Articles for Month: September 1999

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 […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan re-  appointed Carol Bellamy, the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to a second five-year term as head of the agency. On the occasion, Annan said “The world’s children will most certainly benefit from her continued leadership of this vital organization.” The remark could not be further from the truth when considering the unborn children of the world. Bellamy has a long history of support for abortion in her role as head of UNICEF and formerly as a senator for New York state. During […]

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 […]