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A federal appeals court suspended Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortion last week.  American Family Association reports that Republican Jim Kolbe of Arizona is set to make history Tuesday when he will become the first openly homosexual member of Congress to address a Republican convention. Kolbe is a founding member of the National Advisory Board of the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation’s most prominent homosexualist GOP group.
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BC GOVERNMENT RENTS SPACE FOR ABORTUARY UNDER FALSE PRETENSES

VANCOUVER, July 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that the government of British Columbia through one of its crown corporations, leased office space in a building for an abortion mill without revealing to the realtor that the space was being rented for this use. The BC Building Corporation (BCBC) leased the property saying that they were expanding, whereas the government organization was actually leasing the offices for a private abortion centre. Campaign Life Coalition BC president John Hof told LifeSite that when news of the new home of the Elizabeth Bagshaw abortuary became public, pro-lifers in the area sought to […]
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In Winnipeg, Manitoba the Court of Queen’s bench is dropping the landmark assisted-suicide case against an ailing Winnipeg senior. Bert Doerksen, 83, was to go to trial Tuesday for allegedly helping his wife, Susan, 78, take her own life in November 1997. Provincial justice officials said they dropped the case since Doerksen is near death with terminal cancer. (Winnipeg Free Press) Conservatives in Canada are concerned that the notoriously liberal media giant CanWest Global has purchased most of Hollinger’s newspapers, owned by conservative Conrad Black. The deal for $3.5 billion includes 13 big-city dailies, plus a half-interest in the National […]
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CHARGES AGAINST THIRD PRO-LIFE CANADIAN JOURNALIST DROPPED

TORONTO, July 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sue Careless, one of the three journalists arrested while photographing the October 1999 protest by Linda Gibbons at a Toronto abortuary, had the charges against her withdrawn Thursday. After nine and a half months and 13 court appearances by Careless and/or her legal counsel the charges were dropped on the grounds that “there is no reasonable probability of conviction.” Careless’ confiscated camera film has not yet been returned but she was assured that she would receive it back within days. Careless informed LifeSite that throughout her ordeal she was never given full disclosure of the […]
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CANADIAN AD STANDARDS COUNCIL NIXES PRO-LIFE AD

BURNABY, BC, July 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Advertising Standards Canada (ASC), a national industry self-regulatory association, has deemed pro-life advertisements in BC “defamatory” according to a press release by the pro-abortion group Pro-Choice Action Network. According to the press release the July 18 decision reads: “In the unanimous decision of [Advertising Standards Canada], this advertisement, contrary to Clause 14(c) of the Code demeaned and disparaged Canadian physicians and medical professionals engaged in providing services to persons seeking abortions.” The pro-abortion group complained about the baby body parts ads, which ran in newspapers late last year and early this year. The group […]
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EUROPEAN COURT FORCES BRITAIN TO ALLOW GROUP HOMOSEXUAL SEX

STRASBOURG, France, July 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has ordered Britain to pay $50,000 in costs and damages to a homosexual man for convicting him under British law for having group sex. The man’s 1996 conviction was deemed “interference with the applicant’s right to respect for his private life” and seen as contravening the European Convention on Human Rights. The man, identified by his initials, A.D.T., complained to the European Court after he was convicted of gross indecency for having sex with four other men during a party at his house. Police found […]
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NDP LEADER CLAMOURS FOR ABORTION IN PEI

CHARLOTTETOWN, July 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prince Edward Island NDP Leader Herb Dickieson is clamouring for abortion to come to the only Canadian province free from the scourge of abortion. The Journal Pioneer reported Friday that Dickieson echoed the call of abortionist Henry Morgentaler in demanding the province’s Conservative government allow and pay for abortions. Dickieson said the province has the same obligation to pay for abortions as it does to support women who give birth. Dickieson encouraged activists to take the matter to the courts saying that PEI’s policy” is subject to challenge in the courts.” The province’s Premier Pat […]
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GERMAN HOMESCHOOLER’S PLIGHT ENDS WITH INTERNATIONAL HELP

BONN, July 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The plight of Johann Harder and his homeschooling family of 11 came to an end after more than 800 e-mail messages and 400 letters from Americans and other international homeschoolers urged the German government to make home schooling legal. Harder’s family was harassed by police and elected officials and was faced with the threat of imprisonment or fines of $250 per day per child if he continued to teach hid children at home. Chris Klicka, a senior lawyer with the Home School Legal Defense Association, told the Washington Times: “The bottom line is that home […]
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POLICE REFUSE TO ENFORCE POLITICAL BUBBLE-ZONE

VANCOUVER, July 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vancouver Sun reports today that police in Vancouver chose not to enforce a new no-protest bubble-zone around the site of an abortion clinic scheduled to open next week. The order to place the bubble zone around the building, even prior to abortions being committed, was made by the radically pro-abortion BC NDP cabinet yesterday and received immediate opposition from the BC Civil Liberties Association. Campaign Life Coalition Youth organized a protest at the Vancouver location and another protest in Toronto outside Women’s College Hospital where RU-486 experimentation is taking place. The BC government was […]
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FOREIGN POWERS ASKED TO HALT NICARAGUA GOVERNMENT PRO-LIFE RESOLVE

MANAGUA, July 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of Nicaragua under President Arnoldo Alem‡n is set to debate a pro-life initiative to give legal protection to preborn babies and to remove a section of the penal code which permits abortions in cases where the health or life of the mother is said to be at risk. The allowance has been abused by abortionists and foreign funded women’s centres which specialize in abortion provision, contraception, and abortion advocacy. Pro-lifers are asking the government to revoke the legal status of the so-called women’s clinics thus cutting them off from their foreign funding. Abortion […]
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BRITAIN TO ALLOW TRANSSEXUAL MARRIAGE

LONDON, July 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A government report released Wednesday, suggests that people who have had a sex change may be allowed to marry and inherit titles and property. The plans also include allowing public homosexual sex acts, in response to lobbying by homosexual activists for sex to be permitted in public washrooms and homosexual nightclubs. The Daily Telegraph quotes the Home Office report saying that “full legal recognition” for transsexuals, which would permit them to marry and legally adopt children, was a serious option for consideration.
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ACTIVISTS ON CAMPAIGN FOR HOMOSEXUAL “MARRIAGE”

OTTAWA, July 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that Canada’s foremost homosexual activist group, Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE), has launched a campaign to promote homosexual marriage. Notably, the BC government’s application to the provincial Supreme Court was done in conjunction with EGALE. The group hosted an “Equal Marriage Forum” on July 8 and 9 where litigants, lawyers and experts decided to make the homosexual marriage campaign a nation-wide affair with EGALE at the centre. EGALE is asking for homosexual couples to become plaintiffs demanding marriage. The group is seeking three to six poster couples whose marriage challenges […]
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Abortionist Martin Haskell launched a lawsuit against the State of Ohio Thursday to try to block enforcement of a new Ohio law that will ban partial birth abortions. The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that doctors may be sued for failing to warn pregnant patients of possible birth defects and thus encouraging abortion. The court objected though to calling the suits “wrongful birth” suits.
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A Federal Court ruling in Australia today, overturning a ban on in vitro fertilization for single women was described by the Catholic Church as a “massive social experiment” that would create a generation of “stolen children.” Melbourne’s Archbishop Dr George Pell said the judgment handed down this morning by Justice Ross Sundberg paved the way for children to be treated like commodities. The United Nations unveiled plans Wednesday for a $1.43 billion makeover of its New York headquarters.
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UN MILLENNIUM RELIGIOUS PEACE SUMMIT RAISES SUSPICIONS

UNITED NATIONS, July 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Millennium World Peace Summit, which is to commence at the United Nations in New York on August 28, has raised suspicions due to the intimate involvement of UN players active in the population control. Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) reports that the idea for the World Peace Summit has its roots in the World Parliament of Religions, but got its final push from US media billionaire Ted Turner who met last fall with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Also involved is Canadian billionaire Maurice Strong. Religious leaders from Hinduism, Sikhism, Shintoism, […]
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HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION ON BRAIN DEAD ENCOURAGED BY DOLLY’S CLONERS

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the Scottish firm which cloned Dolly the sheep has called for genetic experiments on brain-dead human patients. Scotland’s Daily Record reported yesterday that Dr. Ron James would like to see genetically modified pig organs transplanted into the patients to see if they are safe. His firm, PPL Therapeutics, has already cloned piglets and believes that organs from pigs could be transplanted into humans within four years. Dr. James acknowledged that there would be opposition from the general public to such an idea, a “yuck factor” as he called it. The suggestion […]
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MORE B.C. BUBBLE ZONES SQUELCH FREEDOM TO OPPOSE ABORTION

VANCOUVER, July 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Michelle Stewart, of British Columbia’s Ministry of Health, announced that legislation to create a bubble zone around an office building where an abortuary is to be housed is likely to be signed today, even though no abortions are currently taking place at the centre. The building on West Broadway, is to be the new home of the Elizabeth Bagshaw abortuary, which was forced to move after tenants in its former location complained. The NDP government is also contemplating imposing a similar no-protest zone around Kelowna General Hospital. The hospital has yet to provide abortions but […]
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U.S. District Judge Richard Arcara has ruled that temporary 15 ft. no-protest zones around abortuaries in Buffalo are more permanent than temporary. The zones were established as a temporary measure in 1999 as pro-lifers prepared to converge on Buffalo for “Operation Save America.” A federal appeals court on Wednesday agreed that a New Jersey law banning partial-birth abortion is unconstitutional. The finding by a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the ruling of a federal judge in Trenton who struck down the law in 1998. Abortion supporters are outraged that St. Joseph Hospital, a Catholic […]
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This upcoming television season, Fox plans to release a television series called “Fearsum”, by the makers of the “Blair Witch Project”. The series appears to be a recruitment campaign for the occult movement. Fox plans to simulcast web page addresses to real witchcraft and occult web sites.
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FRENCH GOVERNMENT PROPOSES MORE ABORTIONS

PARIS, July 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, France’s Labour Minister Martine Aubry announced a bill to make abortion legal up to 12 weeks gestation. Currently the law allows for abortions up to 10 weeks. Agence France Presse reported today that the bill is to be reviewed at a Council of Ministers meeting in October. (with files from Pro-Life E-News)
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US PRO-LIFE GROUPS LAUNCH TV AD CAMPAIGN

PHILADELPHIA, July 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Five US pro-life organizations have co-sponsored the “Second Thoughts About Abortion” ad campaign to impact the hearts and minds of Americans with the realization that abortion takes away all the tomorrows of our posterity. The powerful ads began airing yesterday in Philadelphia, the host city of this weekend’s Republican National Convention. The five sponsoring organizations are The American Family Association, The Center For Reclaiming America, an outreach of Coral Ridge Ministries, Concerned Women for America, Family First, and National Right To Life Educational Trust Fund. (with files from AFA and the Family Policy Network)
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STUDY CONFIRMS MENTAL HEALTH RISK AFTER ABORTION

SPRINGFIELD, IL, July 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women who undergo abortions are at greater risk for mental health problems in subsequent years, according to a new study presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society (APS) held this June in Miami Beach, Florida. Meanwhile, another new study presented at the APS conference by researchers from the University at Albany in New York found that teens who had children were as well or better adjusted than teens who did not have children. The first study examined the medical records of women who had undergone abortions for up to six years […]
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CANADIAN MINISTER “FIBS” IN PROMOTION OF INTERNATIONAL COURT

NEW YORK, July 27 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An editorial in Wednesday’s National Post notes that Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy fibbed while promoting the International Criminal Court (ICC) in New York. Axworthy told the New York Times that there was a “national debate” in Canada about the ICC, and that the country signed on to it wholeheartedly. “We sponsored a national forum across the country . Plus we have a major Web site on the issue.” The Post points out that “actually the House of Commons debated the matter for precisely six and a half hours. The Senate dispatched the matter […]
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The Washington Times reports that vice-president Al Gore, who has expressed strong disapproval of a Democratic fund-raiser at the Playboy Mansion, has nevertheless accepted thousands of dollars in donations from Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and his daughter, Playboy CEO Christie Hefner. Catholic World News reports that the US House of Representatives voted on Monday to encourage the public display of the country’s official motto, “In God We Trust.” The bill, sponsored by Rep. Bob Schaffer, R-Colorado, was intended to encourage Americans to embrace their religious heritage. The non-binding resolution was passed by a voice vote with only one representative speaking […]
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CANADIAN PUBLIC LIBRARIES HAVE PRO-ABORTION BIAS

TORONTO, July 26 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study of major Canadian libraries undertaken by Report newsmagazine reveals that they demonstrate abortion advocacy in terms of their selection of items to stock. The magazine surveyed the catalogues of six of the country’s largest public libraries -Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and Toronto and selected four very popular pro-life books and four corresponding pro-abortion books. The survey found that the six libraries contained 59 copies of the pro-abortion books, but only 14 copies of the anti-abortion books, a ratio of four to one. To broaden the scope of the research project, a subject […]
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VANCOUVER ABORTUARY FORCED TO MOVE

VANCOUVER, July 26 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Elizabeth Bagshaw abortuary located in the Hycroft Medical Centre at 3195 Granville St. in Vancouver is being forced to move as the building’s owners have refused to renew the lease when it expires in August. The BC Catholic reported in June last year that the abortion mill’s operations were generating “too much hassle” for other tenants. The newspaper of the Vancouver Archdiocese reported that since the abortuary moved into the Hycroft building in 1990, relations with other building tenants have been cool. Some, including doctors, moved out immediately, others at the first opportunity, and […]
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SPUC reports that a disabled man who appeared on television in New Zealand saying that he wanted his ventilator turned off so that he could die has since changed his mind and now wants to “give life a go”. Brian Park, aged 32, was left unable to move his arms or legs or breathe unaided as a result of a truck accident earlier this year, and made his plea to be allowed to die during the visit to his country of Dr Nitschke, the Australian euthanasia campaigner. Mr. Park’s condition has now improved so that he might be able to […]
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US HOUSE PASSES BILL PROTECTING PREBORN FROM EXECUTION

WASHINGTON, July 26 (LifeSiteNews.com) – By a vote of 417-0, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved a bill to prohibit any state from executing a woman who “carries a child in utero,” defined as “a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb.” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., introduced the bill just days after Vice President Al Gore appeared on “Meet the Press” questioning the principle. “Innocent, unborn children should not have to pay for their mothers’ crimes with their lives,” she said. NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson commented: “The House […]
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BUSH CHOOSES PRO-LIFE CHENEY AS RUNNING MATE

WASHINGTON, July 26 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US Presidential hopeful George Bush has selected former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney as his running mate. The choice has enraged abortion supporters, but was welcomed by pro-lifers. The National Right to Life Committee noted that Cheney has voted 100% pro-life on 27 roll calls rated as key pro-life votes. Cheney has expressed support for a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution to guarantee the right to life of all human beings, regardless of their stage of development. He also opposes any legislation that would facilitate or permit assisted suicide. In related news, AP reports that […]
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A group of nuns in Germany has revived the age-old practice of taking in babies through a flap in the door so that mothers can abandon unwanted children without fear of identification. The sisters of Our Lady of the Love of the Good Shepherd at the St Gabriel cloister in Munich have an enlarged letter box in their front door, with a warm bed on the inside and an alarm to alert the sisters to a “delivery”. A woman “posting” her child there will find a letter from the nuns thanking her for leaving her baby in a safe place […]
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ALL: GOD IS WARNING GATES TO QUIT FUNDING ABORTION

WASHINGTON, July 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League (ALL) has placed a full-page ad in last week’s Seattle newspapers with a message to Microsoft mogul Bill Gates warning him that his recent financial downturn could be the result of God’s displeasure with his funding of abortion and population control. ALL began an ad and prayer campaign 12 months ago to encourage Gates to abandon his misplaced philanthropy. The ad cites headlines noting Gates’ and Microsoft’s recent misfortune and asked: “In the name of God, Bill, haven’t you had enough? … Some people will believe that this sudden reversal of fortune […]
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REPORTER ASKS IN VAIN FOR PRIME MINISTER’S STAND ON ABORTION

TORONTO, July 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day having been grilled mercilessly in recent weeks for his view on abortion, Toronto Sun reporter Mark Bonokoski decided the Prime Minister should also be queried. Bonokoski posed the question to PMO press officer Sophie Galarneau who told him that the prime minister’s views on abortion are a personal matter and will remain so. She noted that the party’s stand is pro-abortion. “Is that what the prime minister believes?” she was asked. “I have no idea,” she said, “Like I said, it’s personal.” Asked “So what’s a Catholic like Chretien […]
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American Civil Liberties Union and their pro-abortion allies are raving mad about the presence of “Choose Life” licence plates in Louisiana. Having failed to notice the plates before they were allowed, the ACLU is now considering legal action to remove lawmakers’ authority to approve specialty license plates altogether. The Washington Post reported on Dick Cheney’s stand on pro-life issues saying he: “Opposes abortion rights and has voted against federal funding of abortions even in cases of rape, incest or when a woman’s life is in danger. But Cheney has said there must be room in the GOP for contrary views […]
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TURNER GIVES ANOTHER $21 MIL TO UN POPULATION CONTROL

UNITED NATIONS, July 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Foundation, the organization set up to manage Ted Turner’s 1 billion dollar donation to the United Nations, has announced that it will give the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) $21 million to target “adolescent girls” in countries ranging from Malawi to El Salvador, from Mongolia to Mauritania. Although the UNFPA project claims its aim is to “improve the social and economic situation of adolescent girls,” the reality of UNFPA aid as being geared first and foremost to population control is well known. During the conflict in Bosnia, UNFPA announced it was […]
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UNITED NATIONS ADMITS FOOD SUPPLIES OUTSTRIP POPULATION

ROME, July 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dealing a severe blow to the population control extremists who prophesy about looming food shortages due to massive overpopulation, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published a report yesterday admitting that food supplies are set to grow faster than population. The report, “Agriculture: Towards 2015/2030”, notes that the world population of around 8 billion people projected for 2030 is expected to be better fed with more people having adequate access to food than in earlier times. The report says “growth in agriculture will continue to outstrip world population growth of 1.2 per cent […]
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PRO-LIFERS TO PICKET AT RU-486 TESTING SPOTS

TORONTO, July 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition Youth has organized pickets outside two of the four centres which are testing the deadly abortion drug RU-486 in Canada. The picket is scheduled for Thursday, July 27, 2000 at 5:45 pm. In Toronto at Women’s College Hospital (Meet at the north-east corner of University Ave. and College St.) contact: Tanya at 416-204-9749 In Vancouver at Broadway Clinic 1177 West Broadway St. (across from Toys R Us) contact: Caireen at 604-533-1965
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UK UPPER HOUSE DEFEATS BILL TO PROMOTE HOMOSEXUALITY IN SCHOOLS

LONDON, July 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK government’s plans to scrap a law which protected children from the promotion of homosexuality in schools was thwarted by the House of Lords. Conservative News Service reports that the upper House voted overwhelmingly on Monday to defeat the governments bill to overturn Section 28. This was the second time such legislation has been defeated. The defeat was all the more significant given that after the first defeat, Prime Minister Tony Blair appointed 30 Labor and Liberal Democrat lawmakers to the Lords. Opposition leader William Hague, whose Conservative Party led the successful campaign in […]
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HEROICALLY PRO-LIFE GERMAN BISHOP DIES

BERLIN, July 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Johannes Dyba of the Fulda diocese in central Germany died peacefully in his sleep Saturday night at 70. Archbishop Dyba was perhaps Germany’s greatest defender of life and family. His strong stands endeared him to pro-lifers and made him the target of abortion supporters and homosexual activists who once took him to court to try to stop his proclamation of truth. Archbishop Dyba referred to abortion as the “children’s Holocaust.” The uproar among German Catholics regarding abortion counselling and the handing out of certificates which could be used to obtain abortions was foreign to […]
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ABORTIONIST FAVORS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR SUSPECTED CRIMINALS TO BE

TORONTO, July 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortionist Henry Morgentaler, the father of abortion in Canada, has again spouted his controversial theory that abortion has lowered the crime rate. He is in effect saying that crime is being reduced by killing off those babies still in their mother’s wombs who, because of their circumstances, might turn out to be criminals. He is nonetheless taken seriously by some mainstream media. The Saint John Times Globe, The Toronto Sun, The Whitehorse Star, The Winnipeg Sun, and of course the Vancouver Sun among others uncritically carried Morgentaler’s diatribe Friday. Morgentaler states that “fewer unwanted children […]
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Admittedly pro-abortion and pretending Catholic Tory Leader Joe Clark will seek a Commons seat in the Nova Scotia riding of Kings-Hants, party officials said Monday.  The Vancouver Province reported Sunday that the lesbian activist couple who initiated the BC government’s fight to legalize same sex marriage is not even planning to live together after their “marriage.” Judy Lightwater and Cynthia Callahan, the paper says “realize their plans to live separately after they get hitched might make their marriage look like a political stunt.” SPUC quoted a BBC report last week indicating that researchers in the UK have discovered that stem […]
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PRIESTS FOR LIFE POLITICAL ADS HIT HARD

NEW YORK, July 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, spoke at a press conference last week outlining the political ad campaign which debuted in Wednesday’s New York Times and is headed for US newspaper, television and radio in August. Priests for Life is ready to spend a million dollars on this pro-life campaign. Speaking about the necessity to vote pro-life if you are Christian, Fr. Pavone said “don’t claim to be a believer if you don’t act like one, and don’t claim to be a member of the Church and then misrepresent its teachings.” […]
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HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS SUPPORTING LIBERALS TO DEFEAT ALLIANCE

OTTAWA, July 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists are gearing up to fight the Canadian Alliance and specifically leader Stockwell Day. The activists have sensed that the looming possibility of an Alliance government threatens the steam rolling race toward homosexual marriage and legislative silencing of all opposition which flourished under the ruling Liberals. Gay activists were generally frustrated in their attempts to infiltrate the Canadian Alliance and weaken its strong family values from within, hence the attack strategy. Given the fact that the NDP and Tories are not likely to wield much political influence, the Liberal Party, which has pandered to […]
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HOMOSEXUAL TYRANNY BEING ENFORCED

LOS ANGELES, CA, July 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California State Board of Education has voted in favor of pushing homosexuality on children and teachers in public and private schools with new “educational equity” regulations. Randy Thomasson, Director of Campaign for California Families told Focus on the Family that “These regulations are so bad that they will actually allow a student at a Christian school to be punished, or a teacher to be disciplined, or even a volunteer parent to be persecuted with some type of state pressures if they even said that homosexuality was unhealthy or immoral.” Meanwhile the New […]
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DEPOPULATION IN GERMANY THREATENS ECONOMY

BONN, July 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The German government’s statistics office has released a report indicating that the country will lose 20 per cent (17 million) of its population over the next 50 years, if net immigration ran at 100,000. The London Telegraph notes that even if net immigration continued for the next 50 years at last year’s high rate of 202,000, the country’s population of 82 million would still fall by 15 per cent. The paper reports that the country’s social welfare system is in jeopardy as is its current position as economic kingpin of Europe. Human Life International notes […]
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ANDREW RESUMES WALK FOR LIFE ACROSS CANADA

BELLEVILLE, July 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Andrew Fournier, the youth who is walking across Canada to raise awareness for pro-life, resumed his “Pilgrimage for Life” July 13 in Belleville after taking time off to recuperate from a foot injury. Medical doctors have advised Andrew to start off slow so that he can build strength and stabilize a pace to prevent further injuries. Last week Andrew walked about 16 km per day and left from Port Hope yesterday. For regular updates check Andrew’s page on LifeSite at:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/pilgrimage/index.html (Page currently unavailable)
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QUEBEC GRANTS RECOGNITION OF HOMOSEXUAL PARENTHOOD

MONTREAL, July 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The homosexual activist newspaper Gay Ottawa Now reports that a lesbian couple in Quebec has obtained official dual motherhood registration. The paper reports that Julie, 35, and Rachel 29 (the birth-mother), living in Western Quebec, applied for and received a birth certificate from Ontario (where the child was born) two weeks ago listing both women as the parents. Once the certificate was secured the pair insisted that the baby be registered under the last name of both women and that Julie would be listed as the boy’s second mother. The paper reports that a worker […]
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Catholic News Service reports that Priests for Life has launched a massive media campaign to remind Catholics of their political responsibility to support life during the 2000 election season. Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, announced the start of the “Campaign for Life 2000” at a July 18 news conference at the National Press Club in Washington.   American Renewal reports that when asked by NBC’s Tim Russert on Meet the Press this past Sunday if he agreed with the federal statute that prohibits the execution of a pregnant woman, Al Gore requested time to ‘think about […]
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UPDATE ON NINE CHILDREN ABDUCTED BY CHILDREN’S AID

OTTAWA, July 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – David and Ruby Mielke, who had nine children taken from them by Ontario’s Children’s Aid Society eight days ago, still don’t know when they will get their children back, but they have been assured by the agency that they will be able to start seeing them again. Also, according to Mr. Mielke, the judge granted them open phone access to their children as well. This means that their children are free to call them without being monitored. The last time LifeSite spoke to Mr. Mielke, however, he still had not heard from two of his […]
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FORMER CANADIAN ABORTIONIST GUILTY OF CHARGES IN ENGLAND

LONDON, July 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Canadian abortionist, Dr. Richard Neale, has been found guilty of incompetence and negligence by England’s General Medical Council. Dr. Richard Neale was found guilty in 36 out of 37 cases brought against him. He was also found guilty of lying about his qualifications and being rude to the women he treated. Reports detailed how Neale was dubbed “Bloody Dr. Neale” and “the Butcher” due to his mistreatment of patients during surgery. A CBC report on the finding of guilt failed to mention the fact that Neale did abortions, merely referring to him as a […]
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BC PREMIER TO GIVE $250,000 TO ABORTIONISTS AFTER ATTACK

VANCOUVER, July 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The radically pro-abortion British Columbia government has found another excuse to give taxpayers money to abortionists. Using the attack on abortionist Garson Romalis, BC Premier Ujjal Dosanjh announced that he is giving $250,000 to abortionists presumably to beef up security. However, the premier said it’s up to the abortionists to decide how they want to use the money after consulting with police and security experts.
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THAILAND: TODDLERS TO BE GIVEN SEX-ED IN SCHOOL

BANGKOK, July 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Department of Mental Health, the Department of Health and the Education Ministry in Thailand have outlined a program which will give sex education to children in kindergarten by 2002. Dr Suwanna Vorakamin of the Family Planning and Population Control Division, told the Bangkok Post that the program is aimed at curbing AIDS.
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Dr. Roger Gosden of McGill University, whose experiments to extract ova from aborted babies were banned in England, is developing a “career” birth control pill, a new contraceptive that would delay menopause at the same time.
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BC GOES TO COURT TO LEGALIZE HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE

VANCOUVER, July 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The radical British Columbia government is attempting to force homosexual marriage on Canada by taking the issue to the BC Supreme Court. The province wants permission to grant marriage licences to homosexual couples. BC Attorney General Andrew Petter made the outrageous statement that, “if the institution of marriage is a positive and beneficial institution for society, and works for heterosexual couples, it should work for same sex couples. … We have no right to deny same-sex couples the same opportunity to participate in that institution.” In fact, research by American psychologist, Dr. Paul Cameron, shows […]
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Landmark Louisiana legislation could permit lawsuits against abortion clinics. Louisiana statute of limitations law can be extended up to ten years to allow women who undergo abortions to file lawsuits against abortion practitioners.  Conservative News Service reports that in the wake of a Supreme Court decision upholding its policy excluding homosexuals from leadership positions, the Boy Scouts of America is finding itself under attack from opponents of the group’s policies. On Capitol Hill, a House Democrat reportedly planned to introduce legislation this week repealing the Boy Scouts’ federal charter, an honorary designation given to the organization in 1916.
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CAMPAIGN LIFE BC LEADER ASKS DAMAGES OF BC MINISTER

VANCOUVER, July 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition BC President John Hof has asked for $25,000 in damages from BC Minister of Women’s Equality Joan Smallwood for public remarks she made associating him directly to the stabbing attack on abortionist Garson Romalis. On July 12, NDP Minister Smallwood told the media: “We know that Mr. Hof, as an example, has attended a conference in the United States with some of the radical groups that have targeted service providers, trying to provide databases with their names, that kind of thing. So we’ve been very concerned about it. We’ve been watching that […]
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US PANEL TO PROTECT BABIES BORN LIVE AFTER ABORTION

WASHINGTON, July 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, a US House panel took up The Born Alive Infant Protection Act of 2000. The debate surrounds what should be done in the case of a botched abortion where the child is born live. A heart-rending presentation to the panel was made by Gianna Jessen, the young pro-life activist who is disabled as the result of an abortion which failed to kill her. Other presentations were made by M.D.‘s and other experts in the field. For the testimonies see: Testimony of Gianna Jessen Testimony of Robert P. George McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Princeton University […]
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MINISKIRTS TO BE BANNED AS AN AIDS FIGHTING MEASURE

JOHANNESBURG, July 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Swaziland, a southern African country where more than a quarter of all adults are HIV-positive, has banned school girls from wearing miniskirts in an effort to reign in the sexual promiscuity that is spreading the dreaded disease. The London Telegraph quotes an education official as saying that “The ban will go into effect next year and schoolgirls 10 years and older will be required to wear knee-length skirts.” The official said: “We are living in tough times because of HIV/Aids. We need to address the problem of dress code among students because it all starts […]
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UNITED RELIGIONS INITIATIVE BORN JUNE 26

PITTSBURGH, PA, July 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A United Religions Initiative (URI) was officially “born” on June 26th with a signing ceremony of some 300 representatives from a great variety of religions – Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and New Age varieties. They joined together for “prayer” and “meditation” and signed the Charter of the URI. Commenting on the meeting a Focus on the Family report said that “the first concrete steps have been taken to forge a ‘one world’ religion.” Tal Brooke, of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project said that “It is, in many ways, our worst nightmare because it’s total syncretism.” […]
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ABORTIONISTS EXPLOITING STABBING TO PUSH AGENDA

KELOWNA, BC, July 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Current developments are confirming LifeSite’s recent prediction that abortion supporters would follow their typical pattern of exploiting a violence incident to obtain specific new advantages. Using the Romalis stabbing incident as justification, a new abortuary opening in Kelowna, BC is seeking the extraordinary precedent of a bubble zone injunction around the hospital which will house the abortion centre, before the abortion centre has even opened. Further, Canada’s most prominent abortionist, Henry Morgentaler, is also exploiting the stabbing and has been receiving extensive media coverage of his demand that the federal government remove health care […]
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US CARDINAL TO LEAD PRAYER OUTSIDE PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTUARY

BALTIMORE, July 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal William H. Keeler, Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Activities, and Archbishop of Baltimore, will offer the Respect Life Mass at St. Alphonsus in downtown Baltimore on August 12th. EWTN reports that immediately following Mass the Cardinal will lead hundreds, perhaps thousands of Catholics in a prayerful procession to the local Planned Parenthood abortuary for a Rosary Rally to pray for an end to abortions being performed there. This Respect Life Mass and Rosary Rally is part of a monthly pro-life ministry in the Baltimore Archdiocese to pray for an end to […]
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A JOKE FROM THE FEDERALIST DIGEST

Favorite Feminese Translations Abortion: A woman’s right to choose.  Equal rights: Special privileges.  Equal pay: Whatever compensation and benefits I want or I’ll sue. Father: Sperm donor and money (“child support”) source.  Marriage: Social custom for oppression of women.  Pregnancy: Hostile invasion of a woman’s body.  Sexual harassment: Being complimented or asked out on a date.  Tolerance: You have to listen to my point of view while yours is denied a voice.  Compromise: Total capitulation to the feminist agenda.  Freedom: Absence of need because those needs are met by government assistance.  Sexist: Anyone who disagrees with a feminist (see also: […]
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MARCH OF WOMEN DEMANDS PUBLIC FUNDING OF LESBIAN LOBBY

OTTAWA, July 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian contingent of the World March of Women has asked supporters of the World March to begin lobbying political leaders for, among other things, public funding for a lesbian lobby group. Interestingly, when the revamped demand list was mentioned recently by the National President of the Catholic Women’s League Sheila Pellerin, this particular initiative was absent. The latest list of demands called, “It’s Time For Change! Women in Canada Call on the Federal Government” includes a list of “immediate demands – a feminist dozen.” The March organizers urge all supporters “to encourage women everywhere […]
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Catholic News Service reports that Ireland’s Catholic bishops have proposed a constitutional amendment to protect the unborn. The bishops told a government committee that “The need for such a clear statement of principle or value is rendered even more urgent by the fact that the Supreme Court interpreted the existing constitutional wording in a manner that does not offer full and meaningful protection to the right to life of the unborn child.” The Ottawa Citizen reported yesterday that a coalition of more than 1,000 organizations is marking the second anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International […]
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FEMINISTS DEFINE RIGHT TO LIFE FOR UNBORN AS “VIOLENCE”

OTTAWA, July 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A dangerous and deliberate change of definition of the term “violence” is being orchestrated by radical feminists attempting to criminalize attempts to protect the right to life of the unborn. Feminists from the UN, the World March of Women and the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL) have taken to defining legal protection for the children in the womb as “state-sanctioned violence against women.” The most recent occurrence of the propaganda was in a CARAL press release deploring the election of Stockwell Day as leader of the Canadian Alliance Party. “The Canadian Alliance has just […]
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US NEWS ROUNDUP

A federal judge permanently barred the state of Florida from enforcing its second attempt to prohibit partial birth abortion.  Catholic pastors in Washington DC urged parishioners Sunday to lobby Mayor Anthony A. Williams against a D.C. Council bill requiring health insurance coverage for contraceptives, beginning the second week of a controversy that has grown to include charges of anti-Catholic “bigotry” and concerns about home rule in the District.  Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life said in his weekly column this week, “Christians have a duty to be politically active, to register and vote, to lobby and educate candidates […]
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NINE CHILDREN TAKEN FROM OTTAWA-AREA FAMILY

OTTAWA, July 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On March 31, the provisions of the Ontario Progressive Conservative government’s Bill 6 took effect, strengthening the power of the province’s infamous Children’s Aid Society (CAS) against parents and families. Since then, controversies over CAS behaviour have broken into the public and been covered in the media. Last week CAS took nine children away from a Christian family in Ottawa, for reasons that are still unclear due to conflicting messages given by the workers who confiscated the children. For the rest of the story see today’s Special Report.
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ARCHBISHOP EMPHASIZES CHURCH STAND ON ASSISTED NUTRITION AND HYDRATION

ST LOUIS, July 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis recently released a statement on principles for health care decisions concerning assisted nutrition and hydration and related issues. Drawing on the Oct. 2, 1998 Ad Limina Address to the Bishops of California, Nevada and Hawaii of Pope John Paul II, the bishop noted that there “should be a presumption in favor of providing nutrition and hydration to all patients.” In the statement released June 30, the bishop writes, “As Catholics, we believe a person has a moral obligation to use ordinary or proportionate means of preserving his or […]
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FORMER CANADIAN PM BASHES CHURCH STAND ON ABORTION

HAMILTON, July 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Interviewed on radio in Hamilton last week, former Canadian Prime Minister and current leader of the Progressive Conservative Party Joe Clark was asked by a caller about his faith and stand on abortion and homosexuality. Clark responded by saying that he is Roman Catholic, then proceeded to list the churches he regularly attends while in Ottawa or at home in Calgary. On homosexuality he said parliament is not re-defining marriage, but merely extending benefits to same-sex couples. With regard to abortion he said he was pro-choice. When asked how he reconciles his Catholicism with support […]
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UN COMMITTEE ASKS ABOUT ABORTION AND HOMOSEXUALITY IN IRELAND

UNITED NATIONS, July 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Human Rights Committee took up its consideration of a second periodic report of Ireland Friday, with government officials answering to UN demands for abortion and homosexuality. Michael McDowell, Attorney-General of Ireland, presented the report for his country. During the session, one UN “expert” asked if abortion could be permitted. The delegation replied that Irish laws still did not permit abortion in cases of rape and prohibited abortion for purposes of family planning. Answering another question from the UN committee the Irish delegation responded that “Irish law had never prohibited consensual sexual […]
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The Pro-Life help group set up by Scottish Cardinal Thomas Winning said it was a “scandal” that public authorities give money to pro-abortion groups but refuse to give money to groups which help women save their children.  A Somalian refugee is facing the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity.  Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day will seek election to the Commons in the riding of Okanagan-Coquihalla, which is being vacated by MP Jim Hart.
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MEDIA SHIFT IN ABORTION BATTLE

OTTAWA, July 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The cultural shift in Canada away from unquestioned social liberalism is beginning to show in the stronghold of the extremist left – the media. Columnists across the country have reacted to the campaign to smear pro-lifers, the churches and socially conservative politicians over the attack by an unknown assailant on abortionist Garson Romalis. Even pro-abortion writers are reacting to the crazed rhetoric of militantly pro-abortion activists and media who are blaming pro-life Alliance leader Stockwell Day for the attack. Toronto Sun columnist and self-pro-claimed “pro-choicer,” Lorrie Goldstein, says in his column this week that “all […]
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On Thursday in a bid to pass a bill legalizing the commonly accepted practice of euthanasia in Holland, the government dropped a contentious clause in the bill which gave “physicians the possibility, in exceptional cases, of allowing a request for euthanasia by a minor between 12 and 16 against the wishes of their parents.”  Focus on the Family reports that the American Library Association is looking into how to stock pornography without causing a community uproar. Read the letter of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops to the Minister of Health denouncing the introduction of RU-486 into Canada.
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UK JUDGE ORDERS CHILD MUST BE ALLOWED TO DIE

LONDON, July 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mr Justice Cazalet, a High Court of England judge, ordered that a 19-month-old child suffering from lung disease be allowed to die despite the parents pleas for help. Although the child has lived with the lung disease since birth and healthcare workers said that the boy had shown improvement over recent months and that he was showing signs of vocabulary and could indicate pleasure and displeasure, the court did not take this information into consideration. The Times reported yesterday that the judge said that hospitals should provide him with “palliative care to ease his suffering”, […]
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US BISHOPS DENOUNCE PARTICIPATION IN MARCH OF WOMEN

WASHINGTON, July 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On June 25 the US National Catholic Register published a story indicating that Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the US counterpart of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP), had endorsed the World March of Women 2000. The story pointed out the pro-abortion and pro-homosexual demands of the March. It noted further that the US arm of the march is being coordinated through the office of the pro-abortion National Organization for Women in Washington. The register notes that the only other nominally Catholic group signed on to the march in the United States is […]
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PRO-LIFE OPINION AS CRIME

TORONTO, July 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Syndicated columnist Andrew Coyne lambasted abortion supporters for their campaign of blaming pro-life Canadians for the stabbing attack of abortionist Garson Romalis. Coyne compares the logic of the extremist pro-abortion train of thought to another situation. “You can see the connection. I am (let us say) a vegetarian. Therefore if a deranged animal rights activist firebombs the Calgary Stampede, I am at fault. Or, in the nice phrasing of Marilyn Wilson, president of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League, I have ‘indirectly sanctioned’ such violence.” Coyne points out that “Wilson seems to think, the mere […]
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STUDY SAYS BISEXUALS ARE THE ‘BRIDGE’ FOR HIV TO HETEROSEXUALS

DURBAN, South Africa, July 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A series of studies done by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that bisexuals act as a “bridge” for HIV, going from active homosexuals to heterosexuals. This data confirms suspicions among pro-family forces that the increased rate of AIDS among women does not disprove the claim that AIDS remains predominantly a “homosexual” disease. Linda Valleroy and her colleagues told the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban that a five-year CDC study of 3,492 men in seven U.S. cities who have sex with men found that one in six also […]
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WASHINGTON DC ORGANIZATIONS FORCED TO PAY FOR CONTRACEPTIVES

WASHINGTON, DC, July 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The District of Columbia city council voted unanimously Tuesday to require health insurance providers to pay for contraceptives and rejected a conscience clause which would have exempted organizations that oppose contraception on religious grounds. The law, not yet signed by Mayor Anthony Williams, would require Catholic organizations in the city to include coverage for abortifacient contraceptives. Speaking at the meeting, Auxiliary Bishop William E. Lori said, “This is a breach in the wall between church and state. … I think it’s a sad day for religious liberty in our city. We’re not imposing anything […]
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CORRECTION

With regard to Monday’s story on the response to RU-486 by Canadian Physicians for Life, please note that Janet Les is an administrator with CPLm not an M.D.Ê Dr. Will Johnston is the spokesman for the group.
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Cardinal Thomas Winning, archbishop of Glasgow, quoted in the Catholic Herald of July 7, said, “No profession has been more deeply corrupted by the culture of death than the medical profession over the past century. And nothing has more deeply corrupted it than the practice of abortion and the attendant attitude that human life which is weak and vulnerable is disposable.” (reported by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children)
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CAMPAIGN LIFE OFFERS REWARD FOR ARREST OF ABORTIONIST’S ATTACKER

MEDIA RELEASE – July 13, 2000 Having once again denounced all forms of violence, Campaign life Coalition (Canada) has issued a challenge to those in the abortion industry. “Campaign Life Coalition is offering a reward of $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who stabbed Vancouver abortionist Garson Romalis,” says Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition. “I challenge the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL), Planned Parenthood, Joyce Arthur of ProCAN, Henry Morgentaler and Canada’s other abortion providers to each match this offer.” Hughes expressed concern that “the person or persons […]
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PROMINENT CATHOLIC BISHOPS CENSORED ON MARCH OF WOMEN

VANCOUVER, July 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The feminist World March of Women 2000 has caused serious division in the Catholic Church in Canada.Ê Efforts by executives within Catholic organizations to censor prominent bishops who oppose the March are increasing. Recently LifeSite obtained a copy of a letter sent out by Jennifer Leddy, co-director of the Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF), the pro-life arm of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Knights of Columbus. On official COLF letterhead, containing the name of Archbishop Adam Exner who publicly opposed the March, Leddy’s letter unreservedly defended the March. She failed […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

“The Pontifical Council for the Family published a declaration today on so-called “embryo reduction”. The document states that “Embryo selection, involving the voluntary elimination of a human life, can never be justified, neither on the basis of a so-called lesser evil, nor on the basis of the double effect: neither one nor the other can be applied in this case.” For more see EWTN news. Dr. Paul Billings of the stem cell bank, Cord Blood Registry, is promoting a method of harvesting human stem cells that does not require exploitation of abortion. He reports that “umbilical cord blood represents an […]
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PRO-ABORTION HYSTERIA OVER STABBING OF B.C. ABORTIONIST

VANCOUVER, July 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-abortion activists and sympathetic media are responding with near hysteria to the stabbing attack on abortionist Garson Romalis yesterday. Blame for the wounding incident is being assigned to pro-life organizations, churches, Joan Andrews Bell and even newly elected Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day. Media coverage of this relatively minor, but convenient incident has quickly transformed into an intense national abortion propaganda campaign. The main target appears to be Canada’s shift towards social conservatism and acceptance of more open, public dialogue on the abortion issue. The U.S. Abortion Federation has issued an alert to clinics and […]
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In the late 1990s a spate of church fires, many of them belonging to predominantly black congregations, was blamed on racism. Subsequently a suspect in the fires, avowed Satan worshiper, Jay Scott Ballinger, was caught, putting to rest most of the allegations of racism. Ballinger pleaded guilty yesterday to setting 26 churches on fire in eight states over a five-year period ending last year. The Justice Department wants him sentenced to 42 years in prison. Leading international abortion provider, Marie Stopes International, is now offering British women the option of scheduling abortion consultations over the Internet. “Women have been requesting […]
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VATICAN UN STATUS OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTED BY US CONGRESS

July 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Observers were stunned yesterday as The United States House of Representatives voted almost unanimously to denounce the campaign of the pro-abortion lobby to oust the Catholic Church from the United Nations. At the same time, the House endorsed the status of the Vatican at the UN. The deceptively named UN NGO (non-governmental organization), Catholics For a Free Choice, spear-headed a campaign to have the Vatican’s Permanent Observer status at the UN downgraded in order to weaken its influence in international treaty negotiations. Despite the abortion-related basis for the protest and the large number of abortion advocates […]
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CATHOLIC CHURCH SUED AND BASHED FOR PRO-LIFE STAND

AMSTERDAM, July 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Dutch homosexual activist group in Amsterdam has filed a complaint in an Amsterdam court accusing Pope John Paul II of discriminating against homosexuals. And in England, MP Clare Short has accused the Church of being a “burden” in the battle against Aids in Africa. AFP reports today that a foundation of readers of Gay Krant, a Dutch gay weekly magazine, filed the complaint in the wake of the Pope’s assertion on Sunday that “Homosexual acts are against the laws of nature.” The group said these words amounted to an incitement of hatred and discrimination […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

Speaking to an International AIDS Conference in South Africa, Maria Minna, Canadian Minister for International Cooperation, promoted condoms as the solution to preventing the disease. Quoted yesterday on CBC’s The National she said, “that means the use of condoms. That means making condoms available. It means having distribution problems which exist resolved.” The Portuguese Government has voted to decriminalize the consumption of illegal drugs such as cannabis and heroin. Drug users will now be treated as sick people in need of medical help.  A British newspaper has suggested that social workers took a 12-year-old pregnant girl away from her parents […]
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PC PARTY LEADER RE-AFFIRMS PRO-ABORTION STANCE

OTTAWA, July 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Joe Clark, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, continues to appeal to fiscal-only conservatives by re-affirming his strong social liberal stance. Speaking to the media yesterday about abortion and homosexuality Clark said, “I respect at the end of the day the woman’s right to choose. My view is that on the question of homosexuality, it is an orientation, not a choice.” Similar comments were made in March by Prime Minister Jean Chretien, leader of the Liberal Party. In his main address to the Liberal Party convention on March 17, he told 2,600 delegates that “Canadians […]
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PRO-ABORTION ‘CATHOLIC’ DARES BISHOPS TO EXCOMMUNICATE HER

NEW YORK, July 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Frances Kissling, head of the pro-abortion group “Catholics for a Free Choice,” has written a column daring bishops or the pope to excommunicate her. In her article she says that “since no bishop or pope – and I am reasonably sure that these authorities know who I am and what I believe – has chosen either to pronounce me excommunicated or declare that I have automatically excommunicated myself, I am confident that I remain in good standing with the church.” Pretending to answer those who argue that she has excommunicated herself, Kissling claims erroneously […]
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ONTARIO CATHOLIC WOMEN’S LEAGUE BARS BISHOP’S REPRESENTATIVE

WATERLOO, ON, July 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Women’s League, Ontario Provincial Convention, which is underway in Waterloo, voted yesterday to support the pro-abortion World March of Women 2000 – after refusing to allow the official representative of their Spiritual Advisor to speak. During the pre-convention meeting Sunday, the Ontario executive discussed how the March of Women issue would be handled, even though the March was not on the official agenda for the convention. Bishop Nicolas De Angelis, auxiliary bishop of Toronto, and the Spiritual Advisor to the Ontario CWL was in hospital and unable to attend the meeting. Bishop […]
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UN HEAD KOFI ANNAN PLUGS ABORTION ON WORLD POPULATION DAY

UNITED NATIONS, July 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking today, on the occasion of World Population Day, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan promoted abortion in uncharacteristically obvious terms. During his speech, entitled “Saving Women’s Lives,” he also stressed the need for more population control. He said that “sexual and reproductive health is an essential part of these (human) rights.” Clarifying that it was abortion and abortifacient contraception to which he was referring, he said “we can all recognize the anguish … of the teenager whose options in life are suddenly foreclosed because she gets pregnant and drops out of school. Of the woman […]
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DAY’S SOCIAL CONSERVATISM CONFIRMED AS POLITICAL ASSET

OTTAWA, July 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Social liberal columnist Thomas Walkom writes in today’s Toronto Star that Stockwell Day is definitely a strong contender for the Prime Minister’s office because of, not in spite of, his social conservatism. Walkom says that small-l liberals have “portrayed Day as a Christian weirdo .. but what the liberal left forgets is that the new Canada of visible minorities is much like the old one. Some people are liberal, but many aren’t.” Walkom quotes Star liberal writer Haroon Siddiqui, a follower of Islam, who wrote that “the social conservatism that so bothers the Toronto-centric media […]
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STOCKWELL DAY WIN TROUNCES POLITICAL CORRECTNESS FRAUD

TORONTO, July 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stockwell Day won a decisive victory in the Canadian Alliance leadership race this past Saturday with a commanding 63% of the vote – 72,349 to 41,869 – over Preston Manning. He won handily in every province except Newfoundland, with a huge majority in Ontario, despite conventional political wisdom that such a feat was impossible for an openly social conservative candidate. Day called this bluff and won. He hopes to do the same in the next federal election. The turning point seemed to begin with Day’s debate proclamation, just before the first vote, that “The era […]
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Commenting on the introduction of RU-486 in Canada, Dr. Janet Les of Canadian Physicians for Life said: “It does not make us more humane when we invent new ways to poison the tiniest members of our family. How much confidence can we have in an abortion industry, which suppresses the link between abortion and breast cancer, to document the harm done on women by this hormone? RU-486 is a threat to women’s health and deadly for her preborn child.” *Witches thank Harry Potter books for promoting their religion* Real witches just love the series of novels about the boy wizard […]
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US NEWS ROUNDUP

West Virginia’s law against partial-birth abortion was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge Friday based on the recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down a similar law in Nebraska.  WorldNetDaily reports that a measure that would create a United Nations Rapid Reaction Force, calling for the U.S. representative to the UN to push for the creation of a 6,000-man force capable of deploying to trouble spots on a moment’s notice, has been introduced into the US House of Representatives.  Insight Magazine has published the document obtained from the government outlining files on pro-life and Catholic organizations. The VAAPCON files are […]
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LEWIS’ RWANDA REPORT BLAMES CHRISTIAN CHURCH FOR GENOCIDE

UNITED NATIONS, July 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 296-page report on the 1994 Rwandan genocide commissioned by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and prepared by a seven-member panel, confirms that the United Nations, the United States, France and Belgium were culpable in the holocaust. The report however also says that “within Rwanda itself, those with the heaviest responsibility were the Catholic and Anglican hierarchies and the French government.” The comments about the knowledge possessed by the UN Security Council and major governments about the impending massacre and their ability to prevent it simply confirm information that has already been made […]
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CATHOLICS MAY “NEVER” BE ACCOMPLICES TO ABORTION/EUTHANASIA

VATICAN, July 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Addressing a meeting of Catholic doctors Friday, Pope John Paul II warned all Catholic health care workers that as Catholics they may “never” help in any way to procure abortion or euthanasia. The strong stand is welcomed by pro-life health care workers who are often told that if they cannot directly assist in abortions they must become accomplices by referring their patients to those willing to kill their preborn children. The pope’s words provide evidence that such participation in abortion is contrary to the Catholic faith. Refusal to become an accomplice to these acts must, […]
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US NEWS ROUNDUP

WorldNetDaily reports that teachers at a Massachusetts high school are being encouraged to “work on [their] own biases” against homosexuality in order to create a “safe zone” for students struggling with sexuality issues. A handout distributed to all faculty of the Springfield High School of Science and Technology, entitled “What teachers can do to make schools safe for lesbians, gays and bisexuals”, lists 11 suggestions “to protect the most maligned victims in today’s society—the gay, lesbian and bisexual students.” Teachers are also encouraged to use “inclusive language that implicitly allows for gay, lesbian and bisexual possibilities by using ‘parent’ rather […]
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CWL NATIONAL PRESIDENT AGAIN AFFIRMS HER SUPPORT FOR MARCH

Ottawa, July 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s Catholic Women’s League President Sheilah Pellerin again plugged her support for the March in her June 29 President’s message (see link below) in her summer president’s message to the League. She states “The issues of poverty and violence against women are the main reasons for this international march. It is a great pity that some organizations have attempted to change the focus.” LifeSite’s March of Women page has been updated to include various articles published on the March. (Page currently unavailable) For new articles on the March see:  *The successful BC CWL motion that […]
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SUBARU’S HOMOSEXUAL AD CAMPAIGN

WASHINGTON, July 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Subaru car ad geared to homosexuals has created controversy with the ad campaign “It’s Not a Choice. It’s the Way We’re Built.” While ostensibly referring to Subaru cars being all-wheel drive, the ad is also intended to communicate the company’s pro-homosexual views. “It’s apparent to gay people that we’re talking about being gay, but straight people don’t know what’s going on,” campaign co-producer Paul Poux, founder of Poux Co., told the Washington Post. The Washington Post reports that for the past six years, Subaru advertising has targeted homosexuals, partially through its support of the […]
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MARCH OF WOMEN HEAD SPEAKS AT UN FOR ALL WESTERN WOMEN

UNITED NATIONS, July 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Franoise David, president of the Quebec Federation of Women (FFQ) – the organization responsible for the World March of Women 2000, spoke to the General Assembly at the United Nations on June 9 after the close of the Bejing +5 conference. In her speech she claimed to represent all women from North America and Europe, specifically those of all faiths. “I am here to represent the women of North America and both Eastern and Western Europe. I speak in the name of the diverse women who live in our region: young and older women, […]
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The socialist government in Germany has put forward a bill allowing practicing homosexuals to register their relationships, thereby giving them the same benefits under the tax and social security systems as a German man and wife. The bill began debate today.
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DEADLY ABORTION PILL RU-486 EXPERIMENTATION ON CANADIAN WOMEN

VANCOUVER, July 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ellen Wiebe, a controversial abortionist in British Columbia has announced that she has legally commenced the first experimentation with the deadly RU-486 abortion pill on Canadian women and their unborn children. Although the federal government has shied away from the drugs due to health considerations, the radically pro-abortion BC government has insisted on the trials and has funded the experimentation with at least $52,000 through the Vancouver-Richmond regional health board. The Vancouver Sun reports that the approval for the year-long study came April 26. The experimentation commenced 10 days ago in Vancouver, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, […]
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RWANDA GENOCIDE REPEAT IN CONGO AND INDONESIA?

BUKAVU, Congo, July 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the world remains horrified over the planned genocide of over 800,000 people that took place in Rwanda and the complicity of the UN and US in allowing it to happen, a similar scenario is shaping up in Congo and Indonesia. The National Post reported yesterday that the same hate radio broadcasts which directed the Rwandan massacres are now ordering Congolese tribes to murder Tutsis. The UN commanding general in Rwanda, Romeo Dallaire, made it clear upon his return that much of the slaughter was orchestrated by the hate radio broadcasts which could have […]
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CANADIAN ALLIANCE INFIGHTING OVER LEADERSHIP HURTING PARTY

OTTAWA, July 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) -. A letter has been released by Canadian Alliance interim leader Deborah Gray indicating that one of MP Eric Lowther’s close associates warned him against using negative attacks on Stockwell Day. The letter has been interpreted by Manning supporters as a threat to Lowther that his nomination could be in jeopardy from Day supporters if he does not stop his negative comments. The letter from Ted Morton to Day did not ask Lowther to switch allegiance to Stockwell Day. Today’s Globe and Mail reports that in response to accusations about the letter “Prof. Morton said he […]
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DAY-MANNING FINAL DEBATE

OTTAWA, July 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite was in attendance at yesterday’s town hall debate between Canadian Alliance leadership candidates Preston Manning and Stockwell Day which produced no clear winner leaving Day with the momentum for the final stretch of the campaign. Day’s campaign gained considerable strength from the endorsement he received yesterday from former Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament, Jim Jones. Jones was quickly kicked out of the Tory caucus by leader Joe Clark after expressing a desire to work closely together with the Alliance. He was the PC’s only Ontario Member of Parliament. The town hall meeting, which was […]
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ONTARIO COURT UPHOLDS SPANKING LAW

TORONTO, July 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Anti-spanking activists were furious yesterday when Ontario Superior Court Justice David McCombs upheld the right of parents to responsibly use spanking as a form of discipline while raising their children. A group calling itself the “Children’s Foundation” sought to have Section 43 of the Criminal Code declared unconstitutional. The section gives parents, teachers and guardians the latitude they need to make reasonable decisions about disciplining their children. The judge acknowledges in his 28 page ruling that he is against spanking and urges Parliament to reconsider the law, but he nevertheless ruled that he was not […]
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US NEWS ROUNDUP

*U.S. football star refuses Playboy feature* Ben Hamilton, center on the University of Minnesota football team, was given the opportunity to be featured in an article in Playboy magazine. The pornographic magazine wanted to include him in the magazine’s October issue as a member of its pre-season All-America team. He refused. The American Family Association reports that as a Christian, he didn’t want to be associated with it.” To send comment to Ben Hamilton: University of Minnesota Athletic Department Email (feedback form) *Dispute over whether schools can display God motto on U.S. currency* In another dispute over the role of […]
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THE FIGHT FOR OVER-THE-COUNTER ABORTIFACIENTS IN CANADA AND US

VICTORIA, B.C. July 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-abortion British Columbia government is smarting after its plans to allow pharmacists to dispense abortifacient “emergency contraception pills” (ECPs), without a physician’s prescription, were put on hold due to legal constraints. However, the government is pressing on. Effie Henry, director of the Women’s Health, Bureau of the Ministry of Health told a pharmacy journal that other options to circumvent the legal restrictions are being considered. One option, which would require a modification to the Pharmacy Act (as would the original plan), would be to allow regional health officers – who are doctors – […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

*Executions generate organ sale income*  WorldNetDaily reports that the People’s Republic of China has been exploiting its high level of executions to generate revenue through the harvesting and sale of organs from executed “criminals.” In Zhengzhou City, a hospital worker who had many times extracted organs at execution sites, told Harry Wu, a former Chinese political prisoner, “A shot in his head, blow away his brain, and the guy is brain dead. He has no more thinking, ceases to be a human being, just a thing, and we use the waste.” T. Kumar of Amnesty International USA testified on the […]
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HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS ARRESTED AT EPISCOPALIAN PROTEST

DENVER, CO, July 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some 70 homosexual activists blocked a Denver convention center Tuesday demanding that the Episcopalian Church accept homosexuality and ordain practicing homosexuals. The Washington Times reports that the 73rd Episcopal General Convention which began yesterday, is to decide on a proposal to codify the 2.4 million-member denomination’s unofficial policy of letting each diocese decide the role of homosexuals in the church. The day of the arrests, conservative Episcopalians began an ad campaign trying to reach out to homosexuals with a message of hope for change through prayer and God’s grace. The American Anglican Council, a […]
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CANADIANS PAYING FOR CONVICTS’ CONDOMS

OTTAWA, July 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Access to information document obtained by the Toronto Sun newspaper reveals that Canadian taxpayers have been forced to pay over $65,000 since mid-April 1998 for condoms for jailed convicts. The paper also notes that the true figure is likely much higher considering not all prisons provided costs and selection criteria for condom use between April 1998 and Jan. 1, 2000.
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HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS ROOTING FOR MANNING OVER DAY

OTTAWA, July 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists who first backed Tom Long in the Canadian Alliance leadership race are now supporting Preston Manning. They have vowed to leave the party if Stockwell Day is elected leader. The National Post reports today that an unnamed homosexual activist who had backed Long and another activist, George Marsland, will quit the party since Day refused to publicly repudiate LifeSite News and Campaign Life Coalition. The charges against LifeSite/Campaign Life are being fueled by negative political strategies and shoddy or biased media reporting. LifeSite has been repeatedly accused of “attacking” or “targeting” a few […]
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Boston Pizza restaurants in Alberta have demonstrated concern for children in utero. CBC reports that in an effort to fight fetal alcohol syndrome the chain will now offer free non-alcoholic drinks to pregnant mothers. Taking contraceptive pills makes a woman 2.75 times more likely to suffer a stroke, but worth the risk says a study to be published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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CWL LEADER LASHES OUT AT BISHOP OVER FEMINIST MARCH

TORONTO, July 5 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Betty Anne Brown, Catholic Women’s League (CWL) Ontario president, wrote a scathing letter to Bishop Nicola De Angelis, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Toronto and Spiritual Advisor for the Ontario CWL over his public disapproval of the radical feminist March of Women 2000. The bishop’s disapproval was expressed in a letter by him responsed to a CWL package containing the agenda and background information on the upcoming Provincial CWL Convention. The package, sent out by Brown included the letters of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and individual bishops supporting the March, but excluded […]
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CHURCH OF IRELAND SPLIT OVER ABORTION

DUBLIN, July 4 (LSN.ca) – A split in the Church of Ireland will become apparent this week as a delegation from the church speaks to a government hearing on abortion. The Sunday Times reported that a recommendation from the church’s medical ethics committee that abortion be legalized in certain circumstances has been withdrawn after opposition from the church’s hierarchy and membership. The three members of the Church of Ireland’s delegation to the government hearing will present different positions, one pro-life and the others pro-abortion to varying degrees. Demonstrating the split, the medical ethics committee submission which recommended legalizing abortion for […]
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US NEWS ROUNDUP

Pro-Life Infonet reports that a national Islamic advocacy group has sharply condemned the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a state law banning partial-birth abortions is unconstitutional. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the ruling amounts to legal approval for infanticide, an act specifically prohibited by Islam. In a 54-41 vote the U.S. Senate approved an amendment to a Labour, and Education Appropriations bill Friday that would stop school-based health clinics from giving out abortifacient “emergency contraception” to minors. An estimated two dozen same-sex couples obtained civil union licenses from city and town clerks around Vermont Saturday, in some […]
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Do you think pharmacists should be allowed to prescribe emergency contraceptives? Vote now at:  https://www.pharmacyconnects.com/index4pc.cfm North American disability rights advocate, Mark Pickup, says Stockwell Day as leader of the Canadian Alliance would be good news for Canada’s disabled and incurably ill. Pickup has made numerous petitions (to no avail) against the Liberal Party’s official policy favouring assisted suicide for the incurably ill and disabled. Dr. Joel Brind will be featured on the cover of Physician’s Magazine, which is published by Focus on the Family. Dr. Brind, President of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, is the epidemiologist who completed a review […]
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AUSTRALIAN DEBATE OVER LATE TERM ABORTION FOR DWARFISM

MELBOURNE, July 4 (LSN.ca) – Australia is embroiled in the abortion debate with a hospital having suspended three senior doctors for having committed a late-term abortion for a woman whose baby had dwarfism. Today results of a survey indicated that 78% of doctors would kill children at 13 weeks gestation if it was discovered that they were dwarfs. However, support for aborting babies with dwarfism at 24 weeks dropped from 78 per cent to 14 per cent. The Age reports that Royal Women’s Hospital is investigating the abortion performed at 32 weeks ( 8 months) gestation earlier this year after […]
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INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT UPDATE

UNITED NATIONS, July 4 (LSN.ca) – United Nations talks defining the rules and definitions of crimes and prosecution for the International Criminal Court came to a close Friday. Negotiations will continue in November. US efforts to ensure that Americans would not be prosecuted by the court were denied. Delegates from over 100 countries reaffirmed that the court would have universal jurisdiction to try individuals from countries which have agreed to the statute and those which have not. Meanwhile in Canada Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy has appointed Irwin Cotler, Member of Parliament for Mount Royal, as his Special Advisor for […]
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WORLD GAY PRIDE IN ROME CAUSING PROBLEMS

Renegade Bishop Pulled as Speaker at Pride Event ROME, July 4 (LSN.ca) – Organizers of World Gay Pride in Rome had scheduled a controversial French bishop to speak at the event. Bishop Jacques Gaillot, who was removed from the Diocese of Evreux, France in 1995 because of his unorthodox public stands, was scheduled to speak on “homosexuality and religion.” However, Gaillot backed out of the appearance after receiving a call from the president of the French bishop’s conference. Catholic World News reports that Gaillot then took his story to the press claiming that the pope had ordered him not to […]
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CBS SHOW HOST USES VULGARITY DERIDING PRO-FAMILY GUEST

NEW YORK, July 4 (LSN.ca) – Bryant Gumbel, host of CBS’ The Early Show, could not hide his animosity and intolerance for those opposed to his pro-homosexual views last Thursday. In the wake of the US Supreme Court decision permitting Boy Scouts to ban practicing homosexuals as leaders, Gumbel interviewed Robert Knight of the Family Research Council (FRC). During the interview Gumbel was clearly hostile to the views expressed by his guest and on a clip shown after the interview Gumbel comments “What a f***ing idiot.” (The first two words are audible and the last can be lip read, according […]
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