Light Blogging These Days—Visit Some of These Links

Blogging has been light lately and may continue so for a few more weeks. I’ve been working on some important projects to ensure the survival and success of the Vote Life, Canada! campaign. Any prayers would of course be welcome.

Here are some stories that I have been following. Maybe you’ll find them interesting and helpful as well so I’m posting the links.

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Rick Warren recently hosted Hillary Clinton at his AIDS conference. Here’s one report of the event: Clinton gets standing ovations from evangelicals

And here’s good commentary from today’s Christian Post:
Saddleback's Conference on AIDS Gave Hillary Evangelical Cover
Because Rick Warren is a fellow evangelical and has rightly earned the respect and trust of many in the evangelical community (myself included) I am reluctant and yet compelled to question the judgment of including people on the program who do not support the Bible’s teaching concerning the sanctity of life and the protection of the family.

Mark Pickup has a post up that’s worth reading
Ronald Reagan's Clarion Call to America
According to the US Bureau of Vital Statistics, the year before Roe Versus Wade (1972) there were 39 women who died from illegal abortions in America.[4] Suffice to say that abortion advocates SLIGHTLY inflated the numbers…

You’re probably well informed about the Golden Compass controversy with reporting like this from LifeSiteNews
US Bishops asked to Fire Chief Film Critic over Glowing Reviews for "Brokeback" and "Compass"

Here’s a rather detailed posting from John Borst who publishes Tomorrows Trust, a “web based journal of news and opinion on Catholic education.”
Golden Compass 'review' causes media firestorm
Quite frankly I have never seen an educational issue so intense or concentrated in my years of monitoring education issues. The recent Ontario election debate over faith-based schools did not even come close. It was more drawn out. It never did reach the intensity that ‘censoring’ The Golden Compass has achieved.

And finally, Dr. Albert Mohler adds his perspective. [Great job, Dr. Mohler!]
The Golden Compass -- A Briefing for Concerned Christians

More on the US Catholic Bishops’ recent voting guidelines, approved November 14 in Baltimore during the semiannual assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Here’s a pretty standard report
Bishops aim to shape political consciences

But here’s the best analysis I’ve read on the Bishops’ guidelines. There’s quite a lot of commentary floating around on the subject but Dr. Jeff Mirus of Catholic Culture has made an excellent and very useful summary in my opinion.
How Not to Form Consciences for Faithful Citizenship
I’ve finally plowed through what we might call the U.S. Bishops’ quadrennial voting manifesto, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship”, released at their November 2007 meeting. Never has a document been so technically correct yet so utterly confusing. As a piece of practical voting advice, it is a disaster.

Family activist says studies show damaging effects of porn use
A pro-family attorney says a recent study confirms that pornography has devastating consequences.

Christian Divorce Trends Fuel Debates

Life Issues News—Daily Report October 19, 2007

Details of this form of daily news report can be found on this blog posting.

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Lab suspends DNA pioneer Watson
The Nobel Prize-winning DNA pioneer James Watson has been suspended by his research institution in the US. Dr Watson has drawn severe criticism over remarks he made in a British newspaper at the weekend.

Watch this video to learn more about the question “Do you want to live forever?”

SOUTH AFRICA--AIDS IN AFRICA: A desperate situation.

Lake of Fire: Moral suppression
After the first operation, a second-trimester abortion, the doctor sorts through a tray of fetal parts, including a perfect-looking tiny hand and a foot, to make sure that nothing has been left inside the patient, which might lead to ...
CounterCulture - http://countercultureblog.com/

Abortion Shown On British TV Programme
As one doctor stated the unborn are their own best advocates. The programme was hardly made from a pro life point of view, really focusing on the foetal pain issue, however seeing the images of the unborn in the womd, the callous calm ...
Hidden Ireland - http://hiddenireland.wordpress.com

Laws propose giving abortion seekers chance to see ultrasound
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
Sam Brownback of Kansas, which would require doctors to take ultrasounds before abortions and compel women to look at them or sign a written waiver. ...

Umbilical cord donation helps stem cell research
The stem cells taken from umbilical cord blood and bone marrow have treated dozens of diseases. In 1988, doctors performed the first cord blood transplant from a donor who was a sibling of the patient. Five years later, Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg of Duke University Medical Center performed the first successful cord blood transplants from a donor not related to the patient. Doctors have performed about 8,000 cord blood transplants worldwide.

Should a pro-life voter prefer Hillary to Rudy?
(By the way, “death” here refers to issues like abortion and embryonic research, not war, since presidents from both parties send troops into combat.) My Catholic Democrat grandparents and aunts and uncles are no doubt rolling over in ...
Warren Throckmorton - http://wthrockmorton.com

Brownback’s views popular with conservative Christians but maybe not enough
By Eileen Flynn | Thursday, October 18, 2007, 06:01 PM
Christianity Today has posted this interesting Q&A (done in late September) with Sen. Sam Brownback. Apparently, the Kansas Republican is going to withdraw from the race.

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Amnesty, abortion and the abuse of women
Ekklesia - UK
Amnesty International's policy on sexual and reproductive rights does not promote abortion as a universal right and the organization [does not take a ...

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The Deafening Silence
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
It's been a week since The Lancet published the comprehensive Guttmacher Institute study which found that bans on abortion fail to reduce abortion rates. ...

Op-Ed: Neither man nor beast
Fact, it has been said, is stranger than fiction. And fiction can be pretty strange. Take, for instance, an 1896 novel by famous English thinker, H.G. Wells, “The Island of Dr. Moreau.” As one can see from the date of its publication, the book was written on the threshold of a new century, and Wells, famous as a “futuristic” thinker, was trying to look ahead.

UN Praises Vietnam Population Control, But Abortion Skews Gender Ratio
Hanoi, Vietnam (LifeNews.com) -- The United Nations issued a new report praising the population control efforts in Vietnam, but the paper acknowledges the devastating effects the program has had there.

Japan and Religion
No bans on abortion, no mandatory prayer in schools, no abstinence-only programs, no demands for reshaping biology, geology, or history curriculums to allow for the creation of the Japanese islands by Izanagi and Izanami some three ...
The Blog from Another Dimension - http://blogd.com/wp

Capital punishment
Sunday - Catholic Weekly - Czestochowa,Poland
... repression in the above-mentioned book. He also emphasizes that one cannot credibly oppose abortion and euthanasia, being indifferent to the death penalty.

"State, anti-abortion groups battle over 'Choose Life' plates"
"State, anti-abortion groups battle over 'Choose Life' plates": The Business Journal of Phoenix yesterday posted online an article that begins, "Anti-abortion advocates and state attorneys argued before a federal appeals court Monday ...
How Appealing - http://howappealing.law.com/

Abortion and Canadian Judicial Appointments
By Garry J. Wise, Wise Law Office, Toronto(Garry J. Wise, Wise Law Office, Toronto)
I guess women shouldn't worry about the anti-abortion right-wingers who are being appointed as judges by the Harper Conservatives -- like Lawrence O'Neil, who will be sworn in next week to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, and David Brown, ...
Wise Law Blog - http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/

NEEDS PRO-LIFE REBUFF!
Abortion Protest Misses the Point
Given the facts and the experts’ agreement, one might reasonably expect anti-abortion activists to favor greater contraceptive availability and broader sex education policies. By and large, they do not. So let us examine what we have. ...
University of Pennsylvania Democrats - http://blog.penndems.org/

Ex-Kansas AG Still Anti-Abortion Leader
The Associated Press -
Last year, GQ magazine called him the future of the anti-abortion movement, while Planned Parenthood put him on a list of 15 Americans it saw as major ...

Pope Benedict XVI Tells Chile President to Not Abandon Pro-Life Views
Vatican City (LifeNews.com) -- Pope Benedict XVI met with Michelle Bachelet, the new president of Chile, for 40 minutes on Thursday and pressed home to her the importance of keeping the pro-life perspective there.

AP Interview: Perry says Giuliani will help overturn Roe
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
The election of Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton would be "devastating" to the economy, the military and to the anti-abortion movement, ...

US Firm Proposes Using 'Spare' Human Embryos For Stem Cell Experiments
LONDON -- A private firm in the US that has proposed a scheme to turn "spare" embryos left over from in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments into stem cells, has come under criticism in the UK by fertility experts. Full story...

The evangelical crisis of faith that threatens to sink the Republicans
Guardian Unlimited - UK
A defection of anti-abortion activists could devastate Republican prospects next year. Ralph Nader won less than 3% of the vote when he ran as a Green party ...

Feminists For Life: Colleges should aid pregnant students
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA
By Mark Melady TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF WORCESTER— Abortion opponents and abortion rights advocates on college campuses can join forces to keep pregnant ...

Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007 – Family Planning Associates, San Diego
“You have time to go up there and help her to change her mind”

Any clinic, anywhere
Pro-life group unveils web page with interactive map of every Planned Parenthood facility in the US

Open Letter from John Lofton to Gary Bauer: You're Wrong, Dobson Right on Fred Thompson; and Tell Us, Please, About Your Neo-Conmen Connection

One step at a time
KeepMEcurrent.com - Scarborough,ME,USA
Her parents have admitted to tying Katelyn’s hands following a fight and driving her to New Hampshire with the hope of convincing her to have an abortion. ...

Anti-abortion crusader to be sworn in as judge
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Taking an anti-abortion or pro-choice stance shouldn't preclude someone from being named a judge, he said. But he says Canada lacks a strong enough ...

Kansas Official Files Charges Against Planned Parenthood Abortion Center
Kansas City, KS (LifeNews.com) -- Another battle over the allegedly illegal abortions done at a Kansas City Planned Parenthood abortion center is brewing. Late Wednesday, Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline, the former state attorney general, filed over 100 criminal charges against the abortion business in Overland Park.

Killed for refusing an abortion
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
Teen pleads guilty to murder after Roxanne Fernando was beaten, buried in snowbank

Maybe a prochoicer saying it makes it more credible
By GrannyGrump(GrannyGrump)
We can see that the abortion mortality trends didn't change much, as evidenced in this chart from the National Center for Health Statistics: How accurate were their numbers? Pretty good, judging by studies done in California, Minnesota, ...
RealChoice - http://realchoice.blogspot.com/

Embryos Have Souls, Says Stem Cell Scientist
The ethical concerns regarding the destruction of human life
Markus Grompe / Nature.com
To me, the very fact that embryos produced in IVF clinics become babies and eventually adult humans means that they are human (and have a human soul) from the very beginning. Full story..

Women's Right to Know Act shows positive results across Georgia
Walker County Messenger - LaFayette,GA,USA
Because of the Women's Right to Know Act, women seeking an abortion are now given information about abortion procedures, the medical risks associated with ...

MPs hear case for low abortion limit
Church Times - London,UK
... described as "an opportunity for us all to come before God with our feelings about abortion, the tragic statistics that were never envisaged in 1967, ...

Confronting the Issue of Abortion: Two Press Briefings at the ...
PR Newswire UK (press release) - London,UK
The latest statistics show that figure has remained virtually unchanged over the last decade. What actions can those in power take to stop these deaths? ...

Hillary and Rudy Snub Cardinal Egan, Tony Blair
... a lot of heat from the Church about his stance on abortion, and also he's been kind of a jerk about New York lately. Plus, he's already had his photo op with the Brits. But Hillary? Cardinal Egan has stood up for her in the past, ...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine - http://nymag.com/daily/intel/

Third-party Talk
October 17, 2007
If the walkout of Republicans grassroots were dramatic enough and if it enticed major figures to join, a third party could work.

Mitt Romney "Proudly" Pro-Life on Abortion, Opposes Embryonic Research
Pawleys Island, SC (LifeNews.com) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigned in South Carolina on Thursday and had a local voter ask him where he stands on the issue of abortion.

FDA Documents Show Dangerous Abortion Drug RU 486 Made in China
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A public interest group has obtained copies of Food and Drug Administration records showing that agency knew the dangerous abortion drug RU 486 was made in China before it was approved for use in the U.S. at the end of the Clinton administration.

Fred Thompson Says Abortion Advocates Out to Defeat His Presidential Bid
Kennesaw, GA (LifeNews.com) -- On the campaign trail in the state of Georgia, Republican hopeful Fred Thompson said that abortion advocates are trying to destroy his presidential bid.

Pro-Life, Pro-Family, Pro-Rudy?... albeit one that he may not have welcomed, as Protestant and Catholic leaders alike questioned whether his presidential aspirations were invalidated by his pro-abortion beliefs. Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. ...
Wide Awakes - All Discussions -

Christians confusing meekness with weakness
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
The first example of gutlessness came from the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco. Last Sunday, Archbishop George Niederauer was celebrating mass at ...

Catholic priest to appeal excommunication for misconduct
Inquirer.net - Philippines
Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz, an expert on canon law, explained that for a Catholic, excommunication means that one is separated from the life ...

Former Kansas AG Still Anti-Abortion Leader
John Milburn / The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. -- To [some] abortion opponents, Phill Kline is a standard bearer. For abortion rights [sic] activists, he's a dangerous ideologue. Full story...

Supreme Court appointee’s anti-abortion views draw fire
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
By SUE BAILEY The Canadian Press OTTAWA — Opposition justice critics say the swearing-in next week of a former Tory MP and anti-abortion crusader is proof ...

Scientist Suspended Over Race Remarks Also Discussed ‘Defective’ Children
(CNSNews.com) – One of the world’s most highly regarded scientists was suspended late Thursday by his New York research institution amid a row in Britain over reported comments that blacks are less intelligent than whites. His latest comments are causing an uproar, prompting the Federation of American Scientists to declare Thursday, “It is a sad and revolting way to end a remarkable career.”

Funds for Schools That Give Birth Control to 11-Year-Olds?
(CNSNews.com) – Cybercast News Service hit Capitol Hill on Thursday to ask members of Congress whether U.S. taxpayers should fund public school districts that provide contraception to children as young as 11 without parental notification...

Drug Firm, FDA Deny Link Between Deaths and HPV Vaccine
(CNSNews.com) - Three states have passed laws requiring sixth-grade girls to be inoculated against a sexually transmitted disease. Now government documents show that eight deaths and more than 3,000 adverse reactions were reported after the vaccine, Gardasil, was administered...

GOP Won’t Choose Pro-Choice Presidential Candidate, Brownback Says
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, who’s expected to drop out of the GOP presidential race, was asked on Friday if he would support a pro-choice candidate such as Rudy Giuliani. Yes he would, the pro-life Brownback told Cybercast News Service -- but Giuliani will not be the Republican presidential nominee, he insisted...

U.S. Appeals Court to Decide on Fate of Arizona's 'Choose Life' Plates

Planned Parenthood Calls Charges 'Baseless'
Calling charges filed against Planned Parenthood this week “baseless,” the Overland Park clinic’s top official said in the end his agency will be exonerated. Full story...

Brownback to Pull Out of Presidential Race
The second-tier candidate running on a social conservative platform had trouble raising funds necessary to keep his campaign going, people close to the Kansas senator told The Associated Press.

Bob Jones Dances With The Devil
Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
Bob Jones' endorsement of the former Massachusetts governor illustrates just how low the Religious Right will go in compromising bedrock principle for the sake of political expediency. Jones says he is supporting Romney so as to help defeat Rudy Giuliani. I very much want to see what Jones will do if and when Giuliani gets the Republican nomination. I would anticipate that he will continue to follow his current modus operandi and support Giuliani, because he would then say that Giuliani is the "lesser of two evils."

From the Supreme Court to Abortion 'Ground Zero' in Aurora: Thomas More Society of Chicago Celebrates 10th Anniversary

'America's toughest sheriff' cracks down on Phoenix day laborer site
A public-interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption is praising an Arizona sheriff for conducting raids against a day labor site in Phoenix -- resulting in the arrests of six illegal aliens.

Harkin puts freeze on embryo destruction amendment
Conservative groups are welcoming the removal of an anti-life measure from a massive appropriations bill that includes education funding.

Maine school offers birth control to students in grades 6-8
Students at a Maine middle school will now have access to birth-control pills and patches at their school health center.

No Cut In Federal Money For Abortion Providers
4,600 clinics in U.S. receive federal Title X tax funding
CAPITOL HILL -- The Senate has blocked a bid by anti-abortion forces to cut off money for clinics that provide family planning and other health services in addition to abortions. By a 52-41 vote, the Senate rejected a proposal by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., to stop funding health clinics, Planned Parenthood and other providers of reproductive health services if they use money from nonfederal sources to perform abortions

Ron Paul's Revision to Sanctity of Life Act of 2007: H.R. 2597
2007-2008 (110th Congress) H.R. 2597
Full story...

Romney uses Columbus visit to trumpet evangelical's support
Attempting to allay evangelical Christians' suspicions about his Mormon faith, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney touted an endorsement today by Bob Jones III, founder of the fundamentalist Christian university in South Carolina that bears his name. Romney, making his first public appearance of the campaign in Columbus, told reporters that Jones' backing was "a positive step" in his effort to reach out to evangelicals who...

Babies at a Premium: Canadian Women Opting out of Motherhood

Dallas minister urges vote for a Christian, not Romney
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, encouraged his congregation to elect a Christian. 'Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and don't let anybody ...

Woman's passion leads to a rite to life song
Intermountain Catholic - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
Wade decision in 1973 legalizing abortion. Higgins said the song lay dormant until last February when Father Erik Richtsteig, pastor of St. James Parish in ...

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Also check the following websites for daily pro-life reporting and commentary

LifeSite - Your Life, Family and Culture Outpost featuring daily ...
Daily news, links, and information on abortion, euthanasia, politics, religion, and entertainment.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/

LifeNews.com - The Pro-Life News Source
Pro-life news source covering abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and stem cell research.
http://www.lifenews.com/

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And be sure to visit Suzanne's blog and Jill Stanek's blog

BIG BLUE WAVE
A Canadian blog about fetal rights, pro-life issues, Catholicism, religion, and social conservative issues in general.
http://bluewavecanada.blogspot.com

Jill Stanek
http://www.jillstanek.com

Life Issues News—Daily Report October 18, 2007

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Memorial University Students’ Union said to be Delusional For Outlawing Campus Pro-Life Group

Protest in Cincinnati Outside Planned Parenthood Drives City Council to Try Limiting Free Speech Rights

CUPE and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Must First Target Poverty of the Unborn

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WASHINGTON--Brownback to drop out, report says.

Parents Use Religion to Avoid Vaccines
BOSTON -- "It's misleading," Rahim admitted, but she said she fears that earlier vaccinations may be to blame for her son's autism. "I find it very troubling, but for my son's safety, I feel this is the only option we have." Full story...

CLICK HERE FOR SYMPOSIUM WEBSITE
More than 190 registrations have already been received for the "Current Issues - Future Directions" International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. We only have space for 270 people. Please register early, while space is available.

National Priests' Leader Comments on Execution and Pain
"So even without raising the issue of whether abortion itself is constitutional, could we not halt the execution of these children out of the same humanitarian concern of sparing fellow human beings pain?"

Slain Pregnant Mother Refused to Have Abortion
WINNIPEG -- A pregnant woman was brutally beaten to death and buried in a snowbank because she refused to have an abortion, the Winnipeg Free Press has learned. Full story...

Protestors and Drivers Spar Over Abortion
Abortion protestors from Life and Liberty Ministries took to the streets of Midlothian during rush hour yesterday, holding graphic signs for all to see…Koropp said to protestors along the side of the road. "And you think 4-year-olds and 5-year-olds should have to see that?"

Maine school board approves contraceptives for middle schoolers
Pupils at a city middle school in Portland will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center after the local school board approved the proposal Wednesday evening.

Kansans for Life official lauds 107-count indictment against Kansas abortion mill
The statewide development director of Kansans for Life believes the 107-count indictment against Planned Parenthood of Overland Park is a great first step in uncovering years of alleged illegal activities.

Randall Terry to Discuss Efforts to Derail Giuliani at Press Conference
So-called 'pro-life Republicans' that are endorsing Rudy - like TX Governor Rick Perry, or NY Representative Pete Sessions, are typical treacherous politicians. They have betrayed innocent blood to support a child-killer;

School Approves Birth Control Pills for 11- to 13-Year-Olds
(CNSNews.com) – King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plans to dispense birth control pills and patches to students between the ages of 11 and 13. The Portland School Committee voted 5-2 in favor of the controversial proposal Wednesday night...

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Ann Coulter Strikes Back on Jewish Issue
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
Korzen shills for the pro-abortion Democrats and the anti-war left. He used the Catholic label to oppose the nomination of John Bolton to be ambassador to ...

A Reply to Susan's Invitation
Can the Duquesne radio station have a program/debate on the abortion issue without raising the problems presented here? I think it can. Must it accept the endorsement of Planned Parenthood (no friend of the Church)? No—it need not, ...
Mirror of Justice - http://www.mirrorofjustice.com/mirrorofjustice/

High Noon at Boston College
By Deal Hudson
Holy Cross is renting space to the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy for the conference, and President McFarland responded to Bishop McManus by saying Holy Cross has "contractual obligations" and cannot cancel the conference or ...

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Bishop may have stirred 'Americanists' with stand
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA
They find it largely responsible for the spread of artificial contraception, abortion and the approval of homosexual marriage. In some circles the preferred ...

Texas Governor Rick Perry Endorses Giuliani
John Birch Society - Appleton,WI,USA
... on the day when the Christian Brothers at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School taught that abortion is a grievous moral offense against man and God. ...

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Why the Church is Reluctant to Defend Life
Since the day I became pro-life in the early 1990s, I’ve continually asked a rhetorical question: If the Church is really pro-life why is it that it does little or nothing to promote and defend the pro-life position?

Plan B Law Will Affect Hospitals in Pennsylvania
State House members are expected to vote Tuesday on a law that would require all hospitals to offer the emergency contraceptive Plan B, also known as the morning after pill, to sexual assault patients. Full story...

God and Hillary Clinton, Part 4 - Pro-choice Christians?
By Warren
When I was an undergraduate, there was a group of feminists at a nearby college–the name of which I will withhold–that called itself First Church of Christ Abortionist, which taught that abortion was a kind of holy sacrament for women. ...
Warren Throckmorton - http://wthrockmorton.com

Scalia opines on faith and justice
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
He said that - unlike on abortion - the Catholic Church had never issued an infallible judgment that capital punishment was universally wrong. ...

A Crisis in Catholic Education
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun - Ithaca,NY,USA
Both of these organizations unapologetically spurn the Catholic Church's teaching about reproductive morality and abortion. ...

Can Children Recover from Their Parents' Divorce
He said that his mom had decided to marry another man, and that he was really, really sad. He began to cry. I could see how much they loved their parents, and how deeply hurt they were by the parents' decision to divorce.

Anti-abortion group in Ontario,Canada
By NewMom
Hey all! Just a little information on the group that I'm involved with. Text.


Justice Antonin Scalia: There is no right to abortion
He reconfirmed his belief that the so-called right to abortion is found nowhere in the Constitution. He said that notion is not guided by his Catholic views but by his understanding of the Constitution and his perspective as a "strict ...
BIG BLUE WAVE - http://bluewavecanada.blogspot.com/

Graphic Slaying Photos Allowed As Trial Evidence
POMONA -- Jurors will see a handful of graphic photos of a slain Cal Poly Pomona student when a trial begins next month for two of the three people accused of murdering her.

National author to speak at local church
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
Scott Klusendorf, president of the Life Training Institute, travels throughout the United States and Canada training anti-abortion advocates to defend their ...

Pregnancy Care (ie, anti-abortion) Center Gets $250K in Tax Credits
"The (Missourii Governor Matt) Blunt administration is sending $250000 in state tax credits to Springfield's Pregnancy Care Center, one of the leading anti-abortion organizations in the region."

Anti-Abortion Democrats Criticize Group For Silence on Child ...
The National Right to Life Committee, the nation's best-known anti-abortion group, isn't supporting the children's health insurance bill, and that has some Democrats upset. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, who opposes abortion, says the NRLC is ...
CQPolitics.com - All Articles - http://www.cqpolitics.com/

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Anti-abortion group makes presence felt
University of Central Oklahoma Vista - Edmond,OK,USA
One of the nation's touchiest subjects reared its hot-buttoned head on campus Monday as anti-abortion group Justice For All set up shop, complete with ...

Texas Governor Backs Giuiani
Washington Post - United States
The Texas governor is also a conservative whose anti-abortion credentials could help Giuliani reach out to pro-life conservatives. ...

Measure Would Limit Anti-Abortion Signs Near Clinic
WLWT - Cincinnati,OH,USA
CINCINNATI -- Protesters gather nearly every day outside the local Planned Parenthood clinic in Mount Auburn, but some of them are worried that a new ...
Video: Protesters Worry Ordinance Limits Free Speech

Texas Governor Backs Rudy Giuliani Despite Differences on Abortion
Austin, TX (LifeNews.com) -- Texas Governor Rick Perry, who has a stalwart pro-life record in the Lone Star State, has endorsed pro-abortion former mayor Rudy Giuliani for the Republican nod for president. Read the complete story.

Abortion: A matter of human rights (right to life) or property ...
By Neal Ford(Neal Ford)
Almost to a person, they consider the pro-life movement to be a bunch of religious fanatics, or an intrusion on their rights by the church (which church?) or an affront to separation of Church and state Nothing an be further fom the ...
Quinte Right To Life - http://quinterighttolife.blogspot.com/

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Dump truck of death
40 Days for Life – Sacramento, update days 16 – 20
Every Thursday the truck from Stericycle -- the business that collects and incinerates biohazardous waste -- backs up to the door of the Sacramento Planned Parenthood at 29th and B streets. There have been conflicting reports, but in Sacramento, Stericycle apparently handles the pitiful remains of the aborted little ones.

School Defends Use of Abortion Video
East Anglian Daily Times
A Catholic school has defended its use of a controversial anti-abortion video which shows images of a foetus being broken up in the womb. The Silent Scream was made in 1984 in the United States by Dr Bernard Nathanson Full story...

Features and Bugs
Scott Lemieux went even stronger to say that "the only thing that criminalizing abortion accomplishes is to ensure that some number of women will be maimed or killed." The trouble with these kinds of cross-national statistics, though, ...
Matthew Yglesias - http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/

Department of awful statistics
I'm still in favor of legalizing it, of course, for moral and practical reasons that I've gone into elsewhere. But the case for legal abortion stands on its own. It doesn't need nonsense statistics to back it up.
Megan McArdle - http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/

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Pro-abortion Chron cites bogus numbers from pro-abortion group
By Owen Courrèges
It estimates worldwide abortion statistics to have declined from about 46 million in 1995 to under 42 million in 2003. It attributes this decline to an increase in countries that legalize abortion and more access to contraceptives. ...
Lone Star Times - http://lonestartimes.com

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Does Planned Parenthood reduce abortions?
By Bill Beckman
Well, New York and California are among the states with the highest abortion rates while Nebraska has low abortion rates. Thus, Planned Parenthood's own statistics demonstrate the failure to achieve their claimed results. ...
illinoisreview - http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/

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Parsing Abortion Statistics and the Law
By Ryan T. Anderson
The subject is the new global study on abortion just published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Allan Guttmacher Institute (the research arm of Planned Parenthood).
FIRST THINGS: On the Square

107 Criminal Charges Filed Against Kansas Planned Parenthood

Vatican Denounces Pro-Abortion Campaigns and the Rise of "Neo-Marxism" in Latin America

New FDA Documents Reveal Abortion Pill RU-486 Made in Substandard Chinese Plant When Approved

New Cardinals
By Robert Kumpel(Robert Kumpel)
Wuerl has all but contradicted the pope's call (when he was Cardinal Ratzinger) to refuse Holy Communion to "Catholic" politicians who persist in their pro-abortion positions as you can read here. There is also evidence that many ...
St. John's Valdosta Blog - http://stjohnsvaldosta.blogspot.com/

As Alumni rise Up in Disgust, Has a Catholic College Hit the ...
By Defund Abortion Guy(Defund Abortion Guy)
Other pro-abortion colleges like John Carroll and Georgetown could use similar efforts. What's happened: article: Holy Cross hears Outcry For Space Rental Oct. 12 - Boston Globe Read Fr. McFarland's rebuttal to Bishop McManus ...
The Truth About Margaret Sanger - http://margaretsanger.blogspot.com/

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Nigeria: NISSMUN 2007 - Corruption of Students
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
(Cardinal Anthony Okogie must hear this) Last year Senator Daisy Ehanire-Danjuma sponsored an abortion bill at the National Assembly under the euphemistic ...

The FundamentaList
The American Prospect - Boston,MA,USA
It also suggests uniting around the goal of reducing abortion by distributing contraception -- even though abortion has skyrocketed in the years since the ...

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Man sentenced for causing miscarriage
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
By Peter Dujardin 247-4749 October 17, 2007 HAMPTON - — Daniel Riase got angry when his girlfriend refused to go forward with the abortion he wanted her to ...

National Christian Leaders Have Personal Meeting with Dr. Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee

This 10 year old article from Christianity Today re-surfaced: It’s a good one!
The Dilemmas of a Pro-Life Pastor | Christianity Today | A ...
While there is no lack of voices insisting, "The church should oppose abortion," Pastor Stan's dilemma illustrates how complex a situation can be. ...

Investments In and Profits from Abortion and Pornography Loom ...
By Justin(Justin)
In what might be construed as deceptive policies however, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) have written investment policies that appear to avoid such investments. ...
The Anti-Porn Site - http://www.anti-pornsite.com/

Justice Scalia - the Catholic not-Catholic Judge
By David S. Cohen
Is Scalia then just lucky that the Constitution just happens to, in his analysis, correspond with his personal (Catholic) views on social issues? Catholicism doesn't like abortion, gay rights, and the right to die; well, according to ...
Feminist Law Professors - http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu

Station Pulls Planned Parenthood Ads
The Associated Press -
Duquesne spokeswoman Bridget Fare, citing Planned Parenthood's support of abortion, said the organization was not aligned with the university's Catholic ...

Abortion Study Flawed MedHeadlines

Report shows global abortion rate drops
Minnesota Daily -
By Lindsay Guentzel global abortion rates have dropped from nearly 46 million in 1995 to fewer than 42 million in 2003, according to a report issued last week in a journal focusing on women's health.

Uruguayan Senate Ties on Pro-Abortion Legislation

New Pro-life Appointment to Control US "Family Planning" and Title X Funding Spigot for Abortion Clinics

Kindergarten Children should be Encouraged to Dance Naked and Masturbate in Pre-Schools; Norwegian Child Expert

Mercy Killing: A Reasonable Request Or Murder?
Euthanasia, sometimes called mercy killing. The very words conjure up emotional visions of desperate parents and children, caring for a loved one or the spectre of Dr. Jack Kervorkian and his suicide machine.

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Trounson's Group Being Investigated for Scientific Fraud [Serge]
Alan Trounson is the incoming director of the $3,000,000,000.00 California Stem Cell Agency. While he chooses how to divy up such an amount for "scientific" research, it should be noted that his group in Monash University, Australia is being investigated for scientific fraud.

Pro-life blogger shares his heart in this posting
What are We Doing? [Jay]
There will be no links to other articles on this post. I will not be analytical in the academic or philosophical sense. I sat down to write this because I am sad tonight…What are we doing?

Breastfeeding smells 'put OTHER women in the mood for sex'
The Daily Mail | There is a growing body of evidence that chemicals called pheromones trigger sexual desire and an urge to reproduce in women

Italy Father Who Wants to Remove Daughter's Feeding Tube Gets New Trial
Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- An Italian court has granted a request by a disabled woman's father for a new trial in his bid to remove her feeding tube and authorize her death by starvation and dehydration. Eluana Englaro has been a coma for 15 years after an automobile accident seriously injured her and her father wants to remove her feeding tube.

Justice Antonin Scalia Reconfirms: No Right to Abortion in Constitution
Philadelphia, PA (LifeNews.com) -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia attended Catholic celebratory events on Monday and gave a speech at Villanova Law School's Second Annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics & Culture. He reconfirmed his belief that the so-called right to abortion is found nowhere in the Constitution.

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Afghanistan needs true peace process, says CCCB head
Canada Western Catholic Reporter - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
16, the bishops elected Winnipeg Archbishop James Weisgerber CCCB president for a two-year term. Weisgerber moves into the president's chair after two years ...

Boyfriend reported abortion
In Lublin police arrested a gynaecologist suspected of carrying out an illegal abortion on a 16-year-old girl. The girl was persuaded to have the abortion by her mother, who even found the doctor to carry out the procedure. ...
Laodicea - http://exlaodicea.wordpress.com

Doctors in UK don't back current abortion law
A new survey out of the UK shows that over half of general practitioners believe that the okay of just one doctor should be enough for a woman to get an abortion. Right now, a woman has to convince two doctors that carrying her ...
Bush v. Choice - http://www.bushvchoice.com/

Pro-choice Christians: Oxymoron or a Clinton White House?
By Warren Throckmorton
A female rabbi said that to be "pro-choice" was to be "pro-God." The abortion doctor George Tiller referred to the unholy alliance of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and John Ashcroft as "the four horsemen of the apocalypse." ...
Blogger News Network - http://www.bloggernews.net

Contraceptive Mandates Orr Else . . .
The Department of Health and Human Services has announced the appointment of Susan Orr, Ph.D., as acting deputy assistant secretary for population affairs (DASPA). Dr. Orr, who has served in the department for the past six years, most recently as associate commissioner at the Children's Bureau in more..

Reading, Writing and Birth Control?
At Portland, Maine's King Middle School, a trip to the school clinic could mean more than just an aspirin or a bandage. School officials are discussing the idea of offering contraception to middle school children as young as 11 years old. The school clinic has already been offering condoms to students, more...
View the Video Charmaine Yoest, Vice President for Communications at Family Research Council, appeared on CNN Headline News October 16, 2007 to discuss a proposal at a middle school to dispense contraceptives to its students. Press the 'play' button below to watch:
Charmaine Yoest on CNN Headline News (10/16/07)

KENTUCKY--TRUSTEES: Pastors need a tender side, Mohler says.

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Winnipeg Archbishop James Weisgerber Elected President of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

Largest Baptist and Catholic Organizations in the World Profit from Abortion and Pornography

Polish Catholic Bishops Set the Example for Guiding Catholics in Proper Voting Principles to Defend Life

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'Silent No More' Leaders Praise House of Representatives for Urging More Study of Abortion's Affect on Mental Health

Christian authors strive to dispel 'myth' of feminism
A Christian author is debunking feminism in a new book that encourages women to embrace God-given roles as helpers to their husbands and nurturers to their children.

Perspectives: Coulter's remarks could have used 'perfecting'
If only Ann Coulter could have had the time to do so, here's what I believe would have been a better way to respond when asked by a Jewish talk-show host on CNBC: "We should all be Christian?"

Family of Woman Who Died at Massachusetts Abortion Center Speaks Out
Hyannis, MA (LifeNews.com) -- The family of a woman who died from an abortion at an abortion business in this Massachusetts city is speaking out about her death and wondering why the mainstream media has refused to cover it.

OFFICIALS PONDER Birth-Control Pills for Middle Schoolers
Student health officials say a broad contraceptive program is 'totally needed.'

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Planned Parenthood's misleading math
An expose on Planned Parenthood in the October 22 issue of The Weekly Standard explains how PP does the math to say with a straight face abortion accounts for only 3% of its services, as this pie chart from PP's 2005-06 report (click to enlarge) tries to show:

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Vote in FRC's straw poll
I will be live blogging beginning Friday from this weekend's Washington Briefing in DC, hosted by Family Research Council, billed as "the largest gathering of pro-family activists in the nation's capital."

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Powerful Pro-Life Message! The YouTube Interview: Ron Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGGOiv7sA4w

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A Faithful Rebel: Scandal in Archdiocese of Saint Paul and ...
The first and most important action to take is to contact the Bishop of Minneapolis St. Paul Diocese where this is scheduled to take place and complain that ...

Open Letter to Paul
Member of the Canadian Parliament,. Ottawa, Canada. Dear Mr. Steckle,. I have just become aware of something outrageous perpetrated by our Canadian Border Authority. I know that you are pro life and I am now asking you to be pro peace ...
reed writes - http://www.reedwrites.ca/

Crusaders Join Life Chain
University of Dallas University News - Irving,TX,USA
Crusaders for Life, the University of Dallas' pro-life club, participated in the annual nationwide Life Chain on MacArthur Blvd. last Saturday, Oct. 7. ...

The Economics of Morals
By Darwin(Darwin)
Declines in abortion in the US occurred most rapidly during times when poverty rates were falling– most notably under the Clinton administration.... Look at some of the statistics: 57% of women opting for abortion are economically ...
DarwinCatholic: Where Religion,... - http://darwincatholic.blogspot.com/

For The Voiceless
By Hannah(Kristin)
Recently an interview was featured on Focus on the Family in which Gianna Jensen, an abortion survivor (yes, the victim of an attempted abortion) spoke. It was extremely moving and I highly recommend the message. ...
Beauty from the Heart - http://www.beautyfromtheheart.org/

Abortion Consent Laws Also Cut Teen STD Rates
Crosswalk.com - Chesterfield,VA,USA
Klick and Thomas Stratmann, professor of economics at George Mason University, looked at statistics compiled over a 20-year period by the federal Centers ...

10 things a church can do to change the world
By Mark Horne
So find some highly obvious points in the public square to harp on (ie abortion), but try not to get bogged down in minutia (don't preach Christian libertarianism, socialism, or whatever from the pulpit). ...
Theologia - http://www.hornes.org/theologia

Church service to mark Abortion Act milestone
A CHURCH service is being held in East Lancashire to mark the 40th anniversary of the Abortion Act coming into force.

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The tension growing in evangelicalism is healthy
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
As the presidential campaign unfolds, these new ideas will compete for attention with old-line evangelical issues like opposition to abortion and gay rights ...

Law Students Not Entitled to Funding for Abortion Internships
Georgetown University The Hoya - Washington,DC,USA
He wrote: "One consequence of [a university's] essential relationship to the Church is that the institutional fidelity of the university to the Christian ...

CNS To Host Public Event on Eve of Holy Cross/Planned Parenthood ...
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
Please join The Cardinal Newman Society, in cooperation with St. Paul's Cathedral and the Worcester Diocese's Respect Life Office, on the eve before the ...

"WE'RE NOT ELECTING A PASTOR — WE'RE ELECTING A PRESIDENT"
... SC, the university's hometown. More:. Taylor acknowledged that endorsing a Mormon for president risked alienating the university's conservative donors and alumni. But, he said, "we're not electing a pastor — we're electing a president."
Evangelicals for Mitt - http://www.evangelicalsformitt.org/

Romney gets some help from Bob Jones University
By Carpetbagger
... everything they want to hear about abortion and gays. And in case there was any doubt, Romney is pulling out all the stops to seal the deal. He has invoked the Rev. Rick Warren, a popular evangelical author and megachurch pastor. ...

Vying for 'Values Voters'
New York Times - United States
Mr. Romney will be looking to dispel doubts about the authenticity of his relatively recent conversion from supporter of abortion rights to opponent, ...

Political Memo Gingerly, Romney Seeks Ties to Christian Right
New York Times - United States
Rick Warren, a popular evangelical author and megachurch pastor. He has quoted Scripture and alluded to the Gideon Bible as favorite late-night reading. ...

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UM to hold 3-week seminar on religion and sexuality
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
The first week will focus on birth control, abortion and premarital sex. The second week will cover sexual orientation and sexual identity issues. ...

A spiritual journey
Craig Daily Press - Craig,CO,USA
A member of the church since childhood, Browning has been the pastor for two years. Enlarge photo Stina Sieg/Courtesy Craig — First Baptist pastor Len ...

INTERVIEW-Politics not priority for US evangelical
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
Anderson said as an evangelical he would put his principles -- he is opposed to abortion and gay marriage -- first, even if he does not take the overt ...

NJ evangelicals at odds on '08 vote
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
A Wyckoff pastor, meanwhile, said there's a futility to focusing solely on which candidate is the most vigorous opponent of abortion. "Bottom line for me, ...

My view on abortion
By tina.pfeifer
Nowadays, I'm not a practicing Catholic and most of my views are pretty liberal, so don't think that just because I was raised as a Catholic is the reason why I am pro-life. I guess I just never understood why people are for abortion ...
Collegiate Talk - http://www.collegiatetimes.com/blogs

Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Killing Pregnant Girlfriend
Cedric Saunders wasn't scheduled to be in court until his trial, but today he told the judge he was guilty of shooting and killing his long-time girlfriend Yvette Moore and her unborn child back in March of 2005. Full story...

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In re the Eucharist: Cdl. McCarrick vs. Abp. Burke
By Dr. Edward Peters(Dr. Edward Peters)
Recently Cardinal Theodore McCarrick expressed his opinion on an important point of pastoral practice, namely, whether to withhold Holy Communion from notoriously pro-abortion Catholic politicians. McCarrick specifically expressed ...
In the Light of the Law - http://www.canonlaw.info/blog.html

Is it ever okay to have an abortion?
If a mother is four months into a pregnancy and complications arrise, may a child be killed so at least she survives rather than both people dying?
Catholic Answers Forums - http://forums.catholic.com

Texas Catholic Bishops v. Amnesty International: More Squandered ...
Newspaper Tree - El Paso,TX,USA
Contrary to the bishops' insinuation, Amnesty, which was founded by a Catholic, does not support abortion as a universal right, only its decriminalization. ...

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Catholic women in Argentina target of attacks at National ...
Catholic News Agency - Denver,CO,USA
Numerous women were physically assaulted by feminist groups whose purpose in attending was to promote abortion and gender ideology. ...

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Should abortion be legalised in Nigeria?
The Tide - Port Harcourt,Niger Delta,Nigeria
Aribike, a Baptist, and a media practitioner cited a case in Ireland, a Catholic nation, where abortion is forbidden. According to him, a teenage girl had ...

Hillary Clinton & Abortion
By JHG
Hillary's consistency with her denomination on legalized abortion was emphasized to me by her close friend and former obstetrician-gynecologist, William Harrison, the nationally known Fayetteville, Ark., abortion doctor, ...
In Light of the Gospel - http://www.inlightofthegospel.org

Can't Sacrifice Principle for Rudy Giuliani
It wasn't the only evidence of the wretched practice of abortion. They also had a mother who had adopted numerous kids – one of which is a little boy named Zachariah who also survived an abortion where a doctor stuck a needle in his ...
Faithful Observer - Blog - http://faithfulobserver.wordpress.com

Doctor's plea to end late abortions
Daily Mail - UK
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that his experience as an abortion doctor persuaded him that he upper limit was too high. "When I was terminating late ...

Lifting the lid on illegal abortions
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Doctors For Life spokesperson in Gauteng, Dr Monica Molatlhegi, said apart from depression and post-abortion syndrome, "an unsafe abortion may lead to ...

Legally Approved Deception?
Pioneer Times - Wayne,NJ,USA
According to biological evidence, abortion is undeniably the termination of an existing human being and doctors should not be allowed to withhold this vital ...

Baby Found in Sewage at Water Treatment Plant
ARCADIA -- Police continued searching for the mother of the unborn fetus found during the weekend in Arcadia's wastewater treatment plant. Full story...

Prosecutor: Husband's Affair Motive For Pregnant Wife's Killing
HOUSTON -- Belinda Temple, a 30-year-old Katy High School teacher, was shot to death in her home on Jan. 11, 1999. She was eight months pregnant with a little girl that Belinda had already chosen to name 'Erin' Full story...
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Trial Begins For Man Accused of Killing Pregnant Wife

Abortion is just as common where it's legal as where it's not ...
LONDON - Women are just as likely to get an abortion in countries where it is outlawed as they are in countries where it is legal, according to research ...

St. Louis Archbishop, Raymond Burke, Affirms That Pro-Abortion ...
By Thomistic
Pelosi's stance on abortion; Washington DC Archbishop, Donald Wuerl, who will also not prevent Nancy Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion; and Orange County Bishop, Tod Brown, who has given Holy Communion to pro-abortion Democratic ...
Roman Catholic Blog - http://romancatholicblog.typepad.com/roman_catholic_blog/

Cardinal McCarrick vs. Archbishop Burke?
By Carl Olson
According to the October 12 Catholic News Agency article, McCarrick seems to think there are only two ways to deal with the scandal of pro-abortion Catholic politicians: either withhold the Eucharist from them or work to persuade them ...
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog - http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/

'Reluctant Compliance'
National Catholic Register - North Haven,CT,USA
A lack of a scientific consensus left Connecticut's Catholic bishops — Archbishop Henry Mansell of Hartford, Bishop Lori of Bridgeport, Bishop Michael Cote ...

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Pro-Life: Against Abortion
More related articles... Anti Abortion: What It Means To Be Pro-Life; What Are Some Facts About Abortion? What Is Abortion, Anyway? What Is The Definition of Abortion? The Timing Of Various Abortions.
Pregnancy Information Digest - http://www.pregnancydigest.info

The Best Way to Reduce Abortion? Legalize It.
Anti-abortion activists have long claimed that they hope to end abortion once and for all. I disagree with their goals, but can at least understand them. But the WHO/Guttmacher study indicates that no matter how tightly abortion is ...
Minnesota Monitor - Front Page - http://www.minnesotamonitor.com

Ohio Bill: Show Image of Fetus First and Then You Can Kill the Baby
COLUMBUS -- Physicians must offer to show pregnant women ultrasound images of their embryo or fetus before performing an abortion, under legislation sponsored by two Cincinnati-area lawmakers. Full story...

Stem-cell opponents decry hefty donation to Blunt
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
Pam Fichter, president of Missouri Right to Life, the state's largest anti-abortion group, declined to say whether the donation would affect her group's ...

State, anti-abortion groups battle over 'Choose Life' plates
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Anti-abortion advocates and state attorneys argued before a federal appeals court Monday over Arizona's rejection of a specialty license plate that says ...

British women's right to choose is under covert attack
Guardian Unlimited - UK
So it comes as little surprise to discover the Papri study was funded by the anti-abortion group Life, and that the rightwing Journal of American Physicians ...

The Speech He Needs to Give
Yahoo! News - USA
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 06 - 10/22/2007 - Rudy Giuliani has a problem. It's bigger than he imagines and could doom his presidential prospects. The problem is his pro-choice position on abortion.

Storming the gates of Hell
TRI-CITY, MICHIGAN: One seasoned pro life advocated has been praying on site at our local abortion mill for many years. Last Saturday, Oct. 13th, Dave said he has heard of more "saves" in the last few days than in the last 6 months ...
RealChoice - http://realchoice.blogspot.com/

Abstinence approach gets unlikely ally

The Top 100 Most Influential People In Government and Politics In Ottawa

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Josh Patashnik on Jonah Goldberg's selective libertarianism
In today's Los Angeles Times, Jonah Goldberg lays out his reasons for being pro-life, despite his otherwise libertarian-ish philosophy. Some of these are more amusing than others (for instance, his theory that pro-life politicians willing to endure tirades from wealthy pro-choice donors will be more likely to support tax cuts), but his ultimate rationale seems to be this:

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Archbishop V. James Weisgerber elected President of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

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OCTOBER 15, 2007: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CALGARY, AB--On October 15 and 16, Campus Pro-Life (CPL), a student group at the University of Calgary, will re-open the abortion debate--and it will be hard to ignore them. The students will display twelve 4x8 foot bloody images from the controversial Genocide Awareness Project

Pro-Life Pharmacists Do Not Sign Illinois Settlement -- Court Rules Pharmacists Have Rights of Conscience

Bishops' Aide Criticizes Abortion Study
Procedure That Always Kills Cannot Be Called Safe, She Says

2007Oct10Pontiff says Families Must Form Consciences
Sets Goal for '09 World Meeting in Mexico

NEIL MACDONALD:
CBC News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
In Canada, Jean Chrétien, and Brian Mulroney before him, used to tell reporters that as Catholics they were personally opposed to abortion, ...

Lake of Fire Review: Abortion Opponents Portrayed as Mostly Violent or Strange; Director Admits Excluding Mainstream

LifeSiteNews.com Interview With Tony Kaye Director/Producer of Lake of Fire

Put Patients First
The Senate is prepared to debate and vote on one of the largest annual government spending bills, the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2008 (S.1710). The bill provides $606 billion for these agencies, $149.9 billion of which is discretionary spending. The bill is $9.6 billion beyond more...

World Congress of Families Appalled by California Gender Indoctrination Law

Islamic expert: 'Absurd' for Muslims to claim Islam on equal footing with Christianity
One of America's foremost experts on Islam says it's absolutely absurd that a group of Muslims would try to claim a moral equivalency between Christianity and Islam. The claim was made in a letter calling for dialogue between the two religions.

Judicial Watch Obtains New FDA Documents Regarding Abortion Pill RU-486
WASHINGTON, DC -- Judicial Watch announced that it recently received 175 pages of new documents pertaining to the abortion pill RU-486 that had previously been withheld by the Food and Drug Administration Full story...

Timeline of abortion laws and events

Nicholas F. Benton: In the Name of Religion, Part 2

Adult stem cells still trump embryonic

Man Gets Only 5 Years for Spiking Pregnant Girlfriend's Milk, Killing Baby
HAMPTON, Va. -- After his girlfriend decided not to have an abortion, twenty-one-year-old Daniel Riase induced his girlfriend's miscarriage by secretly drugging a glass of milk--he has been sentenced to five years in prison. Full story...

Male Nurse Charged With Killing 5 Patients
NEWCASTLE, England -- Colin Norris is charged with administering lethal doses of insulin to four elderly women at Leeds General Infirmary and St. James Hospital because they were troublesome for the staff Full story...

Harvard cannot find women to donate eggs for human cloning experiments

BACK OFF! I'M NOT DEAD YET.- I Don't Want a Living Will. Why Should I?

The End to the Laci Peterson Mystery
DALLAS, TX and DENVER, CO -- "'I'm Sorry I Lied to You,' the Confession of Scott Peterson," reexamines the evidence, the speculation, and the major players of one of America's most heinous murders. Publication date is set for December 15, 2007 Full story...

Law Students Not Entitled to Funding for Abortion Internships
The recent decision by the Georgetown University Law Center administration to allow funding for students’ internships with groups that support abortion rights, such as Planned Parenthood, is both tragic and misguided. Full story...

Prescribe 'The Pill' to 11-Year-Olds?
Student "health" officials say a broad contraceptive program is 'totally needed.'
Full story...

NIH Director Urges Expanded Embryonic Stem Cell Research
National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni suggests that embryonic stem cell research should be expanded. He adds: "We must continue the research at all levels, or there will be no progress." Full story...

Who's To Blame If Hillary Clinton Wins The Catholic Vote in 2008?
Post Chronicle - USA
"Kerry was punished for being a pro-abortion Catholic. Giuliani is wise not to talk about being a Catholic, or he will suffer the same fate. ...

Catholics and the "Donald Duck Heresy"
CNA has run an article (posted on EWTN's news review) on a book by Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia on the issue of Catholics and the practice of artificial contraception. Well, Cardinal Pell is at it again. ...
Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex - http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com

Cardinal Pell's apt - and memorable - "Donald Duck heresy"
By Thomas Peters(Thomas Peters)
The same thing happens with Catholics who practice and promote a disordered vision of human sexuality through contraception, abortion and the destruction of embryos. With claims to "primacy of conscience," he said, "they falsely believe ...
AmericanPapist: Not Your Average... - http://www.americanpapist.com/blog.html

Abortion Consent Laws Also Cut Teen STD Rates

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How does Planned Parenthood explain this?
Rate of sexually-transmitted diseases soars among young Californians

The Church and Assisted Procreation
Cautions for the "Infertile" Couple
Today, many different techniques of "assisted" human procreation are lumped together: fertility drugs, sperm enrichment, sperm capacitation, artificial insemination, gamete intra-Fallopian transfer, in vitro fertilization (IVF), pre-implantation diagnosis, and even reproductive cloning.

There Is No Such Cell As A Human Embryonic Stem Cell.
At least, not yet.
The promotion of using early human embryos as "stem cells" or to obtain so-called "stem cells" has led to the public debate over obtaining these wrongfully labeled blastomeres by killing human embryos; in fact, killing human life.

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Anti-Catholic Gay Activist James Loney to Speak at Winnipeg Catholic Social Justice Conference

Vision TV Outrages Catholic Viewers with Repeat of Abortionist Interview Following Catholic Mass

Debate flies over 'sex play' in kindergartens

Hillary Clinton Starts Week on Women's Issues by Promoting Abortion
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Hillary Clinton began a week devoted to women's issues on Monday but she used her first policy speech to bash President Bush on the issue of abortion. Clinton says she has a lead in the Democratic race for president because of the backing of women but she may find it more difficult, one poll shows, to attract women next year.

The Bishop and the Jesuit: Robert McManus vs. Holy Cross.
The efforts of Holy Cross to make abortion and contraception as respectable as possible have been big news lately, but only because there is finally a bishop in the ring. Will this get beyond round 1?

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LifeNews.com - The Pro-Life News Source
Pro-life news source covering abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and stem cell research.
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A Canadian blog about fetal rights, pro-life issues, Catholicism, religion, and social conservative issues in general.
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