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PrintSOCIAL VS FISCAL CONSERVATISM AT UA/REFORM CONVENTION
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OTTAWA, Jan 31, (LSN.ca) - LifeSite News staff returned home late yesterday after monitoring the UA/Reform Convention which concluded Sunday. Although a number of people believed that the UA and Preston Manning's leadership were going to unravel, the vast majority of Reformers attending their annual convention provided clear support for the initiative and reconfirmed their support of Manning by a 75% margin.
Social conservatives at the conventions fought to preserve the conservative social values in the Canadian Alliance's policies that were contained in Reform policies. They were for the most part successful The UA assembly quickly passed the new party's policies and amendments that strongly support the family. These are far beyond anything contained in the other mainstream parties' official positions. For example, the party's official position on marriage is that it is "the union of a man and a woman." The party is also bound to defend the position that "[w]e would not allow international law to supercede Canadian law", a policy that would cause cause grief to UN social engineers should the Alliance form the next government. The delegates voted to remove a clause, which would have promoted the "decriminalizing [of] possession and use of marijuana by adults."
Back to TopQUEBEC ABORTION RATE INCREASES
MONTREAL, Jan 31 (LSN.ca) - Quebec has seen a marked increase in the number of abortions according to recently released 1998 statistics by the Quebec Health Department. In that year, 31,329 unborn babies were killed in that province. "That's up 3.6% from the previous year, an astonishing 29% from 1990 and 107% from 1980," reported the Montreal Gazette last Wednesday. "This means there are now almost two abortions for every five births."
The thrust of the Gazette article was to discover the reasons for the increase and propose solutions. Predictably, yet tragically, Henry Aubin's article blames the failure of sexually active people to use contraception. "The big increase is among the age group that is more experienced, wiser 18-to-29-year-olds." Aubin turns to "sexology" professor Francine Duquet for an explanation. "One reason is that condom PR blitzes associate them with sexually- transmitted diseases rather than pregnancy prevention. They are therefore used more for one- night stands and early relationships, when lovers don't know each other well."
See the Gazette article at:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/editorial/pages/000126/3494076.html
CANADA'S NEW ABORTION POSTER BOYS
TORONTO, Jan 31 (LSN.ca) - Christian columnist, Marianne Meed Ward, has written an important article in today's Toronto Sun about the way abortion activists may try to stifle further public debate over abortion. Her article, entitled, "Meet abortion's new poster boys," warns readers that convicted woman-abuser, Jean-Guy Tremblay, and suspected abortionist killer, James Kopp, are convenient weapons for pro-abort forces to trot out every time pro-lifers seek to raise objections to abortion. Tremblay, former boyfriend of Chantale Daigle, tried to prevent her from procuring an abortion in 1989 in a case that went to the Supreme Court of Canada.
"With these two guys making headlines, it will be hard to have a sensible conversation about abortion," says Meed Ward. "But such a conversation is desperately needed," she adds. "It's long past time to restrict the whys and the whens of abortion. But if any government tries, you can be sure our two poster boys will be trotted out to justify leaving things as they are."
CONSERVATIVE MONETARY SUPPORT MOVING TO ALLIANCE?
OTTAWA, Jan 31 (LSN.ca) - On Saturday the National Post reported on the financial woes faced by the federal Tories and the further threat the United Alternative may be to the party's fiscal stability. According to journalist, Robert Fife, Progressive Conservative leader "Joe Clark is struggling to pay off heavy debts incurred during the 1998 Conservative leadership race." These debts amount to $100,000 and are separate from the $10-million debt the party has incurred. According to the article, Clark advisor, Bill Neville, has admitted to receiving "some angry phone calls from some creditors but no one is suing anyone."
Making matters potentially worse for the Tories, "Reform and Ontario and Alberta Conservative party fundraisers claim major corporations are prepared to pour millions of dollars into a new right-wing party that sets itself up as a national alternative to the governing Liberals. Bob Mills, a Reform MP mandated to act as the party's chief corporate fundraiser, said he has corporate pledges of $4-million if the United Alternative initiative is successful." NP also reports that "Rod Love, a former chief of staff to Ralph Klein, the Alberta Premier, said he too has received strong assurances from Alberta's major corporations that money will flow if Ontario and Alberta Tories unite with western Reformers."
12-YEAR-OLD GIRL GIVES BIRTH WITH HELP OF CHURCH
PLYMOUTH, Scotland, Jan 31 (LSN.ca) - While the Catholic Church in Scotland celebrated the birth of a baby to a 12-year-old girl who would likely have opted for an abortion without the aid of the church, abortion supporters reviled the news.
Jane Roe, of the UK's Abortion Law Reform Association was outraged that the church encouraged the young mother not to abort the baby. "A 12-year-old is still a child. There is no way at all that a child of that age is ready physically, or emotionally, to give birth," she said. Cardinal Thomas Winning of Scotland, who commenced the pro-life aid from the church, responded to the media through a spokesman, saying, "No one is happy when a child of 12 falls pregnant but, once it became clear she was pregnant, we were dealing with two lives and not one." Fr Danny McLoughlin added, "Of course it is always a great joy that a child is born, irrespective of the circumstances."
As LifeSite reported last September, the girl resisted pressure from her mother to abort the baby. Furthermore, the adolescent father of the baby told the press that graphic sex- education was responsible for their promiscuous behaviour. "It is the school's responsibility, showing us videos of men and women naked. After all, we are just children," he said.
For the report from the Telegraph see:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=wQAnsfob&atmo=wQAnsfob&pg=...
LIFESITE NEWSBYTES
The Vatican has urged the Rome government to reconsider its allowing of World Gay Pride 2000 festivals in the city. The request is especially urgent since this year, a jubilee, thousands of pilgrims are expected in Rome. http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=46085
A University of Toronto website is suggesting that the grossly inflated figure of 10% (of the population being homosexual) "is actually a conservative figure and numbers are likely to increase as conditions for "coming out" improve; some estimates are as high as 25%." http://www.campuslife.utoronto.ca/services/sec/blg.html
The leader of the British parliamentary opposition has praised the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC). Mr William Hague said that he admired the work of SPUC, LIFE and CARE in helping people face up to the problems of unexpected pregnancies. He said that "many people" were trying to introduce euthanasia by the back door and welcomed Mrs Ann Winterton's Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill which passed its second reading on Friday. [The Universe, 30 January, 2000] A transcript of the debate on the Bill begins at:
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199900/cmhansrd/cm000128/...
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