FERTILITY experts have called for an urgent public debate on the trend for women to delay motherhood amid fears there is little public understanding of how rapidly fertility declines after the age of 35.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
Few know real risks in delayed motherhood
FERTILITY experts have called for an urgent public debate on the trend for women to delay motherhood amid fears there is little public understanding of how rapidly fertility declines after the age of 35.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
French legislators worried about rise of burqa use
French legislators said on Wednesday that more and more Muslim women in France were wearing full burqas that cover them from head to toe and hide their faces, and expressed concern about the trend.
Big Isle man accused of killing son, unborn child sued by ex-wife
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Cheryl-Lyn Vesperas filed lawsuits last week against Tyrone Vesperas in Third Circuit Court on behalf of herself and her late son, Tyran Vesperas-Saniatan.
Bishop Tells Oxford Students to Challenge Dissent, Even in Priests or Bishops
OXFORD, June 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Most Rev. Patrick O’Donoghue, who retired as Bishop of Lancaster at the end of April, delivered a powerful address to the Oxford University Newman Society in January, calling the Catholic students to faithful service of the Church.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Canadian on death row running out of options
CALGARY - After a quarter century of legal battles and last minute reprieves the appeals of a Canadian fighting the death penalty in Montana are starting to dry up.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Meet the real 40-year-old virgins
Contrary to Hollywood notions, the 40-year-old virgin is not an awkward yet funny and endearing electronics salesman played by Steve Carell.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Volunteers promote international adoptions of Down syndrome babies
WESTERLY, R.I. (CNS) -- A Maryland-based organization is working against the trend of aborting Down syndrome babies by placing those children from around the globe with loving families in the United States.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Support grows for proposed N.B. 'safe haven' law to protect newborns
A Progressive Conservative private member's bill that would allow desperate mothers to leave their newborn at an emergency room without penalty is being well-received by people who work with at-risk women and children.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Most teenage pregnancies now end with an abortion
Most pregnancies among girls under 18 ended in abortion last year.Out of around 40,000 pregnancies more than 20,000 were terminated - the first time more had chosen this option than become mothers.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Pro-Life Campaign Saves 389 Babies
Pro-life advocates reported that they have saved 398 babies from abortion during a recent nationwide campaign.During the 40 Days of Life Campaign, which ran Feb. 25 to April 5, pro-life supporters prayed and fasted to end abortion. In the fourth run of the campaign, participants also held prayer vigils and local demonstrations outside abortion centers in 135 cities across the country, Canada, Australia and Northern Ireland.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Typical Binge Drinker Is Young White Male
THURSDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) -- Binge drinking in the United States is most common among whites, males, people ages 18 to 34, and those who make $50,000 or more a year, according to a study released Thursday.
R.I. priest defrocked for refusing to give up faith in Islamic religion
PROVIDENCE - An Episcopal bishop is expelling a priest from her position in the Rhode Island Diocese for refusing to recant her faith in Islam.
Babies are like Rapists Says Feminist Professor
Cornell Law Professor Sherry Colb writing for FindLaw Magazine writes a ghastly piece on abortion.She's writing about the case where a woman attempted to procure a late term abortion but the abortionist wasn't on time and the baby was born alive gasping for breath, only to be thrown into a plastic bag and killed.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Fr. Frank Pavone and Dr. Alveda King Call for Passage of Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act
ATLANTA, April 1 /Christian Newswire/ -- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, together with Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., today called for passage of the recently re-introduced Prenatal Non- Discrimination Act.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Condoms, pills ... but how about restraint?
What would you think of a circus where the tight-rope walker wore a stout safety harness hitched to the roof-beam?And where there were two, perhaps three, nets stretched beneath him?
It wouldn’t be very thrilling. But, more importantly, he would probably fall into the nets quite a lot. After all, with so many devices to stop him hurting himself, why should he develop the skills and self-discipline to walk all the way across?
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Man with Down's syndrome dies after starving for 26 days in hospital
Vera Ryan knew her son Martin as a charming, strong and energetic man, who never had a chance to start a family or develop a career owing to severe learning difficulties. He had Down's syndrome and epilepsy. It took him a while to get to know people because he could not communicate verbally and his behaviour was unusual.But that lifelong condition should not have caused his death at the age of 43.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Terri Schiavo documentary presents new information on case
Franklin, Tenn., Mar 24, 2009 / 08:13 pm (CNA).- Filmmakers have released a new documentary which they say reports previously unexplored facts about the legal battle surrounding Terri Schiavo while exploring her death’s ethical and cultural implications. One disabled woman connected with the film said “countless people” face pressures similar to those that killed Schiavo.
Friday, March 20, 2009
UK: Judge decides baby must die; parents appeal
Parents battling to keep their seriously ill baby alive have lodged an appeal against a High Court ruling allowing him to die.
Friday, March 13, 2009
New Mexico lawmakers vote to repeal death penalty
PHOENIX (Reuters) – New Mexico state lawmakers voted on Friday to repeal the death penalty and replace it with a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.The Democratic-controlled state Senate voted 24-18 for a bill to revoke the death penalty, a source at the chief clerk's office said.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Pope Benedict answers critics on SSPX excommunications
In an extraordinary effort to resolve a painful and divisive dispute, Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) has written to all the world's Catholic bishops, explaining his decision to lift the excommunications of four bishops for the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) and pleading for support in his effort to achieve reconciliation within the Church.
Operation Rescue Founder to Vatican: Remove Cowardly US Bishops
ROME, March 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vatican must remove key members of the US Catholic episcopate and replace them with men who will speak and act courageously and with urgency to stop abortion, a prominent American pro-life advocate has told Catholic leadership at the Vatican. Randall Terry, the founder of Operation Rescue, came to Rome last week with a delegation of US pro-life advocates to ask prominent Vatican prelates to end the "scandal" of some American Catholic bishops refusing to act on behalf of unborn children by replacing them.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
U.N. May Try to Criminalize Criticism of Islam
UNITED NATIONS -- For the last nine years, the U.N.'s annual ban on defaming Islam has been non-binding. In March, the United Nations may try to impose its view on Islamic blasphemy on all of its member nations -- including the United States -- thus making criticism of Islam a crime.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Direct order from Pius XII to protect Jews uncovered by researchers
Rome, Italy, Mar 6, 2009 / 01:52 pm (CNA).- Father Peter Gumpel, the promoter of Pope Pius XII’s cause of beatification, revealed this week that he has uncovered new proof of the Pope’s efforts to protect Jews from the Nazis. The evidence consists of a note from the archives of a Roman monastery that includes a direct order from the Holy Father to give shelter to persecuted Jews.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Interview with Pro-Choice Advocate Holly Taylor on Echoes of a Holocaust Protest
Intro from Holly: I would like to clarify the fact that this protest was a last resort measure taken on our part in a deliberate effort to have the talk shut down. A small group of us among the much larger group of protesters that were present made a decision to take an active role in protecting women from this type of harassment and assault on campus, after the university administration failed to do so. We were not willing to engage in debate within the context in question- to do so would be to legitimize his presence and presentation, and we maintain our position that a university institution is not the appropriate forum for encouraging discrimination and hate.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Snoop Dogg joins the Nation of Islam
Rapper Snoop Dogg surprised fans and reporters alike this weekend by revealing he has joined the Nation of Islam. Speaking at the religious group's Saviours' Day convention in Chicago, the 37-year-old praised the group's supreme minister and national representative Louis Farrakhan. It is reported by the Associated Press that he also made a donation to the group of $1,000.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Christians to be banned from using word 'Allah'
The Malaysian government will issue a new decree restoring a ban on Christian publications using the word "Allah" to refer to God, officials said today.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
At Two Canadian Universities Freedom of Speech Upheld for Pro-Life Students
February 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-life advocates are celebrating the fact that freedom of speech has been upheld on two Canadian university campuses in the past week, as two student unions have decided to treat pro-life clubs fairly despite opposition to giving the clubs official status.
Monday, February 16, 2009
How to be paid more than men: Stay single
Men in their 20s no longer earn more than women, an official analysis of the 'pay gap' declared.It found that the difference between the earnings of men and women twenty-somethings is 'non-existent'.
Women who choose to stay single are likely to earn more than single men throughout their lives, it said.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Women's Clinic Sues Anti-Abortion Groups
CLAYTON, Mo. (CN) - A gynecology office and doctor say the Holy Spirit Catholic Church and the Greater St. Louis Pregnancy Resource Centers defamed them as killers in "an abortion mill." Womenscare Gynecology and Dr. Allen Palmer also seek an injunction to stop the groups from meeting on their property on Wednesdays and Fridays, where they allegedly block the driveway and harass women who enter the building, whether they are going to the doctor's office or not.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
School secretary faces sack after five-year-old daughter is told off for talking about God
A primary school receptionist whose five-year-old daughter was scolded by a teacher for talking about God is facing the sack after seeking support from members of her church. Jennie Cain, who works part-time at her daughter Jasmine's school, sent an e-mail to close friends asking them to pray for her child.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Putting a Baby’s Risk into Perspective
A new study supports past findings that children conceived using assisted reproductive technology, such as in vitro fertilization, may be at higher risk for some birth defects than babies conceived naturally. However, speculation remains as to whether the fertility treatments themselves are responsible for the increased risk, or if the reproductive health of patients that turn to these procedures to get pregnant explains the effect.
Multiple Choice: A mother weighs her life-and-death decisions
I was 20 years old. The space shuttle had just blown up, killing all its passengers on national TV, and I'd been bleeding for almost a month. I didn't feel well.I got my mother to take me to a clinic in town. While she paged through old magazines in the waiting room, I went through the gamut of tests. The doctor told me that I'd tested positive for pregnancy. I started to cry.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Abuse and anger
Ranjit Hayer was declined infertility treatments in Canada for good and obvious reasons. The woman is 60 years old. Any resulting pregnancy would be inherently high-risk, both for the mother and children. With so much at stake, it is ethically wrong for physicians to assist in bringing about such a pregnancy.
Genetic health of the unborn: Simple test, complex questions
Learning about the genetic health of an unborn child could soon be as simple as giving blood.A new prenatal test is slated to hit the market this summer that requires nothing more than a sample of a pregnant woman's blood for doctors to analyze the DNA of her developing fetus.
Christians post faith messages on London buses
LONDON - Christians are soldiering on in the battle over God's existence by putting ads on London's famous red buses urging people to have faith.The posters are a response to an atheist campaign that told people to stop worrying about religion because God probably doesn't exist.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Exorcist: Devil Influences Abortion Industry
An exorcist authorized to perform exorcisms in several dioceses spoke at a religious ministry luncheon on Sunday, explaining the basics of exorcism and its connection with abortion.Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, president of Human Life International and an exorcist, spoke at a luncheon hosted by In His Sign Network (IHS). He is an exorcist authorized to perform exorcisms in several states, and highlighted the connection between the abortion industry and demonic influence.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Gonorrhea 'super bug' emerging in Canada: study
Gonorrhea super bugs are swiftly emerging in Canada, and men, as well as patients over 30 are at the greatest risk, new research shows.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Economic Crisis Causing More Russian Women to Have Abortions
Vienna, January 30 – Since the onset of the economic crisis, more Russian women are getting abortions or thinking about doing so, actions that undercut their government's already costly pro-natalist policies over the last several years and seriously compromise their country's already troubled demographic future.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Vatican orders review of women's religious orders
The Vatican has begun a first-ever comprehensive study of women's religious orders in the United States, four decades into a steep decline in the number of Roman Catholic sisters and nuns in the country.The study, ordered by a Vatican congregation in December and announced Friday in Washington, will examine "the quality of the life" of 59,000 members in more than 400 Catholic women's religious institutes, said Sister Eva-Maria Ackerman, a spokeswoman for the study, which is called an apostolic visitation.
Scientists Reverse Early MS With Patients' Own Stem Cells
A small trial at a US hospital where patients with early stage MS had their own immune system stem cells transplanted back into their bodies appears to have reversed the neurological dysfunction of the early stages of the disease by causing their immune systems to "reset". The scientists said the results should now be confirmed with a larger, randomized trial.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Lesbians accuse doctor of refusing treatment
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba lesbian couple rejected by a family doctor from Egypt for religious reasons says Canada must better educate foreign-trained physicians. Andrea Markowski said she and her partner Ginette were stunned when the Winnipeg doctor told them during a "meet-and-greet" appointment she was uncomfortable accepting them as patients and had never treated "people like you" before.
Serial Killer Ted Bundy's Warnings about Pornography Re-Aired on 20th Anniversary of Execution
COLORADO SPRINGS, January 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On the 20th anniversary of his execution, the final interview with notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, in which he warned of the deadly effects of pornography addiction, the primary factor that he says led to his notorious killing spree in the 1970s, was re-aired by Focus on the Family.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Forgiveness sought for Holocaust-denying bishop
VATICAN CITY -- The head of an ultraconservative society is asking for forgiveness from Pope Benedict XVI for the claims by one of his bishops that no Jews were gassed in World War II.
Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, said his group doesn't share the views of Bishop Richard Williamson about what Fellay called the "genocide" of Jews by the Nazis.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Adult Stem Cells Already Help Spinal Cord Patients, FDA Embryonic Trials Not Needed
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of embryonic stem cells in human trials for the first time. While the trials involve controversial embryonic cells that have problems with tumors and immune system rejection, the use of adult stem cells has already proven safe for spinal cord patients.
Pro-Life Mobile Phone Service Urges "Buy Pro-Life" Response to Obama Inauguration
January 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “In light of the recent election results and inauguration of President Obama, the “Culture War” is boiling up and about to take a turn for the worse”, warns Timothy J. Bischel, President of the Sienna Group, a pro-life mobile phone service. Bischel says he can help pro-life groups in this battle if more pro-life Americans sign up for his service and designate particular groups, such as LifeSiteNews, to receive the monthly percentage of their bill that Sienna gives to such groups.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Activists to Obama: Go watch abortion
President Obama, who as an Illinois state lawmaker objected to requiring doctors to provide medical care for infants who survive abortions, has been issued a challenge by March for Life officials, who today rallied in Washington to mark the 36th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking state bans on abortion.
Abortion Film '22 Weeks' Disturbs, Exposes
WASHINGTON – "22 Weeks" has the images and sound effects of a horror flick, but it isn't one. Instead, it's based on a true account of a woman who sought a late-term abortion but found herself living a nightmare.In the 25-minute featurette, Angela, played by Natalie Wenninger, wakes up in her motel room covered in blood. She rushes to the clinic where she had been injected with a needle the day before to abort her baby 22 weeks into her pregnancy. She’s bleeding profusely and is having contractions but is left alone in a dirty room at the clinic. Something is wrong.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Outrage at busty Virgin Mary models
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A prominent fashion designer has sparked outrage in Chile by dressing up models like the Virgin Mary -- in some cases with ample, near-naked breasts.
Vatican to get own YouTube channel
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican will soon have its own channel on the video sharing site YouTube where the Catholic faithful or the curious will be able to see Pope Benedict or Church events, a Vatican source said on Saturday.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
British Muslims urge mosques to condemn attacks on Jews amid Gaza conflict
A group of prominent British Muslims have urged mosques to condemn attacks on Jews, amid claims the conflict in Gaza has prompted a rise in the number of anti-Semitic incidents.
Christian Refuses to Drive Buses with 'No God' Ads
A Christian bus driver refused to drive buses carrying an advertisement that declares “There’s probably no God.” Speaking to BBC Radio Solent, Ron Heather said he felt “shock” and “horror” at the slogan on the ads when he turned up for work last Saturday.
Post-abortion distress
Intense feelings of guilt, shame, and anger are reported by many women who have had abortions. Psychologists generally agree that about 10 percent of the 1 million women who have abortions each year experience severe emotional trauma following the procedure. There is no consensus, however, about how many women experience less severe symptoms, collectively known as post-abortion syndrome or post-abortion emotional distress
Australia: Report reveals abortion reasons
BAD timing is the most common reason for women seeking abortions at Royal Women's Hospital, the first report on women using its pregnancy advisory service has found.An analysis of 3018 women seeking terminations between October 2006 and September 2007 showed 1026, or 34 per cent, listed their primary reason as "does not want children now" or "not the right time".
Groundbreaking pro-life initiative launched..
Enduring single digit temperatures, two members of Organized for Life kicked off the the group's ground breaking community organizing efforts in Staten Island, NY.The pair traveled door to door in the south shore section of the island in an effort to spread the gospel of life and to build opposition to the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).
EDITORIAL: Forced to abort
Many women say they have been pressured into abortions they did not want, according to research conducted by the Elliot Institute, a nonprofit specializing in the effects of abortion on women and families.
New Study: Top Reason for Women's Abortions is No Supportive Partner, Father
The pro-life movement in this country has been very successful in reducing the numbers of abortions and the abortion rate (the number of abortions per 1,000 women of child-bearing age). In 2005, the abortion rate was down 33% from its peak in 1980/81, the same level it had been in 1974.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
D.C. cops ban pro-life messages
The Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department has forbidden a pro-life gathering and chalk display during Inauguration Week – and now the group is fighting back with a lawsuit against the District of Columbia.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Chinese Government to Increase Fines for Violating One-Child Policy
BEIJING, January 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The chief of Beijing's family planning commission has revealed the Chinese government's plans to continue its population control policies as well as crack down on families violating the nation's one-child policy with higher fines
NY Times Botches Abortion Conversation
Several prominent women's health advocates are dismayed by a recent New York Times article about do-it-yourself abortions using the drug misoprostol. The Times piece, published January 4, mischaracterized a study about the drug, and researchers say the piece is sensationalist, implying that lots of New York City Latinas are seriously endangering their health and breaking the law. Some activists now worry that the Times article could muffle a more nuanced discussion about access to reproductive health care for immigrant women that transcends the phenomenon of DIY misprostol abortions.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Vatican to discuss "ultimate sins"
The Vatican's Apostolic Penitentiary is holding a two day conference on the five "ultimate crimes" of abortion, using the Eucharistic host in Satanic rites, clergy pedophile offences, violation of the confessional, and "offences against the person of the Pope." For the first time Vatican officials will this week discuss in public sins committed by clergy considered so deadly that they require forgiveness from the Pope himself, The Times Online reports.
Pro-life pivot: The untold story of how movement shifted focus, changed its image, and saved lives
Twenty years ago the pro-life movement was in bad shape. Frustration had grown as eight years of the Reagan administration had not led to Roe v. Wade's reversal or reduced the annual toll in dead children. With legislative and judicial approaches bogged down, some pro-lifers blocked entrances to abortion businesses as part of Operation Rescue. Others thrust bloody photos of dead unborn babies in front of passersby.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Forced abortions - America's secret epidemic
Elliot Institute spokesperson Amy Solby tells OneNewsNow that one study found 64 percent of women who had abortions reported they felt pressured to abort by others. "Something like 80 percent of them said that they didn't get the counseling they needed to make a good decision, that often they were not given counseling at all, or that the counseling they had was inadequate," she explains.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Florida Conservatives Fight for Repeal of Transgender Restroom Rule
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A blond girl heads from a playground into a women's restroom. A scruffy man, lurking outside, darts in behind her. "Your City Commission Made This Legal," the words on the TV screen read.
If doctors who won't kill are 'wicked,' the world is sick
Talk about Orwellian. A woman described as a "leading expert in ethics" has declared that doctors who refuse to kill their patients are "genuinely wicked." I'm not making this up.
Largest-Ever Pro-Life Mobilization Hits Toronto and Other Canadian Cities this Lent - Prayer, Fasting and 24-Hour Vigils Outside Abortuaries
TORONTO, January 9, 2009 (LifeSIteNews.com) - This Lent, from Ash Wednesday, February 25 to April 5, 2009, a number of Canadian cities, including Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, will participate with more than 170 cities across North America, joining together for the largest and longest coordinated pro-life mobilization in history - the 40 Days for Life campaign.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Preaching Moderate Islam and Becoming a TV Star
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — As Ahmad al-Shugairi took the stage, dressed in a flowing white gown and headdress, he clutched a microphone and told his audience that he had no religious training or titles: “I am not a sheik.”
San Francisco fest features public sex with no arrests
Nude men engaged in multiple instances of public sex on a municipal street while police officers, on foot and bicycle, congregated nearby making no attempt to enforce public indecency regulations, according to a report on the latest homosexual-fest in San Francisco.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Catholic students shun vaccine
Less than 20 per cent of Calgary Catholic students targeted in a provincial campaign to combat cervical cancer received a human papilloma virus vaccination after their school district opted out of the controversial program this fall.
Half of South Africa's child-bearing generation HIV+ from rape
Analysing this past year in South Africa, very grim statistics emerge which do not bode well for the country's long-term future. Since 1994, some 640,000 people have been murdered; 500,000 females of all ages are raped per year; 6,1-m people are HIV+...
Firm vows to keep up sex adverts
A company is refusing to take down billboard ads bearing the large slogan "Want longer lasting sex?", despite being ordered to do so by a watchdog.The Advanced Medical Institute promotes a nasal spray for male sexual problems.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Man must pay child support, despite DNA tests
TORONTO -- A Toronto man must continue to pay child support despite a DNA test proving he is not the biological father of his ex-wife's children, a judge ruled.
Scientists Still Can't Solve Cancer Issues With Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In just a matter of weeks, Barack Obama may force Americans to spend millions for unproven embryonic stem cell research. Yet, scientists admit they are having significant problems overcoming one of the major hurdles that may prevent the cells from every helping human patients.
Carleton University Pro-Life Group to Host Silent No More Campaign after Two Years of Opposition from Student Association
OTTAWA, January 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students who have undergone abortions will be encouraged to share their experiences at an event sponsored by Carleton University’s pro-life group this week. The event, which will take place tomorrow (Jan. 8) at 11:30 am, will feature speakers from the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (SNMAC), the project that encourages women who have been hurt by abortion to speak out about their experiences.
Doctor of Dogmatic Theology and Ob/Gyn Condemn Early Induction Abortions at Catholic Hospital in London Ontario
LONDON, Ontario, December 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Rev. Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro, the Rome Director of Human Life International and a Doctor of Dogmatic Theology, has reviewed and denounced the ethical guidelines which have permitted a Catholic hospital in London Ontario to terminate the pregnancies of babies who are severely disabled.
By the Numbers: The Ten Most Popular LifeSiteNews.com Stories of 2008
From the bizarre to the beautiful, in 2009 LifeSiteNews published thousands of original stories on many of the most important developments having to do with the issues of life, culture, faith and the family. But after crunching the numbers we found that the following ten stories came out on top as the most read LifeSiteNews.com stories of the past year. Many of these stories are just as important now as they were when they were first published. We hope you enjoy this retrospective.
Child maids are now being exported to United States
They watched through their window as the child rinsed plates under the open faucet. She wasn't much taller than the counter and the soapy water swallowed her slender arms. To put the dishes away, she climbed on a chair.But she was not the daughter of the couple next door doing chores. She was their maid.
Red Faced and Red Handed: Top Ten Pro-Abortion Moments of 2008
Washington, D.C. (7 January 2009) – 2008 was a down year for the pro-abortion movement's talking heads. As you read the quotes below, despite the seriousness of the subject - after all, we are talking about matters of life and death - it's hard not to laugh at their ridiculous attempts to justify their position.
Vatican bars U.S. Jesuit from teaching about Christ
VATICAN CITY — An American Catholic theologian censured by the Vatican for "grave doctrinal errors" has been told to cease teaching about the nature and identity of Jesus Christ.
Autism test 'could hit maths skills'
The prospect of a prenatal test for autism, allowing couples to choose whether to have a baby with the condition, is coming closer. And with it also comes the possibility of a prenatal drug treatment being developed.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Hollywood Conservatives Encouraged to Come Out of the Closet
A once-timid group of social outcasts is emerging from the shadows in Hollywood. If the past year is any indication, Tinseltown may have to get accustomed to the loud presence of a growing minority.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
UK: Discrimination fears over free parking for Christians
Plans to grant Christians free parking in a town could be blocked because councillors fear causing offence to other religions, it was revealed today.Tewkesbury Borough Council in Gloucestershire is considering scrapping charges for churchgoers throughout its car parks on Sunday mornings.
Son of Hamas Leader Turns Back on Islam and Embraces Christianity
Mosab Hassan Yousef is an extraordinary young man with an extraordinary story. He was born the son of one of the most influential leaders of the militant Hamas organization in the West Bank and grew up in a strict Islamic family.
Victoria Lambert: 'I aborted my baby because he was disabled but it still feels like murder and haunts me every day'
When I see boys at my daughter's school, all gangly limbs and scruffy hair, I wonder what my own son would have looked like. He would be nine now. He would have blond hair and blue eyes - his father and I shared that colouring.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
People are worth even more than kidneys
'People are kidneys too." It's a new Rod Bruinooge-inspired T-shirt we're considering. Mr. Bruinooge wants us to think about giving as much protection to Canadian babies as we do individual body parts and that, we find, is a New Year's resolution we can get behind.
Selling abortion: Through academia, the press, and TV, pro-abortion forces peddled their cause |
During the half-century from 1860 to 1910 in which America's rate of abortion declined sharply, The New York Times regularly reported on prominent physicians who did abortions. A story in 1884, "Two Physicians in Trouble," noted that two of the "best known physicians in Providence, R.I.," were on trial for abortion. A typical story in 1886, "DOCTOR INDICTED," detailed abortion charges against a highly regarded New Haven physician, Dr. Gallagher. A similar story about a well-connected doctor noted the abortion arrest of Philadelphia physician David Otway.
Lessons from the past
To save the lives of more unborn Americans we should see how our pro-life predecessors succeeded in the past—and by the past I don't mean only the past three decades but the past two centuries. It's conventional to think of the abortion horror as a product of the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, but research I've done at the Library of Congress shows that abortion on the eve of the Civil War was more frequent, in proportion to the U.S. population, than it is now.
Abortion heresy: Illogical positions lead to revealing slips of the tongue
A pro-abortion culture requires eternal vigilance. Heresy can sneak through. The New York Times has for four decades maintained abortion orthodoxy, but an editor should be fired for not cutting out a tender dialogue in the next-to-last paragraph of a 7,500-word lead story in the newspaper six weeks ago.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Sons of Perdition: How Certain Catholic Priests Turned the Kennedys Pro-Abortion
The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating and deeply saddening article exploring the reasons behind the Kennedy Family's staunch pro-abortion position. Believe it or not, Ted Kennedy used to be pro-life. So how did he and all the other prominent Kennedys swing so far in the opposite direction? For that matter, what about some of the other Catholic pro-abortion zealots in (or recently in) high public office, such as Nancy Pelosi, Mario Cuomo, and Tom Daschle? What happened to them?
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
India, an Exporter of Priests, May Keep Them
ALUVA, India — In the sticky night air, next to a grove of mahogany trees, nearly 50 young men in madras shirts saunter back and forth along a basketball court, reciting the rosary.They are seminarians studying to become Roman Catholic priests. Together, they send a great murmuring into the hilly village, mingling with the Muslim call to prayer and the chanting of Vedas from a Hindu temple on a nearby ridge.
Parish’s Big Victories
When pro-life messages and actions are consistent and regular, pro-life fruits are sweet and abundant. The 4 1/2-year-old parish of St. Helena of the True Cross of Jesus Catholic Church in Corpus Christi, Texas, is seeing several ripen.
A New Vaccine Research Initiative That Needs the Support of the Whole Pro-Life Community
It is not ironic that in this season of preparation for the coming of the Christ Child, Human Life International has been asked to support a new pro-life vaccine research company that is challenging, to the core, the practice of pumping unethical vaccines into the bodies of our children.
Born at just 23 weeks, the baby who defied our abortion laws
When Lexie Slater-Folksman was born at 23 weeks - an age at which babies can still be aborted - she weighed just 1lb 8oz.She was put on a life support machine and her parents were warned their daughter might not pull through.
Christian ministry suffers web attack
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The chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission says homosexual activists have launched a criminal attack on his ministry.Recently, Dr. Ted Baehr says he learned about the distribution of a number of emails and blog posts that were supposedly from him or his organization. However, the emails were links to pornography, including homosexual content.
Man being prosecuted in NM under federal fetus law
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Federal prosecutors in New Mexico believe they may be the first to use a 2004 law to charge someone with killing a fetus while causing the death or injury of the mother.
Voted for Prop 8? You're fired
Protests following the passage of California's Proposition 8, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman, made news headlines, but the Pacific Justice Institute reports a growing number of cases where those opposed to the ballot measure have taken out their anger more quietly: by harassing – and even firing – employees who voted for it.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Gay author plumbs the depths of addiction in ’America Anonymous’
Benoit Denizet-Lewis is trying to start a conversation in a place where no one seems to want to have it. Denizet-Lewis, a 33-year-old Jamaica Plain resident, is addicted to sex, and he wants to talk about it. But addicts usually only discuss their addictions in 12-step programs in anonymous church basements.
Group Warns Light Drinking By Pregnant Mothers Not Safe For Unborn Child
Miami, FL (AHN) - A group that researches alcoholism is concerned about the media's interpretation of a recent study out of England that some news outlets interpreted to say children born to mothers who drank moderately during pregnancy had better behavioral and cognitive skills than those born to mothers who abstained from drinking.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
The Pope Had the Guts to Say We Need to Save Ourselves from Self-Destructive Sexual Lifestyles
VATICAN CITY, December 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In thousands of news articles and talk shows around the world today from Bulgaria to India, Pope Benedict XVI is being bashed for daring to say we should care as much for mankind as the tropical rainforests; that the harm caused by going against the Creator's plan for human sexuality is destructive and hurtful. In truth, he is being pilloried for having enough love to tell his brothers and sisters struggling with same-sex attraction, promiscuity, pornography, adultery and more, that their behavior is hurting them and society at large. It is hurting them physically, psychologically, but most importantly - hurting them spiritually.
Bailout recipients Fannie, Freddie gave $ to 'gay' groups
The group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) is outraged that even though government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac went broke and received a federal bailout, they still managed to give thousands of dollars this year to homosexual activist groups.
Repeal laws banning cousins from marrying: geneticists
PRINCE.EDWARD.ISLAND (CBC) - Laws banning first cousins from marrying are based on outdated assumptions about higher risks for offspring, population genetic experts say.
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