Articles for Month: September 2001

LIMA, September 5, 2001 (LSN.ca/CWNews.com) – Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani of Lima, the primate of Peru, has instructed pastors to deny Holy Communion to politicians and other public figures if they persist in public support for abortion. Upon the request of Cardinal Cipriani, the archdiocesan Pastoral Commission has sent to all pastors a document entitled, “Moral and Legal Dimensions of Abortion,” which is designed to set forth “a pastoral and sacramental response to the increasing culture of death, as well as consistent criteria to deal with this grave moral problem.” The document, written in a question-and-answer format, reminds pastors that […]

Will publicly announce in Dec. his leadership race intentions – Conditions set for dissidents OTTAWA, September 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – During a Canadian Alliance Party press conference late this afternoon, Stockwell Day responded to a reporter asking whether he agreed with Preston Manning on stem cell research. In a Canadian Press interview released last Friday, Manning indicated that he supported destructive research on human embryos. Day stated “Preston Mannings’s position, as I understand it to be, is a personal one and on a personal basis I don’t agree with the particular position he’s taken related to ongoing research regarding embryos […]

UNBORN MAY FEEL PAIN AS EARLY AS 20 WEEKS As U.S. pro-life groups launches a campaign next week to bring a ban on late-term abortions back to Congress, a new study out of Great Britain shows that the unborn child may feel pain as early as 20 weeks.  https://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,33437,00.html WOMEN HAD ABORTIONS IN RESPONSE TO JOB LOSS THREATS Union officials and legal counsel are coming to the aid of a Washington D.C. medical worker who aborted her child for fear of losing her job. The young woman and other rookies were told by a top official from the fire department’s […]

CHICAGO, September 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) -A nurse who exposed her hospital’s practice of allowing aborted children to slowly die after premature delivery has been fired from her job of eight years. Jill Stanek said that when she returned to work Friday she was told that she had been fired and was escorted from the building. Two years ago Stanek drew national attention to Christ hospital, affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, when she documented an abortion procedure known as “induction of labour.” The practice often leaves babies alive, after which they are […]

TORONTO, September 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A new poll has found that 57% of Canadians support a voucher system that would allow parents to allocate their children’s share of public education money towards the institution of their choice. “People want not only to be able to hold ministries and schools accountable, but if they feel the outcomes are not satisfactory they want the choice of going elsewhere,” said Fred Wall, a researcher at COMPAS, which conducted the poll for the National Post/Global. Every Canadian province currently funds private education to some degree, but there are no voucher systems in place. […]

Socialist government pushing abortion, divorce and sex-ed SANTIAGO, Chile, September 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Chilean Supreme Court has recognized the abortifacient component of the “morning-after” birth-control pill and banned its use in Chile, where abortion is illegal. The 3-2 vote overturns a lower court ruling and goes against the Chilean government health ministry’s approval of the pill. “The free distribution of this drug—promoted as an inoffensive contraception—would have opened the doors of the nation to the terrible scourge of abortion and its sinister culture of death,’’ read a statement from the conservative group, Chile’s Destiny. The morning-after pill stops […]

Latin Americans unexpectedly flip to pro-abortion from past history of being pro-life NEW YORK, September 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Negotiations at the United Nations that were to conclude the preparations for the September 19-21 World Summit for Children, were bogged down last week over references to abortion and parental rights. Contentious wording prevented agreement on a final draft document for the Summit and resulted in the scheduling of an additional session to run from tomorrow until Friday. LifeSite correspondents at the United Nations noted that the most contentious language in the document concerning abortion, homosexuality and parental rights is to […]

Endorses far more liberal position than that of U.S. President Bush OTTAWA, September 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance MP Preston Manning, founder of the Reform Party, has sorely disappointed social conservatives with his explicit endorsement of destructive experimentation on human embryos. The former Reform Party leader did not indicate that his endorsement had any conditions such as U.S. President Bush's emphatic limit on experimentation to cell lines derived from previously killed embryos only. In an interview with the Canadian Press released Friday, Manning said he supported embryonic stem cell research, falsely calling it the “lesser of two evils.” In […]