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

RICHMOND, Feb 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Virginia bill to allow pharmacists to dispense the abortifacient morning-after-pill without a prescription from a doctor has died in committee thanks to the pro-abortion extremism of its sponsor. Despite having majority support in both the House and Senate, the bill faltered due to disagreement over parental consent. Some lawmakers insisted that parental consent be required for those under 18, but Del. Viola O. Baskerville (D-Richmond), the lead sponsor of the bill, refused to budge on the issue. “It would defeat the whole purpose of making reproductive health choices available to teenagers,” she said. […]

LONDON, Feb 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A study published in the current edition of the British Medical Journal shows that some doctors provide overly negative impressions of genetic imperfections detected in unborn children, likely increasing the number of parents who opt for abortion as a result. The researchers called the “grossly inadequate” and “misleading” information “disturbing,” and called for obstetric units to have an established protocol for presenting results to parents. Dr. Lenore Abramsky and colleagues at Imperial College, London, asked 29 health professionals how they informed 23 patients after an amniocentesis test identified an extra X or Y chromosome. […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – California biotechnology company StemCells Inc. has announced that mice have replicated human brain cells. Neural stem cell research seeks to cure diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s and uses for the most part the human brain cells of aborted babies, sorting them to discover stem cells and injecting those into the brains of mice. While the media is rife with stories of mice with human brains most do not even mention the aborted babies required for this macabre experimentation. For more see the Reuters coverage at: https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010224/ts/brain_dc_1.html See the company website at: https://www.cyto.com

NEW YORK, Feb 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The ethical use of stem cells shows more promise than embryonic stem cells says David Prentice, professor of life sciences at Indiana State University and an adjunct professor of medical & molecular genetics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The whole interview is reprinted in today’s Special Report at:  https://lsn.ca/ldn/2001/feb/010227a.html

LONDON, Feb 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A study about to be released by the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) in England reports that British women are harboring a breast cancer ‘time-bomb’ because of the high abortion rate and low number of children. The Oberserver reported yesterday that the RSS paper, “Legally Induced Abortion, Fertility and Age at First Birth as Risk Factors in Female Breast Cancer” notes that the by 2030 the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer each year will have risen from 30,000 to 50,000. The paper quotes a study showing that having an abortion before a child, […]

WASHINGTON, Feb 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Abortion proponents in South Carolina were fuming Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the pleas of the four main abortionists in the state. The abortionists attempted to paint the state’s requirement that they and their facilities live up to safety regulations as an “anti-abortion” initiative. The abortionists will not be able to perform abortions until they meet the new licensing requirements. They have requested a delay in the implementation of the rules, allegedly to give them time to meet the requirements. The abortionists must now conform to a 27-page rule-book which was to […]

ST JOHN, NS, Feb 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A Halifax couple is seeking to overturn a Supreme Court decision that denied public funding of their in-vitro fertilization treatment. They are accusing a Supreme Court Justice of bias because he is a Roman Catholic. The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) reacted to the case noting that “having exhausted all legal avenues to force the government to cover the high cost of in vitro fertilization, the couple hopes to capitalize on current anti-religious sentiment in Canada by attacking the personal beliefs of [Justice Louis Lebel].” CCRL President Thomas Langan said, “The mere […]

* Many people today hope that genetic research will increasingly link behaviour to a person’s genetic make-up rather than to moral choice decision-making. Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics, which is mapping the human genome, however, recently commented that, “those who are looking for forgiveness of responsibility for their own lives in the genetic code will be very disappointed.” (reported in the Federalist Digest) * Dan Martino is sometimes the only pro-lifer standing outside Florida’s Supreme Court protesting abortion, but he’s been there almost every day since 1989. When asked if he gets discouraged when he’s standing there by himself, […]

* Garry Breitkreuz’s Private Members’ Motion, M-228, on redefining a human being to include unborn children is scheduled for debate on March 16. It was not granted votable status by the parliamentary committee that makes such decisions, so it will only receive one hour of debate and then dismissed from parliamentary business. Previous LifeSite coverage is at https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/feb/010212.html#2 * The Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) has come out swinging against the Liberals over a planned amendment to immigration law to allow homosexuals to sponsor same-sex partners into the country under “family class” provisions. This move discriminates against married couples, notes […]

WASHINGTON, Feb 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Greening Earth Society, an organization which challenges the conventional wisdom on global warming, issued an urgent bulletin this afternoon, saying that they “have learned that President Bush’s address to Congress and the nation tomorrow night includes a line supporting a multi-pollutant strategy on clean air. This is code for regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.” Among other things, says the society, this “amounts to de facto unilateral implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.” They are urging Americans to express their views on the matter to the White House before tomorrow night’s speech. White House […]

MASSACHUSETTS, Feb 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci is expected to be U.S. President George Bush’s choice as Ambassador to Canada. Not everyone is happy about this. Americans for Truth (AfT) is one the leading organizations fighting it on the basis of Mr.Cellucci’s track record on homosexuality. “More than 20 local and national groups have signed on to a petition opposing the Cellucci nomination, with more signing on each day,” reports AfT. Among those organizations are the local chapters of national groups such as Concerned Women for America, the Catholic Action League, the Eagle Forum, and The Knights […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – There is growing evidence of the damage done to women through abortion. The recent manslaughter conviction of Arizona abortionist John Biskind over the death of one of his abortion patients may be just the tip of the iceberg. These cases, however, rarely lead to legal prosecutions, often because women don’t want to add the intensity of court proceedings to their already battered emotions stemming from the abortion. A 28-year-old woman in California, however, has just won a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, stemming from what has been called a botched first-trimester abortion in 1997. […]

WASHINGTON, Feb 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An elder at the Winchester (Kansas) Reformed Presbyterian Church was elected to the state senate in the Nov. 7 American elections last year. The latest issue of the RP magazine, Covenanter Witness (CW), reports Bob Lyon as saying that he is “assembling a group of email advisors to help assist in developing public policy that is consistent with God’s Word. Anyone who is interested in being a part of that group, please feel free to email me at [email protected]. He told CW: “We pray for God’s protection, strength, and mercy, and that He would […]

SCOTLAND, Feb 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Those who support the use of embryonic stem cells for research (killing the unborn child in the process) are rapidly losing their justification for continuing this practise. BBC reported Friday that the company which cloned the infamous “Dolly” sheep has announced a new discovery which could make the use of adult stem cells an even more viable alternative than it already is. The American subsidiary of Edinburgh-based PPL Therapeutics has succeeded in converting skin tissue from cows into beating heart cells. This was done by ‘re-winding’ the genetic clock of the skin cells so […]

CALGARY, Feb 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Alberta’s Catholic Bishop Fred Henry, surprised pro-lifers today with a column published in the Calgary Sun chastising Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark for their “pro-choice” stance on abortion. Both leaders profess to be Catholic themselves, although, as Bishop Henry noted, “no Catholic can responsibly take a ‘pro-choice’ stand when the ‘choice’ in question involves the taking of innocent human life.” The column came as a surprise because of Bishop Henry’s recent hostility to pro-lifers over the March of Women. He was a strong advocate of Catholic participation in the […]

VANCOUVER, Feb 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – He used to be a militant pro-abortion activist, but Merle Terlesky, who switched to the pro-life side of the abortion conflict last year, has now been arrested for protesting against abortion in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Kamloops Daily News reported today that Mr. Terlesky was arrested and jailed Friday evening while attending a pro-life meeting. The arrest stemmed from a warrant dated back to February 1 and based on alleged violations of the province’s bubble zone legislation as it pertains to Vancouver’s Everywoman’s Health Centre. Mr. Terlesky is being charged with violating the bubble […]

In Kentucky, a Senate committee has approved a bill defining life as beginning at the moment of conception and allowing criminal wrongful death proceedings for causing the death of the unborn child.  https://www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/kentucky/2780501.htm A former San Diego County Boy Scout camp administrator and homosexual pedophile has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges that he molested teen-age boys.  https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-in/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/02/22/state1247EST0158.DTL

Roy Beyer, President of the Canada Family Action Coalition will be on TV weekly beginning March 5. Beyer is to host Reality CHECK, a new feature program of the Miracle Channel that will tackle the ‘story behind the story’ on important family, life and religious freedom issues in Canada. A women only rape-crisis centre in Vancouver BC which excludes pro-life counselors is being sued for refusing to allow a counselor who believes he is a woman. The man, who underwent a sex change operation and considers himself a woman, is suing the centre and the BC human rights tribunal is […]

LITTLE ROCK, Feb 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Wednesday, Arkansas Republican Governor Mike Huckabee signed the ‘Right to Know’ Act into law. The law requires that women seeking to abort their babies receive information on alternatives to abortion as well as the on the risks of abortion. The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported yesterday that Gov. Huckabee commented on the new legislation saying: “One of the reasons we’re signing this bill today is God answered the prayers of those who want to respect life. …thank the Lord, it has become law.” (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, https://www.ardemgaz.com/, 2/22).

WASHINGTON, Feb 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In addition to the manslaughter conviction of abortionist John Biskind that LifeSite reported Tuesday, three other U.S. abortionists are in legal trouble. Biskind’s victim, LouAnne Herron, was left to bleed to death after Biskind punctured her uterus during a supposedly “safe and legal” late-term abortion on April 17, 1998.  (https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010220/us/abortion_doctor_3.html) Prominent Oklahoma City abortionist Dr. John Hamilton, 52, is being held in the Oklahoma County jail on murder charges in the death of his wife Susan. The medical examiner released a preliminary cause of death Friday noting that Susan died of blunt force trauma […]

27 People Committed Physician Assisted Suicide In Oregon In 2000 PORTLAND, Feb 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Oregon Health Division released its “Death with Dignity Act Annual Report 2000” Wednesday noting that in the third year of the legal physician-assisted suicide program 27 people killed themselves – the same number as was reported for the previous year. The report confirms the warnings of pro-lifers that the “right-to-die” would soon become the duty to die. Based on interviews with physicians who doled out the lethal drugs the report noted “patients have increasingly expressed concern about becoming a burden to family, friends […]

NEW YORK, Feb 23 2001 (LSN.ca) – On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Gary Cherone, formerly of the rock groups Van Halen and Extreme, released a letter to Eddie Vedder, lead singer of the Rock group Pearl Jam. The letter is the second installment in Gary’s challenging Vedder’s position that “terminating pregnancy is not an easy thing.” This time Cherone asks “Why would one feel it (terminating pregnancy) is not an easy thing to do?” He poetically states: “If the unborn is not a human person No justification for abortion is necessary However…  If the unborn is a human […]

TORONTO, Feb 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Catholic Insight magazine, March edition, is calling for the excommunication of federal Health Minister Allan Rock by the Catholic Church. “Politically, Catholics like Rock do as they please,” the magazine says; “it’s about time the Church do as she must.”  The magazine points out that Catholics who directly participate in causing an abortion, are excommunicated automatically. All others commit lesser sins according to the extent and degree of their participation. The latter is called “material cooperation.” Catholic Insight insists that Rock, a Catholic, “has reached the highest degree of material cooperation” since he not […]

TORONTO, Feb 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Ontario Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty endorsed homosexual marriage in a Feb 14 radio interview. The Feb. 22 edition of the homosexual newspaper Xtra!, quotes McGuinty saying: “Ontarians have evolved in connection with this matter, and I think it’s important for government policy to evolve as well: We have changed; we’re under a new leadership, and I think that it’s a matter of fairness and equity.”

New York Cardinal Egan is heading to Albany, the state capital to lobby legislators on a bill which threatens to force the Catholic Church to provide contraceptive benefits for its employees. The New York post reports that one Senate insider said the Cardinal’s presence will cause them to “[soil] their pants.”  https://www.nypostonline.com/commentary/24353.htm

The youth wing of a Christian Association and a Catholic Women’s organization in Nigeria have petitioned against the legalization of abortion in the country. In their letter, entitled: “Re: Legalisation of Abortion in Nigeria”, the women’s group said: “Abortion should not be legalised in Nigeria”, arguing that the practice “kills and dehumanises womanhood”. “A Statement on the Stand of the Christian Association of Nigeria Youth Wing on Legalisation of Abortion in Nigeria” said, “The inalienable rights of the person must be recognised and respected by civil society and political authorities, and ‘such fundamental rights, include the right to life from […]

WASHINGTON, Feb 22, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Despite winning their case at the U.S. Supreme Court, The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) are continuing to feel pressure over their policy banning homosexual scoutmasters. A recent article by Jon Dougherty of WorldNetDaily (WND) notes that certain chapters of the United Way, and corporations like Levi Strauss, Wells Fargo, and the Knight Ridder news service have banned funding to the Scouts. Nevertheless, the BSA has about 5 million youths and 1.2 million adults actively involved in its programs. While some religious groups such as various United Churches and Reform Jewish leaders have quit […]

OTTAWA, February 22, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday Liberal MP Elinor Caplan, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, tabled the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act in the House of Commons. The new bill touts as an improvement over current legislation the expansion of the “family class” to include “common law & same sex partners.” The changes will allow homosexuals to gain permanent residence in Canada based on their relationship in the same way as a husband and wife can now. The change appears to be more ideological than practical since homosexuals can already apply under the “humanitarian and compassionate” category. See the […]

80 Nobel Laureates Sign Letter to Encourage Bush to Continue Funding Stem Cell Research WASHINGTON, Feb 22, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Advanced Cell Technology Inc. (ACT) has managed to get 80 U.S. Nobel laureates to sign a letter to President George W. Bush urging him to continue the Clinton-sanctioned federal funding of destructive embryonic stem cell research. In 1998, the Massachusetts company announced that it had created a live human-animal hybrid by fusing a human somatic cell with an egg from a cow. ACT President and CEO Michael West and an ACT colleague Tovert Lanza drafted and circulated the letter to […]

OTTAWA, Feb 22, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A document on Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation released Feb 20 by the Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) and the Catholic Health Association of Canada (CHAC) states unequivocally that research with embryonic stem cells is illicit as far as the church is concerned. “Notwithstanding the great potential for good, the retrieval of [embryonic stem] cells is morally unacceptable because it results in the death of the embryo,” the document reads. “Catholic teaching holds that the embryo is a human being and must be treated as a person. How can we create […]

RICHMOND, Feb 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday the Virginia Senate passed legislation allowing pharmacists to dispense abortifacient morning-after pills without prescriptions. One major detail left to be worked out is whether teenagers under 18 should be required to obtain the consent of a parent before obtaining the drugs. For more see the Washington Post at:  www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31734-2001Feb20.html

SANTO DOMINGO, Feb 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Cardinal Nicolas de Jesús López Rodríguez, archbishop of Santo Domingo, says he will head a campaign every year in defense of the unborn. Zenit News reported yesterday that the Cardinal requested governmental authority to promulgate the Dominican Republic law declaring March 25, the feast of the Annunciation, as the “Day of the Unborn.” While the law was recently approved by Congress, the national executive must promulgate it. For more see Zenit News at:  www.zenit.org

ROME, Feb 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Vatican has commenced meetings with Italian political parties to encourage them, regardless of political affiliation, to uphold values of central concern to the Church. Zenit News reported yesterday that Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, confirmed that the Vatican is engaged in providing Catholics with information on the stands of politicians regarding key issues. The issues of life and abortion are given foremost consideration. A list of issues in consideration mentioned by Cardinal Sodano were: life and abortion, aid to private schools, family, and solidarity. “These are topics that are heartfelt by […]

OTTAWA, Feb 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In a survey whose results are aimed at Health Canada and other professional organizations, it was reported that 62% of Canadians supported using stem cells from human embryos to produce human organs. The survey, which polled approximately 2,600 Canadians aged 15 and older, found a vast majority of respondents disagreed with human reproductive cloning. However, the PricewaterhouseCoopers poll, with a margin of error of 1.8 percentage points 19 times out of 20, found that 60% supported using human embryos for research. For more see the National Post at:  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010221/480944.html

Still no Comment From Church Officials HAMILTON, ON, Feb 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite has learned that the Morgan Firestone Foundation that invited former President Clinton to speak at a fundraiser for a Catholic hospital in Hamilton, Ontario has asked if he could an additional night for the fundraiser. Dowhaniuk told LifeSite that since the 1,090 tickets sold out the first day, there was a waiting list of some 800 people. Dowhaniuk has since learned that the New York firm that manages Clinton’s bookings was not able to book another engagement. While there has been no official word of protest […]

Sister Claims She Did Not Know Of Clinton’s Pro-abortion Record HAMILTON, ON, Feb 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite has been contacted by U.S. residents who communicated with the Sisters of St. Joseph in Hamilton, Ontario to object to the Sisters’ approval of former President Bill Clinton as a speaker for their Catholic hospital fundraiser. Sister Anne Anderson, President and Chair of the St. Joseph’s Health Care System, had returned calls and left messages indicating that she was reporting the calls to the U.S. Consulate. One message left by Sister Anderson on the answering machine of California resident Allyson Smith said, […]

Pharmacists Urged to Practice Conscientious Objection MADRID, Feb 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – According to an official of the Spanish Pharmaceuticals Agency, the abortifacient morning-after pill will be sold in pharmacies throughout the country beginning this month. Catholic pharmacists have urged their colleagues to refuse to distribute the abortifacients acknowledging that there may be some negative backlash including financial loss. For more see the report in Zenit News at:  https://www.zenit.org/english/

WASHINGTON, Feb 20,2001 (LSN.ca) – US President George W. Bush has selected John D. Negroponte to serve as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. Social conservatives had hoped that the sensitive post would have been awarded to a known pro-lifer, however Mr. Negroponte’s record on life issues is unknown and some past associations are seen as cause for concern. News reports indicate Negroponte is a consummate politician having served as a diplomat for some 37 years. He was Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico and the Philippines, and worked in the National Security Council under Dr. Henry Kissinger and again under […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Lori Andrews, a prominent law professor of Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting Sunday, “I can foresee a time when human embryos would be patented.” Andrews, who chaired a federal advisory panel on the ethical, legal, and social implications of the human genome project, continued “Nothing in patent law forbids that.” For more see the UPI report at:  https://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=161141

PHOENIX, Feb 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Abortionist John Biskind was convicted of manslaughter today as a jury returned a guilty verdict in the case. Carol Stuart-Schadoff, the former administrator of the Phoenix abortuary was found guilty of negligent homicide. Biskind’s victim, LouAnne Herron, was left to bleed to death after Biskind punctured her uterus during a supposedly “safe and legal” late-term abortion on April 17, 1998. See LifeSite’s ongoing coverage of the case:  https://lsn.ca/ldn/1998/aug/980817.html#3 https://lsn.ca/ldn/1999/jan/990113.html#4 https://lsn.ca/ldn/1999/jan/990114.html#2 See coverage from Nando Times at:  https://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500311882-500501917-503542652-0,00.html

OTTAWA, Feb 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has launched a petition to ask the federal government to grant Robert Latimer clemency in the 1993 “mercy” killing of his disabled daughter Tracy. The petition has additional serious implications in that it also asks for the abolition of mandatory minimum sentences. LifeSite has received reports that the petition has circulated in communities across Canada in local newspapers. The campaign capitalizes on media misinformation about Latimer’s case. The petition reads, “whereas it shocks the conscience of Canadians that a compassionate father must be punished as severely as a malevolent […]

San Francisco city’s health care plan is set to cover sex-change operations. The American Family Association is urging supporters to sign a petition to Fox Television telling them to remove the lewd program Temptation Island and to the sponsors of the program urging them to halt sponsorship.  https://tool.donation-net.net/afa/temptationisland.cfm?dn=1017&id=2065&commid=66147

The completion of the “human genome” mapping by scientists last week is a sign of the existence of God. WorldNetDaily’s Jon Dougherty writes that researcher, J. Craig Venter, head of the Celera Genomics Corp said: “All the glorious differences among individuals in our species that can be attributed to genes falls in a mere 0.1 percent of the sequence”. . . “It is now clear something else accounts for the greater sophistication and development of humans.” Whatever could that be? God, perhaps? Human Life International founder Fr. Paul Marx will attend an award banquet in his honor at pro-life world […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Paul R. Sanberg of the University of South Florida presented the ethical alternative to embryonic stem cell and aborted baby tissue research to scientists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Sunday. Dr. Sanberg reported the results of experiments where his team removed stem cells from umbilical cords and used them to treat rats which had suffered strokes. In experiments on about 60 rats, the team found that after one month, those given the cells had recovered about 80 percent from their strokes, compared with about 20 percent in […]

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Feb 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A US Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled Wednesday that Christian students must be allowed to say that homosexuality is a sin and to speak out on other moral issues. The court case arose over an anti-harassment policy at schools in State College, Pennsylvania. David Warren Saxe, a Penn State University assistant professor and member of the state board of education, challenged the policy since Christian children feared “they were likely to be punished under the Policy for speaking out about their religious beliefs, engaging in symbolic activities reflecting those beliefs, and distributing […]

VICTORIA, Feb 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Bishop Raymond Roussin – who recently took over the Victoria diocese from Bishop Remi De Roo – has celebrated Victoria’s first pro-life Mass. The Mass held in St. Andrew’s Cathedral was attended by some 450 people who heard the bishop say that it “may seem like a hopeless task at times, with efforts to promote respect for life falling on ears that are deaf to ‘the divine dimension of life,’ but we must not despair. We must follow Christ’s example of serenity.” The diocesan newspaper, the BC Catholic, reports that the service was organized […]

TORONTO, Feb 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) -Paladin Labs, the Montreal-based company that is marketing the abortifacient morning-after pill Plan B on the Canadian market, has announced that the Ontario Drug Benefit Program has confirmed it will list Plan B as of March 7, 2001. Thus the abortifacient will be provided for low income Canadians and those in special care. The press release reports that Plan B is also covered by drug plans in Quebec and BC. See the Paladin press release at:  https://www.paladin-labs.com/e/pr79.htm

OTTAWA, Feb 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Bills seeking to protect the traditional definition of marriage as the union between one man and one woman were recently introduced in both federal Houses. Liberal Senator Anne Cools introduced legislation Jan 31 seeking to specify in law the meaning of the term “marriage” to indicate “a voluntary union of one man and one woman as husband and wife to the exclusion of all others.” Cools’s bill S-9 notes that the traditional definition of marriage was “declared in the 1866 decision of Hyde v. Hyde in the Courts of Probate and Divorce in the […]

In a letter to American Life League President Judie Brown, Most Reverend Thomas G. Doran, D.D., J.C.D., Bishop of Rockford, Illinois, writes, “Following the constant teaching of our Church from the time of its foundation by Jesus Christ, I have no alternative as a Catholic Bishop other than to oppose all abortion, at any time, for any reason. Human life is sacred and entitled to the protection of all men and women of good will from the time of conception to the time of natural death.” Two Puerto Rican abortion clinics and two of their patients were awarded $350,000 US […]

The population control group UNFPA yesterday named Miss Universe 2000 Lara Dutta as goodwill ambassador and spokesperson for its “reproductive health” campaigns in India.  https://www.unfpa.org/news/pressroom/2001/laradutta.htm A lesbian couple who made headlines last year since they were formerly a foster mother and daughter, has announced that the foster-daughter-now-partner is pregnant with the sperm of an unknown donor found on the Internet.  https://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20010215/475201.html

WASHINGTON, Feb 16, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A BBC 5Live investigation has found that in the past two years the number of couples traveling to the US from Britain to purchase human ova has doubled. The report noted that companies, particularly in California where the buying and selling of human ova is legal, advertise the women donors on the Internet with photos and medical histories. While the cost of a human ovum can be up to $5,000, associated fees raise the overall cost to $20,000. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), in England criticized the US for its lax policy […]

MOSCOW, Feb 16, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The introduction of abortion in Eastern Europe under the communist regimes has remained a blight in the East despite the crumbling of the walls separating the East from the West. A report from the World Health Organization, carried in the International Herald Tribune, indicates that Russian women in 2000 registered 1,696 abortions per 1,000 births, down only some 300 from 1990. The “data indicate that Russia and Central-Eastern Europe, with roughly 10 percent of the global population, account for up to a third of the 30 million to 40 million abortions registered annually around […]

OTTAWA, Feb 16, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance MP Grant Hill, the Official Opposition Families Critic asked the Liberal government in the House of Commons yesterday about the public funding of a workshop for teens as young as 14 on “safer” sado-masochistic sex. “I would like to know whether the Liberals think that is a good use of Canadian taxpayers’ funds,” said Hill. Deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray said he would check into the matter. “Obviously we do not support anything involving abusive material for our young people,” Gray said. LifeSite News exposed the Health Canada funding of the event […]

OTTAWA, Feb 16, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Catholic Women’s League of Canada has commented once again on the World March of Women. A statement from the CWL National President Vivian Bosch, issued Feb 14 reads, “It has come to our attention that the international organizing committee is calling on national organizing committees to stage protests in reaction to the announcement that US President George W. Bush intends to reinstate a ban on US foreign aid to programs that promote abortion.” The letter says that “The March ended for us with the rally October 15, 2000 on Parliament (sic) Hill.” In […]

DUBLIN, Ireland, Feb 16, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A press release from the United Nations Population Fund today indicated that Ireland had pledged to nearly double its funding of the abortion promoting group. Ireland pledged to raise its contribution from $1.2 million this year to $2.3 million in 2003.The release also indicates that Norway pledged to raise its contribution from $23 million last year to $24.3 million this year. “These substantial increases are a boost to our efforts to provide reproductive health services to women and men in the developing countries, where the needs are the greatest,” said UNFPA Executive Director […]

HAMILTON, ON, Feb 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Americans are shocked to have found out that their former President Bill Clinton will be speaking at a fundraiser for a Catholic hospital in Canada on May 2. An article in the National Review today asks, “What exactly is a president who vetoed a ban on partial-birth abortion doing as a headliner at a Catholic hospital?” The article concludes that “although St. Joseph’s Hospital and its sponsors say they welcome the attention, the local Catholic ordinary might consider taking a page from one southern neighbor – James C. Timlin, the bishop of Scranton, […]

Pro-Life E-News circulated a report noting that a jury has recommended a $466,250 award to a funeral home employee who claimed her former supervisor badgered her to get an abortion because the baby was biracial.  https://www.naplesnews.com/01/02/florida/d516902a.htm The Miami Herald reports that a Florida appeals court upheld a state law requiring parents to be notified before their minor daughter undergoes an abortion, finding that though the law “plainly interferes” with a girl’s constitutional right to privacy, her health must be protected. The parental notification law, approved in 1999 by legislators has been tied up in court challenges since Gov. Jeb Bush […]

CP reports that “With Tory MP Scott Brison seconding the introduction of Robinson’s (homosexual marriage) bill in the Commons, every party except the Canadian Alliance will have at least one member supporting the proposed legislation.”  https://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSTopNews/robinson_feb14-cp.html PRO-LIFE MUSIC CD AVAILABLE   The Esther Project CD is a music compilation produced by Rock For Life, including hits from popular musicians. “The message of true chastity is a key ingredient in being truly pro-life. The project reaches out to teens and young people through music. Rock For Life is extremely thankful to the musicians who have made this work possible.”  https://www.estherproject.org

VATICAN, Feb 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday the Vatican Information Service published excerpts from an interview given to Vatican Radio by Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice-president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, on the position of the Church concerning biomedical research. The Bishop responded to a question on stem cells asking “what is the position of the Pontifical Academy for Life in this regard?” He responded: “In the document of August 25, 2000 which this Pontifical Academy dedicated to the use of stem cells, encouragement was expressed for research on stem cells taken from the adult organism or, at birth, the […]

WASHINGTON, Feb 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Sixty pro-abortion groups united this week to petition the Federal Drug Administration to allow over-the-counter distribution of the abortifacient morning-after-pill. The promotion line being used by the groups, which consist mainly of separate offices of Planned Parenthood and the Abortion Rights Action League and Family Planning councils, says that the morning after pill is safer than Aspirin. The claim is especially ludicrous since various medical bodies are included among the petitioners including, American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Nurse-Midwives and The American Nurses Association. Judie Brown, president of American Life League (ALL) […]

LAGOS, Feb 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Sunday the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Lagos State branch, directed all Christian women groups in the state to march to the Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday to protest against the proposed legalization of abortion in the country. The initiative comes as the National Assembly begins debate on a bill allowing abortion to be legalized. CAN is made up of the Catholic Church; the Christian Council of Churches, including Anglicans, Methodists, and Baptists; the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria; the Evangelical Church of West Africa, and the Organization of African Indigenous Churches. For […]

OTTAWA, Feb 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops organization (CCCB) has released a letter it sent to the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP) voicing its agreement with CCODP’s decision to disassociate from the World March of Women. In Feb. 2000 and again in May 2000 the CCCB issued press releases expressing support for the World March of Women (WMW). The May letter reaffirming support greatly disappointed pro-lifers who had previously attempted to document the incontrovertible evidence showing the WMW to be pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality. The CCCB organization’s latest letter, signed by the groups’ […]

HAMILTON, ON, Feb 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Americans are shocked to have found out that their former President Bill Clinton will be speaking at a fundraiser for a Catholic hospital in Canada on May 2. An article in the US National Review today asks, “What exactly is a president who vetoed a ban on partial-birth abortion doing as a headliner at a Catholic hospital?” LifeSite has compiled a Special Report detailing Clinton’s outrageous actions against life and family. For the rest of the Special Report see:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/feb/010215a.html

NARAL REPORT ON RESTRICTIONS ON ABORTION The full report of the National Abortion Rights Action League complaining of the “loss of access” to abortion across the United States is available on line at:  https://www.naral.org/mediaresources/publications/2001/whod.html Time Magazine did a major report on human cloning which reports the results of a Time/CNN poll indicating that 72 per cent of Americans oppose human cloning even if only for research. See the Time article at:  https://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,98998-1,00.html

The abortifacient morning-after pill is being made available in south Wales to girls as young as age 12 without parental permission or notification.  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Health/2001-02/pill140201.shtml

BEIJING, Feb 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The family planning program in China, which in much of the country forbids couples to have more than one child, continues to be enforced with torture, threats and financial and social penalties for those who infringe the policy. An extensive Amnesty International report on torture in China has its most gruesome details in its exposé on the family planning regime. While the practice is downplayed by Chinese officials at the United Nations, Amnesty reports that the tortures continue unabated. The Amnesty report begins with the following chilling quote: “Zhou Jianxiong, a 30 year-old agricultural […]

LONDON, Feb 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The prestigious British Broadcasting Corporation has corrected its explanation of how abortifacient intra-uterine devices (IUDs) work following a request from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC). On Sunday, the BBC’s online news service reported that an IUD, or coil, “works by destroying sperm before they fertilize the egg.” The BBC has now corrected its site to explain that the IUD “is a small, copper-coated device which sits inside the uterus. It works by stopping embryos from implanting in the uterus wall.” SPUC points out that the BBC still inaccurately refers to […]

OTTAWA, Feb 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Homosexual activist MP Svend Robinson today introduced a bill to permit homosexual marriage. A press release from Robinson indicates that he has “solid support from his federal New Democrat caucus colleagues, including Leader Alexa McDonough.” The bill is also supported by Liberal MPs Carolyn Bennett, Bill Graham, and BQ MP Réal Menard.

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Right to Life is Highest Priority and a Condition for All Other Rights VATICAN, Feb 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday Pope John Paul II said “The promotion of the culture of the life should be the highest priority in our societies,” in a speech welcoming Walter Greinert, the new Ambassador from Austria to the Holy See. “If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, further reference to human rights – for instance to health, housing, work, establishment of a family – remain deceitful and illusory.” The pope said that […]

Catholic News Service reports that Bishop Vincent De Paul Breen of Metuchen wrote all the priests of his diocese and 32 other U.S. bishops this January. He asked them to support a federal court challenge and prayer and action movement begun by three New Jersey women seeking to overturn Roe vs. Wade and its companion decision, Doe vs. Bolton. AP reports that Gov. Jesse Ventura has received the Jane Hodgson Reproductive Freedom award from the Minnesota chapter of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League.  https://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=83543966

WINNIPEG, Feb 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Last Wednesday, Canadian Alliance MP Jim Pankiw objected to the $20,000 public funding for a homosexual film festival in Saskatchewan. In the House of Commons Pankiw called the funding of the Queer City Cinema film festival a “strange misuse of taxpayers’ money” by the Canada Council. The Globe and Mail reported Friday that the festival began in Saskatoon and moved to Winnipeg this week. Christian Truth Activists CTA, a group protesting the meeting, has distributed a leaflet noting that the films depict bondage, necrophilia and “the violent raping of children.” Gary Varro, the festival’s […]

WINNIPEG, Feb 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Manitoba Pharmaceutical Association has appealed to the provincial government to allow over-the-counter sale of the abortifacient morning-after-pill. The Winnipeg Free Press reported February 3 that the government is open to the move. “We usually go with recommendations of the pharmaceutical association,” assistant deputy health minister Rick Dedi told the Free Press. “I don’t see that there’s any particular obstacles in the way of that.” (with files from Frank Stirk, Focus on the Family Canada)

STURGEON FALLS, Feb 13. 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pro-lifers who were arrested and charged in October 1999 over a “Show the Truth” demonstration outside a Sturgeon Falls high school emerged from a court battle last week with a positive result. The lawyer for the pro-lifers, Blaise MacLean, told LifeSite that the Crown in the case agreed to withdraw all charges against the demonstrators after a peace bond was negotiated. The Crown attempted to show that since one of the high school protests in question was across the street from an elementary school, the demonstrators were also effectively picketing the elementary school […]

NEW YORK, Feb 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The charade is over for Dr. Nafis Sadik, the former Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The UN organization under Ms. Sadik always protested that it is not pro-abortion, despite the extensive evidence that it is one of the most powerful and prominent abortion-pushing agencies in the world. With Sadik’s leadership term at an end she was free to devote herself more candidly to pro-abortion activism. On February 6 it was announced that Sadik has joined the Board of Directors for the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP). The […]

Reporter warned not to take photographs TORONTO (Feb. 13, LSN.ca) – Veteran pro-life demonstrator Linda Gibbons was arrested outside the Scott Clinic abortuary in downtown Toronto this morning, in her latest challenge of an Ontario “bubble zone” injunction. On previous occasions, Gibbons has always been read the lengthy injunction and then arrested after refusing to obey a request to leave. As a result of her arrest last October she was sentenced to a probation term, as well as one day in jail in addition to time served in custody. Today, the terms of the injunction were not read to her […]

HAMILTON, ON, Feb 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite has learned that former U.S. President Bill Clinton is scheduled to speak at a fundraiser for a Catholic hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. On May 2, Clinton will deliver a speech for St. Joseph’s Hospital’s Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health. Clinton has repeatedly vetoed partial-birth abortion bans passed by the U.S. Congress and Senate and strongly supported many pro-abortion initiatives and other policies seriously at odds with Catholic moral principles. He is considered by many pro-life leaders to have been by far the most pro-abortion president ever. Campaign Life Coalition Hamilton president Dr. […]

PARIS, Feb. 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Speaking at the opening of a life sciences conference in Lyons, French President Jacques Chirac criticized Britain for allowing the cloning of human embryos for research purposes. Chirac encouraged the use of stem cells from adults, an ethically acceptable way of achieving many of the alleged medical benefits of human cloning. He suggested that the final decision about cloning should be made at the international rather than the national level. For more see the report in The Times at:  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-81177,00.html (with files from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children)

PORTLAND, Feb. 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A telling sign of how far along the path of genetic manipulation with humans are has surfaced in an interview with an 18 year-old product of the “Genius Sperm Bank.” The interview, reported in the National Post, shows that the youth indeed fits much of the description of a genius with constant scholarships and a reported I.Q. of 180. However, Doron Blake says he is confused about who he is and about his place in the universe. See the interview at:  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010207/466938.html

OTTAWA, Feb. 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – As reported earlier on LifeSite, on February 2 Saskatchewan MP Garry Breitkreuz (CA, Yorkton-Melville) reintroduced his Motion (now called M-228) to define “human being” to include unborn children. On February 7, Maurice Vellacott (CA, Saskatoon-Wanuskewin) reintroduced a bill that would protect health care workers from discrimination and coercion if they refused in conscience to participate in abortions. The bill is now numbered C-246. The Order Paper for parliamentary business indicates that Jim Pankiw (Saskatoon-Humboldt), a third Canadian Alliance MP from Saskatchewan, was to reintroduce his bill February 9, which calls for a referendum to […]

OTTAWA, Feb. 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Nearly a year after LifeSite first broke the story of the $135,000 donation from the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP) to the pro-abortion World March of Women (WMW), the CCODP has finally disassociated itself from the WMW. The reason given by CCODP for the move is the CCODP “has learned that the International Organizing Committee has responded to President Bush’s funding cuts to international family planning projects by calling on national WMW organizing committees to rally in support of choice for abortion.” The B.C. Catholic newspaper reveals further that the decision […]

The U.S. Senate has agreed to pay the United Nations $582 million in ‘back dues’.  https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010208/pl/us_un_dues_6.html

Convicted serial pedophile Gordon Stuckless, a former Maple Leaf Gardens employee, will be released after only four years in custody.  https://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010209/5144280.html The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today appointed French actress Elsa Zylberstein as its Goodwill Ambassador. Ms. Zylberstein will mainly focus on Africa, particularly the French-speaking countries where she will encourage the media to build support for an increased international assistance for ‘reproductive health services’ and ‘family planning services’.  https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/pop787.doc.htm Cybercast News Service reports that a new magazine in Britain “Mad About Boys” aimed at pre-teen girls has come under fire for promoting provocative dress and behavior for children.  […]

RICHMOND, Feb 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Informed Consent bills on abortion requiring a 24-hour waiting period before abortions have passed through the House and Senate in both Virginia and Arkansas. The legislation also requires mothers seeking abortion to be informed of the risks and alternatives to abortion. Both State’s Governors have agreed to sign the legislation, however the Arkansas legislation must have amendments made in the Senate cleared in the House. See coverage on the Arkansas and Virginia legislation:  https://www.ardemgaz.com/today/ark/B1yxgr9.html https://www.suntimes.com/output/news/combo07.html

BUFFALO, NY, Feb 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Rev. Norman U. Weslin, a Catholic priest and founder of the pro-life group New York Lambs of Christ, was in court Wednesday charged with violating a court order by praying in front of the Buffalo GYN Womenservices abortuary on four occasions last year. The court order first had pro-lifers stay 15 feet away from abortuaries, but the distance was extended to 60 feet for certain abortion mills. Fr. Weslin knelt to pray 17 feet away from the clinic. Abortuary director Melinda DuBois charged “He was kneeling on the sidewalk in a white robe […]

OTTAWA, Feb 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Liberal Government expects to introduce legislation regarding New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies – regarding in vitro fertilization, cloning, use of embryos in research and more – by May. The news comes in a report from Paul Wells of the National Post who notes that Canadian Alliance MP Preston Manning raised the question in the House of Commons Wednesday. The Health Minister responded to Manning’s inquiry saying “the possibility of preparing draft legislation, which sets out the way forward, and then putting it before the Health committee where all parties can sit, have hearings, […]

OTTAWA, Feb 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The federal Auditor-General’s report issued Tuesday warned of the financial woes that would result from the dramatic aging of the population caused by the massive decline in Canada’s birthrate since the baby boomer generation. The report validates the warnings pro-lifers have been raising for decades – that abortion and its related anti-child mentality would have grave long-term implications in addition to the death of countless unborn children. By 2030, the elderly will make up about 22 per cent of the population, compared with 12 per cent now says the report. While today there are […]

NIH Creating Animal-Human Creature for Experimentation WASHINGTON, Feb 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In likely one of the most complete and telling exposés on the horrific research funded and encouraged by the National Institutes of Health, Terence P. Jeffrey of Human Events details the mass production of mouse-human chimera’s for research into AIDS. Jeffrey writes, “Every one of these most peculiar rodents requires live tissue extracted from the liver and thymus of a human child-and every child who donates tissue to create such mice is first killed by a medical doctor. They are victims of abortions that cannot take place until […]

WASHINGTON, Feb 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – It has been discovered that the Federal Drug Agency approved the abortion drug RU-486 (Mifepristone) surreptitiously last September. The National Review (NR) reported yesterday that Mifepristone was approved under a fast-track drug-approval process intended only to be used, according to FDA regulations, for safe and effective treatments “for serious or life-threatening illnesses”. The drug was approved in a memo from an unnamed FDA official to Sandra P. Arnold, the Population Council’s vice president of corporate affairs, on September 28. In the memo, the FDA stated that mifepristone should enjoy the benefit of this provision […]

EAST CAPE, South Africa, Feb 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The legalization of abortion in South Africa in 1996 has led to an utter disregard for unborn children as evidenced in a report indicating that the bodies of aborted babies are being thrown into sewers. Christian Martin, a member of the provincial legislature in South Africa’s province of East Cape, called on the government to have police investigate and put a stop to the practice. For more see the allAfrica news coverage at:  https://allafrica.com/stories/200102060239.html (with files from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children)

BARRIE, ON, Feb 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A “Youth Conference” for young people between 14-29 to be held Saturday at Georgian College in Barrie will feature a workshop on practicing “safe” sado-masochistic sex. The Barrie Examiner reports that Duncan MacLachlan, executive producer of the Mr. Leatherman Toronto competition – a major event of the Toronto S&M community – will present the workshop. An ad for the conference on the web page of the AIDS Committee of Simcoe County lists Health Canada and the United Way Young Adult Initiative as sponsors of the event. Other sponsors include the Civic Renewal Project, […]

VANCOUVER, Feb 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Well known pro-life activist John Hof, president of Campaign Life Coalition British Columbia, has received an “out of court” settlement of $25,000 from NDP Minister of Labour, Hon. Joan Smallwood. The agreement stems from remarks made in the media by Ms. Smallwood about Mr. Hof, spuriously linking him to an attack against an abortionist. “I hope this incident serves as an example to everyone with strongly held views about pro-lifers. People, particularly government officials, should not repeat misinformation just to further a political agenda,” said Hof in a press release. “This settlement is a […]

Focus on the Family reports that former Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Dole is considered a frontrunner in the selection of US ambassador to the United Nations. Two other leading candidates Harvard law Professor Mary Ann Glendon and John Bolton VP of The Heritage Foundation would be much preferred to the pro-abortion Dole.  https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0014693.html Rabbi Yehuda Levin of Jews for Morality and pro-family activist Gary Bauer both told the Christian News Service that they expect more in terms of support for Life and Family from the Bush Administration.  https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/2/62001b.asp Yesterday Republican Sen. Tim Hutchinson of Arkansas and Republican Rep. David Vitter of […]

Baby survives after only 21 weeks, 3 days gestation.  https://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=8700 A simple argument – Life begins at conception – By Jon Dougherty of WorldNetDaily https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?21630

OTTAWA, Feb 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The most recent edition of The Canadian League, the newsletter of the Catholic Women’s League (CWL), praises an organization that has supported the ousting of the Vatican from the United Nations as a permanent observer. The League article written by Joan Hastie – the representative of the Catholic Women’s League to the controversial March of Women 2000 – praises the Women’s Inter-Church Council of Canada (WICC) as “working for social justice for all, and for women in particular.” Hastie, who serves as the representative of the CWL to WICC, promotes WICC enterprises and provides […]

HOLLYWOOD, Feb 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Kate Mulgrew, star of “Star Trek: Voyager” is a recent recipient of the Feminists for Life (FFL) “Remarkable Pro-Life Women” award. Mulgrew told FFL she placed her daughter up for adoption after she had her at a young age, and was reunited with her only two years ago. “I practiced my belief at great cost to myself,” said Mulgrew. “Adoption or abortion almost always promises the mother a legacy of shame and regret, I have to be frank about my experience. I survived it. .. . women often don’t believe that they can survive […]

WASHINGTON, Feb 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, who dissents from church teaching on issues of homosexuality, and the ordination of women has caused at least two Catholic dioceses in the US to boycott the National Catholic Education Association convocation. The yearly NCEA event usually draws thousands of Catholic schoolteachers and religious educators from around the country for four days of workshops and general sessions. This year the dioceses of Peoria and Pittsburgh have opted out. The Catholic News Service reports that in a memo sent to his staff last October, Father Kris Stubna, education secretary for the […]

VATICAN, Feb 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In a meeting with the Bishops of Albania Saturday, Pope John Paul II urged the country’s religious leaders to combat abortion. “It is also indispensable … to fight against the grave evils which, unfortunately, afflict your country as well, such as abortion, prostitution, the spirit of vendetta, the exploitation of women, and violence. Do not tire of firmly raising your voice in defense of life from its conception,” he said.

Newfoundland’s new premier Roger Grimes “led a successful campaign to strip Newfoundland’s churches of their power over the province’s school system,” reports CBC news.  https://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/02/04/grimes_010204 The Winnipeg Sun reported that Henry Freitag, is taking legal action to stop the Lord’s Prayer from being recited in Ontario’s provincial legislature. Freitag, a Jew, says the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer each day before the legislature sits is religious indoctrination and violates the freedom of religion provision of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He was successful in having the prayer removed from Penetanguishene council meetings by court order. North Carolina’s Duke University […]

EDINBURG, England, Feb 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In an interview with Michael Brown of Sprit Daily, Dr. H. D. Griffin, assistant director at the Roslin Institute, the Scottish enterprise that cloned Dolly the sheep, said attempts to clone humans are unacceptable and will lead in many cases to deformities, fetal death, and shortened life spans if indeed cloned humans are born. “Where animals have been cloned, the success rate – the number of reconstructed embryos that make it to a live birth – is around one to two percent, and so the process is very inefficient,” he said. “Nobody working […]

WASHINGTON, Feb 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Women’s Capital Corporation (WCC), the group set up to be the manufacturer and distributor of the abortifacient morning-after pill to the United States, met Monday with the Food and Drug Administration to demand the drug’s status to be changed from prescription only to over-the-counter. The WCC has proposed allowing two studies on the drug in the US which would be submitted to the FDA after their completion in 2002, with a change in status expected shortly thereafter. The proposals by the WCC to allow pharmacists to dispense the abortifacient drugs directly to women […]

WINNIPEG, Feb 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Archbishop V. James Weisgerber of Winnipeg has written all the priests in his diocese urging them to “raise up the Gospel value of life” and oppose public funding of the Morgentaler abortuary in the province. In the letter dated Feb. 2, the archbishop asked pastors and parishioners to write and petition the provincial Health Minister Dave Chomiak, asking him not to go ahead with plans to fund the private abortuary. The Archdiocese informed LifeSite that the bishop also wrote Minister Comiak on Feb 1. In his letter the bishop wrote “as a Church leader […]

OTTAWA, Feb 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Former Liberal Member of Parliament David Iftody, 44, died suddenly Monday of an apparent stroke. Iftody was a strong pro-lifer and represented the Manitoba riding of Provencher until he was defeated in the last federal election. Karen Murawsky, director of public affairs at the National Affairs office of Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSite that Mr. Iftody was very open about his pro-life stand. In 1993 during his election campaign he said, “As a lifelong Catholic I am pro-life and oppose abortion.” In 1998 he explained to a pro-life group in Manitoba that he was […]

Zenit News reports that the Brazilian Health Ministry will distribute 22 million free condoms in several cities during carnival. On Friday, Bishop Raymundo Damasceno, secretary-general of the Brazilian bishops’ conference, said the massive campaigns of free condoms have shown that they do not arrest the spread of AIDS, but rather, propagate it. The National Post reports that Justice Theo Wolder, of the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton has ruled that a father’s decision to change his gender from male to female does not constitute a material change in circumstances sufficient to warrant altering a child custody arrangement.  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010202/461994.html A […]

BALTIMORE, Feb. 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Johns Hopkins University, an institution well known for its work in population control in the Third World, is set to jump headlong into the controversial world of stem cell research. Last Tuesday the institution announced it has received an anonymous (U.S.) $58.5 million endowment for its new Institute for Cell Engineering (ICE). The university admits in its press release that it will be using human embryos in the research. See the Johns Hopkins press release at:  https://hopkins.med.jhu.edu/press/2001/JANUARY/010130.HTM

PERTH, Australia, Feb. 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey has issued a statement in advance of the upcoming Western Australian parliamentary elections calling on Christians to consider life and family issues as they vote. “I urge committed Christians and people of other religions who share the same beliefs about the dignity of the human person and the importance of family life, to be more involved in the political life of the country and to consider standing as candidates in elections so as to serve as politicians,” he said. “We have already seen the almost complete erosion of any […]

WASHINGTON, Feb 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – During Colin Powell’s first media interview as Secretary of State he was asked about the Mexico City Policy which bans U.S. government funding of international abortion promoting groups. Following is an excerpt from the interview on ABC’s ‘This Week’ with Cokie Roberts : Do you have any concern about that (the policy)? POWELL: No, President Bush was consistent with his campaign pledge on this issue to go back to the Mexico policy that existed up until 1993, which essentially says that we’re going to spend over $400 million a year on family planning, but […]

LONDON, Feb 4, 2001 – The Queen has invested in a company which uses tissue from aborted babies for experimental treatments for brain diseases such a Parkinson’s. The Mail, a UK paper, reported Sunday that the Queen invested £200,000 with ReNeuron Holdings in the name of Sir Michael Peat, who is The Keeper of the Privy Purse, with the address given as Buckingham Palace. Ananova reports the Queen bought 102,000 shares at 195p a share when the company floated on the Stock Market in November. See related LifeSite story on the ‘ethics’ behind this research: USE OF EMBRYOS AND ABORTED […]

VATICAN, Feb 5, 2001 – Pope John Paul II sent his blessing yesterday to all pro-life groups, as Pro-Life Day was celebrated in Italy and other nations. Zenit News reports that speaking to an assembled crowd in St. Peter’s Square, the pope urged people to “sensitization” against the “many snares that unfortunately threaten life.”

OTTAWA, Feb 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance MP Gary Breitkreuz (Yorkton—Melville) has introduced the first pro-life motion in the current parliament. The motion, which must first be drawn in a lottery before it can be presented to the House for consideration reads: “That, in the opinion of this House, the government should bring in legislation defining a “human being” as a human fetus or embryo from the moment of conception, whether in the womb of the mother or not and whether conceived naturally or otherwise, and making any and all consequential amendments required.” Dennis Young, assistant to Mr. Breitkreuz, […]

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Archbishop Renato Martino, representative of the Vatican at the United Nations, addressed the UN preparatory meeting for the upcoming Special Session on Children Wednesday. In his remarks, Archbishop Martino called for protections for life and family to be included in the final document to come out of the Special Session. The first of three points the archbishop wanted included in the document was “The promotion and protection of the right to life as well as the human dignity and rights of the child, before as well as after birth.” The statement comes from […]

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The pro-abortion extremism and intolerance of Dutch foreign aid minister Evelien Herfkens was revealed today in a letter made public by International Planned Parenthood Federation. In a letter to the European Union regarding United States President George W. Bush’s decision to stop funding agencies which promote abortion abroad, Herfkens said, “I was absolutely appalled to learn earlier this week that the new Bush administration is set on reviving the Reagan-policy of cutting down U.S. support to international organizations involved in activities concerning abortion.” Expressing her preference for Mr. Bush’s immediate predecessor, she wrote, “I […]

CAPE TOWN, Feb. 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – African Christian Democratic Party MP, Cheryllyn Dudley, praised United States President George W. Bush’s move to defund abortion-promoting agencies like Planned Parenthood. Dudley made her comments yesterday during a pro-life march to Parliament in Cape Town marking the fourth anniversary of legalized abortion in South Africa. Over 100 pro-lifers marched behind a hearse and three men carrying small white coffins representing the over 142,812 unborn children killed by abortion since it was approved in 1996. Pro-lifers also carried large posters depicting the horrific carnage resulting from abortion and listened to church leaders and […]

MANILA, Feb. 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – New Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo revealed yesterday that her government would avoid the corruption of the former Estrada government and hold to traditional Philippine culture in its protection of life and family. “We will push for responsible parenthood and a population policy that is in keeping with our culture,” President Macapagal told foreign reporters. United Nations Population Fund operatives in Manila were outraged that the president refused to allow public funds to promote abortifacient contraception and condoms. “I do not think there should be a specific budget (in the Department of Health) for contraception,” […]

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – As United Nations diplomats from around the world gathered for the last day of the second preparatory session for the upcoming UN World Summit on Children, they heard from the official UN Youth Caucus. Undoubtedly many were surprised to hear a strong message supportive of life from the youth spokesperson addressing the session. Teenager Emilia Klepacka addressed the assembly, saying, “The dignity of the child, and the dignity of the young person demands that we use an integral approach. This necessitates recognizing the physical, emotional and spiritual dimension of the person. This inherent […]

New facility violates Harris promise of no new abortion clinics TORONTO, Feb 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday, about 30 persons peacefully picketed The Abortion Care Clinic, also operating as the Women’s Care Clinic, at 960 Lawrence Ave. W., Suite 501 in Toronto. Protesters say that this newest Toronto abortion facility has been quietly operating for over two years with the abortions done by a Dr. Markovic. This is the first time that the abortuary has been picketed. LifeSite interviewed the property manager of 960 Lawrence who came out of the building accompanied by two of the several police officers who […]

For six years, leaders on both sides of the abortion debate have met in secret in Massachusetts in an attempt to better understand each other. They participated in the publication of an article in the Boston Globe and are inviting comment form those concerned at [email protected]. See the article: https://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/028/focus/Talking_with_the_enemy+.shtml ASHCROFT CONFIRMED AS ATTORNEY GENERAL   The Senate confirmed John Ashcroft’s nomination for attorney general this afternoon with a vote of 58-42. https://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/02/01/ashcroft.vote.03/index.html Surprise – Catholics For A Free Choice is angry about the Bush policy to re-instate the Mexico City Policy removing U.S. funding for international agencies that promote […]

RESEARCH CONCLUDES SMOKING POT ‘DAMAGES MENTAL HEALTH’  Confirming the fears of many parents, British scientists have concluded after examining existing research that using cannabis can have a serious effect on mental health. It can provoke negative mood changes, induce psychosis and have a severe effect on mental illnesses. “Cannabis affects almost every body system. It combines many of the properties of alcohol, tranquillisers, opiates and hallucinogens”, say the researchers. The research indicates 60% of British students have tried the drug. https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1146000/1146752.stm QUEBEC’S BABY BONUS PROGRAM PROVEN EFFECTIVE   A program in Quebec to encourage parents to have more children to […]

WASHINGTON, Feb 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday, in a private meeting with Catholic leaders from across the nation, President George W. Bush had his discussions unknowingly broadcast to the media. The president spoke frankly with the many assembled Catholic bishops telling them they are important allies since “you’re not going to be eroded by political correctness or whatever.” President Bush expressed the need to re-frame the debate over abortion and school vouchers. “Those of us who agree on these issues must figure out better ways to position from a PR perspective,” he said. “Vouchers is the wrong word. … It […]

VATICAN, Feb 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Speaking to Vatican court officials today, Pope John Paul II stressed the constant teaching of the Church that homosexual marriages are contrary to nature. Marriage is of its nature “ordered for the good of the spouses and generation and education of children,” said the pope. He argued that marriage is a “natural reality … evident to reason” and not a mere social construct. The pope suggested that “truth” about marriage is “not only being disregarded but openly contested.” He said that this trend is clearly evidenced in the attempt to make homosexual unions equal […]

OTTAWA, Feb 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Tim Caulfield, a prominent Canadian ethicist, has argued in favour of allowing human cloning, even reproductive human cloning. The National Post reported yesterday that Caulfield, research director of the University of Alberta’s Health Law Institute, said, “With a criminal law against cloning … we’re casting a possible chill over possible scientific inquiry that may be beneficial. When you have a criminal law, it sends a strong symbolic statement.” He argued that he was in favour of cloning since he believes “human beings are so much more than just their genes.” Canada is one of […]

REGINA, Feb 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The abortifacient morning-after-pill, Plan B, is set to be dispensed without a doctor’s prescription in Saskatchewan this April. Ray Joubert, registrar of the Saskatchewan Pharmaceutical told the Globe and Mail yesterday that the drug will be available from pharmacists, but stocked behind the counter. Plan B acts to make the mother’s body inhospitable to the human embryo (embryo – fertilized ovum – the first stage of human life) by weakening the uterine wall, thus not allowing implantation, leading to the death of the already conceived human being. Mark Beaudet, vice-president of Montreal-based Paladin Labs, […]

Applause Marks Bush Administration Support for Family UNITED NATIONS, Feb 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – As the preparatory sessions for the UN Children’s Special Session scheduled for September got underway in New York, the Bush Administration signaled a major change in focus. Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute reported that today Ambassador Michael Southwick, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, veered sharply from previous US policy on the question of parents and the family. C-Fam notes that Clinton Administration negotiators tended to fight mention of the family and were the leading forces against the rights of parents in UN […]