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Friday March 9, 2001
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PrintALBERTA LIBERALS LYING ON ABORTION FUNDING
TODAY'S HEADLINES
CALGARY, Mar 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Campaign Life Coalition Alberta has shown that the Alberta Liberal Party's campaign position on abortion funding is based on a factual error. Susan McNeely, CLC spokesman in Alberta noted that in answering CLC Alberta's 2001 Election questionnaire, the Alberta Liberals said that "the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 1989 that all abortions are medically necessary and must be fully funded by provincial health plans, otherwise the province would be in contravention of the Canada Health Act."
"This is simply not true," said McNeely. "The Supreme court of Canada has never ruled that abortion is medically necessary procedure that must be funded by provincial health plans. While that court did strike down Section 251 of the Criminal Code in 1988, inviting federal politicians to pass a new law to replace it, the Supreme Court of Canada has never required provinces to fund abortions."
CLC Alberta is qualifying candidates on the life issues in the current provincial election. In answer to the CLC Alberta questionnaire, the Liberal Party issued a response on behalf of all its candidates; even though the response contains this serious factual error. "At best, the Alberta Liberals seemed very confused," said McNeely. "At worst, this seems to be a cowardly attempt on their part to avoid taking a stand on this important issue."
See the Alberta Election page on LifeSite at:
http://www.lifesite.net/elections/provincial/alberta/index.html
Back to TopONTARIO BILL TO DENY PARENTS RIGHT TO CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RECORDS
TORONTO, Mar 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) - A bill in the Ontario legislature which has passed second reading and is in the committee stage threatens parental rights with regard to health records for their minor children. Bill 159, regarding privacy of health records includes provisions barring parents from the health records of their minor children unless the child or state consent to the parent's viewing the records. The intent of the measure is to ensure that parents do not discover, for instance, that their child was taken for an abortion during school hours by school authorities. The genesis of this type of insanity began with the debate over the Consent to Treatment Act which passed in 1995. When the consent to treatment bill noted parental consent should be required for medical treatment for minor children the Ontario Association of Sexual Health Providers lobbied the socialist Rae government until the law allowed for consent by children alone, with medical and state collusion.
Pro-life lawyer Geoff Cauchi made a presentation to the Ontario government regarding bill 159 recently during which he noted that with the Bill the Ontario government is saying: "We can no longer trust you parents to make good decisions for your children, and our distrust is so deep that we must by statute no longer permit ANY parent in Ontario to decide when their child is ready to make adult decisions about the collection, use and disclosure of their personal health information on their own." Cauchi told LifeSite that even in the case where a parent was allowed to look at the records the bill would prevent the parent from making the information public. So if a parent found out her child was taken to an abortuary for an abortion she could not make that information public, as it would be an infringement of the law.
To make your concerns on bill 159 known contact your MPP:
All Ontario MPP's emails are listed here:
http://www.ontla.on.ca/locate/email99.htm
PHILIPPINE BISHOPS SPELL OUT REASONS FOR THE INADMISSIBILITY OF HUMAN CLONING
MANILA, Mar 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The Philippine Bishops' Conference (PBC) has released a list of six reasons why, from the point of view of Christian morality, human cloning is inadmissible. "Cloning of human embryos cannot be justified, no matter how much good it might provide for humanity, persons affected with irreversible and incurable illnesses especially," said Archbishop Leonardo Legaspi OP of Nueva Caseras, chairman of the PBC Office on Bio-ethics. The reasons listed by the bishops as report by Fides News agency are:
1. It is against nature to create an embryo artificially, without any connection with sexuality;
2. Cloning implicates the destruction of manipulated embryos. The embryo is already a human being;
3. Cloning of a human person is a technique which is devoid of spiritual dimension.
4. Cloning is against the dignity, uniqueness and originality of each person, and it reduces the person to an object;
5. Cloning violates the principles of equality and non discrimination, implicating the dominion of one person, the scientist, over an other, introducing selective-eugenic scheme.
6. Benefits cannot be used as a reason to justify inherently vitiated procedure.
PRO-LIFERS SUE GOVERNMENT TO STOP FEDERAL FUNDING OF DESTRUCTIVE EMBRYO RESEARCH
WASHINGTON, Mar 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The Christian Medical Association (CMA) has joined with other pro-life groups to launch a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health to halt Clinton administration guidelines which surreptitiously allowed federal funding of research that uses stem cells harvested in a process which kills embryos. The lawsuit notes that the Clinton guidelines illegally violate a Congressional ban on research using human embryos because they "require and depend upon the destruction of living human embryos." They "fundamentally undermine long-established state laws and ethical norms that protect human life from medical experimentation."
Dr. David Stevens, executive director of CMA says that since the use of adult stem cells in medical research is an appropriate substitute for embryonic stem cells, "Why create moral quandaries when ethical avenues of stem cell research are available?" Senator Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican was supportive of the pro-life effort. "It has never been acceptable to kill one person for the benefit of another," he said.
For more see the Reuters coverage at:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010308/hl/embryo_1.html
LIFESITE NEWSBYTES
The controversial Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori who helped a 62-year-old woman give birth will tell a cloning conference in Rome on Friday that he is ready to start cloning babies for infertile couples. He has the required expertise and says he has 600 patients willing to undergo the fertility treatment and he is determined to press ahead with it despite international outcry. He also claims he has the support and backing of an un-named Mediterranean country for his research programme, which he says could begin in October.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1209000/1209716.stm
Catholic Clergy in Canada received a briefing on biotechnology at the annual seminar on the subject of the Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF). Various professors and experts in the field presented the latest technologies for ethical reflection.
http://www.cccb.ca/english/fullpresse.asp?ID=287
U.S. NEWS ROUNDUP
Former Presidential Candidate Alan Keyes has begun a petition to Outlaw Fetal Tissue "Experimentation"
http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petition.html?name=keyes_anti_nih
The Kentucky Senate Wednesday night passed a bill to define life as beginning with fertilization of an egg by a sperm. The legislation creates the definition so people who kill a pregnant woman can be charged with two acts of homicide.
http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/03/08/loc_life_starts_at.html
In a just released report, the pro-abortion group "Catholics" for a Free Choice charges the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) with disrupting UN meetings and attempting to hide its connections to other pro-life groups. "Bad Faith at the UN: Drawing Back the Curtain on the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute" C-Fam responded, "It is an honor to be attacked by such dubious anti-Catholic bigots who have been repeatedly condemned by the Catholic Bishops."
A group of pro-life University of Houston law students is outraged that the lawyer who successfully argued the landmark Roe v. Wade case in the U.S. Supreme Court has been chosen as their commencement speaker. Sarah Weddington, who argued the abortion case before the nation's highest court in 1973, was chosen without student input to deliver the May 11 commencement address for the UH Law Center. (Pro-Life Infonet)
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson says he'll appoint a panel of government researchers to advise him on the scientific issues involved in stem cell research, including whether it could be done without using cells from destroyed embryos.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/mar01/tommy06030501a.asp
The American Family Association's Center for Law & Policy is promising to fight state officials in Delaware who want a pregnant teenager to either have an abortion or give up her baby. The 16-year-old girl is three months pregnant and in foster care. Social workers in Delaware allegedly tried to coerce the young woman into having an abortion against her will. State officials are now allegedly threatening to take custody of the baby after it is born.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/92001d.asp
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