Articles for Month: February 2000

Conservative News Service

The Kaiser report noted that the New York Senate and Assembly this week approved bills that would require insurance companies to pay for artificial fertility treatment such as in vitro fertilization and artificial insemination. The Senate bill, which cleared that chamber yesterday in a 37-21 vote, would: cap benefits at $60,000, excluding prescription drugs. A Mass. Supreme Court Judge ruled Tuesday that a 44-year-old woman cannot implant the frozen embryos created during her marriage to her estranged husband against his will, reported The Boston Globe yesterday. The Washington Times reported that the Virginia House gave final approval Wednesday to a […]

OTTAWA, Feb 11 (LifeSiteNews) – Today, the Liberal government is expected to unveil its omnibus pro-  homosexual legislation which threatens to eliminate any legal distinctions between same-sex partnerships and married couples. It is anticipated that except for the right to marry,  homosexual relationships will be equated with married couples under federal law. Focus on the Family Canada has urged concerned Canadians to pray for the family in Canada and to contact their MP’s, the Justice Minister and the Prime Minister, write their newspapers,  and call in to local radio stations regarding the issue. To find your MP call Reference Canada […]

OTTAWA, Feb 11 (LifeSiteNews) – On Wednesday, Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott introduced Bill C-422, “an act to amend the Criminal Code to prohibit coercion in medical procedures that offend a person’s religion or belief that human life is inviolable.” In presenting the Criminal Code amendment, Mr. Vellacott explained, :“the purpose of the bill is to ensure that health care providers working in medical facilities of various kinds will never be forced to participate against their wills in abortion procedures or acts of euthanasia.” “Incredibly, there are medical personnel in Canada who have been fired because the law is not explicit […]

LONDON, Feb 11 (LifeSiteNews) – The British House of Commons passed legislation yesterday to lower the age of consent for homosexual sex from 18 to 16 in England and to 17 in Northern Ireland.  The Telegraph reports that although the move has been blocked for three consecutive years by the Lords, the current legislation was “introduced under the Parliament Act procedures, which mean it will become law automatically in England, Wales and Scotland later this year.”  The new law is a victory for homosexual activists who have now set their sights on pushing for a new law which would legalise […]

The National Post reported yesterday that Ontario PC party strategist Tom Long will not seek the leadership of the Canadian Alliance party.  The lead contender for the leadership other than Preston Manning appears to be Alberta’s Tory Treasurer Stockwell Day.  The Globe and Mail reported Wednesday on Dr. Colin Woolf, a respirologist and former associate dean of medicine at the University of Toronto, 75, who is promoting assisted suicide in Canada.  The Anglican Church is in crisis over homosexuality. The National Post reported yesterday that Archbishop Michael Peers, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has denounced as a “schismatic […]

International Planned Parenthood reports that it’s affiliate in the Philippines, the Family Planning Oragnization of the Philippines (FPOP), “has intensified its campaign to promote acceptance of family planning among couples in the rural areas, where women’s fertility rate remains high at 4.8 per cent against 3.5 for urban women.” Russia Today reported Feb 3 that Russia’s Chief Sanitation Doctor, Gennady Onischenko, signed a resolution in January advocating emergency AIDS prevention measures. This move is ascribed to the deteriorating AIDS situation in Russia. In 1999, 14,980 HIV carriers were registered,  which is 23.5 times more than in 1998. Spains’s Catholic bishops […]

LONDON, Feb 10 (LifeSiteNews) – Peter Brand, a physician and Liberal Democrat MP in Britain is under police investigation for euthanasia. In late January, Brand was speaking against an anti-euthanasia measure in the House of Commons and used his personal experience with a two-  year old leukemia patient for an example. BBC news reports that he told the Commons that under the terms of the Bill he would be considered a “multiple murderer”. In a 1973 case described by Brand, he disconnected (or consented to the removal of) a child from “tubes”  (presumably life support) at the parents’ request. The […]

TORONTO, Feb 10 (LifeSiteNews) – Yesterday the BC Supreme Court ruled that British Columbia’s NDP election gag law is an unconstitutional infringement of freedom of expression and freedom of association. The National Citizens’ Coalition (NCC) used the occasion to call on the federal government to abandon its pursuit of the election gag law proposal contained in Bill C-2. A press release from Stephen Harper, president of NCC, says that Chretien’s gag law would make it a crime for citizens or groups to spend more than $3,000 in a riding. “The BC court came out so forcefully in favour of free […]

OTTAWA, Feb 10 (LifeSiteNews) – Canadian court decisions have laid the groundwork for the federal Liberals’ comprehensive pro-homosexual legislation about to be imposed on Canada. Critics note however that Canada’s federal and provincial governments have unnecessarily allowed these judicial bodies to dictate law. Both levels of government have refused to use the notwithstanding clause to counter court decisions and they have also failed to effectively challenge some lower court decisions thus giving them tacit approval. Pro-family groups note that such court decisions provide a good cover for unpopular legislation, which would otherwise face rejection by Canadians. Yesterday in the House […]