MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM LIFESITE NEWS

A very Merry Christmas and Blessed New Year from LifeSite News. Pray with us that this New Year may herald an end to the many attacks on the most innocent and vulnerable human lives, especially by abortion, allowing us all to live in a new era of grace and peace. May the love of the Little Child born 2000 years ago inspire your hearts with joy and peace. Remember, Jesus is the “reason for the season.” PLEASE NOTE : LifeSite News reports will be temporarily suspended for the Christmas season as of today and will resume regular publication on Jan. […]
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COURT DECISION ALLOWS PARENTS TO RETAIN CHILDREN IN SPANKING CASE

Social Work Agency Fails Attempt to Place Restraining Order on Pastor AYLMER, ON, December 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The attempt of the Family and Children’s Services of St. Thomas and Elgin (FCS) to have a court declare a Christian family in contempt of a court order against the use of spanking has failed. The Aylmer family whose seven children were forcibly apprehended by social workers when the parents refused to promise to not spank their children with objects such as a switch, was in court yesterday. They were happy to hear the judge rule that he lacked the authority to […]
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ONTARIO PREMIER SAYS EVES’ WARNINGS ABOUT “HATE” IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS IS “IRRELEVANT”

TORONTO, December 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Ontario Premier Mike Harris has referred to the comments of a contender to replace him as “irrelevant.” The Hamilton Spectator reported yesterday that Harris dismissed Tory Leadership hopeful Ernie Eves’ suggestion that private schools may teach “hate.” Harris said, “As far as anything to do with hate or teaching hate, no school in Ontario, private or public, will be allowed to stay open that does that. We have very strong laws on that so that’s irrelevant and extraneous to the issue.” Harris also criticized Eves’ insistence that private schools follow the Ontario curriculum. “As […]
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TORY LEADERSHIP CANDIDATE EVES CALLED ON TO RESIGN OVER POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST

TORONTO, December 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Tory leadership hopeful Ernie Eves, who earns a reported seven figure salary from Credit Suisse First Boston, was called on to resign from his lucrative job by Ontario Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty. The Liberal Leader noted that in the wake of this week’s Hydro announcements, Eves must resign since “Credit Suisse First Boston could have a major interest in the sale and purchase of Hydro One.”“The potential conflict of interest is obvious. Mr. Eves cannot help run Credit Suisse at the same time he’s running for the top job in government. He’s in an […]
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TASMANIA PASSES LAW ALLOWING EASY ACCESS TO ABORTION

TASMANIA, December 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Tasmania passed legislation which, according to pro-life groups, will allow virtual abortion on demand on the Southern Australian island state. The ‘emergency’ legislation, for which parliamentarians were recalled from Christmas break, passed both houses of Parliament in just 2 days with only minor amendments. The legislation was initiated when abortionists stopped committing abortions after a medical student complained to police that abortionists were falsifying documents in order to skirt the 75-year-old abortion law. See related coverage:  https://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,3474157%255E921,00.html https://www.abc.net.au/news/politics/2001/12/item20011221014728_1.htm
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‘FORMER EMBRYOS’ PROTESTING IN VITRO FERTILIZATION

NORFOLK, VA, December 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – “The pro-life movement needs to take a serious look at in vitro fertilization,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. “Every in vitro fertilization procedure results in dead babies.” American Life League supporters, dressed in T-shirts bearing the label “former embryo,” will gathered outside the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine today to address the pitfalls of in vitro fertilization. This event kicks off a series of protests at in vitro fertilization clinics across the country. The campaign will educate people about the reprehensible nature of the process. The in vitro fertilization process, […]
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ACTION ITEM – PRI CALLS ON PRESIDENT BUSH TO ZERO-FUND UNFPA

Population Research Institute has urged U.S. recipients of their email action alert below to call the White House: Ask President Bush to zero-fund UNFPA because of its support of coercive abortion and sterilization. Calls may be placed to the following: John Bridgeland Domestic Policy Counsel, White House 202-456-2895 Tim Goeglein Deputy Director of Public Liaison, White House 202-456-2380 Ken Mehlman Director of Political Affairs, White House 202-456-6257 David Hobbs Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, White House 202-456-6620 Background:  On September 27 of this year, PRI sent a team of investigators to look into alleged abuses in a […]
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FATHER OF AMERICAN TALIBAN FIGHTER LEFT FAMILY TO BEGIN HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIP The San Francisco Examiner reports that Frank Lindh, father of the 20-year old Caucasian American who became a Taliban fighter, “has been quoted time and again as saying it was his son John’s reading of the “Autobiography of Malcolm X” when John was 16 in 1997 that turned his son’s head and heart towards Islam. But something else going on in the family’s life at that time may have been just as decisive. When Frank Lindh left his family in 1997, it was to move in with a male […]
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STUDY REFUTES FINDING THAT CHILD-ADULT SEX IS HARMLESS

BALTIMORE, MD, December 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The American Psychological Association has published in its Psychological Bulletin, a study which examines and refutes a study published in the same journal in 1998 which claimed that child sexual abuse was not excessively harmful for children. The new study, in the November issue of the Psychological Bulletin reveals numerous problems in the 1998 study that minimized child sexual abuse including the “misreporting of original data.” Cybercast News Service (CNS) reports that Joyanna Silberg, Ph.D., co-author of the new study also criticized the first study for reporting that most men did not suffer […]
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MICHAEL O’BRIEN DEFENDS POTTER CRITICS FROM CHARGES OF FUNDAMENTALISM https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=14297 JUDGE: MIAMI GIRL CAN SUE MOM FOR INJURIES SUFFERED IN UTERO https://sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-1219miamigirl.story?coll=  sfla%2Dhome%2Dheadlines CARRIBEAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS OPPOSE BILL LEGALIZING SODOMY IN JAMAICA https://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20011218/news/news1.html
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DISSIDENT US ‘CATHOLIC’ PAPER CARRIES OP-ED SLAMMING PRO-LIFERS

KANSAS CITY, MO, December 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – While faithful Catholics have dismissed the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) as more anti-Catholic than Catholic and have thus turned to other more honestly Catholic publications, some Catholics continue to support the NCR. However, an op-ed piece published in the NCR’s December 14 issue, emphasizes the paper’s divergence from the faith. The Kansas City-based paper published an article by self-described “pro-choice” Ann Pettifer. In her piece, Pettifer takes aim at the pro-life movement, slamming it unmercifully for even suggesting that abortion after rape could be avoided. “To argue that the cells of an […]
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STUDY: ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE USERS TWICE AS LIKELY TO SUFFER HEART ATTACK

AMSTERDAM, December 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – According to a new study in the Dec. 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, women who take any type of oral contraceptives are at twice the risk of having a heart attack as women who do not use ‘the pill’. Researchers from eight university medical centers in the Netherlands conducted a nationwide, population-based, case-control study involving 1,173 Dutch women between the ages of 18 and 49. They found that depending on the combination of chemicals used in the manufacture of the pills, the increased risk of heart attack over non-users of […]
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PRESIDENT BUSH TO DECIDE ON FUNDING FOR UNFPA

WASHINGTON, December 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A compromise measure in a massive $15.3 billion foreign aid bill will see President George Bush deciding on funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), one of the most notorious abortion promoting agencies in the world. While the bill suggests funding for UNFPA at $34 million – $9 million over last year – the amount is a ceiling, leaving Bush the opportunity to zero-fund the organization. The Population Research Institute (PRI), which recently presented to Congress the results of an investigation into UNFPA’s complicity with China’s coercive one-child policy, said “President Bush has […]
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TORY LEADERSHIP CANDIDATE EVES SLAMMED OVER ANTI-RELIGIOUS REMARK

TORONTO, December 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) would not normally become involved in the election of a leader of a political party. However, public comments by Ontario Progressive Conservative party leadership candidate Ernie Eves’ regarding the teaching of “hatred” in independent schools were deemed “cause for serious concern ” by CCRL. Mr. Eves, in commenting on the proposed private school tax credit program unveiled by Ontario Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, is reported to have stated: “I am not against choice in the education system, but I am in favour of some very basic standards. Are […]
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ABORTIFACIENT MORNING AFTER PILL DISPENSED WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION IN QUEBEC

Taxpayers to pay for the pills MONTREAL, December 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Quebec today announced that pharmacists may dispense the abortifacient morning after pill with the bill for the pills being picked up by taxpayers. The pharmacists doling out the pills were required to take a four hour course on how to administer a consultation with those demanding the abortifacients. The consultation fee – upwards of $30 – will not be covered, according to a report in the Montreal Gazette. Both the pills and doctor’s exam are free at hospitals. Normand Cadieux, managing director of the Association Québécoise des Pharmaciens-Propriétaires […]
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CHILDREN’S SERVICES THREATENING TO TAKE AYLMER CHILDREN FROM PARENTS AGAIN

St. Thomas children’s agency aggressively determined to make an example of Aylmer religious family AYLMER, ON, December 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The case of an Ontario family whose seven children were forcibly apprehended by social workers since the parents refused to stop spanking their children using objects such as a switch, has erupted again. The numerous delays in the case has caused the family to protest that they can no longer abide by interim restrictions on their freedom to discipline their children in accordance with their faith and Canadian law. Following the parents’ protest, the Family and Children’s Services of […]
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TORY LEADERSHIP HOPEFUL WITMER QUESTIONS PRIVATE SCHOOL TAX CREDIT

TORONTO, December 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Environment Minister and Tory leadership candidate Elizabeth Witmer has questioned allowing parents a private school tax credit unless those schools follow the provincial curriculum. Finance Minister and leadership candidate Jim Flaherty finalized the regulations on the tax credit last week, noting that independent schools need not provide the standard government curriculum mandated in public schools in order to be eligible for the credit. The Toronto Sun reports that Witmer commented on the issue of the curriculum saying, “And that seems to be an issue that is certainly generating the need for some further discussion.” […]
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ALLIANCE CANDIDATE HILL REFUSES TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT ON HOMOSEXUALITY

OTTAWA, December 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance leadership contender Grant Hill has stood his ground against the media’s hounding him for comments made five years ago about homosexuality being an “unhealthy lifestyle.” Rather than trying to back down from his statement, Hill said, “That’s a comment made as a physician, the same as I do with lifestyles I think are harmful for individuals. Political correctness is something that is very foreign to doctors. We take scientific information and lay it on the table and that’s what I did and I will continue to do.” At the time Hill noted […]
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WHY RESORT TO TEST TUBE BABIES WHEN THERE ARE ETHICAL ALTERNATIVES?

WASHINGTON, D.C, December 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – “No one has a right to a child,” said American Life League president Judie Brown, “so we urge parents to consider the ethical alternatives to practices such as in vitro fertilization. When couples choose in vitro fertilization, they’re turning children into commodities.”“The idea of freezing embryos and possibly killing one or more of your children meant that in vitro fertilization was simply not an option for us,” said John Kurtz of suburban Philadelphia. Mr. Kurtz and his wife, Donna, struggle with infertility. The Kurtzes found their answer in adoption. “There’s no need to […]
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US CARDINAL URGES SENATE TO BAN ALL HUMAN CLONING

WASHINGTON, December 19, 2001, (LSN.ca) – Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua has urged the U.S. Senate to follow the lead of the House of Representatives and ban human cloning in the United States. In a letter to the Senate last week, Cardinal Bevilacqua noted that the House overwhelmingly passed a ban on human cloning last summer (H.R. 2505) which the President has said he will sign into law. “The leadership of the Senate nonetheless has refused to take action on this measure, or even to consider a temporary moratorium on human cloning research,” Cardinal Bevilacqua said. “Such inaction is morally irresponsible and […]
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HEAR MICHAEL O’BRIEN DESCRIBE THE MEANING AND HISTORY OF HIS PAINTING

COMBERMERE, ONTARIO December 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Hear the 6 minute Real Audio LifeSite interview with Michael O’Brien in which Michael explains the full meaning and history of his painting ‘Jesus and the Little Children’. In these fascinating few moments he conveys the deep spiritual purpose that he had in completing this special work of art. Go to https://www.lifesitenews.com/shop/obrienprint.html and click on the Hear Michael link. (requires Real Audio)
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I’M THE BEST TO LEAD THE PARTY SAYS JOE CLARK “I think there’s a pretty broad consensus in my party that there is no one who is better suited to lead this party right now, in this phase of our activities, than I am,” Clark told The Toronto Sun editorial board. APPEAL HEARD AT UNITED NATIONS FOR UNIVERSAL ID SYSTEM AAP reports that “every person in the world would be fingerprinted and registered under a universal identification scheme to fight illegal immigration and people smuggling outlined at a United Nations meeting.” The plan was put forward by Pascal Smet, the […]
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COLORADO CUTS OFF FUNDING FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD https://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_912545,00.html
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EVES COMES OUT SWINGING AGAINST PARENTAL CHOICE IN EDUCATION TAX CREDIT

Slanders independent schools, implying they teach “hatred” and “intolerance” TORONTO, December 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Ontario Tory Leadership contender Ernie Eves, slammed the lack of more restrictive conditions within the new Ontario independent schools tax credit program. Eves, the former provincial Finance Minister, blasted his leadership rival, current Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, for allowing the tax credit to be unhampered by the need to follow the Ontario state-mandated education curriculum. Eves descended so far in his animosity toward independent schools as to suggest that the lack of more control would fail to prevent the teaching of “hatred” in private schools. […]
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NEW JERSEY SENATE APPROVES ABSTINENCE IS BEST BILL After a 15-year battle, the New Jersey Senate voted to require public school teachers to stress abstinence “as the only completely reliable means” of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.  https://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/jersey/ledger/1556144.html JUDGE ISSUES TEMPORARY ORDER ALLOWING PRO-LIFER TO DISPLAY SIGN Thomas More Law Center has won the first round of a pro-life lawsuit in getting a judge to sign an an order temporarily restraining Michigan’s Attorney General Jennifer Granholm and several other state law enforcement agents from using a state statute to prevent Ann Norton, a pro-life activist, from displaying a sign […]
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UNFPA ATTEMPTS WHITEWASH OF FORCED ABORTION IN CHINA

WASHINGTON, December 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A presentation to the US Congress on the complicity of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in coercive family planning programs in China has US lawmakers reconsidering funding for the organization. The controversy over UNFPA funding came to a head last month when the entire $15-plus billion Foreign Aid bill stalled in conference committee. It will likely not be resolved before the end of the year. The foreign operations appropriation (HR 2506) currently includes $37.5 million for the UNFPA. In September, a Population Research Institute (PRI)-led investigation of UNFPA operations in China revealed that […]
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CHINA ALLOWS HUMAN CLONING FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES

BEIJING, December 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Communist China has joined Britain in its notorious allowance of human cloning. While both countries say they will not allow reproductive cloning, the result of the legislation would thus mandate the death of the human embryos created by cloning. Mercury News reports that in China restrictions such as banning destructive research on embryos and presumably 'therapeutic' cloning are not being contemplated. Yanguan Wang, an ethicist who is helping to draft new research guidelines from the Ministry of Health said that the government may choose not to fund certain controversial research but it will not […]
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LAWYERS READY TO PRACTICE AT INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AS OPENING NEARS

PARIS, December 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Lawyers’ associations from all over the world met in Paris December 6 and 7 to create an international criminal lawyers’ association for the International Criminal Court. Canadian Liberal MP Irwin Cotler announced the meeting in Parliament noting that the Canadian government co-sponsored the event. The conference, organized by the International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association – with headquarters in Montreal, was expected to bring together over 300 experts from the bar associations of 60 countries. The aim of the meeting was to generate a pool of lawyers to provide of legal counsel to both individuals […]
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CANADIAN PHYSICIANS FOR LIFE ON GOV’T APPROVAL OF EMBRYO RESEARCH

Press Release – “Government Approval To Destroy Human Embryos Unacceptable” VANCOUVER, BC, December 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Physicians for Life applauds the Minister of Health for proposing legislation on new medical technologies in Canada. The restrictions planned are long overdue. While the new law correctly rejects intentional embryo creation for experimentation, it approves of destructive experimentation on embryos originally created as the children of infertile parents. It seems ethically inconsistent that the permissibility of experimentation up to 14 days on any one embryo relies on it not having been created for that purpose. If there is something wrong with […]
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ONTARIO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL TAX CREDIT APPROVED WITH MINIMAL RESTRICTIONS

TORONTO, December 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Ontario Finance Minister Jim Flaherty faced heavy opposition but came out the winner during intense Ontario cabinet discussions over the independent schools tax credit last week. The Canadian Press reports that at a closed cabinet meeting Wednesday, several provincial ministers attempted to attach restrictions to the tax credit including requirements that eligible independent schools hire certified teachers and follow the Ontario curriculum. However, CP reports that Flaherty was successful in fighting off those restrictions which would have negated much of the parental choice purpose of the independent schools. Today’s government release on the Equity […]
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CANADIAN ALLIANCE BOOTS REBEL MPS FROM PARTY

Leadership Heats Up With Grant Hill Entering Race and Day Soon To Follow OTTAWA, December 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In a move some are calling “long overdue” the Canadian Alliance National Council voted Thursday to expel the six rebel MPs from the party for creating party scandal with their public and unreserved criticism of former Alliance Leader Stockwell Day. In a 14 to 13 vote the Council ousted Deborah Gray, Chuck Strahl, Val Meredith, Jay Hill, Grant McNally and Jim Pankiw. Day stepped down as leader last week. In related news, Grant Hill announced his candidacy for Leader of the […]
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MANITOBA PREMIER OFFICIALLY USES WORD ‘CHRISTMAS’ FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1996

Doesn’t like taking the word ‘Christ’ out of Christmas. WINNIPEG, December 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Manitoba Premier Gary Doer has decided to pull back slightly from political correctness ideology with an open reference to a “Christmas tree”. The National Post reports that the provincial legislature has not officially used the word “Christmas” since 1996. While the decorated spruce tree at the legislature has been referred to as the multicultural tree since 1990, Doer has decided to rename it a “Christmas tree.” Doer defended his decision saying, “If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s not a […]
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LORD OF THE RINGS HAS STRONG CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION

December 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – As with Harry Potter, many parents are wondering whether the soon to be released movie blockbuster, Lord of the Rings, with all of its violence, monsters and even some magic is appropriate for them and/or their children. The movie, which is probably too frightening for young children, is closely based on the J.R.R. Tolkien three part novel of the same title. What is not so well known is that the book, and it’s epic struggles between good and evil, was written with a strong Catholic Christian perspective. Tolkien was passionate about his faith and attempted […]
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RADICAL PRO-ABORTION SENATOR SET TO RETIRE

OTTAWA, December 17, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Liberal Senator Sheila Finestone, a radical pro-abortion and pro-homosexual activist politician is retiring from the Senate Jan 28, as she reaches age 75. Finestone, appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Jean Chretien in 1999, referred to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which ushered abortion into Canada, as the reason for her entrance into politics in her farewell Friday. Recalling a conversation with former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau she said, “I told him it was all his doing, it was his fault, because he has brought in multicultural rights and women’s rights under […]
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PRESTON MANNING WILL TAKE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO POST Canadian Press reports that Preston Manning, founder of the Reform Party and its Leader prior to its evolvement into the Canadian Alliance, will become a lecturer at the University of Toronto after he retires from politics in January. His post will begin in the fall. Manning will also become a senior fellow at the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute. His residence remains in Calgary. AUSTRALIA’S DR. DEATH SEEKING TO ‘PRACTICE’ IN NEW ZEALAND The New Zealand Herald reports that Australian euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke still plans to apply for temporary registration as a […]
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BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE TIRE COMPANY FUNDING HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISM

NASHVILLE, Tenn., December 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The American Family Association (AFA) has blasted the Bridgestone/Firestone (BFS) tire and rubber company for their announcement of a promise of support for homosexual activists via heavy advertising on homosexual websites, television channels and print media. The BFS announcement noted that the company had a history of donations promoting homosexuality. BFS admitted having funded among other ventures: GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), GLSEN (The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network), Family Pride Coalition and the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Firestone’s employees are not happy about the company’s new endorsement. AFA President […]
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DRUGS ARE BEING SOUGHT TO DO THE JOB OF STEM CELLS WITHOUT THE CONTROVERSY https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/business/13CELL.html?todaysheadlines ADULT STEM CELLS PERMANENTLY CURE SICKLE CELL ANEMIA IN MICE https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38805-2001Dec13.html WEST AUSTRALIA AD AUTHORITY BANS AD LINKING HOMOSEXUALITY AND PEDOPHILIA The West Australian advertising watchdog has ruled that a newspaper ad linking homosexuality and pedophilia breached industry ethics. In September, the Australian Family Association (AFA) placed a newspaper ad claiming sexual orientation anti-discrimination laws will result in “many more boys” being “seduced by older men.”  https://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,3409001%255E2761,00.html Ezra Levant, formerly a conservative writer with the National Post, is to be the Canadian Alliance candidate in […]
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GERMAN COURT REJECTS WRONGFUL BIRTH SUIT

KALSRUHE, Germany, December 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A German Federal Court has rejected a lawsuit by couple demanding financial compensation from doctors for not warning them of their children’s handicaps while in utero. The British Medical Journal reports that parents of identical girl twins say that if doctors told them one of the twins was disabled they would have aborted the baby, who is now a child dependant on a wheelchair. The judges ruled that an abortion of the handicapped twin would have been illegal because the procedure would have severely risked the life of the other twin. Only an […]
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PRO-LATIMER CLEMENCY PETITION CLAIMS 60,000+ SIGNATURES

OTTAWA, December 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) presented a petition with more than 60,000 signatures to the office of Solicitor General Lawrence MacAulay on Thursday demanding clemency for Robert Latimer and an end to mandatory minimum prison sentences. Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer serving a minimum 10-year sentence for the murder of his disabled 12-year-old daughter Tracy, claims he acted out of mercy. The Supreme Court ruled against allowing Latimer to avoid the minimum sentence, and disability activists praised the decision saying anything less would have devalued the lives of society’s most vulnerable. Latimer’s supporters are […]
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RELIGIOUS GROUPS OPPOSE COMMONS COMMITTEE EMBRYO RESEARCH DECISION

OTTAWA, December 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) commented on the Commons Health Committee report on the proposed new reproductive technology legislation. The legislation, while banning all forms of human cloning, recommended permitting destructive research on human embryos. Both the Canadian Alliance and the Conservative Party issued dissenting reports asking that there be a moratorium and a ban respectively on embryonic stem cell research. Bruce Clemenger, Director of EFC's Centre for Faith and Public Life said, “While we applaud the clear support for the prohibitions contained in the […]
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FEDERAL OPPOSITION PARTY OPPOSES DESTRUCTIVE RESEARCH ON EMBRYOS

Pro-Life Spokesmen Protest Suggestion of “Ownership” of Embryonic Children OTTAWA, December 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Alliance, Canada's Official Opposition, issued a dissenting opinion on a Commons Committee report, which recommended allowing destructive research on human embryos. The Commons report suggested a ban on all human cloning – both reproductive and cloning for research purposes. The Minority report, issued by the Canadian Alliance in response to the Health Committee recommendations, demanded a clause in the legislation calling for “respect for human life.” The Alliance report stated “we feel that the greater problem with embryonic stem cell research is that […]
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IRISH BISHOPS SUPPORT ABORTION LEGISLATION PREVIOUSLY CONDEMNED BY VATICAN

DUBLIN, December 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In a shocking move, the Catholic Bishops of Ireland are publicly supporting abortion legislation which the Vatican has explicitly opposed. A release issued by the Irish Episcopal Conference Wednesday said “We welcome and support the new proposal.” The proposal in question is the Human Life and Pregnancy Bill, which has already passed one of the Houses of Irish Parliament. The bill has one positive aspect in that it overrules the Supreme Court ruling which allowed abortion in the case of a threat to the life of the mother, but included a mother’s threat of […]
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UK FERTILITY AUTHORITY APPROVES SCREENING OF EMBRYOS TO BENEFIT OLDER SIBLINGS

LONDON, December 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The first country to allow human cloning, has once again forged into controversy by approving the use of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to screen in vitro embryos to find genetic matches for older born siblings for use as stem cell and bone marrow donors. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) today announced its decision to “allow a couple at risk of passing on a genetic disease to use PGD, not only to select embryos free from the disease, but also to select an embryo so that stem cells from the resulting baby's umbilical […]
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HUMAN CLONING MAY NEVER BE POSSIBLE GIVEN GROSS CLONING ABNORMALITIES

WASHINGTON, DC, December 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Tanja Dominko made a presentation last week on her research attempts to clone monkeys. After three years and nearly 300 attempts she gave up calling the cells, which were supposed to be cloned embryos, a “gallery of horrors.” Following the same process of nuclear transfer used to create the cloned sheep “Dolly”, Domniko found that the newly manufactured ‘embryos’ would not divide further than elemental stages. Moreover she found that the embryos were massively deformed while appearing superficially healthy. The New Scientist reports that the ‘embryos’ did not form distinct nuclei containing […]
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CALIFORNIA RIGHT TO LIFE DETAILS CRIMES OF ABORTIONISTS

LOS ANGELES, December 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The newsletter of the Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission details a report about the crimes of abortionists compiled by California Right to Life. The report was published in response to a legislative report written by a state senate staffer, entitled Crimes Against Reproductive Rights in California, which alleges that pro-life people are violent, and supplies examples. The Right to Life “Abortion Crime Report” lists a total of 2,297 incidents of pro-abortion violence and illegal activities. The report then goes on to list crimes committed by abortionists in California by city, citing the original […]
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POPE CALLS FOR DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER FOR WORLD PEACE Pope John Paul II has called for a day of fasting and prayer and charity for world peace tomorrow, Friday December 14.  https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/angelus/2001/documents/hf_jp -ii_ang_20011118_en.html STOCKWELL DAY RESIGNS, ABLONCZY ENTERS ALLIANCE LEADERSHIP RACE Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day resigned yesterday but did not announce that he would run for the leadership. Day said to wait for an announcement in January. Meanwhile Diane Ablonczy, the Canadian Alliance’s health critic, officially launched her candidacy.  https://www.nationalpost.com/news/updates/story.html?f=/news/updates/stories/  20011212/national-458018.html POLICE DO NOT HAVE AUTOMATIC RIGHT TO STRIP SEARCH The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled […]
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EDITORIAL TAKEOVER BY LIBERAL MEDIA MAGNATE PROTESTED

Toronto Market gradually losing only alternative to liberal newspapers MONTREAL, December 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – CanWest Global Communications Corp. which purchased the Southam newspaper chain including the National Post from Conrad Black has ordered its 17 Southam papers to run one company-made editorial per week. CBC reports that the CanWest editorials to be written at headquarters in Winnipeg will soon increase to three per week. CBC reports that the Montreal Newspaper Guild said the decision will seriously hamper the newspaper’s freedom of speech, and limit the number of voices it can offer readers. Montreal Gazette reporter Alexander Norris, one of […]
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CANADA PREPARING TO ACQUIRE SMALL POX VACCINE

Use of Aborted Baby Tissue In Vaccine To Be Considered OTTAWA, December 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Health Canada has solicited information from potential vaccine producers for the manufacture of smallpox vaccine. Following the United States’ lead, Canada sent out a request for information (RFI) to approximately 300 Canadian and international pharmaceutical/biological companies to determine whether they are able to provide the vaccine. The companies are to respond by January 7, after which Health Canada will consider the applications. In the United States, one company which was awarded US contracts for the provision of the smallpox vaccine, switched its manufacturing procedure […]
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ADULT STEM CELL FOUND WHICH CAUSES NO IMMUNE REJECTION

MONTREAL, December 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Researchers in Montreal have discovered that a stem cell found in adult bone marrow does not cause rejection by a recipient's immune system. Called a 'miracle' stem cell, the mesenchymal stem cells, or MSCs, don't carry markers on their surfaces which lead to rejection, reports the December 15 issue of New Scientist. While many scientists have had to go to human cloning to get human embryo stem cells to avoid the immune rejection, MSCs naturally avoid the reaction as well as the whole controversy over experimentation with embryos. Ray Chiu, of McGill University in […]
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EUROPEAN YOUTH ALLIANCE DECLARES RESPECT FOR LIFE

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, December 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Nearly two hundred young leaders representing nine countries gathered for a World Youth Alliance conference two weeks ago featuring top European thinkers and policy-makers to declare their vision for the future of Europe. The European Youth Alliance’s release of the Bratislava Youth Declaration on December 1 coincided with the first regional democratic elections in Slovakia, and the two events were covered together on Slovak National Television. “We call upon the governments and citizens of Europe to reaffirm the recognition … of the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of all, including the inviolable right […]
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CHURCHES CONDEMN TEEN SEX-CHANGE OPERATION

LONDON, Dec 10, 01 (CWNews.com/LSN.ca) – Church leaders have condemned plans for a teenage boy to undergo a sex change having first frozen his sperm so that he will become both father and mother of his own child. Jamie Cooper has had to wait until he was 16 before he could be considered for a sex-change operation. If his sperm is successfully frozen it could be used to fertilize the egg of a surrogate mother. Cooper says this way he would be able to become a mother while remaining the biological father of a child. A spokesman for Birmingham Health […]
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EGYPTIAN GETS LIFE FOR SETTING FIRE TO WIFE WHO REFUSED ABORTION AFP reports that Egyptian businessman Amr Abdel Rizak Fathallah who burned alive his eight-months pregnant wife after she refused to have an abortion was sentenced by a Cairo criminal court to life imprisonment Tuesday.  (with files from Pro-Life E-News) 1,900 HOMOSEXUAL “MARRIAGES” IN HOLLAND THIS YEAR The Central Bureau of Statistics said 2 100 men and 1 700 women married someone of the same sex by September 30 – a total of 1,900 marriages. The law allowing homosexual marriage took effect April 1.  https://www.news24.co.za/News24/World/Europe/0,1113,2-10-19_1120388,00.html FORMER UK ABORTIONIST WAS SOURCE […]
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CANADIAN PASTOR FACING SECOND TRIBUNAL ON HOMOSEXUAL AD

VANCOUVER, BC, December 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A Canadian Evangelical Pastor of over 50 years is due before a BC Human Rights Tribunal next Monday for the continuation of hearings into a complaint by a homosexual activist that an ad placed by the pastor in a national newspaper in 1998 was hateful. Reverend Ken Campbell, a frequent speaker at pro-life events, was previously acquitted of the same complaint before the Ontario Human Rights Commission. Rejecting arguments that the case incurred double jeopardy, the tribunal is set to hear arguments in the case December 17-21. Rev. Campbell told LifeSite he is […]
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DECISION RESERVED IN “GAY” DISCRIMINATION CASE AGAINST CANADIAN CHRISTIAN PRINTER

TORONTO, December 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Ontario Divisional court has reserved its decision in the case against a Christian printer who refused a printing job for a homosexual activist association. Toronto printer Scott Brockie, who in 2000 was found guilty of discrimination and fined him $5,000 by the Ontario Human Rights Commission, was in court last week on an appeal of the commission’s decision. The Canadian Religious Freedom Alliance (CRFA), comprised of the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL), Christian Legal Fellowship and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada intervened in the case on Mr. Brockie’s behalf. Phil Horgan, a lawyer […]
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MANITOBA TO ALLOW JOINT ADOPTION BY HOMOSEXUALS

WINNIPEG, December 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Manitoba Justice Minister Gord Mackintosh has announced that the province will allow joint adoption of children by homosexual couples. The new legislation is expected in the spring. Although the province already allowed adoption of children by homosexual individuals, four homosexual couples have launched a court challenge against the province for barring joint adoption privileges. CP reports that Mackintosh has instructed government lawyers not to fight the court challenge. The government is deciding whether to allow changes to adoption laws permitting only homosexual couples to be added as eligible or to allow any two adults […]
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FERTILITY CLINIC TO SCREEN SIBLINGS FOR “SPARE PARTS”

LONDON, December 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Fertility Dr Mohammed Taranissi has announced plans to set up a clinic in London to screen in vitro embryos to find genetic matches for older born siblings so as to be able to become tissue, organ or stem cell donors. The procedure has been used in the United States and has led to the birth of babies whose umbilical cord blood has been used for stem cell treatments for older siblings. The development follows logically from permitting in vitro fertilization in the first place. IVF procedures already kill embryonic children by the thousands. The […]
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SWEDISH COURT RULES SPERM DONOR MUST PAY CHILD SUPPORT

STOCKHOLM, December 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A male friend of a lesbian couple who donated sperm so that the couple could have three children has been ordered to pay child support by the courts. A county court in Sweden ruled the man must pay child support of $265 per month after the lesbian couple separated. Reuters reports that the verdict poses a legal dilemma because under Swedish law a sperm donor is not regarded as a legal parent of his biological children. Normally donors are strictly anonymous. The man has appealed the decision. See the Reuters coverage:  https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011209/od/life_sweden_sperm_dc_2.html
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BC pro-life activist Ted Gerk, is slamming the new Liberal government for enforcing a radical law implemented by the former pro-abortion activist NDP government which allows hospitals to keep secret the number of abortions performed. https://www.kelownacapnews.com/archive/2001/12/07/stories/1183_full.html?latest_date=2001/12/07 Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day will step down tomorrow.  https://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id={7D236962-65C0-4137-9EF6-3B251921C42D} SPUC News Digest reports that the Most Reverend Peter Smith, new Roman Catholic archbishop of Cardiff, Wales, preached against abortion, euthanasia and destructive embryo experimentation during his installation Mass last Tuesday. Following a legal challenge, Tasmanian doctors have stopped performing abortions in a protest to force Tasmania’s 75-year-old abortion laws to be changed by […]
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WorldNetDaily reports that the National Organization of Women received anti-tobacco money during the Clinton years. Tammy Bruce, the former chairman of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization of Women, revealed the grant when asked why NOW didn’t show much concern over allegations of sexual harassment by President Clinton. “We don’t have proof that this money was linked to Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones, in the sense of hush money,” she said. “But there is certainly the appearance of impropriety.”  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25631 Liberal and feminist groups are gearing up for a “nasty and contentious fight” against President Bush’s judicial nominees […]
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AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ADMITS HOMOSEXUAL MEDICAL GROUP

WASHINGTON, December 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – At the same meeting in which the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to refuse to inform women that the birth control pill is abortifacient, the AMA admitted a homosexual medical group. Last week AMA voted to include the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) in its Specialty and Service Society, according to a homosexual activist news service. Increasingly, the AMA is being seen as a liberal activist group rather than the prestigious medical association it claims to be. Last year it encouraged the over-the-counter distribution of the abortifacient morning-after-pill. In June the group took […]
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ULTRASOUND MAY CAUSE UNBORNS BRAIN DAMAGE The BBC reports scientists in Sweden have found evidence ultrasound scans may cause brain damage in unborn babies after they found men whose mothers had tests were more likely to be left-handed.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1699000/1699905.stm NEW CLONING METHOD BY CANADIAN VET Dr. Lawrence Smith a veterinary doctor at the University of Montreal has cloned three calves using a new cloning technique. The procedure delays the time of fertilization until after the ovum is “activated.” While traditional cloning can take 64 attempts to procure one successful cloned embryo Smith’s method rates one in 17.  https://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id={4824F503-2605-4E78-9FCD-36CAC31CB15A} C.S. LEWIS’ […]
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UK LAWS BANNING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST HOMOSEXUALS HAVE CHURCHES CONCERNED

LONDON, December 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – New laws giving homosexuals rejected for jobs because of their abnormal sexual practices the right to sue, are to be outlined this week. The Telegraph reports the law will also allow homosexual couples pension benefits and other privileges introduced originally to protect the family. The report indicates churches will be allowed to insist that homosexuals hired for certain positions remain celibate. However homosexual activist groups want those exemptions limited to pastoral jobs. Evangelical groups are insisting that the exemption be allowed for all working for a religious organization. Iain Bainbridge, of the Christian Institute, […]
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CANADA BIRTH RATE HITS NEW LOW – CONTINUES NINE YEAR DECLINE

OTTAWA, December 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Statistics Canada released its data on births for 1999 today revealing that Canada has reached an all-time low fertility rate of 1.528, where the replacement rate is 2.1. In total, 337,249 babies were born in 1999, down 1.5% from 1998. This was the ninth year of decline in live births. The fertility rate, which estimates the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime, continued its nine-year fall to a new low in 1999 of 1,528 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 49. While women aged 25 to 29 had […]
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HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP SAYS ANNAN “NOT WORTHY” OF NOBEL PRIZE

GOETTINGEN, Germany, December 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) has criticized the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The German-based group said Annan twice failed to prevent genocide – in 1994 in Rwanda and Srebrenica in 1995. STP president Tilman Zuelch said that as the head of the United Nations peace-keeping mission at the time, Annan was well informed due to constant contact with the UN troops both in Rwanda and Bosnia. A human rights organization with advisory status at the Economics and Social Council of the UN, STP reports […]
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ALLIANCE LEADERSHIP: GRANT HILL BEING ENCOURAGED TO RUN BY ROD LOVE

OTTAWA, December 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance MP Grant Hill is considering a run for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance. The National Post reported Friday that Hill is being pushed to run by Rod Love. Hill would be running against Stockwell Day who is expected to announce his run this week. Hill is known to be pro-life. However he is being backed by the same strategist who some suggest undermined Stockwell Day’s campaign. Rod Love, the former campaign manager for Stockwell Day, has publicly expressed his “wholehearted” support for legalized abortion. In a column in the Calgary Herald […]
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COMMONS COMMITTEE REPORT OKAYS EXPERIMENTS USING HUMAN EMBRYOS

OTTAWA, December 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Liberal-dominated Commons health committee has rubber-stamped Health Minister Allan Rock’s proposed legislation regarding new reproductive technologies. While various MPs on the committee objected to experimentation with human embryos, especially given the superiority of ethical stem cell research with adult cells, the majority approved the controversial research, according to a report in the National Post. Ottawa sources say the committee report, which is to be delivered Wednesday, allows experimentation with human embryos up to 14 days old, which were created for in vitro fertilization but not used. The Post reports that the Canadian Alliance […]
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QUEBEC TO LEGALIZE HOMOSEXUAL UNIONS

Province is “engaging in social suicide by militarily promoting this sterile lifestyle.” MONTREAL, December 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – As a homosexual couple is attempting to force the recognition of homosexual marriage through the Quebec courts, the provincial government has tabled legislation to legalize homosexual civil unions. The bill is not expected to be passed until public consultations are conducted next spring, and would make Quebec the only province other than Nova Scotia to allow legal registration of homosexual unions. The Canadian Press reports that homosexual couples “would receive almost all the benefits of married couples, including health and insurance benefits, […]
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DUTCH COURT: ILLEGAL EUTHANASIA SO MINOR IT DESERVES NO PUNISHMENT

AMSTERDAM, December 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The laws governing euthanasia in Holland have been shown to be a sham, as a Dutch doctor who was convicted of illegally euthanizing a healthy patient was not given a prison sentence or even a fine. The Dutch appeals court ruled Thursday that Dr. Phillip Sutorius failed to act within the legal guidelines set for euthanasia in the Netherlands when in 1998 he gave a poisonous cocktail to 86-year-old Senator Edward Brongersma. The euthanasia guidelines that became law in the Netherlands in April states patients must be suffering unbearably with no hope of recovery […]
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BILLY GRAHAM MADE HONORARY KNIGHT OF BRITISH EMPIRE

LONDON, December 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In a ceremony conducted at the British Embassy in Washington Thursday by Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer, evangelist Billy Graham was made an honorary knight of the British Empire. AP reports that Graham was honoured with the award “for a lifetime of contributions to religious life.” Sir Meyer said, “His ministry is truly international. Dr. Graham has blazed a trail of Christian commitment marked by tolerance and respect for others.’‘ Although not widely covered, Graham showed respect for the unborn, the traditional family and for the elderly and disabled. In April 1997 Graham spoke on […]
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AMA VOTES AGAINST LETTING WOMEN KNOW “THE PILL” IS ABORTIFACIENT

WASHINGTON, December 7, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The American Medical Association this week voted overwhelmingly against a proposal to inform women about the potential for birth control pills to cause the abortion of an embryo by preventing implantation in the uterus. Cybercast News Service reports that Dr. John C. Nelson, a member of the AMA’s executive committee and a self-described conservative, said the Alabama doctor who put forward the proposal before the AMA “believes that in the spirit of enhancing the patient/physician relationship, that information ought to be disclosed to patients to help them make choices.” Nelson said, “I couldn’t agree […]
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MICHAEL O’BRIEN IN ZENIT INTERVIEW ON HARRY POTTER O’Brien, a renowned Canadian Catholic author, points out that after reading the four volumes of the Harry Potter series three times, “with each reading the serious defects of the novels appear in clearer light.” Pointing out a problem of “consistent use of repulsive details, lowering the child’s instinctive aversion to the horrible and grotesque” O’Brien cites the book noting that “in one (witchcraft) class the students are taught to cut up mandrake roots, which are living human babies, for use in a potion. At the least, this can cause a subconscious desensitization […]
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WOMEN WHO DONATE EGGS FOR IVF MUST PAY IN PAIN, HARDSHIP AND RISK INFERTILITY

WASHINGTON, December 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The process for extracting eggs from a woman for fertility treatment either for herself of others is a painful and dangerous experience. The Washington Post reports today on the hardship faced by women who are enticed by large monetary rewards to consider donating their eggs. “Following an extensive application process, she could wait months, even years,” reports the Post, the woman must endure tests for genetic and infectious diseases, a complete physical examination and psychological assessment. Once the process is approved there are multiple doctor appointments and the prospective egg donor must “give herself […]
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QUEBEC TO INTRODUCE NEW BILL ON HOMOSEXUAL UNIONS THIS WEEK The Canadian Press reports today that the Quebec government to introduce draft bill on homosexual unions this week. “It appears the bill will fall short of offering all the rights gay and lesbian couples have been seeking but it will accord a brand new status,” reports CP. JAPAN TO ALLOW CREATION OF ANIMAL-HUMAN EMBRYOS https://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_462557.html
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BUSH APPOINTS RNC HEAD WHO IS NOT PRO-LIFE Yesterday President Bush tapped Marc Racicot, a former governor of Montana, to head the Republican National Committee. ABC news reports that “many social conservatives have expressed doubts about Racicot’s fidelity to certain principles held by many members of the party’s membership base – His positions on abortion, school choice, taxes, unions, and gay rights have all come in for criticism.”  https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20011205/pl/racicot011205_1.html FLA. COURT RULES CANDIDATES CAN DONATE TO NON-PROFITS AP reports the federal appeals court overturned a Florida law banning political candidates from contributing personal or campaign funds to nonprofit groups, saying […]
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PRO-FAMILY GROUPS CONDEMN UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND

WASHINGTON, December 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Religious organizations and pro-family groups reacted strongly last week to suggestions that the US Foreign Operations Conference is considering increased funding of UNFPA. The recent evidence of ongoing coercive population control in China and UNFPA’s complicity in it brought forward by the Population Research Institute has spurred the debate. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has come out against any funding of UNFPA. The USCCB Legislative Program for the 107th Congress suggests under ‘Foreign Aid” that Catholics “Oppose legislation to provide U.S. aid to organizations that perform and promote abortion abroad and to […]
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PAT ROBERTSON RESIGNS FROM PRESIDENCY OF CHRISTIAN COALITION

WASHINGTON, DC, December 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pat Robertson, the President and Founder of the Christian Coalition and a 1988 candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, has resigned from the Presidency and the Board of Directors of the Christian Coalition, the organization which he founded in 1989. Yesterday the Coalition’s Board of Directors accepted his resignation and elected Roberta Combs, who had been Executive Vice President, to succeed Robertson as President. Robertson explained that he intended to focus his energies on spiritual matters. “We are seeing an outpouring of revival power in the United States […]
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IRISH HOUSE PASSES ABORTION BILL WITHOUT PROTECTION FOR EARLY EMBRYO

Vatican Against Law But Irish Bishops Have Not Released Position DUBLIN, December 6, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The hotly contested abortion bill passed one of the two houses of the Irish Parliament yesterday after the Taoiseach cut off debate on the matter. The 25th Amendment to the Constitution (Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy) Bill passed all stages in the D‡il, by 74 votes to 71. The Irish Times reports that the bill goes to the Seanad tomorrow and paves the way for next year’s abortion referendum, scheduled to take place in the spring. John Smeaton, national director of the UK’s […]
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ALLIANCE CANDIDATE HARPER SPEAKS ON ABORTION

Toronto Liberal flagship paper, The Toronto Star, endorses Harpur OTTAWA, December 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In a series of private interviews with reporters Monday, Canadian Alliance leadership candidate Stephen Harper commented on abortion. In the National Post, journalist Sheldon Alberts writes that Harper “vowed not to let the religious right hijack the Alliance party, and he would not be beholden to any narrow, special interest groups.” While the Post reports Harper as saying he would allow free votes on issues such as abortion, it quotes him as saying, “I don’t think that’s a wide enough base to win the leadership. […]
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STUDY: UP TO 50% OF BREAST CANCER CASES CAUSED BY ABORTION

LONDON, December 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A study in Britain has found that abortion makes women nearly twice as likely to suffer from breast cancer, reports the Scotsman. Life, a UK pro-life group which commissioned the Populations and Pensions Research Institution (PAPRI) to undertake the study, said that as many as 22,000 women residents of England and Wales could have developed breast cancer because they obtained legal abortions. PAPRI, an independent group of statisticians, looked at breast cancer and abortion rates in Britain, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic suggests that up to 50 per cent of breast cancer cases […]
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FRENCH DOCTORS TO STRIKE OVER RULING ON RIGHT NOT TO BE BORN

PARIS, December 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Top prenatal doctors in France pledged to strike due to a decision by the country’s top court last week, which held that when doctors fail to detect deformities in unborn disabled children and do not suggest abortion to their parents, the doctors are liable for compensation. In a letter to the daily Le Monde, 11 specialists at eight hospitals said that from January 1 they would refuse to carry out any ultrasounds and other tests that can show whether an unborn child has any abnormalities. Reuters reports that the doctors hoped many others would […]
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BIOTECH INSIDER CONDEMNS ALL HUMAN CLONING AND DESTRUCTIVE EMBRYO RESEARCH

Suggest money is the main motive behind the “research” VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala., December 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Thomas P. Dooley, a scientist-entrepreneur and CEO of two biomedical companies, has come out against all human cloning and destructive research on embryos. In a release yesterday, Dooley, also the President of the Biotechnology Association of Alabama warned that, “Without compelling restraint, scientists and physicians are moving forward rapidly to develop human cloning methodologies that could be used for either 'reproductive' cloning to replicate another copy of a human or 'therapeutic' cloning which would intentionally destroy the newly created embryonic cells of […]
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SEVEN U.S. SENATORS BACK HUMAN CLONING FOR RESEARCH

WASHINGTON, December 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Seven Senators have come out in favour of human cloning for research purposes. The LA Times reports that Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), plans to introduce legislation that would allow human cloning for research but not allow the clones to be born. Harkin said “it would be a very serious mistake” to bar cloning for research. Reacting to a presentation by Michael West, CEO of the company, which announced it had created the first human clone, Harkin said, “I find that exhilarating, quite frankly, that it (the research) is moving that rapidly.” A similar bill […]
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MALE BIRTH CONTROL PILL Scientists at Edinburgh University in Britain claim they have developed a male contraceptive pill that is 100 per cent effective with no unpleasant side-effects. The news is similar to the wondrous claims about the birth control pill, which was later found to be associated with various serious health risks.  https://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4511,951784%255E912,00.html GOV’T FUNDS GO TO ANOTHER DISGUSTING WORK OF ‘ART’  The National Post reports that the government funded Banff Centre, one of the Canada’s most prestigious cultural institutions, has provided about $1,300 in financial assistance for a Mexican performance artist to ejaculate into glass vials as part […]
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CBS VETERAN EXPOSES MEDIA LEFTIST BIAS IN TELL-ALL BOOK

NEW YORK, December 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Bernard Goldberg, a 28-year veteran of CBS News, has documented what he sees as “consistent and outright bias” in the network’s news coverage in a new tell-all book entitled “Bias, A CBS Insider Exposes How The Media Distort The News.” The book, which was an instant best-seller after being revealed by the Drudge Report, quotes CBS News President Andrew Heyward as admitting the leftist bias in comments to the author. “Look Bernie, of course there’s a liberal bias in the news. All the networks tilt left . Come on, we all know it—the […]
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CORRECTION

The link to the story on HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST SITE TARGETS OPPONENTS WITH “HORRIBLE DEATH” was incorrect in yesterday’s newsbytes. The correct link is : https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive
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US SENATE CLONING DEBATE POSTPONED TILL NEXT YEAR Senate Republicans yesterday abruptly dropped a bid to force immediate action on anti-cloning legislation since its combination with an energy bill was dooming the matter to defeat.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52424-2001Dec3.html IRISH HIGH COURT STOPS PREGNANT WOMAN’S DEPORTATION   Irish media report that a pregnant Nigerian woman has been granted a temporary High Court order preventing her deportation pending further proceedings. The woman’s lawyer’s argued that her deportation would be an interference with the unborn baby’s right to life and right to achieve his or her birthright under Article 2 of the Constitution.  https://www.rte.ie/news/2001/1130/deportation.html 11,500 […]
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G-20 PROTESTER SUPPORTS DESTRUCTION OF PRO-LIFE SIGN, SAYS IT WAS “BRILLIANT”

OTTAWA, December 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – While some of the G-20 protesters may have been upset with the destruction of a pro-life billboard during the Ottawa anti-IMF demonstrations, others clearly supported the action. Ottawa’s Algonquin College published a front-page article in its Algonquin Times newspaper featuring a student who had participated in the protest. (Appropriately named) Natalie Vandal, a second-year social service worker student, told the paper “To me, smashing an anti-abortion sign and a McDonald’s is just brilliant.” Vandal said that it was the most peaceful protest of its kind she’d attended and noted that she considers anarchists to […]
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CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST RETAINS NURSING JOB AFTER ATTEMPTED BOOT FOR ACTIVISM

REGINA, Saskatchewan, December 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Bill Whatcott, of the Christian Truth Activists, has won a case where the Saskatchewan Association of Licensed Practical Nurses (SALPN) attempted to have him barred from practice due to his convictions resulting from pro-life and pro-family activism. Whatcott said that the SALPN lawyer, Angela Zoborsky, argued that despite his 12 years of good service as a nurse, his criminal record, strong anti abortion views and views on heterosexuality rendered him a threat to his patients. Whatcott told LifeSite that SALPN first brought to the adjudicator’s attention his criminal convictions during his wayward youth, […]
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CHRISTIAN PRINTER FINED FOR REFUSING HOMOSEXUAL PROPAGANDA GOES TO COURT

TORONTO, December 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Toronto printer Scott Brockie – a Christian who has been waging an ongoing court battle against an Ontario Human Rights Commission ruling that found him guilty of “discrimination” for refusing to print materials for a gay and lesbian organization is getting his case heard in court this week. The case goes ahead December 5, 6, 7 in Toronto at Osgoode Hall running 10am to 5pm each day. The Canadian Religious Freedom Alliance (CRFA), comprised of the Catholic Civil Rights League, Christian Legal Fellowship and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada is intervening in the case […]
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CANADIAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONFERENCE MAKES PRESENTATION TO MPS ON STEM CELL RESEARCH

OTTAWA, December 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Last week the Catholic Archbishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia and a Toronto ethicist made a presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health regarding the draft legislation The Assisted Human Reproduction Act. Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, also the current Chair of the Catholic Organization for Life and Family, and Rev. Ron Mercier made the presentation on behalf of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. In the presentation they pointed out that the government's draft legislation “would permit under licence embryonic stem cell research on embryos who remain after fertility treatments, embryos who are […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES

FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CULTURE ARE COLLAPSING “I hope that the tragedy of the Twin Towers will awaken the Western world. More than with Muslim fundamentalists, we should be concerned about the foundations of Western culture, which are collapsing. This has been reduced already more than anything else to a civilization that has put learning to one side. The word learning is closely linked to worship, namely, religion, and the West today does not have, and does not want, religion, revelation.” – Benedictine Father Stanley L. Jaki of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on scientific and educational learning EMBRYO STEM CELL […]
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FRANCE COURT AFFIRMS RIGHT TO NOT TO BE BORN RULING

PARIS, December 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The highest appeals court in France ruled Wednesday that children suffering from Down’s syndrome have a legal right never to have been born. The Cour de Cassation ruled that a doctor was liable for all the costs of the specialized care the child requires since the doctor failed to warn an expectant mother that her unborn child showed symptoms of Down’s syndrome. The mother was thus deprived of the option of abortion. The amount of compensation is to be announced later. Commenting on the case, The bishop of Tours, Andr{197}{189} Vingt-Trois, the president of […]
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EU PROPOSES PUNISHING ‘RACISM’ WITH PRISON SENTENCES

BRUSSELS, December 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Plans drafted by the European Commission last week hope to make racism and xenophobia crimes carrying prison sentences of two years or more, according to a report in the London Telegraph. The draft defines racism and xenophobia as discrimination based on “race, colour, descent, religion or belief, national or ethnic origin”. The list of offences covers such things as Holocaust denial or “trivialisation” of Nazi atrocities, “public insults,” of minority groups, “public condoning of war crimes”, and “public dissemination of tracts, pictures, or other material containing expressions of racism of xenophobia” – including material […]
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CANADA AGAIN FAILS TO MAKE ARRESTS IN INTERNATIONAL CHILD PORN RING BUST

OTTAWA, December 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – As police forces in 19 countries around the globe arrested 130 people connected to an international child pornography ring, Canadian authorities failed to arrest any of the Canadian suspects. The National Post reported last week that the 10-month investigation led by Britain’s National Crime Squad, was the largest ever bust of Internet pornography. Although the RCMP cooperated with the investigation entitled Operation Landmark, the Canadian police said the information sent by Interpol, which had led to the arrests in all the other countries, was insufficient to issue arrest warrants in Canada. Mark Hecht, senior […]
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SECOND BATCH OF SMALLPOX VACCINE USES ETHICAL ALTERNATIVE TO ABORTED BABY TISSUE

WASHINGTON, December 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Children of God For Life, the Internet's most reliable source for information on vaccines tainted by the use of aborted baby tissue, reports that the second batch of smallpox vaccine ordered November 28 by the United States will not use aborted fetal tissue in its manufacture. Whereas the first batch of the vaccine created by the Acambis Corporation used aborted fetal cell line MRC-5 as the cell substrate for growing the virus, the current batch of 155 million doses will use Vero animal cell lines. Acambis CEO John Brown stated in a conference earlier […]
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CANADIAN ABORTIONIST SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS FOR SEXUAL ASSAULTS

VANCOUVER, December 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Friday, former abortionist Dr. Mark Walter Stewart, 57, was sentenced to four yearS in prison after being found guilty of having “violated the sexual integrity” of nine of his former female patients. The Naniamo Daily News reports that StEwart received four years for twice raping a vulnerable and emotionally fragile woman. He was also sentenced to three years and two years on the other nine counts against the other women. However, he will not serve additional time on the other sentences since they will be served concurrently under what has been referred to […]
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HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST SITE TARGETS OPPONENTS WITH “HORRIBLE DEATH”  Amid intense public and legal scrutiny, a San Diego-based web site that advocated “a horrible death” for public figures opposed to the homosexual lifestyle, deleted from its web pages the names and profiles of public officials it targeted for attack, reports Cybercast News Service.  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive
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