Recent US News

Monday August 23, 2010 Obama Administration Sues West Palm Beach Pro-Life Leader By Kathleen Gilbert Updated WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A local pro-life leader has claimed innocence after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder filed a lawsuit claiming that she violated federal law prohibiting individuals from blocking customers from entering abortion centers. Filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, the lawsuit claims that Mary Susan Pine, 58, and another protester violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The administration is seeking an injunction that would prevent Pine from entering any clinic driveway, and […]

Monday August 23, 2010 Priest Apologizes, Retracts Statements Favoring Contraception By Kathleen Gilbert NASHVILLE, Tennessee, August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Nashville priest who issued a video criticizing the Vatican’s stance against contraception and divorce, among other issues, has retracted his statements and apologized to parishioners and the pope. Rev. Joseph Breen, whose recent conflict with the Church hierarchy comes 17 years after he was first told not to publically criticize Magisterial teaching, also indicated in a letter to parishioners of St. Edward Church that he planned to retire as pastor at the end of the year, according to a […]

Friday August 20, 2010 Pro-Abort Law Group Rails against USCCB for Opposing the Pill By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Women’s Law Center has taken aim at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for saying that a Medicaid waiver offering free birth control to low-income women embodies “a very dismissive view of women.” In a Wall Street Journal article discussing Wisconsin’s implementation of the plan, Richard Doerflinger of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) said that the notion of extending only birth control to a wider swath of women otherwise ineligible for Medicaid […]

Friday August 20, 2010 Restraining Order on Louisiana Ultrasound Law Lifted By James Tillman BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Aug. 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Ralph Tyson dissolved a temporary restraining order that he had placed on the Louisiana “Ultrasound Before Abortion Act.” The order, which had been instituted at the request of lawyers with the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights, was dissolved after the involved parties signed a stipulation eliminating ambiguities in the Act. “As we expected, the baseless lawsuit promoted by the Louisiana abortion industry to temporarily stall our ‘Ultrasound Before Abortion Act’ has been cleared […]

By Peter J. Smith RICHMOND, Virginia (LifeSiteNews.com) –Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli may be about to make abortion “safe, legal, and rare” – simply by making abortion clinics offer women the same standard of care required by other outpatient surgical facilities. Statistically speaking abortion is the number one surgical procedure that women undergo in the United States, and most abortions are performed in the first trimester. However in Virginia, as in many other places around the country, abortion facilities have often escaped the health and safety standards that are mandated for other medical facilities, such as hospitals, that engage in […]

Friday April 16, 2010 Obama Memorandum Encourages Hospital Visitation Rights for Gay Partners By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Obama has encouraged nearly all U.S. hopsitals to provide for visitation rights to gay and lesbian partners, in a memorandum to the Department of Health and Human Services published online Thursday. However, Peter Sprigg of Family Research Council today told LifeSiteNews.com that the memorandum, which does not actually create any new rights or benefits, is a “red herring” in the same-sex “marriage” debate, and that it is a “solution in search of a problem.” The Obama […]

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Catholic Bishops are endorsing a bill proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives that would apply permanent Hyde amendment restrictions to abortion funding in federal programs. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, chair of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, urged Congress to support the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” (H.R. 5939), introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Rep. Dan Linkinski (D-Ill.) on July 30. “H.R. 5939 will write into permanent law a policy on which there has been strong popular and […]

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia has intervened to block regulations issued by the Obama administration expanding embryo-destructive research. Pro-life researchers and Nightlight Christian Adoptions, a group that encourages adoption of frozen embryonic children, filed the suit last year. Judge Royce Lamberth had ruled in June that the group has standing to sue over the guidelines that the National Institutes of Health developed for taxpayer-funded research that would involve the destruction of living human embryos. The newly-expanded research was made possible by an executive order signed by President […]

Thursday August 19, 2010 Coulter Dropped from Event for Appearance at Homosexualist Event By James Tillman August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Anne Coulter has been dropped from speaking at WorldNetDaily’s “Taking America Back National Conference” after it was announced that she would speak at “HomoCon,” a party hosted by the self-proclaimed “gay conservative” organization GOProud. Coulter, who is well known for her unrestrained tongue, responded in an email to the Daily Caller by saying that WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah was dropping her for the sake of “publicity alone.” “Attack [A]nn [C]oulter, get publicity,” the email stated. “[L]iberals figured that out […]

Thursday August 19, 2010 Obama Administration Stonewalls Full Release of Major Abstinence Study By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is withholding the full results of a government study that makes a strong case for promoting abstinence before marriage over sexual education promoting “safe sex.” While the executive summary and final results are available, behavioral scientists are not being allowed a look at all the data behind the study’s major findings. The HHS’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) funded a national survey of 1,000 adolescents between the […]