Recent US News

By Peter J. Smith ATLANTA, Georgia, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new poll reveals that President Barack Obama’s health care reform may push as many as a third of the nation’s practicing doctors into shuttering their offices and getting out of the medical business entirely. In other words, the doctor may not be in to see you shortly. According to a survey conducted by The Medicus Firm, a nationally retained physician search firm, “nearly one-third of physicians responding to the survey indicated that they will want to leave medical practice after health reform is implemented.” The Medicus Firm queried […]

White House claims Catholics are on board with abortion-laden bill

By Peter J. Smith and Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs revealed to reporters today that President Barack Obama actively promoted the Catholic Health Association's public break with the American Catholic bishops to support his health care legislation. Gibbs also suggested that the CHA and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious' (LCWR) break with the U.S. Bishops has provided legitimate political cover for pro-life Democrats to switch their votes from “no” to “yes.” “I think over the past twenty four hours we have seen strong indications from those in the Catholic […]

By John Jalsevac ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -  Two women who once specialized in post-viability abortions during their employment at George Tiller's now closed abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas, have set up shop in an existing abortion facility owned and operated by Texas abortionist Curtis Boyd. Working out of that facility they are now offering lucrative late-term abortions.   The arrangement was announced in a statement on Boyd’s website, reported on by the LA Times on Tuesday, which said, “We are honored to have Dr. Susan Robinson and Dr. Shelley Sella, both of whom worked with Dr. Tiller, […]

Charges CHA "provides cover" for House members who choose to buckle under pressure from President and Dem leadership

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With another in a long list of deadlines for the Senate health care bill approaching this weekend, Democrat leaders – who evidently still lack the votes to push the abortion-funding bill through the House – are beginning to show a few more cracks in their facade. Keeping to a tight schedule has always been a priority for the health bill, partly to quell public outcry against it and partly to avoid running into the upcoming 2010 campaign season, when congressional activity is expected to grind to a halt. Now President […]

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that sought a “divorce” between two women who claimed to have obtained a “marriage” license in Canada. The court affirmed the trial court’s decision to dismiss the suit because the women failed to produce evidence of their “marriage,” and because Oklahoma courts do not have jurisdiction to grant divorces between members of the same sex. ADF attorneys represented Speaker of the Oklahoma House Chris Benge, on behalf of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, in arguing that Oklahoma law does not […]

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With what may be the final onslaught of the health care bill coming this weekend, pro-life advocates are giving the last full measure in a battle to defeat the legislation, which would allow federal dollars to subsidize abortion coverage and Planned Parenthood to tap into billions of dollars set aside for community health providers.   The latest vote predictions say passage of President Barack Obama’s health care reform is too close to call, and pro-life advocates have put their utmost into working – and praying – to hold together […]

By Kathleen Gilbert VATICAN CITY, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An article in L'Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Vatican, has weighed in on the side of U.S. bishops in the debate over the abortion-expanding Senate health care bill. The article by L'OR's Marco Bellizzi helps explode efforts by Democrats to hold up support for the bill from the Catholic Health Association (CHA) as evidence of the measure's moral acceptability. Bellizzi pointed to a statement by USCCB president Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, in which he directly disagreed with CHA's support. Over the weekend, CHA president Sr. Carol Keehan had […]

By John Jalsevac Updated March 16, 2009 at 6:56 pm. March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) issued a controversial report in its weekly Friday Fax, claiming that Planned Parenthood was permitted to distribute an explicit ‘sex guide’ at a closed-door, “no-adults-welcome” meeting at the UN sponsored by the Girl Scouts. In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) Tuesday, however, a representative of the Girl Scouts denied the story, saying that no such pamphlet was distributed or made available to the girls in the meeting, and that the only document that was present in the room […]