Articles for Month: August 2001

A U.S. federal judge has upheld Florida’s law barring homosexuals from adopting children, supporting the state’s claim that it has a legitimate interest in placing adopted children in “married homes.” https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010831/676702.html On the eve of National Pregnancy Week in Britain, two new risks to unborn children have been reported. For a study on how a mother’s anxiety can increase the risk of having a hyperactive child please see:  https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1517000/1517520.stm Herbal remedies containing colchicine, possibly found in ginkgo biloba, could cause birth defects. For more information please see:  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010831/676842.html The London High Court has granted permission for a judicial review of […]

NEW DELHI, August 31, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Indian government is planning to put televisions in community halls of high population growth states to distract the rural population from procreating. The plan is also aimed at exposing the public to the government’s family planning media campaigns. Indiaâs family planning budget grew by 20% this year to almost US $2-billion. The Indian government is aiming to reduce the country’s overall population growth to just 1% by 2010, the same growth rate as that of China. Canada, meanwhile, is facing a serious labour shortage in the near future. “A general labour shortage […]

WICHITA, KA, August 31, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A mother who aborted her seven-and-a-half month old unborn child has testified that following the procedure she and her husband took part in a baptismal ceremony offered by the abortion clinic. Women’s Health Care Services, run by abortionist George Tiller, promotes a “remembrance ceremony” as an additional service to late-term abortion customers. With the dead, aborted baby the clinic offers “baptism of your baby, with or without a certificate,”“certificate of premature miscarriage,” and “footprints and handprints of your baby.” Referring to the aborted child, the clinicâs advertising says, “We are grateful to allow […]

ELLSWORTH, WI, August 31, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A U.S. Circuit Court judge has ordered a 26-year-old woman, convicted for her part in the dehydration death of her infant daughter, not to have any further children. The woman was sentenced to 10 years’ probation and one year in jail, and told she could face more jail time if she had another child without permission from the court or her probation officer. Wisconsin American Civil Liberties Union executive director Chris Ahmuty criticized the restriction, saying bearing children is a fundamental right. A recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decision said that a man who […]

SEATTLE, August 31, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The head of the University of Washington’s Birth Defects Research Laboratory had his home picketed this month by prolife activists. Alan Fantel, who runs the nation’s largest provider of fetal tissue for federally funded research, expressed dismay at the actions aimed against him. “We’ve been doing what we’ve been doing calmly and quietly for 30 years,” he said. What Fantel and his four colleagues do is make almost daily visits to Seattle-area clinics and hospitals that perform abortions to collect aborted baby parts. They then sift through the childâs remains to identify the needed […]

A Canadian-developed website for young women facing an unexpected pregnancy, sponsored by Oregon Right to Life, has become a popular pro-life presence on the Internet, logging over 1200 hits a day with an average viewing time of 10 minutes.  https://standupgirl.com

MISSOURI, August 30, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Anthony Levatino says it was the tremendous perseverance and faith of one of his patients over the course of eight years that helped him to stop performing abortions. Speaking at a Missouri Vitae (Life) Society dinner, Levatino told how one patient, a woman named Susan, would visit his practice every year for a physical and annual exam and then deliver the message that Jesus loved him and that performing abortions wasn’t part of God’s plan for his life. Levatino related that he always tried to ignore his patient’s words, but that after the […]

DALLAS, August 30, 2001 (LSN.ca) – U.S. President George W. Bush's compromise in allowing limited federal funding of embryo stem cell research continues to draw mixed reaction from moral conservatives. Former GOP presidential candidate Alan Keyes, speaking at a Republican supporter convention in Dallas-Fort Worth, referred to Bush as an “evil” leader who allows politics to determine policy. “I cannot support leadership that sits in the backroom trying to figure out how much harm can be done without opposition,” said Keyes. Alternately, Mr. William McGurn, chief editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal online, questioned whether it is hypocritical to […]

VANCOUVER, B.C. August 30, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ruling has granted both parties in a lesbian relationship the legal right to register as parents on a childâs birth certificate. The Tribunal decided that when a woman has a child using sperm from an anonymous donor, her lesbian partner may also register as a parent. Previous to the ruling, the non-birth partner had to adopt the child before she could become the child’s legal parent, whereas heterosexual couples who had a child together using an anonymous sperm donor could both be registered as parents on the […]

VATICAN CITY, August 30, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Experimentation on human embryos could lead to a new type of slavery by creating a “sub-category” of human beings: unborn children manipulated to serve the purposes of others, the Vatican warned yesterday. The statement was part of a document released by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace for the 8-day U.N. conference on racism that starts Friday in South Africa. The document said “the unborn child as the subject of experimentation and technological intervention” is part of “new and dramatic forms of discrimination,” including artificial procreation, the use of “superfluous” embryos and […]

A federal judge imposed $80,000 in fines on a couple and their two adult daughters for violating New York State’s new abortion clinic access law. A Gay U.S. Democratic judge plans to run for the Senate seat vacated by conservative Jesse Helms https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010829/672432.html

A comprehensive agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, which some speculate are linked to climate change, was reached during the annual Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers.  https://www.southam.com/ottawacitizen/newsnow/cpfs/world/010827/w082791.html A new hate crime database being maintained by the Calgary police department will register all reports of “hate incidents,” or non-criminal acts motivated by hate, that happen in the community, including comments or actions perceived to be hateful to a personâs sexual orientation.  https://www.calgaryherald.com/news/stories/010812/5079324.html The Progressive Conservatives and the 12 MPs who defected from the Canadian Alliance have chosen a date for their first joint caucus and plan to seek […]

VANCOUVER, August 29, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Polygamy can be practiced in British Columbia without fear of prosecution because the provincial government believes the prohibition against the practice violates the constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion, according to an August 27 news report in Vancouverâs The Province. “BC is the only place in North America where polygamy and its associated abuses can be practiced openly without fear of prosecution,” said Debbie Palmer with the Committee Concerned with Child Abuse in Polygamy. Last week a US court sentenced Utah Mormon Tom Green – who has five wives and 30 children – to […]

NEW DELHI, August 29, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Indian researchers plan to capitalize on U.S. President Bushâs funding restrictions on embryonic stem cells by moving ahead with their own projects. Two Indian research organizations possess colonies of embryonic stem cells, known as cell lines, which can develop into many other types of tissues to be used for various new medical procedures. India is only beginning to formulate policies covering stem cell research and there are no legal guidelines currently in place. Scientists do not anticipate public disapproval of their work except from a minority of Hindus. “From the stage of embryonic […]

ANCHORAGE, August 29, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A booth at the Alaska State Fair, dispensing free prescriptions for a drug said to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex, has drawn fire from pro-life organizations. Karen Vosburgh, executive director of Alaska Right to Life, says that the emergency contraception display promotes a dangerous drug that can cause an abortion and that the drug disturbs women’s menstrual cycles and has ingredients linked to cancer The drug “is damaging, it is dangerous, and I think they are putting themselves out at a huge risk to dole out prescriptions when they are not even sure what […]

LOS ANGELES, August 29, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Human fat, collected by liposuction, shows promise of providing a plentiful source of replacement cells for a variety of medical treatments. This would possibly eliminating the controversial use of embryonic stem cells say researchers from two American Universities. The UCLA and University of Pittsburgh researchers have isolated stem cells—cells with the potential to become virtually any type of tissue—from fat and converted them into bone, cartilage and muscle. “This could take the air right out of the debate about embryonic stem cells,” said Dr.Mark Hedrick of UCLA, the lead author of the study. […]

The National Institutes of Health has revealed all the organizations that own the stem cell lines available for federal funding. Here is the list from the NIH website:  https://www.nih.gov/news/stemcell/082701list.htm Jesse Helms—the greatest U.S. senator of the last quarter of the 20th Century.  https://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/08-27-01/jeffrey.html E. T. Hall, the Archaeologist Who Debunked Evolutionary theory’s Piltdown Man, dies at 77.  https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/21/obituaries/21HALL.html A Baby Seized by State Police from a Mother’s Hospital Room was given to homosexual couple. The same mother’s other son was killed by a dog attack while stationed in a foster home.  https://www.massnews.com/8231baby.htm

Opens the Door to Dangerous Developments, Vatican Radio Says VATICAN CITY, August 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The decision of U.S. President George W. Bush to offer limited public funding for experimentation on cell lines developed from human embryos has been criticized by Vatican Radio. Bush “has gone beyond the moral boundaries of research” and “his decision opens the door to very dangerous developments,” it said in an Aug. 10 broadcast. Bush and Pope John Paul II have discussed embryonic stem cell research in a July 23 meeting, with the Pope strongly urging the president to respect all human life and […]

WASHINGTON, August 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will test-market a pro-life advertising campaign in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey starting September 4 with the theme “Abortion. Have we gone too far?” The campaign will include billboards at bus shelters, ads on commuter rail cars and continuous radio spots on five stations. If successful, both the ads and an Internet presence could be used nationwide. “What’s new about this is we are presenting a couple of facts in a nonemotional and intelligent way,” said Cathleen Cleaver, secretariat for pro-life activities. “We’re not trying to provoke an […]

WASHINGTON, August 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Bush administration may not send a high-level delegation to a special U.N. General Assembly session on children next month if sections of the current draft of the final declaration, concerning abortion counseling and services and the rights of children, remain unchanged. “The outcome document [for the special session] shouldn’t support or endorse abortion counseling and services for adolescents. The draft does,” said a State Department official. In a final round of talks in New York this week, U.S. delegates are working to alter any language or clauses that the administration believes overemphasize the […]

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 […]

BOSTON, Aug 24, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Diane Cox, who chairs the medical genetics department at the University of Alberta contends that the public perception, and ethical considerations on genetic research are far behind the actual research practices. To illustrate the point, Edmonton Journal columnist Scott Foster points out in an article in Wednesday’s National Post that animal-human hybrids have been created, lived and have been permitted to develop till the 32-cell stage. “Right now, technology is way ahead of ethics. The Canadian population is worried enough about relatively trivial things, let alone such a bizarre concept,” says Cox. Foster points […]

BOMBAY, Aug 24, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations, and European, Canadian and American governments and foundations are known throughout the third world as being much more apt to send condoms and other birth control agents to the third world than needed medical necessities. The ridiculous amounts of condoms sent have made for comments such as “the West is trying to cover Africa with rubber” and other epithets made by witnesses of the programs. Moreover, medical facilities in third world countries are often found to have little in the way of medical supplies and an over abundance of birth control […]

ROME, Aug 24, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Italian minister for European Union policies Rocco Buttiglione has announced that he intends to reform Italy’s 1994 abortion law to help women to afford to raise children. Mr Buttiglione, leader of the Christian Democrats, insists that women should be given a choice to have financial assistance so they are not under pressure to abort their babies from financial worries. Buttiglione’s plan would see women feeling they must abort their children due to financial reasons, given state aid if they decide to keep their children. Payments could amount to over $700 per month. (Financial Times […]

Owner Asper Described as Best Friend of Abortionist TORONTO, Aug 24, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The National Post, which came on the Canadian scene in 1998, giving conservatives in Canada a major national media voice for the first time in recent history, has been completely overtaken by a notoriously liberal media mogul. Last summer, Conrad Black, the conservative founder and owner of the Post, sold a 50% share in the Post, along with all his other Canadian newspaper ventures to CanWest Global magnate Israel (Izzy) Asper in a $3.5 billion deal. Today the Post reports that Black has sold the remaining […]

USA Today reports that the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee will begin hearings on the nomination of John Negroponte as ambassador to the United Nations shortly after the congressional recess ends Sept. 4.

BOSTON, Aug 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In a startling ruling, a state education who was fired for describing in detail to children disturbing and bizarre homosexual sex acts, was ordered reinstated with back pay. The Boston Globe reported yesterday that arbitrator Marc Greenbaum ruled that the state Department of Education was wrong to fire Margot Abels, who gave a March 25, 2000 workshop on sexuality to students as young as 12 years old. In May 2000, LifeSite reported on the workshop called a “Teach-Out” which was sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Governor’s Commission, and the Gay and […]

CANBERRA, Aug 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Monday the Australian government approved funding for a national center for stem cell research. Existing law bans the harvesting of stem cells from human embryos but stem cells from human embryos will be acquired from overseas to skirt the law. Moreover, Prime Minister John Howard has indicated that embryos created initially for fertility treatments may be allowed to be harvested for stem-cells.

TORONTO, Aug 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite has learned that one of the two satellite companies in Canada and one of the four major cable companies are offering a 24 hour 7-day-a-week homosexual channel to customers but not offering the highly acclaimed and sought after Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). However, the blame for the offering of the homosexual channel is due the government rather than the service providers since the government’s communications regulator the CRTC, mandated the coverage of the homosexual station. The only other satellite company in Canada does not list EWTN among its new channel lineup and […]

Falwell Called Bush Decision “Finest Hour As President” SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The spirit of President Bush's decision to restrict funding on embryonic stem cell research is being flouted by a recent decision by the University of California in San Francisco. It is setting up an off-campus privately funded lab to conduct embryonic stem cell experiments outside of Bush's guidelines. International journalists were confused by the length and gravity of Bush's deliberations on the stem cell decision, assuming that he was banning the actual practice of destroying human embryos for research purposes rather than only restricting public […]

Read former presidential candidate Alan Keyes’ brilliant response to Bush’s stem cell decision.  https://www.e3mil.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=8971

THE GREAT CANADIAN DICTATORSHIP A book by Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson due out in October catalogues the centralization of power in Canada with the Prime Minister and his selected minions. Simpson, saying Chretien wields far more power than a U.S. president, even compares the prime minister to 17th century French King Louis XIV, who was known as the Sun King and who liked to declare “L’etat, c’est moi” (I am the state).  https://home-news.excite.ca/news/r/010821/10/news-canada-dictatorship-col A study has found that breastfeeding a baby for less than three months after birth may negatively affect a child’s intelligence.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1501000/1501906.stm COMPUTER GAMES HARM […]

HOUGHTON, Michigan, Aug 22, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Bishop James H. Garland of the Marquette diocese in Michigan wrote to a Houghton local paper earlier this month to express his disappointment at the opening of a Planned Parenthood office in Houghton. In the letter Bishop Garland called the opening “bad news” since “the anti-life values promoted by this organization will harm the youth and families.” The bishop explained that “The support for abortion, contraception and sexual expressions outside of marriage contributes to a society that is dangerous to children.” He said “The freedom of choice Planned Parenthood promotes is a choice […]

Cardinal Egan Calls Proposed Law An “Unprecedented Attack” NEW YORK, Aug 22, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A proposed law which would bar anyone from getting within 10 feet of a woman heading into an abortion mill and punish violators with up to six months in jail is headed for a vote “in the coming weeks” according to New York City Council Speaker Peter Vallone. Yesterday, Cardinal Edward Egan of New York assailed the bill as an “unprecedented attack on the rights of free speech and free exercise of religion.” At a hearing on the bill yesterday, 100 pro-lifers turned up to […]

LONDON, Aug 22, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The British Government’s Disability Rights Commission (DRC) has said that a section of Britain’s 1967 Abortion Act discriminates against those with disabilities. The DRC issued a statement Tuesday noting that Section 1(1)d of the act allows abortion at any time during pregnancy if there is a significant risk of the baby being born seriously disabled, while under normal circumstances abortion is not permitted after 24 weeks gestation. The DRC statement said: “The Section is offensive to many people; it reinforces negative stereotypes of disability and there is substantial support for the view that to […]

Population Control Theory As Motive Behind Inaction Supported WASHINGTON, Aug 22, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Declassified documents reveal that the United States purposefully chose to do very little to stop the 1994 Rwandan genocide which resulted in some 800,000 deaths. The National Post reports today that the documents show: – Within days of the start of the genocide, senior Pentagon officials were warned “a massive bloodbath (hundreds of thousands of deaths) will ensue.”  – U.S. diplomats were expressly prohibited, for almost two months, from using the word “genocide” to describe the situation in Rwanda out of fear international law would then […]

VANCOUVER, Aug 22, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Notorious Canadian abortionist Ellen Wiebe of Vancouver has been experimenting with the pain relief drug fentanyl. In a study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2001;185:103-7), Wiebe reports that the study aimed “to find out whether intravenous fentanyl was effective in reducing the pain of first-trimester abortion.” According to the write-up, pain “reduction was of questionable clinical significance and was less than desired by the women included in the study.” Last month LifeSite reported that Weibe was experimenting with aromatherapy to reduce anxiety in women undergoing abortions. […]

The September 2001 edition of Contraceptive technology Update reports on a survey indicating that provision of abortifacient morning-after-pills by US medical facilities has jumped to over 80% from only 44% five years ago. The Associated Press reported Friday that Idaho District Court Judge Michael McLaughlin extended his July 2 emergency order barring the state from implementing a new law that prevents state Medicaid funds from funding elective abortions. A Cybercast News Service bulletin quotes Fox news reporting that Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) plans to announce his retirement Wednesday evening. The stalwart pro-life, pro-family 79-year-old is reportedly expected to appear on […]

OTTAWA, Aug 21 (LSN.ca) – The federal Conservative Party and the dissident group of Alliance rebels (DRC) formed a working coalition over the weekend but Alliance, Liberal and NDP parties are not going to allow the coalition extraordinary parliamentary privileges.  https://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?category=Canada&story=  /news/2001/08/19/alliance_reax010819 Chuck Strahl, leader of the group of 12 Alliance rebels, has written his former colleagues within the Alliance to join his initiative to work with the Conservative Party.  https://globeandmail.ca/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/realtime/  fullstory_print.html&cf=tgam/realtime/config-neutral&articleDate=20010820&slug=  wxdayyott&date=20010820&archive=RTGAM&site=Front Stephen Harper, former president of the National Citizen’s Coalition, who is widely speculated to be a contender for the Alliance leadership, has released an editorial slamming the […]

OTTAWA, Aug 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (Aug 17, 2001) reports that the rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes and human papillomavirus are soaring, with teens 15-19 suffering the highest infection rates. Among teenage girls, the chlamydia rate is 1,200 per 100,000, and the rate is 212 per 100,000 for teenage boys, or six times the rate among the general population. The Globe and Mail reports that among those 15-19 the rate of gonorrhea is about three times that of the general population, with a rate of 95 per 100,000 for teenage girls and 40 […]

MODENA, Italy, Aug 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A study conducted in Italy has found that an annual peak in elective abortions in summer coincides with an annual peak in female suicides. “The almost complete similarity of the seasonal rhythm of female suicides and that of voluntary abortion furnishes valid support for a strong relationship between the two,” say researchers Angelo Cagnacci and Annibale Volpe at the University of Modena. The study, published in the current issue of the journal Human Reproduction, looked at data on Italian women between 1995 and 1998, following over 500,000 abortions. The results showed a “seasonal […]

New Jersey is among 24 states that allow parents to sue their doctors for “wrongful life” and among only three that permit children to sue for “wrongful birth.” Both types of suits seek money from doctors whose alleged failure to warn about possible problems with the child in utero deprived the parents of the choice to abort the child.  https://www.bergen.com/news/legallw200108192.htm A state bill that would have required tough new warning labels for condoms sold in California has been pulled from consideration in the Legislature by its Republican author. Battin pulled the bill so he could try to address concerns raised […]

National Post reports about 80,000 homeschoolers in Canada.  https://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010815/646295.html Caroll Carkner, president of a local teachers union, has vowed to lobby the Upper Canada Board of Education to purchase pro-homosexual books for children. The Brockville Recorder & Times reported Saturday that discussions with the local’s 13-member executive will take place this fall and she’s hopeful it will recommend to the Upper Canada District School Board that it provide funds for materials reflecting alternative sexual lifestyles. See related LifeSite coverage:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/aug/010814.html#2 https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/aug/010816.html#4

TORONTO, Aug 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Highly regarded and beloved Toronto pro-life, pro-family supporter and activist Eunice Morgan died a very peaceful death today at 6:50pm. Eunice was very recently diagnosed with a brain tumour.

SINGAPORE, Aug 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Last Wednesday, the Catholic Medical Guild of Singapore, made up of some 300 doctors, launched a 10 day prayer vigil against embryonic stem cell research. Reuters reports that Singapore has invested heavily into the controversial research which destroys human embryos. The country has a stake in Australia-based ES Cell International, which is a major producer and supplier of embryonic stem cells for research. Guild president Dr. John Hui said, “We are praying that embryonic stem cell research will be discontinued, not just in Singapore but throughout the world. We were human at the point […]

LONDON, Aug 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Dianne Pretty, a 47-year-old British woman suffering from motor neurone disease, has launched a legal battle to allow her husband to assist her with suicide. Canadian anti-euthanasia activist Alex Schadenberg has criticized the case as another attempt by the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, which has backed the case, “to exploit the disabled to find a poster-child to forward their cause.” Pretty, with the backing of her husband and adult children, will argue at the High Court that the refusal to allow her husband to assist her with suicide contravenes the Human Rights Act by subjecting […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Panos Zavos, a professor of reproductive physiology at the University of Kentucky, and Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori, have announced their cloning plans are to get underway in the next 60 days. Speaking on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday, Zavos said, “The production of human cloned embryos can go ahead within the next 60 days, and implantation will of course come later, after we verify that the quality of those embryos is viable enough to yield a healthy pregnancy.” Meanwhile, a poll in Canada by the Leger Marketing group, known for its very […]

Documenting of recent UN anti-religion activities NEW YORK, Aug 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A well crafted expose which provides evidence that the United Nations is indeed waging war on religion is presented in today’s Special Report. Calgary Herald columnist Joe Woodard provides a brief documenting of recent UN anti-religion activities. This item should be circulated far and wide. See today’s Special report at:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/aug/010820a.html

Alliance cites the need for recognition of freedom of religion and conscience in human rights code TORONTO, Aug 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Religious Freedom Alliance (CRFA), comprised of the Catholic Civil Rights League, Christian Legal Fellowship and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has filed a factum in defense of Christian printer Scott Brockie of Toronto. In February 2000, the Ontario Human Rights Commission found Brockie guilty of discrimination and fined him $5,000 for refusing a printing job from a homosexual activist organization. Brockie appealed the case and it is currently before the Ontario Divisional Court. The case was […]

A group of scientists are suggesting that humans could be easier to clone than sheep, cattle or mice. Their study was published this week in the journal Human Molecular Genetics.  https://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=88788 The British Court of Appeal has allowed a pro-life challenge to a BBC ban on images of aborted babies being broadcast on British television.  https://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=89025

MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne have identified and isolated adult stem cells from the brains of mice, which can develop into new nerve cells. Perry Bartlett, et al., in a study published in the August 16, 2001 edition of the Nature journal proved that a single stem cell could give rise to thousands of new neurons or muscle cells. The researchers transplanted the cells back into the brains of mice and found they developed into both nerve cells and support cells. Dr. Bartlett told The Age that the […]

DETROIT, Aug 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Satanist rock star Marilyn Manson, of whom LifeSite has posted several warnings, has been charged with sexual assault against a security guard at a July 30 concert. Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, is alleged to have committed a disgusting violent sexual assault on the male guard. The Detroit Free Press reports that the fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct charge is a felony carrying up to two years in prison. Manson also faces one count of misdemeanor assault and battery. A warrant was against Manson Thursday but he could not be located. See the […]

LONDON, Aug 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Scotland Yard’s new Policing Diversity Handbook instructs police officers in Britain to call homosexuals “gays” and “lesbians” since the term ‘homosexual’ was “a medical term used to criminalise lesbians, gay men and bisexuals (LGB) in the nineteenth century.” According to London’s Independent, the guidelines are to be circulated to 35,000 Metropolitan Police officers and civilian staff next month. It in essence tells officers to become be pro-homosexual activists having them “question and challenge wherever possible” the “myths and stereotypes” around gay communities, which according the guide include the “myth” that homosexuals contract HIV more […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – House Republican leaders are refusing to release a Clinton-administration agreed $582 million payment to support the United Nations unless it is passed with a resolution against the International Criminal Court (ICC). The US has fought against the ICC since, among other things, US soldiers may be liable for prosecution by the ICC. The Washington Post reports, the American Service Members’ Protection Act was attached to the House version of a State Department authorization bill that contains the U.N. money. Its attachment was passed by a 282-137 majority, which included 76 Democrats. The bill to […]

VANCOUVER, Aug 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Masood Khatamee of New York and Dr. John Stephens of Washington and other ultrasound experts in the United States have come under fire for advertising in Indo-Canadian papers offering gender selection. The ads offer to identify the sex of the baby in utero. The practice of aborting baby girls in India has caused a widespread demographic problem with far too few women being born compared to men. Thus, Indo-Canadian community leaders have condemned the ads in their community papers as promoting sex-selective abortions. See the National Post coverage:  https://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20010816/648609.html

OTTAWA, Aug 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Alliance national caucus has voted to have its leadership elections in mid-March with a final decision on the exact date scheduled for next month. With the date set, it is expected that current Alliance Leader and Leader of the Opposition Stockwell Day will step down in December. Global television speculated that possible contenders for the Alliance leadership include Stockwell Day, Stephen Harper, Alliance MPs John Reynolds, Brian Pallister, Keith Martin and former Conservative Cabinet Minister Jake Epp. However, in an interview with the Canadian Press today, Epp denied that he would seek […]

MICHAEL COREN ON STEM CELLS  Here this week’s Michael Coren Real Audio broadcast on The Great Stem Cell Debate GREAT STEM CELL HOAX Charles Krauthammer exposes “the unconscionable deployment of fantasy and false hopes by advocates of ‘therapeutic’ cloning for the production of stem cells. The article, “The Great Stem Cell Hoax”, subtitled, “The research promises results-about a half century from now”, is on line at:  SCIENTISTS NO LONGER WORKING FOR PUBLIC GOOD  An Aug. 14 National Post reports on a presentation at a Saskatoon lawyers conference in which it was revealed that “the courts may be the final barrier […]

Neal Horsley the creator of the controversial Nuremburg Files website has abortion activists in an uproar with his latest site www.abortioncams.com which publishes photos and video of persons entering or leaving abortion clinics.  https://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/abc/20010815/pl/abortioncams010815_1.html New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a man may not bring his child to birth. The court refused to allow the man, a Catholic, to donate the embryos he created through in vitro fertilization with his ex-wife. The ex-wife does not want the children, her progeny to be born.  https://www.bergen.com/news/embryo15200101583.htm A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the Massachusetts law that creates a buffer zone […]

CHICAGO, Aug 16, 2001 (LSN.ca) – While the proponents of embryonic stem cell research lay empty promises about cures from their unethically derived stem cells, another landmark in the advancement of adult stem cell research has been reached. Reuters reports that adult stem cells extracted from the blood of two Crohn's patients have been used to rebuild their faulty immune systems. Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago announced August 9 that a 22-year-old female Crohn's patient, whose white blood cells were attacking her digestive system, was doing ''phenomenally well'' 2-1/2 months after undergoing the procedure. Immunologist Richard Burt of […]

Wall Street Journal portrait of head of President’s Council on Bioethics NEW YORK, Aug 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An article by Bret Stephens in Today’s Wall Street Journal presents a fascinating portrait of Dr. Leon Kass, recently appointed by President Bush to head up the new President’s Council on Bioethics which will monitor stem cell research. Stephens, a University of Chicago graduate, states that Kass’ deeply serious seminars at the university “served as a kind of church in which we came to understand that one could not be intellectually respectable without being morally so”. Kass is described as a high […]

TORONTO, Aug 16, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) voted overwhelmingly to support a motion to lobby school boards to fund gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender books for school children. The Canadian Press reports that the motion was opposed only by about 20 of the more the 500 delegates at the annual meeting of the ETFO, which erupted in cheers after the result was announced. Liona Laird, a Grade 6 teacher from eastern Ontario who calls herself a “lesbian mom,” tabled the motion and Cori Petrie, a Grade 8 teacher with three children seconded the motion. […]

OTTAWA, Aug 16, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A document written by a member of Preston Manning’s campaign team and notarized by a Calgary lawyer, suggests that the conspiracy to overthrow Stockwell Day was conceived even before Day won the leadership. The memo, obtained by CTV News, revealed a conversation between 25 people involved in a conference call. In the memo, a senior Manning operative said of Day: “If he doesn’t implode before the leadership vote, we will ensure he implodes after the leadership race is over.” CTV reports that “the letter mentions one high-profile MP who supported the plan, and one […]

Byfield: “Manning Going Back To Brian Mulroney” OTTAWA, Aug 16, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark, who led the Gay Pride Parade in Calgary this year, has lauded Reform Party founder Preston Manning for his endorsement of the unite the right talks between rebel Alliance MPs and Conservative MPs at Mont-Tremblant, Que., this weekend. Clark revealed to the press that Manning called him prior to releasing his blueprint for a united right yesterday. Manning’s suggestion to leave social conservative issues out of the cooperation plan between Tories and the Alliance fits with the criteria demanded by outspokenly pro-abortion […]

Campaign Life Coalition, Ontario has organized a provincial conference for Saturday, October 13, 2001 that will feature guest speakers Wesley Smith and Julius Yankowsky. Various CLC leaders will also bring attendants up-to-date on the national and international issues of the day. Wesley Smith, lawyer and author of several books, is currently one of the most sought after speakers on the subject of euthanasia. He is a dynamic speaker who leaves his audiences with a greatly increased understanding of this complex subject. Julius Yankowsky is the Alberta MLA who brought forward Alberta Bill 212 that would have given health care workers […]

TORONTO, Aug 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – At their annual international meeting over the weekend, the Knights of Columbus passed several pro-life resolutions, including a resolution on the contentious issue of embryonic stem cell research, urging “researchers and physicians to reject experiments and treatments that destroy human embryos,” and the U.S. government to “terminate all federal funding for such research.” Embryonic stem cell research remains controversial because despite the purely conjectural and often exaggerated claims of its therapeutic potential, it requires the deliberate destruction of human beings in their earliest, embryonic stage of life. “Destroying human life at any stage of […]

SAN DIEGO, Aug 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Three California women are suing Planned Parenthood to force the nation’s largest provider of abortions to reveal scientific evidence of a substantial link between induced abortion and increased risk of breast cancer, it was announced today by the Thomas More Law Center, a national, not-for-profit public-interest law firm. The women, Agnes Bernardo of Chula Vista, Pamela Colip of Loma Linda, and Sandra Duffy-Hawkins of Sacramento, filed suit this morning in the San Diego branch of the state superior court against Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties, which operates an abortion clinic […]

NEW YORK, Aug 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In Ms. Magazine’s August issue, author Cynthia L. Cooper accuses Christian based post-abortion counseling groups, and specifically Elliot Institute director Dr. David C. Reardon, of “exploiting” women who have had abortions. She contends that “anti-choice” efforts to educate women about post-abortion emotional problems are premised on a “bogus affliction invented by the religious right” to make women feel guilty. Post-abortion outreach and healing programs are similarly ridiculed as nothing more than cynical attempts to “use” women (through guilt-tripping techniques, or perhaps even brainwashing?) into working for the overthrow “abortion rights.” Although Cooper interviewed […]

OTTAWA, Aug 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Former Reform Party Leader and founder and current Canadian Alliance MP Preston Manning released his “blueprint for uniting the right” in today’s National Post. Manning also announced that he will be resigning his seat at the end of the year “to pursue his political ideals and other interests from a less partisan base.” Most significant in the ‘blueprint’ are Manning’s comments related to the core issue of social conservatism. “In my judgment, the ‘principled ground’ on which there is the best prospects for agreement and co-operation between Alliance and Conservative MPs at the present […]

Yesterday’s story regarding the CARDINAL’S DINNER listed an incorrect email for Cardinal Ambrozic. The correct email address for the Archdiocese is:  Office of the Chancellor of Spiritual Affairs: [email protected] See the LifeSite coverage at: https://lsn.ca/ldn/2001/aug/010813.html#1

LONDON, Aug 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Similar to China's aborted baby tissue bank, Britain is set to open an embryo stem cell bank next year. Dr. Robert Lovell-Badge, an embryologist at the Medical Research Council, told The Wall Street Journal that initially the bank would serve as a repository for embryonic stem cells from around the world, allowing researchers to study their growth and differentiation in laboratories and eventually generate fresh cell lines from new embryos. The macabre project has the backing of Liam Donaldson, Britain's Chief Medical Officer of Health, according to the Journal. Annanova reports that India is […]

CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In a letter published in the New York Times Sunday, President George Bush explained his decision on stem cell research claiming, “There are, however, two ways for the federal government to aggressively promote stem cell research without inviting ethical abuses.” The first with adult cells not from embryos and the second, contends Bush, is from existing stem cell lines created albeit by the previous destruction of human embryos. “While it is unethical to end life in medical research, it is ethical to benefit from research where life and death decisions have already been […]

SAN SALVADOR, Aug 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has responded to devastating earthquakes in El Salvador by sending reproductive health kits including abortifacient morning-after-pills and vacuum aspirators used for early term abortions, according to Julia Cardenal, president of “Si A La Vida” (Yes to Life). Cardenal, who heads the Salvadoran group told Cybercast News Service that the UNFPA measures violate the country’s constitution which state that life begins at conception. “We had two major earthquakes in El Salvador in January and February of this year, and instead of sending us food or medicine, or something […]

TORONTO, Aug 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) will vote on a motion tomorrow to lobby school boards to fund gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender books for children. The National Post reports that ETFO President Phyllis Benedict said the union is “trying to promote a more positive environment in schools.” The Post reports that Phil Lees, a public elementary school teacher near Hamilton, Ont., and a parent of three children, said “This is information children do not need.” The Hamilton school board dropped part of the Grade 7 curriculum last year that dealt with oral […]

CALGARY, AB, Aug 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Alberta Pro-Life Association has made a freedom of information request into the numbers of late-term genetic abortions performed in Calgary. (Genetic abortions are performed after 20 weeks gestation where birth defects are believed to exist – the procedure sometimes results in live births, after which the babies are “allowed to die” without medical attention.) The Calgary Herald reports today that the Calgary Health Region (CHR) is refusing to provide the information. According to the Herald, the CHR first demanded an $8,500 fee to research the data, and then switched tactics explaining that […]

Great Falls, a city in Montana, has declared pro-life signs depicting the horrific results of abortion a traffic hazard, forcing pro-lifers to end a demonstration or have their signs confiscated by police.  https://www.nando.net/nation/story/59852p-866782c.html

Raising the specter of eugenics, human cloning scientist Dr. Severino Antinori is promising that through his cloning method, “I will make perfect children.” He says he will destroy all embryos he finds imperfect.  https://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/08/12/stifgneur02002.html An International Planned Parenthood Federation memo leaked to the Catholic Herald shows that IPPF has launched a campaign against parents’ rights. IPPF emphasizes that children should be able to continue to receive abortions and contraception without their parents’ consent.  https://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/08/10/wplan10.xml Researchers at McGill University’s Montreal Neurological Institute have extracted stem cells from human skin and have grown them into smooth muscle cells, fat cells and brain […]

WICHITA, Kansas, Aug 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In a horrific report, WorldNetDaily’s Julie Foster has exposed the macabre practice of late-term abortionist George Tiller. According to his website, Tiller offers abortion of babies up to 38 weeks of gestation diagnosed with various debilitating or life-threatening diseases including kidney disease, spina bifida, Down’s Syndrome and a “variety of other very significant abnormalities.” On the website, Tiller refers to his late-term abortions as, “premature delivery of a stillborn” but ads that “on the first day of the process, an injection of a medication is made into the baby to assure that it […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Two responses to President Bush’s stem cell decision deserve special mention. One delivered by Mark Pickup, a disabled activist who has chronic, progressive multiple sclerosis. Mark writes, President Bush “crossed a moral line . In seeking compromise, (he) unintentionally drove into America’s conscience the thin edge of an immoral wedge; the wedge will widen as more pressure is applied by special interests to have increased research that relies upon destroying early human life.” Mark explains, “This has been the pattern of human behaviour throughout the ages: That which was previously unthinkable becomes quite thinkable, […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A California couple is being sued by a 26-year-old British woman who they contracted to be a surrogate mother. Charles Wheeler and Martha Berman agreed to pay $20,000 to Helen Beasley, if she agreed to be implanted with embryos, created, according to the BBC, with ova from a donor selected by the couple and sperm donated by Wheeler. However, according to Beasley’s suit, the couple backed out of the deal when they found out she was carrying twins rather than a single child. Weeks later, the couple contacted the mother telling her they […]

TORONTO, Aug 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – After months of speculation, Stephen Harper has given an indication that he may be considering a run for the Canadian Alliance leadership. Today the National Citizens’ Coalition announced that Harper is stepping down as president, “no later than December 31st.” The organization which fights for “more freedom through less government” wished Harper “the best of luck in whatever course he decides to take.” However, NCC spokesman Gerry Nicholls told LifeSite that Harper did not mention what his future plans were. Political rumor suggests Harper is one of the main contenders for the future leadership […]

TORONTO, Aug 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Faithful Catholics in Canada, still reeling from having former US President Bill Clinton give the keynote address at a fundraiser for a Catholic hospital, are very troubled again as former Prime Minister John Turner is set to chair the annual Toronto Cardinal’s Dinner. Turner, while Justice Minister in 1969 under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, passed the notorious Omnibus bill, which included the legalization of abortion and homosexuality. LifeSite has obtained a letter by Turner sent to all Catholic priests in the Toronto diocese asking for support for the dinner, listing himself as “2001 Dinner […]

PRO-ABORTS RELEASE PROPAGANDA TOOL TO MOBILIZE ANTI-LIFE FORCES The Center for Women Policy Studies is releasing a survey of pro-abortion state legislators as a tool to raise support against pro-life activity. The pro-abortion organization is highlighting pro-life advances at the state level that will hopefully mobilize pro-abortion forces to combat these advances.  https://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0807-121.html STEM CELL TREATMENT OF CROHN’S DISEASE The first stem-cell transplant to treat Crohn’s disease appears to be working, claims a doctor at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where the procedure was performed 10 weeks ago, reported the Chicago Sun-Times Wednesday.  https://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-stem07.html CALIFORNIA COURT PROTECTS PATIENT FROM END-OF-LIFE DECISION Yesterday […]

Another tragic case highlights the eugenic impact of China’s ruthless population control program. A woman drowned her second granddaughter with the hope that her daughter-in-law would later give birth to a son. The woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for the crime.  https://english.hk.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/afp/article.html?s=  hke/headlines/010809/asia/afp/Chinese_woman_drowns_granddaughter_in_quest_for_grandson.html “The Ontario government is open to letting parents run charter schools, institutions fully funded by the public but operated outside the control of school boards,” reports the National Post today. Minister of Education Janet Ecker indicated seven months ago that she did not favour the concept,” but has now said: “We’ll see where […]

OTTAWA, Aug 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark urged the Liberal government yesterday to move quickly to criminalize cloning. Such an initiative would be covered by the reproductive technologies bill being considered by Parliament. Mr. Clark, however, proposed a quicker solution for cloning, reported Canadian Press yesterday: “There is a private members bill,” he told a briefing Thursday. “It’s well written, it’s precise. It would allow action very quickly.” He was referring to a Private Members’ Bill introduced by Bloc Quebecois MP Pauline Picard that would ban human cloning. Ms. Picard’s bill would “amend the Criminal Code […]

PHILADELPHIA, Aug 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The battle against euthanasia in the U.S. has received additional strength in recent days with an announcement by the American College of Physicians. The nation’s second-largest medical organization behind the American Medical Association has joined the AMA by stating its official opposition to physician-assisted suicide. A paper published Tuesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, and co-written by Dr. Daniel Sulmasy of the American College of Physicians, says the ACP believes doctors should always look for ways to improve care for the dying. At the same time the paper emphasized the group’s strong support […]

– But European Science Foundation warns of baby cloning in some countries – EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Aug 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The European Commission has announced that it will not finance any projects involving the cloning of humans or stem cell research, expressing hope that all 15 European Union members will forbid work in such areas. In an interview published Thursday in the Financial Times Deutschland. EC research commissioner Philippe Busquin said “cloning has no scientific value and could damage the standing of science as a whole,” reported the Associated Press. Laws have been passed banning research on stem cells and […]

– Maintains funding ban for research that would kill additional embryos – WASHINGTON, Aug 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Last night U.S. President George W. Bush announced his long-awaited decision on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. To the chagrin of many scientists and researchers, he said that funding would not be available for most research, but to the chagrin of many pro-lifers, he said that he would allow funding for research involving stem cell lines that have already been set up. Mr. Bush said that more than 60 genetically diverse stem cell colonies, or lines, have already been produced […]

ABORTION GROUP SUED FOR DECEPTIVE RU-486 AD Three Chicago residents are suing the National Abortion Federation on charges that the organization has used deceptive advertising on behalf of RU-48. The ads ran in the July issues of Self, In-Style and Vanity Fair magazines claiming that the pill was safe without mentioning any of its side effects.  https://www.washtimes.com/national/20010808-711379.htm MISSOURI GOVERNOR LIMITS STATE FUNDING FOR DESTRUCTIVE EMBRYO RESEARCH Catholic News Service reports that an executive order by Missouri Gov. Bob Holden will prevent state-funded science research grants from funding: 1. research involving embryonic stem cells or human cloning; 2. referrals for abortions; […]

MISSISSAUGA, ON, Aug 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Bourque News reports that on August 16, Chuck Strahl, the leader of the group of Canadian Alliance dissident MPs, is scheduled to secretly meet with Election 2000 Alliance candidates. The 10am-12 noon meeting is to take place at the Delta Meadowvale Hotel in Mississauga and is organized by Reg Petersen, the 1993 and 2000 candidate in Cambridge riding who called for party leader Stock Day’s resignation in April, according to Bourque. Bourque suggested that Strahl may be launching his own party with fundraising for the new venture supplied by none other than Nancy […]

LONDON, Aug 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Britain’s regulatory authority for in vitro fertilization said Wednesday that doctors should normally transfer no more than two embryos at a time during in vitro fertilization treatment. Ruth Deech, chair of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority said, “In most cases, replacing more than two embryos does not increase the chance of having a baby but can substantially increase the risk of a multiple birth.” An article from the Associated Press notes that “In the United States, which performs more IVF cycles than anywhere else, 80 percent of fertility treatments involve putting three or […]

BERLIN, Aug 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Germany and France have submitted a request to the United Nations for the creation of an “international convention against the cloning of human beings to the end of reproduction.” French Foreign Ministry spokesperson Bernard Velaro said, “It is a matter that is of importance to all humanity.” Germany’s research minister, Edelgard Bulmahn said, “freedom of research finds its borders where human dignity is affected.” However, the ban against reproductive cloning while allowing so-called therapeutic cloning is untenable, as evidenced in the recent debates over cloning in the United States Congress. During the debate, the […]

LifeSite Stem Cell feature page addition OTTAWA, Aug 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Proposed Canadian legislation governing assisted human reproduction and similar legislation in various countries permits scientists to experiment on human embryos created originally for in vitro fertilization. The one condition is that the embryo donors and other decision makers must give legally valid informed consent. However, Dr. John Shea, MD, who has researched the topic extensively, suggests that such informed consent is highly unlikely because of the rampant misinformation about research on human embryos. Dr. Shea explains that the purpose of informed consent is to ensure that a decision […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – President Bush has called for 8-10 minutes of airtime on television and radio tonight to announce his decision on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Judie Brown of American Life League reacted to the announcement saying she is counting on the President to make the right decision and further says that all research involving the destruction of human embryos must be banned entirely. “Do No Harm” a Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics sent 140,000 petitions to the White House asking President Bush not to have “tax dollars used for research that destroys […]

ARIZONA COURT RULES AGAINST PUBLIC FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS A Court of Appeals in Arizona has rejected arguments by abortionists that the state must publicly fund abortions through Medicare.  https://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0807abortion-ON.html The Christian Defense Coalition is calling for prayer and fasting for President George Bush as he considers embryonic stem cell research.  https://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0808-106.html

REBEL PLOT TO OUST STOCKWELL DAY CONFIRMED AGAIN The former campaign manager for Alliance rebel MP Monte Solberg has revealed that she was told of the coming resignations of key Alliance members before they occurred, thus confirming that it was an organized coup. “This has all been cooked up,” Cathy Smith says. She and other party activists say the dissident MPs have planned to dismantle the party all along and either create their own party or join the federal Conservatives, led by Joe Clark.  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010808/639216.html

LEHIGH ACRES, FL, Aug 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – As a result of a recent ruling in an abortion case, forced abortions have been declared illegal in the United States. The ruling involved a novel use of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) resulting in forced abortion being punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Steven Mosher, president of Population Research Institute has announced a national campaign called ABOUT F.A.C.E. – to protect American women from violations committed in private and state-funded abortion clinics and family planning centers throughout the U.S. “You don’t have to go to […]

National Academy of Sciences Meeting Dubbed a “Circus” WASHINGTON, Aug 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Severino Antinori, one of the pro-cloning participants in yesterday’s cloning debate before a panel of the National Academy of Sciences, has called Pope John Paul “criminal” for his opposition to human cloning. One of the witnesses at the cloning debate called the meeting a “circus” after the media followed Antinori’s every move. The Telegraph relates that the media raced after him as he left the meeting at one point but “It turned out he was going to the lavatory, from which he emerged after a […]

OTTAWA, Aug 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A group fighting sexual exploitation of children has come out with a report noting that Canada withdrew from an international police crackdown on the world’s most intricate child pornography network, allowing 16 members of the group living in Canada to go unpunished. The National Post has obtained an advanced copy of the report commissioned by the international group End Child Prostitution and Trafficking, which will be presented in December at the Second World Congress on Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. The report exposes a child porn network called The Wonderland Club responsible for creating […]

MONCTON, NB, Aug 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Federal government memos obtained by freedom of information requests have confirmed that Health Minister Allan Rock is threatening to fine New Brunswick for the province’s refusal to fund abortions in private abortuaries rather than only in hospitals. Documents obtained by the Moncton Times and Transcript show Rock warned New Brunswick Health Minister Dennis Furlong to pay for abortions at the Fredericton Morgentaler abortuary or face fines. “Unless New Brunswick agrees to change its policy, the province is vulnerable to mandatory dollar-for-dollar penalties . . . and to discretionary penalties for a violation of […]

The American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM), the second-largest U.S. medical organization declared its opposition to physician-assisted suicide on Monday, saying that the wish to die among patients is partly the result of inadequate health care.  https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010806/ts/health_suicide_dc_2.html

ABORTIFACIENT MORNING AFTER PILL MAY BE ALLOWED IN IRELAND The Irish Times repots that the Cabinet sub-committee on abortion is expected to recommend that the pill be legalized, despite abortion being illegal in the country. The All- Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, said of the pill, “The availability of the morning-after pill can help to reduce the number of crisis pregnancies. Any legal uncertainties that may exist in regard to it should be removed.”  https://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=489328&issue_id=5017 Buddhist temples in South Korea are offering special prayer and funeral ceremonies for aborted babies in the hopes of cleansing guilt and lowering the […]

The following LifeSite Feature by Bernie O’Neill is a humorous addition to our coverage of the radical feminist agenda in Canada. Their latest venture, to replace the word “sons” in the national anthem, has presented an opportunity to point out the absurdity of the never-ending list of feminist demands. See the LifeSite feature here:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/aug/010807a.html Related LifeSite coverage:  FEMINISTS ATTEMPT TO RE-WRITE CANADIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM https://lsn.ca/ldn/2001/aug/010801.html#5 FAMOUS FIVE STATUE HONOURS RACISM AND EUGENICS ADVOCATES https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/oct/001018a.html

MANCHESTER, England, Aug 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – England’s Guardian newspaper reports that a senior anti-virus technologist has warned that the internet is in danger of grinding to a halt if email-borne virus attacks continue to escalate. LifeSite strongly encourages all Internet users to have anti-virus software installed on their computers and to regularly download virus updates https://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,532158,00.html

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Aug 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On July 17, the Netherlands accepted the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court, making it the 37th country to ratify the agreement. The ICC will assume universal jurisdiction, even over countries that have refused to sign on to it, once 60 countries have ratified the agreement. The Netherlands has also indicated that with or without U.S. support the ICC will go ahead. The outstanding 23 ratifications are expected to come within a year. The location of the court’s headquarters in The Hague has been selected and architects and contractors have been […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – President Bush has declared that his decision on the funding of research on human embryos will be announced before Congress returns from its August recess.

UNFPA Signals Approval HUAIJI, China, Aug 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Communist China has ordered a small impoverished county of less than one million people to perform 20,000 abortions and sterilizations by the end of the year. The Telegraph reports that family planning officials in Guangdong ordered the abortions after census officials revealed that the average family in Huaiji has five or more children. As part of the campaign, ultrasound equipment is being purchased so unauthorized child bearing can be detected and the children aborted – forcibly if necessary. In order to pay for the machines, the county’s 15,000 employees had […]

LONDON, Aug 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Panos Zavos, a professor of reproductive physiology at the University of Kentucky, and Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori, are in Washington today defending their plans to clone human beings before a panel of the National Academy of Sciences. Zavos, co-founder of a fertility clinic in Lexington and an andrologist and a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, said the international team of scientists plans to commence impregnating women with cloned human embryos this November. Antinori recently captured headlines when his in vitro work led to a woman in her sixties giving birth. […]

TORONTO, Aug 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Knights of Columbus’ Annual Supreme Council Meeting began today in Toronto with an expected 2000 members attending from around the world. A resolution put forward by the New York state chapter calls on local Knights’ councils to take out newspaper, radio and TV ads publicizing elected officials’ statements and voting records on abortion. According to a report in the Ottawa Citizen, the ads should be timed for “maximum impact, in terms of educating the public and influencing the actions of elected officials” to encourage pro-life voting. Phil Zakoor, chief administrative officer of the […]

Slate reports that Mormons are not against destructive research involving human embryos and that is what has led to the decision by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore to fall out of step with their pro-life colleagues on stem cell research.  https://slate.msn.com/pol/01-08-02/pol.asp Yesterday the Democratic leader of the Senate, Tom Daschle declared himself “very uncomfortable” with human cloning even for research purposes as he struggled to turn the debate over science and politics back to embryonic stem cell research, which he and many other Democrats support.  https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/02/politics/02STEM.html?searchpv=nytToday

LONDON, Aug 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – PPL Therapeutics PLC, the British firm that helped clone Dolly the sheep, is claiming that it will be able to “avoid the destruction of human embryos” for stem cell research by taking adult cells from a patient and return it to their embryo-like state. However, Dr. John Shea, MD, who has looked into embryo research in depth, suggests that the new announcement is “more smoke and mirrors.” Dr. Shea, suggests that the new process is merely human cloning in a different package. Dr. Shea explains that with cloning, the nucleus of an ovum is […]

TORONTO, Aug 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Big Brothers of Toronto, an organization which encourages men to become temporary guardians for boys, has named a homosexual man its Big Brother of the Year, for the second year in a row. A June article in Fab magazine reports that pro-homosexual activism is not new to the Toronto organization with a mission to take care of young boys. Walter Dimini, the open homosexual who won the award, said that Big Brothers had a booth at the Gay Pride event in Toronto last year. In July, LifeSite reported that in response to a request […]

OTTAWA, Aug 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Despite urging from opposition parties, a move to ban human cloning in the United States, and a government commission which recommended the ban over 10 years old, Ottawa is refusing to hasten a ban on human cloning in Canada. The National Post reports today that senior officials in the office of Health Minister Allan Rock have said that the House of Commons is not expected to adopt a bill dealing with this politically explosive issue before May, 2002, at the earliest. Pauline Picard, a Bloc Quebecois MP who recently introduced a second private member's […]

TORONTO, Aug 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Dianne Irving, a former biochemist with the National Institutes of Health and currently a world renowned bioethicist, has released a paper showing that so-called 'embryonic stem cells' can become embryos. Irving notes in her paper that this fact is well documented in embryology textbooks. Moreover she quotes fertility specialists who attest to this fact since they use the same procedure as scientists use to extract 'stem cells' to create more embryos from a single embryo – a type of forced twinning. Dr. John Shea, M.D., medical consultant to Campaign Life Coalition explains, in […]

The New York Times reports that “bioethicists” are falling under scrutiny as many are linked financially to the studies to which they grant ethical approval. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/02/health/genetics/02BIOE.html?searchpv=nytToday Read – Abortion: Black Genocide by Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson https://www.newaus.com.au/us266_bond.html

TORONTO, Aug 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – With the authority of parents in Ontario seriously called into question by the handling of the Aylmer spanking case, pro-family leaders have scheduled a family rights demonstration in Toronto on Monday. The demonstration at Queen’s Park will get underway at 10am featuring various speakers including Ontario Coalition leader Giuseppe Gori. The demonstration hopes to convey two main messages to media and government officials: 1. God has given families exclusive authority to train, to educate, to discipline and to care for children. 2. Government officials have no right to interfere in the affairs of a […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – For the second time in a week a U.S. Senate Committee moved to reinstate funding for groups which lobby for and perform abortion overseas. Yesterday the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 12-7 to permanently reverse Bush’s Mexico City Policy. Commentators suggest the panel approvals signal a coming showdown of the Democrat-led Senate with the Bush Administration over abortion. See the Reuters coverage:  https://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010801/ts/congress_abortion_dc_2.html

KIGALI, Aug 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) plans a $7 million grant towards population control in Rwanda. UNFPA has said population growth in the country bears responsibility for illiteracy, poverty and unemployment. (Xinhua News Agency, 1 Aug).

STONYBROOK, NY, Aug 2, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A study released in this week’s edition of Nature says that the human population will peak at about 9 billion by 2070 and begin a decline. The researchers criticized the population predictions of the United Nations which show no decline in sight. Warren Sanderson, a professor of economics and history at State University of New York at Stonybrook and co-author of the study notes that a major flaw with the U.N.‘s findings is that their estimates assume fertility rates will not drop below 2.1 children per women. “The evidence shows women are already […]

Michael Coren’s LifeSite commentary on Justin Trudeau’s World Youth Day speech was incorrectly referenced the correct link is:  https://www.lifesitenews.com:7070/ramgen/080101justintrudeau.rm The UN Human Rights Committee Document on Guatemala in Spanish is online at:  https://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/CCPR.CO.72.GTM.Sp?Opendocument

The Christian Medical Association today delivered to President Bush a petition signed by over 600 medical leaders across the country, urging him to uphold the ban on federal funding of lethal embryonic stem cell research.  https://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=  /www/story/08-01-2001/0001546378&EDATE= See “The Stubborn Facts of Science: Human embryos are human beings,” by Patrick Lee & Robert P. George https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-george073001.shtml One of Massachusetts’ largest Boy Scout councils has succumbed to pressure to allow homosexual scoutmasters under a new “don’t ask-don’t tell” policy, despite the national organization’s ban against homosexuals.  https://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/news/2001/aug/01/080103976.html

OTTAWA, Aug 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – REAL Women of Canada has strongly objected to the attempt by the Famous Five Foundation, a strident feminist outfit, to re-write the Canadian national anthem. The feminist group is attempting to remove the innocuous word “sons” from the anthem because the word allegedly is not representative of “women.” REAL Women of Canada National Vice President, Gwen Landolt asked, “What women? Certainly not the majority of Canadian women who have more serious matters on their minds. … It is apparent for all to see that the word ‘sons’ is used generically in the anthem to […]

AUCKLAND, NZ, Aug 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – New Zealand’s Abortion Supervisory Committee reported yesterday that 16,103 abortions were performed last year – an increase of 602 from 1999. The report notes that the number of women having repeat abortions – using abortion as a form of both control – is very high. Almost 300 women recorded their fourth termination and 78 women went ahead with their fifth, said the report. For more see the NZHerald at:  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=203304&thesection=news&thesubsection=general

TOKYO, Aug 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A Japanese Cabinet panel on science and technology approved guidelines for destructive research using human embryos today. While the law bans human cloning, the approved guidelines would allow scientists to use human embryos created in fertility treatments for experimentation. Final approval for the guidelines is expected later this month with government spokesmen saying that the controversial research could begin by the end of the year.

AYLMER, ON, Aug 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The case of the Aylmer couple who had their 7 children removed from their home by child welfare authorities for refusing to promise never to spank them with a switch is set to be heard by a government committee. The Canadian Press reports today that the couple’s church pastor, Rev. Henry Hildebrandt is going to appear before a provincial government committee to discuss the spanking law. Rev. Hildebrandt, accompanied by Jack Baribeau, president of Citizen Impact Canada, a lobby group dedicated to the preservation of Christian principles in Canadian society, will present the […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Late yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives approved, 265-162, a bill to prohibit the creation of human embryos by cloning. The bill makes human cloning a federal crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison and, for those caught cloning for commercial purposes, a fine of at least $1 million. The bill passed with strong bipartisan support: 63 Democrats joined 200 Republicans and 2 independents to back the bill. A similar bill is now before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Human Cloning Prohibition Act (H.R. 2505) was sponsored by Rep. Dave Weldon (R-Fl.) […]