Articles for Month: August 1999

OTTAWA, Aug 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This morning the federal government released on the Internet “Canada’s National Response to the UN Questionnaire on Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action.” The document answers the UN questionnaire sent out in preparation for the June 2000 General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) special session to review and assess progress achieved in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action (PFA). This is a 5-year review,  looking back to the Beijing Conference that took place in 1994. The questionnaire’s purpose was to identify and assess regional and international trends and best practices in implementing the […]

WEST FRANKFORT, IL, Aug 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Brain (from a baby of 8 weeks gestation) 30% discount if significantly fragmented – $999.” So reads one of the lines of the “fee for services schedule” of the Opening Lines brochure that advertises to researchers that it has baby parts available from abortuaries. The company also offers abortionists and abortuary owners cash for their aborted babies’ bodies. A pro-life spy within the abortion industry has provided this incriminating evidence to Life Dynamics Incorporated, whose founder Mark Crutcher has made the information available to the public. The August 22 Alberta Report tells the […]

MT. CLEMENS, Aug 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Macomb, Oakland and Wayne County have decided to forbid the counties’ Health Departments from prescribing the abortifacient PREVEN morning after pills.  Macomb County Commissioner Leon Drolet, explained, “I can’t tell the people in my county that you oppose abortion, but you are required to pay for this.” Ignoring the fury and misinformation from Planned Parenthood, the counties contend that the controversial drugs should not be a burden on taxpayers. For more on PREVEN see The Interim: Preven gets government approval, but will test pharmacists’ integrity With files from The Detroit News. 

VANCOUVER, BC, Aug 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ninth congress of the International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) underway this week in Vancouver warns that too little attention is being paid to the grave statistical data on suicide among the elderly. Dr. Eric Caine, a director of IPA noted that “suicide among the elderly is becoming epidemic” and that depression is a primary factor in these deaths. Caine said that 75 per cent of these suicides involve depression and fully two-thirds of those would have been “very treatable.” With files from Canada Newswire.

Mike Harris’ Ontario Government instituted a new policy yesterday guaranteeing new mothers at least a 60 hour stay in hospital after giving birth, if they so desire.  (Canoe.ca) The Conservative News Service reports today on probable splintering of mainline Protestant churches over homosexual ordination and acceptance of homosexuality. The report covers the conflict among Anglicans, Episcopalians and Evangelical Lutherans.  Senator Bob Smith who quit the Republican Party last month saying they were no longer pro-  life, has given up his bid for the presidential nomination of the US Taxpayers Party and may end his presidential quest altogether due concerns over […]

The Washington Times reports today that home-schooled students scored well above their traditionally educated peers on a national assessment test used by colleges for admission.  The American College Testing tests 36% of high school graduates across the nation.  Catholic World News reported last week that the Lycos Internet search engine dropped ads for Jews for Jesus after other Jewish groups complained. 

VANCOUVER, BC, Aug 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Life Dynamics Incorporated (LDI) has revealed the name of a Canadian, government funded researcher who ordered baby parts from an abortuary for research.  The abortuaries which supply the baby parts are paid handsome sums for their baby remains and intermediary companies pick up and slice up the babies for delivery to paying researchers across the US and Canada. A worker for one such intermediary company became pro-life after witnessing the killing of live-born babies at an abortuary after a failed abortion attempt. The worker has acted as a pro-life spy revealing the secrets of […]

LONDON, Aug 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The dehumanization of Down’s syndrome patients, seen by many as a natural result of the much encouraged decision to abort babies discovered to have the disease, has resulted in discrimination towards those with the disorder. A report from the Down’s Syndrome Association (DSA) found that more than one in four people with the condition had been discriminated against by the medical profession. A survey with 1,509 respondents showed a high degree of dissatisfaction among 28% of parents of Down’s children. The types of discrimination identified included: “dismissing unrelated and treatable medical problems as being an […]

FRONT ROYAL, VA, Aug 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Citing health reasons, Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, Ph.D., the Founder of Human Life International, has announced his decision to resign from Human Life International and to retire. The announcement came Monday after the HLI board accepted his resignation.  Human Life International is the world’s largest pro-life and pro-family educational apostolate with 60 Chapters in the U.S. and a network of international branches and affiliates serving 89 countries.