Articles for Month: January 2002

Abortion Said to be “Not Part of Women’s Reproductive Rights” NEW YORK, January 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an initial report on Estonia by the United Nations Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women, one of the 23 UN ‘experts’ said, “abortions in many cases were hazardous to women’s health.” In responding to Estonia’s report on its compliance with the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the ‘expert’ (unnamed in the UN report) noted that “Aside from physical complications, termination of pregnancy could entail psychological problems. It could also lead to infertility.” The UN report goes on […]

WASHINGTON, January 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – President George W. Bush is set to appoint former Republican Rep. Tom Coburn to co-chair the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. Coburn has a strong pro-life record but is being attacked by homosexual activists over the appointment due to his insistence on informing the public that the use of condoms does not guarantee safe sex. Coburn, an obstetrician who has returned to his family practice in Muskogee, Okla., was thanked by the pro-life community in 1998 for sponsoring a successful House amendment to forbid the use of taxpayer money to develop, test or approve […]

HELSINKI, January 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Finland’s National Agency for Medicines has approved over-the-counter sales of the abortifacient morning after pill. Pharmacies will be allowed to sell the pills without a prescription to anybody over the age of 15, reports the Helsinki Sanomat. Sales are expected to commence as early as May. Finland is known for its obsessive support of abortion. Not only does the country permit what amounts to abortion on demand, it also pushes for abortion at the United Nations and has been party to threats of economic sanction against countries that refuse to budge from pro-life and […]

ROCHESTER, MN, January 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered a stem cell in human adult bone marrow which can turn into every single tissue in the body, a claim until now only hypothesized about for embryonic stem cells. The New Scientist reports that if the research, which has undergone intensive experimentation, is independently verified, it would leave researchers with no justification for stem cell research using cells taken from human embryos. Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota, made the discovery and called the cells multipotent adult progenitor cells, or MAPCs. While other researchers […]

FDA OKAYS SALIVA-BASED OVULATION TEST https://www.jsonline.com/alive/ap/jan02/ap-ovulation-saliv011902.asp CALIFORNIA TEENAGE MODEL WINS BATTLE WITH HIGH SCHOOL OVER PRO-LIFE SHIRTS https://www.thomasmore.org/index.cfm?location=5&subsectionid=1&PageID=1&release=92 MINNESOTA PRO-LIFE HAS OVER 1,800 PRO-LIFE BILLBOARDS DOTTING HIGHWAYS https://www.catholic.net/culture_of_life/template_channel.phtml?channel_id=7

ANOTHER INDUSTRY INSIDER CONFIRMS BIAS IN NEWS REPORTING Av Westin, who spent 20 years as a CBS producer and became Executive Producer of ABC’s 20/20 from 1980 to 1987 and then Vice President of ABC News through the early 1990s, conceded: “I think by and large, people in the news business bat from the left side of the plate.” His comments appear in a sidebar to a January 17 Boston Globe story by Mark Jurkowitz about Bernard Goldberg’s book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News.  https://www.mediaresearch.org/news/cyberalert/2002/cyb20020122.asp#4 ALBERTA PREMIER KLEIN BACKS HILL OVER DAY FOR ALLIANCE […]

WASHINGTON, January 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Today LifeSite spoke with Nellie Gray, president of the March for Life Fund, who stated that the official estimate of the attendance at yesterday’s March for Life was 100,000. Gray said the wide line of the March took well over one and a half hours to pass one point. Some veteran Canadian pro-life leaders at the march strongly felt that the attendance was well over 100,000. While the report in the Washington Post quoted the 100,000 figure, other reports wildly underestimated the numbers. A report by United Press International called the March, “the smallest […]

STRASBOURG, January 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The European Court of Human Rights decided yesterday, not only to hear, but to give priority to the case of Dianne Pretty, a UK woman who has become the latest poster-child for euthanasia advocates. The European Court has also decided to “communicate the application to the United Kingdom Government as matter of urgency.” The decision has thrilled euthanasia activists who suggested the case could go to court within months. Last November, the UK House of Lords rejected an appeal by Pretty, a 47-year-old British woman suffering from motor neurone disease, who asked the courts […]

WASHINGTON, January 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A poll of Ivy League university professors in the U.S. has found that only one per cent want a legal ban on abortion. The disturbing results of the recent poll by Luntz Research Associates found that 84 per cent of the professors supported Al Gore in the elections, with only 9 per cent supporting President Bush. Only one of five professors attended religious services at least once a week. Forty-eight percent said they rarely or never attended a religious service. Analyzing the data, writer Maggie Gallagher warns, “academia has as rigid a hierarchy of […]

PARIS, January 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A French government bill which permits destructive research on human embryos passed first reading in the National Assembly today. The bill by France's socialist government tabled only last week, would overturn a 1994 ban on research on human embryos. The bill bans all human cloning, barring also cloning “for therapeutic purposes.”