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‘There’s So Many Basic Things Wrong Here’: Couple Urged Surrogate Mother to Abort

Posted on 07 October 2010

More light has been shed on the web of legal and moral dilemmas surrounding artificial reproduction this week after a B.C. fertility doctor revealed a dispute between a couple and their surrogate over the couple’s desire to abort their baby. …

Five Canadian Pro-Life University Students Arrested for Setting up Display

Posted on 05 October 2010

Four pro-life students at the University of Carleton and one from Queen’s University were arrested [Monday] morning by Ottawa city police as they prepared to conduct a peaceful pro-life demonstration on Carleton’s campus.
The students were arrested around 9:00 a.m.…

Midwife Who Saved Hundreds of Newborn Babies from Nazis to be Honored

Posted on 30 September 2010

The late Polish midwife Stanislawa Leszczynska will be honoured in a display at the 5th World Prayer Congress for Life in Rome next month for her heroic efforts in saving hundreds of newborn babies from a brutal end at Auschwitz.…

Teen Pro-Life Phenomenon ‘Lia’ Defends Rights of the Unborn

Posted on 01 September 2010

Pro-life prodigy Lia Mills, whose Youtube orations have amassed nearly a million views, has set out to prove the humanity of the unborn in a new video, part of an ongoing campaign to promote the message of life.
If the…

Ouellet: We Need Bishops With ‘Spiritual Discernment’ over ‘Political Calculation’

Posted on 21 August 2010

Bishops “need spiritual discernment and not just political calculation of the risk of the possibility of the message being received,” said Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the newly-appointed prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops, in an interview this week.
“We have…

ACLU Targets 2nd Mississippi School over Lesbian’s Yearbook Photo

Posted on 20 August 2010

After pressuring a Mississippi school to give into homosexualist demands last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a lawsuit against another school in the state over their commitment to natural gender norms.
The ACLU is supporting Ceara…

Pro-Life Groups Praise ‘Real Reform’ at Chicago CCHD

Posted on 09 August 2010

Pro-life groups are rallying behind the Chicago branch of the Catholic Campaign Human Development (CCHD), praising the organization for instituting real reform that they say should be taken as an example by CCHD nationwide.
CCHD, the U.S. bishops’ domestic anti-poverty…

Buffett Secretly Spending Millions on Abortion Med-School Scheme: NY Times

Posted on 20 July 2010

Billionaire investing mogul Warren Buffett has been secretly backing a campaign to combat the decrease in doctors who are training as abortionists and to bring abortion into the mainstream of medicine, revealed the New York Times this week.
In her NYT magazine…

Argentina Passes Same-Sex ‘Marriage’

Posted on 16 July 2010

Argentina is set to become the first Latin American country to create gay “marriage” nationwide after their upper house passed the controversial legislation Thursday morning.
The lower house had already approved same-sex “marriage” in May, and yesterday the Senate passed…

Poland’s New President Opposed by Pro-Life Leaders

Posted on 09 July 2010

Pro-life leaders in Poland are dismayed over the outcome of the country’s presidential election on Sunday. The Polish people elected liberal Bronislaw Komorowski to fill the spot left open after the late president Lech Kaczynski perished April 10th in a…