Articles for Month: September 1999

The Catholic News Service reported today that the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has filed papers in a federal appeals court. They are supporting plaintiffs who want the Minnesota Department of Human Services to stop spending public money on abortion-claim reimbursements.     Matt Drudge reported today that CABLE NEWS NETWORK founder Ted Turner, one of the world’s wealthier men, told a gathering in Shanghai that he is “a socialist at heart.”     The Catholic League is staging a protest outside the Brooklyn Museum of Art where they will be handing out 500 vomit bags to protest the exhibition of artworks which […]

HOLLYWOOD, Sept 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a late report Thursday from New Media champion Matt Drudge, Warren Beatty is said to be pro-life. According to the report, earlier this year Beatty told Drudge, “Since having children, I am pro-life.”  Responding to why he does not declare his pro-life position, Drudge reports “Beatty, who is toying with the idea of running for president, quietly said: “I can’t.” Warren Beatty and his wife Annette Bening are expecting Baby No. 4, who will join Isabel, 2, Ben, 5, and Kathlyn, 7.

LONDON, Sept 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Reacting to the news that the number of legal abortions carried out in England and Wales jumped by 4.3 per cent in 1998 to 187,402 Amanda Callaghan, publicity affairs manager of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, said its not bad news. : “There is a much greater emphasis on the need for planned pregnancy and responsible parenting than at any other time,” she told BBC news. “So I don’t think we should be surprised when women – who take family responsibilities extremely seriously – feel that abortion is a positive step if they do not […]

WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The web site for the US government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) advertises the availability of aborted baby body parts for research. “Human embryonic and fetal tissues are available from the Central Laboratory for Human Embryology at the University of Washington,” says the “availability of human fetal tissue” guide from the NIH. “The laboratory, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health, can supply tissue from normal or abnormal embryos and fetuses of desired gestational ages between 40 days and term,” says the memo, which is exposed in the current issue of The Wanderer, […]

CHICAGO, Sept 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Chicago area hospital is under investigation after pro-life groups alerted authorities to abortion procedures which often leave babies alive after which they are refused treatment, food and water until their deaths. Abortionists admitted that the procedure called induction of labour does take place – and is practiced throughout the US – but they stress it was a “rare” abortion procedure and used when the fetus has a severe genetic defect or the mother’s life is in danger.  A nurse on the delivery ward alerted authorities to the procedure and the Illinois Department of Public […]

WINNIPEG, Sept 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Garry Michael Geisel, 56, argued in court this week that his criminal charges for photographing children 14 and over engaged in sex is discriminatory against the children. While one of the girls he is charged with photographing is under 14, Geisel argues that the others all under 18 should have the right to pose for pornographic photos since Canadian law allows legal sex at 14.  Provincial court Judge Linda Giesbrecht found Geisel guilty but has reserved sentencing since Sharpe’s Charter challenge remains unresolved. The court will resume hearings October 28.  With files from Canada.com

The National Post reports today that Canadian General Romeo Dallaire will be questioned next week about his part in the failure of the United Nations to prevent genocide in Rwanda in 1994. After multiple reports of UN complicity in the Rwandan massacre the UN has instituted a supposedly independent investigation into the scandal.     Susan Benoff, a researcher from New York University, is complaining of lack of funding for experiments using a blood pressure drug as a male “pill”.  (National Post)   The Catholic League reported yesterday that the new film “Julien Donkey-Boy” attacks the Christian faith with scenes of nuns and a […]

WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would hear an appeal in the case of a Colorado law barring all pro-life activity within 100 feet of abortion facilities. In February the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the statute prohibiting the free distribution of leaflets, the display of signs, and the expression of educational, counseling, or protest speech near medical facilities in the state of Colorado did not unduly hamper First Amendment free-speech rights.  Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, is representing three pro-lifers in the case. Sekulow said, […]

HALIFAX, Sept 29, (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week the New England Journal of Medicine discusses the ethics involved in testing an experimental treatment for Parkinson’s disease involving the injection of brain tissue from aborted babies into the brains of Parkinson’s patients. The research has been plagued with the ethical nightmare around the use of aborted baby parts and is now embroiled in the controversy over its handling of “control group” subjects in its experiments. Control group subjects – those not actually given the treatment are led to believe they are being treated in order to test for placebo effects. They have holes […]

VANCOUVER, Sept 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A literary panel starring child pornographer John Sharpe is being funded in part by the Canada Council for the Arts and the B.C. Arts Council. LifeSite reported yesterday that Sharpe, who created controversy over his successful arguments against Canada’s child pornography laws, is featured this week in a “literary panel” at Simon Fraser University. The panel, Sex, Drugs and the Law: Pushing the Boundaries, is organized by The Small Press Action Network and will run from Thursday to Sunday promoting controversial independent publishers.  The group hosting the panel received $2,000 from the B.C. council and […]

Governor Gray Davis has received a reward for being committed to abortion. Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP) is proud to announce that Governor Gray Davis has been selected as the recipient of the 1999 Ades Award, presented to a man who has gone beyond the call-of duty on behalf of reproductive freedom. He will accept this award at Comics Choice 8 on Sunday, October 17, 1999 which begins at 7 PM.  (PR Newswire) The Conservative News Service issued a revealing report today indicating that at a time when the pornography industry is becoming a sophisticated, billion dollar industry, family […]

After a scandal in which it was found that a British hospital removed the hearts of children who had died at the hospital without ensuring informed parental consent or notification the hospital – Diana Princess of Wales Children’s Hospital in Birmingham – will offer to return the hearts of 1,500 dead babies whose organs were to be used for medical research.     Dr. Arthur Leader the University of Ottawa’s chief of reproductive medicine and president of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society is urging Canada to pay for costly fertility treatments.  (National Post)

BATTLEFORD, Sask., Sept 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic parents in Saskatchewan are taking the North West Catholic School Division to court over its decision to commence using the “Fully Alive”  sex education program in its schools this year. The program, developed in Ontario with the approval of the Ontario Bishops Conference, and used in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan has created controversy for many years among Catholic parents who argue that it is too graphic and explicit at too early an age. The program was rejected by the Archdiocese of Washington in 1995 for failing “to integrate the faith perspective in its presentation,” and […]

VANCOUVER, Sept 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of British Columbia (UBC), in the news regularly for the APEC free speech uproar which took place there, is now crushing the free speech rights of pro-lifers. A peaceful pro-life demonstration which was to take place on UBC campus this week called the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) is being fought by UBC administration. Politically correct “Pro-choice” demonstrations are permitted at UBC. The University has sought a court injunction barring the pro-life demonstration from campus and has threatened that any GAP demonstrators or even pro-life UBC students demonstrating will be arrested.  On the invitation of […]

VANCOUVER, Sept 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Writer and broadcaster Susan Martinuk, a specialist in reproductive issues, wrote a column in today’s National Post noting the reasons for the interest in using the ova of aborted baby girls for fertility treatments. Martinuk notes that “the ovaries of unborn females are filled with more eggs than those of a young girl or fertile woman because the number of eggs is maximal prior to birth and then declines from birth onwards.” “Although the eggs are immature, they develop when subjected to the right hormones,” she continued.  Martinuk suggests that scientists will opt for using […]

VANCOUVER, Sept 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Child pornographer John Sharpe, who created controversy over his successful arguments against Canada’s child pornography laws, is featured this week in a “literary panel” at Simon Fraser University. The panel, Sex, Drugs and the Law: Pushing the Boundaries, is organized by The Small Press Action Network and will run from Thursday to Sunday promoting controversial independent publishers.  Sharpe’s challenge has led to the BC Supreme Court striking down the section of the Criminal Code criminalizing possession of child pornography, the ramifications of which have been felt in courts across the country. The Supreme Court of […]

LONDON, Sept 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Court of Human Rights ruled today in favour of four homosexualist activists in Britain who were discharged from the army after it was discovered that they were practicing homosexuals. The court said that the British policy banning practicing homosexuals from the army contravenes Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which defends the right to private and family life.  The court wrote that “the investigations conducted into the applicants’ sexual orientation together with their discharge from the armed forces constituted especially grave interferences with their private lives.” Following the verdict, British […]

VATICAN CITY, Sept 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Director of the Holy See Press Office, made public a declaration today refuting the claims of Nafis Sadik, the head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Responding to Sadik’s charge that the Vatican has abandoned its opposition to “family planning,” Navarro-Valls said, “I wish to make it clear that the Holy See has not, in fact, changed its well-known position.” He noted, contrary to Sadik’s assertions, that pro-life principles against abortion, artificial contraception and irresponsible sexuality are “constantly affirmed by the Holy See delegations (to the UN) in the diverse […]

On Friday, a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down partial birth abortion bans passed by elected Nebraska, Arkansas and Iowa state legislatures saying they were “unconstitutional.”  The famed pro-life Sheriff John McDougall of Lee County Florida has stirred up controversy once again by denouncing Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, pornography and more on an official government website.    First Lady Hillary Clinton has objected to the removal of taxpayer funding for an exhibit in New York depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary splashed with elephant dung. Cardinal O’Connor and Mayor Guiliani have objected strenuously to […]

A Swiss assisted suicide group called “Exit” is in the news for attempting to help a 30-year-  old depressed woman kill herself. The group operates in Switzerland under the approval of legal authorities which allow even non-doctors to assist suicides without prosecution.  (Fox News)   The Ontario Court of Appeal issued an injunction Friday preventing municipal politicians in Penetanguishene from reciting the Lord’s prayer in council ending a 100 year tradition in the predominantly Christian town.  (National Post)

TORONTO, Sept 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Research underway at a Toronto hospital has successfully matured human ova inside mice. London’s The Independent reports that the research confirms earlier studies undertaken by the controversial human reproductive scientist, Roger Gosden. With earlier research demonstrating that male gonads implanted in mice can create sperm, it is now possible to create human children, the product of mice.  LifeSite reported last week that Gosden, who had his research criminalized in Britain since it involved the use of ova from aborted baby girls in fertility treatments, is taking a post with McGill University this October. On Saturday, […]

DAYTON, OH, Sept 27 (LifeSiteNews) – Lilith Fair, the music festival of radical feminism headed up by performer Sarah McLachlan, is steeped in controversy as it faces protests over its decision to bar Feminists for Life from the festival grounds. Marilyn Kopp, Ohio director of Feminists for Life (FFL), attended the music festival to protest the discrimination.  Reporter Laura DeMarco writes in the Free Times about the protest. Wearing a T-shirt reading “Peace begins in the womb, Sarah,” and standing in front of the booth of the National Organization for Women with a gag in her mouth, Kopp made clear […]

OTTAWA, Sept 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Family and children’s issues critic for Canada’s Official Opposition, Eric Lowther, issued another statement against the upcoming UNICEF Canada and Elections Canada “National Election for the Rights of Youth,” and is urging Canadians to make their opposition to the initiative known at all levels of government. He recommended 7 reasons for opposing the initiative. Lowther explains that concerned citizens need to contact “the Prime Minister, the Government House Leader, your federal MP, your provincial MLA/MPP/MNA,  Elections Canada, and your local school board” to object to the vote.  The Seven Reasons Why Canadians Should Object to Elections […]

The Conservative News Service reports that House and Senate lawmakers held up a 12.6 billion dollar foreign aid bill with abortion supporters trying to ensure the funds could go to support abortion-pushing groups.  The State of Illinois has become an abortion “dumping ground” according to lawmakers who note that over 4,500 women from out of state entered the jurisdiction last year for abortions.  (ChicagoSunTimes)   Pro-lifer Alan Keyes has officially entered the GOP race for the presidential nomination. (NewsObserver)  American Life League this week is sending a series of “picture parables” to Congress challenging the dangerous thinking that would seem to justify […]

The Ottawa Citizen reported yesterday on claims that certain chemicals in the Canada-US Great Lakes were causing human infertility problems from a new report.  A beautiful photo of Canadian 13-year-old abortion survivor Ximena Renaerts and her adoptive mother appears along with her heart-wrenching story on the website of Alberta Report magazine. 

LONDON, Sept 24 (LSN) – A study released in today’s issue of the British Medical Journal notes that the most modern versions of the birth control pill has been found to substantially increase the risk of blood clots. Immediately following the news of the study, the British government proclaimed that the pill should not be regarded as unsafe.  The study of women 15-49 found that the rate of serious blood clots arising from the pill rose from the second generation pill which was associated with blood clots in 15 women per 100,000 to the latest generation pill which is associated […]

TORONTO, Sept 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Professor Roger Gosden of Britain’s Leeds University is scheduled to be at the annual conference of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society in Toronto tomorrow. As LifeSite reported yesterday, he will be taking a post at McGill University in Quebec this October. The conference runs from Sept 25-30 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Gosden is scheduled to give a one-day course in “The Scientific Basis of Reproductive Medicine for the 21st Century on Saturday and has said in the press that he will report the first frozen ovarian […]

BONN, Germany, Sept 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite a four day meeting and a letter of instruction from the Pope, the German Bishops Conference remains split over how to resolve the conflict over participation in abortion counselling. A letter from John Paul II made public this week noted that handing out certificates even with wording forbidding abortion was not enough. The specific solution whether to drop the counselling involvement altogether or to offer counselling without certificates was left up to the bishops.  Zenit notes that the letter from the Pope said: “If, in fact, government authority ignores the above-mentioned note, it […]

OTTAWA, Sept 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The press generated by the release of the UNFPA’s recent population report regarding the world’s population reaching six billion, is being used to demand more money for population control. UNFPA spokesman Vernon Mack was unabashed in asking for billions of dollars for an aggressive “family planning” campaign to bring more abortion, sterilization, and contraception to the Third World.  With files from the Canadian Press.

American Life League warns that the Clinton-instigated Jumpstart 2000 program for children in kindergarten to Grade 12 is “nothing more than an attempt to trick young people into believing the myth of overpopulation.”  (WhyLife)   A Republican-proposed law would see the federal government give $85 million to organizations that provide alternatives to abortion as a compassionate solution to unplanned pregnancies.  (Yahoo News) The Washington Times reported yesterday that Steve Forbes, the Republican presidential candidate whose family is one of Princeton University’s greatest benefactors, yesterday withdrew his support of the university to protest the hiring of pro-infanticide professor Peter Singer.

The Special Report on PREVEN in Canada contained an erroneous paragraph under the ACTION subheading.  The corrected paragraph reads:  Michael Izzotti, co-ordinator of Pharmacists for Life Canada, noted that pro-life pharmacists were concerned over having to dispense abortion-causing drugs and hoped conscience legislation would be enacted to protect the beliefs of pharmacists. Campaign Life Coalition has urged a boycott of Roberts Pharmaceuticals. Pro-lifers are encouraged to approach their pharmacists and ask for a list of products by Roberts Pharmaceuticals, and let their pharmacist know that they do not wish to support the company with their business, due to its promotion […]

MONTREAL, Sept 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Professor Roger Gosden of Leeds University in Britain, a highly controversial, new reproductive technology scientist, is fed up with his government’s restrictions on his bizarre research, so he is on his way to Canada. Gosden, whose research was criminalized in Britain, was working towards the use of acquiring the ova of aborted baby girls for fertility treatments. Next month, Gosden will take up his post at McGill University’s Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec. Canada, with its absence of laws prohibiting new reproductive technologies, is an attractive base for researchers involved in the most controversial areas […]

LONDON, Sept 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking in London at the launch of the United Nations Population Fund’s latest report on world population, UNFPA head Nafis Sadik claimed that the Vatican has admitted defeat on family planning issues at the UN. Although the claims are outlandish and lack documentation, the media’s proliferation of the propaganda has necessitated a response from the Catholic Church.  Fr. Anthony Fratiero, attaché to the Vatican’s permanent observer to the UN, told LifeSite that a refutation of Sadik’s comments is forthcoming. Sadik, an ardent pusher of abortion,  contraception and sterilization through the UN, seems to view the […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Sept. 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Missouri partial-birth abortion ban voted in two weeks ago by a veto-proof margin – only to be held up for 10 days by a court order – has been delayed once again. U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright said today that he would begin to hear witnesses in the challenge to the law by abortionists on March 27. He also noted that the restraining order he issued Friday would remain in effect.  In related news, the Kansas City Star reports that Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, who fought vehemently to have his veto […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UNFPA report released today and called, “The State of World Population 1999, 6 Billion: A Time for Choices,” pushes abortion, contraception, sterilization, and sex education for children, even prior to adolescence. The current report has employed its usual tactics to skirt around direct promotion of abortion, by referring to the “need for abortion” being alleviated by “safe motherhood” programs which include the provision of “safe abortions.” The entire third chapter of the five-chapter report is devoted to “Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights.” Within the chapter, the UN exposes its true definition of “reproductive […]

The BC Supreme Court decision legalizing possession of child pornography, which has caused legal ramifications throughout Canada, will remain in effect until at least next year. The Canadian Press reports today that the matter won’t be heard by the Supreme Court until January.  Parents are urged to beware of two new Fox Television offerings described as full of raunchy sex and sexual talk.  (US News)   Over 250 demonstrators- 60 in wheelchairs – protested the first day of classes of pro-  infanticide Princeton University professor Peter Singer.  (News Day)   The Conservative News Service reported today that fast food giant McDonald’s, “has yielded to […]

TORONTO, Sept 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that the controversial early abortion drug PREVEN, the so-called “emergency contraceptive”, was put on the Canadian market as of last Friday September 17.  Furthermore, plans are underway to have the drugs available over the counter in short order.  Sales representatives from Roberts Pharmaceuticals, the Oakville, Ontario agency, which has exclusive Canadian marketing rights to PREVEN from Gynetics Inc., its US manufacturer, have been approaching pharmacists with information on the drug’s availability. Promotional material notes that Roberts plans “an aggressive national promotion campaign” for the early abortion kit.  The drug’s availability from wholesalers has […]

TORONTO, Sept 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study released today by the condom company Durex reveals that Canadian children begin sexual promiscuity at a younger age than children in other countries around the world. Results of the 1999 Durex(R) Global Sex Survey, which questioned youth aged 16-21 in 14 countries, indicates that Canadian children are tied with those in the U.S.  for the earliest ventures into promiscuity – beginning on average at age 15. Both Canada and the US extensively market provocative “sex education” to young children;  youths themselves have tied such “education” to their promiscuity. Earlier this month a 14 […]

The International Week of Prayer and Fasting to End Abortion begins on LifeChain Sunday October 3-11. A Catholic event at the conclusion of the week is taking place in Washington.  The Communist Party in Vietnam has expelled a 74-year-old man from the party and the benefits of its membership for having too many children. Le Van Dung and his family were expelled for violating the two child policy introduced in the mid 1990’s.  (South China Morning Post) Catholic World News reports today that Rev. Lisandro Orlov, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Argentina has sparked national debate this week as […]

BERLIN, Sept 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Having gained access to leaked documents regarding private communications between the Vatican and German bishops, German newspapers have published the material. Catholic World News reports today that the German paper Frankfurter Allgemeine has published what it claims is a letter from Pope John Paul II to Bishop Karl Lehmann the president of the German bishops’ conference.  According to the letter, the pope has demanded that the bishops end all Church participation in the government sponsored abortion counselling. The reason for the new directive apparently stems from the fact that although certificates handed out by the […]

NEW YORK, Sept 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tomorrow the United Nations Family Planning Association (UNFPA),  the population control arm of the UN, will release its annual propaganda report: “The State of World Population 1999, 6 Billion: A Time for Choices.” Dr. Nafis Sadik, UNFPA Executive Director, will launch the report in London at a press conference during which she is expected to call on governments to continue to depopulate their countries using contraception,  abortion and sterilization (masked under the rhetoric of “reproductive health and rights”). It is hoped that much of the alarmist overpopulation scare tactics will be muted in the […]

PHOENIX, Sept 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 14-year-old girl who was ordered by an Arizona judge to have an out-of-state late-term abortion while over 24 weeks pregnant has returned to the state after the killing of her baby. On Monday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge William Sargeant ordered that the girl live in a state-run group home and be returned to the custody of Child Protective Services, since she was made a ward of the court just prior to her abortion.  Extended family members report they are upset at not being allowed to have contact with her and are concerned for […]

TORONTO, Sept 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Freedom of information documentation obtained through the assistance of Interim reporter Frank Kennedy was published in Sept. 14-27 issue of the Toronto Free Press. It reveals that Ontario taxpayers have paid millions of dollars in rent for the facilities of famed Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler. The paper notes that for the 1997-98 year taxpayers shelled out $567,325. “Currently half way through a 10-year lease on Morgentaler’s 727 Hillsdale Ave. E. abortion clinic, taxpayers have already paid $2,611,828.  Morgentaler’s rent will exceed $5,000,000,” says the report.  he paper reports that on top of what Morgentaler charges […]

TORONTO, Sept 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A despicable trend in “art” has been the attacks against Christianity proposed as art works, but more disturbing has been the fact that these travesties are regularly funded with taxpayer dollars. Last week the National Post reported that University of Manitoba art professor Diana Thorneycroft was given $15,000 for her “exhibit of 12 rotting rabbit carcasses strung up in a forest.” Called “Monstrance” – the   vessel used by Catholics to hold the Eucharist – the rotting carcasses will house her photographs.  In a related story, beginning October 2, the Brooklyn Museum of Art will […]

TORONTO, Sept 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Leaked documents have revealed that the homosexual lobby group,  Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE), has taken to spying on its opponents and exerting control over a government funded study on homosexuality. The documents leaked to the National Post suggest a complete lack of objectivity in the so-called First National Survey of Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexuals in Canada. Despite warnings about the potential for such bias, the government readily handed taxpayer dollars over to the homosexual activist group to supervise the survey. The Reform Party managed to figure out the risk, questioning the […]

The National Post reports today that following the trend of the Canadian Library Association and despite complaints from parents, the Calgary Public Library has offered unrestricted free public access to the Internet without safeguarding children from pornography. Scottish professor Ian Smith wants to bring lessons on how to have a successful marriage to schools in Scotland to reduce the divorce rate.  (The Sunday Times) Last week the New York Post pointed out the lack of media outrage over the anti-Christian sentiment in the slaying of Christian youth in Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. 

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Sept 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In what some are calling “a milestone in the history of Tanzania” more that 3000 Catholics and Muslims took to the streets carrying signs condemning abortion and condoms in Tanzania’s first national “Great March for Life”. The march which took place Saturday September 11 was organized by Emil Hagamu, Director of Pro-Life Tanzania, an affiliate of Human Life International. Hagamu reported that leading the march was Honorable Tatu Mtimizi, Tanzania Deputy Minister of Health, who is Muslim, along with groups such as Catholic Women of Tanzania, Young Catholic Society, Charismatic Renewal, Muslim […]

DETROIT, Sept 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Health officials in Muskegon and Ottawa counties who said they would not comply with Michigan’s new Women’s Right to Know legislation that went into effect Monday were told by state authorities that refusal to abide by the new law would result in the loss of license and state funding. After six years of battling abortion providers, the new law went into effect requiring women be given information about what abortion procedure they will have, the name of the doctor,  line drawings of the gestational age of their unborn baby, other options to abortion such as […]

VERMONT, Sept 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Karen Maple, a homeschooling mother in Vermont, who was jailed September 1 for failing to present her 15-year-old child to the courts to be taken into custody by the state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, was released from jail this week since her bed in the jail was required for real criminals. Burlington, Vt.,  Judge Michael Kupersmith, who had jailed Mrs. Maple released her following a request from the state Department of Corrections, looking for room to incarcerate violent offenders. LifeSite reported two weeks ago that Maple’s child Trevor was labeled as “learning disabled”  […]

Father Richard Welch, President of Human Life International, has condemned the Puerto Rico State Senate legislative bill 1936 that gives minors access to State reproductive health services, including the distribution of contraceptives without parental consent. He also rejected the sex education program that is administered by the State Education Department in Puerto Rico.  (EWTN News) US Presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan has suffered the loss of his communications director.  Bob Adams left Buchanan’s campaign upset over the staunch pro-lifer’s serious consideration of leaving the Republican Party.  (Fox News) An unborn baby underwent in-utero surgery to clear its windpipe and was born […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Sept. 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a major victory for pro-life forces in Missouri,  the state’s legislature passed a partial-birth abortion ban with a veto proof margin, thus thwarting the efforts of vehemently pro-abortion governor Mel Carnahan who promised to veto the bill. Frenzied lobbying of Senators by the governor failed to halt the two-thirds majority needed to veto proof the measure. The senate voted 27 to 7 while the House vote for the bill on Wednesday was 127 to 34. However, late Friday U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright issued a 10 day order delaying the enforcement […]

HALIFAX, NS, Sept 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alexander Cameron and Cheryl Smith of Halifax sued the Nova Scotia government for failing to pay their bill of $40,000 on four unsuccessful in vitro fertilization treatments. On Tuesday, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal rejected the couple’s claim for the money but two of the three judges said that the couple are victims of discrimination by the province. The National Post quoted Justice David Chipman who accused the government of discrimination saying, “They are unequally treated because they are denied a medically recommended treatment appropriate for them. The fertile, on the other hand, […]

The government funded Family Planning Association in Britain has released a controversial mail-order catalogue selling sex toys with glossy colour ads. Shadow Health minister Alan Duncan described the “SexWare” catalogue, as “tawdry and wholly inappropriate”. Australian Senator Brian Harradine says Australian immigration officials bear some blame for their role in the deportation of a nine month pregnant Chinese woman who was deported despite warning she would be forced to abort. “We may have had a situation here that because the department has refused to rigidly assess its country information service, you’ve had a death on your hand in this women’s […]

OTTAWA, Sept 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien has chosen for his last two Governor-General appointments individuals who were living common-law rather than being married. The National Post reports today that both the current appointment for the Queen’s representative in Parliament, Adreienne Clarkson, and the former Romeo LeBlanc were selected for the role while in common law relationships. Just prior to their official appointments both got married. Critics argue the Prime Minister encouraged the marriages so as to make his selections look like good role models for society while he is not concerned at all about the ethics […]

ROME, Sept 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the second time since May, German Catholic Church leaders were in consultation with Pope John Paul II this week over abortion counselling. German Cardinals Joachim Meisner of Cologne, Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky of Berlin, Friedrich Wetter of Munich and Archbishop Karl Lehmann were also in discussions with Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Catholic World News reports that after the consultation the Vatican indicated that it will soon issue new instructions to the German bishops regarding pre-abortion counseling.  German law requires that prior to obtaining an abortion women […]

On Tuesday the US House Judiciary Committee approved legislation aimed at blocking Oregon’s first-in-the-nation assisted suicide law. The “Pain Relief Promotion Act,” would overturn a June 1998 interpretation by Attorney General Janet Reno that the Federal Controlled Substances Act does not preclude physicians from prescribing listed drugs to assist a suicide   in accordance with Oregon’s “Death with Dignity Act.”  (Fox News) The police department in Birmingham, Ala, has banned officers from working off-duty jobs at abortuaries.  (al.com)

NEWARK, NJ, Sept 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday, a group of black New Jersey pastors announced they were organizing a three-day march of 1,452 African-Americans from Newark, New Jersey to Washington, DC October 9-11 to speak on behalf of the estimated 1,452 black children aborted every day in the United States. The march has been dubbed the “Say So March,” stemming from the slogan “If you love the children, say so!” “We’re organizing this march to tell our black brothers and sisters that we have been duped into destroying ourselves,” said Say So March spokesman Damon Owens. “Even though we […]

WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US President Clinton’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission released a report Monday urging that the federal law prohibiting public funding for research on human embryos be scrapped. The report suggested that human embryos created for fertility treatments but left unused could be donated to publicly-funded research. The Commission claimed that the change in law should be allowed because of the great medical advancements hoped for in “stem cell” research. However, the Commission has no grounds for this argument since recent research has been able to harvest stem cells from adults, thus not having to destroy human […]

US District Judge Dorothy McCarter has issued a temporary restraining order preventing Montana’s ban on partial-birth abortions from going into effect on Oct. 1.  (The Billings Gazette) The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that the Virginia law banning partial-birth abortion should be enforced while its constitutionality is being determined in the courts.  (jrnl.com) The Unborn Victims of Violence Act recognizing a fetus as a separate entity from the mother in federal law has passed was approved by the House Judiciary Committee yesterday.  (The Washington Post) Robert L. Beck, CEO of the Miss America Organization yesterday backed off plans […]

TORONTO, Sept 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Once again proving that they are no friends of the family, the ruling Tory government in Ontario has granted full homosexual benefits to Ontario judges.  Moreover, the order was approved on August 18 by Chris Hodgson, Chairman of the Management Board who in a 1994 by-election campaigned on pro-family values denouncing NDP plans to extend homosexual benefits. The 260 judges in the province will also receive a $40,000 wage increase. The Ontario decision is a foretaste of a landslide of pro-homosexual legislation that is expected this fall from both provincial and federal legislatures. Both levels […]

PRINCETON, NJ, Sept 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US Presidential candidate Steve Forbes, a Princeton alumnus and on the school’s board of trustees, rejected suggestions by pro-life Princeton students that he halt his funding of the school due to the hiring of pro-infanticide professor Peter Singer. Princeton Students Against Infanticide led by Christopher Benek was disappointed that Forbes would not withdraw his funding and referred to a letter he had written the school’s president objecting to Singer’s hiring as being only a token gesture. Forbes who has attempted to appeal to pro-lifers during his campaign has failed repeatedly to impress pro-life audiences […]

Church News reports that Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston told an assembly of 800 at the recent Missouri Catholic Conference: “We must be unconditionally pro-life”. He noted that Catholics who “mute the passionate defense of the inviolability of the human person, sanction the destruction of over a million human beings each year.”  After six years of battling abortion providers, Michigan’s Women’s Right to Know law went into effect Monday requiring women be given information about what abortion procedure they will have, the name of the doctor, line drawings of the gestational age of their unborn baby,  other options to abortion […]

DAYTON, OH, Sept 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Walter Rice declared a mistrial in a US government lawsuit against Operation Rescue based on the notorious 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE). The mistrial decision was apparently based on a technicality. While the pro-lifers suspect another trial is being prepared, defendant David Mehaffie called the mistrial a “victory”, and said “God has given a victory over a federal government that has wholeheartedly endorsed, protected and even propagated infanticide.”  In March 1998 the U.S. Justice Department began the case accusing the pro-lifers of blocking access […]

OTTAWA, Sept 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian branch of the United Nations Children’s Fund and Elections Canada have released the ten rights to be voted on by Canadian youth under 18 in a mock national election to be held November 19. As LifeSite warned in July, the rights would likely promote the often anti-family ideals of the United Nations, especially the   criminalization of corporal punishment. The newly released rights “candidates” proved LifeSite’s warnings accurate. Subsumed under the right of “Education”, the first right listed of ten, it specifies that “the discipline used in our schools must not go against […]

CANBERRA, Australia, Sept 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Australian government investigation cleared its own immigration officials of any wrongdoing in the expulsion of a nine month pregnant Chinese woman who begged for refuge saying that as it was her second child she would be forced to abort in China. The finding is no vindication for the officials since the same government investigators are known to have accepted at face value the claims of the Chinese State Family Planning Commission claiming that no forced abortions take place. There has been solid evidence that the woman was forced to have her second child […]

BOSTON, MA, Sept 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Donald Cobble, a pastor at the Christian Teaching and Worship Center, is before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court defending his use of “mild, loving, routine, structured” spanking against charges of abuse leveled by the state Department of Social Services.  Cobble appealed his case to the Supreme Court after a lower court ruled he was an abuser in a case resulting from accusations by a teacher that the man’s son was spanked in 1997. Cobble defended his use of spanking as a form of discipline, quoting Scripture, and said his freedom of religion was being […]

LIMA, Peru, Sept 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While in Peru for a conference on the family, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, President of the Pontifical Council for Family, in an interview with the “El Comercio” newspaper, noted that “the myth of overpopulation and its incoherence are being unveiled today.” Church News also reported that, speaking about the proposal of homosexual unions, the Cardinal said those who try to impose “different family models, as if there where any alternatives to the only one – father, mother, children – invent subterfuges to give familiar status to that which does not have it.”

Jean-Bush, an 81-year-old from Toronto, who stabbed her husband to death and attempted to kill herself 5-years ago in a reported “mercy killing”, was found dead in her home last night. Police suspect suicide.  (The Toronto Star) US Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, a favourite of pro-lifers, has admitted to “strongly”  considering a switch in allegiances to the Reform Party in his bid for president.  (Washington Times) The Clinton administration has once again overlooked China’s forced abortion regime in promising to support its entrance into the World Trade Organization, likely to be complete by the end of this year.  (The Times) […]

TORONTO, Sept 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The famed western conservative magazines Alberta, Western and B.C.  Report will consolidate and go national this October with an all-Canada edition that will be sold initially in Ontario. The new biweekly newsmagazine to be called “The Report” will debut October 25, 1999, with Ted Byfield the founder of the magazines retaining his post as anchor columnist.  Mr. Byfield has taken on the chairmanship of the revamped board of directors of the United Western Communications Ltd. which ran the magazines. Ted’s son Link Byfield will replace his father as president of the firm. For more information […]

NEW YORK, Sept 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hugh Downs, co-anchor of ABCNEWS’ 20/20 and one of the most familiar figures in the history of broadcasting, wrote an article Friday expressing his pro-abortion views. Suggesting he was in the middle on the abortion question, Down’s wrote “‘I’m with you’ – in the pro-life camp to the extent that I believe a fertilized ovum is a human being and in the pro-choice camp in my firm belief that the choice should always be with the woman who finds herself pregnant.” Such a view, however, could be seen as more extreme than the average […]

SEATTLE, Sept 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League, the largest educational pro-life group in the United States, is beginning a multi-faceted campaign to convince the world’s richest person,  Bill Gates, to stop his donations to population control groups. Having tried unsuccessfully to arrange a meeting between Gates and ALL president Judie Brown, the pro-life group has gone public with its campaign. In an interview last month, Brown told LifeSite that Gates’ donations of billions of dollars to population control groups such as Planned Parenthood and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) were not malicious. “We believe that Mr. Gates has […]

TORONTO, Sept 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Marilynne Seguin, the 61-year-old Canadian assisted-suicide activist and founder of “Death With Dignity”, killed herself last Thursday in the presence of a doctor with a lethal drug concoction. Seguin, a nurse, fought for the “right to die” for twenty years. While she attempted to distance herself from America’s Jack Kevorkian, or Dr. Death as he is known, she boasted of having “counseled” over 2000 patients. According to section 241 of the Criminal Code counseling for suicide and euthanasia, even for the most compassionate is a crime punishable with a possible 14-year prison term. While she […]

TORONTO, Sept 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Long-time pro-lifer Adrian Keet of Ingersoll Ontario has commenced a 600km walk-for-life today, starting from his home in Ingersoll and headed to Midland and back. Mr. Keet recalled that in 1977 he did a similar 600km walk-for-life but “I was much younger in 1977” says the now 80-year-old. The purpose for the Walk for Life is to raise awareness of the need for a culture that respects human life, and to raise money for efforts that will accomplish this task. Keets has asked for sponsorship through Campaign Life Coalition based on every kilometre walked.  (ex. […]

TORONTO, Sept 10 (LifeSiteNews.com)  Yesterday, Toronto Crown attorney Paul Culver dropped charges against 18 homosexual men arrested and charged by police in June for engaging in public sex acts at a homosexualist club called The Bijou. The charges were dropped following a vigorous campaign against the arrests by public sex advocates. The Crown attorney taking the side of those charged, said that the men “were lulled into a false sense of security, an ignorance brought on by the lack of police action for a number of years.”  Gwen Landolt a lawyer for REAL Women of Canada told LifeSite that, “the […]

DEARBORN, Mich, Sept 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 28-year-old man, who said his daughter was aborted by his former partner (reports have not clarified whether it was a wife or girlfriend), entered a hospital in Dearborn yesterday threatening to kill abortionists. While police did not identify the man, they did note that he said he came to avenge the murder of his daughter. The man was tackled by security guards and arrested without firing any shots.  The pro-life movement has always condemned violence against abortionists as well as the killing of unborn children. Moreover, pro-lifers have warned that abortion hurts not […]

ANCHORAGE, Sept 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alaska Superior Court Judge Eric Sanders ruled yesterday that Alaskan’s do not have a constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide (PAS). An unnamed physician in her sixties is challenging the state to allow her PAS. Pro-PAS lawyers argued that a decision by the courts to allow abortion two years ago was based on “the recognition of an individual’s right to determine what happens to his or her own body.”  In his ruling Sanders wrote: “The state’s proper governmental interests enable it to infringe on privacy interests by criminalizing, or banning, assisted suicide in Alaska.” The PAS […]

OTTAWA, Sept 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Group for Health, Justice and Life, representing the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Women’s League, the Catholic Health Association and the Knights of Columbus, has filed for intervenor status with the Supreme Court of Canada in the Robert Latimer case. It is expected to be heard in about six months. Latimer is a Saskatchewan resident who used his car as a makeshift gas chamber to kill his 12-year-old disabled daughter Tracy in 1993. After being convicted of second-degree murder the verdict was scrapped for a new trial over a technicality. In […]

Medical history was made at King’s College Hospital in London England where triplets were successfully delivered in a situation in which one of the babies had developed inside the mother’s fallopian tube.  Lin Li Juen, one of the illegal immigrants arriving by boat on BC's shore, was carrying papers attesting to a forced abortion.  (National Post) The Toronto Film Festival might more appropriately be called the Toronto Smut Festival given the preponderance of sex films.  (National Post) The US State Department issued its first report on global religious liberty Thursday. The 1,000 page report detailed suppression in China, religious killings […]

TORONTO, Sept 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – James Wakeford, the homosexual/AIDS activist who won a judicial exemption allowing him to take marijuana legally to ease his pain, is now asking for legal assisted suicide. Wakeford’s lawyer David Corbett filed the case with the Ontario Superior Court. The National Post noted that the Supreme Court of Canada has already decided on the assisted suicide question in 1993 when it rejected the appeal of Lou Gehrig’s disease sufferer Sue Rodriguez, noting that laws against assisted suicide did not infringe her constitutional rights. Corbett insists the case is different from that of Rodriguez since Wakeford […]

PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Sunday, at the request of Thomas J. O’Brien, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, his letter condemning the decision to send a 14-year old,  24-week pregnant girl out of state for an abortion was read in all parishes in the diocese.  The bishop called the situation “totally abhorrent” and a “bizarre and gross occurrence allowed in the State which should be an embarrassment to all decent minded citizens.” The bishop expressed “sympathy for the situation of the young mother, who is really a child herself” noting that the diocese offered to assist […]

PALM BEACH, FLA, Sept 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood is set to launch deceptive television ads promoting so-called “emergency contraception” with the help of celebrity spokespersons Christina Ricci, Deborah Cox and Joan Osborne. The commercials are to hit television Sept 15 and are geared to young people. The ads attempt to portray the drugs as true contraceptives rather than abortifacients. The PREVEN kit which is specifically designed for “emergency contraception” even offers a pregnancy test and says if the test indicates you are pregnant do not take the pills.  Pregnancy testers, however, look for a chemical in the body known […]

CHELMSFORD, England, Sept 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Practicing homosexuals Barrie Drewitt, 30, and Tony Barlow, 35 have caused an uproar in Britain after paying an American company nearly half a million (Canadian) dollars to allow them to have surrogate twins. Each of the men donated sperm, which were combined with donor eggs and implanted in American Rosalind Bellamy.  Bellamy is carrying twins who are due in December. The birth will take place in California where Drewitt and Barlow own a home. The London Telegraph reported last week that the two men used the Los Angeles company,  Growing Generations, which advertises on […]

The California legislature passed a measure Tuesday requiring insurers to provide coverage for contraceptives despite objections citing religious discrimination.  (L.A. Times)  Teenage (16 and 17 year-old) parents in Ontario will be denied welfare if they refuse to go to school according to a new plan which will go into effect January 1, 2000.  (Canada.com)

A new movie, “The Cider House Rules” by American novelist John Irving, of ‘‘The World According to Garp” fame, is a movie which glorifies abortion, with the father of the hero being an abortionist “helping” women. Michael Caine stars as the abortionist in this Disney/Mirimax production.  (Boston.com) Pro-life E-News Canada circulated a report from the Xinhua news agency today noting that the Netherlands have legalized abortion beyond the 24th week of pregnancy. The SCMP news service reported yesterday that the gender ratio in India is becoming more unequal as parents continue to abort their girls in deference to their preference […]

Sept 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ron Stoddart, executive director for Christian Adoption and Family Services, has launched the Snowflake Embryo Adoption Program.  The program offers married couples the chance to save a frozen embryonic baby from destruction by having it implanted. The agency has the respect of the pro-life movement since, as Mr. Stoddart explained to LifeSite, it does not encourage in vitro fertilization but only offers those embryos already created a good home, in place of destruction or indefinite storage. The Washington Times, which reported the story, suggested that there might be some conflict with Stoddart’s program and the Catholic […]

DETROIT, Sept 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Saturday, a press release from the Archdiocese of Detroit under Cardinal Adam Maida, commented on the planned attendance of Al Gore at a Mass in the Detroit area Sunday.  Gore, who was coming on the invitation of various interfaith groups, was told by the Archdiocese that “planned attendance at a local Catholic service does not necessarily imply support or silence from the Archdiocese of Detroit regarding (his) public record on moral issues.” The press release stressed that “Vice-President Gore’s stated views on abortion and so-called ‘choice’ issues are directly and categorically in conflict with […]

The link to the LifeSite story on the SCANDALOUS EFFORT TO BLAME RC CHURCH FOR RWANDAN GENOCIDE has been corrected.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Sept 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 29-year old hired 3 men to murder his girlfriend’s unborn child by attacking her during a staged robbery.  Under a new law in Arkansas, the Fetal Protection Act, all four men have been charged with murder.  Shiwonna Pace, mother of the murdered baby, was nine months pregnant at the time of the attack.  Eric Beaulah, Lonnie Beaulah, and Derrick Witherspoon, as well as Pace’s boyfriend Erik Bullock, are charged with capital murder and first-degree battery, making them eligible for the death penalty if found guilty.  Bullock had tried to pressure Pace to […]

TORONTO, Sept 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The obvious large majority of social conservative delegates at the United Alternative conference was as much a horror to UA social liberals as it was a joy to pro-life and pro-family social and fiscal conservatives.  In a desperate attempt to halt a political movement that threatens to upset the pro-abortion, anti-family Canadian establishment, Diane Francis, editor of the Financial Post section of the National Post,  attempts a redefinition of the Reform party as merely economically conservative with “fringe”  elements of social conservatism which must be rooted out. The desperation of the attempt is evident in […]

LONDON, Sept 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A mother who was told by doctors she would go blind if she did not accept treatment, sacrificed her sight because the procedure would have resulted in the death of her unborn child. In an interview with London’s “The Independent”, 38-year-old Julie Murphy said that while she has never seen her daughter Hayley, now four, she loves her dearly and has no regrets. With files from Zenit News.

WICHITA, Kansas, Sept 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Saturday, in a question and answer column, renowned evangelist Billy Graham responded to a question regarding assisted suicide.  The question: “Why do so many people resist the idea of assisted suicide for a person who is chronically ill and has no hope of recovery? It sounds like a good option, and I wouldn’t want to keep on living if I were in that condition.” Graham responded: “The main reason is because God gave life to us, and only He has the right to take it away. Life is a sacred gift from God. […]

SHEFFIELD, England, Sept 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The boyfriend of the 12-year-old girl who last week announced that she would carry her baby to term despite pressure to abort, has told authorities that graphic sex education in school is to blame for his promiscuity.  After boasting that he had had sex with 10 other girls, the boy said: “It is the school’s responsibility, showing us videos of men and women naked. After all, we are just children.” Local politicians jumped to the defence of the sex-ed program saying, “we believe that the guidelines the local education authority has circulated to schools […]

Catholic World News reported yesterday that former Kevorkian associate Georges Reding failed to show up at his arraignment on murder charges in the assisted suicide of a 54-year-old woman. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. Kingsway Hospital in Derby England is being investigated on charges of euthanasia after the suspicious deaths of over 30 elderly patients. Deliberate dehydration and starvation are the suspected causes of death in this case made more controversial by the fact that the British Medical Association is seeking rights to withhold food and water without recourse to the courts.  (The Sunday Times) Confirming the […]

On Friday, Oregon Gov. Kitzhaber vetoed a law requiring parental notification prior to abortions for minors.  (OregonLive.com) The mother of a brain injured baby boy is complaining that she was “rushed” into taking her son off life-support by doctors at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. The surgeon involved is at the centre of the Bristol heart babies scandal which involves the deaths of 29 babies in the 12 years leading up to 1995. 

The American Family Association reports today that a public campaign encouraging the Subway franchise to quit its advertisement support of anti-family radio shock jock Howard Stern has been successful. To email Subway to thank them for dropping the Stern ads:  [email protected] A human kidney went up for sale on an internet auction site Thursday. Bids for the “fully functional” organ reached $5.7 million before eBay halted the sale citing legal restrictions.  (San Francisco Chronicle)

Kansas pro-lifers are seeking to put forward a law banning partial birth abortion.  (The Wichita Eagle) Another civil trial against Operation Rescue has been brought by abortionists – this time in Dayton, Ohio.  The pro-lifers prayed outside the court as jury selection proceeded.  (Ohio.com) A law is being proposed in Philidelphia that would make it illegal for public-school officials to encourage students to abort their babies.  (Philly.com)

PHILIDELPHIA, PA, Sept 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stem cell research, much touted lately for its incredible medical potential has received strong criticism because most of its proponents either work with tissue from aborted fetuses or create or alter human embryos for their work. However,  new research by Dr. Cesare Peschle, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Jefferson  Medical College, has found a way to isolate stem cells from adults thus avoiding the ethical pitfalls associated with the previous research. Brad Evenson of the National Post reports today on the findings of Dr. Peschle and his international research team as reported […]

TORONTO, Sept 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Clifford Orwin, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, wrote in the National Post Wednesday, criticizing Mother Teresa. Orwin camouflaged his attack by giving undue voice to the ravings of Christopher Hitchens, author of the book “The Missionary Position” and the so-called documentary “Hell’s Angel”, both on Mother Teresa. Orwin says that “everything about [Mother Teresa] reeked of sectarianism and intolerance.” “Her Nobel Peace Prize was a travesty, as confirmed by her speech accepting it, which dwelled on the evils of abortion,” continued the obviously pro-abortion Orwin. To express your concerns to […]

LONDON, Sept 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A propaganda campaign was launched in Britain today which claims to fight “homophobia”. Billed as the “first mass media campaign in the country to target homophobia,” the initiative is called: “It’s Prejudice That’s Queer.” The press release from THT attempted to steer clear of controversy by defining “homophobia” simply as “prejudice or   discrimination against lesbians and gay men.” However, common definitions of homophobia include more. Michael Flood, a speaker pro-gay speaker on homophobia notes that “typical homophobic beliefs include the idea that homosexuality is unnatural, sick, perverse or dangerous, while heterosexuality is natural and […]

OTTAWA, Sept 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since 1994 and even earlier Campaign Life Coalition, a Canadian pro-life group, has been warning about the Canadian government’s manipulation at the United Nations: specifically that the government appoints, at its own whim, delegates to UN conferences without any regard to democratic process. Furthermore, these delegates have a reputation for pushing radical anti-life and anti-family agendas which would shock ordinary Canadians.  The mainstream media have until now been virtually silent on this phenomenon, however, this week the National Post broke the silence with a story by Edmonton Journal columnist Lorne Gunter.  For the full report […]

LONDON, Sept 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study conducted by researchers at Macquarie University in Australia and presented to the British Psychological Society on Thursday, found that 70% of women experiencing miscarriage wanted support, information and reassurance. The results of the study are in some ways similar to studies on post-abortion syndrome – a syndrome which most major psychological associations deny exists. The miscarriage study notes that women “wanted emotional back-up from their partners and to feel that they also ‘felt’ the loss.” Post-abortion syndrome counsellors note that the first step to healing the inner brokenness caused by abortion is acknowledging […]

Toronto pro-life activist Tom Brown died of sudden heart failure on Tuesday August 31, 1999.  The wake this Friday and funeral Saturday are sure to be well attended by pro-lifers. For more information contact Campaign Life Coalition at (416) 368-8479. A new pro-life resource from an Evangelical perspective is out by Canadian Denise Mountenay.  “FORGIVEN of murder…A true story” is available from Chapters at www.chapters.ca for only $11.97. A portion of the sale of each book goes to Abortion Recovery Canada. Advance Notice: “Save the Planet’s People First” a Canadian national pro-life conference will take place in Toronto, Nov. 25-27. […]

LOTHIAN, Scotland, Sept 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scotland plans to fund supplies of the “morning after”  abortifacient pill for more than 85,000 young women between the ages of 16 and 29. Dr Anna Glaister, the director of Lothian’s family planning service is behind the venture and claims that the effort is an attempt to lower the abortion rate. Pro-life groups have condemned the false advertising noting that the drug acts mainly as an abortifacient. The Electronic Telegraph reports that Catholic Church officials have also condemned the drug as no better than surgical abortion. Fr Tom Connelly, a spokesman for the Catholic […]

SHEFFIELD, England, Sept 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 12-year-old girl whose mother has pressured her to abort her baby told a newspaper that she refused her mother’s pleas to abort. Speaking of abortion the girl said, “it’s your baby, you can’t get rid of it like that.”  While the pro-life community rejoices that the girl has chosen not to kill the innocent child in her womb, it is very concerned to hear about sexual promiscuity among children as young as 12.  With files from Yahoo news.

NEVADA, IA, Sept 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday, Lutherans For Life (LFL) responded to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s decision to reaffirm its pro-abortion position at its recent Churchwide Assembly in Denver, CO on August 21. In their release LFL stressed that “the failure of the ELCA to take a definitive stance on abortion reflects neither the historical position of the Christian Church nor the historical position of Lutherans.” LFL reflected that the ELCA is “falling for Satan’s old trick of calling ‘evil good’ and ‘darkness light’,” and in doing so, “allows its members to become comfortable with a […]

OTTAWA, Sept 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the Canadian Senate about to commence its fall session, the Canada Family Action Coalition has warned that a bill which would make sexual acts, rather than marriage or even common law relationships the basis for reception of federal survivor benefits, is to come again before the senators. In June, the Senate failed to pass the $30 billion dollar pension appropriation bill which included the controversial clause to allow same-sex benefits; they sent it back to committee. Senator Anne Cools voiced her objection to the bill in June noting “it fails to protect the institution […]

SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move sure to ignite the furor of the United Nations and other depopulation activists,  the Catholic Church in South Korea is encouraging parents to have at least three children. The Vatican’s Fides News Agency reports that during a general assembly, the Family Committee of the archdiocese held 17th -16th July, it was decided that this was necessary in order “to promote a more prosperous society, with more children and more healthy children, in order to solve the problems we face today as a result of a low birth rate”. According to […]

GOP Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, a favourite of many pro-lifers, is according to his manager “seriously considering” leaving the liberal on abortion Republican Party for the Reform Party.  (ABC News) Pro-lifers in Kansas have taken up sidewalk counselling outside the abortuary of George Tiller in the hopes of rescuing the 14-year-old, 24-week-pregnant Arizona girl from the horror of abortion.  (Azcentral.com) Rhode Island lawmakers proposed Tuesday to allow late-term abortions (beyond the 19th week)  to be performed outside of hospitals in licensed ambulatory surgical centers.  (Boston.com) MSNBC news reports today that the family of Donna Brennan, the assisted-suicide victim of Kevorkian […]

The Conservative News Service reports today that a new study by the Parents Television Council found that the “combined per-hour average of objectionable content” between 8:00 p.m.  and 9:00 p.m. ET increased 75% from February 1998, with an average of nearly seven references per hour that pertained to sex, violence or vulgar language.  Apple Computers is supporting homeschooling with a program to make its educational products available to homeschoolers.  A Catholic University professor in Rome suggests that the Church must guide a new sexual revolution, a revolution that would give God-ordained sexuality its prominence.  (EWTN News)

KIGALI, Rwanda, Sept 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A noted Catholic Marian theologian has disputed the charges of genocide and murder leveled against a Rwandan Catholic bishop by the Rwandan president. In an interview with FIDES news service, reported on today by Catholic World News, world renowned French theologian Father Rene Laurentin, who had contact with Bishop Augustin Misago of Ginkongoro, condemned the accusations brought against the bishops. Laurentin described the trial as “a campaign against the Catholic Church, to make her appear as the cause of an evil which she sought in every possible way to prevent and to stop.” For […]

TORONTO, Sept 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A ground-breaking study to be released in the September 4 edition of The Lancet medical journal has found that terminal cancer patients have second thoughts once they have expressed a desire to die. The study was funded by the Canadian Cancer Society, The Open Society Institute, and Project Death in America. The research, by Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov, Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care,  University of Manitoba, found that “the will to live in terminal patients can fluctuate wildly over periods as short as 12 hours in response to physical or […]