Vermont’s House Judiciary Committee passed on to the House the bill that would establish “civil unions” as a parallel to marriage for homosexual couples. The bill is not likely to go to a floor debate until the middle of the month. Gov. Howard Dean supports the measure.
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver stated this week that preserving the status of traditional marriage as a union between a man and a woman is “a matter of cultural survival.” In a column published in the Denver Rocky Mountain News, Archbishop Chaput affirmed that “if the last few decades have shown us anything, it’s this: When ‘traditional’ marriages dissolve, the children of these marriages suffer.”
In Massachusetts a Senate measure to install a bubble zone around abortuaries passed on to the House for approval while a House measure banning partial-birth abortion passed through committee and is likely to pass the House vote.
President Clinton’s signature is all that stands between the outspokenly pro-life Cardinal John O’Connor and Congress’ highest civilian honor. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously on Wednesday to award the cardinal of New York the Congressional Gold Medal.
A 16-year-old who watched his troubled girlfriend shoot herself to death as part of an apparent suicide pact has become the first person charged under Maryland’s new assisted suicide law. http://flash.al.com/cgi-bin/al_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/GENERAL/ a0524_PM_AssistedSuicide
With the backing of Planned Parenthood, the pioneers of mass sterilization of Third world women with the controversial permanent-sterilization drug quinacrine are trying to make the drugs available worldwide. Stephen Mumford and Elton Kessel have scoured the third world on a personal population control mission boasting of having sterilized over 100,000 women. (Pro- Life E-News)