Rather than the help they sought, two former Planned Parenthood nurses say they were met with either indifference, incompetence, or what had all the appearance of outright corruption.
May 31, 2013 (Alex Schadenberg) – A Gallup survey conducted (May 2 – 7, 2013) found that support for assisted suicide fluctuates by almost 20% based on the wording of the question. The survey found that: 51% of Americans support assisted suicide when the process is described as doctors helping a patient “commit suicide” while 70% of Americans supported assisted suicide when it was described as allowing doctors to “end the patient's life by some painless means.” The report from Gallup stated: Gallup has asked both questions of U.S. adults aged 18 and older annually since 2001, as part of its Values […]
VATICAN CITY, May 31, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At his private Mass in the chapel at his residence Saturday, Pope Francis commented on the Gospel of Mark where Christ rebukes the disciples for preventing the little children from coming to Him. (Mark 10: 13-16) The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reports that the Pope mentioned the example of an unwed mother coming to Church to ask for baptism for her child to exemplify the error of allowing protocol to distance people from the Lord. The paper quotes the Pope: A girl-mother goes to the parish to ask for Baptism for her child […]
"Does the board support graphic lessons on oral sex, the kind that use lewd language and is meant to be posted in a gay bar bathroom?” asked Brian Lilley.
The problem is that one cannot grant the legal right to assisted suicide to any group without at the same time removing legal protection from other similar people.
President Barack Obama and Rep. Nancy Pelosi came to Chicago yesterday for a Democratic Party fundraising event, and the Pro-Life Action League was there to confront the presidential motorcade with pictures of aborted babies—victims of the “choice” that Obama and Pelosi, et al. so stridently support. When we arrived at the Hilton & Towers shortly before 4:00 to set up for our protest, we found that Chicago Police had set up metal fencing all along Michigan Avenue directly in front of the hotel, effectively eliminating our intended protest area. So instead, we moved our protest across the street from the […]
Embryology text books will tell you that when fertilization is completed, an embryo is formed. That, is, a new individual organism exists–which remains the same organism until death. For scientific purposes, the developmental stages of the embryo are given different names. When it is one-celled, it is a zygote. When it is about 7-10 days along, it is a blastocyst. In human biology, the embryo is called a fetus after three months of gestation, and a new-born infant is called a neonate. But they all refer to the same organism, just at different stages of development. The same holds true […]
Ten Percent of Adult Homosexuals in Brazil Have HIV: Study by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRASILIA, June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study by Brazil’s Ministry of Health has revealed that in the 10 most populous cities of Brazil, the rate of HIV infection among homosexuals is over 10%. According to the same agency, the overall rate of HIV infection among males between the ages of 15 and 49 years is only 0.8%, making the rate of HIV infection among adult homosexuals more than 13 times higher. The study also found that homosexuals in large […]
Buses Cannot Refuse Political Ads, Supreme Court of Canada Rules in B.C. Case by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, July 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an important defense of freedom of expression, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled today that busses cannot refuse ads of a political nature, rejecting the appeal of the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (Translink) and B.C. Transit in a case brought against them by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) and the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF). Legal experts have suggested that this decision will be important in the pro-life cause, as the principles of the […]
More Prominent Pro-Life Groups Join Those who Oppose Morgentaler’s Order of Canada by LifeSiteNews.com By Tim Waggoner OTTAWA, July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ranks of Canadians who are vocally opposing Dr. Henry Morgentaler’s elevation into the Order of Canada are growing ever thicker as several more prominent pro-life groups, representing hundreds of thousands of supporters, have come forward to say that the decision to give Morgentaler the award was nothing more than a politically motivated decision by an extreme “leftwing” and pro-abortion minority. Real Women Canada has released a statement claiming the Order of Canada itself has become little […]
Canadian National pro-Life Conference in Montreal by LifeSiteNews.com *****See update on change of location Montreal Evangelical Church Welcomes Canadian National Pro-Life Conference with Open Armshttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/nov/05111704.html Montreal, October 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – From Nov. 17-19 Canada’s first fully bilingual national pro-life conference since the 1980s will take place at the St. Joseph’s Oratory facility near downtown Montreal. The conference, hosted by Campagne Quebec Vie and sponsored by Campaign Life Coalition and LifeCanada will feature 10 plenary sessions Thursday night, Friday and Saturday involving over 30 distinguished speakers. Session topics will include 1. Religious perspectives on life and family, 2. The Canadian […]
Poll: Large Majority of Canadians Favor Abortion Limits by LifeSiteNews.com November 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the ninth year in a row, a majority of Canadians have rejected the status quo on abortion in this country, according to a new poll. Over half of respondents to the poll said there should be legal protection for human life before birth and over two-thirds say abortions should only be paid for by taxpayers in medical emergencies or in cases of rape or incest. A poll by Environics Research of 2002 Canadians found that only one-third of Canadians agree with the current policy […]
New Poll Reveals that Canadians are Conflicted About Legal Euthanasia by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine November 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite recent Quebec-focused polls indicating large support for euthanasia, a new Environics poll commissioned by LifeCanada reveals that Canadians are conflicted, and that they would rather the government focus on care for the sick and dying. “Outside of Quebec support drops dramatically and is tempered by fears about how vulnerable groups will be affected,” said Dr. Delores Doherty, President of LifeCanada, about the poll. “The idea that Canadians are clamouring for euthanasia is not accurate, despite the impression that […]
Time Is Running Out to Register for the International Pro-Life Conference, Oct. 2-4 by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, September 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Creating a Culture of Life Around the Globe,” the international pro-life conference that takes place in Toronto October 2-4, 2008, will be an important event in the worldwide culture wars. Sponsored by Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), the International Right to Life Federation (IRTL) and LifeCanada, and hosted by CLC Toronto, the Conference promises to be the most powerful, stimulating and informative pro-life meeting in North America this year. Eleven pro-life leaders from Canada and five […]
Sixth Annual Poll Shows Majority of Canadians Consistently Support Legal Protection for Unborn Children by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, October 31, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two-thirds of Canadian women support legal protection for unborn children, according to an Environics poll released last week. A smaller majority of men (57%) support legal protection. Currently in Canada there are no legal restrictions on abortion at any stage of pregnancy. More than one-third (34%) of women support legal protection from conception onward, 21% after three months of pregnancy and 12% say babies should be protected after six months. Overall, 62% of Canadians supported legal protection at […]
First Bill Restricting Abortion Tabled in Canada Under Conservative Government by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, June 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal MP Paul Steckle stood today in the House of Commons to introduce the first piece of pro-life legislation in the current parliament under the Conservative Government.Ã In introducing Bill C-338, ‘An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (procuring a miscarriage after 20 weeks of gestation),’ Steckle called on the House to debate the issue noting that Canada was one of the only countries in the world with absolutely no protection for the unborn in law whatsoever. The bill […]
Canadian Pro-Life Leaders Urge Prayers for American Election – Bush Victory by LifeSiteNews.com TORONTO, November 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-Life leaders in Canada have called on Canadians to pray that pro-lifers are elected in the upcoming US elections. Jim Hughes, President of Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSiteNews.com today that Canadians must “Pray for our American brothers and sisters that the results are what God would want and that those who would do the best job to defend his most innocent would be elected to office.” Regarding the Presidential election Hughes said there was no contest. “When you compare the two […]
HLI Hispanic Outreach's Fr. Salomón said the pro-life movement has become too polite. “We act like this is just part of the culture, killing babies,” he said. “We have to communicate a sense of emergency – we are killing persons.”
TORONTO, May 30, 2013 (Alex Schadenberg) – A study entitled: Parental Perceptions of Forgoing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration (FANH) During End-of-Life Care was published in the journal Pediatrics in its May 5, 2013, edition concerning the reactions of parents to the experience of withdrawing nutrition and hydration (FANH) from a child who was dying or experiencing a low quality of life at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. The study is based on independent interviews with parents after the child died. The study sought input from 12 families of children who died after FANH. Three families were not interested in participating […]
Barack Obama says the Illinois marriage redefinition bill is "the right thing to do"; the NAACP says a bill to ban abortions that target minorities is racist; California tries to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Boy Scouts despite its new policy, and more in this state round-up.
The passing of abortion pioneer Henry Morgentaler has provoked many reactions on all fronts of the abortion fight. The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada rejoiced darkly that Morgentaler “did not ‘repent’ or have a ‘deathbed conversion,’ or make things ‘right with his maker.’” My colleague Stephanie Gray noted that Dr. Morgentaler’s death necessitates, as the passing of any fellow human does, an examination of what we are doing with our brief allotment of time on Earth. As I reflect on the death of a man who championed the eradication of nearly a quarter of our generation, I can’t help but see his passing as […]
OTTAWA, May 30, 2013 (Alex Schadenberg) – On Wednesday, Global News has published another one-sided article concerning assisted suicide. The article is connected to a one-sided poll that asks: Should doctor-assisted suicide be legal? The options are: YES, dying adults should be able to get help to end their life, or NO, it is wrong on moral grounds. The poll is skewed by its wording. People may want help to die, that doesn't mean they want assisted suicide and many people oppose assisted suicide for reasons other than morality. I sent the this e-mail to Global news concerning their promotion of assisted suicide. […]
"The increase in abortions is causing a public health disaster in the country," said Bhola Rijal, a gynecologist and former head of the medical association.
If you're a teenager in New York City searching for an abortion, contraception, or someone to tell you about homosexual sex, there's a taxpayer-funded app for that.
Perhaps, one could say, I was having a Justin Trudeau moment as I wanted to know what would cause a man to want to make a living killing babies. What were the "root causes?"
The 43-year-old father said he has seen at least 10 priests, including the celebrated exorcist Gabriele Amorth, to deal with his possession, but all had failed.
“Some have seized on the word ‘natural’ as the manner of death, but that only means that it wasn’t a homicide or suicide," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
This week Gallup released their annual survey that asks Americans to rate the morality of various social issues. Overall, the news was not particularly good for social conservatives. On a variety of issues relating to sex and marriage, Americans are becoming more social liberal. Since 2001, a significantly smaller percentage of Americans are morally opposed to gay and lesbian relations, divorce, and sex between unmarried individuals. There was even a seven-percentage-point increase in the number of Americans who thought polygamy was morally acceptable. However, the news was not all bad. Opposition to pornography held relatively constant. The report also indicated that since 2001 a smaller percentage […]
The Women Deliver conference is narrowly focused on expanding access to modern contraceptives, including abortion, to all girls and women in developing countries.
The ACLU can be counted on to advocate on behalf of culture of death issues. Now, it is suing to overturn Arizona’s ban on sex and race-based abortion. From the AP story: Civil rights groups on Wednesday sued Arizona to block a 2011 law banning abortions based on the race or sex of the child that makes it a felony to knowingly provide a sex- or race-based abortion. Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona said the law unconstitutionally singles out Asian and black women based on stereotypes and the sponsors’ beliefs that Asian and black women may choose an […]
Two British Christians who refused to act contrary to conscience have lost their legal battle at the European court of human rights in a move that demonstrates that ‘gay rights’ trump ‘conscience rights’ when the two conflict. Gary McFarlane and Lillian Ladele (pictured) had their appeals to the Strasbourg court rejected in January and had sought to resolve the matter in the court's grand chamber, its final arbiter. However, judges at the court have rejected the request, in effect ending the legal battle. Ladele, 52, a local authority registrar, was disciplined by Islington council in London for refusing to conduct civil partnership ceremonies, while McFarlane, […]
"The most dangerous areas, are those which limit the conscientious objection of Christians who do not want to cooperate in abortion, the sale of abortifacient pills, or the celebration of same-sex marriage," according to the Observatory on Religious Liberty of the Italian foreign affairs ministry.
Abortion Art – Chinese ‘Artist’ Defends Grafting Fetus Head onto Bird’s Body by LifeSiteNews.com BEIJING, August 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Chinese artist who has attached the head of an aborted baby to the body of a bird in the name of art is defending his work after a Swiss gallery removed the piece from a collection of Chinese works on display in Bern. A visitor to the museum, Adrien de Riedmatten, filed a complaint Monday with Bern’s District Attorney, after viewing the controversial piece at the Bern Fine Art Museum. “I want to know where this baby comes from […]
New York and federal gov't intimidations; Canada's infamous arch-abortionist, Henry Morgentaler has died; more on madness in the Catholic Church in Italy.
Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller said that in addition to mourning the loss of a life, he mourned “Dr Morgentaler’s tragic legacy of promoting the abortion of so many unborn Canadians.”
When Lillian Ladele asked to be excused on the grounds of her conscience, her employers refused and, she claimed, started a deliberate programme of harassment.
The development is the latest in what pro-life activists have charged is a pattern of intimidation on the part of the Obama administration against pro-life activists.
“I think these actions come partly in retaliation for the long and damaging Kermit Gosnell trial, which really hurt the image of the abortion industry,” Chris Slattery told LifeSiteNews.com.
“What refugees of war torn countries and victims of natural disasters need most are food, shelter, clean water and medicine, not ‘family planning services,” said Fr. Peter West of Human Life International.
“Even though it's a two hour round trip and I have three children in tow, it's worth going because it's important to make a stand for life,” one mother told LifeSiteNews.com.
Death has a way of forcing us to reflect on life. And so it is with the death of Canada's infamous Henry Morgentaler—a man both celebrated and despised for his tireless fight for widespread access to abortion. When one looks at the trail of blood dripping from millions of children victimized by his killing crusade, it can be tempting to focus on his lifeless legacy. Since those children cannot come back, and nor will he, I think our time is better spent reflecting on the legacy we ourselves have already built—and more importantly, should be building. Are we living our lives in such a […]
No one at the clinic, including the abortionist, had current CPR certification. A crash cart in the hallway was not used and the defibrillator was broken.
What do our Canadian government and Harry Potter have in common? They both believe in magic. While Harry Potter suddenly brings inanimate objects to life with a few words and the flick of a wand, our Canadian government does the same with a few words and the flick of a pen. According to the Harper administration, babies magically become human at the moment of birth. Beforehand, they are as worthless as a broken wand. On Monday, May 27th, twenty-five year old Angelica Spandis appeared in a Toronto courtroom facing charges of first-degree murder. Her crime: giving birth to her newborn and allegedly […]
“You’re never going to succeed. I’ve aborted the mistresses of judges, cabinet ministers, and cops" Morgentaler told Jim Hughes, President of Campaign Life Coalition, Canada's largest pro-life organization.
Eric Scheidler and the Pro-Life Action League try to reach an abortionist's conscience and look forward tomorrow to protesting President Obama and Nancy Pelosi.
In her ruling last week, Justice Garnett said that the complaint lacked sufficient evidence showing difficulty in obtaining an abortion in the province.
“Stop the hate, free Kate,” is the battle cry of gay activists nationwide who are seeking to cast Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, as a martyr after she was arrested in February.
Pastor Jong-rak stated that one of the mothers said, “she had poison to kill both herself and her baby.” He responded, “Don’t do that. Come here with your baby.”
Gosnell reportedly owed the waste disposal company $10,000 at the time of his arrest. This is why the bodies of his victims were stuffed into freezers in his clinic.
China has an evil one-child policy–often extolled by the Malthusians among radical environmentalists and global warming hysterics as a needed authoritarian action to “save the planet.” Now, we see the tyranny of Myanmar imposing a two-child limit–but only against the nation’s Muslims. From the NYT story: The local authorities in the western state of Rakhine in Myanmar have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing during earlier sectarian violence. Officials said Saturday that the new measure would be applied to two Rakhine townships that border Bangladesh […]
We are seeing in this Manif pour Tous a peaceful revolution—a youthful and faithful revolution. It cannot come too soon. In all our countries, the movement to end marriage is an elite movement. But the people are being heard.
I so regularly trash the New York Times for its vast variety of errors of commission and omission that it is only right I offer praise for running “China’s Brutal One-Child Policy,” by novelist Ma Jian. Whatever exceptions there may be in the one child policy, especially for the rich, according to Jian, for the poor, “the policy is a flesh-and-blood tiger with claws and fangs.” Early in the op-ed we read “Village family-planning officers vigilantly chart the menstrual cycle and pelvic-exam results of every woman of childbearing age in their area. If a woman gets pregnant without permission and […]
When President Obama and Nancy Pelosi come to town next week for a Democratic Party fundraiser, we’ll be there with graphic abortion signs to remind their wealthy donors that when they write their big, fat checks, they’re supporting the killing of unborn children. Nancy Pelosi calls herself an “ardent, practicing Catholic,” but says “we don’t know” when life begins, so we can’t do anything to restrict “a woman’s right to choose.” Not to be outdone, Obama himself recently took things further when he told an audience at a fundraiser for the nation’s largest abortion chain: “Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you […]
Music therapy, therefore, simultaneously showcases the magnificent humanity of premature babies and the tragedy of taking their lives before they have the chance to enjoy music and everything else life outside the womb has to offer.
Three women who worked at the "house of horrors" are scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow for their role in killing newborn babies, overdosing an abortion patient, or other abortion-related offenses.
Standing in front of a group of priests wearing rainbow stoles and addressing the gathered thousands, founding member of the Communist Refoundation Party and former prostitute, Vladimir Luxuria gave a eulogy.
“I’m mortified, I’m absolutely mortified,” said Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada, to LifeSiteNews.com.
A teacher in Toronto's Catholic school board shocked parents and ratepayers last week when she declared that joining a gay-straight alliance is a “perfect outcome” for Catholic students.
Architect of Betrayal?: WH Exposes Obama as Provocateur of Catholic Dissention by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith and Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs revealed to reporters today that President Barack Obama actively promoted the Catholic Health Association’s public break with the American Catholic bishops to support his health care legislation. Gibbs also suggested that the CHA and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious’ (LCWR) break with the U.S. Bishops has provided legitimate political cover for pro-life Democrats to switch their votes from “no” to “yes.” “I think over the past […]
U.S. Planned Parenthood Reports Record Profit, Record Amount of Taxpayer Funding by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, June 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On June 6 Planned Parenthood (PP) released its official 2005-2006 annual report. The report details the activities and financial situation of the organization at length. During the year of 2005-06, besides reporting that 264,943 children were killed by medical and surgical abortions performed by its clinics, it also reported a record income, including a record amount of taxpayer funding. Planned Parenthood’s total income for the year was $902.8 million, with a $55.8 million profit. Jim Sedlak, who is […]
Obama May Pick Extreme Pro-Abortion KS Gov. Sebelius for HHS: Reports by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., February 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Obama may choose Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, friend of notorious late-term abortionist George Tiller and one of the most pro-abortion governors in America, to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, according to news reports citing a senior official in the Obama administration. If Sebelius is chosen to replace Tom Daschle, who withdrew his bid in disgrace over unpaid taxes and connections to health organizations, she will bring an even more radical pro-abortion record and a dark history […]
Australian Clinic Uses IVF to Search out and Destroy Embryos With Cancer Gene by LifeSiteNews.com MELBOURNE, February 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The eugenic practice of genetic testing to screen out the “unfit” has moved a step forward in Australia. Nathan Charles Runciman, a child born January 20, was conceived in a lab by in vitro fertilization. Using a process called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis he had two of his cells removed to test for the gene for bowel cancer. When the cells were found to be free of the cancer gene, he was implanted in his mother’s uterus and allowed to […]
Toronto’s Catholic trustees rejected a motion to ban homosexual activist clubs in North America's largest Catholic school system on Thursday after a marathon meeting featuring over two hours of speeches, mostly supporting the ban.
Effectively blackmailed by CEOs representing corporate giants (e.g., UPS, Intel, AT&T) that had already sold out on homosexuality, the BSA leaders panicked out of fear of losing more Fortune 500 grants.
“There’s no clear benefit in prolonging life when you cannot tell whether the life that’s being prolonged is actually worth living for," said Dr. Andre Amaral of Sunnybrook.
“I love life and expect nothing after it, only the perpetuation of my race and my spirit,” wrote Dominique Venner before shooting himself inside Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
May 24, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of Canadian women launched last week a class-action lawsuit against the maker of a recalled birth control pill after sex on the faulty pill resulted in the naturally designed outcome of such activity, namely babies. As many as 60 women claim that they became “wrongfully pregnant” while using Apotex’s Alysena birth control pill and are collectively seeking $800 million in compensation. Four women, who would not wait to see if the potential windfall applied only to mothers who kept their babies, tragically opted to kill their surprise babies by having them aborted. Lawyers say they […]
The state discovered that an employee with no medical training had administered misoprostol to induce an abortion, and had also performed an ultrasound on a woman who was 22 weeks pregnant.
After being arrested for pro-life protests and working for Pat Robertson's presidential campaign, “I describe myself as being very pro-life and very pro-choice,” Joseph McAuliffe now says.
He noted WHO should not call the drug “life-saving, because “when conception already has occurred, certain substances used in ‘emergency contraception’ produce an abortifacient effect.”
"It is totally unacceptable to refer to a medical product that constitutes a direct attack on the life of the child in utero as a 'life-saving commodity,'" said Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski.
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has said the blogging platform will not remove its copious amounts of pornography, which includes such bizarre fetishes as zoophilia.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan has a duty to deny the Sacrament to politicians “who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin,” even his good buddy Andrew Cuomo.
They spent the better part of a floor debate explaining why Kermit Gosnell's crimes against humanity were no different than getting a root canal in a dirty dentist's office.
What seems like compassion for the poor is, in fact, the dark ideology, borrowed from the eugenic visions of progressivism. The best thing for the developing world would be for all of these recommendations to fail.
HIV/AIDS Rates Rise Sharply in Canada: 51% of Infections Among Homosexual Men by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith OTTAWA, August 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report released by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on Monday reveals that nearly a quarter of the estimated 58,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in Canada remain ignorant carriers of the virus. Even more alarming is that women are becoming an increasing percentage of those infected with HIV. The PHAC report confirms United Nations and World Health Organization findings that HIV/AIDS has increased by over 20% in Canada since 2000, and estimates that 15,000 […]
Busloads of supporters came from Bathurst, Saint John, and Moncton, while pro-life individuals and families with young children came from as far away as Dalhousie, Lameque, Edmundston, and from many other parts of the province.
established a clinic dispensing the abortion-inducing drug misoprostol in rural Tanzania despite what one staffer called “the restricting legal context.”
The former Attorney General of England and Wales is trying to erase the Central American nation's longstanding moral convictions based on a nebulous standard of unwritten rules.
"You will know you have [the baby's head] when you crush down on the clamp and see white gelatinous material coming through the cervix,” said former abortionist Anthony Levatino.
When I walked into this year’s Oregon Adolescent Sexuality Conference in Seaside, Oregon, one of the first things I encountered was a table manned by three young teen boys.
“We would like to see the Fatima shrine become a place that is consecrated to the defense of the cause of Life,” Luis Botelho, leader of the Committee and president of Portugal Pro Vida, told LifeSiteNews.
"The speakers and workshops at Women Deliver advocate practices, like unlimited abortion' and infanticide "that will increase maternal and newborn deaths," said Wendy Wright of C-FAM.
It is a sign of how disconnected we have become from the actions of our politicians that postcards depicting the results of their statements and their votes would be considered “shocking” and “controversial.” I don’t beg to differ, of course—the postcards that we at the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform have been distributing for two weeks now in the constituencies of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Calgary MP Michelle Rempel certainly are both. But what is the reason for that? For many of us—myself included—it is because we often do not fully consider the impact of what our elected representatives do, and the responsibility we […]
“We believe it is possible to win this vote in the [House of] Lords, and we would encourage Christians throughout the nation to pray for that result,” the Coalition for Marriage said following the vote.
'I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.' So reads the Hippocratic Oath, which until recently used to be taken by all graduating doctors. Hippocrates of Cos (c. 460 BC – c. 370 BC) was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. His oath at the time it was drafted was revolutionary. Previously doctors had had the power to prescribe both remedies and poisons. But Hippocrates, recognising their great power and the potential for abuse, demanded that […]
Male Homosexual Sex Fuelling Spread of HIV in Asia, Warns World Health Organization by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert HONG KONG, February 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Male homosexual sex is “fuelling” the rapid rise in HIV/AIDS infections in Asia, according to a recent report by the Western Pacific Branch of the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO warned today that the HIV/AIDS epidemic may take a major turn for the worse in Asia. The central role of male homosexual sex in the HIV spread has prompted WHO’s Western Pacific office, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program, UNAIDS and the […]
New CDC Report Warns Syphilis is Still Ravaging the Homosexual Community by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, DC, January 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Syphilis, a disease close to being eliminated as a public health threat less than a decade ago, has increased each year since 2000 and remains a serious threat to the health of homosexual and bisexual men, says the latest statistical report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2007, men who have sex with men (MSM) continued to account for the majority of primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis cases, representing 65 percent of the 11,466 P&S syphilis cases […]
The evidence shows the international community is trying to legalize abortion “at the expense of women’s lives and health,” said Jeanne Head, R.N., National Right to Life vice-president for international affairs.
Interview: Bus Driver Fired for Refusing to Drive Woman to Abortion Clinic by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert AUSTIN, Texas, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Austin area bus driver has filed a lawsuit against a rural transportation system after being fired for declining to drive a woman to an abortion clinic, citing a violation against his Christian beliefs. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court, accuses Austin’s Capital Area Rural Transportation System (CARTS) of having discriminated against Kyle resident Edwin Graning “on the basis of his religion.” The native Texan told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that CARTS officials abruptly terminated him for […]
“As a powerful woman, Ms. Rempel should be protecting Canada’s powerless children, but she failed them last fall,” said Stephanie Gray, executive director of CCBR.
I’m not entirely sure the headline and sub-headline fully convey what JJ Keith actually wrote—“My miscarriages made me question being pro-choice: I was devastated when I lost my pregnancies, and I wondered: Does grieving this way mean abortion is wrong?”—but in its confusion and complexity it does capture the conflict in her heart. Ms. Keith had three miscarriages before she carried two pregnancies to term—a preschool son and daughter whom she obviously loves and adores. It won’t be along strictly party lines–pro-lifers versus pro-abortionist—that explains why one person reads her Salon essay differently from another. She is firmly pro-choice but […]
“Where are women really publicly encouraged to stay at home and bring three or four children into the world? This is what we should do," said Cardinal Joachim Meisner.
Mandatory Curriculum for Ontario Schools Promotes Homosexuality, Masturbation by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As of next year, Grade 6 students in Ontario’s publicly-funded schools can expect to be taught that masturbation “is common and is not harmful and is one way of learning about your body,” according to a newly-revised curriculum document released by the Ministry of Education. The Ministry put out its new Health and Physical Education curriculum for grades 1 to 8 in January, and a spokesperson has confirmed to LifeSiteNews (LSN) that the new curriculum will be mandatory for […]
RTL Michigan must collect 258,000 signatures in 180 days in order to overturn Governor Snyder’s veto. The group estimates the effort will cost about $100,000.
“People have often asked, and we’ve asked ourselves—how could Nazi Germany participate in the Holocaust? How can you take entire segments of your society, Jews as well as Gypsies as well as dissenting pastors, and round them up, and exterminate them in the millions?” Brock Thoene says, “Germany was widely regarded as the most advanced, the most civilized, most cultured nation in Europe of that era. It seems almost imponderable. How can you reconcile those things?” As a renowned author of historical fiction, Brock Thoene has spent his entire career searching for the answers to these questions—and presenting the public […]
Desperate to shift the attention away from the horrors of Kermit Gosnell and Douglas Karpen, senators like Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) are leading a witch hunt against pregnancy resource centers.
Kermit Gosnell is the equivalent of the American slave-dealer—someone who has done work rendered absolutely necessary by the twisted laws of his regime, but who has nevertheless been ignored or regarded with unease, and even repulsion, by his fellow citizens.
Chen delivered to the prime minister’s office today a list of 44 senior Chinese officials whom he accuses of human rights abuses against him, his family and fellow activists.
"We will not allow the IRS or any branch or agency of the government to take away our First Amendment rights or any of our Constitutional rights," said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder and CEO of Tea Party Patriots
Today NARAL released a groundbreaking report on the activities of the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List. The report contains shocking allegations and makes for fascinating reading – NARAL’s crack staff of researchers apparently worked tirelessly to uncover a treasure trove of new information. According to the report, Susan B. Anthony List 1) raises money for pro-life candidates, 2) supports pro-life laws, 3) hires pro-life people, and 4) receives grants from conservative foundations. Last spring the group even went so far as to hire a lobbyist to lobby against Planned Parenthood funding. Shocking! In all seriousness, Susan B. Anthony List should welcome this report. Founded […]
The petition campaign was the largest and most successful collection of signatures ever carried out in the country of 580,000 households against a proposed change of law, said organizers.
Have you ever heard someone who supports abortion claim, “No one knows when life begins”? The funny thing is, these very individuals actually do claim to know when it begins. If they ban abortion at 3 months, then they are implicitly saying life begins at 3 months. If they ban abortion at 6 months, then they are implicitly saying life begins at 6 months. The question is this: Is where they draw the line based on fact or convenience? Moreover, abortion advocates are making an even greater concession than they realize. Consider the labels “3 months” or “6 months”: these reveal the […]
Various media outlets (including The Times(£), The Telegraph, BBC, The Independent and The Guardian) have published articles reporting on how fertility specialists from Nottingham have developed a radical technique that will ‘dramatically improve’ the chances of IVF couples having a baby. The original research appears in Reproductive BioMedicine Online. About one in eight couples have trouble having children through natural conception and around 48,000 women currently undergo IVF treatment each year resulting in about 12,200 IVF births, an overall success rate of 25%. This failure rate of 75% causes immense emotional upset to affected couples, many of whom have paid between £5,000 and £10,000 for each treatment […]
The newspapers are full this week of the news that scientists in the US state of Oregon have produced embryonic stem cells (ESCs) using the same cloning technology (somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)) that created Dolly the sheep.
Despite the fact that numerous people were willing to testify that the infanticide took place, Tucker was never brought to justice for the murder due to “lack of evidence.”
Every now and then it is good and most helpful to be reminded what great men and women are really like and that they have been among us many times throughout history. They were never perfect, because no man is perfect, but in comparison to most others around them in their period of time, they were truly great. In my view, and that of many others, Ronald Reagan was one of those great ones, despite his flaws and despite the fact that not all his proposals and actions were well thought out or successful. But he tried, as have all […]
Should it be granted Royal Assent “in its present form,” the 17 Christian ministers said, the bill will “isolate hundreds of thousands of young students and workers across the country who hold a fuller view of marriage based on religion or a traditional view.”
Luis Gonzalez-Jose was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison, and deportation upon release, after striking a plea bargain with Whatcom County Superior Court Judge Charles Snyder.
The province's Parti québécois government has promised to table a bill legalizing the deadly practise before the province’s parliament adjourns for the summer.
The board upbraided Dr. Nicola Riley for failing to call for emergency help for at least 90 minutes after she pulled out a patient's bowel during a difficult abortion and for transporting her critically injured patient to a nearby hospital in the back seat of a rental car.
Click “like” if you are PRO-LIFE! WASHINGTON, D.C., May 20, 2013 (Acton Institute) – IRS agents appear to need a refresher course on First Amendment freedoms. While applying for tax-exempt status in 2009, an Iowa-based pro-life group was asked by the agency to provide information about its members’ prayer meetings: On June 22, 2009, the Coalition for Life of Iowa received a letter from the IRS office in Cincinnati, Ohio, that oversees tax exemptions requesting details about how often members pray and whether their prayers are “considered educational.” “Please explain how all of your activities, including the prayer meetings held […]
UNPFA Loses $235 Million Due to Pro-Life Group’s Efforts by LifeSiteNews.com FRONT ROYAL, Va., July 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com/Pop.org) – The Bush administration has once again withheld nearly $40 million from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), marking the seventh consecutive year that the U.S. government has refused the organization the funds. The Population Research Institute has issued a statement saying that it applauds this decision, which honors the Kemp-Kasten amendment of 1985 forbidding tax dollars from going to programs of forced abortion. The groundwork for this decision was laid by the Population Research Institute, headed by Steven W. Mosher, which has […]
Italian Candidate “Staunchest Enemy” of Christian Principles in Italy: Lobby Group by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROME, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Emma Bonino, the extreme left Radical Party candidate for the upcoming Lazio regional elections, is a threat to the democratic principles of freedom of religious expression and to the Catholic Church’s pastoral work in Italy, says a Rome-based lobby group. Centro Culturale Lepanto (CCL) president Fabio Bernabei said that if Bonino is elected as head of the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome, it would “seriously threaten the freedom of the apostolate of Catholics.” CCL is […]
Obama Bypasses Senate to Install Controversial “Rationing Czar” at Medicare Center by LifeSiteNews.com 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 […]
Canada’s Largest Catholic Newspaper Calls for Open Investigation into Development and Peace by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Register, the largest Catholic newspaper in Canada, owned by the Archdiocese of Toronto, has called for an open investigation into the international development arm of the Canadian Bishops Conference. Concerns that the development organization, called Development and Peace, is funding groups involved in abortion advocacy were first raised by an investigative report by LifeSiteNews.com. Since the first report, which involved five groups in Mexico, LSN and others have reported on D&P funding of pro-abortion groups […]
"In light of the irrefutable medical facts, it should be considered criminally reckless for educators to teach children that homosexual conduct is a normal, safe and perfectly acceptable alternative form of sexual expression (or 'sexual orientation'). "
British Doctors Practising “Slow” Euthanasia through Deep Sedation: BBC Report by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, August 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A BBC report has revealed that physicians in the UK are increasingly seeing and using “continuous deep sedation” as a form of “slow” euthanasia. Adam Brimelow, BBC News health correspondent, writes that the use of continuous deep sedation, also known as “terminal sedation” is becoming more common in the UK and may be the way physicians are skirting the law prohibiting direct euthanasia. Research has shown that 16.5 percent of all deaths in the UK are associated with continuous […]
Two Archbishops Declare LSN Reports on Abortion-Advocacy Funding by D&P “Untrue,””False” and “Malici by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen WINNIPEG, April 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite mounting evidence, two Canadian Archbishops have declared the LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) reports on the funding of numerous abortion advocacy groups by D&P around the globe to be false (See coverage of the D&P denials here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/mar/09033006.html). In a March 23rd letter to his archdiocese, James Weisgerber, Archbishop of Winnipeg and the current President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that the accusations against D&P are “untrue.” “There have been public accusations made that Development […]
Prominent Homosexual Activist Says Bestiality OK “As Long as the Animal Doesn’t Mind” by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Long-time homosexual activist Frank Kameny’s claim to fame is successfully manipulating the American Psychiatric Association into declassifying homosexuality as a mental disorder, and today the Smithsonian honoree is now busily advocating bestiality “as long as the animal doesn’t mind.” Kameny, 83, has had a long career advocating the removal of any restrictions on human acts long considered by sane societies as obscene, dangerous, and disordered. However the octogenarian has a new mission to complement […]
San Diego Firefighters Forced to Participate in “Gay Pride” Parade File Lawsuit Against City by LifeSiteNews.com SAN DIEGO, CA, August 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Four respected San Diego firefighters were ordered, against their wishes, to participate in uniform on their city fire truck in the city’s annual “Gay Pride” parade. During the course of the ensuing three hour long ordeal, the firefighters were subjected to obscene sexual taunts from homosexuals lining the parade route. This included the following statements: “show me your hose,” “you can put out my fire,” “you’re making me hot,” “give me mouth-to-mouth,” “you look hungry, why […]
Planned Parenthood Sued over Failure to Report Teen’s Incest Pregnancy by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Ohio teenager has launched a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood affiliates in Cincinnati for failing to report to authorities that she was a victim of incest, Cybercast News Service reported earlier today. Filed May ninth, the suit claims that when the girl—who cannot be named—sought an abortion in 2004 at the age of 16, she told staff with Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio that she had been raped by her own father and that the sexual assaults had […]
EDITORIAL: In the Face of Mounting Evidence, D&P Says: “Nothing Could be Farther from the Truth” by LifeSiteNews.com March 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Development and Peace (D&P) fiasco has spiraled out of control in ways we at LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) could not have envisioned. Since LSN first broke the story that the Canadian bishops’ official development arm is funding pro-abortion groups in Mexico, there have been some who have accused LSN of pursuing a deliberate and malicious agenda to target D&P during their largest fundraising season. This, however, is not the case. About a month ago, in the lead-up to […]
Priests for Life Canada Calls on Bishops to Act on D&P Abortion-Lobby Group Funding by LifeSiteNews.com March 31, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The following statement by Priests for Life Canada President Fr. Tom Lynch was released today and is being sent to Canadian bishops: THOSE TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN MUCH WILL BE DEMANDED Recently it has been revealed that Development and Peace, the social justice and development arm of the Conference of Canadian Catholic Bishops, has been partnering with a number of development and social action groups in foreign countries that have taken public stances and actions contrary to Catholic […]
Stephen Mosher Expresses Serious Concerns About Canadian Bishops’ D&P Investigation by LifeSiteNews.com By Steve Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C, May 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stephen Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute, in a spontaneous interview on May 8 in Washington D.C., expressed serious concerns to LifeSiteNews about the Canadian bishops’ investigation of Development and Peace funding of allegedly pro-abortion groups. In the 80’s, under president Reagan, former Stanford researcher Mosher testified before congress about the human rights abuses taking place in China. As a consequence of his evidence the United States cut off funding to the United Nations Population Fund, the […]
“I know you're going to see more and more of these people coming forward and...trying to make deals with prosecutors like some of those people in Pennsylvania probably wish they had,” Mark Crutcher told Bryan Fischer of AFR Talk.
"We have a responsibility to investigate the causes, review the effects of certain public policies, and determine what we can do to prevent any woman from being subjected to these reprehensible practices again," said Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.
This may sound like a scene out of a horror movie. But it is just one more of the many surreal, but apparently true, details that have emerged in the past few days,.
“The purpose of the defense of life is to defend life, but it is also creating a cultural alternative to the current culture," said Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi.
Although it is likely to pass, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children told LifeSiteNews that the bill is “considerably less popular" in the House of Lords.
When the difference between life and death for both the victims and their killers is a matter of inches, then the only radical thing about the distinction being made is its departure from reason and simple decency.
Catholic and International Pro-Life Groups Ask Canadian Bishops to Halt Funding to Latin American Pr by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, March 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic International pro-life groups have reacted with dismay to evidence that the official development arm of the Canadian Conference of Bishops is funding pro-abortion groups in Latin America. Human Life International (HLI), the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (CFAM) and the Latin American Alliance for the Family (ALAFA), are all urging the Bishops of Canada to cease funding the groups which, among their various activities, also advocate for abortion. A LifeSiteNews.com investigative report […]
Britain’s Pathway to Euthanasia – NHS Protocols for Dehydrating Disabled Patients to Death by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British “end of life” care protocol approved for use by the National Health Service (NHS), has created a systematic, and legal, method of euthanising elderly and disabled patients, even while “mercy killing” remains officially illegal, says a prominent expert in elder care. The “Liverpool Care Pathway” will be used to eliminate patients deemed to be “blocking beds” in the increasingly financially strapped public health system. For years, Dr. Adrian Treloar, a psycho-geriatrician and senior lecturer at […]
Today, I will be participating in the Step Forward for Orphans March to bring awareness to the more than 10 million children around the world who do not live with their parents.
Back in my corporate-flack days, this was called “diluting the brand,” as there’s nothing in Roman Catholic doctrine that addresses cigarettes, cigars, snuff and chew, or the selling thereof.
The corruptions of the Obama administration are finally starting to be revealed and it isn't pretty. The question I have is, “why has it taken so long?” Now we know, from IRSgate, EPAgate and even the Benghazi affair, a little bit of how Obama managed to steal the last election. I strongly suggest that the revelations so far, as bad as they are, are very likely only the tip of the iceberg of Obama corruption. Our series on Obama's radical Marxist associated get-out-the-vote head told us that that the Obama organization must have a modus operandi of the end justifies any means. That's radical […]
“With Obama at the head, the Democratic Party is becoming associated with extreme left-wing politics,” American Life League executive director Paul Rondeau told LifeSiteNews.
May 16, 2013 (JillStanek.com) – By now workers at every late-term abortion clinic in America (and there are way more than four) are buzzing about Kermit Gosnell’s conviction this week of murdering three abortion survivors. Clinic staff have also likely noticed that four of Gosnell’s employees were swept up into his junk and have pleaded guilty of murder, and four others to lesser charges. Then yesterday came revelations of another hack who allegedly murdered living babies he had just aborted. Three former employees of late-term abortionist Douglas Karpen of Houston, Texas, have come forward, with photographic and video evidence that he murdered born babies in heinous ways and also committed abortions […]
According to the autopsy, the child had a healthy head of hair and skin consistent with “a neonate” (newborn). The autopsy also determined that she was eight months old.
“We want to give our staff the tools to know what to do should an incident of homophobic bullying occur," said St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School headmaster Sarah Crouch.
Military and "hospital chaplains will be protected in exactly the same way as any other clergy and could not be forced to conduct marriages of same sex,” said Equalities Minister Maria Miller.
"With the recent murder convictions of Dr. Gosnell, we’ve got to encourage Americans to ask—how different really is Gosnell’s House of Horrors from abortions that occur in clinics throughout the country?" said Rep. Chris Smith, R-NJ.
ObamaCare will give the government the ability to decide which health care plans will be allowed to participate - or to receive government funds and reimbursements.
Copenhagen: China pushing Population Control as the Final Solution by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent By Hilary White COPENHAGEN, December 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Population control has emerged as a key issue for “climate change” talks in Copenhagen, after the issue was brought forward by Chinese delegates. Zhao Baige, vice-minister of National Population and Family Planning Commission of China (NPFPC) said, “Population and climate change are intertwined, but the population issue has remained a blind spot when countries discuss ways to mitigate climate change and slow down global warming.” “Dealing with climate change is not simply an issue of CO2 emission […]
Pope Francis will have his first real opportunity to speak to the sacredness of human life at the upcoming weekend celebration of Evangelium Vitae (the Gospel of Life), June 15-16, 2013 in Rome.
Bathurst Right to Life has been holding the peaceful prayer vigil on the lawn and sidewalk of the long driveway leading to the hospital for many years.
The study “is one of only a few able to demonstrate a strong link between early childhood father absence and teenage girls’ risk of depressive symptoms,” said the study authors.
It’s a commonly acknowledged fact among pro-lifers that the mainstream media will go out of its way to downplay the number of people swamping Parliament Hill for the annual March for Life every spring.
For one group in Iowa, the IRS required every board member to sign a statement testifying that they do not protest outside of Planned Parenthood before the group could obtain tax exempt status.
Moments after I found out that Kermit Gosnell was convicted on 3 of 4 counts of murdering babies, I received a phone call that my sister's water had broken, she had gone into labour. My sister and I are very close. I was present at the birth of her first child, and now her second was on its way. So this was a very exciting time for me. I rushed to the hospital, then sat waiting for the moment when her little one would arrive. Would it be a baby boy? Would it be a baby girl? Baby boy. Baby […]
“When you show them love instead of condemnation, when you show them peace and joy instead of anger and judgment, that will begin to break down the walls,” David Bereit told an overflow crowd at the youth conference on Friday.
A representative of the National Abortion Federation inspected Gosnell's “house of horrors” but did not turn him in to Pennsylvania health authorities.
I’m overjoyed that there was some justice in the Gosnell case. I just wonder what it will take to get justice for the rest of the more than a million babies who died that year, most of them legally.
"We are just animals," Brewer said. "You can’t have lambs running around with five legs and two heads. It would be put down, smashed against the wall and be dealt with."
We are pleased that Kermit Gosnell will pay the price for the crimes he committed. But how many other abortionists are getting away with the same thing day after day?
Diocesan officials welcomed the decision in a statement, saying the union’s decision “acknowledges and affirms that all those who teach within the Catholic school system agree to abide by the rules."
On April 25th Boston College, a Jesuit University, announced that Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, who is aggressively promoting abortion legislation in Ireland, would be receiving an honorary Doctor of Law degree at their May 20th graduation exercises.
Harper is the first of five politicians the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) says it will make “Face the Children”—the name of its new project.
Roberto Gonzalez Nieves, who was an auxiliary bishop in Boston in the 1980s, says he is also accused of “protecting” pedophile priests, and other indiscretions.
Last week, Gallup released the results of a recent survey on abortion attitudes. The pro-life position made a small gain since the most recent Gallup abortion survey conducted in December 2012. However, the gain was close to the margin of error. As such, much of the subsequent spin is that the Kermit Gosnell trial apparently has done little to shift overall attitudes toward abortion. Even attitudes toward late-term abortion remained similar. All in all, this is relatively unsurprising. As many pro-lifers have pointed out, the Gosnell trial has received limited coverage from the mainstream media. Furthermore, most of the media coverage it […]
Today the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Obama Administration's denial of asylum granted to Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their six children.
For 28 years Chris Slattery, founder of Expectant Mother Care Frontline Pregnancy Centers, has focused on helping pregnant mothers in crisis in the New York City area, where 40% of all babies are killed by abortion, and worse, 60% of all black babies. EMC now operates in 12 locations in four NYC boroughs. But this summer Slattery plans to exponentially expand EMC’s urban outreach to 10 other major U.S. cities with high abortion rates and underrepresented crisis pregnancy outreach –Austin, Baltimore, Buffalo, Charlotte, Cleveland, Detroit, Miami, Philadelphia,San Antonio, and Washington, D.C. EMC offices are already open in Charlotte, Detroit, and DC. EMC’s Miami branch will launch next week. Slattery plans to accomplish […]
A new Toronto District Catholic School Board motion up for vote on May 23, seeks to reject the Ontario Liberal Government’s enforcement of homosexual activist clubs in Catholic schools.
Marquette Settles with Jilted Lesbian Prof by LifeSiteNews.com By James Tillman MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—Marquette University has reached an out-of-court settlement with Dr. Jodi O’Brien regarding Marquette President Fr. Robert Wild’s decision to rescind a job offer to the openly lesbian O’Brien as dean of Marquette’s College of Arts and Sciences. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. “We have apologized to Dr. O’Brien for the way in which this was handled,” Fr. Wild said in an email to the University’s faculty, “and for the upset and unwanted attention that we have caused to this outstanding teacher […]
If it passes, the official policy of the U.S. government would be to penalize organizations who take the well-being of children into account in adoption placement.
Dissected “Bodies” Exhibition Fails to Prove Bodies Were Willfully Donated by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert KANSAS CITY, MO, August 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – If the bodies on display at “Bodies Revealed” could speak, they might tell a more horrifying tale than the morbid fascination their visitors pay for. The company behind “Bodies Revealed,” an exhibition featuring preserved corpses variously posed, sliced and flayed, has shipped hundreds of corpses and organs around the United States in numerous displays. These displays attract visitors by claiming to inspire a “reverence for life” by respectfully displaying bodies in a way “that informs but doesn’t […]
The IRS admitted to searching applications for terms like “Tea Party,” “patriots,” and “Constitutional rights” and flagging such files for further, intrusive review.
Some mainstream media outlets are continuing to report that Gosnell was found guilty of murder for killing “fetuses,” or for illegal late-term “abortions.”
The National March for Life Youth Conference with 1000 participants kicked off Friday with a rip-roaring homily that let the young people know what they were up against
At the same time, many warned that there is little difference between Gosnell and the many abortionists who legally kill unborn children every day in the United States.
The Canadian National March for Life has grown to such an extent that three English-language Masses and one French language Mass were required this year to accommodate all the Catholic participants.
The cheerful crowd, led by a marching band and overwhelmingly composed of young people, smiled, laughed, prayed, sang and chanted as they marched through the Historic Centre of Rome, from the Colosseum to St. Peter’s Piazza.
To hear you unabashedly, proudly extolling the virtues of child sacrifice… I’m just speechless. We do not hear that enough these days, Dr. Carhart. Thank you.
The Boy Scouts are en route to holding that there is nothing to being a boy, and nothing to the boy’s becoming a man; they might as well be the Unisex Scouts, as they are in Canada, where the scouting movement has collapsed.
Clinic workers did not know how many babies were “aborted” this way, because Showery often performed his late-term abortions behind closed doors and didn’t allow the clinic workers to see.
Great news comes from Michigan of yet another abortion clinic closing – Birth Control Center in Sterling Heights. This makes the SEVENTH abortion mill to close in in the Great Lake State since last September. As it seems with most abortuaries in Michigan, Birth Control Center has a storied past. Birth Control Center was the state’s second oldest abortion clinic, incorporating on July 19, 1974. It was Birth Control Center that brought a lawsuit in the late 1970s which struck down state licensing requirements for abortion clinics. From the 1981 ruling, Birth Control Center Inc v. Reizen (then Michigan’s state health director), until pro-life legislators passed a clinic regulation law […]
The Catholic teaching on abortion legislation and Catholic politicians is clear, as seen in the literature itself and the comments of the Catholic hierarchy together now with the wishes of Pope Francis in his letter to the Argentinian bishops.
Guatemala Supreme Court Suspends Abortion and “Family Planning” Law by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White GUATEMALA CITY, February 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Guatemala has ruled that a family planning law passed last week is under provisional suspension. The law was to open the door to legalised abortion in the predominantly Catholic country. Guatemala president, Oscar Berger had previously vetoed the bill but congress voted to override the veto. The Supreme Court will examine this law and decide if it is in conjunction with existing laws regarding families and children. United Nations population NGO’s have long complained that […]
Two House committees have issued letters to state agencies in their efforts to prevent more abortion facility atrocities akin to Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s “House of Horrors.”
While the Vatican denied that there was a rift between the CDF and the Congregation for Religious, Cardinal Braz de Aviz said that there was a conflict over the investigation of the LCWR>
“The beautiful thing about fighting for human dignity is that it knows no geographic boundaries,” said Ryan Bomberger of Virginia Beach, founder of the Radiance Foundation.
The College’s submissions were “seriously flawed, distorting medical science and replacing it with gay ideology,” and “impinge deeply on [its] integrity,” the Trust said.
The Kitchener legislator, who championed a motion in 2012 seeking to launch a Parliamentary study into the status of the unborn, was given Campaign Life Coalition’s Joseph P. Borowski Award.
Instead of ensuring that both mother and baby are safe, they want to pit mothers against their children in the medieval belief that the violence of abortion can ever be a solution to a woman in crisis.
The youth were treated to a rip-roaring talk by David Bereit, national director of the 40 Days for Life, who urged them to get active in the campaign to end abortion.
With Warawa’s successful bid today for recognition to speak in the House, the whole of Parliament, both inside and outside, was permeated with the pro-life message.
Amnesty International, International Planned Parenthood Federation, and a group of United Nations “experts,” are joining other organizations to demand an abortion for an anonymous woman pseudonymously named “Beatriz”
D&P Develops “Exit Strategy” from “Controversial” Partnerships by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine CORNWALL, Ontario, November 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP, or D&P) has developed an “exit strategy” to end “controversial” partnerships, according to a newly released summary report from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB). The new report is the result of a year’s worth of cooperation between the CCCB and D&P. While the report fails explicitly to acknowledge that D&P has funded numerous or even any groups who advocate for abortion, contraception, and the homosexualist ideology, it nevertheless proposes […]
Why is jury in #Gosnell taking so long? A pic of the verdictsheet containing the criminal counts to be considered. twitter.com/jdmullane/stat… — jdmullane (@jdmullane) May 9, 2013 The Gosnell jury just wrapped up its eighth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. Observers are naturally anxious to find out what is going to happen to the man who perpetrated the notorious “House of Horrors,” and many are beginning to wonder why it is taking the jury so long to make up its mind. The answer? Basically because Gosnell did so many horrible things. Today reporter JD Mullane tweeted a photo […]
One of the victims, Michelle Knight, says Castro impregnated her five times, which ended each time in miscarriages resulting from Castro’s starvation and beatings.
Despite threats of thunderstorms, the weather was sunny and beautiful at the 16th National March for Life in another record-breaking year for the federal legislature’s largest annual rally.
This year's Canadian National March for Life in Ottawa has been a blockbuster from all the reports we have heard and seen so far. One of the many people responsible for encouraging more and more youth to make the trip to Ottawa for the march is Campaign Life Coalition's indomitable youth coordinator Alissa Golob. In this pre-march interview early this morning on SUN NEWS, Alissa shows that she very confidently and instantly has all the answers for any questions from the media. The pro-life movement can't help but gain far more influence and credibility with this newest generation of pro-life […]
The activists were protesting a column by Cardinal Dolan comparing those coming to communion in a state of sin to children at dinner who fail to wash their hands.
Jocelyn was born of rape of the worst kind. And yet, her mother loves her. And now she has a chance at a good life. As long as there is life, there is hope.
I wrote the other day that aside from a U.S. Senate resolution introduced May 6 to “investigate and correct abusive, unsanitary, and illegal abortion practices” in the wake of the Kermit Gosnell scandal, other efforts were in the works to reign in dangerous abortion clinics and abortionists nationwide. Two of those efforts were revealed today.Susan B. Anthony List writes: In the wake of the Kermit Gosnell trial, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), announced today that they have sent a letter to public health officials in each state demanding answers as to how they regulate abortion facilities. Yesterday the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), sent a […]
On the evening before the National March for Life, young and old honored the victims of abortion at the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights Monument with prayer, songs, and speeches.
“If our Prime Minister cannot publicly condemn the practice of killing preborn baby girls purely because they are girls, we have no other reason than to assume he supports it," says Campaign Life's Alissa Golob.
To the outrage of the country’s gay lobby, Pastor Marco Feliciano is now introducing legislation to roll back the prohibitions placed on reparative therapy for homosexuality by the country’s Federal Council of Psychology.
Last year's National March for Life brought nearly 20,000 pro-lifers to Ottawa. Organizers are anticipating that numbers at this year's March will again surpass previous attendance.
In his Easter Sunday address, Patriarch Ilia II called abortion "the heinous murder of an innocent creature committed with the decision and intent of parents.”
To the outrage of the country’s gay lobby, an Evangelical pastor elected to office is now introducing legislation to roll back the prohibitions placed on reparative therapy
Today, Live Action released the fourth video in its new investigative series, “Inhuman: Undercover in America’s late-term abortion industry.” This video features one of the stars of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart. Today’s video begins a shift in the “Inhuman” conversation from the atrocity of illegal infanticide to the atrocity of legal late-term abortions. As pro-life Democrat Kirsten Powers wrote at The Daily Beast on May 6: What we need to learn from the Gosnell case is that late-term abortion is infanticide. Legal infanticide. That so many people in the media seem untroubled by the idea that 12 inches in one direction is a “private medical decision” […]
I am not at all surprised that Dr. Gosnell is cool, calm and collected, smiling even as he listens to those accusing him of murder. Abortion destroys the abortionists themselves.
“Marlin, I’m so sorry!” That's what Congressman Marlin Stutzman heard recently when he called his mother and asked if she had ever considered ending her unplanned pregnancy. In a powerful article for the Washington Times, Stutzman recounts how his mother found herself pregnant at the age of 17, and how she was tempted to “take care of her situation.” Here's what he writes: On a cold December night in 1975, a 17-year-old girl sobbed on the bedroom floor of a neighbor’s house. Her own home had just burned to the ground, destroying everything she had. But that wasn’t the only […]
We are sorry to have to present so many disturbing stories again today and for the past few weeks, but there is an upside to these many reports. The upside is that you and the rest of the public now have a huge amount of hard, motivating evidence about the true horrors of “choice” and the oppressive, totalitarian intolerance of “LGBTQ……..” activism – encouraged, exploited and financed by powerful international social manipulators. All the lies are being exposed, but perhaps more importantly, all the reasons for not taking these things very seriously and not making them top priorities for personal […]
Mexican Supreme Court Issues Decision Protecting Ability of States to Restrict Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MEXICO CITY, March 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Mexican Supreme Court has announced a split decision on Mexico City’s abortion law which has the effect of allowing the states to continue to restrict abortion. The decision was issued in response to a suit brought by the Mexican government against the capital city’s abortion law passed in 2007, which permits abortion on demand during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and requires public hospitals to perform the deadly procedure. The nation’s Human Rights […]
Police say they believe the women had been pregnant as many as five times but found only one child on the premises, a six-year-old girl whom Berry told them she conceived with one of her captors.
“In 2014, we should be talking about progress from 1994,” Babatunde Osotimehin, the current director of the UN population fund said at the Planned Parenthood event.
UKIP has been attracting former Tories disillusioned with Prime Minister David Cameron’s “modernizing” efforts that have included a bill for “gay marriage” and broken promises on a European referendum.
After a dizzying few days of statements and counterstatements, religious liberty advocates are still worried freedom of religious expression within the U.S. armed forces may be threatened.
This is the twenty-third medical emergency documented by the pro-life organization Operation Rescue at abortion clinics nationwide since the first of the year.
Family First New Zealand, which holds a traditional view of marriage, have received notice that they will be removed from the Charities Register on May 27th.
Even as some on our side have begun to complain that Republicans are not taking advantage of the Gosnell massacre to introduce pro-life legislation, as Democrats did by introducing anti-gun legislation after the Newton massacre, pro-life legislators and wonks have been and are working on it. The first response was unveiled late yesterday, when pro-life Utah Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee (pictured right), along with 10 co-sponsors, introduced an as yet unnumbered resolution calling for Congress to “investigate and correct abusive, unsanitary, and illegal abortion practices.” What abortion supporter interested in “safe” abortions could possibly oppose investigating and outing unsafe abortion clinics nationwide? We shall soon see. Click “like” if you are PRO-LIFE! The resolution also […]
In the 1970s the tennis world was at an all-time high with the greats of the sport rivaling one another on and off the courts. One focus of attention was the engagement between the top man and top woman of the sport. Jimmy Connors and Chrissie Evert called off their wedding and while their tennis careers survived their personal lives were fraught with struggle. Connors claims in his newly released book that one of the reasons that contributed to the breakup was abortion. In The Outsider, Connors writes: “Listen, an issue had arisen as a result of youthful passion and […]
This weekend on NRO, both Jillian Kay Melchior and Robert VerBruggen have offered commentary about the FDA’s recent decision to allow females age 15 and up to purchase emergency contraception without a prescription. Melchoir argues that will reduce the incidence of abortion, while VerBruggen is a bit more skeptical, saying “we should not expect too much.” I would argue that, worse, from a pro-life perspective, the FDA’s decision will do more harm than good. In his posting, VerBruggen favorably cites a 2002 Guttmacher Institute study on the contraceptive use of women obtaining abortions, which provides plenty of information to support his argument that abortions are not caused […]
I was a member of an internet forum for women who are trying to get pregnant. The other day someone posted a new thread titled, “Help! 16 and Maybe Pregnant!”
'There was my baby, the whitish cord and what I thought surely must be the placenta. I started sobbing and lay down in the floor. I stared and stared at my son.'
President Barack Obama told reporters at a Mexico City press conference Thursday that he is “very comfortable” with the emergency contraceptive pill Plan B being made available on easy-to-access store shelves for girls as young as 15
The Associated Press (AP) has been running various stories about President Obama having given the green light to 15 year old girls to purchase Plan B over the counter, concluding its pieces with the mainstream consensus that the morning-after pill has “no effect” if a “woman already is pregnant.” Had AP writers paid more attention to high-school biology and done a little better research on how the pill actually works, according to its makers, they may have written an entirely different story. The AP story makes its sweeping “no effect” claim by leaning heavily on a highly disputed “medical [re]definition” […]
Planned Parenthood is much in the news lately. And they can't be happy about it. The trial of House of Horrors abortionist Kermit Gosnell is putting killing babies in a bad light.
New Zealand became the 13thcountry to legalise same sex marriage two weeks ago. This week the Anglican Bishop of Auckland is being taken to the Human Rights Tribunal over allegations he is discriminating against a gay man who wants to become a priest. Right Reverend Ross Bay (pictured) has been accused of preventing a gay man entering the Anglican Church's training or discernment programme for priests because he is unmarried and in a sexual relationship with his male partner. Bay denies the allegation. The complainant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he had been signalling his desire to train for the priesthood […]
My days are brighter knowing that I no longer have to witness abortion and the abuse done to the mothers, not to mention all of the illegal activities done in the clinic.
… And that’s not the worst of it. I didn’t have room in my title for the hymn abortionist Timothy Liveright sang to one patient during her abortion, “Jesus, Ohhhhh Jesus, take the sinners down the river, Ohhhh Jesus.” Seems to me that was meant as some sort of double entendre for the abortion he was committing. Gross on so many levels. I spoke Thursday with RN Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich, pictured above right, who worked at Planned Parenthood Delaware’s Dover and Wilmington clinics for 3-1/2 months in 2012. During that brief time Jayne saw a lot. And what she saw left her “dumbfounded.” Jayne had worked at a hospital […]
A report from the courtroom this morning suggests that Kermit Gosnell's attorney, Jack McMahon, is furious about the Fox News special about his client, “See No Evil,” that aired this past weekend. Reporter JD Mullane tweets from the courtroom: “Jack McMahon fuming over Fox News special 'See No Evil.' Will ask judge to quiz jury if any saw show.” Mullane added: “McMahon said Fox News 'See No Evil' about Kermit Gosnell designed to sway jury. 'It was irresponsible to put on that show,' he said.” Did you see Fox News' special this weekend? What did you think? Give your impressions […]
Blacks accounted for 35.4 percent of abortions performed in 2009, despite representing, according to the 2010 census, just 13.6 percent of the US population.
Detroit Bishop to Offer a Funeral Mass for Eighteen Aborted Babies by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen DETROIT, May 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A funeral Mass burial for eighteen unborn babies will be offered this Saturday, May 3, by Bishop John Quinn of Detroit. The remains of their bodies were discovered in dumpsters at the Woman Care abortion clinic on Southfield Road in Lathrup Village, Michigan which is operated by abortionist Alberto Hodari. Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, called upon all of the nation’s Catholic priests today to offer a Mass within the next few days for […]
Notre Dame Anti-Military, Pro-Gay Protesters Let Go; Pro-Lifers Still Face Fines, Imprisonment by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert and John Jalsevac SOUTH BEND, Indiana, April 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While numerous pro-life protesters who were arrested for trespassing at the University of Notre Dame last year continue to face up to a year in prison and a $5,000 fine, anti-military and pro-gay demonstrators who were previously arrested on campus had their charges dropped, according to a shocking new investigation by the Sycamore Trust. Furthermore, the president of the University, Fr. John Jenkins, has reportedly refused to discuss the disparate treatment. William […]
“It can be very intimidating,” Bishop Campbell said. “We are very concerned about that, but we have to remain steadfast in the teaching of the church.”
If you live too far away to attend the National March For Life in Ottawa on May 9, you may still be able to stand up for human rights at a local Marches for Life being held across the country.
Eight months after setting up a new office in Toronto, the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform is making a strong impact in Canada’s largest city with a new outreach to high school students.
Pro-life demonstrators who work outside abortion facilities and speak to women have an emotional impact on women who have not yet made up their minds to abort, a study has found.
The fate of the serial killer Kermit Gosnell is in the hands of the jury, but the fate of legalized child killing is in our hands: What will our verdict be?
In the coming days, we will learn the outcome of this trial. But whether Gosnell is tossed onto death row, set free, or something in between, the far bigger picture is what this trial says about our country.
Penashue did not respond to Campaign Life Coalition's 2011 candidate evaluation questionnaire, but the group says he has “voted the right way on the two life & family bills that came before him."
Ontario Gvmt Won’t Say Whether Catholic Schools Can Teach Beliefs on Homosexuality by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine See companion article from yesterday: Ontario Gov’t Initiative Would Force Catholic Schools to Violate Church Teaching TORONTO, Ontario, January 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario Ministry of Education has refused to say whether Catholic schools will be permitted to teach Catholic beliefs on homosexuality under their new Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy. The new strategy requires the province’s boards, including the Catholic ones, to recognize special protections for homosexuals. The Vatican, however, has condemned such a recognition, warning that it “can easily […]
Senators Clinton, Obama, say “Homosexuality is Moral” While Brownback Publicly Supports General Pace by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., March 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama entered the media furor yesterday over comments General Peter Pace, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made against homosexuality last week, with both issuing statements saying, “I do not think homosexuality is immoral.” Clinton and Obama made the statements after a homosexual activist group attacked “Democratic candidates” for failing to oppose General Pace’s comments that he believes homosexuality to be “immoral.” The general told the Chicago Tribune […]
Note: additional related articles have been added to the bottom of this blog since it was first posted The increasing actions of the Obama administration to obviously purge the military of Christians and Christian influence and principles – traditional to the US military since its beginning – is the most alarming development of this presidency to date. It is certainly about more than facilitating tolerance of other religions. Think about what the US military would be like without its usual backbone of many thousands of trustworthy, patriotic Christian troops of various denominations in all the forces and in all levels […]
In the wake of the ensuing uproar, the Pentagon released another statement today claiming to have made "reasonable accommodations" for religious practice, and drawing a distinction between evangelization and proselytization.
“We’ve seen the horrors of the Kermit Gosnell case in the U.S. in recent weeks, and just how horrific late term abortions are.” said Niamh Uí Bhriain, head of the Life Institute.
Right now, 25 women are walking from Montreal to Ottawa as a witness to life, to protest abortion, and to raise awareness about the fact that a majority of women who have aborted their children felt coerced into the making that "choice."
Ryan’s position now curiously echoes the amicus curiae brief the Obama administration filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in February, asserting that homosexuals are as successful at parenting as heterosexual couples.
A local reporter in Philadelphia has given us an interesting peek into the mind of Kermit Gosnell. According to J.D. Mullane, a source told him that when Sheriff's deputies called Gosnell by his first name – Kermit – the abortionist demanded in response, “You will call me Doctor Gosnell.” To which the deputies shot back: “You're just an inmate now, Kermit.” Reports from the courtroom over the past six weeks have indicated that Gosnell has showed no signs of remorse for his alleged crimes, despite the in-many-cases gutwrechingly gruesome testimony. In one case an Associated Press reporter even described Gosnell as […]
U.S.-UK threats "of economic sanctions are not new experiences for us, neither is the claim to a superior morality convincing for peoples who have known the experience of chattel slavery in our past," the bishops write.
Cherlie Lafleur, 19, was arrested after a custodian discovered the body of a young baby in a trash can in the ladies rest room at the school on Tuesday.
Murder of babies born alive is “the rule, not the exception” in the abortion industry, they said at a protest in front of Cesare F. Santangelo's office on Wednesday.
While mainstream Canadian media, except Sun Media has repeatedly ignored the March, EWTN the world's largest religious TV network has deemed the story too big to miss.
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 2, 2013 (Acton Institute) – The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the sale of the “morning-after pill”(such as Plan B) for teens as young as 15, with no need for parental consent, and mandated that the drug no longer can be kept behind the pharmacy counter. Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, believes there are “daunting and sometimes insurmountable hoops women are forced to jump through” when faced with a crisis pregnancy and that this measure is a step forward for women’s health. While there are conflicting opinions as to whether or not these medications cause […]
"I invite Catholics and people of good will to make their views known, support the March for Life, form their conscience before voting, and pray that a 'culture of life' will result in our nation."
“It is beyond belief that a modern civilized country could allow such injustice to continue,” said Roger Kiska, the Alliance Defending Freedom’s senior legal counsel in Europe.
On a few occasions now I've had coffee with two abortionists. On Monday, though, I had a very different encounter with an abortionist; this time, I watched Kermitt Gosnell stand trial for murder.
It’s an unwritten rule of the abortion wars that pro-life demonstrations get an easy boost in winning over public opinion because of the outlandish tactics used at pro-abortion counter-demonstrations. The annual National March for Life in Ottawa is a case in point. There’s a radical contrast between the pro-lifers who pray or chant joyfully, wielding Rosaries and placards, and the pro-aborts who are often found waving coathangers, shouting obscenities, handing out condoms to teens, and even in some cases appearing half naked. After 15 years of annual marches, it looks like at least one pro-abortion group in Ottawa is catching […]
Italian Candidate a Threat to Religious Freedom on International Scene: Catholic Lobby Group by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROME, March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Emma Bonino’s power and influence will increase dramatically both nationally and internationally if she wins the upcoming election to the presidency of the Lazio region in Italy, which includes the city of Rome, said Fabio Bernabei, president of Centro Culturale Lepanto (CCL), in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com on Saturday. Despite her description by the European press as “centre left,” Bonino, as the Radical Party candidate, “is the most radical politician in Italy,” Bernabei claimed. CCL is […]
Ontario Bishops Reject High School “Gender Studies” Course by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, January 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario have rejected a “Gender Studies” course that is being promoted by the Ontario Ministry of Education. The grade 11 course aims to help students “understand the meaning of gender identity and norms of femininity and masculinity,” according to the draft document, which is available on a Ministry website. The bishops’ education commission decided to reject the course at a December 7th meeting, after which they sent a letter to all of the […]
The priest had said that the Catholic Church “is going to have to change, but not because the society has changed, but because science and human knowledge have evolved."
Increased access to "emergency contraception" does not result in lower pregnancy rates among adolescents and young adults; it is associated with an increased incidence of sexually transmitted infections.
Information coming from the courtroom suggests that the jury is taking a slow and methodical approach to reviewing the charges against Gosnell and his co-defendant Eileen O’Neill.
Christians in the UK Facing Increasing Official Discrimination: Poll by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, June 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A poll conducted by the Sunday Telegraph has found that thousands of Christians in Britain fear losing job promotions and are being harassed at work because of their religious beliefs. The poll has been released at the same time that reports that Britain is becoming increasingly hostile to Christian believers are increasing. In the Telegraph poll, one in five said they had faced “opposition” at work because of their beliefs. Over half said they had suffered from some kind of […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday that it had approved the levonogestrel-based morning-after pill Plan B One-Step for use without a prescription by girls as young as 15.
JD Mullane, a columnist for the Bucks County Courier Times, The Intel and the Burlington County (NJ) Times, has become the go-to man for up-to-date news on the Gosnell trial. He has been in the courtroom since mid-March, listening to and covering all the gruesome testimony. Today he sent out an interesting tweet, claiming that Gosnell is being held in solitary confinement at Curran-Frumhold Correction Facility. The reason? According to Mullane's source: “Snipping babies' heads is frowned upon by felons.” Indeed. Some crimes are just so abominable, that even those who are willing to break the law willy-nilly know that […]
A representative of the London District Catholic School Board says the survey was spearheaded by a student-led group that formed in response to Bill 13, the Ontario Liberals’ controversial “anti-bullying” legislation.
As the liberal commentator Roger L. Simon has written, “The trial of Dr. Gosnell is a potential time bomb exploding in the conventional liberal narrative on abortion itself.”
An ABC News article appeared recently on the Kermit Gosnell trial that included remarks from one pro-life spokeswoman (our own Ann Scheidler, Vice President of the Pro-Life Action League), as well as one “pro-choice” spokeswoman (National Abortion Federation President Vicki Saporta). In the article reporter Colleen Curry quotes or paraphrases Saporta in each of the last four paragraphs. Here are the first two: Vicki Saporta, president for the abortion rights group National Abortion Federation, said that Gosnell took advantage of the women who came to him in need of an abortion. She said his clinic is not representative of safe, regulated abortion clinics. […]
Princeton Philosopher: ‘Why Not Sterilize the Human Race and Party into Extinction?’ by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Princeton philosopher Peter Singer one of the world’s foremost contemporary utilitarian philosophers infamous for his advocacy of infanticide, would like individuals to consider this question: would sterilizing the human race to spare future generations the pain of existence be a good idea? In a blog post for the New York Times entitled “Should this be the last generation?” Singer discusses in glowing terms the thought of South African philosopher David Benatar. Singer calls Benator the […]
The 45th anniversary of the implementation of Britain’s Abortion Act passed on Saturday unnoticed by the national media. The Abortion Act 1967 came into effect on 27 April 1968. Since then, around 7.6 million babies have been aborted, now 200,000 each year. Currently one in five pregnancies ends in abortion and 98% are carried out on spurious mental health grounds when in fact there is absolutely no evidence that abortion protects mental health. God hates the shedding of innocent blood (Proverbs 6:16-18) and the Bible tells us that the nation of Judah fell under God’s judgement because God was not willing to forgive her for the innocent […]
Earlier this month, the we brought you the story of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Wilmington, Delaware was being investigated due to allegations of unsafe and unsanitary conditions by two former nurses. Last week we were informed that they had ceased performing abortions at that location pending the completion of the investigation, but yesterday the University of Delaware Review reported that the clinic is completely closed due to the investigation! The Wilminton Planned Parenthood, fast becoming known as the House of Horrors 2.0, allegedly suffered from many of the same defects as Kermit Gosnell’s Pennsylvania abortuary which has been the subject of intense scrutiny […]
Over the past few weeks, the nation’s largest abortion chain has attempted to distance itself from Kermit Gosnell and his notorious “House of Horrors” abortion facility. In an April 12 tweet, Planned Parenthood called the Gosnell case “appalling,” and an April 17 tweet labeled it “horrific.” OK. But what specifically about the Gosnell case do Cecile Richards, et al., find so “horrific” and “appalling”? Clearly, as self-styled of “women’s health” advocates, they object to the de facto conditions found at Gosnell’s so-called clinic: urine-splattered walls, blood on the floors, cats roaming freely and defecating all over the place, etc. – to say nothing of the death of […]
It would be difficult to overstate the impact of Kristen Powers’ April 11 column bemoaning the absence of coverage of the Kermit Gosnell murder trial. This is not to say that once “We’ve forgotten what belongs on Page One” ran in USA Today there was a collective mad rush to Philadelphia. But Powers did get the ball rolling that the rest of us had found immovable. Suddenly it was semi-obligatory to at least explain why your outlet ignored the trial or parachute in a reporter for a few days coverage. (Her column can be read here. Our take on what she […]
"Many in our society seem to share [Gosnell's] attitude," said Bishop Conley, "that human life is sometimes an inconvenient and unnecessary burden, rather than a sacred gift from God.”