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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has acknowledged that women in Ireland do not enjoy full equality “in lots of different fields”. His comment came while answering questions in Longford yesterday, about an earlier call by the Children’s Minister for “reproductive justice” for Ireland. Mr. Varadkar told Shannonside FM that he welcomed Katherine Zappone’s contribution to the abortion debate. …

Jane Hodgson, who died about a decade ago, was celebrated in liberal circles as a pioneer of abortion rights. She was a master at justifying the killing of human life in the womb. Writing about her for the National Right to life News Today (reproduced in lifenews.com, 8/3/17), Dave Andrusko quoted some of her rationalizations: “[T]here is a medical indication to abort a pregnancy where it is not wanted.” “I am concerned with the quality of life, not physical existence.” “A medically necessary abortion is any abortion a woman asks for.” “Is adolescent pregnancy a disease?” Implied is that the...

The first requirement for a feminist is to be shameless about abortion. In the wake of the 2015 videos exposing the horrific Planned Parenthood racket around dead baby parts, a gaggle of feminists created a social media campaign called #ShoutYourAbortion with the aim of dispelling all "sadness, shame, or regret" about abortions. One should shout about it with pride and even joke about it. The campaign manufactures T-shirts emblazoned with the Orwellian phrases "Abortion is freedom" and "Everyone knows I had an abortion." In the last few days, a video surfaced of radical-feminist actress Martha Plimpton interviewing abortion provider Dr....

As the state’s last abortion clinic is at risk of being shut down, some religious leaders step up against Gov. Matt Bevin’s anti-abortion policies. In the spring of 2014, the Rev. Millie Horning Peters and her clergy friend were eating lunch in Louisville, Kentucky, when their discussion turned to reproductive rights. As people of faith who were also pro-abortion rights, they were concerned by the absence of a religious voice in discussions about women’s health care. Instead, they observed, anti-choice arguments of the outspoken religious right dominated the public debate on reproduction. So Peters set out to dispel the narrative...

Churches in California still are being forced to pay for abortions in their health insurance plans after a federal court dismissed a legal challenge by three churches Friday. Churches across California have been battling the onerous abortion mandate for years with no relief. The troubling situation began in 2014 when the California Department of Managed Health Care reclassified abortion as a “basic health service” under the Affordable Care Act and ordered all insurance plans in the state to begin covering elective abortions immediately. Even churches are not exempt. Friday was another defeat for the churches in Foothill Church v. Rouillard...

The abortion debate is one of the starkest dividing lines in American (and UK) politics. Like few other issues, there are people who will base their vote on where advocates and critics stand regardless of other considerations. Just this week, two news stories came out that have reignited the MSM in their excitement, one from the UK and one from the US. The US story comes from a conference in Seattle where a guest speaker, actress Martha Plimpton spoke to rousing applause of her experiences with abortion: “Seattle has some particular significance for me for lots of reasons,” she began....

Cecile Richards is upset that Trump ended DACA because the Planned Parenthood abortion business will get fewer customers as a result. She says she is “heartbroken” by the decision. As everyone knows, the Planned Parenthood abortion company has a long history of preying on minorities to sell abortions. It has frequently located its abortion centers in historically minority neighborhoods in order to prey on Black and Hispanic women. In an email sent to the abortion company’s supporters today, Richards indicated she is very upset at Trump for ending the DACA. The email makes it very clear that Planned Parenthood hopes...

Goonies actress Martha Plimpton is slammed after boasting at a pro-choice event that she had her 'best abortion' in Seattle when she was 19 The Goonies star made the comments in June during a Q&A session in Seattle Plimpton underwent the procedure when she was 19 in 1989 at a Planned Parenthood She joked to the cheering crowd: 'If I could Yelp review it, I totally would' Plimpton, 46, is a passionate abortion advocate and activist She received insults from Twitter critics who said the comment was 'tacky'Actress Martha Plimpton has sparked controversy by saying she had her 'best abortion'...

Big Bang Theory producer Bill Prady tweeted Tuesday that honor killings of women under Sharia law might actually be an acceptable practice. Maybe. Well, he's not sure. The slightly-more-than-disturbing admission happened while Prady – a man – was trying to school pro-life advocate Obianuju Ekeocha – a woman – on the issue of abortion. (Which was odd to me, as I thought only those with a uterus got a vote on the subject. But I digress.) During the lengthy Twitter back-and-forth, Prady attempted to trump Ekeocha’s pro-life argument by awkwardly tying in religion, arguing that a woman’s right to kill...

This Is Late Term Abortion #NewMexicoTrue: Abortion Free New Mexico and Priests for Life have released a new video taken from an undercover phone call placed to Southwestern Women's Options late term abortion facility that clearly explains how second and third trimester abortions are performed in New Mexico.

Aarhus Municipality has given an anti-abortion protest group 48 hours to remove stickers from public areas in the city. The group, Retten til Liv (Right to Life), placed 20,000 of its stickers in various places around Aarhus during the weekend, reports broadcaster DR. One version of the stickers pictures a fetus with a speech bubble containing the words “Pssst! After 8 weeks, my body is ready; now it just needs to grow!” The group has now been informed by Aarhus Municipality that the stickers must be removed. […] Ellen Højlund Wibe, national secretary with the anti-abortion organization, told DR that...

The challenges and potential business opportunities China's nearly 200 million "single population" has given rise to have been making headlines for some time now. Single population refers to the group of people who are not married despite reaching the legal marriageable age, and those that are divorced or widowed. According to China's population and employment statistical yearbook 2015, the total single population aged above 20－people who are unable to get married as well as those that choose to remain single－was about 140 million in 2014. According to a survey in 2015 more than 58 million people in China live alone...

As a talk radio host, I’ve received many calls from listeners in pain, but none so poignant as the calls from mothers who aborted their babies in years past. In some cases, the women break down weeping as they talk about aborting their baby several decades ago. In one case, it was a troubled father who called the show, also breaking down in tears as he described how he talked his girlfriend into aborting their child many years back. All the “shout your abortion” campaigns cannot undo the agony of abortion, nor can Planned Parenthood’s light-hearted, Ooti the Uterus, emoji...

The Republican Party has clashed with Planned Parenthood (PP) on a level that would equal any MMA death match. Republicans argue against funding PP because the organization is the principal source for abortions in the country and it is against the law to use federal funds for the procedure. PP argues it provides a multitude of services to 2.5 million different women and the money is used for services other than abortion. The Republicans miss the best reason to argue against funding PP. If you go to the PP website, you will see that the services they speak to are...

A company that processes online donations for organizations cancelled its service with a Christian organization after the pro-abortion Southern Poverty Law Center labeled it a “hate group” over its conservative political views. This action highlights longstanding concerns pro-life conservatives have had about of the kind of discrimination pro-life Christians can expect for their beliefs. The Ruth Institute, whose primary focus is family breakdown, and its impact on children, informed LifeNews today about the discrimination. Officials indicated Ruth Institute’s on-line donation processor cut them off from further funding for allegedly promoting “hate, violence, harassment or abuse.” The Ruth Institute learned late...

'The court's decision ignores the longstanding freedom of faith communities to act' within their mission! Churches in California are deliberating their next move after a federal court ruled Friday that they must – no exceptions – pay for what they consider sin. It’s the abortion payment funding requirement in their health insurance plans. The Alliance Defending Freedom, a non-profit legal organization dedicated to “advocating for religious liberty, the sanctity of life, and marriage and family,” warned in a statement that its battle with the courts on behalf of the churches for religious freedom is far from over. “If the state...

Abortion activists are fundraising so that more people will die in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. The death toll from the massive hurricane reached 46, as of Friday afternoon, according to the New York Times. But no one will count how many more human lives will be lost to abortion as a result of abortion activists’ fundraising off the natural disaster. The Free Beacon reports one of the groups capitalizing off Hurricane Harvey is the Lilith Fund, which funds abortions and abortion advocacy. The Texas-based group set up an “Emergency Fund for Harvey Survivors” to raise money for women who...

While Americans watched in shock as a CBS News report detailed the near-100 percent abortion rate for unborn babies with Down syndrome in Iceland, people in Iceland were celebrating at an annual diversity festival. Gunnar Ingi Gunnarsson, the pastor of a small Baptist church in Reykjavík, pointed out the sad irony of this in a column for Christianity Today. The only Baptist pastor in Iceland, Gunnarsson said abortions have skyrocketed in the country, and very few people – including clergy – speak out against them. He is one of the few who goes against the pervasive atheistic, anti-life beliefs in...

Summoned, Sure, and Strong: Proverbs for Pro-Lifers Msgr. Charles Pope • August 16, 2016 • By way of spiritually preparing for a pro-life project here in my parish and deanery, I asked the Lord to show me any biblical text He wanted me to see. I randomly opened the Bible and my eyes fell on Proverbs 24, which has some very good material for reflection for any and all engaged in pro-life witness.Consider some lessons drawn from the 24th chapter of the Book of Proverbs: OUR SUMMONS – If you remain indifferent in times of adversity, your strength will...

A former British spy has vanished after being named as the author of a ‘dirty’ file smearing Donald Trump and fled his £1.5million mansion in fear telling his neighbour: ‘Look after my cat.’ Ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele has been named as the author of the salacious Russian dossier containing outlandish claims about Donald Trump’s sex life and bizarre footage allegedly held by the Kremlin’s blackmail unit. The 35-page briefing, which is littered with spelling mistakes, includes an unsubstantiated and far-fetched claim Trump watched prostitutes perform a ‘golden shower (urination) show’ in the Presidential Suite of a Moscow hotel. Mr Trump...