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 […]

CALGARY, Nov 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Justice Peter Martin of Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench ruled Friday that same-sex adoptions were permissible despite provincial laws forbidding the practice.  The case involved a lesbian couple where both women used donor sperm to impregnate themselves via artificial insemination and requested adoption rights from the court.  The Alberta government abandoned its fight for the law in April leaving an intervenor in the case to try to uphold the law.  Alberta Federation of Women United for Families (AFWUF) was to argue the case until Justice Martin deemed “inadmissible” all relevant evidence submitted to the court […]

WASHINGTON, DC, Nov 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Population Research Institute (PRI) International Conference, Human Rights in China: 50 Years Later, which took place last weekend protested China’s unconditional entrance into the World Trade Organization. Assembled for the first time since the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s leading pro-democracy freedom fighters, together with US China policy experts, will discuss the full spectrum of human rights issues and the future of democracy in China.  Steven W. Mosher, President of PRI, and a recognized expert on China’s one-child policy recalled that in October Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji reaffirmed his country’s commitment to the strict depopulation […]

Zenit news reported that on Monday the Parliament of the Czech Republic made a solemn proclamation of the “Declaration of the Rights of the Unborn Child” read publicly by the Czech actor, Radovan Lukavsky. (EWTN) Pro-life E-News circulated a BBC report yesterday noting that a man in England has been given two life sentences for the attack on his pregnant former girlfriend in which he intended to kill her baby past eight months gestation. The baby and mother survived the knife attack.     The bizarre support for social conservative US Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan from Dr.  Lenora Fulani, a black activist and […]

SYDNEY, Australia, Nov 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Recent news about ignored warnings leading up to the East Timorese massacre is a virtual reproduction of the long-reported news that the United Nations refused to intervene in the Rwandan situation despite being warned prior to the genocide of 800,000.  The London Telegraph reports today that leaked intelligence papers from the Defence Intelligence Organization of the Australian government indicate that the militia rampage that resulted in the slaughter of East Timorese was orchestrated by the Indonesian military to derail the independence vote and could have been predicted.  Michael Hourigan, an Australian lawyer specializing in […]

VANCOUVER, BC, Nov 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that Mary Wagner, 25, was arrested Monday outside a Vancouver abortuary. She had been offering last minute hope to women going in to have their children killed. It is more than likely she will be in jail until year end as she was on probation since her previous incident within a Bubble Zone.  In May LifeSite reported that Miss Wagner was arrested outside the Victoria Drive abortuary in Vancouver for handing out roses and offering help to women inside a restricted “bubble zone” of public property around abortion mills. From May […]

A man held in prison accused of the rape of two New Orleans Women paid for two abortions for one of his victims. (Yahoo)   BBC news is reporting that a 63-year-old mother of a 28-year-old Down’s syndrome man has applied to the courts for permission to have her son sterilised without his consent because she feels she can no longer keep him under “strict supervision” and feels any pregnancies would have serious consequences for mother and child.     Bourque Newswatch reported yesterday that Conservative leader Joe Clark is set to announce Wednesday that he will run in the next election in the […]

LONDON, UK, Nov 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Swedish research team has made grandiose claims about the “sustained, marked clinical benefit” of using aborted baby brains to treat Parkinson’s Disease based solely on the investigation of one patient whose improvement is attributed to this treatment. While research on the subject has not shown definitive improvement or deficit from the fetal transplant treatment, claims of success based on a single case study are irregular in the scientific field.  The positive slant and exaggerated claims of success based on this one example are even more suspicious given that the team publishing this latest […]

TORONTO, Nov 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The November/December 1999 edition of Pharmacy Connection, the official newsletter of the College of Pharmacists of Ontario, indicates that the Ontario College favours allowing the abortifacient morning-after pill to be available directly from pharmacists without normal medical risk evaluation by a physician.  LifeSite reported in September that such drugs were being approved for over-the-counter distribution.  The newsletter notes that the issue “is also under discussion at the national level by the national Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities and the Canadian Pharmacists’  Association.” It reports further that “a proposal to establish a pilot project for provision […]

BONN, Germany, Nov 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The German Bishops Conference announced Tuesday that the Catholic Church-run counselling centres will stop issuing certificates for abortion counselling since such certificates are used to allow abortions. After the latest intervention by Pope John Paul II this past weekend the bishops have agreed to phase out the certificate program by the end of 2000.  A lay group claiming to be Catholic decided in September to offer counselling with certificates in case the bishops opted out of the program. The controversy with Rome over the issuing of the certificates commenced in 1995 just after the […]

MUNICH, Germany, Nov 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thanks to the objection of the German province of Bavaria, the nationwide distribution of the chemical abortion drug RU-486 (known in Germany as Mifegyne) was halted. The mostly Catholic province objected that under German law abortion products must be distributed directly by the manufacturer, but in Germany, a company called Femagen, was to distribute the drug while it is manufactured by the French firm Exelgyn.  Agence France Press reported yesterday that Femagen said it would take the decision to court.  Meanwhile, in Cologne, Catholic bishop Joachim Meisner reminded listeners of the connection between the […]

OTTAWA, Nov 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Reform MP Maurice Vellacott’s conscience clause bill (C-207) was debated in Parliament last Thursday, November 18. Pro-life Canadians have been waiting since prior to the last election for the bill to come before Parliament. Campaign Life Coalition followed the process closely and many grassroots Canadians called their Members of Parliament encouraging them to support the bill. As reported previously by LifeSite, Mr. Vellacott ended up with written support for his bill from at least 100 other MPs from all the parties in the House of Commons.  For more see today’s LifeSite Special Report at:  'Comedy […]

MADRID, Nov 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Zenit News reported yesterday that the latest report by the Spanish Ministry of Health indicates that the number of adolescent Spanish girls (under 19) who aborted their babies has increased 60% since 1990. Zenit notes that the increase has resulted despite a government campaign against AIDS encouraging youth to use condoms.  The report also notes that the number of abortuaries rose from 81 in 1990 to 115 in 1997.  While Spanish law forbids abortion except in the cases of the mother’s health, fetal malformation, and rape, over 95% of abortions are claimed for maternal health […]

The National Post reports today that Corrections Canada will have to reconsider requests from 11 prisoners for “gender reassignment” surgery following its landmark decision last week to help fund the sex-change operation of Synthia Kavanagh, a transsexual murderer.  Christian demonstrations and campaigns against blasphemous art in museums have proven effective. Conservative News service reports today that the Detroit Institute of the Arts has canceled an exhibit of modern art that included artwork with religious-sexual themes.  The Canadian Press is reporting today that a psychological tool to identify criminals will be used in Canadian schools in the near future. The proposal […]

SURREY, BC, Nov 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Parents and citizens in Surrey, British Columbia have resoundingly supported their pro-family slate of Surrey School Board members. During a municipal election Saturday, voters continued support for the current school board members who faced severe criticism from homosexualist advocates for banning three books designed specifically to indoctrinate children with the notion that practicing homosexual households are morally equivalent to normal families. The board also opposes Planned Parenthood, instead promoting Chastity/Abstinence Sexual Health Education.  The Surrey Teachers Association (STA) took the School Board to court to maintain the right to provide kindergarten and grade-one children […]

GLASGOW, Scotland, Nov 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An inaugural pro-life picket in Scotland met with success yesterday as the abortion referral service where they were to demonstrate closed shop early. Over 50 pro-lifers took part in the picket outside Lothian Brook clinic, marking the launch of Precious Life Scotland.  The Sunday Times reported that pro-lifers “aged from seven to 75 held banners saying ‘Stop the killing’ and ‘Together against abortion’.” The group also used enlarged photos which graphically showed the truth about abortion.  Jim Dowson, the founder of the group responded to the pro-abortion media’s accusations of violence saying, “I would […]

HAMILTON, ON, Nov 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Press reported earlier this month that at least two pharmacies in Hamilton have decided not to sell the “morning-after” abortifacient drug Preven.  Furthermore, Marchese Pharmacy another one in the area is allowing its staff to refuse to dispense Preven on religious or moral grounds.  Abortion supporters are incensed at these actions. Even pharmacy giant Wal-Mart Canada has refused to stock the drugs – but it will make them available on request. Considering the “emergency” nature of the drugs, most users will opt to look elsewhere for the early abortion drug which is […]

LONDON, England, Nov 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A government funded game to be used in high schools among students aged 14-16 has students “encouraged to act out homosexual scenes in the classroom in a move to promote tolerance.” The Electronic Telegraph reports today that “a game called Spot the Heterosexual and role playing, such as pretending to be a married man who has sex with other men in secret, are included in an educational pack for teenagers” put out by the National Health Service. The educational Pack entitled Beyond a Phase includes a video which “ends with a boy who advises […]

Internet columnist Matt Drudge reports today that by mutual consent, Fox News Channel has released Matt Drudge from his contract with the Network, it was announced on Wednesday. Drudge apologized for his negative comments about the station.     Pro-Life E-News distributed a Desertnews report today containing the text of the Geneva declaration from the World Congress of Families II.   The Schad Foundation, a radical animal rights outfit run by pro-abortion television personality David Suzuki is under investigation for erroneous reporting to Revenue Canada.  One report notes that in 1998 the foundation invested nearly “$4.5-million”, although the foundation reported to Revenue Canada donations […]

TORONTO, Nov 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Giuseppe Gori, leader of the Family Coalition Party of Ontario,  will host a new radio show called “Straight talk – a 15 minute program of moral counterpoint and family matters.” It will be heard on Mondays at 5:45pm on CJMR AM 1320. CJMR has offices in Oakville and transmits from Mississauga to the Greater Toronto area, Oakville, Burlington, Halton, Hamilton and the Golden horseshoe.

Please note that the title of yesterday’s story on the defence of Section 43 of the Criminal Code erroneously said the law was to be defended by the “FAMILY COALITION PARTY”.  Rather it is being defended by the Coalition for Family Autonomy, comprising the Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC), REAL Women of Canada, the Home School Legal Defense Association of Canada, and Focus on the Family Canada

OTTAWA, Nov 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Coalition for Family Autonomy, comprising the Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC), REAL Women of Canada, the Home School Legal Defense Association of Canada, and Focus on the Family Canada announced Monday that it has filed papers as an intervenor in a court case challenging the practice of spanking.  On December 6, the Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law will argue before the Ontario Court of Justice (General Division) that Section 43 of the Criminal Code, which allows “reasonable” physical correction of children, should be ruled unconstitutional.  Peter Stock of CFAC told LifeSite […]

A panel of Australian medical experts has called for an end to partial-birth abortions or “cranial abortions” as they referred to them. The panel described the practice as “horrendously cruel and painful.”  (News.com.au)   WorldNetDaily reports today that a New York Post survey of nearly 20,000 readers ranks Bill Clinton second to Adolf Hitler as the most evil person of the millennium. What makes the president’s appearance on the survey more astonishing is respondents had to write his name in,  while Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Dr. Josef Mengele and others were listed on the survey.  England’s Court of Appeal decided yesterday that […]

Nov. 2 Mr. Ted White (North Vancouver, Ref.) introduced Bill C-293, an act to amend the Income Tax Act (political activities by charities receiving public funds). This private member’s bill would disqualify from charitable status corporations, trusts and organizations that have received discretionary funding from the public money of Canada or a province if they give direct or indirect support or endorsement to parties or candidates for election at the federal level. While pro-life charities such as Human Life International and Alliance for Life Canada have been de-registered, pro-abortion political groups such as Planned Parenthood still enjoy charitable status.  (Parliament of […]

MONTREAL, Nov 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The latest development in new reproductive technology, in-vitro maturation (IVM), sets the stage for the use of ova from aborted babies in fertility treatments. Dr. Seang Lin Tan of McGill University’s Reproductive Centre reported yesterday that he was the first doctor in Canada to successfully perform the procedure wherein women’s ova are matured outside the woman’s body in the lab by subjecting them to hormones. The traditional method of in-vitro fertilization had the ova matured inside the ovaries by administering hormones to the woman.  Health writer Susan Martinuk wrote in the National Post in September […]

QUEENSLAND, Nov 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian pro-abortion activist Joyce Arthur spoke Saturday at an abortionist conference taking place in Australia, where sex-selection was advocated as a legitimate reason for abortion. Arthur, the president of Vancouver’s Pro-Choice Action Network, who spoke to the assembled crowd on “laws and access,” is developing a reputation for addressing meetings with radical agendas.  At a September 29, 1999 Students for Choice rally in Vancouver, Arthur spoke shortly after APEC-protester Garth Mullins, who told the crowd to commit acts of violence and vandalism against abortion opponents. Pro-lifers who attended the rally noted that Arthur could have […]

LifeSite has expanded to offer a secure payments system allowing credit card donations, registrations and purchases to be made via LifeSite. For Christmas, the Interim offers the Fr. Ted on Tape set. This 6 cassette audio tape set features inspiring pro-life and spiritual talks by Canada’s popular pro-life priest. Also included is the tape “The Humour of Fr. Ted” which contains recordings of Fr. Ted telling many of his famous jokes at various past events.  The new donations facility allows viewers of LifeSite and LifeSite Daily to easily make a contribution to assist with growing expenses and very important site […]

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite international criticism over the distribution of “reproductive health kits” in Kosovo which included abortifacient drugs (“emergency contraception”) and devices (IUD’s), condoms and vacuum devices that could be used for abortions, the United Nations Population Fund has announced it is now sending such kits to East Timor and Orissa, India. While the kits also contain needed supplies for safe home delivery, UNFPA has been criticized for exploiting the dire need of these communities by adding to their “donation” of needed supplies, unwanted devices geared to population control.  LifeSite reported in April that a causal […]

House of Commons Hansard – November 1, 1999   SUPREME COURT ACT   Mr. Monte Solberg (Medicine Hat, Ref.) introduced a Bill C-285, to amend the Supreme Court Act (approval of justices by committee). The bill would allow that nominees to the supreme court could be reviewed by the justice committee thereby introducing a degree of accountability for the supreme court. Second, it would appoint justices for a maximum of 15 years but still mandate retirement at age 75.  Mr. Eric Lowther (Calgary Centre, Ref.) introduced Bill C-289, an act to amend the Income Tax Act (child adoption expenses). This […]

OTTAWA, Nov 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada issued “Guidelines for Medical Termination of Early Pregnancy” last month even though such medical termination is not legal in Canada. Anticipating the legalization of RU-486 type abortion drugs in Canada, the guidelines recommend the use of methotrexate and misoprostol as “a safe and effective alternative to surgical abortions” with the ability to abort babies “up to nine weeks from the last menstrual period.”  The recommendation by the SOGC of methotrexate as “safe” is very troubling due to compelling evidence to the contrary that may put the credibility […]

The conscience clause legislation (C-207) introduced by Reform MP Maurice Vellacott is scheduled for debate in the House of Commons tomorrow. The bill would protect the employment and education rights of health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions and therefore, simply affirms Charter of Rights protections that are not currently being enforced across the country. The bill received the written support of over 100 Members of Parliament from several, if not all, parties in the House.  Despite the strong non-partisan support for the bill, it was unexpectedly ruled non-votable by the Parliamentary committee for Private Members Business. This […]

HOLLYWOOD, Nov 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New media champion Matt Drudge has been threatened with a lawsuit by Fox News for refusing to tape his show for the network after he was not allowed to show a National Enquirer photo of a 21-week-old fetus to promote his pro-life stance. The Washington Post reports that in a letter, Fox News said “it is necessary for you to apologize to Fox News” to avoid the possibility of a “breach of contract lawsuit.” The Post also notes that network sources say his contract with the TV station is soon to be terminated.  Drudge responded […]

In an article entitled “Seeking your truths about abortion” Seattle Times columnist Nicole Brodeur is asking readers to submit their “truths” about abortion “for another column.” Submit to: [email protected]   BBC news reports that on Tuesday Britain launched a public consultation asking its citizens to help decide whether the government should allow genetic screening of embryos prior to implantation in invitro fertilization, and then for any embryos found to be imperfect to be killed.    The US Supreme Court let a lower court ruling stand which stated that a lesbian had become a “de facto” parent of her partner’s child and […]

OTTAWA, Nov 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Maureen McTeer, wife of federal Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark and possible PC candidate in the next election, is showing herself to be more fiscally and morally liberal than the Liberal party. In a new book on new reproductive technologies called “Tough Choices: Living and Dying in the 21st Century,” McTeer calls for full public funding for fertility treatments.  McTeer argues that the only way to control the horrors of the new reproductive trade, such as the sale of the human reproductive materials sperm and ova, is to regulate and fully fund the procedure.  With […]

OTTAWA, Nov 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Official Opposition Foreign Affairs Critic Bob Mills released a report yesterday articulating Reform’s foreign policy in which Mills calls the United Nations “corrupt and wasteful.”  Mills suggests that Canada should follow the lead taken by the US of withholding funds until the international organization agrees to needed reforms.  “Instead of bad-mouthing the Americans for not keeping up their part of the payments, we should again ask why they’re not paying, and then we’ll get into the corruption, the socialist organization that it is,” Mills told the Ottawa Citizen.  “If it fails to modernize, if it […]

WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A deal was worked out to pay the United Nations nearly one billion dollars in “back dues” after the Clinton administration agreed to a pro-life restriction on the monies.  Spearheaded by Rep. Chris Smith, the bill forbids the money to be used by agencies that promote abortion abroad.  However, the President retains the power to cancel that provision while sustaining a 3% or $385-million cut to the funds.  The agreement was somewhat forced since the UN threatened to remove the US from the General Assembly if it did not pay over half a billion before […]

The National Post reports today that a school district in northern British Columbia has lifted the suspensions it imposed last week on Grade 7 students whose parents refused to let them take part in a mandatory ‘‘cultural awareness’’ course designed to teach them respect for their local native Indian tribe.    Church news reported that Cardinal John O’Connor, writing in the Archdiocesan weekly “Catholic New York”, denounced the indifference of a large number of American citizens towards the loss of respect for life. “How can it be,” wrote the Cardinal “that grown men and women,  highly educated [.] can put millions […]

CARBONDALE, Ill, Nov 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, the UN commanding officer in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide has been forbidden by the Canadian Ministry of Defence to speak at a conference in Illinois on how the killings could have been prevented.  The National Post reports that while Dallaire agreed to speak at the conference in June, he canceled on orders from his superiors.  The barring of Dallaire’s firsthand information is becoming commonplace as his revelations strongly suggest the complicity of the United Nations in the Rwandan massacre. During the Belgian parliamentary inquiry into Rwanda, Secretary General Kofi Annan […]

WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) New media champion Matt Drudge was not allowed to show a National Enquirer photo of a 21-week-old fetus during a Fox Television show program. This prompted Drudge to leave the studio hours before air time. Drudge intended to illustrate the humanity of unborn children by showing the amazing recent photo of an unborn child’s hand reaching out of the womb during a rare operation to correct spina bifida. Fox News President Roger Ailes supported the decision of Fox News VP John Moody who refused to show the picture since “it was a picture of one surgical […]

TORONTO, Nov 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) A draft human rights policy set for approval by the Toronto District Board of Education, while it claims to prohibit discrimination, is likely to suppress the expression of traditional religious beliefs held by any students or staff. The board policy says that discrimination based on 14 grounds would be absolutely banned for students, staff trustees and any other individual entering school property. While the ban suggests that discrimination based on “religion” would be prohibited, it also includes a ban on “homophobic behaviour”  Pro-family observers warn that the policy would punish any expression of traditional religious beliefs […]

Writing in the current American Journal of Public Health, self-proclaimed “pro-choicer”  Adrienne Asch, of the Boston-based Hastings Center Project on Prenatal Testing for Genetic Disability, says “If public health espouses goals of social justice and equality for people with disabilities—as it has worked to improve the status of women, gays and lesbians and members of racial and ethnic minorities—it should reconsider whether it wishes to continue the technology of prenatal diagnosis. (Globe and Mail) As the Canadian government prepares to extend most rights for married couples to practicing homosexuals, the government’s likely candidate for a phrase distinguishing those within these […]

SEATTLE, WA, Nov 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – John Hofsess; the controversial head of the Right to Die Society of Canada has invented and unveiled a new device to do yourself in. Ted Gerk of the Pro-Life Resource Centre reported that the device called a “DeBreather”, was unveiled at a gathering of pro-euthanasia advocates in Seattle, Washington, November 13-14. The meeting was held by the Self Deliverance New Technology Group (NuTech) comprising of right-to-die organizations in the USA, Canada, Australia, France and Germany.  Conference organizers say Hofsess invented the “DeBreather”, which allows the user to suffocate from lack of oxygen. Funding for […]

QUEENSLAND, Australia, Nov 15 (LifefSiteNews.com) Austalian abortionist David Grundmann, who specializes in partial-birth abortion, spoke at an abortionist’s conference yesterday in Queensland. He advocated the practice of killing unborn children of an undesired sex, using prenatal scans to identify the sex of the child. Grundmann is quoted as supporting sex selection as a “real and important indication for some ethnic and religious groups” when considering late-term abortions.  At the conference, abortionist speakers seemed boast about the numbers of their late term abortions and the length of time children were permitted to live prior to being killed in the womb. “I […]

A survey of 1,400 British boys aged 13 to 19 found that teenage boys without a strong father figure are more likely to suffer from depression, display antisocial behaviour and do badly at school. (The Times)  A vaccine initially given approval for use on all infants in the US was known to cause a painful bowel disorder in a substantial number of recipients but the records of the harmful effects were concealed from the public. The federal health advisory panel which initially approved the vaccine is known to have a significant number of it The American Family Association reported this […]

OTTAWA, Nov 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The lead researcher at the Maternal Health Research Institute in Ottawa told LifeSite this week that statistics on maternal deaths resulting from abortion mishaps were very costly to acquire and not possible to disseminate. Isabelle Begin, reported that hospital morbidity data is no longer available from Statistics Canada.  It can be obtained from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) for a fee of $200 to $500 (per request) and more, depending on the amount of work involved. Moreover, a non-disclosure form must be signed prior to the release of the data. “How’s that for […]

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study published in the November issue of the American Psychological Association’s journal of Developmental Psychology found “significant associations between more hours in child care and slightly less sensitive mothering and child engagement.”  The study examined maternal sensitivity and child-positive engagement during mother-child interactions at the ages of 6, 15, 24, and 36 months for 1,274 mothers. The mothers were participating in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care. In longitudinal analyses that controlled for selection, child, and family predictors, the study found that mothers whose children […]

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After having repeatedly refused to sign bills that would provide money to the United Nations providing that the funds did not go to lobby for abortion, the Clinton administration’s intransigence may finally be weakening. International pressure to fund the UN has mounted and an unnamed senior administration official told the New York Times that Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright “as a woman secretary of state who knows extremely well the instinctive concerns of women’s groups, [is] prepared to take the heat” for the compromise decision.  Speaking of the abortion pushing groups, the informant told […]

SYDNEY, Australia, Nov 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Organan, the manufacturer of a new “contraceptive”  implant which would render women infertile for at three years, is hoping to gain access to the Australian market in coming weeks. The company claims a 100% “success rate” with no children being born to mothers using “Implanon.” Although the drug sometimes acts as a contraceptive, like its predecessor Norplant, it can also act as an abortifacient by making the endometrium (uterine wall) inhospitable to the fertilized ovum.  The striking similarities between Implanon and Norplant are many, including the fact that both are progesterone-only devices and both […]

Pro-LifeE-News Canada distributed a report today noting that the Wisconsin legislature passed bills protecting doctors from so-called “wrongful birth” lawsuits filed by women who claim they would have had an abortion if they had known that the child would have some form of a disability. (Star Tribune) Kevorkian side-kick psychiatrist Dr. Georges Reding has been found liable in a wrongful-death lawsuit undertaken by the family of Donna Brennan, a victim of the assisted suicide activist.  Reding has been a fugitive from the law since failing to show up for his Sept 30 arraignment on first degree murder charges. (The Detroit News)  Addressing […]

The Catholic school board in Hamilton Ontario has refused to participate in the UNICEF spawned National Elections for the Rights of Youth. The public school board in the area is also considering banning the vote after concerned parents expressed their view to the board noting that the children are being involved in partisan political activities that foster antagonism between parents and children.  New Hazelton Elementary School in British Columbia has suspended three boys indefinitely after their parents refused to allow them to attend a mandatory “cultural awareness” course because of opposition to the way they taught native spirituality. (The National Post) The […]

OTTAWA, Nov 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Health Association of Canada (CHAC), a group representing more than 130 Catholic hospitals and homes and over 120 associations issued a press release Monday condemning the Preven “emergency contraceptive” kit. The release says that “CHAC opposes any procedure in which the direct, immediate purpose is to terminate a   pregnancy at any stage after fertilization.”  CHAC takes issue with the deception used by the drug’s marketer Roberts Pharmaceuticals in calling the drugs “contraception” rather than abortifacient. “If, as the manufacturer claims,  the drug alters the uterine lining so that it will not receive […]

A prophetic analysis of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the September 1989 Interim notes the major role, then external affairs minister and current Tory leader Joe Clark played in foisting the convention on unsuspecting Canadians. Given Clarke’s recent “open letter to Reformers” there is once again evidence that he is an anti-family liberal cheerleader in conservative disguise.  The article by Sue Rodgerson sounded alarm bells long before Canadians finally woke up to the dangers this year because of the UNICEF sponsored Child Vote to be held Nov. 19. The vote is based on rights supposedly […]

Are You Really Y2K Ready?  The Save the Planet’s People First Conference – Strategies for the Third Millenium, presents a host of fantastic speakers who will help you prepare not just for the “bugs” of the new millennium, but to recognize the real threats to life and family in the new century.  The November 25-27 conference is hosted by Campaign Life Coalition (Toronto), and is sponsored jointly by Campaign Life Coalition (Canada) and Alliance for Life (Ontario). It offers a full range of pro-life issues, plus 36 exciting, knowledgeable speakers.  This is the last National Conference of the century! We […]

WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United States Agency for International Development has paid The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP) $16 million (US) to fund population control activities and propaganda in Uganda. A press release from JHU/CCP says the new program will “provide long-term and permanent contraceptive methods, emergency contraception, emergency obstetric care, post-abortion care, and adolescent reproductive health.”  Although abortion is not specifically mentioned in the release, USAID is notorious for funding initiatives to push toward abortion on demand and Uganda allows abortion only to save the life of the mother.  Of note, […]

The Ottawa Citizen reported today that a practicing homosexual couple in Canada is in federal court today seeking recognition of their “marriage”. Ross Boutilier, one of the pair, applied for “marriage leave” from his government job which would have given him a week of paid leave to have his homosexual “marriage”. The case is likely to head to the Canadian Human Rights Commission.     France’s Constitutional Council on Tuesday approved a law granting extensive legal rights to unmarried couples, including homosexuals thus removing all barriers to the law passed by the National Assembly in October. (InfoBeat) Pro-life E-News Canada sent around a […]

EDMONTON, Nov 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Lyle Oberg, the Alberta Minister of Learning sent a letter to the province's school boards last week warning them to get parental permission before children are made to participate in the UNICEF sponsored National Election on the Rights of Youth. The National Post reports that in his letter, Oberg writes: “I would strongly encourage you to ensure that parents provide written consent before their children participate and that they be informed about the context, time and place of the election so that parents who object can withdraw their children from participating.” Oberg notes that […]

WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday the US House passed a resolution calling for committee hearings on the burgeoning aborted baby parts market. Promoting the resolution in the House, Representative Joseph Pitts (R-PA) said that “based on reliable reports, abortion clinics are selling dead, unborn babies. Or, I should say, parts of babies and the older, the better, to middlemen. These middlemen, in turn, sell them to researchers. This means, more money for the abortion clinic. Instead of the problem of disposing of dead bodies, now,  abortion clinics have a lucrative means of getting out of the way ‘unintended babies.’”  […]

OTTAWA, Nov 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Raymond Perrault introduced a bill last week which would protect the conscience of health care workers. The Senator’s Bill S-11 was originally introduced by Senator Stanley Haidasz. The bill would amend the Criminal Code to prohibit coercion in medical procedures that offend a person’s religion or belief that human life is inviolable from conception to natural death. The bill has been placed on the Order Paper for second reading on November 16.  The bill came in response to petitions from over 8,000 Canadians (mostly nurses and others connected to health care) to provide protection […]

OTTAWA, Nov 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – From statistics and figures published on the website of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL) and the website of notorious Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler, one can ascertain that Morgentaler makes at least $17,083,764 per year from his business of killing unborn babies. Health researcher Isabelle Begin who discovered the information informed LifeSite News that Morgentaler owns and operates 8 clinics in 7 provinces in Canada.  Adding the numbers of abortions performed in the Morgentaler clinics (save for the Edmonton clinic figures, which are unavailable) and multiplying by the average cost of these abortions (as […]

WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League has released a new analysis that shows so-called “emergency contraception” (EC) causes abortion. The analysis was introduced to attendees at the American Public Health Association conference in Chicago. An ALL pamphlet, “Emergency Contraception by the Numbers,” describes a mathematical analysis of the possibility of a woman getting pregnant from an act of sexual intercourse, and the probability of how EC acts.  The pamphlet notes that: “EC taken within 24 hours will prevent pregnancy 43 percent of the time by killing a human being. EC taken between 24 and 48 hours will prevent pregnancy […]

OTTAWA, Nov 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Independent health researcher Isabelle Begin reported at a news conference Friday that official Canadian government statistics show that 7.7 percent of Canadian women who undergo induced abortions require hospitalization following the procedure.  Begin’s analysis is a never-before-published code-by-code breakdown of hospitalizations from Statistics Canada’s Hospital Morbidity file. Begin informed LifeSite that “one out of thirteen women are hospitalized in a life-and-death situation after legally induced abortion in Canada.”  She noted that Dr. Henry Morgentaler, the father of abortion in Canada, claimed publicly that abortion was the “safest medical procedure there was.” “To this day, women […]

KOSOVO, Nov 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Officials from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) offered bribes to a Kosovo doctor as an “inducement” to join in their efforts to promote contraception among Kosovo’s unwilling recipients. World magazine reported in a recent edition that Dr. Sjedullah Hoxha, head of obstetrics and gynecology at Kosovo’s main hospital, was approached by the UNFPA to become involved in UNFPA population control, and to serve on a medical advisory committee the UN agency was convening for Kosovo. Although he initially refused, Dr. Hoxha accepted the work with the UNFPA after the agency promised him a new washing […]

Parents of students in a British class have been asked to be supportive of Terry Craggs, 52,who is married, and will dress as a woman for a year before undergoing a sex-change operation. He wishes to be known as Miss Terri Craggs from next year.  (The Times) Pro-Life E-News Canada sent around a report that the Pro-Life Action League headed up by Joe Scheidler picketed Christ Hospital Saturday. The 120-strong picket came in response to the revelations that infanticidal “induced abortions” were taking place at the hospital, which left live-born babies to die without treatment, food or water.  (The SouthtownStar) […]

In yesterday’s announcement of the pro-life Boycott of Preven’s Canadian distributor Roberts Pharmaceuticals, the LifeSite report failed to mention that most of the drugs produced by Roberts as listed are also available from other Pharmaceutical companies.  Pro-lifers are thus encouraged to ask their pharmacists to avoid Roberts’ products and issue similar items from another pharmaceutical company.

Due to the recent secular media attention to the Preven “emergency contraceptive kit,” LifeSite will re-publish our September 22 Special Report in which we reported that the controversial early abortion drug was put on the Canadian market on Friday September 17.  Furthermore, plans are underway to have the drugs available over the counter in short order.  See today’s LifeSite Special Report at: Early Abortion Drug Available Over the Counter

OTTAWA, Nov 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a joint press release, Campaign Life Coalition and Alliance for Life Ontario reacted to the commencement of the marketing and distribution of the abortifacient drug Preven by Robert’s Pharmaceuticals. The groups announced “a boycott [of]  all products produced by Roberts Pharmaceuticals and pharmacies which dispense the drug.” “This is nothing less than a do-it-yourself abortion kit,” said Jim Hughes National President of CLC. “The primary mechanism of action is to prevent implantation, so that the newly conceived child will die.”  A list of Robert’s products follows.  Advantage 24, Agrylin, Alcojel, Allenbury Basic Soap, Amyl […]

HOLLYWOOD, Nov 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The blasphemous Mirimax (a Disney subsidiary) film “Dogma” will splash across movie screens Friday hurling insults at Christ, Christians, Christianity in general, Catholicism in particular, and the pro-life movement. One of the film’s stars commented during production that the most controversial part of the film is the contention “that Mary and Joseph had sex and that they had a kid, and therefore there is a (relative) of Christ on Earth who is a girl, and she works at an abortion clinic.”  The film, by writer-director Kevin Smith, is geared for controversy. While some suggest picketing the […]

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ronald Crystal, a prominent New York gene therapist, and Schering-Plough Corp. have requested that information on the death and illness of people subjected to controversial gene altering experiments be kept secret. The Washington Post reports that Crystal’s requests for secrecy submitted to the National Institutes of Health came just two weeks after a biotechnology company founded by Crystal filed for an initial public offering of stock.  While Crystal claims his patients’ deaths – now totaling four – were due to their medical conditions rather than his gene experiments, his requests for secrecy and those coming […]

CBC’s “Life & Times” will air a one-hour show on notorious Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler on November 16 at 9pm. Ask for a fair representation of the pro-life view: CBC Audience Relations [email protected] If unsatisfied with the response contact the CBC Ombudsman at: [email protected]

TORONTO, Nov 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A United Nations human rights committee ruled Friday that Ontario, and thus Canada, is violating an international agreement by allowing public funding for Catholic schooling in the province without funding other religious schooling. The ruling gave Canada 90 days to comply with the order, although it is not legally binding. The Ontario government responded that it is committed to the current system of funding, but the federal government appears to be taking the ruling more seriously.  Michael O’Shaughnessy, Foreign Affairs spokesman, told the National Post, “The government of Canada will not be able to provide a response […]

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Nov 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Thomas Winning, the Scottish Catholic leader who made headlines recently for supporting a 12-year old in a crisis pregnancy, has again irked the anti-family forces. Responding to a Scottish government proposal to repeal a British law banning the promotion of homosexuality in schools, the cardinal said it is appropriate to discriminate against practicing homosexuals when it comes to the adoption of children, and the hiring of teachers, coaches and soldiers.  “While denouncing homosexual activity, the church also defends homosexual persons from those forms of discrimination which are unjust and seeks to help them […]

The largest study of its kind, comparing 5856 children conceived with in vitro fertilization to 1.5 million normally conceived children has found that the IVF group “were five times more likely to be born prematurely and have low birthweight; the death rate for the IVF babies was also higher. The researchers attempt to explain away all the findings as due to multiple births.   Conservative News Service reports today that a worldwide survey, conducted by Wirthlin Worldwide polling and released at the World Congress of Families, meeting this month in Geneva, finds that 84 percent of people polled agreed that marriage […]

ELIZABETH, NJ, Nov 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A hospital merger where the Catholic St. Elizabeth Hospital was to take over Elizabeth General Medical Center has resulted in the giving of 2.4 million dollars to Planned Parenthood to placate abortion supporters over the impending loss of immoral services at the medical center. After Union County Superior Court Judge Miriam Span gave the American Civil Liberties Union and other pro-abortion groups the right to intervene in the impending hospital merger last month, a deal was struck to give $2.4 million to Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey to pay for abortions and […]

CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The move to drop protection for the unborn from the constitution of Venezuela which resulted in outcries from pro-life forces around the world including a letter from the pope, was apparently pushed by the United Nations Population Fund. The Venezuelan paper El Nacional reported that Marisela Padron Quero, UNFPA director of Latin America and the Caribbean, told the country’s Assembly that a pro-life plank in the new constitution would violate various international conventions that Venezuela had already signed. The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) reported that other UN officials note that Quero’s […]

RAMSEY, N.J., Nov 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A perfect Christmas gift for your teenagers has hit the market today with creation of a computer game called, “The Choice Game(TM).” The CD-game, two years in the making, uses cutting edge technology and speaks to youth in their own language and preferred medium instilling in them the values of respect for life, family, chastity and Christian faith.  The game explores the topics of dating, depression, unplanned pregnancy, sexual promiscuity, chastity, drugs, drinking and other youth oriented issues.  Kathy DiFiore, producer of “The Choice Game(TM)”, and founder of the Several Sources Foundation told LifeSite that […]

TORONTO, Nov 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Roberts Pharmaceuticals, The Canadian distributor of the abortifacient “emergency contraceptive” kit Preven, began its promised “aggressive” marketing scheme today with radio advertisements and a front page article courtesy of the Globe and Mail. Dr Albert Yuzpe, a spokesperson for Roberts said “This isn’t an abortion pill. It will not disrupt a pregnancy that is established.” To its credit, the paper explained that while “proponents of the morning-after pill say it is not an abortion drug because pregnancy does not begin until after a fertilized egg is securely implanted in the womb… its opponents are equally […]

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has agreed to hear the case of a transvestite man who is suing the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) for being imprisoned in a male prison rather than a female jail as he requested. A so-called “Human Rights” Tribunal will convene this month in Coquitlam, British Columbia to hear the case of the Vancouver man who calls himself Synthia Kavanaugh who also says he was discriminated against since surgery to mutililate his body to make him appear female was denied.  CBC reports today that the United Nations is threatening the US with loss of its […]

BERLIN, Nov 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Agence France Presse reported last week that Germany’s secret service has found that “Russian gangs are killing street-children and selling their organs to rich patients in Russia and the West.” The report notes that Russian police are unable to stop the lucrative trade in human organs since the disappearance of street children is not usually reported.  Over the last few years Russian police have found increasing numbers of murdered street children with their organs removed. The secret service documents note that a gang of doctors in Novosibirsk controlled a bank of frozen organs from children […]

OTTAWA, Nov 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Answering reporters after coming out of a Liberal caucus meeting,  pro-family backbench Members of Parliament said that the soon-to-be-introduced omnibus bill on homosexual rights would lead to same-sex marriage. The legislation will extend all the benefits given to heterosexual couples to practicing homosexuals. The National Post quotes both MP Paul Steckle and MP Dan McTeague as saying they will oppose the legislation. Another two dozen backbenchers in the Liberal party are also expected to stand against the measure.  Pro-family Canadians are being urged to start voicing their opposition now to this radical agenda, and to solicit […]

TORONTO, Nov 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An official Scout group in Toronto has been set for “gay and lesbian” youth. The Associated Press reports that the group is a Rovers troop open to people aged 18-26. Andy McLaughlin, a spokesman for Scouts Canada noted that the gay and lesbian group is so far the only one of this nature in Canada.  The Canadian Scouts response to this issue is in stark contrast to its US counterpart.  LifeSite reported on October 27 that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), honouring its founding principles, asked the Supreme Court yesterday to sanction its stand […]

EDMONTON, Nov 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alberta’s Provincial Treasurer, Stockwell Day, an ardent advocate for families and a respected leader at both federal and provincial levels, has been attacked by the media and must defend himself in court on charges of defamation for writing a letter against child pornography.  The Canada Family Action Coalition reported yesterday that Day wrote a letter to the media following a controversy over a school board trustee who, in his capacity as a lawyer, agreed to defend a repeat pedophile. He argued in court that laws against possession of child porn were unconstitutional. A school board […]

OTTAWA, Nov 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As LifeSite reported on October 20, a Senate bill promoting euthanasia received second reading in the Senate yesterday. Liberal Senator Sharon Carstairs, a pro-euthanasia activist, defended her bill S-2, the “Medical Decisions Facilitation Act”, quoting selectively from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The legislation defines in law that physicians can withhold life-sustaining “treatment” without penalty and that “treatment” includes “nutrition and hydration.”  Senator Carstairs quotes the Catechism at paragraph 2279 saying, “Even if death is thought imminent, the ordinary care owed to a sick person cannot be legitimately interrupted. The use of painkillers to alleviate the […]

OTTAWA, Nov 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Official Opposition Families Critic Eric Lowther (Calgary Centre,  Ref.), raised the issue of the upcoming Nov. 19 National Election for the Rights of Youth” in the House of Commons yesterday. Elections Canada is asking children as young as six years old to vote for their favourite right. Lowther said that the results of this exercise are going to be presented to the Prime Minister’s office and the government and that “Parents and school boards, concerned about the politicizing of their children, have rejected this intrusion.” “It is not about teaching democracy. It is about using students […]

LONDON, England, Nov 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week the Cambridge University alumni magazine “Cam”  contained an advertisement seeking to have University graduates donate “genetically superior”  ova for fertility treatment. Peter Richard, the magazine’s editor was horrified that the ad had been published promising that it would be not be published again.  In investigating the story, the Sunday Times of London discovered that while the sale of human ova is illegal the practice is still popular. Mohamed Taranissi, who runs the Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre in London, told the paper that he believed many donors were secretly receiving gifts or […]

Catholic World News reports today that a proposed ban on partial-birth abortions was not approved by Maine voters in a state referendum on Tuesday. The media allowed pro-abortion ads but refused pro-life ads. As well, abortion advocates and their supporters misrepresented the implications of the ban to the voters.  (EWTN) Pro-Life Info-Net reported today that CBS’ “Early Show” with Bryant Gumbel on Monday slammed actor Mel Gibson’s Pro-Life Views.  Gibson defended his pro-life views saying “I’m pretty firm on stuff like that. I don’t feel like I’m howling in a hurricane. I just try to do my bit the way […]

KINGSTON, ON, Nov 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week at a conference on “Faith and Public Life”, co-  sponsored by Queen’s University and Citizens for Public Justice, intolerance for Christianity was abundant.  Panelist MP Elsie Wayne (PC, St. John NB) was the one panelist who expressed her Christian beliefs and was heckled by some in the crowd. However, rather than demonstrating normal respect for her, the moderator repeatedly passed her by, and once even tried to stop her from answering a question. One man accosted her after the session and hissed, “In two minutes, you’ve nearly destroyed everything we’re trying to […]

TORONTO, Nov. 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Because of the seriousness of the upcoming UN social engineering exercise in Canadian schools, LifeSite has expanded its UNICEF section to include more research resources on the subject. This should be very helpful for anyone approaching their school boards and other elected officials about the UN vote on child rights. The UNICEF page has a new UN Child Rights Vote section with six articles. More will be added in the next few days. 

KANSAS CITY, Nov 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A randomized, controlled study published in the current issue of the American Medical Association’s Archives of Internal Medicine shows empirically that “intercessory prayer produced a measurable improvement in the medical outcomes of critically ill patients.” Overall the study found that patients who were prayed for had 11% less complications than those who were not prayed for.  The study involved 990 patients admitted to the Coronary Care Unit at the Mid America Heart Institute (MAHI), Kansas City, Mo. Patients were randomly assigned to either a prayer group or a normal care group. The first names of […]

Both Focus on the Family Canada and Catholic Insight have published condemnations of the upcoming Nov. 19 “Child Rights Vote” to be held in schools across Canada. Focus charges that it is an exercise in social engineering.     Zenit News reported last week that prostitution and brothels have been legalized in Holland making it legal to run a brothel anywhere in the country, subject to local zoning ordinances.  The new legislation, which will begin to be enforced in the summer of 2000, will oblige “sex workers” to obey labour legislation; will give access to social security and impose fiscal obligation as […]

DARWIN, Australia, Nov 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A coroner’s court in Darwin is investigating the case of a baby girl who was denied medical treatment at Darwin Private Hospital last year after her mother underwent an abortion. After only 5 months gestation, “Baby J,” as the baby victim is called in court, was breathing independently at birth and even cried. After 80 minutes without treatment she died.  With files from ABC news.   

HONG KONG, Nov 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fides, the international news agency of the Vatican reported last week that the Chinese government is rethinking its one-child policy due to the resulting demographic imbalance. Fides cites an unnamed Chinese government official who notes that the policy will be widened to allow two children and other changes are pending within three years.  Fides reported that “in the year 2000, 70 million men aged 25-49 will have to remain bachelors.” The phenomenon has led to the selling of wives, with over 19,000 cases examined and more than 60,000 people involved and arrested in 1999. […]

OTTAWA, Nov 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The next Canadian census, scheduled for 2001, will ask respondents if they are practicing homosexuals. Although the final decision on wording has not been completed, the questionnaire will likely provide an option to indicate that one has a “same-  sex partner.”  The Ottawa Citizen reported today that Pierre Turcotte, Statistics Canada’s chief of housing, family and social statistics, noted that statistics on “sexual orientation” have been requested by the federal justice and finance departments, the provinces, academic researchers and insurance companies, among others.

American Family News reports today that Maine television stations WCSH-TV in Portland and WLBZ-TV in Bangor say a pro-life ad sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland is misleading and not appropriate for younger viewers. The 30-second ad, shows a mother and a newborn while an announcer says that partial birth abortions are legal in Maine at the baby’s age.  Zenit News reports today that on Saturday Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced his intent to remove protection for the unborn from the country’s constitution. Archbishop Ignacio Velasco of Caracas led pro-lifers in a massive demonstration against the radical proposal which […]

OTTAWA, Nov 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In order to promote the Child Rights Vote in Canada on November 19 and the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child, on November 20, the National Film Board of Canada is running cartoon propaganda for children on TELETOON, an all-cartoon cable network. “Rights from the Heart: Films on children’s rights!,” is a series of short cartoons which began airing yesterday, and will be shown for the next two weekends, Saturday and Sunday beginning at 12:30 pm.  The pro-child care and anti-family bias of these productions is evident from […]

LONDON, UK, Nov 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Richard Neale is a former Canadian abortionist who is being investigated in Britain for 70 suspicious deaths. Despite having killed two women in Canada (at least one due to a botched abortion), and being stripped of his medical licence in Canada, Neale was nevertheless allowed to practice in England. His suspension and investigation in Britain took place after 60 women came forward publicly to say that they had suffered needlessly while in his care.  While in Britain he was dismissed from a hospital where his malpractice was so evident nurses nicknamed him “the […]

CALGARY, AB, Nov 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At Calgary Festival ‘99 With Franklin Graham, which concluded yesterday, Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham and heir to his evangelical organization, preached to a crowd of 15,500 in Calgary’s Saddledome. According to a report in the Sun, Graham condemned “abortion, homosexuality and adultery” but assured those who were repentant that, “if you confess, God will forgive you.”  With files from the Calgary Sun.

TORONTO, Nov 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Toronto Sun columnist Meed Ward covered the story of the arrest of the three pro-life reporters who were covering the arrest of Linda Gibbons last month. Ward notes that the Canadian Church Press and the Periodical Writers Association of Canada have written letters of protest in the case due to the attack on freedom of the press. The CCP called her arrest an “outrageous infringement of freedom of the press.” PWAC said it “threatens to introduce a chill factor into the freelance reporting of controversial news events.”  Ward points out the insanity of the police […]