PARIS, September 27, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – As with most of the jurisdictions that have adopted “gay marriage,” France will be changing the language of its laws and regulations related to marriage and parenthood to eliminate the terms “mother” and “father”. All references to mothers and fathers, the government has said, will be changed to “parents”.

The new socialist government has promised to bring forward a law by the end of October. They have already said there will be no provisions granted for conscientious objections from state marriage ministers.

The bill, being drafted now, will create identical marriage ceremonies for same-sex partners as for natural marriages. French media reports that the bill calls marriage “a union of two people, of different or the same gender”.

It will also grant adoption rights to homosexual partners.

Justice Minister Christiane Taubira told the French Catholic newspaper La Croix, “Who is to say that a heterosexual couple will bring a child up better than a homosexual couple, that they will guarantee the best conditions for the child’s development?”

“What is certain is that the interest of the child is a major preoccupation for the government,” she continued.

The alteration of language in all laws related in any way to marriage has become standard for all jurisdictions that have adopted “gay marriage” or even civil unions.

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In the Canadian province of Nova Scotia in 2007, following a human rights complaint by homosexuals, the provincial government approved regulations allowing birth certificates to register a lesbian “spouse” of a birth mother as the “other parent”. In the same year, the state Senate of California approved legislation substituting the term “two persons” for “man and wife” in all state references to marriage.

Immediately following the passage of same-sex “marriage” legislation in Spain, the government ordered that the terms “mother” and “father” were to be replaced in the State Civil Registries Family Book with the headings, progenitor A, and progenitor B.

Similar actions have been taken by governments in Ontario and Prince Edward Island, the US state of Massachusetts and the Australian state of Victoria.

Ontario banned “mother” and “father” as well as the terms “wife”, “husband”, “widow”, and “widower” from all statutes. In 2005, in Prince Edward Island, the Conservative government proposed to amend the law to remove all references to husbands and wives in favour of the gender-neutral “spouse.”

In Scotland in 2007, at the request of the homosexualist lobby group Stonewall, nurses were told by the National Health Service that “mother” and “father” were homophobic. They were to be replaced with “carers” or “guardians.” The terms “husband”, “wife”, and “marriage” must be replaced with “partners” and “close friend.”

WICHITA, KS, January 5, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - She told the ugly truth about the harvesting of aborted babies' organs and tissues. Now, one of the nation's leading pro-life organizations has given her an award for exposing the abortion industry.

Operation Rescue announced today that it is bestowing its first annual Veritas award to late-term abortionist Dr. Deborah Nucatola.

Dr. Nucatola appeared in the first undercover Planned Parenthood video released by the Center for Medical Progress, casually eating salad and sipping wine as she discusses removing select organs from aborted babies for $30 to $100 a specimen.

She revealed that fetal livers are especially in demand, although “a lot of people want intact hearts these days."

"Deborah Nucatola is the natural choice for our 2015 Veritas Award," said Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue, who also serves on the board of CMP. "While other Planned Parenthood abortionists featured in the CMP videos each had their own shocking revelations, it was Deborah Nucatola's cavalier discussions about Planned Parenthood's fetal tissue harvesting that first captured America's attention and shifted the national debate on abortion. Her words did more to set back the Abortion Cartel than nearly any spoken by pro-life spokesmen."

After having “a huddle at the beginning of the day” to review the list of body parts the biological firm desires, she alters her abortion technique, saying to herself, "I'm not gonna crush that part. I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact."

"We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver," she said between sips.

Unlike other investigative videos, the nation's leading abortion provider could not dismiss the footage as the words of a low-level employee Since 2009, Nucatola has served as Planned Parenthood's Senior Director of Medical Services, instructing affiliates nationwide in the medical techniques they are to employ.

She also showed a willingness to skirt the law at times, as she describes how Planned Parenthood's abortionists perform a procedure that sounds very much an illegal partial birth abortion.

“The federal abortion ban is a law, and laws are up to interpretation,” she said. “So, if I say on day one that I don't intend to do this, what ultimately happens doesn't matter.”

Backlash over the video, and the subsequent videos filmed during CMP's nearly three-year-long investigation, has spurred multiple national investigations into the abortion industry's potential violation of federal felonies.

Veritas is a Latin word meaning "truth." The group plans to award the honor every year to an abortion supporter "whose words or actions are so powerfully truthful about the reality and barbarity of abortion that they advance the pro-life cause."

"For abortionists, there are two ways to speak about abortion," Newman said. "The first is the scripted, 'Orwellian' rhetoric that sanitizes abortion, which is used to influence public support. Then there is the unvarnished truth spoken in unguarded moments without public relations in mind."

"When abortionists speak about their work candidly and truthfully, they actually prove in the most powerful ways why abortion cannot be tolerated in a civilized society," he said.

January 5, 2015 (LiveActionNews) -- Americans learned a lot of terrible things about Planned Parenthood this year, but these five just might take the cake. When it comes to the abortion giant – who receives $1.5 million per day of our own hard-earned money – we can’t afford to turn a blind eye.

1) Planned Parenthood wants abortions to be “plentiful.”

No doubt you’ve heard the “safe, legal, and rare” slogan that pro-choice leaders often throw around. Well, Planned Parenthood dispelled that myth through a tweet it sent out just last month:

Imagine "life in a magical land where abortions and birth control are free and plentiful" This place exists. https://t.co/zdEYnLF0oT

— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) December 13, 2015

Planned Parenthood – the organization that performs a third of abortions in the U.S. – would actually love abortion to be “plentiful.” This is way out of whack with most Americans’ feelings on the matter. Even many pro-choice Americans believe abortion should be rare, not “plentiful.”

Not so Planned Parenthood. After all, the average 10-week abortion brings in about $450-$600, and the median charge for a 20-week abortion is $1,500, so bring on the cash.

2) Planned Parenthood knows abortion takes the life of a baby.

In a shocking admission, Dr. Savita Ginde – abortionist and Vice President and Medical Director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains – said on tape, “It’s a baby.”

Who was she speaking of? A picked apart little human baby who had just been aborted (probably by her) at her clinic. In the same discussion, Ginde explained:

“Here’s the heart. My fingers will smoosh it if I try to pick it up. The heart is right there… A lot of times I‘ll get a full torso, spine, kidneys. You could send the whole thing or pick that apart… It’s a baby.”

3) Planned Parenthood actually does abort babies who could survive outside the womb.

During her testimony to Congress, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards told a big, ugly lie (despite her oath to tell the truth and all that jazz). She claimed that PP does not perform abortions of viable babies. Her exact words were: “We don’t provide abortions after, um, viability.”

Live Action News investigated Planned Parenthood’s own clinic websites, finding that at least six PP clinics throughout the nation do in fact provide abortions after viability. These clinics (screenshots here), perform abortions at 22 weeks, 6 days; 23 weeks, 6 days; and 24 weeks.

Viability is the point in time where babies could survive outside the womb. According to a fact-check article on Richards’ statement:

[F]etal respiratory capacity has been enhanced in our modern day. A great number of babies can now survive at 22 weeks gestation. (The earliest recorded babies to survive were born at 21 weeks 6 days and 21 weeks 5 days.) The Washington Post remarkably even reported: “That babies can survive at 22 weeks is not a new finding; it has been known for 15 years. … New research confirmed that 22-week fetuses, measured from the first day of the pregnant woman’s last menstrual cycle, can survive.”

You can read more here to find out exactly how Richards lied to the American public and to Congress.

4) Planned Parenthood has been harvesting baby body parts and organs.

2015 brought one of the strongest modern indictments against PP and the abortion industry: the undercover work of The Center for Medical Progress. CMP’s string of stunning videos showed PP executive after PP executive haggling, negotiating, and laughing over the body parts of aborted babies. (Here’s a guide to how PP is shown breaking the law in these tapes.)

A few choice quotes:

“We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.” – Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood Federation Senior Director of Medical Services

“Because some of our doctors in the past have projects and they’re collecting the specimens, so they do it [deliver the fetus intact] in a way that they get the best specimens, so I know it can happen.” – Melissa Farrell, Director of Research, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast

“We’re doing procedures at 17 weeks, so we have fairly large identifiable parts. … And we’re planning on going to from 18 to 20 weeks by the end of the year.” – Dr. Savita GInde, Vice President and Medical Director, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains

After attempting to negotiate the price of baby parts, President of the Planned Parenthood Medical Directors’ Council, Dr. Mary Gatter infamously explained:

“I want a Lamborghini.”

5) Planned Parenthood lies. And lies. And lies and lies and lies.

In a single TV interview, Cecile Richards faced off with the American people, and told at least eleven identifiable lies.

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Additionally, the descriptions of baby parts and organs on the fully credible CMP tapes reveal PP’s extensive knowledge on fetal development. As Live Action News’ Cassy Fiano explained, “This video in particular makes it overwhelmingly clear that Planned Parenthood knows the facts of fetal development, and yet, lies to women.”

Fiano continued:

Shoddy science is not uncommon for Planned Parenthood, where staffers work hard to make sure that women remain in the dark about the growth of their preborn babies. For example, a baby’s heart starts beating just three weeks after conception, brain waves can be measured around six weeks, and by nine weeks, the baby can suck her thumb.

Planned Parenthood works very hard to make sure that women don’t know any of this – through outright lying and by giving women false information in order to manipulate them into having an abortion. Women are told that a baby doesn’t have a heartbeat until around 17 weeks of pregnancy, and that in the first trimester, nothing is developed:

“There’s not a baby at this point. You wouldn’t be able to identify any parts of the fetus whatsoever. … [A]t this point there’s nothing developed at all. There’s no legs, no arms, no brain, no heart.”

Live Action investigators have caught Planned Parenthood staffers lying to women again and again about fetal development. One thing is clear: whenever Planned Parenthood is caught on tape, there’s almost certain to be a lie.

In 2016, let’s keep educating America on the truth that Planned Parenthood fails to tell: every single baby is a precious human being, deserving of a chance at life.

Reprinted with permission from Live Action News. 

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, January 5, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The Catholic bishop of Springfield, Illinois, has corrected public statements made by a homosexual activist and the archbishop of Chicago that conflict with Canon Law.

Individuals living in adulterous and same-sex unions desiring Communion must repent and be absolved of their sins, while also resolving to amend their lives, said Bishop Thomas Paprocki. He also said that subjective conscience would not meet the criteria for receiving Communion.  

“According to the canon law of the Catholic Church, Canon 916 directs those ‘conscious of grave sin’ to refrain from receiving Holy Communion,” Bishop Paprocki said in a December 26 opinion piece for the State Journal-Register. “Individuals must form their consciences in accord with Church teaching.”

“Conscience assesses how a person’s concrete action in a given situation accords with Church teaching,” he wrote, “not to determine whether one agrees with or accepts Church teaching in the first place.”

The Springfield bishop was responding to a letter to the editor from John Freml, Springfield leader for Call to Action, a dissident group excommunicated by the Vatican, and homosexual activist group Equally Blessed.

In the December 20 letter, Freml praised statements made by Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich, in which the archbishop said Catholics in irregular situations, referring to individuals in homosexual unions and those who are divorced and civilly remarried, could receive Communion when they "are in good conscience, working with a spiritual director."

“Conservative church leaders often imply that a correctly formed conscience is always in harmony with what the hierarchy teaches, but this is simply not the case,” Freml said in his letter. “In fact, the church has a rich history of saints who have stood up to church leaders in good conscience.”

Freml concluded by encouraging those who had been refraining from Communion to approach for the sacrament with a selective reading of Christ’s words at the Last Supper: "Take this, all of you, and eat it." Freml then stated, “Remember that Jesus welcomed everyone to the table without condition, even Judas.”

Bishop Paprocki directed his letter to Freml, however his correction implicitly rebuke the statements by Archbishop Cupich as well.

Archbishop Blase Cupich earlier advocated admittance to Communion for homosexual couples during October’s Ordinary Synod on the Family in Rome, saying in an impromptu press conference that the conscience is "inviolable," and thus that he thinks divorced and remarried couples could be admitted to the sacraments if they have "come to a decision" to do so "in good conscience." The archbishop said this same reasoning would also apply to gay couples when responding to a follow-up question.

The archbishop voiced this same opinion again in a December interview with the local ABC affiliate, though qualifying his remarks in light of the Synod’s final report, that every person’s conscience must be formed “according to the teaching of the Catholic Church.”

In addition to advocating that Communion be given to individuals in “irregular” situations, Archbishop Cupich has down played the significance of the Planned Parenthood human remain trafficking scandal, said Communion for pro-abortion politicians was a good thing, and while bishop of Spokane, had forbidden his priests and seminarians from taking part in the 40 Days for Life vigil.

Bishop Paprocki, who has been an ardent defender of the Church’s teaching, said it was important to set the record straight about Freml’s incorrect statements regarding the comments made by Archbishop Cupich.

Paprocki wrote, “[Freml] notes that Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago has said that people in ‘irregular’ situations, such as those who are divorced and civilly remarried and those who are in same-sex government marriages, should work with a spiritual director to come to a decision ‘in good conscience’ about receiving Holy Communion.”

“Of course, those who are in ‘irregular situations’ should talk to a qualified spiritual director or a priest in the context of sacramental confession,” Paprocki explained, “but forming a ‘good conscience’ means that they will recognize and repent of their sins, resolve to reform their lives in accord with Christ’s teachings and receive absolution in the Sacrament of Reconciliation before receiving Holy Communion.”

The bishop went on to clarify that while Canon 916 instructs those “conscious of grave sin” to refrain from taking Communion, Canon 915 obliges ministers of the sacrament to withhold it, “not from ‘sinners’ per se (since no one can read the state of another person’s soul),” he said, “but rather, from those who ‘obstinately persist in manifest grave sin.’"

The bishop then clarified that in withholding Communion from those whose conduct is designated in Canon 915, the minister is not assessing personal "worthiness," but instead acting in accord with a long-standing sacramental discipline intended to protect the Sacrament from sacrilege and also guard the faith community from the scandal resulting from someone’s public conduct that is in conflict with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

“Thus, when Mr. Freml says that people may receive Holy Communion in such cases ‘even when the church hierarchy says that they should not,’ this is simply not true,” said Bishop Paprocki. “It is true that Jesus welcomes everyone. But as Jesus said at the last supper, so we say in the Eucharistic prayer at Mass, Jesus poured out his blood ‘for you and for many,’ since not everyone accepts what Christ offers, just as Judas did not accept what Christ offered him.”