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Little upsets pro-life people more than learning that things they consider innocent are actually tainted with the shedding of innocent blood. This long list of guilt-ridden products includes childhood vaccines, wrinkle creams and even your favorite soft drinks and chewing gum The problem is, it’s hard to keep it all straight even if you are trying to avoid putting products in you that are obtained through the death of a baby. Fortunately, Children of God for Life has produced an easy reference guide—a one page list of fetal call products. CLICK HERE FOR A PDF DOWNLOAD OF FETAL CELL PRODUCTS....

Much debate has arisen lately on whether or not the Susan G. Komen Foundation plans to continue to fund Planned Parenthood. Reports briefly surfaced that it had agreed to stop, but within two days of the initial reports, Komen in Orange County, California confirmed it had given Planned Parenthood two more grants. After this report I made a media contact with Komen officials to ask if there was any verity to the potential defunding of Planned Parenthood. Their answer, at least thus far, is that they have funded Planned Parenthood and will continue to fund Planned Parenthood. According to Komen:...

China's major solar panel companies — whose low-cost products led some American factories to close, helped create the Solyndra controversy and spawned talk of a trade war — were bankrolled in the United States by the world's largest investment banks. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, USB Investment Bank and others raised $6.5 billion for seven young Chinese solar panel makers in the mid-2000s by underwriting their securities on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, a Tribune-Review investigation has found. Documents show the process involved two steps. First, the Chinese companies were folded into holding company...

HARRISBURG, Pa.— Penn State University has won a round in its refusal to release records of a campus police investigation. The state Office of Open Records ruled Thursday that Penn State does not have to release any records of a 1998 investigation involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Ruling on a request filed by ESPN, the agency says the university is not a state agency and thus is exempt from most provisions of the state Right-to-Know Law. It says the university is required only to release certain financial records. Sandusky faces more than 50 charges stemming from what authorities...

Former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno had close business ties with board members of The Second Mile, the charity that his assistant, accused child molester Jerry Sandusky, allegedly used to recruit his victims, The Daily has learned. Around the same time a graduate assistant allegedly approached Paterno in 2002 to say that he had witnessed Sandusky raping a boy in the locker room showers, Paterno and three fellow investors, including longtime Second Mile board chairman Robert Poole, had just secured financing to build a $125 million luxury retirement community, according to public records. Paterno also was partners with...

a few years back i posted a long series of bad nativity sets. last year i grouped them all into one post — 20 of them at that point — and it became my highest trafficked post of all time. but people sent me more and a stumbled onto a few myself. so… this year, the list has 27! merry christmas all, and enjoy or be horrified by this weird collection of nativity oddness. the kitty cat nativity. makes me want to cough up a hairball. the nativity kitchen timer: the (peruvian) cowboy nativity. yee-ha! yeah, the cat nativity is...

Instead of helping an elderly man who collapsed to the floor in a West Virginia Target Store on Black Friday morning, Christmas shoppers merely stepped over him in their haste to get at bargain merchandise. MSNBC is reporting that Walter Vance, a 61 year-old pharmacist with a prior heart condition was shopping with his wife at a Target store at 12:15 a.m. on Black Friday in South Charleston when he got sick and collapsed to the floor. Witnesses said some shoppers ignored him and even stepped over his body in their haste to get at sale merchandise. “Where is the...

Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl initiated the call for Steeler great Franco Harris to step down as chair of the board of the Pittsburgh Promise scholarship program, the mayor's spokeswoman said. In a letter he sent to Harris and board members last night, Ravenstahl said Harris showed "callous disregard and indifference for the victims of child sex abuse at Penn State" after Harris spoke out in support of fired coach Joe Paterno. Harris did not return several phone messages and it wasn't immediately known if he plans to step down from the Pittsburgh Promise board. Harris, who played for Paterno from...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Meadows Casino and Franco Harris are putting their business partnership on hold for the time being. Harris will not be doing any more endorsements after comments he made after Penn State fired head coach Joe Paterno. “But for you to connect him with this and put blame on him really disturbs me and like I said, he did his job, people higher than him, you know, if it went all the way up to the president that’s stuff that they should do, that they should take care of,” Harris

After allegations of a sexual assault by three Philadelphia fourth graders, parents want to know why district officials were late in telling them about the incident. Parents also want to know why the information was so vague about what happened at Bryant Elementary School in West Philadelphia, and the incident has the school district under fire. The details are shocking and involve graphic language. A letter was sent home with students, revealing allegations of "inappropriate conduct" among several fourth graders and an announcement that, from now on, students must travel to the lavatories in pairs. Geneva Walker says the letter...

It's been less than a week since a second teacher in the Meyersdale school district was arraigned on charges he had sex with a student. Now 6 News has learned that a third teacher in that same district could be facing similar charges. School officials would not speak with 6 News on camera, but the school board president confirmed that a third teacher, a woman, has been placed on administrative leave. He also confirmed more teachers could be investigated. The first teacher arraigned on charges was Joshua Covert, 36, a band director in the district about three weeks ago. The second, just last...

Authorities in southwest Ohio have charged a 13-year-old boy with raping a 5-year-old girl at a McDonald’s play area. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office said Monday that the alleged assault occurred Oct. 29 at a McDonald’s in the Cincinnati suburb of Anderson Township. Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Barnett says the girl’s grandmother was nearby in the restaurant at the time. Judson Pickard, the owner of the McDonald’s location, said in a statement that he will cooperate fully with the investigation.

In the Carpenter home, every meal begins with a prayer. Robin and his wife, Emily, are devout Christians. But they part ways with many other Christians over a measure that would expand the legal definition of human life. Their son, Luke, now 4 years old, was born through in vitro fertilization. The anti-abortion amendment being voted on this week in the state could restrict in vitro procedures, and the Carpenters are worried that if they wait too long to add to their family, they may end up breaking the law. "I don't really want or need anybody else getting involved...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Chris Barnes, 11, is getting his latest round of vaccinations for measles and tetanus. “It doesn’t really scare me as much as other people, it’s just a shot,” he said. Without regular immunizations, Chris would be turned away at his pediatrician’s office. Dr. Wayne Yankus refuses to see patients unless they follow the government recommended immunization schedule.

Once a taboo topic on TV, abortion is being worked into the storylines of popular prime time series from “Friday Night Lights” to “Grey’s Anatomy.” And last week it was announced that Alan Ball, creator of HBO’s “True Blood,” is working on a new HBO series called “Wichita,” which will be based on the life of Dr. George Tiller, the abortion clinic doctor who was shot and killed by a pro-life activist in 2009. As plotlines involving abortion become more commonplace, some are celebrating the erosion of stigmas surrounding abortion, while others grow increasingly alarmed.

A former University of Pittsburgh Spanish professor who speaks the language with a European accent claims in a civil rights lawsuit filed on Tuesday that she lost her job primarily because of her race. Sarah Williams, address unavailable, is over 40, white and not Hispanic, according to the federal lawsuit. She taught Spanish at Pitt for 14 years and was well regarded at the university until people of Latin American descent who derided her European accent began leading the department, according to the lawsuit. Her performance ratings dropped and she was removed from several faculty positions and committees as well...

FREDERICK, Md. — A judge in Maryland must decide if a man who suffered severe brain damage after a heart attack should continue getting sustenance through a feeding tube at his mother’s and brother’s behest, contrary to his wife’s instructions. A Frederick County Circuit Court judge will hear arguments Wednesday in the case involving Daniel Sanger, 55, of Rohrersville. The unemployed computer technician lost much of his speaking ability and mobility after a heart attack in July, according to his brother Mark Sanger, a Eugene, Ore., businessman.

The United Nations has officially designated October 31st as 7 Billion Day. On that day, the United Nations estimates that the population of the earth will hit 7 billion for the very first time. But instead of celebrating what a milestone 7 billion people represents, the UNPF is focusing instead on using October 31st to raise awareness about "sustainability" and "sustainable development". In other words, the United Nations is once again declaring that there are way too many people on the planet and that we need to take more direct measures to reduce fertility. In recent years, the UN and...

LARGO, FL, October 25, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life organization Children of God for Life announced today the filing of a shareholder resolution with the Securities and Exchange Commission and PepsiCo, protesting the use of aborted a fetal cell line for the research and development of flavor enhancers for their beverages. In August 2010, PepsiCo entered into a 4-year agreement with Senomyx for the development of artificial high-potency sweeteners for PepsiCo beverages. Under the contract, PepsiCo is paying $30 million to Senomyx for the research and future royalties on PepsiCo products sold using Senomyx technology. When the pro-life group wrote...

Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois ran the Kansas City Marathon on Saturday to help raise money and awareness for pro-life work. He finished the 26.2-mile marathon with a time of 4:08:39, placing 531st out of 1,330 finishers. The race went “very well,” he told CNA Oct. 19. “It’s a little bit hilly out in Kansas City. It was a nice sunny day, and the weather was good.”