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Virginia GOP nominates staunchly pro-life Ken Cuccinelli for governor
by Kirsten Andersen RICHMOND, May 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews) – The newly-nominated Republican candidate for governor of Virginia is a strong pro-life leader who told supporters at a fundraiser last year that LifeSiteNews.com is the homepage for one of the computers in his home. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, 44, accepted…
IRS Audited 69% of Adoptive Families While Defending Planned Parenthood
The Internal Revenue Service targeted a pro-life Iowa group that acts in part as a watchdog over the Planned Parenthood abortion business. It refused to grant nonprofit tax status to the Coalition for Life of Iowa unless it agreed to limit its “picketing” and “protesting” of Planned Parenthood. While defending the nation’s biggest abortion business, [...]
Kids start watching online porn as young as 6, flirt with cyberspace strangers by 8: survey
by Kirsten Andersen SEATTLE, WA, May 21, 2013 (LifeSiteNews) – A recent study of 19,000 parents by online security company Bitdefender has found that children as young as six are watching online pornography, and by eight, they’re flirting in real-time with strangers on the internet. “Kids nowadays are…
National Right to Life Convention: 40 Years of Roe is 40 Too Many
There are many reasons to be excited about the upcoming National Right to Life Convention. (See www.NRLConvention.com for details how to register.) In its 43 years, the Convention is taking place for the first time in Dallas, Texas. And we also have an amazing lineup of speakers. I would like to outline a few here: First, Ryan [...]
Former abortion employee helped friend induce labor, let baby die: police report
by Ben Johnson NORFOLK, VA, May 21, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Police in Virginia have arrested a former abortion facility employee for helping a friend induce labor, causing her newborn baby to die shortly after birth. Rachael Anne Lowe, 27, had once worked at Tidewater Women's Health Clinic, a Norfolk abortion…
Preemie born weighing just 15 ounces on her way home
by Thaddeus Baklinski VANCOUVER, Washington, May 21, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The smallest surviving baby ever born at a Vancouver, Washington hospital is on her way home after spending her first five months struggling for life in the neonatal intensive care unit of the Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center, reports The Columbian.…
She chose her broadcasting career over baby’s life, now runs radio show for post-abortive women
by Peter Baklinski PEACHTREE CITY, Georgia, May 21, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thirty-five years ago, in 1978, everything seemed to be going Kim’s way. The 23-year-old, blond-haired beauty had recently put herself through broadcasting school. Now she was being offered the job of her dreams, which would lead…
EMILY's List president considers U.S. Senate run in Montana
by Ben Johnson HELENA, MT, May 21, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of one of the nation's most powerful pro-abortion lobbying groups, EMILY's List, is considering running for U.S. Senate in Montana. Stephanie Schriock has said she may throw her hat in the ring for the Democratic nomination to…
38,000 signatures against same sex ‘marriage’ delivered to Estonian parliament
by Thaddeus Baklinski TALLINN, Estonia, May 21, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Estonian pro-family organization delivered over 38,000 signatures opposing same-sex "marriage" to the country's parliament last week. Spokesman for the Estonian Foundation for Defense of Family and Tradition, Slawomir Olejniczak,…
Family planning officials nearly beat Chinese farmer with three children to death: report
by John Jalsevac Xinyi, Jiangsu, May 18, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - More than 20 family planning officials nearly beat a farmer in Jiangsu province to death last week because he and his wife have three children, violating China's strict One-Child Policy, according to the human rights group China Aid. Zhang Futao is…
History made as Unborn Victims of Violence Act used to indict man accused of killing own child
by Chris Gacek May 21, 2013 (FRC) - History may have been made last week when federal prosecutors used the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA) to indict a man who is alleged to have killed his own unborn child. It is quite likely that this is the first use of the UVVA. The news of this terrible…
Webcast to expose other Gosnells in America tonight
by Tony Perkins May 21, 2013 (FRC) - Americans love their reality TV, but when it comes to the reality of what happens in the country's abortion clinics, they tune out. While the clinics may not all be as filthy as Kermit Gosnell's, the reality of what happens there is still the same: babies born alive…
Embryonic stem cells from cloned human embryos – six reasons for caution
by Peter Saunders May 21, 2013 (PJSaunders) - The newspapers are full this week of the news that scientists in the US state of Oregon have produced embryonic stem cells (ESCs) using the same cloning technology (somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)) that created Dolly the sheep. The original paper was published in the…
Campus porn culture: a real ‘war on women’
by Ashley Herzog May 21, 2013 (LiveActionNews.org) - If you’re not already following The College Fix, run by author and Yale alum Nathan Harden, you should be. It exposes the depraved, anti-woman atmosphere that dominates too many campuses. I interviewed Harden last year, after the debut of his book, Sex and…
‘What could I do? I killed the baby,’ abortionist told nurse about baby born alive
by Sarah Terzo Note: This is the latest installment in a series of articles detailing cases in which babies were born alive during abortions, and then either left to die or actively killed. To read the other parts click here. May 21, 2013 (LiveActionNews.org) - By now, most people have heard about the allegations…
“Big Sis” for president? EMILY’s List, Washington Post promote Janet Napolitano in 2016
by Ben Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C., May 20, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Would the woman most closely associated with the TSA airport stripsearches make a good presidential candidate? The abortion lobbying group EMILY's List and The Washington Post think so. This month, EMILY's List launched an initiative…
Young Christians will be locked out of public professions by ‘gay marriage’, ministers warn
by Hilary White LONDON, May 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Young Christians will be shut out of all public professions, including teachers, doctors, nurses or any kind of public servant if the “gay marriage” bill is passed, a group of religious leaders has warned the government. The ministers issued…
Illegal Immigrant raped preteen girl, forced her to have an abortion
by Ben Johnson EVERSON, WA, May 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 31-year-old illegal immigrant raped a preteen girl in Washington State last June, then took her to Planned Parenthood two months later to cover his crime. According to reports, last June, Luis Gonzalez-Jose approached the young girl as her mother…
Maine’s death rate now higher than its birth rate
by Ben Johnson AUGUSTA, ME, May 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The number of deaths in Maine now exceeds the number of births, according to a new report released by the Governor's Office of Policy and Management (OPM). Last year, there were 103 more deaths than new babies. The state's birth rate has steadily…
Pro-life activists protest Irish Prime Minister’s speech at Catholic college
by Kirsten Andersen BOSTON, May 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life student protesters demonstrated outside Boston College’s graduation ceremony Monday as Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny gave the keynote speech and received an honorary degree from the Catholic school. Sean Cardinal O’Malley, who traditionally…
