BREAKING: US Senate votes to not defund Planned Parenthood, repeal Obamacare
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Senate voted 55 to 45 today to reject the repealing of Obamacare and defunding of Planned Parenthood. On Tuesday, Vice President Pence broke a tie in the Senate, which was divided 50-50 on whether to allow debate and voting to take place on the American Healthcare Act (AHCA), which repeals Obamacare. Specifically, the vote today was on an amendment to the AHCA that would swap the AHCA with a simple repeal of Obamacare. The AHCA outlines some provisions “replacing” Obamacare. In 2015, the Senate passed similar language ending Obamacare and defunding…
Baby Charlie Gard’s parents end legal fight: Read their full heartbreaking statement
LONDON, July 24, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Baby Charlie Gard’s parents made a heartbreaking statement in court today as they announced they were ending their legal fight to give their 11-month-old a chance at life. The statement included a stinging rebuke of London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, which refused to allow Charlie’s transfer for experimental treatment. “Had Charlie been given the treatment sooner he would have had the potential to be a normal, healthy little boy,” said the statement from Chris Gard and Connie Yates, read by Connie in court this morning. They insisted, based on consultation with U.S. expert Dr….
How the LGBT Movement Used Fake Science to Push Gay Marriage
In his book “32 Yolks,” Eric Ripert, head chef and owner of Michelin three-starred Le Bernardin in New York City, tells the story of his parents’ divorce when he was 5 years old: I went from being a happy kid to a kind of pint-sized depressive. From the time I was 5 until I went away to cooking school and for many years after, I was rarely truly happy—just different degrees of sad. Ripert says that from the moment his parents split up, when he was with his mother, he missed his father; when he was with his father, he…
Same-sex ‘marriage’: Religious right was right all along
July 18, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — For 12 years before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex “marriage” in 2015, I wrote and lectured extensively on why this development would be fraught with peril. I even recorded a three CD set on the topic for Catholic Answers in 2011. As the General Counsel for the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in California, I also campaigned extensively for the passage of Proposition 8. This State Constitutional Amendment passed with a majority vote in liberal California, as did similar ones in 30 other states. Yet, by a mere vote of 5-4, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all of those state…
BRITISH STUDY PROVES CONTRACEPTION LEADS TO ABORTION
by Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th. • ChurchMilitant.com • July 12, 2017 9 Comments UK abortion provider found half of their abortions were on women using contraception LONDON (ChurchMilitant.com) – One of the U.K.’s largest abortion providers is reporting that more than half of the women who had an abortion at its clinics were using contraception that failed. British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), an organization that performs abortions at more than sixty locations in the U.K., released a report Friday, which showed that “of 60,592 women who had an abortion at any gestation at BPAS clinics in 2016 … over half…
U.S. archbishop: Active gays must repent and change lifestyle before receiving Communion
PORTLAND, Oregon, July 10, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — An American archbishop has released guidelines upholding the Church’s constant teaching that Catholics in “serious sin” – including active homosexuals and those in adulterous unions – must repent before receiving Communion. The new guidelines from Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland, Oregon are intended to implement Pope Francis’s Exhortation Amoris Laetitia in a way that he said is “compatible with Church teaching.” The guidelines state that those in “serious sin,” including divorced and civilly-remarried persons living unchastely as well as persons in an active same-sex relationship, must “sacramentally confess all serious sins with a…
Trump appoints anti-transgender activist, stay-at-home mom as key advisor
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 6, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — President Donald Trump appointed to the office of Gender Equality a woman who actively opposed former President Obama’s transgender bathroom agenda. Trump named Bethany Kozma as Senior Adviser in the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment division under the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The USAID website explains, “USAID advances sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights across the globe.” It lists “Family Planning,” “Reproductive Health,” and “Post-Abortion Care” as three of its U.S. tax-funded programs worldwide. Kozma served in the White House and in Homeland Security under President George W. Bush. Bucking…
US BIRTH RATE HITS HISTORIC LOW
by David Hejza • ChurchMilitant.com • July 5, 2017 23 Comments Demographic experts fear the country is heading towards a national emergency ATLANTA (ChurchMilitant.com) – New data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reveals women giving birth in the United States is at a record low. Following a historic low from the year before, the birth rate dropped another percentage point, from 63 to only 62 births per 1,000 women aged 15–44. The total number of babies born in the United States last year was 3,941,109 — a drop of 37,388 fewer babies (1%) as compared…
Hospital Refuses to Transfer Charlie Gard to Vatican Hospital Offering to Care for Him
A Vatican hospital says it is ready and willing to care for British infant Charlie Gard if the courts allow him to go but British officials are refusing to allow the little boy to leave the country. The Italian news outlet Zenit reports leaders of the Bambino Jesus pediatric hospital in Rome, Italy said they are willing to care for Charlie if the courts will allow him to be transferred to their hospital. But it looks like that will not happen. Britain’s Foreign Minister Boris Johnson told his Italian counterpart on Wednesday that legal reasons prevented the transfer to Rome…
Pope Francis Supports Charlie Gard and His Parents: “Respect Their Wishes”
Charlie Gard, the 10-month-old baby in the United Kingdom who is afflicted with a rare mitochondrial disease, will have his life support withdrawn after his parents lost their appeal to transport their son to the United States for an experimental treatment. Now, Pope Francis is weighing in on their side — offering his prayers for Gard, and asking that his parents’ wishes be respected. “The Holy Father follows with affection and emotion the story of Charlie Gard and expresses his own closeness to his parents,” read a July 2 statement issued by Vatican spokesman Greg Burke. “He prays for them,…
