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Wednesday August 4, 2010 UPDATE: Federal Judge Rules Proposition 8 Unconstitutional By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge has ruled that California’s constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman is unconstitutional, because it excludes same-sex unions. Chief Judge Vaughn Walker, who presides over the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, declared Proposition 8 had no “rational basis” in a 138-page ruling on the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case released Wednesday afternoon. Walker struck down the amendment, which states “Only marriage between a man and […]

Tuesday August 3, 2010 Pro-Life Television Show Wins Emmy Award August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Producers and staff members with the weekly pro-life television show Facing Life Head-On are celebrating after the show was awarded a regional Emmy in the category of Interview and Discussion. “I believe this is a first for the pro-life movement—receiving an accolade at this level by the media industry, much less the Academy,” said Brad Mattes, host and executive producer of the show. The show, which is a project of the Life Issues Institute, won the award on the strength of an episode in which […]

Wednesday August 4, 2010 Pro-Abortion Activist Licks Pro-Lifer’s Camera By James Tillman ROCKFORD, Illinois, August 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-abortion activist threatened pro-lifers outside of the Northern Illinois Women’s Center (NIWC) before licking the camera lens of a pro-lifer videotaping his aggressive behavior. He then explained his actions to a police officer by blaming pro-lifers for waking him up with their noise, although most of the noise on the scene was being caused by abortion supporters. On July 30, James Harnden first advanced towards Bill Landerholm, who was using stilts to allow him to look over the fence around […]

Wednesday August 4, 2010 Chicago Drops Charges against Arrested Pro-Lifer By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, August 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The City of Chicago will not be pursuing charges against a pro-life advocate accused of violating the city’s “bubble-zone” ordinance by praying in front of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. Pro-life student Joseph Holland, a Northwestern University graduate student, was accused of violating a city ordinance passed in 2009 that prohibits individuals in the 50 foot radius of an abortion clinic from approaching within eight feet of its clients, without consent, “for the purpose of passing a leaflet or handbill […]

Wednesday August 4, 2010 Opinion: The APA’s Biased Paper on Same-Sex Attraction and Therapy Dale O’Leary August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The debate over therapy for same-sex attraction (SSA) and gender identity disorder (GID) has been going on for years. Recently, the APA put out a paper designed to resolve the issue. However, the introduction of the APA’s Task Force Report on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation defines the parameters for the discussion in such a way that the defenders of therapy for SSA and GID are positioned in the worst possible light. The issue is essentially decided in […]

Wednesday August 4, 2010 Pro-Life Speaker Melanie Pritchard’s “Miraculous” Recovery By Mark Henry PHOENIX, AZ, August 4, 2010 (Catholic Online) – It all started out 7:00 a.m. Wednesday morning when Melanie Pritchard texted my wife Tina telling her that she was going into labor and “asking for prayers.” After Tina and I returned from morning Mass, Melanie’s friend Meghan called Tina in tears telling us that Melanie’s heart stopped during delivery and she desperately needed our prayers. During the frantic drive to the hospital, my wife was distraught. She loved Melanie like a younger sister. In Melanie’s eyes, her greatest […]

Monday August 2, 2010 Senate Committee again Votes to Permanently Repeal Mexico City Policy By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A year after the same maneuver ended in defeat, a Senate committee has again approved an amendment to the foreign appropriations bill that would codify President Obama’s repeal of the Mexico City Policy. The measure would make international non-governmental organizations that perform or promote abortion permanently eligible for U.S. foreign funds. Since its institution by president Ronald Reagan in 1984, the policy, dubbed the “Global Gag Rule” by pro-abortion groups, has undergone repeal and reinstatement by […]

Thursday July 29, 2010 Chicago’s ‘Bubble Zone’ Lands Praying Pro-Lifer in Court By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, July 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life protestor, arrested while praying his rosary in front of a Chicago Planned Parenthood, is pleading “not guilty” to charges that he violated Chicago’s “bubble zone” ordinance which protects abortion clinics. Joseph Holland, a Northwestern University graduate student, was arrested by police on a charge of disorderly conduct on July 3. Staff at Planned Parenthood Near North’s abortion clinic called police, alleging that Holland was violating a city ordinance passed late 2009, which prohibits individuals in the […]

Tuesday August 3, 2010 Over 200 Military Physicians Petition for No Abortion on Military Bases WASHINGTON, DC, August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Over 200 active and retired military physicians have signed a letter organized by the 16,000-member Christian Medical Association (CMA), in which they ask Senators to vote against the FY 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, unless an amendment permitting abortions to be performed on military bases is stripped from the bill. “In addition to facilitating further destruction of unborn life, the provision will place military physicians with life-honoring convictions in the unenviable position of either disobeying orders, abandoning their […]