After the initial thrill of the surprise news that Pope Francis met with embattled Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis, some rather disturbing questions arose.
Congressmen, leaders of local pro-life organizations, and the investigator behind the "baby parts" videos come down on the largest American abortion corporation's CEO.
'Why do the taxpayers need to be providing $60 million when you've got $127 million a year?' Georgia Rep. Jody Hice asked Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards Tuesday.
'One of the key reasons that the Church is faltering under the attacks of Satan is that many Catholic men have not been willing to ‘step into the breach’.'
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The scandalous synodal documents, and the public dissent of many cardinals and bishops, has caused great confusion about the Church’s teachings on matters relating to human sexuality, marriage and the family.
Apparently, the science guy is unaware that the human being developing in the womb has a completely separate body, but that doesn’t stop him from spending four minutes delivering a diatribe dripping with condescension.
'Justin doesn’t understand that prostitution is not a lifestyle choice, but is in almost all cases the result of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.'
This past weekend I was comparing the speeches of St. Pope John Paul II and Francis to the United Nations and was struck by a crucial difference in the speeches.
As her organization is under investigation over allegations of selling aborted babies’ body parts, Cecile Richards claims the Hyde Amendment is discriminatory.
When Chicago's Feminist Uprising to Resist Inequality and Exploitation called for a rally to defend Planned Parenthood, they got more than they tweeted for.
The World Congress of Families executive director dismissed the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Human Rights Campaign as 'a small group of activists who have unprecedented power with the media and ruling elites.'
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is facing strong criticism because they had denounced critics of their decision to involve pro-abortion and pro-gay politicians in organizing the event.
LifeSiteNews, Charlotte Lozier Institute, Family Research Council, American Conservative Union, March for Life, Media Research Center, and Radiance Foundation respond to 'Science Guy'
Contrary to Nye's straw man, Biblically-based opposition to abortion is not rooted in unscientific fallacies but in principles about the value and uniqueness of each individual from the moment of conception.
Saint John Paul II’s Apostolic Constitution Universi Domini Gregis, 79, clearly condemns the constitution of a 'Mafia' like the Sankt-Gallen group that secretly planned the election of a particular for pope.
I was in Budapest. The young prostitute started to walk over to my car, gesturing at me and then to herself. I felt quite sick as we drove away, although I was naïve to be so surprised.
Here are just some of the sayings of Jesus, the hard sayings that many prefer to deny Jesus ever said. However, the real Jesus cannot possibly be known without acceptance of these sayings as well.
'I trust this is an answer to prayer and that the Congress will soon get about the work of saving innocent children from death,' Troy Newman of Operation Rescue told LifeSiteNews.
The Toronto sex educator who almost single-handledly brought the annual Oregon Adolescent Sexuality Conference to an end last year has come out with a book for pre-teens on sex.
A few days ago, the moms of those 12 babies – and many others right now where you live – had abortion appointments...But when they arrived at the abortion center, they encountered something they didn’t expect: hope.
'It’s not discrimination. We have a family vision, a vision of faith, couples are one man with one woman, that has been the doctrine of the Church for two-thousand years.'
'Saying that the Constitution requires [homosexual] practice, which is contrary to the religious beliefs of many of our citizens – I don't know how you can get more extreme than that.'
The Holy Father visited the Little Sisters of the Poor Wednesday after calling for protection of religious freedom in his welcome address at the White House.
The links between violence against women, family breakdown, and porn are so well known that one can only be amazed at the hostile reaction to Justin Trudeau's recent remarks.
Ahead of the Synod on the Family, Cardinal Gerhard Müller offers a clear and firm critique of so-called "gender ideology," among other attacks on the family.
September 24, 2015 (IMFC) — A new study released September 21, 2015, shows that Quebec’s daycare system has negative effects on children. The longitudinal assessment was done by heavyweight academics. It uses four different, reliable data sets including data from Statistics Canada. Their findings confirm previous research showing that universal daycare poses a threat to the emotional development of children. Here are the five need-to-know points about the new research: 1. Negative behaviours increase Children in Quebec’s daycare program had “worse health, lower life satisfaction and higher crime rates later in life.” The authors write: “The negative impact of the Quebec program […]
On National Life Chain Sunday, let us implore God to anchor within us a deep hatred for abortion and to grow within us fervent compassion for vulnerable Preborns.
Charity Tanner hopes the images and video of her son will give a face to the countless babies who have been aborted at that age, the targets of violence and barbarity.
The scholarship organizers relish the opportunity to learn about the new generation that is filled with so much hope and prepared to do their part to help build a new culture of life.
"Maybe somewhere in Shelly's subconscious, she would hear her baby was calling out to her. We just thought, it can't hurt, [so we] might as well give it a try."
Planned Parenthood's history in Alabama includes lawbreaking and shoddy practice prior to the abortion chain being exposed for trafficking fetal remains at the national level.
The inescapable fact is that, for every baby, their abortion story ends badly, because abortion ends their life. It kills them. And no amount of denial or pretence can change that fact.
The Gender Identity Research and Education Society is encouraging British MPs to mandate the use of transgender-focused picture books, like the Penguin Land series, to influence schoolchildren.
While abortion clinics’ disposal practices vary from place to place, these photos show the stark reality of the carnage that takes place in just a few days at high-volume abortion clinics.
They don’t want to be forced to face Planned Parenthood’s illegal activities....They’d rather plug their ears, shut their eyes, and shout their objections.
The real face of this nation is not found in a woman wearing a tiara, but rather in the thousands of innocent lives lost every single day under the guise of 'women’s health.'
A new study by the Planned Parenthood-founded Guttmacher Institute finds that women in pro-life states abort their children less than those in states that have the fewest abortion restrictions.
Quebec's health minister, Gaetan Barrette, has threatened to discipline doctors and hospices for refusing to provide assisted suicide when it becomes legal in Canada on December 10.
After talking to the sidewalk counselor for an hour, this pro-choice, post-abortive woman told the counselor, 'You are the type of people that can change the world.'
Anti-family ideologues 'have but one objective: the drastic control and reduction of the African population, the planned destruction of marriage and the family.'
Virginia's Board of Health voted last Thursday to reverse rules that hold abortion mills to the same medical standards and building codes as hospitals.
Unlike the children she had vaccinated, 'the two children whom I didn’t let be vaccinated have hardly seen the doctor at all,' one outraged parent says.
'It’s nonsense to say a person can be empowered by allowing their body to be as open to the public as a train or bus station,' argued Rachel Moran, a former prostitute.
Concerned Christian families are praying that Pope Francis will set the record straight, dispel the confusion, and reaffirm the Church's unwavering fidelity to divine and natural law.
Sen. Bob Casey has failed to uphold the convictions of his original pro-life platform and is now reluctant to protect the innocent life that his late father fought extremely hard to defend.
Since the election of Pope Francis and especially since last year’s Synod on the Family in Rome, there has been a storm of controversy within the Catholic Church on the issues that LifeSiteNews covers.
The attorney general's letter to Planned Parenthood comes just after release of the 10th video exposing its trading in the body parts of children aborted at its facilities.
'Even if I ever came to the conclusion that it had not all been worth it all, it would not change the enduring fact that I will never have a legitimate right to take away his life. I am his mother, yes, but I do not own him.'
While new evidence is showing that babies may be viable earlier than 24 weeks, the abortion industry continues to push aside such science in favor of 'abortion rights.'
Unless and until the Communist regime abandons its Planned Birth policy, and allows couples to freely choose the number and spacing of their children, abuses will continue.
'I beg you to open your own hearts and ask yourselves, ‘What is so liberating about brutally and painfully dismembering living, helpless, little human babies?''
If you are a LifeSite reader, you have no doubt seen the headlines about the horrendous practices of Planned Parenthood. You have probably felt outrage at what is happening and wish you could do something about it. Today, you can.
Gianna Jessen shared her powerful story of surviving an abortion. This hearing marked the first time many mainstream outlets covered the Planned Parenthood scandal, though bias was still apparent in the coverage.
When this abortion clinic was inspected in 2012, inspectors discovered 48 pages of violations including multiple violations of infection prevention protocols that left women at risk of becoming sick.
The one-page memo contains six statements parents are to affirm when enrolling their children in school, the first being that attending a Catholic school is a privilege, not a right.
No matter how much we swallow our own lies about feel-good Christianity, compassion in the name of Christ will never look like murder of these innocents.
Sen. Connie M. Leyva wants to keep men out of any conversation remotely involving abortion. She stated, 'When you have a uterus, come talk to me. Before then, leave it up to the women.'
Abortion in cases of rape doesn't solve any problems...except one, that of the rapist. He can go on raping his victim without worrying about being exposed by a pregnancy.
Injured abortion patients, botched hysterectomies, untreated infections, unprofessional conduct, negligence...this abortionist needs to have his medical license revoked for the sake of public safety!
What is happening in Kansas is representative of the attempt by national pro-abortion legal interests to persuade state courts to 'discover' in state constitutions a previously undetected right to abortion.
Sen. Paul credits the undercover videos produced by investigators at the Center for Medical Progress for his unyielding commitment to stripping the abortion industry of taxpayer funding.
If the Synod preparatory text's treatment of contraception is approved during the Synod next month in Rome, it could have 'devastating consequences for the faithful,' they warn.
'Had I continued and decided for an abortion, I would have only introduced a deeper trauma, a greater amount of pain, and more evil on top of an already evil act.'
In a manner that can almost be considered demonic, medical truth that could affect millions of people is being censored by 'educated' doctors obsessed with the lies of political correctness.
German news reports Curial members quietly circulating seven-page dossier opposing Pope Francis's unilateral liberalization of marriage annulments: “Pope Francis has let drop his mask.”
During parts of her statement, Kim Davis became emotional, especially when she explained that she had been placed in a position to violate her conscience, which she said she could not do.
Videos showing 'some Planned Parenthood leaders discussing the harvesting and sale of fetal organs and tissue' are 'sickening,' says Bishop Robert Deeley.
Holy Father, we beseech you to vigorously echo your distinguished predecessors’ statements both here while visiting America, and during the upcoming Synod and beyond it in Rome.
If enacted, the deceptively titled Equality Act would punish dissenters, giving no quarter to Americans who continue to believe that marriage and sexual relations are reserved to the union of one man and one woman.
The hearing, called 'Protecting Infants: Ending Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Providers Who Violate the Law' will focus on denying Medicaid payments to abortion businesses that are breaking the law.
Planned Parenthood has been funding non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in El Salvador that have been actively involved in advocating and pressuring the government to legalize abortion.
'We must put an end to horrific abortions that inflict pain on the developing babies in the womb who are daily torn apart in abortion facilities across the United States,' said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List.
September 10, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In this video entitled “Marxism in America” General Jerry Boykin discusses his background and training in understanding Marxist insurgencies and how current U.S. government actions parallel Marxist tactics. General Boykin is well known to LifeSite. He has been a champion of American life, family and Christian faith traditions. We have quoted General Boykin in a number of past stories which are listed below. General Boykin is now the executive vice president of the Family Research Council (FRC), one the leading organizations in the United States defending the family and the principles and institutions that support the strong […]
Planned Parenthood is relocating its lead Washington, D.C. abortion facility to an abandoned warehouse between two school campuses in the the United States' capital.
Davis, who refuses to compromise her faith, has at least one of her subordinates threatening to defy her when it comes to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
According to Politico, yesterday's closed-door session of House GOP lawmakers focused on whether to attach a Planned Parenthood defunding measure to a budget bill next week to force Democrats into a tough vote.
Howard placed quotes from the abortion 'survivors' in the first three paragraphs of his article, but he later set aside five straight paragraphs to quotes from Planned Parenthood officials and their supporters inside and outside of Congress.
'The sexual revolution is, by definition, a war against something—in this case against previous sexual mores. And wars, whether we admit it or not, always have victims . . . So it is in the sexual revolution.'
The connections to Planned Parenthood are clearly damaging to the Catholic identity of the colleges, and in some cases may suggest a cruel indifference on the part of Catholic college leaders and employees.
A baby born alive is protected by law, yet it is the dirty secret of the abortion cartel that when living babies are born at abortion clinics, they are either intentionally killed or left to die.
Pope Francis' sweeping changes this week will make it almost as quick and easy for Catholics to get their marriage 'annulled' as it is to get a no-fault civil divorce.
In a blatant display of illegitimate power, five justices ordered not merely a redefinition of “marriage” but a redefinition of reality. And to date, no one but Kim Davis has actively resisted that usurpation.
The chairman of the committee said they must 'ensure federal taxpayers are not contributing to the sorts of horrors reflected in the undercover videos.'
'When I asked about what an abortion was to the coven members, I said I don’t know what I have to do here, they explained that there’s a baby in the womb and you are going to kill it.'
'Sitting in a tub full of blood and blood clots, holding my little baby in his sac encased in his placenta still, all I could do was look at how amazing this was. How beautifully made this baby was.'
A public outcry has been raised in China in response to the plight of a woman facing state sanctions for bearing her second child in violation of the country's one-child policy.
What would happen if, across the country, hundreds or even thousands of clerks joined Kim Davis and refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples?
All eyes are on the beginning of a new budget year on October 1, but the question on everyone's mind is whether a battle over Planned Parenthood funding will lead to a partial government shutdown.
Book by Vatican journalist Edward Pentin and carrying endorsement of Cardinal Napier, contains shocking, previously unreported allegations that last October's Vatican Extraordinary Synod was heavily manipulated.
Disturbed by the 2014 Extraordinary Synod on the Family in Rome, dozens of groups began petitions urging Pope Francis to reinforce Church teaching on marriage and family.
Most pro-family people didn’t see the chilling article that appeared in The Nation, a major left-wing magazine, the day before the U.S. Supreme Court “gay marriage” ruling came out.
If parents ever doubted why the Liberal government first introduced the Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy and then Bill 13, here we have the answer: to teach about and normalize homosexuality and "gender identity."
The Premier seemed at a loss to come up with responses to our questions and statements about the curriculum. Ms Wynne appears to exist in her own bubble.
If the present proposals are permitted to stand, it will be virtually impossible to enforce existing standards and legislative requirements and to discipline and punish those doctors that transgress those basic practices, lawyer Hugh Scher states.
Unable to get LGBT rights in, the US and LGBT supporters worked to take the family out. Sadly, the hectic final session of negotiations resulted in the exclusion of any substantive reference to the family.
The US complained that the new UN development goals do not break any new ground on abortion, and remarked that the agenda should be implemented with LGBT rights in mind.
The law will force all of the state’s local pregnancy help non-profits to give each of its clients a disclaimer, which includes the phone number of a county social services office where a client could obtain an abortion covered by Medi-Cal.
All 22 aborted babies’ brains were used for experimentation within 2-4 hours after their deaths. This means that the brains were rushed to researchers who were standing by and had likely been notified that the brains were going to be available...
August 30 protest is Warsaw that succeeded in getting the government to backtrack on introducing explicit sex education into the nation's schools. See the full LifeSite report https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/polish-government-backs-down-on-explicit-sex-ed-after-parents-protest
‘We are living in dangerous times, under the law of man, where Catholics, and Christians alike, are commanded to forfeit our religious beliefs,’ he said.
The original case argued that 'aid in dying', which is also known as assisted suicide, is not prohibited by the New Mexico assisted suicide law because 'aid in dying' is not assisted suicide.
A public prosecutor in France demands a 1,500-euro fine and a prison sentence for a registrar who refused to perform a same-sex 'marriage' in Marseille
For marriage to be 'saved,' the integrity of every marriage and family must be protected against state functionaries, and with it the integrity of the church that consecrated it.
Zoe’s House, 'was founded to provide top-notch care of expectant mothers and quality services to adoptive parents at a lower cost than other agencies.'
Antonia Tully of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children reports on a mass rally in Warsaw of Polish parents who want to protect their children from corrupting sex education.
Participants were astonished by the strong support they received from the public driving by. That indicated to them a majority of citizens in the region opposed the Wynne government’s planned radical sexualization of the province's children.
In a desperate attempt to refute the facts about the sale of aborted fetal parts, which is also practiced in other parts of the world, the Latin America Consortium Against Unsafe Abortion [sic] has started a petition drive.
'Does she feel so strongly about this that she wants to ... go seek employment elsewhere where her religious liberties would be paramount?' asked Fiorina.
A federal court issued an order Monday that permanently forbids the Obama administration from enforcing its contraceptive mandate against the March for Life Education and Defense Fund or its employees.
The assisted suicide movement’s ultimate goal is anything goes and death on demand. The supposed limitations and protections are merely temporary expediencies.
Planned Parenthood and NARAL have long claimed that legalizing abortion reduces the number of women dying in childbirth. Just one more lie from the blood-sucking abortion lobby.
In a U.S. 10th Circuit court filing, reality TV polygamist Kody Brown and his wives point to the U.S. Supreme Court's historic ruling on same-sex 'marriage' to buttress their pro-polygamy case.
In a televised interview with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," the New Jersey governor said that business entities should not be allowed to freely determine their participation in homosexual "weddings."
The Supreme Court has a double standard on religion. People can advocate for their beliefs -- but they can't practice them -- unless you're Muslim, I guess.
The video also reveals that organ brokers vying with one another for access to Planned Parenthood's "volume" of aborted babies' body parts sometimes boast that, by paying taxes, they fund the abortion giant.