Texas deprives Planned Parenthood of $1.2 million in taxpayer funding
The Lone Star State removed the abortion provider from a state-funded cancer screening program.
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Articles for Month: May 2015
Assisted suicide legislation introduced in Delaware
The bill 'will allow a competent terminally ill patient the ability to request medication to end the patient’s life.'
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New contraceptives raise risk of blood clots by 50 to 80 percent: British study
The risk is higher among newer drugs, 'despite attempts to develop safer hormonal contraceptives for women.'
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Three bishops pen new hard-hitting book to clear up Synod confusion
Preferential Option for the Family — 100 Questions and Answers Relating to the Synod was authored by Santa Rosa Bishop Robert Vasa, Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan, and Archbishop Aldo de Cillo Pagotto of Paraiba, Brazil.
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Pro-abortion Tory Peter MacKay announces retirement for family reasons
'We won’t be sad to see him go,' says Campaign Life Coalition.
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One-in-five ‘vegetative’ patients is misdiagnosed: Study
Around 20 percent of hospital patients condemned as 'brain-dead' may be conscious and recover, a study has found.
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Scott Walker rebukes media claiming he thinks forced ultrasounds are ‘cool’
'They can’t win on the Left on an issue, [so] they exaggerate things,' he said.
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Woman gives birth to rare identical triplets
'We’re going to love them no matter how they look!'
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Actress tells teens she’s ‘eternally grateful’ for Planned Parenthood
It’s hard to critique personal stories – but not when the media use them to teach teens that they need Planned Parenthood.
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Media promotes junk science on fetal pain
Putting the media bias aside, the vast weight of scientific evidence concludes that preborn humans feel pain by around 20 weeks after fertilization or earlier.
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Say what? Rand Paul: When life begins is a ‘difficult question’
So enlighten us, Senator: what is the difficult part?
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Ontario sex-ed architect gets 3 years in jail on child-porn charges
Ben Levin's expertise in 'childhood education' made Levin’s 'moral blameworthiness particularly high,' said the judge.
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Gay ‘marriage’: It’s not gay, and it’s not marriage
This is perhaps the most profound analysis of the problem of homosexuals: they are slaves to sex.
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Invitation and agenda for Cardinal Marx’s secret Rome meeting
Editor's note: The following document is an invitation sent by the presidents of the bishops' conferences in France, Germany, and Switzerland to a confidential meeting in Rome that discussed advancing a progressive agenda on issues such as homosexuality and Communion for the divorced and remarried. For more information on the meeting, see LifeSiteNews' article here. Vatican reporter Ed Pentin highlights significant points of the below document in an article here. Bishops' Conference of France – German Bishops' Conference – Swiss Bishops' Conference xx. April 2015 Draft Letter of Invitation N.N., The Holy Father has initiated an invitation to […]
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Myanmar forces Muslim minority to space children 3 years apart
'This law targets one religion, one population, in one area.'
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We need strong Catholic identity to face ‘tsunami of secularism’: Cardinal Wuerl
The archbishop of Washington, D.C., says the ‘experimentation and confusion’ after Vatican II weakened Catholics in the fight against secularism.
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People always say, ‘At least the baby’s healthy!’ But what if she isn’t?
It is time to stop being hypocritical about 'acceptance' and instead realize that every life matters and has value.
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What to do when your own child is a sex abuser
Many parents are putting themselves in Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's shoes and asking: What would I do if faced with a similar situation? What SHOULD I do?
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Can’t beat your porn addiction? This new app may be for you
'The fight for freedom from pornography is a battle you can win. But, every battle needs a plan.'
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Crowdfunding for suicide?
Have we become such a degraded and life-disaffirming culture as this?
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Activists defend graphic postcards exposing Trudeau’s abortion agenda
'Nobody has a right not be confronted with pictures of abortions.'
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German president lauds Irish vote but won’t introduce gay ‘marriage’
Angela Merkel's spokesman called the Irish referendum 'an important milestone in dismantling discrimination.'
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Debunking the anti-Christian myths about the Spanish Inquisition
Since it is being used by secularists such as Obama to smear all Christians and not simply Catholics, it would be good to set the record straight about the alleged excesses of the Spanish Inquisition.
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What really happened in Ireland’s gay ‘marriage’ referendum
The outcome of the Ireland vote shocked many in the pro-family movement. But what the mainstream press isn’t reporting is even more shocking.
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Canadian MP’s motion defends freedom of conscience in Parliament
'Freedom of conscience for MPs is a matter of concern, especially now that Justin Trudeau has turned his MPs into trained seals.'
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Cardinal Kasper defends Ireland’s gay ‘marriage’ decision
The grave effects of Ireland’s gay 'marriage' vote, not only for the secular world, but also for the Catholic Church, are showing themselves already.
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Bishops plot revolution on Church teaching at secret Rome meeting
Clearly, the progressive party who hoped to manipulate the Extraordinary Synod last October are far from giving up.
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21-year-old woman dies after taking contraceptives for less than a month
'I couldn't believe nobody had said the pill could do this,' her grieving mother said.
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The U.S. must release all illegal immigrants claiming to be gay, bisexual, or transgender: Homosexual activists
'Without detention of illegal aliens there is no immigration enforcement,' Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told LifeSiteNews
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This HIV-positive man would rather die than fund abortion. Now he’s won his court case against ObamaCare
'He has HIV, but he is someone who has devoted his life and his resources to opposing abortion, and works against it on a weekly basis,' his lawyer attested.
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Racial disparities, 47 botched abortions, and a dead black woman: The state of abortion in Ohio
Operation Rescue has documented a series of violations in a new blockbuster report.
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The first pro-abortion Republican enters the 2016 presidential race
Former New York Gov. George Pataki also signed numerous pieces of the homosexual political agenda into law.
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‘This is what kills the baby, right?’: Clinic tried, but failed to hide reality of abortion from mom
In those final moments, she was unable to lie to herself about what was happening to her unborn child.
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Obama encourages 5-year-old girl’s support for gay ‘marriage’
'Please give a speech to tell everyone that can marry who they want,' the girl wrote.
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Look what happened to this former abortion facility!
On May 18, a demolition crew arrived on the scene of this abortion clinic and began to bulldoze the facility to the ground.
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Ireland ‘defied God’ by voting for gay ‘marriage’: Cardinal Burke
'Pagans may have tolerated homosexual behaviours, they never dared to say this was marriage.'
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Fraudulent study on same sex ‘marriage’ a caution for UN
Charges of fraud against a 'study' on winning converts to same-sex marriage is shedding light on how susceptible elite institutions are to ideological manipulation.
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Why moms and dads both matter in marriage
Mothers and fathers both add distinct benefits to the development of children. Courts and legislatures cannot alter biology or psychology.
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Aussie politician hopes to ride Irish gay ‘marriage’ bump with new bill
The Irish referendum has 'reignited momentum for the marriage equality debate on the other side of the world in Australia,' says Opposition leader Bill Shorten.
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Why young Christians can’t grasp our arguments against gay ‘marriage’
The rising generation of young Christians seem to have gotten the idea that marriage 'has only an arbitrary relationship to reproduction.'
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To my best friend with the unplanned pregnancy: you can choose love
It seems that you’ve made up your mind to 'terminate' your pregnancy. Before you do, please listen to these words.
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Latest British Columbia abortion stats show steady decline
Pro-life advocates still lament the lack of usable data on abortion.
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Pope Francis: Marriage and family facing ‘serious cultural crisis’
'Let us continue to present the beauty of Christian marriage,' the pope urged.
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Girl attempted suicide after school got her abortion behind parents’ back – now mom fights back
'Our daughter survived by the Grace of God, she survived. But life has never been the same.'
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Appeals courts order Catholic groups to ‘accommodate’ contraception, abortifacients
Priests for Life, the archdiocese of Washington, and Notre Dame University all lost in court last week.
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White House to order faith-based grant recipients to accept LGBT applicants
This new change is just the latest of a series of religious liberty challenges directed at charitable organizations by the Obama administration.
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Dear doctor: Did you just identify the gender of that baby? You’re a bigot.
The emperor has no clothes, but we’re supposed to pretend we can’t see that he’s a man.
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‘Every life matters’: Rick Santorum announces new bid for president
'With your help and God's grace, we can change this nation,' he said in his hometown.
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Greenland adopts same-sex ‘marriage’
The law goes into effect on October 1, 2015.
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Federal appeals court strikes down 12-week abortion ban
All three judges were appointed by President George W. Bush.
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4 doctors urged Baby Mary’s mom to abort. She refused.
This story is happening every day all across this country. I know because it happened to my wife and I too.
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Scottish Parliament votes down assisted suicide bill by overwhelming majority
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is congratulating activists in Scotland for defeating this dangerous bill.
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Abortionist: My work is more important than doctor performing heart transplants
This is a perversion of everything the medical profession is supposed to stand for.
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Gallup: 32% believe animals deserve the ‘same rights’ as humans
Animals should have some protection from harm and exploitation, but saying they should have the same rights as humans is anti-human.
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Criticisms of Pope Francis from within the Vatican Curia made public
Journalist Guiseppe Rusconi says that without intending it, Pope Francis favored the advance of the homosexual lobby.
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‘Hope in the heart of hell’: Pro-life center plans to open 10 feet from abortion clinic
With support for the woman and baby—for up to two years after birth—Seneca promises a woman a solution, not a problem.
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Strong winds blowing from the UN to change climate at the Vatican
The Vatican should know that environmental issues in international negotiations are not about planting trees, but killing babies, the infirm and the elderly.
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The pro-life art of war
When we’re talking about changing laws and protecting the innocent, we’re not just a moral movement. We’re a political pressure group. So let’s act that way.
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A requiem for the Boy Scouts
The eventual requiem for the Boy Scouts will reveal a moral lesson to be sure. But it will be a lesson learned too late, and at so great a loss.
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California House passes bill forcing pregnancy centers to refer for abortions
The California 'Bully Bill' will force locally funded pregnancy help organizations to surrender rights protected by the First Amendment.
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Salon writer: I saw dismembered arms and legs of aborted baby, but I’m still pro-choice
'My trainer made a point to show me the tiny arms and legs floating in the glass baking pan.'
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Sen. Rubio: Catechism may be branded ‘hate speech’
Senator Rubio was branded as 'anti-gay' for warning that the Church's teachings would be labeled as 'hate speech' against sexuality.
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Sex-ed protest in Toronto on June 7 hopes to draw 10,000
It's organized by a new umbrella group called the Canadian Families Alliance that represents an estimated 200,000 Ontario parents.
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Federal court says NY allowed to ban ‘Choose Life’ plates as ‘patently offensive’
'The circuit court denied free speech in favor of government censorship,' said Jeremy Tedesco, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom.
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Halton Catholic trustee asks board to delay sex-ed one year: vote next week
Catholic school trustees have an 'exclusive constitutional mandate' to adapt ministry of education curricula so that 'it does not contradict Catholic teaching,' states the motion.
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We let women hold their baby’s body after abortion for ‘spiritual healing’: abortion worker
'If a woman or her partner asks to spend time alone with her pregnancy tissue after the abortion, we are very agreeable to the request.'
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‘Please stop using our very sick babies to justify abortion push,’ Irish parents tell Labour Party
If Labour wants to copy Britain’s abortion laws, then be honest and say that. Stop hiding behind unborn babies with a severe disability.
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Scotland’s assisted suicide bill will be defeated
It is simply wrong to give doctors, or others, the right in law to be involved with causing another person's death.
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‘Hey dad…I’m pregnant’: Choosing life after an unplanned pregnancy at 17
Teen mother Jess Urban heroically chose adoption over abortion when she could have chosen either option.
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‘Official’ Catholic newspaper defends running pro-abortion piece by Michael Coren
We live 'in a world where nothing is black and white,' the Prairie Messenger told LifeSiteNews.
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Dutch bishops’ aid group funding Planned Parenthood, Marie Stopes
Cordaid calls itself a 'proud member' of the Vatican's charitable arm, Caritas Internationalis.
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Polyamory isn’t good for children: my story
Although I was very young, the images of my father cuddling with my mom, and then my half-brother's mom, still remain with me.
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11-year-old in Uruguay refuses to abort after rape
'The girl’s position has been confirmed without a doubt: she wishes to be a mother.'
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Peterborough parents protest Wynne’s explicit sex-ed outside MPP’s office
The curriculum 'undermines parents' relationships with their kids and attacks the innocence of children,' says a spokesperson.
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Edmonton Catholic schools let 7-year-old boy attend as a girl
'God created us male and female and any suggestion you can change that would be contrary to Catholic teaching,' said one Catholic official.
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Christian jeweller made gay couples’ rings but still got targeted by gay lobby
North Americans are used to reading about Christian business people being fined and excoriated for refusing to cater to homosexual weddings, but Newfoundland has added a novel twist.
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Exclusive: Clinging to Christ will help those struggling with sexual identity, says Montreal’s archbishop
Canadians headed to the ballot box for the fall federal election should remember the right to life is 'the most basic thing in society,' the archbishop tells LifeSiteNews.
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My father raped his daughter. And I am their baby. My story.
I have come to see my life as a precious gift given to me.
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‘Please don’t make me do this!’: Planned Parenthood nurse tells of teen forced to abort
'I knew what had happened. I knew that they had aborted her against her will.'
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Marriage hasn’t changed. Ireland has.
Many fellow Christians have asked me how this could happen since 'Ireland is Catholic.' It happened because, for all practical purposes, this is not true.
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Medical expert: Science is ‘conclusive’ that unborn babies feel horrific pain of abortion
Unborn babies, in fact, 'may feel more intense pain than a newborn or an adult.'
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‘I feel that I murdered somebody’: Post-abortive dad’s heartbreaking Esquire confession
'I’ve come to believe more and more that the baby in the womb is ... a human life. I wish I didn't.'
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Wendy Davis at Planned Parenthood fundraiser: Abortion of 7-pound babies ‘never happens’
It’s hard to know if Davis is being willfully ignorant, or if she’s just lying.
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Rome Life Forum talks must be read and viewed to understand serious international crisis for pro-life
Last year’s Extraordinary Synod on the Family and Pope Francis’s many controversial statements have created moral issue earthquakes - not only in the Catholic Church - but also in the entire world. That was the reason for this year's Rome Life Forum.
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Swiss bishops say Catholics demand Church change on homosexuality, contraception
'Do we have to give our blessing [as bishops] to everything people do nowadays?' asked one bishop critical of the Swiss bishops' report.
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Church daycare must pay lesbians a huge fine after couple violates employees’ moral clause
'We expect people to live in celibacy in singleness, faithfulness in marriage,' the church's pastor explained.
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This world-renowned soccer star has decided to wait to have sex until he is married
The Brazilian soccer star posted a photo of his baptism on Instagram, and with it noted that he has 'chosen to wait.'
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TLC pulls ’19 Kids and Counting’ from schedule following Duggar molestation allegations
The star of 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' has threatened to sue the network if the Duggars return to the airwaves.
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Russia considers two bills to restrict abortion
'Free medical care programs are directed first of all towards saving lives and health of people. An abortion is not a medical or health-improving procedure,' the bills' sponsor tweeted.
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I told her I was conceived in rape. She told me to prove I shouldn’t have been aborted.
Yes. As crazy as it sounds, people will actually challenge me to prove that I should be alive.
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Oregon becomes third state to ban reparative therapy; Illinois considering a similar ban
The legislation is 'an unmitigated disaster for children and families,' a pro-family activist warns.
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Mother Teresa’s canonization possible in 2016
The Vatican is sending mixed signals with one top official suggesting a date in 2016, and the Holy See's spokesman saying her cause is ongoing.
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China’s president asserts state’s authority to ‘manage’ religion
Pope Francis, on the same day, urged Chinese Catholics to stay ‘united to the rock of Peter.’
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‘#No2Trudeau’: 850 Canadian youth learn about the power of their vote to oppose abortion
Hundreds of Canadian teens learned last week about the power of politics and the enormous weight each of their votes have to promote life.
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Boy Scouts president: We need to allow open homosexual leaders
It's time for the Boy Scouts to adjust to 'the social, political, and juridicial changes taking place in our country,' Robert Gates says.
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The ‘Francis effect’ is silencing Catholic bishops, priests, and laity
These days holding firm to Catholic doctrine and practise can seem like an act of disloyalty to the pope, yet to acquiesce is to betray the Church.
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Is the reason Notre Dame lost on HHS mandate because it’s already complying?
Notre Dame has argued that it should not be forced to be 'complicit' in the insurance required by the mandate, yet the University is still complying.
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Catholic Relief Services smells like rotten eggs
Clearly CRS president Carolyn Woo has chosen to be the servant of the gospel of tolerance rather than the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Vatican’s eco guru champions Occupy Wall Street thugs
Catholics need to demand that the Vatican sever this unholy partnership with UN population control advocates.
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Mike Huckabee affirms his support for Duggar family amid firestorm
Huckabee says Josh's actions were 'inexcusable' but also affirms Christian teaching that no sin is 'unforgivable.'
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World Health Organization calls for non-professional sex counseling for teens – without parent consent
The World Health Organization trusts non-professionals as better judges of what is in the best interests of adolescents than their own parents.
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The shocking proof that Planned Parenthood always knew the pill would increase abortions
Contraceptives were built upon lies. And Planned Parenthood knew it.
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Kermit Gosnell considers himself a ‘martyr’: Gosnell filmmakers
'The interview was one of the creepiest we have ever conducted,' they said in an interview.
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Dana Scallon: Vote ‘no’ on same-sex ‘marriage’ in Irish referendum
The gift of a mother and a father to a child is something that should never be prejudiced or undermined by anyone.
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Josh Duggar apologizes, admits ‘wrongdoing’ as young teen amid molestation accusations; resigns from FRC
A police report leaked to the media states that Josh engaged in fondling a minor while she was sleeping.
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Pro-abortion writer: number of abortions ‘is too low’
More abortion is, apparently, 'moral' and 'just.'
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Christian bakers fined for refusing to bake cake supporting gay ‘marriage’ — in Northern Ireland
'This is direct discrimination for which there can be no justification,' the judge wrote in a precedent-setting ruling.
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Use social media to promote life, but don’t be a ‘slacktivist’, Campaign Life exhorts youth
Pro-life activism is 'more than a hashtag.'
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Dutch court acquits man who euthanized his mother after doctor refused
The man’s sense of duty ‘justly’ carried more weight than the legal prohibition of the act, the Dutch appeals court said.
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Pharisee? NO! I’d be weeping for joy over Pope Francis if only…
'Aren’t you being like the Pharisees,' we're often asked, 'who also complained that Jesus ate with sinners?'
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Friends of Ireland warn of dangers to religious freedom in yes vote on marriage referendum
We in America must urge the people of Ireland to vote 'No' as we know the consequences of same-sex 'marriage'.
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Irish ‘yes’ vote on same-sex ‘marriage’ poses significant threat to religious freedom
Ireland's media has ignored a Supreme Court ruling that both sides of the debate be given equal coverage.
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Obama admin claims illegal abortion surcharge needed to protect pro-life consciences
Insurance companies are charging up to 25 times more for abortion than they need to, according to Alliance Defending Freedom's Casey Mattox.
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‘Yes’ vote in Ireland’s same-sex ‘marriage’ referendum could destroy family and society
We must pray for the Irish people, that they will persevere in their fidelity to God’s plan for marriage and family life and thus preserve their nation.
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Gay ‘marriage’ study faked data to help homosexual activists
The study alleged that homosexual activists, in a twenty-minute conversation, can change the minds of those who oppose redefining marriage.
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Dublin archbishop: I won’t tell Catholics how to vote on gay ‘marriage’
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin says he's voting 'no' on gay 'marriage' but won't 'tell others how to vote.'
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UK nurse sentenced to life for killing two patients and poisoning 20 more
It is not safe to give doctors, or others, the right in law to cause the death of their patients.
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Colombian bishop tells gay activists one of the apostles might have been gay, earns applause
Bishop Juan Vicente Cordoba Villota later apologized after criticism by his fellow bishops but stopped short of a full retraction.
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Watch: Mom, raped at 16, reunites 77 years later with the baby she gave up for adoption
'It hurt,' recounted Minka Disbrow. 'It hurt to give her up because you’d been with her for a whole month. But you knew it was the best for her and I had to go on. I had to go on.'
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California Medical Association stops opposing assisted suicide. Here’s why I’m not surprised.
How can a medical association adopt a neutral stance about something as radically subverting of Hippocratic values as assisted suicide?
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UNAIDS threatened to end aid if we fought abortion and gay language in document: former St. Lucia delegate
In an exclusive interview, Sarah Flood-Beaubrun tells LifeSiteNews that UNAIDS got her fired because she opposed their agenda.
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Pregnant after being raped at 14, I heard God say my baby’s blood was innocent
If you think I should have aborted my baby...consider this.
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Former Planned Parenthood manager: Abortion stops a beating heart
'I was horrified by what I saw,' she said. 'To this day, if I walk into a dentist office and hear the suction machine, it about brings me to my knees.'
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Chinese schoolteacher ordered to abort at 5 months gestation, then allowed to give birth
China is continuing its horrific practice of late term forced abortions. This is savagery and it must be stopped.
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Pope Francis praises Chilean mother who chose life for baby with anencephaly at heart of abortion debate
The pope’s letter to Bernardita Vial was read at her newborn son’s funeral two days after his birth.
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‘Massive confusion’ in wake of Vatican miscommunications, Synod requires clarification: LifeSiteNews co-founder
'We have sometimes been shocked by things that we have heard,' said Westen.
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LifeSiteNews U.S. Bureau Chief: Democrats who oppose 20-week ban show ‘abortion fanaticism’
Ben Johnson told One America News last week that the Democrats are far outside mainstream America on abortion.
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Let freedom ring: Ryan Bomberger defeats NAACP lawsuit
The judge slighted the NAACP for turning the law 'into an instrument for chilling or silencing the speech of those who disagree with' it.
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Are gays ‘born that way’? Most Americans now say yes, but science says no
The latest Gallup poll finds 63 percent say homosexual acts are morally acceptable.
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Irish being intimidated to vote for ‘gay marriage’ on Friday: European politicians
'What has taken place in Ireland over the past few months is unacceptable for an EU member state.'
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Insurance giant Aetna fined $4.5 million for illegally financing abortions, other violations
'When an insurance company chooses to do business in our state, they agree to follow our laws,' said Gov. Jay Nixon, a pro-abortion Democrat.
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Saskatchewan NDP push gay-straight clubs on all schools
Now it is Saskatchewan’s turn to be subjected to bullying by powerful 'sexual minorities.'
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Eric Metaxas tells Canadian March for Life: Abortion can end ‘if we all push at once, now, together’
'Now is the time. Stand now, speak now, if you have a penny now, spend it for God's purposes now, or that penny will be taken away from you.'
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Major French Protestant denomination opts to celebrate gay ‘marriages’
The 270,000-strong United Protestant Church of France is earning cheers from the homosexual movement and media after their decision last weekend.
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Good families are unfair! A devil’s definition of equality
I'm not making this up. Two philosophers want to abolish the family to...wait for it...'level the playing field.'
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Catholic Relief Services president doubles down on funding pro-abortion groups
Catholic Relief Services must remember that it is Catholic above all else, and that its first duty is to maintain the integrity of the faith.
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Pregnant woman keeps her baby after seeing March for Life UK
A pregnant woman is thanking UK pro-life marchers who inspired her to keep her child during their march.
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Two gay campaigners against same-sex ‘marriage’ in Ireland
A gay blogger points out that a homosexual relationship is simply a different thing than a marriage.
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Irish bishop: Catholics can back gay ‘marriage’ in good conscience
Same-sex 'marriage' would be a 'dangerous experiment,' but still, voting 'yes' in Ireland's referendum may not be wrong, says the bishop of Derry.
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Tennessee OB-GYN gives the medical facts on why waiting period laws are important
Abortion advocates aren't pleased with Tennessee's new law that requires a waiting period before abortions are performed.
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These babies with disabilities could all have been aborted after 20 weeks. Thank God their parents chose life.
Pro-aborts say it's 'cruel' and 'disgusting' to ban aborting disabled babies after 20 weeks. Tell that to these beautiful children.
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Pope tells parents: Don’t let ‘so-called experts’ usurp the education of your children
'It is time for fathers and mothers to return from their exile,' Pope Francis said Wednesday.
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Vatican prelate dismisses criticism over partnership with pro-abortion population controllers
The Vatican organizers discussed the pro-abortion views of Ban Ki-moon and Jeffrey Sachs but opted for dialogue, says Archbishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo.
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I finally found my birth mother. That’s when she told me the truth: she had been raped.
I was conceived in rape, but I am loved.
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Bobby Jindal signs executive order to protect religious liberty after GOP members vote bill down
Louisiana GOP members may have failed to protect religious liberty, but the state's Republican governor is taking up the slack.
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Canadian gvmt intervenes on behalf of Christian law school in religious freedom battle
If law societies are worried about discrimination, they can deal with individual cases 'without the need to infringe an entire group’s freedom of religion,' says the government.
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The lies you were taught about the sexual revolution…that you still don’t know were lies
In order to understand the sex-driven lunacy and carnage that has gripped our culture on virtually every front, we have to put history back in the front seat.
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Blasphemous pastor praises the ‘resurrection’ work of Planned Parenthood
'What I love is the dedicated staff of people who are...fighting for life,' he says.
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CRS president: It may not be wrong for us to have a VP in a gay ‘marriage’
'CRS has a senior person who is in a civil gay marriage,' Woo said, 'and the question is, ‘Is that a violation of Church teaching?’'
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Congressman’s new national ban on reparative therapy designed as ‘attack on parental rights’
A former homosexual said barring the therapy 'is a form of child abuse.'
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Impartiality? Ruth Bader Ginsburg presides over yet another gay ‘marriage’ as justices weigh their final verdict
During the ceremony, Ginsburg was said to have placed 'special emphasis' on the word 'Constitution,' forecasting her vote.
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A handful of young German Bishops resisting the national Church’s march to heresy
Bishop Oster warns that “sexual practice outside of marriage is either fornication or adultery."
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Dead baby found in backpack at Syracuse N.Y. high school
This time the tiny person wasn’t found in a bathroom trash bin; instead, the deceased child was stuffed into a backpack and dropped off to the school nurse by its mother.
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Rand Paul: I entered politics to tackle the national debt, not abortion
'I ran for office mainly because I became concerned that we’re going to destroy the country with debt,' the senator said yesterday.
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Her aunt was an abortionist: but she’s using her TV show to promote pro-life
'The generation now knows no other way of thinking. They think it’s a normal thing to do, to kill your baby,' says Patty.
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Vatican appointee says gay sex can express Christ’s ‘self-gift’
Fr. Timothy Radcliffe is 'absolutely shocking papal appointment,' according to one critic.
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Hundreds of Catholics support embattled San Fran archbishop at family picnic
'He’s like a rock star,' said organizer Eva Muntean.
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Operation Rescue leader exhorts youth to help ‘put abortionists behind bars’
‘The abortion industry are not health care providers, they are murderers,’ Operation Rescue President Troy Newman told several hundred teens in Ottawa on Friday.
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Grieving mother shares heartbreaking photos of son miscarried at 17 weeks to show his humanity
'I knew that I did want to see him, that I needed to,' says Natasha. 'I needed to hold him and make memories of him the only way that I could.”
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International NGOs abort the truth about Paraguay’s pro-life stance
The people of Paraguay know and understand that abortion is an act of violence; their culture believes life is a gift of love.
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Making differences disappear: The evolution of science on same-sex households
Social science was never going to save marriage’s male-female infrastructure. What it can do—without manipulation—is reveal what is really going on.
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MDs give themselves duty-to-die power over patients
The centralized control that represents the approach of Obamacare needs to be shattered or within a decade, we will all potentially face the duty to die.
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Why are socialist politicians so fixated on abortion – and aborting the poor?
Surely if poverty is causing a crisis in pregnancy, the solution is to terminate the crisis, not the child.
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President Obama officially celebrates ‘International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia’
The United States has officially celebrated, for the first time, the 'International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.'
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Yes, the Constitution allows Congress to regulate abortion
Unborn babies are completely at the mercy of others—which is where the federal government must step in to ensure their unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are secured.
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Dad: When my daughter asked to die, the world showed up. When she wanted to live, she was ignored.
Valentina Maureira decided she did not want to die from euthanasia, but her father says the socialists are twisting her memory to promote the culture of death.
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Planned Parenthood in Spokane: ‘We need an ambulance for a patient we can’t get to stop bleeding’
'Many women are not aware that free-standing abortion facilities cannot help them in the event of a medical emergency,' Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said.
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‘Legal abortion helps American families’: Former CDC employee
Let me emphasize, hard as it is to believe, I am not making up any of these pro-abortion comments.
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Oklahoma governor signs bill saying that clergy may legally refuse to perform gay ‘marriages’
Oklahoma's Republican governor isn't running from religious liberty.
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Bill to end the forced starvation and dehydration of patients passes Texas House of Representatives
The bill is expected to be taken up by the Senate this week.
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This priest says he was fired for publicly supporting gay ‘marriage’ — but the Archdiocese says he was not fired at all
Father Warren Hall has served as director of campus ministry at Seton Hall University.
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Obama: Churches should stop focusing so much on protecting life and marriage
Redistributing the wealth is 'vital to following what Jesus Christ, our Savior, talked about,' the president said.
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The terminally ill teenager who changed her mind about euthanasia has passed away
But her change of heart was strangely passed over by the mainstream media.
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Pro-abortion protester endorses ‘post-natal abortions’ at Canadian March for Life (Video)
'It’s not for me or any member of Parliament or religious institution organization to tell her otherwise.'
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International Pro-Life Conference 2015
Photos of participants at International pro-life conference over two days. First day's meetings were for leaders only at the offices of Rome pro-life group at Piazza Santa Balbina. Second day was at the St. Pius X Hall in Vatican City.
Court finds 8 people guilty of selling aborted baby tissue for $25,000 beauty treatment
Hundreds of patients agreed to be injected with the embryonic cells and tissue for $25,000 per treatment.
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This South Carolina Senator is filibustering a 20-week abortion ban to remove rape and incest exceptions
'Senator Lee Bright is a hero to me and to the multitudes of others...who were also conceived in rape,' Rebecca Kiessling told LifeSiteNews. But others have a different analysis.
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Congresswoman demands FTC investigate therapists who practice ‘reparative therapy’
Meanwhile, former patients, medical professionals and advocates of the therapy are striving to counter what they say is a campaign of misinformation.
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11-year-old girl was raped by her brother, but she never thought about aborting her baby
'You are the beating pulse of life,' she tells the daughter she's not seen since she was born.
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‘It’s worth it’: Pro-lifers travel great distances to attend Ottawa March for Life
A priest from Nigeria, a trio of school girls from Toronto, a Christian school principal from Ottawa on maternity leave, a Lutheran for Life from Saskatoon, a feisty nun from Windsor.
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Top assisted suicide group convicted of helping woman kill herself: face $33,000 fine
FEN faces a fine of up to $33,000 when sentenced later this year.
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Abortion, embryonic research parallel Aztec human sacrifice: UK Catholic bishop
'We can see a resemblance with the declining civilisation of the western world which in similar ways sacrifices and discards the lives of millions of human beings in abortion,' he said.
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Pro-life prisoner Linda Gibbons released after 7 weeks in jail
Gibbons has spent over 10 years behind bars for peacefully sidewalk counseling and praying in front of Toronto abortion clinics.
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Canadians, like Satan, are too cozy with death, Reform pastor tells participants in March for Life
There was a packed house as Reformed Christians gathered at the First Baptist Church of Ottawa the morning of the 2015 March for Life.
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Gates Foundation donates $5 million to develop ‘permanent contraception’
'There is no justice in manufacturing a supposed demand for poor women to be sterilized,' said Stephen Phelan of Human Life International.
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Bare breasts, and the hammer & sickle: what passes for pro-abortion arguments
It made me feel a bit sick and sorry to see the angry FEMEN activists screaming and struggling with police and being slammed to the concrete.
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On steps of Parliament, Toronto’s Cardinal calls for an end to the ‘scourge of abortion’
Assisted suicide and abortion demand 'prayer and absolute, courageous, persevering witness.'
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Papal envoy shares Pope Francis’ ‘deep gratitude’ to Canada’s pro-life movement at March for Life
'Every day, 365 per year, is a march, is a time to march for life,' says Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi.
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Pro-abortion Dem to Rep. Ellmers: You abandoned us in our time of need
Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-NC -- she who shut down H.R. 36's passage in January -- just can't make anyone happy these days.
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Who is Jeffrey Sachs and why was he at the Vatican?
Last month the Vatican drew criticism for partnering with Jeffrey Sachs, arguably the world’s foremost proponent of population control.
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The 8 most unhinged reactions to passage of the 20-week abortion ban
Rep. Louise Slaughter called the bill to prevent infants from suffering the pain of dismemberment abortion 'disgustingly cruel.'
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City officials threatened to fire me unless I approved illegal Planned Parenthood facility: former San Antonio city planner
Trenton Robertson says he found that Planned Parenthood had not secured proper licenses to operate the facility.
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Topless protesters with Femen disrupt pro-life March second year in a row
The women managed to got close to the stage by impersonating pro-lifers, clapping and cheering on cue.
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American College of Physicians endorses gay ‘marriage,’ opposes reparative therapy
'Does ACP really think that the risk of AIDS, hepatitis, syphilis, etc. is much higher in ‘MSMs’ because of ‘healthcare disparities?’
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HHS mandate crackdown: Obama admin warns insurance companies they must pay for abortion-inducing contraceptives, or else
The National Women's Law Center claimed that insurance companies have been breaking the law, and today the Obama administration underscored that it will not tolerate these violations.'
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Canadian March for Life 2015
25,000 march for life at Canada’s Parliament (PHOTOS)
More than 30 parliamentarians, both MPs and Senators, were also present on the Hill, as were numerous clergy and bishops.
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Synod’s top task is to promote heroic, self-sacrificial love: New Vatican doctrinal appointee
'That self-sacrificial love, personified by Jesus Christ ... that’s the kind of loving that we need to learn again and to teach the world,' he said.
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2015 Canadian March for Life morning masses
‘Dear Marchers for Life’: an open letter from jailed pro-life activist Mary Wagner
'If we are Christians, then we are called to be what a good friend calls Gospel of Life People, not simply pro-life.'
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Pro-life efforts are ‘a powerful witness to your Catholic faith,’ London bishop says at March for Life mass
'It takes courage to stand up for what we believe. We can count on being ridiculed and silenced,' said the bishop.
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Conjoined twins successfully separated: parents lament ‘judgment’ after refusing abortion
'There’s people telling us we should have terminated the pregnancy. There’s people telling us we shouldn’t carry this out,' they said.
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NARAL is mad we’re calling this a ‘dismemberment abortion.’ But what else CAN you call it?
They should read actual medical literature describing how to perform a dismemberment abortion. There's no other name for it.
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Student, 23, takes in his homeless, pregnant cousin after reconnecting with her after 10 years
'If it’s one or two years of my life I have to put on hold to make sure two lives are going to be saved, it’s nothing at all.'
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My grandaddy, Martin Luther King, Sr., promised to help me if I wouldn’t abort my baby. Thank God I believed him.
If we really want to help angry mothers and their children, we must offer them love, not abortion.
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Trailer for Disney’s Dan Savage-inspired sit-com is even more offensive and anti-Christian than you imagined
Savage is a hateful anti-Christian bigot who publishes filth under the guise of 'sex advice.' So it's hardly surprising that the sit-com is so gruesomely offensive.
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Ottawa March for Life Candlelight Vigil 2015
Hundreds gathered Tuesday on the eve of Ottawa's National March for Life to remember the unborn victims of abortion.
‘We can end abortion in our lifetime’: Canadian youth urged to promote right to life on eve of March for Life
Pro-lifers gathered in Canada’s capital city Wednesday night at the Human Rights Monument to hold a vigil for those lost to abortion.
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Pro-life activists prepare to march for life in numerous cities across Canada this week
'There has never been more reason to march for life than in 2015,' Matt Wojciechowski of Campaign Life Coalition, said at a news conference Wednesday.
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Pro-life groups, politicians hail House passage of 20-week abortion ban
Rep. Trent Franks, R-AZ, who was the main sponsor of H.R. 36, said, 'this bill is a deeply sincere effort to protect both mothers and their little pain capable unborn babies.'
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The grave problems remaining in the final Synod report
Certain the final report was far better than the disastrous mid-term report, but serious problems still remain.
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His girlfriend refused to abort their baby. So he killed his daughter by hurling her off a cliff instead.
Cameron Brown threw his four-year-old daughter off a 120-foot precipice in revenge after his girlfriend refused to abort the girl.
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U.S. House passes 20-week abortion ban on anniversary of Gosnell conviction
The passage comes on the second anniversary of the conviction for murder of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell.
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Obama admin: Stopping abortion of babies who can feel pain is ‘disgraceful’
'It’s disgraceful that House Republicans would be considering a party-line vote on' the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, the administration said today.
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Mother pays $25,000 to kill her 8-month-old disabled unborn baby: refused adoption
'If we can’t get the abortion ... I’m going to have this baby by myself and let her die without intervention,' said the baby's mom.
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4-year-old girl saved from abortion tells pro-lifers: ‘Your prayers saved my life’
Moved to tears by the overwhelming power of prayer at the 40 Days vigil, Leah’s mother chose life.
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‘It’s a baby! My baby!’: Nurse quits after witnessing abortion of a 4-pound baby girl
'It’s a baby! My baby! My baby!' the young mom began screaming after seeing the body of her 4-pound baby girl.
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Baby Angel born after doctors kept brain dead mom alive for 54 days to give birth
Baby Angel had to be delivered at 30 weeks, weighing just two pounds and 12.6 ounces.
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‘World’s most premature twins,’ born at just 22 weeks, defy the odds: celebrate their 9th birthdays
A video about the twins first months has been viewed over 2.5 MILLION times.
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These 5 adorable siblings in foster care just wanted a ‘forever’ home…and they just got one
Imagine this scenario: what if during your childhood, your mother left home one day and never came back.
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Victory: North Dakota high schools allow students to set up pro-life groups
'This victory should encourage any pro-life student to fight for the right to start a Students for Life club at her school,' said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America.
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The bureaucrat who looked the other way during Kermit Gosnell’s reign of terror just ran into trouble with the Pennsylvania Senate
Pedro Cortes did nothing to stop Kermit Gosnell. Now he wants his old job back.
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China’s (latest) empty promise on fighting sex-selective abortion
'No effort to combat gendercide in China will be successful until the One Child Policy is abolished.'
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Rome March for Life 2015
Slide show of the May 2015 March for Life
Want proof that sex trafficking can be eliminated? Here it is
In three years, the number of minors being trafficked declined nearly 75 percent in this country.
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Porn and video games are harming boys’ brains — and bodies: Psychologist
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo said that much of the problem comes from a lack of fathers in the home
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State senator claims Vatican backs mandatory vaccination, because there are no fetal cells in vaccines
'The people of California are looking to Senator Pan as a medical expert but unfortunately, he continues to demonstrate an enormous lack of knowledge and credibility,' a pro-life ministry leader told LifeSiteNews.com.
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Couples living together before marriage less likely to get married than ever: New study
'In my pastoral experience, I observe many couples have difficulty discussing sensitive topics when living together' outside marriage, Fr. David Ross told LifeSiteNews.com.
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Officials bowed to Obama, allowed teenage boys to use girls’ locker room: Angry parents in Virginia
Multiple board members accused parents who opposed the change of acting out of "fear."
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Surprise, surprise: NDP promises to fund abortion overseas if elected
Tom Mulcair “ is not a leader if all he can offer people who need food and medicine is” abortion.
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‘Bama don’t preach: Kenyan bishop tells Obama not to promote gay ‘marriage’ on his next visit
'The homosexuality debate should not become part of his agenda as it has been his tendency whenever he comes to Africa,' said Mark Kariuki of the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya.
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Homosexual TSA agent abused his job so he could grope ‘attractive’ men’s genitals
“Groping takes place all the time, at all airports," said Douglas Kidd, president of the National Association of Airline Passengers.
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Does Pope Francis support the Kasper proposal?
Many people have questioned whether Pope Francis actually supports the Kasper proposal. The evidence is strong...and concerning.
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Touching video: Blind mom ‘sees’ her unborn baby with 3D ultrasound image
Clearly, Tatiana is passionately in love with her unborn son.
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If ‘gay is good,’ people who oppose it must be evil
The Obama administration's inner logic in crushing religious opposition to same-sex "marriage."
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The silence of the Synod on life and family issues was deafening. It’s time to speak up.
We as leaders of pro-life and pro-family groups MUST pay attention to what is happening at the Synod.
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Bigot Peter Singer: Don’t pay to treat disabled babies
Peter Singer invidiously measures the capacities of human beings to determine whether they are 'persons.'
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Anthony Kennedy and the ‘millennia’ of marriage
Justice Kennedy seems to realize that the male-female union has always been fundamental to the definition of marriage.
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Union hosts teacher training day about pushing homosexuality in elementary schools
‘Activist teachers [are] using innocent children as pawns to advance their adult sexual revolution,’ says pro-family leader Jack Fonseca.
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Patrick Brown’s landslide win for Ontario Tory leader bodes well for life-and-family voters
'The pro-life and pro-family vote is a significant block in Patrick Brown’s winning coalition and will continue to be active within the party,' says Campaign Life's Jim Hughes.
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Fox News doctor: Loving fathers should be able to veto abortion
"It’s time to give men their due as fathers - from the moment of conception,” Ablow has said.
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They were told giving birth to her would be ‘cruel’; now this baby with Treacher Collins syndrome is the light of their life
"People literally stop dead in their tracks and point at her," her mom says.
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British consulate to perform same-sex ‘weddings’ in 24 nations that uphold marriage
None of the 24 nations will recognize the "marriages" as legal.
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Carly Fiorina: If US Supreme Court rules for gay ‘marriage,’ we should support their decision
'I think the Supreme Court ruling will become the law of the land, and however much I may agree or disagree with it, I wouldn’t support an amendment to reverse it,' she said.
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Woman pretended to have cancer so Medicaid would pay for her late-term abortion, Arizona officials say
Polls show that 68 percent of all Americans – and 71 percent of Millennials – oppose all taxpayer funding for abortion.
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180,000 Italians urge president to remove ‘gender theory’ from schools
Without acting, the government 'risks ruining, from an early age, the most vulnerable citizens and those most in need of protection,' say the petitioners.
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Pro-life pregnancy centers ‘glitter bombed’ for Mother’s Day
Pro-choice group has taken credit for at least six so-called 'glitter bombs' in California.
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The new totalitarians: Change your religious beliefs or else
If you think the era of totalitarianism is over, you haven’t been paying attention to the headlines.
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‘How to kill your baby’ videos promote trauma and crime
It’s a wonder YouTube has not removed these videos since they actually are promoting an illegal act of murder.
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Exclusive: Synod battle goes back to the betrayal of Pope Paul VI on contraception, says Polish archbishop
In an exclusive interview, Archbishop Henryk Hoser of the Warszawa-Praga Diocese discusses the controversies around the upcoming Synod on the Family in October.
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Thousands march for life in Rome – joined by Cardinal Burke
Pope Francis greeted participants during the Regina Coeli, telling them, it is 'important to collaborate together to defend and promote life.'
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Cardinal Pell: I expect the Synod will ‘massively endorse’ tradition on communion for divorced and remarried
Cardinal Pell has been one of the most vocal critics of how last year's Extraordinary Synod on the family was conducted.
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Planned Parenthood’s #SupportSexEd campaign shows why parents should reject Wynne’s sex-ed
'We #supportsexed because OUR BODIES ARE NOT SECRETS,' tweeted two 14-year-old girls.
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A more genderless, hopeless, meaningless society
When we discard the possibility of God transforming any life or any situation, we’ve given the Gospel reassignment surgery.
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10,000 marchers in Mexico City ask high court not to legalize abortion nationwide
The crowd commemorated the nearly 140,000 babies who have lost their lives to abortion since Mexico City legalized abortion in 2007.
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Parents urge pope’s envoy to push for stronger Catholic response to Wynne’s explicit sex-ed
'Orthodox faithful Catholics' have 'little confidence' in Ontario’s bishops to protect the faith in the schools, the parents says.
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U.S. House to vote on 20-week abortion ban near second anniversary of Gosnell’s conviction
Pro-life activists strongly criticized the GOP leadership after they delayed the vote in January.
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Illinois legislator battles bill attacking conscience rights of pro-life pregnancy centers
'The situations raised by the activists supporting SB 1564 at best call for a scalpel—a limited response—but SB 1564 instead takes a hatchet to our health care workers and our law,' said Rep. Peter Breen.
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Member states object to UN reproductive rights agenda
Several member states opposed language that promotes sexual and reproductive rights and comprehensive sex education because of their incompatibility with their country’s laws and ethical norms.
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The West doesn’t export freedom – we export porn, casual sex, and the blood of the pre-born
It doesn’t matter where you travel, it seems. Humanity’s suicidal civil war has crept in everywhere.
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Guttmacher Institute solicits funds to promote abortion in Uganda
Although Guttmacher’s data purportedly shows the personal and household impact of abortion in Uganda, it omits several important facts.
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Pro-abortion New Democrats surge to majority in Alberta, Wildrose makes big gains
Alberta's NDP have complained that abortions are not accessible enough.
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Diverse religious coalition defends marriage and religious freedom in open letter
The "government should protect the rights of those with differing views of marriage to express their beliefs and convictions without fear of intimidation, marginalization or unwarranted charges [of] hostility, animosity, or hatred of others."
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Australian human rights commission seeks to declare sidewalk counselors a ‘nuisance’ and remove them from facilities
"If we're doing nothing wrong, let us continue," the local pro-life leader in Melbourne asks.
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Obama admin stonewalls on IRS proposal to monitor churches for ‘political’ sermons
The Alliance Defending Freedom and Judicial Watch demand transparency on what the IRS talked about with the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
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‘Get this bill to the floor of the House and pass it!’ Pro-life protesters demand action outside John Boehner’s offices
John Boehner's staff locked itself inside his office and refused to open the door as national pro-life leaders again protested outside his office for a national late-term abortion ban
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GoFundMe bans anyone accused of ‘discriminatory acts’ from fundraising…like this elderly Christian florist
People who believe in traditional morality are not welcome at the crowdfunding site, according to its new policy.
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New standard of viability? Many babies born at 22 weeks can survive with treatment, study finds
'The study’s finding could herald a seachange in the way abortion is viewed in the U.S.'
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Parents outraged as yet another unbelievably graphic ‘kinky sex’ brochure scandalizes kids at Toronto school
'I’m too shocked to be angry, to be quite honest,' said a mom whose daughter brought home the brochure.
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Catholic archbishop hosts gay activists at cathedral to help set transgender student policy
The priest who keynoted the event says the fact that humans are male and female is 'a presumption that not verified in creation.'
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States forced to foot legal bills for gay activists to tear down their marriage laws: $5 million and growing
'It is wrong to reward activists for challenging a validly enacted constitutional amendment,' says Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage.
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Advocating for your kids: a sex-ed protesting parent demonstrates how to do radio
'Our opponents want to use our religious differences to divide us. But these are minor differences. We have major concerns in common.'
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The birth control pill is killing women, but no one’s warning them of the risk
The pill kills truth. It exists and is prescribed to women amid a swirl of chaos; amidst contradictions and lies; and amidst dead, blind, and profoundly injured women.
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Planned Parenthood endangers women by hiding the truth on link between pill and breast cancer
New studies continue to emerge that show the connection between hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer.
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Michael Coren leaves Catholic Church for Anglican Communion over gay ‘marriage’
'I could not remain in a church that effectively excluded gay people.'
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A ‘yes’ vote would make Ireland a global flag bearer for gay ‘marriage’: open letter
If this Referendum is carried our young people will be told in schools that marriage, which is based on the dignity of the difference between a man and a woman, has no regard to this difference.
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Bishop Finn and Cardinal Danneels: two disturbingly different responses to abuse ‘cover-ups’
If Finn, why not others? All the others…all the many, many others?
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Why is the Church entering the fray on ‘climate change’? And with such overblown rhetoric?
Some in the Church and most politicians want something to solve. We’re reached the point where politics dictate science.
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The Church must be ready to handle ‘transgenderism’ with love, compassion — and truth
People who struggle with gender confusion, need us to point them to the only One who establishes human identity and value, and that of course is God, who made each and every one of us in His image.
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Gay activist meeting makes plans to undermine U.S. Catholic Church’s moral witness
Anti-Catholic, homosexual activist groups are plotting ways to stop the U.S. Church from upholding its moral teaching in employment policy, and they’ve got bigger things in mind for the future.
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The Church must oppose homosexuality even though we’re ‘hated’ for it: Guam archbishop
Archbishop Anthony Sablan Apuron is urging the U.S. territory not to recognize same-sex "marriages."
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D.C. won’t force pro-life groups to fund abortion – but still makes them hire abortion supporters
The D.C. council chair says he is updating the bill after outrage from pro-life groups.
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Bedtime stories ‘allowed,’ but not church or private school: prof re-engineers family for egalitarian utopia
A Warwick University professor has written a book opining on how the state should regulate parenting practices to avoid 'creat[ing] unfairnesses for other people's children.'
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Twitter’s relationship with porn just cost it this ad campaign
Twitter makes little effort to restrict porn, a sticking point with parents.
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Doctors advised this woman who had half her body amputated to abort her children. She said no way.
'I’m thankful I have two amazing kids and a loving husband.'
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Irish archbishop: Creating gay ‘marriage’ will destroy religious freedom
Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh is urging the faithful to ‘speak up courageously.’
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U.S. Supreme Court: States can ban counselors from helping minors overcome same-sex attraction
By declining to hear a challenge to a lower-court decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has effectively solidified New Jersey's ban on 'reparative therapy.'
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Cardinal Nichols to celebrate Mass at London’s ‘LGBT’ parish
The “Soho Mass” group is comprised of active homosexuals who want to see Catholic teaching on same-sex activity overturned.
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Utah professors: University president abused his position by defending natural marriage
As president, Matthew Holland had a 'special responsibility' not to publicly endorse marriage, they argue.
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Male murderer denied tax-funded treatments to appear female: Supreme Court declines case
LGBT activists claim it's a 'terrible and inhumane result' for Robert Kosilek.
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LifeSiteNews Editor-in-Chief: Social conservatives have ‘gotta actually talk sex’
Social conservatives in America must engage with pop culture on the culture wars, says John-Henry Westen.
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Germany’s bishops vote to allow Church employees to publicly defy Catholic teaching
'The Catholic institutions [have given] up their own Catholic identity,’ wrote one observer.
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Professor fails student because she won’t denounce Christian faith and morality
Professor Russum gave 'G.L.' four straight zeros because she refused to conform to his personal worldviews of Marxism, Atheism, Feminism, and homosexuality.
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Will the US Supreme Court impose a supreme injustice on marriage?
There are injustices in society that need to be rectified. But the tradition of marriage is not one of them.
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How forcing gay ‘marriage’ on America would provoke hostility to religion and limit free speech
Man-woman marriage is central to the history of the church, personal identity, and lived faith of millions of religious Americans.
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Commencement speakers can exemplify colleges’ Catholic identity
'Honoring faithful Catholic leaders at commencement is an excellent way to signal to graduates what matters most, namely, the importance of carrying the Catholic faith into lives of service to the Church, family and society at large.'
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Activists exploit 10-year-old pregnant rape victim to legalize abortion in Paraguay
Are abortion activists really concerned about this little girl? Or just using her to advance their agenda?
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Massachusetts schools ask 12-year-olds if they’ve had anal or oral sex
School officials are well aware that if parents were to read these surveys beforehand, almost none of them would want their children to participate.
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Thousands of kids stay home to boycott Wynne’s sex-ed: one school nearly emptied
Elementary school absences in Toronto’s public schools rose 144 percent this Monday from the previous week.
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New Zealand lawyer seeks ruling that assisted suicide is a fundamental human right
Lecretia Seales argues that the nation's ban on physician-assisted suicide subjects people to "cruel, degrading, or disproportionately severe treatment."
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Exclusive: As Russia votes down a pro-life bill, the nation’s pro-life movement remains hopeful
"Pro-life law could be passed by parliament if it is the will of the country's leadership," Dmitry Baranov of the Warriors for Life told LifeSiteNews.
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Prince Edward Island re-elects Liberal majority that promised to remove abortion ‘barriers’
Prince Edward Island’s status as Canada’s province where abortions are not performed is on slightly shakier ground after Monday’s election.
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Colorado Democrats vote to allow more deaths like baby cut from her mother’s womb
'Why should we be robbed of the Aurora Wilkinses of the world while those who take them from us can roam free?'
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UK Green Party is ‘open’ to legalizing polygamy
Critics of gay 'marriage' have long warned that it would eventually mean allowing polygamous relationships too.
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Mary Wagner gets four more months in jail, urges pro-life supporters not to ‘lose sight of Christ’
'We are called to see that the greatest injustice today is not abortion but the root of it: the failure to adore God, to put Him first.'
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Nigerian bishop: Hillary must think she’s a ‘god’ if she wants us to abandon our pro-life values
‘People like herself very clearly don’t want to hear anything about God,’ the bishop said. ‘Even if they say they believe in God, they really don’t.’
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UKIP vows to defend Britain’s Christians in new election platform
'Traditional Christian views of marriage and family life have come under attack of late,' says pary leader Nigel Farage.
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China still killing and harvesting Falun Gong
Killing and harvesting prisoners is a particularly heinous practice...China had promised reform, but–surprise, surprise–Falun Gong (and Christians) are still arrested, typed, slaughtered, and harvested.
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Huckabee laments ‘slaughter’ of the unborn as he announces 2016 presidential bid
Huckabee emphasized his pro-life, pro-family, and pro-faith bona fides in his announcement Tuesday morning.
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New York bill promotes involuntary euthanasia by dehydration
Those who do not explicitly declare their wish not to be denied food and water could be legally denied food and water.
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Scotland’s assisted suicide bill whacked by committee
Although most of the committee opposes the principle of the bill, they have decided to allow it to pass to the whole Scottish Parliament for a final decision.
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Virginia AG adopts pro-abortion position on abortion clinic regulations
'Mark Herring only has the best interests of abortionists on his mind, not the lives of unborn children or the well-being of their mothers.'
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Pope’s doctrine head: We can’t adapt doctrine to suit secularists or ‘superficial’ Christians
‘As Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith I have to present the doctrine of the Church,’ says Cardinal Muller. ‘The Church cannot change the sacramentality of marriage; one promises to be faithful until death.’
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Santorum ‘misinterpreted’ by media outlets claiming he said Bruce Jenner ‘is a woman’
'I am not going argue with him [Bruce Jenner] as to whether he is a man or a woman. He is obviously biologically male and that cannot change.'
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Abercrombie & Fitch to dial back the sexuality in its ads
“The things they were doing to create buzz weren’t working anymore,” Brand Keys’ President Robert Passikoff said. “Shirtless models are so five years ago.”
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‘Brain dead’ woman kept alive 54 days to give birth to healthy baby boy
"Karla's baby was fine, but its gestational age was too young to consider delivery."
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Iowa GOP rep: ‘Nothing worse’ than homeschoolers telling us how to vote
'Which Ankeny school are your kids part of?'
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Opposition to Wynne’s explicit sex-ed is growing: poll
Ontario parents are 'getting their message heard,' says Forum Research.
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Half of Ohio’s abortion clinics closed due to pro-life laws, abortions down 9%: report
Ohio Right to Life says more women are choosing life because of the work by pro-life groups to help them and their children.
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Feminist media hail Satanists for deeming abortion a ‘religious belief’
The pro-abortion media crowd is embracing new ally in their fight: Satanists.
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South Carolinians aim to put personhood for the unborn on the ballot in 2016
'It is time to let the people vote.'
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‘Sex change’ surgery: What Bruce Jenner, Diane Sawyer, and you should know
I suffered through 'sex change' surgery and lived as a woman for eight years. The surgery fixed nothing.
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The US Supreme Court won’t ‘redefine’ marriage, because it can’t
While the Court can redefine marriage for legal and constitutional purposes, it cannot redefine marriage itself. That’s far beyond its competence and its authority.
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Quebec pro-abort bares breasts, grabs headlines at National Assembly
The risibly-named Femenist Neda Topaloski lied her way into Quebec’s National Assembly precincts with a press pass, then crashed a press conference.
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Abortion lobby honors abortionist as Health Department brings down the hammer on his Chicago clinic
Both Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice New York have recently bestowed honors on an abortionist who’s on staff at a notorious abortion clinic whose license has been revoked and been fined $50,000 for a host of serious violations.
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The one question no one is asking in the witch hunt against pro-life pregnancy centers
For all the hype, internet memes and insinuations, Big Abortion is unable to identify even one case where a pregnancy center is lying or falsely advertising.
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For Hillary Clinton, abortion access trumps religious liberty
A House resolution protecting religious liberty in the District of Columbia 'overrule[s] the democratic process' and hurts women, says the Clinton campaign.
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Ontario’s gvmt, laws, and judges biased against pro-life cause: Civil Liberties Association
A new report accuses the province of an 'evident statutory and institutional bias ... against the free-expression rights of pro-life campaigners.'
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Social conservatives may be funding the destruction of marriage: corporate watchdog
'Even when they purchase a beverage from a company like Coca-cola or Starbucks, their dollar is going to support [gay activist's] liberal agenda to redefine marriage.'
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First graders exposed to book about transgender boy — without parental notification
"My right as a parent to allow or not allow this discussion with my child was taken from me."
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Homosexuals — and their wives — petition the Supreme Court opposing gay ‘marriage’
"I can't imagine what life would be like without [wife] Erin and my boys," says one man who is sexually attracted to other men.
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Johns Hopkins University tries to ban Chick-fil-A from campus
Homosexual students "would be subjected to the microaggression of supporting current or future Chick-fil-A development plans."
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Social conservatives react to Supreme Court marriage case
"Marriage is based on the reality that children do best with a Mom and a Dad," one Congressman said.
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House includes far-Left Democrat’s amendments promoting transgenderism, contraception in the military
The transgender measure "would allow a trans[gender] veteran to update their discharge papers to reflect their new name following a change in gender identity or expression," her office said.
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Ginsburg and Kagan must recuse themselves from marriage case: Lawmakers, rabbis, evangelicals, Bill O’Reilly
The Rabbinical Alliance of America lamented that the justices have 'not had the grace, or decency' to step aside.
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Russian district blocks world’s most popular porn sites to protect children
A court in Tartarstan ruled that pornography ‘harms the development of children’ and may ‘impel them to commit acts of violence.’
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Why Kathleen Wynne’s claim that parents can ‘opt out’ of sex-ed is an utter farce
Tolerance has always been the cover story. But as some parents are finally realizing, the real goal is the indoctrination of their children into a new morality.
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South African judge approves death by lethal injection
Even though Fabricius claimed that this decision was exclusive to this situation, he in fact decided that judge's had the power to decide whether a person should be protected in law or allowed to be killed.
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Christine Elliott slams social conservatives: If Brown wins, they will ‘take over’ the party, she says
Elliott is 'staunchly entrenched in the sexual left' and is 'hostile to pro-life values and parental rights,' warns Campaign Life Coalition.
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Don’t let a sex offender take over troubled New Jersey abortion business, urges complaint
'It is shocking that Kaji is even allowed to practice medicine, given his background of sex abuse, drug violations, and negligence,' said Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue.
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Of course public schools should be able to talk about God, Christian morality, and religious freedom
Believe it or not, public school teachers can teach about the Bible and Christianity’s influence on history, culture, and values, helping students connect the dots from America’s Founding Fathers to their own state’s founding fathers.
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Why it’s completely absurd to lump in marriage defenders with the Ku Klux Klan
Marriage is not something that some government or religion established, and so it’s not something that some government or religion can change.
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Notorious Chicago abortion clinic loses license, fined $50,000 — but it’s still open for business
The Pro-Life Action League calls on the Illinois Department of Public Health to shut down Albany immediately, collect the $50,000 in fines, and rid the State of Illinois of this utterly dangerous facility.
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Pope’s doctrine chief under attack as he takes strong stand for marriage and family
While Cardinal Müller says does not want to take sides during the upcoming Synod, he is bound to follow Christ's Truth.
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Gay activists claim redefining marriage won’t hurt anyone, but that’s a lie. Just ask Canadians.
In Canada, if your beliefs, values, and political opinions are different from the state’s, you risk losing your professional license, job, or business, and even your children.
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GOP-led House votes to overrule D.C. bill forcing pro-lifers to hire abortion advocates
The resolution now goes to the Senate, where it is expected to fail due to inaction by Republican leadership.
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Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards hails abortion as ‘the key to women’s opportunity’
As with the media, women who regret their abortions didn’t exist in Cecile Richar's rhetoric. Nor did pro-life women.
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