Articles for Month: February 2000

Former presidential candidate and Family Research council head Gary Bauer has endorsed Sen.  John McCain for US president, while the National Right to Life has endorsed George Bush. This could split the pro-life, pro-family vote for a Republican presidential candidate.  The Arizona Republic reported Tuesday that Planned Parenthood this week is launching a $30,000 blitz of newspaper ads, phone banks and direct mail in an effort to halt the momentum of three anti-abortion bills at the Capitol dealing with parental consent, informed consent, and interstate abortions.  Dr. Neils Lauersen a popular infertility specialist is being charged with fraud for years […]

In a Globe and Mail article distributed by Pro-Life E-News yesterday, the story of Canadian abortionist Richard Neale, who after being barred from practice in Canada in 1985 on numerous instances of gross incompetence, was employed in a prestigious position in Ob/Gyn practice in England.  Zenit News reported Tuesday that Nicaragua has officially declared March 25 as the “National Day of the Unborn.” The decree stated that “the right to life, inherent in each of the inhabitants of the nation and the world, is the principal axis of human rights and, therefore,  merits the determined attention of the government.” The […]

FoxNews reported yesterday that the US House voted Tuesday to award 80-year-old Cardinal John O’Connor, a staunch defender of life and family, the Congressional Gold Medal, the body’s highest civilian honor. In 1990, he wrote that anyone “advocating legislation supporting abortion, or by making public funds available for abortion … must be warned that they are at risk of excommunication.”  Idaho has overwhelmingly passed legislation requiring parental consent for abortions for minors.

DAYTON, Ohio, Feb 16 (LifeSiteNews) – Last week the American Psychiatric Association updated a “fact” sheet on homosexuality. Rather than facts, the sheet presents politically correct homosexual advocacy and repudiation of reparative therapy that has helped thousands of persons with homosexual tendencies to end their destructive lifestyles. The sheet called “Homosexual and Bisexual Issues,” says, “relief of homophobia allows for better psychological functioning.” The APA dismissed the noted success of reparative therapy saying that it works only “for some motivated individuals for limited periods of time,” and “such changes often are accompanied by depression, anxiety and other symptoms.” For more […]

Catholic World News reports that Bishop Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, was named by Pope John Paul II as the successor to the late Cardinal Basil Hume of Westminster. Bishop Murphy O’Connor is known for his vocal opposition to abortion and euthanasia.  WorldNetDaily reports today that the parents of Samuel Armas, the infant whose in utero surgery made history after a photo of the pre-born baby grasping the finger of his surgeon through an opening in Mrs. Armas’ uterus, are pro-life. The couple said their decision to go public with their story “stemmed from the fact that it is believed that the vast […]

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 16 (LifeSiteNews) – A Yale University study in the current Annals of Internal Medicine has found that eugenics has been practiced in the US longer than was previously believed. The study reports that state-authorized sterilizations were carried out from the first state eugenics law in Indiana in 1907 till as late as 1963. Forced sterilization was once legal in 18 U.S. states. By 1963 some 62,000 Americans underwent sterilization. The study also compares the US eugenics program to the one practiced in Nazi Germany. The study suggests that eugenics in the US it came to an end through […]

OTTAWA, Feb 16 (LifeSiteNews) – LifeSite has learned that the Canadian government legislation which would give practicing homosexuals all significant benefits of marriage is scheduled to continue second reading debate on Monday, February 21. Parliamentary insiders informed LifeSite that the government may also invoke closure Monday on Bill C-23 (The Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act). The legislation would then be moved to committee and according to Peter Stock of the Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) could be voted on as early Thursday of next week. The Globe and Mail today notes that the Prime Minister is not going to […]

VATICAN CITY, Feb 15 (LifeSiteNews) – In an address to the Pontifical Academy for Life yesterday,  John Paul II spoke on life issues urging “that all people of good will feel called to activity in support of this great cause.” The pope also called on the Church to exert more effort in regards to the promotion of life. “In the last five years many initiatives have been promoted in dioceses and parishes, yet much remains to be done,” he said. “True pastoral care of life cannot simply be delegated to specific movements.” “Facts exist,” he said, “that prove with growing […]

NEW YORK, Feb 15 (LifeSiteNews) – The highly popular radio show host, Dr. Laura Schlesinger, has received death threats for speaking out against homosexual marriage and describing homosexuality as a deviant sexual orientation, reports the Conservative News Service.  Homosexualist activist groups are exerting pressure to shut up the radio celebrity, attempting to thwart her upcoming TV show to debut this fall. Paramount Television, which is developing a syndicated TV show with Schlesinger, met yesterday with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to hear their concerns about Dr.  Laura. Responding to the activities against her, the Jewish radio host […]

OTTAWA, Feb 15 (LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s newly appointed Supreme Court of Justice Louis LeBel gave an interview to CPAC last Friday during which he mimicked US presidential hopeful Al Gore in repudiating his former pro-life stance.  In the interview, which is to air at 9pm tonight on the Canadian Public Affairs Channel (CPAC), Lebel said, “Abortion is a very complex issue, and I have grown to doubt very much the ability of the law to govern such a question.” LifeSite reported in December that Lebel, was painted as a “practicing Roman Catholic” and an “abortion foe” by the secular media. […]