Articles for Month: January 2001

OTTAWA, Jan 30, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pro-life Canadians and opposition politicians are hoping for fairness despite the strong pro-abortion stand of newly selected House of Commons Speaker Peter Milliken. Milliken, a Liberal MP from Kingston, Ontario has frequently made known his position in favour of abortion on demand. Campaign Life Coalition records on Milliken indicate that his pro-abortion position has been constant from 1988 to the present. The speaker is supposed to be completely neutral and non-partisan in his rulings, but during the last two parliaments opposition parties protested alleged pro-government bias from the speaker’s chair. The vote for the […]

OTTAWA, Jan 30, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Society of Obstetricians and Gyaenocologists of Canada (SOGC) is taking on the role of activist to have the abortifacient morning-after-pill available over-the-counter in Canada. Most drug designation switches from “by prescription only” to “over-the-counter” are initiated by the drug manufacturer, but this time, said Christine Menard, director of communications at SOGC, the society is filling out application forms and “it will be about an 18-month process.” Menard comments in the current edition of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal that discussions with government over the issue indicate that “there won’t be [many] barriers.” Health Canada […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan 30, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Focus of the Family President Dr. James Dobson is using his February newsletter (to be mailed to over 2.5 million households) to recount in very direct terms, the destructive nature of the Clinton presidency. “No man has ever done more to debase the presidency or to undermine our Constitution – and particularly the moral and biblical principles upon which it is based – than has William Jefferson Clinton,” he wrote. Of abortion Dobson writes, “Clinton’s hands are stained with the blood of countless innocent babies. By twice vetoing a bill that would […]

CALGARY, AB, Jan 29, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Justice Patricia Rowbotham of Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench has ruled that a full-term baby which died during childbirth, is not a child and therefore the parents are not due compensation for bereavement in her death. Parents Martin and Mary Bertoia were awarded $60,000 in damages for the admitted negligence of their physician, Dr. Lynn Marriott, but were refused an additional $25,000 for the loss of the baby – Kelsey Lee on the grounds that the law does not consider the baby a child. “The anomaly in this case is if Kelsey Lee […]

The Canadian Press reports that Ottawa is considering allowing rent-a-womb contracts for low pay. Superdrug a pharmaceutical company in London, England will sell the abortifacient morning-after-pill over the Internet at superdrug.com   https://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,429610,00.html Leading Liberal politician Mac Harb has been quoted as saying he believes that human clones have already been created. “Somewhere, I don’t know in which lab and I don’t know how old they are, but I am sure cloned humans exist,” he said.  https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_186925.html JAKARTA, Jan 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Governor J.P. Solossa of the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya has revealed that the use of condoms […]

SHANGHAI, China, Jan 29, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A Chinese trial has demonstrated the effectiveness of the Billings Ovulation Method (BOM) – a method of natural fertility regulation which can be used to achieve or avoid pregnancy. The study compared the effectiveness of the Intra-Uterine Device against that of the BOM in avoiding pregnancy. The trial involved 1,654 women aged 24-35, with 992 using BOM and 662 using IUDs. Results showed that in the BOM group five women became pregnant due to faulty application of the method, the pregnancy rate being 0.5%, while in the IUD group there were 12 pregnancies […]

WASHINGTON, Jan 29, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Friday, President George W. Bush said he was against funding for research using aborted babies or human embryos. Moreover, on “Meet the Press” yesterday, Vice President Dick Cheney supported the President on fetal tissue research and also would not rule out efforts to overturn Roe v Wade. Nando Times reported Friday that Bush said, “I do not support research from aborted fetuses,” saying federal money should not be spent on such research. On stem cell research he said, “I believe there’s some wonderful opportunities for adult stem-cell research … I believe we can […]

OTTAWA, Jan 29, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An Ottawa pro-life poster advertising Pro-Life Sunday has gained extensive media attention over the use of a quote from a Dr. Seuss book. The poster, depicted in a Jan. 28 Ottawa Citizen article (see link), showed a tiny six- to eight-week-old embryo under the Seuss quote: “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” The Citizen says that Audrey Geisel, widow of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, is upset that the quote is being used and her lawyer is demanding that it be removed. Action Life, an Ottawa pro-life group designed […]

OTTAWA, Jan 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Supreme Court of Canada ruled today in the case of child pornography dealer John Robin Sharpe. Some pro-family groups have expressed relief that the decision upholds most of the current legal restrictions on child pornography. Others are far less positive and fear the Court has further opened the door to acceptance of such material by finding that Canadian law too severely restricts the freedom of child porn users on at least two points. The 6-3 decision said that the current law’s infringement on Charter rights are for the most part justified. The justices […]

JAKARTA, Jan 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Governor J.P. Solossa of the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya has revealed that the use of condoms will be made mandatory for those engaged in extra-marital sex as a way to combat AIDS. “We will soon issue a provincial decree on the obligatory use of condoms in specific high-risk locations and areas from where the disease could spread,” Solossa said. He indicated that the program would soon involve the whole province. See the AFT report at:  https://www.news24.co.za/News24/World/Asia/0,1113,2-10-20_968915,00.html