Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

Steve Ertelt in LifeNews.com reports on a speech by Mr. Justice Antonin Scalia to students at the University of Central Missouri : "The reality is the Constitution doesn't address the subject at all," Scalia said of abortion. "It is one of the many subjects not in the Constitution which is therefore left to democracy." "If you want the right to an abortion, persuade your fellow citizens it’s a good idea and pass a law. If you feel the other way, repeal the law," he said, according to a Columbia Tribune report. According to the newspaper, Scalia rejected the pro-abortion notion that the founding document is a "living Constitution," that is supposed to change with the times rather than guarantee ironclad rules and legal principles. He also rejected the idea that the Supreme Cou

Steven Ertelt of LifeNew.com carries this story today . A leading breast cancer surgeon has published an article in a top medical journal accusing scientists and the federal government of ignoring the well-established link between abortion and breast cancer. Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, a New Jersey based breast cancer expert, says politics is corrupting science. She presents her evidence in a new article in the March 2008 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. [...] She said both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have "violated their mission statements" by refusing to acknowledge the abortion-breast cancer link. Lanfranchi says the NCI "changes its website information frequently -- it was revised more than 20 times in the first 7 months of 2007." That hardly

Steven Ertelt of LifeNews.com has posted an article on a Seattle-based company which seeks to provide vaccines that do not rely on tissues obtained from abortions : A biotech firm has announced it will offer ethical alternatives to some of the vaccines that currently rely on the use of fetal tissue from abortions. The Seattle-based AVM Biotechnology says it will produce ethical alternatives in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and vaccine development. The news gives hope to pro-life people who have been reluctant to use some vaccines because their development came as a result of the destruction of unborn children. “We will be working to bring commercially available, morally acceptable, vaccines to the US market and to use existing technology to produce new morally certified vaccines," says Dr. Theresa Deisher, the

LifeNews.com carries a story on February 21st by editor Steven Ertelt that the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock, Arkansas has asked parishes and schools within its jurisdiction to break their ties with the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure because of its involvement with abortion. Read more on the full details of this development here .