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PRO-LIFERS RECOMMEND DE-LISTING ABORTION TO SAVE HEALTH CARE DOLLARS

EDMONTON, January 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) - A nationally awaited Alberta report on health care asserts that in order to remain sustainable, health care must be downsized and experts view the suggestion as calling for de-listing of services. The report from Alberta's Advisory Council on Health, chaired by Don Mazankowski, calls for more competition, a larger role for the private delivery of health services and the appointment of an expert panel to determine whether coverage for some medical services should be eliminated

Campaign Life Coalition listened with interest to the Right Honourable Donald Mazankowski's report on Health care for the province of Alberta. Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition says, "It is our hope that abortion services will be de-listed. Abortion has always been a social choice, not a medically necessary procedure."

Last fall a representative of CARAL sparred with MP Jason Kenny at a Parliamentary Finance Committee Meeting and admitted quite openly that abortion is a socio-economic problem not a medical one.

"Numerous polls have proven that the majority of Canadians do not want to pay for abortions", continues Mr. Hughes. "Surely at a time when health care dollars are scarce we should only fund procedures that are medically necessary. Abortion is an elective procedure. Even advocates of abortion call it a choice."

Campaign Life Coalition recommends that each province de-list abortion services, the deliberate taking of a healthy human life, from provincial health care funding. Only truly medically necessary procedures deserve tax funding.

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ONTARIO UNIVERSITIES CONSIDER EASING ENTRY FOR HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS

TORONTO, January 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) - With prodding from government and the burgeoning number of children educated at home, Ontario universities are seriously considering opening their doors to home-schooled students. The Ontario University Registrars Association has asked the Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents ( http://www.ontariohomeschool.org ), a main Ontario homeschooling association, to take part in a roundtable meeting about admissions at their annual meeting in February. Another factor pushing the province's universities to consider easing admittance for home-schooled students is that Ontario universities are losing top quality students who have been educated at home to universities in the United States. LifeSite contacted numerous home-schooled families and learned that most opted for US universities with some of the students receiving scholarships to attend.

A report in University Affairs suggests that Ontario universities may become somewhat more willing to welcome home-schooled students because last May the Ontario Ministry of Education advised universities that qualified home-educated students are now eligible to be counted for funding purposes. Moreover, the Ontario government's 21 Step Action Plan for Education notes at Step 10: Flexibility and Choice in Education that "The government will eliminate the institutional bias against home schooling. The Ministry of Education will facilitate home school parents access to standard tests and other learning tools."

Covering the story, the National Post reports that in 1979, 2,000 children were educated at home. By 1996, 17,500 students -- 0.4% of total enrollment -- were home-schooled. The most recent figures show the number has risen to 80,000 children. And numerous studies have shown the academic superiority of home-schooling.

Very few home-schooled students have entered Canadian universities (ie. The University of Toronto leads in admitting home-schoolers with having accepted 8 home-schooled students over the past four years).

See the coverage in University Affairs and the National Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020109/1076444.html
http://www.ontariohomeschool.org/universityarticle.html

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FEDS LEAVE MORNING-AFTER PILL 'ADVANCE PRESCRIPTION' ISSUE TO PROVINCES

Ottawa Refusing To Bow To Pressure to Designate Abortifacient Pills As Non-Prescription

OTTAWA, January 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) - Health Canada spokesman Ryan Baker reacted to press inquiries on the ethics of doctors skirting regulations on the abortifacient morning-after pill by handing out "just-in-case" prescriptions, saying "it is not appropriate for Health Canada to comment." He said that the provinces have charge over the "practice of medicine" and thus must determine if it is "ethically sound" to allow the advance prescriptions.

Despite pressure from the Ontario Medical Association and other pro-abortion groups, Baker said Health Canada is not ready to designate the abortifacient drugs as non-prescription. "We have to see evidence that it can be safe enough that you can pick it up off a shelf like Sudafed," Mr. Baker said. However Baker approved of the chicanery of provinces' allowing pharmacists to "prescribe" the drugs. "Provinces and territories can determine who is a licensed practitioner, and that may include pharmacists," he said.

See the coverage in the Globe and Mail:
http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/common/Sear...¤t_row=3&start_row=3&num_rows=1&search_results_start=1
(with files from Pro-Life E-News)

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FRANKFURT BISHOP ONLY GERMAN BISHOP CONTINUING TO DEFY POPE ON ABORTION COUNSELLING

FRANKFURT, January 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) - Frankfurt's Bishop Franz Kamphaus is the only one of the 27 German Catholic Bishops who continues to openly defy the Pope by persisting in offering counselling certificates to pregnant women who can use the certificates to obtain abortions. While other dioceses have continued the counselling, but refused to offer the abortion certificates, thus placing themselves outside the official system of counseling centers, Bishop Kamphaus remains defiant, with support from the German government and dissenting Catholics.

The extended deadline to stop offering the certificates expired December 31. However the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports that the Bishop was applauded for his defiance at a New Year's Mass after being introduced as the "pro-life Bishop". Known as "left-leaning" Bishop, Kamphaus flaunted his rejection of Rome's bidding. FAZ reports that at the start of the new ecclesiastical year he brought "Action on Pregnancy Counselling" into his diocese, mobilizing parishes and lay officials and calling for donations with the slogan "We will not abandon you."

After years of prodding from Pope John Paul II, the German bishops finally agreed to stop handing out the abortion counselling certificates in November 1999, with the deadline to stop being extended till the end of 2001. FAZ reports that same November, Bishop Kamphaus wrote the Pope to ask if his role as an advocate of the certificates meant he could no longer serve as bishop, but there was no answer - nor has there been one since. The Bishop has come under fire from German pro-life groups for his statements on abortion such as, "Conscience can oblige the individual to acts that are in contradiction of Church teachings (...) It is the responsibility of the individual alone." Despite his flock of liberal admirers, Bishop Kamphaus had to announce that he would not be ordaining any priests in 2001 because there were no candidates.

Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, papal nuncio in Germany, last year revealed the contents of a letter in which Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, explained "whoever continues to operate in the system of counseling centers is placed in open opposition to the Pope."

For more see the coverage in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?rub={B1311FCC-FBFB-11D2-B228-...

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UK AD AUTHORITY BANS PRO-LIFE ADS IN RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS

Second Time Pro-life Ads Attacked in Six Months

LONDON, January 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) - The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered a pro-life group not to repeat a pro-life ad the ASA deemed "offensive." The ad by the UK Life League, was published mostly in Catholic publications and in a Church of England newspaper. The ASA took exception to terms in the ads such as "teenage sex clinics" and "death mills". The ad also said, "The pro-abortion propagandists want people to believe that going to the abortion mill is no different than going to the beautician for a manicure."

The ASA upheld the complaint of a member of the public who said the language was "offensive, especially because children and people of varying sexual orientations might see the advertisement".

The ASA banned another pro-life ad by the League in July last year because it identified the morning after pill as an abortifacient. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) in the UK responded to the July ad ban by directly defying the order placing ads identifying morning-after pills as abortion-inducing. When advertising authorities warned violators could be fined or imprisoned, John Smeaton, SPUC's national director, said he was prepared to go to jail rather than accede to the order to hide the facts.

See the BBC coverage:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1749000/1749837.stm

See related LifeSite coverage:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/nov/011126.html#5

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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST JUDGES PROMOTING HOMOSEXUALITY IN INDIA
Ananova reports that homosexual justices Michael Kirby, from Australia, and Edwin Cameron, of South Africa, are in Mumbai promoting acceptance of homosexuality. LifeSite reported that Kirby has used his status as a High Court Judge to weasel his way into Catholic schools only to advocate for the homosexual lifestyle. Cameron has admitted he is HIV positive.
( http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/feb/000225.html#4 )
http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_490962.html

PACKARD FOUNDATION AWARDS ANOTHER ONE MILLION TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD
The abortion-obsessed David and Lucille Packard Foundation has pledged another $1 million to the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the world's foremost promoter of abortion.
http://ippfnet.ippf.org/pub/IPPF_News/News_Details.asp?ID=1633

'BY THE GRACE OF GOD' 3-YEAR-OLD SURVIVES 3 WEEKS LOST IN AFRICAN SCRUBLAND
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020109/1076410.html

ONTARIO TEACHERS UNION SLAMS MANDATORY CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020108/1066085.html

CHLORINATED TAP WATER CALLED RISK FOR PREGNANT WOMEN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/01/09/MN133946.DTL

FILIPINO MAID FINED FOR SELLING ABORTION DRUG CYTOTEC IN SINGAPORE
http://www.inq7.net/brk/2002/jan/09/brkafp_3-1.htm

GATES GIVES $7.5 MILLION TO PRO-ABORTION GUTTMACHER INSTITUTE
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $7.5 million to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, supposedly to combat the spread of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Guttmacher Insititute is closely associated with Planned Parenthood.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/archives/nr_gates_02.html

US FEDERAL APPEALS COURT RULES PRO-LIFER CAN SUE ABORTUARY WORKER WHO THREATENED HIS LIFE
http://www.msnbc.com/local/wtvj/NBCQ1DB11WC.asp?cp1=1

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