Articles for Month: May 2002

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 […]