Posts Tagged ‘Pro-Life’

Flouting pro-life website ban has serious consequences

Monday, February 20th, 2017

Flouting France’s new pro-life website ban could result in offenders spending two years in jail and being fined US$30,000. The legislation makes “spreading misleading information” about abortion a crime. Flouting the law includes “spreading or transmitting allegations or indications liable to intentionally mislead, with the purpose of deterring (from abortion), on the characteristics or medical Read more

Donald Trump pledges to support Catholics – Catholics say “step down”

Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

Donald Trump has a message for Catholics: I will be there for you. I will stand with you. I will fight for you. “I am, and will remain, pro-life.” Catholics, however, have called on Trump to step down following his lewd comments about women in a leaked audio recording from 2005. Despite this, Trump is Read more

Why Right to Life opposes euthanasia

Friday, August 26th, 2016

Right to Life is opposed to the law being changed to allow doctors to kill their patients or assist in their suicide. Right to Life is a “whole of life” pro-life organisation, meaning we seek to uphold the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death. The United Nations Declaration of Human Read more

Greens say banning abortion protests worth thinking about

Friday, August 19th, 2016

Green MP Jan Logie says it is worth debating whether New Zealand should ban protests around abortion clinics, similar to those enforced in some Australian states. In the Australian states of Tasmania and Victoria, filming, intimidation and protests are banned within 150m of abortion centres. In New South Wales, a bill to provide a 150m Read more

Pro-life medics face harassment and discrimination

Tuesday, July 26th, 2016

Pro-life doctors who conscientiously object to abortion are denied career choices. Doctors who refuse to take part in abortions are suffering increasingly from harassment and discrimination at work, the British Medical Association (BMA) has told MPs. Healthcare professionals are complaining to the union that they are facing pressure to take part in abortions and confronted Read more

Young women need more help to see abortion is not the only option

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

It is important pregnant mothers who feel they have no other option than to have an abortion know there are people who are ready to listen, to be a friend, and to work through their situation in a caring, confidential manner says Michelle Kaufman. Kaufman is the Communications Director of Family Life International NZ. “Abortion Read more

The miracle of life

Friday, May 6th, 2016
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I experienced a miracle! A few days ago, I held in my arms my first grandbaby – newly born Faith Annmarie. Thank God she’s healthy and perfectly formed. And as I was looking at her, I reflected how wonderfully she is made – arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet, toes, eyes, mouth, nose, ears, as well Read more

Hillary Clinton is right: you can be a feminist and pro-life

Tuesday, April 19th, 2016

Last week, Daily Life published an article by Ruby Hamad entitled, “Hillary Clinton is wrong: You cannot be a feminist and ‘pro-life’.” I beg to differ. I originally sent this piece to Daily Life in the hope of engaging with Hamad on this important women’s issue, but the response I received was: “unfortunately it’s not Read more

Prelate says consistent ethic of life could mislead

Tuesday, February 9th, 2016

The Archbishop of Los Angeles has criticised ‘consistent ethic of life’ approaches for leading some people to see all issues as morally equivalent. Archbishop Jose Gomez told a Hispanic pro-life gathering recently that such thinking is mistaken, the Catholic News Agency reported. He said pro-life issues are not just one issue among many. The archbishop Read more

Crisis Pregnancy

Friday, September 4th, 2015

She is 16 and at a friend’s party when she meets the boy. He says he loves her and there is no risk, guaranteed one hundred per cent. But he is wrong. When she tells him she’s pregnant, he panics. He says it’s not his. Everyone knows she sleeps around. She must get rid of Read more