Articles for Month: September 1998

AMERICAN FORK, Utah, Sept 4 (LSN) – Yesterday WorldNetDaily reported on a brewing battle between Paramount Pictures and a small town video store owner who is obliging customers by professionally editing out offensive sexual scenes and language on request. Don Biesinger, owner of Sunrise Family Video in a conservative Utah town provides the service for a meager $5. He does not sell or rent the videos which he alters at his store. Requests have been filing in. On the day following the Titanic release over 200 videos were delivered to the store for editing.  Biesinger contends people can censor any […]

TORONTO, Sept 4 (LSN) – Deseret News reported Wednesday on the latest scientific advances into fetal brain activity which suggest that babies in utero have memories and even feelings. Toronto psychiatrist Thomas Verny and San Diego psychologist David Chamberlain have found fetuses “sensitive, perceptive,  conscious … active, curious (and) emotional.” In an article entitled “The Sentient Prenate”  Chamberlain recounts that via hypnosis feelings of rejection of children in the womb can be uncovered.  After one such investigation into an adult man’s feelings of rejection, the man’s mother admitted she had attempted to abort him.  A vast amount of research showing […]

OTTAWA, Sept 3 (LSN) – Yesterday Reuters news service reported that the sex-change operation, “along with mandatory hormonal and psychiatric treatment,” that the Canadian Forces agreed to afford its soldiers will cost Canadian tax-payers between C$20,000 and C$40,000 per procedure. Colonel Scott Cameron, director of medical services for the military told Reuters that the decision was a moral and medical obligation calling the desire to have a “gender reassignment” an “illness.” One pro-family observer noted that it is strange that while some provincial health plans refuse to cover circumcisions they agree to cover sex-  changes, “I guess you have to […]

NEW YORK, Sept 3 (LSN) – The pornographic Hustler magazine has sunk to new depths recently with a new advertisement using a doctored photograph of Pope John Paul II and Fidel Castro. The blasphemous marketing tool shows Pope John Paul II looking at the magazine with Castro and has the caption: “For the Love of Christ, Subscribe Today!” On the pope’s clothing is a yellow sticker that reads: “I saved 44%”; the word “Hustler” appears below it. (At the bottom of the full-page ad was a disclaimer admitting the alteration of the photo.)  The US Catholic League earlier this week […]

NEWARK, NJ, Sept 3 (LSN) – Yesterday the US Food and Drug Administration approved sales and marketing of a do-it-yourself abortion kit including a “morning after pill.” According to the Associated Press, the “PREVEN” kits are being advertised by Gynetics Inc. and will be available by prescription by the end of September.  American Life League President Judie Brown condemned the decision, but said it “does not surprise those of us who understand that government agencies will go to any length to pander to the sexually irresponsible. The fact that women will suffer various physical and emotional complications—and the fact that […]

ARUSHA, United Republic of Tanzania, Sept 3 (LSN) – In yesterday’s landmark ruling on the Rwandan genocide, the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda defined the crime of “genocide.” Pro-family forces are outraged that the court chose to include the ill-defined term “sexual violence” as a form of genocide. Pro-life forces see this as an welcome mat to pro-abortion activists who want the denial of access to abortion made an international crime governed by the jurisdiction of international law.  A UN press release on the International Tribunal decision simply states that “In its judgement, the Trial Chamber underscored the fact […]

ARUSHA, United Republic of Tanzania, Sept 3 (LSN) – In yesterday’s landmark ruling on the Rwandan genocide by the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the court made the first ever finding of guilt by convicting former village Mayor Jean-Paul Akayesu of the crime of genocide. Akayesu’s trial was a vivid example of the UN’s attempt to shift blame for the deaths of 800,000 Rwandans to anyone but itself. The responsibility of the UN for allowing the massacre in Rwanda to continue has been well documented in various news reports about allegations made by Canadian general Romeo Dallaire, the UN […]

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 2 (LSN) – Early this week, Brazilian Catholics protested new swimsuits featuring a picture of Christ’s head crowned with thorns on the backside of men’s swimming briefs, by designer David Azulay. Catholic World News reported that the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro was investigating legal measures to block the sale of the swimsuits which begins this week with an initial run of 5,000.

BOSTON, Sept 2 (LSN) – Yesterday a judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit by Deborah Gaines, who is suing the Preterm abortuary in Brookline for “wrongful birth.” Four years ago Gaines went to the abortuary and ran out of it when John Salvi III began shooting in the lobby. Gaines claims that the event traumatized her so much that she was unable to enter another abortion mill to have her child aborted. Gaines is demanding that the abortuary assist her in the costs of raising the child that should have been killed.  Gaines’ lawyer Chris Milne said that security at […]

NEW YORK, Sept 2 (LSN) – Today the United Nations Population Fund released its 1998 State of The World Population report in which they called for greater access to reproductive health care (abortion) for adolescents. The report uses over-population fear tactics to foster the absurd notion that massive population control is needed to avoid world financial, food and security crises. Further, the report calls urges nations to make “sexual and reproductive health” education for young people a priority of education reform. All regions objecting to this UN sponsored pro-abortion sex-ed are condemned in the report as having “negative attitudes and […]