Articles for Month: December 1998

NEW YORK, Dec 3 (LSN)  Ads aiming to indoctrinate teens with pro-abortion propaganda are turning up in the US. The ads for the abortion industry have followed the trend of other business ads aimed at youth using provocative language and photos. The Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP), a group of abortionists and their supporters, commissioned the radical DeVito/Verdi advertising agency. They are aiming to raise over $6 million for the advertising campaign scheduled to be seen in college newspapers, on billboards, on local television stations and cable networks.  The Washington Post described some of the ads as:  “a downtown waifette, […]

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec 3 (LSN) – Dr. Verman Madrigal of Nicaragua introduced the infamous “morning-  after pill” into the Nicaraguan medical market this week under the brand name Vermagest (after himself).  Catholic World News reported today that Madrigal insists that the drug is legal in the country since the Pan-American Health Organization has defined pregnancy as beginning only when the ovum is implanted. However, Nicaraguan law defines pregnancy as beginning at fertilization and maintains abortions are illegal.

ST LOUIS, Missouri, Dec 3 (LSN) – Tipper Gore, wife of radically pro-abortion Vice President Al Gore,  gave the opening address today at a national Planned Parenthood Federation of America meeting.

WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (LSN)  After praising “successes” in the Chinese “family planning” (one-child policy) programme, Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs Frank Loy promised to make restoration of support for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) a top priority.  In October, the population control arm of the UN lost all of its funding from the United States. The $20 million cut, implemented by Congress as part of the federal budget, represented seven per cent of the UNFPA funding. The final straw for Congress was the UNFPA’s support of Chinese population control programs. Last year UNFPA began a new $5-million program in […]

VANCOUVER, BC, Dec 2 (LSN)  In a story in today’s Vancouver Sun regarding a nurses strike at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), the paper said that the hospital, while having to turn away some patients has approved doing “several late-term therapeutic abortions.” Dr. Jeff Coleman,  VGH’s vice-president of medical affairs, while complaining that VGH is the only facility in the province that does late-term abortions, revealed that abortions take place even beyond the 19th week of the preborn child’s development. “If they (abortions) extend beyond 19 weeks,  they become major procedures,” he said.

OTTAWA, Dec 2 (LSN) – Tom Merrick, a senior advisor in the Human Resources Network of the World Bank, spoke at the Fifth Canadian Conference on International Health, Nov 15-18, revealing that the international financial institution funds “reproductive health.” Merrick noted that three billion dollars were shelled out last year by the Bank to support “Health, Nutrition and Population.” Jean Ferrari, who reported on the conference for The Ottawa Times, attempted unsuccessfully to have Merrick divulge what percentage of the three billion went into funding each of the three components.  While Merrick denied that the World Bank supported population control […]

TOKYO, Japan, Dec 2 (LSN) – Richard Seed of Chicago, who gained notoriety in January by proposing to start cloning humans for profit, has found acceptance for his schemes in Japan. Japanese scientists and government officials in search of cloning technology for their cattle industry have agreed to allow Seed to set up an animal cloning clinic and an in vitro fertilization centre on the Japanese island of Hokkaido where Seed expects to set up shop in August.  The Associated Press reported that James Ryan, a Tokyo-based consultant for Seed said that US $15 million has already been raised in […]

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 2 (LSN)  Exploiting the plight of those suffering from the dreaded HIV virus and AIDS, UN promoters of “reproductive health,” which, in UN-speak includes abortion, used World AIDS Day to promote their favourite causes.  Giving a Keynote Speech at a UN forum marking World AIDS Day, Hollywood sex-star Sharon Stone said,  “if you truly, truly love your children, you need to supply condoms in a place in your home, at a quantity that makes it a non-judgmental situation for them to have them.”“I mean, put 200 condoms in a box in some place in the house where […]

MEXICO CITY, Dec 2 (LSN)  Yesterday the Mexican Pro-Life Committee handed a petition containing one and a half million signatures to Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo requesting a law to protect life from the moment of conception. Zenit news service reported that signatures on the petition included members of Mexico’s ruling PRI party, Felipe Calderon—leader of the opposition party PAN—,  representatives from the National Association of Businessmen (COPARMEX) and the Women’s National Civic Association.  The president of the Pro-Life Committee told reporters “It is not possible to understand a government that talks about the common good when the laws do not […]

WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (LSN)  Yesterday, the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal by a gay Boy Scout leader who charged the youth organization with discrimination after it discontinued his services because of his active homosexuality. Charles Merino became the second former Boy Scout leader to be denied access to the young boys by the Supreme Court. In 1984, former Eagle Scout Timothy Curran, a practicing homosexual, lost his Supreme Court battle to lead a troop of young boys.  Homosexual activist lawyer Evan Wolfson of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund revealed that numerous other attempts to legally force admission […]