by John Jalsevac Catholic priest gives Obama mandate “The Finger (?)”! - John Jalsevac ‘98% of Catholics contracept?’: Not true for hardcore Catholics - Peter Baklinski

by Ben Johnson ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, February 22, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com)—A 14-year-old homeschooler who testified before the Maryland state senate against a bill redefining marriage has been the subject of cyberbullying, vicious name-calling, and death threats. Sarah Crank, 14, told the Maryland Senate Judicial…

by Ben Johnson TACOMA, WASHINGTON, February 22, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a decision that could impact the unfolding debate over the HHS mandate, today a federal court in Washington state upheld the First Amendment rights of pharmacists to refuse to distribute potentially abortifacient contraception and abortion-inducing…

by Patrick B. Craine EDMONTON, Alberta, February 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homeschooling groups are sounding the alarm this week as the Alberta government prepares to pass a bill that they say threatens to mandate “diversity” education in the home. The province’s new Education Act, re-tabled Feb. 14th by Alison…

by John Jalsevac February 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An ultrasound bill currently making its way through the Virginia legislature has become the object of a fierce campaign of opposition from the nation’s most powerful pro-abortion forces, who claim the bill would force women to undergo invasive transvaginal ultrasounds…

by Mailee Smith February 22, 2012 (AUL.org) - What happens when abortion providers don’t follow practices of standard medical care? You get Kermit Gosnell.  Or Steven Brigham and Nicola Riley.  You get unsafe, unsanitary conditions. You get a “back alley.” In order to better protect the health and welfare…

by Peter Baklinski A group of faithful Catholic ladies who grew sick and tired of hearing ad nauseam the White House’s Cecilia Munoz’s tidbit that “98 percent of Catholic women have used contraception” decided to take the matter into their own hands and run their own poll. Catholic Sistas knew that the study quoted…

by Victor Bermudez Dear Pro-life Family This is one of the most important prayer requests I have ever sent out. A young, dedicated and fearless pro-life student from Franciscan University is dying of Leukemia. Neal Rylatt is a Franciscan Student that is devoted to the pro-life movement. Neal has leukemia and based on the…

by Julio Severo February 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Last week Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff administration was pressed by the UN’s CEDAW (Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women) about an alleged 200,000 deaths of women each year because of illegal abortion in Brazil. The Brazilian representatives…

by John Jalsevac Click “like” if you want to end abortion! A priest named Fr. Leo Patalinghug has issued a somewhat unconventional and certainly attention-grabbing response to the Obama administration’s abortifacient birth control mandate. No, he doesn’t actually give the President the finger,…

by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent DUBLIN, February 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An eminent Irish oncologist, professor and politician wrote today on his Twitter account that he has never encountered a situation in which abortion was needed to save a mother’s life. Dr. John Crown, who has lectured in 40 countries and is the author…

by Ben Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C., February 22, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last year, the Corporation for National and Community Service’s (CNCS) office of inspector general discovered that the CNCS’s Americorps program had illegally supplied three volunteers to Planned Parenthood. Now Republican senators…

by Ben Johnson BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, February 22, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Massachusetts judge who ordered a mentally ill woman to undergo a forced abortion and sterilization is defending her actions, after she says public backlash cost her a job at Boston University. “I believed then, as I do now, that…

by Ben Johnson MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, February 22, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Obama administration is “stonewalling” on a Freedom of Information Act request about why it chose to fund the local affiliate of Planned Parenthood after New Hampshire’s state government cut off state funds, according…

by Operation Rescue staff TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 21, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (KSBHA) has ordered the revocation of the medical license of abortionist Ann Kristin Neuhaus, stating that Neuhaus’ practice of essentially rubber-stamping late-term abortion referrals to George Tiller was “professionally…

by John Jalsevac February 21, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This year Ash Wednesday isn’t just the first day of the Christian penitential season of Lent, it is also the beginning of the largest ever 40 Days for Life campaign. The massively successful international pro-life effort is set to launch in a record-breaking…

by Rob Schwarzwalder February 21, 2012 (FRCblog.com) - My home state of Washington has produced some of America’s leading corporations and entrepreneurs: Microsoft and Bill Gates; the Nordstrom, Boeing and Weyerhaeuser families and their eponymously named companies; the Eddie Bauer sporting goods empire; and the nearly…

by Rev. John A. Leies, S.M. February 21, 2012 (HLIAmerica.org) - I am angry. Very angry. My government has demanded (not “requested”) that I violate my conscience. On Jan. 20, Kathleen Sebelius, head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced that all institutions — schools, hospitals, clinics, etc.,…

by Peter Baklinski BOSTON, Massachusetts, February 21, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Harvard study has found an association in young people who were exposed to childhood “physical, psychological, and sexual abuse” and who experienced childhood “gender nonconformity.” While it is not surprising that such a link…

by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman February 21, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Brazilian federal prosecutor is demanding that a televangelist retract certain statements he made in 2011 which the prosecutor says incited “hatred” against homosexuals - a thinly veiled threat of future legal action. “The people in the Gay Parade…