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OTTAWA, Mar 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) - An Ottawa pro-life youth group with chapters at the two Ottawa universities has been under intense harassment for their efforts to set up a debate on abortion. Carleton University Womyn's (sic) Centre objected to the debate after learning that the pro-life side would be represented by famed U.S. pro-life apologist Scott Klusendorf, of Stand to Reason. Ottawa Youth for Life at Carleton U. found themselves accused of 'homophobia' since the university's Womyn's Centre found that Klusendorf's website has links to Christian organizations that discuss homosexuality.
Like all reliable Christian responses to homosexuality, the sites condemn the behaviour while advocating love for those with such inclinations. Nevertheless, the Womyn's centre complained to the university administration and the Ottawa police. Unbelievably, an officer from the hate crimes unit of the police called representatives of the group to come to the police station for investigation of the allegations. The police also called Klusendorf's house in California and spoke to his wife. Furthermore, Klusendorf was held up at the border for over an hour of interrogation.
Carleton University's student government organization called in the pro-life group, threatening to revoke their official club status based on the false charge of homophobia. However, when the pro-life group showed up with legal counsel, the Womyn's centre's plans were thwarted.
Yesterday Klusendorf made a presentation at Ottawa University and then held a debate at Carleton U. At Ottawa U. the Ottawa Youth for Life had received permission and paid for space in a commons area of the university to present a video, have Klusendorf speak, and then open up the floor for questions. The event attracted a large crowd but when the video depicting the results of abortion was to be shown, Rosanne Lepine from the university's Women's Resource Centre pulled the plug and refused to release it. Much commotion followed with some individuals shouting obscenities at Klusendorf and the directors of the pro-life group. Eventually university administration, security and the Ottawa police arrived. It was decided that the presentation would be moved to a small room where the video would be permitted. Given the commotion approximately 60 students jammed the room to see the 4 minute video and hear Klusendorf's talk. The question and answer period was brimming with students seeking information, and quite a few students approaching the pro-life group to sign up.
Klusendorf then went to Carleton University where he was to debate Cherie MacDonald, of the Ontario Coalition of Abortion Clinics. When he arrived, MacDonald said she was refusing to debate since she was unaware that a well-known debater was her opponent. However, she later changed her mind and was given opportunity to debate before some 250 students. The debate was a no-contest win for Klusendorf, with another list of new names for participation in the pro-life group.
Back to TopPRO-ABORTION PROPAGANDA FILM TO AIR ON CBC APRIL 8
HALIFAX, NS, Mar 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) - CBC, the Canadian public broadcaster, is again engaging in pro-abortion propaganda with a made for television movie funded by CBC that accuses the pro-life movement of involvement in the murder of abortionists and abortuary staff. CBC plans to air the two-hour film "Chasing Cain" on Sunday April 8, 2001 at 8pm. CBC claims in its press release that the film is "inspired by real life Canadian homicide cases." The CBC description says the film "follows two homicide detectives investigating a brutal drive-by shooting ... of a doctor and a Croatian woman who work at an abortion clinic," leading detectives "Kazlowski and McGoogan to a suspect with ties to the pro-life movement."
The film was directed by Jerry Ciccoritti, written by Andrew Rai Berzins, produced and co-created by Bernard Zukerman of Bernard Zukerman Productions, with Michael Donovan of Salter Street Films. It stars Peter Outerbridge Alberta Watson.
The Canadian broadcaster first promoted its involvement in the film in July 2000 with a press release about the made for CBC film. "Steeped in a reality seldom seen in Canadian television, producer Bernard Zukerman and writer Andrew Berzins spent months with detectives of the Toronto homicide squad, as well as the coroners, crown attorneys and pathologists who assist in the investigations," said the release.
To contact the CBC to ask them not to air the propaganda film:
CBC Audience Relations
If unsatisfied with the response contact the CBC Ombudsman at:
For related LifeSite articles on CBC's anti-life anti-Christian bias see:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/oct/99101201.html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/may/00050505.html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/nov/00110802.html
http://www.lifesite.net/interim/1999/july/12prolife.html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/nov/001117b.html
See the Salter Street and CBC press releases:
http://www2.cdn-news.com/scripts/ccn-release.pl?2001/01/11/0111096n.html?cp=ssf
http://cbc.ca/onair/jhtml/newsitem.jhtml?ID=1325
GLOBE & MAIL ADS COMPARE PRO-LIFERS TO HOLOCAUST DENIERS
TORONTO, Mar 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) - A new series of ads for the Globe & Mail, a Canadian national newspaper, portray pro-life opinions as being equivalent to racism, holocaust denial and support of child pornography. Three ads the Globe & Mail is currently running on TV in Toronto, whose tag-line is "Everyone has an opinion, but is it informed?," show a series of people voicing opinions, many of them bizarre and provocative.
In the ads, one woman says, "All white people are racists"; a man says that viewing child porn is ok; another man says "The Holocaust? Never happened". However, slipped into the middle of these horrible statements, a woman is shown saying, "Abortion is murder". The apparent intent is to imply that pro-life opinions are on a par with racism, hatred and support of child porn. Some pro-lifers have suggested a boycott of the Globe & Mail.
In order to pass on your concerns to the paper:
e-mail:
or go to: http://www.globeandmail.com/hubs/commentary_letterssend.html
EUGENICS ROUTINE IN CHINA
BEIJING, Mar 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) - John Derbyshire a contributing editor for the National Review has presented startling evidence of the routine practice of eugenics in China. Derbyshire relates that when he was living in China several years ago, he mentioned Down's Syndrome in conversation with a Chinese colleague. She did not know the English term and nor did he know the Chinese, so they had to look it up in a dictionary. "Oh," she said when she understood it. "That's not a problem in China. They don't get out of the delivery room."
For further evidence Derbyshire points to an article titled "Popularizing the Knowledge of Eugenics and Advocating Optimal Births Vigorously" by Sun Dong-sheng of the Jinan Army Institute, People's Republic of China. In the article Dr. Sun delves right into proposals for raising public awareness of eugenics and reasons for including eugenic policies as a part of "socialist modernization." Derbyshire says the significance of the article is that it is perfectly ethics-free. "It is just assumed that to 'improve the genetic quality of our population' is a thing that everybody should support, and that the methods of doing it can safely be left in the hands of scientists and politicians." Derbyshire points out that when in the article Dr. Sun talks about "more regulations concerning the ways by which the idea of healthier offspring can be given reality," he means yet more state intrusion into people's decisions about who to marry, and whether or not to have children.
See the Derbyshire's NR article at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire022701.shtml
See an English translation of Dr. Sun's article at:
http://www.mankind.org/man22.htm
EUROPEAN TREATY BANNING CLONING IN EFFECT
PARIS, March 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The first international treaty banning human cloning entered into force Thursday after being ratified by five member states of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, according to a UPI report. So far, 24 out of the 41 members of the European Council have signed the Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. The signatories include some European Union countries, including France, Luxembourg, Sweden and Italy. But others, including Britain, Belgium and Germany, have not signed the protocol.
For more see the UPI report at:
http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=164051
HENRY WADE OF ROE V WADE DIES AT 86
DALLAS, TX, Mar 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) - District Attorney Henry Wade, who is historically remembered as the defender of the right to life in the Roe v Wade case, died Thursday at 86. In 1970, then Texas waitress Norma McCorvey (Roe) sued Wade, the Dallas county district attorney for the right to abort her baby. However, Wade's assistant took the case rather than Wade himself, leading McCorvey's attorney, then 25-year-old abortion activist Sarah Weddington to breath a sigh of relief since Wade never lost a case he personally prosecuted.
For more see the AP coverage at:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010301/us/obit_wade_4.html
LIFESITE NEWSBYTES
Pro-lifers wishing to congratulate Calgary bishop Fred Henry on his recent strong pro-life challenges to Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark may contact the bishop at:
Most Rev. Frederick Henry Phone: (403) 218-5526 Fax: (403) 264-0272
120 - 17th Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta T2S 2T2 Canada;
Read the LifeSite coverage at: http://www.lsn.ca/ldn/2001/feb/0102281 .html
A trust fund has been set up to assist in the legal costs of BC pro-lifer Merle Terlesky. Terlesky was arrested and jailed last week on charges of violating a bubble zone around an abortuary. See the story:
http://lsn.ca/ldn/2001/feb/010226.html#1
Anyone interested in helping out can make donations to:
The FEAST
346 Seymour Street Kamloops, BC, V2C 2G2
for Merle Terlesky legal trust fund.
Cybercast News Service reports that the British government Wednesday faced a legal challenge to its use late last year of special legislation to force through a law lowering the age of consent for homosexual sex. Three fathers - a businessman, a Roman Catholic hereditary peer and an Anglican clergyman - brought a joint action before the High Court in London, asking it to strike down legislation passed late last year, which makes sex legal at 16 for homosexuals.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\20010...
US NEWS ROUNDUP
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said that the administration would decide by the summer whether to allow public funding of destructive stem cell research to proceed. He also said he has given the green light for researchers to apply to NIH for the funding of such research.
http://www.latimes.com/print/asection/20010301/t000018251.html
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