2005 Hotline Archives
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December 2005
- Thursday 29 December - Monday 2 January
- Fewer Unplanned Babies Being Aborted; Henry Hyde Loses His Son; Many Saves During Chrismas Season
- Wednesday 21 December - Monday 26 December
- Americans Prefer "Merry Christmas"; Jesse Jackson Deaf to His Own Words; "Fertilized Fetus"?; Intelligent Design, Unintelligent Judge
- Monday 19 December - Tuesday 20 December
- More Stem Cell Hype; Conservatives to Boycott Ford?; Not an Exact Science; O'Brien on "Big Momma" Trend; Chicago Sun-Times Covers Manger Scene
- Friday 16 December - Sunday 18 December
- Pro-Life Wins One; Greeley Misreads Dickens; Topinka/Birkett Ticket Uninspiring
- Wednesday 14 December - Thursday 15 December
- What's behind "Save Girlhood" Campaign?; Beckman Debunks Richards; Strange Column on Multiple Abortions; Parker's Dreaming; "Empty Manger" Caroling Saturday
- Monday 12 December - Tuesday 13 December
- New York Faithful Picket American Girl; Vigil at Closed Milkwaukee Clinic; Help Stop Govt. Funding of Abortion Training
- Wednesday 7 December - Sunday 11 December
- Abortion Abuses, Pro-Life Hopes; Richards Is Right To Worry; Steinberg Right This Once
- Monday 5 December - Tuesday 6 December
- League To Picket NY American Girl Place; New York: Abortion Capital of the U.S.; Kennedy Upset with Alito; Plan B Madness
- Friday 2 December - Sunday 4 December
- Justices Question NOW's "Four Acts"; Gay Marriage Comes to South Africa; What's a "Holiday Tree"?; American Girl Protest Continues
November 2005
- Wednesday 30 November - Thursday 1 December
- High Court Hears Scheidler v. NOW
- Monday 28 November - Tuesday 29 November
- High Court Hears Oral Arguments Wednesday; American Girl Pickets Brave the Cold; Nonsense from Laura Berman
- Wednesday 23 November - Sunday 27 November
- Give Thanks; Opponents Make Our Case against Girls Inc.; Remembering the Christmas Truce
- Monday 21 November - Tuesday 22 November
- Pro-Life Girls To Picket American Girl; New World's Sheridan Doesn't Get It; Dennis Byrne and the DINKS
- Friday 18 November - Sunday 20 November
- Plan B Is Abortifacient; Plan B Bad for Other Reasons Too; Polls Reveals Lay Confusion
- Wednesday 16 November - Thursday 24 November
- Why Must Alito Take the "Roe Oath"?; Richards on Plan B: Wrong Again
- Monday 14 November - Tuesday 15 November
- The Media Just Don't Get It; Rhetoric versus Reality; Stacking the Deck
- Friday 11 November - Sunday 13 November
- Pro-Lifers Put the Lie to Abortion; Companies Admit Contraceptive Risks; Press Reports American Girl Story
- Monday 7 November - Tuesday 8 November
- Documentary Highlights Mississippi Activism; Abortion Increase Child Abuse, Study Says; Kids at Risk from Live-In Boyfriends; AP Story Predicts Post-Roe World
- Friday 4 November - Sunday 6 November
- Milwaukee Abortion Clinic CLOSED; Politically Connected Abortionist Avoids Scrutiny; Watch "The Last Abortion Clinic"; Good Trib Article on Rachel's Vineyard; Alito Hearing Begin in Early 2006
- Wednesday 2 November - Thursday 3 November
- Dems Begin Anti-Alito Campaign; School Cancels American Girl Fundraiser; Trice's Tripe on American Girl; Frontline's The Last Abortion Clinic
October 2005
- Monday 31 October - Tuesday 1 November
- Pro-Lifers Examine Samuel Alito; American Girl Boycott To Begin 11/1; Episcopalians May Split; Troubling Statistics
- Friday 28 October - Sunday 30 October
- Miers Withdraws; Gearing Up for New Nominee; American Girl Update
- Tuesday 25 October - Thursday 27 October
- Rosa Parks Shows What One Person Can Do; Scalia Debates Breyer; Dealing with the Pro-Abort Media
- Thursday 20 October - Sunday 30 October
- Half Day Tour Shows Truth of Life; Alternatives to American Girl Dolls; Miers Rhetoric Heats
- Monday 17 October - Wednesday 19 October
- Call American Girl Today; RU-486 Still Killing Women; U.N. Pushes Condoms on Uganda; Supreme Court Okays Inmate Abortion
- Friday 14 October - Sunday 16 October
- Planned Parenthood on Trial; Coach Ordered Not To Pray Resigns; Keep Up the Pressure on American Girl
- Wednesday 12 October - Thursday 13 October
- Betrayal by American Girl Doll Company; Warren Hern versus the Truth; "Radical Like Joe Scheidler"
- Monday 10 October - Tuesday 11 October
- Miers Too Hard To Read; Of Monks and Judges
- Friday 7 October - Sunday 9 October
- The Divide over Miers; Bush Asking Too Much?; Buchanan Wants a Brawl
- Tuesday 4 October - Thursday 6 October
- The Split over Harriet Miers; Some Early Support for Miers; Many Conservatives Suspicious
September 2005
- Friday 30 September - Monday 3 October
- Abortionist Offers Free Abortions to Katrina Victims; Bush Must Keep His Promise; Holland Legalizes Infanticide; Euthanasia Case Goes to SCOTUS; Schwarzenegger To Veto Gay Marriage Bill
- Wednesday 28 September - Thursday 29 September
- Bush To High Court: Reinstate PBA Ban; Intelligent Design Is Smart; Hinduism in Public School; Press Blind to Plan B Dangers; Banquet Tickets Available
- Monday 26 September - Tuesday 27 September
- Dems Can't Explain Objections to Roberts; Sun-Times Knows Better than the Pope; Eye on Activists
- Friday 23 September - Sunday 25 September
- Stalwarts Picket St. Ignatius; Cardinal Praises League on 25th Anniversary; Dems Split over Roberts on Committee Vote; Europe Is Disappearing; Molly Yard Dies at 93
- Wednesday 21 September - Thursday 22 September
- Protest St. Ignatius Thursday; Good Trends; Wisenthal and Inspiration to the Pro-Life Movement; Same Old Abortion Lies in South America
- Monday 19 September - Tuesday 20 September
- Novak: Pro-Abort Senators No Match for Roberts; Steyn: Embarrassing Drivel from Dems; Krauthammer: Hearings All about Abortion; Right to Protest Upheld
- Friday 16 September - Sunday 18 September
- Pro-Aborts Terrified of Roberts; Gay "Marriage" in Massachusetts; "Continue the Pregnancy"?; Circuit Judges Need Prayers
- Wednesday 14 September - Thursday 15 September
- Roberts Won't Show His Hand; Hearings an Interesting Show
- Monday 12 September - Tuesday 13 September
- Birth Safer than Abortion, Study Finds; A Consoling Thought; Protest at St. Ignatius Sept. 22; Register Now for Oct. 2 Gala!
- Friday 9 September - Sunday 11 September
- League Celebrates Jubilee Oct. 2 ; Planned Parenthood Exploiting Katrina?; States Pass Abortion Restrictions; Abortion Under Fire in Britain; Protest St. Ignatius for Honoring Madigan
- Wednesday 7 September - Thursday 8 September
- Roberts Hearings Postponed; Right Call on Chief Appointment?; Plan B Dangers Mean Nothing to Pro-Aborts
- Friday 2 September - Tuesday 6 September
- Chapman on Vaporous "Privacy"; Pro-Abort Bash FDA for Plan B Delay; Our Silver Anniversary Party, Oct 2
August 2005
- Monday 29 August - Thursday 1 September
- A Victory To Sustain Us; Fetal Pain Study Is Bogus; Conscience Protections Threatened; Paul Weyrich Recovering from Surgery
- Friday 26 August - Sunday 28 August
- Steinberg Should Doubt His Doubt; Conservative Jews Back Roberts; Court Lets Ten Commandments Monument Stay; New CPC Launches in Lombard
- Monday 3 May - Thursday 26 May
- League Scuttles Pro-Abort Rally; Flawed Fetal Pain Study; ACLU Blocks Abstinence Funding; Pro-Abort Madigan To Speak at St. Ignatius
- Monday 22 August - Tuesday 23 August
- Frist Justly Under Fire; Face the Truth Comes to St. Louis; Beckman Nails It; Nothing Comes from Nothing
- Friday 19 August - Sunday 21 August
- Volunteer Elizabeth Will Be Missed; Outrageous Roberts?; English Nun versus The Da Vinci Code; Pope Calls for More Public Crucifixes in Italy; Joliet Cop Gets a Lesson
- Monday 15 August - Thursday 18 August
- Liberal Desperation over Roberts; The Losers at NARAL; ". . . With Liberty and Abortion for All"; Frist's Failure; Pro-Lifers Picket Pro-Abort Party
- Monday 8 February - Sunday 20 February
- Pro-Aborts Are Their Own Worst Enemy; ECLA Votes on Sin; Pray for Paul Weyrich
- Wednesday 10 August - Thursday 11 August
- NARAL Ad Lies about Roberts; Kansas Pro-Life Teens Visit League; Life Still Begins at Conception; Hideous
- Monday 8 August - Tuesday 9 August
- Placenta Cells Yield Cures; Pro-Life Presence at the Procession; PETA Borrows Truth Tour Tactic
- Friday 5 August - Sunday 7 August
- Chapman Fingers the Real Extremists; Support for Roe Is Thin; Abortionist Hern Unhinged
- Wednesday 3 August - Thursday 4 August
- Abortion Crowd Getting Desperate; Public Confused on Roe; Bleak Future for Pro-Aborts; Hunter Gets One Thing Right
- Monday 1 August - Tuesday 2 August
- Frist's Defection; IPPF Pushes Lethal Abortion Pill; Pro-Lifers Know: Satan Is Real; Benedict: The West Is Weary; Prayer Warrior Will Be Missed
July 2005
- Wednesday 27 July - Sunday 31 July
- Mother Nature Rains on Pro-Aborts' Parade; Uncertainty over Roberts and Roe; Two Who Attacked Truth Tour Go to Court
- Monday 25 July - Tuesday 26 July
- Chapman: "Let's Not and Say We Did"; Turley Sacred of Roberts; Steyn: Dem's Overplay "Divine Right of Judges"; Byrne: Supreme Court Nomination a "War of Succession"
- Friday 22 July - Sunday 24 July
- Schumer's Litmus Test; Clayton Bows Out of High Court Appearance; FDA Warning on RU-486 Isn't Enough; No Quotas for High Court
- Monday 18 July - Tuesday 19 July
- Sixth Annual Truth Tour Closes with Success; Durbin's Fuzzy Ethics; Byrne Blasts Blago
- Friday 15 July - Sunday 17 July
- Blessings of the Truth Tour; Will Bush Pass the "Nomination Test"?
- Monday 11 July - Thursday 14 July
- America Must Face the Truth; Vatican Targets Catholics Who Give Scandal; Krauthammer on O'Connor
- Friday 8 July - Sunday 10 July
- Young Faces on This Year's Tour; Counter-Protestors Make Us Look Good; Mayor Daley Sees the Tour; Life Begins at Conception; God Grant Her Many Years!
- Tuesday 5 July - Thursday 7 July
- Good Timing for Truth Tour; The Apostolate of the Street
- Friday 1 July - Monday 4 July
- Court Watch; War Comes Close to Home; Pastor Tragically Slain
June 2005
- Monday 27 June - Tuesday 5 July
- The Curse of Birth Control; Gonzales Unacceptable to Pro-Lifers; Emotions Trump Reason on ES Cells; Crusade for Life Visits League
- Friday 24 June - Sunday 26 June
- False Prophets at the Sun-Times; New Group of Sham Christians; Baptists Give Up Boycott; Tombstone Lies about Terri; Two More CLOSED in Florida; Reader Responds to Theologian Marin
- Monday 20 June - Thursday 23 June
- Spanish Faithful Resist Gay "Marriage"; Press Still Confused on Schiavo; Contradictions on Morning After Pill; Early Induction = Abortion; Activist's Mother Passes Away
- Thursday 16 June - Sunday 19 June
- Truth Day News; Kansas Abortionists Shut Down; Police Create "Buffer Zone" at Chicago Clinic; Vatican Victory in Italy
- Monday 13 June - Wednesday 15 June
- Belz on Modern Godlessness; Benedict Appeals to Italians on Stem Cells
- Friday 10 June - Sunday 12 June
- 1992 Abortion Death Remembered; The Hidden Truth of Abortion Deaths; Life Sentence for Feticide; Americans More Religious
- Monday 6 June - Wednesday 8 June
- Griswold Remembered; Children Are Not the Problem; Contraception Leads to Abortion
- Friday 3 June - Sunday 5 June
- Black Americans for Life Luncheon; Pastor Ed Needs Your Help; Subscribe to the National Catholic Register
May 2005
- Tuesday 31 May - Thursday 2 June
- Benedict Reaches Out to Orthodox, Italians; Atheist Minister Reinstated in Denmark; Clarence Page, Consistently Wrong
- Friday 27 May - Monday 30 May
- House Votes For Embryo Murder; Philly Parents Sue Health Dept.; NH Parental Notification Blocked; Salvi Plans To Un-Seat Bean; Ron Galloy Confronts Big Media; Pray for Souls
- Monday 23 May - Wednesday 25 May
- Murder and Abortion: All the Same to the Child; News Gets Out on Ultrasound Controversy; Creator of Heaven and Earth; Trib Chides Bush for Having Conscience
- Thursday 19 May - Sunday 22 May
- Group Blows the Whistle on Catholic Colelges; Fighting To Restore College's Catholic Identity
- Monday 16 May - Wednesday 18 May
- "Tough Love" Truth Day; Planned Parenthood Ploy on Ultrasounds; Fight Illinois Ultrasound Bill; Arizona Students Face the Truth
- Thursday 12 May - Sunday 15 May
- Ambulance at Tiller's Mill; Bible Ignorance; Intimidating Cross?; Kass Has a Point
- Monday 9 May - Wednesday 11 May
- George Fights Stem Cell Bill; Benedict Modifies Beatification Ceremony; Elshtain Defends Bible Study; Church-Goers Healthier
- Thursday 5 May - Sunday 8 May
- Parker on Parental Notification; George to Blago: Back Off
- Monday 2 May - Wednesday 4 May
- Contraception and Abortion; Catholic Docs and Moral Issues
April 2005
- Thursday 28 April - Sunday 1 May
- Rest in Peace, Catherine Crowley; A Rich Life of Service; A Tremendous Zest for Life
- Monday 25 April - Wednesday 27 April
- Pope Benedict Faces the Wolves; "Terr's Thirst"; Krauthammer on the Judiciary
- Friday 22 April - Sunday 24 April
- Pope Benedict XVI; A Humble Pastor; Teaching the Truth
- Monday 18 April - Thursday 21 April
- Help America Face the Truth; Cardinals in Conclave
- Monday 11 April - Thursday 14 April
- One Nation, Under the Courts; Time To Fight the Courts; We Have Lost a Friend
- Friday 8 April - Sunday 10 April
- Man of the Century; John Paul's Greatest Homily
- Monday 4 April - Thursday 7 April
- Gone to His Just Reward; My John Paul Story; Paprocki Challenges Blagojevich
- Friday 1 April - Sunday 3 April
- Courts Further Delegitimized by Terri's Death; Vatican Denounces Schiavo Killing; Falsani on Schiavo's Death
March 2005
- Wednesday 30 March - Thursday 31 March
- Jesse Jackson Defends Terri; League Joins Not Dead Yet Protest; Two Good Columns on Terri; Abstinence Saving Lives in Uganda; Mom Opposes ES Cell Therapy
- Monday 31 May - Tuesday 31 May
- Too Late for Terri; What Is To Become of America?; Doctor Bias in Schiavo Case
- Monday 26 April - Sunday 1 May
- Terri's Case Now Desperate; TV Appearance Thursday; Schiavo Truth Day; Courageous Activist Dies; Last Hotline before Easter
- Monday 21 March - Tuesday 22 March
- The True Purpose of Government
- Monday 15 March - Sunday 20 March
- Crisis, Kerry Style; Court Denies Schiavo Appeal; Scott Peterson Sentenced to Death; Pray for Our Country This Holy Week
- Monday 14 March - Wednesday 16 March
- Terri Schiavo Countdown; True Moral Leadership?; Wrong, Spong; The Year of the Eucharist; Truth Day March 23
- Friday 11 March - Sunday 13 March
- Last Ditch Efforts for Terri; Parker Defends Moms and Dads; A Real Bishop; The Bible and Homosexuality
- Wednesday 9 March - Thursday 10 March
- Bill Finally Stripped of Vindictive Measure; Teen Births Decline; Fight for Terri Continues; Irish Pro-Lifer Assaulted; Anglicans Hungry for Truth
- Monday 4 January - Tuesday 11 January
- Hotline History; Planned Parenthood Boycott Is Working; Man or Mouse?; Order In the Womb; Keep Fighting for Terri
- Friday 4 March - Sunday 6 March
- UK Activist Stepping It Up; Letters Defend Right to Life; Should We Picket Kennedy?
- Wednesday 2 March - Thursday 3 March
- Terri Faces Torturous Death; CWA Supports Right To Know Bill; Missing the Fourth R; Read John Leo's Column
February 2005
- Monday 28 February - Tuesday 1 March
- A Little More Time for Terri; Libby Gray Defends Abstinence; God Will Not Be Mocked; League History in Latest Action News
- Friday 25 February - Sunday 27 February
- Sad Closing of Catholic Schools; NOW Admits We're Winning; Court Gives Terri Three More Weeks; Kansas Court To Examine Abortion Records
- Monday 26 April - Thursday 28 April
- Letters Take Schmich to Task; Judge To Decide Terri's Fate; Embryonic Stem Cell Debate Rages
- Monday 12 April - Tuesday 26 April
- Nine Talks in 48 Hours; Eleventh Hour for Terri Schiavo; Face the Truth in Ireland; Birth Control Not the Answer
- Wednesday 16 February - Sunday 20 February
- We Were All Once Embryos; Science and the Human Embryo; Very Serious Business
- Monday 14 February - Tuesday 15 February
- Abortionists Getting Desperate; Gay Activists Says He's Good Catholic; Perverse Playwright To Speak Notre Dame
- Wednesday 9 February - Sunday 13 February
- Stacked Deck on Court TV; Public Are Learning the Truth; The Truth Will Out
- Monday 7 February - Tuesday 8 February
- Judge Rules Embryo Human; Humanity "versus" Personhood; The Myth of the Unwanted Baby
- Friday 4 February - Sunday 6 February
- Troy's the "Life of the Party"; Support Illinois SB 188; Surrender To His Will
- Wednesday 2 February - Thursday 3 February
- World Prays for Pope's Recovery; La Quinta Kicks Out Tiller; OR's "Life of the Party" Tour; Bishops Campaign Targets Abortion
January 2005
- Monday 31 January - Tuesday 1 February
- Laura Washington Welcomes Sodom; Specter-Watch; Law Would Expose Unborn's Torment; Seventh Circuit Denies League Petition
- Friday 28 January - Sunday 30 January
- We Need the Angelic Doctor; Pope's Lenten Message Condemns Euthenasia; Safe and Legal?; Feldt Resigns as Planned Parenthood Head
- Wednesday 26 January - Thursday 27 January
- Bush's Hopeful Message to the March; High Court Disappoints Again; Hillary Admits Abortion's Tragedy
- Friday 21 January - Tuesday 25 January
- Abraham Lincoln's Wisdom; Lincoln's Words Apply to Abortion
- Wednesday 19 January - Thursday 20 January
- Columnist Ignores the Facts; Boycott La Quinta Inn
- Monday 17 January - Tuesday 18 January
- Great SpeakOut Conference Now on CD; Media Bias Undeniable, Says Krauthammer; Bad Popes Henry and Martin; The Victims Must Be Seen
- Monday 17 January - Sunday 16 January
- Chemical Abortion Under Fire; Illinois "Gay Rights" Law Passes; Other Gay News; New Pro-Life Conscience Law; Rehnquist Continues To Serve; Pro-Life Mass in Chicago 1/15; Another Broken Promise from the Pro-Aborts
- Monday 10 January - Tuesday 11 January
- SpeakOut Illinois 2005; Dems May Pick Pro-Life Leader; Lutherans Mull Gay Ordinations; Berman Clueless on Love
- Friday 7 January - Sunday 9 January
- Year of the Eucharist Is Needed; "Do This"; A Difficult Teaching; Year of the Eucharist Activities
- Wednesday 5 January - Thursday 6 January
- Moving Funeral Mass for Holy Priest; Press Calls Forced Abortion "Harsh"; Illegal Abortions in Florida; Many Roe v. Wade Memorials; Baseball Bat Abortion
- Monday 3 January - Tuesday 4 January
- We'll Miss Fr. Commons; We're Not Equipped To Play God
