes and see myself in them. The best bit I think about being a mom is seeing yourself in […]
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New Planned Parenthood business model: Roving iPad abortion scheduler

Last week Planned Parenthood of Arizona announced it was closing its Yuma clinic, located in the southwest corner of the state, near both the California and Mexico borders. Not to worry, PPAZ plans to hire a roving reproductive needs administrator to schedule abortions via iPad. PP’s Yuma facility had committed medical abortions until 2011, when a new law went into effect mandating that only physicians could dispense mifepristone (ie., RU-486), not nurses or medical assistants. Apparently the clinic could not sustain itself without the financial help of kill pills. PPAZ CEO Bryan Howard said it was down to 200 patients a year. But Planned Parenthood is not abandoning […]
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Let me count the ways Dutch doctors kill

How do Dutch doctors kill? Let me count the ways: Dutch euthanasia statistics are bogus. Always were.  First, they have a very narrow definition of euthanasia and assisted suicide. For example, when a doctor lethally injects someone who didn’t ask to be killed–known as termination without request or consent–it isn’t technically considered euthanasia. Second, Dutch doctors intentionally overdose patient with pain medicine to cause death–also not considered euthanasia. A new study finds that about 10% of Dutch doctors have killed by intentionally overdosing. From the DutchNews.nl story: One in 10 Dutch family doctors has given dying patients a too-high dose of morphine or other […]
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Don’t let anyone tell you Pope Francis opposes the pro-life movement

Is Pope Francis asking Catholics to bow out of the culture war? The liberal elite and Catholic Left want us to think the Pope opposes the pro-life and pro-family movement. But, while he’s certainly made some confusing remarks, his own words and actions make it clear that he firmly supports our cause. On Saturday, Pope Francis received the Dignitatis Humanae Institute and praised their efforts. DHI is a think tank that advances respect for human dignity in the public square. The Pope’s support for DHI is significant because of the organization’s staunch stand on the life issue. In particular, they […]
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Pay no attention to how great Planned Parenthood said Plan B was 5 minutes ago

In 2005, after the FDA under President George W. Bush resisted liberal pressure to make the hormonal emergency contraceptive Plan B available over-the-counter, Planned Parenthood was furious, claiming unfettered access to hormonal ECs would cut the number of abortions in America by a whopping 67%, from 1.2 million annually to 400,000: Experts estimate that wider access to EC could prevent up to 1.7 million unintended pregnancies a year – and 800,000 abortions. In 2006, when the FDA caved, Planned Parenthood again made this same colossal claim. Actually, PP alleged those figures often. The Chicago Tribune, when repeating those stats, said they came from “experts cited […]
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Cardinal Rigali: “Contraception and Abortion” Have Created a “Cultural Hostility to Children”

Cardinal Rigali: “Contraception and Abortion” Have Created a “Cultural Hostility to Children” by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, October 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a statement to mark Respect Life Sunday, October 4, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia said: “Since the advent of widespread contraception and abortion, a cultural hostility to children has grown.” Children, he said, “are often depicted as costly encumbrances who interfere with a carefree adult life.” In response, however, he pointed out that: “In fact, if married couples were to have more children, Medicare and Social Security would not be hurtling toward bankruptcy.” Cardinal Rigali, who […]
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Sweden Rules Gender-Selective Abortions Legal

Sweden Rules Gender-Selective Abortions Legal by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert STOCKHOLM, May 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Swedish health authorities have ruled that it is not illegal to kill a healthy unborn child based simply on its gender, according to Swedish news service The Local. Doctors had asked health authorities about the matter after a woman from southern Sweden had two of her children killed in utero for being an undesired sex. The woman had already given birth to two daughters. The gender was determined during an amniocentesis requested to determine whether the child had a disability. Concerned doctors at Mälaren […]
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How I failed Nelson Mandela

Mandela was a humanitarian who gave his life to ending apartheid in South Africa. If only he could have put his awesome courage, energy and work into being a voice for all South Africans, including the unborn!
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Men tricking women into taking abortion pills: the logical fruit of pro-abortion philosophy

Two stories in the news today highlight the disturbing trend of men attempting, sometimes successfully, to trick their wives or girlfriends into taking abortion pills. The first, out of Florida, is one James Welden who obtained abortion pills under false pretenses and tricked his pregnant girlfriend into taking them saying they were antibiotic pills. He told the woman his father, an OB-GYN who had recently seen her to confirm the pregnancy, prescribed the medicine for an infection. Welden feigned caring for her through the illness even as she expressed worry that something might be wrong with the baby. When she began […]
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My time with Peter Singer

I approached Peter Singer after the very large crowd of his admirers had left with signed copies of his books. I asked if we could sit down at some point in the conference ... I wanted to ask him a few questions.
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USCCB Pro-life Chair Slams FDA for Approving Abortion Drug Ella as ‘Emergency Contraception’

USCCB Pro-life Chair Slams FDA for Approving Abortion Drug Ella as ‘Emergency Contraception’ by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, D.C., June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities voiced “grave concern” to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over its move toward approving a new drug, which pro-life leaders say would induce early abortions, as an “emergency contraceptive.” In a June 17 letter to Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the FDA, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston criticized the FDA’s move to hold an advisory committee meeting on the drug Ulipristal, sold under the brand name […]
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Abortion Doctor Accused of Sexual Assault by Two Women

Abortion Doctor Accused of Sexual Assault by Two Women by LifeSiteNews.com BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Michigan, March 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Michigan abortionist is facing charges for sexual assault after two female patients testified against him Friday. Dr. Rodolfo Finkelstein faces two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, plus five other criminal sexual conduct charges. A 21-year-old and a 19-year-old patient described graphic details of their respective assaults at a preliminary exam in the 48th District Court in Bloomfield Township Friday. Finkelstein still commits abortions at the Women’s Advisory Center abortuaries in Bloomfield Township and Levonia, Michigan. tv
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Planned Parenthood answers the question: Can my transgender girlfriend get me pregnant?

File this under “First World problems.” Planned Parenthood has posted a response on its Tumblr account to a reader who asked, “Can my trans[gender] girlfriend get me pregnant?” Someone who, understandably, wanted to remain anonymous wrote, “My girlfriend is trans and has been doing hormone replacement therapy for about a year. About how likely is it that she can still get me pregnant?” Yes, a biological female apparently having heterosexual intercourse with a biological male asked if sex still causes pregnancy. A Planned Parenthood spokesperson named “Mylanie” responded with the perplexing statement, “anytime your girlfriend’s semen…gets into your vagina or […]
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The fruits of its labor? Porn industry shuts down for third time in 2013 after HIV case

LOS ANGELES, CA, December 9, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The porn industry has shut itself down for the second time in three months over concerns about actors and actresses contracting HIV/AIDS. The industry shut down in September when four “performers” contracted HIV/AIDS. According to reports, a heterosexual “performer” – the industry's word for someone who engages in sexual acts on camera – was found to have contracted HIV/AIDS during routine testing. Last year, the voters of Los Angeles enacted a ballot measure to require the use of condoms in the porn industry. It was upheld by a judge earlier this year. […]
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Abortion Clinic Workers Refuse To Help Mother Screaming to Save Live Child

Abortion Clinic Workers Refuse To Help Mother Screaming to Save Live Child by LifeSiteNews.com ORLANDO, FL, April 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Angele, a single mother in her thirties with two children, thought that abortion was the answer to her circumstances. At almost 23 weeks gestation, she entered the EPOC Clinic in Orlando, Florida. Little did she realize that the next day she would give birth to a live, perfectly healthy boy whom she named Rowan. Cradling Rowan’s moving body, her screams for help were ignored by abortion clinic workers while her son took his last breath. The clinic is known […]
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Should gay men be able to give blood?

Last week, the HHS Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability heard seven presentations on whether men who have sex with men (MSM) should be allowed to donate blood after abstaining from sexual intercourse for a year, rather than the current lifetime ban. The board, which said in 2010 the lifetime ban is “suboptimal” but declined to change policy, is under a great deal of political pressure to change the policy.  The hearing took place less than a week after the Center for Disease Control's newest statistics showed, in its 2011 survey of 20 major U.S. cities, MSM […]
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Can Nelson Mandela have an otherwise great legacy despite being pro-abortion?

Even the Pope and Cardinal Dolan have been lauding South African leader Nelson Mandela following his death earlier this week of natural causes at age 95. But I can’t. Nelson Mandela has the blood of preborn children on his hands… lots of them. According to The Examiner on December 6: Serving as the Republic of South Africa’s president from 1994-1999, Mandela not only signed the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1996, he was also one of the most ardent supporters of what the openly pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute calls “one of the most liberal abortion laws in the world.” As cited, the […]
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Belgian professor to 10-year-old son: if you ever want to be euthanized, I’d support you

Belgium is on the cusp of allowing children to be euthanized. Newsweek interviewed a euthanasia zealot and professor (of course!) who already discusses with her children the prospect of their one day being killed. From the story: Jutte van den Werff Ten Bosch has already had the talk with her 10-year-old son. Several times, in fact. No, not the sex talk. The euthanasia talk. “Even if he said, ‘I want to die’, I’d support him,” she explained. “I didn’t put my children in the world for me. It’s their life and their death. The best parents are the ones who let […]
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U.S. Rep Pushes to Extend Student Non-Discrimination to Homosexuality

U.S. Rep Pushes to Extend Student Non-Discrimination to Homosexuality by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, January 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) has introduced a law that would allow high school students who feel discriminated against based on their perceived sexual orientation to pursue charges in federal court. Polis on Wednesday introduced the “Student Non-Discrimination Act,” which has 60 co-sponsors. “Every day innocent students fall victim to relentless harassment and discrimination from teachers, staff, and fellow students based on their sexual orientation,” said Polis, who is openly homosexual, in a statement. “These actions not only hurt […]
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NELSON MANDELA RECEIVES HONORARY CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP

NELSON MANDELA RECEIVES HONORARY CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, November 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Prime Minister Jean Chretien conferred honorary Canadian citizenship on Nelson Mandela in a ceremony Monday. Mandela, who is only the second person to ever receive honorary citizenship, was given the honor in recognition of his leadership against apartheid in South Africa. During the ceremony Chretien said, “In your long walk for freedom and justice you led a mighty struggle against fear and ignorance.” However the worthiness of the honoree is open to question since while ridding the country of apartheid he introduced it to abortion on […]
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12 Washington State High School Students Suspended for Public Prayer Group

12 Washington State High School Students Suspended for Public Prayer Group by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz VANCOUVER, Washington, March 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A number of students who formed an interdenominational prayer group at a Washington state high school were expelled by the administration last week over their refusal to hold a morning prayer session in a closed room, The Columbian reported March 2. Twelve students at Heritage High School in Vancouver, WA, were suspended last Friday after continuing to meet for morning prayer in the commons area of the school, despite a faculty order that they stop causing physical […]
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Jacqueline Kasun, Pro-life and Anti-Population Control Activist and Author, Passes Away

Jacqueline Kasun, Pro-life and Anti-Population Control Activist and Author, Passes Away by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac January 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates in Humboldt County California and across the United States are mourning the loss of prolific pro-life author and activist Jacqueline Kasun. Kasun, known especially for her book “The War Against Population,” passed away at the age of 84 on January 1. Kasun was born in 1924 in Watts California. She did her undergraduate studies at UCLA and U.C. Berkeley, going on to earn a PhD in economics from Columbia University in 1956. According to a tribute written […]
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Argentina Judge Stops Abortion for Mentally Disabled Woman

Argentina Judge Stops Abortion for Mentally Disabled Woman by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, August 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic pro-life groups won an injunction Monday to stop the abortion of a baby conceived in rape after presenting evidence to a federal court that the pregnancy of the mentally disabled woman was far more advanced than her lawyers maintained. A federal court in Mendoza ordered the abortion be halted after pro-life groups “Life More Humane” and “Women for a more Humane Life” gave evidence that the woman’s clinical history indicated the unborn child was actually in the […]
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Belgian Bishop Hauled before Court for Church Teaching on Homosexuality Cleared of Charges

Belgian Bishop Hauled before Court for Church Teaching on Homosexuality Cleared of Charges by LifeSiteNews.com By Jenna Murphy NAMUR, June 5, 2008, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Belgian bishop has been cleared of charges laid against him by a homosexual activist group. Monsignor André-Mutien Léonard, Bishop of Namur, was charged with homophobia under the pretext of the country’s 2003 Anti-Discrimination Act. The accusations against Bishop Léonard pertained to his comments in an interview that appeared earlier this year in TéléMoustique, a weekly magazine in Belgium. In the April 2008 interview, Bishop Léonard, when asked his stance on homosexuality, stated that his position […]
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SoCon Stilwell Now Allowed to Run for Conservative Nomination, Thanks

SoCon Stilwell Now Allowed to Run for Conservative Nomination, Thanks LifeSiteNews.com by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen SURREY, BC, February 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Conservative Party of Canada has reconsidered its rejection of a prominent social conservative in British Columbia after a LifeSiteNews.com story expose Friday. Heather Stilwell, a mother of eight and long-time elected member of the local school board, was told by Conservative Party headquarters last week that she would not be able to enter the race to represent the Conservative Party in the next federal election. That decision was reversed after LifeSiteNews.com ran a story which detailed […]
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Canadian city bans strip clubs

“We know based on the experience of other cities that sex-orientated businesses do create crime in the immediate areas and in the communities,” Councillor Pat Lorje said.
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New film ‘Gimme Shelter’ smashes false image of pro-life homes for pregnant teens

The film is Gimme Shelter. And countering the trend in most of Hollywood, this new movie focuses on women’s teen shelters, which encourage young mothers-to-be to decide to have their babies. After taking a beating by mainstream media, which have sought to paint crisis pregnancy centers and pro-life homes for pregnant mothers as manipulative, a new film is set to smash that false image. Gimme Shelter, which is based-on-a-true-story, is a star-studded and entertaining production that will both attract and educate older teens and adults alike. Gritty and realistic, the story revolves around Agnes “Apple” Bailey (Vanessa Hudgens), a 16-year-old […]
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Alison Davis, the leader of the disability rights group No Less Human, RIP

I lost a friend and we lost a great leader on December 3. Alison Davis, who was born with Spina Bifida and hydrocephalus, became the leader of the disability rights group – No Less Human in the 1990’s but Alison had already been active in the fight to protect children with disabilities from being killed based on eugenic attitudes. Alison was one of the world’s greatest advocates for the right to life of people with disabilities. She was a tremendously caring person who effectively communicated her support of life and opposition to killing through euthanasia. Alison first became involved in the issue […]
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Atheists, if your ad mocks one-third of your audience, don’t be surprised if it gets rejected

The Centre for Inquiry, a Canadian national atheist group, is claiming discrimination after Pattison Outdoor rejected an ad they were trying to run in downtown Vancouver. The Vancouver Sun points out that Pattison is running ads in Halifax this fall for the pro-life group Signs for Life. It seems like a double standard – until you compare the actual ads by the two groups. The Signs for Life ads make a simple, straightforward point expressing their belief on abortion and the dignity of unborn human life. The atheist ads, on the other hand, make their point by mocking Christians. Pat […]
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ABC warns: Your employer might be pro-life!

Job-searchers, there are plenty of reasons to refuse an offer: there’s the wrong industry, the better offer, the long commute – or maybe, suggests ABC, the dreaded Christian boss.  During ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer” Nov. 26 segment, Senior National Correspondent Jim Avila reported that the latest Supreme Court case will be “making your boss’ faith a question to ask in future job interviews.” The Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals challenging the Obama administration’s contraception mandate the same day. The mandate would force employers to provide contraception and abortion-inducing drugs for employees regardless of religious conviction.  During the arguments, the court will […]
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Sea change: investors shifting to ETHICAL stem cell research!

Ten years ago, we were in the midst of a heated national debate over embryonic stem cell research. Proponents castigated opponents (like me) as “anti-science,” and theocratic for opposing ESCR federal funding based on ethical concerns. When we claimed that alternatives to embryonic stem cells showed great promise, we were derided as Luddites. Embryonic stem cells were the “only hope” society was told again and again. Adult stem cells could only become one type of cell, I saw scientists blatantly lie to legislators at committee hearings. They can be good for blood cancers, but that’s about it. Meanwhile, media touted even the most minor ESCR successes […]
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Moves to remove protection for unborn babies with disability in Northern Ireland must be resisted

Northern Ireland's justice minister has said he is going to consult on changing abortion laws to allow women carrying babies with ‘fatal fetal abnormalities’ to have a termination.   David Ford said he hoped to put out a consultation document for the ‘potential for change’ by next Easter.   The minister told BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show he would review the legislation after two women told their stories earlier this year about discovering that their babies had anencephaly, a severe brain abnormality.   The British Abortion Act 1967 does not apply in Northern Ireland which is governed by the 1861 […]
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Do we need to ‘check our faith at the door?’

Increasingly, Americans who adhere to a religion are told they cannot “force their beliefs” on others. Simply stating publicly that one doesn’t believe gays have the right to marry can cost you your career. Literally hundreds of lawsuits are now in motion against the government because employers do not want to be forced to violate their religious beliefs by paying for employees’ contraception and/or abortions. Richard W. Garnett ponders this topic in today’s Los Angeles Times. Garnett takes the reader back just 20 years, when he says the government did something right: Lawmakers from both parties and across the political […]
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Newsweek Exposes Real Population Crisis: Mass World Depopulation

Newsweek Exposes Real Population Crisis: Mass World Depopulation by LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, September 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his exposé, Birth Dearth, Newsweek International author Michael Meyer paints a bleak picture for the future, as the world population plummets in an historically unparalleled decline. Citing U.N. population statistics and projections, Meyer brings to light the reality that plummeting birth rates will result in cataclysmic consequences for future generations. “Fertility rates have dropped by half since 1972, from six children per woman to 2.9,” he says. “And demographers say they’re still falling, faster than ever.” Meyer cites the European example of […]
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Healing hearts: An open letter to the pro-life movement

To some of the finest people I’ve been privileged to know: For decades I heard the call in prayer to stand up against the monstrous evil that has been unfolding in this nation since Roe v. Wade, which was handed down when I was twelve years old. For years I blinded myself to the horror welling up all about me. In part, the taunts of people outside of abortion clinics (long since replaced by the loving witness and support of sidewalk counsellors) served to confuse my discernment. How could God be in such harsh and terrible language hurled at women about […]
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Shock: Pro-life lobby group drums up support for pro-life candidates!

Garbage man picks up garbage. Janitor mops floor. Minister preaches sermon. These were the types of headlines running through my head this morning after reading a piece in the Ottawa Citizen on Campaign Life Coalition’s efforts to build support for pro-life candidates in the capital region. “Anti-abortion group looking to run candidates as Conservatives in Ottawa ridings,” the headline reads. My first reaction was: Of course they are. That’s what they do. Obviously the agenda behind the story is to alert party brass, and citizens who fear the “Religious Right”, to watch out for pro-life supporters on the nomination papers […]
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One abortion for every two births in Bulgaria

On Tuesday, Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon, NRLC’s Director of Education, explained in thoughtful detail the latest abortion figures provided by the Centers for Disease Control–and what they mean (“CDC Report Shows Decline in Abortions for 2010; abortion rates and ratios both down”). Pro-lifers will not rest until abortion is ended and the 2010 figures from the CDC are still an abomination. But even so, “the number of abortions are indeed going down in the country, and possibly by a significant margin,” Dr. O’Bannon wrote. “What we do see with the latest report is a drop of 3.1% from the totals […]
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New Jersey Governor Christie opposes assisted suicide

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie stated during a press conference that he is opposed to the assisted suicide bill that is sponsored by Assemblyman John Burzichelli. Burzichelli's assisted suicide bill, also known as the New Jersey Death with Dignity Act, would give doctors the right to intentionally prescribe a lethal dose of a barbituate, for the purpose of suicide. The New Jersey assisted suicide bill is very similar to the Oregon assisted suicide Act. In Oregon, depressed people have died by assisted suicide, and patients, who were denied medical treatment, were steered to assisted suicide by the state health plan Oregon […]
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Homosexual ‘Marriage’ is a Machination of the Devil, Argentinean Cardinal Warns

Homosexual ‘Marriage’ is a Machination of the Devil, Argentinean Cardinal Warns by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Argentina’s number one Catholic prelate, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, is calling upon the priests of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires to bring their flocks to an upcoming protest against homosexual “marriage,” which is currently under consideration by the nation’s senate. “Let’s not be naive, we’re not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God,” writes Bergoglio in a letter sent to the monasteries of Buenos Aires, […]
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Editorial: Pope Speaks on Church’s “Grave Misgivings” about Modern Environmentalism

Editorial: Pope Speaks on Church’s “Grave Misgivings” about Modern Environmentalism by LifeSiteNews.com Editorial by John-Henry Westen ROME, December 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In comments which received absolutely no mainstream media coverage, Pope Benedict XVI, in his World Day of Peace message issued December 8, explained the skepticism of the leadership of the Church in regard to certain strains of modern environmentalism. “If the Church’s magisterium expresses grave misgivings about notions of the environment inspired by ecocentrism and biocentrism,” he said, “it is because such notions eliminate the difference of identity and worth between the human person and other living things.” […]
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Sebelius Issues “Laughable” Defense of Secret Party at Governor’s Mansion Honoring Abortionist Tille

Sebelius Issues “Laughable” Defense of Secret Party at Governor’s Mansion Honoring Abortionist Tille by LifeSiteNews.com By Tim Waggoner WICHITA, KS, May 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In early April, 2007, late-term abortionist George R. Tiller and his entire abortion clinic staff was honored by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius at a lavish secret party held at Cedar Crest, the Governor’s mansion. In response to photographs published by Operation Rescue this week, Gov. Sebelius’ office has released what Operation Rescue is calling a “laughable” defense, saying that the Tiller party depicted in the photographs was a prize in a charity auction in which Sebelius […]
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Moderating LifeSiteNews comments can be brutal

Since LifeSiteNews added the powerful Disqus commenting feature we have received many thousands of comments from readers under our news reports. However, we quickly realized a strong moderation policy was needed or the commenting would be totally dominated by pro-abortion, pro-homosexual and other persons posting frequently offensive comments, propaganda or other useless gibberish. This had to be dealt with, especially after regular readers began complaining about the shocking things they were reading under the stories. Moderating comments posted to this website has been a difficult lesson in the reality of the wide variety of human characters and personal formation – […]
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More than 1000 people killed by dehydration in the UK in 10 years: report

For many years I have stated that once death by dehydration becomes common people will react by demanding death by lethal injection. Death by dehydration is not a compassionate death.  The Euthanasia lobby, who first promoted death by dehydration, now use the abandonment of vulnerable people that has led to death by dehydration becoming common as a reason for legalizing euthanasia. An article written by Ben Riley-Smith and published in the The Telegraph on December 1, 2013 states that access to information files in the UK indicate that more than 1000 people died by dehydration related to neglect and abuse over the […]
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Mainstream media ignores meta-study showing abortion-breast cancer link

Earlier this month, the academic journal Cancer Causes Control published a meta-study analyzing the link between abortion and breast cancer in China. This meta-study pooled the results of 36 separate academic studies on the subject. Chinese public-health data has the ability to offer some unique and important insights about the link between abortion and the risk of breast cancer. That is because the institution of the one-child-per-family policy in the early 1980s dramatically increased the incidence of abortion in China.  Overall, this meta-study provides very compelling evidence that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer. By pooling the 36 studies, it concluded that induced abortion raises the risk of breast […]
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Sign a petition to stop the euthanizing of children in Belgium!

A group of students in Belgium is trying to gather 5,000 signatures from across the globe to call on their Parliament to vote against a measure that would extend its euthanasia regime to children. Belgium’s current law allows euthanasia for those who are over 18 and considered to be of sound mind, though the restrictions are often ignored. The new law would allow children who suffer a terminal condition and experience intense physical pain to request euthanasia. It would also allow for euthanasia of Alzheimer’s patients. Last week, two committees of the Belgian Senate voted in favour of the measure […]
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World AIDS Day – the condom and the killer virus

1st of December was World AIDS day but there is so little attention these days given to this most serious pandemic that has ravaged, claimed and viciously crushed the lives of millions of people with an astounding 35 million people living with AIDS around the world and almost 70% of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa.  And even though no more gripping documentaries are being made to highlight the rapid spread of HIV, each year more than 2 million new HIV infections are still reported worldwide with a staggering annual death toll of about 1.6 million deaths.    AIDS is a very sobering reality that […]
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Abortionist: Failure to report statutory rapes was ‘honest mistake’

Last week we congratulated Amanda Gray of the South Bend Tribune for a terrific story in which she wrote, “At least four Indiana doctors have waited weeks or even months to report abortions provided to girls under 14 despite a law requiring them to do so within three days, according to state records.” One of those “doctors”—abortionist Ulrich Klopfer—has now admitted to Gray that he’d made an “honest mistake” in “failing to report two abortions he performed on girls younger than 14 from Gary in 2012 and South Bend in 2013” but also insisted that “state records that he took […]
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Plan B Manufacturer Admits Morning After Pill Can Cause Death of an Embryo

Plan B Manufacturer Admits Morning After Pill Can Cause Death of an Embryo by LifeSiteNews.com Special to LifeSiteNews.com by Prof. Richard Stith, PhD Recent publicity concerning Plan B has been seriously misleading. The Plan B morning-after pill has been referred to as “contraception,” even though it may act after fertilization to cause the death of a human embryo. This is an important mistake because, whatever one’s judgment on abortion may be, I think we all agree that no woman should be misled into doing what she would consider to be taking a life without realizing that she is doing so. […]
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Video: Want to support a pro-life prisoner of conscience? Send Mary Wagner a Christmas card!

Mary Wagner has been in prison since August 15th, 2012, when she was arrested for witnessing to abortion-bound women in a Toronto facility. That was her sixth arrest since she took up her campaign in March 2010. In all, she’s spent nearly three years behind bars since then. Mary will be in prison for Christmas this year, so to support her efforts some friends have organized a campaign to send her Christmas cards and letters. Along with it, Campaign Life Coalition Youth has put together a short video explaining Mary’s cause. By going to jail, Mary is defending our right […]
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ACLU sues U.S. bishops over anti-abortion policies at Catholic hospitals

The other side is becoming increasingly hostile, attacking the religious freedoms of pro-life Christians with greater boldness. From The New York Times, December 2: The American Civil Liberties Union announced on Monday that it had filed a lawsuit against the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops, arguing that their anti-abortion directives to Catholic hospitals hamper proper care of pregnant women in medical distress, leading to medical negligence. The suit was filed in federal court in Michigan on Friday on behalf of a woman who says she did not receive accurate information or care at a Catholic hospital there, exposing her to dangerous infections after her water broke at 18 weeks of pregnancy. In an unusual […]
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Responding to Cardinal Dolan: We were not “outmarketed” on gay marriage, we were “outevangelized”

Fox News reports that Cardinal Dolan, in an interview with David Gregory of Meet the Press, claims that the Church was “outmarketed” on the issue of gay marriage. From the report: Asked why the church is losing the argument on gay marriage, Dolan responded, “Well, I think maybe we’ve been outmarketed sometimes. We’ve been caricatured as being anti-gay.” He said the church supports “traditional marriage and is not “anti-anybody,” adding, “When you have forces like Hollywood, when you have forces like politicians, when you have forces like some opinion-molders that are behind it, it’s a tough battle.” Without knowing it, […]
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The Billionaire’s Club: Philanthropy or mischief?

This admirable commitment to charity sounds incredibly good, and there is no doubt that the poverty-stricken of the world need assistance in order to escape the dismal future that is common fare for many, particularly in developing nations. But there could be a huge fly in the ointment.
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New website launched to help Christians experiencing same-sex attraction

A new website, containing articles, videos and personal stories has been launched today to help Christians experiencing same-sex attraction. Living Out is a brilliant initiative by 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 the new group, recently interviewed by Christianity magazine, are Sam Alberry, a church leader in Maidenhead, Sean Doherty, a tutor at St Mellitus College and Ed Shaw, who helps to lead Emmanuel Church in Bristol. Their testimonies are clear, powerful, hugely encouraging and most welcome at a time when many young evangelicals […]
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SUPREME COURT RULES SCHOOL BOARD MUST INCLUDE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST BOOKS IN LIBRARY

SUPREME COURT RULES SCHOOL BOARD MUST INCLUDE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST BOOKS IN LIBRARY by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, December 20, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a school board may not ban pro-homosexual propaganda books targeting children. The books must therefore be made available in the school library. However, the court did give the Board the decision to decide if the books should be in the classroom but stressed that the board must decide that question “according to the criteria laid out in the curriculum guidelines and the broad principles of tolerance and non-sectarianism underlying the School Act.” […]
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SUPREME COURT OF CANADA HEARS CASE ON HOMOSEXUAL BOOKS IN ELEMENTARY GRADES

SUPREME COURT OF CANADA HEARS CASE ON HOMOSEXUAL BOOKS IN ELEMENTARY GRADES by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, June 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada along with the Catholic Civil Rights League, the Archdiocese of Vancouver and The Canadian Alliance for Social Justice and Family Values Association will be intervening to defend the rights of religious parents to participate in decisions about the education of their children. The Supreme Court of Canada today began hearings into the controversial Chamberlain v. Surrey School Board case. The case arose when the Surrey School Board decided not to approve books promoting homosexual parents […]
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