Bill Donohue comments on a couple of interesting ironies: The quest for autonomy has reached such a macabre level in the Netherlands that last year the Royal Dutch Medical Association expanded the list of conditions legalizing euthanasia to include “loneliness.” In the state of Washington, a debate is currently raging over whether to expand the list [...]
Bill Donohue issued the following remarks today: On Monday, a bipartisan committee of U.S. senators offered a reasonable proposal to reform our immigration policy. Yesterday, President Obama, speaking in Las Vegas, outlined his ideas, and while they differed somewhat from the senatorial plan, they were not dramatically different. However, Obama’s speech did not include all that [...]
R&B singer Chris Brown got into a fight on Sunday night over a parking space in West Hollywood. Feeling disabused, he has now decided to depict himself as Jesus on the Cross on Instagram. Bill Donohue comments as follows: What is it about these self-absorbed, self-pitying entertainers that they cannot handle adversity like a man? By [...]
A documentary about those who perform late-term abortions, “After Tiller,” previewed at the Sundance Film Festival this week. The directors of the movie, Lana Wilson and Martha Shane, were interviewed by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! about their film. Bill Donohue found much of what they said revealing [click here to read it]: George Tiller was [...]
Yesterday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein invited Rev. Canon Gary Hall, Dean of the National Cathedral, to open her comments on gun control with a prayer. Bill Donohue comments on what happened: Had Sen. Feinstein invited a member of the clergy to open her press conference with a non-partisan prayer, it not only would have been unobjectionable, it [...]
Colorado’s Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing today on a civil unions bill. Bill Donohue addresses its flaws: In 2006, the people of Colorado said no to gay marriage. Last year, lawmakers took up the issue of civil unions for homosexuals, allowing religious adoption agencies an exemption. Today the Senate Judiciary Committee is taking up [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade: “An abortion kills the life of the baby after it has begun. It is dangerous to your life and health.” Those are not the words of a pro-life activist in 2013—those are the words of Planned Parenthood fifty years ago. So what’s changed since 1963? [...]
Bill Donohue issued the following remarks today on abortion: As we approach the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it behooves us to recall the anti-Catholic roots of this infamous decision. What paved the way for Roe was NARAL. Founded by Lawrence Lader in 1969, he knew he had to take down the greatest defender of [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a Pew Research Center survey on abortion that was released yesterday: The title of the Pew survey reads, “Roe v. Wade at 40: Most Oppose Overturning Abortion Decision.” Not surprisingly, the media reported what Pew found. Here are some examples: “Majority Upholds Landmark U.S. Abortion Ruling: Poll,” AFP (French News Agency) “As [...]
Bill Donohue comments on liberal clergy members and abortion: Next Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Those who support abortion rights are in denial, and for eminently good reason: the public has turned against them. Indeed, more Americans consider themselves pro-life than at any time since 1973. On November 21, the Centers for [...]
