Articles for Month: January 2000

TORONTO, Jan 31 (LifeSiteNews) – Christian columnist, Marianne Meed Ward, has written an important article in today’s Toronto Sun about the way abortion activists may try to stifle further public debate over abortion. Her article, entitled, “Meet abortion’s new poster boys,” warns readers that convicted woman-abuser, Jean-Guy Tremblay, and suspected abortionist killer,  James Kopp, are convenient weapons for pro-abort forces to trot out every time pro-lifers seek to raise objections to abortion. Tremblay, former boyfriend of Chantale Daigle, tried to prevent her from procuring an abortion in 1989 in a case that went to the Supreme Court of Canada. “With […]

The Vatican has urged the Rome government to reconsider its allowing of World Gay Pride 2000 festivals in the city.  The request is especially urgent since this year, a jubilee,  thousands of pilgrims are expected in Rome.  A University of Toronto website is suggesting that the grossly inflated figure of 10% (of the population being homosexual) “is actually a conservative figure and numbers are likely to increase as conditions for “coming out” improve; some estimates are as high as 25%.”    The leader of the British parliamentary opposition has praised the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC). Mr […]

OTTAWA, Jan 31, (LifeSiteNews) – LifeSite News staff returned home late yesterday after monitoring the UA/Reform Convention which concluded Sunday. Although a number of people believed that the UA and Preston Manning’s leadership were going to unravel, the vast majority of Reformers attending their annual convention provided clear support for the initiative and reconfirmed their support of Manning by a 75% margin. Social conservatives at the conventions fought to preserve the conservative social values in the Canadian Alliance’s policies that were contained in Reform policies. They were for the most part successful The UA assembly quickly passed the new party’s […]

MONTREAL, Jan 31 (LifeSiteNews) – Quebec has seen a marked increase in the number of abortions according to recently released 1998 statistics by the Quebec Health Department. In that year,  31,329 unborn babies were killed in that province. “That’s up 3.6% from the previous year, an astonishing 29% from 1990 and 107% from 1980,” reported the Montreal Gazette last Wednesday.  “This means there are now almost two abortions for every five births.” The thrust of the Gazette article was to discover the reasons for the increase and propose solutions. Predictably, yet tragically, Henry Aubin’s article blames the failure of sexually […]

OTTAWA, Jan 31 (LifeSiteNews) – On Saturday the National Post reported on the financial woes faced by the federal Tories and the further threat the United Alternative may be to the party’s fiscal stability. According to journalist, Robert Fife, Progressive Conservative leader “Joe Clark is struggling to pay off heavy debts incurred during the 1998 Conservative leadership race.” These debts amount to $100,000 and are separate from the $10-million debt the party has incurred. According to the article, Clark advisor, Bill Neville, has admitted to receiving “some angry phone calls from some creditors but no one is suing anyone.” Making […]

PLYMOUTH, Scotland, Jan 31 (LifeSiteNews) – While the Catholic Church in Scotland celebrated the birth of a baby to a 12-year-old girl who would likely have opted for an abortion without the aid of the church, abortion supporters reviled the news. Jane Roe, of the UK’s Abortion Law Reform Association was outraged that the church encouraged the young mother not to abort the baby. “A 12-year-old is still a child. There is no way at all that a child of that age is ready physically, or emotionally, to give birth,” she said.  Cardinal Thomas Winning of Scotland, who commenced the […]

LONDON, ENGLAND, Jan 28 (LifeSiteNews) – A decision by a British judge to authorize the surgical removal of a woman’s womb without her consent is expected to generate a storm of outrage among disabled Brits and others concerned about respect for life. Remarkably, the request for the surgery on the mentally disabled woman was made by her mother, with the government acting in the potential victim’s defence. Two disability groups, the mental health charity Mind and learning disabled charity Mencap, have already expressed their outrage at the decision by the British high court, reported the Daily Telegraph. The mother apparently […]

SOUTH AFRICA, Jan 28 (LifeSiteNews) – South Africa’s African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) has condemned the government’s plans to redefine marriage to include homosexual couples and to incorporate abortion into the definition of pregnancy. An Evangelical Press (EP) report yesterday, says that these measures are part of an “Equality Bill” being considered by South Africa’s Africa National Congress-dominated Parliament. Mighty Madasa of ACDP has condemned the move, reports EP, noting the absurdity of including abortion in the definition of pregnancy: “It is obvious that abortion is the opposite of pregnancy. Pregnancy is the process of bringing forth life, while abortion […]

OTTAWA, Jan 28 (LifeSiteNews) – LifeSite is at the United Alternative/Reform Convention in Ottawa.  Both positive and negative developments have taken place from the pro-life and pro-family perspective. While those with pro-life and pro-family concerns suffered a loss with the inclusion of populist voting mandates, major victories were gained with the affirmation of social conservative measures. For a full report see today’s LifeSite Special Report.

Ian Hunter, a law professor at the University of Western Ontario and a regular contributer to the National Post, reflected yesterday on the refusal of the abortion controversy to die in both Canada and the United States. “In the early days the debate was about the humanity of the foetus; now … that debate has been conclusively resolved, and the fundamental question remaining is what basic legal protections accrue to all members of the human family,” he notes. “This question is not susceptible of answer by reason alone, but only reason supplemented by faith.” Find the article here.  In a […]

SWITZERLAND, Jan 28 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-life forces have long been disturbed by the agenda of internationalist economic and political leaders primarily because of the priority they place on population control, (forced) contraception, sterilization and abortion. As many of these bigwigs meet in Switzerland this weekend in a gathering of the World Economic Forum, pro-life forces are listening carefully for the ideas that come out of the meeting. The gathering, which began yesterday and wraps up Feb 1, brought “3,000 political/civil society, global business, scientific, academic and media leaders” to the Swiss town of Davos,  reports the WEF on its website. […]

FRANCE, Jan 28 (LifeSiteNews) – FEFA, the European Forum for Human and Family Rights has raised an alarm over the process which has begun to develop a European Charter of Fundamental Rights.  Sounding suspicious of the people working on this process, FEFA notes that “other tools already exist to achieve [their] goal.” The European NGO (non-governmental organization) has expressed concern about the impact of the charter on national sovereignty for European nations as well as the reopening of a “very contentious debate about whose rights need protecting, and about which social behaviour or practices should be accorded protection by the […]

NEW BRUNSWICK, Jan 27 (LifeSiteNews) – Despite his controversial views on the right to possess kiddie porn, some critics maintain that Robin Sharpe’s image has been sanitized by the mainstream media. Mr. Sharpe is the British Columbian whose fight for the right to possess child pornography reached the Supreme Court with a hearing two weeks ago. The latest issue of Watchdog newsletter, a conservative publication out of New Brunswick, includes a letter to the editor and a clip from a Simon Fraser University (British Columbia) campus newspaper citing Mr. Sharpe. The British Columbian quotes him as saying: “I think that […]

American president, Bill Clinton, is delivering “what’s expected to be his final State of the Union speech tonight,” reports Conservative News Service.

TORONTO, Jan 27 (LifeSiteNews) – The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario is hosting a euthanasia symposium at the Regal Constellation Hotel in Toronto on Saturday April 29. The goal for the meeting,which will run from 10 am to 5 pm, “is to provide information and resources on the issues, to outline our concerns and to share possible strategies,” says spokesman Alex Schadenberg. Topics being discussed include euthanasia and the disabled, euthanasia from the perspective of palliative care professionals and current developments surrounding the issue. The symposium is also being endorsed by by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of B.C., Care in […]

OTTAWA, Jan 27 (LifeSiteNews) – Liberal MP Tom Wappel has responded publicly to a recent statement made by homosexual activist MP Svend Robinson, defending his treatment of Father Tony Van Hee who pickets Parliament Hill with signs condemning abortion and homosexuality. New Democrat MP, Mr. Robinson, billed Van Hee’s anti-homosexuality signs as hate mongering rather than lawful religious expression. Mr. Wappel countered that “Mr. Robinson’s letter is nothing but insulting to Father Van Hee and to all with a view contrary to that of Mr. Robinson. If one believes in freedom of religion, one must acknowledge that most, if not […]

US Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright distanced herself this week from the anti-UN comments made to the council by Senator Jesse Helms, head of Congress’s foreign affairs committee. Mr. Helms did not mince words when he told the international organization that America’s commitment to paying it’s alleged arrears would be predicated on evidence that the   unaccountable, bureaucratic-heavy body was implementing real reforms. Ms. Albright,  reflecting the radical internationalist stance of the Clinton Administration, tried to console the UN by assuring her globalist colleagues that “only the president and the executive branch can speak for the United States.”  Catholic […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26 (LifeSiteNews) – The Canadian Labour Congress was granted special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations on Monday.  The Congress has used its position in Canada to promote homosexuality and abortion and is expected to use its position at the UN to the same ends. Last week LifeSite reported that the Congress launched a campaign to raise awareness in the workplace of “gay and lesbian rights.” An official Congress document called “End the Violence Against Women” catalogues the group’s support for abortion, arguing that “when the federal government attempts to turn […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26 (LifeSiteNews) – This week, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child took up the compliance reports of Grenada and South Africa on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The committee urged the countries to ban spanking as a form of discipline, even in the home by parents. A UN report indicates that the delegation from Grenada apologetically explained the country’s retention of spanking.  “The delegation stressed again that application of corporal punishment was not the Government’s policy, and that in schools, such practice was regulated.  However, due to tradition, there had been […]

TORONTO, Jan 26 (LifeSiteNews)  More warnings about Canada’s demographic crisis have surfaced with a report released yesterday by Canada’s corporate and public sector pension plan sponsors and the professional firms that advise them. They warned that “a demographic time bomb threatens Canada’s public and private retirement plans.” The Association of Canadian Pension Management (ACPM) said that “without major changes over the next few years, the combined forces of the retirement of the Boomer generation, rising life expectancies and falling birth rates will seriously strain—and could rupture—our retirement and health care systems by 2030.” The report explains: “that is when all […]

OTTAWA, Jan 26 (LifeSiteNews) – A Canada-wide arrest warrant was issued Monday by the Ontario Provincial Police against James Kopp who has been charged with the 1995 non-fatal shooting of Ontario abortionist Hugh Short.  Kopp was charged with murder by US authorities last year in the death of abortionist Barnett Slepian and was placed on the FBI’s ten most wanted list.  The OPP claim that evidence points to Kopp as the guilty party in their case but they are refusing to reveal the nature of their evidence. The National Post reported yesterday that public and private rewards for information leading […]

CHELMSFORD, England, Jan 26 (LifeSiteNews) – The British government has granted permission for twins to remain in Britain indefinitely. They were born in the United States to a surrogate mother who was carrying them for a homosexual millionaire couple.  LifeSite reported last September that Barrie Drewitt, and Tony Barlow caused an uproar in Britain after paying an   American company nearly half a million (Canadian) dollars to allow them to have surrogate twins. Each of the men donated sperm, which were combined with donor eggs and implanted in American Rosalind Bellamy. The twins were not granted UK citizenship. British law […]

WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (LifeSiteNews) – Following the discovery of a secret database of pro-lifers kept by the US Justice Department and the FBI, Dr. Jerry Falwell, Chancellor of Liberty University and founder of “The Moral Majority,” filed a Privacy Act request to determine whether or not The White House and Clinton Justice Department had files on him and his ministries. Both requests were stonewalled leading to suspicions that illegal files are being kept on Dr.  Falwell and his ministries. To get at the truth, Judicial Watch and Jerry Falwell, Jr., an attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia, and son of Dr. Falwell, […]

The US Food and Drug Administration has shut down major gene therapy experiments at the University of Pennsylvania which involved researcher James Wilson, a prominent researchers in the field. The action follows the September death of a teenager and the subsequent investigation’s findings that Penn could not provide investigators with proof that any of the volunteers in the fatal study had been eligible to participate or had been adequately warned of the risks of the research.  The National Abortion Rights Action League has released the latest edition of a report on the status of abortion in all 50 states. Some […]

BUDAPEST, Jan 25 (LifeSiteNews) – As LifeSite reported last week, the Hungarian pro-life group Alfa Alliance and a Catholic priest were fined nearly $3000 CDN (not $35,000 as was reported based on an erroneous AFP report) for acting in defense of the life of a 13-year-old’s unborn baby.  An update on the story from the Alfa Alliance indicates that in fact, the teenager, Katalin,  approached other agencies hoping to keep the baby since she believed abortion to be wrong.  Her mother however, insisted on an abortion, seeing the pregnancy as a disgrace to the family. The pro-life group went to […]

STOWE, VT, Jan 25 (LifeSiteNews) – LifeSite has learned that the Vermont State’s legislators are accepting public input until 7 p.m. tonight on the VT Supreme Court ruling providing marriage benefits to homosexual cohabitators. Vermont’s Catholic bishop has asked for prayers and for pro-family supporters to contact the legislature with the message: “We only support traditional marriage between a man and a woman. We do not support domestic partnership agreements.” Email VT’s Lt. Governor at: [email protected]

BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan 25 (LifeSiteNews) – Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD), a front group for Planned Parenthood of Canada, is putting on a workshop to train youth to lobby for abortion in preparation for Beijing +5. ACPD is working with the Youth Coalition for ICPD and the Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW) to produce the “Asia-Pacific Advocacy Training Workshop on Adolescent/Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights” to run Jan 31 – Feb 3 in Bangkok. The groups note they are searching for 20-25 youth to train not only for abortion advocacy at the UN […]

SASKATOON, SK, Jan 25 (LifeSiteNews) – Last August LifeSite reported that the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (HRC) had agreed to hear a case brought by homosexual activists against a newspaper that published an ad quoting the Bible on homosexuality. The Saskatoon StarPhoenix printed a paid advertisement from Hugh Owens on June 30, 1997 depicting two stick-figure men holding hands, superimposed with a red circle and slash, and quoting several Bible verses regarding homosexuality. Ian Hunter, a professor emeritus in the faculty of law at the University of Western Ontario,  wrote in the National Post last week that the case was […]

The LifeSite Newsbyte on the pro-family demonstration outside the offices of Justice Minister Anne McLellan over the child pornography law stated there were “dozens” of protesters.  Eye-witnesses have informed LifeSite that there were actually some 200 people demonstrating despite a temperatures of -20 C.

The Catholic Register reports today that Ontario’s Catholic bishops have thrown their support behind a new coalition seeking full government funding of religious-based schools in addition to the already funded Catholic school system.  A Reuters report circulated by Pro-Life E-News notes that Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has pledged to hold a referendum on changing the country’s abortion laws. Church News reported Saturday that Columbia is considering a new Penal Code which would allow for genetic manipulation of human embryos for scientific research.  Columbia Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Saenz of Bogota jas written an article opposing the measure saying that the […]

APC news reports that a 15-year-old boy who allegedly backed out of a suicide pact with his 15-year-old girlfriend, and watched her die, may be the first person charged under the state’s new assisted-suicide law.  President Clinton told Democratic Party donors Saturday that the fate of abortion would be determined by the current presidential election, “to pretend otherwise is naëve,” he said.

MISSISSAUGA, ON, Jan 24 (LifeSiteNews) – Glenn Penner, Director of Development for Voice of the Martyrs, included a special report in the latest issue of the organization’s newsletter on the persecution Christians are facing in Egypt. In the report, Penner also discusses the suffering of persecuted Christians from Sudan who have fled to Egypt’s capital, Cairo, and notes that many of the women are pregnant. He says: “Many Sudanese mothers are pregnant and unable to pay the fee that hospitals regularly charge them to deliver their baby. Dr. S.  [name kept confidential by VOM for security purposes] is trying to […]

GLASGOW, Scotland, Jan 24 (LifeSiteNews) – George Galloway, a leading Labour MP from Glasgow likened Cardinal Thomas Winning, leader of Scotland’s 750,000 Catholics, to a “raving bigot”  following the cardinal’s opposition to the promotion of homosexuality in schools. Galloway was reacting to the cardinal’s use of the word “perverse” to describe the homosexual act. “I was disgusted by the use of this word [perversion] which could have dripped from the lips of any raving bigot, and Cardinal Winning had no business using such a word,” said Galloway. “Cardinal Winning is not fit for the great office that he holds.” However, […]

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (LifeSiteNews) – Hundreds of thousands of pro-life Americans are marching today in commemoration of the 27th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision which brought abortion to the US.  While the pro-abortion media has reported equal representation at events dealing with the anniversary, eye-witnesses report an overwhelming pro-life presence with little if any opposition present. The Associated Press reported yesterday that “Hundreds of activists on both sides of the abortion debate converged on the nation’s capital Saturday to mark the 27th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision with a weekend of vigils, marches and protests.”  Jim […]

FARGO, ND, Jan 21 (LifesiteNews) – On Wednesday, Cass County District Court Judge Michael McGuire rejected the desperate plea of an abortion mill to dismiss a false advertising lawsuit against it. The abortuary argued that the plaintiff did not have standing to sue because she did not allege that she personally was misled or harmed by the brochure information in question which denied a scientific link between abortion and breast cancer, American Life League reported yesterday. The judge observed, however, that the relevant statute explicitly allows any person to sue for injunctive relief against false advertising on behalf of the […]

GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan 21 (LifesiteNews) – The Economic Commission for Europe Regional Preparatory Meeting on the 2000 Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, began yesterday and ends today in Geneva. One of the workshops leading up to the prepcom focused on abortion, even though the subject was not one of the stated themes of the conference. The workshop, held Monday and entitled “Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the ECE Region”, attracted some 40+ NGO delegates to the ECE Beijing+5 NGO preparatory meeting. The panelists, including Françoise Laurant from the French Family Planning Association […]

The January 15 edition of The Economist reports that the UN population monitors and Eurostat,  the European Union’s statistical office, predict that there will be too few working-age Europeans to support the continent’s elderly population in the future. The full statistical report is due in March. The cover story in the current issue of World Magazine is a heartwarming boost for pro-lifers,  describing the amazing pro-life successes of the small town of Lancaster Pennsylvania, which has fought off the opening of an abortuary in the town.  The Coalition for Justice in Educational Funding announced the results of an Environics poll,  […]

BUDAPEST, Jan 21 (LifesiteNews) – A Budapest municipal court ruled Tuesday that a Hungarian pro-life group and a priest are required to pay over $35,000 (CDN) to a teenage girl whose baby they attempted to save from abortion by taking her to court. Agence France Press reported yesterday that the Alfa Federation family protection organization and an unnamed priest (no denomination provided) were fined because they took a 13-year-old to court in the southern town of Baja trying to stop her from killing her baby. The Baja court ruled in 1998 that the girl, Katalin, could not have an abortion […]

WINDSOR, ON, Jan 21 (LifesiteNews) – The latest newsletter of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario reports that the family of Florence LaDouceur has filed a lawsuit against the Villa Maria nursing home for attempting to starve and dehydrate their mother (Florence) who was 93 years old at the time. Mrs. LaDouceur lived at Villa Maria between October 26, 1998 and March 14, 1999. She did not have a terminal condition, she was capable of eating and   drinking with normal assistance, and her daughter who had legal power of attorney for her personal care was not consulted in the […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 21 (LifesiteNews) – The campaign launched by the radical pro-abortion group Catholics for a Free Choice to oust the Vatican from the United Nations has gained the support of 400 organizations, according to a report from the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-fam). C-fam attributes the campaign’s success to “extensive international media coverage, a sophisticated web-site, and advertising in the New York Times.” The groups are now   calling for the UN to downgrade the status of the Vatican from Permanent Observer to NGO (non-  governmental organization). C-fam reports that the initiative called “See Change” (www.seechange.org) […]

The founder of Italy’s Radical Party who was convicted for the second time Tuesday of handing out free hashish is an abortion activist.  The Boston Globe reports that Marco Pannella has gone on hunger strikes and distributed money to help push through referendums to legalize divorce and abortion.  Hong Kong is set to legalize passive euthanasia. New Medical Council guidelines have been proposed noting that consultations with hospital ethics committees or the courts should be undertaken when in doubt on a decision.  The January 8 edition of The Lancet reports that Spain has the lowest birth rate in the world […]

WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (LifeSiteNews) – A report published by the pro-life committee of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops notes that the draft government document on stem cells justifies the destruction of human embryos “by, among other things, the prospect that use of the resulting cells may reduce the need to use ‘laboratory animals’ for drug testing (p.  67576). “The human embryo ranks lower in status than a laboratory rat,” says the Bishop’s letter. WorldNetDaily drew attention to the bishops’ letter yesterday noting especially that the deadline for public comment on the proposed guidelines is January 31. “The guidelines instruct […]

OTTAWA, Jan 20 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-family groups were astounded that Prime Minister Jean Chretien and his government refused to invoke the “notwithstanding” clause to retain the law against child pornography. Calgary Reform MP Eric Lowther has discovered more reason for shock. In a 1990 book called Towards a Just Society – The Trudeau Years, the current PM explained that the nothwithstanding clause was inserted in the constitution “to ensure that freedom of speech not render unconstitutional legislation banning child pornography.”  Moreover, as Justice Minister at the time when the clause was inserted he consented to the clause being put in […]

Vermont’s Roman Catholic bishop is organizing a rally outside the Statehouse to demonstrate opposition to same-sex marriage and domestic partnerships. ‘‘Today in Vermont, the sacredness of marriage and the family as ordered by God is in jeopardy, and we are called to defend it,’’ Bishop Kenneth Angell says in a pastoral letter to be read at all Masses throughout the state this weekend.  A paper calling for open access to abortion, same-sex marriages, gay ministers, and sex education at all ages signed by 850 religious figures was released yesterday.  Notably, the petition contained no valid representatives from the Catholic, Evangelical, […]

HOLLYWOOD, Jan 20 (LifeSiteNews) – Cider House Rules, a film glorifying abortion which LifeSite readers were first warned about last September, and which hit the screen in late December,  was authored by an abortion activist.  John Irving, the author who wrote both the screenplay and the novel gave a rare interview in the December issue of Famous magazine. The article notes that Irving is “a longstanding supporter of Planned Parenthood and the national Abortion Rights Action League.  “I take it as a given that women should be able to get abortions if they want them,” says Irving.  Irving refers to […]

TORONTO, Jan 20 (LifeSiteNews) – Ontario Premier Mike Harris’ campaign wizard, Tom Long, has bid adieu to the federal Tories in his article in the January 18 National Post. The article is causing concern among social conservatives who fear Long’s involvement in the United Alternative may be to transform it into a clone of the fiscal conservative only Harris regime. Critics note that although most Reformers and UA supporters might agree with much of this fiscal agenda, nowhere in Long’s article is there any mention of also providing a political alternative to the anti-family, anti-life and social left-wing, Liberal, Tory […]

OTTAWA, Jan 19 (LifeSiteNews) – Last Friday the Canadian Labour Congress launched a campaign to raise awareness in the workplace of “gay and lesbian rights.” The Congress is the national voice of the labour movement, but claims to speak for “all workers and their families, in Canada and beyond.”  Millions of unionized workers are forced to contribute to the Congress through their union dues including many who are diametrically opposed to the anti-family initiatives the Congress espouses. Among the campaign’s materials is a poster with the pictures of seven men and women and sporting the headline: “We’ll give you a […]

The Secretary-General of the United Nations has announced the appointment of Kunio Waki of Japan as Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), effective 1 February 2000.  A study on cigarette warnings with photos of health effects has found the graphic photos are effective at discouraging smoking. The results of the study would likely apply to graphic photos of abortion as well.  A Planned Parenthood fundraising letter has insinuated that Christian organizations such as the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family are linked to those who would bomb abortuaries and stalk abortionists.  The Christian groups […]

WICHITA, Kansas, Jan 18 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-abortion T-shirts, buttons, a pizza party and free 1st trimester abortions for Medicaid patients are planned for January 22 at the abortuary of the notorious George Tiller “to celebrate the anniversary of the Roe decision and to protest the tyranny of the Hyde amendment.” A note to National Abortion Federation members obtained by LifeSite notes that Tiller will also have a 4’ by 8’ billboard in his parking lot reading:  “Women need abortions and I’m going to do them – George Tiller.” Tiller specializes in late-  term abortions. (with files from Pro-Life E-News Canada)

OTTAWA, Jan 19 (LifeSiteNews) – A report on Canadian indebtedness issued last month by the Fraser Institute warns that the Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security, and healthcare have all been put in jeopardy thanks to the anti-natalist demographics seen in Canada since the 1960’s. The institute report explains that since Canada’s system is pay-as-you-go benefits of current retirees are financed by current workers. Therefore, a drop in the future working population compared to the retired population spells trouble: big trouble, according to the report’s figures. According to the report, the unfunded liability of CPP and OAS alone is $1.1 […]

EDMONTON, Jan 19 (LifeSiteNews) – Yesterday dozens of concerned Canadians gathered in front of Anne McLellan’s constituency office to express concern with the Justice Minister’s mishandling’ of the child pornography issue. Roy Beyer, President of Canada Family Action Coalition speaking at the Rally pointed out that Canada’s Minister of Justice should have acted immediately after last years BC Court decisions legalizing child pornography possession to restore the law in order to protect children. Mr. Beyer illustrated this point by asking “If the BC courts had overturned Canada’s murder law, because it was ‘worded too broadly’, would Canada’s Justice Minister have […]

OTTAWA, Jan 19 (LifeSiteNews) – Homosexual activist MP Svend Robinson has responded to the LifeSite News report on his altercation with Fr. Tony Van Hee, the famed pro-life priest on Parliament Hill. The LifeSite News story received extensive coverage in the mainstream media last Friday after MP John Nunziata reacted to Robinson’s rough treatment of the elderly priest with a letter of protest. An official letter to the editor was sent out by Robinson’s office yesterday, which, while admitting seizing one of the signs belonging to the priest and throwing it over a wall, demanded an apology from the priest […]

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Jan 18 (LifeSiteNews) – Yesterday, Cardinal Thomas Winning, the top Catholic prelate in Scotland, pledged his support for those opposing the Scottish government’s effort to scrap laws against promoting homosexuality in schools. Cardinal Winning explained that children were being subjected to “explicit and perverted material”.  “It pains me to use the word perverted when discussing the homosexual act but that it what it is,” said the Cardinal. The cardinal noted that Brian Souter, a multi-millionaire businessman, who is funding the pro-family initiative with over a million dollars (CDN), has been targeted by the government and homosexualist activist groups […]

TORONTO, Jan 18 (LifeSiteNews) – In response to a UN ruling saying that Ontario’s school system is discriminatory since it funds Catholic schools and no other religious schooling, the Canadian government has urged Ontario to fund schools of all religions. However Ontario Education Minister Janet Ecker obstinately refused to consider the proposal and said her stance against religious school funding will not change.  “We’ve been very clear that our goal is a good quality public education system, and the estimates of $300 million needed to fund religious schools would be $300 million that would come out of the public school […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 18 (LifeSiteNews) – Yesterday the 22nd session of the Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) convened to complete its session by Feb., 4.  The Committee will review the compliance reports of eight State parties to the Convention on the   Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.  The countries reporting include India, Myanmar; Jordan; the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burkina Faso, Belarus,  Luxembourg, and Germany. Angela King, Assistant Secretary- General and Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women informed the group yesterday that 24 of the 165 countries […]

BOSTON, Jan 18 (LifeSiteNews) – Alveda King, the niece of slain Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.  honoured her uncle’s memory Sunday speaking at the 27th Annual Interfaith Assembly for Life,  a pro-life project of the Massachusetts Citizens For Life.  The anniversary of King’s death was celebrated Saturday. Alveda, whose father was killed a year after her uncle, is often criticized by those who attempt to hijack her uncle’s memory for causes he would disdain.  ‘‘Dr. King came from a family of faith and he would have supported life,’’ said Alveda.  A pro-life, pro-family woman who supports school vouchers, King answers […]

Canada’s laws against child pornography face a real threat of being nullified at the Supreme Court in the case beginning today since legislators at the time of the law’s passage did not understand the dangerous permissiveness of the Charter of Rights.    Planned Parenthood of New York has launched a new institute to promote abortion.  The Othmer Institute, according to PPNY “promotes the advancement of reproductive freedom and healthy sexuality through innovative programs and ideas.” The group plans abortion promoting monthly   ads in the New York Times.  The British Department of Health consultation document proposes to restrict spanking by […]

In San Juan, the Puerto Rican Pro-Life movement is doing a massive “March for Life” which is hoped to end abortion in the country after 27 years. Hopes are running high since the pro-  life efforts have led to the closure of all but 7 of the 43 abortion centres that existed in 1981.  Freedom Airways has billed itself as the world’s first gay-friendly airline and will use the homosexualist rainbow flag as its insignia. Open homosexual displays of affection will be permitted on the UK airline.

The Conservative News Service reported Friday that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta has withdrawn an invitation asking Representative John Lewis (D-GA) to speak on Saturday in honor of the Martin Luther King Junior holiday since Lewis is pro-abortion.  Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, Archbishop of Philadelphia sent letters to federal lawmakers and the National Institutes for Health asking them not to approve guidelines that would legalize embryo stem cell research. The deadline for Congress to intervene with the guidelines is January 31. “These guidelines disregard the sanctity of life by sanctioning the killing of unborn human embryos to obtain stem cells […]

WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (LifeSiteNews) – On Friday the US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case involving a partial-birth abortion ban in Nebraska. A federal appeals court had earlier declared the law unconstitutional, as it has in most of the 30 states which have enacted similar legislation. The decision is long awaited in the country where a federal ban passed Congress more than once but was vetoed by President Clinton each time. Nebraska’s Attorney General Don Stenberg asked in his appeal to the Supreme Court for a ban on partial birth abortions and for states to be given the freedom […]

SANTIAGO, Jan 17 (LifeSiteNews) – Yesterday Chileans elected the socialist contender for president of the country over a conservative contender. Catholic World News noted last week the contrast between the two leaders on life issues. The conservative, Joaquin Lavin, held an overt pro-life stance and agreed to approve the congressionally passed “Day of the Unborn Child” as an official proclamation for March 25 on his “first day in office.” Ricardo Lagos,  the socialist, now president, on the other hand, refused to give such assurances, saying, “I will not make any electoral promise. I will make a decision when I am […]

VATICAN CITY, Jan 17 (LifeSiteNews) – The Catholic News Service reported that a regional government decision affecting the city of Rome which grants homosexual partners and other cohabiters some of the same rights as married couples was condemned by the pope. On Thursday, during a meeting with civil authorities, he said: “I ask authorities to avoid any initiative which could favor or guarantee legal equality between the family and other forms of living together.” “A natural society is founded on matrimony,” he observed. Some of the pope’s statements are available here.

WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (LifeSiteNews) – On Friday the US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case involving the dismissal of a homosexual activist from his position as a Boy Scout leader once his homosexual advocacy was discovered. Last summer the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts policy forbidding avowed homosexuals from membership and leadership violated state discrimination laws. The case, the Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale, is scheduled to be heard in April with a decision expected by July. For more see the Conservative News Service.

OTTAWA, Jan 14 (LifeSiteNews) – The controversial survey of gays and lesbians to be conducted by Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE) was funded with over $200,000 despite its assessment as worthless by Health Canada’s research branch. The National Post has obtained internal government documents that indicate that the EGALE study was rated a “zero” and refused consideration for funding “until serious ethical and other concerns” had been addressed. The documents cite concerns over failure to ensure “participant confidentiality and anonymity”. They also objected to disproportionately large payments for consultants.  Nevertheless, the Justice Department and the so-called “Status of […]

OTTAWA, Jan 14 (LifeSiteNews) – A recent report put out by the UN on the Kyoto agreement on climate change threatens Canada with a massive bill, far out of proportion to anything first imagined, Southam News reported yesterday. Even prior to this report, put together by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “the Kyoto target was expected to present ‘the most profound economic challenge’ since the Second World War, according to a recent briefing document presented to the Liberal cabinet,” noted the National Post. Under the Kyoto agreement Canada pledged to reduce its emissions of “greenhouse gases” by 2008-2012 […]

OTTAWA, Jan 14 (LifeSiteNews) – On Monday Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais spoke to more than 100 priests and parish representatives preparing for Pro-Life Sunday, an annual event being held in churches Jan. 30. Ministers and preachers are encouraged to give pro-life sermons that Sunday to cultivate reverence for the sanctity of life in their churches. “The church has always been pro-life, it has always been the defender of the weakest. It has always been the one that has stood up for the defense of the unborn, said Gervais. “We need a vigorous pro-life movement,” the archbishop stressed, because “legislation is […]

OAKVILLE, ON, Jan 14 (LifeSiteNews) – The Canadian headquarters of Roberts Pharmaceuticals, the US-  based company which won the distribution rights for the abortifacient “emergency contraception” drug Preven in Canada, will be picketed later this month. A picket will take place outside Roberts Pharmaceuticals in Oakville (400 Iroquois Shore Rd.) on January 28th from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Pro-life groups across Canada are boycotting Roberts Pharmaceuticals products and pharmacies carrying Preven. See a LifeSite report on Preven. See the story on the Boycott including a product list.

European parliamentarians are threatening to pull financial health support from Uganda unless abortion is legalized. Finland MP Irina Krohn said: “I cannot convince the Finish government to allocate more money when the abortions taking place are unsafe and illegal, with a lot of human resources wasted.”  Canada Family Action Coalition reported that both the Crossroads Channel (CTS) of Southern Ontario, and the Miracle Channel (CJIL) of Lethbridge, AB, have been granted a listing on Part III of the List of Eligible Satellite Services. This essentially means that both these channels can now be carried by cable companies right across the […]

The abortuary owner whose murder conviction was refused appeal at the Supreme Court practiced her trade in California, not Florida as was reported Tuesday.  Also the correct web address for the issue of Lektrik.com (the pro-life news service cited in LifeSite News last week), whose top story featured the court testimony of an abortionist describing the gruesome procedure is https://www.lektrik.com/lp000106.htm

VANCOUVER, Jan 13 (LifeSiteNews) – Mary Wagner was acquitted on two of three counts of breaking the Bubble Zone at her trial Tuesday. She was found guilty on a third count of interference with a client, and sentenced to 15 days in jail and fined $1,000.  Mary, originally charged with six counts of Bubble Zone infractions, saw the first three charges dismissed on January 6, 2000. These charges stem from the young woman’s prayerful witness outside Vancouver’s first abortion mill, Everywoman’s. Mary stands at the door of the abortuary offering roses and assistance to abortion-bound women. The people operating the […]

Partial Birth Abortion bans in Illinois, Wisconsin and Nebraska are headed to the US Supreme Court. See the Chicago Tribune and the Journal Star.  Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore is set to introduce legislation requiring informed consent for abortion and legislation requiring a 24-hour waiting period prior to the procedure.  A Florida couple who underwent IVF ten years ago and has nine frozen embryos in storage is agonizing over a decision to get rid of the babies since no adoptees have worked out.  The US Supreme Court rejected the appeal of a law banning pro-life demonstrations within 12 feet of either […]

OTTAWA, Jan 13 (LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s only independent Member of Parliament, John Nunziata (York South-Weston) released a letter today written to homosexual activist MP Svend Robinson regarding the latter’s rough treatment of a pro-life Catholic priest on Parliament Hill.  LifeSite News reported on the incident last month. On one occasion Robinson took one of Fr.  Tony Van Hee’s signs, and after attempting unsuccessfully to crush it, threw it over the wall behind the priest. The following is the complete text of Mr. Nunziata’s letter: It is with great disappointment that I find I must write to express disgust at your […]

On January 10, Health Minister Allan Rock, Natural Resources Minister Ralph Goodale and Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy announced a $2.5 million increase in funding over the next three years for Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) initiatives in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. For more information, see their press release. The future direction of UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), one of the many controversial branches of the UN, is to be determined by Canadian Michel Agnatieff, according to a report in the National Post yesterday. Mr. Agnatieff, a former union leader and former head the Quebec wing of […]

KENTUCKY, Jan 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The movement in the United States calling for the public posting of the Ten Commandments is becoming so large that it is being likened to the nation’s pro-life movement. As reported in a recent article on CNN’s website (January 7), Washington University religion professor Frank Flinn sees the 10 commandments becoming a high-priority issue around the country. From courtrooms to classrooms, Christian Americans are urging public officials to acknowledge the importance of the values reflected in the Decalogue by posting it. Leading pro-family organization, the Family Research Council, backs the movement and has distributed 750,000 […]

VIRGINIA, Jan 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It is hard to say what impact the proposed AOL-Time Warner merger will have on life and family issues, but the announcement two days ago did add almost $4 billion to the net worth of Time Warner head Ted Turner who is known for his multi-million dollar donations to population control and the United Nations. There is still a lengthy process before the proposed merger becomes a reality, including governmental approval, but nevertheless, the hoped-for development does appear to have significant ramifications even now for the power and influence of the company leadership. An article […]

WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League is accusing America’s Centres for Disease Control (CDC) of distributing false statistics on the country’s abortion rate. Early last week, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report presented CDC statistics showing a decline in abortions in the U.S. in 1997. “New CDC ‘Abortion Decline’ Stats Not Possible”, begins ALL’s statement. “There are so many faults in the CDC’s 1997 abortion surveillance that it is not possible for it to be correct in any way,” said ALL president Judie Brown. The five major faults, which make the CDC’s report all but useless, according to […]

OTTAWA, Jan 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The new chief justice of Canada’s Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin,  in an interview yesterday, extolled the importance of pragmatism in court rulings. In a comment that some court observers had in mind about the recent ruling that led to social havoc in the East Coast lobster fishery, she said: “I think it is increasingly acknowledged that judges have to be aware of how their decisions are going to play out in the real world.” A few weeks ago, newly appointed Supreme Court justice, Louis LeBel said that the high court needed to improve its image […]

Jan. 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an unusual move indicating the priority which the Ontario government has given to the Supreme Court’s upcoming child pornography case, the Tory Attorney-General and former lawyer,  Jim Flaherty, plans to appear in person to make the province’s case against possession of kiddie porn. It’s the first time Ontario’s A-G “has stepped into court in 12 years,”  notes the National Post. ““It’s a time when attorney-generals on behalf of governments have to look closely at whether they should be there themselves on some of the fundamental values cases. And this is a fundamental values case,” Mr. […]

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah has written a well-documented expose on the promotion and use of human embryo research as an alternative to animal testing.  Farah notes that the latest issue of Animal Times, the quarterly publication of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, announces the group’s grants to companies developing human   embryo testing as one of the alternatives to the use of rats and other beasts in product safety tests.” WorldNetDaily also reports that the US government is involved in finding alternatives to animal testing through the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two high pro-file Rwandan women are suing the United Nations for its complicity in the Rwandan genocide which led to the deaths of their families.  Michael Hourigan , the lawyer for the women is a former investigator with the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. According to the paper, “Hourigan, quit his job” with the international organization “in disgust at UN inaction and barriers to his investigation.” One of the women in the suit is the widow of a former Rwandan supreme court judge and the other is a sister of a Tutsi former […]

A Florida abortuary owner’s murder conviction appeal failed at the Supreme Court level Monday. The court refused to review the case of clinic owner Alicia Hanna who administered drugs to a pregnant 27-year old to abort her baby at seven months gestation.  The patient bled to death and after failing to call 911 Hanna told the victim’s children in the waiting room that their mother had left.  She then attempted to have the body dumped in the Tijuana River.  AP reported that United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan gave an endorsement of sorts to Vice President Al Gore’s presidential ambitions yesterday.  […]

PORTLAND, Maine, Jan 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a revolutionary move, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland announced last Tuesday that it would support homosexual non-discrimination legislation. The announcement was the result of an agreement reached between the Maine Lesbian and Gay Political Alliance and the Catholic diocese. The diocese agreed to the proposal after it won an amendment to the proposal dropping a provision that would have forced all religious organizations that receive public funds to comply with the law. The Portland Diocese may find itself the subject of official Church criticism in view of a 1990 Vatican document that […]

VATICAN, Jan 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The top Catholic Church official in Germany, Bishop Karl Lehmann,  has issued a veiled call for the pope’s resignation, in the wake of a multi-year struggle over abortion counseling in Germany. Bishop Lehmann, president of the German Bishops Conference, said on Deutschlandfunk radio Sunday: “I have confidence in the Pope that when he feels he is no longer capable of leading the Church with responsibility, he will have the strength and the courage to say: ‘I cannot fulfill this (charge) as is required.’” Vatican insiders note that the bishop’s language reflected Vatican diplomatic protocols (known […]

WICHITA, Kansas, Jan 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Laws in Kansas and New Jersey may force insurers to cover contraceptives and in-vitro fertilization. The Wichita Eagle reported Thursday that a proposed health insurance bill outlined by Kansas Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius would mandate that insurers cover contraceptives and gynecological services. In New Jersey the Assembly Appropriations Committee gave its approval to a measure requiring insurance coverage for most infertile couples. See the Kansas and New Jersey reports here.

JAVA, Indonesia, Jan 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Indonesia, one of 13 countries targeted specifically for population control by the notorious NSSM 200 document (outlining US foreign policy on depopulating the Third World), has been a recipient of $3 million from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). According to a report filed by the agency, a “family planning support project” from 1998-2000, which targeted three Indonesian cities, was involved in abortion under the umbrella of its “safe motherhood project”. The “family planning” project is said to “provide oral contraceptive pills to Indonesia from Canadian and Indonesian manufacturers,” with “at least 10 million […]

The procedure for over the counter morning after pill availability in England is outlined in this report from the BBC.  Reform Party leader Preston Manning who was praised recently for mentioning the rights of the unborn in his response to the Throne Speech in Canadian Parliament has said that he would resign if his United Alternative plan fails.  The Sunday Times reported that a researcher from the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, which created Dolly the sheep, has moved to New Zealand to help build up a 1,500-strong herd of genetically engineered cows.  The Associated Press reported on Saturday that funding […]

VANCOUVER, Jan 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At his annual Mass marking the feast of the Holy Innocents, the children slaughtered by Herod in an attempt to kill the Messiah, Vancouver’s Archbishop Adam Exner compared Herod’s slaughter to abortion. The official diocesan newspaper, the BC Catholic, reported that the archbishop cited the more than 100,000 abortions in Canada annually, the millions internationally, and current lobbying for legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide, and said the world would not be rid of the “scourge of disrespect for human life” without a supernatural solution.  While he said that pro-life education, political action, and witnessing are […]

LONDON, Jan 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s International Development Secretary, Clare Short, is fighting to have her reforms to overseas aid enshrined into law. The International Development Act is intended to stifle efforts of future governments from reversing the aid package. While foreign aid and developmental assistance is usually thought of primarily as food aid, on-going controversy over the international aid package reveals that substantial money goes towards “family planning”, which can include abortion, forced sterilization and contraceptive distribution. The overt pro-abortion stance of Minister Short lends to the speculation that the new law would enshrine UK funding for global […]

OTTAWA, Jan 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Sharon Carstairs seems to be continuing her campaign to push Canada towards euthanasia. A senate committee has been formed at her request to perform a five-year review of the 1995 report of the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. While Carstairs, a euthanasia activist, claims that the review is simply an innocuous attempt to update the government’s information, she stresses the need for it to include “research … on requests for euthanasia (and assisted suicide) in Canada.” Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario told LifeSite that the review is […]

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jan 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Socialist Belgian government, which ended the 40-year rule of the Christian Democrats last year, has introduced a bill to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in the predominantly Catholic country. A Reuters report distributed by Pro-Life Info Net December 23 indicates that “the bill would legalize assisted suicide for adults with an incurable illness causing them unbearable and constant suffering and who are of sound mind and have clearly asked to die. Euthanasia would also be legalized for anyone in a coma with no prospect of recovering consciousness and who had requested, before two […]

The number of abortions performed in the U.S. dropped from 1,221,585 in 1996 to 1,184,758 in 1997 – the lowest level in two decades, according to today’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The CDC announced a second low, noting that the number of abortions for every 1,000 live births dropped from 314 in 1996 to 305 in 1997, the lowest national abortion ratio since 1975.  The UN has admitted that it has played a role in spreading the AIDS virus through its “peacekeepers”, reports the LA Times today. Peacekeepers have been found to have sex with local prostitutes in the […]

VANCOUVER, Jan 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first set of charges against BC pro-life activist Mary Wagner, 25, were dismissed yesterday after the Crown prosecutor failed to provide sufficient documentation to the defence lawyer. This technical oversight prevented the Crown from proceeding further, prompting the courtroom to erupt into applause. Wagner was charged with two counts of breaching a so-called “bubble zone” around abortuaries.  The other charge will be heard in Provincial Court Jan. 11. She has pleaded not guilty. Wagner, who has been in jail since her Dec 3, 1999 arrest, was retained in custody until her next hearing since […]

LANGLEY, BC/ EUGENE, Ore. Jan 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Christian colleges in Canada and the US have recently found themselves under legal attack from homosexualists who are outraged at school conduct codes which forbid, as only one of a number of morally objectionable behaviours,  homosexual “sex”.  In a US case remarkably similar to BC’s Trinity Western University, which is headed to the Supreme Court this spring to fight a challenge to their teacher accreditation, homosexualist activists are taking aim at Northwest Christian College (NCC)  in Eugene Oregon. Gay-activists have enlisted the help of some sympathetic area counsellors to demand that the […]

The Conservative News Service reported today that more than 125 noncommercial television broadcasters may be forced to drop religious programming after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that broadcasts “primarily devoted to religious exhortation,  proselytizing or statements of personally-held religious views or beliefs” are prohibited   under the agency’s educational programming licenses.  In a startling report today, WorldNetDaily claims that the separation between media mogul Ted Turner and his wife, Jane Fonda, was prompted in part by Fonda’s embrace of “born-again”  evangelical Christianity.  The Washington Times reported today that Vice President Al Gore promised a pro-homosexualist litmus test for US […]

OMAHA, Nebraska, Jan 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The controversy surrounding the use of tissue from aborted babies at the University of Nebraska Medical Center led to a graphic description of the abortion procedure to N.U. Regents board meeting on Saturday December 11th.  Experiments using brain tissue from pre-born children killed by partial birth abortionist Leroy Carhart were undertaken at the university. Larry Donlan, a member of Rescue the Heartland, read the sworn testimony of abortionist Carhart from a July ‘97 court case, where Carhart explained how he commits abortions.  N.U.  Regent Drew Miller objected to the reading, claiming that Carhart did […]

BOSTON, Jan 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, in an address to the Boston World Affairs Council, US Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan charged the current government and corporate elites with abandoning the American people and the country’s founding principles in pursuit of world government and a “New World Order.” “This, then, is the millennial struggle that succeeds the Cold War: It is the struggle of patriots of every nation against a world government where all nations yield up their sovereignty and fade away”, said Buchanan.  “It is the struggle of nationalism against globalism, and it will be fought out not only among […]

NEW YORK, Jan 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York’s Cardinal John O’Connor has questioned Fr. Sean McManus,  head of the Irish National Caucus Political Action Committee, over his support for pro-abort Hillary Clinton’s run for Senate. “I would be grateful to learn your reasoning for supporting a candidate who so openly opposes the fundamental Church teaching on human life,” the cardinal wrote McManus in a letter dated Aug. 17. The Associated Press reported that McManus wrote back to the cardinal that the Irish PAC “applies one and only one criterion in assessing political candidates: their position and record on Ireland.”  For […]

WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Just prior to Christmas, US Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan wrote a letter to RNCLife leader Colleen Parro explaining to pro-lifers his move away from the Republican Party and into the Reform Party. “High among the reasons,” he wrote, “is that I believe the party is consciously abandoning the cause of life.” The charge is followed by a lengthy laundry list of pro-life betrayals by the GOP. “I concluded that the Right-to-Life Movement is being used by the Republican Establishment. It has been told to live with the hope, but not with any pledge, that its […]

EDMONTON, AB, Jan 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Disabled activist Mark Pickup has written a must-read commentary published in yesterday’s National Post in which he rejects the promising but unethical use of stem cells from aborted babies as possible cures for debilitating disorders such as his own. “I have chronic, degenerative multiple sclerosis and osteoporosis,” writes Mark, “I might benefit from stem cell research!”“I am dazzled,” he continues, “by a dizzying array of promising developments that could alleviate or deliver me from a disease that is slowly destroying me.” In contemplating the morbid source of the therapy however, Pickup notes that   […]

A Newfoundland woman is crusading for more jail time for those who kill babies after her six-  week-old son was killed by her former boyfriend who received only 18 months in jail for his crime. The National Post reported Monday that the federal Department of Justice is examining possible changes to the Criminal Code and the Canada Evidence Act and is requesting comments as part of a consultation paper called Child Victims and the Criminal Justice System.To comment on the proposed changes to the law click here. The National Post reports today that the federal government has rejected a proposed […]

About 20 threatening letters claiming to contain anthrax have been sent to abortion mills across the US in the past few days, including one that caused police to shut down a 10-block area of Toledo on Tuesday.  Married cousins in Miami have filed a wrongful birth suit against their doctor after their child was born with Down’s syndrome. The couple claim that had tests shown the baby to have down’s while in utero they would have killed her by abortion. Last week in Houston Texas, U.S. District Judge John Rainey issued a temporary injunction to prevent the state from enforcing […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations is preparing a report alerting Europe that, due to low birth rates its member countries will have to accept a large number of immigrants or else face a depletion of workers in the workforce, with “smaller and older populations”. Joseph Chamie, director of the U.N. Population Division, according to the   Associated Press, warned that these countries “have to start now. The longer you wait, the more serious the problem is likely to be.” According to AP, the report examines the population situation in eight countries: France,  Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, […]

FRONT ROYAL, VA, Jan 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Courts and legislatures are trying to destroy marriage,  and religious leaders must end their silence and start speaking up in defense of it,” said Fr. Richard Welch, CSSR, JCD, President of Human Life International, in response to a recent ruling by the Vermont Supreme Court. “Vermont’s high court ordered the legislature to confer upon active homosexuals, who affirm that they reside together and commit sodomy together,  all of the legal prerogatives, rights and protections that pertain only to a husband and wife in marriage,” stated Fr. Welch.  Welch explained that “Religious leaders and […]

Jan. 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Internet home page for the leading homosexual advocacy organization, EGALE (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere), is currently devoted to a plea to homosexuals to write to the CRTC, asking them to give Toronto’s last FM station to a group that wants to make it the “first gay radio station in Canada.” According to the announcement, the CRTC has received 17 applications for this spot – 93.5 –  on the FM radio dial. CKMW RADIO LTD is the company that wants to make it an exclusively homosexual station – “Rainbow Radio.” People have until January […]

TORONTO, Jan 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario and Campaign Life Coalition have urged pro-lifers to contact Attorney-General Jim Flaherty to ask him to initiate a review of the conditional sentence given to Lisa Thompson by Mr. Justice Paul Forestell. In late November, Forestell sentenced 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, 1998, 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 […]

TORONTO, Jan 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Roberts Pharmaceutical Corporation, the US company which has begun marketing the abortifacient drug Preven in Canada, completed a merger with the British company Shire Pharmaceuticals Group in December. In anticipation of the expanded boycott LifeSite readers may wish to inform Shire that due to their involvement with Roberts, and thus the promotion and distribution of abortifacient drugs in Canada, they will be boycotted. Rolf Stahel, Chief Executive Shire Pharmaceuticals East Anton, Andover Hampshire, SP10 5RG Tel: +44 1264 348501 Email: [email protected] For the boycott announcement against Roberts click here.

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, Jan 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The secret move of a Planned Parenthood abortuary to a location next to a public high school and across the street from a church and a day care has enraged residents as well as the local Catholic bishop. Bishop Robert Carlson, of the Sioux Falls Catholic Diocese wrote in his regular bulletin that “the move of Planned Parenthood near a high school, day care and church is abhorrent and disturbing.” A pastor of the First Assembly of God Church across the street from the abortuary and a local city councilor also condemned […]

The National Post reported today that child pornographer John Robin Sharpe, who succeeded in having Canada’s laws against possession of child porn struck down, has made a 60 page submission to the Supreme Court which will hear the case in 2 weeks. Sharpe argues that a the law against child porn is too broad and conjures up Orwellian images of thought police.  The Catholic Group for Health, Justice and Life has been granted leave by the Supreme Court of Canada to intervene in the Robert Latimer case to be heard in about 6 months time. The Group represents four major […]

OTTAWA, Jan 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leaked government document obtained by the National Post reveals that the federal government spent hundreds of thousands supporting lesbian groups, while at the same time slashing monies to valuable services. The Post reported today that a draft working paper titled “Approved Funding … Target Group: Lesbians” reveals that Status of Women Canada paid $253,918 for a ‘lesbian planning conference’ and other similar events during the 20-month period ending Dec. 4, 1998.” The report notes that most of the money was distributed in BC where Status of Women head,  Hedy Fry, represents a Vancouver riding. […]

IRVINE, CA, Jan 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the current issue of Citizen Magazine, a publication of Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, reporter Celeste McGovern, provides further evidence of the vast market in aborted baby parts. McGovern exposes more of the companies involved in the grizzly trade. The must-read article is another example of excellent investigative reporting on this story. The story exposes an order form for Allegran Inc., a company which provides eye care and skin care products, that asks for “whole eyes-sterile,” to be taken from aborted fetuses aged 20 to 24 weeks. The extractor is instructed […]

A commentary in last Thursday’s National Post notes the trend toward infanticide in Canadian society The BBC reported today that a government funded fertility survey being carried out by researchers in Edinburgh, Scotland is asking 1,000 Scots to send samples of their sperm through the mail.  The National Post reports today that although the Health Minister’s office has announced again that it will soon have legislation to address reproductive technology, no date has been set for such action.  The New Jersey Star Ledger reports today that the US Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve RU-486 this month or […]

AMSTERDAM, Jan 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) A Dutch study published in the current edition of the Lancet shows that in vitro fertilization is no better than artificial insemination. Thus IVF, which according to experts is “an expensive procedure that is inconvenient and uncomfortable for the woman and requires highly trained staff”, is an undesirable option compared to insemination. While many pro-lifers consider both artificial insemination and IVF morally objectionable since they alienate procreation from the procreative act (sexual intercourse), insemination would be considered the lesser of two evils. In Vitro Fertilization, the creation of human life outside the womb results in the […]

OCEAN SPRINGS, MS, Jan 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) Last week, police in Ocean Springs made a grizzly discovery, finding 36 bags containing aborted babies buried about 10 inches under the ground behind the store of J.R. Brock.  Brock told police that he had buried the contents after discovering the stinking bags in a storage unit he purchased at an auction. The unit also contained office equipment marked with the name of abortionist Joseph Booker. According to the Sun Herald, Booker, is headed for a five-month prison term this month for tax evasion. For more see the Sun Herald .