Ring in 2015 with these four pro-life resolutions!
A new year is coming and many are thinking about resolutions and new starts. I’m thinking about what my pro-life resolutions will be.
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Articles for Month: December 2014
Ladies: we deserve better than hormonal birth control
I used birth control for 15 years. Now I'm basically waiting to get breast cancer.
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One really big, wonderful family
I can’t imagine doing anything other than this work. As we say, the rewards are out of this world.
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Planned Parenthood’s newest low: Abortion-themed s’mores at Christmas?
Just when you thought sexualizing children as a revenue plan, playing 'healthcare hero' to maintain grip on the multi-million-dollar government dole, committing Medicaid fraud, advocating immoral behavior, and snuffing out unborn life for profit wasn’t enough.
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Judge: Idaho must pay $400,000 to lawyers who defeated state’s gay ‘marriage’ ban
South Carolina may be forced to pay almost $154,000 after a judgment against its marriage law as well.
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Supreme Court may take up same-sex ‘marriage’ issue on January 9
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider reviewing the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that upheld gay 'marriage' bans in Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio, and Kentucky.
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What’s under our tree this Christmas – promise not to tell?
We’re often told as Christians that your gifts are fleeting things and you can’t take them with you. But there is one gift you can at least try to take with you to the life hereafter.
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Obama administration lifts lifetime ban on gay men donating blood
'Political and social concerns must not be allowed to trump the public health,' Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council said.
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An Exodus story
Two generations ago a young couple abandoned 'the city' to begin a new life in 'the country.' This is their story.
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No room at the inn
Every year, LSN asks its writers to write Christmas reflections before we break for the holiday, and normally, it’s not a problem for me. This year, however, was different.
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Embracing the noise of Christmas
Between the animals mooing and braying around the Infant, the shepherds arriving hastily in a crowd, and the multitude of angels singing glory to God in the highest, Bethlehem seems to have erupted in a near-symphony of joyful Noise that first Christmas.
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And a little child shall lead them…to their new home
As I reflect on Perpetua’s short life and her much too short stay with us, I am reminded of a verse from Scripture that seems to describe her relationship to our family: 'And a little child shall lead them…'
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Faith, family, and friends: that’s what I’m taking stock in this Christmas
I don’t need a particular holiday to be thankful, I’m happy to be so any day. But Christmas is a fabulous time to be grateful.
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T.S. Eliot and Christmas’s dual message
Eliot hammers home the message that Christmas is not 'happy-slappy,' but is finally about Easter, which is to say, it is about a painful death and birth.
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Merry Christmas from LifeSite!
!The entire LifeSiteNews family would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas!
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US Senate confirms rabbi who backed HHS mandate as ambassador for religious freedom
Rabbi David Saperstein, who opposed a ban on partial birth abortion, was opposed by some pro-life senators.
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Jesus Claus and Santa Christ
There is a Savior who continues to love, continues to redeem and doesn’t need to be repackaged for a 21st century world.
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Indiana diocese ordered to pay former teacher $2 million after she was fired for using IVF
'The diocese is disappointed with the outcome of the trial and is considering an appeal,' Bishop Kevin Rhoades told LifeSiteNews.
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Shock: 1 billion abortions in world since 1920
Thomas Jacobson explained the benefits of the new Global Life Campaign’s information service for those seeking reliable, very detailed national, regional and international abortion statistics, national abortion legislations and other information on the issue.
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The real ‘war on Christmas’: it’s not what you think it is
Our cultural battlefields are littered with the corpses of children created in the image of God, but butchered with Herodian zeal.
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Mary Wagner arrested again in Toronto while speaking to abortion-minded women
London priest Fr. Paul Nicholson, who joined Mary on the street, said she is 'pricking the guilty conscience of a nation that is pretending to play dumb' on abortion.
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UK bishops compare defenders of Catholic moral discipline to ancient rigorist heretics
The bishops go so far as to issue a thinly veiled accusation of heresy against those, like Cardinal Burke, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, Cardinal George Pell and others, who have refused to follow the Kasper line.
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US mainstream media ignore arrest of gay activist and Democratic donor
You might expect U.S. media to intensely focus on the dramatic legal proceedings when Terry Bean was charged with the sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy. “Bean was a top Obama fundraiser charged with a serious crime. He flew on Air Force One. Yet he netted zero coverage,” said Dan Gainor of the Media Research Centre.
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Whatcott and US anti-homosexuality activist acquitted in Regina
'You guys have got to do something about your anti-hate law,' US activist Peter LaBarbera told LifeSiteNews.
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PEI’s premier admits he’s pro-abortion for first time, but defends Island’s compromise
PEI Right to Life says Premier Ghiz’s support for funding abortion is 'based upon serious misperceptions regarding the actual law and basic human rights.'
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Danielle Smith ‘betrayed’ Wildrose Party and principles, says founder Link Byfield
Smith says she left the party because social conservatives opposed her stance on homosexual 'rights.'
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As Boston St. Pat’s Parade allows gay group to march, critics say vote was illegal
'I'm sending a letter to the commander saying he held an illegal meeting and an illegal vote,' says a parade official. 'He did not follow the bylaws of the council.'
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Irish couple conceives quadruplets naturally after suffering four miscarriages
'The babies are our Christmas miracles. We are blessed,' says Grace. 'We call them our fantastic four.'
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Pro-aborts cheer as pro-life Democratic judge is left out of slew of nominee approvals
Judge Michael Boggs, who sits on the Georgia Court of Appeals, is 'anti-American' for his pro-life views, says NARAL.
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Fourth Circuit overturns North Carolina law making abortionists let women see ultrasounds
The court ruled that the 2011 law violated abortionists’ right to free speech.
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Planned Parenthood teams up with gay activists for door-to-door campaign pushing abortion
A new study found that sending homosexuals door-to-door was highly effective in changing views of homosexual 'marriage.'
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Abortion lobby expects Health Canada to approve RU-486 in January
Abortion advocates call it the 'gold standard' for medical abortion, but the drug has been tied to women's deaths in practically every country where it has been approved.
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Canadian Medical Association says it’s getting ready for legalized euthanasia, but critics say it is pushing it
The CMA 'is really pulling a fast one,' says Will Johnson of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. 'It’s run by people who want assisted suicide and euthanasia.'
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Cardinal Burke: It’s ‘amazing’ that faithful Catholics are now accused of opposing the Church
The cardinal says October's Synod on the Family was 'a difficult experience.'
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Assisted suicide advocate callously pushes his cause after patient’s violent suicide
Sympathy for this man who died by suicide should be paramount but instead, his sad death is being used to promote assisted suicide.
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Despite opposition, pro-marriage group marches on at Notre Dame
A new student group at Notre Dame has a goal to develop a network of students committed to serving the youngest members of our society.
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The real war on women: stealth sterilization in Kenya
Kenyan women do not want 'help' from population controllers. Instead, they want more babies!
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State orders emergency shutdown of Detroit area abortion clinic
Over the last 30 years this abortion clinic has the subject of numerous civil suits filed by women who suffered complications from abortions.
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Last Call! Can you donate $5?
This is it! Our Christmas fundraiser has come to an end and and this is the Last Call to all who have not yet made a donation.
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First Circuit: No taxpayer-funded ‘sex change’ for jail inmate
The full First Circuit Court of Appeals overruled a three-judge panel from the court that called the refusal to provide 'sex change' surgery 'cruel and unusual punishment.'
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Baby twins who were given just 5% chance to survive the womb will star in UK medical drama
'I can’t wait to see them on TV. They are my little miracles,' says the twins’ mother.
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Christian activist calls out Walmart’s ‘increasing capitulation’ to gay agenda
'Walmart needs to get out of the sin promotion business and at least return to neutrality on the homosexual/transgender issue,' says Peter LaBarbera of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality.
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JK Rowling: Hogwarts had ‘LGBT’ students
This is the second time Rowling has informed her fans that homosexuality was a normal part of her children's story.
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Saskatchewan won’t mandate gay-straight alliances for now
The news comes after a heated debate in Alberta over the homosexual clubs.
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Analysis highlights grave flaws in family synod’s final report
Catholics are morally obliged to oppose the course being taken within the Synod.
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This country banned abortion and now, abortion promoters can’t believe their eyes!
In countries with higher abortion restrictions, fewer women have to seek treatment for 'unsafe abortion' than in countries where abortion is 'safe and legal.'
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ISIS is funding itself by selling organs?
When common decency no longer serves to keep society moral, sometimes the law has to step in.
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Argentine court declares orangutan a ‘non-human person’
It just takes one judge to kick the props out from under our tottering societal embrace of human exceptionalism.
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PM Harper appoints pro-family law professor as Ontario judge
Western University's Bradley Miller has warned that the advance of homosexual 'rights,' which he termed 'the new orthodoxy,' has 'harmed religious freedom and free speech' in Canada.
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VIDEO: Seventeenth known medical emergency at New Mexico late-term abortion clinic
Pro-life activists caught an ambulance on video as it rushed a patient to the hospital from a late term abortion facility.
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Xavier University workshop aimed to ‘challenge gender roles’
Xavier University hosted a student workshop which failed to integrate the Church’s teaching on sexual identity.
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Fordham University seeks ‘room for compromise’ with condom advocates
Despite pressure from some of the students students for 'safe sex,' Fordham University has, thus far, upheld its responsibility to be faithful to Catholic teaching.
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The other right
We often speak about the right to life, but children possess another right that we don’t discuss often enough.
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Proposal to allow Communion for those in irregular unions attacks the ‘very foundations of Christian life’: Cardinal
'The hypothesis advanced in the proposal constitutes in all cases a grave violation of conjugal morality and of the discipline of the Church, which cannot permit access to the Eucharist,' says Cardinal De Paolis.
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New Brunswick Liberals stifle Tory motion to debate scrapping abortion regs
The Liberal Party introduced an amendment designed to' dispose of the [Tory] motion in a very conniving way,' says Peter Ryan of New Brunswick Right to Life.
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Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Let gay men donate blood
Warren claims the ban on gay men giving blood is 'discriminatory,' but has not called for the same ban to be lifted for other groups.
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Belfast pro-leader appeals as she’s fined, ordered away from abortion facility
'We will stand 100% with Bernadette as she seeks to have this unfair and unjust charge and sentence overturned,' says the Life Institute's Niamh Uí Bhriain.
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We cannot build a culture of life unless we fix our flawed financial system
Pro-lifers need to recognize that a culture of life is likely to remain nothing more than a sentimental chimera unless it is grounded on a financial and economic system that is also pro-life and pro-family.
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Hardly a slap on the wrist for Femen nude invasion of famous Cathedral
Eloise Bouton, 31, wore a blue veil and a crown of red flowers, brandishing two pieces of beef liver symbolizing an aborted child.
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Ontario Tories’ education critic: I backed Wynne’s sex-ed plans because unions told me they’re ‘necessary’
Tory leadership hopeful Monte McNaughton responds that PC Party must 'stand up for parents and for families.'
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Doctors who oppose abortion should leave family medicine: Ontario College of Physicians
'The religious beliefs of some doctors cannot outweigh the patients’ right to choose' their medical services, says the president of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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Activists urge Ontario to ignore new prostitution law just like they ignored abortion law in 1980s
Both Ontario and British Columbia are reviewing the law as activists urge them to refuse to enforce it.
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Abortionist accused of performing ‘abortions’ on women who weren’t pregnant faces 10 years in racketeering charge
Naresh Patel, who has also been accused of rape and sexual harassment, faces 10 years in prison if convicted.
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TWU sues British Columbia Law Society for violating the human rights of its future law grads
'We have no choice but to proceed legally,' says Trinity Western University's president, Bob Kuhn.
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Minister: New Minnesota transgender policy discriminates against Christian athletes
'If you oppose transgenders in sports, than you are labeled a bigot or hater.'
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Euthanasia group ‘stole’ thousands of names from Brittany Maynard ‘sympathy card’ for petition
In secretly recorded phone calls C&C staff members repeatedly confirmed that signatories to the generic 'sympathy card' were added to the petition.
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Elected official huffs off as news station probes clandestine taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood
The work pro-lifers have done to expose the United States’ largest abortion organization to the light of day is slowly but steadily paying off.
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Abortion groups push Obama to overturn law banning US funding of foreign abortions
Abortion groups picketed the White House, urging them to reinterpret a 41-year old law and force Americans to pay for foreign abortions.
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Mozambique legalizes abortion-on-demand
The African country's president 'quietly signed [the bill] into law' on Thursday.
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This late-term abortionist is a ‘God loving Christian’ who ‘isn’t bashful about making money’
Late-term abortionist James Pendergraft has had his licence suspended four times for shoddy conditions.
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UNFPA executive cuts off diplomats as they criticize ‘sexual rights’ report
The UNFPA’s report says countries are required to fulfill sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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Why you should watch old movies, and eschew the smut of the new
The best movies affirming the sanctity of every human life were made before people took it into their heads to approve the snuffing out of inconvenient children.
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75-plus House members oppose proposed rule allowing secret abortion surcharge in Obamacare
The Obama Administration's cover-up of abortion insurance plans on the exchange is unnecessary, unacceptable and absolutely unconscionable.
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The inequality of ‘equality’
Mainstream media works overtime to present homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism in the most positive light possible.
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The 21st century gestapo: fringe extremists in the homosexual movement
Today, we are witnessing a similar attempt in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.,similar to what the Nazi Gestapo did in Germany, to intimidate and demolish businesses — only this time, it is not Jews who are being persecuted, but Christian men and women.
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Jim Bob Duggar: petition to cancel our show only made us stronger
TLC will not be cancelling 19 Kids and Counting, after leftist activists launched a campaign to pull the show. Far from it.
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New York taxpayers must pay for transgender surgeries through Medicaid: Cuomo
Cuomo says this will help transgender people meet their 'gender goals,' but Bill Donohue of The Catholic League calls it 'an abuse of Medicaid.'
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Vatican’s investigation into US sisters ends with conciliation and whitewash
Veteran Vatican reporter John Allen says the report is a 'sign of a more conciliatory approach under Pope Francis.'
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Beyond ‘The Interview’: UN votes to send North Korea to Intl Criminal Court for forced abortion, other atrocities
The UN found that North Korea subjected tens of thousands of political prisoners to 'murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions, and other sexual violence.'
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Rick Santorum planning 2016 presidential bid amidst crowded field
'America loves an underdog. We’re definitely the underdog in this race,' he told the Washington Post.
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Couple aborted their baby at 28 weeks because of a deformed left hand
'We were being told that our only option was to give birth to a baby that we did not wish to give birth to at all,' said the dad.
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Irish High Court prepares to rule in case of pregnant woman kept alive to save baby
'The legal advice would be there is one life here and it is the unborn child. Everything practicable has to be done,' says the hospital.
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The nurse repeatedly urged her to abort: now her baby is her 7-year-old ‘joy’
'I look at this kid and I always think to myself, my God, if I had listened to that woman!' she said.
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U.S. Army chaplain reprimanded for citing Scripture in suicide prevention training
The complaint was filed by an outside atheist group. 'There was never a formal complaint from anyone inside the unit,' says Colonel Ron Crews of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty.
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Hear the heartbeat: federal appeals court to consider life-saving heartbeat laws in January
Are we willing to contend in prayer for justice to be established in our nation? Or will we declare “The timing isn’t right” or “The Supreme Court isn’t stacked right”? These giants may look formidable, yet we know the One sovereign over all who desires justice more than any man.
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Vatican Cardinal: To resist evil we must ‘call it by its name’
'The first way to ‘resist evil’ is to recognize it,' says Cardinal Mauro Piacenza.
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Top 12 studies showing risks to couples in same-sex unions
Recommending an international expansion of the Courage apostolate should be considered by the Synod as a primary pastoral outreach to those with homosexual tendencies and their families.
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D.C. Council approves measure that could force employers to pay for employees’ abortions
Should it become law, the bill would prevent Catholic and other religious employers from disciplining employees when they publicly disclose having an abortion, using abortion drugs or contraceptives, undergoing sterilization or in vitro fertilization, or having sex or getting pregnant outside of marriage.
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Across America, churches continue to struggle for their religious freedom
In this Christmas season, I hope you and your family are especially grateful for this most precious gift of religious freedom to our nation.
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Attempts to smear pro-life work ignore real women
'Real women who have either been helped by this treatment or wish that they had been, are being silenced and gagged in the process. Pregnancy help organizations like Dr. Delgado's offer each and every woman the true compassion, support, and choice she deserves.' Heartbeat International President Peggy Hartshorn said.
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Terri Schiavo’s husband: Jeb Bush would give us a gvmt ‘that’s gonna intrude on your life’
As Florida governor, Bush fought Michael Schiavo during the final years of his battle to end his wife’s life by removing her access to food and water.
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Jesuit university bans prof from campus after he exposed pro-gay scandal
'Marquette has again shown itself to be timid, overly bureaucratic and lacking any commitment to either its Catholic mission or free expression,' wrote Dr. John McAdams, who has been suspended and banned from Marquette's campus.
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I was sold to hundreds of men for sex. Then I got pregnant.
My sex abuser said that I would have an abortion or he’d kill me, and I knew he meant what he said.
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Ninth Circuit upholds L.A. law requiring condoms for porn actors
The porn industry argues that viewers who see condoms in porn scenes are reminded of the real-world consequences of sex, namely pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
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This is serious now…
Please excuse me if I’m a little more blunt than usual. But I simply feel that I must be straightforward with you.
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Of lonely mountain shepherds and Italy’s looming demographic winter
Italy’s illness is hidden, but far advanced already and potentially deadly.
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This blogger praised Satanists for ‘supporting reproductive rights’
'If there’s one religious group I’m really impressed with at this point, it’s the Satanists.'
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UK Supreme Court rules health care workers must refer for abortion
'Essentially they are barring pro-lifers from the medical profession,' says Anthony McCarthy of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.
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This congressman reveals what he believes to be ‘God’s will’ for pro-lifers (Video)
'It's God's will that you step up – just like our Founding Fathers did – and you express your opinion and your belief in God and in the Constitution,' Rep. Steve Stockman, R-TX, says in a new video.
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British Catholic monk expects prison for promoting Christian teaching on homosexuality: interview
'I’ve decided I have to obey God’s law and not the State’s law. Which will land you in a lot of trouble,' he tells LifeSiteNews.
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Ireland rules out referendum on abortion, but puts gay ‘marriage’ on the ballot
The Life Institute says in refusing an abortion referendum, Ireland's health minister has aligned his party 'with the extreme left and with abortion on demand.'
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Court awards pro-life demonstrator $197,000 in fees after 9-year-long court battle
‘We are praising God for this incredible victory,’ says the attorney in the case. ‘It was really a God thing that we won.’
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GOP’s Martha McSally wins Congressional seat from pro-abort Dem by 167 votes after recount
'My focus will be on what unites us, not what divides us,' Martha McSally said.
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Church of Scotland majority wants to allow ministers in same-sex unions
The measure is likely to be brought to the Kirk’s General Assembly in May for final approval.
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Hook-ups, binge drinking, and violent porn: and we’re surprised by campus rape culture?
Instead of dismissing the very idea of rape culture, we should come to terms with the fact that there is a very real possibility that such a thing is developing.
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Polish retailer caught off guard by pro-life protests after Christmas ads feature Satanist and pro-abort
'The scale of the protest outgrew the expectations of the marketing people, and the company panicked,' observed the Right to Life Foundation.
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Filipino faithful embrace motherhood and model for life, Our Lady of Guadalupe
'Just as Our Lady appeared to Juan Diego so long ago to help the Mexican people embrace a Culture of Life, the joyful message of hope is still true for all peoples – in all cultures,' said HLI's Dr. Bullecer.
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Bentley ‘spoon feeding’ case appealed to British Columbia Court of Appeal
If normal feeding is redefined as medical treatment, then people with dementia will be at risk of family members deciding to stop feeding or hydrating them, even when they are still eating normally. People should have the right to be fed normally.
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Women must know dangers of IUDs before use, warns firm running class-action lawsuit
Women should be 'be fully apprised of ... potential risks' before using Mirena, the IUD sold by Bayer Pharmaceuticals, they say.
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Hey kids: Let’s organ-harvest the suicidal!
I can think of nothing more dangerous than for vulnerable and despairing people to believe their deaths have greater value than their lives. Well, perhaps one thing:When their own society believes the same.
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Responding to the LGBT movement’s southern strategy
Christians say 'no' to various expressions of sexual sin not because we are pinched, uptight, narrow, and unloving. We say 'no' to counterfeits because God has a greater 'yes'! The real thing—God’s great, brilliant plan for sexuality.
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Hillary Clinton at Georgetown a ‘been there, done that’ kind of event
The most recent event is the latest of several events at which the Jesuit university has hosted Clinton, despite her staunch opposition to Catholic teaching on key issues.
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Pro-life march draws 2,000 in the city of Concepción, Chile
Two thousand Chilean pro-lifers participated in a pro-life demonstration last month in Concepción, the 3rd largest city in the country. Archbishop Fernando Chomali, a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, and the pro-life deputy Cristián Campos led the march. The archbishop revealed his concern about a number of recent tragic episodes against life: the 43 teenagers brutally killed in Mexico; the persecution of Christians in Iraq and Syria, and the laws that promote abortion and euthanasia. “We see the assaults against life and laws that promote abortion, and we don’t want that for Chile; worldwide experience confirms it. Abortion […]
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Pro-abort writes a whole column on why we shouldn’t be so upset if a man forces an abortifacient down a pregnant woman’s throat
In 729 words, Robin Marty can't bring herself to condemn the alleged forced abortion.
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‘Frightening’: Life and family leaders react to Ontario College of Physicians’ draft policy
'We can say goodbye to a slew of good doctors in Ontario [if the policy passes],' says Andrea Mrozek of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada.
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Dominican pro-life forces vow to continue fight after abortion measures pass, RC bishops weaken
The Dominican Republic’s Bishops Conference wasted no time cutting the rug out from under feet of courageous Father Manuel Ruiz de la Rosa, their liaison with government who resigned over president's betrayal on issue. Pro-lifers forces will now focus on Senate and next elections.
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Former British psychiatrist admits to assisting 7 suicides
Brewer is being irresponsible by steering people to suicide who are in need of proper care. This is the type of doctor who gets involved with the suicide lobby.
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New Jersey Senate delays vote on assisted suicide bill
The bill would force taxpayers to fund assisted suicide 'through Medicaid and, most likely, the state health exchange via Obamacare,' says New Jersey Right to Life.
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Driving pro-lifers out of medicine
The Culture of Death brooks no dissent! The time is coming–and is already here–when willingness to kill or be complicit in killing, will be a prerequisite to entering or practicing the medical professions.
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Use of abortifacient contraceptives doubled in U.S. since 2006
The CDC reports that 7.2 percent of women aged 15 to 44 confirmed using so-called long-acting reversible contraceptives.
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Divorce rates may not be as high as you think: but the reason why is less than encouraging
Divorce rate data is far from perfect, but the general consensus among researchers is that divorce actually has declined since the 1980s.
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Cardinal Burke receives petition signed by 30,000 supporters: says, ‘do not give way to discouragement!’
Burke said those who defend real marriage between a man and woman must be willing to lay down their life for the truth.
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Why was a Michigan abortion business evicted for the second time this year?
For now, one very dangerous abortionist is shut down and there is one less shoddy abortion facility preying on vulnerable women and their defenseless babies, and that is a victory worth celebrating.
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Obama’s new surgeon general lauded ObamaCare for mandating ‘choice and access to contraceptives’
'There are severe gaps in [Murthy’s] basic qualifications that we as a country expect from our doctor of the nation,' warned Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp.
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Notre Dame offers course preparing students for anti-Christian conference
One of the workshops at the White Privilege Conference accuses Christianity of 'punish[ing] the poor, destroy[ing] the environment, and contribut[ing] to our seemingly endless ‘war on terror.’'
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Pro-abort Salon writer describes watching horrifying partial-birth abortion: but what’s most disturbing is her callousness
She watched their arms and legs torn off, their skulls crushed, and their bodies thrown into a pan to be discarded like trash.
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Infanticide now ‘debatable’ in bioethics – on its way to ‘justifiable’
Infanticide is the same bigotry as racism aimed at different victims. It is now considered a respectable and debatable proposition in bioethics. If we don’t keep pushing back very hard, it will, one day, become unexceptional.
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He was exposed for overseeing over 300,000 coerced sterilizations, but has yet to spend a day in jail
Peruvian President Fujimori and his sterilization teams were targeting the poorest of Peruvian women, forcing them to 'agree' to sterilization through tubal ligations.
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Joan Collins: Porn led to my rape, encourages ‘a lot of brutality’
The Dynasty star says porn portrays violence and exploitation of women, and 'I think that a lot of men feel that's acceptable.'
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Alberta bishops defend their stand against ‘gay-straight alliances’
Mandating gay clubs 'infringes parental authority over their children,' warned Calgary Bishop Fred Henry.
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Seven things I wish my pastor knew about my homosexuality
Same-sex sexual activity is outside the design and will of the good plan of God. To claim otherwise requires ignoring Scripture, historical Christian authority, and natural law.
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French president approves report promoting ‘covert euthanasia’
The Fondation Jérôme Lejeune warns that terminal sedation 'is an act of euthanasia' if it 'consists in administering an anesthetic painkiller in full knowledge that it will lead to death.'
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Ontario College of Physicians’ new policy violates basic tenets of law
The Ontario College of Physicians perhaps assumes that physicians will not defend their Charter rights to freedom of religion and conscience. They are wrong.
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The gay inspiration underlying the Vatican synod’s interim report
The terrible truth is that the homosexuality-paragraphs of the interim report wounded and confounded many ordinary Catholics and non-Catholics, including honestly Catholic people struggling with homosexual problems.
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Dominican president using abortion for re-election: priest resigning as Church’s presidential liaison
Father Manuel Ruiz de la Rosa charges that the president is using abortion to open debate on the Constitution, in the hope of changing a provision barring him from running again.
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Lauren Hill, terminally ill, has inspired the nation: says ‘I feel like I’ve done God’s work’
Now she has a powerful message about Christmas for us.
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The owner of the web’s snarkiest feminist pro-abortion site is…pro-life?
'I don’t have conventional liberal views on abortion, no.'
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Media that crucified ‘Bishop of Bling’ silent on liberal, overspending Francis adviser Cardinal Marx
Left-leaning Cardinal Reinhard Marx, one of Pope Francis key advisors, spends €130 million – for starters – on a diocesan 'service centre' in his diocese of Munich-Freising.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo orders insurance companies to cover ‘sex change’ procedures
But New York is the ninth state to demand that insurers cover “sex changes” after growing pressure from transgender activists.
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Pro-abort Obamacare architect tells Congress he has ‘no philosophy of abortion’
'What you inferred is that if we reduce the number of children born, life will be better for the rest of us still living,' Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY, said as he questioned Jonathan Gruber.
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Tory leadership hopeful ‘wholeheartedly disagrees’ with PC education critic who backed Wynne’s graphic sex-ed
'I’ve heard from thousands of parents who are concerned about the hidden agenda that Kathleen Wynne has when it comes to sex-education in Ontario,' says Monte McNaughton.
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D.C. council eliminates religious schools’ protection from gay discrimination suits
Barring an act of Congress, D.C.’s religious schools will likely have to go against their religious values when it comes to permitting use to their campuses or programs.
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Canada’s new prostitution law takes effect amidst backlash from media, Ontario’s premier
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has called for a review of the new law, while some are warning the provinces may simply refuse to enforce it.
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Duggars release annual Christmas card: and it’s gorgeous!
It has everything you would expect.
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Major breakthrough for Gosnell film: top director signs on to produce project
One of his films grossed $33 million nationwide.
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Hormonal contraception does more than just stop ovulation
British Columbia gvmt drops its approval of Christian law school
'People should have a right to choose their own world view,' insists Rod Taylor, head of the Christian Heritage Party of BC.
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‘Avoid simply applying doctrine,’ Vatican urges bishops preparing for 2015 family synod
The Vatican's preparatory document for the 2015 synod urges attendees to take their cue from October's Extraordinary Synod.
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Supreme Court allows abortionists to violate FDA guidelines when using RU-486
Planned Parenthood Arizona said the law was costing it money, but its proponents said it could save women's lives.
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Dec. 8 and 9 Santo Domingo protests against President Medina’s veto of pro-life law
Dominican pro-lifers urge lawmakers to override president’s veto of tightened abortion law. Both Catholic and Evangelical groups together organized these demonstrations that took place Monday and Tuesday Dec 8 and 9, 2014.
All the pro-life facts about hormonal contraception (that you probably don’t want to hear) – Part I
This article is probably going to probably anger a lot of people. But I am a truth teller, and sometimes truth hurts.
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Michelle Duggar wins: Arkansas town repeals ‘transgender’ law
The Duggar family reportedly contributed $10,000 to the initiative, and Michelle Duggar urged voters to support it in a pre-recorded phone message.
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23 ways to help build a Culture of Life…that cost way less than $91,000
Forty expectant mothers were blessed by Kristen Bell recently! But you don't have to be rich to help build a Culture of Life.
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Eight more women come forward against abortionist accused of fraud: ‘It was like torture’
'I’d never known anything like it in my life,' she said. 'It was like torture.'
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Olympics now banned from any country restricting spread of homosexuality
The International Olympic Committee has added 'sexual orientation' as a protected category to its anti-discrimination policy.
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UK gvmt paid out £95 million in ‘wrongful birth’ lawsuits after failed abortion/contraception
Forty of the settled cases involved the births of perfectly healthy babies.
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Minnesota auto dealership wins HHS mandate victory
'It has long been my conviction to run my business according to the teachings of my faith,' says owner Doug Erickson.
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Scottish monk arrested for distributing leaflets promoting sexual morality
'I wouldn’t be a good monk if I didn’t exhort you to repentance and conversion to Christ,' says Brother Damon Jonah Kelly.
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New Brunswick Tories introduce motion to ‘openly’ debate Liberals’ move to scrap abortion regs
'It is entirely right that a major policy change, as the government is proposing, be duly considered by the people’s representatives,' says NB Right to Life's Peter Ryan.
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Planned Parenthood cheers Obama amnesty plan, urges taxpayer funding for immigrants’ ‘health care’
The abortion giant would stand to earn billions of additional tax dollars through reimbursements.
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Dominican pro-lifers urge lawmakers to override president’s veto of tightened abortion law
Hundreds of Catholics and Protestants rallied in front of the Dominican Republic’s Congress on Tuesday.
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New Zealand’s largest abortion facility gives woman IUD without her consent
A nurse says they could become 'sloppy,' and it was sometimes 'like a conveyor belt.'
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Millions depend on us!
For those of you who are new to LifeSite, you may be wondering how we use your donations to help spread the Culture of Life. I would love to share that with you.
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Ottawa 11-year-olds plan gay club at Catholic elementary school
Homosexual activist Jeremy Dias was instrumental in encouraging them to launch the homosexual club, reports Xtra.
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Air Force gay activist awaits trial for forcible sodomy
Just two weeks after a cofounder of the Human Rights Campaign was charged with raping a 15-year-old boy, the Washington Blade has broken a story about another possible rape by a prominent gay activist.
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Ambulances transport two women in one day from Ohio late-term abortion clinic
'The State of Ohio should move quickly to deny renewal of Haskell’s facility license and shut down this abortion clinic before further tragedy strikes,' said Troy Newman of Operation Rescue.
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LGBT activists meet at UN, promise to keep fighting
Panelists called for redefining family in light of the persistence of UN member states not to recognize an equivalence between same-sex couples and the union of a man and a woman.
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US ‘trans’ activist deported from Australia after officials caught him working as a prostitute
Though prostitution is legal in most of Australia, his visa restricted him to 'limited business activity.'
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UN delegates take new tack by praising family – but some want it redefined
Last week in the UN, a special session of the General Assembly lauded the family. The EU, however, took the opportunity to promote the 'diversity' of family forms, including homosexual or any grouping of people.
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State seized babies of home-birth couple in case fueled by anti-Christian bias: family’s lawyer
'I don’t believe the State has yet made its case why it took those children,' Stephen Pidgeon told LifeSiteNews.
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Tanzania’s proposed constitution pushes population control
'When our life-loving culture is threatened by influential foreign entities, we must respond,' says Human Life International's Emil Hagamu.
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Saskatchewan readies to pass special protections for ‘transgender people’
The Saskatchewan Party government is also planning to erase an exemption allowing landlords to refuse homosexual renters if the location was attached to the landlord’s own home.
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Black lives matter…well sort of
The millions of unarmed black lives who have been aborted in the womb won’t have to face that grossly over-exaggerated racial injustice of excessive police force. They’ve already faced the ultimate racial violence.
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Air Force Secretary: Transgender people should serve in military because ‘times change’
'The military exists to fight and win America's wars. It does not exist to promote a radical social and sexual agenda,' Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council told LifeSiteNews.
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Heartbeat Bill wins the vote but fails to pass the Ohio House
'Now we know which Reps are truly pro-life and which ones are not,' state pro-life leader Janet Porter said. “And we know who needs challenged in the primary!”
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New Toronto Catholic board chair: Catholic schools can’t just ‘take marching orders from the state’
The Toronto Catholic District School Board must weed out scandal in order to 'keep the faith' in the Catholic schools, says Mike Del Grande.
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Ottawa Gay Pride leader pleads guilty to sexual extortion of 16-year-old boy
The homosexual activist was also charged with aggravated assault because he did not disclose that he was HIV positive, but the charge was dropped.
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Gay music director fired after becoming ‘engaged’ to partner sues Catholic parish, pastor
Colin Collette filed suit December 4 against Holy Family Parish in Inverness and Father Terry Keehan.
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Chinese newborn flushed down toilet: rescued after passerby hears cries from sewer pipe
'The child survived the ordeal surprisingly unscathed,' attending physician Dr. Li Zhiping said.
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Canada moves closer to tightening ban on polygamy
'We intend on sending a very clear message to anyone coming to Canada that [honour killing and polygamy' are unacceptable,' says Immigration Minister Chris Alexander.
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Reducing animal, increasing human, euthanasia
Animals: Care not kill. Ill, disabled, despairing humans: Kill not care. We live in very weird times.
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Mom who refused abortion when her water broke at 20 weeks celebrates her healthy son’s 1st birthday
'Doctors were very brutal; in no uncertain terms, they told us he was non-viable. ... We had to get rid of it,' the mother said.
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You would never guess this powerful pro-life film was directed by an 18-year-old
In its first few days on YouTube, Mitosis has been viewed over 15,000 times.
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U.S. pastor faces ‘crimes against humanity’ charges for opposing gay agenda as First Circuit refuses to toss suit
'The charges are ridiculous on their face, and in fact false,' says Brian Camenker of MassResistance.
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Jesuit university’s president falsely claims to follow Christ in allowing same-sex benefits: Courage chairman
Father Paul Scalia says the president of Creighton University missed the true meaning of Christ’s instruction to welcome all people.
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Enough campus craziness: it’s time for a new sexual revolution
We need to strengthen our voices about God’s design for human flourishing, tell our young people as clearly and consistently as possible that sex is a beautiful gift of God intended for marriage.
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Ontario College approves draft policy forcing doctors to provide abortions, contraceptives
'Although physicians have [freedom of conscience and religion] under the Charter, the Supreme Court of Canada has determined that no rights are absolute,' states the Ontario College of Physicians.
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Do you trust the internet? Recent poll suggests internet is reason people are more informed
It used to be that when you told someone you ‘read something on the internet’ they would roll their eyes and immediately dismiss what you say as not factual.
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Forced abortion should be remembered as a Nazi crime: Holocaust panel
A panel at the American Jewish Historical Society warned that the stories of Jewish women forced to abort 'have a lot of resonance today and in many other instances of genocide.'
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Free speech and abortion
It seems that telling the truth about abortion is only something that can land you in trouble, and that Western democracies are unwilling to have a clear and honest debate about abortion.
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Attempt to divide doctrine and pastoral practice is a ‘subtle heresy’: Vatican’s doctrine chief
Cardinal Müller is rebuffing claims that the Church could uphold her doctrine while allowing 'pastoral practices' that subvert it.
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‘Gay marriage’ is against human nature and Europe’s human rights convention: Greek justice minister
Meanwhile, a leading Greek Orthodox bishop has warned the deputy prime minister that by proceeding with a gay 'marriage' bill he would 'deny [himself] the blessing of the most just Lord.'
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10 mind-blowing things that happen to babies before they’re born
Amazingly, each of these 10 things happen in the first trimester – when approximately 90% of abortions in the U.S. occur.
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We need the same courage as the first Christians to overcome today’s rejection of sexual morals: Ottawa archbishop
'Today, we again need God's grace and supernatural courage to publicly live out the Church's teaching on marriage, the family, and human sexuality,' the archbishop writes in his annual Christmas message.
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$1 trillion Cromnibus bill includes victories, losses for pro-life movement
"Currently, it's easier to find IRS e-mails than to find out if your insurance plan can fund abortions,” Casey Mattox of the Alliance Defending Freedom told LifeSiteNews.
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Catholic university employees told to file harassment complaints against coworkers who oppose same-sex ‘marriage’
Free speech rights 'are limited when they infringe upon another person’s right to work in an environment free of unlawful harassment,' states the university's anti-harassment presentation.
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Carrie Underwood: I sing to my unborn baby; ‘I feel like he hears me’
'He’s listening. He’s always in there.'
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The 10 worst pro-abortion phrases
For my part, it’s hard to choose which is the worst or most deceptive, pun intended.
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New York state senator wants to legalize assisted suicide
Both Catholics and Evangelicals have vowed to fight the measure.
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Anglican minister in Jamaica celebrates ‘human rights’ service by promoting homosexuality
Christ Church members said they are scandalized that Major-Campbell is preaching acceptance of homosexuality under the guise of the 'Celebration of Human Rights.'
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Vermont: Pro-euthanasia politicians lose big in midterm elections
The results 'send a strong signal that support for killing a patient rather than caring for them is not a winning issue,' said Wisconsin Right to Life.
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Left-wing activists go nutty opposing Canadian gvmt’s prostitution bill
These groups are perfectly entitled to hold their own eccentric views, but the government and the public are equally entitled to ignore their narrow perspective.
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Pro-life groups to launch first-ever non-denominational worship event at D.C. March for Life
'OneVoiceDC is an event that will enable Christians to focus on what we're all about--loving God and loving people,' says Ryan Bomberger.
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Canadian bill pushes death-on-demand
The definition in Canada's new euthanasia bill would permit Netherlands-style euthanasia of the diagnosed mentally ill, paraplegics, or even, asymptomatic HIV infection causing the patient great distress.
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Canadian ‘ethicist’: ‘Let’s kill newborn babies too!’
As pro-lifers have been saying all along, the formerly-pro-choice vultures won’t stop with abortion and assisted suicide. They will soon demand the right to kill outside the womb as well.
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Media errors: Israel HAS NOT allowed euthanasia
Opposing euthanasia means to oppose giving doctors, or others, the right in law to directly and intentionally cause my death. Euthanasia is a form of homicide.
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The fight continues as Finnish Parliament narrowly votes for ‘gay marriage’
Unlike in other European countries, due to the intricacies of the Finnish legislative system, the 'gay marriage' bill could still be stopped or rescinded before its effective date of 2017.
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Census bureau may stop tracking U.S. marriage trends
Social demographers and pro-marriage groups are up-in-arms about the proposal.
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Are pro-lifers still the red-headed stepchild of the GOP? The Cromnibus might tell us
Will House leaders allow a key pro-life priority, the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (ANDA), to be removed from the $1 trillion bill?
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Abortionist arrested for giving abortion pills to women who were not pregnant
Naresh Patel of Oklahoma had previously been accused of raping and sodomizing his patients.
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Women can now ‘reverse’ chemical abortions they regret: and that makes Amanda Marcotte furious
That's both pro-life and pro-choice, right? Apparently not to 'pro-choicers'.
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What the media are missing in their obsession with Kate Middleton’s baby bump
Kate Middleton is around five months pregnant, according to media reports. At this stage, the baby has a heart, a face, a brain and fingernails.
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North Carolina pro-lifers cry foul after state officials take abortionists’ advice in redrafting safety regs
'There is no suitable facility for taking the lives of prenatal children,' one pro-lifer said in response to the new regulations.
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I worked at an abortion clinic. I was 100% pro-choice. Then two women opened my eyes.
Thank you, Lindsey. Thank you, Lauren.
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West Virginia judge opts not to perform marriages rather than officiate same-sex ‘weddings’
'I just decided not to do them,' he said.
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Killing a pregnant woman would be double murder under New Jersey bill
'There are two victims when a pregnant mother is attacked,' says the bill's sponsor.
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FDA panel won’t support eliminating ban on gay men giving blood
Corey Dubin, founder of the HIV/AIDS advocacy group Committee of Ten Thousand, says lifting the ban would be 'a leap of faith' since 'too many questions in science aren't answerable.'
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Bible passages banned from Irish religion class
One complaint from a parent was enough to pull the worksheet exploring Christian views on immoral behaviour.
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Cecile Richards says her abortion ‘wasn’t a difficult decision’
If Richards were to ever show compassion in any way toward her aborted baby, she would be unlocking a compartment in her consciousness that would begin to unravel everything she stands for.
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Two cultures, one demeaning attitude to women
Ironically, one cultural practice goes to horrific lengths because a woman’s purity is paramount, whereas another cultural practice goes to horrific lengths because a woman’s sexual freedom is paramount.
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When this woman reconsidered her abortion, the abortionist’s response was shocking
The allegations in the suit against Ruddock reveal a telling picture of an abortionist who has no respect for the law or for the women he sees, says Operation Rescue.
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Canadian ethicist advocates ‘post-birth abortion’ for newborns
Doctors 'can justifiably euthanize certain severely impaired neonates,' and parents 'should be able to freely decide on what would amount to postnatal abortion,' argues the Queen's University professor.
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Pope Francis speaks on removal of Cardinal Burke in new interview
The pope says it's 'not true that I removed him because of how he had behaved in the synod.'
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Politicians promote National Adoption Month, but proposed expansion of adoption tax credit a no-go in Congress
'Every child needs at least one person who is crazy about them,' said Rep. Michelle Bachmann.
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Pro-life Republican beats pro-abortion incumbent in Louisiana U.S. Senate race, increasing GOP majority
'As a physician, Bill Cassidy has a unique understanding of the value and dignity of every human life. We are encouraged by his victory tonight,' says Susan B. Anthony List.
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In new interview pope addresses divorced and remarried Catholics controversy: suggests they could be godparents
In his latest interview, Pope Francis gave the strongest indication yet that he is at least leaning toward what has been known as the 'Kasper proposal,' to allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion.
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Abortion clinic owner: No one ever says ‘thank you’ to an abortionist
From abortion clinic owner Charlotte Taft.
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After a brutal rape, I became pregnant. Doctors told me to abort. My husband and I did this instead.
They repeatedly told me how 'simple' it would be to abort the baby.
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Death. Riots. Suffering. Where is the peace on Earth this Christmas?
My heart is heavy wondering, 'How do these communities and the rest of our nation find peace in the midst of so much angst?'
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Vatican will offer U.S. nuns a ‘positive message’ in final report on its investigation: spokesman
The investigation was launched amidst concerns that the nation’s older and less vibrant religious orders had adopted a 'secularist mentality.'
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Christians have abandoned politics. And millions are DYING because of it.
Don't tell me we can't legislate morality. Liberals legislate morality all the time. And we let them get away with it.
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Half of all abortionists fear being exposed by undercover investigators: study
The report finds exposure by undercover reporters gives abortionists 'lower feelings of personal accomplishment.'
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Britain’s largest abortion provider calls for buffer zones, says pro-lifers hurting ‘business’
The head of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service says protests are unacceptable if they are 'attempting to stop a lawful business.'
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Why we oppose the Canadian Senate’s bill to legalize euthanasia
This bill gives physicians the power, in law, to directly and intentionally cause the death of their patients. When abused, the result is the death of a vulnerable Canadian. People need support and protection, not lethal injections.
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Jesuit university hosts Planned Parenthood event on ‘all the types of sex that can be had’
The College Democrats were motivated to hold the event after they were 'angered by the Students for Life’s ‘classist, racist, homophobic’ display in October that targeted Planned Parenthood.'
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UK judges dismiss claims for injuries in the womb: claimants weren’t yet ‘persons’
'This cruel judgment ... flies in the face of common knowledge about when life begins and - it is anti-rational,' says Paul Tully of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.
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Belarus pro-lifers saving babies through campaigns inside abortion-performing hospitals
'I pray our initiatives will continue to save babies and families — and change the decades-old abortion mentality in this post-communist country to one that embraces the sacredness of all human life,' says director of Human Life International in Belarus.
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$500,000 lawsuit against LifeSite by pro-choice priest is over
Because this lawsuit was so unjustly hostile and endangered freedom of the press and freedom of speech, we knew that we had no choice but to fight it as long as Fr. Gravel persisted.
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Preemie Chinese baby survives after she was buried alive for two hours
After the child was born four months early, the family mistakenly believed she was miscarried.
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Henry Morgentaler and Bernard Nathanson represent two radically divergent reactions to abortion regret
Regret can manifest itself in two very different ways.
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Abortionist who failed to report girl’s statutory rape in time may get off without criminal charges
The settlement would require George Klopfer to pay $330 in fees and do 24 hours of community service.
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Topless pro-abort fined $1,500 after jumping on altar during Cologne Cathedral’s Christmas Eve Mass
'Altar boys and children in our choir were traumatized,' says the cathedral's provost.
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Gay activists march in Newfoundland Christmas parade, promote ‘LGBT family’
'When we see a same-sex couple with their child smiling at reindeer, or an LGBT advocate in a parade as a snowman, remember, Christmas is for LGBT families, too.'
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Michael Sam: Maybe the NFL cut me because I’m gay
Sam wasn't quite good enough to make the cut in this year's NFL season, but was good, or famous, or famously gay, or something enough, to be GQ's Man of the Year.
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Minnesota schools allow male athletes who say they are female to shower with girls
'A male wants to shower beside your 14-year-old daughter. Are you OK with that?' asked a full-page ad opposing the policy.
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Gosnell filmmakers reopen crowdfunding campaign, seek $500,000 more
'It's a huge boost to the movie,' says one of the producers. 'More donations, means more shooting days, better actors, higher production values, it'll mean a better movie.'
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Pro-life pregnancy center sues after landlord with Planned Parenthood tenant breaks contract
'We are confident that in discovery, it will be obvious that ... [the landlord] aimed to squelch opposition to Planned Parenthood's agenda of killing as many unborn children as possible,' says the center's lawyer.
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Bioethicists balk at Missouri law requiring written consent to cease a child’s life-sustaining treatment
Getting consent in writing would better ensure that parents made a truly informed decision to stop ICU care or put a DNR on the chart. Isn’t that a good thing?
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Alberta gvmt delays bill removing parental right to protect kids from gay lessons after liberals complain it doesn’t go far enough
'We see this as driving a wedge between parents and their children,' warned ARPA's Mark Penninga.
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Respect for human dignity ‘demands’ infanticide for disabled newborns: bioethicist
Since when has the life of a child become so cheap that we leave it to misguided parents who wish to do as they see fit, evidence be damned?
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An urgent call to prayer for Chicago’s new archbishop
Abusing this greatest of all sacraments has eternal ramifications, and the shepherds, whose primary duty it is to see to the salvation of the members of their flocks place themselves in grave danger by treating Canon 915 too loosely.
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Notre Dame conference on gender-bending and childhood leaves out Catholic teaching
'This event allows many different views and perspectives,' the organizer said when asked if the conference would take account of Catholic teaching.
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Ambulance rushes sobbing patient from Florida abortion facility: VIDEO
Video shows dramatic footage of a sobbing abortion patient being loaded into an awaiting ambulance while the injured patient’s friend stood nearby crying and distraught.
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‘Permissive’ euthanasia and assisted suicide bill introduced in Canadian Senate
The bill is 'intentionally permissive' and designed to protect doctors who kill patients rather than to protect vulnerable persons, says Alex Schadenberg.
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D.C. city council passes ordinance banning ‘reparative therapy’ for minors
'This bill is injurious to human rights and equality,' Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel said.
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Obama-appointed federal judge overturns Indiana abortion safety law
The law requiring medical abortion facilities to adopt the same standards as surgical facilities was 'without a rational basis,' says the judge.
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UK scout leader used abortion to cover up rape of 13-year-old girl
It's unclear why no investigation of statutory rape was made before the child was given the abortion.
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U.S. birth rate hits another all-time low in 2013
The birth rate rose for women over 45, whose pregnancies are the most likely to result in complications or miscarriage, the CDC noted today.
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is trying to force a redefinition of the family on all of Latin America
The case is one in a steady stream emanating from the Organization of American States’ judicial organisms attempting to impose a liberal social agenda upon a culturally traditional region.
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Virginia health dept. votes to gut abortion clinic safety regulations
'Women deserve protection from shoddy abortion facilities that cannot comply with medical safety standards,' says Operation Rescue.
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Irish prime minister happy to be spotted in gay ‘Panti Bar’
A Fine Gael official says Enda Kenny was at the gay party, but was not actually partying. He was 'recognising their work' on various pro-gay initiatives, including the upcoming same-sex 'marriage' referendum.
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Man strangled girlfriend and forced morning-after pill down her throat to abort their child: police
Police say 44-year-old Thomas A. Pfeiffer was holding his pregnant girlfriend in a chokehold and compelling 'her to consume a pill that would cause an abortion.'
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Crowder: Abortion of ‘special needs’ children ‘a holocaust’
Over 90% of Down syndrome babies diagnosed in utero are aborted. For Americans to shrug at a statistic like this says a lot about what kind of society we are.
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Abortionist: we let babies born alive ‘expire’
Sadly, it seems that the killing of born babies, either by neglect or by direct action, goes on in abortion clinics to this day.
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Bioethicist: Why not allow non-doctors to offer assisted suicide for profit?
If commercial suicide services are too dangerous, what evidence do you have that physician-assisted suicide is any less so?
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Abortion is the single worst form of violence against blacks, so how could black feminists possibly call it the SOLUTION to violence?
Abortion is destroying the black race, rendering its population stagnant for decades. African-American women are needlessly walking right into the eugenic trap. When will they wake up?
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This Chinese abortionist killed her OWN grandchildren – but one miraculously survived
The next time you read dry, faceless statistics about forced abortion in China, remind yourself that behind the numbers are real women and real babies – like Yang Pingan and the babies she lost under China’s “one child per family” law.
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Catholic college’s decision to accept federal labor board’s oversight could restrict religious freedom
The Catholic Church often looks favorably on collective bargaining by employees, but federal oversight can mean enforcement of union demands that compromise a college’s Catholic mission, such as immoral health benefits.
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The Oxford abortion debate that never was
Oxford canned a debate on abortion after protests by feminists. A pity, because the arguments are worth examining.
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An adopted boy who survived abuse has touched the nation with a hug
Imagine the absolute beauty that would have been lost if Devonte never existed. We can never know the potential a single life holds.
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Abortionist: seeing an arm pulled out was ‘shocking’…this isn’t ’tissue’
'The colour left my face… Not only was it a visceral shock; this was something I had to think deeply about.'
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Freedom is NOT a right
If, like me, you have ever felt these fears, then you simply must watch this gorgeous 2-minute video reflection on the nature of freedom. I mean it when I say that I think this will be the best two minutes you spend today.
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Amazon will allow you to donate to any charity – as long as it’s approved by the Southern Poverty Law Center
“No one should rely on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s inaccurate and biased data," said Jerry Boykin of the Family Research Council, which was targeted by a domestic terrorist who relied on the SPLC's designation.
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Malta’s ‘gender identity’ bill could see Catholic parents fined, critic warns
'Any attempts by parents to teach their children about the traditional heterosexual marriage, based on biology and on children’s real needs, will suffer the full brunt of the law,' the Life Network warns.
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N. Ireland pro-life leader’s ‘troubling’ conviction was politically motivated: supporters
Bernadette Smyth has 'prevented abortion legislation again and again,' says Life Institute's Niamh Uí Bhriain. 'The timing of these ridiculous charges stink.'
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Pro-life: Right policy. Good – and imperative – politics.
In the Republican Party, abortion is as settled as a difficult issue ever can be, and those vying for the party’s top electoral slot realize they must commit to defending life or fail in their effort to win the nomination.
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‘Don’t let pro-aborts turn us into a slaughterhouse’: Dominican pro-lifers beg aid as president hopes to ease abortion law
President Danilo Medina of the Dominican Republic has urged Parliament to allow exceptions for rape, incest, and fetal malformation in the nation's abortion law.
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Obama admin orders federally funded schools to let students choose their own gender
Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly calls the new order 'crazy.'
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Voice of the Family urges prayer for Synod on the Family’s participants
'The stakes are high,' says the group, because of the moral confusion that resulted from the first Synod gathering in October.
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Writer on socialist site: I long for day saying ‘I had an abortion’ is like saying ‘I have the flu’
If women can fake a smile long enough and say they aborted for the most trivial of reasons, perhaps the public will believe that abortion is harmless.
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Why do we wildly over-estimate the proportion of homosexuals?
Good public policy is based on facts, not ideology. If politicians, journalists and judges are working with wildly over-estimated figures, we are bound to get the worst possible policies.
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Canadian Olympic Committee teams up with gay activists to push homosexuality in schools
'Athletes should be judged by their performance on the field of play and their character as people, not for who they love,' says the committee's CEO.
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New hearing set for Kansas abortionist whose phony mental health diagnoses led to late-term abortions
If Neuhaus gets her license back, it is pretty much guaranteed that she will jump back into the abortion business, says Operation Rescue.
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‘Same-self marriage’: The pinnacle of the culture of narcissism
We need to lovingly share the good things we have in our marriage with others—otherwise, how will they be drawn to the real thing? Marriage can be a wonderful tool to share God’s love with a lost and hurting world.
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Media adore ‘1 in 3 Campaign,’ censor women who regret abortion
The media are all for giving voice to the voiceless, as long as the message fits their agenda.
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Nicki Minaj describes her aborted baby as angel looking over her brother
'It's like he's Caiah's little angel, looking over him,' Minaj says on her new single.
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The Pill hasn’t solved women’s problems – it’s created new ones
The Pill didn’t solve all of women’s problems. It created whole new series of problems. And the problems it was supposed to solve could have been solved some other way.
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Midwest pregnancy center first to offer RU-486 abortion reversal to save babies
So far, there have been 58 babies born alive and healthy to mothers treated with this protocol after beginning a medical abortion!
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5,000 Get Well Cards and gifts for baby in Irish abortion case delivered to Minister for Health
This was the first reported use of the abortion act in Ireland and clearly, it was shown to absolutely fail both mother and baby. Abortion is not a treatment for suicidal thoughts in pregnancy.
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Caring for the dying means not intentionally killing them
Remember in this age of direct and indirect killing that a human being’s dignity is never measured by his age, health, or condition of dependency. And remember, INTENDING death is never ethical health care.
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Catholic agencies mum after watchdog exposes $35,000 grant to pro-gay, Marxist group
'Every year the Catholic Campaign for Human Development denies it funds organizations acting against Catholic teaching, and every year they get caught doing just that,' says Michael Hichborn.
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Planned Parenthood: We’ll have to close our clinics if Gov. Walker investigates us for Medicaid fraud
'If Planned Parenthood want to be considered legitimate health care providers, they should conduct in accordance with the laws of the state, as others are,' Matt Sande of Pro-Life Wisconsin told LifeSiteNews.
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Court awards ‘trans’ student $75,000, orders school to allow boys into girls’ bathroom
The decision is believed to be the first of its kind in the United States.
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Sexual ‘rights’? I do not think that word means what you think it means.
So-called 'sexual rights' are now considered to be the most important 'rights' our society has.
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UK bishops to host pro-gay priest for talk at Catholic youth conference
The love of same-sex couples should be 'cherished and supported,' according to Fr. Timothy Radcliffe.
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‘It was the head of my baby’: 8 unbelievably heart-rending quotes from women who aborted their babies
'And there, with my husband beside me, I delivered a part of my baby the doctor had missed. It was the head of my baby...'
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This pro-choice researcher aborted her baby with Down’s: then she admitted the ‘paradox’
It seems that Rapp, despite her strong pro-choice stand, may have some qualms of her own.
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Abortion is a ‘legal right’: Hamilton Catholic chaplain running for Trudeau’s Liberals
The Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board is standing behind her.
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Ontario’s prepping to impose a new explicit sex ed program: where are all the angry parents?
The innocence of children is very clearly threatened as the new sex-education program teaches children explicit details of sex that they shouldn’t have to know for years, if ever.
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When it comes to killing women, legal abortion beats illegal abortion 10-0
Legal abortion has killed 7.5-times as many women as illegal abortion since 1973, an average of 13 women a year.
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Radical leftists now endangering female athletes
What a tangled web of gender identity disorder and 'progressive' pathology we weave.
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Attempt to hide abortion behind contraception an epic fail
Abortion proponents thought they found a winning issue – contraception – to leech the losing issue of abortion to, but they were wrong.
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France’s National Assembly declares abortion a ‘fundamental right’
Only 151 members of the National Assembly were present, but they passed it overwhelmingly 143-7, with one abstention.
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Professors from Jesuit university support colleague’s same-sex ‘marriage’
Faculty and university members from Scranton University attended the homosexual wedding of their colleague and showed strong support for the marriage.
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Where are all the Newfoundland women needing abortions? CBC does a story about nothing
The CBC is willing to offer one-sided coverage of women's crying need for abortion and did so this week with two stories. The only problem is: where are the women?
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Doctors said their son would die, but faith in God and a father’s vision proved them wrong
Doctors gave the couple the option of aborting the baby. But they would have none of that.
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Ottawa girls meet with gay activist after Catholic school board approved ‘gay rights’ project
The girls met with Jeremy Dias, whose organization exists to combat 'homophobia' in schools and partners with pro-abortion and pro-prostitution groups.
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Man found guilty of murdering 14-year-old girl, setting her on fire, for refusing an abortion
'It didn’t deserve to live,' the 22-year-old murderer told police.
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Pro-lifers back suit against UPS after pregnant worker sidelined without pay: goes to Supreme Court Wednesday
'This is an opportunity to clean up some of the social mess from Roe vs. Wade,' Clarke Forsythe, senior counsel for Americans United for Life (AUL), told LifeSiteNews.
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Pope Francis dodges reporter’s question on treatment of homosexuality in Synod’s controversial mid-term report
Since the Synod in October, reporters around the world have been wondering where Pope Francis stands on the controversial language about homosexuality in the mid-term Synod report. They got their chance on Sunday.
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Abortionist Curtis Boyd says of abortion climate: ‘My God what has happened?’
'We thought [by now abortion] would be available in every family practice, that there would be no resistance!' said Boyd.
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Belgium’s euthanasia doctor takes a tour of Auschwitz
The group of euthanasia tourists say that the evils of Auschwitz are actually the opposite of their goal, which they claim is to "kill out of humility and love."
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Finland passes law redefining marriage, leading to mass exodus from state church
"Our concept of marriage needs a fundamental examination," Kari Mäkinen, the Lutheran Archbishop of Turku and Finland, said.
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730,322 abortions in 2011: CDC report on 47 U.S. states
The report – which the CDC released Friday, the day after Thanksgiving – is incomplete, since it does not include statistics from states that fail to report abortion statistics.
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Chicago’s Archbishop Cupich: Communion for pro-abortion politicians is a good thing
'I would not use the Eucharist, or as they call it ‘the communion rail,’ as a place to have those discussions.'
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GOP under fire for hiring pro-polygamy lawyer to challenge Obama admin
The Republicans have hired Jonathan Turley, the lawyer for the stars of 'Sister Wives', to sue Obama over the Affordable Care Act.
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Dominican Republic president urges Parliament to legalize abortion in cases of rape, incest
The Caribbean nation's president vetoed a bill doubling the sentence for committing an abortion.
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Time for commercially-assisted suicide?
Bioethicist Roland Kipke’s article demonstrates why assisted suicide/euthanasia isn’t medicine! Those who pretend otherwise merely seek to harness the authority of the doctor in service to the culture of death.
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New scientific discovery: pain can be ‘turned-off’
Effective control of pain is possible. Society needs to focus on killing the pain, not the patient.
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Recovering the lost art of honoring God
It has long been time to return wonder and reverence to worship.
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Report by pro same-sex ‘marriage’ group touted at Gonzaga
A director at Gonzaga University was pleased with a new Human Rights Campaign that praised the 'incredible advances' made in 2014 to legalize same-sex 'marriage.'
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