Pelican Project Pro-Life

`LifeSiteNews’ Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., October 23, 2009 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A final attempt to block a vast federal policy shift in favor of abortion will not be granted a vote as the U.S. House of Representatives considers President Obama’s health care bill, because Democrat leaders fear the attempt would likely succeed, reports the Associated Press today. As the health care bill prepares for a final battle on the House floor, Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak of Michig

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This picture taken by eyewitness Martha Guidoni with her cellphone and provided by the Montana Standard shows a small, singe-engine plane bursting into flames in Holy Cross Cemetery on March 22, 2009 just south of the Bert Mooney Airport in Butte, Montana. All 17 people on board were killed, many of them children heading on a skiing holiday, federal aviation officials said. The plane, a single engine turboprop, was heading from Oroville, California, just north of San Francisco on a 900-mile (1,5

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Friday night, NBC’s Law & Order , which follows the headlines, will dramatize this one: A 3rd trimester abortionist is shot in church. The episode will air at 8p ET/7p CT. Preshow reviews… From Entertainment Weekly : The episode called “Dignity” begins with the murder of a doctor who performs abortions - he’s shot while praying in church. The killer is represented in court by an anti-abortion league lawyer played by Richard Thomas with perfectly calibra

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The pro-life and pro-choice lobbies are back in the ring as the Pro-Life Alliance have forced the Department of Health to hand over data on late terminations within 28 days. Current media stories about termination range from the sensationalist Sun’s headline about a ‘career woman’ who had 15 abortions in 17 years to the apparently more rational Telegraph article questioning the accuracy of worldwide abortion statistics which show that abortion rates do not decline when it is made illega

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By Vincenzina Santoro, Mercartornet Is Italy breaking out of a demographic nose-dive? Each year the Italian Ministry responsible for health presents a report to Parliament on abortion trends. Data presented a few weeks ago by Undersecretary Eugenia Maria Roccella of the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Policy brings encouraging news: Abortions have continued to decline among adult women and minors, an overwhelming percentage of Italian doctors refuse to perform abortions, and Italy ha

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Students at one Canadian university are attempting to silence the pro-life voice. OneNewsNow Share this on:

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by JivinJ Scott Klusendorf shares about a recent debate at the University of North Carolina between himself and former ACLU president Nadine Strossen . Dawn Eden has a column in Headline Bistro about the work of Ashli McCall to educate others about hyperemesis gravidarum. McGill University student Birgitte Witt has an editorial in the school newspaper about how she’s disappointed in McGill pro-life club Choose Life because… well, because they’re n

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By Wesley J Smith, First Things Is abortion a moral issue? I say yes. The unborn child is a living human being, albeit in the developing stage. Some say no, that the fetus is no more meaningful morally than a tumor. Indeed, a few have called it a parasite.

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I was pleased to see both the National Right to Life Committee and Steve Ertelt at LifeNews.com cover the New York Times October 10 photo essay of aborted babies. I wondered if they would acknowledge the piece since both, the last I knew, opposed the use of graphic photos of aborted babies in pro-life advocacy [clarification: in public protests]. Hopefully as time goes on, maybe even thanks to the NYT piece, they will see their value. One less argument to

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by intern Heather B. Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs… John Jansen’s Lunch Break blog has video and contact details on how to make your voice heard for the rights of free speech and the protection of the unborn in regards to the Chicago Bubble Zone ordinance. According to the blog: The City Council passed the Bubble Zone ordinance [on October 7] by a vote of 28-13. It will go into effect November 17 unless Mayor Daley vetoes i

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