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The Nov 24 news item on Mary Wagner erroneously stated that the BC Access to Abortion Act prohibits all pro-life activity “including silent prayer” within 50 metres of an abortion clinic. While it is true that pro-life picketing and free speech are forbidden within the Bubble Zone, silent prayer is still allowed.  In fact, several members of a prayer group that meets outside Everywoman’s abortuary every Friday morning regularly pray silently inside the Bubble Zone.  Although the abortuary staff is deeply troubled by this presence, the prayer group has been reassured by the police that its activity does not fall […]
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Michigan Right to Life reports that on December 20, Governor John Engler signed into law a three-bill package that requires abortion clinics to meet basic health and safety requirements. The law will also provide more accurate information about abortion and the injuries it causes to women. The abortion clinic regulation and reporting law will take effect March 9, 2000. (PR Newswire)  The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Islamic advocacy group,  today released the results of a nationwide survey of American Muslim political attitudes indicating that only 55 percent of respondents say they believe abortion should be prohibited except to […]
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BUCHANAN BLASTS “ARROGANT” JUDGES’ DECISIONS

WASHINGTON, Dec 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan, commented this week on the recent Vermont Supreme Court decision to give marriage benefits to homosexual couples and the Ohio court ruling nixing school vouchers for religious schools.  “I condemn these two illegitimate judicial decisions, as I condemn Roe v. Wade and other decisions where federal and state courts have ruled in unconstitutional and immoral ways,” he said. “It is time the American people took back from these arrogant judges the right to make the decisions that govern their daily lives.”
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MILAN SUPPORTS POOR IN AVOIDING ABORTION

MILAN, Dec 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women who feel they must abort their babies for financial reasons are being given an option to avoid abortion in Milan. The Italian city has offered to support women who decide to allow their babies to live with about $775 (Canadian) per month. Reuters reported that Girolamo Sirchia, the head of social services in Milan explained, “our aim is to safeguard the maternity of needy people and to avoid abortions for economic reasons.”  With files from Pro-Life E-news.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM LIFESITE NEWS

The editors and reporters at LifeSite would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a happy and holy Christmas and a blessed New Year. May the love of the Little One born 2000 years ago inflame your hearts with joy and peace. Remember: Jesus is the “reason for the season.”  Please note that regular LifeSite News reports will not be published from Dec. 24 to Dec. 31.  However, urgent news items will be sent out as bulletins. We will resume regular publication on Jan. 3, 2000.
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WEB SITE EXPOSES CANADIAN ABORTION INDUSTRY SECRETS

VANCOUVER, Dec 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ted Gerk of the Pro-Life Resource Centre in British Columbia has released a new web site cataloguing the numerous controversies around Canada’s abortion industry since the 70’s. Information from news clippings, freedom of information requests and court documents reveal the “dirty little secrets” that lie festering beneath the “safe, legal” façade of abortion facilities.  Taking information available in the public domain, the web page documents such incidents as the case of a 17-year old Ottawa girl who died from her abortion – an abortion that was not approved by the local abortion committee until after […]
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NEW SUPREME COURT JUDGE SAID TO BE PRO-LIFE

OTTAWA, Dec 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Jean Chretien yesterday announced the surprise appointment to the Supreme Court of Justice Louis LeBel of the Quebec court of appeal. The judge, labeled an “abortion foe” by the Toronto Star, issued a temporary injunction in the 1989 Chantale Daigle case preventing a woman from aborting the child in her womb while her husband sought a court order to protect the child’s life. He is to take his seat at the court on Jan. 7.  Today’s Toronto Star quotes Henri Grondin, LeBel’s former law partner of 20 years as saying of LeBel, “He’s […]
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CANADIAN DEPOPULATION TIED TO ECONOMICS AND SELFISHNESS

OTTAWA, Dec 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report from Statistics Canada yesterday noted that the current fertility rate in Canada, at 1.55, falls far short of the replacement rate of 2.1 needed to sustain the population. The report indicates that Canada’s population die-off is related to career earnings of young Canadians which are far below that of their parents.  While some say that young Canadians are thus “priced right out of the having-babies market,” others contend that selfishness is at the heart of the issue. Jim Frideres, a professor of sociology at the University of Calgary, told the National Post, “You’ve got […]
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WALL STREET JOURNAL CALLS UN LEADER TO ACCOUNT FOR RWANDA

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) called United Nations leader Kofi Annan to account for the UN’s complicity in the Rwandan genocide costing some 800,000 lives. Philip Gourevitch, in response to the “independent” inquiry into the UN’s role in the massacre and Annan’s subsequent apology, said the UN head “cannot be sorry enough for this state of affairs”.  Gourevitch points out the inquiry’s observation that Annan and the UN secretariat failed to share the warnings they were receiving on the deteriorating situation and proposed solutions with the Security Council. As a result, “crucial months […]
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COMPLICATIONS AROUND CANADIAN EUTHANASIA BILL

OTTAWA, Dec 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian senators continue to address the “Medical Decisions Facilitation Act”, S-2, and are tackling a complex issue that experts say will be the first step on the road to legal euthanasia. The proposals in S-2 need to be significantly tightened up before the bill is remotely acceptable to pro-life Canadians. Issues such as the withdrawal of treatment causing death and the classification of food and water as treatment require a thorough understanding both scientifically and morally.  Peter Ryan, a recognized expert in the field, has provided LifeSite with a comprehensive analysis of the issues around […]
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HOMOSEXUAL HATE CRIME LAW EXPECTED IN COMING MONTHS

OTTAWA, Dec 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An exchange in the House of Commons last week confirmed fears that Canada’s justice minister is scheming to outlaw “propaganda which promotes violence and hatred based on sexual orientation.” A law such as this would in effect ban bible verses condemning homosexual behaviour and discriminate against those holding traditional religious and moral beliefs that have been respected for many centuries throughout the world.  Homosexualist MP Svend Robinson questioned Justice Minister Anne McLellan last Monday demanding to know: “When will the minister finally bring forward her long overdue omnibus bill on equality for gays and lesbians? […]
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Planned Parenthood is hailing the release of a new movie promoting abortion. ‘The Cider House Rules’ – a film based on John Irving’s 1985 novel about a doctor who runs an orphanage and performs abortions for the women who choose them – is opening in theatres across the country. Planned Parenthood affiliates will use the occasion of the film’s release to encourage dialogue to promote abortion. (Boston.com)  The National Post reported Monday that Statistics Canada and university research papers on the “consequences of population ageing” warn of a tragic impact of divorce on baby boomers. As divorce takes over widowhood as the […]
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U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. threw out Ohio’s taxpayer-funded school voucher program Monday claiming it violated the constitutional separation of church and state since funds were being given to some children to attend private religious schools. (News & Observer)   The Lancet reported this month that The British House of Lords eliminated the right of parents of healthy children to sue for damages because the “birth resulted from negligence in medical treatment intended to prevent conception or to terminate pregnancy.” The decision does not apply to handicapped children.  (ALL)  To write a Christmas greeting to Mary Wagner the 25-year-old pro-life activist […]
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND BBC: GLOBAL SEX PROPAGANDA PROJECT

LONDON, Dec 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that with money from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and the UK Government’s Department for International Development, International Planned Parenthood and the BBC plan to deliver sex education propaganda via radio and other media to adolescents worldwide. The project called “Sexwise” is set to launch broadcasts in Spanish and Portuguese in the summer of 2000.  With files from BBC.
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PRO-FAMILY WORLD AGENDA THREATENED BY MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN DISCORD

NAZARETH, Dec 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life leaders on the international scene are concerned with recent reports of increasing antagonism between Christians and Muslims in various parts of the world. This is seen as tragically playing right into the hands of de-populationists who view these two pro-family world religions as the greatest obstacles that must be somehow neutralized and any co-operation between them undermined.  The most recent disturbing development is centered in the Holy Land. Catholic World News reported yesterday that, “in the town of Nazareth, fundamentalist Muslims have stepped up pressure to intimidate Christians in the wake of an Israeli […]
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RADICAL FEMINISM RAMPANT IN CANADIAN POLITICS

OTTAWA, Dec 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week in the Canadian Senate, feminist senator Lucie Pépin paid tribute to the “contributions of prominent Canadian women.” Exposing the extreme feminist bias of her remarks, Pépin, mentioning about 15 women to whom “society owes a great deal,”  included three female abortion and contraception promoters, two of whom operated illegally in Canada.  “Other Canadian heroines include Elizabeth Bagshaw, Dr. Marion Powell and Dr. Lise Fortier.  Dr. Bagshaw was the director of the first birth control clinic in Canada. She directed the Ontario clinic illegally from 1932 to 1966. Dr. Powell did the same in […]
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VERMONT SUPREME COURT GIVES GAYS ALL BENEFITS OF MARRIAGE

MONTPELIER, VT, Dec 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vermont’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday that “the state is constitutionally required to extend to same-sex couples the common benefits and protections that flow from marriage under Vermont law.” While pro-family groups were thankful that the court did not order homosexual marriage, the ruling cannot be appealed to the US Supreme Court since it bases itself on Vermont’s state constitution. The courts threw the decision on whether to grant same-sex marriages back to the state legislature.  “Whether this ultimately takes the form of inclusion within the marriage laws themselves or a parallel ‘domestic-partnership’ system or […]
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PRO-LIFE PRIEST HARASSED BY ANTI-LIFE CANADIAN MP – MORE DETAILS

OTTAWA, Dec 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As LifeSite reported Friday, Fr. Tony Van Hee, a pro-life Catholic priest who has for the past ten years quietly and peacefully picketed, prayed and fasted outside the Canadian parliament buildings in Ottawa was harassed by gay MP Svend Robinson, a politician known for his aggressive promotion of euthanasia and homosexuality.  LifeSite interviewed Fr. Van Hee and has learned that the altercations with Robinson began November 30 and thus not in the last week as LifeSite had reported.  Among seven signs on display that day, one read “Homosexuality – objective disorder tending to deviant acts,” […]
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EXXON-MOBIL GAS COMPANY ELIMINATES “DOMESTIC PARTNER” BENEFITS

WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move seen as a victory for pro-family forces, Exxon-Mobil made a corporate decision to end Mobil’s policy of granting “domestic partner” benefits to homosexual partners of employees as well as unmarried heterosexual ones. Several pro-family groups in the US had petitioned Mobil in March of 1998 asking them to reconsider their extension of benefits to benefits to homosexual and unmarried couples “on an equal footing with married employees.”  Commenting on the decision, Family Research Council’s Chief Spokeswoman Janet Parshall said “Think of the energy Exxon-Mobil can now channel towards delivering gas instead of […]
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A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Friday that the US law forbidding child pornography infringes the first amendment rights of pornographers since it includes a ban not only on child pornography but also on porn involving people who “appear” or “convey the impression” they are minors. (infobeat.com)   Catholic World News reported Sunday that a new wave of forced sterilization in Mexico has prompted calls of protest to the government by Provida, a Mexican pro-life group. Jorge Serrano Limon, president of Provida, explains that the over 200 cases of forced abortions discovered are the fruit of the government’s birth […]
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UN RWANDA INQUIRY “WHITEWASH”

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The report of the so-called “independent” inquiry into the actions of the United Nations during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda may be nothing more than a recommendation to give the UN more money, authority, military personnel and equipment.  Conducted by Ingvar Carlsson, long-time UN devotee, the inquiry recommends more political will, finances and personnel supporting the UN because “the overriding failure in the response of the United Nations before and during the genocide in Rwanda can be summarized as a lack of resources.” With this, UN president Kofi Annan was able to issue a […]
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BRITISH COUPLE WANTS TO CREATE GRANDCHILD FROM DEAD SON

LONDON, Dec 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the latest innovation from the world of reproductive technology, a British couple is fighting for the right to create a grandchild for themselves using the sperm from their dead son.  After the death of Lance Smith, 36, last year, a fertility clinic extracted sperm from his body for the in-vitro fertilization of his girlfriend of 10 years. The woman declined the treatment so Lance’s parents, Natasha and Barry Smith, from Droitwich asked for the sperm to be released to them. Britain’s Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority said that the sperm could not be released […]
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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM MOTHER OF PRO-LIFE PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE

VANCOUVER, BC, Dec 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Friday, Jane Wagner, mother of Mary Wagner, 25, a political prisoner in Maximum Security at BC Women’s Correction centre, issued a moving letter to the press. Jane explains that her daughter’s “crime” is “offering flowers and hope on the streets of Vancouver to desperate women making desperate choices. She wanted to help women in crisis pregnancies to choose life for their babies.” “Our family will miss her on Christmas, especially my little ones,” writes Jane. “They are heart-broken and confused. They miss her terribly.” Using the imagery of the first Christmas, Jane writes that […]
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TAPE & CD TAX IMPOSED TODAY – NO EXEMPTIONS

The Canadian Copyright Board announced today the new levies which will be added to the cost of all blank tapes and CDs as follows: Analog Audio Cassette Tapes (40 minutes or longer): 23.3 cents per tape Analog Audio Cassette Tapes (less than 40 minutes): no levy MiniDiscs, CD-Rs Audio and CD-RWs Audio : 60.8 cents per CD/disc CD-Rs and CD-RWs : 5.2 cents per CD   Manufacturers and importers are responsible for paying the levy on each unit of leviable media that they sell in Canada. Canadians will now be paying P.S.T. (in provinces that have sales tax), G.S.T. and now this […]
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ITALIAN COURT FORBIDS FORCED ABORTION ON 13-YEAR-OLD

ROME, Dec 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Italian court decided today to cancel the planned forced abortion for a 13-year-old mentally disabled girl.  The decision was celebrated by pro-lifers in Italy but denounced by abortion supporters.  LifeSite reported Monday that the girl was taken from her parents and put in the custody of a doctor who said she should have an abortion despite her opposition.  The child was eventually place in a foster home and had a priest intervene in the case on her behalf.  The priest delivered a letter to the judge expressing Laura’s plea in her own words: “Dear […]
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Rock For Life is asking music buyers to beware of what they are supporting with their music purchases this Christmas season. Consumers are urged not to purchase music from artists who help raise money and support for the abortion industry. Rock For Life has compiled a list of different artists who support the abortion industry. The list at Rock for Life includes artists such as Rage Against The Machine, Jewel, Korn, Ani DiFranco, Madonna, Melissa Etheridge, Carrie Newcomer, Joan Osborne, Primus, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cher, Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls, Santana, Stone Temple Pilots, Bush and many more.  The Medical […]
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UPDATE ON ARRESTED PRO-LIFE REPORTERS

TORONTO, Dec 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The three pro-life reporters arrested while covering the arrest of pro-life hero Linda Gibbons outside an abortuary in Toronto last month were in court today and received trial dates.  Sue Careless will be in court on January 7 and Steve Jalsevac and Gordon Truscott will be in court on January 12.
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ABORTIFACIENT DISTRIBUTOR DECEIVES INVESTORS

TORONTO, Dec 17, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Roberts Pharmaceuticals which recently commenced its exclusive marketing of the abortifacient “emergency contraceptive” Preven in Canada has deceived its investors in a letter issued today regarding the companies new abortifacient venture.  The company makes no mention of the abortifacient nature of the drugs and even fails to indicate that the drugs effect the lining of the endometrium (information which is contained in the drug’s promotional material).  Investors are told in the letter that “The pills in the PREVEN Emergency Contraceptive Kit work the same way birth control pills do, preventing a pregnancy from occurring by […]
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PRO-LIFE PRIEST HARASSED BY ANTI-LIFE CANADIAN MP

OTTAWA, Dec 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Tony Van Hee, a pro-life Catholic priest who since September 1989 has quietly and peacefully picketed, prayed and fasted outside the Canadian parliament buildings in Ottawa, was harassed Tuesday Dec. 7 by gay MP Svend Robinson, a politician known for his aggressive defence of euthanasia and homosexuality.  LifeSite has learned that Robinson confronted Fr. Van Hee demanding five times that he remove one of his signs, after each demand Fr. Van Hee responded “are you going to face the truth?”.  Robinson then proceeded to take the sign and attempted unsuccessfully to break it, and […]
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INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT STRIPS FAMILY PROTECTION

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-fam)  reported today from the United Nations that deliberations on the workings of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have removed explicit protection for families from the ICC statutes.  Proponents of the ICC have dismissed concerns of pro-lifers that the court may be used to hamper pro-life activity claiming that the ICC will address ONLY “the most serious crimes of concern to the international community.” However, when Arab delegates attempted to ensure that ‘acts of war’ under the war crimes provision do not affect family matters such as […]
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ANTI-SPANKING “CHILD ADVOCATES” DEFENDED PEDOPHILIA

OTTAWA, Dec 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law (CFCYL), a group currently challenging Canada’s law permitting corrective spanking as a form of discipline was, in 1995, advocating for the “right” of children as young as 14 to give valid consent to sodomy.  CFCYL executive director Sheena Scott, told the National Post yesterday that they stood behind their 1995 intervention into a court case seeking to have a law prohibiting sodomy for children under 18 struck down. The 1995 case involved a 23-year-old man charged with sodomizing the niece of his fiancee when the girl […]
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THE MONEY BEHIND DE-POPULATION PROPAGANDA

WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In its latest Foundation Watch newsletter, the Capital Research Center (CRC) has exposed one of the kingpin funders of population control and its ideology worldwide.  CRC notes in its December newsletter that “The Pew Charitable Trusts – the seventh-largest foundation in the U.S. with $4.7 billion in assets as of December 31, 1998 –  has led the charge to redefine world security as a matter of reducing the world’s human population.”  CRC notes that a Pew 1993 White Paper outlined a general strategy to encourage controls on the world’s increasing population through grants to advocacy […]
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US ABORTUARY FACES LAWSUIT FOR DENYING ABC LINK

FARGO, ND, Dec 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fargo resident Amy Jo Mattson, has launched a lawsuit against a local abortion facility seeking to stop the abortuary from misleading clients about the abortion-breast cancer link. According to the Red River Women’s Clinic pamphlet, distributed to prospective abortion patients in Fargo, North Dakota, “Anti-abortion activists claim that having an abortion increases the risk of developing breast cancer and endangers future childbearing. None of these claims are supported by medical research or established medical organizations.”  The suit alleges that this statement is misleading and constitutes false advertising.  It is being brought on behalf of […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

The National Post reported yesterday that the Supreme Court of Canada ruling allowing lap dancing at strip bars will likely be negated by health bylaws as most municipalities have enacted rules forbidding such activity at strip clubs.  Church News reported Wednesday that the Catholic Church in Cuba announced that the third Archdiocesan Bioethics Day will be held next January. The event aims to oppose the increasing number of abortions in Cuba, as well as the common use of contraceptive methods. (EWTN) Mother Angelica, foundress of EWTN, and the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration has dedicated the Church built next to […]
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CALLS FOR REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY REGULATION

OTTAWA, Dec 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The absence of a bill regulating new reproductive technology which the government promised to introduce by the fall of 1999 has been highlighted recently by a Senator and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC).  Last week Senator Lucie Pépin, pointed out to her colleagues in the Senate that the 1993 recommendations of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive and Genetic Technology have not yet been acted upon, leaving Canada in a dangerous position. Pepin urged the government “act as quickly as possible” on the matter “in order to protect the health and well-being of Canadians.”  […]
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SPECIAL EXPOSE ON DAVID SUZUKI

TORONTO, Dec 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – National Post columnist Terrance Corcoran has given LifeSite News permission to reprint his recent column on David Suzuki. Corcoran exposes Suzuki as a extremist environmentalist who uses his television program to propagate his earth-worshipping religion.  See today’s special report at:  David Suzuki's gloomy world of nothingness
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On Tuesday, France’s Deputy Education Minister Segolene Royal explained the rules regarding his government’s introduction of the abortifacient morning-after pill in schools. AP notes that school nurses will only be allowed to prescribe the pill in exceptional cases and only if a doctor or family planning center cannot be reached immediately. (Washington Post) In public consultations in Hobart Australia Monday, the Australian Dr. Death, Philip Nitschke,  revealed that he would offer his murderous services in Hobart in the coming year. A Naples news report circulated by Pro-Life E-News notes that Tasmanian doctors slammed Dr Nitschke’s advice and right-to-life campaigners said the […]
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REALWOMEN: ABOLISH THE FEDERAL STATUS OF WOMEN

OTTAWA, Dec 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday REAL Women of Canada called for an end to the Canadian government’s Federal Status of Women, noting that the “antiquated agency, with an annual appropriation of about 18 million dollars, has become a tool to ridicule and silence women who do not support its propagation of the radical feminist/lesbian ideology, and the infiltration and forcing of this biased viewpoint on the national agenda.”  Referring to a meeting of the group in Alymer Quebec last week, one attendee from REAL Women reported that the radical feminists ridiculed, jeered, and shouted at an attending panel […]
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CANADIAN ABORTUARIES – MAJOR SOURCE FOR BODY PARTS MARKET

VANCOUVER, Dec 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday Ted Gerk, of the Pro-Life Resource Centre reported that the president of a major baby parts marketer in the US was caught on tape saying that he expected Canada to be the leading source of fetal body parts, especially for “late” abortions, thus “larger” babies).  Dr. Miles Jones, president of Opening Lines, a U.S.-based firm providing fetal body parts to medical researchers, has been recorded on tape stating about Canada: “We’re actually going in there and saying to the clinic, we’re going to cover some of your processing costs, and your overhead. We become a […]
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UPDATE ON PROPOSED FORCED ABORTION IN ITALY

SICILY, Dec 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The proposed forced abortion of a mentally disabled 13-year-old in Italy has brought not only the condemnation of the Church as reported by LifeSite Monday but also numerous offers to save the baby.  The Noto diocese in which the girl, Laura, lives has offered to take economic responsibility to help Laura and her baby in any way for as long as necessary. Zenit News reports that the “Oasis of Mary Most Holy” of Troina, a center for the care of handicapped and mentally ill persons has offered to help, and the diocesan office for Health […]
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CORRECTION

* In yesterday’s news on the Supreme Court’s legalization of lap dancing LifeSite noted incorrectly that Louise Arbour is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.  While Arbour did present the ruling, the Chief Justice is Justice MacLachlin. Arbour was recently appointed to the Supreme Court, after serving as Head Prosecutor for the UN War Crimes Court.  * Also in last Wednesday’s news LifeSite erroneously reported that donations to support lawyer Charles Ligousi in his bid to overturn the bubble zone law could receive tax receipts from the Christian Heritage Party. Such a policy is under consideration, but […]
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CLARIFICATION ON POPE’S CALL FOR END TO DEATH PENALTY

VATICAN CITY, Dec 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Media reports covering statements made by Pope John Paul II Sunday with regard to the death penalty failed for the most part to mention an essential proviso to his call for abolition of the death penalty. The official Vatican Information Service noted that, while the pope did renew his “appeal to all leaders to reach an international consensus to abolish the death penalty”, he based this position on the view that “the cases of absolute necessity for executing malefactors are by now so rare, if not practically non-existent.”  The Catechism of the Catholic Church […]
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David Suzuki’s gloomy world of nothingness

National Post, April 8, 1999 Reprinted with permission from the author David Suzuki’s gloomy world of nothingness by Terence Corcoran Lock up your brains and keep the children out of reach of any radio: Here comes David Suzuki with another tax-supported CBC propaganda series in which we learn for the umpteenth time that the world would be a better place if there were no ugly human beings around. “If all humanity disappeared…the rest of life would benefit enormously,” says one of Mr. Suzuki’s expert guests on From Naked Ape to Superspecies, an eight-part radio series that begins this coming Sunday […]
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CANADA’S SUPREME COURT DOWNGRADES PUBLIC MORALITY

OTTAWA, Dec 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s new Supreme Court justice, Louise Arbour, former head of the United Nations World Court in the Hague, along with two of her colleagues, ruled yesterday that sexual touching (lap dancing) in strip bars is legal. The court threw out charges of indecency leveled against a strip club owner in Quebec. Arbour, speaking on behalf of the 3-2 majority, said the sexual touching did not violate the community “standard of tolerance” that would make the bar illegally indecent under the Criminal Code.  Gwen Landolt, a lawyer and vice-president of REAL Women Canada condemned the appeal […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

Pro-Life E-News distributed a report from the Philadelphia Daily News today noting that Joan Coombs, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, claims that sources within the FDA have assured her that RU-486 will be approved in the US in January.   A depopulation measure in India which would ban political candidates with more than two children stands little chance of passage. AP reports that while the policy is in effect in 5 states, most members of the country’s parliament jeered the suggestion Monday. (Washington Post) Homosexualist and Aids activists gathered Sunday outside New York’s St. Patrick Cathedral to commemorate […]
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FORCED ABORTION BY US PRISON OFFICIAL?

OAHU, Hawaii, Dec 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ann Hose, a prisoner at the Oahu Community Correctional Center in Hawaii, launched a lawsuit December 1 against the state of Hawaii, Oahu Community Correctional Center and several officials of the state Department of Public Safety, over the killing of her unborn baby against her wishes.  Hose, who is in custody on bank fraud charges, was two to three months pregnant at the time of her arrest and says she “clearly informed” prison personnel of this fact. She wanted to keep her baby, but she claims that a prison nurse, over her objections, injected […]
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VATICAN CONDEMNS PROPOSED FORCED ABORTION FOR 13-YEAR OLD IN ITALY

SICILY, Dec 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The case of a mentally handicapped 13-year-old pregnant girl taken from her parents and put in the custody of a doctor who says she should have an abortion against her will prompted a strong condemnation by the Vatican paper, Osservatore Romano.  “The horrors of Nazi racism are back after 50 years. In this tragic affair, human reasoning has reached the heights of folly and iniquity,” said the paper.  The London Telegraph reports today that young mother, Laura, has not yet been forced to undergo the abortion procedure. The doctor is claiming that giving birth would […]
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GOV’T WOMEN’S CONFERENCE DISCRIMINATES AGAINST CONSERVATIVE WOMEN

AYLMER, Que, Dec 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Consultation on Gender Equality hosted by Canada’s Status of Women department openly discriminated against a representative of a conservative women’s group attending the meeting. The National Post reported Saturday that Cecilia Forsyth, a delegate from REALWomen of Canada was asked openly to leave a meeting, and was “booed” by the hoards of radical feminists present. Prior to her attendance some delegates had requested that her invitation to the gathering be withdrawn.  One delegate, demonstrating modern feminism’s hatred of opposing views, even likened Mrs.  Forsyth to a “white-supremacist.” The Post quotes Delegate Shelagh Day […]
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HOMOSEXUAL MEN DECLARED FATHERS OF PAID-FOR CHILDREN

TURLOCK, California, Dec 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Practicing homosexuals Barrie Drewitt, and Tony Barlow of England, made legal history in being declared the legal parents of twins born Sunday in California. A US Supreme Court judge decided to allow the two men to be placed on the birth certificates of the children as parents without mention of a mother. The baby boy and girl were the products of a paid surrogacy arrangement using the sperm of both men.  The British pair paid American company Growing Generations nearly half a million (Canadian)  dollars to produce the twins. The company, located in Turlock […]
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FEDERAL LEVY ON AUDIO RECORDING MATERIAL BEGINS JAN. 2000

OTTAWA, Dec 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last year the federal government passed Bill C-32 which authorized a levy on all audio recording material to compensate the music industry for lost revenue caused by illegal copying. The Bill became law Jan. 1, 1999 but was not implemented then because of public protest received during the fall of 1998.  Charitable, non-profit and church organizations, many businesses and others that heavily use blank audio cassettes and CDs for their own purposes, completely separate from the commercial music industry, strongly objected to the levies. The initial rates proposed would have greatly increased the cost of […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

An excellent analysis of the Ontario government’s recent pro-homosexual law and its workings is available in the November/December issue of REAL Women of Canada’s newsletter. The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) announced that it is committed to assisting Trinity Western University in its legal dispute with the BC College of Teachers now headed to the Supreme Court of Canada. See the background at: Un & IPPF Behind International Promotion of “Emergency Contraception” Evangelical leader Chuck Colson has warned his readers about the Pokemon (pocket monster) craze noting that the products are the result of the latest in high tech marketing and […]
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WEB SITES OF INTEREST

Professor Michael Schooyans has launched a new multilingual pro-life site.  Presently publishing in French, English, Spanish, Italian, German and Portuguese. Contact [email protected]   Pro-life Info-net has compiled a list of web sites for all candidates running for US President in 2000.  Gary Bauer George W. Bush Steve Forbes Orrin Hatch Alan Keyes John McCain Pat Buchanan Donald Trump Bill Bradley Al Gore
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

In a precedent setting ruling, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that damages for the wrongful death of a preborn baby can be sought even when that baby is too young to live outside the womb (nonviable). Britain’s Conservative MP Ann Winterton put forward a Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill on Thursday saying that her bill “will make it abundantly clear to doctors that they cannot intentionally bring about the death of their patients either by action or by omission.”  The measure comes just after UK media reported widely that doctors are starving elderly patients to death in hospital.     A […]
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UN & IPPF BEHIND INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION OF “EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION”

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The extremely rapid proliferation of abortifacient “emergency contraception” around the world in the past few years, was engineered by an international consortium of abortion supporters.  Formed in 1996 the International Consortium on Emergency Contraception includes UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (Geneva); International Planned Parenthood Federation (London); The Population Council (New York); The Concept Foundation (Bangkok); Pacific Institute for Women’s Health (Los Angeles); Pathfinder International (Boston); Population Services International (Washington, DC); and Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH).  The stated objective of the group said it was […]
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ONLINE VIDEO OF DESTRUCTION OF UBC PRO-LIFE DISPLAY

VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Nov. 23rd trashing of the UBC Students For Life display was captured on film and is now online at LifeSite. The campus informational display consisted of expensive signs and posters that compared abortion with other forms of genocide like slavery and the Holocaust. The display was also in protest of the university’s restriction on pro-life free speech.  In the video, Erin Kaiser, the head of UBC Student’s for Choice, along with at least two other self-appointed UBC Thought Police, Jon Chandler and Leslie Washington, can be seen knocking down, kicking and ripping up […]
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SUPREME COURT OF CANADA TO HEAR CASE AGAINST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

LANGLEY, BC, Dec 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Canada announced yesterday that it would hear the case of the British Columbia College of Teachers (BCCT) vs Trinity Western University (TWU), a Christian university whose teacher certification program was refused approval by BCCT because of the university’s Christian beliefs.  Two lower court decisions have ordered the BCCT to accredit the university’s program, but the Supreme Court has suspended those decisions with its granting of a hearing.  The B.C. College of Teachers contends that Trinity Western’s teacher education graduates may be biased against homosexual students in the public school classroom […]
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UK GIRL GETS 90 DAYS COUNSELLING FOR MURDERING NEWBORN

LONDON, Dec 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 14-year-old UK girl who stabbed her newborn baby to death just after giving birth was set free yesterday after a judge gave her a three-year supervision order provided she receives 90 days’ counselling at a child and family therapy centre.  Judge Christopher Pitchers told the girl, “Those who might think you need to be punished, well, you punish yourself every day as you think back to what happened that terrible morning. The girl claimed she concealed her pregnancy from her parents until the birth of the child and panicked when she heard her father coming […]
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UNIVERSITY STUDENT SOCIETY INTOLERANT OF PRO-LIFE

VICTORIA, BC, Dec 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Victoria newspaper, the Martlet reported last month that the university’s student society (UVSS) revoked the endorsement of the pro-life students group Youth Protecting Youth (YPY).  The UVSS based their decision on a poster campaign by YPY with posters reading, “With no laws protecting the unborn in Canada,  abortions are available at any time during the nine months of a woman’s pregnancy.” One of the UVSS members excused the discriminatory actions of the student government noting that UVSS official policy mandates belief in “freedom of choice in the matter of abortion.”  Endorsement […]
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UN & IPPF Behind International Promotion of “Emergency Contraception”

The rapid proliferation of abortifacient “emergency contraception” around the world in the past few years, has been engineered by an international consortium of abortion supporters.  Formed in 1996, the International Consortium on Emergency Contraception, includes UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (Geneva); International Planned Parenthood Federation (London); The Population Council (New York); The Concept Foundation (Bangkok); Pacific Institute for Women’s Health (Los Angeles); Pathfinder International (Boston); Population Services International (Washington, DC); and Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH). The stated objective of the group states that it is “committed to making a […]
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US NEWS ROUNDUP

The Associated Press reported yesterday that the American Medical Association voted Wednesday to support federal legislation that would outlaw doctor-assisted suicide.    Catholic World News reported yesterday that a Florida judge began hearings on Monday to determine the constitutionality of a new law that requires girls under 18 years old to have their parents notified before they can have an abortion. (EWTN)  The Alaska Supreme Court is hearing arguments regarding parental consent for abortion for girls under 17. MSNBC News reported Monday that the state and the group Concerned Alaskan Parents are asking the high court to send the matter to Superior Court […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

International Planned Parenthood announced yesterday that Bill Gates has given them another donation. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has approved a two-year grant of $1,629,282 to IPPF for the Family Planning Association of India’s “Small Family by Choice” project.  The child who was operated on while in utero and had the photo taken of him during surgery grasping the finger of the surgeon was born on December 2 at 6:25 pm at Northside Hospital weighing 5 lbs 11 oz .  Pro-life E-News distributed this update today. 
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PARENTS PROTEST PRO-HOMOSEXUAL SCHOOL POLICY

TORONTO, Dec 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-homosexual Toronto School Board (TSB) policy that aims to eliminate “homophobia” was presented at the TSB meeting last night and was met with vocal protests from parents and Muslim leaders.  The Muslim leaders and parents had attended the meeting in order to protest the introduction of the policy which, as LifeSite reported last month, includes an absolute ban on “homophobic behaviour.”  Pro-family observers note the ban amounts to the forcing of a pro-homosexual view on students while any expression of dissenting opinions such as those shared by most traditional religious beliefs would be discriminated […]
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SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTIONISTS QUESTIONED IN INDIA

In recent months, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has begun demanding explanations from doctors in India who offer sex-determination tests to abort children of an undesired sex, mainly girls.  The Dec 4 edition of The Lancet notes that the Indian Medical Association (IMA)  regards this development as a “test case” to see what punishment can be meted out to abortionists and ultrasonographers “who provide sex-determination tests aimed at selective abortion of female fetuses”. While the Indian government banned sex-determination for the purposes of selective abortion 5 years ago this is the first time any action has been taken.  Sex-selective […]
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VANCOUVER ABORTUARY STALKS PRO-LIFER’S HOME

VANCOUVER, Dec 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Everywoman’s abortion facility in Vancouver installed a covert “pinhole” camera aimed directly at the nearby private home of area pro-life activist Cecilia Von Dehn.  When Mrs. Von Dehn was alerted to the suspicious looking box housing the device she contacted the abortuary’s security company to inquire if this addition was in fact a camera and was assured it was not. Not convinced, she hired a private investigation firm on November 29th. The following day, while the investigator was photographing the device, clinic staff immediately approached him and asked what he was doing. After producing his […]
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UNIVERSITY INVESTIGATION INTO BABY PARTS PURCHASE A SHAM

VANCOUVER, Dec 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ted Gerk, of the Pro-Life Resource Centre reported yesterday that the University of British Columbia Ethics Committee investigation of the procurement of fetal tissue is “a sham.”  Gerk told LifeSite that the ethics committee will find no evidence of wrongdoing in the case since this is the same ethics committee that permitted the work of abortionist Ellen Wiebe, who began experimenting on women with toxic medications to procure chemical abortions.  Gerk commented that “the UBC ethics committee lacks one important aspect.  ethics.”  Gerk accompanied his release with the confidential order form for aborted baby lungs […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

The National Post reported yesterday that Sophia Park, 25, whose husband and family begged doctors to keep on life-support despite her brain death to save the 10-week old child in her womb, was removed from life-support by the hospital this past weekend and died shortly thereafter. The hospital announced previously that the baby had died. For background see: Toronto Hospital Announces Unborn Baby Death Panafrican News Agency reported yesterday that on Monday, the opening day of a population conference in Durban, South Africa, the country’s welfare, population and development minister, Zola Skweyiya, said that “population planning should be linked to […]
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SPANKING CHALLENGE IN THE COURTS SUPPORTED BY OTTAWA

TORONTO, Dec 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A challenge to Canada’s law permitting spanking as a form of parental discipline got underway Monday with the Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law arguing that Canada, by allowing spanking, is contravening the UN convention on the rights of the child. Paul Schabas, a lawyer representing the foundation, argued in 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.  LifeSite reported last month that the Coalition for Family Autonomy, comprising the Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC), REAL […]
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PALADIN NEW CANADIAN DISTRIBUTOR OF MORNING AFTER PILL

MONTREAL, Dec 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Montreal based Paladin Labs Inc. announced Monday that it had acquired exclusive Canadian distribution rights to a new abortifacient post coital drug similar to Preven. While the drug is still not approved by Health Canada, the July approval of Preven and Plan B by the US Food and Drug Administration are strong predictors of Canadian acceptance.  Paladin Labs, head quartered in Montreal, Quebec is a Canadian developer, marketer and distributor of pharmaceuticals, specializing in products for urology and dermatology.  In anticipation of Paladin Labs being added to the Canadian pro-life boycott of Roberts Pharmaceuticals, LifeSite […]
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SUCCESSFUL PRO-LIFE LAWYER TO CHALLENGE ABORTION IN CANADA

VANCOUVER, Dec 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mr. Charles Ligousi, one of BC’s most successful defence attorneys and a constitutional lawyer, is to go to court in January representing pro-lifer Donald Spratt who broke the BC bubble zone law in order to challenge it in court. Ligousi has won several cases in the Supreme Court of Canada including Ximena Renaerts’ multi-  million dollar suit against the Vancouver General Hospital for leaving her to die in a bedpan when she was born alive after a failed abortion attempt.  Ligousi will be asking the court to strike down the bubble zone laws as a […]
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UN COMMEMORATES HUMAN RIGHTS DAY MANDATING ABORTION

NEW YORK, Dec 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) The UN has announced that it will commemorate December 10, Human Rights Day, with a signing ceremony opening the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The Protocol would legally bind countries to uphold CEDAW in every detail, which would include upholding the “reproductive rights of women” (including abortion), and would also include targeting any “culture and tradition” which stands in the way of this militant agenda.  A press release from the UN yesterday explained that “By accepting the Optional Protocol, a State would recognize the […]
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FALSE CLAIMS OF THREATS BY PRO-LIFERS EMBARRASS SCOTTISH MINISTER

EDINBURGH, Dec 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One day after Scottish Health Minister Susan Deacon lashed out at pro-lifers calling them “extremists” who need to “back off,” a senior aide to another MP lied to the press claiming that Deacon had received death threats and was under the protection of Special Branch officers. The lie, coupled with a smear campaign against the leader of the recently formed pro-life group Precious Life Scotland, may have caused Jim Dowson, the group’s leader to resign over the weekend. The truth emerged when the Special Branch denied they were guarding Deacon and it was also revealed […]
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UN AND IMF PRESSURE LEAD TO FAMILY VALUES REVERSAL IN KENYA

KENYA, Dec 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Tuesday, Kenya’s President Moi advocated condoms to fight AIDS.  “The threat of Aids has reached alarming proportions and must not be treated casually; in today’s world, condoms are a must,” he said at the University of Nairobi speaking at a graduation ceremony. His sentiments are a complete reversal from his public stand a week before when he was quoted by the press as saying that it would be morally wrong for him or the government to advocate the use of condoms as a way of controlling Aids. The President has also established a National […]
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ACTION ITEM ON FREE, NON-PRESCRIP “EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION”

SAULT STE. MARIE, Dec 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite reported yesterday that this week the Algoma Health Unit (AGU) began giving out free doses of the abortifacient morning-after pill to women without a doctor’s prescription in it’s Sault Ste. Marie (Ontario) office. LifeSite has learned that the AGU is practicing deception in its description of the drugs. The AGU refuses to admit the drugs are abortifacient since, they say, it does not work after a woman is pregnant. When pressed, a worker said that they are using “the scientific definition of pregnancy” which the individual falsely claimed begins at implantation. Readers […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

The National Post reported Friday that Equality For Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE)  asked Health Canada for an additional $310,391 for a controversial study administered by the organization on discrimination against homosexuals and bisexuals that has already cost taxpayers $185,000.  A prayer campaign is being used to fight the opening of an Planned Parenthood abortuary in Peoria December 9. Church News reported yesterday that Quad Cities Right to Life has invited all churches in the area to mournfully ring their bells for five minutes at noon that day, and is encouraging the faithful to pause in prayer for the unborn and […]
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DE-POPULATION EXTREMIST TO SPEAK AT CATHOLIC CONFERENCE

VICTORIA, BC, Dec 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Notorious population control advocate and radical environmentalist David Suzuki is scheduled to be a keynote speaker at a joint convention of the Catholic Health Association of Canada (CHAC) and the Salvation Army. The convention is to be held in Victoria from April 8-11, 2000. According the CHAC, “The convention will reflect on the provision of health and social services for the new millenium in the context of the faith-based Jubilee themes.” Suzuki, popular for his television show on CBC, the Nature of Things, is known for his fear-  mongering on overpopulation. Spouting debunked theories […]
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PRO-LIFE/PRO-FAMILY VALUES SUPERCEDE PARTY LOYALTY

OTTAWA, Dec 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Progressive Conservative Party National Director Susan Elliot sent out a special report on November 23 in which she branded pro-life/pro-family Reform MP Eric Lowther a “single issue zealot.” However, Elliot’s slam on the Lowther’s pro-family character was met with strong backlash from PC party members. An unnamed previous PC candidate, past riding association president and PC member for over 15 years responded to Elliot’s letter saying he was greatly offended by “the negative inference of branding Eric Lowther a ‘single issue zealot’. After noting his pro-family support, the long-time PC supporter wrote: “I expect this […]
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TRANSPLANTS OF ABORTED BABY TISSUES CAUSE DEATH

CALGARY, AB, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The latest issue of The Report Newsmagazine indicates that grafts of fetal tissue into the brains of Parkinson’s patients can kill them. Reporter Celeste McGovern, in her Brave New World column tells “a tale of two transplants”, where she pits the findings of a recent supposedly successful study (see LifeSite story below) of a single transplant patient against the case of another patient published in the May 1996 issue of Neurology (see long link below). It describes the case of a 52-year-old Parkinson’s patient who had the tissue of 5 or 6 aborted babies transplanted into […]
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FILIPINO MAYOR SAYS “NO THANKS” TO GATES REPRO HEALTH MONEY

SEATTLE, Dec 6, 1999 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The final lesson in American Life League’s 12-step program to “educate Bill Gates” on matters of population control and his involvement in the provision of abortion and sterilization was delivered last week in a letter from the mayor of Manila,  Jose L. Atienza, Jr. Though Manila has a high percentage of poverty and starvation, Atienza tells Gates, “despite our great need…I fervently pray that you will send not even one penny to our people for what your foundation euphemistically calls ‘reproductive health.’ I know-and I assume you also know-what this term really means. It […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

Pro-Life E-News circulated a Vancouver Sun article last Thursday noting that the RCMP have launched a criminal investigation into the destruction of a pro-life student group’s display at the University of British Columbia. See the breaking report by LifeSite at: Pro-Life Students Attacked at UBC Pro-Life Display A 1998 charge against Toronto nurse Gita Proudman who was accused of suffocating a severely disabled newborn was dropped last month. Media reports indicate that the charges were a gross misapplication of justice. Rather than trying to harm the child, the nurse appears to have been offering comfort to the dying infant. (Globe and Mail) […]
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CORRECTION

The Internet site for The Protection for Conscience Project IS www.consciencelaws.org NOT www.consciencelaws.com as was indicated. See the LifeSite story at: Second Chance For Conscience Legislation Possible
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JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION CONDEMNS ARREST OF PRO-LIFE JOURNALISTS

TORONTO, Dec 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), a professional organization with more than 1,500 members across Canada, condemned the arrest of the three pro-life journalists who were covering the protest and arrest of Canadian pro-life hero Linda Gibbons on October 15.  “While we understand the journalists are pro-life supporters, that in no way gives police the right to infringe upon freedom of the press,” said Boni Fox, president of the Canadian Association of Journalists. “This is the kind of muzzling that limits the coverage of important events as they unfold and ultimately threatens public […]
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MORNING AFTER PILL AVAILABLE FREE & WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION IN ONTARIO

SAULT STE. MARIE, ON, Dec 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As of today, the Algoma Health Unit will be giving out free doses of the abortifacient morning-after pill to women without a doctor’s prescription in it’s Sault office. During Health Canada’s approval process for PREVEN, the first legalized drug kit specifically geared to post-coital interception, health officials gave assurances that the drug would only be available by prescription.  The Sault Star reported Thursday that the drugs will be available at the health unit’s Wawa, Elliot Lake and Blind River offices in mid-January.  There has been no public discussion as to how the Health […]
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INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA RAMPANT IN ENGLAND

LONDON, Dec 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Guidelines on the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration published by the British Medical Association in June seem to have increased involuntary euthanasia in Britain. The London Telegraph reports today that police are investigating 60 hospital deaths of old-age pensioners who were allegedly deprived of food and water. In one case, a woman in her 80’s who went to hospital in good health and spirits except for pain in an arthritic knee was heavily sedated and starved to death. The guidelines, which have traditionally allowed the withdrawal of medical treatment when doctors determine that further treatment […]
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TORONTO HOSPITAL ANNOUNCES UNBORN BABY DEATH

Doctors at Toronto Western Hospital announced late Friday that the 10-week-old unborn baby of Sophia Park and Paul Shin has died.  Paul Shin and other members of the family were battling the hospital to keep Sophia, a devout Catholic pro-lifer on life-support, despite her brain death diagnosis, because she was 10 weeks pregnant.  Shin told the media two days ago that doctors at the hospital urged the family to give up the fight for the right to life for the baby.  “Almost every day they try to convince us [to stop life support],” he said. Hospital officials warned the family […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

The Vatican’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations warned this week against the UN’s upcoming Beijing +5 meeting.  In unusually frank language he said, the Vatican has ” no illusions and knows very well the agenda of the special session of the Beijng+5 meeting, which will be a new occasion to confront additional battles on so-called reproductive health, the right to contraception for adolescents without parental consent, on homosexuals’ ‘rights’  and on freedom to abort.” (EWTN) A bill in the Alberta legislature would reserve marriage for a man and a woman and allow the province to opt out, by the use of the […]
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GROUP OFFERS TO PAY HOSPITAL COSTS FOR EXPECTING MOTHER IN COMA

TORONTO, Dec 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) has offered to pay all or part of the hospital costs for Sophia Park’s care so that her child may be delivered safely. Campaign Life has written the Toronto Western Hospital and Ontario Health Minister Elizabeth Witmer requesting that they honour the family’s desire to keep Sophia on life-support at least long enough to have their child delivered safely.  Jim Hughes, National President of CLC told LifeSite, “the tragedy of the pending loss of their beloved wife and daughter is agonizing enough without the forced loss of this child and grandchild […]
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HEALTH CANADA REINFORCES STRIDENT ANTI-FAMILY PREJUDICE

OTTAWA, Dec 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week Health Minister Allan Rock launched the Canadian Health Network (CHN), an Internet-based, health information service for Canadians developed by Health Canada and more than 400 “respected health organizations.”  Listed among the 400 “respected health organizations” were several pro-abortion and homosexualist groups, however, no pro-life or pro-family groups were identified. Considering the fact that the government is touting the network as “a single door to a world of information that will help Canadians make choices about health and well-being” and is funding the project with $32 million over three years, the biased selection of […]
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UN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT A GO DESPITE US OPPOSITION

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ongoing discussions at the UN have made it apparent that despite the opposition of the United States, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will achieve the ratification by 60 countries that is required for its implementation. The ICC remains an ominous proposal since, despite strong opposition to it from various nations, the ICC claims universal jurisdiction. Thus, as the Washington Times reported today, “Even if the United States does not ratify the treaty, American citizens will be subject to arrest and trial as the treaty document is now drafted.”  David Scheffer, assistant secretary of state […]
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SCOTTISH HEALTH MINISTER THREATENS PRO-LIFERS

EDINBURGH, Dec 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scottish Health Minister Susan Deacon threatened pro-lifers with criminal legislation, commanding them to “back off” from protests outside abortuaries.  Precious Life spokesman Jim Dowson said he “utterly condemned” any violence and said that the protests were to educate. Despite the groups commitment to peaceful activism, Deacon had no tolerance for them.  “What I am saying to these extremists is that it’s time for them to back off from the clinics, from the support services that provide that advice and support,” she said.  Dowson said Deacon’s remarks were reminiscent of Josef Stalin, “It’s the pro-life lobby […]
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BRITAIN ALLOWS PHARMACISTS TO REFUSE TO DISPENSE “MORNING AFTER PILL”

LONDON, Dec 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the British government plans to allow the abortifacient “morning after” pill to be available over the counter, Prime Minister Tony Blair has agreed to some restrictions on the drugs. Most importantly pharmacists with moral or religious objections to the abortifacients will able to refuse to dispense it. Furthermore, expected guidelines would prohibit often-repeated acquisition of the pills by the same woman. Special rules must be followed when dispensing the drugs to girls under 16.  With files from the Telegraph.
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US GOV’T TO BEGIN FUNDING HUMAN EMBRYO RESEARCH

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Draft guidelines published today by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will allow funding of research involving the killing of human embryos.  Research on stem or master cells harvested from live human embryos will be funded as long as those embryos were created not expressly for research purposes but were left over from fertility treatments.  The guidelines also recommend not funding human cloning.  The National Right to Life Committee said the guidelines “would result in federal sponsorship and funding of experiments in which living human embryos are dissected and killed – a clear violation […]
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NEBRASKA U USING ABORTED BABY BRAINS IN RESEARCH

OMAHA, Dec 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Omaha World-Herald newspaper reported Sunday that the University of Nebraska Medical Center has been conducting research on Alzheimer’s disease by using brain cells from aborted babies. Politicians expressed shock at the news and are considering action.  According to the paper, the Medical Center receives more than $1 million a year for the research from the National Institutes of Health. The aborted baby brains are courtesy of abortionist LeRoy H. Carhart, who operates the Bellevue-based Abortion & Contraception Clinic of Nebraska.  On Monday the speaker of the Legislature, Doug Kristensen of Minden, said university funding […]
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CANADIAN HOSPITAL REFUSING TO ALLOW BABY TO LIVE

TORONTO, Dec 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Toronto Western Hospital is battling the family of devout Catholic pro-lifer Sophia Park who want the hospital to keep her on life-support, despite her brain death diagnosis, because she is 10 weeks pregnant.  While Sophia’s husband and family have told doctors that they want Sophia kept on life support at least another 3 months to deliver her baby safely, doctors do not regard the baby as a person and thus the baby is not considered a patient in need of care. Shin told the media that doctors at the hospital urge the family to give […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

Pro-Life E-News distributed an Agence France Press report Tuesday noting that the socialist German government has overruled objections by the Catholic province of Bavaria to the nationwide distribution of the abortion pill RU-486. As LifeSite reported November 23, Bavaria was resisting the release of the drug.  The Washington Post reported yesterday that Florida state has halted the production of “Choose Life” licence plates after a lawsuit was launched against the Motor Vehicles department by the National Organization for Women.  A misleading ad promoting condoms on Chinese television was banned today. China’s Family Planning Propaganda and Education Center on Sunday began […]
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NEW LAW PLACES GREATER VALUE ON ANIMALS THAN HUMANS

OTTAWA, Dec 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Canada unborn babies have been legally slaughtered by the million, where the most common sentence for pedophilia, rape and now the “mercy killing” of children by parents is less than two years in jail. Nevertheless, the federal government has decided to come down harder on animal abusers, wanting to pass legislation giving them penalties of up to five years in prison for maltreatment of pets. The new government legislation being proposed today will also impose unlimited fines on animal abusers.  With files from the Ottawa Citizen.
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CANADIAN NATIONAL PRO-LIFE CONFERENCE REPORT

TORONTO, Dec 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Save the Planet’s People First conference which concluded Saturday was rated by many veteran attendees as the best pro-life conference ever. A power-house of speakers riveted participants who were able to interact via video technology that allowed questioners to be heard and seen by the 500+ session participants.  Soul-shaking messages were delivered by famed Catholic novelist Michael O’Brien, disabled activist Mark Pickup and Second Chance Ministries founder Angelina Steenstra. Experts and professionals in the fields of medicine, law, statistics, pharmacy, media and politics provided essential information for pro-life strategies for the coming new millenium […]
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SECOND CHANCE FOR CONSCIENCE LEGISLATION POSSIBLE

OTTAWA, Dec 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the failure of Maurice Vellacott’s conscience legislation to get the full hearing it deserved in Parliament on November 18, the Saskatchewan MP’s efforts and House of Commons speech on the bill have laid the groundwork for future initiatives on this issue.  The future may not be long in coming if the Senate conscience bill makes its way through Parliament in a timely fashion. Also, in late-breaking news, Mr. Vellacott contacted LifeSite to report that his bill can be reintroduced in its current form, but with a new number. His bill first entered the schedule […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

As expected, US President Bill Clinton waived a restriction on a near-billion dollar UN funding deal allowing the UN to use the funds to lobby for abortion on demand worldwide. AP reports that the money for abortion advocacy is limited to $15 million. (News & Observer)   The official newspaper of the Vatican, L’Osservatore Romano slammed the Socialist French government yesterday for their imposition of the morning after pill in high schools across the country. The paper called the claim that the pills would reduce abortions “cruel hypocrisy” since the “morning after” pill is itself abortifacient. (EWTN)   Israel’s Pro-Life Ministry, the Be’ad […]
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WEB SITE LAUNCHED TO PROMOTE CANADIAN CONSCIENCE LEGISLATION

VANCOUVER, Dec 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Protection for Conscience Project was launched today with the opening of its web site at ConscienceLaws.org. According to a press release, the non-  denominational, non-profit group “supports authentic freedom of conscientious choice for everyone.” The project will push for protection of conscience legislation, provide information on protection of conscience legislation worldwide, promote clarification and understanding of the issues involved to assist in reasoned public discussion, and act as a clearing house for reports from people who have been discriminated against for reasons of conscience.  The site offers a forum, for those who have suffered conscience […]
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EXHAUSTIVE ABC LINK EVIDENCE DEMANDS INFORMED CONSENT LAW

OTTAWA, Dec 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a Monday press conference, which aired on the Canadian Public Affairs Channel yesterday, Canadian health researcher Isabelle Begin presented extensive evidence supporting a link between induced abortion and breast cancer. She said that informed consent legislation must be implemented to ensure that women are given the necessary information about this risk prior to procuring an abortion.  Begin noted that in its Global Action Plan of 1997, the World Conference on Breast Cancer finally included “induced termination of pregnancy” in its list of possible risk factors for breast cancer. “Indeed, 43 studies throughout the world […]
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NO JAIL FOR MOTHER WHO TRIED TO KILL DISABLED DAUGHTER

NIAGARA FALLS, ON, Dec 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, Superior Court Justice Paul Forestell sentenced Lisa Thompson, 38, to only a two year conditional sentence to be served at home for attempting to murder her disabled 6-year-old daughter, Brandy. On November 8 last year, Thompson tried to kill her daughter by administering a lethal dose of drugs through her feeding tube. After checking to assure that Brandy no longer had a pulse, Thompson turned herself in to police.  Traci Walters, national director of the Canadian Association of Independent Living Centres, told the Toronto Star that the case is evidence of “a disturbing […]
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Second Chance For Conscience Legislation Possible

Despite the failure of Maurice Vellacott’s conscience legislation to get the full hearing it deserved in Parliament on November 18, the Saskatchewan MP’s efforts and House of Commons speech on the bill have laid the groundwork for future initiatives on this issue. The future may not be long in coming if the Senate conscience bill makes its way through Parliament in a timely fashion. Also, in late-breaking news, Mr. Vellacott contacted LifeSite to report that his bill can be reintroduced in its current form, but with a new number. His bill first entered the schedule of Parliamentary business after being […]
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