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SPUC reports that April 27th marked the 33rd anniversary of the day when Britain’s Abortion Act came into effect. An analysis of official government statistics indicates that between 27 April 1968 and 31 December 1999, there were a total of 5,227,158 abortions performed in England, Scotland and Wales under the terms of the Act. An estimate of the total number of abortions since 1 January 2000 until the present day would take that figure to about 5,450,000 abortions. This total does not take into account the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of unborn children in Britain who have been […]
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ATTORNEY SAYS KOPP IS INNOCENT OF ABORTIONIST SHOOTING

BUFFALO, NY, Apr 30, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pro-life US lawyer John Broderick has revealed that he has recently spoken with James Kopp, the suspect in the shooting death of abortionist Barnett Slepian. Broderick told Buffalo News that Kopp is not guilty of the shooting and will not be convicted. Kopp has written US authorities asking to be defended in the charges and is asking that the charges against him be investigated. Broderick said he has known Kopp since the 1980s, has defended him previously and has had him as a guest in his home. “He’s a very decent individual,” Broderick […]
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PRO-LIFERS TO STAGE “WELCOME” FOR PRESIDENT CLINTON SPEECH IN CANADA

HAMILTON, ON, Apr 30, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pro-lifers are staging a “welcome” for former US President Bill Clinton, as he comes to speak at a fundraiser for a Catholic hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. The peaceful protest will take place on Wednesday, May 2nd from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. at Carmen’s Banquet Centre at 1520 Stonechurch Rd. E. where ‘abortion-president’ Clinton is scheduled to speak. The announcement that Clinton was coming to Canada to speak at a fundraiser for St. Joseph’s Hospital was responded to with protest from pro-lifers scandalized that the President who twice vetoed bans on partial-birth abortion would […]
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Associated Press reports that Planned Parenthood of Minnesota and South Dakota has created a “Prom Survival Kit” containing condoms that the organization plans to distribute in its Minneapolis-area clinics. The p[urpose of the kits is to help teens prevent pregnancy and STD transmission on prom night. On September 28/29 The Report Newsmagazine is hosting a major pro-life, pro-family conference for young adults in Calgary. It’s called Renaissance 2001. For conference details, see:  https://www.ren2001.org Dennis Malvasi, charged with helping James Kopp avoid arrest for the murder of Buffalo abortionist Barnett Slepian, will remain in federal custody after a judge denied his […]
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WOMAN ARRESTED FOR USING HUMAN FETUSES IN TONIC

SHANGHAI, A Chinese women in northern Heilongjiang province was arrested for making health supplement pills out of the remains of human fetuses, the Shanghai Evening Post reported on Wednesday. Han Yufen, 62, began making the health supplements after hearing Chinese tales that injesting human fetuses boosted health. Since April last year, Hu and her accomplice, Pi Lianshu, collected over 70 fetuses to be made into pills and earned more than 20,000 yuan ($2,415). Most of the fetuses were aborted in hospitals and obtained through illegal channels, the report said. Police also found 23 fetuses at the site where Hu operated. […]
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PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BANS OVERTURNED IN THREE STATES

DETROIT, Apr 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Thursday, federal judges overturned partial-birth abortion bans in Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin following the Cahart decision of the US Supreme Court regarding Nebraska’s partial-birth abortion ban. AP reports that in Michigan, U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow blocked the state’s Infant Protection act of 1999 and in Illinois and Wisconsin, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago blocked those states’ laws on the same issue. If found guilty of committing the gruesome late-term abortion procedure, abortionists faced up to life in prison. However, the laws included exceptions to preserve the life of […]
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WOMAN’S DEATH DURING ABORTION POINTS TO BABY KILLING REALITY

MILWAUKEE, WI, Apr 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Linda Boom, a 35-year-old high school teacher, was killed after two abortionists attempted to abort her baby who was believed to have Down syndrome. Patrick Dunphy, lawyer for Linda’s husband, said that the doctors injected the lethal chemicals intended to kill the unborn baby into the mother’s blood stream, rather than the baby’s, thus causing fatal heart damage to the mother who died 36 hours later. Karen S. Watson 36, a fourth-year resident at the time, who is now an obstetrician/gynecologist in Milwaukee, injected the mother first with the chemicals. However, after the […]
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JUDGE ORDERS CONTINUATION OF FEEDING FOR TERRI SCHIAVO

ST PETERSBURG, Apr 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Based on new evidence that her husband may have lied in court, circuit Judge Frank Quesada granted a delay in the starvation of Terri Schiavo. As LifeSite reported yesterday, Terri has been unable to move for the last eleven years but has survived with nutrition and hydration via a feeding tube. Her parents have been in an eight year long court battle with her husband who is seeking to stop the feeding and thus end Terri’s life. While the Supreme Court rejected the case, thus allowing Terri to be starved to death, new […]
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Speaking to reporters after 100 days as President yesterday, George Bush said his administration’s priorities on abortion should be on policies that “can actually pass Congress such as banning partial- birth abortion.” He continued, “I think it is unrealistic to assume that America is going to ban abortions at this point in our history because people got to understand the preciousness of life before the politics change.” He added that abortion would not be used as a litmus test for appointing Supreme Court justices.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010425/aponline084434_000.htm Tennessee voters may be able to vote to include the following in the state Constitution […]
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HOUSE PASSES UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT

WASHINGTON, Apr 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The US House passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act today in a vote of 252-172. Despite vehement opposition by pro-abortion forces, including Planned Parenthood, NOW and NARAL, 53 Democrats, more than one-fourth of the party’s members in the House, joined Republicans in voting for the bill. On Wednesday, President George Bush endorsed the bill in a White House statement, which said the President “supports protection for unborn children and therefore supports House passage of H.R. 503. The legislation would make it a separate federal offense to cause death or bodily injury to a […]
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SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT IN FRANCE FORCING PRO-ABORTION LAW ON POLYNESIAN COLONY

PAPEETE, Apr 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Socialist government in France has passed a law increasing the legal limit for abortions from 10 weeks to 12 weeks. However, a clause in the bill, forces French Polynesia to publicly fund abortions, as has been done in France for some 25 years. Agence France Presse reports that the colony’s strong religious tradition has prevented the law’s extension thus far and Polynesia is rejecting the clause. Gaston Flosse, president of the French overseas territory that includes Tahiti and other islands, said Wednesday his government was prepared to take the issue to the constitutional […]
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FR. VAN HEE, PRO-LIFE PRIEST WITH MISSION TO POLITICIANS, HAS EYE OPERATION

OTTAWA, Apr 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Fr. Tony Van Hee, a pro-life Catholic priest who since September 1989 has quietly and peacefully picketed, prayed and fasted outside the Canadian parliament buildings in Ottawa, has been absent from the Hill for the last week due to an eye operation. Conservative MP Elsie Wayne asked Campaign Life Coalition about the missing Fr. Van Hee – “The Conscience of Parliament Hill”. Fr. Van Hee spoke with LifeSite today to say that he is doing very well after an eye operation last Friday to correct a detached retina. Although also fighting off a cold […]
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US SUPREME COURT RULES WOMAN CAN BE STARVED TO DEATH OVER PARENTS’ OBJECTIONS

ST PETERSBURG, Apr 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Terri Schiavo, 37, has been forced to receive food through a feeding tube for the past eleven years after her heart stopped and she was deprived of oxygen for five minutes. Although unable to move, Terri can breathe on her own and her parents attest that she moans, smiles and cries and opens and closes her eyes in response to their care. However, some doctors say that her actions are only reflexes. Her parents have been fighting a desperate legal battle for eight years with her husband over his decision to have her […]
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PRO-ABORTS APOLOGIZE FOR SLANDERING PRO-LIFERS

VANCOUVER, Apr 26, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The British Columbia Pro-Choice Action Network (PCAN), one of Canada’s most vociferous pro-abortion groups, has publicly apologized for slandering pro-lifers. In a small retraction published in the Vancouver Sun last September (so tiny it escaped the attention of most pro-lifers at the time) the PCAN apologized to the Genocide Awareness Project and the Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform for having slandered them in an article published the previous February. The retraction reads: “On Feb. 24, 2000, The Vancouver Sun published an opinion piece written by Judy Hecht and Joyce Arthur of the Pro-Choice Action Network. […]
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Christian song writer and singer, Wanda, invites pro-life Christians to listen to her new pro-life song “What Are We Standing On.” To listen to or download an MP3 track of “What Are We Standing On” go to https://www.afterabortion.org/watrisk/Wanda’sSong.htm Catholic World News reports that Jodie, the surviving conjoined twin born in Manchester, England, last year, could be allowed to return to her home on the Mediterranean island of Gozo within weeks. https://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=14393
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MARCH FOR LIFE 2001 – MAY 11

OTTAWA, Apr 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – To mark the anniversary of the legalization of abortion in Canada, pro-lifers from across Canada will come to Ottawa for the annual March for Life on May 11-12. This year’s theme is “No to Discrimination” to highlight that an entire class of people – the unborn – are stripped of all their rights simply because of who they are. On May 11 pro-lifers will march through the streets of Ottawa in the afternoon and in the evening the March for Life Banquet at the Congress Center will hear University of Calgary professor F.L. (Ted) […]
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NEW YORK STATE SENATOR SCHNEIDERMAN SLANDERS FR. FRANK PAVONE

NEW YORK, Apr 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In a libelous statement made against those involved in the pro-life movement, New York State Senator Eric T. Schneiderman has sent a letter to his supporters linking Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, with those involved in criminal attacks against abortionists. Schneiderman is calling on his friends at NARAL, Planned Parenthood and NOW to join him in a demonstration tonight when Father Pavone is honored at a National Right to Life dinner at New York’s Waldorf Astoria. In his letter of April 11, Schneiderman calls attention to the recent capture […]
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ARGENTINE ARCHBISHOP CALLS ON CATHOLICS TO DISOBEY NEW LAW

BUENOS AIRES, Apr 25, 2001 (LSN.ca/CWNews.com) – Archbishop Estanislao Karlic, president of the Argentine bishops’ conference, has said that Argentines don’t have to obey a new birth control law approved by the House of Representatives and now waiting for approval by the Senate. “Laws must be in accordance with the well-being of the human person, that is the key condition for a law to be respected,” said Archbishop Karlic after the congress approved the law on sex and reproductive health. The new law forces public hospitals and the Social Security agency to provide non-permanent birth control to all women, including […]
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PAKISTAN CAVES IN TO UNFPA POPULATION CONTROL PRESSURE

Monetary Pressure Forces Major Cultural Change   ISLAMABAD, Apr 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Money is being poured into Pakistan in order to encourage ‘voluntary’ population control. In a meeting Tuesday between Pakistani government representatives and the United Nations Population Fund, it was decided that the “country’s population growth rate would be further brought down to 1.9 percent by the year 2003 from the existing 2.2 percent.” The UNFPA promised another US $18 million to achieve the population “goal” after having already pumped in millions to suppress population growth. Methods used by the programme to counter births include “creating awareness among […]
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PRO-ABORTION MARCH OPENLY PROMOTES VIOLENCE AND RIOTING

WASHINGTON, DC, Apr 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The April 22 March for Abortion, hosted by NOW and sponsored by NARAL, Planned Parenthood and the (alleged) Feminist Majority was attended by some 7000 abortion supporters, a far cry from the 100,000+ attendees of the March for Life. American Life League (ALL) points out that the ‘pro-choicers’, in addition to promoting abortion, “promote illegal activity such as violence and rioting.” A photo of some of the pro-abortion marchers shows masked and hooded marchers carrying a large sign reading, “we’re pro-choice and we riot.” (see photo from ALL’s Rock for Life at https://lsn.ca/ldn/2001/images/042501marchabortion.jpg […]
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REJECTION OF GRASSROOTS SEEN IN ALLIANCE ANTI-DAY FIASCO

OTTAWA, Apr 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Considering that the Canadian Alliance Party touts itself as one that listens to grassroots concerns and emphasizes “binding referenda”, the current fiasco over Stockwell Day’s leadership by some disgruntled caucus members is being seen as a betrayal of the grassroots. In a show of defiance, Alliance deputy leader Deborah Grey, House leader Chuck Strahl, and deputy House leader Grant McNally, resigned from their posts yesterday citing lack of support for Day’s leadership. The Globe and Mail today reveals that another six MP’s have openly come out against Day including Art Hanger, Val Meredith, Bob […]
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The American Family Association has called for urgent support for the Unborn Victims of Violence Act that is scheduled for a vote tomorrow, April 25.  https://www.afa.net/activism/aa042401.asp The US Supreme Court on Monday turned down the request of euthanasia advocate Jack Kevorkian to revive his libel suit against medical groups that called him a criminal and a “reckless instrument of death.”  https://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/a/w/1154/4-23- 2001/20010423143255980.html The North Penn school board in Pennsylvania is expected to approve tonight a policy that would prohibit school district employees from becoming involved in helping a pregnant student obtain an abortion.  https://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/04/19/city/SPREG19.htm San Francisco is set to adopt […]
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Michelle Iurman, a professional singer, actress, recording artist and pianist is to take to the stage in her own production of “On With the Show, This Is It!” in order to raise funds for an upcoming pro-life CD. For those in the London, Ontario area who wish to support Iurman’s Pro-Life CD, tickets are $10.00 and can be purchased at the Grand Theatre Box Office by calling (519) 672-8800. Catholic News Service reports that almost all German Catholic and Lutheran bishops used their Easter sermons to say that the new Dutch law contradicts the Christian understanding that suffering is a […]
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14-YEAR OLD’S LETTER PROMOTING ABORTION WINS WRITING CONTEST

BELLEVUE, WA, Apr 24, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Eighth-grader, James Humphrey, from the International School in Bellevue, Washington, has won a writing contest for a letter promoting a permanent legal right to abortion for parents of disabled unborn children. James, whose 12-year old brother Stephen has severe autism worries about his family’s finances because of the care required for his disabled brother. Karen Humphrey, James’ mother explained the family spends about $35,000 a year out-of-pocket on therapy and medications for Stephen. The Seattle Times reports Humphrey’s letter was selected from more than 10,000 nationwide as part of a letter-writing contest that […]
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UK PRO-LIFE GROUP SUES GOV’T OVER MORNING AFTER PILL DISTRIBUTION

LONDON, Apr 24, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), Britain’s longest established pro-life group, is asking the High Court in London to halt sales of the abortifacient morning-after pill from pharmacists. SPUC is to receive an oral hearing before a High Court judge within the next two weeks to seek permission to bring a judicial review of the reclassification of the Levonelle-2 morning-after pill as a drug available to women over 16 from pharmacists without a doctor’s prescription. Mr John Smeaton, SPUC’s national director, said that the case centred on “the undeniable fact that […]
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WORLD’S FOREMOST CHILD CARE STUDY SHOWS DAY CARE LEADS TO AGGRESSION

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN, Apr 24, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The most comprehensive child care study conducted to date to determine how variations in child care are related to children’s development, has found that the more hours children spend in day care, the more likely they are to become aggressive, disobedient, and defiant by the time they are in kindergarten. The Study of Early Child Care was undertaken by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). The study, presented Thursday at the annual meeting of the Society […]
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SERIOUS SIDE EFFECTS FROM ‘EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION’ DISREGARDED

LONDON, Apr 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Lancet medical journal has published a letter warning of adverse reactions to the morning after pill sometimes referred to as “emergency contraception.” The letter objects to a statement from a previous issue of the journal, which says, “there is no question that the morning after pill is safe and effective”. Several writers in the UK have commented on the scarcity of safety data. The letter corrects the statement noting that the World Health Organization trial on the drugs, which is often cited to justify its safety, is flawed in that it only recorded […]
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STOCKWELL DAY FIGHTS OFF “PALACE COUP”

OTTAWA, Apr 24, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day is fighting off a revolt by disgruntled supporters of his defeated leadership rivals. Former Deputy Leader Deborah Grey and former House Leader Chuck Strahl announced their resignations from their caucus posts. Both said in press releases that they could no longer offer their leader “100% support.” Yesterday, Day’s Chief of Staff, a former Executive Assistant to former Reform Party Leader Preston Manning, announced his resignation. Calgary Alliance MP Art Hanger has openly called for Day’s resignation, while others have made critical comments. CA Whip John Reynolds, a former Manning […]
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Listen to Michael Coren’s LifeSite commentary on the Quebec demonstrations:  https://lifesite.vservers.com/coren/audio/042301quebec.rm   https://lifesite.vservers.com/coren/audio/042401quebec2.rm   and more from Michael at:  https://lsn.ca/coren/index.html Dutch abortionist Rebecca Gomperts is prepared to launch her floating abortuary with the support of her feminist group Women on Waves. The ship to be used is to be bought, prepared and test-sailed before the end of spring.  https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20010420 /hl/netherlands010420_abort_1.html
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UK GIRL GUIDES TO TEACH TEENS ABOUT LESBIANISM

LONDON, Apr 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The UK Guide Association is drawing up plans with the government-funded Sex Education Forum to present lesbianism to teenage girls. Denise King, the deputy chief executive of the Guide Association, which was founded in 1910 and has 600,000 members aged 5- 25, agrees with the sex-ed program. The Sex Education Forum will provide counselors to “give girls more detailed information and support, or to take over where leaders are reluctant, or too embarrassed, to talk about sex,” reports The Telegraph. See the report in the Telegraph at:  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003864436460684&rtmo=QwaQe0LR&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/01/4/22/nguid22.html
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CHENEY’S WIFE PRAISES APPOINTMENT OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST

WASHINGTON, Apr 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Lynne Cheney, the wife of Vice-President Dick Cheney, has spoken out in favour of President Bush’s decision to install practicing homosexual Scott Evertz as head of the White House office in charge of AIDS policy. In an interview with The Telegraph, Mrs Cheney, one of whose daughters, Mary, is a lesbian, said that although marriage and the family are “very good things, I also think that a person who is gay should have every opportunity”. “My personal feeling is that the President is to be admired for appointing people who are qualified and not […]
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POLL SHOWING LATIMER SUPPORT PROBLEMATIC

OTTAWA, Apr 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An Ipsos-Reid poll, shows 71 per cent of Canadians believe Robert Latimer’s minimum 10-year sentence for killing his disabled daughter should be reduced since it is seen as “an act of mercy”. However, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) was quick to point out that the poll does not accurately reflect on the opinions of Canadians on the “mercy killing” of disabled children. The Ipsos-Reid poll was commissioned by CTV and the Globe and Mail and was, conducted between April 10 and April 12, surveying the opinions of 1,000 adult Canadians.The poll asked the question: […]
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PRO-ABORTION ACTIVIST IN CHARGE OF ALLIANCE 2002 CONVENTION

OTTAWA, Apr 23 (LSN.ca) – Nancy Branscombe, a thorn in the side of social conservatives within the Canadian Alliance, has been appointed to chair the Party’s 2002 Convention. In a recent article by Edmonton Journal columnist Lorne Gunter, it is pointed out Branscombe, wife of Alliance national co-president Ken Kalopsis, was appointed to this role “without Day’s blessing or knowledge.” He questioned the appointment’s motives noting, “given that the convention will be in Edmonton, it is highly unusual that its chairperson would be from Peterborough, Ontario.”  Nancy Branscombe was not successful as the Reform candidate for Peterborough during the 1997 […]
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American Medical Association (AMA) has revealed again its absolute pro-abortion agenda. It announced today it has filed an amicus curiae brief asking a federal court to reconsider its decision to throw out a case in which abortion supporters used the racketeering law to condemn pro-life protest. The amicus brief was filed in response to a March 28 decision rendered by a three-judge panel of the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Planned Parenthood, et al. v. American Coalition of Life Activists.  https://www.nandotimes.com/newsroom/prn/archive/data/041901/prn2013.html A record 1.3 million babies were born out of wedlock in 1999, marking […]
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The British government announced today that it will ban reproductive cloning in a new law. However human cloning for experimentation will still be permitted, contrary to media reports.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1284000/1284131.stm A U.S. sponsored attempt to win international condemnation of China’s human rights record failed Wednesday when the U.N. Human Rights Commission passed a motion from China that blocked consideration of the U.S. proposal.  https://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500474487-500728141-504127959-0,00.html?group=global
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PRO-LIFE GROUP NOW REFUSING DONATIONS VIA AMERICAN EXPRESS – URGES BOYCOTT

WASHINGTON, Apr 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Women and Children First, has accepted the challenge issued by Douglas Scott of Life Decisions International and is supporting the boycott of American Express. It now refuses to accept donations via the credit card company which supports Planned Parenthood. “We’re proud to announce that Women and Children First will not accept credit card donations made using the American Express credit card,” explained WCF President Steven Ertelt. “American Express has been a longtime contributor to Planned Parenthood. Women and Children First will not indirectly support the largest abortion performer in the U.S. by accepting donations […]
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DUTCH HEALTH MINISTER PUSHES FOR SUICIDE PILL FOR NON-TERMINALLY ILL

AMSTERDAM, Apr 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Not satisfied with having become the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia for the terminally ill, the Dutch Health Minister has said she is open to allowing elderly persons who are “tired of life” to take a suicide pill. “I am not against it, as long as it can be carefully enough regulated so that it only concerns very old people who have had enough of living,” Els Borst told the NRC Handelsblad newspaper on Saturday. CNN reports that Borst said the subject was not a matter for the health minister, “but […]
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US HEALTH DEPT HEAD THOMPSON ENDORSES ABORTION DRUG RU 486

WASHINGTON, DC, Apr 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who was touted as “pro-life”, has dismayed pro-lifers by his endorsement of the abortion drug RU-486. Speaking on The Edge with Paula Zahn on the Fox News Channel, Thompson said “nobody has said that RU-486 is unsafe.” Thompson said, “Until somebody calls in and says that it’s unsafe or that it’s something that has caused problems—for women, we will not be reviewing it, just like any other drug. It’s the same as other drugs that have been approved. And it has been approved in America, […]
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FATHER OF DNA SCIENCE PROPOSES GENETIC MANIPULATION WITH HUMANS

NEW YORK, Apr 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Dr James Watson, one of the three Nobel Prize-winning scientists who unlocked the DNA code, has written an article in favour of genetic manipulation with humans. He proposes manipulation of the genes of embryos (called germ-line therapy) in an effort to remove supposed defects. Watson realizes that the process could lead to destruction of embryos but has no qualms with abortion or even infanticide to “banish genetic disability.” LifeSite reported in September 1997 that Watson promoted abortion for genetic disability saying that had he found out he would have chosen to abort his […]
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ROBERTSON’S DEFENCE OF CHINA’S “FAMILY PLANNING” PROGRAM IS LONG STANDING

WASHINGTON, Apr 19 (LSN.ca) – As conservative groups continue to reel in shock at the recent statements by Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson defending China’s notorious “family planning program,” Lektrik.com has pointed out that his defence is long standing. Back in August 1994 Life Advocate reported that Pat Robertson had startled his television audience by voicing acquiescence to the Chinese government’s forced abortion policy. The article was entitled “Pat Robertson: Personally Opposed But…?”. Judie Brown, President of American Life League commented on Robertson’s quotes saying, “Of all people, Pat Robertson should have faith that God will find a way to […]
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As reported in LifeSite April 5, Michigan prosecutors have charged abortionist Jose Higuera with felonious abortion following an abortion on a 28 week pregnant woman in good health. Michigan and 39 other states prohibit late-term abortions except to preserve the health or life of the mother. Two lower court rulings had previously struck down the charges against Higuera. However, in a 2-1 decision in February, the state Court of Appeals reinstated the charges. Higuera could face 4 years in jail if convicted.  https://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500474078-500727372-504115911-  0,00.html?group=healthscience A survey of thirty popular United States universities has found that only one offers the abortion […]
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The Manitoba government has introduced a baby bonus for mothers of unborn babies. CP reports that low income pregnant mothers will be eligible for up to $81.41 per month.  https://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSTopNews/baby_apr17-cp.html An official Vietnamese paper reported Tuesday an “alarming” number of abortions in 2000. 679,000 were officially carried out in the country, 50.3 per cent of the number of babies born in 2000. The rate has however declined from previous years when they were over a million abortions.  https://www.timesofindia.com/180401/18hlth14.htm
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AFRICAN BISHOPS USE EASTER MESSAGE TO PROMOTE LIFE

KAMPALA, Uganda, Apr 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – African newspapers are reporting that Ugandan Cardinal Emmanuel Nsubuga and Gambian Bishop Michael J. Cleary used their Easter messages to promote the right to life of the unborn. Cardinal Nsubuga in his Easter Sunday sermon condemned the abortifacient morning after pill recently introduced in Uganda. The New Vision newspaper quoted the Cardinal as denouncing the Ministry of Health for giving women a pill “which gives them the liberty to terminate human life in its most defenceless form”. The Independent newspaper in Banjul Gambia carried the Easter message of Bishop Cleary in which he […]
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PAT ROBERTSON “CLARIFICATION” NO CLARIFICATION AT ALL

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA, Apr 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Following heaps of criticism from conservatives, Pat Robertson has issued a clarification on his CNN statements in support of the Chinese family planning program. However, his clarification was disappointingly weak. Robertson emphasized his politically correct opposition to sex-selective and forced abortions but at least also mentioned his “lifelong opposition to voluntary and forced abortion as a means of population control.” Most disturbing, he repeats his defence of the Chinese program, “The Chinese Government has by law restricted the birth rate to one child per family. Given their situation, intelligent family planning reflects […]
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CANADA FUNDS ABORTION PUSH IN SOUTH AMERICA THROUGH PLANNED PARENTHOOD

OTTAWA, Apr 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Canada is giving almost one million taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood, the world’s foremost abortion-promoting group. Maria Minna, Canada’s Minister for International Cooperation, announced yesterday a $982,000 grant to Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada for “Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health (read abortion) in the Americas.” The project targets “adolescents and youth in Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador and Jamaica.” Given the pro-life ideals of El Salvador, the Canadian donation may be seen as an unwanted intrusion into Salvadoran internal politics. In El Salvador abortion is illegal in all circumstances. Moreover, the right to life of […]
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TORONTO AD AGENCY REJECTS PROVOCATIVE TRANSIT SHELTER ADS

TORONTO, ON, April 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Mediacom, the ad agency responsible for ads on Toronto bus shelters, has responded to public complaints about its increasingly risqué ads by rejecting a steamy ad for Perusco Jeans. The Perusco Jeans ad features a man with a woman whose jeans are very low on her exposed waist. The National Post reports that Mediacom rejected the ad “to ensure (its) municipal advertising contracts are not jeopardized.” The company has experienced “significant controversy” over similar ads posted in shelters since December 2000, says the Post. Mediacom President Brian McLean told LifeSite that this is […]
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GIBBONS SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS ON LATEST CONVICTIONS

TORONTO, April 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Veteran pro-life demonstrator and counsellor Linda Gibbons has been sentenced to four months in jail and two years’ probation, in addition to two months already served in custody, on her latest convictions relating to charges stemming from pro-life activities inside bubble zones at Toronto abortuaries. Gibbons was arrested and charged with obstructing police and breaching terms of probation on Feb. 13 after walking and praying while holding a placard outside the Scott Clinic abortuary on Gerrard Street East. Gibbons, as usual, remained mute throughout the court proceedings, not even nodding acknowledgement when questioned by […]
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NEW STUDY LINKS SUICIDE AND ABORTION

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Apr 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A new study presented at the March 27-31 World Congress on Women’s Health in Berlin showed a link between suicide and abortion. The study by Dr. David Reardon et al. found that women who had abortions had an above average suicide rate while those who gave birth had a much lower, below average suicide rate. The study looked at the medical records and death certificates of more than 173,000 low-income women from California and compared women who received Medicare funds for deliveries and those who had state-funded abortions. From this sample of women, […]
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The Bush Administration has protected parent’s access to their children’s medical information, including abortion. A press release from HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson says, “parents will have access to information about the health and well-being of their children, including information about mental health, substance abuse or abortion.”  https://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2001pres/20010412.html
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Cybercast News Service reports that International Planned Parenthood Federation, which promotes abortion, is urging youth to use sex as a means of having fun and to participate in programs that address the “real needs of young people instead of the needs adults think young people have.”  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive
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YAHOO! REMOVES PORN FROM ITS ONLINE STORE

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Apr 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Responding to the massive protest over its stocking of hard-core pornography at its online store, Yahoo.com announced that it “is removing adult-related products in Yahoo! Shopping.” Only three days after the story was reported, Yahoo! recoiled from the heated public reaction and additionally said it “will no longer enter into new contracts for adult-related banner advertisements on the Yahoo! network. The implementation of these changes in the United States will take place over the next few weeks.” In a press release, Jeff Mallett, Yahoo!‘s president and chief operating officer noted the many […]
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POPE DEMANDS UNITED NATIONS RESPECT THE RIGHT TO LIFE OF THE UNBORN

VATICAN CITY, Apr 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On April 7, Pope John Paul praised Brazil for its role in encouraging the United Nations to respect the right to life. In receiving the new ambassador of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Oto Agripino Maia, to the Holy See, the pope remarked on the “presence of Brazil in the United Nations and International Organizations.” He said, “I hope that the principles inspired by this participation in the society of nations, are directed according to criteria whose fundamental objective is the respect of human dignity, especially in the case of unborn human beings, […]
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US SUPREME COURT REFUSES APPEAL AGAINST LAW RESTRICTING PRO-LIFE PROTEST

WASHINGTON, Apr 17 (LSN.ca) – On Monday the US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal brought by the Legal Center for the Defense of Life, which was arguing that portions of Clinton’s 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act was unconstitutional. The case initially involved over 20 pro-life picketers who were arrested by police over three separate incidents between 1996 and 1997, which took place outside a partial birth abortion clinic in Englewood New Jersey, just outside New York city. Edward J. Gilhooly, Executive Director of Legal Center for the Defense of Life told LifeSite that most of […]
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FRANCE’S HEALTH MINISTER TO PUSH FOR ASSISTED SUICIDE

PARIS, Apr 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Bernard Kouchner, France’s Minister of Health, has indicated that he is considering a law to allow assisted suicide. Reuters reports that a poll conducted Sunday showed 38 percent of the French were absolutely in favour of euthanasia in cases of unbearable suffering or terminal disease, and that another 50 percent would support doctors who end a person’s life in certain cases. Only 10 percent expressed opposition to assisted-suicide. Kouchner, called the poll results a “fabulous breakthrough for our society.” Kouchner was quoted in an interview with Le Monde on Monday saying, “There’s an […]
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PAT ROBERTSON DEFENDS CHINA’S FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAM

WASHINGTON, Apr 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pat Robertson, founder and chairman of The Christian Broadcasting Network and the celebrated host of the 40-year-running 700 Club program, disappointed hundreds of thousands of his fans Monday night as he defended China’s notorious family planning program. In an interview on CNN’s “Wolf Blitzer Reports” Robertson, founder and President of the Christian Coalition, was asked, “How do you balance your historic support for closer relation with China, improved trade relations with China, with what many conservatives complain about, specifically the so-called forced abortions in China?” Robertson, who has spoken valiantly in favour of life […]
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BUSH VOWS TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR ABSTINENCE ED IN SPEECH “We should not be afraid to teach children what’s right and what’s wrong. And we should not be afraid in our society to teach children the values, which have stood the test of time: don’t lie, cheat and steal; honor thy parents; show respect. Be responsible for the decisions you make in life. And I also believe that, along those lines, we ought not to be afraid to teach abstinence to our children. So I’ve increased abstinence funding in the budget, as well.”  https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/04/20010411-5.html BBC reports that an American hospital […]
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Excite news website is running a poll on euthanasia at: https://home-news.excite.ca/news/poll/ Yahoo.com one of the Internet’s most popular search engines and websites has turned to pornography for increased profits. The LA Times reports that Yahoo has opened an online store stocked with thousands of hard-core DVDs and video tapes.  https://www.latimes.com/business/updates/lat_yahoo010411.htm
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PRESIDENT BUSH NAMES HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST TO HEAD AIDS POLICY

WASHINGTON, Apr 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – President Bush named homosexual activist Scott Evertz to head the White House Office of National AIDS Policy on Monday. The appointment shocked pro-family activists and drew criticism from conservative leaders. Evertz, who supports the controversial needle-exchange program, is intimately tied to the homosexual lobby within the Republican party known as the “Log Cabin Republicans”. Evertz is a self-avowed practicing homosexual boasting of a homosexual partner for the past seven years. Moreover, Evertz claims to be a Catholic and scandalously attempts to assert the Church supports him in the use of condoms as the solution […]
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VATICAN DENOUNCES DUTCH EUTHANASIA, CARDINAL FEARS EUROPE TO FOLLOW SUIT

VATICAN, Apr 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Vatican’s daily newspaper L’Osservatore Romano published an editorial Wednesday denouncing, in very stern terms, the Netherlands’s legalization of euthanasia. “Killing a patient is a criminal act” and doctors conducting mercy killings are similar to “executioners,” the editorial said. However the leader of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands, Cardinal Adrianus Simonis, fears that the “unbridled individualism” which he says led to this decision is pervasive in Europe and they will thus follow suit. In an interview with Zenit News Cardinal Simonis, the archbishop of Utrecht said the decision “saddens me profoundly” and “fills […]
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PLACENTAS LOOK PROMISING AS SOURCE OF ETHICAL STEM CELLS

TRENTON, NJ, Apr 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A New Jersey biotechnology company announced Thursday that it had developed a method to extract a new kind of stem cell from the placenta and that the cells were of equivalent value to embryonic stem cells – which can develop into any cell in the body. Anthrogenesis Corp. of Cedar Knolls, N.J., said that it could extract large quantities of stem cells from placenta’s, which “will make obsolete the need to use human fetuses or blastocysts (human embryos) as sources of stem cells.” Dr. John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins University, who was the […]
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CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOARD PULLS PROVINCIAL SEX-ED CURRICULUM

BELLEVILLE, ON, Apr 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A Catholic school board has chosen to reject the sex-education portions of the Ontario government’s Physical Education curriculum. The Kingston Whig Standard reports that the Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board sent school principals a notice March 30 instructing them to return the curriculum. “Portions of the units on human sexuality in some grades present material and/or employ strategies that are inconsistent with our own guidelines for family life education,” reads the memo. Dr. Greg Cosgrove, director of education for the board, said the concern with some of the material is that […]
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AMBASSADOR EXPOSES CLINTON COWARDICE IN FACING POPE ON ABORTION

WASHINGTON, Apr 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Ray Flynn, the Boston Mayor who became the US ambassador to the Vatican under former President Clinton, has published a book detailing the strained relations between the Pope and Clinton. In a review of Flynn’s “John Paul II: A Portrait of the Pope and the Man”, George Neumayr writes in the American Spectator (04/11/01) that the most interesting part of the book deals with an encounter between Clinton and the Pope over abortion. Neumayr relates: “During the debate over the infamous United Nations conference in Cairo—where the U.S. advanced an insane international right to […]
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COUPLE DENY CHARGES OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE BY HELPING KOPP Loretta Claire Marra, 37, and Dennis John Malvasi, 51, of New York City, who were charged with obstructing justice for allegedly helping James Kopp to avoid arrest, have submitted a plea of not guilty. They were ordered held on Tuesday until a detention hearing April 24.  https://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/04/10/abortion.doctor.slay.ap/index.html MEXICAN CARDINAL WARNS YOUTH ABOUT ABORTIFACIENT MORNING AFTER PILLS Zenit News reports that in Mexico City, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera addressed youths attending a congress entitled, “Unmasking New Abortive Means.” He said the morning-after pill is not a contraceptive “as some state, because […]
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UNFPA SET TO DUMP ONE MILLION FEMALE CONDOMS ON GHANA

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations is living up to its reputation for “rubberizing Africa” with a new order for one million female condoms to be sent to the Ministry of Health in Ghana, a country of 20 million people in West Africa. Last year half a million female condoms were ordered, to say nothing of the millions of male condoms that are dumped into the country every year. A press release by the condom manufacturers, the Female Health Company, reveals that the Ministry of Health was encouraged to accept the condoms by a cadre of […]
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DUTCH GOVERNMENT TO SINK PLANS FOR AUSTRALIAN EUTHANASIA SHIP

AMSTERDAM, Apr 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Dutch government will thwart the initiative of Australian euthanasia activist Dr. Phillip Nitschke who wants to euthanize Australian patients ‘legally’ in a Dutch registered ship anchored in international waters off the coast. The Dutch pro-life group, Cry for Life, reports that during parliamentary discussions on the new Dutch euthanasia law, Minister of Health Mrs E. Borst-Eilers made it clear that these practices are to be condemned and the Netherlands will have nothing to do with it. “If the Netherlands will be involved in any way, be it with a Dutch ship, or with […]
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CANADIAN EUTHANASIA ACTIVISTS HIJACKING PALLIATIVE CARE?

OTTAWA, April 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Liberal Sharon Carstairs, one of the foremost euthanasia activists in the Canadian Senate, has been given special responsibility for overseeing palliative care by Prime Minister Jean Chretien. The appointment, which occurred last month, gave rise to concern for some pro-life leaders. However, the Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF), an arm of the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishop’s (CCCB) organization, has praised the appointment, hopefully only as a matter of political diplomacy. In an April 3rd letter to Prime Minister Jean Chretien, COLF chairperson, Archbishop Bertrand Blanchet of Rimouski, wrote that COLF “welcomes […]
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CARDINAL RATZINGER SAYS FETAL EXPERIMENTATION LEADS TO HELL

PARIS, Apr 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine for the Faith, delivered a Lenten address at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. Zenit News reports that in his sermon that dealt with the topic of hell, the Cardinal said that fetal experimentation leads to hell. “When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make progress in research and preventive medicine, many regard the human content of these practices as implicit. But the contempt for man that underlies […]
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VATICAN SLAMS EMBRYO RESEARCH AS “A VERY GRAVE ACT OF VIOLENCE”

VATICAN, Apr 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice-president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has reiterated the Vatican’s opposition to experimentation with human embryos in the official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. Catholic World News reports that Bishop Sgreccia said that the use of human embryos for research purposes is inherently immoral. The freezing of a human being, the bishop said, “is a very grave act of violence.” He called for an end to the freezing of human embryos, and for efforts to find alternatives to artificial fertilization, so as “to avoid the accumulation of frozen embryos.” The restatement is […]
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AgapePress reporter, Warren Smith, this week mocked 60 Minutes for a recent story on the Boy Scouts. Hiding behind its reputation as a supposedly investigative news program, 60 Minutes, with commentator, Leslie Stahl, criticized the boys group for seeking to protect the children by forbidding homosexual men to be leaders. She claimed at one point that “studies” proved homosexual men were no more likely to molest boys than heterosexual men but, reported Mr. Smith, did not actually cite any of these supposed studies.  https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/92001i.asp All four candidates in this year’s Democratic mayoral primary for New York are pro-abortion. Kelli Conlin, […]
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Canada’s leading abortionist Henry Morgentaler has lashed out bitterly against Manitoba’s Health Minister Dave Chomiak. This followed the Chomiak’s decision to break off talks over an offer to buy Morgentaler’s abortuary, as part of its policy to end private surgical practices in the province. Mr. Chomiak said the abortionist’s demands were unacceptable. Mr. Morgentaler called the health minister “a heartless man” and said he will “instruct [his] lawyers to commence legal action against the Government for funding other private clinics, while discriminating against an abortion clinic.” The European Union’s Council of Ministers has affirmed that national abortion legislation does not […]
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CANADIAN GOVERNMENTS TO SET UP JOINT ORGAN DONATION REGISTRY

OTTAWA, Apr 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The federal government, with the provinces, will unveil a $20-million plan and the establishment of the National Council on Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation tomorrow to improve Canada’s rate of organ donations. “The council – made up of government officials, transplant experts, epidemiologists, ethicists, and the public – will lead a national strategy to create a more co-ordinated and comprehensive system,” reported the National Post yesterday. Pro-life Canadians will be watching carefully to see how the Canadian governments plan to handle organ donations that lie in the realm of the brain death controversy. […]
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FEDERAL PALLIATIVE CARE FUNDS FOR WESTERN CANADA

OTTAWA, Apr 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Health Minister Allan Rock and Sharon Carstairs, Leader of the Government in the Senate and Special Advisor to the Minister of Health for palliative care, on March 30 announced $533,000 in funding for seniors and palliative care research initiatives in Western Canada. The University of Manitoba will receive over $283,000 of the money to continue “Aging in Manitoba”, the longest continuous population-based survey on aging in Canada. $250,000 will go to PALLIUM, a continuing professional development initiative in palliative care. “People have a right to die in relative comfort, as free as possible from […]
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ALL CHALLENGES NRLC TO DECISIVELY CONDEMN MORNING-AFTER PILLS

WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – American Life League is not allowing the controversy in pro-life circles over the position that pro-lifers should take over “morning-after pills” to prevent them for articulating their clear opposition. “Perhaps one of the greatest weapons used by the pro-abortion lobby, in its efforts to promote morning-after abortion pills, is the fact that a handful of ‘pro-life’ groups will not specifically oppose it,” said ALL president Judie Brown today. “During the last session of the Virginia legislature, delegates found that their own efforts to oppose morning-after abortion pills were imperiled because a National Right […]
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ADULTS STEM CELLS AND HUMAN FAT ERODE IMPETUS FOR USING EMBRYONIC CELLS

ENGLAND, Apr 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Ongoing research into stem cells continues to provide new avenues for potential investigation, increasing the number of possible moral alternatives to the unethical use of embryonic stem cells. A report by yesterday’s Cybercast News Service (CNS) points to British research that seems to demonstrate adult stem cells are more useful in treatments than those from embryos. As such findings continue to appear in research, pro-life ethicists hope that the impetus behind scientists’ demands for embryonic research funding will wane. The new research was presented yesterday to the British Neuroscience Association’s annual conference in northern […]
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DUTCH FORMALLY LEGALIZE EUTHANASIA

AMSTERDAM, Apr 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Dutch Senate voted today 46-28 to legalize euthanasia. AP reports that about 10,000 pro-life protesters surrounded the parliament building, praying, singing hymns and quoting the Bible. The law is likely to take effect this summer. Among the protestors were many children as several Christian schools canceled classes to allow students from across the country to participate in the demonstrations. With its vote the upper house rejected tens of thousands of letters urging the legislators to vote against the bill and a petition of 25,000 signatures submitted by the pro-life group “Cry for Life”. […]
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Former President Clinton visited the tomb of Mother Teresa in India Saturday saying he was fulfilling a promise to visit Mother Teresa. The nuns said they would pray for him.  https://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/080401/detNAT08.asp The head of the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. George Carey, has said he cannot foresee the Church of England sanctioning homosexual marriages. Interviewed on the BBC, the spiritual leader of the Church of England said the church could not accept them because “marriage is a relationship between man and a woman”.  https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_223840.html A report today says the Bush Administration will make Republican history this week – […]
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NITSCHKE PLANS TO EXPLOIT DUTCH EUTHANASIA LAW IN FLOATING DEATH CLINIC

SYDNEY, Apr 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Australia’s pro-euthanasia activist, Dr Philip Nitschke, plans to exploit the expected Dutch legalization of euthanasia by offering to euthanize patients in a Dutch registered ship anchored in international waters off the coast of Australia. “If this was a Dutch-registered vessel, it would be possible legally to provide access to voluntary euthanasia in international waters,” he explained. Nitschke first announced his idea of a floating euthanasia clinic for Australia just days after crazed Dutch abortionist, Rebecca Gomperts, announced she would offer abortions in her floating abortuary for people from countries where the procedure is banned. […]
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HEAD OF CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ENGLAND ASKS LAWYERS TO PROMOTE RIGHT TO LIFE

LONDON, Apr 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster, has written a letter to lawyers encouraging the publication of pro-life arguments in the UK’s official barristers’ magazine, Counsel. There has been a “grave erosion of the right to life through laws on abortion and embryo research,” said the letter. He suggested that the newly passed Human Rights Act meant that the Government and the courts will have to reconsider these laws. “Lawyers concerned to promote and defend a genuine human rights culture will have opportunities through case law to explore and defend the foundational right to […]
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PRO-LIFE COURT VICTORY AS CITY PAYS FOR WRONGLY CONFISCATED PRO-LIFE SIGNS

ELKHORN, WI, Apr 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The city of Elkhorn Wisconsin coughed up $6,630 after bailing out of a losing lawsuit filed by the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy (Center) on behalf of eight pro-lifers. $5000 of the payment went to legal fees. $800 was earmarked for damages for the eight pro-life . However, another $830 went to pay for wrongly confiscated signs. Bryan J. Brown, Litigation Counsel with the Center, declared that “most remarkably, and probably for the first time ever in the history of the pro-life movement, eight hundred and thirty dollars ($830) of […]
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PRIESTS FOR LIFE OFFERS $50G REWARD FOR INFO ON ABORTUARY SHOOTING FUGITIVES

WASHINGTON, Apr 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Priests for Life (PFL), the Staten Island-based pro-life group, is offering $50,000 to anyone providing authorities with information leading to the capture of fugitives guilty of shooting abortionists. At a press conference yesterday, Fr. Frank Pavone, International Director of PFL said that the purpose of the reward is to assist authorities and also to “actively discourage” such acts. Fr. Pavone noted that extreme violence is the hallmark of the pro-choice rather than the pro-life movement. He said that the shooters of abortionists were really pro-choice “because they acted in the belief that sometimes it […]
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DUTCH SET TO BECOME FIRST COUNTRY TO LEGALIZE EUTHANASIA

AMSTERDAM, Apr 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Dutch Senate took up the euthanasia debate today as they prepare to pass a bill legalizing the practice. The bill cleared the lower house in November. Although the approval by the upper house is seen as a formality, pro-lifers in the Netherlands have asked for help in lobbying the Senators to reject the legislation. The Dutch group, Cry for Life, has provided the email for the Senate and asked pro-lifers around the world to make their views heard. The decision of the Senate is expected this week. Euthanasia has been tolerated in Holland […]
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An “abortion strike” by the French Association of Gynecologists has thrown the government’s plans to allow terminations up to 12 weeks instead of 10 into disarray. Members of the association are refusing to carry out any more abortions until they receive more money. (Pro-Life E-News)  https://www.medicalpost.com/mdlink/english/members/medpost/data/3709/53A.HTM Pro-lifers will picket the pro-abortion Los Angeles concert Friday. The concert features Melissa Etheridge, Paula Cole, The Bangles and Sarah McLachlan.  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive
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COURT ORDERS PRO-HOMOSEXUAL LAW IN ALBERTA

EDMONTON, Apr 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Del Perras ruled Monday that Alberta’s estate law is unconstitutional because it does not give homosexual couples the same rights to the estate of a deceased partner as it gives married or common law heterosexuals. Perras said the Intestate Succession Act contravenes the Charter of Rights and Freedoms because it gave the estate of a gay man who died without a will to his daughters rather than giving it to his homosexual partner. Even thought the daughters offered to settle the division of the estate out of court, […]
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SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTIONS IN INDIA MAKE FOR DEFICIT OF WOMEN

NEW DELHI, Apr 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Provisional 2001 Census figures in India indicate that the national sex ratio is an abysmal 933 women to every 1000 men. India thus shares the bottom most position with Pakistan, both with lower numbers of women to men than China, which has a deficit of over a million women. One official, noting the massive decline in the sex ratio from the turn of the century, quipped that women seemed to have been better off in the days when “women’s liberation” was unheard of. According to Prof Rama Baru of the Centre for Community […]
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PROFESSOR QUITS TO BEGIN CLONING HUMAN AND ABORTING FAILED ATTEMPTS

WASHINGTON, Apr 6 (LSN.ca) – One of the two promoters of reproductive human cloning who gave testimony before a U.S. government committee last week left her teaching job to begin her cloning experiments. Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, a visiting chemistry professor at Hamilton College in upstate New York, resigned last week “to focus full-time on her work in cloning,” said school spokesman Michael Debraggio. In an interview with the New York Post Boisselier, scientific director of Clonaid, said she will go ahead with plans to do the cloning in the United States unless the Food and Drug Administration intervenes. Clonaid is […]
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SCOTTISH CATHOLIC BISHOPS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO FIGHT MORNING AFTER PILL

EDINBURGH, Apr 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A letter from the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland to be delivered to all Catholic churches in Scotland notes that the morning after pill is “chemically-induced abortion.” The letter notes that the Scottish Government’s recent decision to allow the pill to be bought without prescription from pharmacies by over-16s is “sidelining” parents and undermining family relationships. “The Church cannot remain silent on this issue, given the serious nature of what is being proposed,” says the letter. Explaining the abortifacient effect of the pill the bishops wrote: “Depending on when it is administered it can also […]
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PRO-ABORTION CELLUCCI CONFIRMED AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CANADA

WASHINGTON, Apr 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Thursday the U.S. Senate confirmed Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci as ambassador to Canada on a voice vote and without debate. Pro-life and pro-family groups in both the United States and Canada objected to Cellucci’s confirmation. Responding to the concerns of these groups, Sen. Jesse Helms, chairman of the foreign relations committee, objected to Cellucci’s confirmation and only agreed not to block the process after obtaining from Cellucci a written pledge that he will adhere to the Bush administration’s policies on the sanctity of life, respect for traditional marriage and the family. Pointing out the […]
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A federal judge challenged a state attorney yesterday to explain how a late-term abortion procedure that Ohio wants to ban is crueler than another technique. “Is there any evidence or argument that the procedure is crueler toward the fetus than one of the alternatives, which is dismemberment of the fetus in utero?” Judge Walter Rice asked Anne Strait, an assistant Ohio attorney general, during closing arguments in a lawsuit against a new state law.  https://www.cleveland.com/ohio/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/98637662114940162.xml A lawsuit has been launched over a high school which banned a sweatshirt with the logo ‘straight pride’, while actively promoting pro-homosexual attitudes among students.  […]
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Pro-Life Infonet reports that for the first time in the U.S. since 1973, Michigan is pressing criminal charges against a doctor accused of performing a third-trimester abortion without a good medical reason. State Attorney General Jennifer Granholm is charging abortionist Jose Higuera with felonious abortion. If convicted in the medically unnecessary abortion of a girl seven months pregnant, he faces up to four years in prison. Higuera’s nurse brought the case to the state’s attention. (Associated Press; April 4, 2001) SPUC reports that the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics revealed that there are now 117 boys for every 100 girls, […]
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BC PRIVACY COMMISSIONER BLASTS GOVERNMENT OVER LAW RESTRICTING ABORTION INFO

VANCOUVER, Apr 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In a letter to British Columbia Deputy Premier Joy MacPhail, David Loukidelis, the province’s privacy commissioner, blasted the government over its new law restricting information on abortion. Loukidelis slams the law as “outmoded,” definitely “not necessary” and another example of the “creeping repeal” of the Freedom of Information law. He notes further that the customary procedure of consulting him before legislation involving the Freedom of Information Act is tabled was totally ignored. Loukidelis writes, “(b)ill 21 simply excludes accountability by, for all intents and purposes, repealing the right of access in this area.” Regarding […]
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VATICAN CARDINAL WARNS OF DECEPTION OVER ‘EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVES’

VATICAN CITY, Apr 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo, prefect of the Pontifical Council for the Family, spoke to media in Spain, Portugal and Chile about the abortifacient nature of the “morning after pill.” Zenit News reports the Cardinal as saying: “It is very grave that an attempt is being made to confuse public opinion with ambiguous terms. The process of human life does not begin with the embryo’s adherence to the maternal womb, but before, at the very moment of conception. Hence, to talk about ‘impeding implantation in the uterus’ is nothing but a euphemism in an […]
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BABY FIRST IN CANADA TO UNDERGO ETHICAL STEM-CELL TREATMENT WITH CORD BLOOD

TORONTO, Apr 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A nine-month-old child from Bolton, Ontario will be the first case in Canada using ethical stem-cell transplant therapy involving stem-cells extracted from his own umbilical cord blood. The National Post reports that Jesse Farquharson will undergo a bone marrow transplant next Thursday April 12th to try to arrest the cancer which has already cost him one eye and practically all of his sight. Eye cancer in children is usually fatal once it starts to spread, however Jesse surprised doctors by responding well to chemotherapy. The stem cells will help to restore the child’s bone […]
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British doctors are offering kidneys from living, impoverished donors in the Third World to wealthy patients for hefty fees. The illegal practice was revealed in an undercover operation by British police.  https://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/04/01/stinwenws01016.html? CP reports that the Canadian government is set to propose new regulations this week allowing legal access to marijuana for people suffering from serious illnesses.  https://ca.news.yahoo.com/010403/6/3zqt.html Prime Minister Jean Chretien is pushing US President Bush to endorse the UN’s Kyoto treaty. Chretien said Tuesday. “We think we have to continue with Kyoto and we think the Americans should do the same.”  https://ca.news.yahoo.com/010403/6/3znb.html WorldNetDaily’s Jon Dougherty reports that an […]
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UGANDAN BISHOPS SLAM INTRODUCTION OF ABORTIFACIENT MORNING AFTER PILL

KAMPALA, Apr 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In what is probably one of the best and clearest arguments on the subject, the Catholic bishops of Uganda have published an open letter to the government and the people of the country concerning the abortifacient “morning after” pill. In the letter, signed by Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala Archbishop of Kampala, the bishops point out that the pill is improperly referred to as a contraceptive. Using scientific evidence, the bishops clearly demonstrate the abortifacient effect of the drug once ovulation has occurred. The letter also notes that “The distinction made by scientists between “fertilized egg”, […]
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MEDIA MOGUL WITH MORALS BANS PORN – ACLU IS LIVID

LOS ANGELES, Apr 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – John Rigas, 76, is founder and president of Adelphia Communications Corp., the nation’s sixth-largest cable company. The Los Angeles Times reports today that Rigas, who has operated his business and personal life in line with Christian principles, purged sexually oriented channels from the cable television company he acquired. The Times notes Adelphia, which has about 5.6 million customers, “is the only one of the nation’s eight large cable companies that lacks adult programming”, despite high profits associated with porn. Susan Block, a sexologist whose sleazy visuals prompted her show to be scrapped complained, […]
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WOMAN CHARGED IN MURDER OF DISABLED DAUGHTER FIT TO STAND TRIAL

MONTREAL, Apr 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Rachel Capra Craig, 46, who was charged with first-degree murder in the poisoning death of her 14-year-old disabled daughter Chelsea has been deemed fit to stand trial after a psychiatric evaluation. CP reports that after a brief court appearance today she was returned to the Pinel Institute for further psychiatric care until her next court appearance June 11. On the heels of the Latimer decision, the case is sure to raise the euthanasia and mercy killing questions in Canada again. Marc David, a lawyer for Craig, indicated that his client is receiving some public […]
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PRO-ABORTION LEADERS SUGGEST PRESIDENT BUSH TACITLY APPROVES OF VIOLENCE

Media Exploiting Kopp Arrest To Advance Abortion Agenda WASHINGTON, Apr 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – With the arrest of James Kopp in France last week, pro-abortion media personalities have typically exploited the opportunity to accuse the pro-life movement of violence. The Christian Defense Coalition in the US cautioned the media and pro-abortion organizations not to use the death of Dr. Slepian to attack and demonize the pro-life movement. The group also urged the Department of Justice to not “politicize” this shooting as a pretext to harass and intimidate the pro-life movement as the Clinton Administration did. While in the US there […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

MARY ROBINSON TO REMAIN UN HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF   Mary Robinson has reversed her decision to step down as the U.N. human rights chief and asked for a one-year extension of her current term, U.N. officials and human rights groups said Monday. https://www.msnbc.com/news/553625.asp See the earlier LifeSite coverage at: https://lsn.ca/ldn/2001/mar/010320.html#2 Euthanasia Symposium – April 28, 2001 10am-4pm in London, Ontario at the Ramada Inn will feature three of the most prominent speakers in the fields of euthanasia, medical ethics, and the rights of people with disabilities including Wesley Smith, the leading voice opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide in the US. […]
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SUGGESTION BC GOVERNMENT TIED TO ANTI-CATHOLIC SCHOOLING DECISION

PRINCE GEORGE, BC, Sept 25 (LSN.ca) – The British Columbia Labour Relations Board (LRB) has rejected an appeal to a September 2000 decision, saying that Bishop Gerald Wiesner of the diocese of Prince George was wrong in closing down a school after a conflict with teachers over Catholic faith matters. After the teachers of the Catholic school joined the BC Government Employees Union, the union rejected the bishop’s right to remove a teacher for failing to uphold Catholic doctrine on issues including abortion, homosexuality and divorce. When the union refused to budge, the bishop closed the independent school, which is […]
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DR. LAURA TV SHOW DROPPED BY PARAMOUNT TELEVISION

LOS ANGELES, Apr 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Last Thursday the “Dr. Laura” television show taped its final episode after a television advertiser boycott that was relentlessly promoted by pro-homosexual activists. In a statement, Dr. Laura Schlessinger said, “I’m very proud of the show and sad we won’t continue.” She also noted “I believe it could have earned a substantial audience in time, but the television advertiser boycott precluded that.” News reports suggest the show was canceled due to low ratings. Paramount released a statement saying, “We commend Dr. Laura, her producers and staff for their desire to create an alternative […]
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BUSH RESTRICTS RU-486 FUNDING AND CLOSES WHITE HOUSE FEMINIST OFFICE

WASHINGTON, Apr 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Last Friday the Bush administration sent a letter to the state directors of Medicaid saying that RU-486 will be subjected to the same restrictions as surgical abortion. The letter by the Department of Health and Human Services notes that funding for the drug will only be provided in extreme circumstances and that state restrictions on abortion such as a 24-hour waiting period, parental notification and counselling should also apply to RU-486. Also, in a very encouraging sign to pro-lifers, the President shut down the White House Office for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach. Wendy Wright, […]
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HAMILTON BISHOP COMMENTS ON CLINTON AT CATHOLIC HOSPITAL EVENT

HAMILTON, Apr 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Bishop Anthony Tonnos of the Diocese of Hamilton has released a comment on the fundraiser for St. Joseph’s Hospital featuring former US President Bill Clinton as the speaker. The Spring 2001 Hamilton Right to Life Newsletter, LIFESPAN, reports that Father Gerard Bergie, Chancellor of the Hamilton Diocese, consulted with the bishop on the matter by telephone. Bergie stated that the Bishop’s response was “that while Clinton would not be his choice as a speaker, he would not forbid the hospital from doing so and he would not attend such an event.” For more from […]
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PRIEST PUSHED FROM CATHOLIC SCHOOL WHILE PRO-ABORTION POLITICIAN HONOURED

NEWARK, NJ, Apr 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Fr. Peter West, an associate of Fr. Frank Pavone and staff member at Priests for Life headquarters in New Jersey, was recently physically pushed out of a Catholic school hall while a pro-abortion politician was being honoured inside. While not a Priests for Life-sponsored event, Fr. West and a group of 15 pro-lifers protested the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Newark on Sunday March 18. Their complaint was that pro-abortion politician Jim McGreevey (Dem) was appointed Grand Marshal of the parade. Fr. West noted that much of the parade and events afterward seemed […]
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US NEWS ROUNDUP

“The arrests of two people in New York on charges of conspiring to ‘harbor and conceal’ James Kopp mark the first time that the government has alleged a conspiracy to aid someone accused of killing an abortion doctor,” reported the New York Times Friday. “That action now seems likely to reopen a long standing debate over whether there has been a conspiracy behind anti-abortion violence.”  https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/31/nyregion/31CONS.html The U.S. Senate foreign affairs committee is set to vote Tuesday on whether or not to approve President George Bush’s appointee as the U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci. The Canada Family Action Coalition […]
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Amniocentesis, a test used to determine if a baby has Down syndrome kills more babies than it diagnoses with Down syndrome, reported Zenit yesterday, drawing on a British study which shows that the test causes up to four healthy babies to be miscarried for every abnormality it detects. The test is used after less definitive tests have shown a risk of Down’s, the Sunday Times reported yesterday.  https://www.zenit.org/english/archive/0104/ZE010401.htm#4159 Trinidad and Tobago is just one Caribbean country where concern is being expressed about a Norwegian “gay cruise ship” travelling through the area. CEO and General Manager of the Port Authority of […]
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BILLIONAIRE’S MONEY HELPS CULL POPULATIONS

NEBRASKA, Apr 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Although he doesn’t hand out as much money as fellow billionaire Bill Gates, investment expert Warren Buffett is coming under harsh criticism again for the money he gives away to fund abortion and population control agendas. In fact, Population Research Institute president Steven Mosher, reported Friday that “Buffet eclipses Gates in his fanatical commitment to population control” with a foundation “known for funding projects that other foundations, even those similarly inclined to limit human numbers, will not touch.” For example, Mosher notes, “RU-486 was in part funded by Buffet, who provided $2 million to […]
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ABORTION LEAGUE FIGHTS AGAINST BUSH, WOMEN

WASHINGTON, Apr 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – NARAL (the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League) finally feels as though it has organized itself sufficiently to fight back against what it is calling an “unprecedented, GOP-led assault on abortion rights,” following the election of George W. Bush to the Presidency. NARAL’s $40 million campaign, Fight4Choice, sounds ambitious. It is designed to “mobilize pro-choice Americans to block anti-choice Supreme Court appointments, restore pro-choice leadership in Congress, elect a pro-choice president and fight anti-choice policy initiatives at every level” by “build[ing] on NARAL’s leadership as the political voice of the pro-choice movement.” Colleen […]
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UNICEF’S UP-COMING ANTI-FAMILY CHILDREN’S RIGHTS VOTE

OTTAWA, Apr 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance MP and Family Issues Critic Grant Hill reported Friday that UNICEF is organizing another children’s right’s “election”. Last year’s rights election was a complete flop in Canada despite the support of Elections Canada because many schools chose not to participate due to objections raised by parents. Despite the autonomous-rights propaganda fed to many of our children, the right to a family came out on top, rating well above “protection from harm,” a category which included spanking, or corporal punishment. For election purposes, these rights were identified as “candidates”. Dr. Hill says that […]
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CRTC CONTROLS RELIGION, CAN’T CONTROL HARD-CORE PORN

OTTAWA, Apr 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The CRTC has recently acknowledged its inability to monitor and, therefore, censor violent and degrading pornography that is supposedly illegal in Canada. A Fifth Estate expose last Wednesday dealing with the substance of two hard core pornography channels made available by Bell Express Vu, showed Bob Warren of the Ontario Film Review Board visibly disturbed while responding to questions and viewing content, reports Thomas Langan of the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL). CRTC representative, Pierre Blais, said that there are far too many channels to monitor. He did say, however, that they would look […]
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