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Dear Readers, There are far more stories related to life, family and culture happening today than I can ever remember in my almost 30 years of involvement in these issues. Of course it is impossible for LifeSiteNews to write reports on most of them. And then there are numerous important...
* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.Compiled by Steve Jalsevac LIFE ISSUESNew Site for Adult Stem Cell Resources A new Web site is detailing success...
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* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.Compiled by Steve Jalsevac Obamacare: Senate Version is Assisted Suicide Friendly! - Wesley J....
* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.Compiled by Steve Jalsevac * HIGHLY RECOMMENDED VIDEO: Lord Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul ...
By Hilary WhiteVIENNA, November 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Austrian Catholic bishops have reacted mildly to a move by the government to bring forward a bill that will allow same-sex partners to register their domestic arrangements in the country's municipal or magistrate's offices....
By Hilary WhiteROME, November 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Germany, the juggernaut of the European economic scene, could be facing a critical downturn over the next five decades because of its dramatically shrinking birth rate and dropping population, a new government report has said. The falling...
By Peter J. SmithBALTIMORE, Maryland, November 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Authors of an interim report delivered to the US Catholic bishops on Tuesday told the bishops that their findings did not establish a causal connection between homosexual identity and the sexual abuse of minors. Margaret...
By Matt Anderson and Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The U.S. Center for Disease Control announced Friday that starting December 14 it will no longer require female immigrants, ages 11 to 26 seeking permanent resident status, to receive the...
Commentary by Catholic League president Bill DonohueWASHINGTON, DC, November 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new homosexual website, ChurchOuting.org, is intent on publicly disclosing who the gay priests are in the Archdiocese of Washington. The goal of this outing is to intimidate gay priests, as...
By Patrick B. Craine and Steve JalsevacCHICAGO, Illinois, November 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Archdiocese of Chicago's Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) office, caught up in controversy following the publication last Friday of a strongly-worded letter against some of their...
By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A key procedural vote is expected to take place Saturday evening on the Senate version of President Obama's health care overhaul - called by one official with the US Catholic Bishops the \"worst bill we've seen...
By Peter J. SmithWATERTOWN, New York (LifeSiteNews.com) - The absentee ballot count is winding down in the NY 23rd Congressional District and shows Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman unable to catch up with Rep. Bill Owens, his Democratic challenger in the special election, who was sworn into...
by James Tillman and John-Henry WestenWASHINGTON, DC, November 20, 2009 -- The Senate voted 59-39 yesterday to confirm President Obama's first circuit court appointee, the pro-abortion Judge David Hamilton.  Although hailed as moderate by various news sources and dubbed...
By Kathleen Gilbert  WASHINGTON, D.C., November 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A group of prominent Christian leaders and scholars unveiled a manifesto Friday declaring firm opposition to current and future laws infringing upon the sanctity of life, marriage, faith, and liberty.The...
by James TillmanWASHINGTON, DC, November 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews) - On Wednesday attorneys representing Christian Bishop Harry Jackson and seven other D.C. voters filed a suit against a decision by the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics, which ruled that the Marriage Initiative...
By Samantha SingsonNEW YORK, November 19, 2009 (C-FAM.org) - Next week in Europe, a committee of human rights "experts" will discuss a draft recommendation on measures to "combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity to ensure respect for human rights of lesbian, gay,...
By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiOTTAWA, November 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A motion, tabled in the House of Commons on May 26th by Kitchener MP Harold Albrecht, which proposes that the government should make it a criminal offense to use the Internet to counsel a person to commit suicide, was...
By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiMONTREAL, November 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The McGill student pro-life club Choose Life has had its campus rights suspended, but not revoked, by the Student Society of McGill University (SSMU).SSMU Council voted 16 to 7 by secret ballot in favor of suspending Choose...
By Kathleen GilbertBALTIMORE, Maryland, November 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - While meeting at their Fall General Assembly Wednesday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops overwhelmingly approved a new document clearly expressing the Catholic Church's opposition to reproductive technologies...
By Peter J. SmithBALTIMORE, Maryland, November 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - At least fifty-nine US Catholic bishops gave financial support - either personally or through their dioceses and diocesan offices - to the battle to defeat the legalization of same-sex \"marriage\" and for that the...
By Kathleen GilbertBEIJING, November 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a rare interview with FOX news last night, President Obama dodged point-blank questioning concerning his position on the Stupak amendment in the health care bill.The Stupak amendment, which was unexpectedly included in the final...
By Kathleen GilbertCAMDEN, New Jersey, November 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A New Jersey student is suing the Bridgeton Board of Education after officials at Bridgeton High School prohibited her from expressing a religious viewpoint on the 6th annual Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity.  The...
By Hilary WhiteLONDON, November 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The fight against \"climate change\" can be won with the distribution of more free condoms and decreases in population, especially in the developing areas of the world, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has said in a...
by James TillmanWASHINGTON, DC, November 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Six out of ten Americans oppose the public funding of abortion, according to a new poll by CNN.The news comes as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has released the 2074-page Senate version of the health care reform...
By Hilary WhiteBRUSSELS, November 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - With hopes fading for Tony Blair taking the top European job, the Times reports that UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown will make a last-ditch appeal for his former party leader in Brussels this afternoon when he attends a meeting of the...
By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The phony compromise language unveiled in the Senate health care bill Wednseday night has already won high praise from pro-abortion lawmakers on Capitol Hill; yet, it has not fared as well under the scrutiny of the National...
By Peter J. SmithBALTIMORE, Maryland, November 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A US Catholic bishop who has oversight of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), on Tuesday blasted what he said were \"outrageous\" allegations that the bishops' charitable-arm funds pro-abortion...
Dear Readers,Here we go into Round 2 of the US health care reform process. The Senate bill was released tonight but we do not yet have any confirmable details. Hold on to your seats. All pro-life, pro-family groups are of course calling for massive communications from the grassroots to the...
By Patrick B. CraineADELAIDE, South Australia, November 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a surprise victory for pro-life advocates, South Australia's Upper House has narrowly voted down an amendment to their palliative care legislation that would have legalized euthanasia.The bill was proposed...
By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Galveston-Houston Diocese in Texas will be taking over as the next Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities.  DiNardo, who was...
By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiCARSON CITY, Nevada, November 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A group of Nevada's pro-life organizations have come out in opposition to the Personhood Amendment initiative launched in October by Richard Ziser, a former Republican U.S. Senate candidate and campaign manager...
By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to unveil the Senate's version of the Democrat health care overhaul Wednesday evening following weeks of shaky attempts at securing a clear majority of votes against the GOP's...
By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics on Tuesday refused to allow the traditional definition of marriage to be put to voters in a ballot initiative, saying that the initiative amounts to \"discrimination\" against...
By Hilary WhiteLONDON, November 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Christmas could be cancelled by a bill being put forward by the Labour government, the Catholic bishops of England and Wales have said.In a letter to MPs, Monsignor Andrew Summersgill, general secretary of the Catholic Bishops'...
By James TillmanBALTIMORE, MD, November 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Yesterday the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a new document that strongly affirms the Church's traditional teaching on marriage by condemning contraception, divorce, same-sex marriage, and cohabitation...
By Hilary WhiteLONDON, November 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The British government has gone to court to prevent the publication of statistics on abortions of children with mild disabilities like cleft palates and club foot. The Department of Health has asked the High Court to overturn a Freedom...
Dear Readers,Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak seems determined to buck the intense pressure from the party's leadership regarding his pro-life amendment. Keep in mind that there are still many serious problems with the health care bill, even with the amendment (see...
Re: Laura Ingraham and Raymond Arroyo Discuss USCCB's Support For Current Health Care Bill Dear LifeSiteNews.com,Thank you for addressing the problem of subsidiariy.  I feel this is the key point which will  lead to abortions, euthanasia, sterilization, embryonic stem cell research...
By Patrick B. CraineWASHINGTON, D.C., November 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Archdiocese of Chicago's Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) office has penned a letter decrying the recent criticism over CCHD's funding practices.Signed by Chicago director Rey Flores and...
By Patrick B. CraineWASHINGTON, D.C., November 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The national office of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the USCCB's domestic anti-poverty arm, has responded to the movement calling for their reform in a new document posted to their website on...
By Kathleen GilbertSOUTH BEND, Indiana, November 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vatican announced Saturday that Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Harrisburg, Penn. as the new bishop of Indiana's Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese, which contains the University of Notre...
By Hilary WhiteLONDON, November 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The push is on around the world to legalise \"a broad array of private killing\" no matter whether it is being called \"assisted suicide\" or outright euthanasia, US lawyer and anti-euthanasia campaigner Wesley J. Smith...
By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The author of the health care bill amendment that bars using federal funds for elective abortion says that the White House would only imperil the bill's passage if it succeeds in stripping the...
By James TillmanMELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, November 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Police raided the Melbourne offices of the assisted-suicide advocacy organization Exit International last Thursday, seizing documents related to the alleged assisted suicide of Exit International member Frank...
By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiWASHINGTON, November 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The United States Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of a high school valedictorian whose microphone was turned off by school officials after she began speaking about the part her Christian beliefs played in her...
By Peter J. Smith LAKE PLACID, New York, November 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Doug Hoffman has \"unconceded\" defeat in the special election for the 23rd New York Congressional District, and now believes that uncounted absentee ballots hold the possibility for a dramatic come-from-behind...
By Hilary WhiteROME, November 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski and the leadership of the Greek Orthodox Church have both hit out at a decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) attempting to ban the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools. At...
By Kathleen GilbertPRINCETON, New Jersey, November 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In response to a scandal brewing around the existence of at least one pornographic video depicting and authored by traditional marriage icon and former Miss California Carrie Prejean, The National Organization for...
By Patrick B. CraineFRANCE, November 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - To mark their 23rd anniversary, the French pro-life group SOS Tout-Petits held their annual National Rosary for Life on Saturday, sparking heated protests from the country's pro-abortion activists.Catholics gathered to pray...
By Patrick B. Craine and Steve JalsevacWASHINGTON, D.C., November 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Friday, EWTN's Raymond Arroyo on his The World Over program, hosted representatives of Reform CCHD Now, a coalition of Catholic groups calling for reform of the USCCB's domestic anti-poverty...
By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A panel of human rights activists at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission last week heard testimony about the Chinese government's atrocities against women and families. One prominent U.S. lawmaker on the panel urged...
By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a CNN interview Sunday, White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod indicated that President Obama is working with lawmakers to remove the pro-life Stupak amendment from the health care bill.The Stupak amendment, which was...
By Peter J. SmithWASHINGTON, D.C., November 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The largest publisher of homosexual newspapers has shut down, leading to the closure of a string of homosexual newspapers, including the influential Washington Blade, which had just celebrated its 40th anniversary.The Atlanta...
By Hilary WhiteROME, November 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The news about abortion, marriage, divorce and the birth rate in Europe is bad and only getting worse, a report recently presented to the EU said. According to the report by Norway's Institute for Family Policies abortion rates in...
By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiNovember 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The National Parole Board (NPB) has denied Robert Latimer's appeal of an August 7th ruling that dismissed his request for greater parole freedom.Latimer, 56, was convicted of second-degree murder and given a life sentence, after he...
By Hilary WhiteLONDON, November 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Britain's Academy of Medical Sciences announced last week it will be launching a study into the ethics of using animals that contain human DNA for medical research. The purpose of the study, the Academy says, is to examine the...
By Peter J. SmithTRENTON, New Jersey, November 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A bill to legalize same-sex \"marriage\" in the state of New Jersey will likely never arrive on the desk of Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine, an ardent same-sex \"marriage\" supporter, as momentum for its...
By James TillmanWASHINGTON, DC, November 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Members of the D.C. City Council have continued to refuse to address the Archdiocese of Washington's concerns that a bill to legalize same-sex \"marriage\" would injure the poor by forcing Catholic Charities either to...
By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiBUENOS AIRES, November 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A judge in Argentina's capital city has granted a homosexual couple permission to get \"married,\" setting a precedent that could undermine natural marriage in the predominantly Catholic country and lead to...
By Patrick B. CraineORANGE, France, November 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A hospital in the south of France has been found guilty of taking excessive measures when they successfully revived a newborn baby that had been declared stillborn.  The case was brought by the parents, who are seeking...
* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.Compiled by Steve JalsevacLIFE ISSUESWashington Post Notes Move to Regulate 'Anti-Abortion Clinics'; Fails...
* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.Compiled by Steve JalsevacThe Myth of the Moderate Democrat - by Dick Morris Don't assume that the 38 Democrats...
By Patrick B. CraineNovember 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - With the Christmas season fast approaching, and the commercial machine gearing up as usual, the annual 'war on Christmas' has started, with numerous stores refusing to recognize the very celebration by which they profit.  In...
By Peter J. Smith and Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Although the passage of the Pitts-Stupak amendment has been hailed as a pro-life gain in the fight over health-care reform, the recently passed House plan still has serious flaws troubling to pro-life...
By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The brewing pro-abortion vitriol against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for their role in adding pro-life Hyde-amendment language to the House health care bill has evolved in the week since the...
By Hilary WhiteROME, November 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - If an embryo is human, it is a person - this is the golden rule for bioethics if it wants to uphold the full dignity of the human person, said the secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) on Tuesday....
By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiMADRID, November 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The secretary general of the Spanish bishops' conference, Auxiliary Bishop Juan Antonio Martinez Camino of Madrid, warned that Spanish Catholic legislators who vote in favor of a bill to liberalize...
By Kathleen GilbertLIVONIA, Michigan, November 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Local Michigan pro-lifers have reported that late-term abortionist Dr. Alberto Hodari has placed his Livonia abortion facility up for sale, following reports of for-sale signs at his Southgate and Flint clinics. In...
By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiBESANÇON, France, November 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A court in the eastern French city of Besançon has ordered local authorities to grant a lesbian school teacher and her partner adoption rights, the latest event in an 11-year legal battle that has...
CARSON CITY, Nevada, November 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Planned Parenthood (PP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have filed a lawsuit against the sponsors of a Nevada ballot initiative that would explicitly define \"person\" as pertaining to all human beings, including the...
By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As the Republican Party leads the fight against federal funding of abortion in health care legislation, the Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) has ordered the immediate discontinuation of abortion coverage...
By James TillmanHOUSTON, TX, November 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- The American Medical Association (AMA), finishing its four-day biannual meeting in Houston, adopted a resolution saying that bans on same-sex \"marriage\" contribute to health care inequalities. They also adopted another...
 Re:Evidence Contradicts CCHD's Findings on Accused Pro-Abortion PartnerDear Lifesitenews,I just have to say that many people in the pews are aware of these issues with CCHD, because the problems have been obvious for years.  My form of protest is just this - I do not contribute to...
By Piero A. TozziWASHINGTON, D.C., November 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Activist organization Amnesty International is putting its weight behind an Australian bill seeking to legalize \"same-sex marriage\" in that country, claiming that \"internationally recognized\"...
By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiSHENYANG, China, November 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Chinese researchers at the Department of Oncology at the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University who conducted a case-control study examining reproductive factors associated with breast cancer found a...
By Austin RuseWASHINGTON, D.C. , November 12, 2009 (C-FAM.org) - The fight over homosexual propaganda in schools taking place between the Lithuanian and European Parliaments escalated this week with the Lithuanian Parliament (Siemas) calling on its government to file suit against the Europeans in...
By James TillmanCONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, November 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- The New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee earlier this week recommended against a bill that would legalize assisted suicide. The bill was rejected in a 14-3 vote.As introduced by Representative Charles Weed, HB 304...
By Peter J. SmithWASHINGTON, D.C., November 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. has said it will be forced to end its government contracts for social services in the nation's capital, if the D.C. Council does not broaden a religious exemption in a bill to...
By Patrick B. CraineNovember 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two years ago Michael Glatze sent shockwaves through the homosexualist establishment when he declared publicly that he had left his life as a prominent homosexual activist, become Christian, and embraced \"normal human...
By Patrick B. CraineTORONTO, Ontario, November 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Openly homosexual Canadian priest, Fr. Karl Clemens, who claimed to be living chastely when he publicly \"came out\" as a homosexual four years ago, will be entering a same-sex \"marriage\" on...
By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiCOLUMBUS, Ohio, November 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - State Rep. Tyrone K. Yates, D-Cincinnati, introduced a resolution in the Ohio House this week to repeal part of a 2004 amendment to the state constitution that declared that only marriages between men and women can be...
By Hilary WhiteWESTMINSTER, November 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An amendment to protect freedom of expression that was voted down earlier this week in the House of Commons, has once again been reinserted by the House of Lords into the UK's homosexual hate crimes bill. The Labour government...
By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus has requested a meeting with President Obama next week after issuing a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling the passage of the pro-life Stupak amendment to the House's health...
By James TillmanWASHINGTON, DC, November 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank said on Wednesday that \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" (DADT), the current military policy handling homosexuals in the armed forces, is likely to be repealed in the next year's...
By Patrick B. CraineLANSING, Michigan, November 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Five years after Michigan voters embedded true marriage in the state constitution, a Democrat representative has introduced a bill to overturn the ban on same-sex \"marriage.\"In proposing the new measure last...
By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiSTOCKHOLM, November 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Sweden's Lutheran church announced it had ordained its first openly homosexual bishop on Sunday, less than a month after it gave its ministers the right to \"marry\" same-sex couples in church.The Church of...
By Hilary WhiteLONDON, November 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The father of a one year-old seriously ill boy has given up his legal battle to prevent doctors from removing his son's life support. At a High Court hearing yesterday, the boy's father accepted the judgment that it would be in...
By James TillmanWICHITA, KANSAS, November 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Scott Roeder told the press on Monday that he killed the late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller.  He also said that he would defend himself in court by the so-called necessity defense, which would involve showing that he...
By Patrick B. CraineST. CATHERINES, Ontario, November 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A gym owner in St. Catharines, Ontario, spoke out against the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) yesterday, complaining that, after he had been dragged through the system for three years and spent tens of...
By James TillmanALBANY, NY, November 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The New York state senate will vote on legalizing homosexual \"marriage\" before the year's end, according to Democratic Governor David Paterson. Originally Paterson had hoped to have the Senate vote on same-sex...
By Kathleen GilbertBRYAN, Texas, November 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)  -  A district court judge has denied Planned Parenthood's request for a gag order against Abby Johnson, the former director of a Houston-area Planned Parenthood abortion facility who quit her job following a...
Dear Readers,You are encouraged to read Peter Smith's excellent article on what to expect from the upcoming U.S Senate treatment of the Democrat's attempt at health care reform. Peter reports on the House/Senate legislative process which is important to understand in order to follow the...
by Deal W. Hudson    November 10, 2009 (InsideCatholic.com) -The election results of November 2 were not merely the spontaneous reaction of Republicans to the bad economy and liberal excesses of the Obama administration. The four pro-life, conservative GOP candidates in Virginia...
By Patrick B. CraineONTARIO, November 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new report from the education advocacy organization People for Education reveals that up to 335 Ontario schools face closure in the next three years because of declining enrolment, which stems from the province's low birth...
By Patrick B. CraineSAINT JOHN, New Brunswick, November 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Former Canadian Member of Parliament Elsie Wayne, 77, is recovering in a Saint John hospital after suffering two strokes over the weekend.Wayne was first elected to the House of Commons in 1993 for Saint John and...
By Peter J. SmithWASHINGTON, D.C., November 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The leader of the Senate, Harry Reid (D-Nev.), has now found himself in the most unenviable of positions: having to pass a health-care bill that must satisfy both pro-life and pro-abortion legislators who have the power to...
By Patrick B. CraineMONTREAL, Quebec, November 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Montreal Catholic parish hosting a series for parents on instilling a normal and integrated sexual identity in their children has been intimidated into cancelling the remainder of the sessions following threats of...
By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiSARAGOSSA, Spain, November 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The representatives of national and international pro-life organizations who gathered in Saragossa, Spain from November 6 to 8, 2009, in the Fourth Pro-Life World Congress, have issued a statement - the so-called...
By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiCANBERRA, November 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As part of its inquiry into the Marriage Amendment Bill the Australian government yesterday heard arguments for and against same-sex \"marriage.\"The Australian Green party is pushing for the redefinition of...

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By Michael Baggot ALBUQUERQUE, NM, April 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - \"I want to save others from the same fate that I was almost put into,\" said 14-year-old Janelle Bushnell referring to a silent protest against abortion she has been punished for planning at her New Mexico middle...
Hilary White LONDON, May 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Neither the office of the cardinal archbishop of Westminster, nor the bishops of England and Wales had a comment when Cherie Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, told a television interviewer this week that contraception...
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman February 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-family forces in the U.S. House of Representatives hammered out an agreement on Wednesday to maintain abstinence education programs in a bill to extend President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which has been...
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, February 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The US Senate has approved, by a 52-42 vote, an amendment to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, sponsored by Senator David Vitter (R-Louisiana), which will prevent Indian Health Service (IHS) funds from being...
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