Region: USA

Wednesday September 29, 2010 Pro-Lifers Boot Planned Parenthood from Michigan Counties By Kathleen Gilbert COLDWATER, Michigan, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Southern Michigan pro-lifers celebrated victory last week after steady grassroots pressure prompted local health administrators not to renew Planned Parenthood’s health provider leases. The Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency board on Thursday defeated a motion to renew the abortion giant’s lease in the three counties’ health system with a 3-3 vote. A majority would have been needed to renew the lease, which expires next month, for Planned Parenthood’s four locations. The health commissioners had heard from pro-lifers at their monthly meetings since […]

Wednesday September 29, 2010 Obama Says Teachings of Jesus Christ ‘Spoke to Me,’ then Defends Abortion By Kathleen Gilbert ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following reports of widespread skepticism over his professed Christianity, President Obama on Tuesday invoked the teachings of Jesus Christ as the inspiration for his public agenda, which he called part of an “effort to express my Christian faith” – and in his next breath defended the legalized killing of unborn children. When a teacher’s assistant asked him why he was a Christian during a townhall Q&A in Albuquerque, the president answered, “I’m a Christian by […]

Wednesday September 29, 2010 40 Days for Life Celebrates Maryland Abortion Facility Closure Commentary by Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life September 29, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) – “It’s official!” reads the message from Michael, the local 40 Days for Life coordinator in Severna Park, Maryland. “We have confirmed that Gynecare is closed,” he wrote, “and will not reopen its doors. The office suite that Gynecare has operated in for years is already listed for rent, and we have confirmed with the listing agent that the current tenant will be completely out of the office soon!” For the seventh time now, the Lord has […]

Monday September 27, 2010 Arkansas Abortionist and Former Clinton Physician Dies at 75 By Kathleen Gilbert FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Arkansas abortionist notorious for mocking pro-life witnesses and who once claimed that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was his patient, has died of cancer at the age of 75. William Harrison, a Fayetteville obstetrician/gynecologist, closed his abortuary earlier this year after he was diagnosed with leukemia, leaving only one abortion facility operating in the state. Operation Rescue reports that Harrison claimed to have killed over 20,000 children in the womb over the course of his 36-year […]

Friday September 24, 2010 Pope Benedict Sends Greetings to 40 Days For Life Campaign By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LONDON, UK, September 24. 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prior to the papal visit to England, the 40 Days for Life campaign team in London wrote to the pope, and has now received a letter in response from his office. Monsignor Peter B. Wells, responding for the Holy Father, wrote that the pope “appreciates the sentiments which prompted you to write to him about your work.” According to the letter, the pope will be personally praying for “you and all those who seek to protect life in […]

Tuesday September 28, 2010 GOP Leads Democrat in Pro-Life Senate Race for West Virginia By Peter J. Smith CHARLESTON, West Virginia, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In West Virginia two pro-life candidates are battling each other for a U.S. Senate seat that could either deliver a pro-life Democrat to the U.S. Senate or help hand control of the chamber to the GOP and its predominantly pro-life leadership. The latest polls show GOP candidate John Raese now pulling ahead of popular Democrat Governor Joe Manchin in the November special election to replace the late Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd. A new Rasmussen survey shows […]

Monday September 27, 2010 Study ‘Debunking’ Teen Abortion/Depression Link Flawed: Expert By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study that concluded that teenagers suffer no psychological harm from abortion, and that has captured headlines in major newspapers today, is undermined by “a number of problems” in its methodology, according to an expert in the field. The Guttmacher Institute, which was founded by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, announced the results of the study Friday, claiming that “teens who have abortions are no more likely to become depressed or have low self-esteem than their peers whose pregnancies do not […]

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hope for future therapies and cures from stem cell research got a big boost Thursday, when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to renew funding for non-controversial work in stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood over the next five years.  The House reauthorized the “Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act,” authored by New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith in 2005, with a unanimous voice vote. “The Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2010” now extends the program’s life through 2015. Since the […]

Tuesday September 28, 2010 Jesuit Loyola Marymount University Launches LGBT Office By Kathleen Gilbert LOS ANGELES, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – California’s Loyola Marymount University (LMU) has become the third Jesuit institution of higher education in the U.S. to establish an office dedicated to ministering to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students. California Catholic Daily pointed out a Sept 20 article in the LMU student newspaper, The Loyolan, celebrating the launch of the Office for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Student Services (GLBTSS) under the Division of Student Affairs. The article welcomed the event as “a milestone in LMU’s history — […]

Monday September 27, 2010 College Campuses are Abortion Battleground Commentary by Kristan Hawkins September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As students went back to school this month across the country, they entered into the front lines of a most contentious battleground. College campuses today are the abortion battleground. Forty-six percent of all abortions are performed on college age women and on top of this, Planned Parenthood directly targets the youth in order to further its abortion agenda. At the same time that students are being targeted by Planned Parenthood, more and more young people between the ages of 18-29 identify themselves as […]