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Elizabeth Banks, an actress heavily invested in the pro-abortion movement, criticized an Ohio self defense bill Friday because it could endanger innocent children. The Daily Wire reports Banks (“Hunger Games,” “Pitch Perfect”) said “Stand Your Ground” laws do not help anybody and put children and pets at risk. “Stand Your Ground is BS,” she wrote on Twitter, reacting to an Ohio bill that would allow people to shoot in self-defense even if they do not attempt to retreat first. Banks shared a personal experience to warn people about how dangerous such legislation could be. As a child, she said she...

Secretary General. Joined by 34 other countries, the document enshrines the Trump administration’s pro-life diplomacy on the official record of the General Assembly. “The United States strongly supports the dignity of all human beings and protecting life from the moment of conception throughout the lifespan,” Ambassador Kelly Craft wrote to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres transmitting the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and Strengthening the Family. Following the letter, the declaration was issued as an official document of the United Nations last week and circulated on December 11, after having been translated into all six official UN languages....

...Pope Francis famously stated, “Is it right to take a human life to solve a problem? It’s like hiring a hitman.” By that same standard of comparison, it’s fair to assert that presumptive President-elect Joe Biden is in the process of assembling a collective “mafia”... The most striking example to date is Biden’s incendiary Dec. 7 announcement that he wants California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to serve as his secretary of Health and Human Services. As attorney general and previously as a California state legislator, Becerra has prioritized the advancement of abortion and the persecution of pro-life perspectives, to a...

... Fetal Scalps and Back Flesh Grafted Onto Rats and MiceIn September, researchers at University of Pittsburgh published their work on the development of humanized mice and rats with “full-thickness human skin.” .... Full-thickness human skin from fetuses was grafted onto rodents while simultaneously co-engrafting the same fetus’s lymphoid tissues and hematopoietic stem cells from the liver, so that the rodent models were humanized with organs and skin from the same child. These “human Skin and Immune System (hSIS)-humanized” mouse and rat models are meant to aid the study of the immune system when the skin is infected. To make...

GEORGIA, December 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Because of the landmark upcoming election in Georgia that will decide which party holds the U.S. Senate, Created Equal will be flying a massive airplane tow banner depicting a human killed by abortion over several Georgia cities. This is the last effort in Created Equal’s 2020 Vote Anti-Abortion Tour, which traveled to multiple swing states. The airplane banner encourages the public to “Vote Anti-Abortion” while displaying a 15-week aborted child. The airplane will visit Columbus on December 31, Augusta on January 1, and Atlanta on January 4. The banner will fly over the city...

The Baby Jesus community is a witness to the value and inherent dignity of every human being in a world that increasingly sees disabled children as disposable or unwanted – and on a continent that is facing a push to radicalize its abortion laws. BRAZIL, December 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – While there was no place in the Inn for the baby Jesus, a Catholic Brazilian man believes God has called him to make a place in his home, a place he calls the Community of Baby Jesus, for the 42 disabled children he has adopted, many of whom survived failed...

The new vaccine has a small piece of COVID-19 genetic material (messenger RNA) that 'instructs' cells in the human body 'to make the virus’s distinctive "spike" protein.' WASHINGTON, D.C., December 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The Unites States Food and Drug Administration has authorized the emergency use of a second COVID-19 vaccine. The FDA granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Moderna, a Massachusetts-based biotechnology company, yesterday. Like the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine approved for use on December 10, the Moderna vaccine uses messenger RNA. The EUA comes as civil liberties advocates around the world raise concern over the possibility of “COVID passports”...

The Rev. Raphael Warnock is running against pro-life incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler in one of the two Georgia run-off races which will decide whether the Senate remains under the steady leadership of pro-life Sen. Mitch McConnell. Rev. Warnock proudly wears the badge of defender of “reproductive justice.” But as a letter from more than 25 Black pastors proclaimed, “Abortion is fundamentally in conflict with the plain reading of the Bible.” You have gone on the record saying that you are a “pro-choice pastor ”who will “always fight for reproductive justice.” You have publicly expressed your views that abortion is an...

There are two run-off races in Georgia, which will take place January 5, featuring pro-life incumbent Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue matched up against pro-abortion Democrats the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, respectively. Were the Democrats to win both contests, there would be 50 Republican Senators and 50 Democrat Senators. This leaves the deciding vote to the president of the Senate—the Vice President. So what takes place in less than three weeks will decide if pro-abortion Joe Biden has, in addition to a Democrat majority in the House, functional control of the Senate. It’s not surprising that the...

DC cardinal says he’ll give Communion to pro-abort Biden. Pope assigns him to life and family dicasteryIn the process of creating the new dicastery, the Pope devised new statutes by which the dicastery would function, further revising them in 2018. The dicastery promotes 'responsible procreation.'December 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Historically anti-life and left-wing Wilton D. Cardinal Gregory, Archbishop of Washington, has again been appointed to the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life by Pope Francis. The Pope has assigned a further nine of the cardinals he created at a recent consistory to various positions within the Roman Curia.The D.C....

Joe Biden says he and Jill were Obama admin’s ‘house Catholics,’ again praises Pope FrancisBiden, who has long been an ally of the pro-abortion cause, said that he was 'a great admirer of His Holiness.WASHINGTON, D.C., December 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Joe Biden described himself and his wife as the Obama administration’s “house Catholics” when he discussed Pope Francis on TV.During the Bidens’ appearance on the Late Show with comedian Stephen Colbert this week, the Democrat presidential candidate said that this is why he and his wife had been asked to accompany Pope Francis during his September 2015 trip to...

Generally, the Marxists of the left are, like Karl Marx, unapologetic atheists. They slander religious people, openly advocate against religious ideas and practices, and advocate for policies that are antithetical to a religious and moral society. However, come election time, they are forced to reckon with the fact that most of America is still, in fact, a religious society. So, to make themselves seem more electable, the Democrats occasionally pretend that they are religious. Recently, they have been claiming that Joe Biden is a Catholic, despite his support of anti-Christian policies and support for a part that stands against God....

Jon Brown from The Daily Wire reports, A group of black pastors penned a letter rebuking Democratic Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock for what they describe as his “open advocacy of abortion” and urge Warnock “to fight against the systemic racism of abortion.” ...

At a 'Life is Winning' event, the Vice President said the President 'has kept his word every single day' to protect the innocent 'at any stage.' WASHINGTON, D.C., December 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Vice President Mike Pence touted the Trump administration’s pro-life record in what may be the final weeks before being replaced by a pro-abortion Biden administration. On Wednesday, Pence delivered remarks to pro-life leaders gathered in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building for a “Life is Winning” event “about celebrating the progress we’ve made in the cause for life.” “Even before our inauguration four years ago, President Trump wrote...

December 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — An FDA advisory panel voted overwhelmingly today to recommend emergency use authorization (EUA) of Moderna’s mRNA 1273 COVID-19 vaccine, with 20 members in favor, and none officially opposing the opinion that the vaccine’s benefits “outweigh its risks for use in individuals 18 years of age and older.” Only one panel member, Michael Kurrilla, abstained from voting. He explained his decision at the conclusion of the vote, saying, “I’m very uncomfortable with the language. I think in the midst of a pandemic and with limited vaccine supply available, a blanket statement for individuals 18 years of...

The deadline for President Trump’s executive order on foreign election interference is tomorrow, and John Ratcliffe said that Iran, China, and Russia DID interfere. Report coming soon. The CEO of Dominion revealed that some of his voting machines can be connected to the internet. The Trump administration is withholding $200,000,000 of funds from California, because they require insurance companies to fund abortions. A new report found that Mark Zuckerberg’s $500M donation to the election, was unevenly distributed between Democrats and Republicans, by a ratio of about 10:1.

Abortion rights activists known as The Satanic Temple (TST) announced Wednesday they have posted billboards in Texas and Florida to promote what they call their “religious abortion ritual.” The Satanic Temple claims its members may undergo “first-trimester abortions upon demand in states that have enacted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).” Abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood has been working with the Satanic Temple to fight state abortion restrictions. In April 2019, the Satanic Temple also announced the IRS had recognized it as a “church” with tax-exempt status. “As a federally-recognized religion, The Satanic Temple utilizes RFRA and the Hobby Lobby...

Activists cry tears of joy over pro-abortion victory in Argentina…just like they did in IrelandThe scene was eerily similar to one that unfolded in Ireland in 2018.December 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In what can only be described as a bizarre and even demonic display of pro-abortion ideology, women in Argentina last week wept tears of joy upon their country’s Congress advancing legislation legalizing abortion. The scene was eerily similar to one that unfolded in Ireland in 2018, when the formerly Catholic country voted overwhelmingly to repeal its pro-life 8th Amendment and legalize the killing of babies in the womb.In Ireland,...

Not Censure But Calculated Silence. A Letter From Argentina on the Pope and AbortionSettimo Cielo's previous post, “Pope Francis censured every time he speaks out against abortion,” has prompted a resounding critique from an authoritative Argentine reader, the philosopher José Arturo Quarracino, nephew of Cardinal Antonio Quarracino, Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s predecessor as head of the archdiocese of Buenos Aires.In his judgment, it is true that Pope Francis speaks tough words against abortion, but he does this so as to make no waves in the mainstream media, thus not enduring a sort of censure but deliberately posturing himself in accord with...

The Department of Justice is also suing a Vermont hospital for forcing a nurse to participate in the killing of an unborn child. WASHINGTON, D.C., December 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Today, the Trump administration unveiled steps that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) are taking to enforce federal conscience protection laws by holding California and Vermont officials accountable for anti-life discrimination. The announcement was made during “Life Is Winning: Celebrating 4 Years of Pro-Life Accomplishments,” an event hosted by Vice President Mike Pence at the White House, highlighting the many...