Articles for Month: March 2000

WASHINGTON, Mar 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the US Supreme Court prepares to hear the case of a Nebraska abortionist who opposes the state’s law forbidding partial-birth abortion, the abortion procedures greatest defender is hoping to participate. US President Bill Clinton, who has twice vetoed federal legislation to ban the infanticidal procedure, has requested that his administration be allowed to intervene in the Nebraska case. In a friend-of-the-court brief made public Thursday government lawyers called the Nebraska law “unconstitutional” saying it was too broad and didn’t include exceptions for health (other than the life of the mother). AP reports that the […]

OTTAWA, Mar 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario (EPCO) made a presentation to the members of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on March 20, 2000 regarding “Compassionate Homicide.” As LifeSite previously reported, the Senate is conducting a five-year review of the recommendations made by the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in their document “Of Life and Death.” The document contains a recommendation that a third degree murder provision be implemented which would allow for lesser sentences when the murders were supposedly motivated by compassion. The group told the committee that […]

Tory MP Rick Borotsik said yesterday that access to information documents show the total cost of an 11-week Call Girls and sex talk exhibit hosted by the Canadian Culture Centre in Paris was $57,218.49.  The National Post reports that John Levy, the majority owner of Headline Sports is applying for a licence to run Pride TV, a 24-hour gay and lesbian channel in Canada. The application will be filed with the federal broadcast regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, on Monday, sources say. That is the deadline for applications for the 10 new channels the regulator is prepared to […]

AUSTIN, TX, Mar 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study released today by The Medical Institute for Sexual Health offers indisputable evidence that the current public health model designed to address teen pregnancy and sexual activity is failing. “Building Healthy Futures: Tools for Helping Adolescents Avoid or Delay the Onset of Sexual Activity” also provides the first comprehensive review of studies evaluating the abstinence education model, finding “programs that exclusively teach abstinence can positively impact sexual behavior.” The study points out the frightening state of affairs regarding sexually transmitted diseases that has developed during a time when the dominant public health […]

EDMONTON, Mar 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alberta Progressive Conservative MLA, Julius Yankowsky has proposed conscience legislation in Alberta. Bill 212 is an amendment that, if adopted in the Legislative Assembly, would help secure the rights of health care workers who, by reason of conscience, are reluctant to participate in abortions, euthanasia and genetic terminations.  Canada Family Action Coalition notes that the private-members’ bill may undergo second reading before Easter. The amendment reads:  “No employer shall   a.) refuse to employ a health professional;  b.) refuse to advance or promote a health professional;  c.) discipline a health professional; or d.) dismiss or […]

The federally controlled drugs used to kill people legally under Oregon’s assisted-suicide law don’t always deliver death in the swift, sweet or even sure way that Measure 16 cheerleaders promised. Horrific symptoms and long delays have been reported. (Pro-Life E-News)  Nebraska’s Roman Catholic bishops said Thursday that the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s research with fetal tissue from elective abortions makes the center morally complicit with “an evil act.” The bishops said that while the NU Medical Center’s motives may be praiseworthy, “the alliance with induced abortion is unmistakable.” “While UNMC would want everyone to presume and understand that it […]

GREENSBORO, N.C., Mar 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday the Central Conference of American Rabbis voted to approve a resolution allowing rabbis to preside at homosexual “marriage” ceremonies.  Due to the contention over the issue the meeting at the annual convention was held privately and only a voice vote was taken. Critics fear that the move will further alienate the Reform Jewish community from the more orthodox branches of Judaism since the Torah clearly condemns homosexual sex. The resolution said the relationship between active homosexual partners deserves affirmation by the Jewish marriage ritual. It called for sample ceremonies to be developed […]

HOLLYWOOD, Mar 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life groups have reacted with outrage to the Academy Award ceremonies last weekend which awarded the pro-abortion film Cider House Rules with Oscars for best screenplay-adaptation (John Irving) and best actor in a supporting role (Michael Caine).  Rock For Life, a youth division of American Life League said the ceremonies paid homage not only to Irving and Caine but also to “the senseless and brutal killing of children.” Rock For Life co-director Tina Whittington said, “Caine, whose character surgically mutliates and destroys babies and then has them dumped into a furnace, said his character, the […]

OTTAWA, Mar 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that the federal government’s omnibus homosexual legislation, Bill C-23, will likely begin its third and final debate on the bill as early as April 6. The bill has passed through committee with an amendment to include the traditional definition of marriage, which will unfortunately carry little legal weight and is only being used to counter the massive groundswell of opposition to the legislation. Furthermore, it is unlikely that the bill will be amended to allow benefits on the basis of dependency rather than on homosexual sex. An internal memo from the Justice […]

VANCOUVER, Mar 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – BC’s Pro-Life Resource Centre has released a confidential document distributed to Canada Safeway pharmacies by the grocery giant’s management. The document would require Safeway pharmacists to dispense “euthanasia drugs” and “RU486” when they are legally available. The document, called Pharmacy Operations, also mandates that pharmacists dole out the abortifacient morning-after pill despite conscientious objection. Under section 4.6.1, “Conscientious Objectors and Accommodation,” Safeway pharmacists are told that “if another pharmacist is available at the time, the objecting pharmacist may discreetly request that he or she fill the personally objectionable prescription.” However,  Safeway adds that “if another […]

TOKYO, Mar 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The drastically low birth rate in Japan is at the root of a looming cash crisis which has forced the country to cut pensions to new retirees beginning Saturday in a law passed Tuesday. The law will also raise the retirement age for men from 60 to 65 between 2013 and 2025, with women to suffer the same changes by 2030. However, many fear that the changes will not suffice to save the pension system. Last week Japan reported the lowest ever annual population increase, rising just 0.16 percent.  Given the birth dearth, the rapidly […]

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to take up the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (HR 3660) on the morning of Wednesday, April 5. (Pro-Life Info-Net) Abortionists are enraged that an Arizona University deal forbids student to learn abortion on campus. A year after the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion, Arizona state lawmakers agreed to give the University of Arizona $5.5 million for an addition to its football stadium under the condition that UMC doctors must never be allowed to perform abortions. (Pro-Life E-News)  The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to mark up the Pain Relief Promotion […]

A new report in Britain indicates that the fertility rate has dropped to 1.73. The report,  ‘Family Change’, published Tuesday by the Family Policy Studies Centre, stated that mothers giving birth are older; now on average almost 29 years old.  An Australian Federal Government committee looking into human cloning technology has been told scientists should be allowed to use human embryos in their research. Professor Julian Savulescu, from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, said “At the very least we should allow those people who want to donate spare embryos from IVF to research to do so.” (Pro-Life E-News)  Ken Livingstone, […]

Right to Life of Northern Kentucky has charged that St. Elizabeth Medical Center permits abortions of fetuses diagnosed with ancephaly a rare brain birth defect. But the Catholic hospital, with the apparent backing of the Diocese of Covington, insisted Friday it follows the directives of the church.  New Jersey abortionist Steven Brigham has been locked out of his Eerie offices by its owners since he owes $15,000.  An aborted baby used in medical research could be sold for no more than $25 under the terms of a bill passed by a Kansas House panel on Monday. The bill is aimed […]

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has released a new report titled “Replacement Migration: Is it a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?” The report states that “virtually all the countries of Europe are expected to decrease in population size over the next 50 years.” Because of the “extraordinarily large numbers of migrants that would be required” to maintain population stability, “replacement migration alone seems out of reach” as a solution. Yet “few believe that fertility in most developed countries will recover sufficiently to reach replacement level in the foreseeable future, making population decline […]

ANN ARBOR, MI, Mar 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Michigan is offering a course this fall on “How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation.” Professor David Halperin describes the course in the university’s Fall 2000 course catalogue, saying that “just because you happen to be a gay man doesn’t mean that you don’t have to learn how to become one.” He treats the course as a “class project”, “since the course itself will constitute an experiment in the very process of (homosexual) initiation that it hopes to understand.” To contact the university with your concerns: The vice president […]

TASMANIA, Mar 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australia’s Dr. Death, Philip Nitschke, has been granted medical registration in Tasmania and thus permission to set up his euthanasia clinics. Nitschke boasts that so far eight people have signed up to be killed by him during his May 1-3 spree. The Medical Council of Tasmania confirmed that Dr Nitschke had gained registration here on February 17. Original source: The Mercury (with files from Pro-Life E-News)

LONDON, Mar 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Within Britain’s new set of guidelines on abortion funded by the British Department of Health and drawn up by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), the RCOG admits that the abortion-breast cancer link “was found to be credible”. The guidelines are called “Evidence-based Guidelines No. 7: The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion.” They make reference to the 1996 “Comprehensive review and meta-analysis,” by Dr. Joel Brind and his colleagues at the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, which found overwhelming evidence of an abortion-breast cancer connection. The RCOG report says of the Brind […]

TORONTO, Mar 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the mad race to try to show a genetic cause for homosexuality,  many scientists seem to have lost all sense of the caution in interpretation usually associated with their profession. A study by University of Toronto’s Ray Blanchard, finding that one in seven homosexual males have older brothers, has been touted as additional proof for the claim that homosexuality is biologically determined. Dr. Blanchard proposes that the greater likelihood for males with older brothers to have homosexual inclinations comes as a result of the mother’s immunological response to antigens produced by previously-born male children. […]

Some abortion advocates in England have become fed up with the effective use pro-lifers are making of the Internet. Under the innocuous name, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), some of them have launched a new website because they “want to provide a balance to the ‘hysterical propaganda’ published by many pro-life websites.” Ann Furedi, BPAS’s director of communications told the BBC: “When you searched for ‘abortion’ on the web you were bombarded with hysterical propaganda from the anti-abortion lobby.  A partial-birth abortion bill was defeated in the New Hampshire House by nine votes, but it may be reconsidered because […]

MONTANA, Mar. 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Montana passed a law against partial-birth abortion in 1999, but following this development Intermountain Planned Parenthood and two Montana doctors launched a lawsuit against state Attorney General Joe Mazurek. An agreement was reached over the lawsuit last week which more clearly defines which types of killing are permissible and which aren’t. “It keeps legal any abortion procedure performed pre-viability, or before the fetus can live on its own – estimated at up to 26 weeks – and sets a definition for what kind of later-term abortions, or those after the fetus can live independently of […]

CALIFORNIA, Mar. 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The campaign of hatred unleashed against Dr. Laura Schlessinger by the homosexualist movement has led the pro-family talk show host and councellor to cancel public engagements over concerns about the physical safety of her guests. Even needy children are falling victim to the militant tactics homosexuals are using against Dr. Laura. One of the events she had to cancel was her Third Annual 50th Birthday Bash scheduled for April 15th in Detroit, which is a fund-raiser for the neglected and abused children served by the Dr. Laura Schlessinger Foundation. “Unfortunately, children’s welfare appears to be […]

WASHINGTON, Mar. 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Center for Law and Justice last week announced what it calls a “historic settlement” on behalf pro-lifers and their First Amendment right to free speech. ACLJ is an international public interest law firm and was acting on behalf of Rev. James Lowell Rudd, the Washington director of the Christian Street Preachers Alliance. The controversy first erupted in 1995 when Rev. Rudd was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for preaching on a public sidewalk near an abortuary. The charges were dismissed, but in 1998 he was threatened again with arrest for peacefully demonstrating […]

OTTAWA, Mar. 28 (LifeSiteNews.com)- Pro-life and pro-family leaders across Canada have been encouraging social conservatives to participate in every stage of the process which has now led to the establishment of the Canadian Alliance. The next step is the election of a leader for the new federal political party. So far the candidates for the leadership of the party appear to be former Reform Party leader, Preston Manning, Alberta Treasurer Stockwell Day, Ontario Tory Frank Klees, former Reform Party candidate in the Toronto area, Joe Peschisolido, and Canadian Alliance MP in British Columbia, Keith Martin. Thus far, Mr. Day has […]

LONDON, Mar 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The BBC and Sky Television in Britain are considering airing a cartoon which would seriously ridicule the Catholic papacy. The Telegraph reports that the 26-part series, called “Popeman”, is currently in production by Channel X, the independent company founded by the television personality Jonathan Ross. Channel X is producing the show with the French company Moi J’aime La Television. The French government is contributing nearly $2 million (CDN) to the project. The series appears to be especially motivated by gay hatred of Christian morality. The Telegraph reports that Phil Ox, the French director makes no […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League President Judie Brown blasted the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Friday by giving awards for “outstanding contributions to increasing the awareness of population problems and to their solutions.” Ismail Awadallah Sallam, the minister of health and population of Egypt, and a Mexican family planning organization, Fundacion Mexicana para la Planificacion Familiar MEXFAM), will share the award presented by the ALL Committee. “The rich in the developed nations pay UNFPA director Nafis Sadik to run around the world rewarding those who best carry out a racist agenda of population elimination in countries […]

Reform members voted a resounding 91.9 per cent in favour of folding their party into the Canadian Alliance in a historic vote on Saturday.  Carleton Place, Mayor Brian Costello, said he would consider leaving his position as mayor if he were forbidden from saying the Lord’s Prayer in council due to a complaint made by the Canadian Jewish Congress.  American Life League has set up a resource page on the Morning After Pill. The site is a clearing house of information to be updated regularly.  20-year-old Wendy Pennington of Mississauga, Ontario is a hero for the unborn. The loving mother […]

The Family Research Council reports that during the week of April 3, the US House will vote on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2000 (H.R. 3660), introduced by Representative Charles Canady (R-FL). This is the fifth time the House will take a vote to ban this horrific abortion practice. The House has twice overridden President Clinton’s veto of the ban, but the Senate has fallen just a few votes short. In Minnesota, the state House and Senate contradicted each other with regard to allowing money for a bronze bust of the late Minnesota U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun […]

LANGLEY, BC, Mar 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Beverley Smith, a victim of frequently overzealous social workers in British Columbia, has been protesting the removal of her daughter from her care by staging a sit-in for the past six days in the riding office of BC Premier Ujjal Dosanjh.  Schneider of Langley, BC, had her daughter, Raquel Schneider, taken from her three years ago without an investigation. She was accused of having Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a disorder that involves the intentional harming of one’s own child. Despite undergoing four psychological exams which all found her not to suffer from the disorder, […]

KELWONA, BC, Mar 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kelwona Mayor Walter Gray has been found guilty of discrimination by a B.C. Human Rights tribunal for having refused to use the world “pride” in his proclamation of “gay day”. LifeSite reported in December, 1998 that Gray felt his being forced to add “pride” infringed on his constitutional rights. “Don’t ask me to say I’m proud of the event,” he said. Carole Roberts, who wrote the tribunal’s decision, released Thursday, called Gray’s actions “tantamount to a public insult.” Harinder Mahil, the commission’s deputy chief commissioner said, “This decision is important in that it says […]

TORONTO, Mar 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) has threatened the Ontario Legislature with a lawsuit to force it to abandon its use of the Lord’s Prayer to open its sessions and to compel Ontario municipal governments to do the same. Keith Landy, Ontario region president of the CJC, says municipalities are defying a September Ontario Supreme Court decision outlawing the prayer at public municipal council meetings. Speaker Gary Carr rebuffed the threat Thursday saying that parliamentary privilege protected the provincial legislature from having to abide by the ruling. Numerous Members of the Legislature spoke out in defense […]

In a rare move, Nova Scotia’s Public Prosecution Service has used its powers of direct indictment to overturn a lower court’s dismissal of a case involving Dr. William H. Michael Christie. Christie was charged with sexual assault after two boys now 15 and 17, testified that he masturbated them on numerous occasions. The Prosecution Service said Judge John MacDougall erred by failing to consider the expert testimony of Dr. Richard MacLachlan, head of family medicine at Dalhousie University and the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre,  who testified that there is no medical reason to masturbate a patient.  l Andrew […]

OTTAWA, Mar 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Commons justice committee studying Ottawa’s same-sex legislation, Bill C-23, voted Thursday to include the traditional definition of marriage in the proposed legislation. After several attempts by homosexual activist New Democrat MP Svend Robinson on Wednesday and Thursday to block the addition, the committee voted 11-4 in its favour. Meanwhile pro-family groups continued opposition to the bill.  REAL Women Canada noted that the amendment is “merely cosmetic and has little legal merit since the Supreme Court of Canada can sweep aside this definition in the legal challenges already proceeding through the courts.” REAL Women notes […]

TORONTO, Mar 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Human Rights Commission has summoned the Canadian ambassador to give account for Ontario’s refusal to fund religious schools in the province other than Catholic schools. Last November a UN Human Rights tribunal ruled that Ontario’s funding of only Catholic schools put Canada in violation of the 1976 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. While even the Canadian Catholic Bishops supported the idea of the province funding other religious schools, the province refused, claiming such action would harm public education.  The federal government wrote the UN saying that education is wholly a […]

A Virginia woman is suing an abortion centre in her state for illegally performing a second trimester abortion on her. Such late abortions are only permitted in hospitals in the state.  She was seriously injured during the 1998 abortion.  The American Family Association has encouraged supporters to vote in the following polls.  Last Thursday, the Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill that would recognize same-sex “civil unions” in the state. The measure would allow ‘gay’ couples to receive all the legal benefits of married couples, but preserves the term “marriage” solely for unions between a man and a woman. […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The powerful feminist coalition, Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice, has unveiled its strategy to enforce abortion through the International Criminal Court (ICC).  The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-fam) reports that the Women’s Caucus has released a pamphlet entitled “The International Criminal Court: The Beijing Platform in Action.” The pamphlet asks governments to view the ICC as the enforcement mechanism for the controversial Beijing Platform for Action, a non-binding resolution negotiated at a conference five years ago orchestrated by radical feminists. The pamphlet says the ICC can be “both an end in itself […]

Catholic World News reported yesterday that the US Supreme Court ruled that public colleges can use mandatory student activity fees to fund student groups, even if some students object to them. However, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy added: “When a university requires its students to pay fees to support the extracurricular speech of other students, all in the interest of open discussion, it may not prefer some viewpoints to others.”

VANCOUVER, Mar 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition BC (CLCBC) reacted to the announcement yesterday that the abortifacient morning after pill (MAP) would be distributed “over the counter” in BC. “Pharmacists who in conscience cannot dispense these abortifacient drugs have no protection,” said their press release. “They must hand over to anyone who asks, the means he or she believes will kill an unborn child.” The group called for conscience legislation that would “prevent companies from ostracizing and even firing dedicated druggists who stand up for their beliefs.” Canadian Physicians for Life (CPL) also commented on the news, warning that […]

The editor of the Montreal Gazette has admitted the paper blundered in not giving adequate coverage to the sacking of a Catholic Cathedral by pro-abortion activists.  At its annual meeting Tuesday two-thirds of the B.C. Teachers Federation voted in support of a motion to allow homosexual clubs in BC public schools. Parents and teachers who attempted to fight the resolution affecting their schools and children were labeled homophobes by the public servants.  The National Post reports that the Canadian Jewish Congress has called on the Ontario government to eliminate the Lord’s Prayer from the Legislature and municipal council meetings.  Pro-Life […]

MONTREAL, Mar 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Historian Neil Cameron wrote in the Montreal Gazette Sunday that ‘metropolitanism’ can assume some of the blame for the elevated abortion numbers in Quebec.  With a horrendous 38 abortions for every 100 live births and a total of more than 30,000 abortions a year, Quebec is in the unappealing company of other big cities such as Washington, D.C. which, the author notes, “has had an abortion rate for years equaling the rate of live births.” Cameron points out that significant differences between “life in urban aggregations of modest size – from a few thousand up […]

LONDON, Mar 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Telling the press they would like to see homosexual marriages legalized, a woman, dressed as a groom was allowed to marry a man who had had his body mutilated with surgery and hormones so as to appear as a woman. The former man who calls himself Diane Maddox was dressed as the bride in the ceremony agreed to by the Aldershot register office after Maddox produced documentation proving he was born male. Original source: The Times

OTTAWA, Mar 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, in a sly attempt to quell the massive public outrage over the Liberal Government’s omnibus homosexual-benefits legislation, Justice Minister Anne McLellan announced the bill would include an amendment defining marriage. Although the proposed law would still alter the definition of “family” to include same-sex couples and would end legal distinctions between natural marriage and homosexual cohabitation, the amendment would protect the term “marriage.” The amendment reads: “For greater certainty, the amendments made by this act do not affect the meaning of the word ‘marriage,’ that is, the lawful union of one man and one […]

The Baltimore-based Planned Parenthood of Maryland and the Baltimore City Health Department have teamed up to promote their “EC to Go” campaign, which distributes free “emergency contraception.” Ads in college newspapers and neighborhood publications read, “The lights go out, sparks fly, one thing leads to another, and then … the condom breaks. What Now?” In addition, the two groups have launched a 60-second radio spot. They have also passed out coupons that inform people of the “availability of free ECP prescriptions to be kept on hand ‘just in case.’” (Contraceptive Technology Update, 3/00 issue, in Kaiser report). Next month Texas […]

VANCOUVER, Mar 22 (LSN.ca) – The radically pro-abortion BC government has allowed the over-  the-counter distribution of the abortifacient morning-after pill commencing May 1. Click here for information on the effects of morning-after pills and the attempt to deny their abortifacient effect. For more see the Vancouver Sun. (with files from Pro-Life E-News)

HOLLYWOOD, Mar 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hundreds of homosexual activists staged a loud and obscene protest outside Paramount studios Tuesday against the upcoming debut of the “Dr. Laura” show with its orthodox Jewish host Dr. Laura Schlessinger. Schlessinger has ignited the hatred of the homosexual movement with her frank discussion of the abnormality of homosexual acts and her support for organizations which offer freedom to homosexuals from their deviant sexual behaviour. Many of the protesters were Paramount employees. The hypocrisy of the demonstration was evident with homosexual-sex supporter and talk show host Gloria Allred arguing that she should be allowed to […]

AJAX, Mar 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rebecca Davis, 40, is suing the Ontario government for $100 million for the physical and mental suffering she endured from an abortion she was forced to undergo in 1976 while a resident of the former Grandview School for Girls. In a statement of claim filed Monday, she says the abortion caused “sustained permanent injuries, including cuts,  abrasions, contusions to various body parts and severe mental and psychological anguish.”  Davis says she endured “sexual abuse, assault, sexual exploitation, violent physical abuse and psychological abuse” in the Cambridge facility from 1973 to 1976. The Toronto Sun reports […]

The abortion advocacy movie Cider House Rules has been nominated for best picture and six other awards for next Sunday’s Oscars.  The Conservative News Service reports that pressure from homosexual groups who are trying to shut down the planned Dr. Laura Schlessinger television show – before it even hits the airwaves – seems to have had little effect on the local stations that have agreed to carry the show.  Britain is to break ranks with America and let China off the hook at this week’s UN annual human rights meeting. Though the U.S. said in January that it would sponsor […]

The judicial override of a parental consent law in Texas has resulted in two of the state Supreme Court justices accusing other members of the bench of “judicial activism” for thwarting the parental consent law by negligently granting abortions to minors. (Pro-Life E-  News)  A federal bankruptcy court judge cleared the way Tuesday for a handful of women’s and abortion rights groups to go after the assets of Randall Terry and his wife in Terry’s ongoing bankruptcy case. (Pro-Life E-News)  The how-to commit suicide with a plastic bag video produced by Hemlock Society co-founder Derek Humphry was aired on Hawaii’s […]

WASHINGTON, Mar 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) President,  Gloria Feldt, will convene leaders of America’s pro-abortion movement at the PPFA Annual Conference, March 23-25, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C. The abortion supporting confab will lobby, run workshops, and praise abortion pushing politicians. Feldt revealed the lobby agenda was to promote forced Insurance coverage of (abortifacient)  contraception and to promote abortion both in the US and abroad. “We will urge Congress to approve the Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act (EPICC), increase funding for Title X, America’s family planning program, and restore […]

RE: yesterday’s coverage of the Justice Committee voting down the suggestions to allow the committee to travel throughout the country to hear the concerns of Canadians on the homosexual omnibus legislation and the suggestion to televise the proceedings.  The committee voted the traveling suggestion down 6-4 and the vote to televise the proceedings was tied at 5-5 and the chair (Andy Scott, MP) broke the tie by voting against the motion

OTTAWA, Mar 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Liberal convention which took place over the weekend passed a resolution to include “sexual orientation” in hate crimes legislation. The delegates also voted to include practicing homosexuals in the definition of “common-law spouse”. However, a move to have the term “marriage” apply to same-sex unions was defeated in a 468 to 365 vote. Also at the convention, Prime Minister Jean Chretien warned party faithful that the next election would be called “very soon.” The Toronto Star notes that senior Liberals believe a fall election is likely. They believe it would catch the Official Opposition […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A United Nations University study released at U.N.  headquarters in New York, said that sovereignty can be forfeited on humanitarian grounds and intervention should not be subject to veto by members of the Security Council. “Kosovo and The Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention” calls itself a “compendium of authoritative viewpoints on many dimensions of the 1999 crisis”. The authors, Tokyo university’s, Ramesh Thakur, and Albrecht Schnabel with contributor Ray Funnel, a retired Australian air marshal, call for “an international consensus about the point at which a state forfeits its sovereignty.” They also recommend the removal […]

OTTAWA, Mar 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC), which has long-claimed to represent the vast majority of Canadian women, has been found to consist of “at least” 50% lesbians. With the national average of lesbians in the population running around 2%, the gross misrepresentation is stunning. The Toronto Sun reported today that a NAC official confirmed that “the lobby group speaks for 740 groups representing 3 million women and ‘at least 50%’ are lesbian.” “That’s not very representative of the general population,”  REAL Women’s Diane Watts told the paper.  This admission by NAC […]

VATICAN CITY, Mar 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, the president of the Pontifical Council for the Family in Rome issued a statement regarding the legal recognition of homosexual unions being treated on par with marriage. The statement applies equally to the Canadian legislation currently under consideration in the House of Commons as it does to the recent suggestion of the European Union for its member countries to eliminate legislation banning same-sex marriage. In a clear and strongly worded comment on Vatican Radio the Cardinal said: “The family based on matrimony, conceived as the union of love between a […]

SPRINGFIELD, IL – Mar 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women who have an abortion are five times more likely to report subsequent substance abuse compared to women who carry their babies to term, according to a study published in the latest issue of the prestigious American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. The study was authored by Elliot Institute director Dr. David Reardon and Dr.  Philip Ney, a British Columbia psychiatrist who specializes in post-abortion counseling.  According to the authors, while the connection between abortion and substance abuse has never been widely publicized, this is at least the 16th published study connecting […]

OTTAWA, Mar 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Liberal government has refused to hear from ordinary Canadians on their same-sex benefits legislation, Bill C-23. Last Thursday, Reform MP Eric Lowther moved a motion in the Justice Committee to have the committee travel to every province and hear witnesses on Bill C-23, and to have the committee hearings televised. The Liberal dominated committee voted down both suggestions. The vote to kill the resolution was close,  however, with committee Chair Andy Scott (Lib., Fredericton) being required to cast his vote (against Lowther’s motion) to break a tie and suppress a more democratic resolution to […]

Last Thursday the Ohio Senate passed a bill criminalizing partial birth abortion. In an upset for family forces in Utah, Gov. Mike Leavitt vetoed legislation passed March 1 which would have limited sex-education to teaching abstinence before marriage. The Governor,  however, has proposed some conciliatory administrative measures which are being implemented.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Mar 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Just a week after the US Agency for International Development (USAID) landed in hot water over its support of forced sterilization in Peru, US Congressmen are calling for an investigation into USAID’s funding of poor-targeted sterilization in the Dominican Republic. Population Research Institute (PRI), which has assisted Peru and the Dominican Republic in getting their concerns to US legislators, notes that “there is great resentment in the developing world against the US for insisting upon population control as a condition of receiving US foreign aid.” The controversy began in early February when Kathleen Manatt, […]

Please note that LifeSite has added a new page highlighting the upcoming March for Life 2000.  The page contains info on this year’s March scheduled for May 11, with lead up events commencing on May 10.  For local organizers,  hotel accommodations, and promotional video,  slides and real video from March for Life 1999 plus updates as they come in see:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/may2000/index.html   Also check out our re-vamped homepage, with easier to navigate links.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Beijing +5 prepcom concluded at UN headquarters in New York Friday despite having failed to complete its required tasks.  The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) reported that the West’s insistence to eliminate national sovereignty and introduce “sexual orientation” and “sexual and reproductive rights” into the Beijing document resulted in deadlock as developing countries rejected the initiatives. The western nations, negotiating as a bloc called JUSCANZ (Japan, the US, Canada, New Zealand,  and Australia), working in tandem with the EU, were advancing the radical agendas opposed by the G-77. Officials now say […]

The European Union’s parliament has adopted a resolution urging its 15 member nations to grant same-sex couples rights equal to those of heterosexual couples.  The story of the infanticide of abortion survivor “Tiny Tim”, recounted by Sharon Dunsmore,  R.N., is available here. The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines has begun an initiative to fight condom ads in print media, radio and television.

The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, which is leading the initiative to support the Vatican at the United Nations against an attempt by abortion extremists to oust it from the U.N.  has invited organizations to sign on in support of the initiative. Canadian organizations can contact Campaign Life Coalition at: [email protected] (416) 204-1027 https://www.c-fam.org/HolySee/index.html

LA PAZ, Bolivia, Mar 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-lifers in Bolivia were shocked to learn this week that a young girl’s baby was aborted after five months gestation.  Doctors in Cochabamba were initially ordered to abort the baby by Judge Juan Luis Ledezma but after a refusal and a threat of strike by the Medical Association of Bolivia the judge suspended the order for thirty days. Subsequent to the suspension, the girl’s family obtained another order from the same judge, allowing them to find a doctor who would perform the abortion if they wanted it. Meanwhile, reports began to surface that […]

EDMONTON, Mar 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday the Alberta Legislature passed a Private Members bill defining marriage as exclusively the union between a man and a woman by a vote of 32-15. The Marriage Amendment Act, introduced by Progressive Conservative MLA Victor Doerksen, pledges to use the provincial “notwithstanding clause” to protect the traditional definition of marriage from court ordered revision. Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) applauded the passage of the bill. “In so many legislatures and courts across Canada the institution of marriage is under assault”, said Brian Rushfeldt, CFAC Executive Director.  “It is so gratifying to see our […]

Toni Peters a 26-year-old daughter of a Baptist minister was fined in a Columbus Ohio court Tuesday after pleading guilty to burning a gay-pride flag which flew over the Statehouse. Judge Mark S. Froehlich fined her $250, placed her on probation for two years and ordered her to pay $40—the cost of the flag—to the gay-rights organization Stonewall Columbus.  Peters rejoiced in court that weeks after the incident the board decided only to fly government flags.  “I don’t hate these people,’’ she said. “They need to be saved.’’ Today Utah Gov. Michael O. Leavitt will sign into law the establishment […]

STOWE, Vermont, Mar 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill giving homosexual couples all the rights of marriage except for the name “marriage” passed the Vermont House Wednesday by a narrow vote of 79 to 68.  If passed in the Senate Governor Howard Dean has agreed to sign it into law. Conservative News Service (CNS) reports that the “Civil Union” involves a couple obtaining a license from their town clerk, followed by a “certification ceremony.”

VATICAN CITY, Mar 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a seven point “Universal Prayer” of “Confession Of Sins And Asking For Forgiveness” issued by Pope John Paul II last Sunday, point seven involved abortion.  While the Catholic Church holds as its official policy that participation in abortion results in excommunication, the Pope expresses in his prayer that even that much is not enough. In a section entitled “Confession of Sins In Relation To The Fundamental Rights Of The Person”  Archbishop François Xavier Nguyên Van Thuân prayed “let us pray for those who are most defenseless, the unborn killed in their mother’s womb […]

WASHINGTON, Mar 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The two court cases most responsible for bringing the curse of abortion to the United States are being challenged with support from the primary plaintiffs in both cases.  Norma McCorvey, better known as “Jane Roe” in the infamous Roe vs. Wade case, and Sandra Cano-Saucedo, “Mary Doe” in Doe v. Bolton, filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of a class action lawsuit that strikes at a New Jersey law prohibiting wrongful-death lawsuits when the victim is an unborn child. Three women who were coerced into abortions are bringing the case forward.  One was forced against her […]

SAN SALVADOR, Mar 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – El Salvador, the only country in the world whose constitution specifically defines the personhood of the unborn child, elected an abortion supporter as mayor of its capital city of San Salvador. The upset victory underlies the need for constant vigilance and participation by pro-lifers in the democratic process. Human Life International reports that on Sunday, March 12, the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA – Alianza Republicana Nacionalista), a political party that defends the Christian faith, as well as life and family, lost the important mayoral seat of the capital city of San Salvador to the […]

Circuit Judge L. Ralph Smith Jr. ruled Tuesday that Florida’s school voucher law was unconstitutional, throwing out the nation’s first statewide voucher program. Smith made his decision without considering any evidence!  Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson has demanded that Al Gore repudiate the anti-Catholic views of his supporters by rejecting their endorsements. Both the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and the Women Leaders Online have supported Gore and they have also signed on the battle to remove the Vatican from the UN.

DETROIT, Mar 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Gleitsman Foundation announced Tuesday that euthanasia and assisted suicide activist Jack Kevorkian would share a $100,000 humanitarian award with death-penalty fighter Bryan Stevenson. Foundation president Alan Gleitsman, who will give out the awards during April 10 ceremonies at Harvard University, found no contradiction in awarding both an advocate and a foe of imposed death. Melody Youk, the wife of Thomas Youk whom Kevorkian killed via lethal injection, will accept the award on Kevorkian’s behalf. For more see theFree Press.

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Mar 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday, the Serbian Orthodox Church sent a letter to its priests telling them “not to grant Holy Communion” to doctors and midwives known to perform abortions. “Abortion is a grievous sin before God, condemned by the Scriptures,” reads the letter by the Church’s highest body, the Holy Synod. “As such, it threatens the entire Serbian nation with biological extermination.” While a noble sentiment, observers question the sincerity of the order. Some suggest that the state-run Church is merely responding to the Serbian government’s recognition of the disastrous population decline in the Serbian population. […]

In a case likely to raise concern about lesbian adoption, Valerie Hetu, 32, was found guilty  of sexually exploiting the 16-year-old girl the British Columbia Ministry of Children and Families had placed in her foster-care.  Heinz Klatt, a science professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont., will this September begin teaching the first university course in North America to explore the role of aberrant psychology in the “totalitarian code” of political correctness. “Anyone who becomes politically incorrect by daring to challenge a prohibition of this unwritten code is accused of insensitivity or hate, of being a sexist, […]

VATICAN, Mar 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Andrew Fournier, the nineteen year Ontario pro-lifer who is walking across Canada to raise awareness and garner support for the pro-life movement was interviewed by Vatican radio.  The broadcast which goes around the world aired this morning and is available for listening on Andrew’s page on LifeSite.  Andrew’s page also carries frequent updates on his progress. See Andrew’s Pilgrimage for Life site at:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/pilgrimage/index.html

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, Mar 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A twelve-year-old girl in Bolivia was ordered by a judge to submit to an abortion until doctors opposed the procedure as dangerous to the girl’s health and objected to ending the life of the unborn child. The child was apparently raped by her stepfather and is now close to five months pregnant. Judge Juan Luis Ledezma of Cochabamba had given approval to the abortion and had appointed a panel of doctors to submit a report to him with the name of the doctor who would perform the abortion as well as the time and […]

Today’s LifeSite Special Report is an authorized reproduction of stories from Monday’s and Tuesday’s Vivant! Newspaper, a publication of the NGO Caucus for Stable Families at the Beijing+5 Prepcom   The topics include: * Pro-life NGOs at the UN have exposed Catholics for a Free Choice, the pro-abortion lobby group trying to oust the Vatican from the UN, as a fraudulent group which should itself be ousted from the international body. * Western Nations Oppose Beijing+5 ‘Family’ References * Beijing+5 Delegates Battle Again Over Abortion References * Beijing Platform For Action Serves Only West’s Interest * Western Nations Rethink Population […]

WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The money behind the pro-abortion ad campaign of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) comes mainly from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.  The foundation gave NARAL $16-million to run a series of pro-abortion TV ads to counter pro-life ads which were effectively turning the public against abortion. The St. Petersburg Times notes that other donors to the pro-abortion TV campaign included George Soros’ Open Society Institute with a $500,000 donation and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation with $75,000. The pro-abortion ads copy the format of the pro-life ads which use emotional imagery to […]

New York state Sen. Nick Spano (R) last week introduced legislation that would require all New York State emergency rooms to make emergency contraception available to rape victims. The bill comes at the behest of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League which complains that ‘only 93 of the state’s 215 hospitals with emergency rooms currently provide EC to rape victims.” The Times reports that a couple in New Mexico have been charged with co-habiting in a rare example of one of the United States’ more obscure state laws that is being enforced. The crime, under a 37-year-old law, […]

INTERLAKE, Manitoba, Mar 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Five school divisions in the Interlake region of Manitoba are considering a sex-ed program that would see nurses handing out the pill and condoms in high schools. The move is being pushed by a Planned Parenthood front group calling itself the “Sexuality Education Resource Centre.” The Winnipeg Free Press reports that Interlake superintendent Ron Weston has had requests for a public forum on the issue.  Suspecting parental discontent Weston said parents may opt their children out of the program. “We would certainly honour the request of the parents.  It’s like family life – they […]

The United Nations Population Fund is again sending out its controversial “reproductive health kits” containing condoms, emergency contraception and even vacuum aspirators along with items which would assist in delivery. A UNFPA report indicates the group is dumping “more than six tonnes” of such material on the struggling people of Zimbabwe after Cyclone Eline.  In yesterday’s National Post, health writer Brad Evenson warns that genetic manipulation for designer children is already upon us and awaiting further exploitation. “In 1990, at London’s Hammersmith Hospital, the first pregnancies that followed molecular testing for X-linked recessive diseases came to term. Cells were removed […]

OTTAWA, Mar 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Since November 1999, the federal government has been conducting a little known public consultation on Child Victims and the Criminal Justice System. One key element of the consultation asks the public if the age of consent for sexual intercourse should be raised from its current 14 to 16 or 18 years of age. Of note while the law stipulates that the age of consent for sex is 14, the age of consent for marriage is set at 16. Public comments on the proposal are due by March 31, 2000. The consultation paper notes that “Police […]

Rev. Daryl Orman, a Baptist minister, caused outrage among pro-abortion members of the state House in Florida Thursday. He prayed: “I ask you Lord if you would just instill in their hearts the desire to protect the unborn, those babies being carried by women all over the state of Florida. And Lord, I want to ask you please help them Lord to just continue to follow in the tradition of the sanctity of marriage, in your design from the word of God,  one man, one woman for life.” (Pro-Life E-News)  The New York Times reported yesterday that US presidential hopeful […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court began its fourth session of negotiations on the elaboration of the rules and guidelines for the eventual functioning of the Court. The session runs from March 13-31 and will focus on the texts of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence and Elements of Crimes, for which the completion deadline is June 30. The rules cover such issues as composition and administration of the Court, penalties for crimes, obligations of international co-operation and assistance, as well as enforcement of sentences. On the matter of crimes within […]

ROANOKE, VA, Mar 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A US Episcopalian parish has severed ties with the US Episcopalian Church since it cannot tolerate the liberal trends in the US denomination which it says are accepting of abortion and homosexuality. Religion Today (RT) reported yesterday that Holy Spirit in Roanoke has joined the Episcopal Church of Rwanda. RT reports that Neff Powell, the Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia,  first suggested that the parish consider leaving the denomination. Later he declared the parish “separated from the Episcopal Church” for refusing to attend diocesan meetings or contribute money to the larger […]

NEW YORK, Mar 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday, March 15, Focus on the Family will join Catholics and Protestant evangelicals in a news conference at United Nations Headquarters in New York to defend the Holy See’s UN status against an attack by pro-abortion organizations. Pro-abortion lobby groups such as Planned Parenthood, Catholics for Free Choice and others have launched a campaign to have the United Nations remove the Holy See as a Permanent Observer of the UN. The term “Holy See” is the official designation for the Catholic Church at the UN. Focus issued a press release noting that it […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations has responded to complaints that UN peacekeepers are engaging in illicit sex overseas with underage prostitutes and spreading AIDS by launching a massive condom distribution program. The London Times reports that the two peacekeeping operations in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo both contain budget provisions for the supply at the rate of “one condom per man per day” to UN troops. A UN official told the Times, “You could say that the UN is encouraging its men to have sex every day. That is not the case.” “You […]

Ontario Tory Minister Frank Klees, a fiscal and social conservative, announced Friday that he is a contender for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance Party. Klees hopes to cast his Alberta-based opponents Preston Manning and Stockwell Day as “identical” candidates who have limited appeal outside their home province.  https://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?f=000311/230074&s2=national&s3=politics   A British couple, whose three-year-old daughter died last year, has begun a legal battle to be permitted to use IVF to select the sex of their next child, a procedure usually necessitating the “discarding” of unwanted male embryos.  https://www.the-times.co.uk./news/pages/Times/timnwsnws01008.html   Dr. Laura issued an apology to homosexuals saying: “Regrettably, some […]

BELFAST, Mar 13 (LSN.ca) – Nora Bennis, leader of the Christian Democrats In Ireland, is leading the charge to ban the sex-education materials used in schools. She and a large contingent of parents are seeking to determine if books or videos in use in primary schools would breach censorship laws.  Bennis points out that the Usborne Facts of Life Series book, “Babies Growing Up”, explains to primary school children how mentally handicapped babies may be aborted. It reads: “If the doctors have reason to believe that a baby is likely to be seriously mentally or physically disabled … the parents […]

LONDON, Mar 13 (LSN.ca) – A new set of guidelines on abortion funded by the British Department of Health and drawn up by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists,  is being hailed by abortion activists, but condemned by pro-lifers as “irresponsible.”  Speaking for the College, Gillian Penney, who led the team of senior gynaecologists which drew up the guidelines, said, “Abortion is a safe procedure that should be funded by the NHS and seen as an integral part of a reproductive and sexual health care service.”“The Care of Women requesting Induced Abortion” says that “Women should be offered the […]

WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (LSN.ca) – On Friday, one day after members of the US House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment asked the Justice Department to conduct an investigation into the illegal trafficking of aborted baby body parts and tissue for profit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Kansas City, Missouri announced an investigation. “We are investigating possible criminal violations in the marketing of fetal tissue to determine if there is a violation of federal criminal law,” FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza told Reuters. While the ABC 20/20 special was very limited in its coverage, the fact that the issue was […]

WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (LSN.ca) – Speaking in the US Senate on March 8, Chairman Jesse Helms responded to a call to have the Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate consider ratifying the Convention of Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).  Helms said:  “I say dream on because it is not going to happen. Why has CEDAW, the Convention of Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, never been ratified? Because it is a bad treaty; it is a terrible treaty negotiated by radical feminists with the intent of enshrining their radical anti-family agenda into international law. […]

LIFESITE, Mar 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new web-page is on LifeSite dedicated to Andrew Fournier’s Pilgrimage for Life across Canada. The page which will be constantly updated includes news updates with photos, timetables, and options to donate on-line. See Andrew’s Pigrimage page on LifeSite at:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/pilgrimage/

On Monday, New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson (R) signed into law a bill that makes “partial-birth”  abortion illegal unless a woman’s life is endangered or she is at risk of “great bodily harm. American Life League reports that more than 200 doctors have signed ALL’s Declaration of Life —a document that affirms the abortifacient nature of the birth control pill, emergency contraception, Depo Provera and Norplant. The signatures may be viewed online. The Declaration of Life may be viewed here.  Congressman Chris Smith addressed the Congressional hearing on the “1999 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” saying that despite China’s […]

HAVANA, Mar 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, 38, the pro-life MD jailed in Cuba for three years for his pro-life activities and flying the Cuban flag upside down has been moved to a jail across the country. Catholic World News reported yesterday that the Communist government was transferring Biscet from detention in Havana to a prison in Holguin Province,  around 450 miles away from his wife and family as an additional punishment. Biscet has refused his right to appeal knowing that the “biased” courts would do “no justice.” As LifeSite reported in February, Amnesty International has urged action […]

VANCOUVER, Mar 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an unbelievable decision, Crown Counsel decided not to prosecute the three University of British Columbia students charged with destroying a pro- life display. The Crown indicated that there was no evidentiary problem (obviously since the whole attack was caught on video), but that it simply was “not in the public interest”, a bizarre response by the Crown to its duty to apply Canada’s laws. The Crown explained its decision saying it was considering the “context” in which the violence occurred; the victims had been in a long “debate” with their attackers; that the attackers […]

WASHINGTON, Mar 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As pro-abortion groups observe the fourth annual National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers today, Priests for Life is also commemorating the event. “We see abortion providers as our brothers and sisters, and respect their lives as much as we respect the lives of unborn children,” said Fr. Frank Pavone, the National Director of Priests for Life. “It is precisely because of our respect for them that we listen carefully to the pain and anger they have because of abortion. Abortion psychologically destroys the doctors who perform it.” “Priests for Life is involved in reaching […]

OTTAWA, Mar 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The immensely popular Alberta Tory Treasurer Stockwell Day announced yesterday that he would run for leadership of the Canadian Alliance, the party formed with a unification of small-c conservatives in the Tory and Reform camps. Day, a former church pastor, surprised media yesterday when he responded to questions about his stand on abortion saying without hesitation “I believe in the right to life.” The pro-life, pro-family 49-year-old has wowed conservatives around the country with his financial wizardry as Alberta Treasurer. He will face a tough battle for leadership against current Reform Party leader Preston Manning. […]

NEW YORK, Mar 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League (ALL) issued a critical analysis of the ABC 20/20 special on the fetal tissue market which aired Wednesday. During the ten minute segment, 20/20 failed to expose crucial testimony which was given to them by fetal marketing eyewitness Dean Alberty and the investigative group, Life Dynamics of Denton, Texas. ALL noted that “ABC failed to air Alberty’s eyewitness accounts of live babies who were dissected and their organs harvested while still functioning. In these cases, according to Alberty, abortions were not performed – instead, babies were born alive in order to […]

Europe’s Catholic bishops have proposed pro-life amendments to the European Union treaty.  The Commission of Bishops of the European Community (Comece), called for the right to life from conception to natural death.  The myth that abortion is “safe” is propagated by death reporting rules created by the World Health Organization which distort statistics. Deaths due to abortion are not properly being categorized under abortion.  https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2000/feb/02who_rules.html The Association for Marriage and the Family is sponsoring a rally in defence of marriage on Parliament Hill for Tuesday, March 14, 2000 between 10 a.m. and 12 noon. The rally, geared to fight bill […]

OTTAWA, Mar 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On February 23, Hedy Fry, Secretary of State (Multiculturalism)  (Status of Women), launched a “national anti-hate activity strategy.”  Fry held a Roundtable discussion in Ottawa with representatives from Canadian business, law enforcement and civil society groups who met with the Department of Canadian Heritage, Justice Canada, and the Solicitor General in a joint effort to develop a National Anti-Hate Strategy.  The release from the government department indicates that the measures come in response to “recent reports of increased hate activity in Canada.” “We must move forward quickly to put in place a national strategy for […]

ABC’s 20/20 coverage of the baby parts story carried an interview with Dean Alberty, the pro-life undercover spy who exposed the gruesome trade in baby body parts.  Despite incontrovertible evidence he is still questioned on the veracity of his story. He affirmed that his information is accurate saying “I will stand behind my words until I die. I will go in front of Congress if I have to and testify under oath.”  The US Judiciary Committee, handling a bill to ban research using aborted baby parts, has reached a stalemate over whether to allow the vote to bedebated in the […]

The National Post reports that in a surprise move, Reform MP Jason Kenney has endorsed Alberta Treasurer Stockwell Day for the leadership of the new Canadian Alliance Party over Preston Manning.  John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe, director of Pro-Life Century in Laytonsville, Maryland and ” the father of the rescue movement” makes some challenging comments about the principle of non-violence in a frank interview with Canadian reporter Sue Careless.  https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2000/feb/14nonviolence.html

OTTAWA, Mar 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Abortion Rights Action League, spent International Women’s Day yesterday demanding more public money for abortions.  The group complained that in some provinces governments placed limits on the number of abortions, and some do not provide full funding. CARAL director Marilyn Wilson cooed over Ontario, Alberta, Newfoundland and B-C for allowing abortion mills to operate. (with files from Pro-Life E-News)

The National Post reported yesterday that Halifax Nova Scotia Judge John MacDougall dismissed a case of sexual assault against Dr. William Christie who was accused of masturbating two young teenage boys on grounds that masturbation by a doctor was not sexual assault. The Avalon Center, a sexual assault help-line is calling for the Crown to challenge the ruling. 1997-1998 statistics obtained through Alberta’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act show that one-third of women in Alberta are having repeat abortions. Of the total of 10,231 abortions performed in fiscal year 1997-98, 3,401 were for women who had one […]

HAMBURG, Mar 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Responding to the growing number of cases of abandonment of newborn babies in trash cans and other public places, a practice that has grown in popularity with the devaluation of life, governments have begun programs to allow for parents to anonymously deposit their newborns in hospitals. A program launched in Hamburg, Germany called “Operation Foundling,” keeps the abandoned babies in care for two months to allow the parents to decide to retrieve the child, and then puts the child up for adoption. ABC News reported yesterday that last year in Germany more than 130 newborn […]

AP reports today that Californians rejected gay marriage Tuesday, approving a ballot measure that prohibits the state from recognizing same-sex marriages legally performed in any other state.    The Buffett Foundation has given Family Health International a $2 million grant to seek approval to market quinacrine in the US. Quinacrine is an anti-malaria medication that is misused to cause permanent sterilization in women in the third world. (Pro-Life E-News)  ALL reports that legislation that passed both the New York State Assembly (A7303) and Senate (S3131B) in slightly different forms, and is now in committee, would provide payment for   “the […]

WASHINGTON, Mar 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 20/20 episode on the baby body parts market to air tonight will have a live interview with “Kelly”, the pro-life spy who exposed the baby parts market after becoming a pro-life convert. He was a worker who would dissect aborted babies and send their body parts to researchers until an abortionist brought him live babies to dissect.  Life Dynamics Inc. (LDI), which broke the story, revealed the identity of “Kelly” as Dean Alberty. LDI notes that Mr. Alberty was employed by the Anatomic Gift Foundation to harvest fetal tissue and body parts at Comprehensive […]

ATHENS, Greece, Mar 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – International Planned Parenthood Federation, in a joint project with the BBC World Service, has foisted a pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality program on youth in Albania, Bulgaria, Central Asia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia and Turkey. The “Sexwise” project consists of radio broadcasts of IPPF propaganda in 11 languages and accompanying books, website, and telephone counselling for listeners. The themes for Sexwise in Europe and Eurasia are “sex education for young people, prostitution,  abortion, homosexuality and the rising incidence of syphilis.” To date 187,000 Sexwise books have been printed in 10 European languages and 100 radio […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The General Assembly has rendered a decision allowing Non-  Governmental Organization (NGOs), the vast majority of which are anti-life and anti-family,  to participate more powerfully in the upcoming special session of the General Assembly (GA)  entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”,  known as Beijing +5. These NGO’s are also mostly unaccountable to the people of the nations from which they come. The decision states that “representatives from non-governmental organizations accredited to the special session of the General Assembly may make statements in its Ad Hoc Committee of the […]

Yesterday’s lead story incorrectly identified Vivant as a publication of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM). It is, in fact, published by the NGO Caucus for Stable Families.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Unhappy over the unexpected presence of a substantial international contingent of pro-family youth NGO representatives, radical-feminist lobbyists objected publicly yesterday to the presence of the World Youth Alliance (WYA). Vivant!,  reports in a one-page circular distributed in the afternoon to Beijing+5 PrepCom participants, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) issued an “alert” to European delegations   “concerning the threat to the five-year review process caused by a large presence” of what the EWL called “right-wing, ‘pro-life’ participants.” See the full story in today’s LifeSite Special Report.

TORONTO, Mar 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) is holding Ontario Premier Mike Harris responsible for the “religious persecution” of Toronto printer Scott Brockie, a Christian, who was fined $5,000 for refusing a printing job when asked to print materials for a group whose primary role is the promototion of homosexuality.  “The Ontario Human Rights Commission on February 24 denied Scott Brockie, owner of a printing shop, his Charter rights to freedom of religion, conscience, and association,” said CFAC. The Premier is personally responsible for the state of affairs, says CFAC since “against the strenuous objections of […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-abortion, anti-family machinations continue this week at the UN as the Commission on the Status of Women hosts the final prepcom for the June Beijing +5 meeting (General Assembly Special Session, “Women 2000: Gender Equality,  Development and Peace for the 21st Century”). Today’s issue of Vivant, the magazine of the NGO Caucus for Stable Families, reports that UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, addressed a panel discussion yesterday morning.  Robinson praised feminists at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994, where national governments acknowledged “sexual and reproductive […]

ANTIGONISH, NS, Mar 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a day of rest Friday, Andrew walked along the highway from Grand Narrows to Whycocomaugh, NS.  He set out the next day for Mabou.  There he was able to take in the musical talents that Nova Scotia is known for.  At the gathering he met the Minister of Tourism Rodney MacDonald and a collection was taken for the pro-life causes being championed by Andrew.  While some in the area where Andrew had begun his walk were concerned by a 12” snowfall,  thankfully no snow fell where Andrew was walking.  After some struggle a […]

Pro-Life Info-Net reported that the pro-life Cuban doctor Oscar Elias Biscet jailed for three years for his pro-life activities and flying the Cuban flag upside down has waived his right to appeal as a further act of protest. “He is not going to appeal the sentence,  because in his country there is no justice, the courts are biased,” his wife Elsa Morejon told Reuters.  Amnesty International is working to get Biscet released from prison. A British survey has found that nine out of 10 women pregnant for the first time are frightened of giving birth.  A team of Japanese and […]

Dr. Laura has lashed out at homosexual activists saying it is alright to criticize her but they should refrain from attacking her mother.  The Chicago Tribune reports that last week New York Supreme Court Justice Hugh Gilbert issued a “temporary order barring a former jail inmate from having an abortion until a court hearing on whether county corrections officials should pay for the procedure. The New York Civil Liberties Union is contesting the order. Lee County, Florida’s sheriff famous for his courageous pro-life activism is being denounced  by two candidates hoping to replace him as sheriff.  “Evolutionary psychologists” Craig Palmer, […]

JOHANNESBURG, Mar 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The South African Law Commission has recommended decriminalization of euthanasia.  The suggestion keeps options for active voluntary euthanasia open but says doctors should be allowed “under specific circumstances, to cease,  or authorize the cessation of, all further medical treatment of a patient whose life functions are being maintained artificially while the person has no spontaneous respiratory and circulatory functions or where his or her brainstem does not register any impulse”. The Mail and Guardian reports that after publication of the recommendations public comment will be sought prior to parliamentary debate. After a two-day conference, the […]

TORONTO, Mar 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Through TV listings it has been confirmed that tomorrow ABC’s 20/20 program will cover the baby parts trafficking story.  While the date and time is listed as Wednesday, March 8, 10 p.m. EST, please check local listings for confirmation. On the show, the pro-life “spy”, Kelly, who once worked at abortuaries chopping up and shipping out baby parts to researchers, will reveal her identity. A Life Advocacy report notes that the show’s airing fits perfectly with the US House hearing on the topic scheduled to convene Thursday, March 9, at 2 p.m. EST. The hearing […]

WASHINGTON, Mar 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While remaining banned by the Federal Drug Administration, the abortion drug RU-486 (mifepristone) is being distributed to American women.  The New York-  based Abortion Rights Mobilization (ARM) copied the deadly drug years ago and has given over   5,000 women the ‘chemical coathanger.’  While the Danco Group – the investors who hold the rights to sell mifepristone in the United States, are forbidden to sell it, ARM are allowed to skirt the law by claiming that its actions are for “research purposes.” Abortion supporters are desperately trying to have the drug legalized and may have […]

GRAND NARROWS, Nova Scotia, Mar 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Andrew Fournier, the nineteen year Ontario pro-  lifer who is walking across Canada to raise awareness and garner support for the pro-life movement took a day of rest Friday after walking 50 km on the first two days of his journey.  After being graciously hosted in a Catholic Church in Boisdale, NS, Wednesday night, on Thursday he made the difficult trip to Christmas Island, much of which was up hill. There he stayed with the Farrell family.  Friday Andrew stayed at a local Bed and Breakfast and began his journey again Saturday.  […]

BOLOGNA, Italy, Mar 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The London Times reported that Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, 71,  the Archbishop of Bologna spoke recently at a conference in Bologna, on the work of Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900), the Russian philosopher and mystic.  Part of the cardinal’s talk focussed on Antichrist, which the cardinal described as “walking among us.”  The evil would harbor a false ecumenism promoting “vague and fashionable spiritual values.”  Antichrist would substitute “feel-good” causes, such as animal rights, environmentalism, ecology and humanitarian aid, for “true religion”.  Interestingly, the terms which the Archbishop of Bologna uses to describe Antichrist are all in vogue […]

PROVIDENCE, RI, Mar 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senior Daniel Pastrana, junior Patrick Moran and sophomore Christopher White, three students at the Catholic institution, Providence College were fined $1,000 each and suspended for the semester after being caught last month posting pro-abortion fliers containing a picture of the Virgin Mary on the main door of a campus building.  The fliers contained a picture of a Mary and a caption reading ‘‘How’s this for an immaculate concept: Keep Abortion Safe and Legal.’‘ On Feb 15 college president, Rev. Philip Smith, wrote the student body about the incident saying, ‘‘the deliberate misuse of a […]

Catholic World News reported last week that the Alabama school district relented and settled a lawsuit brought on behalf of an 11-year-old girl who was told she could not openly wear a cross necklace under her school’s dress code. An Omaha World Herald report distributed by Pro-Life E-News notes that more than 100 groups and individuals – ranging from physicians and clerics to pro-life and state officials – have joined to file legal briefs supporting Nebraska’s fight in the U.S. Supreme Court to ban partial-birth abortion.

The National Post reported Saturday that a repeat pedophile will be released from his five-  year prison term. Richard Hall, 41, of Cowichan, B.C., will serve a two-year conditional sentence, with conditions and probation. The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled a conditional sentence was appropriate. Hall’s lawyer said he has not reoffended for 10 years and represents a low risk of reoffending. The National Post also reported Saturday that a Sault Ste. Marie, ON pregnant woman addicted to morphine is facing jail for a recent crime spree and has been placed under house arrest at her mother’s apartment until her […]

OTTAWA, Mar 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week, March 6-12, is National Pharmacy Awareness week, an excellent opportunity for pro-lifers to engage in active participation in the boycott of Roberts Pharmaceuticals, Shire Pharmaceuticals, and Paladin Labs products as well as the pharmacies which carry abortifacient “emergency contraception”.  The promotional week encourages people to “Talk to your Pharmacist” about any health care issue of concern. It is suggested that you tell the pharmacist you believe in the sanctity of life beginning at fertilization and you understand that some drugs recently made available namely Preven and Plan B act, at least sometimes, to […]

SYRACUSE, NY, Mar 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday, New York State Supreme Court Justice James Tormey ordered that nutrition and hydration be withheld from Sheila Pouliot, a 42-year-old mentally and physically retarded patient at University Hospital. Doctors testified in court that the judge should order the euthanasia saying that her worsening condition would see her “die by millimeters”. Assistant Attorney General Winthrop Thurlow argued in court against the euthanasia order saying, “I believe withholding of nutrition and hydration represents assisted suicide, which is not permitted under New York law.” The Attorney General’s office has asked for a stay of the […]

OTTAWA, Mar 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday Garry Breitkreuz, MP for Yorkton-Melville, joined the public outcry against the threat to marriage embodied in the Liberal government’s Bill C-23.  “Bill C-23 is officially known as The Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act, but it should be renamed The Death of Marriage Act,” stated Breitkreuz. Breitkreuz pointed out the irrationality of the bill saying, “In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence, now it’s a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.  This is a ridiculous rationale for extending government benefits!” Stressing the urgency of public action he said “the erosion of […]

TORONTO, Mar 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a Feb. 24 decision, made public yesterday, the Ontario Human Rights Commission fined a Christian printer in Toronto $5,000 for refusing a printing job from a homosexual activist organization. The National Post reports today that Heather MacNaughton, the board’s sole “judge” ruled that Scott Brockie, the owner of Imaging Excellence Inc., violated Ontario law when he declined to print letterhead, envelopes, and business cards for the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in April, 1996. Brockie argued that his right to “fundamental freedom of conscience and religion” should be protected, especially since he was not […]

LOS ANGELES, CA, Mar 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A ballot proposition in California in support of traditional marriage cannot be supported legally by churches. WorldNetDaily reports today that several churches on California’s central coast have been told by their county tax assessor’s office they are breaking the law by displaying pro-Proposition 22 signs on church property. The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) condemned this ruling, telling churches that “it’s time [they] know their rights … the intimidation has gone too far.” PJI President Brad Dacus said, “the Internal Revenue Code states that churches are not forbidden to participate in propositions, provided that […]

Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute has issued their first report on the Beijing +5 final prepcom from the floor of the UN headquarters in New York.  A six-month British public consultation on the over-the-counter sale of the morning after abortifacient drug will begin in April . Priests for Life is reminding Catholic politicians of the words of the United States bishops:  “We urge those Catholic officials who choose to depart from Church teaching on the inviolability of human life in their public life to consider the consequences for their own spiritual well being, as well as the scandal they […]

OTTAWA, Mar 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Just weeks after being accused of leaking her homosexual benefits legislation to activist groups prior to first reading, Liberal Justice Minister Anne McLellan has been further condemned for the apparently cozy relationship she shares with these lobbyists. Yesterday’s National Post editorial looked back at the Justice Minister’s behaviour over the past couple of years. It noted the way she sidestepped parliamentary scrutiny and public accountability by allowing a key court decision to become law rather than being introduced as pro-homosexual reforms in parliament. The key decision came on April 23, 1998, when homosexual activist judge […]

American Life League reported last week that Adel A. F. Mahmoud, president of Merck Vaccines,  confirmed that “human diploid cell lines, which are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and maintained under strict Federal guidelines, originated from two legal,  therapeutically indicated abortions in the 1960s. These abortions were not undertaken with the intent of producing vaccines. No new fetal tissue is needed to produce cell lines to make vaccines, now or in the future. Currently, human diploid cell lines are used to prepare vaccines against such serious or fatal diseases, including polio and rabies, as well as some […]

SEATTLE, Washington, Mar 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As is typical with most Catholic-secular hospital mergers, the compromise reached during the Providence and Swedish hospital merger in Seattle was unacceptable to both supporters and opponents of abortion. National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Act League (NARAL), complained bitterly that the 50 or so elective abortions performed at Swedish hospital would be discontinued. However,  Richard Peterson, chief executive officer of Swedish Health Services said that all Swedish hospitals – including the new Providence campus – will provide tubal ligations, vasectomies,  contraception and the morning-after pill. The Seattle Times reports that the agreement between the […]

LONDON, Mar 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move being cheered by homosexual activists, some Bishops from the Church of England and the Catholic Church have agreed to a compromise that would allow the government to repeal Section 28 – a law banning the promotion of homosexuality in schools. The bishops’ backing of the repeal of the law is expected to completely undermine the efforts of pro-family members of the House of Lords who have already successfully blocked the repeal of the legislation once. The agreement, to be announced next week, has the government issuing guidance to teachers that they must […]

SALT LAKE CITY, Mar 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday the Utah House voted 41-33 to pass a bill limiting sex-education to teaching abstinence before marriage. The bill has already passed in the Senate. Governor Mike Leavitt has not yet announced his position on the bill. The only discussion of birth control the bill allows deals with the failures of contraception. See the AP report.  (Link no longer live)

Vermont’s House Judiciary Committee passed on to the House the bill that would establish “civil unions” as a parallel to marriage for homosexual couples. The bill is not likely to go to a floor debate until the middle of the month. Gov. Howard Dean supports the measure.  Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver stated this week that preserving the status of traditional marriage as a union between a man and a woman is “a matter of cultural survival.”  In a column published in the Denver Rocky Mountain News, Archbishop Chaput affirmed that “if the last few decades have shown us […]

OTTAWA, Mar 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Justice Minister Anne McLellan was questioned yesterday by members of the Commons justice committee regarding the government’s omnibus same-sex benefits bill C-23. McLellan rebuffed any suggestions from Reform, PC and even Liberal committee members to include a traditional definition of marriage in the bill or to allow the bill to address all dependent couples rather than only practicing homosexuals. McLellan clearly indicated that the bill was all about benefits for practicing homosexuals and said that any kind of benefit for dependent couples other than practicing homosexuals could be considered, but in separate legislation. When pressed […]

TORONTO, Mar 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The number of reported abortions in the province of Ontario jumped 5% in 1998 over 1997, and is up a huge 20% from 1995.  After refusing to release the statistics for a year and a half until forced to do so by the privacy commissioner, the Ontario Ministry of Health finally admitted there were 44,002 babies killed by abortion in 1998 in the province. That compares to 41,886 in 1997; 41,674 in 1996; 38,048 in 1995; and 42,246 in 1994. It can thus be estimated that about 1.5% of women aged 15-49 in Ontario had […]

CHAPEL HILL, NC, Mar 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An American study published in the March issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health has found that more intelligent teens were less likely to engage in sexual activity including kissing. The study, Smart Teens Don’t Have Sex (or Kiss Much Either), surveyed 12,000 American teens in Grades 7 to 12, found that more intelligent teens wait longer before intercourse, necking, hold hands, or touching on top of or below clothes. Researchers were surprised at the findings since the more intelligent young people decided to forego not only intercourse but also its antecedents. “The […]

NORTH SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Mar 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, Andrew Fournier, a nineteen year old from Arnprior, Ontario and member of Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) began his trek across Canada for pro-life.  Departing from North Sydney, Nova Scotia Andrew walked 30km on the first day of his journey. “I want to give the following message to pro-life youth: Youth should be the driving force behind the pro-life movement.  If you are an unmarried young person, you have more time and energy to give than otherwise.”   Andrew will be raising money for Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) and Canadian […]

Alexander Sanger resigned as Planned Parenthood-NYC President Feb 25 to engage in international abortion advocacy but will remain a senior advisor to PPNYC.  The State of Nebraska filed legal briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday defending the constitutionality of its ban on partial-birth abortion. (Pro-Life E-News)  A Harvard University study released Monday finds that African-Americans who receive private educational vouchers perform better in elementary school than their public school counterparts.

The National Post reports today that Ontario Tory Frank Klees, the government’s chief whip and deputy house leader is considering a run for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance and has received the approval of Premier Mike Harris for his venture. He will announce his decision March 25.  Ujjal Dosanjh, the new BC Premier has appointed radical pro-abortion activist MPP Joy MacPhail, the former finance minister who quit in an apparent dispute with the former Premier, to cabinet as deputy premier and labour minister.  https://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?f=000301/220478&s2=national&s3=coasttocoast A young Saskatoon mother of two has had her hands and feet amputated as a […]