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Thursday May 13, 2010 12,500 Gather on Parliament Hill for Canadian March for Life By John Jalsevac OTTAWA, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Under balmy skies that were greeted with prayers of thanksgiving by those recalling last year’s cold and blustery weather, thousands of pro-life Canadians gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa for the 2010 Canadian March for Life on Thursday - a crowd that Jim Hughes, president of Campaign Life Coalition, estimated at about 12,500 people.“This is something that God sent us as a special gift,” said Hughes, the main organizer of the annual pro-life event, about the...

www.catholicnewsagency.com Costa Rica Bishop fined for urging faithful to vote according to Catholic teachings San José, Costa Rica, May 10, 2010 / 11:53 am (CNA).- Costa Rica’s Electoral Supreme Court has ordered Bishop Jose Francisco Ulloa to pay damages for encouraging the faithful to cast their votes in manner consistent with Catholic teachings.The bishop made his comments during a Mass on September 6, 2009, amidst the presidential campaign season and the debate over abortion and homosexual rights. Yeudy Blanco Vega of the Movement for a Secular State argued the bishop violated article 28 of the Costa Rican constitution which...

OTTAWA, Ontario, April 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC) has responded to Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge's proposed bill to ban coercive abortion, unveiled in a press conference last week, by calling instead for a ban on “coerced childbirth,” and even suggesting that Canada outlaw pro-life activism.“The entire anti-choice movement has been trying to force women into pregnancy and motherhood for decades, by working to outlaw or restrict abortion,” said Joyce Arthur, ARCC's coordinator, in a Monday press release.  “Perhaps we need to protect women from this coercion by criminalizing anti-choice activism!”In the release, Arthur admits...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, February 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The president of the Hispanic Division of Human Life International has warned that an exceptional abortion case in Nicaragua is being exploited by feminist organizations to press for abortion legalization. Nicaraguan public opinion is facing a controversy over a 9 year old girl diagnosed pregnant and with two sexually transmitted diseases. Supposedly the girl was raped by a 20 year old male, although her stepfather is also suspected because he refused DNA tests. Nicaraguan feminist groups requested a "therapeutic" abortion, which the hospital doctors refused. They offered the girl medical and social support...

Ottawa, Canada (LifeNews.com) -- As the Canadian parliament prepares to consider legislation that would legalize assisted suicide, one physician saying having doctors kill patients is not dying with dignity. Francine Lalonde, the MP sponsoring Bill C-384 to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada, has been writing articles for her bill.Dr. Catherine Ferrier of Montreal responded with a letter to the National Post about the bill."The most amazing thing about Francine Lalonde's apology for her euthanasia bill is the amount of false and misleading information she was able to fit into such a short letter," Ferrier writes.She says patients...

Wednesday April 21, 2010 Breaking: Euthanasia Bill Defeated in Canada 228 - 59 By Patrick B. CraineOTTAWA, Ontario, April 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Canadian Parliament overwhelmingly defeated today the private members bill seeking to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide.The House of Commons rejected Bill C-384, proposed by Member of Parliament Francine Lalonde (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ), by a vote of 228 to 59, with two additional members noting immediately afterwards that they mistakenly voted for the bill when they had intended to vote against it.In a point of order after the vote, Conservative Member and Parliamentary Secretary for Health,...

UN population conferees use older, higher death numbers to prop their case for abortion and family planning in undeveloped countries despite a 'robust reason for optimism' when it comes to maternal health Just as leaders convened at the UN headquarters in New York for a conference on maternal mortality, The Lancet published a study that undercut abortion advocates' efforts to link the cause of maternal mortality to abortion rights. At the United Nations Commission on Population and Development, activists used the world's supposedly dismal progress on "maternal mortality" to push for sexual and reproductive health and rights, and more funds...

Despite pressure from women's groups, the 11-year-old is enthusiastic about her impending motherhood, according to sources.An 11-year-old girl in Mexico allegedly raped by her stepfather and now more than four months pregnant says she wants to have his baby – despite pressure from women’s groups who want her to have an abortion, pro-life activists in the country say. They say attorneys for abortion-rights activists have shown up at the girl's home with plane tickets in hand in an attempt to whisk her away to get an abortion, but the child has said adamantly, “This is my baby. I’m having my...

MEXICO CITY, April 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Members of Mexico City's ruling Party, the Democratic Revolution (PRD), which passed legislation in 2007 legalizing abortion on demand during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, are now pushing legislation that would throw doctors in prison for refusing to do abortion referrals.According to the proposed law, doctors will be subject to one to four years imprisonment, and a fine equivalent of 100 to 300 days of minimum wage, as well as the suspension of their license, should they fail to inform women that they can kill their unborn child free of charge in...

Liana Rebolledo is a 33-year-old Mexican woman. In a recent television interview she recounted that after she was raped at the age of 13 and became pregnant, she never considered aborting her daughter, who is now 20. In an interview on the Telestai network, Rebolledo explained how difficult it was to experience the trauma of a rape. “I had my daughter at 13” and it was her life that “saved me.” Video at link...

Some of the most earnest global warming alarmists look to China as the model for radically controlling human population in order to SAVE THE PLANET!  But that is to long for tyranny.  Example: China is forcing thousands of people to be involuntarily sterilized for violating the “one child” policy. From the story: Doctors in southern China are working around the clock to fulfil a government goal to sterilise — by force if necessary — almost 10,000 men and women who have violated birth control policies. Family planning authorities are so determined to stop couples from producing more children than...

www.catholicnewsagency.com Poll of Ireland shows overwhelming support for continued abortion ban Dr. Berry Kiely. Related articles: Respect for Unborn Human Life: The Church’s Constant Teaching - US BishopsHow can an NFP teacher get support from the clergy?Life, Death, and Partial-Birth AbortionSt. Sechnall of Ireland Dublin, Ireland, Apr 20, 2010 / 02:17 am (CNA).- A survey of the Republic of Ireland shows that 70 percent of Irish people support the constitutional protection for the unborn, including the prohibition of abortion. One pro-life leader said the “hugely reassuring” results show “overwhelming public support” for unborn children and their mothers.The survey, commissioned...

ROSSANO, Italy, April 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Italian government has announced that it will launch an investigation of a hospital where a premature baby born alive following an attempted abortion was left to die for hours, before receiving medical attention thanks to the intervention of a priest."If the reports are correct we are talking about a grave case of therapeutic abandonment of a very premature newborn, probably also with some form of disability: an act against the sense of human pity but also against all ethics of medical practice," said Eugenia Roccella, the Italian Subsecretary of Health. "The...

ZURICH, April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Local authorities in Zurich are asking questions about the assisted suicide facility Dignitas, after 300 urns containing human ashes were found in Lake Zurich this week. The urns bear the logo of the Nordheim crematorium, which is used by Dignitas.The Daily Telegraph quoted Roman Ruetz, a police diver, who said, “After 50 we stopped counting. They lay there in a big heap.” The urns were discovered accidentally by divers from a rescue service on Lake Zurich who were looking for a sunshade that had broken off one of their boats. After retrieving 13 urns,...

Rome, Italy, May 1, 2010 / 11:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. Antonio Martello, a hospital chaplain was shocked to see that the baby boy he was praying over was still breathing, a day after he had been aborted at 22 weeks. The case of a "therapeutic" abortion in Rossano Calabro, Italy raises questions about the reliability of sonographies in diagnosing deformities.Due to a perceived, and as yet unspecified, malformation of the fetus, possibly a cleft palate, the mother had solicited the abortion at a public hospital in the southern Italian city.The "interruption" of the pregnancy was carried out in the early...

Friday April 30, 2010 Dutch Pro-Lifers Erect Display with 30,000 Unborn Baby Models By Michael van der Mast, the NetherlandsApril 30, 2010, (LifeSiteNews.com) - On the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the decriminalization of abortion in the Netherlands, the Dutch Pro-Life organization Cry for Life laid down 30,000 models of a 10-week-old unborn child. The display was erected in the Square next to the government buildings in centre of The Hague, the Netherlands, on Wednesday, April 28.On that date in 1981, the Dutch Senate approved the Pregnancy Termination Bill, by the narrowest possible margin of thirty-three votes in favor...

FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Population Research Institute (PRI) has just released the third video in its YouTube cartoon series, designed to refute the idea of overpopulation with science — and stick figures. Contrary to claims advanced by population control advocates, the latest video reveals data indicating that world hunger is not caused by a lack of food, but by wars, lack of transportation, and economic factors. To date the series has garnered well over 200,000 views on YouTube, and has made PRI one of the more popular non-profit channels on the video channel.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new video released by the Population research Institute refutes the myth that the world is overpopulated and that overpopulation supposedly causes global world hunger. The video is the third installment in a series designed to refute notions about population that are popular but not based on scientific fact.To date the series has garnered well over 200,000 views on YouTube, and has made PRI one of the more popular non-profit channels on the YouTube video channel.Just under two minutes long, the video uses data from the UN Food and Agricultural Organization and the World Food...

Monday May 10, 2010 Calgary U Finds Pro-Life Students Guilty over Display CALGARY, Alberta, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Eight members of the University of Calgary's pro-life club, Campus Pro-Life (CPL), have been found guilty after closed-door hearings late last month over their presentation of a pro-life display on campus, says the group.U of C's Acting Associate Vice-Provost Meghan Houghton told the students that she was issuing “a formal written warning” that if the students “fail to comply with directives of Campus Security staff in the future” it will “result in more severe sanctions.”  Houghton conducted the hearings, at...

BEIJING: A farmer allegedly killed a family planning official in China's Jilin province and injured her two minor children, after she forced his wife to undergo an abortion, reports said on Tuesday. The farmer, identified as Zhang Xuezhong, killed Jiang Xiaoling on May 1 because he was angry she forced his wife to abort their baby, China officials said. Jiang's husband, Zhao Guogui, also a farmer in Xinhua village, said on Monday the alleged killer rushed to his home with a stick and beat his wife to death. He also beat his son, 15, and daughter, 11, both of whom...