Articles for Month: April 2002

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Over a thousand schools and colleges across the country are getting ready to participate in a National “Day of Silence” to take place this Wednesday, April 10, 2002. The event is sponsored by GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) and the USSA (United States Students Association). The purpose is to draw national attention to the so called “harassment”, “prejudice”, “intolerance” and “discrimination”“gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender persons suffer on a daily basis”. Many of the participating schools have GSAs (Gay/Straight Alliances) also known as “gay” clubs. These organizations, and/or teachers and students sympathetic […]

MELBOURNE, April 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – As Australian Prime Minister John Howard agreed to allow destructive research on human embryos, the move was condemned by the Catholic Church and Tasmanian Senator Brian Harradine. Harradine said that embryonic stem cell research “remains an evil act even if good comes of it.” He said the agreement reached today by the Prime Minister is a utilitarian approach which should be rejected by parliament. He called the harvesting of stem cells from live human embryos an attack on the most vulnerable members of the human family. Speaking on behalf of the Catholic Bishops, the […]

OSHAWA, April 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an op-ed piece by Dr.Thomas Langan, published by LifeSite today, the Catholic Civil Rights League defends the Durham Region Catholic School Board on their decision to bar a 17-year old male student from bringing his 21-year-old “boyfriend” to the school prom. The Family Coalition Party of Ontario and the Canada Family Action Coalition have also spoken out against the media pressure on the school board. Family Coalition Party Leader Giuseppe Gori, has pointed out that the comments on the case against the school board’s decision by Ontario Human Rights Commissioner Keith Norton were […]

Biotech Industry Lobby Pushing Deceptive “clone and kill” legislation WASHINGTON, April 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – US President George Bush will speak on the urgent need to ban human cloning on Wednesday, April 10, at 1:15 p.m. ET, in the Rose Garden. The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) in Washington, D.C. warned that the situation is urgent since “human embryo farms” are getting ready for business. A Senate bill to ban all human cloning (the Brownback-Landrieu bill) has been stalled in the Senate by resistance from Democratic Senate leaders and intense lobbying by the Biotechnology Industry Organization. NRLC Legislative Director […]

Competent FCP candidate is ex-businessman and former school board trustee ORANGEVILLE, April 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Incoming Premier Ernie Eves, the newly-elected Leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives is running in the Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey by-election scheduled for May 2. The Family Coalition Party of Ontario (Ontario Coalition) has endorsed the candidacy of Mr. David Davies to run against Eves. Considering Eves’ left-leaning policies, especially in regard to life and family issues, neither the Liberal nor the NDP challengers will represent significant alternatives in the race. Mr. Davies, a retired businessman and farmer, and past trustee with the Upper Grand District School […]

PRAY FOR 7 YEAR OLD ANGELA BISSONNETTE The 7 year old daughter of long-time Campaign Life Coalition activists, Joe and France Bissonnette of Mount Pleasant, Ontario has just been diagnosed with the very serious condition Aplastic Anemia. This is similar to leukemia but worse than leukemia. Her white blood cell count is dangerously low. Heavy chemotherapy and radiation and a bone marrow transplant are all necessary treatments for this condition. Prayers are urgently requested. Emails of support may be sent to [email protected] EARLY PUBERTY FOR GIRLS LINKED TO HORMONES IN CERTAIN SHAMPOO BRANDS “Unbeknown to many parents, a few hair […]

Campaign Life Coalition’s Paul Jalsevac Back Lobbying at the UN NEW YORK, April 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Developments at this week’s meetings of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD) and the World Summit on Sustainable Development have been relatively free of the major tension and controversies of previous meetings. Campaign Life Coalition’s Paul Jalsevac, a Christendom College student who was gravely injured in an auto accident last year the day before he was to leave for another UN meeting, has been lobbying at the UN meetings. Paul reports that the inexperienced new crop of US delegates made […]

Concerns That Choice to be Excepted for Moral or Religious Reasons May be Removed NEW YORK, April 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has backed a program to have obstetrics and gynecology residents in the city’s public hospitals routinely trained to perform abortions rather than having the option available as an elective. Currently the program allows student to opt out for moral or religious reasons. Pro-lifers are concerned that the exemption may soon be made unavailable. Bloomberg’s action comes after lobbying from the National Abortion Rights Action League. See related coverage:  https://www.detnews.com/2002/nation/0204/05/a02-457876.htm

Preston Manning Reverses Previous Support for Some Embryonic Research TORONTO, April 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an piece published in today’s Globe and Mail, Reform Party founder and former Alliance MP Preston Manning came out against embryonic stem cell research (ESCR). Manning has considered this issue for many years as a member of the standing committee on health that reviewed draft of this legislation. In the article Manning gets to the heart of the ESCR debate asking: “Are there limits to our moral obligation to respect life? Are there limits to our moral obligation to heal? Are there any circumstances […]

Dr Severino Antinori, the well known Italian in vitro fertilization specialist involved in the controversial human cloning project has announced that a woman taking part in the project is eight weeks pregnant. “Our project is at a very advanced stage. One woman among the thousands of infertile couples in the programme is eight weeks pregnant,” he said to reporters. Dr Antinori, a director of an Infertility unit at the International Centre for the Study of Physiopathology of Human Reproduction in Rome, refused to reveal the identity of the woman or even her country. He did admit the project is well […]