Articles for Month: August 1999

AUSTRALIA, Aug. 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – China still requires women with more than one child to kill subsequent babies under its Planned Parenthood supported one-child policy, Australian politicians were told this week. The Australian Senate is continuing to look into allegations that a woman was forcibly aborted after being deported from the country several months ago. Australian officials who thought they could trust their communist Chinese counterparts accepted assurances that the woman would be safe if sent back. The Senate committee is also looking into allegations that the terrified woman was drugged in Australia before being put on the plane which […]

OTTAWA, Aug. 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Prime Minister’s recent Cabinet shuffle included the promotion to the inner circle of two Toronto-area women, Elinor Caplan and Maria Minna, whose histories do not reflect sympathy for the values of family and life. The specific postings they have received will limit their ability to use their positions to advance anti-family policy, but their general influence at the Cabinet table could be detrimental. Ms. Caplan, who won her Thornhill seat in the 1997 election, was one of five female candidates parachuted into ridings by the Prime Minister to meet his own affirmative action goals. […]

NOVA SCOTIA, Aug. 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Show the Truth is having an impact in Atlantic Canada. An article in today’s Daily News is entitled “Anti-abortion signs disgust motorists,” and talks about the pro-life group’s peaceful roadside demonstration during afternoon rush hour traffic in Halifax. “Table-top sized photos of aborted fetuses on a busy Halifax street seems to be generating more anger than sympathy for anti-abortion activists,” said the article. “Others with small children were seen trying to protect them from the images.” Show the Truth organizers have come to expect such responses, but they like to talk about the people […]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The controversy continues in the U.S. over stem cell research with pro-life Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC) backing it while the Cancer Society withdraws its “sponsorship of Patients’ Cure, a group founded to publicize the benefits of stem cell research.”  The New York Times reported on the development with the Cancer Society last week, linking it to Catholic opposition to the research, which uses human embryos, killing them in the process. The move came “after William Cardinal Keeler of Baltimore wrote the cancer society to urge it to reconsider its position,” reported NYT, but the cancer […]

GUATEMALA, Aug. 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Baby trafficking is a thriving underground business in Guatemala,  according to a National Post report last week, and Canada apparently played an instrumental role in exposing the industry. Many of the “adopted” infants reprotedly end up in Canada and the United States. The multi-million dollar industry preys on “single, poor, illiterate and pregnant” women,  reported NP, and uses the services of corrupt lawyers and adoption agencies as well as midwives. Midwives have the authority to write legal notes of birth and are paid $75 “to put the name of a false birth mother” on a […]

* A Californian woman is facing a 25-years-to-life prison term if found guilty of killing her baby, reported the Sacramento Bee last week. Kanika Shavon Wells claimed, in court, that the baby she gave birth to “wasn’t moving. She was pale. She was just lying there.” The baby was found stuffed in plastic bags, with wads of tissue down its throat in a bathroom cabinet in the home of the defendant’s parents. The state is arguing that the baby suffocated from the tissue paper, and is looking for a conviction on first-degree murder. * “The House of Representatives has voted […]

QUEBEC, Aug. 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Quebec psychiatric patient was subjected to a forced abortion after a provincial Superior Court judge approved the hospital’s request for the abortion. In a move reminiscent of Canada’s scandalous eugenic sterilization campaigns in earlier decades,  she was also sterilized – given a tubal ligation – without consent.  The short CBC online report on the story – apparently the only national coverage given to the incident – said nothing about how the woman became pregnant in the first place or what the hospital’s policy was on sexual activity by patients. This was the second time […]

* The French government says it will consider amending the country’s abortion laws following the release of a government-commissioned report to allow pro-born babies to be killed up to 12 weeks of age instead of 10 and to permit children to procure abortions without seeking the permission of their parents. The reforms are allegedly intended to bring France’s abortion laws in line with those of most other European nations.  (Los Angeles Times) * In a civil case, a jury has found East Stroudsburg School District guilty of violating the Fourth Amendment rights of 50 sixth-grade girls for forcing them to […]

MINNESOTA, Aug. 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Duluth Little Stores, a convenience store chain in Minnesota, has agreed to settle out of court with an employee who was charging that her employer discriminated against her due to her pregnancy, even threatening to help her abort her baby by throwing her down the stairs. An Associated Press report Friday said that the terms of the settlement had not been disclosed. Nicole Bergstrom Ek, formerly an assistant manager at the store where she worked, was seeking $50,000 in damages. “Little Stores officials said no harassment occurred,” reported AP. Lola Aune, Ms. Ek’s supervisor at […]

AMERICA, AUSTRALIA, Aug. 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Exciting advances in the use of medical technology to treat unborn babies are being revealed on a regular basis. Unfortunately, however, they are appearing in a moral climate that encourages their use as search and destroy weapons against “unwanted” children at least as much to heal babies. In last Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine a research team reported that “doctors may be able to predict whether a newborn whose oxygen was cut off during birth will suffer a delayed reaction that can lead to serious brain damage.” Looking at the ratio of two […]