Articles for Month: December 2001

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’ […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]