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Boys from Africa are being murdered as human sacrif ices in London churches. They are brought into the capital to be offered up in rituals by fundamentalist Christian sects, according to a shocking report by Scotland Yard. [snip]

A Kansas City abortionist is out of business after investigators discovered a grisly house of horrors at his clinic – with fetuses kept in Styrofoam cups in his refrigerator and one employee accusing him of microwaving one and stirring it into his lunch. The unsanitary conditions in Krishna Rajanna's clinic prompted legislative approval of new abortion regulations in Kansas, a bill that was vetoed by the governor. Rajanna's activities have reportedly been the subject of law-enforcement investigations for nearly two years. Rajanna first came to the attention of police in September 2003 when he called police to investigate alleged employee...

Archaeologists uncover scene of human sacrificeA gruesome sight has met archaeologists engaged in excavations in central China - an altar devoted to human sacrifice, complete with the remains of an unfortunate victim. The discovery of the 7,000-year-old cult site, near Hongjiang city in Hunan province, may make it necessary to rewrite history, as it is the earliest human sacrificial site ever found in China. According to local media, the fact that the sacrificial venue contained the skeleton of a human left no doubt in the archaeologists' minds what its original use had been. Nearby was a separate sacrificial site for...

The pro-choice voice among religious groups has been silent for a long time, but now, at least in Collier County, that will be a thing of the past. About 100 people from five faith organizations in the community, their religious leaders, and supporters of Planned Parenthood of Collier County met Saturday for a conference about abortion and reproductive freedom, realizing a shared conviction for women's rights to choose and the need to be vocal. The intent of the three-hour workshop held at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in North Naples was to launch a coalition to fight the misconception that religious...

I am convinced God uses trials like the Terri Schiavo case to test men. Pinellas County Circuit Court Judge George Greer was tested – and found wanting. He had seven years to consider this case and got it wrong every time. I don't know Greer personally, but I know many people like him. They go to church on Sunday and then between Monday and Friday lead lives with no seeming connection to what they hear preached in the pulpit, what they read in the Bible, what they claim to believe of the Christian faith. This may be the biggest single...

For James Phillips' sake, the Eagles need to win the Super Bowl. Or his sacrifice was all for naught. "They better win the Super Bowl after all I went through," Phillips said tonight from his hospital bed, mopping the sweat from his brow with bandages that are wrapped around both of his hands. He said doctors have told him that they are going to have to cut off the tips of the pinky, ring and middle finger on his left hand due to severe frostbite. Phillips, of Marcus Hook, worked for 30 hours shoveling snow at Lincoln Financial Field the...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - It has long been a matter of contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of human sacrifice as widespread and horrifying as the history books say? Or did the Spanish conquerors overstate it to make the Indians look primitive? In recent years archaeologists have been uncovering mounting physical evidence that corroborates the Spanish accounts in substance, if not number. Using high-tech forensic tools, archaeologists are proving that pre-Hispanic sacrifices often involved children and a broad array of intentionally brutal killing methods. For decades, many researchers believed Spanish accounts from the 16th and 17th centuries were biased...

While I sipped my tea and listened to the rain patter, the History Channel dug up a dead civilization and found a large sewer that held thousands of baby bones, victims of infanticide, a common practice of this ancient, forgotten society. Anthropologists tell us two of the biggest indicators of a doomed civilization are the practice of infanticide and human sacrifice. In other words, cultures and species that kill their own young do not survive. If history really does repeat itself, then American society may also be doomed to extinction. What will future archaeologists discover when they dig up America?...

  Surveys show a solid majority of Americans still support the right to abortion in some form, but the number of those who would impose conditions on that right is growing[1]             According to a year 2000 Gallup Poll: Most American adults (51%) currently believe that abortions should be legal under some circumstances.            28% believe that abortions should be legal under all circumstances.            19% believe that they should be always illegal -- apparently even to save the life of the woman. The same poll reveals that 50% of adults identify themselves as pro-choice; 40% as pro-life.[2Average ABC News...

--SNIP-- I found "The Cost of Choice," edited by Erika Bachiochi unpleasant and occasionally annoying — and I read every word. That's because, despite its rigorous pro-life stance, the book brings new observations and depth to a subject that is usually treated as black and white. Don't misunderstand: This is not an on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand book — it trumpets many of the classic hobbyhorses of pro-lifers — that the Roe decision itself was an abortion of responsibility and federalism, that its prominence in the agenda of womens' groups has itself "hijacked" feminism and that abortions themselves are an act against women....

A Supreme Court vacancy may soon ignite a controversy involving two entangled issues — abortion, and the role of courts in this constitutional democracy. Herewith a statement the president might usefully make sometime, somewhere, to disentangle the issues: "Because I think it is improper to ask how a prospective judicial nominee would vote on a specific question, I shall not know how my nominees would rule in the event — an unlikely event — that the court revisits the constitutional foundation of abortion rights established by Roe v. Wade in 1973. However, I will seek judicial nominees disinclined to concoct...

Listen beginning at 2:22:45 into the show. The talk lasts for about 15 minutes. Rabbi Yudin gives a radio commentary each week on the Torah portion that Jews around the world will read in synagogues on Saturday. This week we will read from the beginning of the book of Exodus (Shmos). Yudin's commentary begins with consideration of verse 16, "When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live," and then moves through a variety of Jewish writings to...

12/27/04Human Sacrifice Was Common in Burnt City Tehran (Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency) -- According to archeological research in the 5000-year-old burnt city, in eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, sacrificing human beings was a common practice in ancient times. After excavating a number of graves in the cemetery of the burnt city, the Iranian archeological team came across signs of murder and generally beheaded bodies.“During excavations in the burnt city cemetery, we came across a grave with only one skull buried along with gifts and personal items needed for the afterlife. There was also another grave in the form of a...

WASHINGTON — After long defining itself as an undisputed defender of abortion rights, the Democratic Party is suddenly locked in an internal struggle over whether to redefine its position to appeal to a broader array of voters. The fight is a central theme of the contest to head the Democratic National Committee, particularly between two leading candidates: former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who supports abortion rights, and former Indiana Rep. Tim Roemer, an abortion foe who argues that the party cannot rebound from its losses in the November election unless it shows more tolerance on one of society's most emotional...

Excuse me, I'm stupid. I'm trying to figure out what the word "conscience" might mean, in the mind of Paul Martin -- or to make it a little less personal, in the mind of any prominent post-modern political leader. John Kerry for instance. In the recent U.S. election, Mr. Kerry was at pains to affirm that he believed, as a good Catholic, that human life begins at conception. Now, that was an admirably plain statement. For if life begins at conception, the procurement of an abortion must be tantamount to murder. And, good Catholic that he is, Mr. Kerry would...

Mexican tomb reveals gruesome human sacrifice 18:46 03 December 04 NewScientist.com news service   Evidence of a grisly human sacrifice and a complex military infrastructure has emerged from an excavation of the ruins of a pyramid in the 2000-year-old city of Teotihuacan in Mexico. A vault containing 12 bodies, ten of which had been decapitated, along with the remains of pumas, wolves and eagles were discovered at the city's central structure, the Pyramid of the Moon. "What we have found in this excavation suggests that a certain kind of mortuary ritual took place inside the tomb before it was filled in," says...

A resident of the northern Israeli-Arab town of Umm al Fahm earlier this week gave himself up to police and admitted he attempted to murder a Jewish man ten days ago, police reported on Friday. On November 16, a 23-year-old Jewish man from the West Bank city of Ariel was stabbed in his back while waiting in a bus stop at the Geha junction in the center of the country. The man said the stabber had a Middle Eastern appearance and an Arabic accent. Earlier this week, Mustafa Mahajna, 28, arrived at a police station in the Dan district and...

ROCHESTER, NH -- Lawyers for a Farmington woman and her boyfriend who are charged with threatening to kill her three children in a church say their clients meant the children no harm. Nicole Mancini, 29, and John Thurber, 35, of Rochester, were arrested at St. Mary's Church on Wednesday after workers said they heard the woman say she wanted to sacrifice her sons on the altar. Each was arraigned on three misdemeanor counts of child endangerment on Friday. Thurber also faces a charge of marijuana possession.

ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - A woman and her boyfriend are accused of plotting to sacrifice the woman's three children on a church altar. Nicole Mancini, 29, and John Thurber, 35, were arrested at St. Mary's Church on Wednesday after workers said they heard the woman say she wanted to sacrifice the boys. "We could tell this woman was not right," said church secretary Donna Landolfi. "She said, 'Let's go make the sacrifice.'" Mancini and Thurber were in jail Saturday on more than $25,000 bail. They were arraigned Friday on three counts each of misdemeanor child endangerment. Thurber was also charged...

After 24 years in Congress, David Dreier is in the fight of his political life, waging a battle for his own identity. The dialogue surrounding his run for re-election to the 26th district seat in Congress has reached a furious pitch, but is also contradictory. Either -- as Dreier says -- he is one of the strongest champions of the fight against illegal immigration, or he is weaker on the issue than almost anyone in Congress, as a vocal group of activists charges. "I've never gone through anything like this -- it's the most blatant mischaracterization of the work I've...