Articles for Month: December 1998

TORONTO, Dec 21 (LSN)  Late last week Canada Christian College received an apology from the Ontario Ministry of Education after a mass public outcry protesting the Ministry’s letter to the college to “cease and desist” its activities. The college will be able to continue its operations and it will also be given degree-granting status. Furthermore, the Ministry’s new guidelines on criteria for theological degree-granting institutions will be co-authored by 3 Bible college presidents, one of which will be Dr. Charles McVety, president of Canada Christian College.  Canada Christian College extends its heartfelt thanks to all who contacted Education Minister David […]

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 21 (LSN)  Last week, the population control wing of the United Nations, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) won a documentary award at the XX International Festival of the New Latin American Films in Havana. The “documentary” film, “As¡ es esta historia” (Such is this history), documented a subversive effort to push pro-abortion ideology on poor women in Peru. According to the UN report, “The film shows scenes from a project in the Peruvian region of Alto Cuzco that tested a literacy method where the women learn to read and write while reflecting on their reproductive and […]

Help Germany Defeat RU-486   Bishop, Karl Lehmann, the head of Germany’s Catholic Conference of Bishops,  condemned the German government’s plan to allow the sale of the abortion pill RU-486 next month. In a story today by the BBC World Service distributed by Pro-Life E-news, Bishop Lehman said the “abortion pill is murder” and Cardinal Joachim Meissner, the Archbishop of Cologne was reported to have made a comparison between taking the pill and the use of gas in the Nazi Holocaust.  The German division of Human Life International reported that the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” – a leading German newspaper – is […]

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 21 (LSN)  On Friday, Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy officially signed the UN’s Rome Agreement on the International Criminal Court. CBC Newsworld reported that Canada is the 69th country to sign the accord.  The next step for many countries is ratification. Once 60 countries have ratified the agreement, the authority of the ICC will be enshrined over all nations, thus eliminating their national sovereignty.  The ICC should be of grave concern to pro-lifers since the document gives the strange term “forced pregnancy” official recognition as a new international crime. Although quite narrowly defined at present,  internationalist radicals […]

OTTAWA, Dec 18 (LSN)  A growing number of women who regret having disabled children are launching “wrongful birth” suits against their doctors. Several of these cases were outlined in an article in this week’s Canadian Medical Post. The success of the suits, which penalize doctors for ostensibly failing to encourage genetic testing, or amniocentesis, is very disturbing both in terms of its implications for pro-  life doctors and in terms of what it says about our society’s recognition of the responsibility of parents. Many pro-life doctors refuse to refer patients for amniocentesis and other such tests, so they face a […]

The email address given for Ontario Education Minister Dave Johnson in Tuesday’s LSN was incorrect. The correct address is as follows: [email protected]   To see again the action item regarding the closing of the Christian college go to:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1998/dec/981215.html

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (LSN)  A taxpayer funded United States Information Agency that included on its website a link to Emily’s List, the Democratic pro-abortion political action committee, has deleted the link and replaced it with a link to the National Right to Life Committee. The illicit partisan link on the government site was exposed by the Conservative News Service (CNS) which prompted a preliminary investigation of the situation by the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee. The committee called the profile of the PAC a “gross violation” of the federal ban on using tax money to finance lobbying efforts.  For […]

HARTFORD, Conn., Dec 18 (LSN)  On Wednesday, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that HealthSouth Corp., a company that operates 225 surgery centers nationwide, is breaking the law by not providing abortions in its centers. Blumenthal is a well-known pro-abort who, in 1973, served as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun who at that time wrote the majority opinion in the Roe vs.  Wade.  A story by the Associated Press, circulated by Pro-Life E-news noted that Blumenthal threatened HealthSouth saying that the state could sue the company or force its operations in the state to close unless […]

LANSING, Michigan, Dec 18 (LSN)  Euthanasia activist Dr. (“Death”) Jack Kevorkian will go to trial on 1st degree murder charges in early March, according to Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Jessica Cooper.  Kevorkian in pre-trial hearings Wednesday refused to enter a plea, so his lawyer David Gorosh entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf. For a history on Kevorkian see The Kevorkian Papers at:  https://www.kevork.org/

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec 17 (LSN)  Yesterday, Lee Bo-yon and Kim Sung-bo, fertility specialists at Kyunghee University Hospital, announced to reporters that they had created a cloned human embryo that had the exact same genetic makeup as the 30-year old woman from whom the DNA sample came.  According to today’s Washington Post, the scientists claim they killed the embryo soon after its production so as not to violate any laws. The announcement raised fresh concern about the new wave in bioethics around the world and gave rise to demonstrations outside the Seoul hospital.