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ABORTION BECOMES MAJOR CAMPAIGN ISSUE

Day refuses all opportunities to challenge opponents' hard-line positions

TORONTO, Nov 7 (LSN.ca) - Last March 17 Jean Chretien escalated the Liberal abortion position to a strong pro-abortion one when he declared at the Party's national convention: "We Liberals believe in a woman's right to choose." He repeated this in a speech to the Liberal parliamentary caucus in Winnipeg on Aug. 29 and escalated his position even further by adding "he (Stockwell Day) wants a devisive national referendum on this right. To break the social peace we have had in Canada on this issue ever since the Supreme Court decision of 1988".

Chretien's stunning and insensitive statement that there has been a social peace while over one million pre-born children have been killed, presented a golden opportunity for political opponents to exploit. Chretien repeated the statement on Nov. 6 in comments to a Quebec Women's group and added . "Mr. Day is proposing to have a referendum on that. I think I don't agree. I [don't] think that the women will be very happy with that."

For the rest of this Special Report see:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/nov/001107a.html

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CCCB ELECTORAL REFLECTION GUIDE

OTTAWA, Nov 7 (LSN.ca) - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops organization has released a paper on "Discerning Electoral Options : A Pastoral Reflection from the Episcopal Commission for Social Affairs." The document suggests points to consider when voting and the list begins with questions asking "how are the different political parties and candidates committed to: defending the right to life of the unborn? (and) preserving existing legal prohibitions against euthanasia and assisted suicide?".

While the pro-life community is pleased that the issues have been presented as important considerations in the CCCB guide, they are disappointed that they are not presented as defining issues. Recent statements by the US Catholic bishops clarify that not only are the life-issues a top priority, but being anti-life disqualifies candidates from Christian support. Writing on "The Ballot and the Right to Life" recently, Bishop James C. Timlin, D.D., Bishop of Scranton explained, "Abortion is the issue this year and every year in every campaign. .The taking of innocent human life is so heinous, so horribly evil, and so absolutely opposite to the law of Almighty God that abortion must take precedence over every other issue. I repeat. It is the single most important issue confronting not only Catholics, but also the entire electorate."

The CCCB statement calls Christians to "make the best possible choice based on a multiplicity of issues" but fails to define the life issues as critically important, and much more significant than issues of poverty, environment and immigration which are also strongly emphasized in the CCCB guide. The recent address of Pope John Paul II to the leaders of the Council of Europe on Friday attests to the need to remind politicians and voters that, as the Pope said, "the right to life" is the "most basic" right of all.

For the recent statements of over 15 US bishops on the election see:
http://www.priestsforlife.org/magisterium/bishops/bishopexcerpts2.htm

See the CCCB election document at:
http://www.cccb.ca/english/episdocs.asp?ID=121

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W-5 SMEAR CAMPAIGN SEEN AS FOILED ATTACK ON STOCKWELL DAY

Biased Program Blasted By Pro-Life Leaders

TORONTO, Nov 7 (LSN.ca) - The CTV W-5 program which on Sunday night undertook a smear campaign against crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs) in Canada, is being condemned for its pro-abortion bias and the program's attempt to attack Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day. The head of Campaign Life Coalition New Brunswick said the program should be sued. In a press release Peter Ryan said the program "libelled and defamed pro-life centers that provide pregnant mothers an alternative to abortion."

The program claimed that such centers deceive women and give inaccurate information about abortion. Rather, Ryan says the program was a "propaganda piece that went well beyond the pale of fair comment." For example, the program accused a Calgary center of telling a woman she "would have trouble ever conceiving again" if she had an abortion. But the woman herself stated only that a pro-life counsellor told her she "could" have such a complication - which is entirely true. There is no evidence the woman was falsely told that she would be unable to have children. Ryan says pro-life pregnancy centers are one of the few places that a woman can get the truth about abortion. "If W-5 is interested in finding deception, they just need to visit any abortion clinic. Abortion clinics systematically lie to every pregnant woman by denying that she is a mother with child."

CTV noted in promos to the program that "During the course of W5's investigation, it was discovered that Valerie Day, the wife of Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day, was a founding member of the Red Deer centre. Valerie Day helped establish the counselling centre in 1988 when it was known as the Red Deer Crisis Pregnancy Centre Society and went on to become its president." - as if to say Mrs. Day should be faulted for helping to found a centre which has saved the lives of numerous Canadian children. Thanks to the numerous complaints that portion of the program was not aired.

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CONJOINED TWINS SEPARATED - ONE KILLED, OTHER IN CRITICAL CONDITION

LONDON, Nov 7 (LSN.ca) - The separation of conjoined twins Jodie and Mary yesterday drew startling headlines in the Daily Telegraph today. One headline ran, "Yesterday a child was killed by order of the courts." Writer Daniel Johnson noted that "By the time you read this, a three-month-old child will have been deliberately killed, in cold blood, on an operating table in Manchester, by order of the second highest court in the land." Agence France Presse reported today that the while Mary died, Jodie survived the separation but is in critical condition in hospital.

Johnson concludes, "Slowly but surely, the legal and medical professions are embracing eugenics, euthanasia and human cloning - just as, a generation ago, they embraced abortion on demand. Those whose vocations should make them guardians of life are unwittingly fostering a culture of death."

See the Telegraph at:
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=002830376029449&rtmo=lnFnQAot&atmo=HHHH22N...

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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

Scientists have again found sources of stem cells other than aborted babies and human embryos. Scientists in New Orleans have discovered stem cells can be retrieved from skin and from cadavers.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/page1/ledger/115e1f6.html

Bangkok has retained its laws against abortion despite pressure to have abortion for women with HIV/Aids.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/today/071100_News01.html

The British Parliament has defeated a suggestion to allow experimentation on human embryos. The Private Members Bill was rejected on Tuesday evening by 175 votes to 85.
http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999119

New York's Archbishop Egan spoke at to the Jewish Anti-Defamation League defending the right to life. Of their pro-abortion position he said, "I can't understand your position, I'll be honest."
http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-11-03/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-86996.asp

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