Recent US News

Monday September 27, 2010 DISCLOSE Act Fails: Pro-Life Campaign Groups ‘Dodge A Cannonball by a Whisker’ By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republicans managed to beat off a cloture vote in the U.S. Senate on a campaign disclosure bill that pro-life groups said would have effectively muzzled their ability to communicate with voters in the upcoming 2010 midterm elections. “We dodged a cannonball by a whisker,” Douglas Johnson, National Right to Life Committee’s Legislative Director told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). The Senate voted Thursday to invoke cloture and proceed to debate the “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting […]

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia has ordered that a district judge’s order blocking the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) embryo-destroying stem-cell research will be suspended while the appeals process works itself out. The order from Appeals Court judges Judith Rogers, Thomas Griffith, and Brett Kavanaugh, followed two days after oral arguments for and against U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth’s August 23 injunction that banned the NIH from funding further embryo-destroying research under the 1996 Dickey-Wicker amendment. Lamberth previously denied the U.S. Justice Department’s […]

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Senate committee markup of a $1 billion bill pro-life leaders say they fear could become an engine for more abortion funding overseas has been postponed. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee office confirmed to LifeSiteNews.com Wednesday afternoon that the meeting in which IVAWA was to be discussed had been postponed from its original slot at 2:15pm Wednesday, but not yet rescheduled. The vote may wait until after the Senate goes on recess, which a committee spokesperson indicated may happen as early as Wednesday evening. An inquiry placed to Senate Majority […]

By Peter J. Smith    AUSTIN, Texas, September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Attorney General of Texas released an opinion tightening the licensing requirements for clinics that dispense abortion drugs, as well as the state’s informed consent laws for women seeking an abortion.     Responding to a request from Texas Rep. Franke Corte jr. (R- San Antonio) for clarification, AG Greg Abbott declared that abortion facilities must stop using prerecorded phone calls or one-way conference calls to inform women of the risks of abortion in order to comply with the state’s Woman's Right to Know Act.     Abbott said that in order […]

WASHINGTON, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston today called Catholics to “constantly witness to the inestimable worth and dignity of each human life through a loving concern for the good of others.”  In a statement to mark Respect Life Month, October 2010, the bishop, who heads the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), also encouraged participation in the worldwide “Vigil for All Nascent Human Life” called for by Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Advent. Cardinal DiNardo noted populations particularly at risk: millions of unborn children in the […]

By Kathleen Gilbert AUGUSTA, Maine, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Maine Human Rights Commission (HRC) has ruled that a middle school unlawfully discriminated against a “transgender” sixth-grade boy by disallowing the child from entering a girls' bathroom and instead assigning him his own separate bathroom. The matter concerned Orono Middle School's treatment of a child whose parents have insisted has a right to use a girl's bathroom, despite being biologically male, because of his chosen gender identity. “In choosing to disallow [him] to use the girls’ bathroom facilities, the school was implicitly isolating and alienating her (sic) from other […]

Friday September 24, 2010 New Initiative Offers Help to Girls Facing Pressure to Abort By Kathleen Gilbert SAN ANTONIO, Texas, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pregnant teens often face pressure to undergo an abortion from parents or others – but a new resource soon to be distributed around the country will offer such young women hope and legal recourse in a seemingly hopeless situation. While many may think of coerced abortion as a phenomenon found only in countries such as China, pro-life sidewalk counselors across America testify to routinely witnessing young girls being practically dragged into abortion clinics by fathers […]

Friday September 24, 2010 Contrary to Erroneous Reports, New Jersey Abortion Clinics Still Open By Peter J. Smith TRENTON, New Jersey, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Erroneous reports of closed abortion clinics in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, have threatened to derail the 40 Days for Life effort in that city, with some pro-lifers being led to believe that there is no functioning abortion facility to protest against. “All kinds of people are calling and asking, ‘should we not go anymore, the clinics are closed,’” Jennifer Racancoj, a Cherry Hill 40 Days for Life leader, told LifeSiteNews.com. The source of the […]

Thursday September 23, 2010 Poll: 77 Percent of Evangelicals Believe Abortion is Morally Wrong By Peter J. Smith CARROLLTON, Texas, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Association of Evangelicals has released a new poll showcasing Evangelicals’ overall commitment to traditional Christian morality and opposition to abortion. The Gallup poll, commissioned by the NAE, found that 76 percent of Evangelicals believe sex between an unmarried man and woman is morally wrong, 77 percent believe abortion is morally wrong, and 79 percent say that having a baby outside of wedlock is also morally wrong. A high 87 percent of Evangelicals also […]

BALTIMORE, September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Notorious abortionist Romeo Ferrer is closing his Severna Park, Maryland, abortion facility after a 10-year campaign by dedicated pro-life organizations and the suspension of his medical license by the Maryland Board of Physicians. Pro-life activists learned September 23 that the Gynecare Center is not scheduling new appointments and does not have a doctor to perform the procedure. The staff answering the phone indicated they are closing the facility. Ferrer's license was abruptly revoked on September 8 after the Board of Physicians found that the degree of negligence in the abortion death of one of […]