Articles for Month: February 1999

NEW YORK, Feb 22 (Lifesitenews.com)  The abortion pill RU-486 could be on the U.S. market as early as the end of this year according to an announcement by the Danco Group, a pharmaceutical company which received manufacturing rights to the pill from the Population Council. In an interview with Reuters, Heather O’Neill, a spokesperson for the Danco Group, said the company had identified manufacturers willing to produce the drug. “We’re confident that we expect to make it available by the end of this year commercially in the US,” she said. (with files from Pro-Life E-News)

OTTAWA, Feb 22 (Lifesitenews.com)  A coalition of pro-family groups has risen to the challenge of defending a parent’s right to use corrective physical discipline with their children.  The Canada Family Action Coalition, Focus on the Family (Canada) Association, the Home School Legal Defence Association of Canada, and REAL Women of Canada have teamed up to form the Coalition for Family Autonomy and have been granted intervenor status in an Ontario court case challenging parent’s rights. A federal government funded group calling itself the Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law is asking the court to declare Section 43 of […]

NEW YORK, Feb 22 (Lifesitenews.com)  An official UN press release summarizing the international organization’s version of the outcome of the recent Hague Forum demonstrates the deceptive language used to distort issues to make them less offensive to the public.  The report calls for laws to be enacted and enforced to promote abortion, contraception and homosexual marriage. It refers to abortion and contraception as “reproductive health and rights” and homosexual marriage “voluntary choice in marriage, family forms”. More discernment is necessary to decipher terms such as “safe motherhood,” which mainly refers to access to abortion since, according to the UN, “unsafe […]

LONDON, England, Feb 22 (Lifesitenews.com)  One of Britain’s top fertility experts has announced that given current technology it is possible for men to carry babies to term and be delivered by caesarian section. Lord Robert Winston, head of a hospital fertility clinic in London, has outlined the concept in his book, The IVF Revolution, to be published in April. “Male pregnancy would certainly be possible and would be the same as when a woman has an ectopic pregnancy – outside the uterus – although to sustain it, you’d have to give the man lots of female hormones,” said Winston. In […]

AMSTERDAM, Feb 18 (Lifesitenews.com)  As long predicted by the pro-life movement, the practice of so-called controlled euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands over the past fifteen years has given way to rampant involuntary imposed euthanasia where most cases go unreported. An extensive survey on the practice published in the British Journal of Medical Ethics this week reveals that one in five cases of euthanasia occurred without the patient’s explicit request,  and in 17 per cent of such cases, alternative treatment was available. In 1995, almost two thirds of cases of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide went unreported in Holland. […]

In the February 1999 issue of Chronicles Magazine (p. 25), is given the oft-rumored definition of a “cultist” given by Attorney General Janet Reno. For several years, it has been debated whether Miss Reno actually made this statement, but now, thanks to Dr. Thomas Fleming (Chronicles editor), we have the text from Reno’s appearance on “60 Minutes” on June 26, 1994.  It follows: “A cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high level of giving to a Christian cause; who home-schools for […]

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb 18 (Lifesitenews.com) Fourteen doctors in Oregon were sanctioned by the state to deliver lethal medications to 23 people in their care last year. 15 of these patients were killed by the chemical concoction. A study on the situation in the New England Journal of Medicine this week tries its best to cloud the harsh reality and attempts to show assisted suicide as a compassionate medical procedure, free from mishaps and danger. Of note, the study shies away from mentioning that at least one of the patients to whom lethal drugs were given was in his/her thirties. The […]

MILAN, Feb 18 (Lifesitenews.com)  Last week, councilors in Milan voted to provide assistance to those women considering abortion for financial reasons. In a split vote the council decided to help women for up to three years after the birth of a child. A pro-abortion councilor reacted to the decision complaining, “I feel an anti-abortion campaign coming, and I don’t like it.” Source: The Guardian

INTERNET, Feb 17 (Lifesitenews.com)  Microsoft and Yahoo showed complete intolerance for a resort which was said to restrict accommodations to heterosexual couples. According to a CNET story, Microsoft’s MSN Expedia travel site and two sites offering promotions through Yahoo, offered a sweepstakes promising a “romantic getaway” for two at the Sandals resort in Jamaica. When the companies learned of the heterosexual-couple only policy they reacted quickly and with indignation. Both Microsoft and Yahoo removed links to, and promotions of the Sandals resort and also referred to the Sandals policy as “discriminatory.” While the company does not shine brightly in the […]