Recent US News

Thursday April 8, 2010 New York Cops Nab Pharmacist Charged With Murdering His Unborn Child By Peter J. Smith BATH, New York, April 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – State Police in New York have apprehended a pharmacist on the run from the law for allegedly forcing his mistress against her will to abort their unborn child. The man is said to have secretly induced his mistress to miscarry, because the baby’s birth would complicate his engagement to another woman. According to the Star Gazette, police in Steuben County caught up with Orbin Eeli Tercero, 38, a pharmacist for the Wegmans supermarket […]

Thursday April 8, 2010 Montana Bishop Boots Gay Group from Parish Hall By Kathleen Gilbert BILLINGS, Montana, April 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Michael Warfel of Great Falls-Billings has asked a local support group for homosexuals to move its meetings out of a local parish hall to avoid confusion over the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality. The pro-homosexuality group Always Our Children had scheduled an open house meeting in a hall at St. Pius X Parish in Billings for April 6. The group had been allowed to meet at the parish previously, before complying with the bishop’s recent request that […]

Thursday April 8, 2010 Kansas Late-Term Abortion Bill Awaiting Governor’s Signature April 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill that would require abortionists to report the reason why they performed abortions after 21 weeks is sitting on the desk of Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson, awaiting his signature. The measure passed out of the Senate on Tuesday, March 30, in a 24 to 15 vote. The Associated Press reported Thursday that Gov. Mark Parkinson, an “abortion rights Democrat,” has one more week to decide what to do with the bill. The bill would supply a layer of accountability to abortionists who have […]

By Kathleen Gilbert PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island has denounced the Catholic Health Association for supporting the abortion-laden federal health care reform law, and has asked that a local hospital be removed from membership in the group, reported ETWN Friday. CHA, a for-profit trade association personally wooed by President Obama to support his health care overhaul, garnered heavy criticism from U.S. bishops for supporting the massive bill despite its lack of a ban on federal abortion funding – effectively making it the most pro-abortion piece of legislation since Roe v. Wade. […]

Wednesday April 7, 2010 Feds Raid Home of PA Abortionist – Seize Documents PHILADELPHIA, PA, April 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The FBI raided the home of abortionist Kermit Gosnell and executed a search warrant yesterday in an ongoing investigation into an abortion death, federal drug violations, and illegal late-term abortions. Boxes of documents were seized and removed from Gosnell’s home. According to news reports, a second search warrant was also executed by the FBI at Gosnell’s now closed abortion office in West Philadelphia. Gosnell’s recent legal problems came when authorities began investigating the abortion-related death of Karnamay Mongar, who died […]

Tuesday April 6, 2010 Scott Roeder Gets Max Sentence for Tiller Slaying By Peter J. Smith WICHITA, Kansas, April 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Kansas judge on Thursday sentenced Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion activist who slew late-term abortionist George Tiller in cold blood last June, to fifty years in prison on a charge of first-degree murder. Sedwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert deliberated for nine hours before giving Roeder 50 years to life in prison for gunning down Tiller as the abortionist ushered for church services at Reformation Lutheran Church last June. Wilbert said that he could not give Roeder […]

By Patrick B. Craine WASHINGTON, D.C., April 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. births dropped 2% in 2008, bringing the country's birth rate below replacement level, new government statistics released Tuesday reveal. The U.S. National Vital Statistics Report showed that the U.S. birth rate dropped in 2008 to 2.08 births per woman, below the 2.1 level needed to replace the population.  The report indicates that the birth rate had surpassed replacement level for 2006 and 2007, after having been below replacement since 1972. The drop in 2008 follows a period of growth, with fertility in 2007 reaching its highest point in […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has filed a lawsuit against the newly enacted health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), making them the first U.S. medical society to take legal action against the sweeping health care overhaul. The AAPS filed suit March 26 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. “If the PPACA goes unchallenged, then it spells the end of freedom in medicine as we know it,” said Jane Orient, M.D., the Executive Director of AAPS. “Courts should not allow this massive […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski NEW YORK, April 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Novartis is the subject of a class action lawsuit in the U.S. due to begin today. The lawsuit claims that the company has sexist practices that discriminate against women in areas of pay, promotions, and pregnancy-related matters. Among the allegations is that at least one employee was pressured to abort her baby. The 17 plaintiffs, women who worked for the drug giant in the United States, claim they are representing 5,600 of their colleagues and are seeking total damages of $200 million. The law firm […]

By Kathleen Gilbert JUNEAU COUNTY, Wisconsin, April 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Teachers implementing a new law that requires explicit, pro-contraceptive sex education in public schools may risk criminal prosecution for promoting the delinquency of minors, a local district attorney warned Juneau County schools last month. In a letter to school districts March 24, Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth urged school administrators to withdraw from the human growth and development courses altogether, rather than submit to the new mandate requiring children to be taught how properly to use condoms and other contraceptives.  “To adopt the highly-controversial mandates of Act 134 risks […]