Articles for Month: July 2001

The National Post reports that Paladin Labs Inc., the Montreal company that distributes the abortifacient morning after pill, Plan B, and the national Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists are preparing an application that could be ready by August that will ask Health Canada to eliminate the requirement for a prescription for dispensing the abortifacients. Two polls of interest to pro-lifers are on line. A 60 Minutes poll to legalize abortions in Ireland and the msnbc.com poll of funding for embryonic stem cell research. The pro-life position is behind in both polls. For the 60 Minutes poll, click:  https://news.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2001_07_08/story_365.asp For the […]

WORCESTER, MA, July 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Advanced Cell Technology Inc. (ACT), the first company to admit creating a live human-animal hybrid, has now admitted to having commenced experiments to create human clones for use in stem cell research. The Washington Post reports that as of last night, scientists were still conducting the work and would not report on their results. “Scientific results should be published in scientific journals,” said Michael West, the company’s president and chief executive. The clones are to be created from the fusion of a cell from an adult with a donated human ovum that has […]

LONDON, ON, July 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Southwestern Ontario leg of the Show The Truth Tour kicked off to a great beginning on Monday, July 9th. In particular, the two morning presentations in Windsor, Ontario garnered mainstream media coverage – print, radio and television. Main organizers, Rosemary Connell and Phil Arnsby were delighted with the coverage. Additional exposure was given when CBC Radio interviewed Phil Arnsby this afternoon in London. Arnsby was instrumental in organizing the tour, with the help of other pro-life leaders from various communities. Sporting a core team of over forty members, ranging in all ages […]

OTTAWA, July 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Another example of selective mainstream media coverage on the rupture within the Canadian Alliance occurred this week with news reports about Alliance party co-president Ken Kalopsis resigning from the executive committee of the Alliance National Caucus. Media reports gave the impression that Kalposis’ July 9 resignation was another unexpected and serious loss to the Day led Alliance. Almost all reports failed to mention that Kalopsis was about to be voted off the Alliance Executive and that his resignation conveniently pre-empted the action. Kalopsis and wife Nancy Branscombe have been known to be strong Day […]

UNITED NATIONS, July 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Speaking yesterday on the occasion of World Population Day, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan made a thinly veiled call for abortion rights while promoting “an integrated approach to… slowing population growth.” Annan appealed to the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development to justify his endorsement of population control, which he tied to reducing poverty and protecting the environment. Annan said that “Among the requirements for achieving these related goals are universal access to …reproductive health care and family planning… Women… are often denied the right to…control their own fertility. Enhancing women’s opportunities […]

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The media has come out as one of the strongest lobbyists in favour of funding research involving the destructive use of human embryos. Numerous editorials favouring funding for the unethical research were published with few papers dissenting. While the Washington Times came out in favour of ethical stem cell use not involving the destructive use of human embryos, the following papers all carried editorials favouring the experimental research over the right to life: Albany Times Union (https://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyKey=61671&category=O)  Atlanta Journal-Constitution (https://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/thursday/opinion_b34460a766d410080085.html)  Boston Globe   Des Moines Register (https://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c5917686/15186266.html)  Fresno Bee (https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/story/0,1733,280891,00.html)  Houston Chronicle (https://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/964925)  Newsday […]

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – White House press secretary Ari Fleischer was bombarded with questions from the media this week regarding President Bush’s eagerly awaited decision on embryonic stem cell research. At a press conference yesterday where the bulk of the questions centered around stem cells, Fleisher confirmed that he was asked by reporters Monday “when the President believed that life begins.” Fleisher did not respond immediately but sent an email to reporters later that day indicating that the President believed life beings “at conception.” One reporter yesterday asked if the President continues to believe that in light of […]

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Food and Drug Administration has clamped down on fertility clinics practicing a new technique using DNA from three parents, saying that the government needed to give approval to any procedures that involve human cloning and other forms of genetic engineering. The targeted technique, “ooplasmic transfer,” combines the eggs of two different women and is generally used when an older woman is trying to conceive. New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim McGreevey is demonstrating religious intolerance towards his Republican opponent Bret Schundler. Schundler a pro-life Catholic, is being attacked for his uncompromising pro-life stand. […]

A Thailand university is saying that the country’s population program has been “successful” in making for population decline. The report argued that Thailand’s success in birth control should be attributed to women, who shouldered the burden of contraception, sterilization and abortion. https://library.northernlight.com/FA20010711790000129.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc Kenya is pledging to reduce population growth. Earlier LifeSite reports have demonstrated how this pro-population control mentality has been forced on the country. https://ippfnet.ippf.org/pub/IPPF_News/News_Details.asp?ID=1247

MADISON, Wis., July 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Tuesday the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that a man who owed $25,000 in child support could be ordered not to father anymore children as a condition of probation. AP reports that if David Oakley, who already has had nine children with four women, fails to abide by the condition, he faces 8 years in prison. The decision by the justices was split along gender lines as all three female justices dissented from the ruling saying having children is a basic human right guaranteed by the Constitution. Justice Ann Walsh Bradley wrote […]