Two More Mexican States Approve Pro-Life Constitutional Amendments by Heavy Majorities

The wave of pro-life constitutional amendments sweeping Mexico continued last week with the approval of two such measures by the states of Quintana Roo and Campeche.
Meanwhile, a representative of a pro-abortion group cited plans to thwart the newly-passed legislation with a strategy of “human rights” complaints to state officials.
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Euthanasia Advocates Gaining Ground

Proponents of legalized euthanasia continue to wage their campaign in a number of countries, and with some success.
In Britain, Dr. Philip Nitschke, a longtime activist for euthanasia, is promoting sales of a home kit to help people commit suicide. This latest move by the well-known advocate of euthanasia is causing widespread criticism in the United [...]

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US Scientist Claims to Have Implanted 11 Cloned Embryos

A US reproductive scientist claims to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into 4 women. Although Dr. Panayiotis Zavos told media last week that the experiment had failed to establish a successful pregnancy, he intends to continue his work to create cloned human embryos for full-term gestation. Zavos’ claim was backed [...]

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Morning After Pill for UK School Girls by Text Message: Catholic Secondary School to be Forced to Participate

A UK Catholic bishop has condemned a plan by Oxfordshire health officials to allow girls as young as eleven to order the abortifacient morning after pill by text message from their school nurse. An auxiliary bishop of the Catholic archdiocese of Birmingham told local news media that the proposed plan by local health authorities and [...]

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Archbishop Naumann: Notre Dame Leadership Either “Incredibly Naïve” or “Doesn’t Care” about Unborn Children

In his column in The Leaven, the Kansas City diocesan newspaper, Archbishop Joseph Naumann said he was “dismayed” to learn of the honor, saying he does “not fault the president for accepting this invitation, but the university for offering it.”
“Notre Dame’s action is inconsistent with its Catholic identity and harmful to the efforts of the [...]

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Cardinal George: Church vs. Obama on abortion is like Lincoln vs. Douglas on slavery

In an April 21 question-and-answer session at the 2009 Louisiana Priests Convention, Cardinal Francis George said President Barack Obama is on the “wrong side of history” on life issues. “I think on the life issue he’s on the wrong side of history,” Cardinal George said. “I think he has his political debts to pay, and [...]

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