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Print- PRO-ABORTION GROUP POINTS TO CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER EXAMPLE OF "PRO-CHOICE" CATHOLIC
- NIH FUNDED RESEARCH DEVELOPING ANTI-PREGNANCY VACCINE FOR USE IN CHINA
- PHILIPPINE BISHOPS: DESTROYING HUMAN EMBRYOS IS "PLAIN MURDER"
- SWISS NATIONAL COUNCIL APPROVES INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
- HARVARD UNIVERSITY WILL NOT TOLERATE PRO-LIFE ACTIVISM
- LIFESITE NEWSBYTES
- US NEWS ROUNDUP
PRO-ABORTION GROUP POINTS TO CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER EXAMPLE OF "PRO-CHOICE" CATHOLIC
TODAY'S HEADLINES
WASHINGTON, Mar 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Catholics For a Free Choice (CFFC), one of the most offensive pro-abortion groups (since it masquerades as a 'Catholic' entity) has cited Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Joe Clark, the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party as "Catholics" who "Support Choice." The CFFC publication "In Catholic Circles" Vol. 5, No. 6: November-December 2000 quotes the Canadian politicians supporting abortion.
See the CFFC publication at:
http://www.cath4choice.org/new/incathcircles/iccbottompg2.htm#state
Back to TopNIH FUNDED RESEARCH DEVELOPING ANTI-PREGNANCY VACCINE FOR USE IN CHINA
RICHMOND, Mar 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States is funding research into an anti-pregnancy vaccine to be used in China, where the one-child policy has been enforced with forced abortions, forced sterilizations and infanticide. The Population Research Institute (PRI) released a report this month indicating that Dr. John Herr is carrying out research at the University of Virginia on "recombinant gamete contraceptive vaccinogens." Herr hopes to develop a vaccine that will cause a woman's body to react to sperm in the same way that it does to germs, causing the immune system to destroy sperm that enter the Fallopian tubes thereby preventing pregnancy.
According to PRI President Steven Mosher, apart from assisting in the funding of Herr's research, the NIH is funding, "no fewer than six researchers from China will come to the University of Virginia to study contraceptive vaccines in the years to come." Mosher asserts, "It is an embarrassment for the National Institutes of Health to fund, and for American universities to train researchers from China's state-run population and family planning institutes. Will they not return to China to wield their newly honed skills in the service of Beijing's assault upon women and families? And will we not be complicit in the violations of human rights that will surely result?"
See the PRI release at:
http://pop.org/briefings/stickintime.htm
PHILIPPINE BISHOPS: DESTROYING HUMAN EMBRYOS IS "PLAIN MURDER"
MANILA, Mar 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The process of cloning human embryos for the purpose of creating stem cells to manufacture body parts has been condemned by Catholic Bishops in the Philippines. The Filipino bishops said destroying an embryo would be tantamount to "plain murder," stressing that this could not be "morally permissible."
For more see:
http://www.inq7.net/brk/2001/mar/13/obreak2.htm
SWISS NATIONAL COUNCIL APPROVES INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
BERN, Mar 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Switzerland's National Council has overwhelmingly approved the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. A second ratification, by the Council of States, is still required under Swiss law. Switzerland would be the 30th country to sign on to the court.
For more see Agence Telegraphique Suisse/Edicom, 13 Mar (in French) :
http://www.edicom.ch/news/suisse/010313120023.tu.shtml
HARVARD UNIVERSITY WILL NOT TOLERATE PRO-LIFE ACTIVISM
CAMBRIDGE, Mar 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Matt Evans, a third-year student at Harvard Law School, has been confronted by university administration for posting small signs on student bulletin boards reading, "Smile! Your mother chose life." Don Feder writing for WorldNetDaily today reports that the signs were torn down frequently and after two weeks Evans was confronted by a member of the staff who sweetly inquired, "Are you the one putting up this sh--?" Evans says the lady "denounced my message as one of hate, accused me of meddling in women's issues and called me a coward because I had not put my name on the signs."
A few days later, relates Feder, Evans was called into the office of the dean of students and told that, he must confine the message to boards used for items for sale and the like and must include contact information on the signs. However, when counter signs reading "Smile! You're a simpleton" appeared the administration did not require similar procedures.
Feder points out that intolerance for pro-lifers at Harvard is long-standing. In 1992 Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon wrote a letter on Harvard stationary to some Catholic priests explaining the debate over the pending federal Freedom of Choice Act. When this got back to the university, she received an official reprimand from Margaret H. Marshall, then chief counsel of Harvard University, now chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
For more see WorldNetDaily at:
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22038
LIFESITE NEWSBYTES
Mexican Bishops have warned that the culture of death is making inroads into Mexico. In a Lenten message, the Catholic Bishops of Veracruz denounced "murders, abortion, euthanasia, suicide," noting also that the "massive imposition of sterilization of women in various sectors; and massive distribution of contraceptives ... profoundly offend human dignity." (Zenit News March 13, 2001)
Statistics Canada reports today that Canada recorded its lowest-ever number of stillbirths with a gestational age of 28 weeks or more, known as late fetal deaths, in 1998. Medical officials reported 1,079 stillbirths at 28 weeks or more in 1998, down 8.1% from 1997. Since 1990, the number of late fetal deaths has fallen 30.8%. There were 3.1 stillbirths at 28 weeks or more for every 1,000 total births (live births plus stillbirths) in 1998, compared with 3.4 in 1997 and 3.8 in 1990.
US NEWS ROUNDUP
New York's Cardinal Egan was in Albany yesterday lobbying politicians against a law forcing religious institutions to cover birth control in health-care coverage for their employees. "Government must not interfere in matters of religious faith," Egan said. "To do so is un-American."
http://www.nypostonline.com/news/regionalnews/26411.htm
Douglas Scott of Life Decisions International is reported to have announced that Target Corp. has agreed to end its sponsorship of Planned Parenthood. (Life Advocacy Briefing. E-version, part B, 2/26/01, available via paid subscription from ) [as reported by American Life League]
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