Articles for Month: August 1999

The National Post reports today that since 1992 over 200 people have been granted refugee status in Canada based on their sexual orientation.   Dr. Richard Nicholson, editor of the Bulletin of Medical Ethics, called British procedures to screen and eliminate embryos with possible genetic clues for cancer the “Nazification” of medicine. “It took only 25 years in Germany to go from individual doctors saying there are certain lives not worth living, to having mass euthanasia programmes,” he said. 

Wisconsin’s abortion rate has dropped by 1,500 abortions from 1997 to 1998 according to recent statistics; the decrease has been attributed to the mandatory 24 hours waiting period after first requesting an abortion.  (Star Tribune) The Denver Post reports that 13 Planned Parenthood abortuaries in Colorado are losing state funding which was to be $319,000 this year. The administration of Governor Bill Owens noted that the state funding was in violation of a voter-passed constitutional amendment from 1984 banning it.  Today’s Washington Times reveals the background on the author of last year’s APA study which claimed that pedophilia was not […]

OTTAWA, Aug 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday Prime Minister Jean Chretien appointed sitting Liberal MP Sheila Finestone of Mont Royal to the Canadian Senate along with Melvin Perry of Prince Edward Island and George Furey of Newfoundland.  Finestone’s radical pro-abortion stance was highlighted in September of 1995 when she led the Canadian delegation to the United Nations’ Conference on Women in Beijing. The Canadian delegation led the way in advocating “sexual orientation” (homosexuality) and “reproductive rights” (abortion). The Canadians were deemed perhaps the most radical and aggressive of all those present at the conference; they opposed references to anything which might […]

LONDON, Aug 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A story by the BBC news heralding a new pre-natal test for Down’s syndrome has produced statistics on the false positive rate of the traditional tests. Based on the figures given in today’s BBC news piece it can be reliably estimated that over 426 healthy babies are misdiagnosed with Down’s and killed in their mother’s wombs every year in England as a result of eugenic concerns. (That figure does not take into account the 1%  chance of preborn babies dying from the amniocentesis test.)  The new tests for the disorder claim they can improve identification […]

TORONTO, Aug. 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Toronto police are engaged in damage control following an expose in yesterday’s National Post of a secret deal between the force and homosexual bars which protects from prosecution those who engage in criminal public sex in gay bars. The Toronto Police Association has also issued a letter demanding the suspension of a Staff Inspector and Superintendent accused of interfering in a case in an attempt to have 19 charges dropped against gay bar patrons. Police chief David Boothby issued a statement claiming that “We do not make special arrangements or secret deals with anyone […]

* Paul Weyrich, the American pro-family activist who generated controversy several months ago for a pessimistic review of current U.S. culture, has endorsed Steve Forbes for the Republican presidential candidate. In a report distributed by the Republicans for Life PAC (Political Action Committee), Mr. Weyrich is quoted saying: “While there are many good conservatives running for President in 2000, in my view Steve Forbes is the only economic,  social and pro-life conservative in the race with the ability to win the White House. …  When asked directly by NBC’s Tim Russert on Meet the Press what he’d do as President […]

VERMONT, Aug. 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sixty and 70 years ago when Darwinism was in its heyday, Vermont scientists launched a eugenics plan which led to a sterilization law for the handicapped in 1931. This revelation is based on work done by Nancy Gallagher, a doctoral student and 50-year old former biology teacher, who is publishing her findings later this year in a book to be called Vermont Eugenics Survey. The purpose of this 12-year eugenics survey was to eliminate the state’s “degenerate” bloodlines and replenish “old pioneer stock,” she told the Boston Globe. The seemingly commendable intent of the program […]

TORONTO, Aug. 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Netherlands, the world’s most aggressive advocate of euthanasia,  will make it legal to kill children as young as—or as old as—12 years of age. A Reuters report cites the Justice and Health ministries as saying that “in the case of 12 to 15 year olds the consent of the parents or guardian is required, but in the event of refusal … a minor’s request may nevertheless be met if the doctor is convinced this would prevent serious detriment to the patient.” The new law, which went to the country’s lower house on Monday, is […]

KOREA, Aug. 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An International conference of NGOs will take place in Seoul, Korea,  reports Ottawa-area pro-life U.N. observer, Dr.  Jeanne Ferrari. The purpose of the conference, being held Oct. 10-16, is apparently to assess the commitments made by governments at recent UN Conferences, including the 1990 World Summit for Children, the 1992 Rio Conference on Environment and Development and the 1996 Food Summit in Rome. “They are advocating the fulfilment of these commitments by governments,” says Mrs. Ferrari, adding that they will also be pushing an agenda of “trying to promote greater involvement by NGO’s in UN […]

UNITED STATES, Aug. 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Critics of the study linking the abortion rate to a drop in crime have come out with their guns blasting, and they have not all been from the ranks of the political right. University of Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt and Stanford University Law professor John J. Donohue III, the authors of the study, appear to have been taken by surprise at the amount of opposition they have faced for what they consider to be a credible piece of work. “We’ve been stunned by the angry response, particularly from the left,” Levitt said Monday, […]