Articles for Month: July 2001

Statistics Canada reported yesterday that “children from both ends of the income distribution attend private schools; 29% of children who attend private schools are from families with incomes below $50,000, while 26% are from families with at least twice as much income.”  https://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/010704/d010704b.htm An American firm has boasted about its ability to allow parents to select the sex of their children using a sperm sorting machine and in vitro fertilization.  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001230966,00.html CNS News reports that the National Education Association Wednesday decided not to vote on a homosexuality resolution at its annual meeting in California in response to hundreds of pro-family […]

TORONTO, July 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The homosexual activist group EGALE has put out a press release cheering the decision of Big Brothers of Toronto, an organization which encourages men to become temporary guardians for boys, to remove a question on sexual orientation from its screening questionnaire. The release notes: “In early June, EGALE was contacted by a person who had been asked to provide a reference for an acquaintance who had applied to become a Big Brother. This person, who is heterosexual, was offended that one of the questions on the personal reference form asked if they were aware […]

CHICAGO, July 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An important statement made recently by U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde about pulling the United States out of the United Nations was largely ignored by the media. Republicans for Fair Media (RFM News) reported last month that at a June 9 conservative conference Hyde answered a series of questions about America’s membership in the United Nations. Referring to House Resolution 1146, sponsored by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) which would essentially call for the United States to end its membership in the United Nations, Hyde said, “As Chairman of the International Relations Committee, I don’t think […]

EDMONTON, July 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A story in the May 28 edition of Report newsmagazine details the horrifying story of a caring wife who alleges that her husband was euthanized in an Alberta hospital. Irene McNeilly of St. Paul, Alberta has lodged a complaint with the College of Physicians and Surgeons regarding the treatment her late husband Dr. Keith McNeilly received at the St. Therese Hospital in St. Paul. However, an advocate for the elderly in Alberta, Ruth Adria of Edmonton, told the magazine that euthanasia is becoming more common and that she has other charges in progress. Adria […]

CLEVLAND, OH, July 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pro-life U.S. Catholics were distressed on learning that the Cleveland Diocese donated $30,000 last year to an Ohio community organization affiliated with the National Abortion Rights Action League. Several Catholics had contacted the Diocese to protest last year’s funding. However, the diocesan newspaper, the Cleveland Catholic Universe Bulletin, reported June 22 that the Cleveland Diocese’s Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) grants for this year once again include $30,000 to the same organization – Organize! Ohio – Grassroots Leadership Development Program. Organize! Ohio’s (OO) list of member organizations last year included the National […]

U.S. HOUSE BIG-WIGS OPPOSE FUNDING EMBRYO RESEARCH Pro-life US House Reps. Richard K. Armey, Tom DeLay and J.C. Watts—the House majority leader, majority whip and Republican conference chairman, respectively—said in a statement to President Bush: “The federal government cannot morally look the other way with respect to the destruction of human embryos, then accept and pay for extracted stem cells for the purpose of medical research.”  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10638-2001Jul2.html Idaho state Judge Michael McLaughlin issued an emergency order Monday requiring Idaho to keep paying for abortions pending a review of the constitutionality of a new law against public funding of abortion.  https://www.al.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?  […]

The National Post reports that King’s College, the Christian school which lost a discrimination case in the Supreme Court of Canada for dismissing a practicing homosexual teacher, has decided to enact a code of behaviour. The code bans sex outside of marriage. Such codes were recently upheld by the Supreme Court in the Trinity Western decision.  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010704/608905.html The Ottawa Citizen reported this week on conscience legislation, quoting Barb Wahl, president of the Ontario Nurses Association as saying such a law “would be a good thing.”  https://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010701/5038322.html A Scottish opinion poll has revealed that about 70 per cent of Scottish citizens […]

Nurse Who Revealed Killings of Live Aborted Babies Still Being Harrassed WASHINGTON, DC, July 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A pro-life amendment to the Patients’ Bill of Rights legislation that was approved by the Senate on Friday, June 29th, will ensure that babies born alive after botched abortions have the right to life and thus medical care. The amendment passed the Senate 98-0. An identically worded Born-Alive Infants Protection bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives last year. Ironically however, the pro-life nurse who brought the issue to light is still facing disciplinary action by the medical center where she is […]

JERUSALEM, July 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An Israeli pro-life group which distributed pro-life videos to some 350,000 Israeli households has met with success. Israel’s Health Minister, Nissim Dahan (Shas), was motivated by the tape to take action. The tape distribution caused a stormy session in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) yesterday. Ha’aretz News reported today that feminist MK’s were outraged at the video. However Minister Dahan said, he found the tape instructive. “I received the impression that the social workers don’t do their jobs faithfully and that the abortion committees [medical committees that by law must approve all abortions] approve terminations […]

ERIE, PA, July 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pax Christi USA, which bills itself as the “National Catholic Peace Movement”, has cancelled its national assembly after the Catholic university where the event was scheduled refused to allow the pro-abortion keynote speaker on campus. Pax Christi national coordinator Nancy Small told Catholic News Service that Christian Brothers University in Memphis Tennessee refused to allow Rev. James Lawson to speak at the scheduled Aug 3-5 annual meeting. According to a report in the United Methodist News Service (UNMS), Lawson, a civil rights leader in the 1950s and 60s and pastor of Holman United […]