Articles for Month: November 1999

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]