Recent US News

Tuesday April 13, 2010 Complaints Dismissed against Maine Counselor for Supporting True Marriage AUGUSTA, Maine, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A state licensing board in Maine Friday dismissed two complaints filed against public school counselor Don Mendell for publicly supporting marriage as being between a man and a woman. The complaints claimed that Mendell, a licensed counselor at Nokomis Regional High School, violated the professional code of ethics for social workers by appearing in a television ad in the fall of 2009 that urged Maine voters to approve Ballot Question 1. In November, voters approved Question 1, which re-established Maine’s […]

Law directly criticizes Roe v. Wade for "removing the protection afforded the unborn."

Tuesday April 13, 2010 Tennessee House Strikes Blow to ObamaCare Abortion Coverage By Peter J. Smith NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A strong bipartisan majority in the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to exercise its right to opt the state out of the abortion mandate in the new national health care reform law. The measure approved by the House forbids insurance companies receiving public subsidies in the state-run health exchange from offering or requiring abortion coverage. The House passed HB 2681 on the floor Monday by an overwhelming 70 votes in favor, with 23 against. The legislation states: […]

Friday March 5, 2010 NRLC: Vote for Health Bill ‘a Career-Defining Pro-abortion Vote’ WASHINGTON, DC, March 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The following statement may be attributed to Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of affiliated right-to-life organizations in all 50 states. HOW IMPORTANT IS THE HOUSE VOTE ON THE HEALTH CARE BILL? On abortion policy, the health care bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought to the House floor last November was extremely bad (before the House fixed it by adopting the Stupak-Pitts Amendment) — but the Senate health bill (H.R. 3590) is […]

Monday April 12, 2010 Calif. Judge Gives Man 50-Yr. Sentence for Murdering Unborn Baby By James Tillman SACRAMENTO, California, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Friday, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Greta Curtis Fall sentenced a 32-year-old man to 50-years-to-life imprisonment for killing his girlfriend’s unborn baby by stabbing her in the stomach with a 13-inch butcher knife. On December 31, 2006, Danny Ray Poplin Jr. attacked his girlfriend, Vanessa Roberts, thinking that her six-month old unborn child was the child of another man. DNA tests later confirmed the child was his own. He will serve the sentence for murder only […]

Friday April 9, 2010 Austin Pregnancy Resource Centers Forced to Post Sign Saying No Abortions By John Jalsevac AUSTIN, Texas, April 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Austin’s city council on Thursday voted unanimously to become the second city in America to force pregnancy resource centers to post signs saying that they do not provide or refer for abortions or emergency birth control. The other city is Baltimore, Maryland, which passed a similar ordinance last year. Austin Council Member Bill Spelman proposed the ordinance, along with Council Members Laura Morrison and Mike Martinez. Pro-abortion lobbyists urged the council to adopt the mandate […]

By John Jalsevac April 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a decision released Thursday, U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb declared the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional.  The decision comes in the case filed by The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a Wisconsin-based organization, which challenged the constitutionality of a 1988 federal law giving the president the authority to designate the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer. The day of prayer “goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular […]

Tuesday April 6, 2010 Abortion Mailing Hoax Victimizes Pro-Life Action League By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, April 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League says that has become the victim of mail fraud, with an anonymous group sending out flyers for a “Home Abortion Kit” and listing the pro-life organization’s address and telephone number as the contact information for the kit. The Pro-Life Action League learned about the mail fraud when a Minnesota woman and a member of Kentucky Right to Life told them that they had received the flyers from a fake organization calling itself “American Women’s […]

By Kathleen Gilbert MINOT, North Dakota, April 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A measure to prohibit physicians from decapitating and crushing the skulls of live unborn children during abortions is seeking clearance to begin gathering signatures for the November ballot, a North Dakota grassroots pro-life organization has announced.   Daniel Woodard, head of North Dakota's Stop Decapitation Network, filed the paperwork to the North Dakota Secretary of State and Attorney General on Tuesday.  The group aims to collect 12,844 signatures by August 4 in order to place the measure on the 2010 ballot. “It's unconscionable and unthinkable that any physician who claims […]

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new undercover video reveals medically inaccurate abortion counseling at a tax-funded Milwaukee Planned Parenthood clinic. The video, released by the youth-led pro-life group Live Action, records Planned Parenthood staff distorting basic facts of fetal development and pressuring a woman to have an abortion. In the video, a staffer tells a woman who is reportedly 6 to 8 weeks pregnant that at this stage her baby has “no arms, no legs, no heart, no head, no brain.” The staffer emphasizes the difficulties of adoption, urges the woman to obtain an abortion as soon as […]