Articles for Month: March 1999

MONTREAL, Mar 25 (Lifesitenews.com) – A woman who underwent hormonal and surgical treatment to portray herself as a man won a court battle to change her sex on her birth certificate to male.  Quebec Superior Court decided to allow the changes with an announcement expected later this week. The Canadian Press reported that the woman who refers to herself as Daniel Aranoff is waiting for “the official papers that will allow him (sic) to change his (sic) passport, driver’s licence, medicare card and other documents that identify him (sic) as female.” What CP failed to mention is that the transvestite […]

BUENOS AIRES, Mar 25 (Lifesitenews.com) – Today Argentina celebrates the “Day of the Unborn Child,”  following the December 8, 1998 presidential declaration of the event by Argentine President Carlos Menem. The decree noted, “under our constitution and our civil legislation, life begins at the moment of conception.” In recognition of his country’s celebration, the Argentinean delegate to the Cairo +5 UN prepcom addressed the opening session of the UN meeting yesterday bravely proclaiming his country’s pro-life position and announcing the March 25 celebration. Aldo Carreras told the UN gathering that “Life exists from conception, and the right to life exists […]

HAMILTON, Mar 25 (Lifesitenews.com) – Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police have formally requested that the government prevent entry into Canada of the pamphlet Quack the Ripper, produced by the U.S. pro-life group Life Dynamics Incorporated. In making the request, Hamilton police inspector David Bowen stated, “This pamphlet is designed to discourage doctors from performing abortions, something that is a right for all women in Canada”. Unlike the U.S., there is in fact not a legal “right to abortion” in Canadian law, although the procedure is also not restricted because of the absence of abortion regulation law. The proposal to ban a publication […]

PURCELLVILLE, VA, Mar 24 (Lifesitenews.com) – The largest study ever conducted on home schooling in the United States, involving over 20,000 home school students was released yesterday showing exceptional achievement at all grade levels for home schoolers. The study published in the March issue of the refereed journal, Educational Policy Analysis Archives, was conducted by Dr. Lawrence M. Rudner, director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation at the University of Maryland and commissioned by the Home School Legal Defence Fund (HSLDF). Using nationally standardized tests, the study found that “On average, home school students in grades 1 to […]

TORONTO, Mar 24 (Lifesitenews.com) – The smash hit Christian-conservative news magazine Alberta Report is coming to Toronto.  Yesterday’s edition of the Fifth Estate featured reactions to the forthcoming arrival and interviews with the magazine’s creator Ted Byfield. The introductory comments to the program by host Linden MacIntryre, which could be read in a negative light are perhaps one of the best ads for the magazine. MacIntyre said, “Alberta report insists on strict conservative Christian values: anti-gay,  anti-abortion, anti lots of things, taking the position that what’s right is right. Alberta Report is headed for that little patch of Sodom and […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 24 (Lifesitenews.com) – Reporting from the floor of the United Nations in New York,  pro-life lobbyists at the final preparatory conference for the Cairo+5 implementation review are exposing the foul tactics being employed by the UN to further their radical pro-abortion agenda. The pro-lifers note that the prepcom’s negotiating document, called “the Secretary-General’s Report,” has removed key items from the “Cairo Programme of Action” including a clause protecting national sovereignty called the “Cairo Chapeau” and the recognition of the rights and responsibilities of parents and families. The Secretary-General’s Report incorporates new and revolutionary concepts not agreed to […]

PONTIAC, Mich., Mar 23 (Lifesitenews.com) – As the murder trial for Jack Kevorkian got underway yesterday he successfully pleaded with Judge Jessica Cooper to be allowed to defend himself against the murder charges. Despite the advice given him by David Gorosh and Lisa Dwyer, his two pro-bono,  publicity-hungry legal advisors, Kevorkian went afoul of proper procedure and the judge had to evict the jury temporarily to warn Dr. Death of his courtroom blunders. “History will judge; It won’t judge me very harshly, but it will judge what you do,” Kevorkian,  who boasts of having assisted in over 130 suicides, told […]

OTTAWA, Mar 23 (Lifesitenews.com) – Addressing the proposed changes to the Young Offenders Act, Leader of the Opposition Preston Manning told the House of Commons yesterday that “the most effective approach to crime prevention, particularly youth crime prevention, is to strengthen families.”  Manning defined families to include, “extended families, single parent families, traditional families.” The Reform leader said the Liberal leaders “put their faith not in families but in government programs operated for the most part by well meaning but impersonal and inefficient bureaucracies.” Manning demanded that the bureaucracies should “serve and support front-line caregivers”, primarily “overworked, under supported and […]

TORONTO, Mar 23 (Lifesitenews.com) – Teenage girls are being lured into witchcraft. With at least two popular TV shows, movies and books all glorifying Wicca (witchcraft), the occult practice is experiencing an unprecedented expansion. Source: Toronto Sun, March 22