Articles for Month: July 2001

NEW YORK, July 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations is harassing a tiny Southern European Catholic country with less than 70,000 citizens for not allowing abortion. Yesterday, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women called on Andorra, a country located between France and Spain and about 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC, to deliver its report on compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). In its report to the committee the Catholic country, represented by Esteve Vidal, Counsellor-Delegate for Institutional Relations of Andorra, indicated that it regarded […]

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – For the first time in history, scientists in the US have admitted to creating human beings explicitly for experimentation that will lead to the deaths of those human beings. A study published today in the journal Fertility & Sterility, published by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), admits that scientists harvested ova from 12 women and sperm from 2 men to create human embryos for stem cell experimentation. Scientists at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk claimed their experimentation was “ethically and scientifically justifiable” and […]

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – As US President George Bush is about to release his decision on the use and funding of the destructive use of human embryos for stem cell experimentation, advocates and opponents are competing to have their voices heard. Pro-life groups have presented a unified front against the killing of this youngest of human life. At the same time, special interest groups and corporations which have spent much money on embryonic stem cell research are urging Bush to go further than Clinton in supporting such research. On all fronts the competition in this latest front of […]

A researcher in Australia says she has found a way to fertilize ova without the use of sperm. Dr. Orly Lacham-Kaplan, from Monash University in Melbourne told the BBC that her team had been able to successfully fertilize mice eggs in lab cultures using other cells in the body known as somatic cells. https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1431000/1431489.stm Human Life International has announced the appointment of Fred J. Turek as the organization’s new executive vice president. For 28 years he worked for the Mobil Corporation handling financial, operational, managerial and strategic planning activities at the local, regional and international corporate levels. Upon his retirement, […]

OTTAWA, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) is urging pro-family Canadians to express their concerns over the recent decision of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission which noted that a newspaper ad publishing Bible verses on homosexuality was discriminatory. In a release CFAC says it “is very concerned about the serious implications of this ruling on religious freedoms in Canada” and “with the process by which this decision was made.” The CFAC release notes ” Human Rights Commissions have clearly become another tool of radical special interest groups. Human Rights Commissions are made up of appointed […]

OTTAWA, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Newspapers across Canada featured stories today reporting that “the anti-abortion United States government is having an effect north of the border.” The frenzy was initiated last week when the Bush administration drafted a policy to allow states to cover “unborn children” under the Children’s Health Insurance Program. While pro-lifers are hopeful that pro-life measures in the US will encourage similar legislation in Canada, pro-abortion activists are worried that a pro-life victory in the US would embolden pro-lifers in Canada. Both pro-lifers and those opposed to life recognize that the influence of the United States […]

VANCOUVER, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The newly elected Liberal government in British Columbia has dropped out of a court case, launched by the previous New Democratic provincial government, to force Canada to allow homosexual marriages. The BC Catholic reports that the spokesman for BC Attorney General Geoff Plant confirmed the province had pulled out of the case. The former NDP BC government, which suffered a crushing defeat in the recent elections, was the most extremist pro-abortion and pro-homosexual government in Canadian history. Launching the legal challenge against the federal government last July, then BC Attorney General Andrew Petter said, […]

HALIFAX, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Nova Scotia provincial Supreme Court Justice Deborah Gass rendered a written decision Monday stating that a provincial law that restricted adoption to married couples was unconstitutional and discriminated against homosexual and common-law couples. The ruling stems from a legal challenge launched by two lesbians with children who argued that they were being discriminated against because the province prevented both from being recognized as parents. In her ruling Gass wrote: “Prohibiting a joint adoption where all the evidence indicates these adults are providing optimum care and loving .. defeats the very purpose of the legislation […]

OTTAWA, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Canada has put two million dollars into a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) campaign targeting Guatemala for chemical abortion advocacy. The five-year project, according to CIDA, aims for “Increased demand, supply, access and quality of reproductive health services, including contraceptives, in Guatemala.” Moreover the plan aims to promote a change in law advocating population control. The CIDA document lists as one of its components for support: “advocacy for a law on population and development.” Mercedes Wilson, formerly the official delegate of Guatemala to the United Nations, told LifeSite “it is horrible that Canadian taxpayers […]

A study in Obstetrics and Gynecology (2001;98:101-106) reports that about 3% of women who abort their children with the abortion drug RU-486 have serious complications requiring surgical abortion.  https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010706/hl/abortion_surgery_1.html A report in the Sunday Times reveals that career women are using “rent-a-womb” contracts to have children while avoiding pregnancy. Conceptual Options, a private clinic in California, performs the procedures for clients around the world. The article notes that the women are concerned that they may lose their jobs if pregnant, they fear stretchmarks and the pain of childbirth.  https://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/07/08/stinwenws02005.html Toronto tourism officials are promoting the city as the travel destination […]