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| Click here to View Full Text, With Photos, of all Today's Stories On One Page Dear readers, What a week! For the second day in a row LifeSiteNews was featured at the very top of the Drudge Report - the most popular news aggregator site in the world. Drudge linked to our breaking story on the response of pro-life leaders to the Obama administration’s revised birth control mandate, announced today. Once again the tidal wave of traffic coming from Drudge nearly shut our website down: but after scrambling and instituting several emergency measures, we were able to welcome the hundreds of thousands of visitors Drudge sent our way. However, today’s events only reinforce what we mentioned in our emergency appeal yesterday: it is absolutely critical that we upgrade our server so that we can handle the rapidly increasing traffic coming to our site every day. But in order to do so, we need your support. Please consider making a donation to our critical work today. Our pledge to you is that with your support we will bring our life and culture-saving news reports to millions more people. Sincerely,
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LifeSiteNews.com Today’s blog posts: Obama’s frightening ‘adjustment’: ‘nobody pays for birth control because fewer births cost less’ - Kathleen Gilbert
Komen founder Nancy Brinker: The press conference that never happened - Dr. Gerard Nadal |
| “The president’s failure to grasp the seriousness of this issue reveals a dangerous presidential blind spot concerning" the First Amendment, says Dr. Richard Land. |  | |
| "If the insurance plan of a Catholic institution must cover services it deems immoral, then such a healthcare plan is offensive, plain and simple," said Catholic League's Bill Donohue in a statement Friday. |  | |
| "Only the most naïve or gullible would accept this as a change in policy," said pro-life Rep. Chris Smith. |  | |
| Folks, pro-life and pro-family leaders are literally changing the national discourse regarding the Obama mandate. |  | |
| Several economists told LifeSiteNews that the mandate defies the basic laws of economics, and that religious groups will still be forced to pay for birth control, but through some other mechanism. |  | |
| On Friday Obama suggested that insurers can provide the drugs for free because fewer children means less overall health costs - "twisted logic" that can be used to mandate abortion coverage as well. | | |
| “While there may be an openness to respond to some of our concerns, we reserve judgment on the details until we have them,” said Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan. | | |
| "Framing the issue as one about birth control ... is not going to set off the alarms: mention abortion and everything changes," says the Catholic League president. |  | |
| “Voluntary sterilization, abortion, and artificial contraception are all directly contrary to Catholic teaching," said Thomas Aquinas College President Michael McLean. |  | |
| Pro-life leaders say the discussion is long overdue in Parliament, and urge supporters to contact their MPs. |  | |
| The officer had targeted the activist over his graphic abortion signs, but now the police service says the incident should never have happened and they will take steps to prevent similar issues in the future. |  | |
| Linton is mistaken when she calls her work “sacred.” There is nothing holy about extinguishing the lives of millions of unborn children as a way to line the company pocketbook. |  | |
| 7,400 British girls between 13 and 15 were given implants or hormonal injections last year. In some schools, hormonal contraceptives have been given to girls as young as nine. | | |
| Msgr. Charles Scicluna said it is “unacceptable” for bishops to ignore existing policies for disciplining priests. |  | |
| A group of over 70 civil organizations in ten different countries have signed a protest against an attempt by the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights to impose in vitro fertilization on Costa Rica. | | |
| "Any legislation that permits eugenic abortion ... is discriminatory because it treats the life of a person with a disability as less valuable," said Down Spain. |  | |
| Kylie Bisutti beat 10,000 contenders to become a Victoria Secret model, but now she’s walking away from her dream job. |  | |
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