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Archive for April 27th, 2009

The Dominican Republic has voted to approve language in its new constitution protecting the right to life from the moment of conception.
Article 11 of the new constitution, which was approved by a large majority of 167-32, states that “the right to life is inviolable from conception until death.  The death penalty cannot be established, pronounced, [...]

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Charges for using offensive language are on the rise in the South Island, even as they fall in the north.
The total number of charges brought for public profanities has steadily decreased over the past five years, according to Statistics New Zealand.
But figures for the South Island are holding up, with 207 in 2007, up 11% [...]

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During his Good Friday homily at Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, a Marian pilgrimage site near Krakow and home to a live dramatization of the Passion of Christ, Archbishop of Krakow Stanis?aw Cardinal Dziwisz called on the over 150,000 faithful present to show courage and speak the truth in defense of the dignity of human life.
The Cardinal condemned [...]

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American sperm banks are responsible for creating dozens of half-siblings who do not know each other, according to Le Devoir, a Canadian newspaper. The scale of the problem has only come to light because of an energetic American woman, Wendy Kramer, and her desire to know whether her sperm-donor son had half-brothers or sisters. In [...]

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Sunday’s Miss USA 2009 pageant has become a lightning rod for the debate over Christian free speech in America, after one contestant lost the crown, according to one of the judges, because she answered in favor of true marriage when quizzed on the same-sex “marriage” debate.
Celebrity gossip Perez Hilton, one of 13 telecast judges in [...]

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In a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was confronted on her avowed commitment to eugenicist Margaret Sanger’s global agenda, and asked whether the Obama administration would work to overturn pro-life laws around the world – a priority that Clinton confirmed…

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At a meeting at United Nations (UN) headquarters last week, nations pushed back when UN staff insisted governments approve an enormous new gender-policing agency with scant details on its budget, staffing, or mandate. The UN Secretariat called the meeting to get nations to choose one of four models it proposed for a new UN “gender [...]

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