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Homosexual Hands off Poland
http://www.c-fam.org/index.php?option=com_performs&formid=5%20&Itemid=141

Converted Mexican author denounces abortion �holocaust�
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=9254

Reuters Examines Challenges to Catholic Teachings on Abortion, Contraception in Brazil
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=44663

Planned Parenthood Admits it: Abortion Total Tops Four Million
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,99621.shtml

An Abortion that Even Pro-choicers Abhor
http://www.catholicexchange.com/node/61366

Abortion Sides Make Plans in Wake of Supreme Court Ruling
http://ncregister.com/site/article/2346

Vatican hits out at criticism of pope
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=nw20070502221443546C326506

UAE mulls legalizing therapeutic abortion
http://www.indiaenews.com/middle-east/20070503/50006.htm

Horror stories spring from one-child policy
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070428.CHINASIDE28/TPStory/?query=horror+stories

By 2020 More than 30 million Chinese men will be unable to find wives
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070428.CHINA28/TPStory/?query=too+many+villages

Beijing's bachelor bulge: the unprecedented surplus of boys
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070427.wchina0428/BNStory/National/?pageRequested=all

Chinese official say one-child per couple policy introduced in early 1980s has been braking global warming
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070502/sc_nm/globalwarming_curbs_dc;_ylt=AiNTcyp3enQbM37vtJ67T_bMWM0F

Lawmakers Hear Testimony on Post-Abortion Trauma
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004534.cfm

A Supreme Court Resignation at the End of the Term?
http://www.constitutionallycorrect.com/archive/2007/05/02/421.aspx

An "Obsession" with Truth on Militant Islam
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28147

Eco-Freaks writer discusses new book on environmental extremists
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28146

House of Representatives will reopen the debate on lobby reform today
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU07E02

Fake Anti-�Gay� �Hate Crimes� Keep Piling Up
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattBarber/2007/05/03/fake_anti-%e2%80%9cgay%e2%80%9d_%e2%80%9chate_crimes%e2%80%9d_keep_piling_up

'Hate Crimes' Vote on National Prayer Day Angers Some Christians
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200705/NAT20070503a.html

Another 75 suspended for opposing 'gay' day
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55498

Where the rainbow flag was invented - San Francisco�s Most Holy Redeemer Catholic church
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=af0a5e9c-4911-490a-b84b-e119c2b8223f

New US Presidential Coins Omit "In God We Trust"?
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/presidential-coin-omit-god.shtml

Parental control critical in curbing negative influences on youth, says Barna
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/05/parental_control_critical_in_c.php

ACLU, Others Challenge Abstinence Education
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004524.cfm

New report suggests Vancouver's safe-injection site a failure
http://www.recorder.ca/cp/National/070502/n0502210A.html

Matters of Faith Find a New Prominence on Campus
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/education/02spirituality.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Parents shocked to find pornography broadcast on Disney Channel in New Jersey town
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/02/america/NA-GEN-US-Porn-Childrens-Channel.php

Keyes on abortion anniversary: �tiny humanity
http://www.archden.org/dcr//news.php?e=417&s=4&a=8752

Vatican Cardinal Rebuffs Europarliament Charges of Homophobia
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=106839

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The pill and cancer: what women should know
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=0d294e31-eb12-4780-a3d1-13a54b6c001c

Kansas House passes Unborn Victims of Violence Act 97-27
http://www.joplinglobe.com/statenews/local_story_116003245.html

Missouri House Votes to further regulate abortion centers
http://www.joplinglobe.com/statenews/local_story_114013453.html

Texas Senate passes bill requiring abortionists to do medical reports on patients
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/4753799.html

Oklahoma Legislature Fails by one vote to override Governor's veto of bill cutting public funding of abortion
http://newsok.com/article/keyword/3045279/

The Passing of 'Fr. Death' - too many Catholic bishops have been reluctant to confront the continued anti-Catholicism on their own Catholic campuses
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0407-hendershott

House GOP leader blasts 'thought crimes' bill
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/05/house_gop_leader_blasts_though.php

Crisis at Ave Maria Law
http://www.mirrorofjustice.com/mirrorofjustice/2007/04/crisis_at_ave_m.html

London Muslims overwhelmingly oppose gays
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-4147.html

The Bizarre Homosexual 'Dance With Death'
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/dance-with-death/2007/04/20/1176697090232.html

Widespread use of birth control pills harming the environment
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=25291453-1c9e-46d2-8aab-05ab487fb751

Rates Of Syphilis In US Gay And Bisexual Men On The Rise
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=69150

British Conservative Ex-Prime Minister claimed to have actively sought gay sex in public places
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=450412&in_page_id=1770

Earth's Climate Is Seesawing, According To Climate Researchers
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070428170229.htm

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SUPREME COURT DECISION HAS "SILVER LINING"

By Cheryl Sullenger, Operation Rescue Senior Policy Advisor

Although abortion is not morally or ethically justifiable, it has been the unfortunate reality that killing a baby for any reason at any time was the law of the land - until the Gonzalez v. Carhart U.S. Supreme Court decision last month. Now, for the first time, we have some federally imposed limits on abortion. While this is not a complete victory by anyone's imagination, it is a strategic victory that could be used to advance the goal of complete abortion abolition.

There has been some misunderstanding of the recent Supreme Court decision because of a misunderstanding of how courts work. Judges rule on narrow legal questions presented before them. They do not rule widely on every issue related to a case, but only on the specific arguments made by the parties. In this case, the Gonzales v. Carhart decision applied specifically to the question of the constitutionality of a ban on live, intact D&E abortions done using a particular procedure. The Court gave the pro-life movement exactly what it was asked for when it upheld the ban on that one, specific procedure.

Confusion came because the majority ruling written by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy explained that other abortion procedures fall outside the scope of their decision, leading some to believe that tacit approval was being given to certain abortion procedures.

The Gonzales v. Carhart decision did not give new permission or approval to kill babies in other ways. Those methods are shamefully already permissible under America's liberal abortion laws, and further approval is not required. Kennedy was simply clarifying the limitations of the ruling. Remember, courts can only rule on the specific legal questions at hand, not on every aspect of a particular subject before them.

Misunderstandings aside, there are several silver linings in the Gonzales decision. First, we have an indication that unfettered abortion on demand is no longer an untouchable issue with the Supreme Court. This deviation from "stare decisis" is good news! Now is the time to get some good challenges to abortion in the pipelines so that a decision that is more targeted to the heart of Roe v. Wade and it companion case, Doe v. Bolton, can be rendered. Now the loss of the South Dakota abortion ban, and its legal challenge is most grievously felt because it would have hastened a direct challenge to those landmark decisions.

Secondly, the court ruled that a health exception is no longer a constitutional requirement for laws that limit abortions. This is good news, especially for the babies in Kansas where a proper application of state law would put an end to George R. Tiller's barbaric late-term abortion butchery. "Health" exceptions have become massive loopholes, which nullify laws that have been enacted in attempts to save at least some lives that our courts have put at risk. Now those loophole health exceptions can be omitted from laws, and should result in more lives saved, if the pro-life movement can pass more stringent legislation.

Another bit of good news from Gonzales is that the abortion industry will no longer be able to use the scare tactic of wildly hypothetical arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court level. From now on, any argument must include real women facing real situations, not blanket "what if" scenarios that have not, and likely will not ever have a basis in reality.

The fourth positive aspect to the Gonzales ruling is that the decision has spurred public discussion of abortion, and when that happens, the pro-life side wins, because support for the murder of innocent children in the womb is an indefensible position. Debate allows people see through the strained and dishonest rhetoric of the abortion cartel. That is one of the reasons America is becoming increasingly pro-life.

While the ruling may be less than some had hoped, the pro-abortion side certainly views the Gonzales decision as a demoralizing defeat. Thus, pro-life arguments vilifying the ruling only tend to give aid and comfort to the enemy. Now is the time for an optimistic and aggressive approach. The pro-life movement needs to use the positive aspects of this decision to our advantage in pressing forward the cause of life.

The Gonzales v. Carhart case did what it was asked to do, and that is to ban a specific abortion procedure. The health exception ruling and other positive aspects of the case are icing on the cake. It is the first prohibition on any abortion procedure since Roe v. Wade, and a good first step by the Court toward abolition. However, the Court will not abolish abortion unless it is asked to. We need to get solid cases into the judicial pipeline now, so that abolition can become a reality sooner than later.

NY Governor Spitzer Pushes Abortion and Gay Marriage

Signs on to Day of Prayer Under Public Pressure

By Gudrun Schultz

NEW YORK, May 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - NY Governor Eliot Spitzer has introduced legislation that would establish legal recognition for homosexual unions in the state, and has pledged to bring forward a bill that would strengthen the state's abortion laws, in anticipation of potential legal challenges following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the ban on partial birth abortion procedures.

Gov. Spitzer introduced a measure on April 27 that would eliminate gender from the legal definition of marriage and make denying a marriage license to homosexual couples illegal. Mr. Spitzer ran his election campaign on a platform that included legalizing same-sex marriage in the state.

The legislation would open the door to gay marriage in the state, in the first instance of a governor initiating a change to the traditional definition of marriage. The bill has little likelihood of passing the state legislature, however, according to a report by The Daily Princetonian.

The governor followed his introduction of pro-homosexual legislation with a pledge Wednesday to bring forward a bill that would widen the scope of the state's abortion law.

The Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act would expand the current health clause to permit abortions late in pregnancies, banned under the original state law, the New York Times reported April 25. The Act would also remove abortion from criminal statutes--abortion is officially considered an act of homicide in the state but with broad exceptions that, in practice, allow for abortion on demand during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.

Mr. Spitzer announced the coming proposal at a Manhattan luncheon hosted by Naral Pro-Choice New York. Interestingly, the governor's mother is a board member of an organization closely affiliated with Naral, and was bestowed with a lifetime achievement award at the event, according to the Times.

In related news, after a delay of nearly a month and a concerted campaign of phone calls to his office by individuals from across the country, Mr. Spitzer finally signed a proclamation supporting the annual National Day of Prayer (NDP), held every year since 1952 on the first Thursday in May, with governors from all states signing the annual proclamation.

According to the NDP task force's official policy statement, "[The] diversity [of Americans] is what Congress intended when it designated the Day of Prayer, not that every faith and creed would be homogenized, but that all who sought to pray for this nation would be encouraged to do so in any way deemed appropriate."

When repeated requests to Gov. Spitzer's office failed to produce the required signature, Focus on the Family's CitizenLink eventually issued an alert requesting concerned citizens contact the office to complain.

"After being flooded with phone calls from family advocates around the nation, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer today joined the other 49 governors in issuing a proclamation supporting Thursday's observance of the National Day of Prayer (NDP)," CitizenLink reported last week.

Mr. Spitzer signed the proclamation April 25, just four days prior to the event. The deadline requested for his signature had been April 1. Press secretary Christine Anderson told CitizenLink the governor "always intended to sign it," saying delays can happen in paperwork.

See related LifeSiteNews coverage:

New York Legislature Pledges to Outstrip Competitors in Funding Ambitious Embryo Research Project
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07011702.html

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Bush Proclaims 56th Annual National Day of Prayer - May 3

American Humanist Association will observe a National Day of Reason instead

By Hilary White

WASHINGTON, May 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – "A prayerful spirit" has always been an important part of the American national character, says President George W. Bush. With this assertion, he has proclaimed May 3rd as the 56th annual National Day of Prayer.

The National Day of Prayer was established in 1952 by a joint resolution of the United States Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman and is normally observed on the first Thursday of May.

This year's theme is "America Unite in Prayer," and will begin at 1:16pm EST in Washington, D.C. with music, celebrations and remembrances throughout the country.

Bush said that a belief that God "hears the prayers of His children and shows grace to those who seek Him" is common to many Americans. Citing the massive outpouring of prayerful responses after the shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Bush said, "There is a power in these prayers, and we can find comfort in the grace and guidance of a loving God."

Public Law 100-307, calls on citizens of the US to "reaffirm the role of prayer in our society and to respect the freedom of religion."

While churches across the country prepare events to participate, secularists have reacted predictably to the announcement. Fred Edwords of the American Humanist Association which holds there is an natural divide between between faith and reason, says his organization and others will observe a National Day of Reason instead this Thursday.

Links to local events can be found at the
National Day of Prayer Task Force:
http://www.ndptf.org/home/index.cfm

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Presidential Probabilities

From the desk of Father Frank Pavone Priests For Life The 2008 Election battle is well underway. But the battlefield, at this stage of the election, is not in the voting booth, and not even in the bank. It's in the mind. It's a psychological war, a war of mental categories, assumptions, prognostications, and declarations of "done deals" before they're done. It's a war of polls and "front-runners," of probabilities and predictions. There are two important stages to an election. Stage One, in which we are now, is the period of time when we get to decide who will be on the ballot. Stage Two, which comes after the primaries are all finished, is when we figure out who on the ballot should get our vote. These are two very different stages. Key to winning the psychological battle for the election is to keep reminding ourselves that we are in Stage One, not Stage Two. The fact is that right now, nobody knows who will be on the ballot for the Presidential election in November of 2008. It could be any one of the candidates who have already declared their intention to run, or it could be someone we haven't heard of yet. As past elections have shown, "front-runners" at this stage of the process do not necessarily become the candidates on Election Day. And in the age of blogs and vlogs, circumstances in politics change faster than ever, and the dynamics of change are more numerous and unpredictable than ever. Many things still have to happen. Straw polls, debates, key endorsements, and the free media these things generate can catapult potential candidates into a much stronger position than they now enjoy. That means that our focus right now should be on getting behind the person we think is the best candidate, and working to increase that candidate's name recognition and base of support. That's "Stage One" activity. Too many people, however, are thinking and acting as if the candidates have already been chosen. Too many are saying, for example, "We don't have a good pro-life candidate," or "The choices aren't so great." This is "Stage Two" thinking, as if we have already been handed the slate of candidates and have to be content to choose the best of a host of unsatisfactory options. The bottom line is this: think for yourself. Don't let polls and headlines tell you who is most likely to be the nominee of any party. Rather, decide whom you want to support and work hard for that person. Websites like www.politics1.com and www.realclearpolitics.com are good sources for getting an independent and comprehensive view of the political landscape and those who are running or may run. Finally, don't wait for anyone else to push you or give you permission to do what you know you should do. We already have all the mandate we need, in our rights as citizens and in the call of the Gospel to transform the world. Gather together with like-minded citizens, no matter what their religious affiliation, and get to work!

This column an be found online at www.priestsforlife.org/columns/columns2007/07-04-23presidentialprobabilities.htm Fr. Frank's columns can be heard via podcast. See www.priestsforlife.org/podcast for more details. Fr. Frank's columns can be listened to in MP3 format at www.priestsforlife.org/columns/columns2007/index.htm

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Robert Drinan, Infanticide, and the "Unthinkable"
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=717

The Frenchman who discovered trisomy 21 was heroically professional when he insisted it could be cured.
http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=535

Virginia Tech: Stopping the Violence
http://www.catholicexchange.com/node/61357

Ultrasound Deemed Too Emotional by Pro-Abortionists
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/kroeten_20070427.html

Is the pro-abortion community so steadfast to preserve infanticide?
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/12865/CFI/life/index.htm

Partial-Birth Bigotry - The know-nothing left blames the latest abortion ruling on Catholicism
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010004

A Short & Surprising History of Protestantism & Contraception
http://touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=20-04-020-f

More and more, large companies are deliberately censoring content based on political viewpoint.
http://www.constitutionallycorrect.com/archive/2007/04/27/413.aspx

Evangelical Leader Blasts Churches' Gender-Neutral Language
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070427/27129_Evangelical_Leader_Blasts_Churches '_Gender-Neutral_Language.htm

Massachusetts Catholic School Bars Same-Sex Couple From Prom
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268951,00.html

The word diversity remains a important weapon in the arsenal of the those who would undermine traditional morality.
http://www.tfp.org/TFPForum/TFPCommentary/diversity.htm

Teachers insist: Being 'gay' good
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55429

The sad side of gay parenting
http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=531

A family scholar explains why he - reluctantly - had to write about what is wrong with same sex marriage.
http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=533

Saudis using cells for pornography
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007/04/26/story_26-4-2007_pg7_4

Turkey's Christians face backlash
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0425/p07s02-woeu.html

A Muslim opposes "Christophobia" and the religion of secular nationalism
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2007/04/a_muslim_oppose.html

We're Scaring Our Children to Death
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110009992

New Yorker Tagged For 'Falsehoods,' 'Mis-readings,' and 'Errors' In Article On Pope
http://newsbusters.org/node/12405

Media Ignore Conyers's Breathtaking DDT Ignorance
http://newsbusters.org/node/12410

NY Times Surprisingly Asks 'Is the Carbon-Neutral Movement Just a Gimmick?'
http://newsbusters.org/node/12398

Saintly scientists: 'Love always wins'
http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=534

PBS TV Stations to Air Three-Part "demagogic and propagandistic" documentary on Atheism
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200704/CUL20070430c.html

Victory for faith-based organizations to exercise religious hiring rights
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4105

Montana Seniors Regain Right to Sing Christian Songs
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004514.cfm

B.C.-based businessman may cripple Internet freedom as a result of lawsuit rage against numerous websites and blogs
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/208639

Google knows everything about you. Can it keep your secrets?
http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=536

Ban on 'mom' and 'dad' considered – again - California agenda would require K-12 'gay' indoctrination
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55413

BBC to broadcast gay mass from San Francisco
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23394074-details/BBC%20to%20broadcast%20gay%20mass%20from%20San%20Francisco/article.do

The New Anti-Catholic Bigotry
http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=6427

It will be a very long time before priests will again be able to view their bishops as the fathers in Christ - Fr Richard Neuhaus
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=716

Grassroots Organizations Fight for Right to Run Ads
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000004474.cfm

Pro-family activist warns of consequences of redefining marriage
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/04/pro_family_activist_warns_of_c.php

US Universities are headed by people who were students in the rebellious '60s. Ironically, they've become what they once hated
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004472.cfm

The Auth cartoon against the five Catholic Supreme Court justices who voted to uphold the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=715

Let's be realistic about reality - Mark Steyn
http://www.suntimes.com/news/steyn/351710,CST-EDT-STEYN22.article

Indianapolis Billboards Claim the Bible Affirms Homosexuality
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004473.cfm

In Africa, every year six million Muslims convert to Christianity, and very few Christians convert to Islam
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/note.jsp?did=0407-notes-goodnews

Christians in India are rising up in protest against "ambiguous" regulations to control "public gatherings" in Karnataka State,
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9102&size=A

Christians in bull's-eye in new 'hate crimes' plan
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55392

Despite Their Low Numbers, Gay Militants Have Enormous Political "Clout"
http://www.leaderu.com/marco/special/spc12.html

Health Risks of Homosexuality (PDF)
http://www.corporateresourcecouncil.org/white_papers/Health_Risks.pdf

OUT Magazine Lists Allegedly 50 Most Influential 'Homos'; 'Outs' CNN's Anderson Cooper, Jodie Foster
http://americansfortruth.com/news/out-magazine-lists-50-most-influential-homos-outs-cnns-anderson-cooper.html

Internet Providers Censoring Conservative News E-Mails
http://www.newswithviews.com:80/NWVexclusive/exclusive114.htm

Scientists Demand Changes to Global Warming Skeptic's Film
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070425/global_warming_film.html?.v=1

Will Media Report Global Warming 'Carbon Credit' Fraud?
http://newsbusters.org/node/12314

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