UK Catholic bishop ‘welcomes’ Scout sex-ed program
John Smeaton, the director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, was considerably less sanguine about the Scout’s program than was Bishop Moth.
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Articles tagged Abortion
‘Bewildered and betrayed’: DC black pastors challenge mayor over abortion advocacy
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray was arrested Monday after he led a group in front of Senate office buildings to protest the deal banning abortion funding in D.C.
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Guatemala withdraws reservation against pro-abortion language in UN documents
The decision was made by Guatemala's delegate during the negotiations on a new UN resolution on "Fertility, reproductive health and development", terms that are often associated with pro-abortion measures.
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‘Keep pushing’ for universal access to ‘reproductive health’: new UNFPA chief
The term “reproductive health” is a UN bureaucratic euphemism that typically includes abortion, sterilization and artificial contraception.
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Nebraska bishop: Catholic politicians who support Planned Parenthood should be denied Communion
Bishop Bruskewitz emphasized that in his diocese those publicly supporting abortion would be denied Communion.
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House passes budget gutting D.C. abortions, separate bill defunding Planned Parenthood
The Planned Parenthood defunding measure passed 240-184 just after 4:30pm EST on Thursday.
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USCCB: defunding Planned Parenthood ‘not one of those hard choices’
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo urged lawmakers to vote for a resolution to ban federal funding of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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Santorum officially testing the presidential waters
The creation of an exploratory committee allows Santorum to collect donations for a potential run without having to formally declare his candidacy yet.
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Judge dismisses abuse of process application in Gibbons case
Gibbons given one-day jail sentence but she is still being held at the Vanier Centre for Women in Milton.
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Tapes show hundreds of Planned Parenthood, NAF clinics covering up sex abuse
The pro-life group behind the 2002 nationwide survey has made available never-before-published raw audio and transcripts of hundreds of investigative phone calls.
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