Articles for Month: October 1999

LifeSite has received a tip that Canadian Defense Minister Art Eggleton will resign from his post to run for a provincial seat in his riding as a Liberal candidate with a view to taking over leadership of the provincial Liberal party from current leader Dalton McGuinty.  The current York Centre MPP, Monte Kwinter is expected to resign his seat to make way for Eggleton.  Pro-Life E-News reported this week that there are two excellent pro-life publications are now on-line: Celebrate Life and Human Life Review. Last week pro-life US Senator Bob Smith (NH) took to the floor of the U.S. Senate […]

OTTAWA, Oct 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday, MP Libby Davies (NDP, Vancouver East) put forward a bill in the House of Commons to outlaw spanking as a form of discipline. The bill would repeal section 43 of the Criminal Code which allows for spanking (not physical abuse) to be used by parents in the discipline of their children. In introducing her legislation Davies said the law “would make it clear that the use of physical force as a means of discipline is totally unacceptable and inappropriate for children and should not be sanctioned by law.  With files from Parliament of […]

STURGEON FALLS, ON, Oct 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-lifers staging a “Show the Truth” demonstration were arrested yesterday in Sturgeon Falls before students even arrived at the school. Police arrested 6 pro-lifers saying they were charged with “causing a disturbance by exhibiting indecent material.” One of those arrested, Mrs. Julia Duggan, was taken into custody even though she was carrying a sign depicting an adoptive family and reading “Adoption the Loving Option.” Another person carrying a beautiful sign of an infant was also arrested. Both were eventually released without charge and their signs returned to them.  The other pro-lifers were formally […]

TORONTO, Oct 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The historic Ontario legislative session which passed into law the right for practicing homosexuals to adopt children and be given all rights and privileges accorded to common-law spouses contained not one voice against the legislation. Several speakers noted that the Ontario law went further than the Supreme Court demanded and noted that the government had intentionally set the bill for radically fast passage giving warning to the opposition parties as to what was coming.  Attorney General Jim Flaherty (PC, Whitby-Ajax) announced the bill for the government and thanked his staff for assisting in drawing up […]

Pictures of bestiality found on a public library computer by a nine-year-old girl have added momentum to demands for anti-porn filters on library computers in Calgary, Alberta. The National Post reported today on the pressure Calgary alderman Patti Grier is exerting to implement some form of child protection at library computers.   The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, responding to criticism of Gates for funding population control, denies that foundation funds are so directed even though “this month, the foundation gave $1.7 million to the International Planned Parenthood Federation,” as reported in the Seattle Times yesterday.    “Pro-life leaders from Eastern and […]

OTTAWA, Oct 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A domestic terrorist animal rights group, called The Justice Department, “sent out postal packages, booby trapped with razor blades, to almost two dozen furriers across Canada last month”, reported the National Post today. It has since taken responsibility for at least 80 packages received by U.S. health researchers.  The group is traced back to activism in the United Kingdom in 1993. It began in Canada in January, 1996 “with a campaign against outfitters who work as hunters’ guides in B.C. and Alberta”, reported NP. Gurj Aujla, a British member of the group, who was “sent […]

QUEBEC, Oct 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to demands from famed abortionist Henry Morgentaler yesterday, the Quebec government has said that it is willing to provide “more free abortion-  related services at private clinics. Morgentaler, using a flaw in Canada’s immigration policy, argued that since refugees can receive free (taxpayer funded) abortions in the province courtesy of the feds, Quebec residents should also be able to do so.  Women in the province have to pay $450 to have their babies killed, according to a report in the National Post. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Manitoba “also refuse to pay for […]

TORONTO, Oct 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario government passed its legislation giving practicing homosexuals the same rights as common-law spouses yesterday after ramming it through the legislature only two days after it was introduced. Pro-family groups across the country reacted with horror as “the Tories completely sold out social conservatives,” to cite Peter Stock of the Canadian Family Action Coalition. Not only was public debate avoided by the hastened passage of the bill, but accountability to the Ontario public was abandoned when this revolutionary law was passed without a recorded vote.  For more see today’s LifeSite Special Report:  Ontario Government […]

OTTAWA, Oct 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the positive rhetoric about families in the Prime Minister’s Throne speech earlier this month, the party still appears to be strongly influenced by discriminatory feminist ideology. According to an article in yesterday’s National Post, Don Boudria, the federal minister responsible for electoral reform, has “suggested [that] national political parties should be given financial inducements to recruit more women candidates in federal elections.” He seemed to be referring, in particular, to adjusting the percentage of election expenses that would be reimbursed with taxpayer dollars.  Implementing the suggestion would also compromise the integrity of Elections Canada, […]

WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. House has added another pro-life decision to its legacy by passing the Pain Relief Promotion Act. Passage of the bill, sponsored by Reps.  Henry Hyde, R-Illinois, and Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, was relatively easy with a vote of 271-  156. The pro-palliative care bill provides for $5 million in training and education to improve end-of-life palliative care.  The bill generated sharp controversy in Oregon where assisted suicide is legal because it will ban the use of federally-controlled drugs for assisted suicides. As a result, “doctors” will have to find other methods for killing their patients. […]

The major de-population arm of the United Nations, UNFPA, is complaining about a lack of funds due mainly to the withholding of money by the United States. Topping their list of services which are no longer available due to the shortfall is its offering of (graphic and biased) sex-education to youths in Tanzania.    Social Workers in Britain are proposing that sex education should be made compulsory,  changing the rules which currently allow parents to withdraw their children.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_485000/485324.stm   The right to abortion in Northern Ireland has proven to be more important than the ongoing conflict between nationalists and loyalists. […]

Pro-Life E-News Canada distributed a report yesterday from the Grand Rapids Press indicating that former New York abortionist Anthony Levatino shared his conversion story with 1,700 attendees of the 12th annual Focus on Life fundraising dinner for Grand Rapids Right to Life.    The Washington Times reported today that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) asked the Supreme Court yesterday to sanction its stand against letting avowed homosexuals be Scout leaders. The group is appealing its Aug. 4 loss in the New Jersey Supreme Court, ruling against the Scouts’ ban on practicing homosexual leaders and members.   The Conservative News Service reported today […]

CHICAGO, Oct 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a major victory for pro-life forces in the US, the 7th U.S.  Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld partial birth abortion bans in Illinois and Wisconsin. “We conclude that both laws can be applied in a constitutional manner,” Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote in the majority opinion. The ruling reverses an earlier decision by a federal judge that the Illinois law was unconstitutional and a decision to block enforcement of the Wisconsin law. Predictably, infanticide advocates who want to be able to kill babies up to the moment of their birth have promised to appeal […]

SEATTLE, Oct 27, 1999 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Bill Gates Foundation has finally responded to American Life League’s population issues education campaign directed at Mr. Gates. ALL president Judie Brown published the letter, which defends population control activities, along with ALL’s responses to their claims. Among other false claims, the Gates Foundation letter states that “nearly two thirds of” the world’s population is “malnourished, uneducated and lacking the skills and training necessary to cope with their lives.” Brown responded to this idea by noting that “the claim that two-  thirds of the population is malnourished was originally made by the United […]

WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican Congressman Joe Pitts (R-PA) raised the baby parts business in the US House Tuesday. “This industry traffics in body parts, parts of babies’ bodies, organs and tissues of aborted babies,” he said; it “provides fees for services, schedule listing, the prices they charge for almost any body part you can think of.”  The Conservative News Service reports that Pitts called for oversight hearings on the baby parts industry. “Now we know why the partial birth abortion procedure was developed – to give this industry whole body parts.” 

OTTAWA, Oct 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Democrat MP Svend Robinson, known for his promotion of homosexuality and euthanasia, introduced Bill C-263 in the House yesterday, an act to amend the Criminal Code with regard to hate propaganda. The bill would expand the definition of “identifiable group” relating to the area of hate propaganda in the criminal code to include gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender groups. The current provisions of the code include reference to colour, race, religion and ethnic origin.  Similar amendments to provincial and federal Human Rights statutes have resulted in mayors being fined and censured for having refused […]

TORONTO, Oct 27 (LSN.ca) – The Globe and Mail newspaper quoted a homosexual activist yesterday who said that the Ontario government’s new pro-homosexual legislation went further than necessary. “Kyle Rae, a leader in Toronto’s gay community and a Toronto city councillor,  said: ‘This is tremendously important legislation – very exciting. The Ontario government went further than it had to go’”, reported the Globe.  This would seem to confirm once again that at least some high level Tory leaders have a deliberate agenda to dramatically advance the homosexual cause in the province. Although Premier Mike Harris and the Attorney General made […]

CHICAGO, Oct 26 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Media reports of the appearance of Cardinal Francis George at the conference of the contentious National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian & Gay Ministries failed to report his “surprising” intervention at the beginning of the conference.  This week, the Wanderer, a US Catholic newspaper, reports that the cardinal gave an unscheduled address at the NACDLGM conference opening. For his decision not to cancel the conference, as had been requested by many faithful Catholics, the cardinal received a standing ovation as he approached the microphone. But the enthusiasm was severely dampened as he presented an orthodox […]

BONN, Germany, Oct 26 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations convened its 5th conference on the Kyoto agreement, an agreement based on highly contested radical environmentalist theories attributing the earth’s climate changes chiefly to human activity. WorldNetDaily reports today that the two-week meeting, the 5th Conference of the Parties (COP 5) to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, is expected to attract more than 5,000 delegates and observers from more than 150 of the world’s 188 nations.  In his report, author Henry Lamb points out that since the U.N. pronouncement in 1996, more than 18,000 scientists have signed a public statement […]

Liberal MP John McKay (Scarborough East), said in the House on October 18 that marriage is “a unique institution of great significance to many Canadians.” He then suggested that the government “deconjugalize [registered domestic partnerships] so the state stays out of the bedrooms of the nation.” In conjunction with this move, legislative entitlement and responsibility [would become] based on dependency rather than conjugality.  Progressive Conservative family critic, Diane St-Jacques, asked of the Justice Minister, “Can she guarantee that the message these recent decisions (dismissing child porn possession charges) are sending to predators is not encouraging them to continue their despicable […]

TORONTO, Oct 26 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A press release by the Office of the Attorney General yesterday states that Bill 5, introduced in the Ontario legislature yesterday, “provides same sex partners with the same rights and obligations as common law spouses.” Those rights would include the right to adoption.  As if it was a significant point, the Attorney General notes that, “the rights and obligations that are unique to married couples are not being extended to same sex partners.”  Lawyers contacted by LifeSite indicate that the only rights withheld from common-law couples as opposed to married couples deal with the separation […]

OTTAWA, Oct 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal MP Albina Guarnieri, has lost her post as chairwoman of the House Human Resources Committee after challenging her party over child pornography. The National Post reported Saturday that Guarnieri went against the wishes of the government when she circulated a petition among her Liberal colleagues to encourage immediate action on the BC court decision delisting possession of child pornography from the Criminal Code. The government said it would leave the Supreme Court to deal with the issue. It will begin hearings on January 18.  Guarnieri’s action was in accord with the sentiments of most […]

TORONTO, Oct 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario government has caved in to judicial activism and gay activist intimidation and proposed legislation today changing 67 provincial statutes to give homosexual partners the same rights as married couples.  The proposed legislation adds the term “same-sex partners” to the existing family laws in Ontario but does not change the definition of “spouse” to include homosexual co-habitants.  The Ontario government is attempting to play the move up as a “compromise measure” which will supposedly appease both pro-family and pro-homosexual groups.  In fact, the legislation falls far short of any acceptable measure pro-family groups have […]

TORONTO, Oct 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A discussion paper issued this month by the Ontario Human Rights Commission calls for health insurance coverage to be reinstated for sex-change operations, for transsexual men to be able to use women’s washrooms and change rooms, and recommends recognition of marriage for transsexual couples. Toward a Commission Policy on Gender Identity is extreme in its divergence from public values and yet is published by a provincial government agency.  The report notes that the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) paid for sex-change operations from 1970 to 1998 and laments that the operations were delisted thereafter. “The removal […]

The Sunday Times reported yesterday that the first private abortion mill in Scotland is to be opened next year. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), which operates 13 of England’s 20 abortion clinics, is searching for premises in Glasgow, the archdiocese of Cardinal Thomas Winning, Scotland’s highest-profile pro-life crusader. 

Concerned Women for America reported that last Thursday the US Senate voted in favour of a partial-birth abortion ban, setting the stage for another Clinton veto. Unfortunately,a non- binding amendment was also passed which stated that Roe v. Wade was an appropriate constitutional decision that should not be overturned.  A federal bill blocking Oregon’s assisted suicide practice will likely pass the US House early this week. (OregonLive) US Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan today announced his departure from the Republican Party and his quest for the Presidential nomination of the Reform Party. Casino magnate Donald Trump announced he will be contesting Buchanan […]

OTTAWA, Oct 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that the Senate’s euthanasia bill introduced by Liberal Senator Sharon Carstairs will have its second reading Tuesday, October 26. It was read first in the Senate on October 13. The bill was originally scheduled for second reading on November 2 but has been bumped up. The bill, S-2, The Medical Decisions Facilitation Act, seems innocuous at first glance since it seems only to legislate current practice in regards to decisions made by health professionals on end of life treatment. However, the bill specifies that withdrawal of “life-sustaining medical treatment” would be non-punishable […]

SEOUL, Korea, Oct 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The International Conference of NGOs (non-governmental organizations), sponsored by the official governing body of United Nations NGOs, met in Seoul last week. It recommended that “marriage be abolished” and called for an end to national sovereignty with the introduction of a “global common society.”  The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) reported today that at the conference, the first of four scheduled UN-sponsored conferences in the next six months on the role of NGOs in the new millennium, Sheelagh Convay of Hancuk University ran a workshop disparaging the traditional family. C-Fam reports that […]

TORONTO, Oct 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, on the anniversary of the shooting of Barnett Slepian, Campaign Life Coalition (Canada) issued a press release regarding accusations of violence by pro-lifers. Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition, says that “CLC is and always has been committed exclusively to non-violent means of overcoming abortion.” “Moreover”, Mr. Hughes states, “CLC is and always has been strongly and absolutely opposed to the use of violence against those who provide, support, promote, advocate or patronize abortion.” Mr. Hughes concludes that “the pro-life movement, CLC included, believes that the violence of abortion will not be overcome […]

The number of items from Parliament Hill that pro-lifers and pro-family Canadians should be aware of is too numerous to catalogue, but we want to draw your attention to some of them in LIFESITE’S OTTAWA REPORT. In the future the OTTAWA REPORT will be shorter, but we are playing a little bit of catch-up today, hoping that you will take advantage of the weekend to review the extra news.  Here is the LifeSite’s Ottawa Report.

Canadian pro-lifers are reminded to tune in to CBC’s the Nature of Things Monday (25th) at 9pm. The show is expected to glorify the use of brain tissue from aborted babies as a successful treatment for Parkinson’s Disease.  For more see: CBC to Urge Use of Aborted Baby Brains for Research Catholic World News reported Wednesday that the US bishops’ conference will release a pamphlet, “Faithful Citizenship: Civic Responsibility for a New Millennium,” early next year to every Catholic in America urging them to consider life and family issues when electing leaders.  Canadian farmers and other land owners are pressing […]

TORONTO, Oct 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The throne speech of the Ontario government yesterday indicated that the province would be developing a high pressure campaign to increase organ donation.  The program fails to address unresolved issues of concern over the donation of certain organs, such as the heart, which require the donor to be alive for the organ to be useful for transplant.  The government proposes a quota for increased organ donations which is telling of their results-oriented rather than people-oriented approach. The throne speech promised to double organ donor rates by 2005. It has employed outspoken hockey commentator Don Cherry […]

LONDON, Oct 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A thoroughly documented editorial in the current issue of the Postgraduate Medical Journal of the British Medical Association indicates that the effectiveness of sex-education and condom distribution programmes has been much and dangerously exaggerated by the media. Professor Trevor Stammers, a tutor in General Practice,  at St. George’s Hospital Medical School in the UK suggests that “enabling parents to be more involved in sex education is preferable to professionals taking over this role completely.”  Stammers notes that “concentrating on preventing conception” as most school programmes do, “is treating a symptom rather than a cause.”  Studies […]

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Oct 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Maryland-based Anatomic Gift Foundation (AGF), a baby parts harvesting company, was founded and is currently headed up by Brenda Bardsley and her husband Jim. In an interview with World magazine Mrs. Bardsley complained about being “painted as a monster” for her dealings in baby body parts. She insists that her non-profit business is acceptable to God. World reports that Mrs. Bardsley says her family attends a Southern Baptist church, and that she homeschools her children with a Christian curriculum and teaches them that abortion is wrong. Bardsley, who says she reads the Bible […]

As the Senate debates partial-birth abortion today both American Life League and Concerned Women for America intervened to note that the late term abortion procedure is protected since it is useful for the baby parts market. (PR Newswire) CBC news reported today that British Columbia-based Chromos Molecular Systems, a Canadian bio-technology firm has made a breakthrough that could spark a revolution in gene therapy. For the first time, researchers have succeeded in getting mice to pass an artificial chromosome on to their offspring.

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Oct 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the latest and most extensive coverage of the story of the sale of aborted baby parts, World magazine reveals that one of the companies involved left town after their operation was exposed. Opening Lines, one of the companies which orchestrates the harvesting of baby parts from abortuaries and the sales to researchers, was forced to close up shop in the small town of West Frankfort, Illinois after the pro-life group Life Dynamics Inc. released its story to West Frankfort’s newspaper.  According to World, The Daily American ran a front-page story under a […]

TORONTO, Oct 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Diane Francis, editor of the Financial Post section of the National Post is proving herself a strong opponent of Canadians holding traditional beliefs.  LifeSite reported Sept 7 that she attacked social conservatives within the Reform Party as “fringe” and expressed the need to rid them from the United Alternative. Three weeks later she continued her drive to silence those with views opposite her own by calling on the government to rescind the tax exemption held by churches.  While she argues that the exemption is no longer valid since “the role of the ‘church’ has been […]

Homosexuals Ontario MPP George Smitherman and Toronto Councillor Kyle Rae are protesting a Toronto public-health department request for the John’s list from an escort agency whose prostitutes were found to be HIV positive. The pair admitted to having had sex with HIV infected men but said it was of no consequence since they wore condoms.  https://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-10-20-0032.html   One of the “moderate” (read non-pro-life) Republicans is quitting the US Presidential race. The Washington Post reports today that Elizabeth Dole has decided to drop out of the race today.  The Conservative News Service reports today that in the face of a burgeoning […]

OTTAWA, Oct 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Just as LifeSite predicted on October 7, Liberal Senator Sharon Carstairs will introduce a bill allowing euthanasia. Carstairs revealed to the Vancouver Sun yesterday that her private members bill will be introduced November 2 and will be seconded by Liberal Senator Michael Kirby. The Medical Decisions Facilitation Act, proposes not to legalize euthanasia but to allow doctors to give medication which will knowingly end life without facing penalty. Furthermore, the legislation would allow physicians to withhold life-  sustaining “treatment” which would undoubtedly include nutrition and hydration.  LifeSite reported two weeks ago that Carstairs had unexpectedly […]

VANCOUVER, Oct 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rabid pro-abortion BC MLA, Joy MacPhail, announced yesterday that she will run for the leadership of the BC NDP party.  Ted Gerk, of the Pro-Life Resource Centre, reported that at a September 29, 1999 Students for Choice rally, MacPhail spoke immediately after APEC-protester Garth Mullins, who told the crowd to commit acts of violence and vandalism against abortion opponents. Gerk told LifeSite that MacPhail, if elected to premier of the province, would be ruthless against pro-lifers.  “MacPhail could have calmed the situation by telling the crowd to cool it; to oppose the pro-life movement in […]

WINNIPEG, Oct 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, Winnipeg police Insp. Keith McCaskill, Canadian spokesman for the joint Canadian-American team investigating the shooting of five abortionists, has issued a warning to Canadian abortionists to be on the look out. The joint police team is looking into the shooting of five abortionists since 1994. All incidents having occurred around Remembrance Day, November 11.  At the time of the shootings, the media gave extensive, very biased coverage to abortion promoters, like Henry Morgentaler who accused the pro-life movement of being responsible for the fatal shooting of abortionist Barnett Slepian. In many cases major media […]

CALGARY, Oct 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Jean-Guy Tremblay, 35, the father of the aborted baby in the infamous Chantal Daigle case, is in court facing trial next Monday on nine charges including assault, unlawful confinement and stalking. Earlier this year while police moved in to charge him with assault, Tremblay slit his own throat.  The Canadian Press, apparently unable to comprehend the motivation of a father trying to protect the life of his child, has politicized the issue by portraying Tremblay as an “abortion foe”. Such tactics, associating Tremblay’s disturbed behaviour to the pro-life movement also conveniently helps to discredit pro-lifers.  […]

NEW YORK, Oct 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two extensive studies appearing in this month’s issue of the American Medical Association’s Archives of General Psychiatry confirm a strong link between homosexual sex and suicide as well as a relationship between homosexuality and abnormal mental problems.  A study using 103 pairs of twins, one a practicing homosexual and the other not, found that homosexual behaviour significantly increased the likelihood of suicide even after adjustments were made for substance abuse and depression. The practicing homosexual twin was over 5 times more likely to experience the suicidal symptoms. The study conducted by Richard Herrell et […]

OTTAWA, Oct 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After emerging from an hour long meeting with Reform Party Leader Preston Manning yesterday, Opposition Health Critic Keith Martin told the Toronto Star that he was assured that the leader’s comments about abortion in his House of Commons speech last week did not represent a de facto commitment to the pro-life side of the issue. The comments,  though general, had been made in reference to anticipated legislation on new reproductive technologies (NRT).  In an interview with LifeSite this morning, Manning spokesman Jim Armour said that due to the upcoming NRT legislation there will be a […]

Reform MP, Maurice Vellacott, last week reintroduced his conscience clause bill in the House of Commons. It is now Bill C-207, not C-461 as was the case in the previous session of Parliament.  One of the founders of Canadian feminism honoured by Canadian Governor General Adrienne Clarkson Monday was a racist and radical eugenicist. The Calgary Herald reports that Emily Murphy was among five women whose statues were unveiled despite the fact that she “was a racist and anti-Semite who promoted eugenics, and cautioned whites to protect themselves against the black and yellow races.”  China’s commitment to coercive population control […]

TORONTO, Oct 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite reported on Friday that Linda Gibbons, a grandmother who has spent most of the last 5 years behind bars for peacefully, quietly and prayerfully picketing outside a Toronto abortuary was arrested again. This time she was treated unusually harshly by police. Linda revealed on Saturday that she had been given no food or water for 24 hours after her arrest. Moreover she was forced to spend the night in a cell in a police station with only a metal bench to sleep on and she was given no pillow or blankets.  Only after her […]

CALGARY, Oct 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking in Calgary on Saturday, Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark again indicated his hostility to pro-life, pro-family Canadians. Reacting to the speech given by Reform Party Leader Preston Manning last week, which included an affirmation of the party’s socially conservative policies, Clark said, “I don’t know why (Manning) is going back to his original supporters, but his move is good news for us.” Mr. Clarke is very confident that Canadians who believe that pro-life and pro-family values should be reflected in public policy represent nothing more than a fringe rump of the populace that can […]

Ohio’s Columbus Dispatch reported last week that Wendy’s founder, Dave Thomas, is promoting adoption. When asked if Roe v Wade should be overturned, he at first answered “probably”, but then refused to be drawn into the abortion debate.  The Sept/Oct issue of Family Voice notes that “safe abortion” is a myth and gives evidence of underreporting of casualties caused by abortion.  Evangelical leader Chuck Colson has refused to sell his books through internet book sale giant amazon.com since the company has refused his requests to discontinue the sale of books promoting pedophilia.

TORONTO, Oct 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An effort by the fraudulent organization “Catholics for a Free Choice” (CFFC) to have the Toronto Catholic School Board stop raising money for a pro-life group which aids women in crisis pregnancies, has failed. As LifeSite reported last week, Kathleen Howes of CFFC asked for a hearing from the board under her personal name to contest the replacement of the UNICEF fundraiser with a fundraiser for Aid To Women. The Board decided in favour of Aid to Women three years ago after it was presented evidence showing that UNICEF supports abortion.  At the board’s meeting […]

OTTAWA, Oct 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Trying to veer away from the political minefield involved in extending benefits exclusively to homosexual couples, Justice Minister Anne McLellan is considering the option of opening benefits to all economically dependent relationships. The National Post reports today that the “Law Commission of Canada, a federal agency which advises Ottawa on law reform, is examining the prospect of extending benefits to all relationships and plans to issue a report next year.” McLellan is quoted in the paper as saying, “I think the question of relationships of dependency, how we recognize and acknowledge those relationships in Canadian […]

OTTAWA, Oct 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Reform Party Health Critic Dr. Keith Martin has asked for a private meeting with Reform Leader Preston Manning today to ask for “clarification” on Manning’s presentation of the Reform position on “fetal rights” as expressed in the response to the Speech from the Throne last week. Given Martin’s strong support for population control as evidenced by his press release last week, political observers wonder whether Martin is considering abandoning the party.  For the story on Martin’s pro-population control release see:  Reform Party Health Critic Spouts UN Population Propaganda With files from the Toronto Star.

OTTAWA, Oct 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study released yesterday by Statistics Canada claims that “children who are enrolled in early childhood programs and day-care centres appear to get a head start in school over youngsters who stay at home with a parent.” The study says that the effect was noted only until the first grade and not thereafter. Improvements of day care over parent care were reported in reading, writing, mathematics and overall achievement. The findings are highly suspect firstly since they coincide perfectly with the current Liberal government push for universal day care.  While the study claims to have […]

The Toronto Sun reported yesterday that Ontario Attorney General Jim Flaherty said that he may not be able to meet the November 20 deadline to alter the definition of spouse in Ontario Family Law, as dictated by the Supreme Court of Canada   Yesterday the Reform Party introduced legislation in the House of Commons to raise the age of consensual sex for heterosexuals to 16 from 14.  The British government has caved in to the European Court which ruled that denying homosexuals the right to serve in the Armed Forces was discriminatory. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon announced the British ban […]

AYLMER, Que., Oct 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Christian Heritage Party (CHP)of Canada reported this week that party leader Ron Gray will be running in a by-election to be held to replace Marcel Masse in Hull-Aylmer Quebec. The CHP is an openly pro-life and pro-family party without exceptions and supports the inclusion of the supremacy of God in the Charter.  Mr. Gray says “The importance of this clause in defining Canadian democracy cannot be over-stated; without a higher, transcendent standard to guide a democratic government, majority rule inevitably degenerates into the ‘Law of the Jungle’: whoever can amass the most power […]

The Toronto Sun reports that the University of Toronto’s University College hosted the third annual Transsexual/Transgender Film Festival this past weekend featuring 14 graphic and perverse films. The UofT sexual-diversity program is one of the festival’s sponsors.  American Life League reported that the international abortionists’ conference will take place in Sydney, Australia, from November 12 to the 15. Right to Life Australia is asking you to write the hotel where this meeting will occur, the Coolum Hyatt, General Manager Mr. Kamahl Chaoui, and express your disdain that they are hosting these professional killers:  [email protected].  The National Post reported yesterday that […]

OTTAWA, Oct 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a 90 minute speech yesterday in the House of Commons, Official Opposition Leader Preston Manning reaffirmed the Reform Party’s social conservative values including the “sanctity of life,” the “traditional family,”“religious liberty,” and confronting Charter-spawned “judicial activism.” Commenting on Manning’s speech, Reformer Jason Kenney told CBC that the speech was a message to the core supporters of Reform—a needed reinforcement of principle since Kenney said a “problem” the party has had in the past few months has “been the perception that we’ve been more concerned with political mechanics and inside baseball and backroom negotiating than […]

OTTAWA, Oct 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The two BC court rulings striking down the criminalization of child pornography possession has influenced Alberta court decisions, despite federal government assurances that the BC rulings would not impact other provinces. The Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled that, due to the BC court challenges, Dale Weir of Spruce Grove, Alberta, will be allowed to use a constitutional defence to appeal his conviction of possession of child pornography.  Weir was sentenced to 60 days in jail for his crimes but his appeal was unanimously granted a hearing after lawyer Deborah Stewart applied to amend the […]

VANCOUVER, Oct 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ted Gerk, of the newly formed Pro-Life Resource Centre, reveals on his new website that public accounts information for 1998/99 indicate that the BC Pro-Choice Action Network received $25,000 of tax-payer money through government funding. Pro-life observers note that it is unbelievable that while the government is removing the charitable status of pro-life groups for their “political” activity, the BC government is actually funding this extremist pro-abortion political activist group. Gerk called on the Attorney General to resign in light of the damning evidence.  Gerk told LifeSite that the funding came despite the fact that […]

On Monday American Life League published the story about the sale of baby parts to research facilities.  The Catholic News Service reported yesterday that NBA star A.C. Green of Los Angeles addressed a group of 350 youths in September urging them towards abstinence.  Last week Concerned Women for America reported that President Clinton signed an executive order allowing the military sentencing authority to punish criminals for so-called hate crimes, including those based on “sexual orientation”… The president added that “this rule sends a strong message [to civilian courts] that violence based on hatred will not be tolerated.”  (Chicago Tribune) Abortionist […]

VANCOUVER, Oct 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – BC pro-life activist Ted Gerk has revealed evidence from Freedom of Information requests detailing the workings of a top-secret BC pro-abortion coalition known as the Abortion Services Working Group (ASWG). Although Gerk has not published specific names of all involved, the information raises alarm at the totally partisan depth of government intervention in BC’s abortion issue. The files, which have been made available on the Internet, note that the BC Ministry of the Attorney General, and other agencies, are participating with doctors and nurses unions and pro-abortion political activists to promote abortion.  Gerk, who put […]

VANCOUVER, Oct 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following complaints from parents that the upcoming (Nov 19) UNICEF child rights vote in schools would undermine their rights and responsibilities as parents, some BC school boards have disallowed the vote while others are requiring school leadership to solicit parents' views before authorizing the vote. Abbotsford, Chilliwack and the Fraser Cascade school districts have disallowed the vote in their schools, according to a report in the Vancouver Sun today. John Smith, chairman of the Abbotsford board said “Many very reasonable, very normal and very rational parents don't like this.” Smith noted that the child rights […]

OTTAWA, Oct 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Justice Minister Anne McLellan wants to lower the age of consent for homosexual sex to 16 from the current 18. To cover this travesty, the Minister is suggesting raising the age of consent for heterosexual sex to 16 from 14. “What are the policy rationales for those different ages?”, asked McLellan in a comment to the Toronto Sun.  Pro-family groups have long been arguing for a raise in the age of consent for sex to 18 years of age.  In January, LifeSite reported that McLellan announced that the Liberal government was eviewing all federal “policies […]

OTTAWA, Oct 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Keith Martin, Reform’s Opposition Health Critic, issued a press release yesterday commemorating the birth of the world’s six billionth citizen. During his speech, Martin stunned listeners by spouting the long-debunked alarmist Malthusean arguments.  He said: “as the world’s population continues to grow unchecked, we are threatening the long- term survival of all species on the planet, including our own.” “Pollution and the depletion of non-renewable resources,” he continued, “will potentially result in conflict.” Encouraging population control, Martin said, “Canada must invest in equal access to the availability of safe, effective birth control to ensure […]

The Roman Catholic Church in Scotland was attacked over its offer of financial aid to a 12-year-old girl to with a crisis pregnancy. The girl’s father has come to the defence of the Church against critics who say the Church bribed the girl.  (Star Tribune) Proving the connection between contraception and abortion, The British Pregnancy Advisory Service published a report indicating that almost 60% of women requesting abortion claim to have been using a method of contraception at the time they became pregnant. The BPAS is arguing that “abortion services are essential if women are to be able to plan […]

OTTAWA, Oct 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – News reports that the Ottawa Hospital has at least 1000 “left-over”  frozen embryos in storage at its fertility lab have sparked new concern about the large number of frozen embryos being held throughout Canada’s unregulated fertility labs. The frozen embryos are the spare embryos from in vitro fertilization procedures, procedures that the Ottawa Citizen notes have been underway some 15 years in Canada.  The chance for life of these tiny babies is significantly reduced by freezing since 20-30 per cent of the embryos die during the thawing process. Furthermore, there is a reduced chance that […]

CALGARY, Oct 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Physicians for Life (CPL) responded yesterday to the attack against pro-life doctors issued last month by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta in the September issue of their newsletter, the Messenger in which pro-life doctors were called “rude and bullying.” In a press release Will Johnston, Secretary- Treasurer of CPL, said that the tone of the statement from the College was “patronizing and dismissive of the conscience rights of doctors.”  CPL charged that “in Alberta, as elsewhere, it is often easier for women to obtain an abortion than support and counseling services.” The […]

BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS. Oct 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Knights of Columbus Council 1522 of Bay St. Louis is erecting crosses along US 90 highway to commemorate babies who have lost their lives to abortion. Grand Knight Tom Mitchell explained that the group is putting up 4,500 crosses,  “one for every baby aborted every day in the United States.”  The group plans an October 24 pro-life march with the cooperation of other councils. The events are coordinated in October, designated as Respect Life Month.     With files from Pro-Life E-News Canada and the Sun Herald

Thanks to the efforts of Cardinal Jaime Sin in the Philippines the pro-life movement there is flourishing. Gearing up for a pro-life conference in the country, Human Life International notes that “in Canada, (pro-life) delegates are met with fierce opposition with anti-life activists taking to the streets in protest,. But when we come to the Philippines we’re often met with a brass band and presented with the key to the city of Manila.”  (EWTN) Cardinal Francis George offered a mass Saturday for more than 150 members of the contentious National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian & Gay Ministries.  (Sun-Times)

TORONTO, Oct 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that on Monday October 25 at 9pm, CBC television will air a special episode of David Suzuki’s The Nature of Things, in which the use of brain tissue from aborted babies will be glorified as a successful treatment for Parkinson’s Disease. The show will focus on Parkinson’s patient Lynda McKenzie, who claims that after her surgery last December, during which the brains of four aborted babies were injected into her brain, she was able to move more easily.  Prior to McKenzie’s operation last December, she was a control subject in a 1995 […]

DURBAN, South Africa, Oct 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life march involving thousands was the conclusion of a pro-life conference in South Africa on October 9 and 10. Pro-life leaders from around the world gathered to assist local pro-lifers to confront abortion and euthanasia. Catholic World News reported that abortion was legalized in the country in 1997 and is still legal despite the fact that only 11 percent of the population support it.  Archbishop Wilfrid Napier, of Durban compared the fight against abortion and euthanasia to the one against apartheid in which he was involved. “We based our fight against the […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday Protestant religious leader Jerry Falwell spoke via satellite to 60 persons at a homosexual gathering, telling them to give up their homosexual lifestyles. Although the message was met with screams of rage and protest by activists outraged that Falwell had chosen “National Coming Out Day” as the date of this gathering, the message was one of love. “God loves you and so do I,” said Falwell “Just as people can come out of the closet, so can people choose to come out against a sinful lifestyle.’’  Michael Johnston a former practicing homosexual who […]

BEIJING, Oct 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Apologists for China’s one-child policy were speaking today to justify their notorious anti-child program with the UN’s declaration of the birth of the world’s 6 billionth member. The South China Morning Post quoted Professor Zheng Xiaoying,  of Beijing University as saying that “Without the strict assertion of the rigid one-child policy on Chinese couples, the world’s population would have passed six billion four years or at least three years ago.” Playing on Malthusean fears using misinformation, Professor Lin Fuda, of the People’s University, said “If the Government manages to exercise tight control on population growth, […]

OTTAWA, Oct 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homicide statistics released yesterday by Statistics Canada indicate that although the national homicide rate declined to its lowest point in 30 years in 1998, the murder of infants under age one (not including abortion) almost doubled from the average of 12 to 23. Most of the infanticides were committed by parents who accounted for 18 of the 23 deaths. Eleven of these infants were killed by the father, six by the mother and in one case, both parents were involved.  While some suggest the elevation in numbers may be due to better reporting, researchers concede they […]

TORONTO, Oct 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a late-September ruling, an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal found a Christian family printing company owner guilty of discrimination for his unwillingness to print homosexualist propaganda for the Lesbian and Gay Archives. In arguments before the tribunal in June, Scott Brockie made it clear that his refusal to print the material was not based on the homosexual nature of the group but on the material that promoted homosexuality and thus was in violation of his religious convictions.  The case was launched over an incident some four years ago when homosexualist activist Ray Brillinger, a worker […]

KAMPALA, Uganda, Oct 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Dan Musisi of Poly Care nursing home, Najjanankumbi, Uganda was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison for the death of a high school student during an abortion. The doctor tried to plead unsuccessfully that he committed the abortion to save the life of the teenage victim. His argument was dismissed by Court Chief Magistrate, Mr. Andrew Bashaija, who noted that Musisi did not perform a pre-abortion exam. “The accused carried out the abortion to help the girl continue with her studies, as she told him,”  Bashaija said.  The only exception allowing abortion in the […]

MANILLA, Oct 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Filipino legislators have proposed laws legalizing abortion, divorce, population control, and favoring same-sex unions. Reacting to the disturbing reports Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin is preparing to lead a massive prayer rally tomorrow to protest the “anti-family” bills. However, senate Majority Leader Franklin Drilon assured the Cardinal that the bills would not pass in the senate.  Cardinal Sin is famous for his massive rallies in the mostly Catholic country, with participation sometimes running into the millions causing complete city shutdowns.  Of note, in June, under protest by Church leaders, the United Nations Population Fund sent former […]

Sun columnist and TV and radio talk-show host Michael Coren has finally brought the aborted baby parts story into the mainstream media with his syndicated column in yesterday’s Toronto Sun newspaper chain.  Population statistics for Canada released yesterday note that last year Canada saw the slowest annual population growth rate in 30 years. With nearly 5,000 less births, the population just managed to break the 30.5 million mark, an increase of 0.9% from July 1 last year.     Religion News Today reported that last Saturday 1,500 teenagers crossed the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge in a demonstration supporting abstinence until marriage. […]

CALGARY, Oct 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The September issue of the Messenger, the newsletter of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, calls some pro-life doctors within its ranks “rude and bullying.” The College has reproduced without verification the alleged charges of women who claim they have been slighted by pro-life doctors who are “not supportive of patients requesting information or a referral regarding” abortions. The uncritical presentation of this material takes place even though pro-abortion groups admit willingly that they have been encouraging women to register complaints about pro-life doctors.  Melanie Anderson, executive director of Planned Parenthood Alberta and […]

LifeSite News readers will notice a change from the insignia LSN to LSN.ca to reflect the newly available easy access to LifeSite’s website via the lsn.ca call letters.  Now by going to the web address www.lsn.ca visitors will be able to access LifeSite News on the web and search the news as well as view the complete archive of the daily news beginning in 1997.

PARIS, Oct 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pierre Channu, a demographer with 50 years experience, has called the report on the world’s population issued by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),  “false” and “a genuine manipulation.” Channu, professor emeritus of the University of Sorbonne and a member of the French Academy said in an interview with Zenit that, “for the past 35 to 40 years we have witnessed an incredible deceleration of fertility rates, but these calculations are never kept in mind” when calculations of world population are made by UNFPA.  Channu notes that the African population figures are inflated, as was […]

OTTAWA, Oct 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal Senator Sharon Carstairs has unexpectedly resigned her post as deputy government leader in the Senate, asking to be placed back in Senate committee to pursue her projects to legalize euthanasia and ban spanking. The National Post reported that in a resignation letter Carstairs said, “she told Mr. Chretien last February she wanted to return to Senate committee and policy work, to pursue her interests in curbing violence against children and the freedom of palliative-care patients to terminate treatment.”  Carstairs has pursued anti-spanking and pro-euthanasia legislation for years. In 1997 she put forward a Senate […]

An Arizona state ban on fetal tissue research was overturned Wednesday by U.S. District Judge William Browning who ruled the law unconstitutional accepting arguments from two affiliates of Planned Parenthood and four Parkinson’s Disease patients. (azcentral.com) The National Post reported yesterday that a US college for Christianhomeschoolers has opened where parents would have to okay the courting of their daughters.  The National Post has given coverage to the ongoing denial of freedom of speech for pro-  lifers at the University of British Columbia.  Pro-Life E-News Canada distributed a New York Post article from Oct 1 which tells the moving story of […]

MONTREAL, Que, Oct 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has leaned that the LifeChain pro-life demonstration in Montreal this past Sunday was marred by violence perpetrated by members a pro-abortion counter-demonstration. About 30 pro-life demonstrators were confronted by a rowdy mob of over 100 abortion supporters. The violence erupted almost immediately with police showing up nearly 20 minutes late.  Eyewitnesses told LifeSite that the pro-abortion group hurled insults and blasphemies and condoms at the pro-lifers. A box of pro-life signs was stolen from a bench by members of the pro-abortion group according to witnesses who say they could not act to protect […]

The United Nations has threatened the United States, saying that if it does not pay $550 million of the $1.7 billion in alleged “back dues” by the end of 1999 it will lose its vote in the General Assembly.  https://www.cnn.com/US/9910/05/us.un.dues/index.html#top   RNC Life reported that the 1998 Annual Report of contributions from Planned Parenthood of Dallas and Northeast Texas notes a donation in excess of $5,000 but less than $10,000 was made by Jerry Jones, the coach of the Dallas Cowboys and the Dallas Cowboys Community Foundation.

THAILAND, Oct 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Men in Thailand have taken to carrying around the morning after pill instead of condoms even though sustained use of the drugs has been shown to seriously damage the health of women. A study from Mahidol University, for example, links use of the morning after pill with internal cysts.  The promotion of the drug as a cure-all has led many Thais to a false belief that the drug known there as D-Norgestrel is also a protection against AIDS. The South China Morning Post reports today that AIDS help groups are attributing a rise in the […]

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US Presidential candidate Steve Forbes has strengthened his pro-  life stance on abortion. Forbes now says that legislation prohibiting abortion does not require exceptions for rape and incest. His views were made public in response to a question by Republican National Coalition for Life director Colleen Parro during a televised live satellite appearance at the 28th Annual Eagle Forum Leadership Conference on September 24-26.  Mrs. Parro asked Forbes to clarify the contradiction in holding that the fundamental right to life of the unborn child cannot be infringed while accepting exceptions in cases of rape and incest. […]

LONDON, Oct 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Controversial new norms for British doctors released in June allowing them to withhold food and hydration from their patients are already leading to conflict. Such euthanasia methods can be implemented even against the wishes of family members and are already responsible for at least one case of attempted involuntary euthanasia.  Dr. Ken Taylor ordered nurses to withdraw food from 85-year-old Mary Ormerod, He was later given a six month suspension after being accused of not having carried out an adequate assessment of the patient. His suspension was extended by three months Monday after he failed […]

TORONTO, Oct 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview with LifeSite News yesterday, Andrew Peltier, public relations director for Wal-Mart Canada said that Wal-Mart pharmacies in Canada would not be stocking Preven. He was unable to confirm, however, whether or not the drug would be made available for people who specifically asked for it. WAL-MART USA has decided to withstand pressure from abortion advocates to sell a product that it has every right to decide not to carry in its stores.  Last month LifeSite was the first to report that PREVEN is on the market in Canada. Plans are being worked […]

Public funding of blasphemous art has caused a stir among the public and demands are increasing to defund the major offender, the US National Endowment for the Arts. CNN POLL:  “Should the U.S. government eliminate its endowment fund for the arts?”    Rock for Life, a division of American Life League is calling for a boycott this week of the punk/hip hop band, Rage Against the Machine, since the group supports the pro-abortion and anti-Christian organizations Rock For Choice and Refuse and Resist. (American Life League)   Pro-Life E-News Canada distributed the latest work of London Free Press columnist Rory Leishman on how […]

TORONTO, Oct 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study released today in the journal of the Canadian Medical Association claims that spanking and slapping by parents during childhood can result in a greater likelihood of alcohol abuse or dependence and psychological maladjustment. The results of the study were based on a survey of 9953 residents of Ontario aged 15 years and older. Although the study claims to have eliminated reports of those who were physically or sexually abused, it is based its subjective criteria.  Dr. Mark Genuis, the executive director of the National Foundation for Family Research and Education (NFFRE) told LifeSite […]

TORONTO, Oct 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Sunday hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers stood side-by-side in LifeChains in cities and towns across North America holding pro-life signs. Please Let Me Live, the American organization that founded LifeChain told LifeSite that they were made aware of 863 chains this year.  Participants are encouraged to pray for an end to abortion and for the mothers and babies who suffer from it while holding signs reading: Abortion Kills Children, Adoption the Loving Option, Jesus Forgives and Heals and Lord Forgive Us and Our Nation.  About 700 people participated in the Canada’s National Capital area […]

GLASGOW, Oct 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fertility specialists are complaining of a shortage of human sperm in Britain and are demanding that a ban on the importation of sperm be lifted. Dr Richard Fleming, the scientist who developed the method for “harvesting” women’s ova with drug treatment, is hoping to purchase sperm from the world’s largest sperm bank, “Cryos”, in the city of Arhus in Denmark.  Current regulations of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority do not allow bulk sperm imports. However, the regulatory body is considering Flemming’s request and will rule on the matter within a few weeks. Fertility scientists […]

NASHVILLE, Oct 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study in the August issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology indicates that the onset of puberty for girls is delayed by good relationships with parents, particularly fathers. A research team from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, found that the “quality of fathers’ investment” was the most important factor in thwarting the early onset of puberty.  “It may be the particular kind of stress associated with either low levels of positive family relationships, a lack of paternal investment, or both, that provokes earlier puberty,” said lead researcher Bruce Ellis explaining the results. […]

HALIFAX, NS, Oct 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Michael Baker, Nova Scotia’s new Attorney General, says he is open to overruling prosecutors to see that criminal charges are pursued in exceptional cases,  reported the National Post today. In exemplifying his point Baker used the suspected euthanasia case of Dr. Nancy Morrison, saying that it was a case that would merit a second look.  Although Michelle McKinnon, spokesperson for Mr. Baker, said the Morrison case was used merely as an example, pro-life leaders in the province are hopeful that the Morrison case will be reopened.  Dr. Nancy Morrison, the Nova Scotia respirologist who […]

KOSOVO, Oct 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has contradicted earlier admissions that it came into Kosovo for its work at the behest of the Serbian government in its latest efforts to escape the backlash created by the report by the Population Research Institute (PRI).  PRI accused the UNFPA of entering Kosovo to distribute their “reproductive health” kits at the invitation of Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic. PRI notes that the kits, which promote depopulation by offering contraceptives, abortifacient drugs, and instruments for abortions, were permitted in Kosovo and only Kosovo by the Serbian president who was intent […]

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A US House Member is decrying the obvious hypocrisy of the appointment by the UN of an “independent” investigating panel to look into the failure of the international organization to avert the Rwandan genocide. Kofi Annan has appointed as the chairman of the three-man investigating panel the fiercely pro-UN Ingvar Carlsson, former prime minister of Sweden. The other two members of the panel were recipients of UN appointments.  The National Post reports that Representative Cynthia McKinney has written UN Secretary General Kofi Annan saying, “The United Nations inquiry is merely designed to deny responsibility, […]

OTTAWA, Oct 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Health Minister Allan Rock has said he will introduce a revised version of the new reproductive technology bill which died on the order paper in 1997 due to the election. The bill would address issues such as human embryo cloning, animal-human hybrids, sex-selection, the sale of human sperm and ova and the use of body parts from aborted babies.  In March, LifeSite reported that MP Pauline Picard (Drummond, BQ) told Health Minister Allan Rock that “Canada is the only country still without a clear policy regulating the use of medically assisted human reproductive technologies.” At […]

The fear of parents aborting baby girls has led several hospitals in Scotland to ban parents from being told the sex of their babies by ultrasound technicians. Simpson Memorial in Edinburgh refuses to provide information on the babies’ sex unless there is a pressing clinical or genetic need.     Beverley Lahaye of Concerned Women for America gives a refreshing commentary on the world’s population hitting 6 billion this month.  (News & Observer) The report of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission on stem cell research leaves open the option of creating human beings (embryos) specifically for research purposes. The report opposes such […]

VATICAN, Oct 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday Pope John Paul II issued what some consider his strongest message against abortion and euthanasia in his address to the Seventh Congress of the International Gynecological Cancer Society. He warned that doctors who “are guardians and servants of human life” can “become manipulators of life, or even agents of death.”  Addressing the issue of a pregnant mother’s contraction of cancer and the potential loss of her life, the pope said: “You well know how delicate and dramatic such a situation can be, especially when the woman faces pressure from society and family to end […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Oct 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Columbia Doctors Hospital, owned by the St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center was told by the Vatican to stop offering tubal ligations to women. The hospital instituted the practice, which defies Catholic teaching, in order to receive government grants that were denied without the practice. Bishop Andrew McDonald initially allowed the procedure at the request of the hospital but submitted his permission to Rome for verification. The Associated Press reported today that Monsignor J. Gaston Hebert, vicar general of the Diocese of Little Rock, said the Vatican “felt the arrangement should be discontinued.”  This […]

OTTAWA, Oct 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an open letter to Reform Party supporters yesterday, Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark calls on all social liberals within Reform to join his party.  Clark said that the Tory Party would be the choice for Reformers who are of the view that “issues such as abortion and gay rights should not become ‘litmus tests for supporting [any] party,’ and that ‘people have to be able to belong to political parties regardless of their views on those issues.’”  Although disappointed with Clark’s intense hostility toward historic Canadian values, pro- lifers are nevertheless glad that the Tory leader […]

WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Unborn Victims of Violence bill passed the House yesterday 254-172. The law addresses the killing of a baby while in his/her mother’s womb resulting from an attack on the mother. Conviction would result in penalties not only for their assault on the mother but also for the murder of the baby. Abortion supporters are outraged at the bill since they complain that it would be the first federal law to treat the fetus as a person.  The National Post reports that the bill defines “unborn children” as “a member of the species homo sapiens, […]

The National Post criticizes the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child and the upcoming Child Rights vote in Canada Nov 19. Just whose interests did the UN have in mind when it drafted this convention?  American Life League reported today that the largest abortion provider in the state of Louisiana closed down its facility on September 23. Causeway Medical Center had been sued in 1992 for malpractice, a case that resulted, in 1998, in an award of $400,000 to the patient.  Lawyers for the woman point out that not one penny of the settlement has been paid. (Reading: […]