Recent US News

Friday April 9, 2010 Austin Pregnancy Resource Centers Forced to Post Sign Saying No Abortions By John Jalsevac AUSTIN, Texas, April 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Austin’s city council on Thursday voted unanimously to become the second city in America to force pregnancy resource centers to post signs saying that they do not provide or refer for abortions or emergency birth control. The other city is Baltimore, Maryland, which passed a similar ordinance last year. Austin Council Member Bill Spelman proposed the ordinance, along with Council Members Laura Morrison and Mike Martinez. Pro-abortion lobbyists urged the council to adopt the mandate […]

By John Jalsevac April 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a decision released Thursday, U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb declared the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional.  The decision comes in the case filed by The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a Wisconsin-based organization, which challenged the constitutionality of a 1988 federal law giving the president the authority to designate the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer. The day of prayer “goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular […]

Tuesday April 6, 2010 Abortion Mailing Hoax Victimizes Pro-Life Action League By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, April 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League says that has become the victim of mail fraud, with an anonymous group sending out flyers for a “Home Abortion Kit” and listing the pro-life organization’s address and telephone number as the contact information for the kit. The Pro-Life Action League learned about the mail fraud when a Minnesota woman and a member of Kentucky Right to Life told them that they had received the flyers from a fake organization calling itself “American Women’s […]

By Kathleen Gilbert MINOT, North Dakota, April 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A measure to prohibit physicians from decapitating and crushing the skulls of live unborn children during abortions is seeking clearance to begin gathering signatures for the November ballot, a North Dakota grassroots pro-life organization has announced.   Daniel Woodard, head of North Dakota's Stop Decapitation Network, filed the paperwork to the North Dakota Secretary of State and Attorney General on Tuesday.  The group aims to collect 12,844 signatures by August 4 in order to place the measure on the 2010 ballot. “It's unconscionable and unthinkable that any physician who claims […]

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new undercover video reveals medically inaccurate abortion counseling at a tax-funded Milwaukee Planned Parenthood clinic. The video, released by the youth-led pro-life group Live Action, records Planned Parenthood staff distorting basic facts of fetal development and pressuring a woman to have an abortion. In the video, a staffer tells a woman who is reportedly 6 to 8 weeks pregnant that at this stage her baby has “no arms, no legs, no heart, no head, no brain.” The staffer emphasizes the difficulties of adoption, urges the woman to obtain an abortion as soon as […]

Monday March 8, 2010 Boulder School Refuses Entry to Child in Care of Lesbian ‘Couple’ By James Tillman BOULDER, Colorado, March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A preschool student at the Catholic Sacred Heart of Jesus School in Boulder will not be permitted to re-enroll in kindergarten next year because the student’s guardians are two lesbian women. “The issue is not about our not accepting ‘sinners,'” said Father William Breslin of Sacred Heart Church. “It is not about punishing the child for the sins of his or her parents. It is simply that the lesbian couple is saying that their relationship […]

Friday April 9, 2010 Nebraska Advances Bill Requiring Mental Health Screenings Before Abortion By Peter J. Smith OMAHA, Nebraska, April 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The unicameral Nebraska legislature gave its second round of approval to a bill on Wednesday that would require abortionists to prescreen women extensively for potential physical and mental health problems before performing an abortion. “Everywhere else in medicine we expect doctors to stay up-to-date on their specialty,” said Sen. Cap Dierks of Ewing, the bill’s main sponsor, according to the Journal Star. He then added, “Why would we want standards of care for abortions to be […]

Friday March 5, 2010 Twitter RU-486 Abortion Chronicles to ‘Demystify’ Procedure Go Sour By Kathleen Gilbert March 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A blogger known as Angie the Anti-Theist caused a stir both on the Internet and the mainstream media last month after word spread that she had decided to “live-tweet” her abortion – that is, issue regular updates on the process of her RU-486 medical abortion on the microblogging tool Twitter. But what followed – a raft of complaints about severe pain and days of unexpected bleeding – may have had the opposite of the intended effect. A Youtube video […]

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dawn Johnsen has withdrawn her bid to head the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel, throwing in the towel after interminable delays and bipartisan opposition in the Senate, in part due to some of her radical pro-abortion views. “Unfortunately, my nomination has met with lengthy delays and political opposition,” she said in a statement on Friday. “I hope that the withdrawal of my nomination will allow this important office to be filled promptly.” ABC’s White House Political Correspondent Jake Tapper reports that a source in the Senate Democratic leadership […]

Friday April 9, 2010 Liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to Retire By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who became known as the leader of the left-leaning judges on the court during his 34 years of service, has announced that he plans to retire at the end of the current term in June. Stevens, who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1975 by Gerald Ford, voted to uphold Roe v. Wade in the 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and supports the notion that the U.S. Constitution supports […]