Articles for Month: September 1998

BANGOR, Maine, Sept 21 (LSN) – The Bangor Daily News reported Friday that pro-life demonstrator Elizabeth Harden was harassed by a pro-abort while setting up pro-life signs outside the Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center, an abortuary in Bangor, Maine.  Mrs. Harden told the police that he used “terrible, obscene language,” and witnesses confirm that the pro-  abort took one of the pro-life signs and flung it into the intersection before leaving the scene. The pro-  lifers were thankful that the throwing of the sign did not result in a car accident.  A Bangor police officer dispatched to the scene determined […]

KELWONA, BC, Sept 21 (LSN) – A report in the Kelwona Daily Courier last week indicated that the local health board is seeking $400,000 from the provincial government to set up an abortuary in the Kelwona General Hospital. This despite the deplorable conditions of general health care in the region, which, as the paper reports, “had about 300 fewer long-term beds than the provincial average for a district this size a few years ago.” An additional ten long-term beds could be set up in the community for the cost of the startup fees for the abortuary.  The hospital abortuary is […]

FEDERICTON, Sept 18 (LSN) – New Brunswick Mayor Brad Woodside was ordered to proclaim Gay Pride Week yesterday by the province’s Human Rights Commission after an “independent” inquiry into the matter found the Mayor guilty of discrimination against homosexuals. New Brunswick’s Telegraph Journal reported today that Woodside agreed “under protest” to make the proclamation within a year of yesterday’s ruling as ordered. “I will read the proclamation because I’ve been ordered to read it,” said the mayor.  The guilty verdict was handed down by a one-man board of inquiry appointed by the Minister of Advanced Education and Labour. University of […]

BOSTON, Sept 18 (LSN) – Pro-life Evangelical Christian Chuck Colson this week reported the remarkable conversion from a pro-abortion conviction to a pro-life view of leading deconstructionist thinker Stanley Fish. The episode took place at the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual convention on Labor Day weekend. Stanley Fish of Duke University and Robert George of Princeton were debating “Can we debate important moral issues when people proceed from deeply divergent starting points?”  The professors exchanged papers before the debate and George, described by Colson as “a young, brilliant political philosopher,  and also a conservative Catholic Christian,” raised the issue […]

ATLANTA, Sept 18 (LSN) – Media mogul and population control advocate Ted Turner recently tried to outdo earlier extremist views he has expressed in favour of population control. American Life League reported Wednesday that he just told a real estate group in Atlanta that he was sorry he had five children: “If I was doing it over again I wouldn’t have done it,” he said “but I can’t shoot them now that they’re here.”  Turner also called opponents of China’s brutal coercive population control program “dumb-dumbs,” and, in what some critics believe may be evidence of a dangerous Messianic complex, […]

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (LSN) -In a vote today the U.S. Senate failed by three votes to obtain the two-thirds majority vote needed to override President Clinton’s veto of a law banning partial-birth abortion.

Bell Mobility Sponsor   OTTAWA, Sept 18 (LSN) – Yesterday was the first day of the 7th Annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film and Video Festival, “Making Scenes”. The event airs filthy films laden with nudity and sex but is nevertheless being hosted in the National Gallery of Canada (September 23-26) and the Cineplex Odeon, World Exchange Plaza (September 17-20).  Known sponsors of the event thus far Include CINEPLEX ODEON, WORLD EXCHANGE PLAZA, FIRST CELLULAR BELL MOBILITY, Mcmillan & ASSOCIATES, an advertising agency, RIDEAU VIEW INN, and LEVESQUE, BEAUBIEN,  GEOFFRION, “a leader” in the Canadian securities industry and the […]

BOSTON, Sept 18 (LSN) – This week EWTN news featured a special report from the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) outlining the moral problems associated with invitro fertilization in response to the recent media attention given to the IVF sex-selection technique. Arguments for the acceptance of the procedure based on considerations of avoiding sex-linked genetic disorders are compelling and require effective counter arguments.  NCBC President John M. Haas outlined the following concerns with the procedure:  1   “the sperm is collected by masturbation”  2   “the new life is engendered in a petri dish (in vitro)—a technique which has been […]

BINGHAMTON, NY, Sept 17 (LSN) – After being the victim of a vicious and slanderous campaign by pro-abortion Republicans, former Operation Rescue leader and Republican political hopeful Randall Terry was defeated in a New York GOP primary by William “Bud” Walker. Terry, always a fighter, however said he would nevertheless run in the November elections.  One particularly malicious attack on Terry in August took out of context a statement he made: “I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. Let some hate wash over you. Yes, hatred is good.” An ad put out by pro-abortion […]

SASKATOON, Sept 17 (LSN) – The Canadian Press reported yesterday that Robert Latimer’s appeal of his conviction in the gassing his 12-year-old daughter Tracy, will begin on October 19 in the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal. Latimer is appealing the two-year sentence he received last fall for Tracy’s killing.  Pro-lifers and disability groups are deeply concerned about the impact of this case on the legalization of assisted suicide as Mark Brayford, Latimer’s lawyer, charges 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 […]