Articles for Month: December 2001

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]