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New Jersey School Nixes ‘Cross-dressing’ Fashion Show After Parent Complains

Thursday April 15, 2010 New Jersey School Nixes ‘Cross-dressing’ Fashion Show After Parent Complains By Peter J. Smith MAPLE SHADE, New Jersey, April 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Just a simple “misunderstanding?” That is what officials at Maude Wilkins Elementary School in Maple Shade, New Jersey are trying to say happened over a “cross-dressing” fashion show for third graders that was designed to celebrate Women’s History Month, and also coincided with the homosexualist “Day of Silence.” The uproar began over the weekend, when school teacher Tonya Uibel sent home a 16-page packet with her third-grade students telling parents that their children […]
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Furious Embryo Researcher Clashes with Pro-Lifers Displaying His Portrait

Thursday April 22, 2010 Furious Embryo Researcher Clashes with Pro-Lifers Displaying His Portrait By Kathleen Gilbert IRVINE, California, April 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform clashed with a prominent embryonic stem cell researcher after the group displayed the researcher’s portrait alongside Nazi scientists who experimented on Jews, and images of aborted children, on his home campus. Jill Stanek reported Thursday that Dr. Hans Keirstead, co-director of the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, fumed at CBR’s Gregg Cunningham over the display erected at his own University of California, Irvine. CBR visits college […]
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Doctor Who Killed “Wrong” Unborn Twin Has License Revoked

Monday April 12, 2010 Doctor Who Killed “Wrong” Unborn Twin Has License Revoked By James Tillman TAMPA, Florida, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Florida Board of Medicine has revoked the medical license of a Sarasota doctor who killed the “wrong” unborn baby in a “selective reduction” procedure. Selective reduction is a procedure in which a doctor kills one or more of multiple unborn children by injecting a feticide into the fetus slated to be aborted. Its use has increased because of modern fertility treatments, which often result in women carrying multiple babies. In 2006, Dr. Matthew Kuchinas attempted to […]
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Arizona House Passes Amendment Requiring Citizenship Proof of President

Wednesday April 21, 2010 Arizona House Passes Amendment Requiring Citizenship Proof of President By Peter J. Smith PHOENIX, Arizona, April 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Arizona House of Representatives has given preliminary approval to a measure that would require any presidential candidate to prove to the secretary of state that he is a “natural born citizen.” The legislation is aimed at settling any remaining uncertainty that President Barack Obama may not eligible under the U.S. Constitution to run for or hold the office of president. The House voted 31-22 to add the provision to SB 1024. The House will need […]
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Calvin College Students Protest Oversexed American Apparel Ads

Friday April 23, 2010 Calvin College Students Protest Oversexed American Apparel Ads By Kathleen Gilbert GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, April 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, are urging a boycott of American Apparel products because of the company’s pornographic advertising material. American Apparel, which operates over 200 retails stores and touts all of its products as made in the USA, often advertises see-through clothing on models in explicit poses. “It’s extreme. It’s disgusting,” Calvin student Hannah Whyte told local ABC affiliate WZZM 13. The students viewed the clothing company’s website after learning that the school […]
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Chicago’s Fr. Pfleger Apologizes but Reaffirms Support for Women’s Ordination

Thursday April 15, 2010 Chicago’s Fr. Pfleger Apologizes but Reaffirms Support for Women’s Ordination By Patrick B. Craine CHICAGO, Illinois, April 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Chicago has issued a statement from Fr. Michael Pfleger responding to criticism over his professed support for women’s ordination in a homily last Sunday. In the statement, the priest apologizes, but reaffirms his position against Church teaching. In separate remarks he has criticized the reaction against his dissent. On Sunday, only days after having received a lifetime achievement award from the Archdiocese and Cardinal Francis George, Fr. Pfleger told his congregation at […]
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Expert Debunks Claim that Anti-Contraceptive Conservatism Advances Abortion

Wednesday April 14, 2010 Expert Debunks Claim that Anti-Contraceptive Conservatism Advances Abortion By Kathleen Gilbert TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recent attempt by pro-abortion law professor Andrew Koppelman to blame abortion rates on the conservative movement itself fails in all three of its arguments, according to Michael New, a University of Alabama political science professor and pro-life statistics expert. Koppelman, a professor of law and political science at Northwestern University, sought to discredit the pro-life, anti-contraceptive, and pro-family ethos in an essay entitled “How the Religious Right Promotes Abortion.” Following the thesis advanced in the book “Red […]
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U.S. House, Senate Committee Vote to Repeal ‘Don’t Ask’

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted 234-194 to include a repeal of the military's “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” (DADT) policy banning open homosexuals from service in the armed forces to a defense spending bill Thursday night. Hours earlier, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 16-12 to approve the repeal for their version of the must-pass bill. Only five House Republicans voted in favor of the repeal, while 26 Democrats voted against. In the Senate committee, the only Republican to support the repeal was Sen. Susan Collins of Maine; Democrat Sen. […]
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U.S. Senate Committee Oks Amendment Ditching Military Abortion Ban

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a closed committee mark-up Thursday, Senator Roland Burris (D-IL) successfully offered an amendment that would break with current longstanding policy and permit the performance of abortions in both domestic and overseas military facilities.     The amendment, which  passed by a vote of 15-12,  would strike Section 1093(b) of Title 10 of the US Code, which states: “No medical treatment facility or other facility of the Department of Defense may be used to perform an abortion except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were […]
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