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| 08/18/09 | Australian Quadriplegic Wins the "Right" to Commit Suicide An Australian quadriplegic man has won a court case that will give him the "right" to commit suicide by refusing nutrition and hydration. Christian Rossiter of Perth, who was left unable to move after a car accident in 2004, thanked the court for the decision but said he may yet be persuaded to live after consulting doctors. |
| 08/18/09 | Obama follows through, files to repeal DOMA A conservative black pastor in Washington, DC, is expressing outrage over President Obama's decision to file a legal brief in support of repealing the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). |
| 08/18/09 | Bishop Vasa: No Support for "Fatally Flawed" Obamacare Bill A genuine need for more comprehensive health insurance coverage should not lead Catholics to join the push to pass President Obama's health care legislation, which is "fatally flawed" with respect to pro-life and other major issues, said Bishop Robert Vasa of the Baker, Ore. diocese. |
| 08/18/09 | Health Care Reform Bill Would Allow Abortion Business in Public School Clinics Most of the focus on the pending bills in Congress for a government-run health care system focus on either the abortion funding and coverage or the rationing aspects of the legislation. But, the bills also contain a section allowing the nation's biggest abortion business to enter public schools. |
| 08/17/09 | Planned Parenthood Continues Boasting Close Ties with White House on Obamacare Bill As calls for protection against abortion in President Obama's health care legislation fall on deaf ears, Planned Parenthood (PP) has made no secret of its continued communications with the White House on its interest in ensuring that "reproductive health" plays a central role in the final version of the legislation. |
| 08/17/09 | House Democrats Will Likely Prevent Vote to Remove Abortion From Health Care When members of Congress return from their August recess, the first battle over the abortion funding found in the health care bills will occur in the House. There, it appears Democratic leaders will prevent a vote on an amendment to remove the abortion funding from the bill. |
| 08/14/09 | New York Times Taken to Task, Covers Up Abortion Funding in Health Care Bills The New York Times is the latest mainstream media outlet be taken to task for covering up the abortion funding found in the Congressional health care bills. The Times joins the Associated Press, which flip-flopped after pressure from LifeNews.com, and CBS News in presenting a false picture. |
| 08/11/09 | Religious Left Wades Into Healthcare Debate Liberal religious groups announced on Monday they are teaming up with President Barack Obama in a national campaign to counter the surprisingly vehement conservative opposition to his plan for overhaul of the U.S. healthcare industry this year. |
| 08/11/09 | Catholics Fear ‘Stealth’ Abortion Push in Healthcare With Democrats planning a September vote on a sweeping new healthcare plan, America’s Catholic leadership is becoming increasingly concerned that the legislation will lead to federal funding of abortions. |
| 08/10/09 | Senate Dem Leader May Revoke Filibuster Against Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill In a Thursday interview, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid would not rule out using a special parliamentary process to prevent pro-life advocates from stopping the pro-abortion health care bill with a filibuster. The filibuster could be the only option to prevent a huge expansion of abortion funding. |
| 08/10/09 | Sarah Palin Opposes Health Care Bill Over Abortion, Euthanasia Components Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin released a statement on Friday saying she opposes the government-run health care bills pending in Congress. Palin, who recently ended her time as Alaska's governor, cited its pro-abortion and euthanasia components. |
| 08/07/09 | Senate Confirms Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court, Expected to Back Abortion Members of the Senate voted 68-31 today to approve appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor for a seat on the Supreme Court. There, she is expected to become one of the five members of the pro-abortion majority that supports Roe v. Wade and its unlimited abortions. |
| 08/07/09 | Mike Huckabee Calls Barack Obama Most Pro-Abortion President in History In a new video he recorded to urge pro-life advocates to oppose the health care bill and its abortion funding provisions, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee calls President Barack Obama the most pro-abortion president in American history. |
| 08/07/09 | CBS News Covers Up Abortion Funding in Health Care in Misleading Factcheck CBS News has become the latest mainstream media outlet to come under criticism from pro-life advocates for covering up the abortion funding tucked away in the government-run health care plan. The Associated Press had covered up the abortion funding but recently flip-flopped and admitted it exists. |
| 08/06/09 | Pro-Life Nurses Group Urges Congress: Keep Abortion Out of Health Care A national organization for pro-life nurses is joining the chorus of voices urging members of Congress to keep abortion out of health care. The board of directors of the National Association of Pro-Life Nurses is unified in asking Congress to make sure abortion funding and insurance mandates are not included. |
| 08/05/09 | New Video Exposing Overpopulation Myths gains Traction, Hate From Opponents As of Monday, the first episode in PRI's mini-cartoon series, entitled “Overpopulation: The Making of a Myth,” had garnered over 27,000 views. Of course, anything less than a million views is not a landslide by YouTube standards, but this healthy (and steadily growing) number represents real interest—interest that is being fed by dozens of blogs and web sites that have picked up the video for a variety of reasons. |
| 08/05/09 | LeRoy Carhart Wants to Open Late-Term Abortion Business in Wichita, Kansas Nebraska-based abortion practitioner LeRoy Carhart wants to pick up where late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller left off. Tiller was shot and killed weeks ago by a gunman unaffiliated with the pro-life movement and now Carhart says he wants to start a new abortion center to replace Tiller's. |
| 08/05/09 | China Sees Preference for Boys Waning as Sex-Selection Abortions Kill Girls China's gender imbalance is worse than almost any other nation in the world and China has a surplus of 32 million more men than women. |
| 08/04/09 | Senate Begins Debate on Pro-Abortion Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor Leading pro-life groups say Sotomayor is pro-abortion and cite her involvement in a group that asked the court to keep abortions legal. |
| 08/04/09 | Congressman: Would Rather Save My Soul Than Back Pro-Abortion Health Care Congressman Anh Cao is the first member of the House of Representatives from Vietnam. Cao is a Catholic who strongly favors helping Americans struggling with health care, but he has a high calling that, he says, prevents him from supporting the pro-abortion government-run bill |
| 08/03/09 | Research Team Can Turn Stem Cell Genes in Skin Cells Without Using Viruses A research team comprised of faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and investigators at CellThera, a private company, have discovered a novel way to turn on stem cell genes in human fibroblasts (skin cells) without the risks associated with inserting extra genes or using viruses. |
| 08/03/09 | Catholic Medical Association Rejects Healthcare Reform Bill Catholic Medical Association Says Health Care Reform Bills Too Pro-Abortion. |
| 08/03/09 | Pro-Life Bob McDonnell Leads in Virginia Gubernatorial Race In this year's race for Virginia governor, a new survey shows pro-life Republican Bob McDonnell has opened up a double-digit lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds, who supports abortion. |
| 07/29/09 | Dealing with abortion in health care reform Will health care reform force taxpayers to pay for abortions for the first time in 30 years? |
| 07/22/09 | Groups Urge Attorney General to Move against Pornography Pro-family groups want the Obama administration to step up the fight against pornography. |
| 07/20/09 | Fetuses found to have memories The unborn have memories, according to medical researchers who used sound and vibration stimulation, combined with sonography, to reveal that the human fetus displays short-term memory from at least 30 weeks gestation - or about two months before they are born. |
| 07/08/09 | Public ignored; full steam ahead for embryonic experiments The National Institutes of Health has issued guidelines for research on human embryos. One pro-family spokesman accuses NIH of ignoring the public on the matter. |
| 07/07/09 | World's oldest Christian Bible digitized The surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian Bible have been reunited — digitally. The early work known as the Codex Sinaiticus has been housed in four separate locations across the world for more than 150 years. But starting Monday, it became available for perusal on the Web at http://www.codexsinaiticus.org so scholars and other readers can get a closer look at what the British Library calls a "unique treasure." |
| 07/02/09 | NEA to consider full support of homosexual 'marriage' The NEA is currently holding its annual convention in San Diego, California. Educator and conservative activist Jeralee Smith called OneNewsNow from the convention to report that the executive council has approved language that will throw the full support of the NEA behind same-gender marriage, homosexual adoption, and other issues surrounding the homosexual agenda. |
| 06/28/09 | Same-sex 'marriage' loses support among Americans A recent poll indicates that Americans are not as supportive of homosexual "marriage" as they once were. |