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WASHINGTON, D.C., December 16, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- The House's new Speaker has unveiled a $1.67 trillion budget that fully funds Planned Parenthood for the next nine-and-a-half months. The budget comes five months after a series of videos showed Planned Parenthood officials haggling over the price of unborn baby parts, as well as appearing to discuss illegal partial-birth abortions and illegal modifications to abortion. While the House appears ready to pass the bill on Friday, a board member of the group that conducted the undercover video investigations said the funding shows "the corrupt, establishment Republicans are once again walking lockstep with...

Having an ultrasound is now considered rape, according to the latest talking points from the largest abortion chain in the nation, Planned Parenthood, over the controversy about the Virginia ultrasound bill. If this sounds illogical and absurd, that’s because it is. In a 2003 study of Planned Parenthood and other independently owned abortion facilities, 99 percent of these clinics admitted that they either “always” or “sometimes” perform an ultrasound in association with a surgical abortion. Further, it was stated that vaginal ultrasounds were “always” performed before the early surgical abortion at 83 percent of these sites, 16 percent “under certain...

Rights: The House Minority Leader says self-insurance is no protection against the government's contraceptive mandate, while California's junior senator says people have a right to be insured but no right to practice their faith. Lost in the phony "compromise" on the Health and Human Services mandate on religious institutions being forced to pay for contraceptive services was the fact that many such institutions are self-insured. So making insurance companies pay instead is a distinction without a difference. Sometimes these religious institutions are their own insurance company. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who once complained that her fellow Catholics had this...

Canon 916 of 1983 Code of Canon Law Anyone who is conscious of grave sin may not celebrate Mass or receive the Body of the Lord without previously having been to sacramental confession, unless there is a grave reason and there is no oppourtunity to confess; in this case the person is to remember the obligation to make an act of perfect contrition, which includes the resolve to go to confession as soon as possible. With the above, can Father John Jenkins be celebrating Mass? The answer should be no -- until he has repented of the sin of the...

Spain Sees Hundreds of Thousands Rally Against Abortion at Catholic Event by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com Editor December 29, 2008 Madrid, Spain (LifeNews.com) -- The Socialist government of Spain wants to expand the nation's abortion laws, which already allow virtual abortion on demand. Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards responded on Sunday at a Catholic rally in the nation's capital with an address by Pope Benedict XVI.The rally in Madrid saw a massive gathering of people in the event deigned to promote pro-life values in the face of the government's desire to expand abortions.Pope Benedict XVI talked with the participants via a live...

Video of Bill Clinton yelling at Pro-Lifers, be sure to go to the URL, rate it, then comment - there's a lot of lost souls on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XfmJeIJpns

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Stymied in their efforts to pass a parental notice abortion law that can withstand court scrutiny, Florida lawmakers put out a call for reinforcements. Polls indicated voters planned to respond to the call Tuesday by passing a ballot measure that limits the privacy rights of girls seeking abortions. If approved, Amendment 1 would change the Florida Constitution to limit the privacy rights of girls under the age 18 so that the Legislature can come back and pass a parental notice law that will withstand a constitutional challenge. ---_ Both sides of the debate warned during the campaign...

The issue of abortion appears to be breaking heavily in President Bush's favor in this year's election, according to a new Survey USA poll, with pro-life voters rallying to his cause at the same time pro-choice voters appear to be less committed to John Kerry. The results, dubbed "The Abortion Gap" by the polling house, are based on data gathered from 28 key states, including nearly all the battleground states. In Arizona, for instance, Bush leads Kerry among pro-life voters by a whopping 50 points, while Kerry leads Bush among pro-choice voters by a slender 14-point margin. In Nevada, Bush...

I just learned that American poor-choicers are planning to march on Washington to protest the PBA ban (see link). Has anyone else heard of this, and are there any pro-life groups that are planning counter-demonstrations? God Bless, Suzanne from Canada

Should Partial Birth Abortion be banned? http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-abortions1002,0,5928395.story?coll=ny-top-headlines&vote9645783=1

But family-planning association says ban here is 'impossible'Anti-abortion activists say a push to ban abortions in Slovakia has revitalized their efforts to outlaw the procedure in the Czech Republic. "They are an inspiration to us here," said Zdenka Rybova, vice president of the Movement for Life, the nation's largest anti-abortion group. But the leader of a family-planning group said such a ban would be impossible in the Czech Republic. In March, the Slovak Parliament rejected a bill sponsored by the country's Christian Democratic Party that would have banned most abortions. The party has petitioned the country's Constitutional Court, saying that...

<p>Patients would be told that a late-term abortion could cause the fetus pain.</p> <p>Abortion foes are notching up their efforts with a new bill to require doctors to tell women who are considering an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy that the fetus might suffer pain.</p>

PHILIPPINES WAVERS ON ABORTION AS HALF OF CONGRESS READY TO SUPPORT IT MANILLA, September 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) - Filipino media are reporting that more than 100 of the 214 members of Congress are backing the Reproductive Health Care Act (House Bill 4110 ) which would allow for abortion. Church leaders, in the heavily Catholic country said they would maintain their stance on the need for protection of the life of the unborn regardless of the outcome of the legislation. Msgr. Rey Monsanto noted that Pope John Paul II remained outspoken on the issue despite the passage of even worse laws...

New Delhi (CNSNews.com) - The killing of baby girls in India is continuing, both inside and outside the womb, despite new legislation banning the use of ultrasound tests to determine the sex of unborn children. The Pre-Natal Diagnostic Test Act also outlaws attempts to conceal a birth by disposing of a baby's body secretly. But recent reports suggest the law is being widely violated in villages and urban areas around the country. It's estimated that up to five million baby girls are aborted every year in India, a society where males are held in higher esteem for cultural and economic...

What are the Catholic bishops thinking?Last week the Catholic bishops' conference announced the names of the members of their lay "National Review Board" dealing with the scandals that have come to the fore in recent months. Putting aside the issue of the name — "NATIONAL REVIEW Board" — some eyebrows were raised when the bishops announced last month after their Dallas conference that Robert Bennett, Clinton's impeachment lawyer, would be on it. But it has gotten worse: Why is Leon Panetta on their panel? We all know he was a Clintonite, chief of staff to the man himself, earnest defender...

WASHINGTON, DC, Jul 12, 02 (LSN.ca/CWNews.com) - Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pennsylvania, said last week that hospitals and healthcare workers should not be forced to perform or participate in abortions. He and a co-sponsor, Health Subcommittee Chairman Mike Bilirakis, R-Florida, have put forward the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act. "No hospital should be forced to take the life of an unborn child against its will," Pitts said. "Religiously affiliated hospitals and hospitals that simply don't want to offer the elective procedure shouldn't have to. Forcing hospitals to perform abortions is wrong." Pitts, speaking at a meeting of the House Health Subcommittee, said Congress...

<p>CHARLESTON - After two hours of debate, mostly from the opposition, the West Virginia House of Delegates passed SB 283, creating a women's right-to-know act, Friday night.</p> <p>The 75-45 vote for passage took place before a delegate from Charleston, Rebecca Matthews, was declared out of order for a personal attack on House Majority Leader Rick Staton, D-Wyoming. Matthews, who was among leaders in support of the informed consent bill, was ordered to relinquish the floor by House Speaker Bob Kiss, D-Raleigh.</p>