Articles for Month: May 2002

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 […]