Articles for Month: August 1999

KOSOVO, Serbia, Aug 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last month Population Research institute (PRI) published a damning report about the United Nations Family Planning Association (UNFPA), alleging that the UN group began its distribution of “reproductive health kits” among the Kosovar refugees at the invitation of Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic. UNFPA reacted to the report calling it false and misleading, but last week admitted otherwise. A PRI bulletin issued today indicates that last week UNFPA spokesman Alex Marshall admitted that UNFPA was invited to conduct a “reproductive health” program in Kosovo – and only Kosovo – by the Yugoslavian government last December […]

CHICAGO, Aug 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scientists at the Reproductive Genetics Institute in Chicago are creating and killing dozens of human embryos in an effort to produce a well-matched sibling for an ill child. The couple’s 4-year-old daughter suffers from Fanconi anaemia, a bone marrow disorder, and the blood from the umbilical cord of an identically matched sibling could make a bone marrow transplant successful. In order to make such a sibling, the scientists are creating multiple embryos for the couple and then killing off those which are not matched properly. Dr. Charles Strom, a medical geneticist at the Reproductive Genetics […]

TORONTO, Aug 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Many Christians in and around Toronto were appalled when they discovered that the so-called “Catholic” hospital of St. Michael’s had become a “bronze-level sponsor” of Toronto’s Gay Pride Week ‘99. However, new revelations hold a clue to the hospital’s peculiar manoeuvre. Following a government sponsored move to integrate St. Michael’s and Wellesley hospitals,  homosexual activists were outraged, fearing that the “Catholic” hospital would be intolerant of their behaviour. The homosexualists picketed the hospital and spray-painted its walls in order to intimidate the administration. St. Michael’s Hospital countered that the provincial government has designated St. Michael’s […]

LONDON, Aug 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain announced today a plan to have all pregnant women tested for HIV. Doctors will adminster the test as a routine procedure and those women wishing to forego the blood-test will be required to sign a waiver.  Detection of such viruses can lead to effective treatments to drastically lessen the chance of passing on the disease from a mother to her yet unborn child.  However, as past experience with these new technologies has shown, it may also lead to pressure to abort children and also lead to mandating other “search and destroy” pre-natal testing such […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a paper funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Mental Health and Drug Abuse, Dr. Robert Levine of Yale University argues for the watering down of international standards for research on humans, allowing unethical testing on Third World subjects. Published in Thursday’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, the paper argues that the Declaration of Helsinki rules requiring human research subjects receive the best medical care regardless of cost are impractical. Levin argues for a new set of “ethical” criteria which would allow human experimental subjects in the developing world to be […]

A study by STOPP, a branch of American Life League, found that the higher the number of towns with Planned Parenthood offices, the higher the number of abortions in the state. Based on statistics from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) the study concludes that “the more a state helps promote the pro-abortion conduct of Planned Parenthood, the higher its abortion numbers are.”  Pro-Life E-News Canada circulated a report today noting that abortionist Mark Binder of Albany has pleaded guilty to two felony counts of illegal profiteering at the American Women’s Services abortion mills in Colonie and Nanuet. The 59-year-old […]

CINCINNATI, OH, Aug 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday the American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati on behalf of a pro-life pharmacist who was fired by K-Mart for refusing to dispense the abortifacient “morning after pill.”  According to the ACLJ press release, Karen Brauer, was fired by K-Mart in December 1996 after refusing to dispense a product called Micronor. The suit contends that Brauer, who holds a master’s degree in Medicinal Chemistry from Purdue University, believes that drugs currently being marketed as “morning after pills” or “emergency […]

TORONTO, Aug 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Christine Harrison, director of bioethics at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and a member of the University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics,  wrote in today’s Globe and Mail in support of the Dutch proposal to allow euthanasia for children as young as twelve years of age. In a classic example of double speak Harrison claims at the end of the article that whe is not advocating the legalization of euthanasia but merely arguing that if it is available to adults it should also be available to children.  If adults have the right […]

Church News reports today that the Catholic Church in Kenya is denouncing govenment plans to legalize abortion which are the result of pressure from the United Nations Population Fund.  ChristianWeek reported last month that Canada Trust awarded its $50,000 Canada Trust Scholarship for Outstanding Community Leadership to Valerie Deacon, a 17 year old student at Kelvin High School, for the campaign she launched to fight “homophobia” in Winnipeg

BEAUPORT, Que., Aug 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 37-year-old Quebec mother diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia underwent forced abortion and sterilization on July 29 at the Centre Hospitalier Robert-Giffard in Beauport. The woman’s psychiatrist Dr. Pierre Dorion ordered the abortion and sterilization and the Public Trustee gave his approval for the abortion and the tubal ligation on condition a court ruled in favour of the procedures. In an exclusive report, Qubec’s Le Soleil newspaper reported June 30 that Quebec Superior Court Judge Paul Vezina approved the application and the decision was uncontested. The paper notes that “the woman was represented by a […]