Articles for Month: December 1997

KINGSTON, Ont., De c 23 (LSN)—Ontario will pay the bill for a lawyer for Canada’s most infamous sex killer, Paul Bernardo. The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled Bernardo’s appeal is so complicated that justice requires a lawyer be provided at public expense, which could cost $35,000. Interestingly, when the Ontario government took pro-lifers to court under the Rae government, to try to quash the pro-life movement in the province, it was not deemed unjust to allow the 18 innocent pro-life leaders to be forced to pay the legal fees for their own defenses.

GENEVA, Dec 23 (LSN)—On Monday, the General Assembly of the UN discussedthe withholding of payments of “dues” by the US. The European Union chastised the US for daring to arrest its payment of funds to the world body. Speaking on behalf of the EU, Luxembourg’s Ambassador Jean-Louis Wolzfeld told the assembly, “Unilateral reductions cannot be accepted.” The US traditionally has funded 25% of the total UN budget

TORONTO, Dec 23 (LSN)—On Friday, the government-appointed Education Improvement Commission reviled the idea of setting up charter school opportunities in Ontario. A number of Conservative members in the Ontario government supported the notion of allowing groups of parents to obtain a charter to open a publicly funded school more or less independent from school boards. Commission co-chair Dave Cooke argued against the proposal by pointing to the “strength” of our current system, where “all 11.5 million people in this province believe they have a stake in public education.” Charter schools would have more freedom to choose how to operate and […]

TORONTO, Dec 23 (LSN) – Maurice Genereux, a doctor who specializes in AIDS, has become the first Canadian physician convicted of assisting a suicide. Genereux pleaded guilty to two counts of assisting suicide by administering lethal doses of sleeping pills to two HIV-positive men. On Monday, Genereux was released on bail

PORTLAND, Ore., Dec 22 (LSN) – Archbishop John Vlazny, Oregon’s new Archbishop took the occasion of his installation as the 10th leader of the Archdiocese of Portland, to praise Catholic’s for their efforts to stop the law allowing doctor-assisted suicide in the state. The archbishop, who previously served as head of the Winona, Minn., diocese, preached in his homily about the Church’s strong stand against Oregon’s first-in-the-nation law allowing doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients. Oregon voters reaffirmed their support for the suicide law last month, despite a campaign by Catholics and other groups to persuade voters […]

NEW YORK, Dec 22 (LSN) – The medical director at Planned Parenthood in Houston, Dr. Jerry Edwards, has devised a technique that enables abortionists to kill babies in their early stages of development. Planned Parenthood claims that mothers will be able to abort their children eight to 10 days after conception. The foremost abortion provider, Planned Parenthood proudly announced that the new procedure was available at 23 of its abortion mills. The new technique uses a hand-held syringe instead of a vacuum pump to kill the baby. Advances in pregnancy tests, are able to detect a growing baby within a […]

SASKATOON, Dec 22 (LSN) – Robert Latimer, convicted of gassing his 12-year-old daughter Tracy, is free on a $10,000 recognizance bail. Latimer has decided to appeal the two-year sentence he received for the killing. Mark Brayford, Latimer’s lawyer, charged that Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Ted Noble “erred in law in not charging the jury that they could find that Robert Latimer had the legal right to decide to commit suicide for his daughter by virtue of he and his wife being her surrogate decision makers.”“The sentence imposed by the learned trial justice is greater than is warranted or necessary, […]

On Dec. 16, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of B.C. responded to a news media sponsored poll released Dec.15 indicating Canadian support for euthanasia. “Canadians don’t want to terminate the sick and disabled, they want to care for them”, said EPC co-chairman Dr. Will Johnston. “The poll’s claim that Canadians overwhelmingly support euthanasia is just not true”, he said, citing the conclusive findings of EPC’s own poll conducted in June of this year. “The Pollara poll findings are inaccurate because they don’t define 'doctor-assisted suicide.’ Our results show many people still don’t understand terms like euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. They think […]

On December 19, Judge H.J. McGivern of the BC Provincial Court rejected a challenge of the NDP government’s “bubble zone” law brought forward by prominent Nelson pro-lifer Jim Demers. Mr Demers sought to have preborn children included in the right-to-life guarantee of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and to overturn the Access to Abortion Services Act, which prohibits free speech around abortion centres in BC. He spent five days presenting an impressive array of arguments for the humanity of the preborn child, and for the right to life of preborn children according to international law. Judge McGivern ignored all […]

SYDNEY, Australia, Dec 19 (LSN) – Australia’s Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC) ruled Thursday that the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney illegally discriminated against a lesbian teacher when it refused to certify her as a teacher in Catholic schools. Homosexual activist Jacqui Griffin brought the case forward claiming that the Catholic Education Office had refused her application for certification in 1993. The refusal was prompted by Griffin's public profile as co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Students Association. Human Rights Commissioner Chris Sidoti ruled that “the practice complained of constitutes discrimination under the Human Rights and Equal […]

OTTAWA, Dec 19 (LSN)—Despite an “historic” appeal to the Senate made by two representatives of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), the Senate voted yesterday to amend the Constitution and abolish religious education in Newfoundland. Most Reverend Anthony Tonnos, Bishop of Hamilton and Chairman for Christian Education for the CCCB, and the Most Reverend Douglas Crosby, Bishop of Labrador City and Newfoundland, asked pleaded with the Senate yesterday to safeguard the constitutionally-guaranteed rights to religious education in Newfoundland. Speaking for the federal Liberal government, Inter-governmental Affairs Minister Stephane Dion urged the Senate to approve the proposed constitutional amendment. The […]

The BBC is conducting a poll on whether euthanasia should be legal. Derek Humphry has already alerted members of the “right to die” mailing list to go to the BBC site and vote. If you would like to voice your opinion, just click on the following URL. https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking%5Fpoint/newsid%5F38000/38414.asp

VANCOUVER, Dec 18 (LSN)—A poll on euthanasia released Monday saying that 70 per cent of Canadianssupport doctor assisted suicide is untrue according to Dr. Will Johnston, co-chair of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of BC (EPC). Dr. Johnston pointed out that the Pollara poll, sponsored by Southam and Global news organizations, was “inaccurate” because it failed to define “doctor-assisted suicide”. ” Our results show many people still don’t understand terms like euthanasia and doctor- assisted suicide,” said Dr. Johnston. He suggests most people believe these terms refer to stopping artificial life support. Johnston noted that results from a poll conducted in […]

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 18 (LSN)—A retired Brazilian obstetrician saved the life of the baby of an eleven-year-old girl, who was scheduled to be aborted the next day. The heroic doctor travelled to the girl’s hometown of Sapucaia in Rio de Janeiro state, after hearing about her case on television, and persuaded the girl’s father to save the baby with the help of the local priest. The father, priest and doctor then rushed to Rio de Janeiro, where the girl had already been hospitalized awaiting the abortion. Claiming she was raped, the girl and her family asked Brazilian Judge Luiz […]

WARSAW, Poland, Dec 18 (LSN)—The Polish parliament has approved the decision by the Polish high court to overturn a liberal abortion law that was criticized by Pope John Paul II during his recent visit to his native land. The lax abortion law, imposed by the “former” communists who were voted in prior to the now ruling Solidarity government, allowed doctors to kill preborn children up to 12 weeks of age if the mother was deemed to face financial or emotional difficulties. Poland’s high court deemed the permissive law unconstitutional in May, but it remained in effect for six-months. On Wednesday, […]

DUBLIN, Dec 18 (LSN) – Paddy Leahy, Ireland’s foremost euthanasia enthusiast, told reporters on Wednesday that he has gone to Thailand to find someone to help him die. The 80-year-old general practitioner, who has also campaigned for contraceptives and abortion in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation, made a last pathetic plea for legalizing euthanasia saying, “I think that the doctors there will look after me. If I get obstructed, I think they will come in and say I’ll put you out of pain. I’ll leave it to them. That would be a much nicer way.”

ARTICLENEWARK, NJ, Dec 18 (LSN)—New Jersey authorities have allowed homosexuals to adopt children jointly, placing them on the same footing as heterosexual couples. The decision, which is limited to children in state custody, came in response to a class-action lawsuit brought forward in June by homosexual activists with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union. Robert Knight, director of cultural studies for the Family Research Council in Washington, said, “The settlement is “a victory for homosexual activism and a defeat for children already bruised in life and in need of an intact, committed husband-and-wife family.”

SYDNEY, Dec 17, (LSN) – In a report released Monday, at least 1,045 developmentally-disabled girls and women are said to have been sterilized without “authorization” in Australia since 1992. The report, commissioned by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, said the data used for the study were incomplete, and that the total number of operations could be three times higher. Elizabeth Hastings, the disability discrimination commissioner, added that, “Not only is federal law failing to protect the human rights of girls and young women, but Health Insurance Commission figures appear to show that illegal operations are funded via Medicare.”

NEW JERSEY, Dec 17 (LSN) – U.S. District Judge Anne Thompson granted a temporary injunction yesterday to stop the implementation of a law banning partial birth abortions in New Jersey. The action was in response to demands made by the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood of New Jersey. The order is valid until Dec. 24, when the judge will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the law.

VATICAN, Dec 17 (LSN) – Speaking at the reception of the diplomatic credentials of the new US Ambassador to the Holy See, Lindy Boggs, Pope John Paul II warned the United States to protect the right to life. Recalling that the “United States of America was founded on the conviction that an inalienable right to life was a self-evident moral truth,” the pope said that, “Whenever a certain category of people—the unborn or the sick and old—are excluded from that protection, a deadly anarchy subverts the original understanding of justice.” Sensing the perilous trends in US policy aimed at excluding […]

December 17, 1997 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Maybe now the punishment will fit the crime,” said Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of the pro-life movement in Canada. Mr Hughes was responding to news today that the Saskatchewan Justice Department will appeal the Dec. 1 sentence of Robert Latimer, the Wilkie-area farmer convicted of second-degree murder in the “mercy- killing” of his 12-year-old daughter Tracy, who was disabled. Tracy had not expressed a desire to be killed. Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench Justice Ted Noble granted an unprecedented constitutional exemption from the mandatory 10-year minimum sentence […]

TRENTON, NJ, Dec 16 (LSN) – New Jersey has become the 18th state to outlaw partial-birth abortion. The state Senate overrode “moderate” Republican Governor Christie Whitman’s veto Monday and banned partial-birth abortions, except when the life of the mother is in danger. The 27-13 vote, the minimum needed for an override, gave final approval to the ban on partial-birth abortions, thwarting Whitman’s attempt to broaden the exception to include virtually any partial-birth abortion.

ROME, Dec 16 (LSN) – An Italian study published in the European Journal of Epidemiology noted that women who had induced abortions were 172 per cent more likely to become infected with the HIV-1. “Significantly higher prevalences of infection [HIV-1] were associated with induced abortion (0.49%) than with delivery (0.18%) (OR: 2.72

ROMULUS, Mich., Dec. 16 (LSN) – 59-year-old Rosalyn Hayes of Long Beach, Calif., was the seventh motel-room “assisted-suicide” killing this year in the suburb of Romulus. The details of the killing seem similar to the pattern of assisted-suicide champion Jack Kevorkian, but police are unsure of whether the murder was committed by Kevorkian or his new “assistant,” Georges Reding. Detectives noted that unlike the usual pattern of Kevorkian-assisted suicides, no note instructing police to call lawyer Geoffrey Fieger was left in the motel room. Police were notified of the killing by an anonymous male caller Thursday night. The caller told […]

SALEM, Oregon, Dec 16 (LSN) – Oregon taxpayers could be forced to pay for sex-change operations and physician-assisted suicide. The Oregon Health Services Commission is considering placing the two procedures on the list of medical treatments covered by the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s insurance program for low-income people. The decision is expected early next year. Gov. John Kitzhaber wants physician-assisted suicide considered for the list according to the same criteria used to review other medical treatments. Olivia Jaquay, a transsexual, told the commission the health plan discriminates against her by not paying for a sex-change procedure.

KYOTO, Japan, Dec 16 (LSN) – Pro-life attendees as the Kyoto Convention on Climate Change, have voiced concerns over possible anti-life policies in the final document. The American Life League (ALL) reported on December 1 that some attendees suggest fears of “global warming” may be used to justify “reducing world population-using abortion, harmful birth control chemicals and sterilization—to ‘solve’ the alleged climatological problems.” Pro-life researcher Susan Roylance points out that the reason this document is so dangerous is because, for the first time, the UN will be establishing legal regulations (based on “emissions budgets”) which a nation must live within. […]

OTTAWA, Dec 16 (LSN) – A Southam-Global poll, released yesterday, conducted by the Toronto-based polling company Pollara, indicates 60 per cent of Canadians favour legalizing doctor-assisted suicide. Support for doctor-assisted suicide was lowest—48 per cent—in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, where the Robert Latimer case sparked much controversy. Quebec ranked highest with 65 per cent approval, followed by BC at 64 per cent. Pollara surveyed 1,410 adults nationwide from Nov. 28 to Dec. 2. Results are considered accurate within 3.4 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. Pro-life observers are looking into whether the question was weighted in favour of euthanasia

WINNIPEG, Dec 15 (LSN) – In a unanimous, precedent-setting decision, the Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled last week that physicians are permitted to refuse to resuscitate critically ill patients, even against the wishes of next of kin. The case involved a boy of nearly one year who was judged by doctors to be in a “persistent vegetative state,” allegedly due to violent shaking. Doctors recommended a do-not-resuscitate order be placed on the child's chart, on the grounds resuscitation would only prolong his suffering (even though they also claimed the child had no sensation). Winnipeg Child and Family Services, who had […]

SAO PAULO, Dec 13 (LSN) – In a case which parallels recent events in Ireland, an 11-year-old Brazilian girl known as “M,” pregnant allegedly due to rape, is requesting an abortion. M and her family have asked a Brazilian judge to permit doctors to kill the 4-month-old preborn child. Judge Luiz Mangabeira Cardoso delayed his decision until next week, saying, “I can’t authorize an abortion until I know if she is going to be harmed or not.” Health Minister Carlos Albuquerque told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that the abortion request is in keeping with Brazil's relatively strict abortion […]

VATICAN, Dec 15 (LSN)—On the news that a third baby has been born after being frozen as an embryo, the Italian newspaper Avvenire denounced sacrificing children “on the altar of experimentation.” The paper was reacting to a case in which an Italian woman gave birth to a child who had been conceived in a test tube, frozen, and then thawed, before being implanted in her womb. Protesters noted such a process has a failure rate of over 80 per cent—each “failure,” of course, being the death of a human being.

CHICAGO, Dec 12 (LSN) – Richard Seed, a Harvard-educated biologist with a background in embryonics, told the Washington Times on Wednesday that he wants to develop human cloning as a commercial venture and has already found two infertile couples who are interested. Missouri Republican Senator Christopher S. Bond, who has put forward a bill to restrict federal funding of human cloning, released a statement saying, “The news about Richard Seed’s efforts to clone humans is very disturbing and makes it critically important that we move forward quickly to ban cloning.” Seed said he has assembled an eight-member team that includes […]

VATICAN (CWN)—The Catholic Church has rejected the argument that a pro-life activist in France should be offered political asylum. Dr. Xavier Dor, who had spent a night at the residence of the papal nuncio in Paris, left the building voluntarily this morning, to face a possible prison sentence of eight months for his involvement in blockades at abortion centres. Convicted on December 9 by a court at Versailles, Dor had arrived at the nunciature proclaiming the right to political asylum. Although the nunciature in Paris declined all public comment, the Holy See today issued a statement indicating that Dor did […]

PHILADELPHIA, Dec 12 (LSN) – On Dec. 7, the European Parliament began a debate on approving a Europe- wide document identifying “dangerous sects.” According to an article in the December 12 issue of the Washington Times, groups such as “Catholic charismatics, Hasidic Jews, Baptists, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Quakers, Buddhists and the YWCA [are] now being listed as ‘dangerous sects’ by state panels.” The Times reported that “A network of psychiatric, legal, media and socialist groups are pressuring European governments to outlaw or curtail the activities of well-known religious organizations, a new report states.” These “anti-sect” groups “propose laws to list […]

TORONTO, Dec 11 (LSN)—In response to letters protesting Sony's Christmas album entitled “O Come All Ye Faithful,” the proceeds of which were to support an abortion-promoting group called Rock for Choice, Sony recently issued an apology. In a letter to people protesting the album, the company said, “Sony Music had no intention of re-releasing or marketing O Come All Ye Faithful this Christmas. We apologize for this mishap, and regret any upset resulting from this inadvertent error.” The album was planned for release last year in the US, but pro-life protests garnered a promise from Sony to halt the release. […]

OTTAWA, Dec 11 (LSN)—Canadian Secretary of State Hedy Fry joined the call yesterday for international recognition of “women's rights as human rights,” a slogan commonly understood to include the “right” to abortion, and to have those “rights” enshrined in the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration next year. Speaking in the House of Commons, Fry said, “Today we recognize the 50th anniversary of human rights in the world. Human rights are about women’s rights, and human rights are the same as said in Beijing [the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995], […]

CANBERRA, Australia, Dec 11 (LSN) – Elizabeth Evatt, of the UN Human Rights Committee, addressed an international conference of lawyers on “Implementing International Human Rights” this week. In her remarks at the conference, held at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, she pointed out that if the Human Rights Committee finds a violation, the State has a legal obligation under UN agreements to provide an effective remedy, including changes to national legislation, if necessary. The Human Rights Committee deems it a violation of the human rights of women not to provide “safe” abortions. In a report to the 52nd Session […]

LONDON, UK, Dec 10 (LSN)—In shocking succession yesterday England’s Royal College of Physicians and the British Government sanctioned involuntary euthanasia. The Electronic Telegraph reported that the College told doctors they were justified in withholding “treatment, ” which includes killing patients by withholding food and water. The Government added fuel to the fire today with a radical proposal to allow doctors to decide, even against the wishes of next of kin to starve their patients to death. Under the new medical guidelines, doctors may decide to euthanize patients (by withholding food and water) if “the patient has devastating and permanent neurological […]

NEW YORK, Dec 9 (LSN)—Professor Steven Pinker of MIT denied encouraging infanticide (or neo-naticide as he calls it) last week. In response to letters from people concerned about his views, Pinker asserted his innocence by quoting carefully selected passages from his November 2 article in the New York Times. Of note is that Pinker conveniently failed to quote those passages which most obviously indicate he encourages infanticide. US Congressman Joseph Pitts and US Senator Dan Coats accused Pinker of supporting infanticide on December 3 in an article in the Chester County Press. Pitts and Coats pointed out that in his […]

SASKATOON, Dec 8 (LSN) – The Catholic Organization for Life and Family, an organ of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a letter Thursday condemning the granting of a special, drastically reduced sentence to convicted “mercy killer, ” Robert Latimer. Archbishop Adam Exner, the Vancouver-based head of the organization said, “The court has sent a disturbing message that the life of someone with disabilities is worth less than that of others.” The following addresses are provided for those who wish to complain about the Latimer verdict and request a review of the decision to grant Latimer a constitutional exemption. […]

NOTTINGHAM, UK, Dec 8 (LSN)—The London Telegraph reported Friday that doctors in England were planning to use tissue cells from aborted babies to test a proposed cure for blood disorders in not-to-be aborted fetuses. The research team, which includes Dr Rhodri Jones, a specialist in the immune system at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, and David Liu, obstetrician at the City Hospital in Nottingham, were hailed by the media as “pioneers” in trying to help pre-born children with certain ailments.

SYDNEY, Dec 8 (LSN)—Sydney, Australia is the test site for a new abortifacient “contraceptive” contrived by the abortion-promoting Population Council in New York. The hormonal gel, which is rubbed on the stomach, operates on the same principle as the “mini-pill,” by releasing hormones into the blood stream which make the womb unable to receive the newly-conceived child, thus causing an abortion.

NEW JERSEY, Dec 8 (LSN) – New Jersey lawmakers voted Thursday 60-15 to override “moderate” Republican Governor Christine Whitman’s veto of a state ban on partial-birth abortion. “It is a wonderful victory for life,” said Marie Tasy, director of the New Jersey Right to Life Committee. The legislation is expected to be presented in the Senate in December by Senate President Donald T. DiFrancesco. Tasy said she is confident the Senate will override the governor, thus making New Jersey the 18th state to outlaw this most barbarous form of baby-killing.

ATLANTA, Dec 8 (LSN) – US federal health officials announced Thursday that in 1995 there were 311 legal abortions committed per 1,000 live births, thus nearly one in 4 American babies were killed in their mothers’ wombs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that there were 1,210,883 reported legal in-uetero baby killings in 1995.

NEW YORK, Dec 8 (LSN)—In a speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan predicted the enforcement of “human rights” as defined by the UN. The UN has long pushed to have women’s rights—including the “right” to abortion—recognized as human rights, and thus to make abortion a “universal human right.” In light of this, the Secretary General’s remarks are ominous indeed. “It is the universality of human rights that gives them their strength,” he said. “It endows them with the power to cross any border, climb any wall, defy any […]

The December issue of CLC National News is now available on line at https://www.lifesitenews.com/

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (LSN) – It was reported today that the major stumbling block to the establishment of a permanent international criminal court was the US government's insistence that the Security Council must first approve prosecutions. The revelations came in a response to criticism aimed at the Clinton administration from the group “Human Rights Watch” which claimed the US was trying to undermine attempts to create a permanent independent criminal court. In a related report, the U.S. Secretary of Defense said Tuesday that there was “a need for some kind of international police force. Yes, there should be an international […]

TORONTO, Dec 5 (LSN) – Pro-life Ontario MPP Jim Brown has submitted a private member’s bill seeking to protect Ontario children from pedophiles. The bill has received initial support from all three parties in the legislature, which means it has headed to committee for further debate. The bill would require anyone wishing to work in a position of trust with children to be screened for criminal sex offenses.

DUBLIN, Dec 3 (LSN) – In an announcement that sounded the death-knell for an Irish baby, Irish national broadcaster RTE reported on Wednesday that the 13-year-old alleged rape victim at the centre of a two-week abortion case had left the country. “The 13-year-old pregnant rape victim has travelled to England for an abortion,” RTE said. The news emerged when a lawyer for the Eastern Health Board, the local authority which had held the girl against her parents’ wishes since she was allegedly raped, told the High Court she was no longer under its jurisdiction. On Monday, following two weeks of […]

DETROIT, Dec 4 (LSN) – Martha Wichorek of Detroit is the latest victim of assisted-suicide killer Jack Kevorkian. Kevorkian’s attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, said Mrs. Wichorek was not terminally ill, but suffered from unspecified medical ailments. In a new twist to his sinister deeds, Kevorkian has enlisted the assistance of retired psychiatrist, Georges Reding of Kalamazoo. Fieger told reporters on Thursday that Kevorkian has “decided that other doctors are going to be involved.”

BOSTON, Dec 4 (LSN) – In a disgusting affront to Christianity, Sony Music, Inc. has released a “Christmas Album” the proceeds of which are to be used to promote abortion. Cardinal Bernard Law, the head of the Catholic Church in Boston, sent a letter to Sony’s president calling the move “appalling. This mockery of Christmas is offensive to every Christian and to Christianity itself,” the Cardinal wrote. “In the very season in which Christians celebrate the birth of the infant Jesus and his mother Mary’s yes to life under most difficult circumstances, Sony markets music promoting a right to destroy […]

DUBLIN, Dec 3 (LSN)—The saga of the 13-year-old Irish girl who is pregnant and claims to have been raped took on a new life as her father revealed the circumstances around his daughter's removal from her parents care. In an interview on Radio Ireland the father said that his daughter was “kidnapped” by the Eastern Health Board without any permission from her parents. The child was taken on an interim care order. “It was not a care order, we signed no forms, not even voluntary forms. My child was kidnapped from us. The EHB just came and snatched her and […]

OSLO, Norway, Dec 3 (LSN)—The city court of Oslo decided not to punish Dr. Christian Sandsdalen, 80, even though he was found guilty of “willful murder.” The decision not to penalize Sandsdalen was said to be due to “extenuating circumstances”, in this case “mercy.” The woman he killed was critically ill and allegedly wanted to die. Sandsdalen has appealed the verdict since he felt he should not have been found “guilty” at all. A proposal to accept assisted suicide has been proposed by three of Norway’s most respected lawyers.

SASKATCHEWAN, Dec 3 (LSN)—The Council for Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) has issued an urgent request for action from pro-lifers to contact the Attorney General of Saskatchewan and demand that the Crown appeal the Latimer decision to the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal (see contact info below). For those wishing to review the decision, it is available at https://radio.cbc.ca/news/latimer.html Please contact Hon. John Nilson, the Attorney General of Saskatchewan in any one or more of the following ways: 30 Legislative Building,  Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0B3 telephone: (306) 787-5353 fax: (306) 787-1232 e-mail: [email protected]

OTTAWA, Dec 3, (LSN) – While allowing abortion on demand, and less than two year penalties for “mercy” killing and pedophiliac rape, Canadian federal Justice Minister Anne McLellan says she’s prepared to toughen laws against abuse of animals. Justice department briefing notes revealed plans to increase the maximum sentence for cruelty to animals to five years. McLellan stated in a recent interview with the Ottawa Citizen, “I cannot imagine someone being cruel to a dog or a cat. For the sake of what? And I think we should deal with these people very harshly. We need to condemn this conduct, […]

NEW YORK, Dec 2 (LSN) – The New York Times reported yesterday that Professor Steven Pinker of MIT called on the US to repeal laws against infanticide. Pinker proposed what he called “neo-naticide”, saying that mothers ought to to have the right to kill their newborn children up to a couple of weeks after birth. Pinker’s proposal, although horrifying, proves what pro-lifers have said for years: once you arbitrarily draw lines at which human life has value no one is really safe

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (LSN) – On Monday, the US Supreme Court rejected the appeal of Rev. Eugene Lumpkin, the pastor of a Baptist church who was fired from San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission in 1993 after he offered biblical evidence for his objection to the practice of homosexuality. The Supreme Court justices thus gave tacit approval to a U.S. appeals court ruling which said that Lumpkin had a right to state his views, but that the First Amendment does not “assure him job security when he preached homophobia while serving as a city official.’‘ The incident stems from media interviews […]

CNEWS Poll Robert Latimer was granted a constitutional exemption from the minimum sentence for murder and sentenced to two years less a day in the killing of his disabled daughter. Is it a fair sentence? So far, 240 people have voted for Yes So far, 61 people have voted for No

TORONTO, Dec 2 (LSN) – In a press release from Campaign Life Coalition, national president Jim Hughes said, It's a sick world when killing is called compassionate, and punishment for killers is called cruel.” The head of the political wing of the pro-life movement in Canada was referring to the decision to grant convicted murderer Robert Latimer an unprecedented constitutional exemption from the 10-year mandatory sentence for second-degree murder. Mr Justice Ted Noble of the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench sentenced Latimer today to two years less a day, only a year of which will be served in prison. “I'm […]

BATTLEFORD, Sask., Dec 1 (LSN) – Robert Latimer, convicted last month of second-degree murder for killing his 12-year-old daughter Tracy, has received an unprecedented constitutional exemption from the ten year minimum sentence. Justice Ted Noble of the Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench ruled today that, according to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the minimum sentence in this case would amount to “cruel and unusual punishment.” Justice Noble cited legal precedents, in which other “mercy killers” have been given a slap on the wrist. He also indicated he believed Latimer was a good father, and acted out of compassion.

WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (LSN) – Moonies leader Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church held a massive publicity stunt Saturday, called “Blessing 97.” About 25,000 people gathered in the RFK Stadium in Washington, DC, and the event was linked by satellite to 84 countries. Moon claimed to be marrying 39.6 million couples, 3.6 million for the first time with the rest renewing their “unions.” Characteristic of Moon's antics, 2,500 of the couples had met only days before they were “married,” and they were matched by Moon himself. Reportedly, 6 different church leaders were invited to bless the crowd during the […]

DUBLIN, Dec 1 (LSN) – On Friday, The Irish High Court sanctioned the abortion of a 13-week-old pre-born child. By permitting the 13-year-old alleged rape victim to leave the country to have an abortion abroad, the court has injected new life into the pro-abortion movement. After three days of closed-door proceedings, Justice Hugh Geoghegan decided to reject the pleas of the girl's parents to save the life of their pre-born grandchild. Youth Defence, a pro-life group who was assisting the parents in the case and had raised funds for the care of the girl and her baby, noted that the […]

MOSCOW, Dec 1 (LSN) – Russian newspapers reported last week that elderly women held up a traveling abortion- contraception “clinic” in Moscow, after it began its “maiden” voyage last Thursday. About 50 protesters, mostly elderly women, blocked the tram’s passage. The good women defied the government and international criticism by blocking the tram's passage and dousing it liberally with eggs. The “Streetcar Called Bordello,” as one protester called it, is sponsored by the Health Ministry and the Family Planning association. Its aim is to indoctrinate the young and attract their attention with its sky-blue colour, decorated with white and blue […]