June 17, 2009 by truecath
During a preliminary injunction hearing in a US District Court on the issue of late-term abortions, Carhart testified that he would sometimes dismember advanced-stage unborn babies during abortions, while the babies were still alive.
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LifeSiteNews.com gets results that often no one else can or will. If you think about it, we’re probably the only news source that would have considered investing so much time and energy into some of our more recent difficult, but vitally needed series of investigative reports. Here are a few instances of recent achievements and comments from leaders who say they valued those achievments.
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Residents in the District of Columbia will not get a chance to reverse the city council’s decision to recognize out-of-state same-sex “marriages” in a referendum after today’s ruling from the capital district’s Board of Elections and Ethics.
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“I kept thinking, ‘They’ve killed our baby,’” says the biological mother. “In less than 10 seconds, our wonderful world was shattered.”
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The newly appointed Miss California has revealed that she believes, along with her recently deposed predecessor, Carrie Prejean, that marriage is an institution between a man and a woman.
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Stephen Whittle, vice president of the “transgendered” lobby group Press For Change, and a woman who has undergone surgery to look like a man, told the bill committee that the law should be applied to “trans people” who are only at the “stage of life” where they merely “cross-dress part-time.”
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June 16, 2009 by truecath
“I kept thinking, ‘They’ve killed our baby,’” says the biological mother. “In less than 10 seconds, our wonderful world was shattered.”
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Stephen Whittle, vice president of the “transgendered” lobby group Press For Change, and a woman who has undergone surgery to look like a man, told the bill committee that the law should be applied to “trans people” who are only at the “stage of life” where they merely “cross-dress part-time.”
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The organization is announcing on its website that it will be conducting an “educational campaign for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, and Transgender Pride Month of 2009″ which will use “gigantic banners (2.5 meters in height!)” displayed in urban areas, and distribute 10,000 cards containing images of teenage girls in romantic embraces.
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NorLevo, a new emergency contraceptive pill that the distributor falsely claims is not an abortifiacient, has recently been approved for use in Canada.
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June 13, 2009 by truecath
“The situation is so chaotic in New York right now that all bets are off,” Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, told LifeSiteNews.com. “It is critical that people contact their Senators and urge them to oppose same-sex marriage because the bill could come up as early as Monday.”
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One brief, authored under Sotomayor, said “All Amici share an urgent concern that the Court clearly and unequivocally reaffirm Roe v. Wade. … They fear that any tampering with the right to abortion recognized in Roe will have a powerful, adverse impact on the liberty, equality and health of poor women and women of color.”
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Left-leaning news media in the US have pounced on the shooting, blaming it on the proliferation of “hate” and “divisiveness” brought about by the political and religious conservatism of the Bush administration. Pundits were quick to link the Holocaust Museum shooting with the killing of late-term abortionist George Tiller.
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The Indian government has rejected western-style sex education programs, saying they do nothing to solve the problem of teenage pregnancy but only exacerbate the problem by promoting sexual promiscuity.
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Last week, Pope Benedict XVI issued a telegram, signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, saying there was an “urgent need” for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) “to be implemented to the full.” The telegram raised eyebrows among family activists, especially in the United States, since they have battled against the ratification of the document in their country.
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June 12, 2009 by truecath
“When I asked if an unborn child has any rights whatsoever, I was surprised that she said she had never thought about it,” said Senator DeMint in a statement.
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Under newly announced Labour government rules, local council authorities are authorized to enter private homes to interview children, without parents present, on their safety and “quality of education.”
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The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved a bill that would create a new “Office for Global Women’s Issues” in the State Department, which pro-life leaders have reason to believe will promote abortion abroad.
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The DoH has claimed that releasing the abortion statistics could lead to violence against abortionists by extreme anti-abortionists. The day after George Tiller was killed, the DoH circulated a news report about the killing, and reiterated their claim about the risk of violence.
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June 11, 2009 by truecath
Attorney Tom Dixon told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) Tuesday that none of the charges have been dropped, and only two individuals accepted an offer to plead guilty in return for a sentence of time served and a fine. The rest face a maximum sentence of a year and prison and a $5,000 fine. Fr. John Jenkins has “no interest” in seeking leniency, he said.
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Jointly-owned health care plan’s website confirmed it would provide abortion, contraception, and sterilization, and would ensure access to the services. CeltiCare rep told LSN “we will assist that person (seeking abortion) appropriately in getting those services within or outside the network, either one.”
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Officials from the University of California, Los Angeles, confirmed Tuesday that they will permit a Christian student’s graduation statement to include a word of thanks to Jesus Christ after first saying they would not allow the sentence.
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“Local authorities are not very good at showing sensitivity to Christians in the same way they are showing sensitivity to other religions. That is the blunt reality,” Neil Addison told LSN today.
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“The physician must ensure … access to available medical options,” document states regarding abortion and contraception.
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June 10, 2009 by truecath
The memorandum, says the head of the Rome office of Human Life International, is likely an attempt to find an “amicable and Christian solution” to the conflict in order to avoid a canonical lawsuit against Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
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In a statement released today, the attorneys of late-term abortionist George Tiller confirmed that his Wichita abortion facility would shut its doors permanently, following Tiller’s murder last month.
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After months of criticism for its series of articles praising US president Barack Obama, the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, has backtracked half a pace in an article on the US bishops’ response to US embryo research guidelines.
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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld yesterday the prohibition against open homosexuals serving in the military after it refused to hear a constitutional challenge from a former Army captain discharged due to his self-identification as a homosexual.
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The US Senate intends to smuggle controversial hate crimes legislation into federal law by passing it as an amendment to another major piece of legislation instead of a stand-alone piece of legislation.
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June 9, 2009 by truecath
More light has been shed on the pro-abortion leanings of Supreme Court hopeful Sonia Sotomayor after news erupted of a brief Sotomayor apparently endorsed that urged the Supreme Court to uphold the “right” to abortion.
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The UK Department for Children, Schools and Families has announced a new program that will give boys as young as 12 a condom “credit card”, or “C-card”, allowing them to receive free condoms at sport fields, clubs and barbershops.
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As Sonia Sotomayor finishes making the rounds on Capitol Hill, meeting individually with lawmakers, two more US senators insist the Supreme Court nominee will continue to uphold legal abortion by maintaining Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.
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June 6, 2009 by truecath
Olbermann basd the award on the claim that Stanek had posted the addresses of two late-term abortionists – which Stanek says is completely false. “Still, I proudly accept my award,” she said. “Thank you for the badge of honor, Keith!”
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Recently UNICEF, and the Pan American Health Organization attended a Latin American Catholic Bishops conference, where they sought a “strategic” alliance with the Catholic Church, while claiming that abortion, contraception, and gender ideology are in keeping with Catholic teaching.
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LifeSiteNews.com, the internet’s most-read international pro-life and pro-family news service, has launched a parallel service in Portuguese.
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ACLU attorney Benjamin Stevenson said that the ACLU may consider further legal action: “Our feeling is that it’s regrettable that the students took over the ceremony to impose their religious views on the audience who may not have shared the same religious views.
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O’Reilly said he believes the reports from liberal news media are part of a deliberate campaign of the “far left.” “By exploiting the death of Tiller,” he says, “the far left is seeking to silence Americans who are appalled at late-term abortion.”
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June 5, 2009 by truecath
Backroom deals over the contentious same-sex “marriage” bill, however, have still not gained a solid majority in the state Senate to pass the measure.
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While South Bend prosecutor Michael Dvorak is pursuing charges against the pro-lifers, defense attorneys say they are concerned that the University has not sought leniency for the protesters.
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The resolution proclaims the Church’s moral teaching and beliefs on homosexuality to be “insulting to all San Franciscans,” “hateful,” “insulting and callous,” “defamatory,” “absolutely unacceptable,” and says that Church teaching shows “insensitivity and ignorance.”
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CBR Europe held its “Stop Genocide” rally to inform people about the atrocities of genocide, including abortion. Slovak police, however, asserted that the images of aborted babies were too graphic to be shown in public and threatened to confiscate them.
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June 4, 2009 by truecath
The Archbishop of Olinda and Recife is asking that the Vatican newspaper publish his response to Archbishop Salvatore “Rino” Fisichella, who criticized him on its pages in March for having announced the excommunication of the doctors who assisted in a now-famous abortion on a nine-year-old girl.
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Pro-lifers should indeed condemn the murder of George Tiller. But we should not play permanent defense as the nonsense snowballs and the unfair attacks against the pro-life movement multiply. Here are some facts that should be taken into consideration by all people of good will.
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“If the point of society is to make sure you don’t suffer, that will often be making sure there aren’t any sufferers,” Wesley Smith told attendees at the Second International Euthanasia Symposium.
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“I’ve got nothing against homosexual people but what gives them the authority to do it in public?” said defendant Colin Anthony Haw, a father of two children.
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It is unclear precisely why the Cardinal has reconsidered joining the Foundation. However, his plans to do so had been heavily criticised by many faithful Catholics and members of the life and family movement in Britain.
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The Saga Continues as New Miss California Says No to Same-sex “Marriage”
