Ireland Senate Approves Bill to Legalize Abortions in Second Stage Vote
by Steven Ertelt | Dublin, Ireland | LifeNews.com | 7/16/13 12:38 PM The Irish Senate is picking up where the Dail left off — by approving a bill to legalize abortions in the Second Stage vote today. The abortion bill carried on a 41-15 vote. Abortions would be allowed when the life of the mother is supposedly in danger from the pregnancy and in cases when pregnant women may commit suicide, even though studies show abortion increases suicide risk for women. Two Fine Gael Senators broke Party Whip — including Senator Fidelma Healy Eames and Senator Paul Bradford, whose wife Lucinda Creighton, lost the…
Abortion and Media Bias: When the Majority Doesn’t Rule
by John Stonestreet | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 7/18/13 11:40 AM When it comes to same-sex marriage we keep hearing that “the majority rules…” But that’s not the case with abortion. Ben Domenech of Real Clear Politics begins a great article by writing, “Obviously the overall story about how Americans view the right to marriage is one of ever increasing majorities. From just a few years ago, when Americans were split on the issue at best, they now have marked majorities in favor of same sex marriage—71 percent according to some polls, 86 percent according to others. The argument…
Texas Governor Rick Perry Signs Bill Banning Late-Term Abortions
by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 7/18/13 10:51 AM Governor Rick Perry of Texas today signed the ban on late-term abortions into law at a bill signing ceremony. The signing came after weeks of debate in the state legislature and passage of the bill despite an unruly pro-abortion mob. “Today’s signing builds on our continued commitment to protecting life for more than a decade. This is an important day for those who support life and the health of women in Texas,” Perry said. “Signing HB2 further solidifies the foundation on which the culture of in Texas is…
A Brief History of Sex Ed: How We Reached Today’s Madness
by Miriam Grossman within Culture, Education July 16th, 2013 Today’s sex ed curricula are based on the widely-accepted teachings of depraved human beings. Once upon a time, sex education was a simple biology lesson. Students learned the facts of life, and, with those facts, that sex is part of something bigger, called marriage. Teachers explained that this was the moral and healthy way to live. In those days, people understood that men and women are different, and that their union is unique, unlike any other relationship. It went without saying that boys grew up to become men, and girls, women. There were only…
2 million copies of pro-life booklet to be given to World Youth Day pilgrims
BY THADDEUS BAKLINSKI Wed Jul 17, 2013 15:03 EST RIO DE JANEIRO, July 17, 2013 (LIfeSiteNews.com) – Two million copies of a pro-life pamphlet have been printed and will be included in every “pilgrim’s kit” that will be given to every person attending World Youth Day 2013. The booklet, titled the “Student’s Guide to Bioethics,” was produced by the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation and aims to help youth understand the critical bioethical questions facing our society from a pro-life perspective. The booklet includes information on abortion, assisted reproductive technology, embryo research, end of life issues, organ donation, and gender theory and sexual…
Model gay adoptive ‘fathers’ sexually abused 6-year-old for years: offered him to pedophile ring
Australian media covered the adoption of Adam by the gay men, describing the two men as happy, loving fathers. Photo: GINGER GORMAN/ABC FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND SYDNEY, July 3, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Police in Australia have described as “depraved” the case of a six-year-old boy who was sexually abused by his adoptive homosexual “fathers” and other men who were part of an international child-porn syndicate known as the Boy Lovers network. Authorities in Australia and the US worked together to arrest and charge the men after it emerged that the boy had been offered to men in Australia, the US, France and Germany…
Protests Show Abortion Advocates Now on Defense Fighting a Losing Battle
Back in the day abortion proponents had all the mojo and pro-lifers were on the defensive. The photo below, via PBS, is of a pro-abortion rally demanding a repeal of pro-life laws in Washington,D.C., circa 1971. At the same time, feminists were pushing the Equal Rights Amendment in all 50 states. The photo below, via illinois.gov, is of feminists writing the names of ERA opponents in pigs’ blood on the floor of the Illinois State Capitol on June 24, 1982… I take this little trip down memory lane to justapose the pro-abortion protests of yesteryear with those we see today. And while the aggression has certainly not abated, as was…
US Congress passes Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
MANILA, June 19, 2013—In a symbolic victory for US based Pro-Lifers the United States’ 13th Congress has voted 228-196 in favor of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797). The Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act would prohibit abortion after 20 weeks from fertilization in order to protect pain-capable unborn children from excruciating deaths. Dr. Paul Ranalli, a neurologist at the University of Toronto revealed that pain receptors are present throughout the unborn child’s entire body by no later than 16 weeks after fertilization, and nerves link these receptors to the brain’s thalamus and subcortical plate by no later…
Video: Kenyan deputy president strongly rebuffs Obama on gay ‘marriage’: ‘We believe in God’
MAILI KUMI, Kenya, July 1, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A second African president has rebuffed President Barack Obama’s promotion of homosexuality in foreign relations during his $100 million tour of the continent. Obama said he respects “people’s personal views and their religious faith, et cetera,” but “when it comes to how the state treats people, how the law treats people,” he believes the equality of homosexuality and the traditional family is“a principle that I think applies universally.” Deputy President of Kenya William Ruto responded during Sunday Mass that Kenya is committed to the nuclear family as taught by the Scriptures. “Those…
Study: Abortion Ups Breast Cancer Risk Six-Fold, Millions of Women Have Died
A study published in the Indian Journal of Community Medicine (May, 2013) found a 6.38-fold greater risk of breast cancer among women with histories of induced abortion. [1] The study, led by Ramachandra Kamath, MD (Department of Public Health, Manipal University), found induced abortion was the most important risk factor. “With only 94 cases and 94 controls, the study was way too small for a significant risk of the order of 1.5-fold to even show up,” explained Professor Joel Brind (Baruch College, City University of New York). “Yet…
