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 […]

Attacked Netherlands law a year ago   BERLIN, May 30, 2002 (LSN.ca) – German Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin, who condemned Belgium and the Netherlands for legalizing assisted suicide, wants a Europe-wide debate on euthanasia. “We should immediately begin discussing questions as fundamental as euthanasia in the European Union,” Daeubler-Gmelin told the Rheinische Post on Wednesday.  She said the measure was contrary to the European Union charter on fundamental rights, an interpretations that the European Court of Human Rights seemed to confirm last week when it ruled that the EU Charter’s right to life does not imply a right to choose […]

WASHINGTON, May 30, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a victory for pro-lifers, the US House has passed a Supplemental Appropriations Bill which was stripped of UNFPA funding language. After pro-lifers in the US led by the Population Research Institute pointed out to the Bush administration the involvement of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with China’s coercive abortion regime, the administration withheld $34 million in UNFPA designated funds.  Language in the original Appropriations bill would have forced President Bush to release the UNFPA funds.  The House passed the bill Friday without the UNFPA language in a vote of 280-138.  See related […]

VIENNA, May 30, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an address to the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) U.S. diplomat Douglas Davidson gave more details on the US formal notification to the UN that it would not become a party to the Rome Statute creating the International Criminal Court (ICC).  In the May 9 address, obtained by LifeSite, Davidson noted that the ICC treaty “has significant defects” which “may constrain the willingness of the U.S. and perhaps other nations to engage in military operations, such as peacekeeping, because military personnel would be at risk of […]

MANILA, May 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The World Bank and unidentified “foreign donors” have launched a $20 million (USD) campaign to push population control on the Philippines.  Dubbed the “Maternal Health and Population Management Program,” the venture is set for implementation starting 2004 or 2005. However, the Philippine government under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has resisted the population control push with good reason.  The push for population control in the Philippines, which includes dire predictions of mass starvation if the population is not culled, is out of step with United Nations population forecasts for the country.  At a recent UN meeting […]

OTTAWA, May 30, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Chretien Liberals’ stem-cell bill , C-56, passed second reading in the House of Commons on Tuesday as expected. According to the Ottawa Citizen, “the bulk of the opposition came from the Canadian Alliance and NDP benches.” Only three government MPs, Liberals Yanko Peric, Paul Steckle and Clifford Lincoln, voted against the proposed law, which paves the way for research on human embryos.  The so-called “assisted human reproduction” legislation won by a vote of 170-63 on Tuesday. The next step for the bill is for the Commons health committee to examine it and hear […]

SEPT 11 WAKE-UP CALL TO START FAMILY   Hospitals are preparing for the anticipated post-September 11 Baby Boost. “This was kind of a wake-up call for people,” a doctor told the Washington Times. “They saw the towers burning. And when they got home they said, ‘You know, it’s never going to be the right time. We should start now.’”  https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020529-72351865.htm   BRITAIN TOPS TEEN PREGNANCY RATE IN EUROPE https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/29/upreg.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/05/29/ixport.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=98318   HOMOSEXUAL BANNER TO FLY ATOP WINNIPEG CITY HALL   After alleged threats, probably staged by homosexual groups themselves to draw attention to the publicity stunt, the Winnipeg Police Service will […]

MELBOURNE, Australia. May 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – An Australian biotech company, ES Cell International, claims a breakthrough with embryonic stem cell lines that could lead to a cure for diabetes by 2009, AsiaPulse reported this week.  US scientists with the company “have cured diabetic mice using pancreas cells grown from embryonic stem cells” according to reports. ES Cell International chief executive officer Robert Klupacs said his company was now negotiating the intellectual property details of the process. The company had found stem cells from dead human bodies to be inadequate: “We needed to find a reproducible source of cells and […]

QUEBEC, May 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Scrambling after a poll that placed the Action Democratique at the top earlier this week, Parti Quebecois members tried to compare the ADQ to French nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has been vilified by the European left as an extremist.  The ADQ, while not officially pro-life, are not as antagonistic towards life issues as are the PQ and the Liberals.  The poll results rated Mario Dumont as the most popular Quebec party leader, with 35-per-cent approval. Bernard Landry trailed at 22.8 per cent, behind Liberal leader Jean Charest at 27.7. This seemed to confirm […]

WASHINGTON, May 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) has decided to endorse homosexual parenting.  In a decidedly activist move, APsaA’s press release says: “By issuing this statement, gay and lesbian parents or prospective parents will now be able to include the position of the American Psychoanalytic Association as part of their supporting documents in their legal proceedings.” APsaA, a professional organization of psychoanalysts throughout the United States, “believes that gay and lesbian individuals and couples are capable of meeting the best interest of the child and should be afforded the same rights and should accept the same […]

TORONTO, May 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a rare victory for pro-lifers in Canada, the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) has garnered assurances from all three billboard companies in Toronto that they will not carry the anti-Catholic billboards by the pro-abortion group Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) during World Youth Day celebrations. Earlier this month CCRL gained assurances from Pattison Outdoor and Viacom that no such billboards would be put up during the upcoming Catholic event. Skye Media, the remaining billboard company told CCRL Friday that they rejected the renewal of the CFFC campaign.  Both Pattison and Skye carried […]

Steven Weinberg says those “who try to ban research on therapeutic cloning” are “religious zealots” LEWISTON, Maine, May 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a commencement speech delivered May 27, Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg told graduating Bates College students that those “who try to ban research on therapeutic cloning” are “religious zealots” and in the same lot with those who “bomb abortion clinics.”  Weinberg asked student to join him in the continuation of the movement known as “the Enlightenment.”“Even here in America we have religious zealots who try to corrupt the teaching of biological and astronomic science in public schools, who […]

Pastor and Bishop Refuse to Stop Fundraising Dinner in Parish for Militant Pro-Abortion U.S. Rep   BANGOR, May 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A pro-life university professor has been banned from a Catholic church for delivering an unannounced pro-life announcement.  University of Maine Professor Terrance J. Hughes told LifeSite that the matter arose after he learned of a fundraising spaghetti dinner to be held at St. John’s church in Bangor on May 24, which was to be hosted by pro-abortion U.S. Rep. John Baldacci.  Baldacci, who calls himself a Catholic, has a deplorable voting record on life issues and is known […]

OTTAWA, May 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Health Canada study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that Canadian women are using amniocentesis to search out and destroy babies with disabilities.  The study, based on seven years of statistics, found that the number of abortions for women in the 20th to 21st week – prime time for such screening tests – was up by a 578 per cent.  Moreover the study suggests that the number of infant deaths in Canada is down, due, at least in part, to women aborting their children who are found to have […]

TORONTO, May 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – There will be two large scale pro-life events related to the upcoming World Youth Days in Toronto. On Monday July 22nd a World Youth for Life Day will be held at Toronto’s beautiful Olympic Island. The event, sponsored by local pro-life groups, will include prominent international speakers such as Rabbi Yehuda Levin, Dr. Delores Grier, Camille de Blasi, Fr. Tom Lynch and others. It will conclude with an evening concert by the Celtic Rock band, Ceili Rain.  For all the details see https://www.worldyouthforlife.com   Later, during the official World Youth Days, the World Youth […]

MANDATORY ABORTION TRAINING IN NEW YORK MEDICAL PROGRAMS SPARKS OUTRAGE https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020527/ap_on_he_me/abortion_training_1   LIFE DYNAMIC’S CRUTCHER WINS PRO-LIFE AWARD FROM H.L.I.  https://www.hli.org/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/002/018dfypt.asp

SYDNEY, May 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The late Nancy Crick’s campaign for euthanasia was based on her much-publicized excruciating pain from bowel cancer. On her website, Crick wrote about her terrible pain, nausea, diarrhea and weight loss.  Yet an autopsy revealed no signs of cancer at the time of her death. Crick, 69, killed herself on May 22 with a poison used by veterinarians to put down animals.  Australia’s leading euthanasia campaigner, Philip Nitschke, reportedly displayed no surprise, reports CNSNews.com. Pro-euthanasia spokesman John Edge called the autopsy details “academic.” He said euthanasia campaigners want legal euthanasia for the “hopelessly ill, […]

WASHINGTON, May 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The National Organization for Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund last week sent out an “important action alert” calling on feminists to “call the White House switchboard” to support the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Washington Times reports.  The U.S. has so far refused to sign the 1981 treaty, which requires countries to change their constitutions and laws to give women total “equality” with men in terms of marriage, family income, responsibilities, property rights, employment opportunities and promotions. A 23-country U.N. committee, in which Canada […]

LONDON, England, May 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – An Englishwoman who deliberately sought a hysterectomy to ease her abdominal pain is now complaining that the doctor also aborted an 11-week-old fetus she was unaware of. Now she accuses the surgeon of taking away her ability to have children. Reginald Dixon, a consultant obstetrician and gynecologist, discovered the fetus while performing the hysterectomy on Barbara Whiten, then 35, at King’s Mill hospital, near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in March 1993. He aborted the fetus without asking her.  Mrs. Whiten said she could never forgive the doctor for denying her the chance to have children—even […]

PARIS, May 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A survey in France found that nearly half of France’s children had viewed an “adults-only” sex film by age 11.  Claude Rozier, a school doctor who headed the government-sponsored survey, said: “Hardcore porn has become the principal vehicle for quite young children’s understanding of everything to do with love and sexuality – sometimes their only point of reference.” The study found that 89.6% of boys aged 16 or 17 had seen one or more porn films. For girls, the figure was 81.1%. The Guardian reports that most of the teenagers questioned said they watched […]

Daughter Claims Cher Approved of Incident   NEW YORK, May 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Chastity Bono, the daughter of the famed singer Cher, claims in her newly released memoir that she was sexually seduced by an adult female at age 11.  Chastity says she was left in the care of “Joan” a lesbian friend of Cher’s and had “sex” with her.  Chastity writes that when, years later, she told her mother of the affair, Cher responded, “This will be a good life experience for you.” LifeSite contacted the New York Police Department and confirmed that the age of consent for […]

MIAMI, May 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Rael, the cult which claims that humans are descended from aliens has commenced a frontal attack against the Catholic Church.  The cult, which has gained recent notoriety for its claimed attempt to clone human beings, prides itself on a sexual code similar to that held by advocates of abortion namely “sexual freedom between consenting adults.”  Besides sexuality, the cult’s press release indicates that the Raelian movement, sounding very much like International Planned Parenthood (IPPF), takes issue with the Catholic Church on the issues of abortion, divorce, contraception and homosexuality. This appears to give some […]

CANADIAN SENATOR WOWS AMERICAN FATHERHOOD CONFERENCE WASHINGTON, May 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Senator Anne C. Cools addressed a Washington audience of 2,000 public policy and community activists yesterday, calling for shared parenting and criticizing family courts and “radical feminist extremism” for destroying fatherhood. In the keynote speech to the International Fatherhood Conference, Sen. Cools stressed the importance of “both parents following divorce” in the lives of children and criticized gender bias in custody decisions. The audience sat spellbound as the Senator recounted stories like that of Darrin White, ordered by a British Columbia judge to pay more than twice […]

KOPP CONFIRMS HE IS TURNING DOWN RIGHT TO APPEAL EXTRADITION, ASSERTS INNOCENCE Pro-lifer James Kopp, who has been charged in the shooting death of abortionist Barnett Slepian, has turned down his right to appeal his extradition from France.  “I am innocent, I want my innocence recognized as soon as possible,” he said in a statement.  https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53775,00.html   MICHIGAN GOV. SIGNS BILL TO PREVENT TAXPAYER MONEY FROM FUNDING ABORTION https://www.detnews.com/2002/politics/0205/26/politics-498958.htm   DENVER WOMAN ARRESTED FOR SELLING ABORTION PILLS BY MAIL https://www.denverpost.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,36%7E53%7E631882,00.html

ALLIANCE MP KENNEY PRESENTS CASE AGAINST PUBLIC FUNDING OF ELECTIVE ABORTIONS https://www.canada.com/edmonton/news/story.asp?id={F9385E41-0566-490D-B19A-2641679BA2CA}  ENGLAND REPORTS ABORTION STATS Provisional figures have indicated that about 186,200 unborn children were killed under the terms of the British Abortion Act in England and Wales last year. According to the provisional statistics, 6,625 women with addresses in the Irish Republic obtained abortions in England and Wales last year, the highest Irish total ever. (with files from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children www.spuc.org.uk )  https://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/hsq0502.pdf   FRANCE CONSIDERING ALLOWING EMBRYO STEM CELL IMPORTS PRIOR TO 2003 LAW https://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2002/05/24/eline/links/20020524elin032.html   POLL SUGGESTS SWISS WILL VOTE […]

PARIS, May 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Cloned fetuses are almost certain to miscarry, and the few that do come to term are likely to suffer crippling abnormalities, according to the latest experiments on cows and other animals reports the journal Nature Genetics. A University of Connecticut team found that cloned cows had flaws in nine out of 10 genes studied on their X chromosome—one of the two sex chromosomes that determine a mammal's sex. Team member Cindy Tian predicted that once scientists start cloning humans, 99% of cloned embryos “will fail to come to term, and of the one per […]

RIVERSIDE, CA, May 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A federal jury in California found Friday that Riverside County violated the constitutional rights of a nurse who was fired from her job after she refused to dispense the morning after pill.  The U.S. District Court jury found that Riverside County violated the constitutional rights of former nurse Michelle Diaz. The American Center for Law and Justice, which represented Diaz reported that following a four-day trial in federal court, the jury found the county was guilty on all three counts presented: violated her First Amendment rights of free speech; violated her rights of […]

WASHINGTON, May 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The US Justice Department confirmed Friday that it will appeal a court decision barring the department from using its authority over the federal Controlled Substances Act to quash Oregon’s practice of legal physician-assisted suicide.  In his April ruling, U.S. District Judge Robert Jones slammed Attorney General John Ashcroft accusing him of attempting to “stifle an ongoing, earnest and profound debate in the various states concerning physician-assisted suicide.”  Under Ashcroft’s November 6 directive, Oregon doctors who prescribe federally controlled drugs for assisted suicide and Oregon pharmacists who dispense the drugs for assisted suicide could have […]

SANTIAGO, May 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A poll released Saturday in Chile reports that 80% of the population supports legalizing divorce and 57% favour legalized abortion.  The poll, which was conducted by the Latin American College of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Oct. 13-25 among 40,000 people drawn from 29 cities, has a 4.5 percent margin of error. The socialist Chilean government has long planned to legalize divorce.  Despite the fact that abortion is illegal, the government allowed an abortifacient morning after pill to be distributed in the country.  After the Supreme Court ruled against allowing the distribution of the particular pill, […]

OTTAWA, May 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Although pro-life MP Garry Breitkreuz’s motion to have the House Committee study the issue of when a child should be considered a human being failed, the exercise served to demonstrate the success of pro-life action.  With only two weeks left before the motion was to be raised in the House on May 22, Mr. Breitkreuz’s office had only received 130 responses to his public questionnaire. After LifeSite and numerous pro-life organizations sent out urgent reminders to turn in questionnaires, the office was overflowing with responses. By May 22 there some 5,000 had been received […]

OTTAWA, May 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Supreme Court Justice L’Heureux-Dubé will retire from the Supreme Court July 1.  The Supreme Court issued a release on her retirement noting that there will be a ceremony to mark L’Heureux-Dubé‘s departure on June 10.  Pro-life Canadians will also be celebrating, not so much the career but the end of it. Many social conservatives in Canada have noted that Justice L’Heureux-Dubé has been ideological in her judgments, particularly on family issues and homosexuality.  Her personal bias was not concealed.  In October LifeSite reported that she was among the contributors to a pro-homosexual marriage book […]

COCA-COLA, BELLSOUTH TO SPONSOR HOMOSEUXUAL ‘ATLANTA PRIDE’ FESTIVAL   The American Family Association (AFA) says that by providing sponsorship dollars to the Atlanta Pride festival in June, Coca-Cola and Bell South will encourage possibly hundreds of young people to make decisions which will ultimately ruin their lives.  https://www.afa.net/activism/aa052402.asp   VATICAN ACCEPTS RESIGNATION OF LIBERAL US BISHOP Catholic World News reported today that the Vatican has accepted the resignation of notorious Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland, one day after it was revealed that the archbishop had paid $450,000 to settle a sex-abuse lawsuit. The controversial and very liberal archbishop has been one […]

OTTAWA RABBI CALLS ABORTION MURDER Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka writes in the Ottawa Citizen that he is inalterably “opposed to abortion, except when an abortion needs to be performed to save the mother’s life. In any other situation, abortion is nothing less than the murder of a child in utero. This is not a women’s-rights issue: This is a fetal-rights issue.” (Ottawa Citizen Tuesday May 21)  SCIENCE LETS US LIVE LONG AND SUFFER Modern people “may be living longer,” reports the London Times, “but many of us will spend those extra years in the grip of ill-health. Women, who outlive […]

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Encourage Citizens to Have Children   TOKYO, May 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Japan’s Health Minister predicted that “the Japanese race will become extinct” if fertility decline is not reversed. Chikara Sakaguchi told a press conference this week that with the current birthrate, Japan’s population of 127 million could begin to shrink in 2007.  In 2000, the UN said Japan would need 600,000 immigrants a year in order to keep its working population stable. “The clock is ticking” on “Asia’s ageing population,” said the UN report, adding that Japanese elderly can relish “no golden years,” since there […]

Calls Ruling “ambiguous, unjust, ill-considered, prejudiced and destructive of constitutional free speech, free media and democratic liberty”  EDMONTON, May 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Report Newsmagazine editor Link Byfield issued a stinging rebuke to Alberta Human Rights Commissioner Charlach Mackintosh over a bizarre AHRC panel decision in the magazine’s dispute with Harvey Kane, a Calgary man who accused the magazine of anti-Semitism. The charge was previously investigated by the commission and dismissed as groundless in 1999. When Kane appealed, Mackintosh created a panel chaired by Deborah Prowse. On May 1 the panel recommended that Report staff submit to human rights training […]

OTTAWA, May 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – For the second time in the past year, Liberal, NDP and Bloc M.P.‘s refused consent in the House of Commons to accept a motion from Garry Breitkreuz to protect unborn children. A year ago, the Canadian Alliance M.P. tried to convince the House of the need to modify the definition of “human being” in the Criminal Code, which he calls “scientifically incorrect.” This time, he tried to persuade the House that a Standing Committee should at least study the issue.  Speaking in favour were Mr. Breitkreuz, Jason Kenney and Larry Spencer—all with the Canadian […]

TORONTO, May 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Despite receiving numerous calls, letters and emails objecting to their stand in favour of destructive research on human embryos, the Canadian Cancer Society continues to support the human experimentation.  In a form letter response the Cancer Society said, “Human embryonic stem cell research offers great promise in advancing our knowledge of cancer.”  The letter, signed by Julie White, the Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Cancer Society, said that the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research will “ensure that human embryonic stem cell research takes place in a […]

STRAUSBOURG, May 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite News has learned that the European Parliament vote on the document to push abortion on member states was to be held this month but was delayed until June thanks in part to pro-life efforts.  As LifeSite reported yesterday, the document was explicit in its calls to have states which apply for membership accept its pro-abortion stance.  A World Youth Alliance European representative provided information on the background to the document.  On July 12, 2001 Mrs van Lancker, a Belgian MEP, was appointed as rapporteur of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities. […]

Bishops State Acceptance of Homosexual Relations Will Worsen Low Birth Rate Problems.  QUEBEC CITY, May 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – 200 to 300 people, including many young families, voiced their concern at a Quebec City rally on Monday against Bill 84, Quebec’s proposed new law creating same-sex “civil unions” with many of the rights of marriage, including adoption.  The rally in front of Quebec’s National Assembly was organized by the Wisdom Party of Quebec, the Francophone Alliance of Evangelical Protestants, and Campaign Life Quebec.  Speaking at the rally, André Morais, secretary of the Catholic Jurists Association of Quebec called the bill […]

BREAKING NEWS AT AP & FOX TV: CLINICS ACCUSED OF AGREEING TO KEEP SEX ABUSE SECRET   AP: Clinics accused of agreeing to keep sex abuse secret https://www.ctnow.com/news/local/statewire/hc-23012205.apds.m0982.bc-ct—mandmay23.story FOX TV News: Connecticut Abortion Clinics Look The Other Way https://fox61.trb.com/wtic-052202-abortion.story?coll=wtic%2Dhome%2D1   Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) said he will “try to force” the Senate to vote on a bill to ban all forms of human cloning if the much delayed measure is not brought up for debate shortly after the Senate returns from its Memorial Day recess.  https://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/3318363.htm   A national Bankruptcy Reform Bill is stalled in committee. The Democrat-led Senate insists […]

ANGELA BISSONNETTE STILL STRUGGLING On Sunday Angela’s dad, Joe, sent out a request for more prayers for Angela. Joe said “Today we received test results from Sick Kids and her counts have dropped dramatically. Her White Count is down from 2.5 to .9 and her Poly count has gone from .9 to .2. Doctors explained that there is always some drop off in the counts at this point as marrow production is no longer being artificially stimulated, but that Angela’s drop is more significant than usual. At the first sign of fever we are to get her back to the […]

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Calvin McCarter, a 10-year-old reformed Christian fifth grader who is home-schooled, won the National Geographic Bee yesterday, the Washington Times reports. McCarter defeated nine teenaged competitors to win a $25,000 college scholarship he won’t need for years to come. Out of the top ten performers in the contest, hosted by Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek, four are home-schooled.  For Washington Times coverage see:  https://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20020523-16883760.htm

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, May 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Nancy Crick, 69, an advocate of doctor-assisted suicide, killed herself by means of a drug overdose on Wednesday, rather than submit to palliative care to ease the discomfort of her impending death from bowel cancer.  Crick’s Internet publicity diary described her suffering from diarrhea, pain, nausea and weight loss. In April, she tried a week of palliative care in a private Catholic hospital, and “came out saying the pain had been eased,” CNS News reports. However, Crick’s determination to kill herself soon returned, and euthanasia proponents claimed she was racked by pain during […]

CHICAGO, May 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – An attempted murder was foiled by an unborn child last week.  A masked gunman fired shots, striking the woman. However, according to doctors, her 30-week-old unborn child helped block the bullets from striking her vital organs.  The baby, named Ariel, survived the attack despite suffering bullet wounds in her right arm and flank, and was delivered by Caesarean section Sunday.  Jimmy Spencer, 32, is charged with the attempted first-degree murder of Angelique McKinney and her unborn child as well as her 10-year-old nephew, who was wounded in the foot in the shooting.  See the […]

Religion a Major Factor in Avoiding Early Death   AMSTERDAM, May 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Dutch study on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease – shows alarming percentages of patients put to death by or with the assistance of their doctors.  The study published in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine looked at 203 Dutch ALS patients and found 20% died with their doctor’s connivance and among cancer patients it was 10%.  An editorial in the journal by two American psychiatric experts […]

RENNES, France, May 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – James Charles Kopp, the pro-life activist accused of the 1998 shooting of Dr. Barnett Slepian, has reportedly decided to leave France and return to the United States to stand trial, the Hamilton Spectator reports on May 22. “He’s very excited about the prospect of coming home and facing his accusers,” supporter Doris Grady said yesterday from her Pittsburgh home. (Hamilton Spectator, May 22, 2002)  In addition to Slepian’s murder, Kopp has been charged in Canada with the 1994 attempted murder of Ancaster’s Dr. Hugh Short, and is a chief suspect in two other […]

OTTAWA, May 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The National Post’s editorials editor, Jonathan Kay, whose writings suggest that he is a secular liberal, criticized the federal government’s assisted human reproduction legislation yesterday. “It doesn’t matter where you stand,” Kay said, “Ms. McLellan’s proposed legislation is morally incoherent either way.” Kay accords “a 150-cell embryo” the same status as a fingernail, unworthy of protection as human life. However, he also points out that “Canadians have never definitively confronted the messy question of whether abortion is a species of homicide” and that “Canada has no law regulating abortion.” (National Post May 22, 2002)

OTTAWA, May 23, 2002 (lsn.ca) – Jason Kenney made the strongest speech yet against the Chretien Liberals’ legislation which would open the door to experimentation on human embryos. Kenney, who is Canadian Alliance M.P. for Calgary Southeast, said: “A human embryo is a living human being. This is not an assertion of opinion but an incontrovertible, prima facie, scientific fact.” He added, “Even if adult stem cell research did not have the promise of embryonic stem cells”—something scientists have yet to discover—“it would still be unethical to manipulate and destroy human embryos for utilitarian purposes.”  Stockwell Day, the M.P. for […]

BRUSSELS, May 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Commission of Women’s Rights and Equality of Opportunities of the European Parliament has completed a primary debate of a document which recommends the legalization of abortion in the EU and countries which apply for EU membership.  The EU Parliament is to vote on the document in June.  Pravda, the Russian news agency reports that the document declares that this is a matter of “rights regarding sexual and reproductive health” and recommends that “the voluntary interruption of pregnancy should be legal, safe and universally accessible”. The commission is of the opinion that “abortion should […]

DANA RECEIVED DEATH THREATS WHILE RUNNING IN IRISH GENERAL ELECTION Dana Scallon the famous pro-life singer-turned Member of the European Parliament has revealed that she received death threats during her candidacy in the recently completed Irish general election.  The threats seem related to her strong pro-life stand against the abortion referendum.  https://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=757881&issue_id=7446   BREAST-FEEDING CUTS INFANT DEATH RISK, SWEDISH STUDY FINDS Mothers wanting to cut the risk of cot death should breast-feed their babies, Swedish researchers say today. Findings suggest babies breast-fed for four months or more were less likely to die from sudden infant death syndrome.  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/22/wfeed22.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/05/22/ixworld.html https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1999000/1999991.stm   […]

Departure Hailed as Pro-Life Victory   DORCHESTER, May 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Howard Brown, the Director of Counseling Services at Catholic Charities in Dorchester, a facility that counsels pregnant women has left his position with Catholic Charities.  The report of Brown’s departure comes only months after pro-lifers found out about Brown’s voluntary job as an escort at an abortuary through a report in Massachusetts News.  The Chairman of the Board for Mass. Citizens for Life, Thomas M. Harvey, commented to Massachusetts News on Brown’s leaving saying, “Defenders of the unborn should be gladdened by the news that pro-abortion zealot Howard […]

TORONTO, May 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Viacom, a Canadian advertising company, has said that it did not put up the billboard ads by the pro-abortion group Catholics For a Free Choice (CFFC).  An employee at Viacom informed the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) last Thursday that the company had put up such a sign, however the employee was in error.  In a message to the many pro-lifers who wrote to Viacom to express their concerns, Nick Arakgi, General Manager of Viacom Outdoor wrote: “Viacom Outdoor Canada did not display the advertising billboards … These boards were displayed by Pattison Outdoor […]

Other Tenants in Building Probably Not Notified   VANCOUVER, May 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-lifers in Vancouver have revealed the secret location of the new premises of Everywoman’s Health Centre.  Located at #210, 2525 Commercial Drive, the abortuary is expected to open next week.  John Hof, President of Campaign Life Coalition BC, questioned the motive for the move suggesting it may be the result of successful pro-life efforts.  “Did the presence of pro-lifers, who talked scores of women out of having their abortion, cause a serious dent into the “business” of Everywoman’s, thus necessitating their move?,” asked Hof.  Mr. Hof […]

OTTAWA, May 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Parliament debated the government’s long-awaited legislation on “assisted human reproduction” (read stem cells and cloning) yesterday. Pro-life MPs across party lines criticized the bill’s allowance of research on embryonic stem cells, even though the most promising results to date have come from adult stem cells.  Health Minister Anne McLellan called her bill “balanced and ethical,” befitting “a thoughtful, caring and principled society.” But opposition Canadian Alliance MPs Rob Merrifield, Diane Ablonczy and Werner Schmidt, along with Liberals Paul Szabo and Clifford Lincoln, faulted the bill for winking at experimentation on human embryos. The NDP […]

CALIFORNIA SENATE APPROVES BILL ALLOWING SOME NURSES TO PRESCRIBE RU-486   https://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/3284713.htm   COLLEGES RECRUITING HOMOSEXUAL STUDENTS A growing number of American colleges are actively recruiting homosexual students in a deliberate attempt to socially engineer “diverse freshman classes,” the Boston Globe reports.  https://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/141/metro/College_recruiters_look_to_gays+.shtml   CHURCH STOPPED HOMOSEXUAL PRIEST’S ABUSE ONLY AFTER PUBLIC PROSECUTION The post-Vatican II breakdown of doctrine and discipline in the Roman Catholic Church continues to scandalize believers and non-believers alike. In one case, only public prosecution stopped a homosexual priest from preying on further victims, says an extensive Washington Post article.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47940-2002May20.html   17 US CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES […]

CANADA MOVING FROM ‘NON’-RELIGIOUS TO ‘ANTI’-RELIGIOUS Ted Byfield writes in his weekly Edmonton Sun column that Canada “is not becoming a non-religious country but an anti-religious one, a very different phenomenon.”  https://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/byfield.html   CHINA DOCTORS USING OVA FROM ABORTED BABIES TO TREAT MENOPAUSE SYNDROME https://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200205/19/eng20020519_96019.shtml   CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP USES HUMOUR TO POINT OUT UNNATURAL NATURE OF HOMOESXUALITY Australia’s Catholic Archbishop George Pell refused communion to gay activists yesterday, explaining “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve and important consequences follow from this.”  https://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&story_id=150010&subclass=national

MONTREAL, May 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Canadian scientists are developing a drug to enhance women’s sexual desire, the BBC reports. Similar to Viagra – the drug that artificially stimulates and prolongs male sexual arousal—such a technology for women would strike yet another blow at modern humanity’s understanding of the meaning and context of sex.  The new drug, PT141, is being developed by researchers at Concordia University in Montreal and by Palatin Technologies. So far, PT141 seems to drive female rats to actively seek out males for copulation. Jim Pfaus, professor of psychology at Concordia, says if it works for human […]

VANCOUVER, May 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Media, government and hospital officials in B.C. have worked themselves into a lather over “revelations” that a private company that provides janitors for a women’s clinic is co-owned by an actively pro-life woman.  The Vancouver Province described administrators as “red-faced” when they admitted being unaware that A & A Service Company, which won the contract to clean part of the B.C. Women’s and Children’s Hospital, which performs abortions, is co-owned by Cecilia von Dehn and her husband Ulf. An intrepid Province reporter found von Dehn “has regularly protested outside abortion clinics.”  The reaction of […]

WASHINGTON D.C., May 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Crossroads, a youth pro-life wing of American Life League which walks across the US to herald the pro-life message, was stopped from crossing the Golden Gate bridge in San Fransico. Crossroads kicked off its annual pilgrimage Monday. Each summer, pro-life college students walk across the country, pray at abortion facilities, speak at churches and host town hall meetings to educate the public about abortion.  Leaving from San Francisco and heading to Toronto, the walkers approached the Golden Gate bridge.  As the walkers were crossing the bridge, bridge patrol officers stopped them.  According to […]

TORONTO, May 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pattison Outdoor Advertising Company, a Canadian ad company which had rented billboard space to the pro-abortion group Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), has said it has removed the offensive CFFC ad and will not renew the contract.  After the signs went up around Toronto, the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) called on Catholics to write Pattison and other companies which had put up the CFFC sign.  The billboards read:  “Because the bishops ban condoms, innocent people die,”“Catholic people care. Do our bishops?” To see a copy of this ad, go to https://www.condoms4life.org/images/protonov21b.jpg   […]

WELFARE REFORMS GIVE MORE MONEY TO PROMOTE MARRIAGE AND ABSTINENCE   A divided House of Representatives approved welfare legislation Thursday that includes up to $300 million per year of funding for strategies that promote marriage and extends a $50 million sexual abstinence program. The bill now goes to the Senate where it will probably be watered down unless the Republicans are willing to agree to Democrat concessions. The Democrats are looking for more money for child care, education and training.  https://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAAIE43B1D.html   EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH EXPECTED TO PROCEED IN EUROPE The European pro-family group Euro-Fam reported yesterday that on […]

ALMOST HALF OF CANADIANS BELIEVE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT IS CORRUPT   “Forty-five per cent of Canadians believe the Chrétien government is corrupt, according to a new poll by Pollara Inc., the Liberal party’s own pollster,” reports the National Post today. “Of those 45%, the national polling firm found, 65% believe the corruption runs ‘right through’ the entire government while 30% believe it is ‘just around the edges’.”  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020517/256348.html   FLYLADY.NET MEETS HUGE DEMAND FOR ORDER IN MODERN HOMES A relatively new website called flylady.net is causing a revolution of order in North American homes. The description of the site says “FlyLady […]

LONDON, May 17, 2002 (lsn.ca) – British Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith faced his first caucus revolt on Thursday as several Tory MPs refused to oppose the Labour government’s adoption legislation that will allow homosexual and unmarried couples to adopt children. Mr. Duncan Smith, who is leader of the opposition, tried to impose the strictest form of party discipline, arguing that the party must protect “vulnerable” children who could be adopted into “unstable” domestic situations. The law passed the House of Commons by 288 votes to 133, but is expected to receive strong opposition in the House of Lords.  […]

OTTAWA, May 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The general population in Canada does not seem to be as zealous as it once was about advancing homosexual rights. A 1990 survey found that 81% of Canadians supported the statement: “homosexuals are entitled to the same rights as other Canadians.” A 2000 opinion poll saw that figure drop to 70%. The figures were release by University of Lethbridge sociologist and author Dr. Reg Bibby.  In an interview with The Ottawa Citizen, he suggested that in the wake of significant pro-homosexual legal and social reforms over the past decade, “there is some trepidation in […]

ANTWERP, BELGIUM, May 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-lifers will probably not be surprised to learn that a radical group of people who showed particular disrespect for Americans at the recent UN child summit had ulterior motives. Ipas distributes a portable abortion device called a manual vacuum aspirator, reports the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute today. The “website also directs potential buyers to a catalogue published by UNICEF that also sells MVAs,” C-Fam notes. (UNICEF claims that it does not support or promote abortion.) Outside of a very distorted definition of health, it would be hard to argue that Ipas’s […]

BELGIUM, May 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Belgium partially legalized euthanasia yesterday, becoming the second country in the world after the Netherlands to sanction murder in specific circumstances under the guise of “mercy killings.” The bill, passed 86 to 51 with 10 abstentions, is expected to come into force in three months. The law allows a doctor to kill his patient if the person is terminally ill and suffering “constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain” from an accident or incurable illness, and if that patient requests death. The doctor must also be satisfied that the patient is “of age and […]

OTTAWA, May 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance M.P. Garry Breitkreuz has been told by Health Canada that the department has no statistics on whether abortions are medically necessary or medically risky. On 23 April 2002, Breitkreuz submitted an Access to Information request asking for: “Copies of documents, reports and correspondence in the department with respect to the total death risk by women having an elective abortion compared to women carrying their baby to term.” Health Canada’s reply, dated May 9, 2002, says the department could find “no records relevant to your request.”  Breitkreuz got an identical response to his […]

CALIFORNIA, May 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A federal appeals court ruled against activists who had produced Wild-West Wild West-style posters and a Web site condemning abortionists. They decided that this tactic amounted to illegal threats, not free speech. The same court came to the opposite decision last year, and this time around the court was sharply divided, issuing a 6-5 decision. At the same time, the federal court ordered a lower-court judge to reduce the $108.5 million in punitive damages awarded by a Portland, Ore., jury.  The case came to court when four doctors, claiming they feared for their lives, […]

LifeSite Special Report   TORONTO, May 16, 2002 (lsn.ca) – In the recent leadership race, say Ontario Progressive Conservatives, the party faced a clear choice between (a.) adopting moderate positions that would shift the party towards the political centre, and (b.) adhering to the proven election-winning formula of staking out bold positions on the right.  Former deputy premier Jim Flaherty was slow at first to take strong conservative stances, particularly on life issues, notes Jim Hughes,  president of Campaign Life Coalition. But the Flaherty campaign eventually did so with increasing strategic acumen during the race, climbing from 6% support in […]

NEW YORK SENATE PASSES BILL TO RECOGNIZE FETAL HOMICIDE The New York Senate yesterday passed a bill that will recognize an unborn child as a victim of assault or homicide. If it eventually becomes law, New York will join 26 other states that have similar legislation. The U.S. House of Representatives passed similar legislation in April 2001, noted Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Brunswick) in defence of the legislation.  https://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/substory.asp?storyKey=82926&BCCode=A&newsdate=5/16/2002 https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/nyregion/16FETU.html   CLONING COMPANY BEING AUDITED OVER FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES American cloning company Advanced Cell Technology, which generated a stir some months ago with claims of having cloned a human being, […]

PARLIAMENT BEGINS TO RECEIVE DEFINITION OF HUMAN LIFE PETITIONS Last Thursday Canadian Alliance MP Maurice Vellacott (Saskatoon-Wanuskewin) introduced a 1,255-name petition in Parliament that called on the government to legislate the definition of human life as beginning at conception. “The petitioners are asking the government to bring in legislation defining a human fetus or embryo from the moment of conception, whether in the womb of the mother or not, and whether conceived naturally or otherwise, as a human being and making any and all consequential amendments to all Canadian laws as required,” Mr. Vellacott told his colleagues. If you have […]

Americans Following Canada’s Lead   WASHINGTON, May 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Liberal churchmen have joined far-left Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy in his campaign to pass a new hate crime bill. Gordon Smith, a Republican Senator from Oregon is also pushing the proposed legislation. The religious coalition includes Christian, Jewish, Islamic and Sikh clergy. This latest initiative, the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act, would allow federal law enforcement officials to intervene in local criminal investigations if “bias” on the basis of certain designated categories is believed to have been a motivating factor for the crime. Those categories are gender, disability, religion, […]

ANTWERP, BELGIUM, May 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The battle to find effective remedies for HIV/AIDS other than responsible, chaste behaviour continue to frustrate researchers and activists. Some progress is being made, but interested parties are frustrated at the overall pace of research and amount of available money. About 650 people attended a Microbicides 2002 conference in Belgium this week. According to Wired News, “they heard good news about several gels, creams and other microbicide products that many researchers believe could significantly enhance AIDS-prevention efforts.” UNAIDS director Peter Piot said, “there are more serious products and more advances … but frankly […]

VATICAN, May 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – During his regular public audience yesterday – a day that had been proclaimed by the United Nations in 1994 as the World Day of the Family – Pope John Paul II issued an appeal for government leaders to recognize the importance of protecting family life. The pope asked that “institutions recognize fully the values of the family with politics oriented to promote its high function.”“What the conscience affirms each time more is that the future of humanity and the Church passes through the family,” he concluded.  Zenit, May 15, 2002 https://www.zenit.org/

WASHINGTON, May 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) –  The House Appropriations Committee reversed a decision last week that would have forced President George Bush to hand over $34 million to UNFPA despite concerns over the international agency’s involvement in forced abortion and involuntary sterilization in China. In a 32-30 vote, the Appropriations panel approved a provision by Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kansas), giving President Bush until July 31 to decide whether to spend any of the money.  see https://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/136/nation/House_panel_OK_s_giving_Bush_latitude_on_family_planning_funds+.shtml

WASHINGTON, May 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – “The [U.S.] Senate has delayed until June its debate on whether to ban all cloning or allow the research exception. Aides estimate about 18 senators remain undecided. The House passed a bill banning all cloning last year,” Associated Press reports today. The House Government Reform subcommittee was looking at the issue yesterday. They heard from Rep. Dave Weldon (R-Florida) who said “this is no time for half measures. We must pass an effective ban. … It will be nearly impossible to prevent attempts at reproductive cloning once cloned human embryos are available in laboratories […]

OTTAWA, May 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Supreme Court decided Tuesday not to reopen the Robert Latimer case after considering the legitimacy of applying the prerogative of mercy to reduce his sentence. The high court said Mr. Latimer must serve the minimum, mandatory sentence for second-degree murder, life with no full parole for 10 years. He can apply for day parole in six years.  See https://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSLaw0205/14_latimer-cp.html TEN YEARS MINIMUM https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/feb/010220a.html

FDA ISSUES WARNING LETTER OVER CONTRACEPTIVE AND ABORTION DRUG The contraceptive Novo Misoprostol, and Cytotec, an ulcer drug also used as part of an abortion regimen, were two of three drugs named in a warning letter that the FDA sent to Pharmacia about contamination during manufacturing. The letter was made public yesterday.  https://money.cnn.com/2002/05/14/news/companies/pharmacia.reut/index.htm   WILL US PRO-LIFERS BE PROTECTED IN BANKRUPTCY LAW The fight over whether abortion opponents can use bankruptcy laws to avoid fines for protesting at clinics will kill a House-Senate bankruptcy deal if it is not resolved in the next two weeks, a Democratic negotiator says.  https://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-congress-bankruptcy0515may15.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dpolitics%2Dheadlines […]

CMA HAS PROBLEMS WITH REPROTECHNOLOGY BILL The Canadian Medical Association thinks that the government’s new reproductive technologies bill is too restrictive in its treatment of “activities associated with assisted human reproduction.”  https://www.cma.ca/cma/menu/displayMenu.do?tab=422&skin=432&pMenuId=4&pageId=/staticContent/HTML/N0/l2/advocacy/news/2002/05-09.htm   NEW ZEALAND SPERM DONORS WITHHOLD CONSENT FROM LESBIANS The phenomenon of lesbian parenthood seems much further advanced in New Zealand than in Canada. A report Sunday reveals concern among that country’s lesbians and reproductive technology professionals over a shortage of sperm donations for same-sex couples. Donors must give their consent for their sperm to be given to a lesbian partnership and one woman said that nine out […]

Successful Christian Democrats Opposed Liberalization of Euthanasia but Have Been Weak   Dutch voters have elected what is described as a “centre-right” coalition, in an upset defeat for Wim Kok’s socialists. The BBC reports heavy turnout, with many voters galvanised by gay eccentric populist Pim Fortuyn’s assassination. Although Fortuyn’s policies were largely in keeping with the left-liberal Dutch consensus, he was shot by an extreme-left vegan animal rights activist.  Led by Jan Peter Balkenende, who is expected to become prime minister, the opposition Christian Democrats appear to have won the largest number of seats – 40 or 41 in the […]

Scandals Issue Builds – Catholics Increasingly Angry With US Church Leadership   The issue of sexual abuse and homosexual scandals within the US Roman Catholic church continues to build with increasing numbers of Catholics expressing dismay and anger over the dreadful lack of action by many bishops who had previous knowledge of the scandals. The May 20 issue of Newsweek reports that half the men training for the Roman Catholic priesthood in the U.S. are homosexuals whose presence is tolerated because most are chaste. The magazine predicts that this may end with the Vatican’s widely-reported determination to crack down on […]

Site edited by author of Goodbye Good Men  A pro-Catholic web site called cruxnews.com is being launched to gather together articles and information on the US church crisis. The site is edited by Michael Rose, author of the recently released Goodbye Good Men, which exposes the extraordinary corruption that has existed in US seminaries since the 60’s. LifeSite has learned that some priest informants for the book are experiencing intense hostility from their bishops. The book is favorably reviewed by prominent faithful Catholics such as Rev. Richard John Neuhaus and Alice von Hildebrand. See cruxnews.com https://www.cruxnews.com

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A constitutional amendment which declares that marriage “shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman” is being introduced in Congress today, according to Alliance for Marriage, the organization that drafted the initiative. “A half-dozen members of the House three Democrats, three Republicans are co-sponsoring the amendment,” Matthew Daniels, executive director of Alliance for Marriage, told Newsmax.com. To become law, the amendment would have to win a two-thirds majority in the House and the Senate and then be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures.  Despite this high threshold, Alliance for Marriage […]

Fictional Program Does not Reflect any Realities of British Pro-Lifers   ENGLAND, May 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The BBC has launched a new spy-thriller series called Spooks. As reported in the Daily Telegraph, the villains in the first episode were not terrorists like Al-Qa’eda or the IRA, but the pro-life movement. The name of the abortionist-killing group is Unborn Alliance, “an amalgam of two real organisations: the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (Spuc), which campaigns against abortion, and the ProLife Alliance, which put up scores of candidates at the last general election,” reported the British paper.  “Spooks […]

OHIO, May 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – CRACK (Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity) is in the news again, this time in Chicago, for its practice of paying women to accept birth control. The private agency operates in Chicago and 23 other cities and pays women to have tubal-ligation sterilizations or to use long-term birth control such as intrauterine devices, Norplant, Depo-Provera and Lunelle. The group targets women who are substance abusers with the goal of reducing the number of children born with health and developmental problems.  One of the women who has accepted CRACK’s money in exchange for birth control, and […]

Insurance for Obstetricians also Dangerously high in Canada   LAS VEGAS, May 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – One area being affected by America’s litigation boom is health care, and the cost of malpractice insurance for doctors, especially obstetricians. One of the “high risk” operations that is being abandoned by doctors across the country due to the cost of insurance is the delivery of children. In California, due to state legislation, this trend is also impacting the availability of midwives.  “In Las Vegas, a doctor who delivers fewer than 125 babies a year would pay between $40,000 to $80,000 in insurance,” reported […]

LOUISIANIA ABORTIONISTS FEAR LAWSUITS Abortion providers in Louisiana are battling against the risk of lawsuits following a ruling Friday by the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeals. The case involves a 1997 law which makes abortionists liable for up to ten years for harm caused to a women as a result of an abortion. The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, representing the abortionists, says the law “could make abortion services unattainable for women in Louisiana” raising questions about the authenticity of abortionist claims that abortion procedures are safe.  MOTHER SUES AFTER BEING BANNED FROM SCHOOL HOMOSEXUAL ASSEMBLY The St. […]

WHAT IS THE MIDDLE GROUND ON STEM CELL RESEARCH?  National Post columnist Andrew Coyne disputes the Liberal government’s claim that they have found the middle ground between the competing views on stem cell research.  https://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists/story.html?f=/stories/20020513/207781.html   ARCHBISHOP OPPOSES PUSH TO LEGALIZE ABORTION IN KENYA The push to decriminalize abortion resurfaced in Kenya last week and Kenya’s Catholic Archbishop Ndingi Mwana a’Nzeki responded by urging the country’s politicians not to legalise abortion, adding that if abortion is decriminalized, euthanasia will follow.  https://allafrica.com/stories/200205130373.html   LIBERAL MP CONDEMNS GOVERNMENT FOR STALLING ON DIVORCE ACT REFORMS Liberal backbencher Roger Gallaway has again publicly condemned […]

Arguments of ACLU and Coalition of Porn Web Sites Upheld   WASHINGTON, May 14, 2002 (lsn.ca) — The latest attempt by Congress to protect children from Internet pornography barely survived its first Supreme Court test yesterday, in what may be a prelude to ruling the law unconstitutional, the New York Times reports. The effect was to uphold a Federal District Court order that has hamstrung the Child Online Protection Act since February 1999. The law,  passed by Congress in 1998, would impose prison sentences and fines of up to $100,000 for posting material “harmful to minors.” The federal appeals court […]

MONT-TREMBLANT, Que., May 14, 2002 (lsn.ca) — The top eight industrialized countries agreed on Sunday to create an international criminal databank to track child pornography. The databank would be a massive information system, accessible to police forces, to track both victims and perpetrators, the Toronto Star reports. It would contain both victims and perpetrators, with images for identification purposes. Technical details have yet to be worked out, such as how privacy would be protected, how the databank would conform to national laws, whether it would provide direct links to criminal files or merely contact information, and whether it would include […]

OHIO, May 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Practicing homosexual “Catholics” are running scared in the wake of the extended media coverage of the American priest sexual abuse scandal and the high profile coverage it is providing the deviancy of pedophilia in homosexual circles. It is not a fear of violence, according to an article in Ohio’s Beacon Journal, but the fear of stigmatization due to recent statements by Catholic leaders re-affirming Catholic opposition to homosexuality and homosexual ordination.  Engaging in historical theological revisionism, Marianne Duddy, executive director of the homosexual group Dignity USA that claims to be Catholic, said, “gay priests […]

BELGIUM, May 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a significant setback in the battle against HIV/AIDS, the controversial spermicide nonoxynol-9 has been found to be ineffective. According to Wired News today: “The first-ever meta-analysis of studies on the protective benefits of nonoxynol-9 against HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases found that the spermicide offered no significant protection against any such infections, said David Wilkinson, a professor of rural health at the University of South Australia in Adelaide who conducted the analysis.”  Condom manufacturers say nonoxynol-9 is contained in 45% of condoms sold commercially. It supposedly makes them more effective, but not […]

EUROPE, May 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The influential European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), is urging researchers and legislators to take a “cautious approach” towards cloning human embryos for research purposes, but they have not recommended a complete ban on embryonic stem cell experimentation. EGE officially advises the European Union on ethical questions. EGE panel member Peter Whittaker indicated that there is a broad consensus that reproductive cloning should be illegal but said there is less consensus on therapeutic cloning. He acknowledged that therapeutic cloning was still controversial, not simply from an ethical perspective, but also […]

OTTAWA, May 14, 2002 (lsn.ca) – If the Liberal Party’s “raison d’etre is winning elections,” as Adam Radwanski writes in Pundit Magazine, then the party received a blow with two unexpected defeats in Monday’s by-elections. Those hoping for Mr. Chretien’s exit from politics may be encouraged, as momentum appears to have shifted to opposition parties. In Windsor West, Ont., where former deputy leader Herb Gray polled over 54 per cent in the 2000 election, Liberal Richard Pollock lost with 35 per cent of the vote to NDP Brian Masse’s 42 per cent. “They’ve received a very harsh judgment tonight,” opined […]

IN NARROW VOTE HOUSE COMMITTEE VOTES TO RELEASE $34 MILLION UNFPA FUNDS The Washington Post reports that the US House Appropriations Committee voted Friday to release $34 million in international family planning funds that the administration has withheld this year. The 32 to 31 vote in committee, which came during consideration of an emergency spending bill, instructs the administration to give the money to the United Nations Population Fund no later than July 10 unless the United States finds the international agency in violation of U.S. laws.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3879-2002May10.html   WHITE HOUSE TEAM LEAVES FOR CHINA TO INVESTIGATE UNFPA’S CONTRIBUTION TO […]

ANGELA BISSONNETTE APPEARS TO BE ON THE MEND 7 year old Angela Bissonnette’s bone marrow transplant is engrafting and her white cell and poly counts are rising. Angela’s father Joe reported that they had quite a scare last week when Angela had what is now understood to have been an adverse reaction to a blood transfusion. Joe says Angela is doing exceptionally well now.  A nurse who’s been caring for her said that in three years on the ward she’s never seen a child rebound so well.  Today Angela was moved to “step down” and for the first time in […]

BEIJING, May 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The birth ratio of males to females in China continues to rise dramatically, according to the People’s Republic’s latest census. The Guardian reports on May 13, “increasing numbers of female foetuses are being aborted by parents intent on having a male child.”  Over 116 male births were recorded in 2000 for every 100 females, compared to a natural ratio of 106 males per 100 females.  Officials fear that the “continued upward trend” and resulting imbalance will “damage social and economic stability” in the future, and encourage the trade in kidnapped women.  The preference for […]

NEW YORK, May 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – UNICEF-funded manuals advising children about sexual activities with other minors, homosexuals and animals is being distributed at the United Nations Child Summit.  The Washington Times reports that pro-life lobbyists handed out copies of the Spanish-language books, originally targeted at Latin American teens, in an effort to persuade Latin American delegates to support a U.S. proposal to remove ambiguous language that has been used by UN agencies in the past to promote abortion.  One manual exposes the pro-choice agenda by explicitly revealing that: “Reproductive health includes the following components: Counseling on sexuality, pregnancy, methods […]

LUTON, ENGLAND, May 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Euthanasia proponent Diane Pretty, 43, died naturally and painlessly on Saturday, May 11 in a hospice near her home with her husband at her side. She died after slipping into a coma related to complications from motor neuron disease, the degenerative nervous system disorder that, since she contracted it in 1999, had paralysed her from the neck down.  Last fall, Mrs. Pretty and her husband Brian launched a court challenge to win him the right to help her commit suicide without risk of prosecution, reports CNS News. (Suicide is legal in Britain but […]

WASHINGTON, May 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – James Kopp, the pro-life activist charged with the 1998 murder of Buffalo abortionist Barnett Slepian, claims that he did not flee the United States because he was guilty, but because he feared that he might be killed, as he believes happened to Canadian pro-lifer Maurice Lewis, who died in September, 1997 under mysterious circumstances.  In a letter written to friends while he was in prison in France in 2001, Kopp claimed that he was innocent in the Slepian killing.  In response to questions as to why he fled, he wrote “The answer is a […]

OTTAWA, May 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Organizers estimate that 2,300 people participated in this year’s March for Life on Parliament Hill.  Pro-lifers from across Canada rallied to this year’s theme, “Let them live.” The march was given extra timeliness due to the previous day’s introduction of Bill C-56, the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, which allows for the destruction of living human embryos for research purposes.  Campaign Life National President Jim Hughes told the crowd, “We must let them know there is no such thing as a spare embryo. We must also let them know that if they vote for this […]

Fanatical pro-abortion Canadian Delegation Walked out Because of US Pro-Life Stand UNITED NATIONS, May 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A LifeSite correspondent at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children reports that the final outcome document of the session does not contain references to “reproductive health services” – language which a former Canadian delegation to the UN revealed includes abortion.  The Special Session which ended Friday after heated round-the-clock negotiations saw Canada and the European Union, along with a few Latin American countries, battling for language to promote abortion, homosexuality and graphic sex education for children.  However, the courageous […]

Coren says Canadian “pluralism has died at the hands of intolerant people”  TORONTO, May 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an interim ruling Friday, Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert MacKinnon ruled that a Catholic School and the Catholic school board could not forbid a 17-year-old male student from bringing his homosexual ‘boyfriend’ to the school prom.  The prom was held Friday night and the injunction ruling was expedited so as to allow Marc and his “boyfriend” to attend the prom. The date of the ruling did not afford the school the opportunity to appeal the ruling prior to the prom.  The […]

ANOTHER SO-CALLED ‘PRO-LIFE’ SENATOR – THURMOND – BACKS HUMAN CLONING FOR RESEARCH https://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/05/03/thurmond.cloning/index.html   VENTURA PROMISES NOT TO SEEK ANOTHER POLITICAL OFFICE AFTER GOV. TERM https://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=VENTURA-05-08-02&cat=AN   PRO-LIFERS SUGGEST ‘WHITE SUPREMACY’ UNDERGIRDS MUCH OF ABORTION INDUSTRY Looking at the targeting of African-American communities with abortion clinics, researchers suggest abortionists are following in the footsteps of their forbear, Margaret Sanger.  https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/5/82002e.asp   PLANNED PARENTHOOD OFFERS ‘MOTHER’S DAY’ CARDS   “Planned Parenthood has done more to deprive children of their mothers than perhaps any other organization on earth, thus making its very existence an affront to what Mother’s Day represents,” comments American […]

11 PARLIAMENTARIANS ATTEND MARCH FOR LIFE PRESS CONFERENCE   In attendance were: Liberal MPs Paul Steckle and Tom Wappell, Canadian Alliance MPs Maurice Vellacott, Jason Kenney, Myron Thompson, Grant Hill, Monte Solberg, David Anderson, and Tory MP Elsie Wayne.  CLONING DOC CLAIMS COLLEAGUE MADE FALSE CLAIM ABOUT CLONED PREGNANCIES Panos Zavos, one of the scientists claiming to be involved in a project to clone human beings has said that his former partner, Severino Antinori – an Italian fertility specialist – is lying about claims to have three clonal pregnancies underway.  https://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,52385,00.html?tw=wn_ascii

WINNIPEG, May 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A newspaper columnist accused of defaming Prof. Henry Makow, a former English professor at the University of Manitoba and inventor of the game Scruples, testified on Tuesday that she used only one source for an article that gave the impression Makow was a wife beater who frightened his students.  Lyn Cockburn, a far-left Winnipeg Sun writer, claims her goal was to expose unprofessional and sexually inappropriate conduct. However, The Sun is using Prof. Makow’s opinions on homosexuality (which he is against) and the role of women in the home (which he supports) as evidence […]

EDINBURGH, May 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Scotsman newspaper reports that city registrars in Scotland will soon recognize and publicly register homosexual marriages.  In a related move, Robin Harper, a Green Party MSP (Member of the Scottish Parliament), backed by nearly 20 other MSPs, will demand that the Scottish Executive set up a national register of civic partnership which will allow homosexuals and unmarried couples the same protection under the law as those contracting legal marriages.  The Catholic Church in Scotland condemned partnership ceremonies as “damaging” to the institution of marriage. “These ceremonies would appear to be an attempt to […]

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND, May 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – New Zealand scientists are applying to a national ethics body for permission to experiment with, and in the process destroy, human embryos in a quest to improve artificial fertility treatments, CNSNews.com reports. Peter Benny, medical director of the Fertility Centre in Christchurch Women's Hospital, wants to learn how genes behave during egg maturation, fertilization and embryo growth. He wants to identify which embryos are most likely to lead to a successful pregnancy after artificial insemination. Benny says researchers want approval to move on from non-viable embryos – those that have too few […]

OTTAWA, May 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF), founded by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Knights of Columbus to promote respect for human life and dignity and the essential role of the family, has issued a statement on the March for Life.  “May each and every person marching in the National March for Life under this year’s theme, ‘Let Them Live,’ reaffirm his or her personal commitment to give even the tiniest and earliest life the chance it needs and deserves!” says the letter.  Then reminding pro-lifers that they must put […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite has obtained a document released by the Canadian delegation at the United Nations Special Session on Children which is currently underway at the organization’s New York headquarters.  The document entitled “Child Rights and the Family” is printed on “The Senate of Canada” letterhead and attributed to Senator Landon Pearson.  The document also notes that Pearson is the “Personal Representative of the Prime Minister to the UN Special Session on Children” and the “Advisor on Children’s Rights to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.”  The document aims its criticisms specifically at “‘pro-family’, ‘pro-life’, or […]

OTTAWA, May 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Health Minister Anne McLellan introduced the federal government's long awaited bill on Assisted Human Reproduction today, a bill which allows for human embryos to be destroyed, saying that her bill “represents the values of the vast majority of Canadians.” Pro-life organizations, opposition critics and Liberal backbenchers, all expressed grave concerns that the bill could pave the way for destructive research on human embryos and other possible abuses, such as mixture of animal and human genetic material and commercial surrogacy. The legislation brings in new regulations on such practices as in vitro fertilization, and prohibits […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family addressed the United Nations Special Session on Children today using some of the strongest language the Holy See has ever used at the UN to condemn anti-life and anti-family measures. Today’s LifeSite Special Report reproduces the text of the Cardinal’s speech in full however a couple of excerpts are in order to demonstrate the exceptional character of the statement.  Despite the fact that diplomatic language has historically been employed at the international body in effect blunting criticisms, the Cardinal did not […]

LONDON, May 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Tony Blair, the Labour Party prime minister of Great Britain, is supporting a bill to allow unmarried couples, including same-sex partners, to have joint custody over adopted children. Co-habiting homosexuals and non-married heterosexuals can already adopt in Britain.  The Associated Press reports that Alan Milburn, the Health Secretary, said the government would support amending the Adoption and Children Bill now before Parliament as necessary to bring about joint custody rights, on which it will allow a free vote. “The government’s objective is to increase the number of children to have the opportunity, through adoption, […]

NEW YORK, May 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Planned Parenthood Federation of America performed 79.3 abortions for every referral it made for adoption in 2000, according to its latest fact sheet.  Over 98 percent of women who sought Planned Parenthood counsel opted for abortion, PPFA says, leading to 197,070 abortions. However, adoption referrals declined for the fourth consecutive year, from 9,200 in 1997 to 2,486 in 2000.  Founded by Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) to promote contraception, the organization’s abortion network now yields revenues estimated in the tens of millions of dollars.  A CNSNews.com staffer contacted a PPFA clinic and was told that […]

ALBUQUERQUE, May 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A U.S. company claims it has pioneered a new haptic (tactile) computer technology that enables parents to “touch” the features of their unborn child during ultrasound, according to a May 7 press release from Manhattan Scientifics Inc.  Hailing “the Ultimate Mother’s Day Gift,” the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based company says “e-Touch”(TM), a 3-D system developed by affiliate Novint Technologies Inc., gives parents “unprecedented interaction with their unborn child by providing the ability to touch the child’s virtual image.” The procedure, for which they will charge $250 per exam, is to be unveiled at New Mexico […]

EDMONTON, May 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Alberta government has introduced two bills that would give same-sex partners, and other adults living in “interdependent” relationships, such as siblings living together, many of the same legal rights as married couples.  However, in a meager attempt to placate conservatives, Alberta Premier Ralph Klein said that he would be willing to invoke the notwithstanding clause to protect the definition of marriage as heterosexual.  Bill 29, tabled in response to an Alberta court decision declaring Alberta’s inheritance laws unconstitutional, grants same-sex partners the same inheritance rights as married persons have when their spouse dies […]

OSHAWA, May 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – At a court hearing on Tuesday, Ontario Superior Court Judge Robert Mackinnon joked about Durham District Catholic School Board lawyer Peter Lauwers’ explanation of the board’s policy on homosexual students attending school events. When Lauwers explained that students with a homosexual orientation could attend school events such as dances as single individuals, but could not “manifest romance”, MacKinnon asked if this meant that gay students could not dance together.  When Lauwers said it did, MacKinnon said, to laughter from the court, “So I’m having a good time, but I can’t dance.” MacKinnon, perhaps realizing […]

OTTAWA, May 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus is holding a press conference on May 9 in conjunction with the 4th annual March for Life, which takes place in Ottawa the following day. By participating in this annual event, Members of Parliament are showing their solidarity with Canadians who are concerned about the sanctity of life from conception to natural death.  “Every MP needs to take a stand for the protection of the unborn. We only have to stop and think for a moment that each and every one of us was an unborn child in the womb […]

UN Special Session on Children Begins   UNITED NATIONS, May 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Special Session on Children of the General Assembly of the United Nations opened today.  In Rome, Pope John Paul noted the importance of the meeting asking “everyone to pray for a positive result” in that all social activity involving children “may be inspired by an authentic promotion of the human family and by a full respect for their fundamental rights.” Addressing an interfaith meeting on the special session yesterday, Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, pointed out while various […]

RELIGIOUS LEADERS FROM LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE TRADITIONS UNITE AGAINST CLONING Church leaders from the full spectrum of American church traditions including Roman Catholic, Baptist, Charismatic, Congregationalist, Episcopal, Evangelical, Lutheran, Methodist, Orthodox, Pentecostal, Presbyterian and Reformed, as well as religious bio-ethicists and disabled and minority clergy, held a news conference today calling for U.S. Senate action on the Brownback-Landrieu anti-cloning bill.  https://library.northernlight.com/FE20020506520000241.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0   HAWAII GOP REMOVE PRO-ABORTION STAND FROM THEIR PLATFORM   https://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/May/06/ln/ln08a.html

ANGELA BISSONNETTE UPDATE Today is Day +11 from the Bone Marrow Transplant, and for the past 10 days Angela has been doing wonderfully. Now however, she is again having a hard time. Most of her hair has fallen out and what remains will be gone in a day or two. Angela has developed Graft Vs Host Disease (GVHD) today. Her own bone marrow was eradicated by the chemo and then replaced in the transplant by her sister Marie Claire’s bone marrow. Though the two were a perfect tissue match they are not genetically identical and so the imported bone marrow […]

NEW YORK, May 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Population Research Institute’s Steven Mosher has introduced a shareholder’s motion to prevent investment firm Berkshire-Hathaway’s chair Warren Buffett from donating investors’ money to pro-abortion and population control causes.  Mosher argues that Buffett’s multi-million dollar donations to causes such as the production of RU-486, Planned Parenthood, and the misleadingly-named Catholics for a Free Choice, have attracted boycotts from pro-life consumers, and in the long run will contribute to reducing the number of potential consumers of Berkshire-Hathaway products.  While Mosher is pro-life, he urged all Berkshire-Hathaway shareholders to support his motion, calling for the […]

LOS ANGELES, May 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A plastic surgeon is urging liposuction patients to store their fat since it is “rich in stem cells.”  Dr. Peter Fodor, a plastic surgeon at Century City Hospital near Los Angeles presented his latest research last Wednesday at the annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in Las Vegas. Fodor compared the stem cell supply in fat to that in bone marrow noting that every 100 cubic centimeters of bone marrow yields up to 10,000 stem cells, but the same amount of fat contains a million stem cells.  Reuters Health […]

OTTAWA, May 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – TD Canada Trust, one of the largest banks in Canada, has awarded 20 young Canadians some of the largest scholarships seen in Canada with students receiving awards worth up to $50,000.  The awards were presented for ‘Outstanding Community Leadership’ in a ceremony on Parliament Hill today hosted by Ed Clark, President & COO, TD Bank Financial Group.  One of the awards went to Olivier Poulin of L’Ancienne-Lorette, QC, for “organizing a gay, lesbian and bisexual support and education group at his CEGEP” (CEGEP is a pre-university school for 17-18 year olds).  The event marks […]

TORONTO, May 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Lawyers for Oshawa high school student Marc Hall argued on Monday that constitutional protections for Ontario’s Catholic schools are outdated and do not allow schools to prohibit homosexual behaviour at school events.  Hall’s lawyer David Corbett said that the Durham Catholic District School Board’s decision to forbid Hall from attending this Friday’s school prom with his 21-year old male boyfriend was worse than “intolerant hatred by an individual because it carries with it the whole weight of institutional authority.”  Corbett argued that, despite constitutional guarantees given to Catholics in 1867, “A lot of things […]

WASHINGTON, May 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Dr. John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins University, one of the discoverers of human embryonic stem cells, told the President’s Council on Bioethics on April 25, 2002, that he thinks the product of cloning is and should be called an “embryo.” Gearhart, a major proponent of research on human embryos, admits this fact in government transcripts which are available online. He said: “I know that you are grappling with this [question of whether a cloned embryo created in the lab is the same thing as an embryo produced by egg and sperm, and whether we […]

The court would force the US and other western nations to forfeit sovereignty and traditional due process   WASHINGTON, May 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – American President George Bush will not allow the International Criminal Court treaty to be ratified by the United States Senate. “We think it was a mistake to have signed it,” an administration official said. “We have said we will not submit it to the Senate for ratification.” Officials also said that the Bush Administration’s renunciation of the ICC treaty means the United States will not recognize the court’s jurisdiction and will not submit to any of […]

SENATOR STROM THURMOND SUPPORTS CLONING RESEARCH CNN reported Friday that “Sen. Strom Thurmond became the second Republican opponent of abortion rights this week to split with the Bush administration, signing onto a bill that would ban most human cloning but allow an exception for research purposes. The 99-year-old senator followed the lead of conservative Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who threw his support behind the legislation earlier this week.”  https://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/05/03/thurmond.cloning/index.html   HIDE THE CHILDREN The latest syndicated columns by conservative columnist and TV commentator Bill O’Reilly and Dr. Laura Schlessinger discuss some of the risks to children in today’s […]

PART ONE OF WORLDNETDAILY’S KOPP REPORT TODAY Today is the first installment of WorldNetDaily’s investigative report of a possible conspiracy in the prosecution of James Kopp for the killing of abortionist Bernard Slepian.  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27494   INDIA EXPANDS BATTLE AGAINST SEX SELECTION INFANITICIDE India’s ongoing battle against sex selection infanticide has expanded, according to the Times of India. An article today reports that, “the scope of the law for checking tests which determine the sex of a foetus is being expanded to cover pre-conception sex selection techniques, being practised under the cover of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) techniques at centres almost all […]

MILWAUKEE, May 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A pregnant Milwaukee woman counseled by a Wisconsin pregnancy center is suing the pro-life agency, alleging maltreatment. Her suit claims that she suffered emotional and physical injuries after visiting the Pregnancy Help Center of Milwaukee on June 15, 2000. She is taking offence to having been shown the truth about abortion, what she describes as “graphically depicted dead and disfigured babies, abortions and babies’ parts.” She also says she was told she had “the devil inside her” and was a “sinner,” adding that the counselor scratched her chest, pulled her hair and held down […]

Ugandan abstinence program has reduced new HIV infection rate by astonishing two-thirds from 1995 to 2000   NEW YORK, May 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The May 5 Washington Times reported on the efforts of 300 pro-family organization leaders at the New York World Congress of Families to influence delegates to the UN General Assembly’s Special Session on Children, which begins Wednesday.  Janet K. Museveni, the wife of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, said the UN should be promoting sexual abstinence to attack the African HIV and AIDS “pandemic” instead of providing millions of condoms to sexually active African youth and adults. […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Delegates to the United Nations are still discussing ways to improve the international organization’s position on children’s rights and to strengthen its ability to enforce its philosophy. It is the final preparatory session for the three-day World Summit on Children that begins this Wednesday. Negotiations were originally expected to conclude last Thursday but are unlikely to be resolved even by Wednesday’s Summit start. The UN likes to put a positive face on all its negotiations, but battle lines have already been drawn between pro-family forces and delegates whose priorities are “reproductive health” (or […]

Once again the UN has decided to hide behind the veil of secrecy   WEST AFRICA, May 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A report published last month by the UNHCR and Save the Children revealed a serious problem in west Africa regarding primarily male aid workers using food and other aid to bribe primarily female child refugees for sex. The report “has shocked the humanitarian relief world, forcing agencies to act to root out abuse and safeguard their reputation as protectors of the vulnerable,’ reports the African news agency AllAfrica today. “Payment for sex was often as little as a few […]

MP Committees feel “they are totally irrelevant…make work projects” OTTAWA, May 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The federal Liberals have confirmed their intention to introduce a bill governing reproductive technologies on time this Friday. Insiders have revealed that the legislation will take a more liberal approach to regulating reproductive technologies than was recommended by the Parliamentary health committee that studied the issue a few months ago, reported Canada’s major news outlets today. Critics, including Liberal backbenchers, have expressed their hope that this will not be the case, objecting to the irrelevancy of their committee work and warning against vigorous opposition to […]

THE STRAIGHT STORY –  Crusty, 73 year old Alvin Straight, played by deceased Canadian actor Richard Farnsworth (Anne of Green Gables), decides he must visit his sick, estranged brother. He drives his old, ride-on lawnmower several hundred miles through the countryside to his brother’s home. A very different movie based on a true story. Children and young adults will find this one far too slow. Mature, not meaning just old, adults will savour the beauty, peace and handling of difficult life realities in the movie and its lessons in charity, understanding and especially forgiveness. Some mild profanity.  SERGEANT YORK – […]

DEAD BABY FOUND IN HIGH SCHOOL TOILET A dead baby was found in a toilet in Roseville High School in Michigan yesterday by a janitor called to unclog the utility. “The Macomb County medical examiner said that the fetus was an unborn male, and had been dead for as long as a week,” reports the Yahoo news service today. “The fetus had developed approximately five months.” The mother’s identity is not yet known.  https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wdiv/20020502/lo/1182553_1.html   LAST-MINUTE VICTORY IN HAWAII OVER EUTHANASIA BATTLE A bill to legalize assisted suicide in Hawaii was unexpectedly defeated yesterday in the state Senate by a […]

BUSH ADMINISTRATION FIGHTS FOR LIFE AT UN CONFERENCE The Bush Administration is receiving high praises from pro-lifers at the UN for its resilience against pro-abortion and anti-family campaigners from other countries. The final preparatory meetings for the Special Session of the General Assembly on Children have been taking place this past week in New York. The Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute issued a statement today praising the work of the American delegation. “The US is doing a brilliant job,” says Peter Smith, the UN representative of International Right to Life.  PRESSURE MOUNTS FOR ABORTION-ON-DEMAND IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA Abortion is […]

Robin Sharpe Sentenced only to 4 Months House Arrest – laws “a bad joke”  VANCOUVER, May 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) -The complete disarray of Canada’s justice system was put on display again this week in the sentencing by a B.C. judge of unrepentant child porn creator Robin Sharpe. The prosecutor requested a jail sentence of 10 to 12 months because Sharpe showed no remorse and wasn’t interested in treatment. He also said “a conditional sentence would be unlikely to deter [Mr. Sharpe].” The prosecutor also wanted the sentence to reflect “society’s collective condemnation” of Mr. Sharpe’s actions, which included taking pictures […]

VIRGINIA, May 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) formally apologized yesterday for the state’s participation in eugenic practices which led to the forced sterilization of an estimated 8,000 people from 1927 until 1979. “Today, I offer the commonwealth’s sincere apology for Virginia’s participation in eugenics,” lamented the governor in a written statement. Virginia passed the eugenics law in 1924. This year marks the 75th anniversary of a Supreme Court decision that upheld the law in 1927.  “As I have previously noted, the eugenics movement was a shameful effort in which state government never should have been […]

Cong. Smith: Not “a snowball’s chance in hell of finding accurate information   CHINA, May 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-life forces are expressing skepticism about the effectiveness of a U.S.-led investigation into allegations that United Nations Population Fund money is supporting forced abortion in China. Pro-life Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) is among those who are urging American investigators to look beyond the sanitized front that the Chinese government is sure to put up to veil what is really taking place in their country. “I am concerned that announcing when and where they will be investigating and giving the Chinese government […]

CALIFORNIA, May 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The California Senate decided yesterday “to make permanent California's 5-year-old prohibition on the cloning of human beings and research into “reproductive cloning of people,” reports the Los Angeles Times today. The expiry date for the original policy was January 1, 2003. Senate Bill 1230, sponsored by Sen. Dede Alpert (D-San Diego), however, did not outlaw cloning for research for the development of medications to fight cancer, Parkinson's disease and other severe illnesses. Pro-life Republican Sen. Ray Haynes said the legislation “is not a cloning ban at all.” The 22-5 vote fell down party lines […]

Troubling and Suspicious aspects to FBI Investigation   NEWSSTAND, May 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Starting Monday, conservative news service WorldNetDaily will be publishing a seven-part investigative report by Emmy-award winning writer and producer Jack Cashill about the killing of abortionist Bernard Slepian and the arrest of his suspected killer James Kopp. Mr. Cashill looks at troubling and suspicious aspects of the FBI investigation, and raises the possibility that Mr. Kopp is being framed for Dr. Slepian’s murder.  Among the questions Mr. Cashill will be considering are: Why did the FBI exclude from its affidavit any testimony from a 14-year-old witness […]

Sign up Now for Youth Packages and Friday Banquet   OTTAWA, May 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Next Thursday evening the National March for Life events begin in Ottawa. The candlelight vigil at the Human Rights Monument will take place at 9 p.m.  Friday’s events include the always inspiring march from Parliament through the streets of downtown Ottawa, the impressive March for Life Banquet and after that the youth dance. The number of youths attending the events has been dramatically increasing each year. The big event on Saturday is the Youth Conference from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Organizers are urging […]

FORMER LESBIAN AND TEACHER FIGHTS HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA IN SCHOOLS   https://catholiceducation.org/articles/homosexuality/ho0049.html   ASHCROFT BACKS NEW ANTI CHILD-PORN BILL TO CIRCUMVENT SUPREME COURT DECISION   https://www.msnbc.com/news/746272.asp   MTV AND SHOWTIME PLAN MORE HOMOSEXUAL PROGRAMMING https://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/3177409.htm

MP Garry Breitkreuz has indicated to a LifeSite correspondent that he has so far received relatively few responses to his questionnaire on the legal definition of a human being. The public does not appear to be aware of the survey and Breitkreuz is hoping that those for   whom this issue is important will take the little time required to complete the questionnaire and forward it to him and to their local MP.  The questionnaire is below and may be answered via email to Gary Breitkreuz MP at [email protected] For all other MPs email addresses see https://www.parl.gc.ca/common/SenatorsMembers_House.asp?Language=E&Sect=hoccur   QUESTIONNAIRE   […]

DES MOINES, May 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Iowa State University researcher Don Sakaguchi has shown that bone marrow stem cells transplanted into lab mice developed nerve cell proteins three weeks after they were transplanted. Sakaguchi, who has worked on adult human stem cell research for two years, said it's important to look at less controversial ways to do research that could help humans, such as his adult stem cell work that does not require human embryos and avoids cloning. State Gov. Tom Vilsack signed legislation Friday that bans reproductive or therapeutic human cloning in Iowa. The bill makes cloning or […]

HONOLULU, May 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Hawaii Senators revived the Death-With-Dignity bill Tuesday night after intense pressure from pro-assisted suicide Governor Ben Cayetano.  The measure faces a final vote today.  Political observers suggest that the vote is almost sure to pass.  See related news from the StarBulletin:  https://starbulletin.com/2002/05/01/news/index1.html

Little Chance of Honest Compliance by the Communist Government with Investigation WASHINGTON, May 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The State Department announced yesterday the selection of a three-member team that will visit China this month to provide an assessment of the activities of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The release said the team will be gathering information to assist the Administration in determining whether or not the United Nations Population Fund’s China program is in violation of Kemp-Kasten Amendment which forbids US funds from supporting coercive abortion. Independent clandestine investigations have found concrete evidence of UNFPA’s involvement in coerced abortion. […]

OTTAWA, May 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The National Post reports that Prime Minister Jean Chretien lectured his Liberal caucus for 10 minutes on religion yesterday saying that the “best decision” he made after Sept. 11 was not to have a priest speak at the memorial service on Parliament Hill for the victims of the terrorist attacks.  Catholic Liberal MP Dan McTeague was said to have been very offended by the remarks from the supposedly ‘Catholic’ Chretien.  He was seen by several of his colleagues challenging Mr. Chrétien as they left the meeting. “What’s your problem?”, said insider sources to the […]

SUIT: HIP-HOP STAR R. KELLY FORCED TEEN INTO ABORTION https://orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/music/sns-rkelly.story?coll=orl%2Dcaltop BUSH’S NIH NOMINEE ELIAS ZERHOUNI SUPPORTS PUBLIC FUNDING FOR EMBRYONIC RESEARCH https://library.northernlight.com/EA20020501840000012.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc ‘PRO-LIFE’ SENATOR ORRIN HATCH BACKS THERAPEUTIC HUMAN CLONING https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020501/pl_usatoday/4073519 FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL SLAMS HATCH’S ANTI-LIFE POSITION https://www.frc.org/get/p02d12.cfm

Pakistan Delegate Says “there is no place for paedophilia” at the UN UNITED NATIONS, May 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a meeting yesterday, the United Nations Economic and Social Council chose not to grant consultative status to the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA). The Council based its decision on the recommendation of its Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations made in January of this year. The decision not to grant consultative status to ILGA was the subject of a roll-call vote, with 29 voting in favour and 17 voting against, with Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Republic of Korea, South Africa and […]

Injured feelings of “vulnerable groups” used to define discrimination, rather than intent or facts of story EDMONTON, May 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Edmonton-based Report Newsmagazine has lost a key media-freedom case before a tribunal of the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission. In Kane v. Alberta Report, the tribunal determines which parts of a news story are newsworthy and which are not; it “strongly suggests” that the magazine’s staff submit to human rights training by the commission; and it warns that henceforth findings of discrimination will be based on the injured feelings of “vulnerable groups,” not on the intent […]

OSLO, Norway, May 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Researchers at the University of Oslo and the biotech company Nucleotech LLC have announced a breakthrough in reprogramming ordinary human skin cells into immune cells without resorting to stem cells at all. While lead researcher Philippe Collas and James Robl oppose restrictions on research, their finding may overturn arguments for the urgency of using human embryos for research. The team punched holes into mature skin cells and soaked them in a solution made from immune system cells, causing the skin cells to stop functioning as skin cells and take on the characteristics of […]

Local Media Reports Did Not Mention That Suspect Was Abortion Clinic Security Chief LOUISVILLE, May 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The chief of security for the EMW Women’s Surgical Center, an abortion clinic in Louisville Kentucky, has been sentenced to 10 years for raping two women in their early twenties. The April 2002 Life Dynamics newsletter, Life Activist, reports that 44-year-old Anthony Harvell pled guilty after DNA tests tied him to both victims. Local media reports, covering the matter when Harvell was charged in January 2001, failed to mention that Harvell worked for an abortion clinic. Moreover, one of the victims […]

BRUSSELS, May 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Political leaders from Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain and the United Kingdom have given their support to a campaign by the anti-Catholic group “Catholics for a Free Choice” (CFFC). In an advertisement appearing April 25th in the European Voice newspaper, 29 of the more than 600 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) signed their support for the condoms4life campaign. The advertisement states, “Catholic bishops preach sanctity of life. But their ban on condoms contributes to the tragedy of AIDS and death around the world. Most Catholics […]