| |
- US Bishops call for fasting as Supreme Court mulls marriage cases
- DePaul Punishes Pro-Life Student for Releasing Names of Vandals
- Abortion: the ultimate form of child abuse
- Northern Ireland assembly members seek to outlaw private abortion clinics
- Obama pushes court to overturn California same-sex 'marriage' ban
- The Protestant Pill predicament
- Women ‘Must Be Prepared to Kill’ Unborn Children to Protect Autonomy
| US Bishops call for fasting as Supreme Court mulls marriage cases
Posted: 01 Mar 2013 10:47 AM PST The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has asked Catholics to offer their fasting and abstinence from meat on March 1 “for the justices of the Supreme Court, that when they consider two marriage-related cases later this month, they would uphold the authentic meaning of marriage as the union of one man and one woman, a good in itself and for all of society.” |
| DePaul Punishes Pro-Life Student for Releasing Names of Vandals https://fort.forsythe.com/portal/page/portal/shared_items/images/Univ_DePaul_Logo_PopUp.jpg Posted: 01 Mar 2013 10:39 AM PST The head of a conservative student organization at DePaul University has been sanctioned by the university and could be expelled after he released the names of vandals who destroyed a pro-life flag display. |
| Abortion: the ultimate form of child abuse
Posted: 01 Mar 2013 04:18 AM PST "If you want to give birth in a tub in front of your fireplace with your vegan boyfriend cradling you and your priestess waving burning sage around and your doula reciting Sylvia Plath poems, get after it, girl." |
| Northern Ireland assembly members seek to outlaw private abortion clinics
Posted: 01 Mar 2013 03:58 AM PST "Abortion is an issue that has great public health implications and should be subject to the highest level of scrutiny and transparency. This is best facilitated within the National Health Service." |
| Obama pushes court to overturn California same-sex 'marriage' ban
Posted: 28 Feb 2013 05:29 PM PST The Obama administration formally expressed its support for same-sex 'marriage' in California, setting up a high stakes political and constitutional showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| The Protestant Pill predicament [[posterous-content:IfqrDjvDohoswtchrjjz]] Posted: 28 Feb 2013 05:28 PM PST Growing up Protestant, I never knew there was anything wrong with birth control, of any kind. As long as it was used within the confines of marriage, it was ok. And not even just that, it was considered "responsible" since it allowed us to space out and control the number of children we had. (We're big fans of the WASPy 2.5 kids thing. They just fit in our sports utility vehicles better that way.) |
| Women ‘Must Be Prepared to Kill’ Unborn Children to Protect Autonomy
Posted: 28 Feb 2013 05:22 PM PST After contemplating the immense mysteries of human life and sacrificial love in comparison to a woman's "right to fertility control," a writer for the Times of London concludes that attempts by pro-aborts to dismiss the life of an unborn child are a "convenient lie" hiding the fact that, "Yes, abortion is killing.” |
LifeNews.com is proud to provide frequent and in-depth coverage of key pro-life topics, but we need your help and support to continue to educate and inform the pro-life community.
At a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Secretary of HHS Kathleen Sebelius confirmed the fears of many pro-life advocates who worry that the recent HHS mandate requiring all insurance plans to cover contraception and sterilization, regardless of an employer s moral objection, is just the beginning.
On February 23, two ethicists published an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics arguing for after-birth abortion. In their words, killing a newborn should be permissible in all cases where abortion is [permissible], including cases where the newborn is not disabled. 
Conservative media icon and pro-life advocate Andrew Breitbart passed away at the age of 43 this morning, dying in Los Angeles.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, African American women have 40 percent of the nation s abortions, but make up only 13 percent of the population. That black children are being aborted at such a high rate has not been a subject of discussion among the Democrats in the Congress and the White House, who insist on leaving the door open for abortion funding in the health care bill.
Like the Chinese government, officials in North Korea practice a regime of forced abortion and infanticides, according to a human rights report released Monday by the Bush administration.
The Catholic Church is often portrayed as unsympathetic to infertile couples. Because the Church finds IVF wrong, others mistakenly believe that the Church has no compassion for the pain and heartbreak of infertility. That is simply untrue. In fact, recently the Pope called for more research into the causes of infertility so that life could be created where it is supposed to be created, in a mother s womb and not in a lab.
