BC COURT UPHOLDS PREVIOUS CHILD PORN RULING

VANCOUVER, June 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a ruling that stunned many, the BC Court of Appeal has rejected the appeal of a lower court ruling legalizing the possession of child pornography. The BC government appealed an earlier ruling, which struck down portions of the Criminal Code which made the possession of child porn illegal, claiming that they violated the Constitution. BC Attorney General Ujjal Dosanjh said the case will be taken to the Supreme Court of Canada. In April, LifeSite News reported on disturbing comments by Justice Southin, one of the three appeals court judges hearing the case.  Responding to […]
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A poll is being taken on euthanasia at the website for Coalition for National Referendum, reports Pro-Life E-News. The powerful forces pushing PREVEN have been able to lobby the Federal Drug Administration into permitting the removal of “black box warnings” from the abortive kits.  The US National Bioethics Advisory Commission has voted to encourage Congress to approve the destruction of embryonic babies produced for stem cell research and experimentation.  More studies indicate that the in utero environment plays a large role in the later development of the child.  Homosexual activist James Hormel was sworn in as US ambassador to the […]
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ABORTIVE DRUG PREVEN APPROVED IN CANADA

OTTAWA, June 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Health Protection Branch of the Canadian government issued a Notice of Compliance to Gynetics Inc. the company which owns PREVEN, on March 16, thus giving it license to market the product in Canada. In the face of a complete media blackout on the issue, the details are only now surfacing. Alliance for Life Ontario President Jakki Jeffs, issued a press release today confirming the legalization of the so-called “emergency contraception kit” in Canada,  noting that the estimated date of availability is September. The kit will be available by prescription only.  Speaking with Dr. Andre-Marie […]
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AMERICAN CHILDREN WATCHING MORE TV

WASHINGTON, June 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Studies released yesterday indicate that on average US children are in front of television or video screens four-and-a-half hours per day. The studies by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania also indicated that almost half of 2-17 year olds have a TV in their bedrooms. Three quarters of “children’s”  shows are improperly rated and many contain scenes inappropriate for children. Moreover a large majority of parents seem oblivious to the television rating system.
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MOTHER KILLS 8 BABIES AND GETS PROBATION

PHILADELPHIA, June 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Marie Noe plead guilty yesterday in the smothering of 8 of her infants between 1949 and 1968. Noe, now 70, was given no jail time, but must remained confined to her home for the first five years of her twenty year probation. Her light sentence was explained by a deputy district attorney who said that a study of her case by psychiatrists would be of great significance.
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ALBERTA JUDGE RESERVES DECISION ON LESBIAN ADOPTION

CALGARY, June 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Justice Peter Martin of Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench has reserved his decision on a case involving lesbian adoption. The lawyer for the lesbians seeking to adopt a child told the press that Martin needed the extra time to prepare a written decision, “given the precedent-setting nature of the case.”
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PHELPS ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL DEMONSTRATION CANCELLED

OTTAWA, June 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Reverend Fred Phelps, a US pastor whose extremist approach against homosexuality is seen by some as being helpful to the homosexual movement, failed to show up for his scheduled protest at the Supreme Court on Monday. According to his daughter, Shirley Phelps-Roper, the decision not to go was due to a concern that police protection would be inadequate. The Canadian Press reported that nearly 500 homosexualist activists were on hand to mount a counter demonstration. Thirty police officers called in to protect the Americans were left waiting. The incident marked another occasion for homosexualists to […]
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CORRECTION TO DONALD DUCK CONDOM STORY

Yesterday’s LifeSite story on the Disney Donald Duck pro-contraception video was based on an erroneous news report. The correct story follows.  DONALD DUCK PROMOTES CONTRACEPTION SANTIAGO, Chile, June 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Population Research Institute (PRI) has exposed a Chilean Planned Parenthood affiliate that is making use of a 1968 Disney film of Donald Duck promoting contraception to propagandize population control to children. According to PRI’s report, the cartoon “Planificacion Familiar” (“Family Planning”) was created by Disney for the US Population Council. The film is being sold in a package of pro-contraceptive films by the Associacion Chilena de Protection de […]
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BABY KILLING BY PARENTS RAMPANT

FRANKLIN, Ind., June 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a bizarre murder case, Ronald Shanabarger confessed to police that he killed his infant son as an act of revenge against his wife. According to an affidavit in the case, Shanabarger’s planned the murder to take place after allowing his wife to bond with the child.  In a related story, a mother in Mississauga, Ontario who managed to conceal her pregnancy from her husband and her uncle and aunt who lived with them attempted to murder her newborn.  The woman was caught stabbing the baby when her aunt walked into the room. Despite […]
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BRITISH DOCTORS ON ROAD TO EUTHANASIA

LONDON, June 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New norms for British doctors allow them to withhold food and hydration from their patients even against the wishes of family members. Zenit news reported yesterday that directives from the British Medical Association have taken effect giving doctors powers to decide over life and death. Prior to this such powers were reserved for cases where the patient was in a deep coma.
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DONALD DUCK PROMOTES CONDOMS

SANTIAGO, Chile, June 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Penn State’s Population Research Institute is making use of a 1968 Disney film of Donald Duck promoting contraception. Zenit news reported today that the video is being sold in Chile within a package of other pro-contraception videos but Disney lawyers allege that the Population institute is selling the video illegally. In a related story, on Friday L’Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Vatican,  slammed campaigns to combat AIDS with the use of condoms. Writing in the paper, Bishop Elio Sgreccia said that the 10-15 per cent failure rate of the devices combined with […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* Reacting to a proposal of the National Association of School Nurses to give sex education to some girls in the fourth grade, (rather than the fifth as is common practice) American Life League President Judie Brown said: “As a supporter of sex education, the NASN is part of the problem. An eight-year-old girl should be sharing her thoughts, ideas and questions with her parents, not the local ‘Doctor Ruth’ in the school ‘health’ office.”  (American Life League News) * The bipartisan US national “Battleground 2000” poll indicates that American voters care about moral values.  (Family Research Council) * In […]
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FEMINIST GROUPS PUSHING BABY SEX SELECTION

OTTAWA, June 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A document obtained by a freedom of information request revealed that feminist groups are pushing the government to allow sex selection of babies to continue in Canada. The news comes as laws governing new reproductive technologies are to be introduced later this year. The Ottawa Citizen obtained a copy of a briefing memo to Health Minister Allan Rock he received just prior to a meeting with Secretary of State for the Status of Women Hedy Fry. “The issue of sex-selection for non-medical reasons has received mixed support from groups within the secretary’s constituency,” said the […]
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CARDINAL LEADS SUCCESSFUL CHICAGO PRO-LIFE VIGIL

CHICAGO, June 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago led a prayer vigil for nearly 1000 pro-lifers outside the Humbolt Park Centro abortuary Saturday. After a mass at the nearby St. Sylvester Church, where over 200 had to remain on the steps and outside the Church due to the massive crowd, the group made a procession of prayer to the abortuary where many knelt as the group prayed the Rosary for 45-minutes and then returned in procession to the Church.  Newspapers reported there were about 50 pro-abortion protesters but their numbers were dwarfed by the police presence.  Preaching at […]
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ARGENTINEANS DENOUNCE CONTRACEPTIVES AS “HUMAN PESTICIDES”

BUENOS AIRES, June 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Argentine Society of Medical and Biological Ethics objected to government programs to combat poverty which focussed on contraception. “Poverty is not resolved by combating the poor and filling them with dangerous ‘human pesticides,’  which have many secondary and collateral effects,” said an appeal. The society asked of government “instead of distributing contraceptives,  [that] they offer social justice, work, education and health.” With files from Zenit.
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JAMES KOPP CHARGED AGAIN BUT NOT FOUND

James Kopp who, in May, was charged by police with the murder of abortionist Barnett Slepian, has been indicted by a county grand jury. Kopp is now charged on three counts with second-degree murder, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon. An Associated Press report today indicates that Kopp was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list earlier this month. For a profile on James Kopp from the Wanderer see: Investigators Cast a Wide Net To Find Abortionist’s Murderer
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AUSTRALIA REGULARLY DEPORTS PREGNANT CHINESE WOMEN

CANBERRA, Australia, June 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australian Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock admitted yesterday to having deported at least three pregnant women to China who were seeking to avoid the communist country’s practice of forced abortion for those who already have one children. The minister defended his actions saying, “we’re talking here about people who were unlawfully in Australia and the responsibility under the Migration Act for people to be removed.” For background on the story go to: Update Chinese Woman Forced to Abort After Deportation With files from Pro-Life E-News Canada
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DESIGNER BABY BUSINESS THRIVING IN CHINA

CHENGDU, China, June 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A specialized sperm bank in China is demanding proof from donors that they are intellectuals. According to an Associated Press report, the “Notables’  Sperm Bank” in the Sichuan province requires donors to have attained the necessary level of education to qualify them as associate professors. Similar programs in Canada and the US have taken to advertising for human sperm and egg donations around ivy league universities. For a related story see: Designer Babies A Reality Thanks to IVF
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* On Tuesday Focus on the Family Canada denounced the Supreme Court protest of anti-  homosexual pastor Fred Phelps; “We have been concerned by the Court’s ruling, and will continue to advocate family policies that reflect Canada’s Judeo-Christian heritage. But there is absolutely no room in this important debate for the kind of invective and hatred espoused by extremist groups such as this one,” said Darrel Reid FOFC president. * Doctors in Tokyo announced today the first sex change operation on a man in Japan today. Such mutilations were illegal in the country until 1997. (Newsday.com) * Yesterday in WorldNetDaily, […]
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TOP UN OFFICIAL TRIES TO SPLIT MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS ON ABORTION

UNITED NATIONS, June 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nafis Sadik, head of the United Nations Population Fund,  has often been frustrated by effective cooperation among Christian and Muslim countries against the West’s population control agenda. The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute reported today that Sadik, herself of Muslim background, attempted to thwart pro-life cooperation by calling Muslim UN representatives to a private meeting.  During the late-night meeting, which took place in March at the final Cairo+5 prepatory meeting, Sadik reportedly berated the Muslim leaders for working with the Vatican and other Christian NGOs.  For more on the Cairo+5 UN conference see: […]
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US BISHOPS LOBBY FOR PRO-LIFE LAWS

WASHINGTON, June 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An official letter from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops was sent to the House of Representatives in support of the Child Custody Protections Act. The Act would make it a federal offense to circumvent the state parental consent law by taking a minor to another state for an abortion. “The need for protecting minors is compelling,” says the letter, which adds that “in such situations, the love and support of families is critical and needs to be encouraged.” Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the National Organization for Women and the National Abortion and Reproductive […]
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MOTHER GETS TWO YEARS FOR KILLING BABY

WINDSOR, ON, June 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Luchona Pierce was sentenced to two years in prison for killing her 21-month-old son. According to court reports, the child was asphyxiated when his mother placed a bag over his head. After that, the mother placed him face down in the bathtub to simulate drowning. Pro-life observers note that the dramatic rise in infants being killed by parents are a testimony to the devaluation of life caused by abortion. Last week Statistics Canada reported an unprecedented increase in the number of infants killed by their parents over the last ten years. Commenting on the […]
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MOST CANADIAN DOCS REJECT ASSISTED SUICIDE

TORONTO, June 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study released in this month’s Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada indicates that a majority of Canadian physicians (57%)  would not practice physician assisted suicide even if it were legalized. However, a report on the study by the Canadian Press indicates that 47% of doctors would accept the legalization of the practice. The University of Calgary survey used the responses of 2,010 doctors from across the nation.
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CORRECTION

In yesterday’s LifeSite story on the Presbyterian Church likelihood of ordaining practicing homosexuals, the “ministers” were incorrectly referred to as “priests”.
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ONTARIO LIBERAL LEADER JOINS IN GAY PRIDE PARADE

TORONTO, June 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Less than a month after his electoral defeat, Ontario Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty has reaffirmed his commitment to the homosexualist subculture. He announced today that he would take part in Toronto’s Gay Pride Parade on Sunday. McGuinty,  chided Premier Mike Harris for not planning to attend the march. According to a report in the Toronto Sun, Liberal colleagues Dominic Agostino, and George Smitherman, the Ontario legislature’s first openly homosexual MPP, will accompany McGuinty on the march. Toronto mayor Mel Lastman also plans to attend.
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CARDINAL LEADS 900 IN ABORTUARY PICKET

CHICAGO, June 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago is scheduled to lead a prayer vigil for an anticipated 900 pro-lifers outside the Humbolt Park Centro abortuary this Saturday. With this action, Cardinal George joins many (at least 45) other bishops who have taken part in similar prayer vigils throughout the US. New York’s Cardinal John O’Connor has been a promoter of the bishops’ involvement in the solemn prayer vigils for life as well as an active participant. Organized by the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, an international Catholic pro-life group,  the event will commence with a Mass […]
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*This week, US President Bill Clinton placed the Stonewall Inn, a homosexual bar, on the US National Register of Historic Places. (The Washington Times) *The ACLU is fighting for a priestess in the religion of Witchcraft (Wicca) to be able to perform state recognized marriages for people in her Williamsburg Virginia coven.  (www.gatewayva.com)
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BRITAIN BANS HUMAN CLONING

LONDON, June 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British government today banned the practice of human cloning for scientific research. The news came as a shock to scientists involved in the lucrative practice who believed that the government would allow it to continue for research purposes,  although retaining the ban on cloning to reproduce babies. While the ban is only temporary while the issue of cloning for research is still being examined, Britain at the moment joins France, which has also outlawed human cloning.  Other developed nations such as Canada and the US have so far refused to criminalize cloning. With files […]
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PRESBYTERIANS TO ALLOW PRACTICING HOMOSEXUAL PRIESTS

FORT WORTH, Texas, June 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Committee of Church Orders and Ministry of the Presbyterian Church voted 24-14 in favour of scrapping a clause from the church’s constitution that forbids the ordination of “self-affirming, practicing homosexuals.” The issue will go to the annual meeting of the church’s assembly for a vote later this week. A majority vote in favour of the action will allow practicing homosexuals to become part of the church’s hierarchy. (Original source: Associated Press)
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* According to an international sex survey of various countries, Canada ranks near the top in sexual permissiveness, the National Post reports today.  * Rather than punishment, prison inmates in Canada get TV, great meals, education, and now pay, even if they do not work, according to a report in today’s Toronto Sun.  * Rev. Fred Phelps the anti-gay pastor known for his extremist tactics requested increased security in Canada since receiving 17 death threats from Canada in advance of his upcoming Ottawa protest.
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PAPAL LETTER TO GERMAN BISHOPS ON ABORTION

ROME, June 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Clearing up misleading news stories by the German media, the Vatican released the letter Pope John Paul II wrote earlier this month to the bishops of Germany regarding abortion counselling. Contrary to earlier reports, Zenit News reveals that the Pope did not ban the counselling practice but did insist that the certificates given by Catholic counselling must not be used to obtain “decriminalized abortions.” Bishop Karl Lehmann of Mainz, chairman of the German Bishops Conference, announced at a Bonn news conference today that the Church’s role in the counselling would continue but the certificates would […]
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UN FUNDS SET TO BE NIXED AGAIN BY CLINTON OVER ABORTION

WASHINGTON, June 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday the US Senate voted to pay the United Nations nearly $1 billion in what some call “back dues” but the agreement stipulates that the US share of UN contributions must be reduced five percent to 20% of UN funding. The bill will now head to Congress where pro-life Congressman Chris Smith has vowed to once again attach a stipulation mandating that US money should not be used by the UN to promote or provide abortions. The pro-life provision has caused US President Bill Clinton to refuse to endorse UN payments in the last two […]
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* Evangelical leader Chuck Colson reported last week that Princeton has appointed pro-life Professor Robert George to the Cyrus Hall McCormick Professorship, the most prestigious endowed chair at the University.  * Today’s National Post carries an excellent commentary by Ezra Levant on the removal of God from the Constitution.  https://www.nationalpost.com/commentary.asp?f=990622/11207   * Also in today’s National Post is an editorial detailing the case of Mary Wagner, the young BC pro-lifer imprisoned for handing out roses outside an abortuary.  https://www.nationalpost.com/commentary.asp?f=990622/11068&s2=editorials
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HOMOSEXUAL BAITING PASTOR COMING TO CANADA

OTTAWA, June 21 (LSN) – Reverend Fred Phelps, a US pastor whose extremist approach against homosexuality is seen by some as being helpful to the homosexual movement, is coming to Canada to stage a Canadian flag burning protest over the Supreme Court decision on homosexual spousal benefits. The National Post reported yesterday on the upcoming event.  The homosexual activist group Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere is launching a counter demonstration and seems to revel in this opportunity to paint all pro-family activists with the same brush.  However, the Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) says that no attention should be […]
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U.S. NURSES FORCED TO OFFER ABORTIVE PILLS OR RESIGN

RIVERSIDE, California, June 22 (LSN) – Five nurses resigned from a county health clinic after they were told they must dispense the “morning after” pill. The nurses indicated that participating in abortion was against their religious beliefs. A sixth nurse has also refused to dispense the abortifacient and hopes to be transferred from the Riverside Neighborhood Health Clinic.  Ken Cohen, director of the county Health Services Agency explained that nurses have to be forced to dispense the abortive drugs while under his employ because “we didn’t want to see our staff impose their view, from a religious perspective. I think […]
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IVF CLINIC SHELLS OUT $20 MILLION IN SETTLEMENTS

IRVINE, California, June 22 (LSN) – The University of California at Berkeley will pay $20 million in settlements for lawsuits against its fertility clinic. The Associated Press reported last week that the University has admitted that 46 eggs and embryos were implanted in women without donor consent. Furthermore the University acknowledges the misused eggs and embryos resulted in the births of 12 children.  See the story at:  https://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3855470   (with files from Pro-Life E-News Canada)
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HEROIC PRO-LIFE FAMILY IN URGENT NEED OF HELP

VANCOUVER, BC, June 22 (LSN) – Bert Renaerts, the adoptive father of abortion survivor Ximena Renaerts and many other special-needs children, has been diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome resulting in paralysis and respirator dependency. He has been in the Vancouver General Hospital Intensive Care Unit for 5 weeks. Physicians for Life has issued a nation-  wide call for prayer for the heroic father, his wife Margaret, and his entire family.  Ximena was born in December 1985 after a failed abortion attempt by her mother. Court documents indicate that at her birth Ximena was placed in a room “where dead fetuses were […]
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GATES CONTINUES TO FUND POPULATION CONTROL

NEW YORK, June 22, 1999 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A joint venture by all of the United Nations organizations most heavily involved in population control has received funding from Bill Gates. Last week the Microsoft billionaire added another $10 million donation to his to his legacy of financing population control efforts. The recipient of the money was the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP),  located at WHO Headquarters in Geneva. According to its own literature, the HRP has an “emphasis on the needs of developing countries” and lists as its first priority “fertility regulation” […]
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BC PRO-LIFER RELEASED FROM JAIL

VANCOUVER, June 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mary Wagner, the 25 year-old BC pro-lifer imprisoned three months ago for handing out roses and offering help to women entering a BC abortuary, was released from jail Saturday despite not signing or even verbally agreeing to stay away from the abortuary. On Friday the judge that had given her a suspended sentence of imprisonment till December 31, 2000 dropped the condition that she sign a recognizance order promising not to go near the abortuaries. Since signing of the order would have violated her conscience Mary would have remained in prison till her sentence expired. […]
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD ATTACKS KIDS THROUGH CONCERTS

TORONTO, June 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to Planned Parenthood’s website, “Voice for Planned Parenthood” (VOX), the pro-abortion organization will be using concert festivals by abortion-friendly rock groups to push their disinformation on youth. Catholic Parents Online has sent an alert to its members to “warn your friends, relatives and young people not to go to these concerts or spend money on these bands.” The bands and organizations involved are: Barenaked Ladies, Ani DiFranco, Lilith Fair, Santana, the Vans, Warped Tour and the Woodstock Festival. The concerts are taking place throughout the summer at major cities in Canada and the US.
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ARGENTINE PRESIDENT ADDRESSES PRO-LIFERS

NEW YORK, June 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “There are various and powerful interests of a global character struggling to move these nations away from the true path,” said Argentine President Carlos Menem last Thursday in an address at the “Forum on Life and Family” organized by Cardinal John O’Connor of New York. Argentina has been a fearless defender of life on the international scene – a burr in the saddle of the United Nations as it attempts to advance its pro-abortion agenda. In December of 1998 president Menem declared March 25 as the “Day of the Unborn Child,” in Argentina. The […]
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The BC NDP government, arguably the most openly pro-abortion, anti-family provincial government in Canada, is headed for demise according to political analysts.  (National Post) Planned Parenthood’s research arm, the Allan Guttmacher Institute, continues to deny scientific facts as it spreads its disinformation on the abortifacient nature of oral contraceptives.  (American Life League) The Timothy Plan, a pro-life and family investment company has expanded to include a Large/Mid-Cap Value Fund, a Fixed-Income Fund, and a Money Market Fund.  [email protected]
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CARDINAL SAYS NO TO HUMAN GENETIC MANIPULATION

MEXICO CITY, June 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A letter from Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez, Archbishop of Guadalajara, condemns genetic experimentation on human embryos and genetic manipulation. A report from Church News indicates that the letter concluded with the declaration ” that there is no reason whatsoever that justifies the intention to manipulate or to interrupt the natural processes of life established by God from the beginning of creation.”
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* An article on human cloning in the National Post today gives credit to the pro-life movement as being the motivation for government concern over cloning: “However, religious and pro-life advocates say life begins the moment a human egg cell is fertilized by sperm,  creating a complete set of genes. To them, cloning a stem cell is the same as cloning a human. As these groups began to apply pressure, governments began taking the cloning issue seriously.”  https://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?s2=national&s3=reporter   * American conservative writer Jon Dougherty makes a great case in today’s WorldNetDaily of how abortion supporters and moral liberals are […]
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POPE ORDERS END TO GERMAN ABORTION COUNSELLING

BONN, Germany, June 18 (LSN) – Bringing to an end a heated debate among Catholic Bishops in Germany, John Paul II has, according to a report on German radio, told the Catholic Church in Germany to get out of the state’s abortion counselling. For at least 6 years a debate has raged among Catholics in Germany over their involvement in offering counselling to women seeking abortion. The controversy centers around the fact that institutions offering counselling must afterwards issue a certificate which is required to obtain a legal abortion.  The pope’s unwillingness to allow the Church in Germany to cooperate […]
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MORE DETAILS ON HUMAN CLONING OPERATIONS

WORCESTER, Mass., June 18 (LSN) – Major news media, which only today are reporting on the human cloning story reported by LifeSite this past Monday, have revealed more details on the procedure and its proponents.  The National Post reported today that six private companies in the US and Britain are working on cloning human embryos for “stem cells” and US scientist Richard Seed’s Japanese clinic, promising to produce 500 cloned babies a year, is set to open in August.  The first claim of successful human cloning took place in November and brought fears of animal-human hybrids since the nucleus of […]
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SAME-SEX PENSION BILL UNEXPECTEDLY DELAYED IN SENATE

OTTAWA, June 18 (LSN) – In a surprising move, some courageous Liberal Senators refused to vote for the $30 billion dollar pension appropriation bill which included a controversial same-sex pension benefits clause. The controversial bill was recently passed in the House of Commons. Among the Liberal abstainers was Anne Cools, again proving herself to be a fearless example of a politician of integrity who sees her obligations as being first to nation and family, rather than blind allegiance to party dictates.  In the Senate on Wednesday Cools explained her objection to bill C-78’ s same-sex benefits clause noting “it fails […]
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ARRESTED VANCOUVER PRO-LIFER STILL IMPRISONED

VANCOUVER, June 18 (LSN) – Mary Wagner, the 25 year-old BC pro-lifer sentenced to spend till New Year’s Eve in jail Wednesday for handing out roses and offering help to women entering a BC abortuary, was offered a deal in court for her freedom. A promise not to go into any abortion Bubble Zones would have resulted in Wagner’s release on recognizance but would also have violated her conscience.  According to John Hof President of Campaign Life Coalition BC, Mary knows that children die in abortion clinics every day and she feels compelled to speak for those smallest members of […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* Regina is the latest major Canadian city forced to proclaim Gay Pride Week in fear of discrimination charges by Human Rights Commission. Mayors in London and Hamilton were ordered to proclaim Gay Pride and fined $10,000 and $5,000 respectively for “discrimination.”  https://www.canada.com/newscafe/getcp.asp?bk=national&sk=990617/n061713.html   * Yesterday the Southern Baptist Convention – the largest non-Catholic denomination in the US -voted to rebuke President Clinton and publicly deplore his proclamation of June as National Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.
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ACTION ITEM ON ST. MIKE’S GAY PRIDE SPONSORSHIP

LifeSite readers disturbed by Toronto’s St. Michael’s hospital’s support for “Gay Pride”  (see Tuesday’s LifeSite Special Report) have requested contact information for the Catholic hospital in order to express their opposition to this offensive sponsorship.  To read the Special Report go to:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/june/990615a.html   His Eminence Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic Archbishop of Toronto, Catholic Pastoral Centre 1155 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario M4T 1W2 Phone: (416) 934-0606 Fax: (416) 934-3452   St.Michael’s Hospital 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1W8 Telephone: (416) 360-4000 Fax: (416) 864-5870
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STUDY UNABLE TO EXPLAIN DISPROPORTIONATE AIDS FUNDING

BALTIMORE, June 17 (LSN) – A Johns Hopkins University study on “The Relation between Funding by the National Institutes of Health and the Burden of Disease” was published in today’s release of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study showed that fundamental indications of the burden of disease such as incidence and prevalence played little role in funding determination whereas factors such as number of healthy years lost to disease did play a role in accounting for the amount of allocated resources.  However, the study revealed that in the case of some diseases such as AIDS and breast cancer, […]
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UN MANDATES ABORTION IN NEPAL

KATMANDU, Nepal, June 17 (LSN) – Using surprisingly blunt and revealing language, the United Nations’ Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee, responding to Nepal’s report on its compliance with the Convention on Elimination of Discrimination against Women, ordered the country to make abortion legal.  The UN report reads:  “On the status of abortion in Nepal, … it was discriminatory for a State party to refuse to legally provide for the performance of certain reproductive health services for women.  To refuse to legally provide reproductive health services to women was discriminatory, and must be taken care of as soon as possible.”  See the UN […]
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CALGARY HEALTH AUTHORITY CAUGHT LYING AGAIN

CALGARY, June 17 (LSN) – In an article in Monday’s Calgary Herald, Alberta Report publisher,  Link Byfield, sets the record straight on the latest misinformation being spread by the Calgary Regional Health Authority. Across Alberta and Canada last week newspaper headlines indicated that the Health Authority had released documents about the genetic abortion procedures at Foothills Hospital. While the health authority claimed it was releasing the documents when in fact the judge hearing the case accepted evidence submissions by the Alberta Report thus mandating the public release of the documents.  Byfield notes that two days prior to the Health Authorities […]
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CANADIAN BIRTH RATE AT AN ALL-TIME LOW

OTTAWA, June 17 (LSN) – A Statistics Canada report on “Births” in 1997 paints a dismal demographic picture for the country. The Stats Can report indicated that “the total fertility rate reached a record low in 1997” at 1.552 – far below the replacement rate of 2.1 required for maintenance of the population.  The report noted that the number of births in 1997 dropped 4.8% from the year before – the largest annual decline in at least ten years. The report also indicated a strong trend for women to delay their first child until age 30 or later. Almost one-third […]
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BC PRO-LIFER TO SPEND NEW YEAR’S 2000 BEHIND BARS

VANCOUVER, June 17 (LSN) – Mary Wagner, a 25 year-old BC pro-lifer arrested last month for handing out roses and offering help to women entering a BC abortuary, was sentenced to seven months in jail yesterday by Madame Justice Arnold of the BC provincial court. Miss Wagner,  a graduate of the University of Victoria, has already served more than 30 days in the maximum-security BC Women’s Correctional Center waiting trial.  Campaign Life Coalition BC President John Hof called Mary a political prisoner. “This government created these Bubble Zones to silence all opposition to their baby killing agenda,” said Hof. “This […]
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CONTROVERSIAL BRITISH PLAN TO CUT TEENAGE PREGNANCY UNVEILED

LONDON, June 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A controversial 60-million-pound British government plan supposedly to cut the number of teenage pregnancies has opposition critics saying that it would “further undermine parental responsibility and suggest we are condoning under-age sex”. The London Telegraph reported yesterday that sections of the plan urge that school nurses be allowed to encourage under-age girls to use contraception even without the knowledge of their parents. A rigorous campaign of sex education in the schools is also proposed and a plan for anonymous sex information via telephone for youth is touted. While the report claims to say nothing on […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* A visa application has been filled out for the pregnant Chinese woman forcibly deported from Australia then aborted in China for non-compliance with the one-child policy. Pressure on the Australian government for its complicity in the forced abortion may grant the woman freedom since her life is considered in danger from Chinese authorities.  (South China Morning Post) * A pilot project with health cards containing computer chips is to commence in Laval Quebec this fall.  (National Post) * Pro-life Irish musician “Dana” Rosemary Scallon was elected to the European Parliament Monday in a surprising victory.  (Daily Catholic) * The […]
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DOBSON ADDRESSES CHRISTIAN PARTICIPATION IN POLITICS

WASHINGTON, June 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. James Dobson, the founding head of Focus on the Family, in his latest newsletter, has responded to the criticism of Christian involvement in politics from American journalist Cal Thomas. The well-known Christian conservative writer set off a firestorm over the past few months with the publication of the book “Blinded by Might,”  co-written by evangelical pastor, Ed Dobson (no relation to Dr. James Dobson). Dobson argues forcefully for involvement in the public (political) arena battling over “the sanctity of human life, the redefinition of marriage, pornography etc.” Dobson takes aim at the title “Blinded […]
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UN ORDERS BELIZE GOV’T TO CONSIDER ABORTION

UNITED NATIONS, June 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Once again the United Nations is actively pushing a country into abortion, contraception, and the legal recognition of non-married couples. On Monday the UN’s Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee addressed Belize’s “compliance with the Convention on Elimination of Discrimination against Women” which it signed in 1990, charging that it was in violation in a number of areas. Saying that, since Belize “ratified the Convention without reservations and, therefore,  laws that contravened the letter and spirit of the Convention had to be reviewed and possibly amended”, the UN committee ordered the national government to carry out its […]
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DECEPTIVE US CAMPAIGN UNDERWAY TO MARKET PREVEN

NEW YORK, June 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A deceptive campaign to market the abortive drug Preven (referred to erroneously as “emergency contraception”) has been undertaken by the American Medical Women’s Association in conjunction with Dr. Drew Pinsky host of the television show “Loveline.” Calling their marketing effort the “Sex and Sensiblity” campaign, they dispute textbook embryology saying “it has been theorized that birth control pills may also prevent fertilization or implantation but no definitive evidence of this has been demonstrated.” In fact, textbooks on embryology state clearly: “After fertilization, the pre-implantation embryo remains extremely vulnerable. The ‘morning after’ pill, with its […]
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CLINTON USES EXECUTIVE ORDER TO IMPLEMENT RADICAL KYOTO PROTOCOL

WASHINGTON, June 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Undemocratically circumventing proper procedure, US President Bill Clinton on June 3 issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to implement the radical environmentalist proposals contained in the Kyoto Protocol. The current overstepping of his authority is particularly onerous since members of the US Congress were dead set against permitting implementation of the UN’s environment project for economic security reasons and because of the dubious science involved in arriving at the Kyoto agenda. WorldNetDaily exposed the executive order, “Greening the Government through Efficient Energy Management”, last week noting that this was not the first time […]
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD BOYCOTTS WAL-MART CHOICE ON PREVEN

NEW YORK, June 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A decision last year by Wal-Mart in the United States to refuse to sell the early-abortion drug Preven, which is marketed deceptively as “emergency contraception”, has ignited the furor of Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood of New York has begun an email campaign to the company urging supporters to “join PPNYC in urging Wal-Mart to change their policy.” Furthermore, the pro-abortion behemoth is intending a boycott of Wal-Mart. US pro-life groups have thus countered asking supporters to patronize Wal-Mart and let them know of the support for the Preven ban by email.  [email protected] put “re: […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* A group known as Mothers are Women has released a manual on the value of unpaid work asking the Canadian government to change economic and social policies which penalize stay at home moms.  (National Post) * Pro-Life E-News circulated a report noting that the maker of Norplant is looking to rid itself of lawsuits by 40,000 US women; analysts say that a settlement of $100 million would be a bargain for the company. (Bergen.com) * Six years after Michigan legislators passed a law requiring a waiting period for abortion with information on the procedure and the developing child, the […]
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CATHOLIC TORONTO HOSPITAL SPONSORS GAY PRIDE WEEK

TORONTO, June 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a shocking story yesterday the Catholic Register reported that St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto has become a “bronze-level sponsor” of Toronto’s Gay Pride Week ‘99. According to the article this will be the third year of involvement in the Gay Pride Week activities but the first time as a bronze-level supporter. The donation to the event must have been a substantial one since the “Catholic” hospital is only outstripped by a few corporate giants such as Labbatt Blue, Air Canada, Molson Dry, The Royal Bank and Toronto Hydro. For more see today’s LifeSite Special […]
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HOMOSEXUAL YOUTH DEMONSTRATE DISORDERED LIFESTYLES

VANCOUVER, June 15, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Survey results from a study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, &  Transgender Youth undertaken by the Vancouver based McCreary Centre Society has found disturbing trends among the sexually disordered youth. The report, titled “Being Out” is based on surveys of youth between the ages of 13 and 19 in BC. The key findings of the study were that: – A quarter of the youth surveyed had attempted suicide in the past year. – Most non-heterosexual youth are reluctant to disclose their sexual orientation to teachers,  doctors and social service providers. – Lesbian and gay youth are […]
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NO. OF BABIES KILLED BY CANADIAN PARENTS INCREASING

OTTAWA, June 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Figures released by Statistics Canada yesterday reveal that the number of infants killed by their parents has increased dramatically over the last ten years. A statistical profile on family violence culled from data reported to 179 police forces in six provinces including Ontario and Quebec provides the disturbing numbers. It shows that “in 1997, 96 children and youth under the age of 18 were victims of homicide,  17% of all homicides in Canada.” The study noted that over half of the children were under age three and “family members, mostly parents, were responsible for 76% […]
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US SUPREME COURT REFUSES PRO-LIFE APPEAL

NEW YORK, June 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, the US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling awarding abortionists over half a million dollars in court costs to be paid by Randall Terry founder of Operation Rescue and a group of 6 other pro-lifers. While the media and the pro-abortion movement are hailing the Court’s refusal to hear the case as a major victory, the pro-lifers are not concerned. Speaking to LifeSite from Randall Terry’s office, a spokesman assured that “not one dime would go to the baby killers.” Last November Terry, the founder of Operation […]
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Catholic Toronto Hospital Sponsors Gay Pride Week

TORONTO, June 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a shocking story yesterday the Catholic Register reported that St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto has become a “bronze-level sponsor” of Toronto’s Gay Pride Week ‘99. According to the article this will be the third year of involvement in the Gay Pride Week activities but the first time as a bronze-level supporter. The donation to the event must have been a substantial one since the “Catholic” hospital is only outstripped by a few corporate giants such as Labbatt Blue, Air Canada, Molson Dry, The Royal Bank and Toronto Hydro. Hospital spokeswoman Rosemary MacGilchrist attempted to […]
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LAWS FORCING ADOPTION RECORDS OPEN ARE A DANGER

PORTLAND, Ore., June 14 (Lifesitenews.com) Laws allowing adoptees to view sealed adoption records are a danger to adoption according to some mothers who have given their children up rather than taking the child s life with abortion. A law passed in Oregon to take effect next month has some mothers who opted for adoption long ago concerned that the appearance of a son or daughter given away at birth may open up parts of their past they would rather remained private and closed. (with files from The Washington Post)
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CLONING HUMANS – A REALITY

MELNO PARK, California, June 14 (Lifesitenews.com) – US scientists have admitted to cloning humans and to creating animal-human hybrid embryos. While a federal ban only bars federal funding of such experimentation, privately funded ventures have been allowed and are doing the unthinkable. Geron Corp. of Menlo Park, Calif. and Advanced Cell Therapeutics (ACT) of Worcester, Mass.,  admitted that they are working in the area of human cloning. The Washington Post reported today that the companies are creating cloned human embryos in order to kill them and use their “stem cells” to grow human body parts. While the companies remain secretive […]
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POPE IN POLAND CONDEMNS ABORTION

WARSAW, Poland, June 14 (Lifesitenews.com) Visiting his native Poland this weekend, Pope John Paul II once again gave his listeners a forceful condemnation of abortion, euthanasia and embryo experimentation. Speaking to an assembled crowd of 150,000 on Saturday he said, “Is it really possible to oppose the destruction of the environment while allowing, in the name of comfort and convenience, the slaughter of the unborn and the procured death of the elderly and the infirm, and the carrying out, in the name of progress, of unacceptable interventions and forms of experimentation at the very beginning of human life?”  Celebrating a […]
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FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL RELEASES RESTRICTED DOCUMENTS

CALGARY, June 14 (Lifesitenews.com) Despite having fought for and won a court order banning use or distribution of documents about its late-term genetic terminations, Foothills Hospital has released some of the same documents to the public. The released documents officially confirm the allegations against the hospital by Alberta Report magazine. The released documents indicate that nurses at the hospital are forced to participate in abortions even against their will; that participation could mean the nurses would perform the whole abortion (induction) procedure. The papers also confirm that despite claims of the Calgary Regional Health Authority, genetic terminations are done not […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* Catholic Church leaders in the Philippines are condemning the visit of former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, who has taken on the job of travelling UN poster child for population control and “safe sex.”  (BBC News) * Joel Pinard, a gay activist in Quebec lied to blood donor officials at Hemaquebec saying he was not an active homosexual; weeks later he said he did this in order to protest a ban on blood donation from active homosexuals; he expected those who received his blood to believe him when he said he was not infected with AIDS or HIV. (The National […]
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VATICAN’S UN STATUS CHALLENGED BY IPPF

UNITED NATIONS, June 11 (Lifesitenews.com) – Arguably the most powerful Non-Governmental Organization at the United Nations, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, has launched a bid to oust the Vatican from the United Nations. The Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) reported today that a few weeks ago IPPF called for the elimination of the Vatican from its seat as an Observer Mission to the United Nations. C-Fam points out that Vatican has been a constant thorn in the side of the IPPF, hampering their plans to implement their anti-life and anti-family agenda worldwide. Operating in more than 150 countries, […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* An independent Catholic school in BC has closed since the union representing its teachers refused to agree to a clause noting that teachers must exhibit a way of life consistent with “Catholic standards”; teachers living in common-law or homosexual relations could be dismissed.  (National Post) * The National Post reported today that a mother in Port Alberni, BC has written her district school board complaining that her daughter in grade 7 received information about oral sex and unconventional coital positions; “As far as I’m concerned, this is paedophilia,” she wrote. * The Ottawa Sun reported today that the Children’s […]
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APA REGRETS PUBLICATION OF PEDOPHILIA STUDY

Washington D.C., June 11, 2012 (Lifesitenews.com) – In a letter to a US Congressman, the American Psychological Association’s Chief Executive Officer Raymond D. Fowler backtracked on his former support for an APA published study indicating that pedophilia with “willing” children may not be harmful. The Family Research Council reported this week that despite formerly having called the article “a good study” on national television,  the APA has admitted that it is “inflammatory” and includes opinions “inconsistent” with APA’s policy on child protection issues. He said that the APA “failed” to “evaluate the article based on its potential for misinforming the […]
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A CHILD TO BE BORN OF A DEAD FOETUS AND A MOUSE

VANCOUVER, June 11 (Lifesitenews.com) – Abortionist turned pro-life activist Bernard Nathanson spoke at an Alberta Pro-Life banquet in May warning his listeners about the serious risks associated with today’s level of interest in new reproductive technologies. Citing the current work of various researchers, Nathanson explained the possibility of parenting a child with the help of a dead female foetus and a mouse. Writer Marnie Ko of Alberta Report explains in the latest issue of the newsmagazine that “the technology now exists to harvest human eggs from aborted foetuses, fertilize them with sperm in a test tube, and gestate them in […]
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TOP UN JUDGE TO CANADIAN SUPREME COURT

OTTAWA, June 11 (Lifesitenews.com) – The UN’s chief prosecutor in the International War Criminal Tribunal,  Louise Arbour will replace retiring Justice Peter Cory on the Supreme Court of Canada on September 15. The appointment is a controversial one. Many believe Arbour should have been allowed to complete her four year stint as head of the UN’s court rather than leaving a year early. Also, pro-life and pro-family groups are concerned that she will only add to the judicial activism rampant in Canada’s Supreme Court, given her history.  Arbour, no friend of the traditional family, has ruled in favour of common-law […]
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GOD – A STUMBLING BLOCK FOR SVEND ROBINSON

OTTAWA, June 10 (Lifesitenews.com) – Homosexual and euthanasia activist New Democrat MP Svend Robinson was disciplined by NDP leader Alexa McDonough Wednesday after he read a petition in the House Tuesday asking for the removal of “God” from the preamble of the Constitution.  The NDP claims that Robinson did not consult with his party colleagues before he made his presentation although the media was aware of the situation as early as the previous Friday.  Robinson was moved to the backbenches of the NDP party seating in the House as punishment. In a related story, public consultations on the removal of […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* Zenit News reported Tuesday that Bishop Anton Schlembach of Speyer, Germany, strongly condemned the current legal status of late-term abortion at an ecumenical day of encounter with the handicapped.  * A study in today’s New England Journal of Medicine notes that in most successful pregnancies the embryo implants in the mother’s womb 8-10 days after ovulation; the risk of early pregnancy loss increases with later implantation.  * A woman is suing the University of Miami for having ruined her 20 frozen embryos; a settlement of over $1 million is expected for the destruction of “her future.” (InfoBeat)
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DIVORCE BEGETS DIVORCE: STUDY

OTTAWA, June 10 (Lifesitenews.com) – A Statistics Canada study, “Death and Divorce: The Long-term Consequences of Parental Loss on Adolescents”, released yesterday, confirms earlier research noting that teenagers whose parents are divorced are significantly more likely to experience divorce or separation themselves. Using Revenue Canada tax data, the study tracked a group of about 122,500 teenagers from 1982 to 1995. They were between the ages of 25 and 32 in 1995. The study indicated that parental loss by divorce has a significantly greater negative impact than loss by the death of a parent. Miles Corak, author of the study noted […]
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ULTRASOUND CAN DAMAGE CELLS

DUBLIN, Ireland, June 10 (Lifesitenews.com) – Researchers at University College in Dublin have found that ultrasound scans, the same ones used for pregnant women, cause cells in mice to stop dividing and begin self-destructing. The National Post noted that in the study “24 mice received an eight-megahertz scan lasting for 15 minutes, less time than average hospital scans that use frequencies of between three and 10 megahertz and last up to one hour. Four and a half hours after exposure, the mice that had been scanned had a 22% reduction in the rate of cell division in their intestine and […]
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LINDA GIBBONS IN JAIL AGAIN

TORONTO, June 9 (Lifesitenews.com) – Pro-life sidewalk counsellor Linda Gibbons was once again arrested and jailed yesterday for violating the government injunction against all pro-life activity outside Toronto’s abortuaries. Linda has been imprisoned for a total of over four years because of her always peaceful violations of the injunction. She was acquitted and released last March 1 after being imprisoned for 6 months for the same action at the same location. Also arrested at the Scott abortuary on Gerrard St. E. were Bernard Crowley of Cambridge and Emideo Galea of Toronto, who was arrested for holding a pro-life sign while […]
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GLOBAL TV AIRS SOUTH PARK SACRILEGE

TORONTO, June 10 (Lifesitenews.com) – On Tuesday night, immediately preceding the 11pm news, the Global Television Network aired a sacrilegious “South Park” episode attacking Christianity. The program has already aired in the US prompting strong condemnation from Christian groups.  The cartoon, condemned from the outset for its vulgar and explicit content, has nevertheless gained a large following among young people. On Tuesday night the program demonstrated overt hatred toward Christianity with sexually explicit slurs that few people would expect to hear voiced in public. One of the show’s character’s, Kyle overhears that his father’s marital discord is due to erectile […]
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PRO-LIFERS FIGHT FOR FAIR REPORTING ON CBC

OTTAWA, June 9 (Lifesitenews.com) – On Friday, June 4 Real Women of Canada, and Women for Life, Faith and Family teamed up with Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) to make presentations to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) demanding balanced reporting from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The groups presented themselves as the “Coalition Seeking Balance on CBC”; their presentation was the only critical one heard on Friday morning. Karen Murawsky, CLC’s National Director of Public Affairs, pointed out to the CRTC numerous recent cases in which the CBC has shown bias against pro-life people in Canada. Murawsky charged that the […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* A pro-life victory yesterday as the US House of Representatives voted 217 to 214 to deny government funding for federal testing of abortion drugs.  * Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed a law yesterday allowing a “Choose Life” license plate.  (Orlando Sentinel)
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MAN SENTENCED AFTER THREATENING ABORTIONISTS

HAMILTON, June 9 (Lifesitenews.com) – Ronald Mark Wylie, arrested and charged in March for sending threatening messages aimed at abortionists, was sentenced yesterday to nearly two years in jail. Crown attorney Tony Leitch asked the judge for a six-month term in addition to time served, but Justice Morris Perozak sentenced Wylie to 18 months in addition to time served.  In handing down the sentence the judge said the threats of violence were “a planned,  deliberate, sober-minded, and prolonged terrifying assault.” In a press release issued at the time of Wylie’s arrest, Campaign Life Coalition stated it “is pleased when campaigns […]
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HOUSE AFFIRMS TRADITIONAL DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE

OTTAWA, June 9 (Lifesitenews.com) – Last night, a motion in the House of Commons to affirm “that marriage is and should remain the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others”  passed 216-55. The move was a brilliant preemptive strike at the anti-family agenda working through the courts. Even though some homosexual activists are still denying that a re-definition of marriage is their ultimate goal, pro-family MPs recognized that court rulings in Canada are quickly headed in that direction. Calgary Reform MP Eric Lowther seized the day and submitted the motion as Reform’s critic for […]
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CLC Presentation Before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission on the CBC

Campaign Life Coalition is a national Pro-life Organization which works in the political arena to obtain protection for all human life from conception to natural death. We believe that the news coverage offered by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is biased against pro-life people of Canada. We have isolated just a few very recent examples of what we consider to be this type of reporting and ask you to look at them with us and examine the role the CBC plays in influencing Canadians with presentations which incorrectly portray the pro-life message and unfairly depict pro-life individuals. October 24, 1998 After […]
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NEW BRUNSWICK ELECTION RESULTS

ST JOHN’S, NB (Lifesitenews.com) – New Brunswick’s provincial election yesterday has given the province a large conservative majority government in place of the former Liberals. The Progressive Conservatives won 44 seats and the Liberals nine. The New Democrats remain largely shut out of the government in the Maritime province with only one candidate elected. Pro-life questionnaires were distributed to Liberal and Tory candidates prior to the election, but few responses were received. None of the Tory respondents indicated themselves to be pro-abortion, while five claimed to be pro-life. Of the two elected Liberal respondents, one is pro-life and one pro-abortion.
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CLASS ACTION SUIT LAUNCHED AGAINST ABORTIONIST

ORANGE COUNTY, California, June 8 (Lifesitenews.com) – The efforts of pro-life activist Timothy Wilson in California have resulted in a massive class action lawsuit against abortionist Dr. Edward Allred. Wilson rifled through the garbage at the abortuary and found names of 20 other abortionists and thousands of patients. According to a report in the Orange County Register,  on May 6, Wilson sent 300 patients letters that said: “It has come to our attention that portions of your medical records relating to your visit to Family Planning Associates were left outside in an area accessible to the public. We believe this […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* Catholic World News reported yesterday that US President Bill Clinton used a loophole to appoint the homosexual activist James Hormel as ambassador to the mainly Catholic Courtney of Luxembourg despite the Senate’s earlier rejection of the appointment.
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FEMINISTS DEMAND TAX FUNDING OF RADICAL AGENDA

OTTAWA, June 7 (Lifesitenews.com) – Unable to convince Canadian women to donate money, the radical feminist organization, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) is pressuring the federal government today to hand over even more tax dollars to fund their unpopular “political struggle and revolution” against “racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism,  ageism and classism.” The National Post reported today that NAC president Joan Grant-Cummings is hurting for funds despite a recent $281,000 federal research grant. A NAC document shows that the group expects to take in “$741,692 in revenue next year, of which $642,892 is in the form […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* Two expert witnesses for the upcoming October Canadian court case on the legality of spanking debated the issue last weekend at the International Conference on the Changing Family in Alberta; one expert said “loving, sober parents who are in control of their anger,” can use spanking to the benefit of their children, the other described all spanking as physical “assault.”  (The National Post) * American Family News is reporting that Veronica Berrill, a former Connecticut school teacher, is suing a Christian family for having complained that Berill was promoting homosexuality in the classroom. * Business leaders, politicians, parents and […]
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CZECH PATIENTS PREMATURELY DECLARED DEAD FOR ORGAN TRANSPLANTS

OSTRAVA, Czech Republic, June 7 (Lifesitenews.com) – A hospital investigation into the world’s most active transplant centre, located in the Czech Republic, has revealed that at least 49 patients were declared dead prematurely so their organs could be harvested. In one such case, reports yesterday’s London Telegraph, an 18-year-old road crash victim was declared “brain dead” and “was taken to the operating theatre [where] he then began to breathe and cough before surgeons had started to take any organs from him.” Evidence suggests that the human organ market is booming. Documentation has emerged indicating that foreign doctors were flying into […]
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POPE DECRIES ANTI-FAMILY LEGISLATION

ROME, June 7 (Lifesitenews.com) – In remarks to the Pontifical Council for the Family Friday, Pope John Paul II condemned the problems produced when non-married partners receive legal recognition that places them on equal footing with married couples. In a reference some believe was addressed to Canada, the leader of the Catholic Church said “in some countries it is sought to impose so-called ‘de facto’ unions upon society,” and to “give juridicial value to a desire that remains far distant from any kind of definitive union.” Addressing the intended outcome of such legal maneuvering the pope said: “When ‘de facto’  […]
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ONTARIO ELECTION ‘99 PRO-LIFE ANALYSIS

TORONTO, June 4 (Lifesitenews.com) – The Ontario election held last night saw Mike Harris’s Progressive Conservative government returned to power. Political commentators note that it was mainly a two-party race in most ridings with the NDP doing so poorly that it lost party status gaining only 9 of a needed 12 seats. The Conservatives won a slightly higher percentage of seats from the last election (45.1% compared to 44.8% in 1995), but they lost three cabinet ministers, in one case a major victory for moral conservatism. The Liberals gained almost 9% in seats, giving them 35 against the Tories’ 59 […]
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4-YEAR-OLD ANNA RATH FINALLY RETURNED TO PARENTS

VANCOUVER, June 4 (Lifesitenews.com) – On Wednesday night four-year-old Anna Rath was returned to her parents after a grueling ordeal suffered at the hands of social workers working for the BC Children’s Ministry. For 33 days prior to her return, Anna was taken from her parents and held in a foster home on the basis of unfounded allegations of sexual abuse at the hands of her father Jurgan Rath. Rath an evangelical mission worker from Paris, who was asked to move with his family to BC to help provincial Christian ministries, was accused of abuse,  apparently by a disgruntled acquaintance […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* Yesterday Russian President Boris Yeltsin scrapped the death penalty in Russia giving the last prisoner scheduled for the death sentence a prison term instead. (The Times) * The government of Guatemala has banned the sale of “Vermagest” a morning-after type pill recognizing it as an abortion drug.  (Zenit News) * Despite a 1997 Supreme Court ruling against the legalization of lap dancing in Ontario,  the Quebec Court of Appeal has just struck down a Quebec law which effectively banned the practice.  (The Globe and Mail) * Pro-Life E-News distributed a report indicating that nearly 130 Lancaster, Pennsylvania churches are […]
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Ontario Election ‘99 Pro-Life Analysis

TORONTO, June 4 (LSN) – The Ontario election held last night saw Mike Harris’s Progressive Conservative government returned to power. Political commentators note that it was mainly a two-party race in most ridings with the NDP doing so poorly that it lost party status gaining only 9 of a needed 12 seats. The Conservatives won a slightly higher percentage of seats from the last election (45.1% compared to 44.8% in 1995), but they lost three cabinet ministers, in one case a major victory for moral conservatism. The Liberals gained almost 9% in seats, giving them 35 against the Tories’ 59 […]
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VAN HALEN LEAD SINGER PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST

WASHINGTON, June 3 (Lifesitenews.com) – Gary Cherone, the lead singer of the rock group Van Halen has joined up with American Life League’s Rock for Life and has written to rocker Eddie Vedder challenging his strong pro-abortion stance and his support for organizations like Rock For Choice. Bryan Kemper, national director of Rock For Life noted that “thousands of babies have died,  thanks to the efforts of bands like Pearl Jam and R.E.M. It’s about time someone like Gary stood up for the rights of these babies.” In his letter, Cherone notes that life begins at conception and argues for […]
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BANK OF SCOTLAND MAY DUMP ROBERTSON OVER GAY FLAP

EDINBURGH, June 3 (Lifesitenews.com) – A major financial deal between the Bank of Scotland and American TV evangelist Pat Robertson is in question with homosexual activists in Scotland pressuring the bank to disassociate itself from the pro-family preacher. His offensive comment was that, “in Scotland you can’t believe how strong the homosexuals are”. The comment generated outrage from pro-homosexual politicians, union leaders and charities who are pressuring the bank to cut ties to the head of the Christian Coalition. Andrew Wilson, of the Scottish National Party complained that the bank holds the parliamentary accounts, and said, “we cannot allow these […]
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TORONTO “MOTHERISK” PROGRAM FOR INFORMED ABORTION DECISIONS

TORONTO, June 3 (Lifesitenews.com) – A program at Toronto’s Sick Children’s Hospital called Motherisk is designed to inform mothers about the actual risk to unborn babies of alcohol and drug consumption. In an interview with the Toronto Star, Motherisk director Susan Santiago noted that pregnant mothers “worry that they are going to give birth to some poor brain-damaged baby and some even think that one drink can cause problems. That is not the case. There is a lot of misinformation out there.” A counsellor from the group told the paper that some moms have “turned away from abortion” after receiving […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates made another $5 billion donation to his own William H.  Gates Foundation, a foundation which is heavily involved in promoting population control.  (Washington Post) * Pro-life E-News distributed a report from The Australian today noting that the 9-month pregnant Chinese woman who was deported and allegedly forced to abort in China had to be heavily sedated in order to get her on the plane. (The Australian) * The Family Research Council reported yesterday that “Gay Days” commenced in Orlando Florida yesterday beginning a week of events catering to homosexualists with Disney World,  Sea World, Universal […]
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B.C. JUDGE RESERVES DECISION ON DEMERS CASE

VANCOUVER, BC, June 3 (Lifesitenews.com) – Arguments in the case of pro-lifer Jim Demers and the “bubble zone” law in BC have ended with pro-life counsel Paul Formby effectively demonstrating the legal imperative of the right to life for the unborn. In an interview with LifeSite earlier this year, Formby explained that, while the case revolved around the bubble zone law,  arguments being put forward would also force the judge to decide on the constitutionality of denying the unborn child Charter rights. The BC Catholic reported last week that Formby’s arguments “covered common law, the supremacy of God and the […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* Pro-Life E-News distributed a report noting that pro-lifers in Wichita have commenced with their June Project which is a daily prayer campaign outside the abortion mill of notorious partial-birth abortionist George Tiller. They pray for all those who cross the threshold of the abortuary.  https://www.wichitaeagle.com/news/local/community/wichita/docs/abortprotest0601_txt.htm   * The town of Cardenas in Mexico has banned mini-skirts and blouses with plunging necklines,  Reuters reported yesterday; “we consider these clothes rather immoral,” said Mayor Oscar Priego.  * The Conservative News Service reported today that a government health panel in Japan approved the birth control pill for the first time today, abandoning […]
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WITCHCRAFT SUPPORTED IN THE ARMY

WASHINGTON, June 2 (LSN) – According to a May 14 report in the London Telegraph, “the United States army has recognized white witchcraft as a religion and has appointed chaplains to oversee pagan ceremonies on at least five bases.”  The army has increased security around the places where covens are located so as to “deter members of Christian groups from intimidating the group.” The witches, who are known as Wiccans, are encouraged to have their religion stamped on their dog-tags. The Telegraph quotes a Pentagon spokesman as saying, “we are obliged by the Constitution to respect and make provisions for […]
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APA VS APA ON PEDOPHILIA

WASHINGTON, June 2 (LSN) – Last week the Medical Director for the American Psychiatric Association sent a letter to the American Psychological Association criticizing a study in the Psychological Bulletin which suggested that pedophilia is not as harmful as once believed.  The Medical Director, Dr. Steven Mirin also wrote the Family Research Council thanking the organization for acknowledging pedophilia as a mental disorder. In that letter he expressed the American Psychiatric Association’s disagreement “with the implications of the authors’  conclusions” contained in the journal article, “A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples,” Psychological Bulletin, […]
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ABORTION DEFUNDING BILL INTRODUCED IN PARLIAMENT

OTTAWA, May 27 (Lifesitenews.com) – Reform MP Jim Pankiw (Saskatoon-Humboldt) introduced a Private Members’ Bill today which calls for a referendum on taxpayer funding of abortion. The referendum would be held at the time of the first federal election following the passage of the bill. If Canadians indicated that they did not want “medically unnecessary” abortions funded by taxpayers, the bill requires the federal government to amend the Canada Health Act in order to explicitly state its opposition to such funding. The Act would also be amended to penalize provinces which continue to fund abortions by withholding a portion of […]
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FINAL UPDATES TO PRO-LIFE ELECTION GUIDE COMPLETED

TORONTO, May 27 (Lifesitenews.com) – Final updates to LifeSite’s online Ontario Election Guide were completed last night. The guide includes an easily searchable database of candidates in the 1999 Ontario election. Included are pro-life evaluations of the political parties and leaders as well as information about how and why to vote pro-life. The guide does not endorse any particular party, instead providing the necessary information for voters to make their own informed decision. Don’t give up your opportunity to vote tomorrow.
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JUDGE RECOGNIZES EFFECTS OF CULTURE OF DEATH

CINCINNATI, June 2 (Lifesitenews.com) – Just prior to sentencing a mother convicted of murdering her 2-month-old son, Judge Robert Ruehlman commented on the devastating impact of the culture of death in America today. The Cincinnati Enquirer quoted the judge as saying: “There’s just this attitude that human life is nothing anymore.” “We have sanctioned the wholesale slaughter of unborn children … We sanction it, and we wonder why they do it after they’re born. We reap what we sow in this country.” For more see:  https://enquirer.com/editions/1999/06/02/loc_woman_gets_18-year.html
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STUDENTS FED FALSE POPULATION CONTROL PROPAGANDA IN SCHOOLS

VANCOUVER, June 1 (Lifesitenews.com) – A book released yesterday by the Fraser Institute notes that students are being pumped with misinformation on population issues through approved school textbooks. “Facts, not Fear,” reveals that school texts paint an inaccurate gloom and doom picture of world population, and attempt to transform children into environmental activists. “Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management”, a textbook used in some high school classrooms, looks at the human population as a cancer on the planet. Other books claim falsely that the food supply is insufficient to feed a growing population. In an interview with the National Post,  […]
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD COMPLAINS OF REDUCED FUNDING

HAMILTON, ON, June 1 (Lifesitenews.com) – Planned Parenthood’s Bagshaw clinic in downtown Hamilton has recently had their funding cut by $20,000. Hamilton-Wentworth also cut the clinic’s funding last year from $387,000 down to $187,000 also citing community concerns that the clinic was pushing abortion. Lynne Scime of Hamilton-Wentworth Family Action Council told LifeSite that the clinic asks for so much money – and has so few clients – that it costs $47.50 (paid by taxpayers) for every person that visits the clinic – even if that individual does nothing more than pick up a condom off the shelf. Scime notes […]
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PRO-LIFE LEADER CONDEMNS ANTI-POLITICAL MENTALITY

June 1, 1999 (Lifesitenews.com) – Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry has released a stongly worded defense of the involvement of Christians in the political arena. His comments come in response to a recent book “Blinded by Might,” written by Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson. The publication criticizes the priority Christians have placed on political activity in recent years. In a blistering rebuttal, Terry presents what he calls a Scriptural and logical argument against the ideas advanced by Thomas and Dobson. At one point he says: “I am grieved that they have changed Christ, the man of war, into the cosmic […]
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GOV’T: ALLOW PORN IN GROUP HOME OR FACE CLOSURE

LEWISTON, ME, June 1 (Lifesitenews.com) – The state Department of Human Services (DHS) has threatened to rescind the license of a group home for mentally retarded adults since its owner and manager does not allow pornography and sexual activity in the institution. Monique Dostie is appealing DHS’s demands. She took her case to the courts after the department handed her a 30-day notice to change her policy. The three residents of the group home are happy to be there, and some of their guardians placed them there specifically because of Dostie’s opposition to sexual perversion and due to the Catholic […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

* The National Post reports today that a company whose president and part-owner is a personal friend of Jean Chretien and contributed $10,000 to Chretien’s 1997 political campaign was awarded a $6.3 million contract by the Canadian International Development Agency.  * Scientists in Hawaii cloned three identical male mice using cells from an adult mouse’s tail.  (Washington Post) * The Conservative News Service reported this morning that the US federal government is no longer keeping “detailed, yearly, state-by-state statistics on marriage and divorce”. * A lawsuit brought by the parents of Lou Anne Herron, who was killed by an abortionist’s […]
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