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Pro-Life News

Despite intense discussion over wording, Senate Bill 68, the prohibition of federal funding for abortions. Bill 68 would prevent federal funds from being used, either directly or indirectly, to perform abortions. Bill 68 also states that if an agency performs an abortion with state funds, the legislature may eliminate any or all of that agency's funding.

• Federal Abortion Funding Bill Passes Senate
• Asylum Backed on China's Birth-Control Policy
• Hearing to Allow Pro-Life Protests to Resume Feb. 10
• Catholic School Can Use 'Flesh' From Aborted Fetuses
• Bill Would Provide Health Coverage For "Unborn Children"

Freedom Of Speech

Alabama lawmakers are expected to consider in the regular session, which begins Tuesday, a proposal to abolish the judicial panel which brought the charges that led to Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore being stripped of his office. A proposal to abolish the Judicial Inquiry Commission and limit the power to remove judges to the impeachment process in the Legislature.

• Alabama Lawmakers: Abolish Judicial Panel
• Pryor Files Brief in Response to Moore's Appeal
• Pryor: Court Was Correct to Remove Judge Moore
• Judge Sets Timetable for Suit Against Moore's Ouster
• Barrow Asks To Delay Suit

Politics

Republicans revealed how things are really done in Washington, D.C. In a striking similarity to the vote on the USA PATRIOT Act, the House majority’s leadership forced a vote on the monumental legislation in the middle of the night.

• Thanks, Big Government Conservatives
• The Birth of the Neocons
• Lawmakers Find 'Failures' in U.S. Intelligence
• Bush Seeks Big Jump in Missile Defense Spending
• News Flash! No WMDs!

Catholics Experimenting on the Flesh of Aborted Babies?
Researchers at the Georgetown University Medical Center, a Catholic institution, are using cells derived from aborted fetuses in medical research. The university decided to let researchers who have been using the cells continue their work. The Rev. Kevin T. Fitzgerald said the Catholic Church's guidelines on research and health care, a widely accepted theology, allowed the research to continue.

Kentucky's Fetal Homicide Bills 'Exempt Abortion'
Editor's note: Catholic Conference of Kentucky deputy director Patrick Delahanty came out in support of criminal legislation that exempts the murder of children by abortion, saying, "It fulfills our view of the sanctity of human life.'' Of course we must conclude that such a "view" is in extreme error! Since Jesus Christ, clearly upholds the death penalty in Matthew 15:1-9, it is impossible then for the administration of Justice ("upon him that doeth evil," Romans 13:4) to contradict the pro-life Biblical view of the sanctity of human life. But the Catholic Conference's "view" of the 'sanctity of human life,' in support of this legislation, not only forsakes the administration of Justice, it forsakes innocent children that are being murdered by abortion! The only solution to this problem is the adoption of a principled approach in support of criminal legislation allowing for the administration of the death penalty with no immunity to murder children by abortion. To support criminal legislation that exempts murder by abortion is utter jackassery, and has nothing to do with the sanctity of human life! --Jim Rudd

Pro-Life News

Attorneys for Omaha baby-butcher LeRoy Carhart want a judge to protect the identity of an expert abortion witness in Carhart's lawsuit challenging the Partial-Birth Abortion "ban."

• Carhart Seeks to Protect Expert Abortion Witness
• Court: Chinese Threatened With Abortion Merit Asylum
• CMA Calls for Informed Consent of "Morning After" Pill
• Federal Court Refers to Abortion Patient as 'Mother'
• Woman Gives Birth to Her Own Grandchildren

Politics

Complaining about a lack of respect accorded Mr. Dubya a few weeks ago in Atlanta, the National Review referred to our president as the "pontifex maximus of the American civil religion."

• Head of The State Religion 'Anointed'
• White House to Project Deficit of $521 bln in 2004
• Bush's Secret Weapon: Young 'Naive' Voters
• Seven U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

Freedom Of Speech

The controversy over whether Mel Gibson's upcoming film "The Passion of the Christ" will encourage anti-Semitism has taken a dramatic turn, according to an evangelical leader.

• Gibson Adding Pro-Jewish Ending to 'Passion'?
• Ten Commandments – Chapters Being Organized
• County passes God proclamation
• You Have the Right Not to Remain Silent
• Acknowledging God

Fetuses Found At Hospital Site

Hundreds of test tubes containing aborted fetuses, human tissue and other pathological material were found Wednesday in a storeroom in the yard of Misgav Ladach Hospital in Jerusalem.

Pro-Life News

Attorneys for Eric Rudolph want his trial for the fatal 1998 bombing at a Birmingham abortion clinic moved out of Alabama and possibly out of the Southeast. Rudolph's attorneys filed a motion Wednesday asking that a Friday deadline for filing a change-of-venue request be extended. One of the attorneys, Richard Jaffe, said most people polled by the defense in areas of north Alabama have heard of the case and believe Rudolph is guilty and should be sentenced to death.

• Rudolph Wants Change of Venue
• Abortion Protest Targets Campus
• Pro-Lifers Protest Article In Newspaper
• Kentucky's Fetal Homicide Bills 'Exempt Abortion'
• House Tries Again to Get a Bankruptcy Bill Passed
• Mother Gets 30 Years For Killing Baby

Pro-Life News

On Friday the U.S. House of Representatives tabled the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (H.R.975) because of a GOP pro-abortion compromise over an amendment by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). "We got a defeat with that so-called compromise Schumer language," said Jim Backlin, director of legislative affairs for the Christian Coalition of America.

• House Tables Abortion-Bankruptcy Bill
• Senate Leader Balks on Fetal Guardians
• Is Killing a "Fetus" Murder in Calif.?
• Retired Judge Chosen for Peterson Trial
• Mothers Gets 25 Years For Infants' Deaths

Freedom Of Speech

Standing in front of the state Capitol, Rev. Frank Raddish, founder and director of the Washington-based Capitol Hill Independent Baptist Ministries, and about 10 Alabama pastors, asked Alabama residents to ask members of Alabama's Congressional delegation to withdraw their support of Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor. Raddish said Pryor abandoned his previous position supporting public Ten Commandments displays when he prosecuted Moore before the Alabama Court of the Judiciary.

• Bush Asked to Withdraw Pryor's Nomination
• Judge Roy Moore Seeks to Remove Justices
• Gold Brokers Will Be Forced to Register Gold Sales
• Home Schoolers Fight N.Y. Bureaucracy
• Mel Gibson’s Passion in Danger of Becoming Gospel Lite?

Politics

Why all the concern about the Patriot Act by millions of Americans? Here are a few, among many, reasons for alarm. Under the Patriot Act, the definition of terrorism is expanded to cover anyone or any group that tries to bring about change for political or ideological reasons and uses any kind of force to bring it about. This could range from nailing a poster to a courthouse door to carrying a picket sign.

• The USA Patriot Act Should Be Terminated
• Bush/Rove Strategy: Triangulation or Capitulation?
• Give You Liberty or Give You Death
• Iraq Bombings Kills 6 U.S. Soldiers
• Muslim Bomber Kills Four in Baghdad

The Unrepentant Claim Prayer is 'Disrespectful'

Rep. Doug Quelland, R-Phoenix, caused a stir on Tuesday when he delivered a prayer on the House floor that took aim at multiculturalism, welfare, abortion and "alternative lifestyles." It was a prayer that has made the rounds on the Internet since 1996 when it was delivered before the Kansas House of Representatives. Offended Democrats, led by Rep. Wally Straughn of Phoenix, filed an official protest, saying the prayer was partisan, disrespectful and divisive.

Here is the prayer:

Quelland: "Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know your word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values. We confess that...

Federal Judges Uphold 'Forced Abortion Attempt'

Pro-Life News
An abortionist didn't violate federal law when he had a woman restrained during an unsuccessful abortion, even though she demanded that he stop the procedure and let her leave, a federal appeals court panel has ruled.

• Federal Judges Uphold 'Forced Abortion Attempt'
• Truck Driver Charged With Killing Woman, Fetus
• Utah Senate Toughens Abortion Regulation
• Jeb Wants Law to Allow Guardians for Fetuses
• New Revelations Emerge About Nazi Victims

Freedom Of Speech

A special seven-member Alabama Supreme Court was sworn in Monday to hear Judge Roy Moore's appeal of his ouster as chief justice. Former Alabama governor and former criminal appeals court judge John Patterson is serving as chief justice for the special Supreme Court.

• Judges Sworn in to hear Justice Moore's appeal
• Protester Arrested in Montgomery Found Guilty
• County Commission Defeats 'God Resolution' Again
• Judge Rules Part of Patriot Act is Unconstitutional
• Federal Judge Dismisses Slave Reparations Case

Politics

If I had closed my eyes, I could have concluded that it was Bill Clinton instead of G.W. Bush speaking before Congress last Tuesday. His speech was laced with calls for increased federal spending, increased federal power, and increased federal bureaucracy.

• Time To Trade In The Republican Jalopy
• The Lie's The Limit? Where Does It End?
• Give Me Back My Republic
• Stress Epidemic Strikes American Forces in Iraq
• Guard Member Charged For Refusing Anthrax Vaccine

Pro-Life News

FDA watchers were surprised when Bush allowed the agency to consider the prescription morning-after pill to be sold over the counter. The pill, called Plan B, can cause early abortions.

• FDA Chief is Brother of Bush's Press Secretary
• Texas Fetus Abuse Law Could Spell Trouble
• Babies Found Entombed in Concrete
• Study: Regulating Abortion "Might" Save a Few Lives
• British Medical Adviser: Infanticide is 'Justifiable'

Freedom Of Speech

The latest religious phenomenon to hit the US is one that is being viewed as the most significant since the advent of televangelism in the 1980s, writes Oliver Poole.

• Can You Say Church of the "Feel Good?"
• U.N. Influence in U.S. Schools
• Rip-Off 'Liberty'
• Lawsuits Filed Against Northwest Over Passenger Data
• Airlines Hustle to Protect Selves on Data Sharing

Politics

George W. Bush is a socialist and a liar. If this weren’t evident to everyone already, his January 20 State of the Union address should suffice. While in the address Bush proved he believes that any conflict a person can experience – career, marriage, children, electricity, whatever – is the domain of the federal government.

• Socialist W. Liar
• Bush Cautious About Banning 'Gay' Unions
• For Whom The Death Tolls
• States' Database a Trove of Personal Info
• India Attacks US on Plan to Ban Outsourcing

Pro-Life News

California Assembly passed a resolution urging Americans to "celebrate" abortion and the Roe vs. Wade decision. About one-third of California's estimated 300,000 abortions each year are funded with tax dollars.

• Terrorists: 'Rejoice in the Murder of 43 Million'
• Shooting Death of Fetus Ruled a Murder
• Some Children Left Behind
• Roe Marches On
• Pro-Lifers Seek Injunction Against Police

Prediction: Court Approves
Sale of Prisoners' Body Parts

Be aware that you could easily become a prisoner in the local jail and have your body parts removed one at a time legally, just like fully developed human babies.

Senseless Brutality

Four thousand children were systematically killed yesterday. Four thousand children were killed the day before. And four thousand the day before that. And so it has gone every day in America for the last thirty-one years. Day after day after day. For thirty-one years. Costing some forty-four million lives!

Pro-Life News

Tens of thousands of abortion protesters, some carrying signs that said "American Holocaust" and "I regret my abortion," marched from the White House to the Supreme Court on Thursday to mark the 31st anniversary of the decision that established a woman's right to the procedure.

• Protesters Mark Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
• Abortion Lawmakers Introduce Freedom of Choice Act
• G.W. Lip Service
• Cheney touts Bush record on life issues
• Mich. Senate OKs Abortion Waiver Rules
• Va. House Advances Abortion Clinic Bill

South Dakota Legislation Challenges Roe v. Wade

A South Dakota legislator is hoping his bill outlawing nearly all abortions in the state will be the catalyst for overturning the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which was handed down exactly 31 years ago.

Freedom of Speech

An offer from the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., to donate a memorial to Jesse Dirkhising. The memorial is to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the death of Dirkhising, who was the victim of rape and murder on Sept. 26, 1999. Rogers residents Davis Don Carpenter and Joshua Brown, homosexual partners, were later convicted of the crime. Both serving life sentences.

• Church Wants to Donate Dirkhising Memorial
• Ten Commandments Posted at Border
• States' Database a Trove of Personal Info
• Cowardly Men And Stupid Women

Politics

The Constitution Party of Georgia has raised concerns over the current efforts of Gov. Perdue to amend the Georgia Constitution to encourage state funding of church ministries involved in charitable works.

• Bush Asks U.N. to Resolve Iraq Conflict
• Bush Lip Service
• Welcome to BushRevealed.com!
• Congress Clears Huge Federal Spending Bill
• Violence in Iraq Leaves Nine People Dead

Pro-Life News

Jan. 22, 2004 Americans remember 31 years of legalized abortion. Thousands will be on hand in Washington D.C for the Annual March for Life. Today the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) will display huge photos comparing abortion to genocide at the beginning of the March for Life parade route (southeast corner of 15th and Constitution Ave.)

• Giant Abortion-Holocaust Exhibit in DC
• 'Fetus' Found in University Toilet
• Randall Terry Clobbered With a Chocolate Pie
• Premeditating Murderers Hold Panel Discussion
• Mother Charged with Killing Baby Born in Factory
• Tiller the Killer Offers Free Abortions

Politics

I never thought I would find myself longing for the days of Bill Clinton. Sure, he was a pathological liar who laughed at the rule of law. But everyone knew that, so we kept an eye on him. Why is it that when the current occupant of the White House shows a similar inability to deal truthfully with the American people, we let him get away with it just because he calls himself a Republican and a Christian?

• George Bush - The Greater of Two Evils
• Senators Propose Immigration Reform Plan
• A Renewed Mexican-American War
• Some Dare to Call Dubya a Traitor
• The Death of America

Freedom Of Speech

Few forms of behavior are less respectable than that of demanding to be respected.

• When a Man Loves a Woman
• Bush Pushes Internet Surveillance
• Top Court Rules EPA May Overrule States
• Supreme Court to Clarify 6th Amendment
• Council Votes to Move Monument

Committee Approves Unborn Victims Bill

The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a 20 to 13 vote fetal homicide legislation that would establish a separate offense for killing or injuring an unborn child during the commission of already- defined federal crimes against a pregnant woman. (For example if someone shoots a pregnant woman and kills her unborn child while robbing a bank.)

'The Worst Offender of Federalism'
"The worst offender of federalism is the so-called Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which not only indirectly surrenders the pro-life principle but actually directly undercuts the right to life by granting a specific exemption to abortionists! This exemption essentially allows some to take life with the sanction of federal law. By supporting this legislation, pro-lifers are expressly condoning a legal exemption for abortionists – showing just how far astray some in the pro-life community have gone."
-- Rep. Ron Paul, MD

Pro-Life News

In an outrageous act of contempt for the First Amendment, Bel Aire City Attorney Lee E. Parker ruled that the signs on the truck were in violation of City Ordinance 280 7.102L, a building code that bans the use of signs that are "calculated to attract the attention of the public."

• Bel Aire: First US City to Outlaw Abortion Signs
• Work Resumes at Planned Parenthood Site
• Citizens Protest Abortion
• 'AUL' Helps States Regulate Murder
• Peterson Trial to Move to San Francisco Bay Area
• Clone-Slave State to Promote 'Legalized' Child Abandonment

Freedom Of Speech

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore told Maryland legislators and onlookers yesterday to "take a stand" against the federal government. "Every state's constitution, including the state of Maryland's, acknowledges God," Mr. Moore told a crowd of nearly 200 legislators and supporters at a rally outside the State House.

• Judge Roy Moore Urges Fight for God
• Alabama Judge Delivered a Fire-And-Brimstone Speech
• Ten Commandments Monument Removed from City Hall
• Presbyterian Activist Seeks Funds Cutoff
• Angry Episcopalian Protest Grows

Politics

Israeli warplanes struck Hezbollah in southern Lebanon late Tuesday, threatening to re-ignite another Arab-Israeli front that has been mostly calm for years.

• Israel Hits Hezbollah Bases in 'Lebanon'
• Bush's Proposals Push Spending Beyond Budget
• Abolish NASA
• The Real Size of the Military Budget
• Army Faults Its Treatment of Reserve Troops

Republicans Kill Babies With Impunity!

President Bush's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to put the "morning after" pill on grocery store shelves next to aspirin. Such a move would result in the deaths of even more unborn babies. While conservatives like to condemn Democrats for their pro-abortion position, they seldom hold Republicans to the same standard. It seems that most conservatives only object if Democrats kill babies. Republicans, however, are able to kill babies with impunity.

Pro-Life News

To some people in this sin-soaked baby murdering society it may sound crass, but to County Officials hoping to lure Scott Peterson's trial to a courtroom in their communities the stakes are high. A billion dollars can be made by hosting a long drawn out media circus event, while millions of Americans thirst for blood.

• Counties Compete to Welcome a Murder Trial
• “Children: Things we throw away?”
• No ID for Baby Found Dead on Beach
• Messages from Premeditated Murderers
• Deadly Abortion Pill RU-486 Claims Two More Lives

Freedom Of Speech

A city council member who said he was inspired by Alabama's chief justice Roy Moore, placed a 1-ton granite monument of the Ten Commandments in front of City Hall on Monday while it was closed for the Martin Luther King Day holiday. Vernon Robinson said he and four others acted on the holiday because the empty parking lot allowed room for a truck and crane.

• Official Places 1-Ton Monument in Front of City Hall
• Judge Roy Moore to Speak at Benefit
• Federal Marriage Counseling, is this Bush's worst idea?
• When Family Dissolution Becomes the Law of the Land
• New Worm Attacks Windows Computers from E-Mail

Politics

There can be no question that Bush’s plan to give amnesty to illegal aliens is the promotion of lawlessness. It doesn't matter how nice an illegal might be or how cheap they will work. It doesn't matter if they have been here illegally for one week or one decade. If they sneak across the border, they have committed a crime under our laws and are subject to immediate deportation.

• Stop Bush's Promotion of Illegals Invading America
• Free College for Illegals
• We Know Bush Lied! So Are Americans Stupid?
• Lies "R" US
• Bush to Grab Spotlight with State of Union Speech

Pro-Life News

Among women ages 15 to 44, the abortion rate was 29 per 1,000 in Delaware, compared with 16 per 1,000 among states that reported their statistics. Only Washington, D.C., and New York had higher rates.

• The Killing Fields
• Planned Parenthood Opens New Clinic
• Man Finds Dead Baby on Beach
• State Law May Ask Docs to Report Patients to Police
• Is it Ignorance or Just Plain Stupidity?
• President Bush's Lip Service

Freedom Of Speech

A very short article, written by John M. Templeton Jr. and Michael Novak, blames the American Civil Liberties Union for several church/state issues and makes some very short term predictions adverse to preaching & churches.

• Rebellious Judges and Cowardly Republicans
• Ten Commandments Legal Fees Paid By Donations
• ACLU Destroying Boy Scouts
• Northwest Gave Passenger Data to U.S. Govt.

Politics

A white pickup truck loaded with 1,000 pounds of plastic explosives and several 155 mm artillery shells exploded at the main public gate to U.S. occupation headquarters Sunday, killing at least 20 bystanders and wounding more than 60 people, U.S. military officials said.

• Muslim Attack Kills 20, Wounds 60
• Shiite Muslims Demand Elections in Protest
• 3 U.S. Troops Hurt in Afghanistan Attack
• Afghanis Say U.S. Copter Attack Kills 11
• Congress Starts Tuesday

Scientists Demand Human Cloning Proof

Scientists have received the news that a human embryo has been cloned into a woman with a large dose of skepticism and are challenging the fertility expert to prove it.

Fertility Expert Says He Implanted Cloned Human

A U.S. fertility expert claimed a scientific first on Saturday, saying he had implanted a cloned human embryo into a woman and was looking for more volunteers. "We transferred the first cloned embryo into a 35-year-old woman. Since it has not been two weeks since we transferred the embryo, we are waiting for the results of the pregnancy," he told a stunned news conference in London.

Pro-Life News

The Kentucky bill cleared the Senate committee by an 8-1 vote with little debate, sending the measure to the Senate floor, but, the bill would exempt abortion. Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, a committee member said, "There's no reason to protect a criminal regardless of what you believe on when life begins."

• Bill on Fetal Homicide Approved by Panel
• Latour Convicted in 'Jenny's Law' Murder Case
• State Rules: 'How to Murder Babies in Texas'
• Man Gets Death Penalty for Killing Pregnant Mom, Baby
• Baby Found Dead in Bucket Under Sink, Mom Arrested
• Governor Grants Clemency to Baby Killer

Freedom of Speech

In court papers filed ACLU lawyers argued "the lower courts in Virginia merely followed Supreme Court precedents in concluding that the official mealtime prayers at VMI are unconstitutional," state ACLU executive director Kent Willis said. "There should be no need for them to review the case."

• ACLU asks Court to Reject Review of VMI Prayer Case
• Christian Student Sues Public Schools
• Christians Fight Muslim Indoctrination of Schoolchildren
• Ten Commandments on Public Grounds Rejected By Court
• ACLJ Enters Maryland Ten Commandments Case

Politics

The Constitution Party of Georgia has raised concerns over the current efforts of Gov. Perdue to amend the Georgia Constitution to encourage state funding of church ministries involved in charitable works.

• Party Questions Faith-Based Initiative Amendment
• Intelligence Concerns as U.S. Rotates Iraq Troops
• Bush Joins Iraqis to Seek U.N. Role in Interim Rule
• Bush's Immigration Plan Hurts Re-Election War Chest?
• Some Republicans Break With Liberal Leadership

Pro-Life News

California high court heard arguments in San Francisco last week in a case in which a Mendocino County man is challenging his double murder conviction for the slaying of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and his unborn child.

• Calif. High Court to Consider Fetal-Murder Law
• Mother Accused of Killing Her Newborn
• Dad: Baby Born Without My Consent
• New Website: Bush is Compromising Faith, Promoting Evil
• "Post Abortion Human Fetal Harvesting"
• Abortion People Sue Oklahoma Over 'Choose Life' Plates

Freedom of Speech

The Phoenix Suns are embroiled in a battle between Christians and some gay-churches over anti-gay literature that accompanied invitations to "Church Night" at a March basketball game. The Phoenix Suns dropped the Center for Arizona Policy as its "Church Night" sponsor for the March 19 game after several gay-clergy complained about invitation packages sent by the Suns and the center.

• Homosexuals Hijack 'Church Night'
• Attorney Challenge Ban on Polygamy, cites Texas Sodomy case
• Pastor Ovadal Claims 'Double-Standard'
• ‘We the Judges’: How Judicial Activists Rewrite the Constitution
• Lesbians Get 30 Years for 'Hate Crime'

Politics

President Bush is looking to inject election-year momentum into his push to let some greedy, thieving religious groups compete for more federal taxpayer dollars on a sweep through the South aimed at attracting support from blacks and campaign cash.

• Bush to Buy the 'Stupid' Christian Vote
• New Website: Bush is Compromising Faith, Promoting Evil
• Campaign Finance Watchdogs Target New 'Soft Money' Groups
• Pentagon: Troop Suicides on Rise
• Consumers Hit Hard by Rising Utility Bills

Pro-Life News

Deputy District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III portrayed former Buffalo State College student Colleen Smith as a woman who had an elaborate, cold-blooded plan for getting rid of the baby she was once too scared and ashamed to claim as her own. "This child died because the defendant wanted that child to die," Sedita said. "She planned for the child to die, she killed that child, and she threw that child in the trash like yesterday's garbage." Smith hopes to finish her college degree in prison.

• Dorm Mom Gets Only 3 1/2 Years for Killing Baby
• Bill Would Require Classes on Aborting Children
• "Those People Who Are Willfully Spreading Lies"
• Legislature Ends Debate on Abortion Notification
• Doctor Sued Over Embryo Pregnancy
• Abandoned Newborn Found on City Street

Freedom of Speech

The Alabama Supreme Court has rejected Judge Roy Moore's request to cancel the appointment of a seven-member replacement court to hear his appeal of his ouster as chief justice. In a two-sentence order issued Tuesday, the Supreme Court unanimously denied Moore's motion without elaborating.

• Moore's Request to Cancel Special Court Rejected
• Resident Concerned over Barrow's battle for Commandments
• Only Half of Protestant Pastors Have a Biblical Worldview
• Terror Suspect Helped ACLU Draft Schools' Anti-Christian Rules

Politics

``In Mexico this is a very important step forward,'' the Mexican president said of Bush's proposal, which is designed to provide legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants working in the United States.

• Fox Supports Bush Proposal on Immigration
• Losing America’s Livelihood
• Gas Prices Hit Record High
• Bush Seeks $1B for Moon, Mars Missions
• Reviving the Draft

Dr Death Hangs Himself

Britain's most notorious serial killer, former family doctor Harold Shipman, has been found hanging in his prison cell after an apparent suicide. Shipman. known as Dr Death, was serving life imprisonment for murdering 15 elderly women with lethal doses of heroin. But a subsequent judicial inquiry found him responsible for a further 200 deaths over a 24-year medical career.

Pro-Life News

Gov. Jeb Bush reaffirmed his belief that an unborn child deserved a guardian, something abortion rights advocates dispute. The governor had wanted a guardian appointed for an unborn child because the mother -- suffering from severe retardation, cerebral palsy and autism -- was unable to provide for his well-being.

• Governor Insists Unborn Children Deserve a Guardian
• Judges: Unborn Child Cannot Sue Mother For Negligence
• Clark Says Life Begins With Woman's Choice
• Do you know someone who murdered their child by abortion?
• Statement On Abortion-Breast Cancer Link Changed Again
• Dead Newborn Found Hanging Outside Home In Duffel Bag

Freedom of Speech

A lawsuit challenging former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's removal from office has been moved from federal court in Mobile to Montgomery. U.S. District Judge William Steele ruled on Monday that the lawsuit should be heard in federal court in Montgomery partly because most of the actions leading to Moore's removal from office occurred in Montgomery.

• Roy Moore Lawsuit Moved From Montgomery
• The Rule of Law?
• Feds Say Ten Commandments Not Allowed on School Grounds
• District Loses Commandments Court Battle
• Resolution Would Showcase 'Faith' Preamble From 1875
• Pledge of Allegiance Demonstration Being Organized
• The "Holier Than Thou" Statue to Stay Put for Now

Politics

President Bush is having problems with his so called 'conservative core,' Michael Savage, one of talk radio's biggest stars, called for the impeachment of President Bush over his plans to legalize millions of illegal aliens.

• Impeach Bush!
• Border Patrol Union Calls Plan 'A Slap In The Face'
• Red Carpet Treatment For Immigrants Spells Trouble
• Immigrants Lose 'Medicaid Benefits' Class-Action
• Supreme Court OKs 'Random Roadblocks'

Tenth Anniversary of John Bobbitt Mutilation

Ten years ago, on January 10, 1994, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial for the "malicious wounding" of her husband's manhood with an eight-inch kitchen knife. After an eleven day trial, she was acquitted on grounds of temporary insanity.

Pro-Life News

Declaring a fetus is not a ''person'' under Florida law, a Daytona Beach appeals court said Friday it would be improper to appoint a guardian for an unborn child. The decision rejected a bid by Gov. Jeb Bush to extend rights to the unborn. A divided three-judge panel of the Fifth District Court of Appeal upheld a ruling denying a guardian for the fetus of J.D.S., a severely disabled Orlando woman who was raped at age 22 and became pregnant.

• Florida Judges Declare Unborn Babies are not 'Persons'
• Cops Dig Up 'Monster' Mom's Kid
• County Abortion Rate High
• Ruling Interferes With New Hampshire Parenting
• Mom's Boyfriend Charged In Death Of 1-Year-Old
• Va. School Restores 'Morning After' Pill

Freedom of Speech

Under the system, all travelers passing through a U.S. airport are to be scored with a number and a color that ranks their perceived threat to the aircraft.

• Feds to Check All Airline Passengers' Backgrounds
• Pryor asks For Denial of Moore Request
• Georgia Lawmakers Open Session With Ten Commandments
• Legislature to Take Up Pledge Bill
• 'These Are Greed Cameras, Not Speed Cameras'

Politics

If George Bush's amnesty for between 8 million and 14 million illegal aliens is enacted, you can kiss the old America goodbye.

• The Real Message of Bush's 'Alien Amnesty'
• The Decline and Fall of the American Job
• Gas Prices Climb 7 Cents in Past 3 Weeks
• Bomb Kills One U.S. Soldier, Wounds Two in Iraq
• Bush 'Worship' at Shinto Temple Troubles Christians

Judge Won't Reappoint Guardian for Schiavo

Gov. Jeb Bush's request that an independent advocate continue watching out for Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman at the center of a life-and-death legal battle, was turned down Friday by the chief circuit judge for Pinellas County. Chief Judge David Demers said in an order that he would not reappoint a guardian ad litem to the case, citing pending litigation over the constitutionality of the law which called for the independent advocate.

Pro-Life News

James Kopp said Thursday he has been threatened by inmates at the U.S. federal detention centre where he is being held pending trial on other charges in the case. Kopp asked a judge, U.S. Magistrate Hugh Scott, for better access to federal marshals in the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia, 50 kilometres east of Buffalo. Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division (ICE) provides security there.

• James Kopp Threatened by Inmates
• Female Named to Ashcroft Advisory Committee
• Pro-Lifers Claim Doctor Does Abortions in Mobile
• Murder becoming 'Act of Love'
• Israel Lets Abortion Clinic Escort Out of Prison
• Hundreds Celebrate Planned Parenthood Clinic Opening
• 'Finkel Fashions' for Pro-Choice Judges, Lawmakers

Freedom of Speech

"Is our meat supply safe?" the headlines ask. Perhaps we should ask pastors the same questions. Is the meat they are serving us safe?

• Churches Are Spreading Mad Cow Disease
• Moore Claims Rights Denied
• University Sued Over Clergy Sculpture
• Phelps Seeking Memorial Bench in Park
• San Diego Pays ACLU $950,000 Over Boy Scout Lease
• Covenantal Churches versus Consumer Church

Politics

Under the Bush administration, a mother who is a soldier can stay home with a baby until the child is 4 months old. After that a mother can find herself sent to the front lines to be part of the war effort.

• Guard Mom Must Leave Infant Behind as She Heads to Iraq
• U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq Approach 500
• Bush's 'gay' faith: He 'feels pretty, witty and gay'
• Supreme Court to Decide Enemy Combatant's Detention
• Bush Plans Missions to the Moon, Mars

Pro-Life News

A 25-year-old housewife, who attempted suicide by reportedly setting herself ablaze at her parents' house on Sunday died while undergoing treatment at the Osmania General Hospital (OGH) in the early hours of Monday. Her husband Shekhar Kumari, and his mother forced Nanda Kumari to undergo an abortion at a private hospital in 2002.

• Woman Sets Herself on Fire After Forced Abortion
• New Jersey the 'Clone-Slave State'
• Judge Allows S.F. to Enter Partial-Birth Abortion Case
• Competing `Fetal Homicide' Bills Introduced in House
• Court Debates When Murder of Pregnant Woman Is Double Murder
• Doctor: Princess Di 'Did Not Have Abortion'

Freedom of Speech

Roy Moore, who was ousted as Alabama's chief justice for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building, asked the state Supreme Court on Thursday to return him to office. Moore argued in legal briefs that his expulsion sets a "dangerous precedent" and requires judges to deny their oath of office and religious faith. He said he lost his post because he failed a "religious test" that forced him to choose between his job and his allegiance to God.

• 'Justice' Seeks Reinstatement
• Judge Roy Moore Files Appeal
• Trial Set For Ministers Arrested
• A 2nd Jesus statue stolen
• Brussels Hospitals Ban Religious Dress

Politics

A U.S. Black Hawk medivac helicopter crashed Thursday near a stronghold of the anti-American insurgency, killing all nine soldiers aboard, the U.S. military said.

• U.S. Copter Goes Down in Iraq, Killing 9
• Judge Lets Military Resume Anthrax Vaccinations
• Firms With Ties to Bush Wins Iraq Construction Contracts
• Bush Amnesty Plan Raises Immigration Concerns
• Americans Oppose Increase in Immigration
• US Provides $100m for Education Reforms in Pakistan

Slain Missionary Staged Abortion Protests
A missionary from Hagerstown, Maryland who was killed last week in Kenya was known for his abortion protests. Paul A. Ritchey, 62, was fatally shot Dec. 30 during a robbery at a guest house in Malaba, Kenya, where he had gone to preach at the Baptist Outreach Church, police said. In Hagerstown, Ritchey was arrested several times in the 1980s and 1990s for disturbing the peace while [preaching the Word of God] outside the Hagerstown Reproductive Health Services clinic.

Pro-Life News

In a first-of-its-kind service, Planned Parenthood will begin offering drop-in hours for teenagers at its health center in Puyallup. The new Teen Clinic will offer special hours just for East Pierce County teenagers to walk in, get educated about reproductive and sexual health and see "clinicians."

• Planned Parenthood to Open Clinic for Teenagers
• Federal Prosecutors Drop Request to Listen to Rudolph Tapes
• Rudolph may be transferred to FCI in Talladega
• Teenagers Kick Dumpster-Baby Around in Plastic Bag
• Father's Rights at Issue in Kaiser-Abortion Case

Freedom of Speech

Attorneys for Judge Roy Moore say the seven retired judges named to hear an appeal of Moore's ouster were chosen through an illegal process. Acting Chief Justice Gorman Houston had the retired judges' names drawn at random from a box to form a replacement court to hear Moore's appeal. But a motion filed by Moore's attorneys contends state law requires the governor to choose court replacements.

• Roy Moore's Attorneys Blast 'Illegal' Selection Process
• US Court Upholds Christian Fired for Bible Quotes
• Settlement in 'Faggot' Suit
• Nativity Scene Criticized by Atheists and Jews

Politics

Millions of illegal migrant farmers, hotel maids and others working in the shadows of American society would be granted legal status and freed from the threat of deportation under an election-year proposal President Bush wants Congress to approve.

• Bush Seeks Legal Status for Millions of Illegal Aliens
• One Christian’s Case Against John Ashcroft
• U.S. Accused of Killing Muslim Couple
• Iraqi Soldiers March on Central Bank
• Americans Deeply Split Over Politics

The day after 'Three Kings Day'

"Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men." (Matthew 2:16)

Pro-Life News

Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) and Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-NY) praised the release of $59 million in international family planning funds withheld from the United Nations Population Fund (United Nations Family Planning Association, UNFPA) by the Administration over the last two years. The funds, which are included in the Fiscal Year 2004 Omnibus Appropriations bill passed by the House of Representatives, will support bilateral international family planning programs.

• Bush Gives $59 Million to UNFPA Abortion-Fund
• Fetal Deaths May Lead to Homicide Charges
• Landlord Boots Planned Parenthood Clinic
• Docs Condemned for Hiding Abortion/Breast Cancer Risks
• Abortion Bill to be Introduced Again
• Make 2004 'The Year to Rescue The Unborn'

Freedom of Speech

Birmingham attorney Phillip Jauregui is leading the legal team that is appealing the decision by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary to remove Judge Roy Moore from office.

• Judge Roy Moore Picks Two New Lawyers for Appeal
• Stealth Implementation of "PATRIOT ACT II"
• "The Liberal Drive to Suppress the Christian Religion"
• Kindergartner Censored Over Gifts With Religious Message
• US Starts Fingerprinting and Photographing Foreign Visitors

Politics

Authorities are conducting a criminal investigation into whether corporate money, including hundreds of thousands of dollars linked to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, improperly financed the Republican Party's takeover of the Texas Capitol. The probe is focused on several political and fund-raising organizations run by Republican activists, investigators said.

• U.S. Army Buys $30 Million in Anthrax Shots
• Army Trying to Keep Troops From Leaving
• Bush Begins 2004 With Massive Militarization of America
• How the Secret Service protects Bush from Free Speech
• 'Cannibal' Downloaded Torture and Gay Porn

Bush Gives $59 Million to UNFPA Abortion-Fund

Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) and Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-NY) praised the release of $59 million in international family planning funds withheld from the United Nations Population Fund (United Nations Family Planning Association, UNFPA) by the Bush Administration over the last two years. The funds, which are included in the Fiscal Year 2004 Omnibus Appropriations bill passed by the House of Representatives, will support bilateral international family planning programs.

Pro-Life News

A mother who gave birth into a toilet tried to kill her premature newborn by closing the lid and leaving her there to die, authorities said Sunday. Denise Marie Winner, 42, was charged with attempted murder and endangering the welfare of a child. If convicted, she faces 30 years in prison.

• Newborn Rescued From Toilet
• Abortion Clinic Causes Neighborhood Distress
• Mother Charged With Murdering Baby
• Death of Infant Found in Trash Ruled Homicide
• State's Murder by Abortion Booklet Stirs Flap
• N.J. Becomes 2nd State to Allow Stem Cell Research

Freedom of Speech

Since the twin towers fell and our troops were sent overseas to do battle with the “enemies of freedom”, a new “Christian conservative patriotism” has emerged into the mainstream. Though it is indeed encouraging to see liberals largely on the sidelines these days, I find many of the emotionally-charged events choreographed into photo ops and crowd-pleasing rhetoric.

• Good Intentions
• Police 'Serve Notice' to Christian
• Second Display Will Stay in Courthouse
• Board Member of Florida Televangelist Arrested

Authorities Investigate 'Soft Money' Ties to GOP Leader

Politics
Authorities are conducting a criminal investigation into whether corporate money, including hundreds of thousands of dollars linked to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, improperly financed the Republican Party's takeover of the Texas Capitol. The probe is focused on several political and fund-raising organizations run by Republican activists, investigators said.

• Authorities Investigate 'Soft Money' Ties to GOP Leader
• Ex-Marine Who Nixed Anthrax Shot Seeks Upgrade
• Gutless coward in White House places women in harm's way
• “Why Christians Should Not Vote for George W. Bush”
• Jesus is a Democrat, claims Dean as he woos Bush faithful
• Pat Robertson: God told him it's Bush in a 'Blowout'

Abortion Doctor Gets 34 Years for Sex Abuse of Patients

Brian Finkel, a once prominent Phoenix abortion doctor, was sentenced to more than 34 years in prison Friday for sexually abusing patients over a span of nearly two decades in his high-profile practice. Finkel was also ordered to register as a sex offender and placed on lifetime probation should he serve out his 34-year prison sentence.