Articles for Month: June 2001

THREATS AND COUNTER THREATS A crazed man who claims he is on a mission from God to kill abortionists allegedly threatened the lives of abortionist staff on a website. The threat which is believed to come from fugitive Clayton Lee Waagner has led to a counter threat by a group calling itself “Doctor Defense” pledging to kill Waagner’s family.  https://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20010624waagner0624p2.asp The Church of Glad Tidings in Yuba City California has placed ads on billboards to promote their ongoing ministry of raising unwanted babies.  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23414

DENMARK AND FINLAND BOOST PRO-ABORTION FUNDS International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the world’s foremost abortion provider, boasts that the Government of Denmark will increase their contribution to IPPF from 73,000 to 75,000 Danish Kroner (approximately $280,000) this year. IPPF has also received from the Finnish Government an additional 500,000 Finnish Marks this year (approximately $40,000).  https://ippfnet.ippf.org/pub/IPPF_News/News_Details.asp?ID=1198 The Francophonie Games in Canada will be providing 30,000 condoms for the 3,000 attending athletes – one condom per person every 34 hours of the Games.  https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_339950.html

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Comments released today by President George Bush’s spokesman have given hope to pro-lifers over the issue of the destructive use of human embryos for stem cell research White House press secretary Ari Fleischer told reporters today that a decision has not yet been formalized on funding for stem cell research. “This is an issue the president has been focused on, and it’s a very important and sensitive matter because it involves many aspects of life. He’s well aware of the powerful research that can come from stem cells. He also is cognizant of the […]

PARIS, June 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A three-judge panel in Rennes, France decided this morning to extradite James Charles Kopp only on the condition that “the death penalty will not be requested, pronounced or applied.” AP reports the measure now goes to the French Prime Minister for final approval. U.S. A letter from the US Embassy in Paris stated that the U.S. Government will not seek the death penalty for Kopp, if he is found guilty. Kopp, has repeatedly proclaimed his innocence in the shooting death of abortionist Barnett Slepian. Before the hearing today in France Kopp said to reporters: […]

GENEVA, June 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The last prepcom for the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance ended June 1. The battle to prevent the UN from using the documents to promote homosexual activism is set for the conference itself, which will be held in Durban, South Africa, 31 August to 7 September 2001. As LifeSite reported in March, one of the prepcoms for the conference added discrimination based on “sexual orientation” to the anti-racism agenda. After the latest revision of the draft document, the inclusion of the loaded term “sexual orientation” remains. The […]

LONDON, June 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Reporting on a study in the June 16 issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the Culture and Family Report (CFR), notes that the BMJ study found that “safe-sex” counseling for homosexual men actually backfires and leads to more “unsafe” sex. The study which took place at a sexual health clinic in London observed 343 gay men with an acute sexually transmitted infection or who reported having had unprotected (condomless) anal intercourse in the past year, looking at the number of new sexually transmitted infections diagnosed during a 12-month follow up. CFR reports that […]

OTTAWA, June 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Rick Anderson, who according to Alliance National Council member Bob Dechert, orchestrated the “dirty little scheme” to oust Party Leader Stockwell Day, has recently revealed that he holds little allegiance to the Canadian Alliance party and is hankering for his Liberal roots. The National Post reported last week that Anderson does not intend to renew his Canadian Alliance membership when it expires. This week, in a conversation with Post columnist Paul Wells, Anderson said, “I’m still a Paul Martin fan,” referring to his former days as a Liberal Party member and supporter of Liberal […]

NEW YORK BILL REQUIRES CATHOLIC HOSPITALS TO VIOLATE THEIR ABORTIFACIENT POLICY Kaiser reports that the New York State Assembly on Monday passed a bill (S 2347) that would require all hospital emergency rooms, including those in Catholic institutions, to inform rape victims of the availability of abortifacient morning after pills within 72 hours. NIH STUDY FAVOURS EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH The New York Times reports that a NIH study on stem cells requested by HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson has come back strongly promoting embryonic stem cell research.  https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/27/politics/27RESE.html?searchpv=nytToday Actress Mary Tyler Moore called on Congress Tuesday to support embryonic stem […]

The Montreal Gazette today has reported (as LifeSite reported last week) that the Royal Bank of Canada has refused to open an account for a coalition of pro-family groups opposing the bringing of the “Gay Games” to Montreal in 2006. The Gazette notes that even a homosexual activist questioned the brazen injustice of the bank.  https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/pages/010622/5081006.html

LOS ANGELES, June 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Monday, the Center For Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) launched its pro-life, Reproductive Choice Campaign (RCC). The project involves the operation of a fleet of large, box-body trucks, on whose sides are displayed bill-board size, color photos depicting aborted human embryos and early fetuses. Several of these trucks can be viewed on the CBR Website at:  https://www.abortionNO.org The official launch of RCC went very according to CBR Director Gregg Cunningham. Initially, the trucks will be operated every business day on the freeway system in Southern California. A nation-wide expansion will be undertaken before the […]

NEW ORLEANS, June 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Archdiocese of New Orleans school officials are providing educators copies of the schools’ “lifestyle policy”, stipulating that educators in Catholic schools must uphold Catholic morality. The three-page statement was handed out with the contract renewals for the new school year and insisted that all employees, regardless of faith, may not have an abortion or assist anyone in doing so. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that the statement says that infringement of the contract rules “may lead to discipline and/or termination.” J. Ren{197}{189} Coman, superintendent of the 103 archdiocesan schools, told the paper that […]

WATERLOO, ON, June 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Several Trustees on the Waterloo Catholic District School Board refused to support the 2001-02 budget until the board agreed to reopen the issue of allowing non-Catholic public health nurses to provide sex education and private counselling in Catholic high schools. An Ontario government education policy laid the groundwork for the introduction of public health nurses into Catholic schools. However, the proposal is of concern to Catholics who deem faith-supported moral principles an essential part of the reason for the existence of Catholic schools. One of the trustees, Steve Woodworth, told LifeSite that the […]

TORONTO, June 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Ontario Conservative Government has passed legislation to give a partial tax credit to parents who choose to send their children to private schools. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty had announced that the “Equity in Education Tax Credit” was to “assist parents who want their children educated in their religion and culture but find the cost of sending their children to independent schools prohibitive.” The tax-credit passed today by a vote of 50-35 with the Liberals and New Democrats attempting to derail the plan. Using the language of the politically correct activists who opposed the […]

Crosswalk reports that the Archdiocese of Denver has pulled its annual $13,000 funding of the Colorado Council of Churches since the council admitted a predominantly homosexual denomination into the organization.  https://news.crosswalk.com/religion/item/0,1875,352473,00.htm Movie director Steven Speilberg has quit the Boy Scout of America citing the organization’s banning of practicing homosexuals as Scout leaders.  https://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,8127,00.html

The Canada Family Action Coalition is urging pro-family Canadians to send a letter of protest to the Saskatchewan Minister of Justice over the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (HRC) decision banning the quoting of Bible verses on homosexuality in newspaper ads. The HRC ruled that the publishing of the Bible verses would cause hatred and the ad’s publisher and the newspaper were fined. Complaints may be made to: Honourable Chris Axworthy, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Saskatchewan [email protected] See LifeSite’s coverage of the story at:  https://lsn.ca/ldn/2001/june/010619.html#1 The opening of the UN AIDS summit saw Canada playing the leading role […]

VANCOUVER, June 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pro-lifers Mary Wagner and Glen Reed were arrested this morning at Everywoman’s abortion mill in Vancouver British Columbia. The two young people were praying in front of the doors and were holding roses to hand out to clients. Charges have not been yet finalized and they are in custody awaiting a hearing. Campaign Life Coalition president John Hof notes that Glen was arrested for the first time despite almost two years of maintaining a constant peaceful presence at the abortuary to offer help to those entering the facility. Mary has been arrested before and […]

BRUSSELS, June 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Belgian cabinet has approved a bill Friday legalizing homosexual marriage which is to be presented to parliament in the coming weeks. Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt’s government released a statement saying, “Mentalities have evolved, there is no longer any reason not to open marriage to people of the same sex . The starting point of this bill is equality of treatment in marriage for homosexual and heterosexual couples.” Ananova reports that the Belgian Bill will only permit homosexuals whose countries recognize homosexual marriages to wed. Meanwhile in Holland, which legalized homosexual marriages in April, […]

AMSTERDAM, June 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Irish pro-lifers have been outraged at the Dutch abortion ship threatening to abort Irish children, in international waters off the Irish shore. Galway for Life, a pro-life group in Ireland, has urged pro-lifers around the world to contact the Dutch Ambassador to protest the ship, noting that the Dutch government gave the sum of 72,000 guilders (approximately $43,000.00) indirectly for the conversion of the fishing trawler into a floating abortuary under the guise of an arts grant on the basis that the boat was “a work of art”. The Irish pro-life group also notes […]

BOGOTA, June 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Last Wednesday, the Columbian Supreme Court ruled that abortion “in those cases where the woman has been a victim of violence, rape or non-consensual artificial insemination” is not punishable by prison. The country’s Catholic Bishops rejected the ruling saying: “the Catholic Church rejects any judicial decision that decriminalizes abortion, even if only partially.” The bishops noted that the ruling, “radically opposes the common good, is totally lacking in true legal validity and is not morally binding since only just laws and sentences have that characteristic.” Abortion, said the bishops, is “in total and insurmountable […]

TORONTO, June 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An Ontario NDP Member of Provincial Parliament, Frances Lankin, has agreed to resign from politics this September to head up the United Way of Greater Toronto. Lankin, a pro-abortion activist MPP, will receive $150,000 a year in her new post and at the same time collect a hefty political pension. (Toronto Star June 22, 2001) In the summer of 1998 Lankin was livid over the removal of abortion services at a downtown Toronto hospital after it merged with St. Michael’s Catholic hospital. “That’s 1,000 to 1,500 abortion procedures per year that will no longer […]

Crosswalk reports that the Archdiocese of Denver has pulled its annual $13,000 funding of the Colorado Council of Churches since the council admitted a predominantly homosexual denomination into the organization.  https://news.crosswalk.com/religion/item/0,1875,352473,00.htm Movie director Steven Speilberg has quit the Boy Scout of America citing the organization’s banning of practicing homosexuals as Scout leaders.  https://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,8127,00.html

The Canada Family Action Coalition is urging pro-family Canadians to send a letter of protest to the Saskatchewan Minister of Justice over the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (HRC) decision banning the quoting of Bible verses on homosexuality in newspaper ads. The HRC ruled that the publishing of the Bible verses would cause hatred and the ad’s publisher and the newspaper were fined. Complaints may be made to: Honourable Chris Axworthy, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Saskatchewan [email protected] See LifeSite’s coverage of the story at:  https://lsn.ca/ldn/2001/june/010619.html#1 The opening of the UN AIDS summit saw Canada playing the leading role […]

VANCOUVER, June 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pro-lifers Mary Wagner and Glen Reed were arrested this morning at Everywoman’s abortion mill in Vancouver British Columbia. The two young people were praying in front of the doors and were holding roses to hand out to clients. Charges have not been yet finalized and they are in custody awaiting a hearing. Campaign Life Coalition president John Hof notes that Glen was arrested for the first time despite almost two years of maintaining a constant peaceful presence at the abortuary to offer help to those entering the facility. Mary has been arrested before and […]

BRUSSELS, June 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Belgian cabinet has approved a bill Friday legalizing homosexual marriage which is to be presented to parliament in the coming weeks. Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt’s government released a statement saying, “Mentalities have evolved, there is no longer any reason not to open marriage to people of the same sex . The starting point of this bill is equality of treatment in marriage for homosexual and heterosexual couples.” Ananova reports that the Belgian Bill will only permit homosexuals whose countries recognize homosexual marriages to wed. Meanwhile in Holland, which legalized homosexual marriages in April, […]

AMSTERDAM, June 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Irish pro-lifers have been outraged at the Dutch abortion ship threatening to abort Irish children, in international waters off the Irish shore. Galway for Life, a pro-life group in Ireland, has urged pro-lifers around the world to contact the Dutch Ambassador to protest the ship, noting that the Dutch government gave the sum of 72,000 guilders (approximately $43,000.00) indirectly for the conversion of the fishing trawler into a floating abortuary under the guise of an arts grant on the basis that the boat was “a work of art”. The Irish pro-life group also notes […]

BOGOTA, June 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Last Wednesday, the Columbian Supreme Court ruled that abortion “in those cases where the woman has been a victim of violence, rape or non-consensual artificial insemination” is not punishable by prison. The country’s Catholic Bishops rejected the ruling saying: “the Catholic Church rejects any judicial decision that decriminalizes abortion, even if only partially.” The bishops noted that the ruling, “radically opposes the common good, is totally lacking in true legal validity and is not morally binding since only just laws and sentences have that characteristic.” Abortion, said the bishops, is “in total and insurmountable […]

TORONTO, June 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An Ontario NDP Member of Provincial Parliament, Frances Lankin, has agreed to resign from politics this September to head up the United Way of Greater Toronto. Lankin, a pro-abortion activist MPP, will receive $150,000 a year in her new post and at the same time collect a hefty political pension. (Toronto Star June 22, 2001) In the summer of 1998 Lankin was livid over the removal of abortion services at a downtown Toronto hospital after it merged with St. Michael’s Catholic hospital. “That’s 1,000 to 1,500 abortion procedures per year that will no longer […]

Subsidizing parents’ right to choose where to educate their children improves academic achievement and leads to substantial cost savings for public schools, says a Harvard University economist in a report published by the Fraser Institute https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010622/598409.html President George Bush is leaning away from federal funding of embryo stem cell research, but some “pro-life” Republicans may not support him.  https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/22/science/22BUSH.html?searchpv=nytToday

PEWAUKEE, WI, June 22, 2001 (LSN.ca) – “HOMOSEXUALITY AND HOPE”, a just-released document from the Catholic Medical Association (CMA), addresses a positive program of providing help, support and hope for those homosexual persons who wish to live in union with the Catholic Church. The result of a two-year study by a specially-appointed CMA task force, the report is based on current scientific facts and practice experience of the task force members, which included psychiatrists and other physicians, psychologists, nurse specialists and members of the Catholic Clergy who were engaged in the management and care of homosexual persons. In addition to […]

TORONTO, June 22, 2001 (LSN.ca) – While other political leaders flock to the gay banner, this Sunday’s Gay Pride Parade in Toronto will take place without the presence of Ontario Premier Mike Harris. The premier says he does “recognize that it is a significant event,“that highlights “the diversity of our province,” but he has no plans to attend and his government has never been officially represented in the parade. Harris’ Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, Tim Hudak, will also be absent, citing another engagement. Among those taking part in the event will be Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman, former Mayor […]

New York, NY, June 22, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A lawsuit filed against the Bush administration in US District Court reveals the long-time strategy of pro-abortion organizations to circumvent democratic procedure in the United States and elsewhere, says observer Richard Wilkins, professor of law at Brigham Young University. The suit, filed in US District Court by the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, seeks to overturn the Bush administration’s reinstatement of the pro-life “Mexico City policy,” which forbids US taxpayer dollars from supporting overseas groups that either promote or perform abortion. In court documents submitted by CRLP, the group describes […]

Ottawa, June 22, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A study based on a survey of nearly 6,000 Canadian students aged nine to 17 shows that a large percentage of children are accessing Internet sites and meeting strangers without parents’ knowledge. The federally funded survey, called Young Canadians in a Wired World, sharply contrasted with a poll on the same subject conducted last year among parents. Both surveys were conducted by the watchdog group Media Awareness Network. When parents were asked how much they knew about Web sites visited by their children, 71 percent said they knew a lot, or had some idea. […]

Today’s story on the Canadian bank which refused to open an account for a pro-family group incorrectly identified the offending bank as the Bank of Montreal. In fact the bank in question is the Royal Bank of Canada. Below is a corrected version of today’s LifeSite report. ROYAL BANK OF CANADA REFUSES TO OPEN ACCOUNT FOR PRO-FAMILY GROUP MONTREAL, June 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite has learned that the Royal Bank of Canada has refused to open a bank account for a group opposed to the “Gay Games” scheduled for Montreal in 2006. The “No Committee,” consisting of a coalition […]

SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A prominent homosexual activist, angered by news reports about the stand of the Southern Baptist Convention on homosexuality, held a church staffer hostage Monday until he was subdued by police. Activist Allan Ross, who runs one of the world’s most extensive pro-homosexual websites – usQueers.com, wielded a bottle with a jagged end, threatening to harm David Powell who was at the First Southern Baptist Church in San Diego June 18 cleaning the carpets with his three children. Unknown to the children, Ross held Powell in a church office demanding to see the […]

WASHINGTON, June 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The American Heart Association (AHA) has decided not to fund embryonic stem cell research and concentrate on funding of the more promising and ethical adult stem cells. The Los Angeles Times reports that the policy is a reversal of the AHA’s support for embryonic stem cell research and that the reason for the AHA’s current decision was the pro-life activism of AHA donors and Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis, Missouri. While its leadership was supportive of the embryo research, a flood of protest letters caused the AHA to do an assessment on the […]

LONDON, June 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – British physician Thomas Stuttaford, M.D. has reversed his stand on the abortion-breast cancer link, according to a press release by the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. Last year in an August 14, 2000 issue of The Times, Dr. Stuttaford, authored an article entitled, “Can Abortions Be Linked to Breast Cancer?” In this article, Dr. Stuttaford reassured British women that abortion is a safe procedure. He declared that, “As yet there is no evidence of a causative link between abortion and breast cancer,” and he incorrectly added, “none has been claimed by Professor (Joel) Brind.” Less […]

WASHINGTON, June 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – At a hearing on cloning yesterday, the Bush administration came out in favour of a ban on all human cloning, rather than a ban on reproductive cloning only. The Washington Post reports that Deputy Secretary for Health and Human Services Claude A. Allen told a congressional subcommittee that any cloning of humans would dangerously open the door to reproductive cloning. The suggested bill banning all human cloning would make such actions a federal crime. Pro-abortion politicians and some scientists are vehemently opposed to a total ban and want to be able to clone human […]

CNSNews.com reports that the world’s largest supplier of AIDS-fighting drugs, GlaxoSmithKline, is sponsoring a Gay Pride Month guide, creating a paradox, some say, by endorsing the homosexual behavior that is the leading contributor to the spread of HIV in the United States.  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive

TORONTO, June 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Last Sunday Toronto commenced one of the world’s largest “Gay Pride Week” celebrations. The week, with many lewd and crude events, culminates in a large parade through the streets of downtown Toronto on Sunday June 23. While Canadian politicians have not yet announced their participation in the parade, official sponsors of the anti-family event include: Labatt Blue Beer, Air Canada, Captain Morgan Rum, Rogers, The University of Toronto, Kodak, HMV.com, City TV and the City of Toronto. See an official list of sponsors of the event:  https://www.pridetoronto.com/sponsors.html

PARIS, June 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A 62-year-old woman who became France’s oldest woman to give birth admitted that her brother is the father of the child. The woman referred to in the press as Jeanine received in vitro fertilization in the United States using the ovum of an American and her brother’s sperm. UPI reports that the woman said Jeanine used her brother’s sperm so as to transmit the family’s genetic inheritance. Although the head of France’s ethics committee was shocked that the procedure, illegal in France, would be performed in the United States, Jeanine admitted no ethical quandary. […]

PARIS, June 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The French Government has proposed a bill to ban human cloning for research purposes, a move which runs against the British decision to allow such human cloning but ban only reproductive human cloning that would lead to the birth of a cloned human. Reuters reports that the French draft law allows for experimentation with frozen embryos left-over from fertility treatments with parental permission. Meanwhile, the UK’s Royal Society has reaffirmed its support for so-called therapeutic cloning, while calling for a worldwide ban on human cloning for reproductive purposes. A spokesman for the UK’s Society […]

LOS ANGELES, June 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The risk for young women of contracting human papilloma virus (HPV), the leading cause of cervical cancer, increases 1,000% with every new sexual partner, says a new study published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The National Post reports that the researchers conclude that the disease will infect 55% of sexually active young women within three years. Dr. Anna-Barbara Moscicki, the study’s principal author and a pediatrics professor at the University of California at San Francisco said, “The take-home message is that, if you want to avoid […]

MONTREAL, June 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite has learned that the Royal Bank has refused to open a bank account for a group opposed to the “Gay Games” scheduled for Montreal in 2006. The “No Committee,” consisting of a coalition of various pro-family groups wants to present the Montreal city government with arguments against the city’s hosting of the “Gay Games.” The issue will be publicized at a press conference on Friday at 10:30am at Place Cr{197}{189}mazie Room 425 in Montreal. Among the participants in the press conference will be Campaigne Quebec Vie President Gilles Grondin and Christian Heritage Party […]

COLOMBO, June 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake has lamented the UN funded and promoted population control schemes which have deprived his country of sufficient manpower to defend themselves and staff their religious temples. Wickremanayake is now proposing a scheme to boost the country’s population of young people by providing baby bonuses for families with more than two children in direct contrast to the UN population-control rhetoric which was trumpeted by the island government since the 1970s. According to reports in the BBC and AFP, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) regards Sri Lanka as a […]

The editorial in today’s National Post concludes, “Whatever one believes about the right to abortion, it is unacceptable to enshrine it in international documents, and give it the imprimatur of the UN, by camouflaging it carefully with anodyne language.”  https://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/editorials/story.html?f=/stories/20010619/stealthrights.html A poll reported in the National Post reveals that almost twice as many Canadians would prefer to see Paul Martin lead the Liberals into the next general election over current pro-abortion Prime Minister Jean Chr{197}{189}tien.  https://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/politics/story.html?f=/stories/20010619/martinfar.html Catholic News Service reports that Pope John Paul II said Benin’s lay Catholics should make a major effort to protect the unborn and all […]

OTTAWA, June 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Christian Heritage Party (CHP), Canada’s only pro-life political party – at the federal level, has produced a release on the “Rules for Stem Cell Research”. While noting the great potential benefits of stem cell research the paper notes that “some potential sources are ethically unacceptable” specifically referring to “aborted babies and ‘surplus’ embryos developed for treatment of infertility.” The paper condemns the arguments of researchers who pursue these unethical sources of stem cells saying that the relief of suffering justifies the means by which the tissue or cells might be obtained. “Their arguments […]

NEW YORK, June 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The U.S. Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has once again demonstrated its transformation into a leftist activist group rather than a defender of the rights of Jews. AP reports that on Monday ADL launched a Web site to monitor “extremist” and “hate” groups, which is to serve as a database for law enforcement officials. While the group claims it is only seeking to identify “anti-abortion groups that advocate violence,” the groups pro-abortion advocacy and attempt to associate the shooting of abortionists with peaceful pro-life groups such as Human Life International contradicts their reassurances. An […]

TORONTO, June 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC), an interdenominational, national association of 32 Protestant denominations representing over a third of Canada’s 3 million Protestant evangelical Christians, has been denied a hearing on the Ontario government’s proposed tax credit for private education (Bill 45). In a release today the EFC expressed its disappointment with the decision noting that it has been active on the issue for many years and that many of their members educate their children at independent, religious schools. “We wonder whether the Finance Committee is now being unbalanced in hearing more from those […]

Photos of surviving Siamese twin, Gracie Attard, have been released by News of the World. The story reveals the parents wished nevertheless that Gracie’s sister Rosie would have been allowed to live.  https://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/4255418 A new study by Canadian researchers claims that views on abortion and other issues can be genetically inherited. The study published in the June issue of the Journal Of Personality And Social Psychology compared the views of same-sex sets of identical twins with same-sex non-identical twins.  https://thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=  Article&cid=992829759742&call_page=TS_Canada& call_pageid=  968332188774&call_pagepath=News/Canada&col=968350116467 Patricia Ireland, head of the militantly pro-abortion NOW (National Organization of Women) is to retire in August […]

GLASGOW, June 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Scotland’s Cardinal Thomas Winning, 76, died suddenly yesterday from a heart attack. Only the second Scottish Cardinal since the Protestant Reformation, Cardinal Winning was a stalwart defender of the teachings of the faith, and heroically outspoken on matters of life and family. Although he was much loved by the faithful, anti-life and anti-family forces held him out as enemy number one. Earlier this year Cardinal Winning slammed plans to sell the abortifacient morning-after pill in the country without a doctors prescription. He said the government was promoting “early chemically-induced abortion” and sexually transmitted disease. […]

BATON ROUGE, June 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Louisiana Senate voted 34-4 Friday to approve Bill HB 1909 that would require ultrasound testing for women planning to have an abortion after 20 weeks’ gestation so a doctor can determine whether the child could survive outside the womb. The mother intending to abort would be offered the option of viewing her child via ultrasound. Moreover, if the child is determined viable, the legislation calls for the physician to “utilize the available method or technique of abortion most likely to preserve the life and health of the unborn child.” A second doctor […]

Norway Threatens to Cut Foreign Aid to Egypt over Homosexuality Language UNITED NATIONS, June 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The UN AIDS conference to be held from June 25-27 is headed for a rough ride as delegations from the West object to mentioning the fact that AIDS is spread largely through homosexuality among men, and feminist groups attempt to insert language advocating for abortion. Reuters reports that Egypt has proposed that factors leading to the spread of AIDS include “homosexuality among men, prostitution and other forms of irresponsible sexual behavior.” But Western groups reacted angrily to calling homosexuality “irresponsible sexual behaviour.” […]

UNITED NATIONS, June 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The controversy that was expected by some groups on Friday at the closing session of the UN prepcom on the Rights of the Child did not happen. The contentious issue of defining the word “services” in response to a gaff by a Canadian delegate who said that it includes “abortion”, was somewhat resolved in a small committee. The committee of interested nations, moderated by neutral Lichtenstein, agreed on a definition of services as meaning “basic services”. Although abortion was not explicitly excluded, the new paragraph at least mitigates the danger of the previous […]

Abortifacient Morning After Pill Ruled Out WASHINGTON, June 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Friday the National Conference of Catholic Bishops released the fourth edition of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. The new directives, according to Bishop Joseph A. Galante of Texas, “leaves no wiggle room” for Catholic and Catholic-affiliated hospitals to thwart the teachings of the Church pertaining to abortion. Abortion proponents are outraged with the news. The LA Times reported that “in the past, non-Catholic hospitals affiliated with the church have been able to get around the church’s prohibitions against abortion and sterilization by […]

VATICAN, June 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In an address given today by Pope John Paul II to the International Congress of Catholic Obstetricians and Gynaecologists the pope outlined the immense challenge faced by physicians who wish to practice medicine ethically. He urged doctors to practice conscientious objection, refusing to administer unethical treatments, reminding them that “it is never licit to cooperate formally in evil.” See full text: https://lsn.ca/ldn/2001/june/010618a.html

A woman who was physically forced to continue with an abortion when she wanted to leave the clinic and go to a hospital has been granted leave by a U.S. federal appeals court panel to proceed anonymously in her lawsuit against the clinic.  https://www.naplesnews.com/01/06/florida/a4231a.htm Jack Kevorkian, serving a 10- to 25-year murder sentence for lethally injecting a 52-year-old man, is making his sixth attempt to be released on bail while appealing his conviction.  https://www.detnews.com/2001/metro/0106/14/d18-236077.htm (Courtesy Pro-Life E-News) The Church of Scotland yesterday criticized the decision to give lottery funding of £500,000 to a gay rights organization that it accuses of […]

DUBLIN, Ireland, June 15, 2001(LSN.ca) Homosexual activists are asking the U.N. to include in the upcoming World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR), treaty provisions which would ban broadcasts critical of homosexuality, include “sex life,” transgenderism and other sexual categories as minority traits on a par with race or ethnicity, and strike down anti-sodomy laws. The International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) has been lobbying in Geneva, Switzerland, at a Preparatory Commission to the upcoming World Conference, to be held in Durban, South Africa, from August 31 to September 7. The Association does not enjoy any […]

HALIFAX, June 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Nova Scotia Pro-Life Conference held at Dalhousie University June 9th was a great success, says organizers. The conference attracted representatives from all over Nova Scotia and from other maritime provinces as well. Planning has already begun for next year’s conference with double the number of participants. The most valuable outcome was the physical re-grouping of a large number of pro-life people who had been involved in the past but had drifted off, say the organizers. Judging from the response and the media interest they are very hopeful that this will be the start […]

WASHINGTON, DC, June 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An Illinois nurse that reported hospital personnel deliberately leaving babies to die is to testify this month at a congressional hearing on the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. Nurse Jill Stanek’s public disclosure that Christ Hospital staff would induce labor and then leave premature babies that survived to die from lack of attention or medical care, prompted an investigation by the Illinois Attorney General. Federal legislation to give legal protection to babies born alive passed overwhelmingly in the U.S. House of Representatives last year, and numerous states have introduced similar legislation. After revealing […]

Primary Aim Appears to be Publicity DUBLIN, Ireland, June 15, 2001(LSN.ca) – A Dutch ship outfitted with a surgical abortion operating room and carrying the abortion pill RU-486 docked in Dublin last night, with previously stated plans to procure abortions in international waters outside the 12-mile territorial limit of Ireland,where abortion is illegal. The Women of the Waves group announced today that it would not be providing the abortion drug RU-486 as planned, because of legal and logistical problems. As well, a spokesman “We are not giving any information on whether we do abortions on board or not. What we […]

At 7 p.m. tonight in New York, the final negotiations begin at the UN’s third prepcom for the World Summit of Children. As usual, when pro-abortion and socially radical forces at the UN are determined to impose their agenda via a UN document, the meeting is expected to extend through the night and well into the next morning. Pro-family forces have some time ago caught on to this deliberate opposition strategy. It is designed to take advantage of delegate fatigue, the naivety of inexperienced delegates and the departure of poorer nation delegates on Friday in order to limit their expenses. […]

Human Life International Ireland is launching a “Life Boat” today to monitor the Dutch “abortion ship” Aurora wherever it sails.  https://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=  /www/story/06-13-2001/0001513612&EDATE= Researchers have discovered that it is not difficult to implant false memories in a person’s mind, calling into question the authenticity of using repressed memories as evidence in abuse court trials.  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010613/589948.html With only 29 MPs present, the House of Commons yesterday unanimously approved a motion to confer honorary citizenship on Nelson Mandela, former South African president and former African National Congress leader. Canadian Alliance MP Rob Anders, not present for the vote, had opposed the motion calling […]

HAYWARD, California, June 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A doctor has been found liable for recklessness and abuse for not prescribing enough pain medication to a patient who later died of cancer. It is the first verdict against a doctor under California’s Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act. In a break with malpractice standards, the act allows survivors to sue for a patient’s pain and suffering. During the month-long trial the defense argued that the doctor followed established protocols in prescribing pain medication and that neither the patient nor his family requested that the doctor prescribe more pain medication. […]

TORONTO, June 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Ontario shouldn’t offer tax credits for tuition at religious-based independent schools because of homophobia among school staff says the province’s only openly gay member of the legislature, Liberal George Smitherman. Smitherman said he couldn’t support a Tory plan to offer tax credits on private school tuition when some Christian leaders preach homosexuality is a sin. “As a gay man, I’ve experienced a lot of the word of God thrown back at me,” he said during committee hearings on the government’s budget bill, which includes the tax credit. A recent Supreme Court of Canada decision […]

NEW YORK, June 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – “Families As We Are,” a book on the evolving role of family structure and relationships including polygamous, patriarchal, matriarchal, or same-sex couples, was launched yesterday in New York in the presence of a host of UN dignitaries. Henrych J. Sokalski, former UN Coordinator for the International Year of the Family, called the book an “essential text…if we are to understand the multiple forces that shape and influence family life in the coming decades.” Author Perdita Huston says her work offers a voice to families from around the world to tell their stories, and […]

OTTAWA, June 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – “Children are a gift; they are not projects of our own making,” stressed the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC). The statment was made to the House of Commons Health Committee June 7 regarding draft legislation on reproductive and genetic technologies, called the The Assisted Human Reproduction Act. The EFC affirmed the proposed bill’s prohibitions on cloning and germ-line alteration, but expressed grave concern about the bill’s acceptance of research on embryos, which leads to their destruction. “Given our deep respect for human life and dignity, and that human life begins at conception, we urge […]

Defines reproductive health “services” as including abortion See today’s earlier bulletin on the furor caused at the U.N. by a Canadian delegate’s admission that the term “reproductive health services” in U.N. documents is understood to contain “abortion”.  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/june/010614a.html

Marie Claire Magazine will publish the results of a three-minute survey on abortion in its November issue. To participate in the survey go to:  https://homearts.com/mc/articles/41baby13.htm The Southern Baptists convention is making plans for better church marriage preparation courses, noting that the divorce rate among born-again Christians parallels the national average.  https://library.northernlight.com/EC20010612030000020.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc The floating abortion clinic which left the Hague Tuesday to operate off the coast of Ireland has no license say Dutch authorities, making the activists on board liable to face sentences of four and a half years imprisonment for any illegal activity committed.  https://library.northernlight.com/FD20010612150000040.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

WASHINGTON, DC June 13, 2001(LSN.ca) – Although the Bush administration has stopped government funds from being used for embryo stem cell research, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson is trying to find a compromise which would allow some federal financing. Thompson and President Bush “hope to come to a place that is a unifying position,” HHS spokesman Campbell Gardett said Monday. “There’s a lot of real, tremendous successes that can be had with stem cell research,” said Thompson. “We have to decide, first of all, whether the law allows any kind of federal dollars to go into stem […]

SEATTLE, June 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A U.S. District Court ruled Tuesday that birth control prescriptions must be included in an employee health care plan so as not to discriminate against “a fundamental and immediate health care need” of women. The case, brought by a 27-year-old female Bartell Drug Co. pharmacist, was the first federal lawsuit of its kind. Judge Robert Lasnik stated that the pharmacy chain discriminated against women by providing better coverage to men. “Although the (Bartell) plan covers almost all drugs and devices used by men, the exclusion of prescription contraceptives creates a gaping hole in the […]

MELBOURNE, June 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Two Australian doctors connected with in vitro fertilization are encouraging couples who have frozen embryos leftover after the process not to “waste” them. Professor Gab Kovacs, medical director of Melbourne’s Monash IVF, said that there are “many couples who have finished their IVF families” who could give others the opportunity of having children. Couples who no longer wished to keep embryos in storage could also donate them for research, such as monitoring the thawed embryo’s response to culture fluids, said Dr. Mark Bowman, medical director of Sydney IVF, calling this an “altruistic decision.” Statistics […]

Population control cited as real reason for DDT restrictions June 13, 2001(LSN.ca) – A U.N. treaty which would severely restrict the use of DDT, the primary chemical used to fight malaria, will result in the death of millions, says a report in The New American, a conservative U.S. bi-weekly magazine. William F. Jasper, author of the article, says the United Nations Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (known as the POP Convention), signed by representatives of more than 100 nations in Stockholm on May 23rd, will in effect “give this murderous plague [malaria] permanent protected status.” Malaria “is, by far, the […]

The Dutch Pro-life group “Cry for Life” has vowed to prevent the abortion clinic ship due to arrive in Ireland later this week from leaving the Dutch harbour where preparations for the voyage are being finalised.  ( https://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=450521&issue_id=4641) Ontario philosophy professor Donald DeMarco is encouraging pharmacists not to fill prescriptions for the morning-after pill if it violates their conscience. “Our society is very confused. It wants conscientious people, but not people with conscience,” said DeMarco.  (The Daily News (Halifax) Sun 10 Jun 2001 NEWS 8 By IRENE THOMAS, The Daily News) (Sourced by Pro-Life E-News)

VANCOUVER, BC, June 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Trade Union leaders using compulsory membership dues to further their own private agendas is wrong and has to stop says Stephen Gray, President of the B.C.-based Save the Union Movement. “In Canada union leaders run undemocratic organizations, have the indirect power to tax ad infinitum and misappropriate money to further their own personal political agendas,” he notes. A union supporter himself, Gray says that the original point of collective groups has been lost. “Unions many years ago were oppressed and many people suffered and died to get decent wages and working conditions. But […]

YORK, June 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A new Anglican catechism commissioned by the Archbishop of York, the Church of England”s second most senior prelate, says that “homosexuality may well not be a condition to be regretted but to have divinely ordered and positive qualities.” The section on sexuality states that “homosexual Christian believers should be encouraged to find in their sexual preferences such elements of moral beauty as may enhance their general understanding of Christ’s calling.” The catechism, written by Canon Edward Norman, canon and treasurer of York Minster, contradicts official Anglican Church teaching and the views of the Archbishop […]

DUBLIN, June 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Irish citizens voted in a national referendum Thursday to reject the Treaty of Nice, drawn up to prepare for the enlargement of the European Union but including provisions that could have brought abortion into Ireland. Well-known singer Dana Scallon, an Irish member of the European Parliament, said that a human rights charter in the treaty recognizes that “every person has a right to life, but you’re only considered a person by the European Union when you are born.” She called the treaty “a disaster,” saying it posed “threats to Irish sovereignty.” Ireland is the […]

WASHINGTON, DC, June 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – One of 11 scientists who prepared a just released National Academy of Sciences report on climate change, says the media misused the report to promote political action against global warming. MIT Meteorology professor Richard S. Lindzen says the NAS report made clear that “there is no consensus, unanimous or otherwise, about long-term climate trends and what causes them.” Typical of the media reporting was a paragraph in the June 7 CNN news that stated “The study found global warming ‘is real and particularly strong within the past 20 years’ and said a leading […]

The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld the right of the Speaker in the Ontario legislature to recite the Lord’s Prayer before beginning a session.  (https://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20010609/587241.html) Catholic University of America cancelled the use of its campus for the 10th annual “Healing for the Homosexual Conference,” which begins today, saying that the group’s application for rental was fraudulent.  (https://www.washtimes.com/culture/20010608-419345.htm) A Florida judge declined to stop production of that states’ “Choose Life” specialty licence plate sticker, over 13,000 of which are already in use.  ( https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/search/sfl-flicense09jun09.story?coll=sfla%2Dflorida%2Darchives)

CALGARY, June 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Sunday saw Conservative leader Joe Clark became the first former Canadian Prime Minister to act as grand marshal for a gay pride parade. Before a crowd of approximately 6,000, Clark and wife Maureen McTeer rode along the streets of Calgary in a red convertible leading a long line of homosexual advocates on floats, some dressed in studded leather and condoms. “I was happy to be part of the celebration,” Clark told reporters. “I’ve always believed in equality and encouraging groups to do their best and make their community better.” Newspaper editorials have pointed to […]

TORONTO, June 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Rina Morra has been accepted as the Family Coalition Party of Ontario (Ontario Coalition) candidate for the Vaughan-King-Aurora by-election announced for June 28, 2001. Mrs. Morra, who ran as a candidate for the Ontario Coalition in previous elections, “is an experienced and determinate candidate, and a believer in traditional liberal philosophy,” said Giuseppe Gori, Ontario Coalition Leader, in a recent press release. Mrs. Morra faces Greg Sorbara (Liberal) and Joyce Frustaglio (Conservative) in the prominent Ontario mid-term race. (see https://www.OntarioCoalition.com or https://www.FamilyParty.ON.CA)

OTTAWA, June 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) has raised serious concerns about sections of the draft legislation, The Assisted Human Reproduction Act. In submissions before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, COLF stressed that children are a gift, to be “respected and treated as a person from the moment of conception,” and that various parts of the current draft fail to recognize this. COLF drew attention to problematic proposals concerning surrogate motherhood, sex selection, the commercialization of human reproduction, regulation of proposed guidelines and embryonic research. “No human being, including the […]

WORTHING, ENGLAND June 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – English Judge Justice Nelson gave a two year suspended sentence June 7 to a father who killed his depressed 22-year-old daughter. “The fact that [he] acted out of love takes this case out of the norm – in particular the circumstances of her last days … her mounting despair and her sense of growing blackness,” ruled the judge. James Lawson admitted helping his daughter Sarah take an overdose of 30 anti-depressant tablets and then placing a pillow over her face and killing her in April last year. Defence lawyer Phillip Sapsford QC told […]

Polygamy could solve the daycare dilemma for professional women, says the Utah Chapter of the National Organization of Women. Men having multiple wives would mean that working women could “have someone at home they can trust to watch their children,” says the group.  https://www.polygamy.com/Practical/Polygamy-Could-Help-Moms-Who-Work.htm The cloning of pigs containing human DNA by a US firm could shortly lead to a supply of animal organs for transplanting into human beings.  https://thescotsman.co.uk/world.cfm?id=77931 US Republican Chris Smith will introduce legislation today “encouraging “ethical” research using only adult [stem] cells, not those of destroyed fetuses.” (Wall Street Journal, June 8, 2001) Protesters in California […]

CHICAGO, June 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Chicago scientists announced yesterday the first birth of a baby screened as an embryo to insure no predisposition to cancer. Researchers at the Reproductive Genetics Institute tested 18 early-stage embryos from two in-vitro fertilization attempts for a particular genetic disorder and seven were found to be normal. Two of those embryos were transferred back to the mother resulting in one successful pregnancy. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD, is performed at about 29 medical centers worldwide, mostly to uncover single-gene disorders. Last year the same institute’s scientists stirred worldwide debate when they selected from among […]

NEW YORK, June 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A college chemistry professor, stopped by the U.S. government from attempting to clone the first human baby, says that she is “fighting for the freedom of choice of reproduction.” Brigitte Boisselier used the abortion-rights language in response to the American Food and Drug Administration ordering her to stop project “Clonaid”, which sought to re-create a 10-month-old boy who died in a hospital accident. Boisselier said she hopes to go to federal court to challenge the FDA directive, and she believes arguments for and against cloning are destined for the U.S. Supreme Court. “If […]

RENNES, June 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A letter from the US Embassy in Paris stating the U.S. Government will not seek the death penalty for James Kopp is insufficient, said his attorney Herve Rouzaud-Le Boeuf in a French Court hearing Thursday. Kopp is charged in the U.S. for the sniper-style killing of a New York abortionist Barnett Slepian. France does not extradite suspects to countries where they may face execution. “We do not even know who wrote the letter. It was not signed,” Rouzaud-Le Boeuf told the court. “It has no legal value.” The lawyer further argued that given the […]

UNITED NATIONS, June 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – At a U.N. news conference Wednesday, representatives of the business organization Rotary International and the U.N. Population Fund signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to work together on projects to address global population. In the past, conservative groups such as Rotary have steered clear of population issues or opposed them because of opposition to sex education and family planning, especially abortion. “This has almost been a taboo subject,” said Rotary President Frank Devlyn, representing 1.2 million members in 164 countries and 35 other geographical areas. “For our organization, it’s one big step into a […]

Canadian feminist groups announced yesterday that they would boycott nation-wide government forums on changes to divorce law because fathers’ rights advocates are being allowed to participate.  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010607/584468.html New Brunswick has no plans to provide domestic partnership agreements to same-sex couples as Nova Scotia began doing this week. In light of a 1999 Supreme Court of Canada ruling, New Brunswick has already changed its Family Services Act so that any two individuals who live in a “family relationship” are entitled to be treated the same way as married couples. This could include same-sex couples, but also extends to other areas such […]

WASHINGTON, DC, June 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – At Prosser High School in the tri-city area of Washington State, Principal George Holmgren threatened to suspend freshman Andrea Lawyer unless she turned her Rock For Life T-shirt inside out. School officials have also said they would alter the student dress code to make wearing the T-shirt a violation. The shirt bears the message: ABORTION IS HOMICIDE You will not silence my message.  You will not mock my God.  You will stop killing my generation.  ROCK FOR LIFE Rock For Life’s leadership is giving its 100 percent backing to Lawyer. “In the classroom, […]

ALBERTA, June 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An allegation that physicians who object to abortion for reasons of conscience are obliged to refer patients for the procedure has been refuted by Canadian Physicians for Life (CPL). Planned Parenthood of Alberta spokeswoman Melanie Anderson stated on CTV News that “even doctors ethically must make referrals for abortion services, whether they morally support that or not.” CPL President Dr. Will Johnson responded that both in Alberta and nationally, a physcian’s responsibility is to “inform a patient when their personal morality would influence the recommendation or practice of any medical procedure that the patient […]

TORONTO, June 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Ontario government has agreed to double the budget for a year-old program that pays female doctors to take maternity leave as twice the expected number of physicians took advantage of it. As self-employed business people doctors are not eligible for the parental leave benefits salaried workers can receive under Employment Insurance, a federal program. A new Ontario program based on a Nova Scotia model offers them up to $880 a week for 17 weeks without having to pay premiums. Women physicians think a lot about when they’re going to have children because of […]

Czech Republic abortion rates are about one-third what they were ten years ago, which the Institute for Health Information in Prague attributes to increased contraception use.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1370000/1370753.stm The United Nations has begun a $21 million study to assess the impact of human activities on the Earth’s ecosystems and determine a global response.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1371000/1371251.stm

Washington, June 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – While former President Bill Clinton proclaimed June 2000 to be Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, and former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark will act as a marshal in a Gay Pride parade this year, current US President George Bush will not designate June 2001 to be focused on homosexuals. The White House said Bush “does not believe in politicizing people’s sexual orientation.” The executive office of the president will continue to observe special emphasis programs such as those focusing on minorities and women who have traditionally been underrepresented in the workforce. Meanwhile President Bush […]

Dublin, June 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In an unexpected move, a majority of the Irish Medical Council – the regulatory body for doctors – has voted in support of two proposals concerning direct abortion. If finalized, the proposals would change the Irish medical code of conduct to allow unborn babies diagnosed with Anencephaly to be aborted and for abortion where there is a real and substantial risk to the life of the mother. The current code states, “the deliberate and intentional destruction of the unborn child is professional misconduct.” The surprise motions were put before a recent private meeting of […]

Honolulu, June 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Hawaii’s Department of Human Services will begin using state dollars in mid-June to cover the cost of providing RU-486 to participants in QUEST, the federal and state-financed managed care program for poor and disabled women. Federal monies from the program will not be applied because the Bush administration will only pay for the ãabortion pillä mifepristone to end a pregnancy in situations of rape, incest or when a woman’s life is in danger, and Hawaii does not require women to report if they were raped or victims of incest. The same federal restrictions apply […]

Berlin, June 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – German state governor Wolfgang Clement was criticized yesterday by religious leaders and conservative politicians for recently announcing that he would allow a Bonn research institute to import embryonic stem cells. Clementâs permission came in the midst of a heated German debate about the ethics of stem cell research. German President Johannes Rau stated that Germany’s Nazi past and the terrifying experiments carried out on humans should give pause when guidelines are set out for modern research in Germany and other countries. The first embryo cells to be imported for research are to come from […]

The Alabama Supreme court denied an abortion to a 17-year-old girl, supporting the right of lower court judges to prevent an abortion when it is not in the best interest of a minor.  https://library.northernlight.com/EE20010601280000084.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc Oklahoma legislation makes doctors responsible for abortion complications in cases of young single women who lack parental consent.  https://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=697195&pic=none&TP=getarticle Canadian Alliance MP Deborah Grey says party leader Stockwell Day “should step down voluntarily and an interim leader, or leaders, should be appointed until a leadership convention.” In a morning interview on Ottawa radio station CFRA Grey stated that the Alliance has “serious problems.”  https://www.nationalpost.com/news/updates/story.html?f=/news/updates/stories/20010605/national-364016.html Poor Filipinos […]

Melbourne, June 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Scientists at Melbourne’s Monash IVF say they can now test embryos to determine if there is a strong possibility of developing genetic cancer later in life. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), already used to detect chromosome disorders such as Down syndrome, can now be used for couples carrying genetic mutations for breast, ovarian, bowel, brain, bone and soft tissue cancers. The PGD test involves invitro fertilization of several of a woman’s eggs, implantation of the healthy embryos after diagnosis, and discarding those embryos which are deemed at risk for cancer. Catholic ethicist Father Norman Ford […]

Halifax, June 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Two Nova Scotia women became the first to receive that province’s “certificate of domestic partnership” yesterday, following the June 1 passing of Bill 75 which gives same-sex partners spousal support, protection under the Matrimonial Property Act and the right to see a partner’s medical records and make emergency medical decisions. The bill comes in the wake of a Nova Scotia Court of Appeal ruling last year and a 1999 Supreme Court of Canada decision that gave same-sex couples the right to pension benefits. Nova Scotia is the first province in Canada to give gay […]

Toronto, June 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A pamphlet produced by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (EFTO) encourages all federation members to take part in demonstrations called “Gay Pride.” The bulletin states that the federation will publicize all such events and that it is “encouraging and supporting an ETFO presence in gay pride activities around the province,” including a possible booth at the Toronto Gay Pride event and EFTO flags for teachers to carry in the Toronto march. The EFTO website claims that approximately 10% of Canadians are homosexual and includes resources for combating “homophobia.” Although the goal of the […]

Redefines Pregnancy to Hide Abortion Toronto, June 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – 40 Toronto pharmacies began dispensing “morning after” pills without a doctor’s prescription Monday in a one-year pilot program funded by the Ontario Health Ministry through the Ontario Women’s Health Council. The goal of the project is to “prevent unwanted pregnancies and thereby reduce the number of abortions,” said Jane Pepino, OWHC chairwoman. Critics emphasize that “emergency contraceptives” can cause an early abortion by changing the uterine walllining so that an already fertilized egg cannot implant. A OWHC news release concerning “emergency contraceptive pills” confirms that they may also work […]

Teenage girls prolife t-shirt provokes thought and possible dress code revision in a US highschool.  https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/2001/0603/story4.html James Kopp, alleged to have murdered abortionist Barnett Slepian, will not face the death penalty if extradited to the US.  https://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20010602/1002189.asp Manitoba and Saskatchewan introduce bills aimed at extending the rights and benefits now enjoyed by married and common-law couples to same-sex couples.  https://www.fotf.ca/research/tfn/archives/tfn060101.html

Orlando, June 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Over the next several days, more than 100,000 practicing homosexuals will visit Walt Disney World and Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida to celebrate what is now known as “Gay Days” in one of America’s most pro-homosexual cities. While organizers of the annual “festivities” are planning events like “Suds II,”“Lesbo A Go-Go,” and “Where the Boys Are,” the Family Policy Network (FPN) is planning to confront homosexuals visiting Orlando with the truth that Christ can set them free. With the help of supporters throughout the country, FPN will fly an airplane banner over both Disney […]

Brussels, June 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Following Britain’s lead, Belgium will become the second country to make the “morning-after” pill available to the public without a prescription. Belgian Health Minister Magda Alvoet said the decision, effective June 10, was influenced by the increasing number of abortions among women under 20. “Seeing the growing number of terminations of pregnancies among women of less than 20 years was also taken into account in enacting this emergency solution,” Alvoet said at a news conference. The “morning after” pill is actually a high dose of birth control pills. The product, marketed under different names, […]

New York, June 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – With the US Supreme Court divided on the abortion issue, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has for years held the deciding vote in abortion related cases as evidenced by a New York Times Magazine profile of the jurist. The article recounts how between 1983 and 1992 O’Connor upheld every abortion restriction brought before the court, but that in 1989 she did not provide the fifth vote to overturn Roe itself. Then in 1992 in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, “she joined [justices] Souter and Kennedy in upholding what they called the core holding of Roe: […]

New York, June 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Despite an arduous application process, a victory for pro-lifers came with the acceptance of Concerned Women for America (CWA), the largest women’s public policy group in the United States, as a UN non-governmental organization (NGO). Official UN recognition of an NGO allows the group to gain access to UN property and to participate in UN negotiations. CWA has been involved with UN issues for years. Ending a three week session, the NGO committee of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) considered official UN recognition for dozens of organizations. ECOSOC, one of five […]

VIRGINIA EXTENDS CIVIL BENEFITS BEYOND HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES The Culture and Family Institute reports that newly elected Republican lawmakers in Vermont made good on their campaign promises last week by taking action against homosexual “civil unions”. The House approved a middle-of-the-road measure that replaced the term “civil unions” with “reciprocal partnerships” thus allowing cohabitating individuals in dependent relationship such as two brothers or an aunt and nephew to receive benefits.  https://cultureandfamily.org/e/report/2001-05-31/l_vermont.shtml A CHILD DOCTORS URGED ABORTED NOW SAVES MOTHER’S LIFE The Arizona Republic reports “Nearly two decades ago, Robyn Bowen refused when a doctor said she needed an abortion to save […]

Bill Whatcott, a pro-lifer from Regina who initiated the celebration and proclamation of Heterosexual Family Pride Day for June 18 will have to forgo the event to defend himself against charges of unlawfully distributing pro-life literature on University of Regina property.  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010531/578331.html The new census, which has been altered to include questions geared to homosexual couples, has been deemed offensive by a Ember Amanda Taylor, a man who fancies himself a woman, but wishes to be referred to as “transgendered.”  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010530/577288.html The British government funded British Pregnancy Advisory Service has revealed its pro-abortion extremism referring to pro-lifers as “vile scum”. […]

CHICAGO, June 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Illinois Senator Patrick O’Malley, a Roman Catholic and Republican from Chicago, has asked Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George to implement a ban on pro-abortion speakers on church property. O’Malley told the press that during a meeting the Cardinal told him that there already was such a rule and it us up to the pastors to enforce it. O’Malley, a strong pro-life advocate, stated his conviction: “Simply put, the church is being used here by ‘aborts’. They, the church, have to strengthen their hand. It is hard to win causes for them if aborts use the […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky, June 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Judith Reisman, a social researcher who has studied sexual behavior for 24 years, has released a new study called “Crafting Gay Children” in which she shows that since heterosexuals outnumber the homosexual population about 44 to 1. And yet, the incidence of homosexuals molesting children is up to 40 times greater than heterosexuals. In an interview with the Baptist Press, Reisman stressed that not all homosexuals are child molesters, but demonstrated that the data clearly indicate a greater incidence of child molestation among homosexuals. Reisman, who is famous for having debunked Alfred […]

BEIJING, June 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Asia Times reports that China’s one-child policy, which has been in effect since 1980, is soon to be formalized into law. The final draft of the law passed the National People’s Congress without difficulty (not surprising in the militant Communist country). “Conditions are ripe now to introduce this legislation, as the idea of family planning and the importance of reproductive health have been widely accepted by the public,” Shi Chunjing, vice director of the Regulation Department with the State Family Planning Commission, said last month. The Times reports that “If approved by the […]

PARIS, June 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Wednesday the French Parliament voted to allow abortions for babies up to 12 weeks gestation, increasing the allowable age from 10 weeks. The law removes the requirement for parental consent for abortions and stipulates that any adult of the girl’s choice may be involved. Under the new law, contraceptives, including abortifacients, are allowed without parental consent. The radical pro-abortion law further hampers efforts to make abortions an illegal offence. France’s socialist government has recently been indicating its openness to tearing down current protections for human life. In April it was reported that Dr. […]

VATICAN, June 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday, Pope John Paul II delivered a speech to the professors and students of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its foundation. In his discourse, the Pope emphasized that “a particularly current and decisive aspect for the future of the family and of humanity concerns the respect of man in his origins and the modalities of his procreation.” Excluding all forms of artificial pro-creation, the Pope said, “The context of spousal love and the corporeal mediation of the conjugal act […]