Articles for Month: August 1999

The Washington Post reports today on new studies which indicate the incidence of AIDS among practicing homosexuals in the US is rising.     American Life League reported that the governor of California has signed a new law establishing new “Planned Parenthood” sex education standards for California’s schools.  The Conservative News Service reports today that Blue Jean company Levi Strauss is sponsoring youth to attend a “homosexual, bisexual and transgendered conference in Atlanta that focuses on school-related homosexual issues in grades as low as kindergarten.”

PROVIDENCE, Aug 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rhode Island’s partial birth abortion law, supported by state Atty. Gen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Governor Almond, was condemned as unconstitutional yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Ronald R. Lagueux. The judge took 65 pages to defend his belief that infanticide should be protected by the American constitution. Sheldon Whitehouse and Governor Almond have promised to appeal the decision. With files from the Providence Journal.

PHOENIX, Aug 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Controversy continues to swirl around the 14-year-old, 24-week pregnant ward of the state for whom an out-of-state abortion was approved Sunday by the Arizona Supreme Court. Arizona Right to Life has revealed that the one of the judges in favour of the abortion in the 3-2 decision Sunday was in a conflict of interest in the case since he was an activist lawyer for Planned Parenthood in 1973. Prior to Roe v Wade,  therefore, he was aggressively pushing for the legalization of abortion.  With files from the Arizona StarNet. In related news, it has been […]

JERUSALEM, Aug 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The abortion drug RU-486 has been legalized by the Israeli government and the chemical execution of unborn babies is already underway. The Jerusalem Post reports today that 10 “legal abortions” using the drug have been performed at Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv. The quick approval surprised many who believed that the Shas-controlled Health Ministry would oppose it.' Furthermore, since the rights to RU-486 are owned by the German company Exelgyn it was feared that a controversy over a German company seeking to kill Israeli babies would arise. The Post notes that the Israeli health “ministry […]

The Canadian Pediatric Society has issued a report warning parents that too much television can harm children mentally, physically and socially; parents should allow no more than one hour a day of TV for preschoolers and no more than 2 hours for school age children.  The British government has banned mumps and measles vaccines for children over concerns from a two-year-old study which linked the vaccinations to autism.

LOS ANGELES, Aug 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report in the Chicago Tribune yesterday claims that “according to Catholic health-care officials, most Catholic hospitals in the U.S. provide rape victims with the option of being treated with emergency contraceptives.”  Southern California Catholic hospitals offer abortifacient “emergency contraception” while Chicago ones do not, notes the article. The discrepancy lies in the fact that Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion agencies have been successful with disinformation campaigns that teach that morning after concoctions are not abortifacient. Pro-lifers urge all Catholic medical facilities to respect the clear teaching of their universal church authority, which has […]

PHOENIX, Aug 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 14-year-old, 23-week pregnant girl who was last week to go out of state for a court-ordered abortion has generated a nation-wide conflict in the US. Pro-lifers across the country are offering to help the girl while the courts battle back and forth about whether or not to authorize her trip to a state where it is legal to kill her baby.  Governor Jane Hull agreed to assess the young mother’s competence and an appeal court blocked the original abortion order on Saturday, but the abortion was approved again Sunday by the Arizona Supreme Court […]

ROME, Aug 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to academics from the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Life and Family on Friday, Pope John Paul condemned the push to “eliminate the corporal mediation in the conjugal act as the occasion where a new human life can have its origin.”  He explained that excluding the conjugal act”degrades procreation to the level of a technically controlled reproduction” so that “collaboration with God the Creator and the personal dignity is lost”. With files from Church News.

Rev. Tim Harlow, pastor of Tinley Park Christian Church is condemning a Chicago area hospital affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ.  Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn performs “therapeutic” abortions. “If you want to (perform abortions) and think that way, then don’t call yourself ‘Christ’ hospital. Call yourself   something else. Call yourself Oak Lawn Hospital, but take the cross off the top of your building and change your name. Or better yet, stop doing it,” said Rev. Harlow. (Pro-Life E-News Canada, Southtown Star) A parental notification law takes effect in Texas this […]

Attempting to renew its public funding from Colorado taxpayers, Planned Parenthood drew five of its abortuaries into a separate corporation with the same management. The move was made with the hope that it will thwart the removal of PP funding by Governor Bill Owens.  https://www.denverpost.com/news/news0827a.htm   Florida state was unsuccessful in appealing a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of a parental notice law which would ensure parents were notified of an impending abortion by their minor children.  https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,23000000000108911,00.html   Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who in June attempted to legalize abortion in certain cases, faced 100,000 protestors yesterday over governmental mismanagement.  […]

SASKATOON, Aug 27 (LSN) – As the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (HRC) hears a case brought by homosexual activists against a newspaper that published an ad quoting the Bible on homosexuality, religious freedom faces another challenge in Canada. Lyle Sinkewicz, owner of the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, which printed the ad, was asked by Commission lawyer Darien Moore what he would have done if presented with an ad against aboriginals. When Sinkewicz said he would not publish it because it would be racist, the Commission lawyer claimed: “I find it quite amazing that he would publish the ad with a gay person […]

DALLAS, Aug 27 (LSN) – As LifeSite forecast in June, American Home Products Corp. and its subsidiary Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories have agreed to a settlement in a class action lawsuit by 40,000 US women regarding Norplant. In the agreement Wyeth-Ayerst maintains it has done no wrong but has agreed to pay each of the up to 50,000 women $1,500 each.  The women charged that the company underrated the severe side effects of the abortifacient birth control method, which include irregular menstrual bleeding, nausea, headaches and depression. Women suffering more serious side effects such as strokes are being urged to continue their […]

VANCOUVER, Aug 27 (LSN) – Yesterday British Columbia’s Information and Privacy Commissioner David Loukidelis ordered Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) to release its abortion statistics to Ted Gerk, former president of the BC Pro-Life Society. Gerk had followed freedom of information request guidelines in applying for the statistics on abortion for the years 1997 and 1998, yet VGH has thus far refused to honour the request.  In an interview with LifeSite, Gerk said that he had made the request for information since after the Foothills genetic abortion scandal it was apparent that hospitals and even health authorities were lying about the […]

TORONTO, Aug 27 (LSN) – Providing hard evidence of the unbelievable yet sadly true story of the marketing of aborted baby parts, Campaign Life Coalition has reproduced the full baby parts price list from the Opening Lines company.  In a press release on the recently exposed trade in aborted baby body parts, the Canadian pro-life group issued a national alert. “Does society know that Canadian researchers sort through aborted bodies obtained from local abortion sites and ship body parts, eyes, hearts,  livers and cardiac blood to research facilities throughout the country?” asked CLC in it press release. They noted that […]

Euthanasia and homosexual activist MP Svend Robinson is considering running for the leadership of the BC provincial NDP party, taking over from ousted leader Glen Clarke who resigned over a criminal investigation surrounding his casino deals.  (Ottawa Citizen) South African police are searching for a Cuban doctor who performed an abortion at a Marie Stopes abortuary in Mpumalanga. The woman bled to death following the procedure.  (Africanews.org) Zero Population Growth has done a rating of “Kid Friendly Cities”. According to the rating system, the greater percentage of children in day-care the more “kid friendly” the city.  US localities do not […]

LONDON, Aug 26 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Neil Lane is urging doctors in England to euthanize his 42-year-old wife Lorraine by withholding food and water. Lane claims his wife, who has been in a coma for the past six months, would have desired death. Acceptance of the suggestion would lead England further along the road towards euthanasia since, although in a coma, Mrs. Lane has detectable brain activity. BBC news reports that in 1992 British courts allowed doctors to starve 22-year-old Tony Bland to death claiming he was in a Persistent Vegetative State,  meaning he had no detectable brain activity. In 1997 […]

OTTAWA, Aug 26 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Beverley Smith who gained national attention when she went to the United Nations to lodge a complaint against Canada’s anti-family taxation policies was granted an hour-long interview with Finance Minister Paul Martin yesterday. Smith stressed the injustice of the current taxation system which ignores mothers who remain at home in terms of family income tax. She also objects to the restriction of child-care tax breaks only to those who bring their children to registered day-cares or otherwise declare their child care expenses. The Toronto Star reported that while no promises of action were garnered Smith […]

VANCOUVER, Aug. 26 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A criminal investigation has been launched into the handling of a live-born baby after a botched abortion 13 years ago. After she was born alive, Ximena Renaerts was left to die in a bedpan in a room with dead babies, instead of being given the obligatory standard emergency treatment for distressed newborns. Ximena suffered permanent brain damage and lives with an adoptive family. She is a quadriplegic with the mental capacity of a three year old. A story in the upcoming (August 30) issue of BC Report reveals details onthe investigation and the names of […]

WHITEHORSE, Aug 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first homosexual adoption in the Yukon was reported today.  Patricia Bacon and Kathy Traplin, practicing lesbians, reported that they faced no obstacles in their adoption. Bacon bore the child and Traplin was permitted to adopt. The pair say they intend to have another child, this time with Traplin as the biological mother. With files from the Canadian Press.

Zenit News reported today that a Swiss group called “Swiss Aid for Mother and Child” has launched a court appeal to fight the authorization of RU-486 in the country by the Inter-Cantonal Office for Control of Medicines.  In Canada, where the most common sentence for pedophilia is less than two years in jail,  animal abusers will face penalties of up to five years in prison. Legislation to implement this agenda is expected this fall. It will likely also remove the current $2,000 ceiling on fines.  Retired lieutenant colonel Dave Grossman, a psychologist who spent 25 years training soldiers to kill, […]

PHOENIX, Aug 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Maricopa County Superior Court judge, acting in the role of parent for a 14-year-old and 23-week pregnant girl, has ordered an out of state abortion. The girl,  a ward of the state, must be taken out of state to abort her baby since Arizona laws prohibit most abortions beyond 20 weeks. The court’s ruling violates state laws which forbid   taxpayers’ monies to be spent on abortions since the Department of EconomicSecurity has agreed to pay for the procedure and transportation. With files from the Arizona Republic.

During the consecration of Msgr. Leonard Blair as a bishop for southeast Michigan, Detroit Cardinal Adam Maida urged him to help him oppose abortion and assisted suicide.  (Detroit Free Press)  Church News reported yesterday that the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis has begun a pro-life campaign to override Governor Mel Carnaham’s veto of the Infant’s Protection Act, which banned partial birth abortion.  U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. issued an injunction against the 4-year-old school voucher program in Cleveland Ohio Tuesday, just one day before school began.  (Nando.net)

LONDON, Aug 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British Lord has teamed up with an internet privacy company to help aborted and sterilized Chinese women to report these state-sanctioned abuses without fear of detection and reprisal.  A professor and member of the House of Lords, David Alton of Liverpool today launched his Chinese Population Control Questionnaire. The project will document the internationally condemned Chinese government’s population control agenda and “One Child” policy. It utilizes military strength encryption provided by Anonymizer.com. Lord Alton is currently compiling a report on the Chinese government’s grotesque population control program. On completion, his report will be presented […]

The Electronic Telegraph reports today that pro-abortion Republican Senator John McCain is bidding to knock George Bush out of the top spot as the GOP’s presidential candidate; but a McCain nomination would surely spark a third party with support from formerly Republican pro-lifers.  The New York Post has published information by the Population Research Institute that the UNFPA began its “family planning” work in Kosovo on the invitation of President Slobodan Milosevic.

LOS ANGELES, Aug 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, has donated another $6 billion to his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity which avidly supports population control, particularly in the developing world. The Gates charity has reached $17.1 billion, making it the second largest in the world after London’s Wellcome Trust at $19.2 billion.  However, Gates hopes to be first also in the charity arena, and if he continues his $5 billion donation every quarter he will achieve his goal in little time. Pro-life leaders are concerned that this astronomical amount of money could be used to […]

A group claiming to represent 40 religions has targeted Colorado Springs, home of Focus on the Family and Dr. James Dobson, to host their “National Religious Leadership Roundtable”,  an effort to persuade religious communities to accept homosexuality.  (The Washington Post) Nashville’s Vanderbilt University has agreed to give practicing homosexuals the same benefits as married couples as of January first.  (Yahoo News)

LAPORTE, PA, Aug 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Rosa Hartford’s 1997 successful appeal of a 1996 conviction was improvidently granted thus reinstating her conviction. In 1996 Hartford was convicted of interfering in the custody of a minor when she drove the 13-year-old pregnant girlfriend of her 19 year old step-son girl to New York for an abortion without telling the girl’s mother. Today the state’s Supreme Court refused Hartford another appeal. In an effort to protect her stepson, who later pleaded guilty to statutory rape, Hartford drove the girl 60 miles to an out-of […]

OTTAWA, Aug 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Medical Association has waded into the fray over the infanticides at Foothills Hospital in Calgary. The current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal desperately tries to whitewash the Foothills scandal using tactics such as misinformation and attempting to belittle Alberta Report magazine which broke the story. The journal attempts to deflect attention away from the hospitals crimes by attacking the messenger of the bad news. It strongly implies the complete falsehood that Alberta Report magazine intended to make public the names of abortionists contained in leaked memos. CMAJ regurgitates falsehoods spouted in […]

SASKATOON, SK, Aug 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (HRC) has agreed to hear a case brought by homosexual activists against a newspaper that published an ad quoting the Bible on homosexuality. The Saskatoon StarPhoenix printed a paid advertisement from Hugh Owens on June 30, 1997 depicting two stick-figure men holding hands, superimposed with a red circle and slash, and quoting several Bible verses regarding homosexuality. Homosexual activists Jason Roy and Jeff Dodds brought separate complaints against the paper and Owens. Both cases were opened together Monday. Roy and Dodds claim the ad (the Bible verses) incite hatred […]

The Ulster Pregnancy Advisory Association, a Northern Ireland clinic which refers women for abortions, has closed following alleged attempts to burn down their office.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_427000/427703.stm   Mary Laltoo, the chairman of a New Brunswick school board has been frustrated in her attempts to impose “more comprehensive” and “reality-based” sex-education on students after other board members sought to “protect the modesty and innocence of our children.”  https://www.telegraphjournal.com/page005.htm   The Evangelical Lutheran Church decided at their national convention Saturday to retain the church’s pro-abortion stance but they decided against allowing practicing homosexual ministers.  https://www.denverpost.com/news/news0822.htm   Due to ongoing concern regarding the side […]

Dr. Marshall Klavan has launched a “wrongful life” suit against Crozer-Chester Medical Center for reviving him after his stroke although his living will said he should be left to die. He wrote his living will just before he attempted suicide two years ago.  https://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560802454-ed4   Catholic World News reported Friday that a baby in Ohio survived an attempted partial-birth abortion this month and is in serious condition at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton Ohio.  The Elliot Institute in Springfield, IL has launched a new project to expose abortion clinic deception used to entice women into abortions. EDAP, (Expose Deceptive Abortion […]

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 23 (LSN) – The South African Law Commission has drawn up a bill legalizing euthanasia in South Africa. Pro-Life South Africa informed LifeSite that the bill attempts to give legal validity to advance directives, or the so-called “living will” (such as is advocated by the SA Voluntary Euthanasia Society) and indemnifies doctors who act according to such directives.  The proposed legislation allows doctors under prescribed conditions to authorize the withdrawal of artificial feeding of a terminally ill patient, with or without a directive and with or without the patient’s consent. Voluntary active euthanasia, i.e. direct killing by lethal […]

LONDON, Aug 23 (LSN) – A government commissioned report from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is suspected to recommend the requirement of all health authorities in England to fund in-vitro fertilization for women under 35. Despite the necessity of sacrificing conceived human (admittedly tiny) babies with the procedure as well as the huge cost involved, IVF zealots are pushing that the proposal be extended to cover women beyond 35.  For more see the BBC at:  https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_427000/427831.stm

Fluorescent Monkeys; Altered Personality Mice; Cloned Soldiers   OTTAWA, Aug 23 (LSN) – The continuing “advancements” in new reproductive technology have given rise to the view that it may be necessary to draft an international treaty banning human clones to be used as war machines.  The August 19 Ottawa Citizen reports that a recent study for the Defence Department by Maj.  John Donovan of the U.S. Air Force notes: “The potential for military abuse of cloning technology is sobering, and nations need to define the boundaries of what constitutes acceptable military applications.”  Scientists at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center […]

NEW YORK, NY, Aug 23 (LSN) – The June edition of Contraception (known as “The Official Journal of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals”) contains original research showing that the mifepristone/misoprostol (RU-486) chemical abortion method has an 18.3%  total failure rate. The study, a comparison between suction curettage and medical abortions,  flies in the face of the recent questionable evidence previously amassed on the drug by pro-  abortion crusaders.  With RU-486 having been legalized in much of Europe and scheduled to be unleashed in the US and Canada this fall, the study’s findings are of great importance. A summary report […]

OTTAWA, Aug 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stephen Lewis, former Canadian Ambassador to the UN and no friend of unborn children, is resigning from his four year held position as deputy executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The Globe and Mail speculated yesterday that Lewis may be a candidate to fill the Governor General’s post after Romeo LeBlanc resigns later this year.  Prior to the passage of the Omnibus Bill in 1969, which legalized abortion in Canada, Lewis was an outspoken abortion promoter. As Ontario leader of the socialist New Democratic Party he influenced the party to a hard […]

KENTUCKY, Aug 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA, not to be confused with the PCUSA) held their 27th General Assembly this summer and during their proceedings,  reiterated the denomination’s condemnation of abortion. The appeal to revisit abortion came from Pennsylvanian churches (in the denomination’s Philadelphia Presbytry). Christian Renewal, reporting on the deliberations, said that the recommendations included “approaching the President of the United States, Congressional leaders, and the Chief Justice of the United States with a strong statement against abortion.” Another recommendation was for the establishment of a Sanctity of Human Life Sub-Committee under the Christian Education […]

BISMARK, ND, Aug 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Writing for the Bismark Tribune, columnist Cheryl Long Feather reported Wednesday that, “for American Indians abortion is a crime against nature.” Long Feather says that “it would be very difficult to find an American Indian person who truly knows and follows their culture who could be called ‘pro-choice’.” She explained “Natural family planning was practiced through the social culture. Husbands and wives did not have intimate relations while the mother was nursing. A woman’s choice was exercised in how long she chose to nurse.”  With files from the Bismark Tribune, Pro-Life E-News Canada.

The journal Atlantic Monthly contains a report on demographics this month called “The Population Surprise”. The article warns about the world’s fast approaching depopulation disaster, noting that “fifty years from now the world’s population will be declining, with no end in sight.” Beginning Sunday the comic strip Dick Tracy will feature the cartoon detective in the search for the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives. Among the ten will be James Kopp who is being sought by police in connection with the death of abortionist Barnett Slepian.  Yesterday Pro-Life E-News Canada distributed a Jewish World Review article by Dr. Laura Schlessinger […]

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.

American Family Radio News reports today that a Planned Parenthood clinic in Roanoke,  Virginia offers women the choice between abortion and adoption; the clinic offers abortion services through one door of their facility and adoption services through another.  Catholic World News reported yesterday that acting on behalf of abortionists, the New York-based Center for Reproductive Law and Policy filed a lawsuit on Monday against the state of Indiana demanding that taxpayers fund more abortions through the Medicaid program. Under the plan, public funding would be extended to include circumstances like hypertensions, as well as for the life of the mother […]

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After intense negotiations by the Vatican, the proposed International Criminal Court has conceded Catholic priests their traditional immunity from having to reveal information received in confessions. Much to the chagrin of Canada which proposed the violation of the ancient Catholic sacramental “seal” of confession and over the objections of France, the ICC draft document now includes the phrase: “The court shall recognise as privileged the communications made in the context of a sacred confession when it is an integral part of the practice of that religion.” For the background on this story see: Canada […]

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Aug. 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Inaugurating a new section of a Catholic hospital,  Mexican Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez urged doctors to defend and respect life. Unlike the often toothless pronouncements by most western bishops that has led to major compromising of pro-life Catholic health care in the west, the Mexican Cardinal laid it on the line. EWTN news reports that he stated that “in any place abortion is regarded as an attack, but here in this institution it is a profanation. Doctors that don’t agree are free to leave.”

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA, Aug. 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an Aug. 16 release, The American Centre for Law and Justice states it is representing the parents of a 17 year old Pennsylvania student “who charge that a public school guidance counselor usurped their parental rights by coercing and facilitating an abortion for their minor daughter.”  The student had expressed to the counselor her strong misgivings about an abortion. She was nevertheless eventually convinced by the counselor to accept the secret abortion arrangements which included going out of state to avoid Pennsylvania’s law requiring parental consent. The school has expressed strong support […]

LONDON, England, Aug. 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Aug. 14 BBC news reported on North American research that indicates that pain suffered by newborn and premature babies “is likely to cause long-term changes to behaviour”. Researchers at Washington, British Columbia and Arkansas medical institutions have uncovered increasing evidence of long-term effects of pain and stress on infants. Lead researcher Dr.  Fran Lang Porter reports in the current issue of Developmental and Behavioural Pediatrics that “Pain and stress have been shown to induce significant behavioural reactions in new-born infants, even those born prematurely”. This study gives further credibility to an Aug. 8 […]

Stafford, VA, Aug. 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Contrary to the doomsaying of the world’s anti-population media, Dr. Robert Sassone, Director of the World Life League, states there are reasons to celebrate that India’s population will reach one billion this year. Sassone notes that the Indian birth rate has declined since 1970-1975 when it was 5.5. and that the country’s population will therefore soon begin to decline. He says that “the population is still growing in spite of fewer children because living conditions have improved so much that fewer people are dying.” Sassone indicates that the world should “rejoice” that the quality […]

ALBERTA, Aug.17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In its Aug. 9 issue Alberta Report magazine analyses the implications of the planned UN sponsored Canada-wide youth “vote” that is scheduled to take place November 19. All youth under 18 will be asked to vote for their most important right from a list supplied by Elections Canada on behalf of the UN. The UN seems to feel that Canada has become sufficiently conditioned for it to be its guinea pig in this first ever in the world mass youth propaganda exercise. Also, Alberta Report states “Critics… fear that Elections Canada is evolving from a supposedly […]

DUBLIN, Aug 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Irish abortion referral service known as the Irish Family Planning Association has applied to the high court to have pro-life picketers jailed. In a move all too familiar on the North American abortion scene, the pro-aborts are enraged that their lucrative business is being hampered and have sought a court order to prevent picketing.  Youth Defense, a pro-life activist group, has picketed one of the Association’s clinics and handed out materials revealing that it “exports Irish babies for slaughter”. The court is expected to decide on the issue next week. With files from Pro-Life […]

Last Thursday US Appeals Court Judge Barbara Crabb upheld a Wisconsin law requiring a 24-hour waiting period before abortions. The law was under attack by Planned Parenthood.  (Nando.net) A legal abortion performed Saturday in the Marie Stopes abortuary in Nelspruit, South Africa has resulted in the death of a 30-year-old mother, as well as the death of her child, Africa Eye News Service reported yesterday. An investigation is underway. (Africanews.org) On August 9th, The “Hinomaru flag law” and “Kimigayo anthem law” were passed in Japan making the flag and anthem national symbols and requiring daily exercises during which all school […]

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 […]

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, […]

* “The Children’s Society, a leading children’s charity affiliated with the Church of England, has changed its rules to allow gay people to adopt or foster children,” writes the Maranatha Christian Journal, in a report based on an Associated Press newswire story. “While the decision has attracted controversy, the Church of England will continue to support the charity, AP reports.” * Popular Christian and pro-life talk show host, Michael Coren, is leaving the Toronto radio station CFRB, which helped launch him to the level of success he experiences today. According to Gary Dunford of the Toronto Sun, the departure was […]

TORONTO, Aug. 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study which tracked “the health records of 7,009 babies born at a Toronto-area hospital,” has found that infants discharged from hospital after only two days “are nearly twice as likely to be sick and readmitted within their first month than infants who stay in hospital longer,” reports The Globe and Mail today. According to the study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, children released after only two days tend to “reappear in hospital within their first month of life with jaundice,  dehydration or infections, often of the respiratory system.” But, the CMAJ […]

TORONTO, Aug. 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – National Post columnist Christie Blatchford reports today on a secret deal made by “Toronto Police senior command”  with the owners of homosexual bars. The agreement, which guarantees that Toronto police officers “will turn a blind eye to arguably illicit sex activity so long as it remains behind closed doors,” is “apparently firm enough that Crown lawyers believe it might give anyone charged with public sex offences in a gay bar a possible defence and preclude any chance of conviction,” writes Ms. Blatchford.  Suggesting that the Toronto police force is afraid of area homosexuals, Ms. Blatchford […]

UNITED STATES, Aug. 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Anxiety Centre, a watchdog organization reporting on what it sees as environmental disinformation, has condemned a recent meeting in St. Louis of the International Botanical Congress for fueling unsubstantiated concerns about the size and activities of the global human population. The criticism stems from a Daily Telegraph article (Aug. 3). According to the Telegraph, the Congress was told that, “human activity has altered 'half of the land surface of the Earth,’ which is now 'hurtling towards an extinction crisis’.” The conference was also warned that this alleged crisis also threatens human well-being.  […]

UNITED STATES, Aug. 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In view of the pessimism American children have towards marriage, churches should exercise greater responsibility in teaching and preaching about it, says a recent article published in the Southern Baptist Convention’s Baptist Press. The comments come “in response to the recent annual report from the National Marriage Project, an initiative of Rutgers University and several private organizations,” writes Baptist Press in an article reprinted by the Conservative News Service. “The desire of teenagers for a long-term marriage is greater than ever, but girls,  especially, have become more pessimistic about ever being able to have […]

FRANCE, Aug. 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Controversy continues over the French government’s recommendations to increase access to abortion by allowing teenagers to have their babies killed without first seeking parental consent, and by allowing a longer period after conception 12 weeks instead of 10 during which unborn babies can be legally destroyed. Instead of dealing with the developments in a strictly academic fashion, a number of Catholics, both bishops and laymen, have decided to take action, providing services for pregnant women in need. The hope is that such practical action will reduce the perception that expanded abortion services are necessary. One […]

* Focus on the Family head, James Dobson, who raised a furor a couple of years ago for threatening to ditch the Republican Party over its equivocation regarding moral issues, “is daring to discipline the Republican presidential frontrunner on the abortion issue,” writes WORLD magazine this week. Dr. Dobson told Colorado’s Rocky Mountain News that “George Bush is going to need to tell us what he really believes.” Dr. Dobson is particularly concerned about Mr. Bush’s refusal to outline a pro-life “litmus test” for judicial nominees.  * Argentina has received much praise for establishing an official Day of the Unborn,  […]

ACADEMIA, Aug. 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A shocking report being circulated among economists and criminal law experts suggests that legalizing abortion, with the subsequent escalation in the slaughter of unborn babies, has benefited society by keeping future criminals from being born. The unpublished study, reported on by the Chicago Tribune yesterday and the Toronto Sun today, has received mixed reviews. In order to add a moral impetus to abortion, pro-aborts have long sought evidence that unwanted children are disproportionately likely to be deviants as well as impoverished and poorly educated. The authors of the study in question conveniently “conclude that unwanted […]

AUSTRALIA, Aug. 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ethics of human embryonic stem cell research (also known as therapeutic cloning) was a topic of debate yesterday at the 68th annual summer meeting of the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs, Canada’s oldest public policy forum. Scientists and ethicists want a public debate on the ethics of using cells from cloned human embryos to produce new tissues and organs, reports the National Post today. Pro-lifers oppose the process because taking stem cells from an embryo leads to its death the killing of a human being. Canada’s renowned ethicist, Margaret Somerville, addressed the audience of […]

MEDIA FILES, Aug. 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new documentary, “The Truth About Sex,” which uses fear to motivate teens to avoid sexual promiscuity is receiving mixed reviews. Arnold Shapiro, the producer of the film, “won an Emmy for his famous 1978 documentary “Scared Straight,” which showed teens the horrors of prison life in an attempt to scare them out of a life of crime,” reported Conservative News Service last week. Using the kind of confrontational tactics found in “Scared Straight”, “the film’s scenes include … interviews with teens and their parents on sex at the high school prom, and a […]

AUSTRALIA, AMERICA, Aug. 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As potential parents become increasingly intolerant of disabled babies, doctors need to take a growing number of precautions against lawsuits,  according to recent reports about the use of medical technology such as ultrasounds. An article in today’s edition of the Australian paper, The Age, reports that, “the grainy images of a baby kicking around in the amniotic fluid of the womb make 'beautiful pictures’, but could later be used as legal ammunition against doctors,  ultrasound specialists have warned.” The warning revolves around the practise of giving parents ultrasound pictures of their babies, pictures which […]

ARGENTINA, Aug. 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 3-day meeting of American Politicians and Legislators that was called by the Pontifical Council for the Family wrapped up yesterday in Argentina’s capital.  Catholic religious leaders were pleased at the opportunity to re-iterate to South American political leaders the importance of defending the family both in their own countries as well as on the international stage. Two hundred and fifty politicians and legislators participated, including: Argentine President Carlos Menem, and the two leading Argentine presidential candidates: Eduardo Duhalde and Fernando de la Rua; Belisario Betancourt, former president of Colombia; Hector Gross Espiell, former Uruguayan […]

NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In it’s Friday Fax of Aug. 6 the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute reports on an alarming proposal by the Canadian government at the current preparatory commission for the International Criminal Court (ICC). CFHRI states that “Canada proposed that the ICC revoke the centuries-old legal tradition that a Catholic priest may not be compelled to reveal what he hears in the confessional. This revocation would apply to the private religious counselling of all faiths”. Canadian delegations have taken a world leadership position in proposing and pushing through the most radical concepts at recent […]

B.C., Aug. 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – James Demers lost his latest battle against British Columbia’s bubble zone law in the province’s Supreme Court. The province’s pro-abortion government was very pleased with the decision with “women’s equality” minister,  Jenny Kwan, assuring British Columbians that they will continue to defend the law at the next level if necessary”. Mr. Demers is challenging the bubble zone law under which he was charged after coming too close to the deceptively named Everywoman’s Health Clinic in 1996. The legislation prevents Canadians from exercising their Constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression within 60 metres of abortion mills and […]

In yesterday’s story, CHRETIEN’S CABINET SHAKE-DOWN, it was reported that Maria Minna has been appointed Veteran’s Affairs Minister. She was actually appointed International Co-operation Minister.

HOSPITALS, Aug. 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The rising number of Canadians in need of kidney dialysis has put the demand for an improved organ donation system on the front page of the National Post yesterday. The general issue of organ donation is not central to the Pro-Life Movement’s defence of life, but concerns about organ donation pressure leading to a redefinition of life and death so that fresh organs can be removed from people who should still be considered as alive have forced pro-life forces to be alert to this issue. According to NP, “When the Canadian public is surveyed, they […]

* The American Academy of Pediatrics doesn’t think much of parents who use the TV as a baby-sitter, judging by a recent report released on the subject. The report says “toddlers and babies should not watch television, while older children should not be allowed to have television sets in their bedrooms,” according to an article in the National Post yesterday.  Exposure to the mass media has risks and benefits, says the academy, but media education is necessary to help parents distinguish good exposure from bad and to make their child-rearing decisions accordingly. The report was published in this month’s issue […]

SWEDEN, Aug. 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Swedish “art” exhibition depicting Jesus Christ in a number of homosexual-friendly images is coming to New York next year, according to an article from Wired news (August 2). The display is the work of Swedish lesbian photographer and “artist”  Elisabeth Ohlson: “a series of 12 vividly stylized photographs titled Ecce Homo,” writes Wired. “The photos depict Christ at various stages in his life, death, and resurrection.” In one,  Joseph and Mary have been replaced by “Mary and Mary.” In another Jesus “is being bathed by a male in what looks like a gay bathhouse.” […]

* American pro-lifers are carefully watching the progress of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act which was supported by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution by a vote of 5-2. The Family Research Council, which is strongly backing the bill, says the fact that 25 states have already introduced fetal homicide measures indicates strong public backing for such a measure. “Pro-abortion forces are trying to pick a fight over this bill where there is none,” said FRC chief spokesman Janet Parshall yesterday. “This bill cannot be used to attack mothers and their doctors or to criminalize any legal procedures.” […]

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 […]

VANCOUVER, Aug. 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last year an out-of-court settlement was reached over the failed abortion of now 12-year-old Ximena Renaerts. Last week the amount of that settlement – $8.7 million – was made public after a BC judge rejected Vancouver General hospital’s attempt to keep the figure secret.  The case of Ximena gripped the hearts of pro-life Canadians across the country because she was one of the few survivors of Canada’s abortion industry and, in her terribly handicapped state,  was a testimony to all Canadians of the horrible results abortion exacts on real people.  Ximena was born alive despite […]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Population Research Institute (PRI) is one of many American organizations angered by the renewal of normal trade relations (NTR) status with China by the House of Representatives. For years socially conscious legislators as well as many pro-family groups like PRI and Family Research Council (FRC) have been fighting to have China’s trade status downgraded over on-going reports of serious human rights abuses in the country. PRI’s particular concern is the communist country’s one-child policy. NTR status was renewed in the House by a vote of 260 to 170. The decision “sends the wrong signal to […]