Brazilian abortion advocates using attacks on archbishop as a ’smokescreen’

A Brazilian pro-lifer has explained to CNA that the recent abortion performed on a 9 year-old girl in Recife, Brazil was surrounded by serious irregularities, and that the attacks on Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho over his mentioning of excommunications were created by abortion supporters as a diversionary tactic.
According to Alberto Monteiro, nobody knew that the [...]

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Luxembourg legalizes euthanasia after putting limits on Grand Duke’s power

The Parliament of Luxemburg approved a law Tuesday legalizing euthanasia by a vote of 30-26, after limiting the powers of the Grand Duke Henry I, who had refused to sanction the measure for reasons of consciences.
Luxemburg has thus become the third EU country to enshrine euthanasia for the terminally ill in its law.
The new norm [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church supports Pope’s position that condoms are not the acceptable solution to AIDS.

A message on the French official Web site of the Church stated, “The Patriarchate of Moscow is in solidarity with Pope Benedict XVI’s position on the means in the fight against AIDS, and on the fact that condoms cannot be considered as a remedy against this sickness.”
This statement came as a response to the Pope’s [...]

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Who’s the real expert on condoms and AIDS?

As I said, no major epidemic has been curtailed without partner reduction. Many scientific experts have in fact said exactly the same as what the Pope is conveying. The Pope is being in fact more scientific than many of his critics.

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Harvard AIDS Expert Says Pope is Correct on Condom Distribution Making AIDS Worse

Edward C. Green, director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, has said that the evidence confirms that the Pope is correct in his assessment that condom distribution exacerbates the problem of AIDS.
“The pope is correct,” Green told National Review Online Wednesday, “or put it a better [...]

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Pro-Life Website Banned on Australian Government’s Internet Blacklist

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is coming under fire from free-speech advocates after it threatened the host of a popular Australian online discussion forum with a $11,000-a-day fine for publishing a link to an American pro-life website that ACMA had previously blacklisted.
The controversy erupted after an anonymous online user lodged a complaint with [...]

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Brazilian Medical Expert Counters Statements by Vatican Official Defending Abortion for Nine-Year-Old Girl

Fr. Graz writes that Archbishop Fisichella was seriously misled about the case, and said that in fact the girl’s life was not in danger, which was publicly admitted by the hospital that was treating her.
“It isn’t true!” writes Graz. “Even IMIP (Child Maternity Institute of Pernambuco), after the intervention of Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, Archbishop of [...]

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Prominent Ugandan AIDS Activist Thanks Pope for Opposition to Condoms

Says, “when you look at many of these so called AIDS activists, they are simply in it for the money”

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Rowan Atkinson Urges House of Lords to Protect Free Speech Clause in “Anti-Homophobia” Law

Atkinson, who has led criticism of “hate speech” laws in previous years, criticized such laws in general: “The last thing that any academic, or cleric, or practitioner in creative writing wants to hear, is of police officers walking round with a tool box bulging with sanctions against speech and expression that ‘could be useful one [...]

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More spin on the HPV vaccine

From the Timaru Herald…
Less than 50 per cent of South Canterbury schoolgirls aged between 12 and 16 have consented to have the HPV vaccination.
“There has been a misconception from some parents that HPV vaccination only provides immunity for five years, but this is not true. Clinical studies show that after five years, antibody levels remain [...]

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