Rick Santorum: official presidential launch for June 6
Former Pennsylvania US Senator and pro-life champion Rick Santorum has confirmed that he intends to launch his official bid for US president on June 6.
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Abortion
Alabama Senate approves major personhood measure, pro-life bills
The Alabama Senate has approved a slew of pro-life bills that could mark the greatest step forward in state pro-life law since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.
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Catholic charitable works cannot preclude evangelisation: top Vatican Justice and Peace official
Caritas Internationalis continues to feel the heat from the Vatican for what many have identified as its shift away from its roots in authentic Catholic moral and social teaching, and towards a leftist political advocacy model.
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Ontario’s Knights call for bill enshrining ‘full legal protection’ for unborn
At their 108th Ontario State Convention May 22nd, the Ontario Knights unanimously passed a resolution “to work with a Member of Parliament to introduce a Parliamentary Bill seeking the restoration of full legal protection for the lives of the unborn.”
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NRTL on Guttmacher Report: ‘When tax dollars pay for abortion, you get more abortion’
The National Right to Life Committee disputed claims earlier this week that restrictions on abortion "disproportionately affect" poor women.
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“Reasonable” late-term abortion, abortion funding and cloning bills vetoed by Minnesota governor
Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Executive Director Scott Fischbach said, "These are reasonable provisions, not extreme, and have overwhelming support from Minnesotans and legislators."
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Pope : Vatican must ensure Caritas charity groups are “completely in accord” with Magisterium
The Pope stressed that the Holy See is responsible to ensure Catholic charity groups' activities are "transparent" and "completely in accord with the Apostolic See."
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Thousands of Canadians march coast to coast in solidarity with the National March for Life
Over 3,300 pro-life Canadians, from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John's, Newfoundland, gathered in major cities during regional marches in solidarity with the unborn.
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Walking across Canada for life: 10 college students and 1 professor
11 pro-life apostles are crossing the country on foot, stopping to speak in churches and praying in front of abortion centres along the way to spread the pro-life message to all who will hear.
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GOP House to defund UNFPA after You-Cut vote
House Republicans are introducing legislation to cut federal money to a United Nations population control agency after online voters selected it on the GOP's You-Cut site.
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