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Adoptive Families Harassed by IRS While Planned Parenthood Unscathed
Scandal. It’s not just a sleazy TV show. It’s real life. And, lately, it’s spreading like wildfire. Every year my wife, Bethany, and I dread filing our taxes. We’re diligent and organized, but worry about missing some minute detail that would trigger the harrowing experience of an audit. I’ve been through one before because I [...]
Fianna Fáil Leader Micheál Martin Blasted for Calling Abortion Bill Pro-Life
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin’s claim that the Government’s proposed abortion legislation is “pro-life” and “restrictive” is drawing condemnation from pro-life groups today. As the Independent reports: Martin says he is in favour of his party supporting the abortion legislation as it is “consistent with a pro-life position.” In his first public comments on the [...]
Virginia: McAuliffe Opposes Abortion Law That Could Have Stopped Gosnell
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s opposition to increased health and safety standards for the Commonwealth’s abortion facilities is drawing him condemnation from a pro-life women’s group. Susan B. Anthony List president...Show More Summary
Congress Sees Gruesome Photos of Born Alive Babies Abortionist Killed
During a House Judiciary Committee Hearing discussing the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (HR 1797) held on May 23, 2013, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) courageously displayed photos released by Operation Rescue depicting one aborted baby that was apparently killed after birth at a Houston, Texas, abortion clinic operated by Douglas Karpen. The photos were [...]
Democratic Congressman Sleeps During Late-Term Abortion Ban Hearing
Washington, DC (LiveActionNews) — Yesterday, Representative Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) held a hearing on H.R. 1797, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, originally for D.C. but now intended for the entire nation. On the “pro” side of the congressional divide were Reps. Franks, King (R-Iowa), Chabot (R-Ohio), and Gohmert (R-Tex.); the “anti” side comprised Reps. Nadler [...]
Emily’s List Endorses Abortion Clinic Director for Pennsylvania Governor
The pro-abortion group Emily’s List is proving yet again how extreme it is on abortion — not just supporting a pro-abortion candidate for governor in Pennsylvania but an abortion clinic director. Schwartz co-founded and served as the Executive Director of an abortion facility in Philadelphia for 13 years. The facility performed about 1,500 abortions in [...]
Time for Congress to Stop Painful Abortions on Unborn Babies
Dr. Anthony Levatino understands plenty about post-abortion grief. When the Ob/Gyn lost his little girl in a car accident, the man who had performed as many as 1,200 abortions said he couldn’t finish another one without getting sick. “For the first time after all those years… I didn’t see her wonderful right to choose; I [...]
Hobby Lobby Takes HHS Mandate Battle Against Obama Admin to Appeals Court
Attorneys for Christian-owned craft store Hobby Lobby took on the Obama administration in court yesterday in its attempt to stop massive fines against it for not complying with the HHS mandate. The company has filed a lawsuit over whether or not the HHS Department can force it to comply with the mandate that compels it [...]
Vatican: Morning After Pill Not a “Life-Saving Commodity”
Pat Buckley, who is lobbying for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children at the 66th World Health Assembly this week in Geneva, reports on a forthright attack by the Holy See on a resolution before the Assembly which lists “emergency contraception” (the morning-after pill) as a “life-saving commodity”. The Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly [...]
There Are More Kermit Gosnells Nationwide, We Must Stop Them
There are Kermit Gosnells all over our country today, inflicting not only violence, cruelty and death on very young children but excruciating pain as well. Many Americans — including some who self-identify as pro-choice — were shocked and dismayed by the details that came to light in Gosnell’s recent trial. Perhaps our culture of denial [...]
The Nidal Hasan Case: Justice Delayed
It could hardly be more of what we used to call an “open and shut” case. Nidal Hasan, an active duty Army major and psychiatrist, walked into a room at Fort Hood, Texas, shouting “Allahu Akbar!” and shot thirty people, killing fourteen. One of his victims, Francheska Velez, was pregnant at the time. She cried [...]
Abortion Won’t Help British Woman SB’s Mental Health Problems
London, England (LiveActionNews) — One of the ways that abortion advocates like to claim that abortion is “health care” is by claiming that it can sometimes be necessary for the health of the mother, or to save her life. Included in the “health of the mother” argument is mental health, because some women could become [...]
Value of Human Embryos Created by IVF “Infinitely Variable?”
I don’t think I could have found anything less “scientific” from a website called “ScienceAlert.” A group in Australia has taken up the challenge of reforming the laws regarding “left-over” IVF embryos there. Currently, many embryos are destroyed every year because of mandatory storage limits. This group began the “Enhancing Reproductive Opportunity Research Project” to [...]
IRS Places Lois Lerner on Administrative Leave Over Targeting Scandal
Weeks after the IRS scandal erupted over its targeting of pro-life and conservative groups, the Internal Revenue Service has finally taken action. As National Review first reported today, Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service’s director of exempt organizations, has been placed on administrative leave. As NR reported: Lerner on Thursday afternoon sent an e-mail to [...]
India: Woman Says Two Nurses at Health Center Forced Her Abortion
Forced abortions run rampant in nations like China and India and a new report out this week has a woman claiming two nurses at a medical center forced her to have an abortion. A 25-year-old pregnant woman in Kanpur Dehat says Community Health Centre, Pukhrayan broke the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act and forced [...]
Teen Birth Rates Drop Nationwide, Decline in Almost Every State
A new report just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has good news regarding the substantial decline in teen births from 2007 through 2011. The report shows teen birth rates dropped nationwide, declining in almost every state. While the drop in the rate of teen births began in 1991, the current [...]
Canadians flood Parliament with petitions through MPs to end gendercide
by Peter Baklinski OTTAWA, Ontario, May 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While Prime Minister Stephen Harper and mainstream media have said that Canadians do not want to reopen the abortion debate, MPs have presented the government with more than 70 petitions from constituents since January that say otherwise. …
Former abortionist, Jill Stanek testify before Congress for national 20-week abortion ban
by Kirsten Andersen WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Members of the House of Representatives heard testimony Thursday from two former abortion industry workers as hearings were held on a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks gestation, when the nervous system has developed sufficiently to…
Teens teach porn class, and other madness: inside a Planned Parenthood-sponsored conference
by Rita Diller Analysis May 23, 2013 (STOPP.org) - When I walked into this year’s Oregon Adolescent Sexuality Conference in Seaside, Oregon, one of the first things I encountered was a table manned by three young teen boys. On the table was a collage that included many depictions of totally bare female…
Expert Tells Congress Unborn Babies Can Feel Pain Starting at 8 Weeks
During a hearing on a bill that would ban late-term abortions nationwide, an expert on human embryonic development informed members of the committee that unborn babies have the capacity to feel pain as early as 8 weeks. Maureen Condic, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah and obtained [...]
