Articles for Month: May 2002

LONDON, England, May 31, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A surgeon who aborted a baby without the mother’s consent – during a hysterectomy she herself had requested – was found guilty of serious professional misconduct Thursday by England’s General Medical Council, the Independent newspaper reports.  Barbara Whiten, now 43, did not know she was 11 weeks pregnant when she sought a hysterectomy in 1993 to relieve abdominal pain. Reginald Dixon, now retired, discovered the fetus but proceeded with removing the ovaries and uterus with the fetus inside. Although Mrs. Whiten herself sought to have herself sterlized, she has repeatedly complained that, “The […]

GENEVA, May 31, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A year ago, LifeSite reported that Switzerland’s socialist-controlled parliament passed a law legalizing abortion on demand in the first three months of pregnancy. But Swiss pro-lifers triggered a referendum with a 120,000-signature petition with two-thirds of the signatures believed to be those of women.  The most recent opinion poll indicates that a majority of Swiss people – 63 per cent – support “updating” the 1942 law that has limited access to abortion in predominantly Catholic cantons.  Even so, around 12,000 abortions are done each year because many doctors are willing to approve the procedure.  […]

WASHINGTON, May 31, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A three-judge panel for the federal district court in Philadelphia issued its ruling today holding that the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is unconstitutional. CIPA requires public schools (K-12th grade) and public libraries, that accept certain federal subsidies for Internet access, to use blocking technology on any of its computers with Internet access. The purpose is to protect against user access to visual depictions that are obscene or child pornography, and material harmful to minors when a minor is using a computer. It permits a library official to disable the technology during use by […]

86% Disagreed With the Recent Acquittal of John Robin Sharpe on Possession and Distribution Charges   VANCOUVER, May 31, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance Justice Critic, Vic Toews, joined today with Focus on the Family Canada to announce the results of a nationwide poll concerning child pornography legislation and the age of sexual consent.  The POLLARA poll, commissioned this month by Focus on the Family, showed that:  * 86% of respondents disagreed with the recent ruling that acquitted John Robin Sharpe of possessing and distributing child pornography on the grounds that his writings depicting violence and sex involving adults with […]

VICTORIA, May 31, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The B.C. Liberals tabled draft legislation to scrap the province’s Human Rights Commission, leaving only a simple tribunal to hear complaints. The move, if it goes ahead next fall, would make B.C. the first province to tackle the power-hungry bodies whose zany decisions have removed citizen’s basic liberties.  Attorney-General Geoff Plant said his goal is to restore “public confidence” in human rights protection. “The process has been rife with delay, people caught within human rights complaints usually feel like they’re lost in some kind of Kafkaesque nightmare.”  Jon Hof, B.C. president of Campaign Life […]

  VICTORIA, May 31, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A coalition of Canadian organizations and individuals has launched an emergency petition campaign to address the serious flaws in Bill C-56, The Assisted Human Reproduction Act.  The petition recognizes that many “Canadians suffer from debilitating illnesses and diseases” and that the petitioners “support ethical stem cell research that has already shown encouraging potential to provide cures and therapies for these illnesses and diseases.” The petition emphasizes “the already proven value of non-embryonic stem cell research and calls upon Parliament to focus its legislative support on adult stem cell research…” Campaign Life Coalition, as […]

OTTAWA, May 31, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Dianne Irving, a leading international expert on new reproductive technologies, has reviewed the proposed Canadian legislation, Bill C-56 and has found it completely inadequate.  Dr. Irving, whose Ph.D. included a doctoral concentration in secular bioethics at the world’s foremost bioethics institute, noted that the bill was poorly prepared using faulty science and lacking basic definitions necessary to have the law actually ban cloning as it claims it does.  Irving points out in her analysis that the Bill erroneously or inadequately defines or completely fails to define several key terms. She suggests that if […]

FIFTH COMMISSIONER IN BASEBALL HISTORY DELIVERS PRO-LIFE MESSAGE Bowie K. Kuhn, the fifth commissioner in baseball history, address to the Pioneer Valley Region Massachusetts Citizens for Life annual Mother’s Day Dinner May 28.  In his message Kuhn stressed resources for crisis pregnancy centres. “You need more programs that can tell women, here is the way you can handle this, here are organizations that can help you through this or help you place your child up for adoption . . . that has to increase if the movement is to work,” he said.  https://www.masslive.com/springfield/unionnews/index.ssf?/news/pstories/ae529mcf.html   PRESIDENT BUSH POSITIVE POLL RATINGS REMAIN […]

AYLMER FAMILY SPANKING – CHILD APPREHENSION CASE GETS   PUBLICATION BAN https://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists/story.html?f=/stories/20020529/379185.html   TEENAGE ABORTIONS IN SINGAPORE ON THE INCREASE Mr Chan Soo Sen, Minister of State, said teen abortions accounted for 13 percentof total abortions last year.  https://sg.news.yahoo.com/020529/5/singapore9156.html   AUSTRALIANS AND CHINESE PURSUE JURASSIC CLONING Australian researchers expect to clone the extinct Tasmanian tiger within a decade, said Mike Archer, the director of the Australian Museum. Meanwhile Chinese researchers expect to clone the rare giant panda within two years, after cloning a calf from a rare species and producing panda embryos using eggs from rabbits and cats. (UK Telegraph, […]

WASHINGTON, May 30, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Two Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, John A. Boehner and Steve Chabot, are pressing for the adoption of a school science curriculum in their home state of Ohio that includes the teaching of alternatives to Darwinian evolution theory, such as intelligent design.  Predictably, critics are calling the idea “religious fundamentalism” by stealth. Edward M. Kennedy, the longtime Democratic Senator, among other liberals, opposes the teaching of intelligent design, asserting that it “is not a genuine scientific theory.” In fact, intelligent design has a small following among scientists. To teach only evolution, say […]