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PRO-LIFE MOTION PRESENTED IN CANADIAN PARLIAMENT

OTTAWA, September 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton--Melville) introduced a private members motion Monday asking for a review of the definition of "human being" in the Criminal Code of Canada.

The motion, M-392, asked that "the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights review the current definition of "human being" in section 223(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada and report (a) whether the law needs to be amended to comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child so as to provide appropriate legal protection for a child before as well as after birth; and (b) whether the law should be amended so that an unborn child is considered a human being at the point of conception, when the baby's brain waves can be detected, when the baby starts to move within the womb, or when the baby is able to survive outside the womb."

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POLISH CATHOLIC CHURCH TAKES HEROIC PRO-LIFE POLITICAL ACTION

WARSAW, September 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Poland's Catholic Bishops undertook what may be a historic pro-life intervention into the country's politics Sunday. Just one week before the September 23 general election, the Bishops had a letter read in every parish urging Catholics - some 93% of Poles - not to support the country's so-called "ex-communist" social democrats because of their support for abortion. Polls taken prior to the bishops' intervention indicated that Poland's social democrats in the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) were poised to win a landslide victory in Sunday's election with between 43-52 per cent of the vote.

Without naming the party directly, the bishops warned the faithful against voting for a "party that has an ideological continuity with the communist party that has announced ... the intention of re-enacting a law authorizing for social reasons the killing of an unborn baby." The letter said, "A Catholic society cannot support a political group that has stated directly its intent to introduce laws taking aim against the basic right to life · We must protect values like the sanctity of human life, Christian education for the young generation and family life. Parties which take a completely secular approach to these values and which propose liberal solutions are not able to guarantee this."

SLD leader Leszek Miller, widely speculated to become Poland's next Prime Minister, did not dare to chastise the bishops message directly saying only "I believe in the wisdom of the Polish electorate." The SLD has indicated that they would repeal a 1997 law, passed by the current AWS-Solidarity government, which restricted abortions to cases of rape or incest, where the fetus is deformed or where the mother's life is in danger.

See the AFP coverage:
http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s=asia/headline...

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BUSH APPOINTS PRO-ABORTION 'CATHOLIC' TO HEAD HOME SECURITY

WASHINGTON, September 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) - In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in the United States, President George Bush announced last night the creation of a Cabinet-level position to head the new Office of Homeland Security. In a great disappointment to pro-lifers, Bush named notoriously pro-abortion Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, to head the office.

Matt Abbott, director of public affairs for America's Pro-Life Action League told LifeSite, "If Ridge refuses to ensure the security of the most helpless citizens of his state - the unborn - how can he be expected to safeguard security for the nation?" Abbott also commented that Ridge is "a self-proclaimed Catholic while maintaining his strident pro-abortion position. What kind of principles does a person like that have? It makes you uncertain of such a person's leadership qualities."

See related coverage on the position and Ridge's pro-abortion stand:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010920/ts/attack_bush_homeland_dc_2.html
http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2001Mar/mar21for.htm

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WINNIPEG TO CANCEL BAN ON SEX TRADE IN SUBURBS

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, September 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The City of Winnipeg is likely to allow known sex trade businesses such as massage parlours and escort services into city suburbs. The Winnipeg Sun reports that the services now confined to the city's core may be permitted to move out into the residential suburbs. A committee created to study the sex trade which recently urged city hall to allow the firms into the suburbs.

A city hall source told the Sun that the allowance "is likely," since "seven councillors voted to have the matter receive further consideration last year." Coun. Harvey Smith was adamantly in favour of the move saying, "It only becomes a hot-button issue out of fear and not rational thinking." Residents are concerned since the services are known to also attract illegal drug trade.

See the Sun's coverage:
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSTopNews/ban_sep20-sun.html

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CZECH GOV'T TO ALLOW REGISTRATION OF HOMOSEXUAL UNIONS

PRAGUE, September 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Homosexuals in the Czech Republic may be allowed to register their partnerships and receive all the benefits of marriage under new a new bill backed by Prime Minister Milos Zeman's Cabinet. Ananova reports that the bill would give homosexual couples inheritance and health insurance rights, would allow the unions to be sealed at local government offices and would once undertaken, require a court-approved divorce.

See the Ananova coverage:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_404651.html

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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

New Democrat Michael Prue has won a provincial Toronto-area byelection. The only pro-life candidate, Ray Scott of the Family Coalition Party garnered just under 1% of the vote.
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSPolitics0109/20_byelection-cp.html
http://www.electionsontario.on.ca/byelections/eoresultsDisp.asp

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING FEATURED IN LARGE PAPER
A form of Natural Family Planning was featured by the Chicago Tribune today. The article called NFP "a relatively obscure birth control method that is 100 percent natural, costs nothing and by some accounts, can be as effective as the pill."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/women/chi-0109190374sep19.story

Zenit News this week offered a brief historical account of UNICEF's decent into abortion advocacy. In it they note that the U.N. agency«s annual report included family planning and abortion as "one of the most effective means to combat poverty."
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=10120

For a more comprehensive report on UNICEF's history see Winifride Prestwich's UNICEF: Guilty as Charged at:
http://lifesite.vservers.com/waronfamily/unicef/index.html

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US NEWS ROUNDUP

A study conducted by the Texas Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League found that 67 percent of hospitals surveyed do not offer abortifacient emergency contraception.
http://www.dallasnews.com/science/health/476266_abortion_21tex.html

The Christian Science Monitor ran a feature this week on large families, their struggles and joys.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0919/p15s1-lifp.html

The results of an investigation of sexual harassment of patients by Phoenix abortionist, Dr Brian Finkel was reported in the Phoenix New Times. Dr Finkel wears a gun to work to protect himself from the pro life movement. (with files from Sue Widemark)
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2001-09-20/feature.html/page1.html

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