Articles for Month: November 1999

NEW YORK, Nov 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US government has finally decided to drop charges against a pro-life Catholic bishop and a priest who were charged under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Catholic News Service today reported that the government will not appeal a July federal court ruling upholding a decision to throw out criminal contempt of court charges against retired Bishop George E. Lynch, 82, and Brother Fidelis Moscinski, 30.  Bishop Lynch and Br. Moscinski had been protesting outside the Women’s Medical Pavilion, a New York abortuary, since 1990; they usually sat and prayed in the […]

The National Post reported today on the Alberta repository that distributes aborted baby parts from abortuaries to Canadian researchers.  The Nov 23 Electronic Telegraph reports that notorious Australian euthanasia activist and assisted suicide doctor Philip Nitschke has moved to Arizona after being frustrated by the overturning of the 1996 Australian law allowing voluntary euthanasia.    Catholic World News reported yesterday that Scottish pro-life leader Jim Dowson has been threatened by the Scottish Socialist Party. Members of the party told Dowson, president of the recently-launched Precious Life Scotland, that they would “not hesitate to make his life a misery, 24 hours a […]

WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens blocked the enforcement of laws prohibiting partial-birth abortion in Wisconsin and Illinois today despite the fact that lower courts have ruled numerous times that the bans should remain in place during appeals. The case is set to be heard by the Supreme Court.  LifeSite reported last month that the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 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 reversed an […]

LifeSite News last week reported that the Czech Parliament had affirmed the rights of the unborn. In fact, the report should have indicated that the pro-life proclamation had been drawn up by three pro-life organizations, to be read at the parliament buildings to attract the interest of the parliamentarians. Unfortunately only one member of the assembly and one senator out of 281 were present.

MONCTON, NB, Nov 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to 300 students at a high school in New Brunswick yesterday, Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark said, “I think that women should have the right to choose although I do not support abortion personally.” Students were left to sort out the schizophrenic position and Clark was not asked why he does not support abortion personally.  Jim Hughes, leader of Campaign Life Coalition Canada, commented on Clark’s statements saying, “Joe is certainly developing his skills as a tightrope walker well before the election, but I think he’s stepped on a nail here.” Clark’s quote was […]

TORONTO, Nov 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life leaders in Canada are urging supporters to write their politicians and newspapers expressing their disgust at the trade in aborted baby parts. Given the front-page coverage the issue received in the National Post over the weekend, the time is ripe for a campaign to reveal the horrors of the abortion industry.  LifeSite News has also discovered the email address of the Anatomic Gift Foundation, one of the organizations directly involved in the baby parts market. Readers are encouraged to write them encouraging the organization to get out of this morbid business.  Email the Anatomic […]

Major Canadian media have finally reported the story of the sale of aborted baby body parts. The front page of the National Post Saturday carried the news, which LifeSite had reported on July 9. The post included a photo of the baby parts price-list which LifeSite put on the net in August.     Pro-Life E-News distributed an Agence France Press report today noting that the French government announced Sunday that the abortifacient morning-after pill is to be made available in schools as of next year. The pill is available without prescription in France. BBC News reported today that a British study has shown […]

OTTAWA, Nov 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The current edition of the Medical Post contains the results of its eighth annual survey of Canadian doctors showing that 59% of doctors say late-term (partial-  birth) abortion “are permissible only if sustaining the pregnancy will cause the mother’s death.”  However the survey also notes that 79% agree that partial birth abortion should only be allowed when the child is “found to have a life-threatening and incurable condition resulting in early death.” The Medical Post notes that “53% also believe late-stage abortions are permissible if the unborn child is diagnosed with an incurable disease that […]

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – IVF Canada, an infertility centre in Toronto, boasts that the first baby produced with pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is about to be born in Manitoba. The PGD procedure involves the creation of multiple human embryos and targeting for destruction those with genetic defects or unwanted characteristics before implantation.  The procedure is hailed by some as a “cure” for genetic diseases, it is in fact a eugenic tool for eliminating those with undesirable genetically identifiable features. The technology has the ability to search and destroy tiny humans just after their formation if they have detectable […]

VANCOUVER, Nov 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of British Columbia (UBC) has announced an investigation into the purchase of fetal tissue from abortuaries by one of its researchers.  Dr. Richard Spratley, UBC’s associate vice-president of research, told the Canadian Press that the University’s research ethics board will investigate the deal involving the Anatomic Gift Foundation, a baby-parts marketer in the US.  While the Canadian Press and Canadian papers, which covered the story failed to mention the name of the researcher involved, they did mention he was “a pediatrician, who used to have a lab at UBC, [and] requested lungs from […]