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RON REAGAN, JR. TO GIVE PRIMETIME SPEECH AT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION ON STEM CELL RESEARCH, Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter tells ABC News' Dan Harris...

Julia Black, whose documentary captures abortion in graphic detail, tells why she felt the need to confront her audience. Ever since I can remember, I have been pro-choice. When I was five years old my father set up Marie Stopes International, a charity that has grown into one of Britain's largest abortion providers and a leading international reproductive rights agency. So I grew up hearing and believing the mantra, a woman's right to choose. When I became pregnant at 34, my beliefs started to come under attack for the first time. As my pregnancy progressed, I began to question my...

In April of 1997, Life Dynamics began an undercover investigation that eventually exposed the hidden industry that markets body parts harvested from babies killed by elective abortions. (Most of the information we gathered was provided by people working inside of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic located in Overland Park, Kansas.) The Marketing of Aborted Babies is a thorough report on that investigation and contains data, analyses and documentation not previously released to the public. This book contains exact copies of baby body parts orders and price lists. These documents were not altered in any way other than to assign them...

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLSPro-life shirt barred as 'obscene'Administrator determined anti-abortion message violates policy Posted: March 12, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A Virginia high school student was barred from wearing a shirt with a pro-life message because it violates the school's policy against profane or obscene language. Pro-life shirt worn by Virginia student. (Photo used with permission) The shirt says: "Abortion is Homicide. You will not silence my message. You will not mock my God. You will stop killing my generation. Rock for Life." Assistant Vice Principal Marylin Sinclair-White at Denbigh High School in Newport News, Va, told the student Feb. 18...

Andrea Yates' husband: Trial was wrongInsanity laws should have protected her after drownings, he says11:03 PM CST on Sunday, January 25, 2004Associated Press HOUSTON – Nearly two years after Andrea Yates' conviction for drowning her five children in the family's bathtub, her husband continues to assert that his mentally ill wife never should have been prosecuted. "Why do we even have insanity laws if they are not based on medical insanity?" Russell Yates asked. To be deemed innocent by reason of insanity, the law requires defendants to prove they suffer from a severe mental disease or defect and did not...

N.H. fears chilling effects from abortion law By BETHANY STONE Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON — Congress is expected to send President Bush a bill this month that would ban a rarely used abortion procedure, a decision abortion-rights advocates say would create a chilling effect on doctors who perform other types of abortions. As senators prepare to vote on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 — which the House passed earlier this month and the president has said he will sign into law — New Hampshire abortion-rights advocates predict the bill’s language actually could affect more-common abortion procedures. "Because the law...

<p>I assume most people will say the leading cause of death in the African-American community is violent crime, cancer, AIDS or heart disease. The correct answer is abortion. The fact is that more African-American babies have been killed by abortion during the past 27 years than the total number of African-American deaths from all other causes combined.</p>

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Bush continues to make pro-life judicial nominations at a blistering rate despite pro-abortion senators bottling up the appointments with filibusters. On Friday, Bush nominated California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to serve on the court that is viewed as the nation's second highest -- the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Cases often reach the court prior to going to the Supreme Court and members of the DC Circuit have typically used it as a steppingstone to becoming a Supreme Court justice. In fact, some court observers say bush is...

Bednarek pleads guilty to murder in Ryno case07/10/2003By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News Irving resident Brett Bednarek got another long prison sentence Thursday, this time after he pleaded guilty to murder in the death of 3-year-old Cristy Ryno. The life sentence he received is in addition to a 99-year prison term ordered by a jury following his sexual assault conviction in June. Under the plea bargain offered by prosecutors, Mr. Bednarek, 27, will not have to serve any additional prison time. Both prison sentences will run simultaneously. By law he must serve at least 30 years in...

Kan. Parents Charged in Son's Death KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A pastor and his wife were charged Tuesday in the death of their 9-year-old adopted son, who authorities said had been bound and gagged.Neil, 47, and Christy Edgar, 46, were charged with first-degree murder and ordered held on $2 million bond each.The couple were also charged with three counts of child abuse involving their other children. Those children - ages 16, 12 and 9 - have been placed in protective custody, authorities said.The Edgars work at God's Creation Outreach Ministry in Kansas City. A Web site says the ministry...

<p>VIDALIA - Parents in this Concordia Parish town are worried.</p> <p>"Until we know who did this and they are caught, it is terrifying," said Gayle Smith of the Vidalia area.</p> <p>The typically sleepy town that sits along the banks of Mississippi River has been rattled since the murder of a 5-year-old boy two weeks ago.</p>

Please sign online petition to boycott this movie(Not that it will do much good but at least it will bring certain issues to light) The United States of Leland Production Companies: Trigger Street (Ordinary Decent Criminal; Kevin Spacey's production company), Thousand Words (Requiem for a Dream, Waking Life), MDP Worldwide, Neverland Pictures (Michael Jackson's production companyhttp://www.gopetition.com/region/237/1390.html Here's the original premise of the movie (try not to puke): >>>>Premise: This is the story of a sensitive teenager, Leland (Gosling), faced with issues of morality and hope under difficult circumstances, who is arrested and sent to juvenile hall, after he kills an...

<p>A jury Wednesday found David Westerfield guilty of kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, whose nude body was dumped near a desert road last winter.</p> <p>Westerfield, a 50-year-old engineer, sat slightly trembling, his face impassive, as the verdicts were read and the jurors were polled individually on each count.</p>

Judge rules on Routier evidence 07/08/2002 Associated Press A Dallas judge says he does not have jurisdiction to decide whether to turn over evidence to Darlie Routier's attorneys. Judge Robert Francis ruled Monday on a request last week from the death row inmate's defense team. IRWIN THOMPSON / DMN Convicted murderer Darlie Routier waves to friends as she leaves the courtroom after a hearing last week. Routier's attorneys want access to a knife, carpet and other pieces of evidence presented at her 1997 trial. They say new tests will clear her in the 1996 stabbing deaths of two of...

Issue Date June 20, 2002Abortion, Pederasty, Child Murder Share The Same Roots By FRANK MORRISS Who can doubt the blood-red tide has been loosed in this very time of history, drowning the ceremony of innocence, as the poet Yeats foresaw? It is doubtful that even that prescient genius could have told us the literalness of that prophecy’s fulfillment. Child after child is seized by that blood flow — carried away, violated, slain — and through there is momentary outcry and alarm, and tears by parents, and a flurry of activity by law enforcement, nothing seems sufficient against the tide....

WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) -- On Wednesday, a Houston jury voted unanimously to convict Andrea Yates of murder and Monday she was formally sentenced to life in prison. After less then four hours, the panel of eight women and four men concluded Yates understood what she was doing when she held her five children -- one by one -- under water in the family bathtub until they were dead. The enormity of her crime caused a cynical nation to shudder. Though infanticide may now be routine, a multiple murder of children by the mother will still stir the nation. Part...