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Monday January 8, 2001
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Print- CHRETIEN FORCING MORGENTALER CLINIC FUNDING BY TAXPAYERS
- BRITISH STUDENTS AS YOUNG AS 11 TO GET ABORTIFACIENTS WITHOUT PARENTS KNOWLEDGE
- NEW EVIDENCE LINKING ABORTION, THE PILL AND BREAST CANCER
- NO JAIL FOR TRYING TO FORCE DAUGHTER'S ABORTION AT GUNPOINT
- CANADA PLEDGES TROOPS TO UN STANDING ARMY WITHOUT PUBLIC INPUT
- ENGLAND EXERTS IMPERIALISM TO FORCE ACCEPTANCE OF HOMOSEXUALITY ON CARIBBEAN ISLANDS
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CHRETIEN FORCING MORGENTALER CLINIC FUNDING BY TAXPAYERS
TODAY'S HEADLINES
Manitoba Caves In, Day Criticizes Gov't "Stormtrooping" Tactics
WINNIPEG, Jan 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) - As the federal Liberal Government continues to threaten to take action over New Brunswick's refusal to pay for abortions at private clinics, the Manitoba government has caved in to pressure and agreed to use tax dollars for abortions at Henry Morgentaler's abortuary in the province. Manitoba deputy health minister Ron Hikel told the Winnipeg Press the "The province is in the process of developing a policy and a procedure that will create a new category of not-for-profit clinics that will be basically operating as public sector facilities . . . Assuming that this is arranged, it will start paying both the physicians' and the so-called tray fee at the Morgentaler clinic."
Prime Minister Chretien appears to be following through on his more open pro-abortion militancy that sprouted just before the federal election. Mary Ellen Douglas, National Organizer for Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) slammed the government's hypocrisy Friday for its insistence that Nova Scotia fund the private abortuary of Morgentaler while having campaigned against two-tier medicine. "Mr. Rock is pressuring Alberta to shut down private MRI clinics, while trying to force New Brunswick to support private abortion clinics," said Douglas. To be consistent, she said, "New Brunswick should be refused transfer payments if Henry Morgentaler's private clinic in Fredericton is not closed."
CLC's position is that the Canada Health Act cannot be used to pressure provinces to fund abortions, wherever they are carried out, because the Act requires only that medically necessary services be publicly funded and, today, abortion is never medically necessary. Provinces have the right under the Canada Health Care Act to define which services are medically necessary and subject to tax dollar funding. The federal government is consistently ignoring provincial rights on this and blackmailing provinces that do not accept its view that the abortion "choice" is medically necessary by threatening to withhold substantial health care funding.
Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day also criticized the federal government's heavy-handedness on the issue. "I think it's fascinating that once again we see the health minister operating not from a point of view of a co-operative approach, but talking about stormtrooping in there, carrying the big hammer," Day told the Canadian Press from Vancouver. "Where is co-operative federalism? Again it points to the alienation people feel from the political process. . . I understand that for some 14 years now in New Brunswick it has been the policy that this procedure be funded in hospitals and not in clinics." He concluded, "They have concerns about clinics and that is their policy."
See the Canadian Press coverage at:
http://www.canada.com/cgi-bin/cp.asp?f=/news/cp/stories/20010105/health-784029.h...
(with files from Pro-Life E-News)
Back to TopBRITISH STUDENTS AS YOUNG AS 11 TO GET ABORTIFACIENTS WITHOUT PARENTS KNOWLEDGE
LONDON, Jan 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Britain's Daily Telegraph commences an alarming article today noting that "Girls as young as 11 will be able to obtain the morning-after pill from school nurses without their parents' permission." The move to allow the school nurses to hand out the abortifacient drugs without parents even knowing was proposed as a scheme to counteract the soaring rates of teen pregnancy. The news has sparked outrage among religious groups and parents who criticized the move saying it put children in danger and gave them the wrong message - encouraging sex outside marriage.
See the coverage in the Telegraph and BBC at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000142592815120&rtmo=qxpxdKL9&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1106000/1106112.stm
NEW EVIDENCE LINKING ABORTION, THE PILL AND BREAST CANCER
NEW YORK, Jan 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) - A new book by Dr. Chris Kahlenborn, M.D., demonstrates convincingly that a woman who has an abortion prior to her first full-term pregnancy can have at least a 50 percent increased risk of developing breast cancer. Moreover, Kahlenborn finds that a woman who takes birth control pills before her first child is born has at least a 40 percent increased risk of developing breast cancer and a woman who has taken the pill for four or more years prior to the birth of her first child has a 72 percent risk factor in developing breast cancer. WorldNetDaily reports that the book, "Breast cancer: Its link to abortion and the birth control pill," published by One More Soul, is based on six years of study and a meticulous analysis of hundreds of scientific papers and other sources.
For more see WorldNetDaily at:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21236
NO JAIL FOR TRYING TO FORCE DAUGHTER'S ABORTION AT GUNPOINT
FORT PIERCE, Jan 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Glenda Dianne Dowis, 42, who according to police last summer attempted to force her 16-year-old daughter to have an abortion at gunpoint, has not been given jail time for her crime after pleading to reduced charges Friday. The daughter refused to cooperate since she did not want her mother jailed. She was sentenced to two years of house arrest and three years probation. The Sun-Sentinel reports that the granddaughter whom Dowis sought to ensure was aborted is due to be born in two months.
For more see the Sun-Sentinel at:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,36000000000155195,00..html
CANADA PLEDGES TROOPS TO UN STANDING ARMY WITHOUT PUBLIC INPUT
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) - On Friday, Canada signed an agreement with the United Nations to put Canadian troops and equipment on standby for UN interventions. The move is controversial since conservative critics suggest that it is the first step in the creation of a UN army. Notably, the United States has not agreed to participate in the venture which was commenced by the UN in 1994. Canada is the 34th country to sign a memorandum of understanding under the UN Standby Arrangements System agreeing to place ships, equipped military personnel and aircraft on standby for use by the UN within 30 days.
There was no public debate on the issue in Canada prior to the agreement.
The other countries that have signed the memorandum are: Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kyrgyz Republic, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Zimbabwe.
ENGLAND EXERTS IMPERIALISM TO FORCE ACCEPTANCE OF HOMOSEXUALITY ON CARIBBEAN ISLANDS
LONDON, Jan 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The British government has followed through with their threat to force the legalization of homosexuality on its Caribbean territories after having cajoled the Islands' legislators unsuccessfully. The Islands have devout Christian populations and their leaders have thus refused to cave in to the foreign pressure but the British government decided to exert its imperial power over the Islands with an order from the British Privy Council decriminalizing homosexual acts. Nando Times reports that the order takes effect this week and applies to Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos.
Responding to the order, Rev. Nicholas Sykes, chief pastor of the Church of England in the Cayman Islands said Friday, "This is totally unacceptable to the minds of the Christian community here."
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The Roman Catholic Church in Zambia has criticized a government-funded "safe-sex" campaign which encourages promiscuity. The ads geared at young people promote the message that sex is great as long as you use a condom. BBC reports that the Zambian Health Minister, Enock Kavindele, said the hard-hitting campaign might be offensive but that the government was dealing with a grave situation, which needed shock therapy - AIDS.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1106000/1106368.stm
Church News reports that Argentinean president Fernando De la Rua expressed his commitment to defend life "from conception to its natural end" in a letter recently sent to Pope John Paul II, whom the president will meet April 5. "We reaffirm our commitment with life, and we join the voices of those who want life to be respected from conception until its natural end. We reiterate our denial of cloning, genetic manipulation, euthanasia and capital punishment," he wrote.
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=11040
The Ottawa Citizen reports that the Anglican diocese in Vancouver has taken one step closer to becoming the first in the world outside of the United States to bless same-sex unions, a move that could splinter the denomination.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010107/5060037.html
The BBC reports that separated Siamese twin Jodie is recovering well and should home for early summer. Her parents have been able to take her for walks around the hospital.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1105000/1105070.stm
The Times reports that The Catholic Church in England "stepped into the pre-election political fray when the Archbishop of Westminster called on the Government to put promotion of marriage at the heart of its policies. The Most Rev Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, spiritual leader of the 4.2 million Catholics of England and Wales, demanded that support for the institution of marriage as the basis of family life be stated explicitly in a forthcoming White Paper on the family."
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-63755,00.html
Pope John Paul II was awarded the US Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of his commitment to the defence of human dignity. In his speech the pope told the US leaders the Church will always defend and "promote human life."
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=11022
Cybercast News Service reports that a bill has been introduced in the Oklahoma legislature to ban RU-486.
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