Articles for Month: August 1999

* “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 […]