Articles for Month: February 2001

The Federalist yesterday quoted a story by Kathryn Jean Lopez in Organization Trends which notes: “[The Senior Scout handbook for girls 14 and over contains exercises relating to] ‘ending a pregnancy’ and ‘how to organize an event to make people aware of gender bias.’ Girl Scouts executive director Marty Evans boasts, ‘We’re not your mother’s Girl Scout troop.’ No kidding. Remember that when you consider buying this year’s box of Thin Mints.” An experimental trial at all-boy and all-girl classes in a Memphis Tennessee school is showing very positive results.  https://www.washtimes.com/culture/default-2001226213215.htm Bush appointee to the EPA,Christine Todd Whitman, addressed the […]

MUMBAI, India, Feb 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Abortionist Dr. Neelang Shah of the family planning center of the Indian Medical Association in Tardeo is under police investigation for negligence after a two-month pregnant, 28-year-old woman died shortly after he aborted her baby. The Indian Medical Association is supporting the abortionist and noted that the center is government recognized and Shah has been working there full time for several years.  For more see the Indian Express at:  https://www.indian-express.com/ie/daily/20010228/ina28021.html

DUBLIN, Ireland, Feb 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Abortion statistics reported in Ireland demonstrate the dismal failure of a 1995 abortion related law supposedly aimed at reducing abortions. The statistics showed that there were 4,921 Irish women reported traveling abroad to abort their babies in by September 2000, compared to 3,444 for the same period in 1999. The Pro-Life Campaign blamed the results on liberal legislation enacted in 1995 known as the Abortion Information Act. “The Act which made it legal to provide the names and addresses of abortion clinics and for clinics to advertise in Irish newspapers has singularly failed […]

TORONTO, ON, Feb 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Many Toronto transit users have been disturbed in recent months by the increasingly explicit, sexploitation ads that have been appearing on bus shelters, in subways cars and in subway and bus stations. A half-nude women holding her bare breast, another half-nude woman with only her long hair barely covering her breasts, a woman in revealing red lingerie, a bare-chested man with his pants well below his waste line and with his leg against a woman’s crotch – these and other explicit or highly suggestive, sexual, in-your-face, large graphic advertisements have been greeting Toronto […]

Boasts of His Extreme Pro-Abortion Stand VANCOUVER, Feb 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In a half-hour paid TV broadcast yesterday, British Columbia NDP Premier Ujjal Dosanjh laid out his platform for the soon to be announced provincial election. During his speech, Dosanjh boasted about his militantly pro-abortion record. “Another fundamental issue to me is protecting a woman’s right to make her own decisions about her body and about abortion. Our government helped make a woman’s right to choose a reality. We must never go back to the days a decade ago when politicians imposed their personal, anti-abortion values on women,” he […]

HAMILTON, Feb 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Bishop Anthony Tonnos of Hamilton, Ontario has given Catholics in his diocese the freedom to avoid funding the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP), due to the CCODP support for the pro-abortion World March of Women. In his pastoral letter for Lent 2001, Bishop Tonnos writes, “For several years, a major focus has been the collection for the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace. Because of the financial support that Development and Peace gave to the World March for Women, many in the past year have indicated to me an unwillingness […]

May Not Allow Him Cathedral Funeral or Speaking Rights In Catholic Schools CALGARY, Feb 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Calgary’s Dave Rutherford QR77 radio show on Tuesday Bishop Fred Henry spoke about the “scandalous behaviour” of Roman Catholic Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark who declares himself “pro-choice” while calling himself Catholic. The Bishop stated “Practically speaking, this may mean that Joe Clark is not going to be a welcomed personage to speak in Catholic schools in this diocese. And it may well be that should Joe Clark predecease me, he may not have the bishop burying him from the cathedral.” […]

The New York Times reports that embryo adoption is an alternative for couples who have stored embryos after fertility treatments. It is the only ethical path to take as such embryos, already live human beings, are otherwise killed by being discarded or sacrificed to experimentation.  https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20010225/ts/clinics_full_of_frozen_embryos_offer_a_new_route_to_adoption_1.html A conscience bill to protect pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for abortion drugs advanced toward the Kentucky Senate on Thursday.  https://www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/kentucky/2790666.htm

A false rumor has spread on the Internet saying that CBS will be forced to discontinue the “Touched By An Angel” program for using the word ‘God’ in every program.” The hoax says that Madeline Murray O’Hare, an atheist, whose efforts successfully eliminated the use of Bible reading and prayer from public schools fifteen years ago, has now been granted a federal hearing in Washington D.C., on the same subject, by the Federal Communications Commission. (FCC) Besides O’Hair being dead, this rumour has been around in various forms for some 25 years. For more information see:  https://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/weekly/aa050599.htm?terms=touched+by+an+angel

Yesterday’s story about Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry’s chastisement of Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark for their “pro-choice” stance missed LifeSite’s usual final editing check. The story has been revised to address valid concerns of some readers. See the revised story at:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/feb/010226.html#2