Recent US News

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The House ethics committee has drafted rules that for the first time would define gay married couples as “spouses” for the purposes of filling out their annual Congressional financial disclosure forms, Roll Call (RC) reported Thursday. While the changes would not directly affect any openly gay congressmen, as none have been legally “married” to a homosexual partner, the regulations could affect any number of senior Congressional staff, who are also required to complete the form, notes the news service. RC reports that the new rules were briefly posted on both […]

Thursday March 11, 2010 Pesky Florida Pro-lifers Bring End to Planned Parenthood Program Funding By Kathleen Gilbert MARTIN COUNTY, Florida, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After four years of dedicated activism, a group of Florida pro-lifers is celebrating a “David and Goliath victory” after consistent pressure apparently forced a Planned Parenthood program not to re-apply for a county grant. Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast has acknowledged it will not request a $50,000 grant from the Martin County Children’s Services Council for its La Promesa program, which was aimed at teaching the Hispanic community about contraception and […]

Thursday March 11, 2010 School Prom Canceled after ACLU Insists on Cross Dressing and Gay Dates By John-Henry Westen OXFORD, MS, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A small town Mississippi High School has decided to cancel its school prom after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) demanded the school permit a female student to wear a tux to the prom and attend with her lesbian partner. Now the ACLU is suing the school, asking the courts to force the Itawamba County School District to hold the prom and permit 18-year-old Constance McMillen to attend with her lesbian partner and to […]

Pro-life blogger concerned after RU-486 abortion Tweeter goes silent

Tuesday April 13, 2010 Doctor Shortage Looms Thanks to Health Care Law: Medical Association By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – America faces a shortage of as many as 150,000 primary care physicians in the next 15 years, a threat directly aggravated by the new health care reform law, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the AAMC projects a worsening shortage – despite an ongoing push by teaching hospitals and medical schools to boost doctors’ ranks – thanks to the sudden influx of insured individuals under the […]

Tuesday April 13, 2010 Complaints Dismissed against Maine Counselor for Supporting True Marriage AUGUSTA, Maine, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A state licensing board in Maine Friday dismissed two complaints filed against public school counselor Don Mendell for publicly supporting marriage as being between a man and a woman. The complaints claimed that Mendell, a licensed counselor at Nokomis Regional High School, violated the professional code of ethics for social workers by appearing in a television ad in the fall of 2009 that urged Maine voters to approve Ballot Question 1. In November, voters approved Question 1, which re-established Maine’s […]

Law directly criticizes Roe v. Wade for "removing the protection afforded the unborn."

Tuesday April 13, 2010 Tennessee House Strikes Blow to ObamaCare Abortion Coverage By Peter J. Smith NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A strong bipartisan majority in the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to exercise its right to opt the state out of the abortion mandate in the new national health care reform law. The measure approved by the House forbids insurance companies receiving public subsidies in the state-run health exchange from offering or requiring abortion coverage. The House passed HB 2681 on the floor Monday by an overwhelming 70 votes in favor, with 23 against. The legislation states: […]

Friday March 5, 2010 NRLC: Vote for Health Bill ‘a Career-Defining Pro-abortion Vote’ WASHINGTON, DC, March 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The following statement may be attributed to Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of affiliated right-to-life organizations in all 50 states. HOW IMPORTANT IS THE HOUSE VOTE ON THE HEALTH CARE BILL? On abortion policy, the health care bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought to the House floor last November was extremely bad (before the House fixed it by adopting the Stupak-Pitts Amendment) — but the Senate health bill (H.R. 3590) is […]

Monday April 12, 2010 Calif. Judge Gives Man 50-Yr. Sentence for Murdering Unborn Baby By James Tillman SACRAMENTO, California, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Friday, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Greta Curtis Fall sentenced a 32-year-old man to 50-years-to-life imprisonment for killing his girlfriend’s unborn baby by stabbing her in the stomach with a 13-inch butcher knife. On December 31, 2006, Danny Ray Poplin Jr. attacked his girlfriend, Vanessa Roberts, thinking that her six-month old unborn child was the child of another man. DNA tests later confirmed the child was his own. He will serve the sentence for murder only […]