Articles for Month: October 2001

Co-Architect of Canada’s Abortion Law To Appear At Another Catholic Fundraiser with Cardinal TORONTO, October 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Former Prime Minister John Turner attended the annual Toronto Cardinal’s Dinner last night for which he acted as Chairman. Catholic pro-lifers were scandalized that Turner was allowed this prominent role in the Catholic event due to his unrepentant major role in abortion in Canada. Turner, while Justice Minister in 1969 under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, passed the notorious Omnibus bill, which included the legalization of abortion and homosexuality. The pro-life demonstration outside the Cardinal’s Dinner last night saw about 40 pro-lifers […]

Pro-Life Picketers Picket Outside Doctors Office Turned Abortuary SCARBOROUGH, ON, October 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Show the Truth, a pro-life picket using large signs depicting photos of aborted babies, picketed outside the Scarborough office of Dr. Katherine Chu, a doctor who turns her regular practice with pregnant women into an abortuary two days a week. Rosemary Connell, Show the Truth coordinator, learned from the secretary in Dr. Chu’s office that abortions were performed in the doctor’s office at 1371 Neilson, Suite 200, Fridays and Monday evenings. Thinking Connell was a prospective client, the secretary pitched the abortion service saying, “it […]

OTTAWA, October 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Fr. Tony Van Hee, a pro-life Catholic priest who has quietly and peacefully picketed, prayed and fasted outside the Canadian parliament buildings in Ottawa since September 1989, was removed from the spot from which he has graced Parliament for years. According to Parliament Hill insiders, security has been heavily increased on the Hill and precipitated Fr. Van Hee’s removal to a spot much further away from the buildings (by the Eternal Flame). Conservative MP Elsie Wayne, reacted to the news with sadness, alluding to the fact that Divine security comes with and not without […]

TORONTO, October 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Ontario Campaign Life Coalition Conference held Saturday October 13 was a great success. The speakers were dynamic, those that attended were informed about a myriad of issues and everyone was eager to take the knowledge they obtained back to their communities to talk to their federal and provincial representatives and their local pro-life organizations. Speaking on the hot topic of stem cell research were Wesley Smith, an American author and lawyer and Dr. John Shea, CLC medical advisor. During his talk Smith answered a troubling question – why, since adult stem cell research […]

LONDON, October 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Dianne Pretty, a 47-year-old British woman suffering from motor neurone disease, has lost a High Court challenge to laws which prevent her husband from helping her to attempt suicide without legal penalty. The BBC reports that the panel of three High Court judges, while saying they felt “desperately sorry” for the couple, ruled that no-one had the human right to “procure their own death”. They said that the Director of Public Prosecutions could not agree not to prosecute her husband for the assisted suicide since it would be a “licence to commit crime”. Pretty’s […]

LONDON, October 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A British judge has ruled that a 23+ week pregnant woman with schizophrenia is better off having a normal birth instead of a late-term abortion. Although the woman, who cannot be named, applied for an abortion, the judge noted that “None of the professional witnesses is able to say that a termination now is likely to be less traumatic and damaging to the applicant’s physical and mental health than a normal delivery followed by removal of the child.” Mr Justice Wall at the high court in Manchester said, “The applicant recognised that she could […]

JOSEPH SOBRAN ON OSAMA BIN LADEN Osama Bin Laden is only one symptom. His actual importance is being grossly exaggerated. The real story is the de-Christianization of Christendom, already far advanced. And it remains an offense against liberal etiquette to point this out, as two prominent Italians (the new prime minister and a cardinal) have recently done. Wanderer, Oct. 11, 2001 GORBACHEV HOPES FOR NEW WORLD ORDER FROM CURRENT CRISIS Newsmax.com reports that in a Sept. 16 Russian TV interview former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev hoped that from the present crisis a “new, international world order” would be created. Gorbachev […]

MADRID, October 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Despite serious concerns about the declining population level, Spanish legislators are urging greater access to abortion. Several opposition parties in the Spanish Parliament are urging more liberal abortion laws. El Mundo, reported yesterday on the frustration of five pro-abortion opposition parties who want the parliament to consider allowing more abortions. PSOE, the leading opposition party, supports an extension of the law to allow abortions on the grounds of “serious personal, family or social conflict” and no longer make them punishable with a prison sentence. According to demographer Juan Antonio Fernandez of Spain’s Superior Council […]

OTTAWA, October 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An anti-terrorism bill entailing broad powers of arrest and detention and a massive loss of rights of the accused has pro-lifers concerned since the legislation’s definition of terrorism could be interpreted to include pro-life groups. The apprehension is warranted given a government intelligence agency document which includes the “pro-life movement” under the category of “single issue terrorism.” (see the Canadian Security Intelligence Service CSIS document: https://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/eng/comment/com74_e.html) Presented in the House of Commons Monday, the Liberal Government’s the Anti-Terrorism Act, Bill C-36, would allow for arrest and confinement by police for up to 72 hours […]

WASHINGTON, October 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An investigation of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) activities in China by the Population Research Institute (PRI) prompted a Congressional hearing on coercive forms of population control in China, held today. The hearing, entitled “Coercive Population Control in China: New Evidence of Forced Abortion and Sterilization”, heard testimony from PRI President Steven Mosher and the lead investigator of the PRI-sponsored investigation of UNFPA operations in China. During its recent investigation in China, a team of PRI investigators discovered a policy of forced abortion and sterilization enforced in a region where UNFPA operates. UNFPA, […]