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HOMOSEXUAL OMNIBUS LEGISLATION PASSES IN CANADA

OTTAWA, Apr 12 (LSN.ca) - The federal government's homosexual omnibus legislation which affords homosexual unions near legal equality with marriage passed the House of Commons yesterday with a vote of 174-72. Although not granted a free vote on the bill, 17 Liberals voted against their party.

The lawmakers ignored the massive outcry by Canadians with regard to this legislation. The number of petitions, phone calls, emails, letters and faxes received by the House against the legislation was unprecedented. Media coverage on Bill C-23, did not report the extent of opposition to the legislation.

Bill C-23 will now be debated in the Senate before being signed into law.

To see how MPs voted on this important issue see:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/36/2/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/083_2000-04-11/han083-e...

Pro-family supporters are urged to contact senators to express their concerns over the legislation. http://www.parl.gc.ca/36/senmemb/senate/IsenAssist.asp?L=E

See the Canadian Press coverage at:
http://www.canoe.ca/TopStories/samesex_apr11.html

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DID USAID FUND STUDY INFECTING UGANDANS WITH AIDS?

Johns Hopkins Tests Hiv On Humans Without Consent

KAMPALA, Uganda, Apr 12 (LSN.ca) - The Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland, an institution well known for its work in population control in the Third World, is in hot water over a recent study. Its researchers tested the rate at which HIV can be transferred in heterosexual couples from infected to uninfected persons - without informing the uninfected partners of the risks involved. Interestingly, last November the university received US$16 million from the United States Agency for International Development for projects in Uganda. A press release from Johns Hopkins at the time noted that the money was for a AIDS-related project was called "Care for Others, Care for Yourself".

The study was published in the March 30 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, along with an editorial by Dr. Marcia Angell, which raised the specter of the controversy surrounding the study.

The project was carried out in 10 clusters of rural villages in Uganda. Villagers (including pregnant women) were surveyed on five occasions at 10-month intervals. Angell notes that "it is important to be clear about what this study meant for the participants. It meant that for up to 30 months, several hundred people with HIV infection were observed but not treated." Saying that "such a study could not have been performed in the United States" - where ethical research standards would prohibit it - Angell outlined the abuses within the study:

"It was also left up to the (HIV-positive) partner in couples" where one partner was found to be infected, "to decide whether the (healthy HIV-negative) partner would be informed, even though both were regularly seen by the investigators." "In addition, many people who were found to have other sexually transmitted diseases were left to seek their own treatment."

Hopkins argues that investigators do not need to provide better care for human subjects than is generally available in the community from which the subjects are drawn. They also say that they told subjects who were found to be HIV-positive to inform their partners of the risk, but failed to ensure this was done.

See the full editorial in the Journal at:
http://www.nejm.org/content/2000/0342/0013/0967.asp

See an abstract of the study in the Journal at:
http://www.nejm.org/content/2000/0342/0013/0921.asp

See the John Hopkins USAID grant press release at:
http://www.jhuccp.org/news/111099.stm

(with files from Pro-Life E-News)

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BODY SHOP CANADA HONOURS ABORTIONISTS

TORONTO, Apr 12 (LSN.ca) - The Body Shop, the popular cosmetics and naturalist store, yesterday launched a program to highlight Canadian "Women We Admire." Of the nineteen women included in the list most are radical feminists. One of the women named is Elizabeth Bagshaw, notorious for having run an illegal abortuary in Canada. Bagshaw, whose name is now enshrined as the name of a BC abortion centre, was the first Medical Director for the first Planned Parenthood in Canada. She is described by the Body Shop as a "Physician and pioneer in women's health care."

The Body shop also includes among their favoured 19 women, Michele Landsberg, the Toronto Star columnist most widely known for her frenzied support of abortion and homosexuality.

To express your concerns to The Body Shop write:

To see the press release from The Body Shop see:
http://www.newswire.ca/releases/April2000/11/c2951.html

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CATHOLIC COLLEGE PROF TO SPEAK AT PRO-EUTHANASIA CONFERENCE

BOSTON, Apr 12 (LSN.ca) - LifeSite has learned that professor Charles Baron of Boston College will be a speaker at the pro-euthanasia World Conference on Assisted Dying. The conference to take place September 1-3, 2000 in Boston, Massachusetts at The Boston Park Plaza Hotel will bring together "right-to-die" activists from around the world.

Promotional material about the conference on the website of the Hemlock society notes that "Baron, Author of several major articles on assisted dying and Professor of Law at Boston College, (will) explain how the prohibition model makes a mockery of the law."

Founded in 1863, it is one of the oldest Jesuit, Catholic universities in the United States.

See the Hemlock conference info at:
http://www.hemlock.org/world_conference.htm

Email your concerns to: Fr. William P. Leahy, President of Boston College

Email your concerns to the Boston Archdiocesan newspaper:

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US CATHOLIC BISHOPS BEGIN NATIONWIDE PRO-LIFE CAMPAIGN

BOSTON, Apr 12 (LSN.ca) - The National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) has launched a national campaign to reach out to women who have had abortions to offer forgiveness and healing. The initiative, which began in Boston February 1, runs ads on radio and billboards with the slogan: "Something inside dies after an abortion". The ads also quote women who have had abortions saying: "Not one day goes by that I don't think of my baby boy." Included is a toll-free number for Project Rachel, the church's post-abortion counseling service that began 15 years ago. The service is named after Rachel, a Biblical character who mourns the death of her children.

For more see the AP report at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000407/aponline025650_000.htm

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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

Britain's Parliament is so intent to lower the age of homosexual consent for sexual acts from 18 to 16 that it is considering a rarely used override of the upper house of parliament which has twice thrown out the legislation. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewGlobal.asp?Page=\Global\archive\GLO20000411e.html

A British Health Authority has developed a publicly funded newsletter advertising homosexual pubs and Internet websites and encouraging readers to take part in a homosexual beauty contest. The material was circulated to schools and recommended for students aged 11 and up. Called "Connect", the newsletter points pupils towards Internet sites carrying sexual material and recommends courses run by an organisation which teaches homosexuals how to "cruise" for sex. http://www.the-times.co.uk./news/pages/Times/timnwsnws01043.html

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US NEWS ROUNDUP

American Life League reports that in at least 150 public schools this Friday, April 14, students will take advantage of a constitutional right to hand out anti-abortion literature to their peers. The second annual "Day of Remembrance" event marks the deaths of more than 40 million children who have been killed by abortion in the United States since the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision. Students around the nation will pass out pro-life literature in their schools with the message, "it could have been you." http://www.whylife.org/wl000410.htm

Catholic World News reports that a proposed law under consideration by the Illinois Senate could require all hospitals in the state, including the 50 Catholic hospitals, to provide abortifacient "emergency contraception" to rape victims. http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48991

Conservative News Service reports that the Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee has begun consideration of the first draft of two bills that would grant benefits to same sex couples. Opponents of the measure insist the legislation does nothing short of creating a dual system of marriage, one for homosexual couples and another for heterosexuals. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200004\POL2000041...

Days after a coalition of 1,250 Christian broadcasters voiced support for Dr. Laura Schlessinger's outspoken comments on homosexuality, a prominent family advocacy group, the Washington-based Family Research Council, took out a full-page ad in Monday's Washington Times titled, "The Thought Police Are Out to Silence Dr. Laura." http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\CUL20000411b.html

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