Articles for Month: February 2002

CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG TOUR FOR ABORTION   “What are these baby boomers doing rocking for abortion?” asks Bryan Kemper, director of Rock For Life, an American Life League division. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s “Tour of America” has been underway since the beginning of February and is scheduled to run through late April. Voters for Choice, a political action committee that endorses pro-abortion candidates, will have a booth at each concert, and will receive a portion of the ticket sales.  https://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/temp/0228-101.html US COMPANY TO ASK GOV’T PERMISSION TO MARKET COMPUTER CHIP IMPLANT   Applied Digital Solutions, a Florida […]

PERTH, February 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A controversial bill by the West Australian government seeks to lower the age of consent for homosexual sex acts from 21 to 16 and allows homosexual couples adoption and IVF treatment rights equal to married couples. The state government’s contentious Acts Amendment (Lesbian and Gay Law Reform) Bill 2001 is currently being debated in the upper house. The Catholic Archbishop of Perth, Barry Hickey, has condemned the bill as “immoral” and demanded that MPs be permitted to vote according to their consciences. “A conscience vote does not guarantee an outcome which satisfies those of […]

LONDON, February 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Leading international pro-life leaders have condemned the Irish government’s abortion referendum proposals as “a new liberal law that will increase the number, the scope and the types of abortions performed.” In a letter to all priests in Ireland, the pro-life leaders say that “Christians cannot in good conscience support either the Bill’s specific proposals or the Bill as a whole” and that “the current position of the Irish bishops is based on a misunderstanding of the legal effect of these amendments”. The letter is signed by, among others, Dr Jack Willke, president of the […]

AUCKLAND, NZ, February 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – An unfolding scandal at a New Zealand hospital has revealed that hundreds of hearts from aborted babies have been kept in storage after having been cut out of their bodies without consent or notification of their parents. The New Zealand Herald reports “Hundreds of abnormal hearts stored for up to half a century at Auckland’s Green Lane Hospital are unlikely to be returned to family members because they were taken from aborted foetuses.” The hospital’s clinical director of children’s heart surgery, Dr Kirsten Finucane, has revealed “quite a large proportion” of the up […]

OTTAWA, February 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A study on wealth inequality among Canadian families released last week reports that young couples (25-34) with children have suffered the most economically from 1984 to 1999. While the net worth (assets minus debts) of families generally rose 10%, the net worth for young couples with children fell 30%. Young families with children, had a median net worth of $44,000 in 1984 but dropped to $30,800 by 1999. The report indicates that an increasing proportion of these same families were even worse off with no net worth – that is, their total assets were […]

Encourages Natural Law as the Basis for Discussion with Non-Believers VATICAN, February 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pope John Paul II warned Wednesday that the “grave danger that the false interpretation of human rights” which would permit abortion, “can drive democratic regimes to transform themselves into totalitarian regimes.” The Pope made his remarks in an address to the Pontifical Academy for Life. “The church affirms the right to life to every innocent human being at the moment of its existence,” he told the participants. The Pope blasted the “distinction sometimes made in certain official documents between a human being and a […]

MICHAEL COREN ON THE BARRIE DOCTOR   Hear Michael Coren’s Real Audio broadcast this week regarding the Barrie doctor who has been threatened with loss of his medical licence because he will not prescribe birth control for unmarried women. Michael has some deeply felt thoughts on this issue.  https://www.lifesitenews.com:7070/ramgen/022702barriedoctor.rm CATHOLIC CHURCH IN GERMANY TO GIVE AID TO WOMEN WHO REFUSE ABORTION   Zenit News reports that the German episcopal conference announced it will give financial assistance to pregnant women who refuse to have an abortion. The episcopate will allocate 6 million Euros ($5.2 million) a year for this purpose, collected […]

VATICAN CITY, February 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a February 25 address to the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Julian Herranz, president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, said the “majority rules” argument used to justify abortion is not worthy of a democracy that claims to uphold basic human rights. In his address he said that the primary right to life cannot “be understood either as a concession by the authorities, nor can it be dispensed by them, because its foundation lies in the very nature and dignity of the human being.” He noted that for 3,000 years democracies […]

CHICAGO, February 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Headlines worldwide today were describing the wonder of designer baby procedures. This despite the fact that the procedures are responsible for the creation of multiple living human embryos which are then genetically screened, and those human embryos found to have disabilities are killed while the healthy are allowed to live. The case involves a woman in her early 30s who has a genetic disorder which causes early onset of Alzheimer's, causing the disease to strike before age 40. After her IVF treatment, multiple embryos were screened for the defective gene and those found to […]

LOS ANGELES, February 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Seeing the success of a pro-abortion initiative to legally harass pro-life crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) in the state of New York, the California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (CARAL) is holding training seminars to do the same in California. Allyson Smith, a San Diego investigative reporter, exposed a CARAL training session in West Los Angeles. An action kit from the training session suggests pro-abortion activists spy on CPCs. Among its suggestions: “When making an appointment … remember to call from a blocked number,” and “Be ready to tell them when your period […]

LONDON, February 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a development that has horrified much of the civilized world, scientists in the UK have been given final approval to create human embryo clones. A House of Lords committee has authorized the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to issue licences to allow the practice. The HFEA is expected to issue the licences immediately. The decision allows an earlier legislative decision to allow the human cloning research to go forward. The pro-life movement had blocked the law allowing ‘therapeutic cloning’ arguing successfully at the High Court that the HFEA did not have the […]

UNITED NATIONS, February 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The representative of the United States to the United Nations Committee on an International Convention Against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings asked for the treaty to include a global and comprehensive ban on human cloning.” Carolyn L. Wilson said that the proposal “to ban only so-called ‘reproductive’ cloning by prohibiting the transfer of a cloned embryo into a woman in hopes of creating a human baby” is “unsound.” She explained: “A ban that prohibits only ‘reproductive’ cloning but ignores ‘therapeutic’ or ‘experimental’ cloning would essentially authorize the creation and destruction of human […]

Catholic Charities USA claims to have “no affiliation whatsoever” with Catholic Charities of Boston and thus has requested that those wishing to express concern over the Catholic Charities counsellor who works as an abortion clinic escort make their comments to: Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston 75 Kneeland Street Boston, MA 02111-1931 [email protected] See related LifeSite story:  DIRECTOR OF CATHOLIC PREGNANCY COUNSELING CENTER IS AN ESCORT AT ABORTUARY https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/feb/020225.html#4

ABORTION CLINIC BARS MOTHER OF TEEN WHO WAS INSIDE CLINIC https://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/E94184FD1DAE73A686256B6A000645F2 ?OpenDocument&Headline=Abortion%20clinic%20bars%20mother%20of%20teen%20inside HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS SEEK TO OUST ALABAMA JUDGE FOR PRO-FAMILY RULING https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/20/national/20JUDG.html BUSH URGES FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN CHINA https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/international/asia/22PREX.html?todaysheadlines

NEW ZEALAND ABORTION SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE ASKS HIGH COURT ABOUT RU-486 LEGALITY https://www.newsroom.co.nz/story/87169-99999.html ABORTIFACIENT CONTRACEPTIVE PATCH APPROVED FOR USE IN EUROPE https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1841000/1841827.stm SEE PC ONTARIO LEADERSHIP CANDIDATE JIM FLAHERTY’S MAJOR POLICY ADDRESS https://www.jimflaherty2002.org/MSE232_10.html WEBSITE OFFERING FREE ONE-PAGE PRO-LIFE FLYERS https://www.prolifemedia.com/ BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES SEX-ED AT AGE 5 https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1840000/1840147.stm

NEW DELHI, February 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Indian Minster for Health and Family Welfare C.P. Thakur said Monday that the government may institute a two-child maximum population control policy. “Realising the urgent need to stabilise population we are actively considering making the two-child norm as a policy,” Thakur said inaugurating a national seminar on “Reproductive and Child Health—Key to Population Stabilisation.” India is currently plagued with a wide practice of sex-selective abortions, especially among the poor, since girl babies are actively avoided especially because of the burden of wedding dowries. See the coverage in the Times of India at:  […]

VATICAN CITY, February 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pope John Paul II reminded scientists yesterday that humanity “must never surrender to the temptation to unregulated medical and scientific progress.” He warned that otherwise it could “become a dangerous form of ‘technological control’ of life.” The Pope made his remarks yesterday speaking to representatives of the Italian League for the Fight against Tumors. The Pope said that experiments need to be “carried out in full respect of human dignity,” never losing sight of “the final aim of the true good of man.” If conducted in this way, he concluded, “Scientific research will […]

OTTAWA, February 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Stockwell Day leads Stephen Harper among both Canadian Alliance voters and voters as a whole in a new Compas poll released February 23. The poll results mark a dramatic turnaround from a previous Compas poll taken in August 2001, which showed Harper with a three-to-one lead among all voters and close behind even among core Alliance voters. In the new poll, Day leads Harper by a 22% to 11% margin among all voters polled, and by 34% to 22% among Alliance voters. In August 2001, Harper led Day by 28% to 10% among all […]

MELBOURNE, February 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Australian federal cabinet decided to ban destructive research involving human embryos created by in vitro fertilization (IVF). The decision released yesterday rejected the majority opinion recommended by an all-party parliamentary committee on the issue last year to allow research on embryos ‘left-over’ from IVF. The Age reports that the decision followed strong lobbying by the Australia Federation of Right to Life Associations. The paper suggests the decision may have been influenced by United States President George Bush’s decision to ban federal funding to scientists who wanted to work with human embryos rather than […]

Court states that individual countries should decide on the matter STRASBOURG, February 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a ruling released today, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that France is not guilty of discrimination by blocking a homosexual man from adopting a child. The ruling suggested individual countries, rather than the international court should decide on the matter. “A broad margin of appreciation had to be left to the authorities of each state, who were … in principle better placed than an international court to evaluate local needs and conditions”. The court also noted that there are “wide […]

NO JAIL TIME FOR ‘VILE’ CHILD PORN https://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id={A58D13FF-BF6C-43C7-BCBD-A801C6BD12A8}  (link valid today only) JOE CLARK SAYS HE WILL REMAIN TORY LEADER INTO NEXT ELECTION https://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/weston.html PRIME MINISTER’S GRANDNIECE GIVEN $94K-A-YEAR JOB IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEPT.  https://www.canoe.ca/OttawaNews/os.os-02-22-0013.html RED CROSS PULLS OUT OF FREE CONDOM PROJECT AT OLYMPICS   https://nandotimes.com/healthscience/v-text/story/266164p-2456014c.html SWEDEN SEEKS TO ALLOW HOMOSEXUAL ADOPTION https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-000014263feb24.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dworld

TORONTO, February 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Interim, LifeSite’s parent monthly national pro-life newspaper carries a shocking expose in the upcoming March issue which details a women’s forum which scandalized young participants with graphic sex information. Busloads of highschool girls, including a contingent from a Grade 9 class at St. Clement’s private Anglican school in Toronto, attended the forum which headlined the notorious Nafis Sadik, former head of the abortion promoting United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Interim reporter Tony Gosnach attended the Women’s Health Matters Forum and Expo, held Jan. 18 and 19 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. On […]

DORCHESTER, February 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Massachusetts News is reporting that the Director of Counseling Services at Catholic Charities in Dorchester, a facility that counsels pregnant women, volunteers his Saturdays escorting women into Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinic in Boston. The paper confirmed with Catholic Charities spokesperson , Maureen March that Howard M. Brown is a counselor at the centre and further published a photo of Brown in his “Planned Parenthood Escort” uniform. Brown’s illicit extra-curricular activities were discovered after he testified in court against a pro-life woman who was charged with assault outside the abortuary. The petite woman was cleared […]

BRUSSELS, February 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Belgian Free University in Brussels is planning to teach medical student how to commit euthanasia. Professor Wim Betz of the university’s department of medicine explained to the media, “If a doctor decides to commit euthanasia, it’s better he does it correctly from the start.” Last October the Belgian Senate voted to legalize euthanasia with the lower chamber of parliament expected to approve the legislation this year. Final passage of the bill will make Belgium the only country in Europe to follow the Netherlands in allowing euthanasia. Last June the Belgian government also followed […]

LONDON, February 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Britain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) decided Friday to allow in vitro fertilization to be used to have children born with close genetic matches to older siblings in order to be able to provide bone marrow transplants. HFEA approved the request of Raj and Shahana Hashmi who were looking to use IVF to select a child with a bone marrow match for their three-year-old Zain who suffers from the rare and potentially fatal blood disorder thalassaemia. As with all IVF treatment, the procedure creates many embryos (live children) and implants only a few, […]

AMSTERDAM, February 25, 2002, (LSN.ca) – The Catholic Church in the Netherlands is drawing up pastoral guidelines on dealing with cases of requests for Catholic burial for people who are planning to undergo voluntary euthanasia. Catholic News Service (CNS) reports that the Dutch church spokesman for the Hertogenbosch Diocese Micheil Savelsbergh confirmed that the Catholic Church cannot give religious burials to people who planned to be euthanized. Savelsbergh told CNS in a Feb 21 interview that church funerals could be given to people who already had died from euthanasia, but not for patients whose deaths still were being planned that […]

ONE OF THE NATION’S FIRST ABORTION CLINICS HAS CLOSED DUE TO FINANCIAL PRESSURES https://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/2713693.htm ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT ASKS COURT TO DROP OREGON’S ASSISTED SUICIDE SUIT https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,46213,00.html MASSACHUSETTS HIGH COURT ALLOWS ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-SODOMY LAW ONLY IN PUBLIC PLACES https://www.boston.com/dailynews/052/region/Massachusetts_highest_court_re:.shtml THE KENTUCKY SENATE HAS PASSED CONSCIENCE CLAUSE AND INFORMED CONSENT BILLS https://enquirer.com/editions/2002/02/21/loc_ky_senate_oks.html

CATHOLIC DOCTORS GROUP CONCERNED ABOUT ABORTIONS RESULTING FROM ERRONEOUS SCREENING https://bcc.rcav.org/02-02-18/fp.htm (with files from Pro-Life E-News) SOUTH AFRICAN WOMAN WHO ABORTED BABY HERSELF CHARGED FOR NOT GOING TO ABORTIONIST https://allafrica.com/stories/200202210483.html

LONDON, February 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The mother of a child diagnosed in utero to have brain damage has received an apology and been awarded £50,000 from the West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust. Hayley Wilson, a 33-year-old nurse, charged that four years ago Dr Tarek El Gendy, who worked at a hospital of the Trust made the unilateral decision not to try to save her son since he assumed the mother would not want a brain-damaged child. Wilson was advised by her gynecologist that she required an emergency caesarean because she was suffering a condition which would be lethal for […]

QUEBEC CITY, February 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Under recommendations submitted yesterday by the provincial Minister of Justice, Quebec would allow homosexual couples be given the same consideration when it comes to adopting a child as married couples. Justice Minister Paul Begin advised that the adoption provision should be included in a bill to allow same-sex civil unions. The National Post reports that Mr. Bégin said he wants to introduce the final version of the bill as soon as the National Assembly resumes sitting in mid-March and have it passed into law by the end of session in June. See the […]

Diane Francis rants again   TORONTO, February 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Diane Francis, a favorite of right-wing conservatives in Canada, has amply demonstrated the danger stemming from an anti-life mentality combined with hard, fiscal-only conservatism. Francis, known throughout Canada as a syndicated newspaper columnist, broadcaster, author and speaker, has presented her case for eliminating pollution by slashing population rather than correcting the poor environmental practices of big business and others.  In her February 19 column in the National Post, Francis exemplifies the “heartless” label often ascribed to Conservatives as she advocates allowing pollution by large corporations and curbing the human […]

Dr. Dawson Requests Prayers and Letters of Support BARRIE, ON, February 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Stephen Dawson, the family doctor who is in danger of losing his medical licence over his refusal to prescribe the birth control pill to unmarried women clarified his position in an interview with LifeSite last night. Dr. Dawson told LifeSite that the initial coverage in the Barrie Examiner suggested he may compromise on the matter. He clarified: “Under no circumstances will I compromise. I would rather lose my licence.” He said that he would not apologize for refusaling to offer the pill to unmarried […]

TORONTO, February 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A shareholders meeting of the Royal Bank held in Toronto today overwhelmingly defeated a resolution by two shareholders to require the Royal Bank to abandon its policy of refusing services to any organization, whether a church, corporation or individual, on the basis of their religious, political and ideological views. The resolution was the result of the precedent-setting decision by the Royal Bank last June, when it refused to permit the opening of an account at one of its Montreal branches, by an organization called the “No Committee 2006.”. The “No Committee 2006,” made up […]

US SUPREME COURT CONSIDERS CONSTITUTIONALITY OF SCHOOL VOUCHERS https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020221/121636.html SUPREME COURT RULES WOMAN ALLOWED TO CHALLENGE ABORTION INDUSTRY ANONYMOUSLY https://www.forerunner.com/cc/press/pr021902.htm SUPERMAN ACTOR SPEAKS IN SUPPORT OF HUMAN CLONING FOR RESEARCH https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020221/ap_on_he_me/reeve_cloning_2 SENATOR JESSE HELMS ON FIGHTING AIDS The North Carolina Republican did not mention homosexuality in his speech Wednesday, but he said, “There is no substitute for the joy brought by strong and healthy marriages. We must not hesitate to share this truth” with people around the world. He praised Janet Museveni, first lady of Uganda, for running a campaign based on “biblical values and sexual purity” to stop the […]

MICHAEL COREN THIS WEEK Hear Michael Coren’s Real Audio broadcast on government-funded revolutionary students.  https://www.lifesitenews.com:7070/ramgen/022002revolutionarystudents.rm GERMAN BISHOPS BLAST EMBRYO RESEARCH In his opening address at the Plenary Assembly of the German Bishop’s annual conference Monday, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, bishop of Mainz and president of the episcopal conference, said the “Church will never cease to speak of the embryo as being man from the beginning, and of human dignity.”  https://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=16932 TAIWAN BANS ALL HUMAN CLONING https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020220/hl_nm/taiwan_2 CHINA DENIES RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DESPITE VATICAN’S EVIDENCE https://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_526425.html

OTTAWA, February 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Health Minister Anne McLellan has promised legislation dealing with new reproductive technologies before the summer break. “It may be very likely that we will be able to move more quickly, and certainly I would like to be able to introduce legislation, and I would like to see that legislation get through the House and Senate before we rise for the summer,” she said in the House today. CBC reports that she said she would have a response to the committee no later than May.

MONTREAL, February 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Quebec Superior Court Justice Fraser Martin ruled Wednesday that Rachel Capra Craig, 47, “is not criminally responsible for the death of her daughter by reason of mental disorder.” Craig admitted to killing her severely handicapped 14-year-old daughter with a poisonous drug cocktail. Capra Craig was ordered transferred to a locked psychiatric unit for an unspecified period. Interestingly a CBC Radio News report by Justin Heyward on the matter revealed that Capra Craig “suffered miscarriages and abortions.” However the CBC report written for the CBC website left out the fact that Capra Craig suffered abortions. […]

OTTAWA, February 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance leadership hopeful Stephen Harper has repeated attacks about religion against rival Stockwell Day which landed Harper in trouble with the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) and other Christian groups earlier this month. The National Post reports today that Harper attacked Day over his outreach to Christians. “My view is the purpose of a Christian church is to promote the message and the life of Christ,” Mr. Harper said during a meeting with the Ottawa Citizen editorial board. “It is not to promote a particular party and candidacy.” Last week CCRL President Thomas […]

TORONTO, February 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leadership candidate Jim Flaherty warmly welcomed pro-life support for his candidacy. Reacting to media reports that Campaign Life Coalition was supporting his candidacy Flaherty said: ““We don’t exclude people from our party because they have a particular belief.” The Toronto Star reports that “In a recorded telephone message sent out to 50,000 Ontario households Monday night, Jim Hughes, national president of Campaign Life, urged those who are Tory supporters to buy a party membership before Saturday’s deadline so they can vote in the leadership race.” On the recorded message Hughes […]

OTTAWA, February 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), Canada’s national pro-life lobby group, sent a questionnaire to all current Canadian Alliance leadership candidates. Responses were received from Stockwell Day and Dr. Grant Hill. While all four candidates profess to be personally pro-life, CLC’s primary concern with the questionnaire was determining their political commitment to the abortion and euthanasia issues. CLC has issued previous newsletters indicating that Stockwell Day and Grant Hill have both demonstrated a political commitment to their pro-life convictions, whereas Diane Ablonczy and Stephen Harper have not. The questionnaire responses reveal key differences between Day and […]

University of Toronto Prof Says Doctor unwilling to perform abortions should “find another job” BARRIE, ON, February 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Christian family doctor in Barrie Ontario is in danger of losing his licence to practice medicine for refusing to prescribe the birth control pill to unmarried women. Dr. Stephen Dawson faces a discipline committee at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) in April after four women made formal complaints to the college about being refused the pill. Dr. Dawson also says he does not to provide abortions, offer the-morning-after pill to unmarried women, or prescribe […]

$1 BILLION IN AIDS FUNDING WASTED ON “SIZZLING SEX SEMINARS”  https://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,45739,00.html See the full report at:  https://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_AIDS (Warning Contains Explicit Language) VIRGINIA HOUSE COMMITTEE DEFEATS PROPOSAL TO ALLOW ABORTIFACIENT MAP WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION https://jrnl.com/cfdocs/new/ffx/story.cfm?paper=ffx§ion=st&snumber=05

CREATOR OF DOLLY THE CLONED SHEEP ADVOCATING ‘THERAPEUTIC” BUT NOT REPRODUCTIVE CLONING OF HUMANS https://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_525066.html ALBERTA WOMAN SUING DOCTOR FOR BABY AS A RESULT OF FAILED STERILIZATION https://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-02-20-0039.html

Government Booklet On Irish Abortion Referendum To Go To All Irish Households DUBLIN, February 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A 20-page government Explanatory Booklet on the abortion referendum will be delivered to all 1.35 million Irish households prior to the March 6 referendum. A copy of the booklet, which will outline the current legal situation, and the new referendum proposals and their outcome, was also posted on the government’s referendum website. The booklet makes it clear a “yes” vote in the referendum will result in “a new legal definition of abortion” which excludes protection for the human embryo prior to implantation […]

WASHINGTON, February 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an article published in the Washington Times yesterday, Senator Jesse Helms, warned President Bush not to fall for China’s duplicity with regard to religious freedom. As the President arrives in China this week, he “simply must speak directly to the Chinese people about religious liberty and its benefits to humanity,” says Helms, since, having “dialogue” with the Chinese government over the issue is useless. “It has become a custom for the Chinese leaders, just prior to an American president’s visit, to take long-overdue actions – and here they go again: the Beijing government […]

MOSCOW, February 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The International Foundation of Mother and Child’s Health Care is launching a year-long program in Russia to educate young people on how to avoid abortion. The “New Generation Against Abortions” program will use media campaigns and sex education programs. The Moscow Times reports that the program does not seek a ban on abortion. Russia has one of the highest abortion rates in the world with figures reported last year claiming at least 2.1 million abortions yearly, with various experts saying the actual numbers may be much higher. The huge number of abortions has led […]

Reference to Promoting “Vandalism” Removing From Activist Guide VANCOUVER, February 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The pro-abortion “Students for Choice” website is urging pro-abortion activists to infiltrate pro-life campus groups in an attempt to thwart pro-life activities. The same website, was reported to police after advising pro-abortion students to use “vandalism” to destroy pro-life displays on university campuses. “Look at the website of your campus’ anti-choice group; contact them by email, talk to them without revealing you are pro-choice. Find out whether they have links to any other anti-choice groups or to local churches, and try to find out what their […]

Pro-Life Activist Says Police are Discriminating Against Pro-Lifers REGINA, February 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A group of pro-lifers protesting abortions outside the Regina General Hospital were charged by police with disrupting traffic Monday. Bill Whatcott, one of the members of the Christian Truth Activists disputed the charges saying “we weren’t on the road, we were on the sidewalk.” The Regina Leader Post reports that police confiscated six signs which will be withheld as evidence until the court date April 15. Whatcott, said the group plans to continue protesting outside the hospital despite the charges since abortions are performed there. Whatcott […]

An incomplete link was given yesterday for the March for Life 2002 page. The complete link is https://www.lifesitenews.com/events/Marchforlife/2002/index.html

NEW HAMPSHIRE HOUSE REJECTS PARENTAL CONSENT, CONSCIENCE CLAUSE MEASURES https://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=8889 MINNESOTA HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSES BILL HALTING FUNDS TO ABORTION GROUPS Bill HB 3130 would deny state family planning funding from going to any group that performs, provides referrals for or counsels women in favour of abortion. It would also prevent groups that challenge the law in court from receiving funding.  https://www.startribune.com/stories/462/1625273.html NORTH CAROLINA ABORTION RATES DOWN 23% DUE TO RESTRICTION ON ABORTION FUNDING In 1995 a $50,000 abortion fund was limited to pay for rape and incest victims and mothers whose life is in danger only. The fund was never […]

PRO-ABORTION, ANTI-FAMILY SOCIALIST RULE IN GERMANY THREATENED Bavarian candidate for Chancellor, Edmund Stoiber is a strong contender in the upcoming Sept 22 elections.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28638-2002Feb18.html NEW YORK TIMES TOUTS ILLEGAL ABORTIONIST IN KENYA https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/international/africa/17ABOR.html SENIOR GRANT HILL LEADERSHIP STRATEGIST ADMITS ANYONE-BUT DAY MOVEMENT https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020219/98371.html

WASHINGTON, February 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Food and Drug Administration data obtained by Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com) through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has revealed deaths and hospitalizations resulting from RU-486. While the documentation on adverse side effects using RU-486 show only 33 individual reports during a four year period between November 1997 and November 2001, five cases involved death. The results are from patients taking one or both of the two-drugs which make up RU-486 thus they include patients taking the drugs for reasons other than abortion. Four men were among the 33 cases. Of the five deaths […]

OTTAWA, February 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Ottawa Hospital is facing a lawsuit over the loss of frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilization at the hospital's Fertility Clinic. The Ottawa Citizen reports that Laura Palmer and her husband, Ronald Matyas, say the hospital negligently allowed three of their frozen embryos to be destroyed in February 2000. The embryos were left over from a successful implantation of embryos which resulted in the birth of a baby girl. Sue Grant, the hospital's patient-relations co-ordinator told the Citizen that patients at the Fertility Clinic are given the choice of keeping the leftover […]

Bishop Comes to Defense of Pro-Life Doctors ST JOHN, February 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-abortionists in New Brunswick are taking aim at the Saint John medical community, accusing them of denying women access to abortion and birth control. Peter Ryan of Campaign Life Coalition New Brunswick told LifeSite that the Morgentaler abortuary is agitating for the numerous pro-life MD’s in the province, to be forced to act against their consciences and refer patients for abortions or abortifacients such as the morning-after pill. The New Brunswick College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSNB) in its latest bulletin, posted on its Web site, […]

MEXICO CITY, February 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A group of congressmen from Mexico’s ruling National Action Party (PAN) are taking last month’s Supreme Court abortion decision to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ICHR). Mexico’s Supreme Court failed to vote in a strong-enough majority to support a challenge by Mexico’s federal government to a Mexico City law allowing abortion in cases of fetal deformity and rape despite the country’s pro-life constitution. Legislator Miguel Angel Torrijos said the case was filed with the ICHR Friday in order to have it declare the decision a violation of human rights – the rights […]

Claim Canada’s Foreign Minister Is An Admitted Bisexual OTTAWA, February 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Canada’s newly appointed Foreign Affairs Minister, Bill Graham, is a darling of the homosexual activist community having constantly supported pro-homosexuality initiatives including homosexual marriage. However, last year a Toronto-based homosexual magazine called Fab published an interview with Lawrence Metherel, a former male prostitute, who claimed to have had a sexual relationship with the Graham, dating back to 1980 when Metherel was 15. The story has gone unchallenged by Graham’s constituency office, which admitted to LifeSite that it had heard of the story. As a result the […]

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) CONSIDERS ALTERING HARD-CORE PRO-ABORTION STANCE The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) committee on social policy has agreed to drop its stance that a late-term, viable fetus may be aborted if there is a lack of resources or commitment to care for a child, Presbyterian News Service reported. The compromise, to be presented at the church’s June national assembly, approves abortions after viability if necessary “to save the life of the woman, to preserve the woman’s health in circumstances of a serious risk to the health of the woman, to avoid fetal suffering as a result of untreatable life-threatening genetic […]

BRITAIN’S FIRST DESIGNER BABY BORN Baby girl created by IVF and selected from among IVF created sibling embryos to provide bone marrow for her four-year-old brother.  https://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_522638.html SCIENTISTS: CHANGE TERMINOLOGY AROUND CLONING TO AVOID TERM’S BAD PUBLIC IMAGE Science magazine is demanding the name of “therapeutic cloning” be changed to nuclear transplantation.  https://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2002/02/14/eline/links/20020214elin007.html NEW POLL SAYS EVES AND FLAHERTY TIED FOR #1 IN ONTARIO PC LEADERSHIP https://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/politics/story.html?f=/stories/20020218/87018.html

FRANKFURT, February 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Frankfurt’s Bishop Franz Kamphaus is the only one of the 27 German Catholic Bishops who continues to openly defy the Pope by persisting in offering counselling certificates to pregnant women who can use the certificates to obtain abortions. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports that the situation could be resolved as early as this week. Church sources revealed to the paper that over the last few days the papal nuncio in Berlin, Giovanni Lajolo, has been participating in talks at the Vatican about what steps should be taken if Bishop Kamphaus refuses to resign himself […]

MANILLA, February 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – One of the founders and strategists of the pro-abortion movement in the United States, Dr. Bernard Nathanson has questioned the claimed numbers of illegal abortions in the Philippines. Nathanson, a pro-life convert, explains that the inflation of numbers of illegal abortions is a tactic used by abortion promoters to legalize the procedure. He notes that as part of the pro-abortion movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he and his colleagues claimed that there had been one million legal abortions in the US annually and that 10,000 women died due to abortion every […]

DUBLIN, February 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Former pro-life music star-turned Member of the European Parliament for Ireland, Dana Rosemary Scallon has announced publicly she will not vote “Yes” in the March 6 abortion referendum. The move is seen as a major blow to the government’s referendum since Dana has herself campaigned for a referendum. However she points out that the current referendum does not “vindicate the value of life from conception.”“My conclusion has been reached after serious deliberation which has taken into account and been respectful of the many opinions put forward on the subject,” said a press release by […]

MONTGOMERY, February 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Supreme Court of Alabama, in a unanimous ruling released this week denied a lesbian mother her request to transfer custody of her children from her estranged husband to herself. In a concurring opinion, Chief Justice Roy Moore wrote: “I write specially to state that the homosexual conduct of a parent – – conduct involving a sexual relationship between two persons of the same gender – – creates a strong presumption of unfitness that alone is sufficient justification for denying that parent custody of his or her own children or prohibiting the adoption of […]

Poll: Majority Of Canadians Do Not Consider Abortion Immoral OTTAWA, February 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Leger Marketing poll on “Canadians and Immorality” conducted between January 8 and January 13 has found that nearly 73% of Canadians consider Canada a “moral” country. However, the morality is seriously flawed with the poll showing only a minority consider abortion immoral whereas the most universally condemned act in the poll was shoplifting. 41.8% of Canadians define abortion as immoral while 47.5% do not believe it to be so, says the poll which claims a margin of error of 2.6%, 19 times out of […]

This year’s events to take place May 9 – 11; the march starts 12:30 on Friday May 10 LIFESITE February 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The annual National March for Life events will take place in Ottawa again this year from May 9 – 11. Highlights will be the Friday night candlelight vigil, the Friday march, the Friday evening banquet followed by a youth dance and the Saturday Youth Conference. Last year’s well-attended Youth Conference was a big hit and will be expanded this year and re-located to Ottawa University. For the agenda, special bus arrangements and many other details see […]

PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS CAN’T EVEN AGREE TO BAN HUMAN CLONING https://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20020215/1025446.asp LEGAL CHALLENGE LAUNCHED AGAINST NY STATE AG’S TARGETING OF CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS https://www.aclj.org/news/pressreleases/020214_ny_prolife.asp KENTUCKY ABORTION NUMBERS DECLINE SINCE INFORMED CONSENT LAW https://enquirer.com/editions/2002/02/14/loc_abortions_decline.html COLORADO DIVERTS FUNDS FROM PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFTER ABORTION SUPPORT DISCOVERED https://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E396029,00.html

REVISED HIPPOCRATIC OATH FAILS TO INCLUDE PROTECTION OF HUMAN LIFE Drafted by the American Board of Internal Medicine:  https://www.annals.org/issues/v136n3/pdf/200202050-00012.pdf Christian Medical Association warns against the new oath:  https://www.cmdahome.org/?CONTEXT=art&cat=221&art=1338&BISKIT= DAY CAMPAIGN CLEARED OF ALLEGED FRAUD FOLLOWING SIGN-UP RULES https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020215/64541.html HOMOSEXUAL BRITISH COLUMBIA MP TO LEAD ‘GAY’ PARADE IN MONCTON The Moncton Times and Transcript reports today that B.C. MP Svend Robinson will be the parade marshall at the annual Moncton Gay Pride Parade on June 22. UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL TAX PROPOSAL TO BE PRESENTED AT MEXICO CONFERENCE https://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20020207-38044200.htm STUDY SAYS SLEEP 6-7 HOURS, MORE CAN DO HARM https://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer? pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1013727732843&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News&pubid=968163964505&StarSource=email

AUSTIN, February 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Researchers at the Texas A & M University have cloned the first domestic cat. The two-month-old kitten named Cc: is the only surviving animal of 87 kitten embryos created by cloning. The experiment published in the Nature journal reports that the 87 cloned embryos were transferred into eight recipients, resulting in one failed pregnancy and one live clone. “This is comparable to the success rates obtained for other cloned species” says the report.

WASHINGTON, February 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – US Secretary of State Colin Powell, outraged conservatives and pro-family groups with comments on a global forum with young people broadcast internationally by MTV. Sounding more like a Planned Parenthood representative than a Representative of the Bush Administration and Republican Party, Powell pontificated: “It is important that the whole international community come together, speak candidly about it, forget about taboos, forget about conservative ideas with respect to what you should tell young people about. It’s the lives of young people that are put at risk by unsafe sex. And, therefore, protect yourself.” On condoms, […]

LISBON, February 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an interview with the BBC, the President of Portugal, Jorge Sampaio, gave a strong indication that the country will hold another referendum on abortion. Reacting to claims of tens of thousands of illegal abortions Sampaio said, “We have to see what is actually happening. We can’t disguise this issue, it’s being disguised.” Noted by the BBC as in favour of abortion, he indicated that he was perturbed by having to consult the public. “I unfortunately have to have in mind other opinions,” he said. “We’ll probably have to have a new referendum on […]

OTTAWA, February 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada (PPFC) has distributed five television ads to promote the abortifacient morning after pill in Canada to the five national broadcasters (CBC, CTV, Global, WTN and MuchMusic) and 16 regional broadcasters. Seeking free publicity, PPFC is billing the ads as public-service announcements. The television commercials are part of PPFC’s “Emergency Contraception Awareness Campaign” launched Tuesday. The campaign includes 5,000 posters set to be distributed to Planned Parenthood affiliate offices, public / community health centers, colleges, universities and women’s centers across Canada in the coming weeks and months. The National Post […]

VANCOUVER, February 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A controversial ‘pro-choice’ group, whose members once attacked and vandalized a pro-life display, is now officially calling for violence to shut down countering opinions. The University of British Columbia’s “Students for Choice” has stated on their new web site in an ‘Activists Guide- Strategy’ section that: “Civil Disobedience is an option you may choose as well. You can set up large screens around the display so passer-by does not necessarily have to see it. You might also try draping the display itself with a cloth in order to cover it. Circle the display and […]

ACCOUNTING FIGURES REVEAL CLAIM OF US ‘DEBT’ TO UNITED NATIONS TO BE FRAUDULENT https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPentagon.asp?Page=Pentagonarchive

FORMER ALLIANCE MP PESCHISOLIDO MAY FACE FORCED BY-ELECTION FOR SWITCH TO LIBERALS https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020214/54193.html UK WOMAN AWARDED COMPENSATION FOR BIRTH OF HEALTHY BABY AFTER FAILED STERILIZATION https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1820000/1820144.stm AUSTRALIAN EUTHANASIA CAMPAIGNER WANTS TO MEET WITH PREMIER https://www.theage.com.au/breaking/2002/02/14/FFX8LMOFNXC.html

Women Who Delay First Pregnancy Into 30’s Are At Increased Risk LONDON, February 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Having a miscarriage does not increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer at any age, according to one of the largest ever studies on the link between reproductive factors and the disease, published in the British Journal of Cancer Tuesday. The research confirms the writings of Dr. Joel Brind, a world expert on the link between abortion and breast cancer, who noted that miscarriage does not lead to breast cancer as abortion does. In the new study, researchers tracked women over a ten-year […]

DUBLIN, February 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – As both the ‘yes’ and the ‘no’ campaigns were launched in Ireland yesterday to urge citizens for or against the March 6 abortion referendum, Irish Health Minister Michael Martin confirmed that a ‘yes’ vote would guarantee the availability of the abortifacient morning after pill. The referendum proposes a constitutional amendment to do away with the Irish Supreme Court ruling in the ‘X’ case which allowed abortion in cases where the mother threatens suicide, however it also falsely defines abortion as only after implantation rather than from fertilization. The abortion referendum debate in Ireland is […]

LONDON, February 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – High Court hearings on a legal challenge to the reclassification of the morning after pill, as available from pharmacists without a doctor’s prescription, which began Tuesday were completed yesterday. Mr Justice Munby, presiding, said that there was so much to consider that he needed time to prepare his judgment, which may not be delivered until after Easter (the 31st of next month). Health ministers and the leader of the House of Commons have asked to see the judgment five days before it is published in order to prepare to address any public policy implications. […]

TORONTO, February 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) in Canada has expressed concern over statements by the administration of the Canadian Alliance and Liberal Parties suggesting intolerance against religious and/or ethnic groups. “In the Canadian Alliance, orthodox Jews, pro-life Catholics and evangelical Christians are alleged to be manipulating the party’s leadership race, to its detriment. In the federal Liberal party, a fight has broken out over the merits of soliciting members from particular ethnic or religious groups, as the party commissars decree such influence may be dangerous,” explained the CCRL in a recent release. CCRL President […]

NEW YORK, February 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The World Youth Alliance (WYA), a global coalition of young people and youth organizations committed to promoting the dignity of the person at the international level, has developed a Declaration on Responsible Stewardship. The Declaration, which incorporates statements in support of life, was presented to delegates at the second preparatory committee meetings (PrepCom II) of the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) (Rio+10). It outlines a person-centered approach to environmental stewardship and development. “We must foster responsible stewardship in every society. Each human being is called to recognize his or her personal responsibility […]

US HITS REPLACEMENT LEVEL IN BIRTH RATE FOR FIRST TIME IN 30 YEARS For the first time since 1971, women are producing enough children to offset deaths in the United States, the National Center for Health Statistics said. The center reported 4,058,814 births in 2000, the latest year for which figures were available – up 2.5 percent from 1999.  https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,45421,00.html VIRGINIA HOUSE PASSES CONSCIENCE CLAUSE AND FETICIDE BILLS https://www.timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGB2VC0LMXC.html

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PAPER BY PROF WILKINS IN HTML FORMAT LifeSite has put up an HTML version of the International Criminal Court document on line (in addition to the PDF that was the link for yesterday’s news) See https://www.lifesitenews.com/waronfamily/UN/ICC_Ramifications.html and https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/feb/020212.html#1 ANOTHER IVF SCANDAL AS GRANDMOTHER GIVES BIRTH TO HER OWN GRANDCHILDREN https://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=36&u_sid=311610

Valentine’s Day Counter Offensive Planned NEW YORK, February 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer continues to hand out fear-mongering subpoenas to crisis pregnancy centers, and has so far hit a dozen centers. Pro-lifers are calling the tactic a “legal Sptiz-krieg” by the “waterboy” for the abortion lobby, noting Spitzer is “not ‘pro-choice’…he is adamantly pro-abortion.” Chris Slattery, director of New York’s largest network of crisis pregnancy resource centers, Expectant Mother Care, plans to launch a major legal counter-offensive to Spitzer’s abortion Rights legal unit on Valentine’s Day. He points out that New York suffers one […]

LOS ANGELES, February 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles urged Catholics to take time to reflect “upon our own lives and circumstances to see what evils can be eliminated during this Lent.” Among the “areas that might need our attention,” he cited “passivity toward attacks against the value of human life, such as abortion, the tossing away of newborn babies into dumpsters, and the neglect of the elderly.” (with files from Catholic News Service Feb. 12, 2002)

LONDON, February 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Britain plans to capitalize on its decision to allow unethical research on human embryos and even human cloning. With pomp and ceremony British Prime Minister Tony Blair opened the new $30 million Wolfson and Weston Research Centre for Family Health in west London. Blair acknowledged the controversy over the research to be conducted at the centre but dismissed concerns with appeals to “moral judgment,” “truth” and “the benefit of human kind.” He said: “Various branches of this science of genetics are going to change the way we live. For this country to be at […]

LONDON, February 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Marie Stopes International (MSI), one of the world’s leading abortion providers, is looking for business and is offering £65 off a £265 vasectomy operation. The abortion group is billing its promotion as a Valentine’s Day special, an “alternative to flowers or chocolates” which calls on men to “Make the supreme romantic gesture with a valentine vasectomy!” MSI works in cahoots with International Planned Parenthood for global promotion of population control by any method. See the MSI ad:  https://www.mariestopes.org.uk/valentine_voucher.html

Declaration Affirms Pro-Life Stand BRATISLAVA, February 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The parliament of the Slovak Republic adopted a declaration January 28, 2002, which affirms national sovereignty in culture and ethical issues. The declaration sets out clearly that ethical and cultural concerns such as life and family, must remain “in the exclusive power of the member states and respected by the European Union”. The declaration also contains pro-life statements. The protection of life and the dignity of [the] human being from the conception to death” forms part of “the basis of society” in line with the “traditional values and ethical principles […]

TORONTO, February 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – An editorial in the Feb 6 edition of the National Post notes that a poll showing two-thirds of Canadians wanting an elected Supreme Court is a sign of “deep voter frustration with judges who appear to make the law rather than interpret it, and who are out of touch with mainstream values.” The editorial points out that “In the 20 years preceding the passage of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Supreme Court overturned exactly one law—a federal statute making it a crime for Indians to be drunk off-reserve. In the two decades […]

SECRET DOCUMENTS REVEAL CHINA’S ANTI-CHRISTIAN MEASURES https://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/archive/200202/FOR20020211h.html ABORTION BOAT DENIED MEDICAL LICENSE https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200202 /FOR20020211e.html FEMINIST BLASTS NOW (NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN) FOR BACKING UNFPA https://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0205.html MORE STEM CELL LINES FOUND TO QUALIFY FOR US FUNDS https://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Top%20World%20News&s1=blk&tp=  ad_topright_topworld&T=markets_bfgcgi_content99.ht&s2=ad_right1_windex&bt=  ad_position1_windex&middle=ad_frame2_windex&s=APGg2sBTRTW9yZSBT UK PRO-LIFE GROUP’S CHALLENGE TO MORNING AFTER PILL HEARD TODAY SPUC UK’s judicial review of the government’s decision to make the morning-after pill available from pharmacists without a prescription began this morning in the High Court in London. Speaking on national radio this morning, John Smeaton, SPUC’s national director, said that the presentation of the morning-after pill as emergency contraception was a […]

PITTSBURGH, PA, February 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A study published in the February 11 edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that divorce is linked to a greater likelihood of early death in men. The study by Dr. Karen Mattews of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Dr. Brooks Gump of the State University of New York-Oswego studied 10,904 men. It found a relative risk of 1.37 (95% confidence interval, 1.09-1.72) for those who divorced compared with those who remained married for total mortality. The study which used a nine-year follow-up found the most deaths among men […]

LONDON, February 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A report issued yesterday by the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) in the UK uses government and charity statistics to present evidence on the cost to society of undermining marriage. After presenting her evidence, Jill Kirby, author of “BROKEN HEARTS Family decline and the consequences for society” challenges legislators saying, “Unless we are prepared to recognise that the family is under siege and that marriage is under threat, we can have no hope of reversing the trend and improving the lives of the children who are afflicted.” The study found that while over 50% […]

NEW YORK, February 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Scientists at Cornell University’s Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility have used live human embryos in experiments on artificial wombs created from replicated cells removed from the lining of the womb. Dr Hung-Ching Liu and her team revealed to the media that human embryos successfully attached to the walls of laboratory wombs and began to grow, but the embryos were destroyed after six days. Liu reveals that in later experiments she intends to allow the embryos to develop to the legal limit of 14 days before they are destroyed. “We will then see […]

POLL SAYS OVER 70% OF CANADIANS SUPPORT PARENTS’ RIGHT TO USE SPANKING AS DISCIPLINE Only 21.9% of 1,516 respondents in the Leger Marketing survey answered in the affirmative when they were asked: “Should the government pass legislation to ban parents from spanking their children?” Seventy per cent said No and 8.1% didn’t know or refused to answer.  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020211/17422.html HUMAN ADULT STEM CELLS REGENERATE HEART TISSUE IN MICE https://newsstand.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?fname=2002-02/20020207.124838&time=13:58+Pacific+Time&year=2002&public=1 CLONED MICE HAVE SHORT LIFE SPAN https://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1142809,00.html

The Overwhelming Majority of Abortion-Related Deaths Remain Undiscovered LIFE DYNAMICS, February 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Life Dynamics, a Texas-based pro-life group has created a website listing women killed by legal abortions, along with information regarding the circumstances of their deaths. “The Blackmun Wall” project is named after Harry Blackmun, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the Roe v. Wade decision and launched America’s abortion holocaust. Life Dynamics reports that it has statistics from both state and federal reporting agencies documenting many more abortion-related deaths than are listed on the Blackmun wall. However, because there were no further details on them, […]

MONTREAL, February 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Roger Gosden a highly controversial new reproductive technology scientist, recently left McGill University to work for a Virginia company specializing in the field. While the official line of the university and of Gosden himself is that he was offered a golden opportunity in the US post, observers aware of Gosden's past are sceptical. Gosden came to McGill from Leeds University in Britain after his research was made illegal under Britain's Criminal Justice Act. Gosden was working towards the use of the ova of aborted baby girls for fertility treatments. British MP Dame Jill […]

OTTAWA, February 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – After being informed of a switch in the Canadian Alliance rules for leadership elections that now bar 3rd party groups from directly submitting memberships to the party, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) has made a change to its procedures. The organization continues to encourage pro-life Canadians who are interested in the Canadian Alliance to join the party by March 1 in order to vote in the March 8 leadership election. CLC is however now advising that memberships must be acquired directly from the party by those wishing to participate, rather than through Campaign Life. LifeSite […]

QUEBEC JUSTICE MINISTER SUGGESTS HOMOSEXUAL CIVIL UNIONS WILL INCLUDE ADOPTION RIGHTS https://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/story.asp?id={C7343A1C-04ED-4AFA-B49A-F44A650074D4} UK WOMAN PREGNANT SECOND TIME USING DEAD HUSBAND’S SPERM https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1809000/1809296.stm UK PRO-LIFE GROUP EXPRESSES SYMPATHY AND CONCERN OVER CONJOINED TWINS CASE https://www.spuc.org.uk/releases/20020204.htm

QUEBEC JUSTICE MINISTER SUGGESTS HOMOSEXUAL CIVIL UNIONS WILL INCLUDE ADOPTION RIGHTS https://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/story.asp?id={C7343A1C-04ED-4AFA-B49A-F44A650074D4} UK WOMAN PREGNANT SECOND TIME USING DEAD HUSBAND’S SPERM https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1809000/1809296.stm UK PRO-LIFE GROUP EXPRESSES SYMPATHY AND CONCERN OVER CONJOINED TWINS CASE https://www.spuc.org.uk/releases/20020204.htm

SAN ANTONIO, February 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Claims by birth control pill proponents that the newest version – third generation – of the pill has overcome safety issues proved hollow today according to findings from a new Dutch study. The study found women who take the newest form of the pill have a stroke risk 2.2 times higher than women who are not taking the pill. The risk is similar to that of the risk with the second generation pill which has a stroke risk 2.4 times higher than non-pill takers. The study, presented Thursday at a conference of the […]

SALT LAKE CITY, February 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – News reports indicate that sponsors of “SafeGames 2002”—including Planned Parenthood and the American Red Cross—intend to distribute 250,000 condoms in Utah during the winter Olympic Games. Judie Brown, president of American Life League (ALL) slammed the “SafeGames” initiative saying, “Why don’t they tell the truth? – Condoms have a nearly one-in-six failure rate. That’s the same odds as Russian Roulette. And considering one of the risks of a faulty condom is HIV transmission, the results could be equally deadly.” Bryan Kemper of the ALL sponsored youth group Rock for Life will join […]

LIFESITE, February 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – To assist pro-life, pro-family members of the federal Canadian Alliance and Ontario PC parties, LifeSite has put together an information page on each race. Included is a link to each candidate’s web page and a list of LifeSite, Interim and CLC National News articles on the two races.   The Canadian Alliance leadership page is at https://www.lifesitenews.com/clc/elections/allianceleadership2002/index.html Ontario PC page is at https://www.lifesitenews.com/clc/elections/ontpcleadership2002/index.html

STOCKHOLM, February 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Swedish study published in the current edition of The Lancet medical journal has found that children born after in vitro fertilization (IVF) have an increased risk of severe brain disorder requiring treatment at a childhood disability centre. Dr Bo Strömberg, a paediatric neurologist at University Children's Hospital and his collegues found that there was a three to four-fold increase in risk of having cerebral palsy in children born after IVF. The risk of suspected developmental delay was two to four times higher in children born after IVG than in normally conceived children. The […]

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – This week President Bush submitted his budget request for next year’s Foreign Aid bill (FY2003). While the budget tops $16 billion, UNFPA funding for FY 2003 is yet to be determined. Last month—in light of evidence presented to Congress showing UNFPA’s support of coercive abortion and coercive sterilization programs in China – the President withheld $34 million for UNFPA for 2002. Reacting to the news, Steve Mosher, president of Population Research Institute – the leading group in exposing the UNFPA’s support of coercive abortion – told LifeSite, “President Bush is a man of principle […]

CBC REPORTS “YUKON SYPHILIS OUTBREAK LINKED TO LIFESTYLE CHOICES”  With infection rates of more than 100 times the national average, a major syphilis outbreak in the Yukon has health officials warned against the rampant casual sex.  https://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/02/07/syphilis_yukon020207 AUSTRALIAN ARCHBISHOP CALLS POLITICIANS TO PROTECT RIGHT TO LIFE Catholic Archbishop Francis Carroll urged politicians to vote in favour of life two weeks before the ACT Assembly is to vote on decriminalizing abortion and repealing laws mandating waiting periods before abortions. “No human right is more basic than the right to live,” Archbishop Carroll said. “And no human life is more vulnerable and […]

U.S. “will not survive long as a nation” unless moral and spiritual foundations are restored Washington, February 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – On Dec. 5, at the annual Hillsdale College Churchill Dinner in Washington, D.C., retiring pro-life Senator Jesse Helms gave a no holds barred speech on the emerging threats to U.S. National Security. His comments on certain U.N treaties, abortion and the need for the U.S. to return to its moral and spiritual roots were especially noteworthy. Helms said, “Instead of focusing on new dangers, they (the Clinton administration) spent their time and energy forging ridiculous new treaties – like […]

SALEM, February 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Oregon Health Division released its “Death with Dignity Act Annual Report 2001” Wednesday noting that in the fourth year of the legal physician-assisted suicide program 21 people killed themselves – down from 27 in both 1999 and 2000. In 2001, 44 prescriptions for lethal doses of medication were written by 33 physicians, compared with 39 prescriptions in 2000, 33 in 1999, and 24 in 1998. The report indicates that the 21 patients who committed assisted suicide during 2001 were demographically similar to patients who participated in previous years, except that a slightly higher […]

WASHINGTON, February 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Department of Justice has filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to support Ohio’s ban on partial-birth abortion. The brief argues that Ohio’s law banning partial-birth abortion is different from the Nebraska law that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Stenberg vs. Carhart, and therefore should be upheld. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio struck down Ohio’s law, claiming it did not comply with the Supreme Court’s decision in Stenberg vs. Carhart. The Supreme Court had ruled that Nebraska’s law […]

VANCOUVER, February 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-abortion groups are admitting defeat of their attempt to have an advertisement regulator declare inaccurate an ad presenting scientific evidence of the link between abortion and breast cancer. The Pro-Choice Action Network, run by pro-abortion activist Joyce Arthur, filed a formal complaint about the abortion/breast cancer ad by Surrey Delta Pro-Life with Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) in October. The pro-abortion group’s publication reveals that in late December, ASC declined to review the breast cancer/abortion ad any further. It said there are “serious and noteworthy considerations in dispute”, but they are “complex” and “beyond the […]

Remaining Ratifications Expected “In The Next Eight To Twelve Weeks” UNITED NATIONS, February 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Four ratifications of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) this year have brought the total ratifications to 52, eight short of the number needed for the ICC to enter into force. In January Benin and Estonia became Parties to the ICC with Portugal and Ecuador joining February 5. William Pace, Convenor of the more than 1,000 member NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court stated, “Due to the defining role the first sixty countries will play in shaping the future of […]

WASHINGTON, February 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Department of Justice has filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to support Ohio’s restriction on partial-birth abortion. The brief argues that Ohio’s law restricting partial-birth abortion is different from the Nebraska law that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Stenberg vs. Carhart, and therefore should be upheld. “Forced abortion,” Smith said, “as we all know, was properly ruled a crime against humanity at the Nazi War Crimes Tribunals that were held in Nuremburg. Enablers like the U.N. Population Fund, have white-washed these crimes […]

PETITION AGAINST PRO-ABORT NY ATTORNEY GENERAL’S ASSAULT ON CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS https://www.catholicpetitions.com/petition.html?name=new_york_preg_ctrs

LONDON, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Last week, on the basis that the morning after pill can cause an abortion, the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC) was given leave to proceed with a judicial review of the decision to reclassify the drug as one available from pharmacists without a doctor’s prescription. SPUC argues that the Offences Against the Person Act, in place since 1861, prohibits supply of any “poison or other noxious thing” with intent to cause miscarriage. Pro-abortion groups however are alarmed since they say a ruling on the abortifacient nature of the morning after […]

PALOS HEIGHTS, IL, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer has collaborated on a powerful new made-for-television commercial informing women about the existence of abortion-breast cancer research. The commercial features an attractive women’s basketball coach in a gym coaching her team. There is a voice over which says: I wish I’d known. I’ve got breast cancer and wish someone had told me earlier that abortion could increase the risk of breast cancer by 50% or more. Learn the facts today. Contact information is provided at the end of the commercial for the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute which […]

UNITED NATIONS, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has entered into collaboration with a global student union to promote population control. On January 29, UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the President of AIESEC International Student Network – which claims to be “the largest global student organization”. AIESEC bills itself as “a unique and growing network of 50,000 students, typically studying business and technical subjects, in over 800 higher education institutions in 83 countries and territories.” Observers suggest that the UNFPA outreach to student organizations comes as its ranks are […]

VATICAN, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday, in his message released for Lent 2002, Pope John Paul II warned against abuses of biotechnology. “The achievements of medicine and biotechnology can sometimes lead man to think of himself as his own creator, and to succumb to the temptation of tampering with ‘the tree of life,’” he said. The Pope touched on issues surrounding the human embryo. “The beginning of life and its marvellous development: this is a gift. And because it is gift, life can never be regarded as a possession or as private property, even if the capabilities we now […]

TORONTO, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) has urged Catholics around the world to respond to the targetting of World Youth Day by the pro-abortion group “Catholics for a Free Choice” (CFFC). As LifeSite reported earlier, CFFC has launched a campaign in Toronto to target the 750,000 youth expected at the upcoming World Youth Day. The campaign includes billboard and public transit advertising as well as a planned condom and propaganda distribution at the Catholic event featuring Pope John Paul II, the world’s most renowned pro-life and pro-family advocate. CCRL is currently focusing on […]

JUSTICE MINISTER REFUSES TO CONSIDER ALLOWING SUPREME COURT JUSTICES TO BE ELECTED A majority of Canadians said in poll the positions of top justices should be open to election.  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020205/1341490.html UK GRANTS HOMOSEXUAL BENEFITS TO HOMOSEXUAL PARTNERS OF CIVIL SERVANTS AND MPS https://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_513115.html FIRST BABY BORN USING GENDER SELECTION TECHNOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA Scientists selected only a female embryo to implant claiming reasons of X-linked genetic disorder. Thus the male embryos were destroyed.  https://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_511722.html

But “At Least She's Going to Try to Save the Baby Eventually” TORONTO, February 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Famed Canadian singer Celine Dion has revealed that she is intending to implant the frozen embryo she had created through in vitro fertilization. In an announcement on 20/20 Dion revealed that she is returning to the stage next year, performing five nights a week for three years at Caesar's Palace hotel in Las Vegas for a reported $100 million. After the three years, she will attempt to bear her embryonic child, created prior to June 2000 when she announced her first pregnancy […]

CAPE TOWN, February 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In response to South African President Thabo Mbeki’s call for religious leaders to help address the nation’s “moral decline,” the head of the Catholic Church in South Africa, Cardinal Wilfrid Napier called on the government to halt abortions. The South African Press Agency reports that the Cardinal said halting abortions would be a gesture of the President’s seriousness in calling for a moral renewal in South African society. See the SAPA coverage:  https://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1016799-6078-0,00.html

LONDON, February 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The largest investigation into homosexual parenting to be published in Europe finds that children raised by homosexual couples suffer serious problems later in life. The study, by sociologist Patricia Morgan, is released with the launch of her book on the subject, “Children as Trophies?”. The book reviews 144 academic papers on homosexual parenting and concludes that the healthiest way to bring up a child is within traditional marriage. See the coverage in the Herald:  https://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,3709157%255E912,00.html

CHICAGO, February 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a press release issued yesterday, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) revealed their new policy statement in support of homosexual adoptions. The release notes that “new AAP policy statement, ‘Coparent or Second-Parent Adoption by Same-Sex Parents’ supports legal and legislative efforts that provide for the possibility of adoption of those children by the second parent or coparent in same-sex relationships.” The February issue of the AAP publication Pediatrics also contains an article entitled “Technical Report: Coparent or Second-Parent Adoption by Same-Sex Parents” which claims to cite evidence that “children who grow up with […]

TORONTO, February 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – An investigation by the Globe and Mail has revealed that Canadian women are offering rent-a-womb contracts on the Internet and thanks to Canada’s lack of legislation on the matter business is booming. A reporter from the paper who posed on the Internet as a surrogate offering “to make babies with donor sperm for a fee” received eight e-mails within a week expressing interest . The Globe uncovered one completed surrogacy transaction, where the woman, named only as Trish says she gave birth after being impregnated with the sperm of an Ontario man – the […]

IRELAND TO VOTE ON ABORTION REFERENDUM MARCH 6 ABORTIONIST FINKEL RE-ARRESTED ON NEW CHARGES Employees witnessed Finkel sexually abuse patients.  https://www.12news.com/headline/finkel_02012002.html

VATICAN, February 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pope John Paul II, spoke yesterday in Italy to mark the Day of Life which is celebrated on the first Sunday of February. Before his midday prayer of the Angelus the pope addressed the assembled crowd calling on humanity to “recognize the value of life implies consistent measures from the legal point of view, especially the protection of human beings who are unable to defend themselves”. Society must “guarantee to every human the right … from conception to natural death,”said the Pope in his message. “In the case of the human embryo, science has […]

Anti-Catholic Billboards by Catholics for a Free Choice TORONTO, February 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The pro-abortion group that calls itself Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), has launched a campaign in Toronto to target the 750,000 youth expected at the upcoming World Youth Day. The campaign includes billboard and public transit advertising as well as a planned condom and propaganda distribution at the Catholic event featuring Pope John Paul II, the world’s most renowned pro-life and pro-family advocate. Kathleen Howes, Canadian coordinator of CFFC said the condoms to be pedaled to the youth delegates would carry the message, “Don’t leave […]

CALGARY, February 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – During Saturday’s Canadian Alliance leadership debate in Calgary, candidate Stephen Harper attacked former Alliance leader Stockwell Day for his ties with pro-life Canadians. “I see lots of evidence on the ground that what he is actually pushing is essentially the same thing as his last election – that this has to be a pro-life party,” he told reporters. “Obviously I think it’s important that the party’s position is that we don’t have a party position on abortion – that it’s not a litmus test and that we’re open to people with a wide range […]

PRESIDENT’S BUDGET INCREASES ABSTINENCE PROGRAM FUNDING President Bush’s budget for 2003 will increase funding for abstinence-only education programs to $135 million to ensure that more children receive the message that abstinence is the best option for avoiding unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.  https://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020131a.html NY ATTORNEY GENERAL ATTEMPTS TO DOWNPLAY PREGNANCY CENTER INQUIRY https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=Nationarchive

JIM FLAHERTY BESTS ERNIE EVES AND OTHER PC LEADER CANDIDATES IN OTTAWA DEBATE https://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.asp?id=  {A40BC6BE-9FD6-44F1-81DE-7625D4EC4A61} MINIATURE KIDNEYS FROM CLONED COW EMBRYOS https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020130/hl/cloned_kidney_1.html

Only party members may participate in the upcoming one-man, one-vote leadership voting TORONTO, February 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – As a service to those who are interested in becoming a member of the federal Alliance party and/or the Ontario Tory party, Campaign Life Coalition is posting relevant instructions on LifeSite. Those whose paid memberships or renewals are received before the set cut-off dates will be eligible to vote in the upcoming leadership contest in either or both parties. Campaign Life Coalition is not at this time officially recommending any one candidate in either race. CLC will continue to provide as much […]

LOS ANGELES, February 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A chip that will automatically create hundreds of cloned embryos at a time is being developed by a Californian biotech company, New Scientist reports today. The long and laborious process of removing the nucleus from eggs in order to begin the cloning process has been automated. Aegen Biosciences has created a nuclear transfer array which consists of a silicon slice a few centimeters across which holds hundreds of eggs in tiny wells. The eggs are then denucleated by placing the chip in a centrifuge which forces the nuclei out of the egg through […]

WORCESTER, MA, February 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A report in today's edition of Science magazine reveals that researchers in the US have created monkey embryos without the use of sperm and have extracted stem cells from those embryos. The embryos, developed by duplicating the chromosomes within the egg in a process called parthenogenesis, are not stable and thus the embryo cannot develop fully. However, the scientists at Advanced Cell Technology, which recently claimed to have cloned human embryos, say they were able to extract stem cells from the embryos known as “parthenotes”. Azim Surani of the Wellcome Trust and Cancer […]

PARIS, February 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Evidence that abortifacient morning-after pills are sweeping the globe comes from one of the companies which manufacturers the abortifacient drugs. HRA Pharma which markets the abortifacient morning after pill Norlevo, and also marketed as Vika, Vikela and Duofem, boasts on its website of the drugs availability in over 40 counties. Beyond the listing on the website, LifeSite has learned that the company’s abortifacient drug has recently been allowed into Uganda as a pilot study in six districts with the Ministry of Health’s approval. The website lists the following countries where their product is available:  […]

History of UNFPA Complicity in Forced Abortion Presented WASHINGTON, February 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Fifty-five members of Congress sent a letter to the President of the United States yesterday asking that he zero-fund the United Nations Population Fund for their support of coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization. Pro-abortion members of Congress also submitted a letter to Bush demanding a release of the UNFPA funds, it was signed by 126 members. The letter in support of UNFPA totally ignores the mountain of evidence against UNFPA as well as a law which forbids US funds from supporting such activities. The letter to […]

TORONTO, February, 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Campaign Life Coalition Canada joined many American pro-life groups in praising the Bush administration for declaring that a developing fetus may be classified as an unborn child. The decision will allow unborn children, particularly those from low income families, to benefit from the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. “This proposal by President Bush is the most straightforward act of justice on behalf of humanity that we have witnessed to date,” said Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition. “The fact that a woman who is pregnant carries a preborn child should be fairly […]