Articles for Month: August 2000

Aug. 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – CNN reported Tuesday on legislation that Rep. Tom Bliley, a Virginia Republican who chairs the House Commerce Committee, plans to introduce next week giving the public access to doctors’ records relating to disciplinary actions and malpractice payments. “The American Medical Association has long opposed public release of the data bank information,” says CNN. “The doctors’ lobby contends the raw data on malpractice payments does not reflect either physician quality or competence, since only one of every five malpractice settlements involves negligence.” Though the issue hasn’t been prominent, pro-life forces have for years sought more access to […]

NEW YORK, Aug 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Millenium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders has ended in discord and apparently without producing any significant results. The Family Research Council (FRC) issued a press release yesterday criticizing summit chairman Ted Turner’s abuse of his position when he knocked Christianity at the conference on Tuesday. The FRC stated that Turner, after his introduction by Maurice Strong, addressed “the audience of more than a thousand religious leaders with a dismissal of Christianity for it’s ‘religious intolerance,’ and for failing to be a belief system ‘of religious freedom’.” Turner is […]

NEW YORK, Aug 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sensitive to the continued suspicion many People have of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the international body, told the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference of Presiding Officers yesterday that legislators have a key role to play in helping overcome grass roots mistrust of global institutions. “Together, we at the United Nations and you, the parliamentarians, can do much to break down this wall of suspicion, by explaining the global changes to our peoples and, above all, by ensuring that those changes redound to their benefit,” he said in his speech to the group. […]

Planned Parenthood is a front for “a multimillion-dollar abortion industry,” Archbishop Elden Curtiss of Omaha has boldly stated in a pastoral letter, which he has asked to be read out in area Catholic churches over the weekend. (Omaha World Herald, August 30, 2000) “For the past two months, Republican Rick Lazio has been outpacing Hillary Rodham Clinton at a better than 3-1 clip in fund raising for New York’s U.S. Senate race,” reports Associated Press today.  https://www.syracuse.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?n0830_BC_NY—NYSenate&&news&newsflash-newyork-syr

Researchers at Queen’s University say that they have found scientific evidence that a fetus can hear at 30 weeks, but that they haven’t detected a response when music was played before then.  https://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20000831/384955.html “The governor of the home state of Mexico’s new president-elect – who also belongs to the same National Action Party (PAN) – on Tuesday vetoed a controversial law that would have banned abortion in cases of rape,” reports Catholic World News Service.  https://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=6516 “A recent study found that the ritual of eating together can actually reduce the chance that their children will get involved in risky behavior,” […]

BRITAIN, CANADA, Aug 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The recommendation of a British doctor to anaesthetize unborn babies before killing them is finding support in various places. Here in Canada University of B.C. researcher and psychology professor Ken Craig told the Vancouver Province that “he agrees with Glover’s general premise, if not the same dates, for what he calls a ‘viable’ life to begin.” He has studied pain in premature babies and said that his “experience is they do experience pain. … I say we should give the babies the benefit of the doubt. At 24-25 weeks post-conception, a fetus displays all […]

OTTAWA, Aug 31 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two-thirds (66 percent) of Canadians believe in a woman’s right to kill her unborn child. That’s the conclusion Environics has made in light of responses to a recent survey of 2,038 people conducted in July of this year. “Only 26 percent of [those] surveyed disagreed with the statement, ‘Every woman who wants to have an abortion should be able to have one’,” reports the Vancouver Sun today. The figures conveniently come on the heels of Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s speech this week, condemning Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day for his pro-life views and mocking the […]

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stoking fears that high-level organizers of the World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders, taking place at this time in New York, want to subsume all religions under the banner of an environmentalist ethic, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced the release of Earth and Faith: A Book of Reflection for Action on Tuesday, the day the conference began at the United Nations’ New York headquarters. Maurice Strong, a Canadian and a senior advisor to UN secretary General Kofi Annan, is one of the main organizers of the religious summit. He is renowned […]

British health experts from the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Nursing and the British Geriatrics Society, are condemning the level of care for elderly people in that country.  Nicaragua is holding a March for Life tomorrow (August 31). The march will apparently be led by the country’s president, Hon. Arnoldo Alemán, along with his pregnant wife.  A city official in the Ontario town of Thunder Bay “has resigned after being unable to reconcile his religious beliefs with a casino that opens to the public today,” reports the National Post. “I’ve been feeling increasingly compromised in my values […]

“Vice President Al Gore would back expansion of the United Nations’ power and peacekeeping operations as president, but Republican candidate George W. Bush said he would ‘never place U.S. troops under U.N. command’,” reports the Washington Times today. “When I am president, America will pay its dues – but only if the U.N.‘s bureaucracy is reformed and our disproportionate share of its costs reduced,” Mr. Bush said.  https://washtimes.com/national/default-2000830223922.htm A former Boy Scout troop leader will spend the rest of his life in prison after admitting just days before his trial was set to begin that he had sex with five […]

BRITAIN, Aug 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Many of Britain’s most eminent medical scientists believe the birth of a cloned baby is inevitable despite society’s current aversion to the idea,” reports The Independent today. “More than half of a panel of 32 scientists surveyed by The Independent said ‘reproductive cloning’ would be attempted within 20 years if the technical and safety issues could be overcome.” Even more disturbing, the British paper also revealed that “a significant minority of those who took part in the survey more than one in five felt that reproductive cloning could also be justified on medical grounds, if […]

NEW YORK, Aug 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week and next seem to be the time for international conferences. The Conference of Presiding Officers of National Parliaments has brought lawmakers from more than one 140 countries to the United States today for a three-day meeting ahead of the Millennium Summit, reports Associated Press. This conference, organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, however, is being marred, at least in the minds of the organizers, by the lack of participation from the U.S. as well as America’s decision to bar the speaker of Cuba’s National Assembly from coming. The IPU says all its member […]

ROME, Aug 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, Pope John Paul II spoke at the International Congress of the Transplantation Society, outlining some of the moral guidelines the Roman Catholic Church believes should govern medical research in the 21st century. He endorsed organ donations and adult stem cell study, and condemned human cloning and embryo experiments. Organ donation is “a genuine act of love,” he said. “Increasingly, the technique of transplants has proven to be a valid means of attaining the primary goal of all medicine the service of human life. That is why in the Encyclical Letter Evangelium Vitae I suggested […]

LONDON, ENGLAND, Aug 30 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Reports that unborn babies feel pain are not new, although they are vigorously denied within the ideologically-driven abortion movement. A report in yesterday’s British paper, the Daily Telegraph (and reprinted in the National Post), revisits that controversy by discussing the recommendation from “pro-choice” doctor Prof. Vivette Glover, of Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, that “all terminations between 17 and 24 weeks to be performed under anaesthetic.” She will be chairing a conference on the issue at the Royal Institution in November. She says, “it is incredibly unlikely that the foetus could feel anything before […]

ALBERTA, Aug 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “At the time before legalization (the 1950s and early 1960s), abortion supporters most often portrayed abortion providers as heroes. Planned Parenthood, the world’s lead promoter of abortion, used to reassure women who were seeking the procedure, despite its illegality, that nine of 10 providers were licensed doctors working on the side, outside office hours, for the good of their female patients. But now that abortion-on-demand is legal in Canada, now that the goal has changed from making abortion legal to keeping it entirely unrestricted and publicly funded, the campaigners seek to paint the before-time as […]

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the goals for the upcoming Millennium Summit at the United Nations (Sept. 6-8) is to have many countries ratify at least several of the more prominent treaties in a conference pack of 25 treaties. One hundred and fifty nine heads of state are expected to show up for the summit. So far, “69 countries have informed The United Nations of their intention to sign, accede to, or deposit instruments of ratification of treaties deposited with the Secretary-General,” reported the U.N. Friday. “At least 35 governments have indicated their intention to sign the […]

SUDBURY, Aug 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pilgrimage organizers issued a press release yesterday on Andrew Fournier’s progress in his cross-Canada walk for life, including an updated itinerary to the end of October and pilgrimage contact information. Andrew left Sudbury, Ontario yesterday to begin the next leg of his cross-Canada walk. For more, see:  Press release at https://www.lifesitenews.com/pilgrimage/aug28press.html and the latest daily reports and articles at https://www.lifesitenews.com/pilgrimage/index.html (Pages currently unavailable)

UNITED STATES, Aug 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week, in response to the release of the National Institutes of Health’s final guidelines for stem cell research, American Life League president, Judie Brown, said that “it is no coincidence that so-called bioethicists like George Annas have laid the groundwork for medical professionals to advise parents about ‘disposition’ of ‘stored’ embryos not needed for in vitro fertilization.” Mr. Annas has said that “human embryos are not waste products, and if we really mean to respect the human embryo because of what it represents, we must at least ensure that the people who created […]

Christian Heritage Party of Canada leader, Ron Gray, says about the American court case considering the abortion-breast cancer link, that “if it is validated in court anywhere, [it] should become part of the public dialogue here. If the Dakota court says Dr. Brind’s research is significant, Canadian women MUST be allowed to hear his warning!” The International Congress of the Transplantation Society, a world congress of organ transplant experts, began a meeting in Rome on Sunday, bringing 4,000 scientists to Italy’s capital from around the world. Pope John Paul II is addressing the meeting today. The United Nations has issued […]

The latest issue of Time magazine is online and includes a human interest story on the Secretary-General of the U.N. called “The Five Virtues of Kofi Annan.” https://www.canoe.ca/TimeCanada0009/04_time1.html Planned Parenthood has confirmed the importance of showing women ultrasounds of their unborn babies in discouraging abortion. PP spokesman Dr. Lianne Lacroix told the Kelowna Daily Courier last week that “Abortion is a hard enough thing for any woman to decide without the torture of seeing the baby on an ultrasound screen.” https://www.ok.bc.ca/DC/story2.html American libraries are becoming a growing threat to the well-being of the country’s children, due to pornography and sexual […]

American Life League president Judi Brown has attacked the Washington Post for an article on August 22 by John Pomfrett. Writing about the Chinese minority Uighurs, he portrays them as the bad guys, she says, when in fact they are targeted by the Chinese government for forced abortion and sterilization. This is an example of “push[ing] bias to the point of propaganda,” Brown says. In California, “it will be legal for anyone to profit from the sale of bodies or body parts if they are to be used for research or education, under an amendment made [last] Wednesday to a […]

BRITAIN, ITALY, Aug 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The lucrative nature of the reproductive technology industry has produced an environment which discourages doctors from looking into ways to cure infertility or sterility. So says British Professor Robert Winston, “father of the test-tube baby” and a 60s pioneer of artificial insemination. “Each operation is carried out outside the National Health Service and costs more than $3,000,” reports Zenit news service. The professor also said that “today these techniques are used without studying their need and usefulness for a couple with infertility problems,” wrote Zenit last week. Based on Dr. Winston’s comments, the Italian […]

New York, Aug 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders opens today at the UN General Assembly in New York and concludes Aug. 31. More than 1000 religious leaders from around the world and from many religions have come together for this unique global religious meeting. This is the first of three extraordinary international meetings scheduled to take place in New York over the next two weeks. The State of the World Forum runs from Sept. 4-10 (see “State Of The World Forum To Convene With Millenium Summit”) and the United Nations Millenium […]

UNITED STATES, Aug 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Several large corporations have pulled their funding from the BSA and others are considering such a move over the current homosexual controversy – despite the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favour of the private organization. Homosexualist activists who have protested recently against the Boy Scouts don’t seem cautious about disassociating themselves from convicted pedophiles (see last Thursday’s LifeSite News). Furthermore, studies indicate a significantly higher proportion of sexual assault against boys by homosexuals (again see last Wednesday’s LifeSite News). In view of such facts, the enormous good that the Scouts do […]

North Dakota, Aug 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The growing amount of evidence of a link between (induced) abortion and breast cancer is invariably greeted with deep hostility and outright repudiation by pro-abortion advocates. One abortuary in North Dakota, the Red River Women’s Clinic, went so far as to produce a pamphlet stating that, “Anti-abortion activists claim that having an abortion increases the risk of breast cancer and endangers future child-bearing. None of these claims are supported by medical research or established medical organizations.” Abortion protestor Amy Jo Mattson sued the abortuary for false advertising after seeing the pamphlet last year. “She […]

OTTAWA, Aug 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mainstream media seems to have taken an interest in allegations about social conservatives trying to use nomination meetings to take over the party. Judging by an article yesterday in the Toronto Star, however, leader Stockwell Day isn’t biting, allowing the populist process to run its course. “In any race, you sometimes, unfortunately, have the media jumping to attach labels to people. Some people get characterized as single-issue candidates, but our policy is to allow wide-open democracy in this party,” he told Toronto Star reporter, Tim Harper. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Jean Chretien took an election-style […]

“Pro-choice researchers … have acknowledged that some women experience post-abortion syndrome,” the Elliot Institute excitedly reported yesterday. The admission comes in an article in the August issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.  America’s decision to clarify guidelines surrounding stem cell research has increased demands on the Canadian federal government to do the same. An article in today’s National Post says Canada may lose its embryo-cell researchers if we don’t.  As promised, the British Foreign Office has drawn up draft legislation for an international criminal court that would allow Britain to ratify the 1998 international treaty. https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_895000/895384.stm Feminists for Life […]

ROME, Aug 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Among the ongoing responses to the Clinton Administration’s decision to fund more stem cell research from human embryos is that of the Vatican, and it’s not subtle. Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice-president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, speaking on Vatican Radio rejected the argument that such research has great benefits by stating clearly that “you cannot use the end to justify the means! We know that morality requires us to seek appropriate ends through appropriate means.” When the talk show host noted that the American government was going to maintain the prohibition against directly financing […]

American president Bill Clinton’s Justice Department has interfered in a local religious freedom vs. homosexual rights issue, filing a brief in favour of an ordinance that the appellant says would force him to “hire openly homosexual persons in violation of his religious beliefs.”  An American father is trying to get custody of his unborn child. So far, however, he has been unsuccessful with Judge Robert P. Doherty ruling that the question of custody does not exist until the child is born. Focus on the Family disagrees with this decision.  The abortion pill RU-486 may be approved for U.S. consumers by […]

UNITED STATES, Aug 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – America has recently launched a “211” service providing needy people with an easy number to call for referrals to social service agencies in their area. The program sounds helpful but the church-based group, Traditional Values Coalition, has just issued a warning that “this new social service aid appears to be a monopoly of liberal social welfare planners, abortionists, and pro-homosexual groups.” TVC’s press release yesterday notes that “WebToday, an Internet newspaper, recently published an article on the popularity of 211 phone numbers in several states. The author, Marcus Casey, noted that when he called […]

CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTRES, Aug 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – World magazine reported last week on the dramatic impact ultrasounds have on turning people away from abortion. The article also notes that a growing number of Crisis Pregnancy Centres in the U.S. are also becoming medical clinics, thus enabling them to possess and use ultrasound machines. World told the story of a young couple who went to a CPC in Florida at the coaxing of the woman to get an ultrasound. The man looked as though he was there against his will but, according to one of the CPC workers, “when the ultrasound […]

OHIO, Aug 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “A coalition of groups protesting Boy Scouts of America’s policy of not accepting homosexual leaders and members chose a convicted child molester to lead it,” reports WorldNetDaily. And the San Diego Union-Tribune reports that “a 33-year-old former staff administrator at a Scout camp has been arrested and charged with sexually molesting several teen-age Scouts with whom he worked over the past three years. The children involved are from 14 to 18 years of age.

SUDBURY, ON, Aug 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Andrew Fournier’s cross-Canada pilgrimage for life has entered the northern region of Ontario this week with his arrival in Sudbury yesterday. It has been a difficult journey these past few months because of foot injuries and other health problems, but Andrew is persevering. See the latest stories and daily logs at:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/pilgrimage/index.html (Page currently unavailable)

MEXICO, Aug 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bill Whatcott of the Saskatchewan-based Christian Truth Activists is declaring his recent trip to Mexico with nine other Canadian and American pro-life activists a success. A report by CBC today indicates that “Mexican authorities said they will prohibit Canadian activists who participated in an anti-abortion demonstration from returning to Mexico for five years, the government news agency Notimex reported.” Mexico has a law prohibiting involvement by foreigners in domestic politics, reports CBC. Pro-abortion forces tried to have the pro-lifers deported on the basis of that law. Mr. Whatcott said that this strategy actually “helped [them] […]

Still committed to the demonstrably false assumption that there is a direct relationship between population growth and resource depletion, Population Action International has released a new report which claims that “the current trend of slower population growth is one bright spot in an often gloomy picture of increasing natural resource scarcity.”  Focus on the Family discussed the radical pro-homosexual bias in the American media yesterday using research from Americans For Truth About Homosexuality and conservative columnist Don Feder.  American and Italian scientists working in partnership have developed a new and more reliable technique – UltraScreen – for detecting Down’s syndrome […]

OHIO, Aug 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Planned Parenthood in Akron, Ohio, is using McDonald’s gift certificates as an incentive to promote condom use,” reports American Life League. The anti-Planned Parenthood organization, STOPP, has asked McDonald’s to publicly demand an end to the practice, but, according to STOPP, “A senior manager responded, saying, ‘we have no plans to release a statement because this has nothing to do with McDonald’s’.” “Silence implies consent,” insists STOPP, which fears that the gimmick may spread to other regions. The pro-life group is asking concerned citizens to contact Jack Greenberg, President of McDonald’s Corp. at:  McDonald’s Plaza, […]

UNITED STATES, Aug 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ongoing failures in United Nations peacekeeping work has led to demands to improve its ability to address conflicts. The Panel on UN Peace Operations, set up in March to examine the situation and submit recommendations, released its report earlier this week. If the UN is to strengthen its ability to deal with military conflict, some believe it will have to develop a stronger military force itself, thus moving towards the establishment of its own standing army. Such a move is much feared by those who oppose the growing influence of the international body, in […]

UNITED STATES, Aug 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Immediately on the heels of Britain’s decision to support recommendations in favour of “therapeutic cloning” by way of stem cell research, America has also chosen to finance stem cell research, although it does not specifically deal with cloning. Yesterday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released their final guidelines for research involving human stem cells. The purpose of the guidelines is to determine how to distribute taxpayer dollars for research. Organizations seeking government funding will be required to honour the guidelines. Arguing that stem cell “research promises new treatments and possible cures for many […]

MUSIC SCENE, Aug 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rock for Life, a division of American Life League, raised objections yesterday to what it called the “Promot[ion of] Racism, Genocide [and] Baby Killing by groups such as Van’s Warped Tour, Santana, No Doubt and Dave Matthews Band. They were targeting these groups’ “collaboration with Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood.” The joint effort “extends Planned Parenthood’s ‘educational’ program – VOX – to millions of kids at rock concerts. VOX urges teen voters to support candidates who back federal spending for foreign and domestic population control,” explains Rock For Life, adding that “Planned Parenthood’s population elimination […]

CHINA, Aug 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Less than a month after Tibetan allegations that China is imposing its one child policy on their people, a report has come out of that nation about population control officials drowning a “botched abortion” in full view of onlooking villagers. According to The Scotsman yesterday, “a gruesome scandal is unfolding in China involving family planning officials who drowned a new-born baby in a rice paddy hours after they induced the labour of his mentally sub-normal mother.” The officials apparently ordered the father to dispose of his child, but a female doctor found him and gave […]

SOUTH CAROLINA, Aug 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. president Bill Clinton thought he was doing Africans a favour when he signed a bill – the Global AIDS and Tuberculosis Relief Act of 2000 – Saturday that will establish a global trust fund to combat HIV/AIDS, repored the UNWire Monday. “The new US funding is intended to encourage other international donors to pitch in an additional $1 billion annually.” America has also offered to lend African countries $1 billion to buy AIDS drugs. Reporting yesterday, however, the UNWire says that “South Africa and Namibia, two countries hit hard by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, […]

NOVA SCOTIA, Aug 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A survey of teens in a Nova Scotia high school indicates a significant lack of knowledge about the abortifacient morning-after pill that is troubling to sex-ed professionals. According to an article in today’s National Post, 45 percent of the girls surveyed have had sex at least once. Although “80 percent said they had heard of the morning-after pill, … fewer than 10% knew there was a 72-hour time limit. And only 50% felt it was likely to be effective in preventing pregnancy.” Pro-life Canadians are far more concerned about the deception used to promote […]

Peter Stock, national affairs director for the Canada Family Action Coalition, is quoted in today’s National Post, defending aggressive political lobbying by Christians. The article also notes that “Alliance MPs, Mr. Martin and Val Meredith, face challenges from opponents with substantial support in the pro-life Christian movement.”  “More women are deciding that marriage is not inevitable, that they can lead a fulfilling life as a single. It’s an empowering choice, but for many not an easy one,” reports the latest issue of Time. The birthrate, however, “has climbed 15% among unmarried thirty-somethings since 1990.”  The Danish documentary, ‘And Then Came […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A feminist outfit, Washington Feminist Faxnet, has praised Al Gore as their choice for president in the wake of the recent Democratic National Convention. “In contrast to the Republicans whose platform calls for criminalizing abortion and outlawing affirmative action, Democrats passed a more pro-woman platform this week. Strong planks include a commitment to a woman’s right to choose, a call for including gender in hate crimes, and an affirmation that the party supports affirmative action.” They also condemned Lynne V. Cheney, the wife of the Republican vice-presidential candidate: “she’s the same feminist-bashing Cheney that […]

SOUTH CAROLINA, Aug 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The well-being of American children is improving when measured in terms of child poverty, teen births, and violence which are apparently all down, although there is concern that the reduction in teen births has been accompanied by an increase in teen abortions. One indicator going in the wrong direction, however, is substance abuse. One example of a place where teen pregnancy rates have steadily dropped over the past few years is North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Michael Burgess and Leonis Wright of the School-Community Youth Development Teen Pregnancy Prevention Project, however, say “the problem […]

B.C., Aug 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The march towards strengthening the international order continues with reports today that Britain intends to “formally break ranks with the US on Friday by supporting the creation of an international criminal court.” The British newspaper, The Guardian, reports today that Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office “confirmed yesterday that the foreign secretary, Robin Cook, is to publish a consultation paper and a draft bill paving the way for British participation in the court.” The ICC treaty will be given high profile at the upcoming Millennium Summit as UN supporters push for its speedy implementation across the […]

“Marriage is the citadel. Once it falls, everything else will fall into place. Once you say that two men auditioning for the leads in ‘La Cage aux Folles’ are the equivalent of a family conforming to God’s law and maintaining the cradle of civilization, the fabric of society is irreparably rent and anything is possible.” – conservative Jewish commentator Don Feder

MEDICAL FILES, Aug 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of the release of the latest report indicating a link between induced abortion and breast cancer, the American Life League is putting pressure on the U.S. medical profession and the media to acknowledge the evidence. The acknowledgement, after two years of study, by the British Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists that the American study’s findings “could not be disregarded,” has received wide coverage with Britain’s Daily Express anticipating that it will “send shockwaves through the medical profession.” ALL president Judie Brown, therefore, is asking. “if England’s Royal College of Obstetricians […]

“An infant boy unwanted by his mother was turned in to the pediatric emergency room at Beth Israel Medical Center, becoming the first child to given ‘safe haven’ under a new [New Jersey] law, officials said Saturday.”   Christian Heritage Party leader Ron Gray condemned the advertising campaign by pharmaceutical giant Wyeth-Ayerst to sell birth control pills, accusing them of “misrepresentation”. “Indeed, to some it might almost seem as though the pill-makers are pimping – exploiting young women sexually to make money,” he said. The radical judicial activist Supreme Court of Canada judge, Claire L’Heureux-Dubé, is speaking out against judicial […]

B.C., OTTAWA, Aug 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Among the many stories recently about the health care funding crisis across Canada was a Canadian Press story yesterday about third world-type conditions at British Columbia’s Kootenay Lake Regional Hospital. The main operating room is being rewired because a light switch was giving off electric shocks; they don’t know if the “antique” surgical tool sterilizer still works; “in the surgical ward fans blow over bedpans full of ice to keep patients cool” because there is no air conditioning.” Also, last week the Canadian Medical Association released the results of a survey based on a […]

CALIFORNIA, BRITAIN, B.C., Aug 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report released last week by the science journal, Nature, raises concerns about the possibility of spreading viruses through organ transplants. According to the report, “mice that received experimental transplants of pig cells became infected with a pig virus, providing new evidence about the possible risks of transplanting animal tissue into people.” “Scientists are interested in pig-to-human transplants as a way to relieve the shortage of human organs and tissue. But that promise has long been shadowed by concerns over “endogenous” viruses in pigs,” reports CNews. The study reported in Nature was part […]

MEXICO, Aug 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the face of Mexico City’s controversial decision to expand access to legal abortion (see Friday’s LSN report), several Canadians and Americans have travelled to the country to help pro-life Mexicans protest the move. The media attention they have received has produced outrage among pro-abortion activists who are trying to have them kicked out of the country, according to a Saturday report in The Ottawa Citizen. The foreign pro-lifers, which include Saskatchewan activist, Bill Whatcott and his wife Elizabeth, remain undaunted. The other Canadians, from Ontario, are Robert Hinchey of Toronto and Paul Vandervet of […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., BRITAIN, Aug 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British government has backed the findings of an expert panel recommending changes to the law in favour of human cloning. In the face of last week’s news, the the Italian Bioethics Committee has spoken out against it. Giovanni Berlinguer, president of the Committee, has drawn attention to the contradiction between Britain’s stance and the position in European Convention, of which the British government is signatory, reports Zenit news service today. “To produce cloned human embryos for experimental purposes and research ‘would be a grave blow to Europe’s concept of morality’,” he said. […]

AFRICA, Aug 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – HIV/AIDS has become such an epidemic in the African nation of Zambia that pastors in the country have publicly called for “aspiring candidates for any election [to] undergo an HIV/AIDS test in order to avoid deaths that create unnecessary by-elections.” The request was signed by Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC) secretary general Fr. Ignatius Mwebe, Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) executive director Rev. Thomas Lumba and Christian Council of Zambia (CCZ) general secretary Rev. Sampa Bredt. Meanwhile, the King of Swaziland is urging “his one million subjects at the weekend to emulate him by taking routine […]

Media reports over the past three days indicate that federal Progressive Conservative party leader, Joe Clark, may lose two of his three Quebec MPs, but not to the Canadian Alliance. Diane St-Jacques (Shefford), the party’s so-called family critic in the House of Commons, says that she has been approached by both the Liberals and the Bloc Quebecois. Ms. St-Jacques voted in favour of the same-sex benefits bill (C-23) and against the former Reform Party’s defense of marriage motion. According to the National Post, “speculation” also exists that another MP is “seriously considering an offer from the Liberals.” He also voted […]

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite’s original report on the Millennium Summit of August 14, noted that the official documentation on the Summit suggested radical proposals for the United Nations to embark upon. Confusion as to the goals and the agenda of the historic meeting, which is set to be the largest gathering of world leaders in history, is easily understood as the outcome document for the meeting is shrouded in secrecy unlike the usual open processes. LifeSite has learned from a UN information officer that the outcome document for the Millennium Summit has been under intense negotiation for […]

KELOWNA, BC, Aug 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that the abortion centre in the Kelowna General Hospital will open on August 23, but without a bubble zone. Sources in BC revealed that thanks to the actions of the BC Civil Liberties Union the Ministry of Health was forced to reconsider establishing a no-protest zone around the hospital.

MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the midst of a heated debate over abortion legislation fueled by Mexico City’s mayor Rosario Robles’ suggestion that municipal legislation allow women who have been raped to undergo abortion Guadelajara’s Roman Catholic bishop Juan Sandoval claimed that women should dress more “decently” to avoid being raped. Guillermo Figueroa a pro-abortion activist reacted to the bishop’s comments accusing Catholic leaders of being “accomplices in all the deaths of women caused by illegal abortions.” Agence France Presse reports further that President-elect Vincente Fox criticized the Guanajuato bill passed earlier this month extending a ban on […]

CHARLOTTETOWN, Aug 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that the National Convention of the Catholic Women’s League (CWL) which ended yesterday in PEI overwhelmingly approved a resolution in support of the World March of Women 2000. Jakki Jeffs, a Life Member of the CWL told LifeSite that the vote on the March was held on Monday the first day of the Convention. Mrs. Jeffs was disappointed with the tactics used to bring the March issue to a hasty, ill-considered conclusion. The March issue was raised at the end of the first day after an extension had been granted for one […]

PARANA, Aug 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to Archbishop Estanislao Esteban Karlic of Parana a statement will be published by the Argentinean Episcopal Conference expressing alarm over legislative plans concerning “reproductive health” which is a codeword for abortion and opposed to the defence of life. Zenit News reports that at a press conference closing the 126th session of the Episcopate’s Permanent Commission the bishops expressed serious concern over the promotion of legal plans to impose legal abortions in Argentina. Archbishop Eduardo Miras of Rosario stressed that a real plan for reproductive health should include all facets of the person such as […]

LONDON, Aug 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday the British government accepted a recommendation to allow human “therapeutic” cloning but said MPs would be allowed a free vote in Parliament on the issue. The decision also means that the government will permit the destruction of human embryos to obtain “stem cells” that might one day lead to cures for diseases. The embryos may be cloned up to 14 days. Cardinal Thomas Winning of Glasgow commented on the condemned the decision saying “Obtaining stem cells from a human embryo is morally wrong, because it involves the destruction of a human life. Human life […]

*Court upholds 50 candidate election threshold:  A federal law that requires political parties to field at least 50 candidates per election to maintain their official tax-deductible status does not violate the Charter of Rights, the Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled. In a unanimous decision released yesterday, a three-judge panel overturned a 1999 lower court ruling that had found the candidate threshold discriminatory and reduced it to two.

WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When Roger Cardinal Mahony announced he was to appear at the Democratic convention pro-life leaders were dismayed. The party’s official pro-abortion position has in the past led prominent church leaders such as Cardinal Joseph Bernardin and Cardinal John O’Connor to adhere to a tradition of rejecting speaking invitations to the Convention. However, Cardinal Mahony pleasantly surprised pro-lifers when he addressed the Convention praying for the unborn.  “In you, O God, we trust … that you will keep us ever committed to protect the life and well-being of all people but especially unborn children, the sick […]

Court Reinstates Law With South Carolina Abortuary Regulation In a 2 to 1 ruling, a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel overturned U.S. District Judge William Traxler’s finding that the 1996 regulations violate the Constitution’s due process and equal protection clauses. The regulations apply to clinics that perform at least five abortions a month. Among the many items covered are airflow standards, doorway widths and a requirement that registered nurses assist in abortion.  *FDA Close to Approving RU-486:  The Food and Drug Administration is close to approving a controversial abortion-inducing pill, mifepristone.

KITCHENER, Aug 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day has proposed giving a federal tax credit to parents who choose to send their children to religious schools . While noting that funding of schools themselves is “a provincial jurisdiction” he said “providing a tax credit to parents “is constitutionally a role for the federal government in terms of the protection of the rights of minorities. And that is something I feel strongly about.”

WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A huge study on nonoxynol-9, the active ingredient in most contraceptive creams, gels, suppositories, foams, films and sponges, has found that the chemical makes women more vulnerable to the AIDS virus and genital lesions. The study involving 990 prostitutes in four African countries found that users of the contraceptive were significantly more likely to contract HIV than those who were issued a placebo. The lead researcher for the study, Lut Van Damme of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, presented the results to a shocked audience at the International AIDS Conference in Durban […]

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a state law requiring minors to notify a parent before getting an abortion. Conservative News Service reports that a senator’s attack on a reparative therapy conference is drawing fire from the Minnesota Family Council, which is accusing the lawmaker of being hypocritical on homosexuality. In a letter to a homosexual advocacy group August 4, Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) denounced what he called the “divisive and hurtful tactics” of the group Focus on the Family, which sponsored a seminar in suburban Minneapolis Saturday about people who left the homosexual lifestyle to pursue […]

MONTREAL, Aug 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Professor Jeffrey Asher has just left Dawson College in Montreal after feminist administrators canceled his course on men’s rights. The National Post reports today that Asher, a professor of “men’s studies” and “feminist propaganda”, had his course cancelled and was reassigned because, according to the administration, a “significant number of students” in his classes feel “belittled and marginalized if they voice their opinions or try to substantiate an interpretation of data that may be different.” Interestingly, however, Asher was judged by 85% of his 1999 predominantly female class as outstanding, and 100% rated him as […]

*Threat of Global Warming Downgraded:  The National Post reported that one of the scientists who first raised the alarm on global warming and the greenhouse effect is now admitting that the situation may not be as dire as he had earlier predicted. James Hansen acknowledges that carbon dioxide from burning oil or natural gas was not the main cause of the rapid warming of the Earth in recent decades. He is also more optimistic that global warming can be prevented “without any economically wrenching actions” because of the growing realization that too much emphasis has been placed on the effects […]

PRINCE GEORGE, BC, Aug 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Both Bishop Gerald Wiesner of Prince George and Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary have publicly reiterated their support for the pro-abortion World March of Women. Bishop George was interviewed in the Prince George Citizen last week, and Bishop Henry used his column in the Calgary Sun (July 30) to publicize his views on the March. Both bishops acknowledge in their articles that one of the March planks is support for abortion, but they say that they support the March nonetheless for the good that it proposes in terms of eliminating violence against women […]

*Dr. Laura Schlessinger is asking for support. In a letter on her website she notes that her advertisers are receiving demands from activists to reject her sponsorship. *Britain to Clone Human Embryos for Research This week British Prime Minister Tony Blair will ask members of Parliament to decide whether scientists should be allowed to clone human embryo cells for medical research. In a move that will present Parliament with its most difficult moral dilemma in a decade, the government will announce a free vote on an issue that has set scientists against religious groups. National Post August 14, 2000: *UK […]

WASHINGTON, AUG 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rabbi Yehuda Levin, one of the most outspoken pro-life rabbis in North America criticized Gore vice presidential pick Joe Lieberman as someone who doesn’t live up to the standards set by his Orthodox Jewish faith.  The criticisms were made on Levin’s “Jews for Morality” website. Only hours after publicly announcing the website’s contents to NewsMax.com the site was attacked by hackers and disabled. In comments to NewsMax regarding Lieberman, Rabbi Levin said “It’s very ironic that the liberal media is spinning Joe Lieberman as ‘Mr. Morality’ because he has made a few nice sound bites.” […]

*Public Funding for Human Embryo Experimentation Reviving a debate over how society should treat the earliest stages of human life, the National Institutes of Health is close to authorizing a plan to fund medical research that relies on the destruction of human embryos. The NIH plan, in the works for more than a year, would clear the way for the first public funding of potentially groundbreaking research on embryo “stem cells,” which scientists first isolated only 21 months ago. LA Times August 13, 2000: *Partial-Birth Abortionist Supports Hillary:  One of the nation’s most notorious abortionists, the Ohio doctor who co-invented […]

BALTIMORE, Aug 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal William H. Keeler, Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Activities, and Archbishop of Baltimore, lead over 700 pro-lifers in prayer outside a Planned Parenthood abortuary Saturday. The event began with the Respect Life Mass at St. Alphonsus in downtown Baltimore during which the Cardinal prayed, “that the day will come when every unborn child in America is welcomed in life and protected by law.” Prayers were offered at the abortuary for an end to the barbaric practice of abortion and also for the conversion of all those involved in abortion, and to […]

MEXICO CITY, Aug 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday, Mayor Rosario Robles signed a bill that would decriminalize abortion for severe birth defects or if the mother’s life is at risk. The measure would also decrease the maximum penalty for procuring an illegal abortion from five to three years. The Mexico Legislature must still approve the proposal. Last week LifeSite reported that the ruling National Action Party in Mexico’s northern state of Guanajuato passed legislation prohibiting abortion for unborn babies conceived during rape.

LOS ANGELES, Aug 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first arrest and imprisonment at the Democratic National Convention was abortion related. An abortuary worker from the Her Medical Clinic was arrested in front of the abortion center and taken into custody by LA Police Officers.  She was charged with assault and battery for attacking Operation Rescue director, Troy Newman, while he demonstrated on a public sidewalk. Ironically, the attack occurred just minutes after Operation Rescue held a press conference contrasting the difference between peaceful pro-life protests and other protest groups which use violence to get out their messages. “I can think of […]

MEXICALI, Aug 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The diocese of Mexicali, Mexico has been given special recognition by the Vatican for its firm and decisive pro-life action. The Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission reports that the diocesan cathedral has been designated ‘a cathedral of life’ by the Vatican, according to an announcement by Bishop José Isidro Guerrero Macias on May 10. The designation comes as the diocese encouraged a ‘Paulina,’ a teen-age rape victim, to reject abortion. Silvia Reséndiz, a long-time pro-abortion activist in Mexico, was one of several feminists who lodged complaints with the government after doctors at Mexicali’s General Hospital […]

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Millennium Summit, which according to the UN will be “the largest single gathering of Heads of State/Government ever held in the world”, is a mere 22 days away and has not yet received significant mention by media or government. The agenda of the historic meeting, to be held Sept 6-8 at UN headquarters in New York, is stacked with alarming proposals seeking to strip national autonomy and to ensure UN world governance. The Summit entitled, “The Role of the United Nations in the twenty-first century” is officially “to articulate and affirm […]

In a landmark decision, the state probate court in Boston ruled that a lesbian couple can list both of their names on a birth certificate under the category of “mother” as long as the women are connected to a child by birth or biology and are the intended parents. “This decision protects the best interests of the child by protecting the rights of the two legal parents,” said Joyce Kauffman, the attorney representing Mary Jane Knoll and Christine Finn, the lesbian couple who brought the action. Breaking with recent precedent, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony agreed Wednesday to deliver the invocation […]

HOLLYWOOD, Aug 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Comedy Central show, “South Park,” has a record of Catholic bashing, but no episode was worse than the one that aired on July 19 (it was repeated on July 22); the episode will be continued on July 26 and July 29. A press release by the Catholic League condemned the program and reported that the basic plot of last week’s show centered around a priest who tells children they will burn in hell unless they confess and “eat the crackers” (read: Holy Communion). During the course of the show, the following attacks on Catholicism […]

Society for the Protection of Unborn Children reports that a new study into 11,000 hospital cases in Scotland has indicated that patients as young as 49 are being denied life-saving treatment on the grounds of their advanced years and that “significantly more of the elderly died than would be predicted”. The research was carried out by Dr Pat Grant, an accident and emergency specialist, for the medical journal Injury. Dr Grant blamed a lack of resources rather than clinical decisions by doctors. Jane Barrow, policy manager for Age Concern Scotland, said: “Many people aged 60 to 70 are being written […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new compilation of documentation on pro-abortion violence in Canada, the US and Puerto Rico reveals thousands of cases where pro-abortionists have attacked persons with guns, cars, acid, hypodermic syringes, and baseball bats, while other pro-abortion advocates applauded and supported some of these actions. Human Life International’s top researchers assembled Pro-Abortion Violence, which includes over 55 murders committed by pro-abortionists. A sampling of recent incidents of murder by pro-abortionists includes a 1993 attack in Huntsville, Alabama where pro-abortion activist Eileen Orstein Janezic murdered 51-year old pro-life activist minister and radio talk show host Jerry Simon. […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled yesterday that Virginia’s 1998 statute prohibiting “partial-birth” abortion is unconstitutional, a Center for Reproductive Law and Policy release reports. The state of Louisiana has agreed to postpone the distribution of the antiabortion “Choose Life” license plates, as opponents have filed suit claiming the program “improperly uses public money to support a specific religious viewpoint, in violation of the U.S. Constitution.” A hearing is scheduled for Aug. 23 before U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr.

WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Center for Health Statistics reported Tuesday that the teen birth rate is at the lowest rate in 60 years. However, the statistics also show that the teen pregnancy rate is about twice as high as the birth rate. The Family Research Council (FRC) pointed out in a press release yesterday that “this means that half of the teenagers who get pregnant never give birth to a child. We need to be deeply concerned about this discrepancy.” In 1999, for every 1,000 girls ages 15 to 19, there were 49.6 births. According to the […]

LONDON, Aug 10 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two thirds of the UK Government’s board which licenses new drugs, including abortion-causing drugs, have financial interests in the pharmaceutical companies producing the drugs. The Times in London reported Tuesday that some of the 39 scientists on the Commission on Safety of Medicines have investments worth $225,000 (CDN) in drug companies such as SmithKline Beecham, whose profits are largely dependent on the agency’s decisions. The paper reports that many others have received extensive financial support from pharmaceutical companies for research. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children notes that the commission recently recommended that […]

Pro-life advocates announced a new strategy yesterday against abortion clinics: If they can’t block them or outlaw them, maybe they can bankrupt them. Taking a line from former smokers who are racking up huge awards in the nation’s courts against tobacco companies, the Stafford, Va.-based American Life League (ALL) announced the start of a series of lawsuits filed by women who have had abortions. Washington Times August 8, 2000: Alberta Premier Ralph Klein says he won’t rule out a province wide referendum and the use of the notwithstanding clause to uphold his government’s anti-child- prostitution law.  The Bavarian premier has […]

VANCOUVER, Aug 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Given the current political environment in British Columbia, Archbishop Adam Exner and his advisors unexpectedly decided to hold their pro-life prayer vigil inside the church where the pro-life Mass was celebrated. It was announced to the large assembled group that the bishop would not lead a procession to the Everywoman’s abortuary as originally planned. Pavel Reid of the archdiocesan pro-life office told LifeSite that the decision to hold the vigil inside Our Lady of Hungary Catholic Church was not based on pressure from police or pro-abortion groups. Although future vigils are planned outside abortion clinics, […]

Scotland police’s obscene publications unit is investigating a complaint against the sex education booklet aimed at teenagers put out by the pro-abortion charity, Brook. Life, a pro-life group, lodged the complaint with police. Nuala Scarisbrick, of Life, said: “This is an utterly disgraceful publication which any decent person would immediately recognize as likely to deprave and corrupt. It is aimed at young teenagers so it is openly encouraging underage sex, a criminal activity.” The Times August 8, 2000

WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Joseph Lieberman, Al Gore’s running mate in the upcoming US Presidential election, has interestingly been labeled “conservative” by some pundits, probably because of his criticism of President Bill Clinton’s moral failings. On the contrary, however, the National Right to Life Committee points out that Lieberman is a pro-abortion radical. NRLC notes that he “has voted for partial-birth abortion and Roe v. Wade … He has consistently voted in favor of tax funding of abortion on demand and against parental notification.” Lieberman was a co-sponsor of the so-called “Freedom of Choice Act,” which would have […]

WorldNetDaily has exposed a web-porn scandal at the White House. Evidence suggests West Wingers downloaded gay, bestial and teen sex videos jamming the firewall system.

MANCHESTER, England, Aug 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over 100 girls under 16 have received abortifacient morning-after pills directly from pharmacists without a doctor’s prescription. The data comes from one test zone in Manchester, where various pharmacists have participated in a trial project since last December. While 122 of the requests come from girls under 16, the program received a total of over 3000 requests for the abortifacients. The BBC reports that if the pilot project is judged successful, it may be extended nationwide. For more see the BBC.

WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A revealing report in WorldNetDaily today gives evidence for the “transition of American journalism from a profession of disinterested chroniclers to one more akin to a band of lobbyists using the press to support activist causes.” Joseph Farah delivers the goods on the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association which he notes is not only successful at working inside the media to ensure favorable coverage of homosexuals and their political agenda, it even persuades the corporate press to fund the way. WND reports that the Hearst Corp., Knight-Ridder, the New York Times, Newsweek, NBC News, […]

MEXICO CITY, Aug 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ruling National Action Party in Mexico’s northern state of Guanajuato passed legislation Friday making the state’s laws on abortion more pro-life. Catholic World News reports that the legislature passed a law protecting unborn babies conceived during rape from abortion. While abortion is illegal in most of Mexico’s 31 states, there are exceptions in cases of rape or when the life of the mother is in danger. The new ban will automatically go into effect on October 1. “As legislators, we have to consider not only the damage and pain of a woman who […]

OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Led by Omaha Archbishop Elden Curtiss, more than 500 people prayed Saturday outside the Bellevue abortion centre of the notorious partial-birth abortion specialist LeRoy Carhart. Carhart was the abortionist who recently won a Supreme Court victory declaring a Nebraska ban on partial-birth infanticide unconstitutional. After a pro-life Mass at St. Mary Catholic Church in Bellevue, the Archbishop led the 500 parishioners in prayer outside the abortuary. Police officers led the peaceful procession and also guarded the vigil.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday the Government of Pakistan rejected a United Nations proposal to include lessons on the “benefits” of “small families” in the national education syllabus, but the decision will cost the government $250 million. Pakistan’s Business Recorder reports today that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) met with Pakistani Health Minister Dr. Abdul Malik Kasi a few days ago and conditionally offered $250 million in assistance for reproductive health projects. A Health Ministry spokesman said, “The UN official contended that if the children are imparted awareness on small families from an early age, it will […]

On Monday, Yvette Schneider, Family Research Council policy analyst and former lesbian activist, joined members of national ex-gay organizations to participate in a demonstration outside the Washington, D.C. Convention Center, where the American Psychological Association (APA) convention is meeting. “Psychologists in the APA must recognize the real change in my own life as well as thousands of others across the nation,” said Mrs. Schneider. During his speech at the GOP convention George W. Bush said, “I will lead our nation toward a culture that values life—the life of the elderly and the sick, the life of the young, and the […]

Show the Truth presentations will hit Toronto on Thursday August 24 10:30AM – Prayer Vigil – Cabbagetown Women’s Clinic (next door to Aid to Women/Way Inn – 300 Gerard St.); 1:00PM – Prayer Vigil – Scott Abortion Clinic – Gerard St. They will be in Lindsay and Oshawa on August 19, and in Lindsay, Port Perry and H 115/35 again on Sept 4. For more information or to participate call Rosemary at 705-454-1109 [email protected] Conservative News Service reports that researchers in Florida have discovered that adult stem cells found in bone marrow can be converted into immature nerve cells, which […]

WINNIPEG, Aug 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Israel (Izzy) Asper, the CanWest Global media baron who recently purchased most of the Hollinger papers including a 50% share in the National Post, was reported today to be a “best” friend of abortionist Jack Fainman. Today’s Globe and Mail reports that “Izzy is the biggest media magnate in Canadian history” and suggests that that is “very bad news for Stockwell Day” since “Mr. Day is obsessed with abortion; one of Izzy’s best River Heights friends is Dr. Jack Faiman (sic), who has been threatened and shot at for performing abortions.” The Globe also notes […]

Catholic World News reports today that after meeting the Apostolic Nuncio in Argentina, Argentine President Fernando De la Rua said he is opposed to abortion and that such a stand will be kept at international forums such as the UN. Doubts regarding De la Rua’s stand came during the “Beijing +5” UN summit held in New York in June, when the Argentine delegation, for the first time in 10 years, did not take an outspoken pro-life stand.  Brook, a UK charity, is republishing a controversial sex advice booklet for teenagers which includes tips on how to grope and how to […]

A Virginia man is asking a court to grant custody of his unborn child, claiming the woman carrying the 8-month-old fetus would be an unfit mother and would raise the child in a neglectful environment.

NEW YORK, Aug 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 2000 edition of the infamous State of the World Forum (SWF) will be held in New York September 4 through 10, timed to coincide with the United Nations Millennium Summit. The SWF, a highly controversial gathering of world political, business and new age religious leaders which proposed in 1996 a 90% reduction in the world’s population and in 1998 slammed the pope for his pro-life views, is convened by Mikhail Gorbachev. The SWF is hoping for a joint meeting of its gathering with the more than 100 Heads of State attending the Millennium […]

TARANAKI, New Zealand, Aug 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mother of a 15-year-old Linwood High School student only learned of her daughter’s abortion when she received a hospital receipt in the mail. When the mother complained that the school had taken her daughter to an abortuary and had her grandchild aborted while the mother believed her child to be in school, legal experts revealed the law allows schools to participate in secret abortions for minors at any age. The New Zealand Guardianship Act holds up abortion as a special right for women, even young girls. Section 25a of the act says […]

TULSA, Oklahoma, Aug 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nurses from the Head Start program have entered at least two elementary schools in Tulsa Oklahoma and forced children between three and five years of age to endure genital exams without prior parental consent or notification. In a harrowing report the Asheville Tribune reports that the nurses forcibly removed the children’s clothes on desktops in front of their classmates and ignored their cries, screams and protests. Teachers were not allowed in the room to comfort the children. The paper notes that the genital exams and blood samples were undertaken to search for signs of […]

TORONTO, Aug 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a nation-wide survey conducted last month to track Canadians’ views on the state of family life, COMPAS found an intensified concern about the state of family life. Today, 75% of Canadians believe that “family life today is in crisis,” up from 61% two and a half years ago (December, 1997), said a report released Monday. The study, commissioned by the Calgary and Toronto-based National Foundation for Family Research and Education, found that by huge margins Canadians want all childcare subsidies to be directed to parents themselves to decide the best child care arrangements for […]

CHARLOTTETOWN, Aug 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite News has learned that Elaine Murphy, a grade 6 teacher in Prince Edward Island told her class of 11-year-olds how oral sex is performed, supplying graphic details and noting that it could be performed homosexually as well as heterosexually. The instruction came in June during a four-day session covering hygiene, basic reproduction and puberty given at Glen Stewart Elementary School in Stratford. Prior to the session, in a parents meeting on the upcoming program, Vice Principal Allan Fraser assured parents that such questions would not be discussed, but rather that students would be advised […]

German lawyers seek to ban Bible from children: Two lawyers said on Tuesday that they had written to German Family Minister Christine Bergmann asking her to officially class the Bible among books considered dangerous for children because of its violent “bloodthirsty and human rights-violating passages.”  Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard has declared all children should have the right to a mother and a father while moving to institute laws excluding single women and gay couples from IVF treatment.  UK researchers are suggesting vaccinating babies while they are still in their mother’s womb could help prevent the transmission of harmful diseases, […]

LAKE CLARKE SHORES, Florida, Aug 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Glenda Diane Dowis, of Fort Pierce pointed a gun at her pregnant 16-year-old daughter’s belly, drove her to an abortion centre and was arrested after telling staff that if her daughter didn’t abort her baby she would “blow her brains out.” The Palm Beach Post reported yesterday that once the daughter, Brittany Dowis, was alone with clinic staff she wrote on a medical form that her mother was forcing her to abort. Police found a loaded .38-caliber pistol in a briefcase on the back seat of Dowis’ car and noted that the […]

OTTAWA, Aug 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sheila Pellerin, National President of the Catholic Women’s League (CWL) sent a letter to all members of parliament on behalf of the CWL last month supporting the March of Women. Pellerin draws MP’s attention to the fact that the CWL has “in excess of 105,000 members represented in every province and territory and the military.” She goes on to use the full clout of the CWL to support the radically feminist World March of Women 2000. Pellerin fails to mention the bitter dispute among CWL members regarding the March and also fails to note that […]

FRONT ROYAL, VA, Aug 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Father Matthew Habiger, OSB, Chairman of the Human Life International Board of Directors, today announced that the Board has accepted the resignation of Father Richard Welch, CSSR, as President of HLI. Fr. Habiger described Fr. Welch’s move as “a courageous personal decision.” The decision is effective immediately and Fr. Habiger will assume the Presidency to serve the remainder of Fr. Welch’s term which expires in December. Fr. Welch will continue to serve on the HLI Board of Directors and will work with staff in the media field. Given the internal turmoil HLI has […]

Catholic World News reported yesterday that Mayor Anthony Williams of the District of Columbia said Tuesday he won’t sign a controversial law that would have forced all employers in the city to provide health insurance coverage for contraceptives. He refused signature since the bill did not include a conscience clause for employers who object on moral or religious grounds.

SALEM, Oregon, Aug 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A proposal to ban the promotion of homosexuality in schools in Oregon received enough valid voter signatures to be put to a referendum in November, the state Elections Division said Monday. Catholic World News reports that the proposed measure, sponsored by the Oregon Citizens Alliance, states “the instruction of behavior relating to homosexuality and bisexuality shall not be presented in a public school in a manner which encourages, promotes, or sanctions such behaviors.” The Oregon Citizens Alliance and the main opposition group, Basic Rights Oregon, have each pledged to raise up to $1 million […]

Focus on the Family Canada reports that a new study by Statistics Canada has confirmed previous research that common-law relationships are much more violent than legal marriages. An analysis of data from the 1999 General Social Survey revealed that only 1% of married couples reported being victims of spousal violence in the year prior to the survey, compared to 4% of those couples living common-law In a revealing column, Paul Jackson of the Calgary Sun reveals the possible reason for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s reported resentment towards the U.S. In 1953, when Washington was still fighting communist expansion, Trudeau, who […]

VANCOUVER, Aug 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The spiritual battle for life in Canada will receive a major boost with a prayer vigil outside Everywoman’s Health Centre (the abortion clinic) in Vancouver this Saturday led by Archbishop Adam Exner. Special prayer events led by prominent bishops outside abortuaries have regularly occurred often in the US but are quite rare in Canada. In the US the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants has spearheaded the effort to involve Catholic hierarchy in leading prayerful vigils outside abortion centres. In June, LifeSite reported that Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago, led a prayer vigil for nearly […]

BOSTON, Apr 12 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite reported in April that professor Charles Baron of Boston College would be a speaker at the pro-euthanasia World Conference on Assisted Dying. When LifeSite readers contacted Fr. William P. Leahy, President of Boston College to present their concerns, Rev. Leahy responded: “he is a tenured member of our Law School faculty, and he has the freedom to offer his own opinions on matters related to his discipline.” Defending Baron’s pro-euthanasia presentation Leahy said: “I think for a university to be true to its name, it must recognize the value of pluralism and protect freedom […]

Catholic Charities of Sacramento has filed suit to block a state law that includes most religious institutions and requires that employers pay for contraceptives in prescription insurance plans. Catholic News Service reports that the suit filed in Sacramento Superior Court July 21 argues that the law, which took effect Jan. 1, violates the California Constitution as well as the First and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The law requires all employers in the state that provide workers with insurance for prescriptions to include contraceptives among covered pharmaceuticals.

TIBET, Aug 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – China’s forced abortion, one-child policy has come under fire yet again, this time from Tibetans who are testifying to horrific human rights abuses at the hands of the Chinese. Even the United Nations Foundation (UNF) (Ted Turner’s group) is reporting the news on its wire service, which is drawing information from an August report in Jane magazine. Tibetans are accusing China of intentionally trying to gut their population through a 20 year imposition of their one-child policy. According to the UNF yesterday, “allegations of procedures forced on Tibetan women include infanticide, in which lethal chemicals […]

LANSING, Michigan, Aug 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A state appellate court has blocked the ruling of a lower court earlier this month which would have forced correction authorities to allow ABC TV’s Barbara Walters to interview euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian for her 20/20 program. ABC news reports the new ruling was handed down Friday and that ABC may seek an expedited appeal. LifeSite reported July 12 that the Michigan Department of Corrections’ Director Bill Martin was ordered to schedule an interview between ABC correspondent Barbara Walters and Kevorkian within two weeks or face jail.

VANCOUVER, Aug 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Columbia government seems to have resolved legal problems associated with doling out abortifacient morning-after pills to women without a prescription from a doctor.  Michelle Stewart, a spokeswoman for the BC Ministry of Health told the Toronto Star that “BC is launching a separate, massive pilot program in September involving emergency contraceptives . . . the program will distribute the pills through pharmacies and will not require women to obtain a prescription first.” For related news see: The Fight For Over-The-Counter Abortifacients In Canada And U.S.

The Globe and Mail reports that Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day will create a new parliamentary caucus position for Preston Manning today, giving the former Reform Party leader a broad policy role which would allow him to become involved in policy proposals in economics, health care and elsewhere. The new Canadian Alliance shadow cabinet was announced today and is available here. A Globe and Mail/CTV commissioned poll by Angus-Reid suggests that public support for the Canadian Alliance is on the rise and climbing. Alliance support was found to be at 24 per cent, up six points from May and 11 […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dignity, a group calling itself Catholic, which is often recommended by unwitting Church officials as a positive resource for those struggling with homosexuality, has once again exposed itself as anti-Catholic. On July 12, Dignity/USA put out a press release denouncing Pope John Paul II for the comments he made after homosexual activists stormed Rome for World Gay Pride in July. Mary Louise Cervone, Dignity/USA President said the Pope’s comments were “incredibly unchristian” and said it was “really sad” that the pope was “speaking so hatefully.” Marianne Duddy, Dignity/USA Executive Director, added “This is one instance […]

VANCOUVER, BC, Aug 1 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the first time in Canadian history a provincial Premier will lead a gay pride parade.  NDP Premier Ujjal Dosanjh will lead the parade starting at noon on Sunday August 6.  BC MLA Tim Stevenson and MPs Svend Robinson and Libby Davies will accompany Dosanjh. In recent weeks, the socialist government has appealed to the BC Supreme Court to be able to give marriage licences to homosexuals.