Articles for Month: May 1999

* The Associated Press reported Monday that in-utero laser surgery on twins in Florida has “miraculously” saved one of the babies from death by re-routing amniotic fluid so that it is evenly distributed to each of the twins. * The Amarillo Texas Globe-News reported in march that conservative Protestants are moving against artificial birth control to such a degree that fertility rates among them are beginning to challenge those of Catholic families. * The National Post is reporting today that a Commons committee has recommended replacing Social Insurance Numbers for Canadians with “smart cards.” * The National Post also reported […]

BRISTOL, U.K. May 5 (Lifesitenews.com) – Scientists from Bristol University in England have discovered a protein in human males which protects sperm from damage. GPX5, as the protein has been named, is reportedly manufactured only in the reproductive tract, and scientists aim to attack the body’s natural release of the protein. Another project is to create a vaccine that would have the body create anti-bodies to GPX5, thus making for long-term disabling of the protection for sperm. Today’s National Post (NP) reports that Glaxo Wellcome, a large pharmaceutical company, is pursuing this research Dr. Len Hall heads up the project. […]

VATICAN, May 5 (Lifesitenews.com) – Another negotiating session is taking place at the UN over the next three days in preparation for the Cairo+5 meeting in June. Cairo+5 will review the implementation of the Cairo agenda by signatory nations over the past five years. Pope John Paul II responded today to the predictable pro-abortion, population control comments from many of the delegates there. He reminded those at the conference that, in 1994, during the original Population Conference in Cairo, “the Holy See had reiterated insistently that human life be put at the center of any development program.” “This means,” he […]

OTTAWA, May 5 (Lifesitenews.com) – The Supreme Court of Canada will likely announce tomorrow that it will hear Robert Latimer’s appeal of his “mercy-killing” conviction and sentence. Crown prosecutors are backing portions of the appeal saying that the controversy over constitutional exemptions from sentences needs to be addressed by the highest court since it is “a question of national importance.” Recalling last November’s announcement by Justice Minister Anne McLellan that the federal government would likely intervene if the Latimer case was heard by the Supreme Court of Canada,  pro-life leaders are worried. At the time McLellan would not divulge the […]

MELBOURNE, Australia, May 5 (Lifesitenews.com) – Australian Senator Brian Harradine revealed to the press that a Chinese pregnant woman who begged for refugee status in Australia so she could bear her second child there was forcibly aborted after her deportation. Despite assurances by Australian authorities that she would not be forced to undergo an abortion in China, the woman’s unborn baby was killed just ten days before her due date. “She is absolutely devastated, I am told you cannot recognise [her as] the same person,” said the Senator. Sources: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Pro-Life E-News

TORONTO, May 4 (Lifesitenews.com) – The Ontario Progressive Conservative government has come out against the idea of school vouchers or charter schools. On Saturday Premier Mike Harris was quoted in the National Post saying “We want a public education system that Ontario parents and families have so much confidence in that they’ll never want to send their children to any other private school.” Some conservative MPPs and supporters had hoped that the government would introduce a school voucher system, which would allow parents to send their children and their tax money to the school of their choice. With this statement […]

NEW YORK, May 4 (Lifesitenews.com) – In the May 17 edition of the National Review, editor Ramesh Ponnuru devotes the feature article to encouraging pro-life forces: Don’t give up! Ponnuru recalls the 1992 comment of columnist Charles Krauthammer who then said, “The great abortion debate is over.” The National Review notes that “since then, pro-lifers have added about three dozen congressmen, a dozen senators, and four governors to their ranks; they have twice passed in Congress a bill banning some abortions and come close to overriding the president’s vetoes of it; they have moved the debate over abortion to ground […]

May 4 (Lifesitenews.com)-  A US government study has found that homicide is the leading cause in the death of infants due to injury. Looking at children under one year of age, researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Development identified a total of 10,370 injury deaths over the 9-year study period from 1983-91. According to CNN researcher examined birth an death certificates to find that “homicide, including battery, shaking and throwing the child, accounted for 23 percent of all injury deaths.” The study, in this month’s Pediatrics journal carried the following chart: Causes Of Early Childhood Death From […]

* A Vancouver area walk-for-life was disturbed this week by pro-aborts who had plastered telephone polls along the route with pornographic anti-H.L.I posters. * The National Post is reporting today that Calgary High School students are asking for school uniforms so as to curb school violence. * Last week Florida’s senate approved a pro-life “Choose Life” license plate, Gov. Bush already promised to sign the bill. * The Washington Times is reporting that the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled yesterday that the United States, not the United Nations,  decides when an illegal alien is entitled to political asylum. * WorldNetDaily […]

OTTAWA, May 3 (Lifesitenews.com) – Health Canada’s Laboratory Centre for Disease Control released statistics this month noting that men who have sex with men (MSM) comprise over 75% of the 16, 236 AIDS cases reported to the Bureau of HIV/AIDS, STD and TB. “Of 14,917 male AIDS cases, 11,532 (77%)  were attributed to MSM and an additional 713 (4.8%) were attributed to the combined category of MSM and injection drug use.” Despite attempts by homosexual activists to minimize the association between homosexual behaviour and AIDS, government data still shows that the disease is strongly affiliated with the homosexualist sub-culture.