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After Vote to Put Illinois Parental Notice Law Into Immediate Effect, Judge Issues Restraining Order

Posted on 05 November 2009

Note Breaking News : The Associated Press reported yesterday evening that an Illinois judge has put a restraining order on the law at the behest of the ACLU, further delaying the implementation of the law until such a time as the…

Nun Abortion Clinic Escort Reprimanded - Dominican Congregation Apologizes for Scandal

Posted on 04 November 2009

A congregation of US Dominican nuns has publicly apologized for the scandal caused by one of its members acting as a volunteer escort at a Chicago area abortion facility, who now faces severe canonical penalties including excommunication and the possibility…

Interview: President of Oldest US Pro-Life Group Explains How Pro-Lifers Can Make a Crucial Difference in 2009 Virginia Election

Posted on 28 October 2009

Olivia Gans is the President of the Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL), the oldest pro-life organization in the United States, founded in 1967. Gans has spoken in all 50 states and abroad on behalf of the pro-life movement.

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Rep. Kennedy Questions Whether Bishops “Pro-Life” over Opposition to Healthcare: Local Bishop Demands Apology

Posted on 24 October 2009

The Catholic Bishop of Providence has lambasted Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) for smearing the Catholic bishops over their opposition to the health-care reform bills going through Congress because they would fund abortion. Kennedy, the son of the late pro-abortion Catholic…

New York Governor Says Gay “Marriage” Bill Back on Table for Upcoming Special Session

Posted on 23 October 2009

Gov. David Paterson has announced he wants the New York State Senate to vote on a same-sex “marriage” bill within the next several weeks during a special session of the legislature convened to address New York’s budget deficit. However pro-family…

Federal Appeals Court Orders Washington Pro-Marriage Signatures Made Public

Posted on 20 October 2009

A federal appeals court has ordered the public release of tens of thousands of signatures to a petition in support of a pro-marriage referendum. The referendum would allow Washington voters to reject a law that gives homosexual couples all the…

Schwarzenegger Signs California Law Recognizing Out-of-State Same-Sex “Marriages”

Posted on 17 October 2009

Californians may have voted in November to amend their state constitution to define the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman, but new legislation signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now requires California to…

Groundbreaking In-the-Womb Photos Now Improved and Republished

Posted on 16 October 2009

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but for more than fifty years Lennart Nilsson has taken photographs that the pro-life movement has found priceless: the earliest and most compelling visual images that give intimate detail and clarity to the humanity…

Controversy Erupts as Catholic Bishop Asks Pro-Gay Bishop Not to Enter His Diocese

Posted on 15 October 2009

A public controversy has erupted between two bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, with one of the youngest bishops in the country publicly taking on one of his own colleagues in an effort to defend the Church’s teachings on homosexuality…

Sex, Lies and Power Exposed

Posted on 02 October 2009

Obama’s “Safe-School Czar” Kevin Jennings has more than once proudly admitted that he ignored the homosexual statutory rape of a high-school sophomore in his care twenty one years ago, but now under public pressure he says he could have “handled…

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