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Live Action’s Rose to Youth: Engage in ‘Exciting’ Battle for Culture of Life

Friday September 17, 2010 Live Action’s Rose to Youth: Engage in ‘Exciting’ Battle for Culture of Life By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a speech hosted by Students for Life at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Live Action President Lila Rose recounted the path that led to her becoming one the most influential pro-life activists in the country. She also expressed her vision that one day there would be an “army” of activists exposing Planned Parenthood and, on a broader scale, replacing the culture of death with a culture of life. Rose, […]
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Florida Appeals Court Rejects Homosexual Adoption Ban

Wednesday September 22, 2010 Florida Appeals Court Rejects Homosexual Adoption Ban By Peter J. Smith TALLAHASSEE, Florida, September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Florida Third District Court of Appeal has ruled that Florida’s 33-year-old law preventing homosexual couples from adopting violates the equal protection clause of the state constitution. The Appeals Court ruled 3 – 0 to uphold the decision of a Miami-Dade judge, who declared in 2008 there was “no rational basis” for the ban and allowed homosexual Martin Gill and his partner to adopt two half-brothers, now 10 and 6 years old, whom they had cared for since […]
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Rockford Police Chase Ultrasound Vehicle from Abortion Clinic

Wednesday September 22, 2010 Rockford Police Chase Ultrasound Vehicle from Abortion Clinic By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 6:45pm EST ROCKFORD, Illinois, September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Rockford pro-life community is up in arms after police chased away an ultrasound vehicle from the local abortion facility – even though pro-lifers say they worked for weeks with city police to ensure permission for the life-saving equipment to park near the incoming mothers seeking abortions. Rockford pro-life veteran Kevin Rilott posted a video of Rockford police telling pro-lifers that the city legal department might issue a warrant against them if the motor home, […]
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Abortion May be the “Death Knell” for our Society: U.S. Bishop Doran

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ROCKFORD, Illinois, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Thomas Doran has powerfully tackled the topic of abortion in his latest column for the Diocese of Rockford's newspaper, The Observer, in which he laments that, “In our devolving and decaying morally relativistic society, there are many people who regard the killing of a pre-born child as of no consequence whatever.” The bishop's column, titled “The practice of abortion in our country and city holds hidden dangers,” addresses the danger of abortion “not only for its victims but also for its perpetrators and for societies that permit it, […]
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Pastors Gear Up to Challenge Tax-Exempt Regulations on Pulpit Freedom Sunday

LEAWOOD, Kansas, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — One hundred pastors nationwide will be participating in the Alliance Defense Fund’s third annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday on September 26, braving potential challenges to their tax-exempt status by educating their congregations about the candidates in this upcoming election in the light of their Christian faith. The pastors say they are exercising their constitutional right to free religious expression, despite a problematic Internal Revenue Service rule often invoked by activist groups looking to silence churches. Pulpit Freedom Sunday is an event associated with the ADF Pulpit Initiative, a legal effort designed to secure the […]
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Newspaper Livid over Losing CCHD Funding – for Referring Planned Parenthood

Monday September 20, 2010 Newspaper Livid over Losing CCHD Funding – for Referring Planned Parenthood By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Street Roots, a Portland-based non-profit newspaper dedicated to serving the homeless and the poor, has expressed outrage that it is losing the support of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), because it referred people to Planned Parenthood in the health care section of its “Street Root’ Rose City Resource” booklet. “The message from CCHD managers at the Portland Archdiocese, although supportive of the booklet’s overall mission, was made clear in terms of funding: […]
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Military Archbishop: Catholics for Equality ‘Cannot be Legitimately Recognized as Catholic’

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The archbishop for U.S. Military Services has responded to a new “Catholic” group aiming to push the homosexual agenda in the Catholic Church, saying the group has not been recognized by Church hierarchy and, as such, “cannot be legitimately recognized as Catholic.” Archbishop Timothy Broglio made the comments in response to a Catholic News Agency (CNA) inquiry after Catholics for Equality sought to confront Broglio over arguments he made when he opposed repealing the military's ban on open homosexuality in a June statement.  Broglio reiterated to CNA that he opposed […]
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Notre Dame Protesters Win Right to Individual Jury Trials

Monday September 20, 2010 Notre Dame Protesters Win Right to Individual Jury Trials SOUTH BEND, Indiana, September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 88 pro-lifers (known as the ND88) who were arrested on the campus of the University of Notre Dame last year during President Obama’s controversial visit have won the right to have their own individual jury trials, thanks to the efforts of the Thomas More Society. The prosecution had sought instead to consolidate the cases, and thus expedite the legal process – a request that was denied by Chief Judge Michael Scopelitis. According to the TMS, the longer the […]
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Senate to Vote this Week on Allowing Abortion on Military Bases

Monday September 20, 2010 Senate to Vote this Week on Allowing Abortion on Military Bases By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Leaders of the right to life movement are calling on pro-life voters to contact their senators before the body of legislators votes on a Defense Authorization Bill this week that includes a provision that would allow abortions at military hospitals. Top conservative groups including the Family Research Council (FRC), the Susan B. Anthony (SBA) List, and the American Family Association are warning that the FY2011 Defense Authorization bill, if passed, would “turn every U.S. military […]
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