Recent US News

By Peter J. Smith NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Tennessee law opting the state out of the new national health care reform’s abortion mandate went into effect Wednesday, after Democratic governor Phil Bredesen refused to either sign or veto legislation passed by overwhelming majorities in both chambers of Tennessee’s state house. The law forbids insurance companies receiving public subsidies in the state-run health exchange from offering or requiring abortion coverage when the exchanges come online in 2014. Bills approved by the legislature in Tennessee can take effect even if the governor declines to take action on them. A […]

Almost 75 percent of women obtaining abortions self-identified as religious

Friday April 30, 2010 Pro-Life Freedom Rides Announced for This Summer BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, April 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More than 100 people listened on in Birmingham’s Kelly Ingram Park Tuesday as Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, and Dr. Alveda King, director of the organization’s African-American Outreach, formally announced plans for Pro-Life Freedom Rides that will begin this summer. “We are here to launch a movement within the greater pro-life movement, a movement of Freedom Rides for the Unborn,” Father Pavone said during the morning press conference. “Like the Freedom Rides of five decades ago, these freedom […]

Thursday April 29, 2010 New York Proposes ‘Presumed Consent’ Organ Harvesting Law By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Citing the shortage in organs available for transplant, a state assemblyman in New York has proposed that all citizens of the state become automatically enrolled as candidates for organ harvesting. New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky has introduced a new bill in Albany that aims to enroll all New Yorkers as organ donors unless they take action to opt out. If passed, Brodsky’s bill would become the first such law the U.S. However, a similar bill was also […]

By Kathleen Gilbert SAN DIEGO, California, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – California's pro-family therapists are striving to persuade the state's largest therapist association to stand firm against demands to suppress or kick out members who seek to help clients with unwanted same-sex attraction. LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) reported in March that the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) has already submitted to demands from the gay-rights community to retract articles in the organization's magazine that supported traditional views on marriage and sexuality, apologize for and condemn them as “homophobic,” and submit an amicus curiae brief opposing California's gay “marriage” ban.  […]

Friday April 30, 2010 Kansas House Fails Veto Override on Late-Term Abortion Bill By John Jalsevac TOPEKA, Kan., April 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Kansas House of Representatives on Friday failed in a bid to override Gov. Mark Parkinson’s veto of HB 2115, which would have provided new reporting standards for late-term abortions. The vote of 82-40 fell just two votes shy of the 84 votes needed to override. In vetoing the bill the governor had said that, “My view is that all abortions are tragedies, which is why I would encourage women who have unwanted pregnancies to consult with […]

Wednesday March 24, 2010 Seattle Mom: School Sent My Daughter for Secret Abortion without Telling Me By Patrick B. Craine SEATTLE, Washington, March 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Seattle mother is furious after learning that her 15-year-old daughter was sent by her school’s health center for a secret abortion, reports ABC-affiliate KOMO. The mother, identified only as “Jill,” says her daughter was given a pregnancy test at Ballard High School’s Teen Health Center, which came back positive. Rather than informing the parents, she said, the center gave the girl a pass and put her in a taxi for the abortuary, […]

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Federal Court: NJ School Board Can’t Abort Student Pro-life Event CAMDEN, N.J., April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A federal court ruled Thursday that the Bridgeton Board of Education should not have prohibited a student at Bridgeton High School from expressing a religious viewpoint on the 6th annual Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity. The student was prohibited from participating in the Stand True Ministries-sponsored event by distributing pro-life literature during non-instructional times and wearing a red arm band. School officials told the student that nothing “religious” is allowed in public schools and that they feared the student’s […]

Tuesday April 27, 2010 USA Today: ObamaCare Sparked State-Level Pro-Life Legislation Frenzy By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A rush to restrict abortion in the wake of the passage of President Obama’s abortion-expanding health care bill has led to a flurry of pro-life legislation on the state level, a fact that USA Today acknowledged in a front-page article Monday. Although abortion emerged as the decisive factor at every major turning point in the federal health care bill’s journey toward law, the mainstream media largely resisted giving the issue center stage during the debate about the bill, […]

Tuesday April 27, 2010 Oklahoma Senate Overrides Governor Veto of Pro-Life Legislation By John Jalsevac April 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two bills putting restrictions on abortion in Oklahoma became law Tuesday morning after the Oklahoma Senate overrode Governor Brad Henry’s veto. The governor had vetoed both bills, HB2780 and HB2656, on Friday. The House easily overrode the vetoes on Monday, before the Senate followed suit the next day. Tony Lauinger, the state chairman of Oklahomans for Life, told LifeSiteNews.com in an interview Tuesday that “We are very appreciative of the wonderful pro-life actions taken by our Senate and House these […]