Recent US News

By Peter J. Smith PHILADELPHIA, May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After 30 years in the Senate and a politically-motivated party switch last year, pro-abortion Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter watched Democratic voters pull the plug on his political career last night. Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak, who is also pro-abortion, trounced Specter to win his party’s Senate primary, and will now square off against pro-life Republican Pat Toomey, who has waited six years for this moment to happen again, in the November election. While Specter has claimed in the past that he is “personally” against abortion, the National Right to Life Committee […]

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has pulled out of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition that lobbies against pro-life and pro-family legislation and boasts top pro-abortion and homosexualist groups among its members. The break was confirmed in a release sent to LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) by Sister Mary Ann Walsh, USCCB Director of Media Relations, on Wednesday afternoon. The release stated that the bishops withdrew following the group's published support for the pro-abortion and homosexualist Supreme Court nominee, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, which was pointed out earlier […]

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., May, 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Shelling out federal benefits to same-sex couples under a proposed U.S. Senate bill will cost U.S. taxpayers a whopping $704 million over the next ten years, reports the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Nevertheless the Senate proposal, while it obscures the traditional rationale for spousal benefits in the first place, would be less costly than the House version. The CBO has just released its analysis of the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009 (S. 1102) revealing that extending health and employment benefits to the domestic partners of […]

Friday May 14, 2010 Boston Archdiocese Retreats from School’s Rejection of Lesbian Guardians By James Tillman BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Archdiocese of Boston has said that it will help find a Catholic school for the ward of two lesbian parents, whose boy was rejected from a Catholic school after school administrators discovered that they were lesbian. The ward of the lesbian guardians had been admitted to St. Paul’s elementary school, but the acceptance was withdrawn after the lesbians’ relationship was discovered. One of the boy’s guardians told the AP that they knew the Church opposed homosexual […]

Friday May 14, 2010 Lesbian Couple Demands Listing as Child’s Parents on Birth Certificate By James Tillman DES MOINES, Iowa, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Two lesbian woman legally “married” in Des Moines last year have filed a lawsuit against the state health department after it refused to name both women on the birth certificate of one woman’s biological daughter. Heather Gartner and Melissa Gartner filed the lawsuit last Friday on behalf of the infant Mackenzie, who was born last September, with the assistance of the “gay rights” organization Lambda Legal. Prior to the 2009 legalization of gay marriage in […]

Thursday May 13, 2010 Pro-Aborts Rally, Urging Florida Gov. Crist to Kill Pro-Life Ultrasound Bill By James Tillman TALLAHASSEE, Florida, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Pro-abortion protestors gathered Thursday in cities across Florida to protest the pro-life HB 1143 – just one part of a barrage of pressure against Governor Charlie Crist to try to force him to veto the measure. Crist, who has a mixed record on abortion, recently said that although he considers himself “pro-life,” he may veto the landmark bill out of a reluctance to “impose my will on others.” Planned Parenthood has launched a massive statewide […]

Thursday May 13, 2010 Pro-Life Dem Topples Pro-ObamaCare Incumbent in West Virginia Primary By Peter J. Smith CHARLESTON, West Virginia, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates have claimed their first victory in their effort to topple Democrat Congressmen who identify as pro-life, but who voted for abortion-expanding health care reform legislation earlier this year. Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-W.Va.) was ousted from the seat he has held for nearly 28 years by his more pro-life and conservative challenger in the Democratic primary on Tuesday. Pro-life state Sen. Mike Oliverio won the primary with 56 percent of the vote to […]

By Kathleen Gilbert PRINCETON, New Jersey, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One year after a Gallup poll found that a majority of Americans identified as pro-life for the first time in the history of the question being asked by the pollster, the pro-life majority has survived, leading the pollster to declare the pro-life position the “new normal” on the question of abortion. In the latest survey, 47 percent of Americans identified as pro-life, while 45 percent said they were pro-choice. Last May, the divide was 51 percent to 42 percent in favor of pro-life. “While the two-percentage-point gap in current […]

By Kathleen Gilbert NAPLES, Florida, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ave Maria School of Law awarded Mother Mary Angelica, foundress of EWTN and beacon of outspoken fidelity to orthodox Catholic teaching, including on the life and family issues, an honorary law degree on Sunday. In the resolution attending the award at the school's commencement ceremonies, Ave Maria Law President and Dean Eugene R. Milhizer praised Mother Angelica as “a robust advocate for the unborn child” and “an icon in the Catholic media.” Milhizer also lauded the 87-year-old for having “served the Roman Catholic Church with outstanding devotion” and having […]

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LOS ANGELES, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On May 15 the Episcopal Church ordained a practicing lesbian, Mary Glasspool, as bishop of the Los Angeles diocese. Glasspool, 56, has been living with her lesbian partner since 1988. She is the second practicing homosexual to be named a bishop by the Episcopalians.  The first was Gene Robinson, appointed in 2003, who also lives with his gay lover. The selection of Robinson created a serious commotion among the Anglicans, leading to a continuing process of rupture. Thousands of Episcopalians and other Anglican groups have left the Communion, and […]