Articles for Month: August 2001

OTTAWA, August 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Surrogate mothers should be allowed to charge for womb rental says Canadian Alliance MP Keith Martin. “If a woman wants to rent out her uterus for a fee, let her and that’s her moral decision, her ethical decision. Government shouldn’t be involved in that,” said Martin, who is a medical doctor. Martin’s comments follow federal government proposals to introduce legislation as early as next year that would ban advertising for paid surrogates and criminalize commercial surrogacy. A recent Globe and Mail article revealed that Canadian women advertising surrogacy for a fee are attracting infertile […]

CORNWALL, ON, Aug 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The third investigation into allegations of an organized pedophile ring in Cornwall, Ontario has found insufficient evidence of a ring despite the fact that there were 115 charges laid against 15 people, from gross indecency to sexual assault. MPP Gary Guzzo, who has been following the case closely since it was launched in 1992, has said that key video evidence was illegally destroyed by police years ago. Mr. Guzzo told the Ottawa Citizen that the “kingpins” of the alleged pedophile clan—several prominent members of the Cornwall community—appeared on the videotapes with young boys. […]

Universities teaching pornography in courses becoming more common.  https://boston.com/dailyglobe2/232/nation/Porn_is_hot_course_on_campus+.shtml The Center For Bio-Ethical Reform has nationally launched its ‘Reproductive Choice Campaign’ with trucks traveling state highways graphically depicting the horrific results of abortion.  https://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0822-116.html Washington state is requiring all insurance companies to provide coverage for birth all birth control beginning next month.  https://www.tribnet.com/news/health_science/0823a13.html

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A study presented at a meeting of the American Psychological Association finds that spanking causes no negative effects. The study found that a majority of families use spanking as a form of discipline and that the children of those who did spank showed no negative effects on cognitive, social or behavioral skills compared to children who were not spanked. However, the study found that children who were punished verbally, frequently and impulsively as well as those hit in the face or shook were found to be affected. Those children were found to be […]

LONDON, Aug 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Britain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has agreed to allow a 47-year-old woman to bear the child of her brother through in vitro fertilization. The woman will be implanted with an embryo created with sperm donated from her brother and an ovum donated anonymously. The case mirrors the one of a French woman who traveled to the United States to be artificially impregnated with her brother’s sperm. Although illegal in France, the procedure was done in the U.S. and the child was born in France, making the woman the oldest woman to give […]

DUSSELDORF, Germany, Aug 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Scientists at the University of Dusseldorf Cardiac Clinic have achieved a world first using bone marrow stem cells to heal a man's heart. Prof Bodo Eckehard Strauer, extracted stem cells from the 46-year-old man's pelvis and injected them into his coronary arteries. The stem cells migrated to areas damaged by a heart attack and turned into healthy muscle cells, which began to beat. The unnamed man suffered a serious heart attack which caused the loss of a quarter of his heart muscle. Four days later he underwent the stem cell operation. “Ten weeks […]

Pedophiles Pushing Unlimited Rights For Children NEW YORK, Aug 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pro-life and pro-family groups attending the latest prepcom for the United Nations’ World Summit for Children are greatly concerned that a fierce battle over child versus parental rights will ensue. A series of closed meetings for the Summit began today and are scheduled to run through August 31. Reporting from the United Nations in New York, LifeSite correspondents note that during these meetings some of the most contentious parts of the document will be discussed. Language hotly debated for the final document includes coded references promoting abortion, […]

Harvard University will use private funds to experiment on human embryos, according to a deal today in which a Boston in vitro fertilization clinic will provide the university with human embryos for experimentation.  https://library.northernlight.com/EB20010824480000017.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc The University of Nebraska reinstated notorious partial-birth abortionist LeRoy Carhart to a faculty position Thursday after he agreed to drop his lawsuit against the school. Carhart, who won a Supreme Court decision to forbid Nebraska from banning partial-birth abortions, was terminated last year from his volunteer faculty position at the university’s medical center in Omaha.  https://www.theindependent.com/stories/082301/new_carhart23.html AP reports that on Nov. 28 the Texas Supreme Court […]

IRISH ABORTION NUMBERS RISE AGAIN Provisional figures released by the British Office for National Statistics yesterday show that, during the first quarter of 2001, 1,696 women who had abortions in England and Wales provided Irish addresses – up almost 200 abortions from the same time period in 1999.  https://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/0824/hom27.htm

WASHINGTON, Aug 24, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A survey of American Muslim opinion released yesterday shows a slight majority of Muslims are against embryonic stem cell research and a vast majority against human cloning. That survey, conducted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) shows that 37 percent said they opposed the use of stem cells from human embryos in medical research while 35 percent supported its use and 29 percent had no opinion. According to the Washington-based Islamic advocacy group’s poll of 1008 individuals, 81 percent said they are against human cloning. The poll also found that 67 percent want […]