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Friday March 7, 2003
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Print- SWEDEN BOOSTS DONATION TO UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND TO COUNTER U.S.
- 'INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY,' A PRO-ABORTION AGENDA IN DISGUISE
- 26,000 REQUEST EXCOMMUNICATION IN PROTEST OF NICARAGUAN ABORTION CASE
- VATICAN WEIGHED IN ON NICARAGUAN GIRL'S ABORTION CASE
- CANADIAN PRO-LIFERS ENCOURAGED TO QUESTION PHARMACISTS ABOUT ABORTIFACIENTS
- EWTN NETWORK ADDED TO CANADIAN SATELLITE NETWORK
- LIFESITE NEWSBYTES
SWEDEN BOOSTS DONATION TO UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND TO COUNTER U.S.
TODAY'S HEADLINES
STOCKHOLM, March 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Swedish government announced Thursday that it would increase its funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) from $2.2 million (USD) last year to $2.4 million (USD) this year. In making the announcement, the Migration and Aid Minister took aim at the Bush administration which denied funds to UNFPA over the group's support for China's coercive abortion regime.
Migration and Aid minister Jan O. Karlsson said, "We cannot accept that UNFPA's important work to improve women's rights and reproductive health is undermined because some countries find it hard to accept UNFPA's activities."
See the AP coverage at Yahoo:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030306/ap_wo_en_ge/eu_gen_sw...
Back to Top'INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY,' A PRO-ABORTION AGENDA IN DISGUISE
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Wednesday, the House International Relations Committee unanimously passed a resolution to affirm the goals of International Women's Day, which is commemorated annually on March 8th. Started by communists, International Women's Day will be celebrated at the UN on Friday with a conference featuring a UN official who has praised China's devastating family planning practices. The Family Research Council (FRC) has called on Congress not to put the U.S. stamp of approval on a movement that does nothing to put an end to brutal coercive abortion and forced sterilization practices around the world.
"Wrapped up in a nice sounding package, the UN sponsored 'International Women's Day' and its commemoration will be nothing more than a radical feminist celebration of abortion," said Dr. Pia de Solenni, fellow at FRC's Center for Human Life and Bioethics. "At the same time, the real health, social, and political needs of women throughout the world are put on the back burner."
Nafis Sadik, former head of the UN's pro-abortion family planning agency and current special envoy to Asia for AIDS, will be leading the UN festivities. Ms. Sadik is a vocal proponent of China's odious one-child population control program that includes, among other outrages, forced abortions.
Pro-abortion groups have embraced International Women's Day as an affirmation of their agenda, and in particular, are using the occasion to push for ratification of the anti- woman, anti-family treaty called CEDAW (Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women). Dr. de Solenni noted that much of the wording of the resolution that passed out of the House International Relations Committee Wednesday was reminiscent of language used by abortion groups to push for CEDAW. "Again, another poison pill wrapped in candy-coated language about women, CEDAW would be detrimental to American women because it would replace America's superior non-discrimination laws with laws endorsed by countries such as Iraq, Nigeria, and Peru, countries that allow such things as death by stoning, female circumcision or forced sterilizations."
26,000 REQUEST EXCOMMUNICATION IN PROTEST OF NICARAGUAN ABORTION CASE
MADRID, March 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Feminist groups in Spain and Nicaragua have launched an offensive against the Catholic Church over the Church's offer to assist a 9 year-old rape victim to keep her child rather than undergo an abortion. After medical authorities ruled that the child's health would be equally at risk with an abortion as with giving birth, the Church warned that anyone who participated in the girl's abortion would be ipso facto excommunicated.
Feminist groups in Spain have collected over 25,000 names of their collaborators who they say "have participated and contributed actively in making the abortion of Rosa possible." The names were submitted to the Catholic authorities in Nicaragua and the Vatican, demanding that they all be excommunicated as well as the abortionists involved in the act.
The UK Guardian newspaper, has disseminated a false report that the rebellion has forced a "Vatican u-turn in (the) child rape case." The report, which was also picked up the Australian paper The Age, maintains that the Vatican has withdrawn a threat of excommunication as the result of the protest. In reality, Nicaraguan Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo, the head of the Nicaraguan Bishop's conference said, "It's not that I'm going to excommunicate them, but that (the canonical sentence of excommunication) falls upon them 'ipso facto.'"
See the feminist website, the Guardian coverage:
http://www.redfeminista.org/EXCOMUNION.asp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,909061,00.html
VATICAN WEIGHED IN ON NICARAGUAN GIRL'S ABORTION CASE
False information being spread that Vatican has done a U-turn on excommunications
VATICAN, March 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vatican intervened directly in the case of the Nicaraguan 9-year-old who was found pregnant as the result of a rape. A February 21 letter from the Vatican was sent to church officials in Nicaragua encouraging the church to be a support to the child and her family while reminding them that the unborn child was innocent and deserving of the right to life. Zenit News published excerpts of the letter signed by Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family.
The letter states that "every innocent human being is absolutely equal to all others in the right to life," so that "the painful circumstances of this pregnancy, even though serious and dramatic -- to use the words of the encyclical 'Evangelium Vitae' -- can never justify the deliberate elimination of an innocent human being." The letter also urges that "the innocent victims of such an execrable event" be comforted and that "the minds be enlightened and the hearts moved of all those who with their service to life can be of help in the present circumstances."
See the Zenit News coverage at:
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=32322
CANADIAN PRO-LIFERS ENCOURAGED TO QUESTION PHARMACISTS ABOUT ABORTIFACIENTS
TORONTO, March 6, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - March 3 to 9 is Pharmacy Awareness Week, an event sponsored by the Canadian Pharmacists AssOciation. It is a week when people are asked to learn about the services that a pharmacist can provide, especially "Drug Information". The theme for this year's Pharmacy Awareness Week is: "Your Health... Your Medications...Talk to Your Pharmacist"
Pharmacists for Life is urging pro-life consumers to "talk to your pharmacist" about the emerging problem of pharmaceutical "abortion" using the so called Morning After Pill or "Emergency Contraception". Pharmacists should know that people are aware that these drugs can cause abortions.
Helpful in this mission would be the LifeSite coverage of a paper outlining the abortifacient nature of these drugs, that was published in a recognized Pharmaceutical Journal - "The Annals of Pharmacotherapy". The LifeSite coverage contains a link to the actual journal article.
See the LifeSite coverage:
LEADING INT'L PHARMACY JOURNAL CONFIRMS MORNING AFTER PILL IS ABORTIFACIENT
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/jan/02012902.html
EWTN NETWORK ADDED TO CANADIAN SATELLITE NETWORK
TORONTO, March 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) has been added to the Bell ExpresVu satellite television service. On Wednesday, the satellite service announced that it expanded its service by 76 channels, one of which was EWTN, which will now be accessible by Bell ExpressVu's 1.3 million customers.
In addition to its Catholic religious focus, EWTN covers major pro-life events and frequently addresses the life and family issues in its programming. EWTN provided extensive, very positive coverage of the recent March for Life in Washington, D.C. This was available both nationally across the U.S. and internationally. This contrasted sharply with the distortion and very limited coverage the giant march usually receives from most mainstream media.
Ron MacInnes, Director - Communications, Bell ExpressVu told LifeSite that details are still sketchy on when the stations will be up and running. EWTN will probably be added as a specialty service which would put it in a 'theme' package of programmes to be ordered, said MacInnes.
Catholics were vexed in 2001 when Bell Expressvu, one of the only two satellite companies, released a brochure on its lineup of new channels which included the all-homosexual channel PrideVision but failed to include EWTN.
Star Choice, the other satellite company still does not carry EWTN. Among the major cable companies, Rogers currently carries EWTN which Cogeco and Shaw do not.
Cable and satellite companies make decisions to carry stations such as EWTN if they are contacted directly, especially by current customers, requesting the particular service. Requests submitted with bill payments are most highly regarded by the companies.
See the Bell ExpressVu press release:
http://www.pressi.com/int/release/61796.html
LIFESITE NEWSBYTES
AUSTRALIAN MPS TO BE ALLOWED CONSCIENCE VOTE ON STEM CELL LEGISLATION
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_800405.htm
EUROPEAN COMMISSION GEARED TO KEEPING BIOTECH RESEARCH IN EU
http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/?targ=1&204&OIDN=1504862&-home=home
ANNE MCLELLAN DROPS OUT OF RACE FOR CANADIAN LIBERAL LEADERSHIP
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2003/03/06/37272-cp.html
CALIFORNIA APPEALS COURT RULES LESBIAN CAN SUE CHRISTIAN DOC FOR REFUSING IVF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/03/04/state211...
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