High Court overturns Northern Ireland’s pro-life law, calls it ‘incompatible with human rights’
The decision will 'open the floodgates' to abortion-on-demand, say pro-life leaders.
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Articles for Month: November 2015
Planned Parenthood shooter appears in court, could face terrorism charges (video)
The first words spoken publicly by Robert Dear since his arrest Friday were...
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China’s family planning officials: the world’s sixth largest army
The spirit of the Cultural Revolution lives on in the Family Planning Police, who brutalize people with impunity with a fervor reminiscent of the Red Guard.
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Pope Francis attacks ‘fundamentalist’ Catholics, dismisses condom ban as unimportant
Regarding the Church's ban on condoms, he said, 'I don’t like to go down to reflections on such case studies when people die due to a lack of water, hunger, environment.'
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Ben Carson on Colorado shooting: pro-lifers need to ‘tone down’ ‘hateful rhetoric’
'The rhetoric is extremely immature, divisive, and is not helpful.'
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Pro-life leaders slam Ben Carson’s charge that they engage in ‘hateful rhetoric’
Ben Carson 'must reacquaint himself with the pro-life movement he loves and claims' as his own, a national pro-life leader told LifeSiteNews.
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Pope Francis leaves out the real reason Ugandans were brutally martyred
Maybe it's just become too politically incorrect?
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Mike Huckabee: Pro-lifers oppose violence against – and by – Planned Parenthood (video)
'There's no excuse for killing other people, whether it's happening inside the Planned Parenthood headquarters, inside their clinics, where many millions of babies die, or whether it's people attacking Planned Parenthood.'
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Everything we know about the Planned Parenthood shooter
Here's absolutely everything we know about the Planned Parenthood shooter.
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Ted Cruz: Media ‘wants to blame’ shooting on pro-life movement, but ‘there’s no evidence’
Cruz said indications are Robert Lewis Dear was actually 'a transgendered leftist activist.'
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COP21: 5 things pro-lifers should know about the Paris climate summit
As COP21 begins, here are the basics about the event and why it should matter to those concerned with the moral renewal of civilization.
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Does the Synod report reject Catholic understanding of mortal sin?
It is neither charitable nor merciful to hide from people the truth about their spiritual state and thus deprive them of a profound motivation for amendment of life and, ultimately, finding true and eternal happiness in God.
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Vatican’s liturgy chief contradicts Pope Francis on Communion for non-Catholics
'A person cannot decide if he is able to receive Communion. He has to have the rule of the Church.'
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Police officer killed at Planned Parenthood was pro-life, Christian pastor
Officer Swasey would 'disagree with the abortion industry,' one of Swasey's co-pastors at his church said.
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Pro-life leaders condemn shooting at Planned Parenthood facility
The motive of the shooter, identified as Robert Lewis Dear, is still unknown.
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Planned Parenthood shooter identified as Robert Lewis Dear: motive unknown
Robert Lewis Dear, 57, is from North Carolina. He allegedly killed three people, and injured 9 others at a shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood.
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Don’t believe the Wynne sex-ed program is as bad as many warn? These videos are mandatory viewing.
Thankfully, there have been some very knowledgeable persons and good communicators whose arguments and evidence have been hard to resist. Following are four videos that pretty well say it all.
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BREAKING: Planned Parenthood shooting suspect surrenders, is in custody: police
Four police officers have been shot, and several other civilians. The suspect says he is alone.
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Rubio says SCOTUS didn’t ‘settle’ marriage issue: ‘God’s rules always win’
'If we are ever ordered by a government authority to personally violate and sin ... we are called to ignore that.'
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Quebec will allow doctors to euthanize patients starting Dec. 10: bucks feds request to delay
Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau's government is planning to craft its own 'quick and expedited' legislation.
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BREAKING: Police exchanging gunfire with gunman inside Colorado Planned Parenthood
Pro-life groups have issued statements urging caution in drawing conclusions about the motive of the shooter, and condemning violence.
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BREAKING: We ‘don’t know’ connection between Colorado shooting and Planned Parenthood: police
The story quickly became national news due to the alleged Planned Parenthood connection.
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BREAKING: ‘Active shooter’ is inside the Colorado Planned Parenthood
Police are responding to reports of an 'active shooter' at a Colorado Planned Parenthood.
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Ontario Conservative House leader says Cardinal Collins asked him to not oppose radical Wynne sex ed
Yet the claim did seem believable in light of the Ontario Catholic leadership's refusal to fight the program.
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Abandoned newborn found in New York church nativity scene
It was church custodian José Moran who first heard the whimpering coming from the manger where he found the child who now bears the nickname 'Baby Jesus.'
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What Katie Couric didn’t show you: Babies stored in freezers
Health code violations and aborted babies in freezers are a part of Planned Parenthood’s story. It’s just unfortunate that a so-called journalist like Katie Couric is too biased to report the whole truth.
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Gays fail once more at UN, abortion language also rolled back
Countries promoting LGBT rights have failed to include a reference to 'sexual orientation and gender identity' in any new resolutions.
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Christians have abortions, too
Pro-life work is not something that just needs to be done in society at large. It is something we should be raising awareness about in our own communities, as well.
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Court orders Sherri Shepherd to pay child support for surrogate son she abandoned
The treatment by Shepherd (a long-time host of The View) of her son is a clear case of how surrogacy 'commodifies' the unborn, says one pro-life blogger.
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Gay activists ‘out’ complainant who opposed subway ads for gay sex in public
The gay newspaper launched its 'witch hunt' after Toronto subway system pulled the ads in September.
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Pro-aborts think that ‘Scandal’ abortion episode makes them look good. It doesn’t.
This is another golden example of the abortion movement’s cultural wing inadvertently revealing that its principles are far more radical and less noble than its political wing wants America to believe.
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NC attorney general blasts governor for opposing transgender ‘bathroom bills’
Electoral politics are playing out over transgender teenagers and bathrooms in the Tar Heel State.
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Don Cherry laments: It’s ‘open season’ on Christians
The 81-year-old ex-NHL hockey player, coach, and commentator is a devout Anglican.
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New policy would force Princeton schools not to tell parents if kids identify as ‘transgender’
Public school teachers must call boys 'girls,' if they so identify, it says.
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Judge mandates destruction of divorced couple’s frozen embryos
The ex-husband did not want the ex-wife to use children to get child support payments.
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Judge was wrong to ax statutory rape ban over ‘age discrimination’: Ontario’s top court
'It speaks to the madness of today’s judges that they would throw out this protection as a kind of discrimination.'
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Today’s chuckle: Rubio, Fiorina and Carson pardon a Thanksgiving turkey
A little bit of humour now and then is a good thing. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Naomi was so premature doctors said she had no chance. Last week, she went home!
'We got on our knees, and we begged [God],' says Naomi's mom.
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BREAKING: Europe’s top human rights court slaps down German ban on pro-life leafletting
The ruling is a 'moral victory' for pro-life activists, says the European Center for Law and Justice.
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‘Soft racism’: German Bishops’ website attributes African Catholics’ strong faith to simplemindedness
Such 'lazy slander' is utterly unbecoming of a bishops' conference, said one commentator.
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Law school dismisses threat against pro-life student. Scolds her instead.
Former Miss Ohio USA winner Madison Gesiotto has also been accused of racism.
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Pro-life victory as Peruvian Congress abandons bill to legalize abortion
The pro-life opposition has been led forcefully by Lima's Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani.
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Spanish artist steals 242 consecrated hosts, uses them to write ‘pederasty’
After a concerned citizen retrieved some of the hosts, the 'artist' is pressing charges for theft.
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BREAKING: Toronto’s mayor criticizes City for banning concert over songs about Jesus
The world, Mayor John Tory says, 'has gone a bit overboard on some of these things.'
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Clinton: US needs to help refugee rape victims… by funding their abortions
The leading Democratic presidential candidate said on Sunday that U.S. taxpayers should be on the hook for abortions for refugees impregnated through rape.
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Planned Parenthood director tells college women abortion is ‘good medicine’
One student called out abortionist Diane Koster for a campaign of 'sex miseducation.'
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Marvel’s new Netflix show Jessica Jones pushes abortion
'I wanna live, I wanna have children, but I won't give life to this thing. I won't do it.'
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Cardinal Pell bets against the odds: insists Pope Francis will strongly reaffirm Catholic tradition
Or is he sending the pope a warning?
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Columbia Planned Parenthood halts abortions: poised to lose abortion license
Columbia, Missouri, is once again abortion free!
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A pro-life conversation guide for the holidays
Pro-lifers must be kind, respectful, fair-minded and willing to listen and respond thoughtfully to those who disagree.
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Father Rosica on Islam: 180º from reality
Some people—like Father Rosica, like President Obama—seem determined to believe (or to pretend) that there is no link between Islam and terror. They couldn't be more wrong.
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Jennifer Lawrence just smeared traditional Christians in the worst way
Apparently Lawrence has chosen to wield her fame, shall we say, as a pitchfork against Christian moral truths.
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Abortionist reveals what convinced him to start doing abortions…and it’s bizarre
He says he used to believe abortion was wrong. And then he had a transformation after this “spiritual” experience.
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Romania holding the line against anti-family sex education
'If mandatory sex education is stopped at the Romanian border it will deal a much needed blow to the global campaign to sexualise and defile the innocent hearts and minds of the world’s children.'
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Auto dealer stops donating to United Way over its Planned Parenthood support
'As long as you continue to support Planned Parenthood, we're not going to give you access to our employees,' Marsh told the representative from United Way.
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New ‘solution’ for remarried Catholics is, quite simply, a license to sin
Holy Communion for divorced-and-remarried Catholics cannot legitimately be approved unless marriage is not what Jesus plainly said it was.
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Lazy, incompetent, and ideologically driven: the mainstream media on pro-life issues
To be well-informed, read beyond the headlines.
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Revolt over plan to tax churches forces Canadian city to back down
Maybe that wasn't such a good idea after all...
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‘Alarming’: Planned Parenthood overbilled taxpayers 1 in 7 times, report finds
'[W]hether willful or simply negligent, the consistent submission of improper billings should disqualify these Planned Parenthood providers from participation in the Oklahoma Medicaid program,' stated Oklahoma Gov. Fallin.
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VIDEO: Expert says China will continue forced abortions, sterilizations
'A two-child policy carries all of the [same] terrible and appalling methods of abortion as the one child policy.'
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Irish children’s minister joins call for nation to abandon pro-life constitution
Dr. James Reilly joins Amnesty International and feminist groups in demanding that the government hold a referendum on changing Ireland's constitution.
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Abortion supporters slam new budget by Rhode Island’s Democrat governor
The bill gives 9,000 people insurance coverage that doesn't cover elective abortions.
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Court strikes down Wisconsin law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges
'Now, we must look to the Supreme Court for the protection of women's health and safety after an abortion complication,' Wisconsin Right to Life said.
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Notre Dame priest-professor forced to back off project promoting authentic Catholic education
NDCatholic.com 'was born of intense concern over the loss by Notre Dame of its historic claim to a robust Catholic identity.'
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Kansas man sentenced to 195 months in prison for murder, after claiming it was an assisted suicide
Justice Kittel respected the life of Vance Moulton by not considering the medical condition of the victim when deciding on the punishment of the man who killed him.
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The ‘tyranny’ of sex-change surgery and its political sycophants
Obsession with the idea of changing one's sex is a 'mental sickness that cannot and will not be cured by surgical and physiological tinkering.'
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How did heterodox prelates try to change doctrine at synod?
The heterodox party adopted a variety of strategies directed towards changing church teaching while giving the impression that doctrine would remain untouched.
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British Columbia gvmt rebuffs NDP call for crackdown on 40 Days for Life vigil
A local pro-life leader says abortion activists are concocting lies to claim they use aggressive tactics.
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Shock: Mainstream TV show offers (somewhat) fair treatment of abortion issue
Sunday night, CBS's The Good Wife tackled the Center for Medical Progress's Planned Parenthood videos.
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Over 600 join rally urging City of Toronto to ‘stop bullying Christians’
The city will rule on Voices of the Nations appeal December 10, and organizers are urging Christians to show up and support them.
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Media applaud ‘awesome’ abortion scene set to ‘Silent Night’ in ABC’s ‘Scandal’
'Scandal knows how to put on a great Christmas episode!' gushed Entertainment Weekly.
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Shock video: Abortionist walks up to pro-lifers, kneels down, begins bizarre prayer
The pro-lifers looked on in astonishment.
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UN tells Poland to allow abortion-on-demand – in the name of ‘children’s rights’
A demand by a United Nations body that Poland remove restrictions on abortion has provoked derision in the staunchly Catholic country.
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Christian printer sued after refusing to print same-sex civil union invitations
A Chilean homosexual activist group has filed suit on the couple's behalf, arguing that 'business are not churches.'
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For Louisiana’s new Democrat governor, gay ‘marriage’ is a ‘settled issue’
John Bel Edwards beat out Republican David Vitter.
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10 women who decided to stop or reverse their abortion
These women found their own strength and changed their minds about their abortions. Thankfully for those who had already begun the process, abortion reversal is possible!
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Preaching ‘pastoral care’ instead of the Faith: a dangerous game
The Church should following the example of Saint Paul.
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Planned Parenthood caught illegally storing aborted babies in janitor’s closet
Yet again, despite its coiffed image, Planned Parenthood proves to be just another House of Horrors.
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Planned Parenthood asks Twitter users to describe them in one word: hilarity ensues
Let's just say, it didn't go exactly as planned.
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Paraguay president refuses to decriminalize abortion
President Horacio Cartes's stance comes after the controversial case of a pregnant ten-year-old rape victim, who recently gave birth to a health baby girl.
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North Dakota appeals to US Supreme Court for heartbeat bill
The 196-page appeal argues that a baby's viability has changed since 1973's Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.
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Vasectomies cut from UK county’s health insurance
The commissioning group noted the relative ease with which patients could secure alternative services privately.
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Battle breaks out over Wisconsin bill to keep boys out of girls restrooms
The pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign says the bill 'belongs in the garbage.'
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Couple sues hospital for €1 million for failed abortion – and daughter supports them
It’s a confusing story, to say the least. A couple that wanted an abortion but didn’t, doctors that performed an abortion but didn’t, a child loved but unwanted, a gift but a burden.
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Alberta NDP gvmt’s new ‘trans’ bill puts men in women’s bathrooms: critics
'We are fighting a rearguard action against the spirit of the age.'
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Fordham changes restroom signs as part of ‘gender inclusive’ campaign
The changes to signs were pushed by The Positive, a student activist group led by a student identifying as a transgender male.
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Germany’s bishops discuss decentralizing the Church in meeting with Pope Francis
Cardinal Marx hopes the pope is set to launch a 'new stage' for the Church.
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A bureaucracy of medical deception: Quebec physicians told to falsify euthanasia death certificates
The Practice Guide rationalizes falsifying death certificates by saying that doing so makes it possible to respect the wishes of patients who don't want their families to know how they died.
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Helping Syrian Christians: the U.S. must act
At the very least, the U.S. should reach out to those groups who are caring for Christian refugees and end its over-reliance on the UN program.
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‘Alarming’ explosion of STD rates in America: CDC
Online sites and mobile apps are making it easier for people to have 'casual' sex with anonymous partners.
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Oklahoma governor urges state health department to end contracts with Planned Parenthood
Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin is calling for her state to cancel its contracts with Planned Parenthood affiliates over 'their high rate of billing errors.'
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Government: STD rates among homosexuals ‘alarming,’ ‘troubling’
The recent report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows an 'alarming' rate of STDs among homosexuals.
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Pro-life state senator closes office, cancels meetings over death threat
A state senator who heads a committee investigating Planned Parenthood has closed his office after receiving a death threat he attributed to coverage of his pro-life leadership.
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Mississippi’s last abortion facility to become Medicaid-eligible
The Jackon Women's Health Organization is expanding into tax-funded 'services' – namely, contraception.
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Islamic terror is the perfect pretext for a crackdown on Christians: it’s happening in France
The French Prime Minister's answer to the Paris attacks? More 'secularism.'
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Austin cop accused of murdering girlfriend because she wouldn’t abort their baby
Dean was shot three times in her head, while she was seven months pregnant.
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Archbishop Chaput: European churches that give Communion to ‘remarried’ are violating Catholic teaching
'Untruthful teaching' about the sacraments will lead the Church to 'collapse,' the archbishop warns.
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Pro-family leaders attacked by arson after German play depicts them being mutilated on stage
'The battle for life and the family is moving to a new stage,' said pro-family leader Gabriele Kuby.
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Attorney General won’t say if she’d enforce laws protecting babies born alive in botched abortions (video)
'I'm not talking about unborn babies - but born alive babies that have survived the abortion process,' Rep. Trent Franks said.
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China: Man executed for killing two family planning officials
The man, He Shenguo of Guangxi Province, was unable to pay the fine for his 'illegal' fourth child, so Family Planning Officials denied registration to the child.
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UN diplomats fight back against LGBT ideology
Although the Obama administration has trumpeted its success in advancing LGBT rights, the growing chorus against the bullhorn diplomacy is thrusting the issue into the political domain, where it is less likely to succeed.
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Gates foundation suspected of forcing dangerous contraceptive on Africans
Funding for long-acting contraceptives including Depo-Provera has skyrocketed since Melinda Gates became the latest newcomer to a long list of philanthropists supporting population control programs.
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Catholic college students need better education on Church teaching against contraception: experts
'It’s not just a matter of having a checklist of certain doctrines that Catholic colleges say the Church holds,' says Dr. Richard White. 'The teachings have to reach the hearts of students.'
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Pro-abortion presidential candidate O’Malley defends Planned Parenthood at Catholic College
'In or out of the presidential campaign season, there is no good outcome to a Catholic institution providing a coveted campaign platform to a dissident Catholic who wants nothing more than to win an election.'
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Judge forces mom to give her baby to homosexual couple: the latest case of surrogacy’s folly
The 44-year-old mother, 'S,' breastfed her 15-month-old child for the last time in the courthouse cafeteria and handed him over to the waiting sperm donor dad.
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New research strengthens abortion-preemie link
Four recent studies cementing the strong link between surgical abortion and premature birth.
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Supreme Court to rule on the biggest abortion case of the decade
The case will determine whether the unregulated and unaccountable abortion industry will be able to continue business as usual, ignoring the health of women in pursuit of profits.
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Boys in girls’ locker rooms: we can say no – and win
Students struggling with gender identity need to be respected, loved, and helped. But it must be known that no school has to allow boys in girls’ locker rooms.
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Only 14 Irish doctors sign Amnesty’s pro-abortion call: reflecting political, not medical, opinion
'Amnesty is trying to use its global muscle in a campaign to push abortion on Ireland, but it’s results, much like its message, are less than impressive,' said Niamh Uí Bhriain of The Life Institute.
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U.S. Bishops clash as Pope Francis appointees push to downplay battle for life and family
This week, progressive bishops pressed the conference to rewrite its election guide for 2016 in line with Pope Francis' 'radical transformation of priorities.'
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Sad irony: President Obama tells daughters to ‘look out for the vulnerable’
It is a sad irony that Obama tells his daughters to be people who are 'looking out for the vulnerable' while he imparts such a pro-abortion mentality on our nation.
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ABC’s ‘Scandal’ shows abortion being performed during ‘Silent Night’ (video)
Last night's episode closed by playing 'Ave Maria.'
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NFL star hired a hitman to kill his girlfriend and unborn baby. Now, his son is 16.
'Chancellor is not just surviving,' his grandmother Saundra Adams said. 'He is thriving.'
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Pope’s advice to Lutheran woman: A clue to how he’ll rule on Communion for the ‘remarried’?
The pope's comment to the Lutheran woman was a 'crossing the Rubicon moment' that was 'mocking doctrine,' according to one Vatican source.
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City of Toronto agrees to hear appeal from group banned from city square for singing about Jesus
Meanwhile, Voices of the Nations is urging supporters to turn out for their rally on Saturday.
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Massachusetts Democrats delay transgender bathroom bill
'... there really wasn't any energy for this to get passed at the moment.'
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Republican teams up with House Dems to create first Transgender Task Force
Critics argue that the task force's goals are already accomplished through existing law.
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YouTube announces it will financially support NARAL’s legal fight
'YouTube’s support allowed us to not be afraid and to stand our ground,' the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio said.
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Vatican Chief of Sacraments: No pope can change divine law on Communion
For a priest to give to Communion to someone known to be in grave sin is a 'premeditated complicity and profanation of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus.'
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Federal Tories appoint pro-life MP Andrew Scheer as Opposition House leader
The former House Speaker has been outspokenly pro-life and pro-family throughout his career in politics.
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Abortion clinic shuts down on Halloween. 1 hour later, it’s a pro-life pregnancy center.
This is how we end abortion once and for all.
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Context: Reporter posts text of question he asked Ben Carson about Terri Schiavo
Reporter Adam C. Smith of the Tampa Bay Times posted a full transcript of the question he posed at a press conference on Saturday.
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Chiara Corbella Petrillo: a 21st century witness to love
Chiara was a martyr for her unborn child, and is one of the great pro-life heroes of the 21st century.
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Our heart is in this: How pro-life laws and everyday acts of compassion work together to save lives
The rhythm of a heartbeat, its constant life-giving pace, is a reminder to each of us: what have I done lately for life?
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Open letter: Prime Minister Trudeau, please don’t abandon vulnerable Canadians like me to euthanasia
'Please ensure that all Canadians have a future – protect us from those doctors who will kill us, protect us from the media which asks you who would want to live like them?'
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Doctors ask Alabama Supreme Court to resist Obergefell decision
Pockets of resistance to the Supreme Court's judicial activism in constitutionalizing homosexual 'marriage' are cropping up across the United States.
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US Bishops call for greater action against ‘mortal sin’ of pornography
The U.S. Bishops' Conference made a firm declaration condemning the damage of pornography Tuesday at its Fall General Assembly.
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Pope’s envoy urges U.S. Bishops to defend Catholic identity in ‘increasingly pagan civilization’
'Like St. Paul, we are compelled to proclaim the Gospel message, ‘in and out of season.’'
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US Bishops president vows to fight for religious liberty
Religious liberty was a recurrent theme at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Fall General Assembly.
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Good that Ben Carson responded about Schiavo remarks, but there are still concerns
With this information, anyone with a heart and an objective mind will understand why there was such consternation over Dr. Carson’s comment that it “was much ado about nothing”.
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Fr. Pavone urges Supreme Court to overturn HHS mandate
'A nation that says, 'Violate your faith or pay a price' is not protecting religious freedom,' said Pavone.
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Planned Parenthood will spend $20 million to elect pro-abortion candidates in 2016
Planned Parenthood's political arm says it will spend $20 million to get liberal candidates elected in 2016.
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St. Peter Damian on the ‘plague’ of homosexuality in the priesthood: are we reliving the past?
An interview with the translator of a new edition of The Book of Gomorrah.
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‘Not my time’: Bobby Jindal exits the presidential race
Jindal vowed 'to protect the unborn' when he formally entered the presidential race in June.
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There’s never enough death for euthanasia fanatics
Once becoming dead is transformed into a fundamental civil right, there is almost no limit to the killing/suicide license thereby created.
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Terri Schiavo’s family, pro-life leaders ‘not completely convinced’ by Ben Carson’s explanation
'I will not be supporting his candidacy,' one pro-life leader told LifeSiteNews.
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Cardinal Burke: Marriage catechesis should be priority for Catholic schools, colleges
Cardinal Burke emphasized the necessity of sound catechesis on marriage 'in an age when so many contrary and false presentations of marriage are propagated by the mass media.'
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Catholic colleges sponsor chapters of group supporting Planned Parenthood
Official affiliation with an organization that advises students to act contrary to Church teaching could cause concern for Emmanuel College’s Catholic identity.
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Pope Francis’ US ambassador calls Jesuit educators to reaffirm their Catholic identity
'Catholic colleges and universities, renowned for the professional formation of their students, should be encouraged to be faithful to the title of ‘Catholic’ that they bear.'
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Making movie about Gosnell completely changed our minds about abortion: filmmakers
'The evidence that shocked the most was the evidence that was supposed to reassure the most.'
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A time for war? ISIS and the attack on Paris
We need to start asking ourselves whether being a peacemaker might mean taking up arms.
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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Carson says Terri Schiavo remark was ‘taken out of context’
'My point was that the media tried to create the impression that the pro-life community was nutty,' he told LifeSiteNews exclusively.
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Planned Parenthood faces hefty fines for illegal disposal of baby bodies in South Carolina
Planned Parenthood was one of several abortion clinics that face fines. However, they face the largest fines.
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Raped woman who chose life shares story in viral ‘Humans of St. Louis’ post
'I got raped and I decided to have the kid, to let the kid have a life,' she said.
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Economics professor: Chinese men should share wives to solve shortage of women
Xie Zuoshi of Shejiang University announced via blog post that women should offer themselves as wives to multiple men in order to fulfill men’s needs for sex and reproduction.
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Former abortionist: Life begins at conception, preborn feel pain
'As a doctor, I know, as do my colleagues, that life begins at conception...It is an established medical fact.'
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BREAKING: Vatican sets date to canonize Mother Teresa, report says
The pro-life heroine from Calcutta will reportedly be declared a saint during the Jubilee Year of Mercy.
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Saskatoon hospitals apologize after women reveal they were pressured into sterilization
'Now I’m 39 and it’s hitting me. How many other girls have they done this to?'
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New Liberal health minister vows to expand abortion in small town Canada
'Our government will examine ways to better equalize access for all Canadian women,' says Canada's new health minister, Jane Philpott.
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BREAKING: Ohio House partially defunds Planned Parenthood
'This bill is far from effective. We need to put teeth in this 'defunding' bill,' says Cleveland Right to Life's Molly Smith.
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More Gates money for abortion: Foundation gives another $120M to ‘family planning’
Melinda Gates, who claims to follow the Catholic faith, says birth control will 'empower' women, make them 'prosperous,' and 'transform their lives' for the better.
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9/11 hero’s widower returns ‘Woman of the Year’ award over Bruce Jenner ‘insult’
The widower of a 2001 recipient of Glamour's 'Women of the Year' award has returned it, saying it was 'insulting' that the award was given to Bruce Jenner this year.
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California bishops push for referendum to overturn assisted suicide law
Archbishop José Gomez is leading the effort, which will require 366,000 signatures from Californians.
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Dr. Ben Carson: Terri Schiavo case was ‘much ado about nothing’
Terri's brother, Bobby Schindler, said a President Carson would be 'a one-man death panel.'
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Abortion doctor to settle personhood case for killed born-alive baby
Viability rules do not apply to babies who are born alive, a judge had already ruled.
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Terri Schiavo case disqualifies Ben Carson and Jeb Bush for presidency: pro-life leader
'We have seen what it is like to have a president who does not value every life equally,' he says.
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Paris attack, refugees debate delays Senate plan to defund Planned Parenthood
'I just don’t see where reconciliation fits in anywhere,' a Senate aide told LifeSiteNews.
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Inmate resisted pressure to abort at SC Planned Parenthood, births healthy baby boy
Brook's husband said that both prison officials and Planned Parenthood staffers reportedly urged Brook to abort her son.
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The reason Western secularists simply don’t get ISIS
Secular liberalism simply can’t wrap its mind around the kind of unadulterated evil that ISIS represents, in large part because it can’t understand what motivates ISIS and its supporters.
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The Pro-Choice Dictionary: a satire
Abortion—A procedure very similar to brushing your teeth, by which an irritant is removed, making you feel happy.
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New HHS ‘gender identity’ rule could impact bathroom use at Catholic schools
The USCCB noted that the rule would likely 'infringe upon the religious and moral convictions of health care providers, insurers, and other stakeholders.'
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‘Truly alarming’: Sydney archbishop decries gvmt investigation of bishop for defending marriage
Archbishop Anthony Fisher said the probe of his brother bishop is 'astonishing.'
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The Catholic response to the secular crusade for ‘tolerance’
Secularists only want tolerance and open-mindedness when their views dominate.
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1,500 people leave Mormons after strong statement against same-sex ‘marriage’
The Mormons recently declared that members in a homosexual union are 'apostates.'
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Alabama reps plan to reintroduce bill banning abortion after heartbeat
'If there’s a heartbeat, it’s a living person. Period.'
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Why do Newfoundland kids need more sex ed? Just because, says Planned Parenthood
‘It should just be done.’
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SCOTUS: We won’t hear Planned Parenthood disclosure case
Pro-lifers in New Hampshire gained some victories in the lower courts, though Planned Parenthood will not have to disclose everything.
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Report says 290 million women using contraception worldwide
The population control group Family Planning 2020 released a report saying its global efforts have increased contraceptive use by 24.4 million since 2012.
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Netherlands euthanasia lobby pushes kill pill
It is bad enough that the Netherlands allow euthanasia, but to simply say - 'Oh by the way I am tired of living, give me the kill pill' is a dangerous and callous response.
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Ten percent of elders abused
Know this: Assisted suicide legalization will lead to the ultimate elder abuse–pressured death, and all under the color of law.
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How to tell if you are infected by the Culture of Death
Belgian girl, Emily, decided not to go through with her euthanasia...does Emily’s continuing to live touch you? Or do you shrug and say, 'Well, she didn’t do it. No big deal.'?
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The Scarlet DNA? Genetics and infidelity
This view of human behavior demeans the human person, reducing us to a-moral automatons doomed to act only according to our genetic software.
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Canadian government will not seek advice from federal panel on assisted dying
The new Liberal government is not forced to accept the recommendations of this panel but it is wrong for them not to consider the recommendations of this excellent panel.
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Belgium would-be suicide girl’s change of heart proves euthanasia isn’t the answer: disability activists
One activist was struck by Emily’s self-absorption. 'She is only looking at her own belly button. She does not seem to be involved with other people.'
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NY St. Pat’s Parade’s new chair has ties to fetal harvesting
The parade has allowed two homosexual activist groups to march, while banning pro-life groups.
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Swedish court rules pro-life midwife must perform abortions
'As a midwife, I want to exercise a profession which defends life and saves lives at all cost,' she says.
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Doctors agreed to euthanize this depressed woman. Moments before her death, everything changed.
Emily decided that she had nothing left to live for. And doctors agreed to give her a lethal injection.
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Hillary on Democrats: ‘All of us support funding Planned Parenthood’
She later said, 'Every single one of our children deserves the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.'
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Music director claims Chicago archdiocese fired him for entering a gay ‘marriage’
The man claims his parish priest supported him in his homosexual relationship until they decided to ‘marry.’
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Papal confidant signals Pope Francis will allow Communion for the ‘remarried’
'It is inconceivable that [the pope's friend] would write something contrary to what the Holy Father desired.'
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Those university demonstrations: mass madness
Evil does not cast out evil.
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Christians tell religious freedom conference: Attacks ‘made our faith stronger’
'God's shown me that he is so real, and that he loves us so much, that my trust and my faith has just exploded.'
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Colorado county cuts funds from Planned Parenthood
The Republican county commissioner was concerned over 'partisan, political' emails in recent months from the lobbying group Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado.
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GOP governor expands diversity contracts to LGBT-owned companies
An LGBT activist group will now tell Massachusetts officials which gay- and lesbian-owned small businesses they can contract with in Massachusetts.
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State senator: University of Missouri student’s dissertation on abortion violates state law
A top Missouri legislator says a University of Missouri doctoral student's study on abortion may violate state law – and he wants to prevent it from being published.
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Selective compassion: dangerous step Pope might take could lead to ‘nightmare scenario’
Will the Pope endorse the Kasper proposal? Father Raymond de Souza predicts that he will. 'He has steadily prepared the Church for just that ... It would be foolish to ignore the signs.'
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The insane message legalizing ‘death with dignity’ sends to the suicidal
Suicide is 'never the answer'....except for when it is.
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Cardinal Danneels warns African bishops to avoid ‘triumphalism’
Once Africans secularize like Europe, they'll be coming back to us for advice, says the cardinal.
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Dr. Ben Carson: I wouldn’t kill any baby, including Hitler (video)
Jeb Bush said, 'Hell yeah,' he'd do it, because 'you gotta step up, Man.'
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Hulu censors women’s health ads produced by pro-life group
The announcement would have told young women how to find women's health care with a provider other than Planned Parenthood.
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Judge reverses order that foster child be taken from lesbians and raised by a heterosexual couple
The Utah judge rescinded a court order saying that children fare better when raised by a mother and a father.
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Publicly funded college has students ‘partner’ with Planned Parenthood
It's part of the university's 'Feminist Practices' course.
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Obama becomes first U.S. president to pose for cover of LGBT magazine
President Obama's promotion of the LGBT agenda has earned him the title of 'Ally of the Year.'
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Majorities in these two states oppose same-sex ‘marriage’
Arkansas and Tennessee are repudiating Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion on redefining marriage to include two members of the same sex.
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GOP candidates slam Supreme Court, support religious freedom in Iowa
Three GOP presidential candidates made strong statements at a religious freedom convention in Des Moines, Iowa late last week.
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Australia investigating archbishop for distributing pamphlet defending true marriage
The archbishop had distributed a pamphlet calling marriage redefinition 'gravely unjust.'
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Catholic college refuses academic credit for student’s internship at Planned Parenthood
'Given that we are a Catholic college, I think it makes sense that we would not form a formal relationship with an organization that not only performs abortions but is an advocate for continuing to perform abortions.'
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Bishop Rhoades challenges insufficient Planned Parenthood response from Saint Mary’s College
'Catholic colleges and universities must not look the other way or remain silent in the face of attacks against the most vulnerable human beings among us, those as yet unborn,' Bishop Rhoades said.
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Catholic social scientists: facts about unborn life are clear, defund Planned Parenthood
'The social sciences, to have any integrity, must operate according to the evidence — according to the truth. The facts about unborn life are clear, not disputable.'
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Massive ad in Times Square warns that Planned Parenthood ‘betrays women’
During the week the ad is up, three million people will pass by, according to Students for Life of America.
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Breaking: Supreme Court to review Texas law that shut down most of state’s abortion facilities
The Supreme Court will rule on two of the most effective abortion facility regulations contained in the 2013 law.
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Hong Kong cardinal under fire for urging voters to support pro-family candidates
The 'sex liberation movement' is undermining 'the very foundation of society,' warned the cardinal.
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Brigham quietly reopens Maryland abortion clinic where patient died
In order to avoid having to re-license his abortion clinics, Brigham’s Maryland locations are offering only medication abortions.
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Colombia’s Supreme Court legalizes homosexual adoption
The country's bishops say they 'lament and reject' the ruling.
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Bishop Schneider pulled no punches defending marriage in speech at HLI
Bishop Schneider called on his brother priests and bishops not to be intimidated by those who seek to change or set aside Church doctrine on marriage and sexual morality.
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Expanding acronyms threaten maternal and child health
Mothers and babies risk getting left behind in the ever-broadening global agenda originally designed specifically to ensure their survival.
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New UN law rules will be boon for judicial activism
The guidelines from the International Law Commission once again raise the specter of unscrupulous lawsuits and judicial overreach to establish new international obligations, including a human right to abortion.
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Synod adopts alarming sociological approach in place of clear doctrine
The terms 'integration', 'exclusion' and 'social exclusion', used a number of times throughout the final report, are sociological terms widely used, particularly by powerful international bodies such as the United Nations.
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Thousands of PEI residents call on gvmt to keep abortion off-island
About 100 pro-life advocates rallied in front of PEI’s legislature on its opening day Thursday.
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U.S. Supreme Court: Abortionists must respond to Arkansas’ defense of Heartbeat Bill by Dec. 10
The 12-week abortion ban, passed in 2013, has been overturned by two federal courts.
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Former Planned Parenthood abortion clinic reopens as pro-life pregnancy center
The facility is the same Planned Parenthood clinic where Abby Johnson once worked as director.
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Mom with cancer who refused abortion and chemo gives birth to healthy twins
'I knew there was no way I could terminate my pregnancy when I felt them kick,' says Holly.
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Cosmo writer: My IUD punctured my uterus. It hurt. A lot.
'My first IUD was my last IUD,' she concludes.
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Senate GOP wins critical victory in effort to defund Planned Parenthood
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that the GOP can include language to defund Planned Parenthood in a reconciliation measure.
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Soccer superstar Ronaldo survived mom’s illegal abortion attempt
The only reason Ronaldo is alive today, may be because at the time abortion was illegal in Portugal.
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Religious groups slam new Obama admin rules forcing coverage of abortion, sex-change surgery
The rules, under the Affordable Care Act, would prohibit discrimination based on 'gender identity.'
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Obama backs ‘Equality Act,’ which could harm religious liberty
The bill would roll back religious freedom legislation and stifle those who believe in traditional values.
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Abortion-inducing IUD use has doubled since 2010: Report
'Despite what the sex profiteers say, IUDs can cause early abortions,' Stephen Phelan told LifeSiteNews.
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Judge reportedly removes foster child from lesbian couple, says children do better with opposite-sex parents
Hillary Clinton tweets, 'Being a good parent has nothing to do with sexual orientation.'
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Hillary Clinton tweets: Supporting Planned Parenthood is ‘pro-family’
'What’s really pro-family: Supporting equal pay, paid leave, affordable child care,' and....
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Adopted abortion worker: Dumping body of 26-week aborted baby in a ‘baggie’ is ‘difficult’
'There’s just that brief moment of 'this could have been me'
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Prominent Dominican publishes book claiming Thomas Aquinas said homosexuality is ‘natural’
The book was published by the historic Dominican publishing house, called Cerf.
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Hulu refuses to run pro-life ads
Hulu says the company refuses 'ads that surround issues like this,' yet they have aired at least on Planned Parenthood ad in the past.
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Democrats block Senate resolution to honor pro-life pregnancy help centers
It this resolution is 'divisive, we’ve got significant problems,' said resolution sponsor Sen. Mike Lee.
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Glamour: donate to Planned Parenthood to ‘give back this holiday season’
Editorial assistant, Concepcion De Leon recommended that holiday givers 'Reduce accidental pregnancies' by donating to Planned Parenthood.
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Dozens of Canadian faith groups call assisted suicide ‘morally and ethically wrong’ as new law looms
The group was led by Canada's Catholic bishops and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada.
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Doctors said Jahi McMath was ‘brain dead’: but now she’s responding to verbal commands
Jahi is clearly not brain dead, according to a neurologist who has examined the girl.
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Malawi considering legalizing abortion under international pressure
The new law is being promoted by the U.S.-based International Pregnancy Advisory Service (IPAS).
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Wendy Davis: I aborted my baby girl ‘out of love’ (video)
'It was one of the most heart-wrenching decisions I’ve ever had to make,' said Davis.
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56 ‘faith-based’ groups, led by Catholics for Choice, urged Senate to fund Planned Parenthood
'A world without Planned Parenthood would be disastrous for many women and their families,' the letter stated.
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Toronto rally to support group banned for singing about Jesus planned for Nov. 21
'Christians across the country are outraged, hurt, upset, and angry,' said rally organizer Rev. David Lynne,
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Pro-marriage judge facing ethics charges defends decision to not ‘marry’ same-sex couples
The attorney for Oregon Judge Vance Day said his refusal to perform same-sex 'marriages' put a 'target on his back.'
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Maine sues pro-life pastor for preaching Jesus too loud outside abortion facility
'The Attorney General's baseless pro-abortion tactic seeks to silence pro-life speech,' his attorney said.
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Bisexual prof. raised by lesbians who supports traditional marriage faces loss of tenure
It all began when Lopez gave his students the option to attend a conference on parenting at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in 2014.
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Family breakdown is our top economic problem, Santorum says
It's 'the biggest problem in America today," he said.
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Bush campaign defends Jeb’s pro-life position after super PAC threatened to attack Rubio’s
The potential attack came from 'outside organizations.' his campaign manager said.
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Marco Rubio: The most important job is being a parent
'You can't have a strong nation without strong values,' the Florida senator said at last night's debate.
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Taxpayers paid for aborted baby brains from StemExpress
As more information is revealed from behind the scenes of the fetal parts industry, it’s apparent that ethical lines are blurred beyond recognition.
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Baby saved from abortion at Planned Parenthood after teen mom gets up off operating table
The abortion worker refused to show her the ultrasound of her baby. That's when she knew she couldn't go through with it.
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‘My boyfriend said he would push me down the stairs if I didn’t have an abortion’
'It was the worst mistake I ever made in my life…I’m not even sure how I going to live with the guilt that I did for the rest of my life.'
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VIDEO: On drugs, pregnant, and alone, she chose abortion: then God rescued her
After the abortion her life spun out of control. But God had bigger plans for Marilee.
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Black church issues challenge to members: adopt babies who would have been aborted
'Some 3,446 African-Americans were lynched in the U.S.,' the church announced. 'That number is surpassed in less than three days by abortion.'
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Five things everybody needs to know about the leaked Planned Parenthood footage
One abortionist told a pro-abort activist to stop denying that the pro-life graphic abortion images are real. 'That’s what it looks like.'
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Couple’s offer to adopt after watching Planned Parenthood video goes viral
Incredibly, dozens of women have contacted them saying they are reconsidering abortion thanks to their message.
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Carson: During this debate ‘200 babies have been killed by abortionists.’ We can change that
The doctor made the only reference to abortion during the GOP primary debate.
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Trudeau relaunches ‘corrupt’ program used to push anti-family agenda through courts
'Here we go again.'
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Dallas city council approves transgender bathroom ordinance
'Dallas City Council is deliberately trying to avoid the people,' Jonathan Saenz, president of Texas Values Action, told LifeSiteNews.
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Ben Carson dissects media bias with surgical precision
Pro-life advocates should follow his lead when they are in the belly of the biased beast.
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Rubio responds to Bush Super PAC’s plan to attack him as too pro-life
'Marco believes that all life is worthy of protection, and is proud of his 100% pro-life record,' a Rubio campaign spokesperson told LifeSiteNews.
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U.S. Senate may drop rider defunding Planned Parenthood
A GOP aide says the Senate GOP may have no choice.
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Brussels’ new archbishop: ‘Mercy’ is condescending, Church needs to be more ‘relevant’
The Synod on the Family was 'a sign of a Church that has changed,' says the new archbishop.
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911 call from Bloomington Planned Parenthood: ‘Uh, she’s bleeding’
'Planned Parenthood conducts 40 percent of all abortions in the U.S., but yet they are responsible for half of the complications we see,' said Troy Newman of Operation Rescue.
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‘Trudeau! Trudeau!’: We Day leads 16,000 youth in chant for Canada’s new pro-abortion prime minister
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged the teens to help him 'change the world.'
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Germaine Greer: the feminist misogynist?
Political correctness has become like the mythical Ouroboros—a snake swallowing its own tail. Even leading feminists aren’t safe anymore.
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Irish gvmt may force Catholic schools to drop catechism for relativist ethics class
Ireland's primary students may be taking a new course on world religions and ethics that would squeeze the half-hour now set aside for faith-based instruction right out of the school day.
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Damage control: Indiana Catholic college president addresses Planned Parenthood display
Students highlighted Planned Parenthood's non-abortion services, while faculty handed out 'fact sheets' on the organization.
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Nebraska to list same-sex couples as parents on birth certificates
Nebraska officials are scrambling to change birth certificates for children adopted by gay couples, but LGBT activists and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) say they need to do so faster.
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UN uses Mother Teresa to push pro-gay campaign
A United Nations campaign advancing homosexual interests is using pictures of a candidate for Catholic sainthood, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and her words to promote its agenda.
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Pushing validated suicide in palliative care journal
Attending a suicide has enormous moral consequences, and could be the difference between someone not doing the deed and thinking the time really has come to go.
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China’s Two-Child Policy: new number, same disaster
Count on it: Children are still not seen as intrinsically valuable. The forced abortions and sterilizations will continue.
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My brother priests, we must preach the Gospel of Life – even if it brings the Cross
Ignoring Christ’s teaching on life is not ‘pastoral’ or loving.
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Bishop intervenes after Buffalo parish sign appears to endorse gay ‘marriage’
'There was no question it had to be removed,' says a diocesan spokeswoman.
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Bioethicist: Babies likely born alive at Planned Parenthood so their brains can be harvested
'I’m left with the unavoidable conclusion that some of these fetuses are born alive, then killed after birth. If true, this is a clear violation of federal law.'
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3 ways taxpayers are funding abortion at Planned Parenthood
The taxpayer funds free up Planned Parenthood to direct their donations to grow their abortion services, facility reach, and abortion political advocacy.
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Christian group banned for singing about Jesus delivers 40,000+ petition to Toronto mayor: vows to keep fighting
'If I have to go all the way, even to the Supreme Court if necessary, we’re going to do that.'
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Pastor: I will go to jail rather than follow government order to fund abortion
The church is challenging a decision by the California Department of Managed Healthcare that forces churches to cover elective abortions.
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Mormon publication: Homosexual ‘marriage’ is apostasy
Mormon leaders have released the equivalent of a papal encyclical, stating that unrepentant homosexuals are 'apostates.'
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Orthodox couple fought hospital to save their preemie’s life. Now he’s 3 years old and healthy.
When it came to saving the child, one doctor told the family that 'my heart won't be fully in it.'
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Rewind: Reflections on the Ted Kennedy Funeral
I am not dismayed or downhearted, just amazed at the depth of human weakness and self delusion revealed by the Kennedy funeral.
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Kentucky’s governor-elect just granted Kim Davis a major victory
Republican Matt Bevin said this request will be 'one thing I will take care of right away.'
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Why progressives are terrified of history
For progressives, history is a graveyard of homophobic bigots. For Christians, it's how we find the path forward.
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Mom files complaint against abortionist for ‘wrongful birth’: thanks God for her ‘little angel’
'Can you imagine grieving for a child you had to terminate to find out you're still pregnant with the child? It is a blow. I want justice for my pain.'
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Ben Carson: ‘It is not fair’ for transgender men to use women’s restrooms (video)
'It is not fair for them to make everybody else uncomfortable,' he said.
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My parents lived as ‘brother and sister’ for 25 years so they could receive Communion: priest
Don't tell Father Peter Stravinskas that following the Church's teaching demands a 'heroism [that] is not for the average Christian,' as one German cardinal claims.
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Florida rep: Business owners have constitutional right to refuse service
Rep. Julio Gonzalez says that it's "a heavy lift," but he is going to fight to make sure religious liberty is protected in his state.
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Post-abortive Mexican woman murders pregnant woman to steal unborn baby
Two months ago, Nancy Carrasco Perez killed her own child through an abortion and secretly disposed of the baby's body. Now she has confessed to murdering a pregnant woman to try to steal her unborn baby.
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EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Müller says Francis has uttered ‘material heresy’, but is still the Pope
Cardinal Gerhard Müller said that Pope Francis has uttered 'plenty of material heresies' but argued that he has not lost his office since he has not taught heresy formally.
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Little Sisters vs. Big Brother: The Supreme Court agrees to rule on HHS mandate
'We perform this loving ministry because of our faith and cannot possibly choose between our care for the elderly poor and our faith, and we shouldn’t have to,' said Sister Loraine Marie Maguire, Mother Provincial of the Little Sisters of the Poor.
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Pope appoints well-known ‘progressive’ protégé of Cardinal Danneels to major see of Brussels
'At last [Danneels'[ ‘candidate’ – after an intermission – has become his successor,' wrote a gleeful Belgian columnist.
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UN agencies try to evade oversight in crafting new global measurements
Some indicators currently being discussed seek to expand access to abortion, eliminate parental supervision in adolescent decisions about sexuality and reproductive health, and promote social acceptance of homosexuality.
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Boston College hosts pro-abortion US Secretary of State
The Catholic college hosted Albright despite the fact that she is pro-abortion, having written 'I am a supporter of Roe v. Wade because I think women should have the right to choose.'
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German Parliament approves assisted suicide for ‘altruistic’ reasons
Legislators voted 360-233 for the bill – the first assisted suicide legislation the German Parliament has ever passed.
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African women’s solutions to war clash with feminists’ agenda
Pro-abortion feminist, Anne Marie Goetz, worried that the emerging pro-family movement at the UN may conflict with her expectations for the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda.
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German and Swiss bishops hail Synod’s new tone welcoming those in sinful unions
The bishops are rejoicing that the language of the Synod's document does not speak of sin and a deeper need for conversion anymore, but, rather, welcomes people in different life situations.
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Pope’s gay friend claims activists should credit Francis for steps to advance LGBT cause
'We have to recognize the small steps that Pope Francis has taken and that considering the place where he comes from are actually giant steps.'
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Doctors group to challenge Quebec euthanasia law in the courts
Dr Paul Saba, the leader of the group stated, 'As a doctor, I can’t accept something that is non-medical, non-scientific.'
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Planned Parenthood event moved off campus after Saint Louis Univ. president steps in
'We are a university, a place where different points of view are discussed, but we’re also a Catholic university,' noted Jeff Fowler, vice president for marketing and communications.
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This baby’s mom swallowed an abortion pill, then regretted it. Thank God she found this pro-life doctor.
Thanks to Dr. Matt Harrison, she was able to reverse the effects and give birth to a healthy baby boy!
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Kim Davis loses another appeal
Davis' latest appeal to the Sixth Circuit is still pending.
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California: Male prisoners who call themselves women will be sent to women’s prisons
California has become the first state to not only pay for prisoners' transgender operations and treatments, but also move men and women into prisons of the opposite gender.
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Fairfax County parents vote in two pro-family school board members after ‘bathroom bill’ controversy
A Fairfax County parent and voter told LifeSiteNews that Tuesday's elections should convince School Board members to 'be focused on educating our children.'
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Daniel Murphy and Slate: praying for folks who think badly of us
It’s not enough to refrain from responding in kind when we’re attacked. We’re called to love those attacking us or otherwise abusing us.
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Dems on new panel investigating Planned Parenthood got $81k from the abortion giant
Pelosi announced the 'six strong champions of women, families and facts' appointed to the panel examining Planned Parenthood, she just forgot to mention those same Democrats have received more than $81,000 from Planned Parenthood.
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5 unbelievably disturbing sexual practices Planned Parenthood told teens to try
Teenage girls were told to experiment with pooping on their partners, BDSM, sex shops. And it was all caught on camera.
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Woman creates gorgeous baby burial gowns from donated wedding dresses
The death of an infant child is usually so unexpected that parents rarely have clothes to bury them in, and this is where Angels Above Baby Gowns steps in.
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British woman rejects abortion, cancer treatment to protect pre-born baby
'I wanted to keep the baby and start treatment.'
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Infamous Indiana abortionist drops licensing appeal, leaving South Bend abortion-free
South Bend's only abortion facility has been shut down for numerous violations of the law.
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Planned Parenthood gets half-million-dollar sweetheart deal to keep doing abortions
The Springfield Mass Transit District (SMTD) in Illinois paid Planned Parenthood $470,000. Now the abortion giant is leasing the property, and continuing to abort children, for a dollar a month.
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Campaign Life gives Conservative’s new interim leader Rona Ambrose yellow light
The new interim leader has 'pro-life leanings,' says CLC.
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Democrat senator: Father and adopted son should be allowed to ‘marry’
The same-sex couple effected the adoption to lower future inheritance taxes. Now they want it nullified.
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Canada’s bishops add voice to pro-life movement’s call for gvmt to use Charter clause to stop euthanasia
In a letter to new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops urges him to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause.
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Papal adviser: Homosexual sins are ‘extremely harmful to human beings, body and soul’
'I’m always unhappy when I see people trying to eliminate the concept of ‘sin,’ as if sin didn't exist,' says pro-family leader Christine Vollmer.
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Paul Ryan leaves door open to defund Planned Parenthood
'We are moving on Planned Parenthood on multiple fronts,' he said in his first press conference as Speaker of the House.
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Germany’s Jewish community opposes assisted suicide, while the nation debates the issue
The German Bundestag will debate four assisted suicide proposals which range from complete liberalization to completely protecting people from euthanasia and assisted suicide.
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Quebec palliative care clinic to be killing center
If the palliative care center is any indication of what is coming, Canada’s patients are in big trouble, for they will be without the last defense against the euthanasia wolves.
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Troubled South Bend abortion facility to cease abortions Friday
Abortionist Ulrich Klopfer faces possible revocation of his medical license for hundreds of violations including failing to report suspected child sex abuse in a timely manner.
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Surely you’re joking, Mr Denton – Belgian euthanasia is a problem free zone?
Mr. Denton's eight months of research failed to uncover the facts including the corrupt conflicts of interest in Belgium's federal Evaluation and Control Commission for Euthanasia.
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Gloria Steinem: Aborting my baby ‘gave me my life’
Recent attacks on Planned Parenthood are 'an ultra right-wing attempt to restore the basis of patriarchy or a male-dominant system,' said Steinem.
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These pro-choice arguments are eerily similar to pro-slavery arguments
Despite many past arguments against abolitionists, and many present arguments against pro-lifers, the fact is that slavery is barbaric, and abortion is barbaric, and both should be illegal.
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10 reasons all women should be pro-life
Abortion isn’t a right we should be fighting for, it’s a tool to control women and our fertility that we should be fighting against.
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Trudeau’s cabinet isn’t ‘diverse’ where it counts – he made sure of it
Justin Trudeau and his Liberal caucus officially became Canada’s ruling party Wednesday morning.
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Boston Globe columnist: China’s One Child Policy was a good thing. No ‘right’ to more than 1 child.
'We don't have a right to have so many children,' said Sarah Conly.
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This ground-breaking abortion reversal kit has snatched 137 babies from the jaws of death
All 137 children were born without any complications, thanks to the abortion reversal kit.
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Congressman introduces bill to ban Essure contraceptive after deaths, thousands of injuries
The device has spurred between 5,000 and 8,000 complaints and caused the deaths of four women.
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Compelling reasons why the Pope could and should avoid pushing ahead with the Kasper proposal
Ross Douthat of the New York Times has argued forcefully that Pope Francis has created dangerous fissures within the Church by supporting the Kasper proposal.
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Congresswoman bursts into tears at March for Life press conference
Missouri congresswoman Vicky Hartzler could not contain herself as she described the plight of a former student forced by her mother into an abortion.
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Pope Francis’s theologian: Local bishops’ conferences cannot change doctrine
In an extensive interview with LifeSiteNews, Fr. Wojciech Giertych, theologian for the Papal Household, discussed the recently concluded Synod on the Family in Rome.
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Clash of cultures: African priests making waves as they re-evangelize Ireland
A Nigerian priest who condemned Irish supporters of same-sex 'marriage' has sparked a debate about whether the Irish should accept African priests at all.
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Abortionist caught agreeing to sex-selective abortion has license suspended for 3 months
The British abortionist described the actions he was willing to perform as 'female infanticide.'
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Pro-life prisoner of conscience Linda Gibbons will go to trial in January
Gibbons will have been in jail for four months when the trial gets underway.
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Under China’s Two Child Policy, there will still be ‘hundreds of women crying each day’
The people of China will continue to suffer as long as any population control is in place.
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Which is more ‘chilling’: Saving abortion survivors or leaving them to die?
You know what's 'chilling'? Being born prematurely, kept out of an incubator, and then abandoned in a cold utility closet.
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Five abortion clinics have shut down in the past five weeks
This brings the total of abortion facilities that have closed or halted abortions to 21 so far in 2015.
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How the Catholic Church helped Canada elect its most pro-abortion prime minister in history
On a warm July night in 2001, a 29-year-old man took the stage at a pre-World Youth Day event as thousands of young people wildly cheered. 'I am Justin Trudeau,' he announced. 'I am Catholic.'
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Kentucky’s new pro-life governor says his support for Kim Davis helped him win
Kim Davis congratulated Bevin, who visited her in jail, on his election.
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Houston voters repeal transgender bathroom bill in a landslide
'This is a national game-changer,' said Jonathan Saenz, president of Texas Values Action.
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Victory 2015: Life, religious liberty, and truth swept last night’s elections
Americans are looking for a return to normalcy, and candidates willing to provide it will benefit themselves and their country.
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Scottish abortion advocates target upcoming transfer of authority from London
The pro-abortion movement in Scotland hopes to make friends with trade unionists to liberalize abortion law in the coming year.
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Planned Parenthood CEO to Paul Ryan: Stop investigating us
Ryan, the new Republican House speaker, has said that investigations into the abortion giant will continue.
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Obama admin to schools: let boys use girls’ bathrooms, or we pull funding
The White House is explicitly threatening to pull federal funding from an Illinois school district and backing a transgender girl's appeal to use boys' facilities in Virginia.
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Breaking: Arizona gov kicks Planned Parenthood out of state’s charity drive
'Planned Parenthood of Arizona is not the best fit with the mission or standards of the campaign.'
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Two-year-old pro-life maternity ministry delivers baby #100
The Morning Center is providing Memphis with loving prenatal and postnatal care, and costing the taxpayer not one dime.
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Planned Parenthood refuses to tell state legislators about selling aborted babies’ organs
'Planned Parenthood is not above the law,' State Rep. Dan Nordberg said.
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Are you girlish? Trans advocate asks UK schoolboys
British state school students as young as four are being taught to question their gender by a non-profit transgender advocacy group.
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Pro-abortion GOP Senator Mark Kirk gets a pro-life primary opponent
'Senator Kirk's voting record is out of touch with Illinois values,' says challenger James Marter.
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Is the ‘gay mafia’ behind the Synod on the Family?
The Gay Mafia want a change of teaching at best but will settle, one suspects, for a shift of pastoral practice under the guise of a rather dishonest understanding of mercy.
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Kim Davis takes her freedom fight to Sixth Circuit
Davis' attorneys want the appeals court to overturn four lower court decisions against her.
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Jeb Bush: No pro-life ‘litmus test’ for Supreme Court justices (video)
Bush also did not walk back statements saying that a Human Life Amendment would 'overturn the Constitution.'
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BREAKING: City of Toronto threatened with lawsuit after banning Christian music festival
The ban is a 'direct violation' of the festivals Charter rights, says the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.
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Abortion facility owner jokes about a baby bonfire – but that’s already been done.
Oklahoma abortionist Nareshkumar Patel burnt a large amount of aborted children in a field, but was never prosecuted for doing so.
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Baby born missing most of brain turns two, says first word
Aaron is now two years old and although doctors said he would never progress beyond the mental age of a newborn, he loves to giggle and clap, and he recently said his first word: 'mummy.'
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Abortion clinic nurse to 13-year-old: Be brave; abort ‘for Jesus’
Nurse used girl's faith to manipulate her into getting an abortion!
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Bishop Schneider: The Synod’s final report compromises with the ‘culture of divorce’
The Final Report omits to call the divorced and remarried to the humble recognition of their objective sinful state.
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Court exonerates mom in newborn’s death, rules 6-day-old baby not a ‘person’
Jorgensen's lawyers won her appeal by arguing that her daughter, though she lived for six days outside the womb, was not legally a person since at the time of the car accident she was still inside the womb.
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Billionaire gay ‘marriage’ advocate backs Marco Rubio
Billionaire Paul Singer, best known in politics for his backing of Jewish and LGBT causes, has backed Florida Senator Marco Rubio in the GOP presidential race.
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Christian who refused to print ‘Gay Pride’ t-shirts gets support from LGBT business owners
Blaine Adamson has refused to print shirts promoting other things he disagrees with – such as sexually explicit content, a strip club, and violence.
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Nebraska officials: Carhart isn’t doing illegal abortions
One pro-life organization warns that 'deception is a way of life with Carhart.'
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Almost no one turned up to use Irish abortion pill bus despite media fanfare
In Limerick there were almost three times as many pro-life activists as pro-abortion campaigners, while pro-life activists in Cork told the bus to ‘go home’ as it was ‘not welcome in Cork’.
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The Chinese Communist Party will never abandon coercive population control
The government is exploiting so-called 'family planning' as social control, masquerading as population control.
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No, President Obama, abortionists don’t ‘look after’ aborted babies born alive
While President Obama might 'have confidence' that abortionists will care for newborns, pro-lifers know the truth.
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The Synod on the Family’s final report: pastoral paternalism instead of plain speech
In trying to be relevant to modernity, the Synod has ended up speaking down to modern man, rather than meeting him honestly.
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Italian journalist: Pope Francis told me ‘all the divorced who ask will be admitted’ to Communion
The Vatican maintains the report is inaccurate, but many are skeptical.
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To Douthat’s critics: Let’s see YOUR credentials
A columnist is attacked for failing to hold the 'professional' credentials of a theologian? What hubris! In fact, it is theologians who have no excuse for failing to produce their own credentials to teach.
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The meaninglessness of ‘sexual orientation’ laws
If every deep desire can be classified as a sexual orientation, then it really doesn’t mean anything at all.
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Religious order founded by St. John Bosco pushes masturbation and condoms in sex ed program
The Salesians claim the Lepanto Institute's latest report has 'absolutely no merit.'
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Catholic university silent as official newspaper endorses abortion, assisted suicide, gay ‘marriage’, contraception
The University administration’s lack of response to the Foghorn’s attacks on the Catholic faith raise serious questions about the Catholicity of the University.
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Russian Orthodox patriarch: Americans for natural marriage are ‘Confessors of the Faith’
Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, noted that Westerners who resist immoral laws and court decisions are 'subjected to repressions.'
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Radical legislation aims to mainstream homosexuality, transgenderism in New York
Pro-abortion and LGBT activists are pushing New York City's Department of Education to incorporate gender ideology and LGBT issues into curricula for K-12 students.
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Hospitals refuse to help 7-year-old declared ‘brain-dead’
New York University and the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian will not help Noelia Echavarria, with the former hospital pushing the girl's family to take her off the ventilator.
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Why I admire pro-life sidewalk counselors
One abortion supporter picked up a gallon jug of water she had in her car and hurled it at the sidewalk counselor.
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Funeral home horrified by abortion facility’s callous handling of fetal remains
Joking about an aborted baby’s dead body, and about how it can go in Tupperware containers or a freezer jar, was obviously not going to go over well.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan: To be honest, we can’t defund Planned Parenthood
'I don't think Planned Parenthood should get a red cent from the taxpayer' - but it will until 2017.
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Baby body parts harvesting is so common, the NAF had a presentation on it
Planned Parenthood isn't the only one harvesting and selling the bodies of unborn babies.
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Kim Davis bleeding in the rearview mirror
Kim Davis is an innocent victim both of cowardice of churchmen and the smug eagerness of certain priests to put her in her place.
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Former IVF doctor: Children are viewed as ‘manufactured’ goods
One woman decided to let her 23-week baby die after she went into pre-term labor, because she could just 'try again.'
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Universities: Welcome to the left’s Dystopia
One student accused a professor of 'microaggressions' for correcting students' grammar.
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