Gallup released the results of its annual poll on whether Americans do or don’t find a couple dozen practices morally acceptable. As has frequently been the case, Americans do not find abortion to be morally okay. The new poll finds a plurality of Americans, 49-42 percent, find abortion to be morally unacceptable. A 49-45 percentage point…
Hollywood, CA (LiveActionNews) — Jim Caviezel, famed for his role as Christ in The Passion of the Christ, and currently starring as the leading man in TV’s Person of Interest, is no stranger to being, well, different in Hollywood. From his publicly Catholic faith to his committed pro-life views, he stands in stark contrast to the typical movie star. Caviezel’s personal life is…
Ronan Mullen on Life Issues at Home and Around Europe Here is an interview of Ronan Mullen by Elisabetta Pittino, regarding the One of Us campaign, and the current legal battle over abortion in Ireland. * * * Senator Ronan Mullen is from Ahascragh in Co Galway, Ireland. He was elected as an independent senator…
The Center for Bioethics and Culture (CBC) strongly decries the practice of deriving human embryonic stem cells through cloning because it exploits women for their eggs, it commodifies human life, and it is unnecessary. In the June 6, 2013, issue of the scientific journal Cell, researchers announce that they have successfully derived human embryonic stem…
VATICAN, May 15, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As if his blessing of a baby in utero at the opening of his papacy and praying for abortionists at his Good Friday stations of the cross were only a foretaste, a Vatican official has told LifeSiteNews that Pope Francis will have his first real opportunity to speak to…
A new report shows the mother of the famous singer Cher considered having an abortion and went as far as making an appointment and going to the an officer where a doctor did abortions after hours to take her daughter’s life. Until Georgia Holt changed her mind. Despite narrowly avoiding becoming an abortion victim, Cher…
March 22, 2013 was the launch of “One of Us” in Leiden, the Netherlands. www.demenselijkewaardigheid.nl OneOfUs.eu is one of the First “European Citizens Initiatives” – possible due to the EU Lisbon Treaty. After having drawn attention to the human dignity of the embryo – as they are “one of us” – a journalist asked for…
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent, LifeSiteNews.com Pope Francis surprised about 40,000 Italian and international participants in today’s Marcia per la Vita (March for Life) Internazionale in Rome this morning, when he left the Apostolic Palace to greet them personally from his popemobile in the street where they were lined up. Monsignore Ignacio Barreiro, the head of…
A MUM was advised by her doctor to “travel to England” for a termination because of her baby’s foetal anomaly. She was told her foetus had a life-threatening congenital heart defect and a rare brain disorder – and would have little chance of surviving outside the womb. But little Louise Kehoe, now three years old,…
(Springfield, IL – May 7, 2013) – A meta-analysis combining the results of 8 studies of women facing unwanted pregnancies, published in the April 2013 issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, has concluded that “there is no available evidence to suggest that abortion has therapeutic effects in reducing the mental health risks of unwanted or…