Region: USA

By Kathleen Gilbert NAIROBI, July 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the launch of a probe into whether the federal government is illegally supporting a new pro-abortion constitution for Kenya, Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi have denied that America is funding a campaign favoring the document, saying only that the U.S. supports “the constitutional review process.” In a statement released today, the U.S. embassy emphasized that “The US Government is supporting the constitutional review process as the centrepiece of the broad reform agenda agreed to following the post-election crisis,” as reported by Kenya's Daily Nation. “The referendum is in […]

Monday May 10, 2010 Stupak: ObamaCare Debacle ‘Changed My Relationship with the Pro-life Movement’ By James Tillman WASHINGTON, D.C., May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), the once-hero of the pro-life movement who vowed opposition to the pro-abortion health care reform bill only to vote for it in the end, has described in a Newsweek column how Obama’s 11th-hour promise of an “ironclad” executive order against abortion funding ruptured his relationship with the U.S. Catholic Bishops as partners in protecting the rights of the unborn. In the column, he repeats his previous assertion that health care reform […]

Friday July 9, 2010 Federal Judge Rules Fed Gay ‘Marriage’ Ban Unconstitutional By Kathleen Gilbert Updated: 07/09/10, 15:09 BOSTON, MA, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge in Boston has ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which enshrines in law the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, is unconstitutional. Judge Joseph Tauro claimed in a ruling Thursday that DOMA violates the right of homosexual couples to equal protection under the U.S. Constitution. “This court has determined that it is clearly within the authority of the Commonwealth to recognize same-sex marriages among its […]

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Notre Dame Honored GE Despite Embryonic Stem Cell Research SOUTH BEND, Indiana, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Notre Dame has ignored a request to rescind the University’s May 2010 honoring of General Electric (GE) for “values-based decision making,” despite the company’s involvement with embryonic stem cell research. In a letter dated June 1 to Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins, C.S.C., Cardinal Newman Society President Patrick J. Reilly wrote, “Given Notre Dame’s Catholic identity, especially considering its ‘Statement Supporting the Choice for Life’ issued a month ago, it is contradictory and potentially scandalous […]

Thursday July 8, 2010 Buffett Billions Padding “Charitable” Abortion Advocacy By Peter J. Smith OMAHA, Nebraska, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the last number of years American billionaire Warren Buffett, 79, has gradually been giving away his estimated $47 billion fortune – and much of it is going to support the work of abortion activists worldwide. The Bloomberg news agency reports that Buffett’s annual gift this year to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – which supports population control efforts around the globe – was figured at $1.6 billion in Class B stock of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett’s Omaha-based company. […]

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Virginia Memorial for Unborn Vandalized By James Tillman FRANKLIN, Virginia, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Vandals have broken and uprooted dozens of the 275 crosses set up by Rock Church in Franklin, Virginia to symbolize the victims of abortion. Rock Church has been putting the crosses up since April. Each cross stands for 10 babies killed by abortion. A sign by the crosses explains that in Hampton Roads, where Rock Church is located, 175 babies die of abortion every week. Seventeen crosses are added each week to represent those babies. “My hope would be that it’s […]

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Bobby Jindal Signs Landmark Abortion Reforms into Louisiana Law By Peter J. Smith BATON ROUGE, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gov. Bobby Jindal signed three landmark abortion bills on Tuesday that significantly tighten the state’s regulations on abortionists and their practices, and opt out the state from the national health care reform’s abortion mandates. Jindal signed two bills that were introduced and shepherded through the legislature by the Louisiana Right to Life Federation (LARTL). The Ultrasound before Abortion Act (SB 528) adds strict ultrasound requirements to the state’s informed consent laws. The law requires abortionists to […]

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Hawaii Bids Farewell to Same-Sex Unions as Governor Vetoes Bill By Peter J. Smith HONOLULU, Hawaii, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After months of wrangling and listening to both sides of the marriage debate, Republican Gov. Laura Lingle has vetoed legislation that would have established same-sex civil unions and made them equivalent to marriage in Hawaii. Lingle announced her decision Tuesday, the last day of a 45 working day period she was given to weigh a veto on HB 444, a bill which was suddenly revived and passed on the last day of Hawaii’s legislative session […]

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Hopes to Outlast Obama By James Tillman July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States of America has told friends that he will not retire until Barack Obama is no longer president, according to the New York Daily News. The Reagan-appointed justice turns 74 this month, and has spent 22 years on the Supreme Court He is considered the swing vote in many cases, and thus one of the most powerful justices. He wrote the majority opinion in 2007’s Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld […]

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Performing an “end-run” around the Senate confirmation process, President Barack Obama has installed Dr. Donald Berwick, an enthusiast for medical rationing and an unabashed admirer of the United Kingdom’s socialized health care system, as head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services via a recess appointment. The move means Berwick may take charge of the Center for the next year, without first having to go through Senate approval. This will allow him to have an influence on the CMS’s $800 billion budget and the myriad regulations that […]