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During the preliminary hearing this week in the criminal case against undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, a "semi-retired" Planned Parenthood executive admitted that the abortion business had no ban on altering abortion procedures in order to better harvest baby body parts that would later be sold, allegedly for a profit. According to reporting from Lianne Laurence at LifeSiteNews, "Doe 10," the former medical director at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles until 2013, "admitted under questioning Wednesday by Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society and lawyer for Daleiden, that the Planned Parenthood affiliates she worked in had no rule...

On July 25, the Food and Drug Administration signed a contract to acquire "fresh" tissue from aborted babies so it could transplant that tissue into mice. On Monday, the Trump administration canceled that contract. This is an unambiguous victory for the sanctity of human life. The underlying question now is: Will the federal government follow up on the cancelation of this one contract and completely and finally terminate its practice of spending approximately $100 million per year on research that creates a market for tissue taken from aborted babies? This writer first reported about the FDA contract to acquire fetal...

Animal activists bit off more than they could chew this morning when they chained themselves to the killing area of an abattoir at Ipswich in south-east Queensland. The 12 protesters got a fright when meatworkers took matters into their own hands and used angle grinders to cut the chains off the activists so they could get back to work. The group had hoped their actions would disrupt the World Meat Congress, which is under way in Brisbane. Protester Angie Stephenson says it was terrifying. "The workers, they were standing around cheering and whooping and yelling and making lewd comments so...

A GROUP of animal liberation activists have chained themselves to an Ipswich abattoir in protest against the slaughter of cattle. Eleven activists from Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne snuck into the Churchill Abattoir in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, at about 4am (AEST) today and chained themselves up to prevent this morning's slaughter. Animal liberation campaigner Noah Hannibal said from inside the abattoir four of the activists had chained themselves up on the killing room floor and seven more were chained to equipment in the loading shoot where the animals were stung. The workers arrived at the abattoir to begin slaughtering the...