Recent US News

Wednesday September 8, 2010 Wisconsin Bishops: Faithful Citizenship Begins with Right to Life By Peter J. Smith MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, September 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While voters should weigh several factors in choosing a candidate to support, the right to life is the most essential of all, said the Catholic bishops of Wisconsin in a pastoral letter on the U.S. bishops’ voters guide. Entitled “A Letter to Catholics in Wisconsin on Faithful Citizenship,” the document addressed four themes: the right to life, the nature of marriage, the poor and dependent, and the environment. However, the bishops made clear that these were […]

Thursday September 9, 2010 Reward Increased to $25,000 for Abortion Crime Information WICHITA, Kan., Sept. 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Operation Rescue has announced that it is raising the reward offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of abortionists who are breaking the law from $10,000 to $25,000 effective immediately. In January, 2010, the pro-life group launched the Abortion Whistleblowers Program to encourage those with knowledge of abortion-related crimes to come forward. The program includes a multi-faceted ad campaign using radio, newspaper, Internet, direct mail, and social networking sites. “We are grateful that an anonymous supporter has come forward […]

Thursday September 9, 2010 Iowans Seek to Sack Three Judges who Legalized Gay “Marriage” By Peter J. Smith DES MOINES, Iowa, September 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on Wednesday waded into a unique state electoral battle, where conservatives are seeking to recall from the bench three state Supreme Court justices that legalized same-sex “marriage” in 2009. Speaking at a panel organized by the Iowa State Bar Association in the Hotel Fort Des Moines, O’Connor asserted that “the judges should not be subject to retaliation” from voters for the decisions they render. According to […]

Wednesday September 8, 2010 Abortion Official Charged with Faking Bomb Scare at Own Clinic By Kathleen Gilbert TULSA, Oklahoma, September 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An abortion facility director has been accused of misleading police after telling authorities that she had found a bomb at her facility, according to federal court papers. Linda Meek, 63, whose is no longer employed by Reproductive Services of Tulsa, will face a federal lawsuit for intentionally giving “false and misleading information” resulting in a bomb scare at the facility on August 13. Reports did not specify the circumstances behind the end of Meek’s employment at […]

Wednesday September 8, 2010 Federal Judge Denies Obama Embryo Research Appeal By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge has denied the U.S. Justice Department’s request to stay his order stopping the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) embryo-destroying stem-cell research, dismissing their allegations that scientific research over the past decade would be irreparably harmed. “Defendants are incorrect about much of their ‘parade of horribles’ that will supposedly result from this Court’s preliminary injunction,” stated Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in a three-page order. Lamberth ruled […]

Tuesday September 7, 2010 Four-State Abortion Empire Crumbles Following Botched Abortion By Kathleen Gilbert VOORHEES TWP, New Jersey, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The empire of a troubled New Jersey abortionist who headed a four-state abortion ring is slowly crumbling after Maryland began investigating the setup following a teenager’s botched abortion. In addition to unveiling the illegality of the setup, the investigation resulted in one raid where police discovered a gruesome display of 35 frozen unborn children preserved in jars. Stephen Chase Brigham is the owner of American Women’s Services, which operated 15 abortion facilities in states including New Jersey, […]

Friday September 3, 2010 Colorado Abortionists Launch Campaign against Personhood Ballot Initiative By Kathleen Gilbert DENVER, Colorado, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood and pro-abortion medical practitioners this week kicked off a campaign to snuff out the Colorado Personhood initiative, which aims to extend personhood to all human beings from the beginning of their biological development, as it heads to voters in November. Amendment 62, which has been certified for Colorado’s ballot once again after a failed attempt in 2008, has drawn vitriol from abortion groups eager to dismiss embryonic human life as “fertilized eggs” unworthy of the dignity […]

Tuesday September 7, 2010 Catholic College Rejects Homosexualist Group for Nonprofit Fair By Kathleen Gilbert AUSTIN, Texas, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic liberal arts college has rejected the application of a local homosexualist group to participate in a campus nonprofit internship fair, because the group’s views directly conflicted with Catholic moral teaching. However, the school’s own homosexual support group has said it is “investigating” the affair. The student newspaper Hilltop Views reported last week that Equality Texas, a local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) advocacy group, had applied to recruit students at the Internship Fair for the coming […]

By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California Supreme Court has turned down a request from attorneys to mandate that California’s governor and attorney general represent the state in the federal legal battle over Proposition 8. Late Thursday, the California Supreme Court denied a petition filed by Pacific Justice Institute to require Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to defend Prop. 8. In August, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco decided to overturn Proposition 8, the voter-approved state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman, on […]

By Kathleen Gilbert Edited 9:49am EST 9.11.10 PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a botched abortion in Maryland revealed the illegal interstate practice of a New Jersey abortionist, New Jersey officials have filed documents to suspend the medical license of a man whose suspicious activities New Jersey Right to Life had warned about weeks ago.   In a July 23 letter, New Jersey Right to Life executive director Marie Tasy requested that New Jersey Attorney General Paula Dow investigate Steven Chase Brigham's six New Jersey abortion facility following news of a crackdown on Brigham's four Pennsylvania clinics. […]