Articles for Month: February 2000

FoxNews reported yesterday that in the US “women can deduct the costs of an abortion from their taxes, as long as the abortion was a legal one”.  The Associated Press reports that the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League has endorsed Al Gore for president of the United States, this follows reports last week that Gore was the favorite of the Communist Chinese government.  The Lancaster New Era reported yesterday that Judge Paul K. Allison of Lancaster reversed an April 1999 decision by the city Zoning Hearing Board, which allowed Planned Parenthood of the Susquehanna Valley to perform abortions […]

In yesterday’s news, the LifeSite report on the speech against the UN promotion of abortion given by Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, Holy See Secretary for Relations with States, omitted the website of the speech’s summary by Zenit News.

DETROIT, Feb 15 (https://www.lifesitenews.com/) – Euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian is seeking bail while he appeals his case to the Supreme Court. The bail hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. Mayer Morganroth,  his lawyer, claims that if released, Dr. Death will not help people commit suicide. While escaping jail on his “assisted suicide” of over 130 people, Kevorkian was sentenced last April to 10-25 years in prison for his televised murder of Thomas Youk, who had Lou Gehrig’s disease. At the time, Judge Jessica Cooper, denied Kevorkian bail pending an appeal since he had previously assisted suicides while on bail. For more […]

HONG KONG, Feb 15 (LifeSiteNews) – Researchers and medical experts in Hong Kong attempted to downplay the findings of their own study when it confirmed a link between abortion and increased rates of breast cancer. The study conducted in Queen Mary Hospital over the past three years surveyed 142 women between 31 and 50 who had breast ailments. Of the 54 that were found to have breast cancer, 20% had procured an abortion in the past. Only 10% of the remaining 88 healthy women had previously undergone an abortion. Prior to the current study, twenty-six out of thirty-two published studies […]

MIAMI, Florida, Feb 14 (LifeSiteNews) – On Friday, a Miami 8-person jury ruled against an Orthodox Jewish pharmacist who sued his employer for firing him for not selling condoms. Pharmacist Hillel Hellinger, a Hassidic Jew and father of nine, sued Eckerd Pharmacy for discrimination against his religion and was seeking $100,000 in damages, mental anguish and back pay.  LifeSite reported last Tuesday that according to Hellinger, “condoms are not supposed to be used by a Jewish man because the sperm has to enter the woman.” He said that the pharmacy “could easily have accommodated him by moving the condom rack […]

VATICAN CITY, Feb 14 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, Holy See Secretary for Relations with States, blasted the United Nations Friday for their support of abortion in a speech to the Pontifical Academy for Life. In this watershed talk, the bishop explains in some detail the dangers of the UN international conferences and their promotion of abortion and abortifacient contraception under the guise of “reproductive health” and “rights”. He notes that the promotion of abortion at the UN was spawned by “two factors: first, apocalyptic forecasts of a population boom exceeding the resources of the planet and, second,  a radical […]

NEW YORK, Feb 14 (LifeSiteNews) – Dr. Allan Zarkin, an Ob/Gyn hired on as medical director of Choices Women’s Medical Center, an abortuary in Queens, just weeks after being fired for carving his initials into a patient’s stomach, has settled with his carving victim out of court. The New York Times reported Saturday that Liana Gedz will receive $1.75 million in exchange for her dropping her claim against Beth Israel Medical Center where Zarkin assaulted her. On September 7 last year after a Caesarean section, Zarkin carved AZ into her stomach reportedly because “he thought he did such a beautiful […]

Catholic World News reported that two days after Scottish Cardinal Thomas Winning succeeded in leading the British House of Lords to retain Section 28 which bans the promotion of homosexuality in schools, the Scottish Parliament Thursday voted to scrap the legislation.  Further developments in Scotland this week have the Labour government trying to establish homosexual relationships on the same footing as heterosexual marriage with a bill regarding disability benefits. (The Times) Church News reports that Catholic Bishops in Portugal are denouncing pro-homosexual legislation in the country which puts “de facto” union on par with marriages.  Today is the ninth annual […]

LIMA, Peru, Feb 14 (LifeSiteNews) – Last week at a Feb 8-10 meeting of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the regional group agreed on the position they will take to the upcoming Bejing +5 conference. The UN meeting, to be held in New York in June of this year UN, has been labeled: “Women in 2000: Gender Equality,  Development and Peace for the Twenty-First Century.” The meeting in Lima served as the region’s preparation for the June meeting and the 400 participants from 45 countries adopted a “Lima Consensus” which included the promotion […]

OTTAWA, Feb 14 (LifeSiteNews) – Bill C-23 proposed in Parliament Friday has received condemnation by most family groups in the country. The bill, “An Act to modernize the Statutes of Canada in relation to benefits and obligations,” would amend 68 federal statutes, changing every occurrence of the term “spouse” to “spouse or common-law partner.” The Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) says the bill “is not about fairness and equality;  it represents the abolition of the institution of marriage. … We anticipate that in the very near future, the courts will use this legislation to order the legal sanction of marriages […]