Articles for Month: June 2002

U.S. NOMINEE GRILLED OVER ABORTION VIEWS Circuit Court nominee Judge Dennis W. Shedd faced tough questioning yesterday by a Democrat-controlled Senate panel. Nominated by President Bush to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Shedd declined to state his abortion views, saying it would require his recusal in future court hearings on the issue. “I will not do anything but apply the law,” Judge Shedd said in response to questions from Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat, who threatened to resubmit his abortion questions to be answered in writing because Shedd’s response “is not acceptable to get my […]

LONDON, June 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A British study has found that one in five women has not had a baby by the time they are 40 years of age, with the number of 40-year-old women without children now twice as high as it was 20 years ago. The Office for National Statistics report also shows that those who do start families are having far fewer children. According to this latest report, two out of three women born in the 1970s have yet to have children, compared to women born in the early 1960s, half of whom had families by […]

Says law that defines birth woman as child’s mother is “antiquated”  VANCOUVER, June 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Surrey couple who used a surrogate mother to obtain a child for themselves has asked the B.C. Supreme Court to strip the surrogate mother from their son’s birth certificate. “All I want,” says Terri Rypkema, “is a birth certificate with my son’s name on it and my name and my husband’s name,” and “I want to be able to do it without adopting him.”  They claim that the Vital Statistics Act, which defines a child’s mother as the woman who physically gives […]

VANCOUVER, June 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Anglican Archbishop of Rwanda, Emmanuel Kolini, has offered to protect Vancouver Anglicans sideswiped by their diocese’s endorsement of blessing homosexual marriages. Although media headlines said, “Rwanda cleric threatens to split B.C. Anglicans,” in fact it is the Diocese of New Westminster, with the connivance of radical pro-homosexualist Bishop Michael Ingham, that has risked schism by overturning standard Anglican teaching.  Local priests who rely on the diocese’s opt-out clause to avoid having to bless same-sex marriages fear discipline for any refusal to refer them to another parish willing to do the deed. In a […]

Says “it’s not a spanking case”  ST. THOMAS, Ont., June 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The judge in the case of seven Aylmer children abducted by overzealous rookie St. Thomas and Elgin Family and Children’s Services social workers took the unusual step of commenting publicly on the case.  Judge Schnall told enquiring reporters that the case is “a truly wonderful opportunity to be involved in something I think is fascinating … very interesting.”  The children have been returned to their family—for now—but the trial is to find whether they are in danger of physical abuse by their parents and should be […]

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON REFUSES TO ALLOW PRO-LIFE DISPLAY DESPITE COURT RULING https://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1472654

TODDLER WHOSE SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA TREATED WITH BROTHER’S UMBILICAL CORD STEM CELLS DOING WELL https://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/062602dnmettransplant.43521.html   PILL NOT LINKED TO BREAST CANCER: NEW STUDY In a large-scale new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health report that the contraceptive pill “does not raise the risk of breast cancer, not even among women who started taking it early or have close relatives with the disease.” https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/realtime/fullstory_print.html&cf=tgam/realtime/config-neutral&articleDate=20020626&slug=wpill0626&date=20020626&archive=RTGAM&site=Front   For LifeSite coverage to the contrary see: STUDY CONFIRMS BIRTH CONTROL PILL LINKED TO BREAST CANCER (March 25, 2002): […]

50 million abortions worldwide are still not enough   WASHINGTON, D.C., June 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The international population control movement has found a novel way to evade countries’ abortion laws, in order to increase the number of abortions overseas under the guise of women’s health, says Dr. Steve Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute.  According to PRI, abortion advocates are promoting the Manual Vacuum Aspirator (MVA), which enables abortionists to ply their trade under the guise of “miscarriage treatment” or “uterine evacuation.” The MVA is a hand-held syringe used to “evacuate the contents of the uterus,” PRI reports, […]

Most overturned court in the U.S.  WASHINGTON, D.C., June 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A San Francisco federal appeals court yesterday ruled the 1954 text of the United States Pledge of Allegiance “unconstitutional.” A 2-1 majority of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote: “The statement that the United States is a nation ‘under God’ is an endorsement of religion… It is a profession of a religious belief, namely, a belief in monotheism,” and therefore violates the separation of church and state. The particular court, not co-incidentally located in the gay capital of the US, has a history of making […]

Officials cancelled cleaning over pro-life co-owner   VANCOUVER, June 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A & A Service Company is suing the B.C. Hospital Employees Union for defamation, after a cleaning contract was cancelled because one of the company’s owners is a pro-life activist.  A & A accuses them of asserting on a TV news program, in the Vancouver Sun, and on the union’s website, “that employees of A & A pose a safety, security and health risk to patients,” because its janitors clean a new part of the B.C. Women and Children’s Hospital apart from a building where abortions are […]

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The US Supreme Court ruled today that Cleveland’s school voucher program is constitutional.  The 5-4 decision in the case referred to as Zelman v. Simmons-Harris is a major victory for proponents of school vouchers.  Chief Justice William Rehnquist said the program did not violate the separation of church vs. state but rather provided choice.  “It permits such individuals to exercise genuine choice among options public and private, secular and religious. The program is therefore a program of true private choice,” Rehnquist said in the 21-page ruling.  Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth […]

Gay activists had expected the court to uphold the ruling of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal   TORONTO, June 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Legal experts have a very different perspective on the ruling in the case of Toronto Christian printer Scott Brockie who refused a printing job for a homosexual activist organization.  As LifeSite reported, the Ontario Divisional Court ruling maintained the Human Rights Tribunal fine of $5,000 that Brockie must pay to the homosexual activist group. Over and above significant donations to his defence fund, Brockie has had to personally pay $100,000 for his defence costs.  However, legal experts […]

BUSH SIGNS LEGISLATION ALLOWING 9/11 FUNDS TO GO TO HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44912-2002Jun25.html   STATISTICS ON PRACTICING HOMOSEXUAL US POLITICIANS RELEASED Of 511,039 elected federal, state and local officials, 218 are openly gay or lesbian. Of the group, 149 are men, 69 women; 207 are Democrats, 11 Republicans. Three serve in the U.S. House, 47 are state legislators, and the rest are local officials.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020624/ap_to_po/gay_politicians_glance_3   CLINTON SLAMS CATHOLIC CHURCH ON SEX SCANDAL Newsmax reports that the former scandal-plagued president was overheard at a dinner criticizing the church over the sex scandals.  https://www.newsmax.com/archive/print.shtml?a=2002/6/22/200717   MALE HOMOSEXUAL COUPLE EXPECTING QUADRUPLETS BY SURROGATE […]

“DEAR ABBY” WAS DREARY CHILD OF THE AGE   Advice columnist Eppie Friedman (1918-2002), who wrote as “Ann Landers,” has received glowing obituaries celebrating her allegedly perky common-sense advice. In fact, she was an utterly predictable dyed-in-the-wool liberal on most issues of the day: feminist, pro-homosexualist, and pro-abortion. “Those groups really despise me,” she once said of conservatives, “and I’m very proud of it.” She argued that suicide is a viable option for incurably ill patients. She was once forced to apologize for dismissing Pope John Paul II as “a Polack.” For an example of the entirely unwarranted tributes she […]

LONDON, England, June 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The world’s first “lesbian sperm donor” service, designed to help lesbians artificially inseminate themselves, has been created in England, reports the BBC. “Man Not Included,” the name of the web site, finds sperm for lesbians who want to have a baby.  John Gonzales, who operates the site, said: “If a child is going to be loved and cared for, to me it doesn’t matter if it is two women or a man and a woman bringing it up. …” Many lesbians desperate for children resorted to advertising or asking friends to find a […]

WASHINGTON, June 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A spokeswoman for the Pro-Life Secretariat of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops criticized a vote by the U.S. Senate today to amend the Defense Authorization bill to lift the ban on abortions at military bases. “Our military hospitals have a proud and honorable tradition of saving lives in the most threatening regions and circumstances. They should not be forced into the dishonorable business of abortion,” said Cathleen A. Cleaver, Esq., Director of Planning and Information for the USCCB’s Secretariat for Pro-life Activities. The 1988 Reagan Administration policy prohibiting elective abortions in military […]

FLORENCE, Italy, June 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – It is legal to remove life support from a terminally-ill patient, an Italian appeals court has ruled—unless is can be proven that the patient was alive at the time. Pro-life politicians say the decision creates loopholes for abuse by euthanasia proponents, because it may not be possible to prove that someone was alive when the plug was pulled.  “The state of death is not an opinion, which can be changed from a judgment to another,” said conservative Senator Riccardo Pedrizzi. “In this way, judges take the place of doctors, and create a serious […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The U.S. Congress once again passed anti-child pornography legislation yesterday, by 413 votes to 8, to circumvent a Supreme Court decision protecting computer simulations of children having sex as “freedom of speech.”  The move, led by Texas Republican Lamar Smith, the sponsor of the new bill, is an attempt to recover the initiative on “virtual child pornography,” after the Supreme Court on April 16 overturned parts of a 1996 law to ban computer-generated images of children having sex, or images of adults who are dressed or photographed to look like children. The previous […]

MONTERREY, Mexico, June 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon has opened a medical center aimed at providing stem cell therapy to those who could normally not afford the costly therapy.  David Gomez, head of the facility at the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon’s medical center, told EFE news that he uses only stem cells from placentas and umbilical cords, not those taken from human embryos requiring their destruction.  EFE reports that the center is processing some 20 umbilical cords per month, which are frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored in a “bank” from which the […]

PARIS, June 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – France’s supreme court, the Cour de Cassation ruled Tuesday that an unborn child does not have the legal status of a living person.  The ruling overturned a lower court ruling from 2000 where a doctor and midwife were found guilty of manslaughter in the death of a child during labor in 1991.  “The principle behind the legality of crimes and punishment, requiring a strict interpretation of penal law, is opposed to the possibility of trial for manslaughter in the case of a child not born alive,” the Cour de Cassation ruled   Karen Murawsky […]

CORPUS CHRISTI, June 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – On Monday, the bishop of South Texas reaffirmed his diocese’s policy banning pro-abortion politicians from being allowed to speak on church grounds. The bishop commented on the policy Monday in reference to Texas Democratic governor candidate Tony Sanchez and Democratic lieutenant governor candidate John Sharp who both claim to be Catholic.  In a Monday statement, Sharp said, “I am absolutely opposed to abortion, but unlike the people who wrote the Republican platform, I do not believe in using government to make other people adopt my moral position.” Meanwhile, at a Women’s Leadership luncheon […]

Used to attract vulnerable teenagers into the lifestyle   OSHAWA, Ontario, June 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The publicity surrounding homosexual student Marc Hall, who created a cause celebre in March by requesting he be allowed to take a male partner to his high school prom, has boosted the esprit de corps of Gay Pride Week activists at the seventh annual “Pride Prom.” The event is staged by homosexualists to gather vulnerable teenagers, who believe they are homosexual and should be proud of it, under one roof.  “Marc Hall’s crusade has raised our profile,” said Patty Barclay, an organizer and co-ordinator […]

Brockie is out of pocket about $100,000 for legal costs and must still pay $5,000 fine to gay group   TORONTO, June 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Scott Brockie, the Christian printer who was embroiled in court cases over refusing a printing job for a homosexual activist organization, is considering appealing the June 17 ruling in his case.  The ruling has caused considerable debate among Christians some of whom argue that the judgement represents a significant step forward for freedom of religion and others contending that the ruling has diminished religious rights.  While the ruling did say that Brockie would not […]

UPDATE ON ANGELA BISSONNETTE Message from Angela’s father Joe – It’s been two months since Angela’s bone marrow transplant and things are going extremely well.  Though we face a critical challenge as they take Angela off of the anti-rejection drugs even this may all be for the best. Since finding that Angela has retained 30% of her own bone marrow as well as the donor marrow from Marie Claire, they are weaning her off of these drugs to see if one bone marrow type will prevail over the other. So far her blood counts have soared to near normal levels. […]

BOSTON, June 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The cloning of human embryos is well underway in some of the world's laboratories, scientists say. In the end, they admit, it is inevitable that someone, somewhere will go ahead with human clone experimentation. An attempt to ban so-called “therapeutic cloning” failed in the U.S. Senate two weeks ago, in response to cloning experiments by Advanced Cell Technology Inc. (ACT) last fall. Several maverick researchers around the world claim to have implanted cloned embryos in women, though no evidence has been provided. In Britain, where embryo research has the support of government, a professor […]

WASHINGTON, June 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – South African politicians say the American charity “Lovelife,” which claims to be dedicated to combatting HIV-AIDS, encourages teenagers to engage in oral sex.  Lovelife says preaching abstinence is a waste of time because the HIV crisis is so dire in South Africa, where over 50 percent of citizens engage in sex by their 16th birthday. As a strategy, the group claims to believe promoting teen oral sex will “save lives.”  Lovelife is funded in the U.S. by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which alone has provided over $7 million to the group), and […]

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, June 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Planned Parenthood is supposed to be a non-profit, non-political organization. For example, in its lawsuit against a Regina protestor (see today’s coverage), lawyers claim it offers merely a “sexual and health clinic that provides medical and informational services to its clients so they can make informed choices regarding their sexual health.”  In the United States, the fact Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization means it is forbidden to use federal “family planning” funds to fight political campaign.  But if this year’s Republican primary for Illinois governor was any […]

REGINA, June 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Planned Parenthood Federation’s Regina branch is suing a tiny group of protestors in a bid to uphold the myth that PPF is merely a benevolent “health” organization, and to deprive Christians of their free speech.  Planned Parenthood Federation, in fact a multinational contraception-abortion-sterilization conglomerate, was founded by Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) to promote contraception. Today its abortion network collects $69 million per year from abortions alone, and has raked in $815 million since 1977 from an estimated three million abortions in the U.S., according to CNSNews.com.  The Regina branch plant is suing pro-life activist […]

TORONTO, June 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Although most homeschooling families are blissfully unaware of the situation, on June 17 the Ontario Ministry of Education released a high level policy memorandum which will significantly change the face of home schooling in the province, effective immediately.  Homeschooling in the province is purely at the expense of parents who must also pay into the publicly funded school system despite their receiving no benefit from it.  Despite this unfairness, homeschool families in the province have appreciated the autonomy and privacy they have had.  For the rest of this special report see:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/jun/020625a.html

1. Decision in Dallas, National Catholic Register, June 22-29, 2002   “…Archbishop Chaput said homosexuals in the priesthood should not be viewed as a primary cause of the sexual abuse scandal… The more pertinent issue, he said, has been the history of American priests and bishops succumbing to cultural pressure for leniency on many Church teachings pertaining to sex and marriage.”“We’ve seen a permissiveness regarding contraception and pre-marital sex, and the same priests who allow that can easily slip into giving themselves permission regarding other issues of sexual moralities,” Archbishop Chaput said.  “It’s a spirit that says each person and […]

“from the most junior priest to the most powerful bishop.” NEW YORK, June 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The June 22 New York Times reported on an interview with Oklahama Governor Frank Keating who has been named to head the national, church inquiry into the origins of the sexual abuse crisis. Keating, 58, who is in the final months of his two-term governorship, is a law-and-order Republican and a former F.B.I. agent and associate attorney general. The Times reports that Keating said in the interview that he and a panel of prominent Catholics will seek “corrective action” for any clergyman found […]

MONCTON, N.B., June 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – New Democrat MP Svend Robinson, speaking as parade marshall for Moncton’s Gay Pride Week on Saturday, issued a call for New Brunswick to follow Nova Scotia and Quebec in allowing same-sex partners to adopt unsuspecting, defenceless children.  “As long as our relationships and our families are not recognized as fully equal, we will not rest, we will continue to fight for full equality,” said the notorious publicity-seeker, who uses equality language to promote the homosexualization of society. Reports said the cheers from an alleged 1,300 activists and their misguided supporters at times “nearly […]

WASHINGTON, June 24, 2002 (Pro-Life Infonet/LSN.ca) – Last week, the Senate passed an amendment sponsored by two pro-abortion senators, including pro-abortion Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), that would allow taxpayer-funded abortions to occur at American military bases. Although similar to a pro-abortion amendment offered by pro-abortion Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) and defeated in the House, John Cusey of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus told the Pro-Life Infonet the Senate amendment is much worse.  “Senator Murray’s amendment … goes even farther than the Sanchez amendment that was defeated in the House this year,” Cusey explained.  The Murray amendment “not only removes the ban […]

WASHINGTON, June 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted Friday to affirm the “unrestricted right” to abortion prior to the child being able to survive on his/her own outside the womb.  After viability, the assembly says, late term abortion is still acceptable but pastoral and medical counsel is advised and it is suggested only in cases of rape, incest, fetal suffering, and to preserve the health and life of the mother. Judy L. Woods,  moderator of the denomination’s advisory committee on litigation said “We affirmed the fundamental right to (abortion) prior to viability. But […]

CONGRESSIONAL HEARING INTO FORCING UNION EMPLOYEES TO PAY INTO ABORTION SUPPORT https://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/archive/200206/NAT20020621a.html   SENATE PRO-ABORTS TIE FUNDING ABORTIONS FOR SOLDIERS TO MILITARY SPENDING BILL https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020621/ap_on_go_co/military_abortions_6   PRO-LIFE LAW CENTRE ORDERED TO PAY LEGAL FEES IN REJECTED ABORTION BREAST CANCER SUIT https://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20020620-9999_7m20fees.html

SINGAPORE LEANING TOWARDS APPROVING CLONING OF HUMAN EMBRYOS FOR RESEARCH https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020621/ap_wo_en_po/singapore_stem_cells_1   NYT COVERS INCREASING PROBLEM OF SEX SELECTIVE ABORTIONS IN CHINA   https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/21/international/asia/21CHIN.html

TORONTO, June 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite once again strongly advises all Internet email users to keep their anti-virus programs and definitions up-to-date. It appears that is has become necessary to update definitions daily and sometimes more than once per day because of the frequency of new viruses and mutations. There have been credible reports that some of these malicious programs have been coming from sources within Communist China   See https://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/3143199.htm and https://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/content.cfm?articleid=1310&PID=na and https://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html#threat_list

TORONTO, June 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – One of the most well respected and received pro-life outreach publications geared at teens – LoveMatters.com – is to be distributed to the youth at World Youth Day in Toronto July 23-27.  The Pro-Life America publication will be available for all pilgrims.  Also extra free copies will be available for youth ministers and directors.  LoveMatters.com is a pro-life, pro-chastity newspaper featuring celebrities, professional athletes, musicians, experts and young people encouraging youth to save sex for marriage and choose life rather than abortion.  The new World Youth Day edition features Pope John Paul II on […]

STOCKHOLM, June 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A 36-year-old Swedish sperm donor, Igor Lehnberg, lost an appeal this week against a court order to pay child support for three sons conceived with his donation(s) to a lesbian couple for artificial insemination, a court official said yesterday.  Lehnberg flaunted the usual Swedish sperm donor practice of remaining anonymous, insisting that the children had a right to know who their “father” was.  The lesbian couple has since broken up, but the capital city’s social services office wanted Lehnberg to pay $265 per month in child support to the woman who bore three boys […]

WASHINGTON, June 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Clergy from several denominations will gather at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, June 25 at 12 noon to support Rep. Steve Chabot’s (R-Ohio) initiative to restrict partial-birth abortion. The demonstration will include dramatic readings from the recent U.S. Supreme Court case on partial-birth abortion, Stenberg v. Carhart. The gathering will include Rev. Rob Schenck, president of the National Pro-life Religious Council, Fr. Peter West of Priests for Life, Rev. Michael Griffith of the National Clergy Council, Fr. Alexander Webster of the Orthodox Church in America, Paulette Roseboro of the African-American Life Alliance, Rev. Ben […]

Witnesses said that coercion, only coercion and nothing but coercion, exists in Chinese UNFPA program   WASHINGTON, June 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Population Research Institute, along with a coalition of over 140 groups, representing millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands from around the world, submitted a letter to President Bush yesterday asking him not to fund the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The letter, which was also signed by LifeSite, focused on the UNFPA’s continuing support of China’s coercive abortion policy. The letter aims to prove to the president that UNFPA is violating a US law which prohibits […]

Cohabitating, but not married father has no legal right to have child bear his last name   TORONTO, June 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Ontario’s highest court has reaffirmed that the father of a child born out of wedlock has no right to see the child bear his name. Richard Kreklewetz and Marian Scopel cohabited on and off in the 1990s and conceived a son in 1998, agreeing on the first and middle names William Joseph. Soon thereafter their cohabitation ended. Kreklewetz wanted the boy to have the dual surname of Kreklewetz-Scopel, but the mother thought it within her right to […]

Campaign Life says new findings should mandate changes to Canadian Bill C-56 MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, June 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Adult stem cells may be versatile enough to derive a host of specialized cells for research purposes, according to findings by researchers at the University of Minnesota published in the journal Nature. Dr. Catherine Verfaillie and her team at the university's Stem Cell Institute injected single cells into mouse embryos. When the mice were checked after birth, descendants of the injected cells managed to engraft themselves into brain, retina, lung, heart, muscle, liver, intestine, kidney, spleen, marrow and skin tissue. In […]

Large number of amendments expected after house resumes in September   OTTAWA, June 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-lifers are breathing a sigh of relief today as the House of Commons has announced that it will rise for summer recess with the controversial assisted reproductive bill C-56 stalled in the Health Committee.  The bill, which would purposely permit embryonic stem cell research and would – due to its current poor wording – not provide effective prohibitions even to cloning, was opposed by pro-lifers.  The House is expected to resume in mid-September at which time the Health Committee will hear from more […]

SPONSORS OF THE TORONTO HOMOSEXUAL PRIDE WEEK Pro-family Canadians may consider sending concerns to the following sponsors:  The Bay, Labatt Blue, Canada Showcase, Schick (razor company), Captain Morgan Rum, Crest (toothpaste), Rogers, United Airlines, University of Toronto, Starbucks Coffee, Kodak (film), The Toronto Star, and CityTV https://www.torontopride.com/sponsors/index.htm   TORY LEADER’S CLOSE ADVISOR EXPECTS CLARK WILL RESIGN AT AUGUST CONVENTION https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id={385C88D9-EB7A-4768-930D-4F949898CF84}  UK PRO-LIFERS GIVEN LEAVE TO APPEAL RULING ON UK CLONING LAW https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020617/sc_nm/britain_cloning_dc_2   UK PRO-LIFERS BEGIN 9-DAY WATER-ONLY FAST TO EXPOSE ABOTIFACIENT MAP Prominent members of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children have commenced a nine-day water-only fast […]

BERLIN, June 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Germany’s highest court has ruled that a doctor who failed to diagnose a baby’s disability during prenatal ultrasounds must pay compensation to the parents.  The child, now five and named Sebastian, was born with no hands or lower arms and with heavily deformed legs. His parents sued the gynaecologist and the the court awarded them 275,800 euros (C$407,042) for ongoing medical care and compensation to the mother of 10,225 euros (C$15,090) for “depression.”  Sebastian’s mother told the court that although she loves him, she would have had a late-term abortion if she had known […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday revived their attempts to secure a ban on partial-birth abortion.  The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Steve Chabot, an Ohio Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Constitution subcommittee, says the new bill’s sharper definition of partial-birth abortion will satisfy both critics and courts. “We have every reason to believe the Supreme Court should uphold this,” Mr. Chabot said.  The Supreme Court in 2000 overturned a Nebraska partial-birth abortion ban, frustrating congressional pro-lifers promoting a national version, reports the Washington Times. Prior to the Supreme Court ruling, […]

WILDER, Kentucky, June 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A proposal to recognize that birth control pills have abortifacient side-effects, and to reject $170,000 in federal Title X funds that pay for local family planning services, was narrowly defeated last night after a heated debate in the Northern Kentucky Independent District Health Board.  Board chairman Greg Kennedy broke a 13-13 tie vote, explaining: “I believe it was going to disrupt services to the people that need and rely on the health department the most. … When you mix politics with medicine, you get very bad medicine.”  Kentucky Right to Life, which is […]

BONN, June 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Conservatives in Germany are hoping the fiercely pro-abortion Social Democrates (SPD) are headed for defeat in the upcoming September 22 elections.  German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s SPD have caused embarrassment to the country after a condom-fundraising scheme was discovered. Red (the colour of the party) boxes containing 100 condoms with the slogan “Feel Good, SPD” are being sold at a gift shop at the party’s headquarters for 44 euros ($40), an SPD admitted Sunday.  SDP was the first German party since the Nazi era to authorize deadly experimentation on human beings with the allowance of […]

SYDNEY, June 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Australia has agreed to ratify the International Criminal Court (ICC) which is set to begin operations July 1 this year. Conservatives in the government fought the proposal but were unsuccessful.  Commentators have observed that Prime Minister John Howard will be cited for his failure to live up to his promise to “serve the national interest and certainly not compromise Australian sovereignty”.  In April, US Senator Jesse Helms warned against the ICC in an op-ed published in the Washington Times.  “It needs to be understood, however, that the ICC is without supervision or oversight. And, […]

TORONTO, June 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Law Society of Upper Canada, the organization to which lawyers in Ontario must pay dues in order to practice in the province, is sponsoring a homosexual advocacy meeting tonight.  The roundtable discussion will focus on “advocacy strategies and current issues faced by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.” The four panelists to take part in the meeting are all homosexual activists, including David Corbett counsel for Oshawa high school student Marc Hall who will be speaking on “advocacy in education.” The Law Society press release on the meeting notes: “In conjunction with […]

LONDON, June 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The UK pro-life group Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has pointed out that the man likely to become the next archbishop of Canterbury is against abortion.  However, Dr. Rowan Williams, reportedly the top choice of the Crown Appointments Commission – to be formally ratified by the Prime Minister and Queen – is shunned by conservatives for his support of ordination of homosexuals and women priests.  Rowan, who according to The Times will be named to take over from Dr. George Carey as head of the worldwide Anglican church in July,  has described […]

First Muslim country to permit abortion   NEW YORK, June 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women praised Tunisia last week for its “great strides forward” with regard to women.  However, one of the “gains in the field of women’s health” mentioned in the UN report is abortion.  “Abortion is now part and parcel of human rights for women, which makes Tunisia the first Muslim country to permit it,” says the report praising the country for making “efforts to ensure access to basic health care as well as to maternal and reproductive […]

MSNBC MOVING “ALLAN KEYES IS MAKING SENSE” PROGRAM OUT OF PRIME TIME Bob Angelotti, Keyes’ media representative, said MSNBC is proposing moving Keys’ program from its between 7 and 11 pm slot to 4 pm which is unacceptable to Keyes’s reps since “It would not reach our audience. Primetime hours are the most conducive to getting the message out.”  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28000   PRO-LIFERS TAKE IMAGE OF ABORTED BABIES TO THE SKIES https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/17/national/17ABOR.html?ex=1024977600&en=c45b17c5f0c53044&ei=5038&partner=ASAHI   ABORTIONIST FOUND GUILTY OF ABORTING BABIES WHILE MED LICENCE SUSPENDED Abortionist Rodger A. Fraser was convicted of four felony counts of practicing medicine without a license. Each count […]

NORTH IRELAND FERTILITY RATE AT LOWEST EVER – 1.74 FOR YEAR 2000 https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_2050000/2050270.stm   LESBIAN ACTIVIST TENNIS STAR MARTINA NAVRATILOVA WANTS TO ADOPT A CHILD https://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/06/18/wmart18.xml   PORN SCANDAL AT CATHOLIC CHILDREN’S AID TORONTO The Catholic Children’s Aid Society fired five staff, four of them women, and disciplined 32 others, for exchanging online pornography. Most were support staff not directly engaged in serving area youth and their families – but six supervisors and seven child-protection workers were implicated. https://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1022100185558&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News   “CATHOLIC” UK SUPERMARKET BOSS SILENT ON MORNING-AFTER PILL SALES The chief executive of Tesco, a major British supermarket chain, has […]

TORONTO, June 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – TV evangelist David Mainse, the Ottawa Valley-born founder, host and mainstay of the popular Christian show 100 Huntley Street, celebrated the 40th anniversary of his Crossroads television ministry this year. Next weekend he will mark the 25th anniversary of the worldwide version of the show. Mainse has been renowned for his unapologetic pro-life stance on the airwaves. “There are no pastel shades of sin,” he told journalist Michael Valpy. “Anything outside a sexual relationship in marriage is a sin. Sin is sin. Don’t expect me to say that something like taking the life of […]

LOS ANGELES, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Seven parents filed a claim against a Los Angeles area school district after their 10-year-old children were asked to fill in an explicit sex survey. The survey had asked children if they thought about “having sex” or “touching other people’s private parts” and “if they didn’t trust people because they might want sex,” according to reports.  The claimants charged: “Parents have the statutory right to know, in advance, whether their children will be given sex education at a school, and if they choose, in their sole discretion, to exempt their children from such […]

U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft approves buffer zone   WASHINGTON, D.C., June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Rev. Patrick Mahoney, a Presbyterian minister and director of the pro-life Christian Defense Coalition, says he will risk six months in jail for reading scripture inside an abortuary bubble zone.  “I’m going to pray and read scripture 25 feet [away] on the public sidewalk. I am then going to move within 10 feet, which would be in the 20 foot zone and do the exact same thing,” Mahoney said. “We feel that the only way to deal with this is to peacefully go out and […]

Ultrasound for sex-selected abortions cited as cause   WUHAN, China, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – China is increasingly being forced to confront a demographic nightmare that threatens to destabilize society and undermine meager steps toward freedom in the totalitarian country.  “Over the next two decades, as many as 40 million young Chinese men won’t be able to marry, settle down and start families. There won’t be enough wives to go around,” says a feature in USA Today. Historically, governments have dealt with troublesome, unmarried men by tightening the reins of government, sending men off to war, banishing them to far-away […]

VANCOUVER, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Thirteen Anglican bishops from British Columbia to Newfoundland expressed “regret” on Monday over the Diocese of New Westminster’s decision last weekend to provide official blessings to same-sex unions. The bishops said matters of moral teaching and Church order and discipline are beyond the jurisdiction of a single diocese acting alone.  “We regret the decision of the Diocese of New Westminster to move independently toward the blessing of same-sex unions,” the bishops said, saying that the move is in conflict with the “moral teaching of the Holy Scripture and the tradition of the universal Church.” […]

VANCOUVER, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A new internet-based web service documents abortion-related violence by supporters of the pro-choice movement.  Entitled “Prochoiceviolence.com” the web site documents material in the public domain of murder, rape, and other crimes, all associated with abortion and abortion rights supporters.  Developer Ted Gerk stated: “We are merely educating the public as to the real stories surrounding abortion. The abortion industry has done a fabulous PR job keeping this information hidden.  This web site will expose the truth, both of pro-choice violence but also of media complicity in keeping this information hidden from legislators and the […]

Abortionist given sedatives to calm his temper tantrums   BRISBANE, Australia, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Court testimony during an inquest into the death of an abortionist saw the deceased’s anesthetist admitting that Dr. Peter Bayliss had left a patient tied to a bed with a sanitary pad stuffed in her mouth to “shut her up.” An earlier inquest found that Bayliss’ death was due to a heart condition in turn caused by sleeping pill toxicity.  Bayliss’ anesthetist and his wife slipped sedatives into Bayliss’ drinks in order to calm his temper tantrums.  “The patients were terrified of him when […]

WASHINGTON, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The US Senate approved two protocols contained within the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), rejecting other parts of the convention that were disrespectful of life and family.  The CRC has come under fire by the Bush administration for its promotion of abortion under the guise of “reproductive health services” and its placing the rights of children over those of parents.  The Senate approved the Protocol on the Sale of Children which criminalizes such activities as the outright sale of children, pornography and the prostitution of children. Also approved was […]

Artificial procreation for singles or homosexual couples is disallowed. ROME, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Italian lower Chamber of Deputies passed legislation on artificial procreation today which has some of the world's most life-respecting characteristics. However, the bill, which passed 268-144, is expected to face tough opposition in the Senate. The legislation bans experimentation on human embryos and also the freezing of embryos as well as cloning. It also respects the rights of children conceived unnaturally via artificial procreation to at least have a father and a mother. Artificial procreation for singles or homosexual couples is therefore disallowed. The […]

OTTAWA, June 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Ottawa Citizen publisher Russell Mills has been fired by the newspaper’s owners, the Izzy Asper clan, a family well-known for its federal Liberal Party connections and particularly for their friendship with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. The firing came in the wake of a Citizen feature that exposed the huge financial scandal surrounding the prime minister, known as “Shawinigate,” and calling for Chrétien to resign.  Mills told the Globe and Mail, one of Canada’s few papers not now owned by the Aspers, that the owners accused him of failing to submit an editorial this month, […]

WASHINGTON, June 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Bush administration officials are drafting a resolution for the UN Security Council that would exempt Americans, both soldiers and civilians who are deployed overseas on UN peacekeeping missions, from the International Criminal Court. The Washington Times reports that the resolution also would exempt from the tribunal’s jurisdiction any military effort that the Security Council has endorsed, and it would protect government officials from any nation that contributes troops. Sources close to the situation in Washington told the paper that if US conditions are not met “There could be ramifications for future peacekeeping missions, or […]

NEW YORK, June 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations Population Division has issued Abortion Policies: A Global Review.  The study is an updated, country-by-country examination of national policies concerning induced abortion and the context within which abortion takes place. Comparable information is presented for all Member and non-member States of the United Nations. The publication claims to provide the “most up-to-date, accurate and objective information about the nature of laws and policies relating to abortion in both developed and developing countries, at the end of the twentieth century.”  The report indicates that there are some 50 million induced abortions […]

US Bishops actions seen to be far from adequate in addressing sexual abuse “catastrophe”  DALLAS, June 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Last week’s United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) conference that approved a “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” was the Bishops’ opening foray into what is bound to be a spiritual 9-11. The document, which passed 239 to 13 says “an alleged offender will be promptly relieved of ministerial duties and referred for medical and psychological evaluation.”  Moreover, “when an allegation is admitted or determined, past, present or future, the diocesan policy will be that the […]

TORONTO, June 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Ontario Divisional Court released its ruling yesterday in the controversial case of Brillinger vs Brockie. The case involves Scott Brockie, a Christian printer from Toronto who was fined by the Ontario Human Rights Commission after a homosexual activist group claimed discrimination when Brockie refused to publish their materials.  The Court found the Human Rights Commission judgment to be overly broad in its application to Brockie by failing to accord sufficient weight to his right to freedom of religion under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It found that a February, 2000 decision […]

OTTAWA, June 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz, introduced a pro-life motion yesterday in parliament. The motion M-523 reads:  On or after Monday, July 1, 2002 – That the Standing Committee on Health should fully examine, study and report to Parliament on: (a) whether or not abortions are medically necessary for the purpose of maintaining health, preventing disease or diagnosing or treating an injury, illness or disability; and (b) the health risks for women undergoing abortions compared to women carrying their babies to full term.

NEWLY CANONIZED ST. PADRE PIO’S VIEWS ON ABORTION https://www.thekolbegroup.org/Padre_Pio_Wisdom12_PadrePio_on_Abortion.html

Tomorrow LifeSite will report on the outcome of last week’s US Bishops’ conference to finalize a national policy on abuse of minors by clergy. There has been mixed reaction to the conference proceedings and final document, including claims that the bishops completely avoided addressing the root causes of the scandals.  A few more notable links:  June 13 address to the Dallas conference by Bishop Wilton Gregory https://www.usccb.org/bishops/presidentialaddress.htm   1961 Vatican document that explicitly prohibits the ordination of those with homosexual inclinations https://www.petersnet.net/research/retrieve_full.cfm?RecNum=4273   Bishops Betraying the Church by Mary Jo Anderson https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27962   Post cards from Dallas – Catholic World […]

LONDON, England, June 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – An English psychotherapist reports treating “one patient a month who is suffering from intractable guilt, self-denigration and anxiety as a result of an abortion.”  Dr. K. D. Phillips’ remarks,in a letter to the editor of London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, lend credibility to a woman’s lawsuit against the National Health Service for failing to warn her of possible trauma from having an abortion. Dr. Phillips says women are often traumatized by the inhumane treatment they receive from nursing staff while getting an abortion. “Not infrequently,” Dr. Phillips writes, “the attitudes of ‘I murdered my […]

WASHINGTON, June 17, 2002 (C-Fam.org/LSN.ca) – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing Thursday to address whether the United States should ratify the controversial UN women’s rights convention, called the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE), the chairman of the committee, and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), organized the hearing in an effort to build support for the Convention, and perhaps to goad the Bush administration into approving its ratification. Biden stated that he was “concerned by the casual attitude of the Executive Branch toward the treaty process and the […]

SAN FRANCISCO, June 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The pro-family Population Research Institute (PRI) claims “blatant media bias” on the part of a reporter who “doubts” the PRI has video evidence of forced abortions in China—even though the video is in the public record.  KPIX 5 television reporter Sean Comey, covering a recent PRI conference, claims he was “disappointed” when organizers “failed” to show him a video proving China’s forced abortion practices, adding that he now “doubts” its existence. “They kept saying it’s somewhere else. We can’t get hold of it. It’s kind of like my dog ate my homework. It […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Researchers have found that people who watch violent or sexually-explicit TV shows are less likely to remember the commercials, compared to viewers of less explicit programming.  The report, published in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Applied Psychology, says 324 adult volunteers were randomly assigned to watch violent, sexually explicit or “neutral” TV shows. Each show contained nine commercials for regular household products. The study found that viewers of sex or violence were able to remember 67% fewer brand names at the end of the show, and 60% fewer when they were asked […]

VANCOUVER, June 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Anglicans are in danger of splintering over the decision of one of their largest dioceses to “bless” homosexual unions. On Saturday, 344 governing synod members of Vancouver’s Diocese of New Westminster, which has 80 churches and 25,000 members, voted 63% to 37% to bless same-sex unions.  After the vote, representatives of one of Canada’s largest and most respected orthodox evangelical Anglican congregations, St. John’s (Shaughnessy) Church, walked out in protest with eight other parishes. Trevor Walters, a Fraser Valley pastor, said some parishes could leave the church altogether, taking about 24% of diocese members. […]

BUFFALO, June 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – James Kopp, the pro-lifer accused in the shooting death of abortionist Barnett Slepian, has received permission for private Masses in prison.  Because of the high profile of his case, Kopp has been kept isolated from all other prisoners and thus unable to attend Masses held for other prisoners.  An unidentified priest has agreed to provide the private services.  Paul J. Cambria Jr. said on the issue, “I can tell you that the one and only issue that (Kopp) has stressed to me is that he wants to attend Mass. It’s very important to him.” […]

BLANTYRE, Malawi, June 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Condom promoting billboards in Malawi featuring a near-naked woman have caused outrage among religious leaders in the country.  Twenty churches signed a petition calling for the ad to be censored saying: “Enticing the population to sex to promote the sale of condoms is like happily dousing us with petrol for the sake of promoting fire extinguishers”. The censorship board wrote to the NGO, Population Services International (PSI), which produced the billboards asking them to remove the offensive ad. Of note, PSI is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). A […]

How many millions were destroyed in the process? AUCKLAND, June 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A celebration in New Zealand for World Infertility Month is hailing the millionth birth of a child through in vitro fertilization and other methods of artificial procreation. The processes are opposed by critics because they are disrespectful of life and frequently involve the destruction of human life. With IVF several embryos are created in the full knowledge that most will not survive the procedure till birth. The New Zealand Herald reports that the first IVF child was born in the country in 1984 but now 450 […]

ORGANIZED CRIME FIGURE JOHN GOTTI DENIED CATHOLIC FUNERAL Catholic News Service reports that the Diocese of Brooklyn announced June 12 that John J. Gotti, the organized crime figure who died June 10 at the age of 61, could not have a funeral Mass. In a one-sentence statement, the diocesan chancellor, Father Andrew J. Vaccari, said, “The diocese has decided that there can be a Mass for the dead sometime after the burial of John Gotti.” Meanwhile, militantly pro-abortion Catholic politicians, responsible for huge numbers of deaths, continue to receive elaborate Catholic funerals. OPINION ON THE SURREY SCHOOL BOARD CASE Ian […]

Misinformation from Government Bureaucrats, Hansard Error, Pro-Family Groups Caught Off Guard   OTTAWA, June 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The May 29 House of Commons debate over homosexual MP Svend Robinson’s hate crimes bill, C-415, and the criticism of that debate continues to have repercussions among conservatives who feel that their views were under-represented on Parliament Hill. Unfortunately, some of the commentary on the issue was confusing and inaccurate. Much of the initial criticism by conservatives was directed at the Canadian Alliance for arranging for only one speaker to address the bill, Justice Critic Vic Toews, and for a speech which […]

TORONTO, June 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A so-called “church reform group” says World Youth Day organizers are not doing enough to protect youth from predatory clergy travelling to the upcoming event. The group, with an undisclosed number of members, calls itself “Challenge the Church” and supports abortion, contraception, homosexual “rights” and dissent on a range of basic church teachings. World Youth Day spokesman Paul Kilbertus responded “No matter what you do, there are always going to be risks,… we’ve done everything we can . . . to avoid any type of risks, be it physical harm, theft or sexual abuse.” […]

TORONTO, June 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Hidden camera videos that spy up the skirts of young Toronto women and school girls are being sold on the Internet. Yet despite a complaint from the Catholic Civil Rights League two years ago, and a front page Toronto Sun story today, police have still not started an investigation.  The voyeuristic videos in question are filmed in public places and offered for sale by Toronto-based Canamvideo. Some up-the-skirt images show “upskirt” views of girls in Catholic school kilts walking in the Eaton Centre. Reports did not mention that lax discipline and lack of proper […]

BRUSSELS, June 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The governments of Germany, Ireland, Italy, Austria and Portugal issued a declaration on June 3 asking for the inclusion of ethical guidelines for European Union research on human embryos. According to the European Commission in Brussels, research involving the destruction of human embryos could be financed by the European Union, and therefore funding would come from taxpayers in countries which forbid this same research on their soil. The five signatory countries want guidelines “in particular regarding the protection of human dignity and human life in genomics and biotechnology research”.  Luxembourg issued a separate statement […]

CANBERRA, June 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Scientists who try to create a human clone would be jailed for up to 15 years and fined up to $99,000 under a proposed law being put forward by Australia’s centre-right Howard government. The penalties for selling human sperm, human eggs or embryos would be a maximum 10-year sentence and $66,000 fine. Researchers “would face the same stiff penalty,” reports The Age newspaper, “if they tinkered with human cells in an attempt to change the offspring’s physical characteristics, including eye colour, or internal characteristics.” In addition, all research on spare IVF embryos would have […]

IVF is often used, as is abortion, as a means to dominate women OLYMPIA, June 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Washington Supreme Court ordered the death of two human embryos yesterday. The embryos, now frozen, were created under contract by David and Becky Litowitz who are in the midst of a messy divorce. The unborn children are the product of Mr. Litowitz's sperm and donor ova. Mrs. Litowitz requested they be carried by a surrogate and she be allowed to raise the children, however, her estranged husband argued he did not wish to have more children with her. The court […]

OTTAWA, June 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) yesterday presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health its reflections on The Assisted Reproduction Act, Bill C-56. The bishops recommended “that research on embryos, as well as any treatment that is not for their benefit, be prohibited” and recommended adult stem cell research as a mutually agreeable way forward. The presentation was made by Most Reverend Terrence Prendergast, S.J., Archbishop of Halifax, and by Dr. Noël Simard, an ethicist at Saint Paul University, Ottawa. The CCCB praised a declaration of the committee's which “underlined […]

HAMILTON, June 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Two studies published in the current issue of the British Medical Journal have shown that sex education programmes are ineffective leaving out a ruling on other studies that have shown such programs harmful.   In one study, Canadian researchers looked a various sex education programmes and found that the programmes failed in all of their intended aims.  “The interventions did not delay initiation of sexual intercourse in young women or young men; did not improve use of birth control at every intercourse or at last intercourse; and did not reduce pregnancy rates in young […]

SAUDI ARABIAN RESEARCHERS AIM FOR EMBRYONIC RESEARCH EVEN THOUGH ITS ILLEGAL https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020613/ap_on_hi_te/saudi_biotech_1   PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR ANGELA BISSONNETTE Report from Angela’s father Joe –  Day +49 since Angela’s bone marrow transplant and there’s good news and bad news.  France contracted Parva Virus, which is potentially harmful to the unborn child, but she went for an ultrasound yesterday and everything seems fine.  ThanK God.  The bad news is Dr. Doyle, the Hematology/Oncology physician from Sick Kids called, and though Angela’s blood counts are excellent and she seems to be doing very well there’s a problem.  They just received the […]

DALLAS, Texas, June 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Two Dallas-area priests who joined a homosexual pornographic website with naked pictures and discussion of sexual encounters with men and boys, endorsed attacks on Pope John Paul II and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.  One of the priests, Fr. Cliff Garner, 36, described his passion for a young Latin American youth minister, and praised a liberal dissident homosexual South African auxiliary bishop, Reginald Cawcutt, for his attacks on Vatican authorities: “You are doing God’s work,” Garner claimed, “and because of that – you and […]

Fr. Rueda Book Warned of Scandals Almost 20 Years Ago – Rueda Persecuted, Facts Ignored   DALLAS, June 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The US Bishops meeting on the sexual abuse scandals which commenced in Dallas yesterday was addressed by a record six lay persons.  Among the presenters were 3 victims of abuse and one expert in dealing with such cases.  However there were two lay persons addressing the bishops who were in the words of USCCB President “two lay people deeply concerned about the impact of the current crisis on the Church.”  LifeSite was very concerned with the selections since […]

SYDNEY, New South Wales, June 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A judge of the state Supreme Court of New South Wales ruled yesterday that so-called “wrongful life” cases have no place in Australian law. In a test case on whether disabled children can sue a doctor in their own right for “negligence” if they are born rather than aborted, Justice Timothy Studdert rejected the concept.  Chelsea Edwards, 2, was born with a chromosome disorder after her father’s failed vasectomy. In-vitro-fertilized (IVF) baby Keeden Waller, 17 months, inherited a blood-clotting disorder from her father—a condition that is detectable in pre-natal screening. Alexia […]

PRETORIA, June 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has complained that health workers in the country are reluctant to perform abortion despite state policy encouraging it.  The Minister, a long-time pro-abortion feminist, indicated that systematic monitoring has shown that some children were not aborted since too few health care workers were willing to perform the procedure. See a background on the Minister:  https://www.gov.za/profiles/tshabalala-m.htm   See the report by the South African Press Agency:  https://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1106807-6099-0,00.html

TORONTO, June 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The deep desire to be good parents, with strong, stable marriages, is an overwhelming priority for Canadians, according to a new Strategic Counsel survey commissioned by Focus on the Family Canada. The survey found that the family remains the top priority in the lives of Canadians. Yet 78% say our society undervalues its importance, and 83% want governments to make “encouraging strong families” their top priority.  According to the survey, another key priority is tax reform. 82% believe tax policies need to be changed so that families who choose to can afford to have […]

Bill fails to recognize the humanity of the unborn embryo, definitions critical, poor accountability   OTTAWA, June 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Campaign Life Coalition’s National Coordinator, Mary Ellen Douglas, and National Public Affairs President, Karen Murawsky, made a presentation today to the Standing Affairs Committee on the proposed reproductive technologies Bill C-56. In summary, Campaign Life Coalition told the committee that the problems of Bill C-56 are centered on three particular areas:  – The bill’s failure to recognize the humanity of the unborn embryo – Clarification of the definitions within the bill are absolutely critical – There is serious lack […]

BUSH REFUSES TO ISSUE GAY PRIDE PROCLAMATION https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34772-2002Jun11.html

NEW RADICAL LEFT WING PARTY CREATED IN QUEBEC L’Union des forces progressistes (UFP) will hold its founding convention next weekend, CP reports. It is a coalition of existing feminist and communist inspired parties.  https://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSPolitics0206/11_quebec-cp.html   NEW ZEALAND ABORTION STATS RELEASED There were 16,400 abortions performed in New Zealand last year, 300 or 1.9 per cent more than in 2000. Figures issued by Statistics New Zealand yesterday show that in 2001 one in three pregnant Asian women in the country aborted their offspring accounting for 364 of every 1000 known Asian pregnancies. That is about 61 per cent above the national […]

SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The mounting scandal over lax discipline, dissent, broken vows and cover-up in the Roman Catholic clergy may have a surprising academic fore-runner: famed “sexologist” Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956).  Kinsey’s anything-goes, morally-relativist sexual philosophy, once considered radical but now mainstream, has triumphed over traditional moral teaching in Catholic institutions across the U.S. since the 1970s—creating a poisonous environment for priests and seminarians who go on to break their vows and abuse boys.  A course called “Sexual Attitude Restructuring” (SAR), offered in many in Catholic institutions, urged a generation of participants to rethink “restricting attitudes” and […]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Swedish government is moving toward prohibiting citizens from opposing homosexuality according to a pro-life Swedish member of Parliament.  If it goes ahead next year, the move would amend the country’s constitution to ban speech or materials, such as biblical injunctions, opposing homosexuality and other “alternative lifestyles.” Violators could face prison.  Annalie Enochson, described by Focus on the Family news services as “a Christian member of Parliament,” said the homosexual lobby in Sweden is small but powerful. She noted the measure passed with only 56 percent in Parliament. “Usually, if you change the […]

TORONTO, June 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Wayne Deakin, a 46-year-old tuberculosis patient in Toronto’s West Park Healthcare Centre, told a hearing that he would rather die than be quarantined for public safety while receiving treatment at public expense that would save his life.  The panel is reviewing a court order that has kept him detained and watched by hospital guards while he receives treatment, according to a Canadian Press/Toronto Sun report. “I don’t want to be here,” Deakin told the panel by speaker-phone. “I have no family left.”  Deakin’s lawyer, Barry Swadron, compared him to “a caged animal” and told […]

LONDON, England, June 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – An Englishwoman in her mid-20s is suing Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) for failing to warn her of the trauma she could suffer from having an abortion four years ago.  In what is the first case of its kind in Britain, according to the BBC, she says that she was not told about the serious physical and mental damage the abortion would cause.  “It was just very frightening,” she told a BBC radio programme. “It just felt what I was doing was wrong. I felt as soon it was done, I knew, ‘What […]

WASHINGTON, June 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, the main proponent of legislation which sought to ban all forms of human cloning, has changed the legislation from banning therapeutic cloning to a 2-year moratorium on the procedure. AP reports that Brownback's fellow party members approved the amended plans Tuesday basing the decision on a perceived lack of votes to pass legislation containing a comprehensive ban.

“True faith is never isolated from the rest of life, and faith without works is dead”  ST. LOUIS, June 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an address yesterday via satellite to the Southern Baptist Convention 2002 Annual Meeting, US President George W. Bush encouraged Baptists to remain involved in politics.  Bush also noted their common commitments to life and family issues.  In total contrast to Canadian Catholic political leaders such as Jean Chretien and Pierre Trudeau, Bush said to applause, “You have never believed in separating religious faith from political life”… “True faith is never isolated from the rest of life, […]

Ontario Press Council upholds complaint   TORONTO, June 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Ontario Press Council upheld a complaint by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) against the Toronto Star for a column which unfairly attributed the promotion of violence and hatred to evangelical Christians. The complaint concerned a column by radical pro-abortion feminist Michelle Landsberg, published June 2, 2001. The commentary in question was regarding a proclamation by the mayor of Regina of Heterosexual Family Pride Day, saying the motives were “to try to enshrine one Christian or ‘missionary’ brand of sexuality as the only official and legal style […]

Puts IVF on the “black list” of treatments which will not be funded ROME, June 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The fruits of the recently elected centre-right coalition government, which included a pro-life contingent represented by the Christian Democrats, have begun to show with a new bill on assisted reproduction. The bill tabled Tuesday bans all experimentation on human embryos and includes a prohibition on testing and freezing embryos. While not banning invitro fertilization (IVF) outright, the legislation says, “the production of embryos is allowed only within the limits strictly necessary to implant one and no more than three.” Thus all […]

FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS UN’S CEDAW RATIFICATION THURSDAY https://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/first/0610-160.html   PRO-LIFERS ON TREK ACROSS THE UNTIED STATES TOWARDS WORLD YOUTH DAY https://www.all.org/crossroads/home.htm   NYT ON MANDATORY ABORTION TRAINING FOR MED SCHOOLS IN NY https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/health/womenshealth/11ABOR.html?ex=1024459200&en=d36786f1174de473&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER   ANOTHER BOOK EXPOSES CORRUPTION OF NEWS MEDIA “Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press” by Kristina Borjesson (Editor), Gore Vidal. Publisher’s Weekly says “if members of the general public read this book, or even portions of it, they will be appalled. To the uninitiated reader, the accounts of what goes on behind the scenes at major news organizations are shocking.” […]

CCCB: “CHURCH HAS TO DO A BETTER JOB IN PROPERLY EXPLAINING ITS DOCTRINES”  Msgr. Peter Schonenbach, general secretary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, said this to Art Babych in an interview on the recent Leger poll.  https://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20020605.htm#head11   COURT GRANTS GERMANY’S FIRST HOMOSEXUAL DIVORCE https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/po/20020611/co_po/court_grants_germany_s_first_gay_divorce

WASHINGTON, June 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The US Census Bureau has reported that the foreign-born population of the United States numbered 31.1 million in 2000.  This represents a 57 percent increase over 1990.  The figures echo predictions made in Pat Buchanan’s recent release “The Death of the West” in which he warned that low birth rates, combined with abortion and contraception would lead to America’s survival being dependent on immigration.  The proportion of foreign-born at 11.1 percent in 2000 is the highest since 1930.  In 2000, 51.7 percent of the foreign-born population were from Latin America, 26.4 percent from Asia […]

LONDON, England, June 11, 2002, (LSN.ca) – The High Court judge in a three-month trial of 100 women who claim they were damaged by the third-generation contraceptive pill says he will rule on the case by the end of July.  During the case, the women’s lawyer said some of his clients were moderately damaged, but that others had suffered “disastrous” injury and lifelong incapacity. Some, he said, died because the pills they received were defective, carrying an increased risk of venous thrombosis embolism (VTE) when compared with the previous generation of the pill.  The three manufacturers who stand accused of […]

AYLMER, Ontario, June 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Aylmer Church of God, in search of a fitting response to the extraordinary government intrusions into their freedom of conscience and security of the person since seven children were seized a year ago, has reiterated its moderate position on spanking and modified its preference for treating illness by prayer and other spiritual means.  The Church’s elders recommend that parents under their spiritual guidance “are to continue to use and explore methods other than ‘spanking’ as forms of discipline, and that if, as a last resort, spanking is called for, it is to […]

Lawyer warns “We have to guard against abuse of power by all state actors”  ST. THOMAS, Ontario, June 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – One of the most striking things about the trial involving seven Aylmer children seized by Family and Children’s Services of St. Thomas-Elgin, now being heard before Madam Justice Eleanor Schnall of the Ontario Court, is how quickly media have sided with the parents.  The children were seized by FCS agents and police on July 4, 2001 from the Aylmer home, 35 km southeast of London, after an over-excited 27-year-old rookie social worker alleged that the parents “struck them […]

WINNIPEG, June 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The NDP government in Manitoba introduced omnibus legislation last Thursday that would amend 56 provincial acts to favour homosexual couples.  Attorney General Gord Mackintosh explained that the legislation would bring the province in line with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  The bill allows for joint adoption of children by homosexual couples, whereas currently only sole parent adoptions are legally recognized for homosexual couples.  The key changes were recommended in December 2001 by the Common-law Relationships Review Panel made up of retired associate chief justice Alvin Hamilton and Winnipeg family law lawyer Jennifer […]

* Every religious community assaulted by decision forcing Catholic Board to allow homosexual date at prom * Separate schools forced to “bow down and worship the great god Equality”  TORONTO, June 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Jewish and Anglican scholars have taken up the fight of the Catholic church regarding the Oshawa court ruling that Catholic high school student Marc Hall must be allowed to attend the school prom with his homosexual ‘boyfriend’.  Jewish philosophy professor David Novak, of the University of Toronto addressed the issue at a recent religious freedom conference as did Anglican law professor Ian Hunter of the […]

NEW YORK, June 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women took up the report of Suriname Friday.  Joella-Sewnundun, Suriname’s Minister for Home Affairs, presented her report to the committee noting that abortion is illegal in her country as is advertising of contraceptives.  One of the UN “experts” at the meeting demanded to know “if there were any plans to abolish the laws punishing the display and offering of contraceptives.”  Another committee member commented on the abortion question noting that the Minister indicated that although abortions were a crime, it was believed that […]

2,500 MARCHED FRIDAY IN JERUSALEM’S FIRST “GAY PRIDE” PARADE https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020607/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_gay_parade_4   WOMAN DIES AT ABORTION CLINIC IN KUALA LUMPUR AFTER BOTCHED ABORTION https://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/6/8/nation/btabort&sec=nation

Bush cracked down on first couple’s pornography legacy in White House   WASHINGTON D.C., June 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Bill and Hillary Clinton amazingly continue to receive praise and rewards from star-struck or ideologically loyal fans despite continuing revelations of serious corruption and negligence during the couples’ White House years.  The ex-president has most recently been invited to Paul McCartney’s wedding and was in Ireland last week to open a peace center dedicated in his name. He continues to be paid large sums for speaking engagements while the American public is increasingly perceiving that US vulnerability to terrorist attacks was […]

SEOUL, South Korea, June 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A human rights group has alleged, after numerous interviews with escapees from North Korean prisons that forced abortion and infanticide are common practices inside the prisons.  The communist rulers in North Korea have denied the charges even claiming to honor children while at the United Nations. While experts in the field have said the government is brutal in its treatment of prisoners, a UNICEF spokesman in the communist regime said there were no reports of such incidents inside the country.

BUFFALO, June 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Overt media bias against the pro-life movement and specifically against James Kopp, accused of murdering abortionist Barnett Slepian, has resulted in the court forbidding media to photograph Kopp during the trial.  Moreover, concerns have also been expressed as to whether an unbiased jury can be assembled for the trial.  During a hearing before State Supreme Court Justice Eugene M. Fahey, various media outlets argued strenuously to be allowed to film Kopp in court.  However, Kopp’s lawyer argued that he did not want to see footage of Kopp, dressed in a jail-issue jumpsuit or looking […]

VANCOUVER, June 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Svend Robinson, a homosexual and euthanasia activist member of the Canadian Parliament has embarrassed Canada once again by this time posing nude for an environmentalist group.  The Georgia Strait Alliance, a marine conservationist group has a website called “Hunks for Habitat” featuring numerous photos of individual nude men as a fundraiser targeted at homosexuals.

TORONTO, June 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Lutherans from across Canada have convened to debate taking a more active role in the pro-life movement. Representatives of the church’s 80,000 members will vote next Saturday on whether to establish a national right-to-life organization.  “There’s growing concern among Lutherans across the country about … embryonic stem cell research, abortion and cloning,” Leonard Harms, a spokesman for Lutheran social ministries, told Canadian Press. James Lamb, another spokesman, wants Lutheran right-to-life organizations modelled on the U.S. example. “It is fundamental to our faith that life in every shape and form has value far beyond utilitarianism,” […]

In-vitro fertilization and human cloning – two sides of the same coin LONDON, England, June 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The British professor responsible for the birth of the world's first test-tube baby supports the creation of human clones if the process is “safe.” Robert Edwards, the former Cambridge infertility specialist whose work with the late Sir Patrick Steptoe led to the IVF birth of Louise Brown in July 1978, told London's Daily Telegraph that if “horrific” cloned animal abnormalities could be avoided, the needs of childless couples should take precedence over other considerations. Edwards told Severino Antinori, the Italian doctor […]

QUEBEC, June 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Quebec gave legal status to homosexual “civil unions” on Friday, including equivalency of access to adoption and artificial insemination.  Paul Begin, Quebec’s attorney general, said the province stopped short of redefining the term “marriage,” but conferred “equality” in terms of health and insurance benefits, tax status and rights after divorce or death.  News agencies noted the irony that this occurred in the “once staunchly conservative province strongly influenced by the Roman Catholic Church”—but failed to note that it is a logical step in the self-destructive Quiet Revolution that has disfigured much of the province’s […]

BUSH VOWS TO VETO SPENDING BILL FORCING FUNDING TO UNFPA Official statement of Bush administration says “As has been US policy and law since 1985, no support should be provided to UNFPA if that organization’s programs in China support coercion.”  https://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2002/06/05/eline/links/20020605elin037.html   PRO-ABORTION EXTREMIST CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN BEHIND SURPRISING KYOTO DOC FROM BUSH ADMIN Bush expresses displeasure with report leaked without his knowledge.  https://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/6/4/181523

NATIONAL POST ARTICLE ON STEM CELL ETHICS – WORTH READING https://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20020524/326796.html&qs=MARTINUK   CHILDREN’S NOVEL PROMOTES HOMOSEXUALITY WITH MAIN CHARACTER A HOMOSEXUAL 10-YEAR OLD   “Strange Boy” published by Simon and Schuster and written by Paul Magrs.  https://www.guardian.co.uk/gender/story/0,11812,728660,00.html

NEW YORK, June 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for June 7, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports just over 884,000 legal abortions performed in the US in 1998, a 2% decrease from the year before.  The CDC report indicates that between 1993 and 1997, 36 women who had abortions died, making for a mother’s mortality rate of 0.6 deaths for every 100,000 legal abortions. The statistics indicate that those who had abortions in 1998 were more likely to be white, unmarried and age 25 or younger.  Over half of reported abortions were […]

DUBLIN, June 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Dana Rosemary Scallon, the pro-life Member of the Eupropean Parliament from Ireland, has warned that the European Union is putting pressure on the Irish Government to support funding for destructive research on human embryos. The Irish Times reports that Dana has revealed that people at the highest level in Bertie Ahern's government are being pushed to assist the use of EU money for experimentation with embryos. Dana said Ireland must vote in the coming weeks to block their participation in the embryo research programme. She cautioned against caving in to EU bullying.

The June 2002 issue of the American Psychological Association’s prestigious journal Professional Psychology: Research and Practice has published a comprehensive research paper on sexual-orientation change. Clients have the right to pursue change, the author says, because “sexual orientation, once thought to be an unchanging trait, is actually quite flexible for some people.” The article by Dr. Warren Throckmorton is entitled, “Initial Empirical and Clinical Findings Concerning the Change Process for Ex-Gays.”“I’m pleased that this research summary will reach an audience of psychologists and mental health professionals that may not be aware of ex-gay issues,” says Throckmorton, the director of college […]

UNITED NATIONS, June 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has again attempted to badger a pro-life country into legalizing abortion.  A UN report on committee proceedings concerning the island nation of on St. Kitts and Nevis notes that “several members of the Committee pointed out that illegal abortion presented a serious problem” and that abortion is illegal in the country. The committee demanded to know ” What kind of educational and family planning programmes were available to women who wanted to avoid unwanted pregnancies?”  See the UN report on the proceedings:  […]

FORMER PRESIDENT FORD BACKS HUMAN THERAPEUTIC CLONING IN POST ARTICLE https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61042-2002Jun4.html   INMATES TO BE ALLOWED ABORTIONS AFTER ACLU LAWSUIT https://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/jun/05/060508814.html   PORTLAND CITY CUTS FUNDS TO SALVATION ARMY DUE TO STAND ON UNMARRIED SEX https://cultureandfamily.org/e/report/2002-06-05/n_salv-army.shtml   ALASKA GOV. TONY KNOWLES (D) VETOES BILL TO LIMIT STATE FUNDS FOR ABORTION https://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/157/nation/Governor_s_veto_rejects_an_abortion_restriction+.shtml   PLANNED PARENTHOOD ON THE RUN—AN EXCELLENT COMMENTARY BY JOSEPH FARAH https://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27780

GRANDCHILDREN HURT WHEN GRANDPARENTS DIVORCE: STUDY https://www.psu.edu/ur/2002/grandparentdivorce.html (with files from Focus on the Family’s Today’s Family News)  MORNING AFTER PILL TO GO ON SALE IN AUSTRALIA NEXT MONTH https://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4452171%255E2862,00.html

CANBERRA, June 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) social trends report said Australian fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels since 1976.  The ABS report warns that the situation will lead to population decline and also warns that the falling birthrate coupled with increased life expectancy will lead to a rapidly ageing population.  “The ageing of the population will change the ratio of old to young, and the proportion of the population who are of working age,” said the report. “These shifts will affect many areas of social and economic activity, forcing change not only in […]

STOCKHOLM, June 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The socialist-led Swedish parliament approved legislation Wednesday to allow homosexual couples to adopt children jointly, even in cases of foreign adoption.  The move prompted homosexual activists to target homosexual marriage.  Sweden allowed homosexuals legally registered partnerships in 1995.  AP reports that Sweden and fellow Nordic nations Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland already recognize legal partnerships between homosexuals, but only Denmark and Iceland allowed adoption.  The law will likely take effect next year.  See the AP coverage:  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020605/ap_on_re_eu/sweden_gay_adoptions_4

STRASBOURG, June 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite has learned that the Women’s Commission of the European Parliament voted Tuesday to adopt a document calling all member nations to provide abortion.  The Commission for the Rights of Women and Equality of Opportunities voted 21-11 to adopt the report written for the Women’s Commission by Anne E. M. Van Lancker, an MEP of the socialist party from Belgium. The report will be voted on by the full European Parliament in Strasbourg next month.  The European pro-life group Euro-Fam notes that the document suggests that the expansion of sex education in all European […]

OTTAWA, June 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Canadian Anglican news service reports that in June 2002 the Synod of the Canadian Anglican Diocese of New Westminster will consider allowing officially sanctioned ‘same-sex blessings’ in Anglican churches in the Anglican Church of Canada.  The report indicates that New Westminster Diocesan Bp. Michael Ingham may well be committed to proceed with the approval of same-sex blessings.  Moved by The Reverend Robert Korth, and seconded by Ms. Maureen Ashfield, the motion proposed for the 2002 Synod reads:  Be it resolved that this synod, in light of the two majority votes of support for […]

Planned Parenthood In Hot Water for Failing to Report Statutory Rape Cases   HARTFORD, June 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Connecticut Chief State’s Attorney John M. Bailey said he plans to meet with Planned Parenthood next week to remind the organization of its statutory obligation to report suspected cases of child sex abuse.  The news comes after Life Dynamics Inc, a Texas-based pro-life group released the results of a sting operation where Planned Parenthood clinics were discovered to be concealing statutory rape cases.  Tape recorded evidence of calls to Planned Parenthood made by a Life Dynamics worker, posing as an abortion […]

LifeSite responds to “corrections” from Alliance Justice Critic regarding LifeSite report   Yesterday LifeSite reported on the soft-glove treatment Svend Robinson’s Private Members’ Bill received by all parties in the House, including the ostensibly conservative Canadian Alliance. The Bill, C-415, expands the Criminal Code definition of identifiable groups relating to genocide and hate propaganda by including sexual orientation as an identifiable group. Alliance MP Vic Toews, who, as the Justice Critic, is responsible for drafting the party’s response to this bill, challenged LifeSite on several points of fact. He (actually the letter was signed off by his legislative assistant) stressed […]

– Says the document does not address core issues of the scandals – dissent and homosexuality – Many of the high-level Curia officials in Rome think there really is no scandal.  NEW YORK, June 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Tuesday the U.S. Catholic Bishops released a draft “Charter” containing “a series of steps aimed at the protection of children and young people” in church ministries and institutions.  St. Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop Harry J. Flynn, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Bishops’ Conference presented the document entitled “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.”  The draft has […]

NEW YORK PRO-ABORTION LEGAL GROUP LOBBYING FOR ABORTION IN GHANA https://allafrica.com/stories/200206040059.html

ALEXA MCDONOUGH RESIGNS AS NDP LEADER The social leftist party leader has said she will step aside as soon as a new leader is chosen, probably before the end of the year.  https://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/06/05/alexa_resign020605   NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER HELEN CLARK SHOWS HERSELF A PRO-HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020605/ap_wo_en_po/new_zealand_gays_apology_1

CANBERRA, June 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Under legislation proposed in Australia today, husbands, boyfriends, parents or anyone else who coerced a woman into abortion would face up to 10 years in jail.  The bill also seeks to ensure that women who seek abortion receive independent counselling.  She said, “I and others consider that people who have a financial interest are not sufficiently dispassionate about advising women of their options.”  The bill would also remove the potential 10-year jail penalty faced by women who have abortions and replace it with a token one-month prison term.  However, it retains the 10-year penalty […]

BUFFALO, June 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – James C. Kopp, the man accused of killing abortionist Barnett Slepian, departed Paris France by plane today headed for Buffalo, N.Y. and was expected to arraigned efore a federal court today and a state court tomorrow. Paul J. Cambria Jr., Kopp’s lawyer confirmed “He’ll plead not guilty in both locations.”  Interestingly, despite “double jeopardy” laws against trying individuals twice for the same crime, Erie County District Attorney Frank J. Clark wants to ensure the state tries Kopp first so that the federal courts can make another attempt at conviction. “Obviously having the opportunity to […]

Liberals indicate support for Svend Robinson bill while Alliance does nothing   OTTAWA, June 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an incredible blow to pro-family forces in Canada, homosexual activist MP Svend Robinson’s private member’s bill on “sexual orientation” passed second reading and was sent to committee.  With only about 15 Members present in the House of Commons May 29, Robinson’s Bill C-415 received unanimous support in the House. The bill expands the Criminal Code definition of identifiable groups relating to genocide (Section 318) and hate propaganda (Section 319) by including sexual orientation as an identifiable group, Astonishingly, the supposedly small-c […]

GRANT COUNTY OREGON VOTES TO BAN UNITED NATIONS FROM COUNTY https://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-sagebrush-rebellion0602jun02.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines

OTTAWA, June 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Youths raised in poor Toronto neighbourhoods perform just as well as those from suburban, middle-class neighbourhoods in terms of jobs, income and education, according to new findings from Statistics Canada. The findings seem to contradict the idea that moving poor children into better neighbourhoods will enhance their performance in school and the job market.  The long-range study tracked young people from low-income families in Toronto over a 12-year period from 1986 to 1998, and examined their eventual adult earnings, income, social assistance rates and educational attainment. Average incomes for youths followed from age 27 […]

WASHINGTON, June 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Former presidential candidate and MSNBC talk show host Alan Keyes asked controversial anti-abortion webmaster Neal Horsely to stop his tactics, which Keyes said hurt the pro-life movement.  Horsely, best known for his Nuremburg Files website which at one time listed the names of abortionists and crossed out those who were shot, was a guest on Keyes’ “Making Sense” program last week.  He defended his work arguing that those involved in abortion must be punished.  Keyes, an outstanding pro-lifer, said to Horsely: “I want to tell you quite bluntly that I think that what you […]

GAINESVILLE, Florida, June 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Stem cells found in the bone marrow of adult mice don't just evolve into key components of blood – they are able to build blood vessels. The discovery, announced Friday by University of Florida scientists writing in the online edition of Nature Medicine, marks an important discovery in adult stem cell research because the bone marrow is a rich source of stem cells. “We've shown for the first time that adult blood stem cells can function to make blood vessels. We now know blood vessels can be formed from a remote location-they're not […]

WEST ORANGE, New Jersey, June 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Researchers at a New Jersey fertility clinic are proposing a “morally acceptable” way to obtain human embryonic stem cells. They revealed some details of the technique, but did not explain how their method of deriving human embryos for experimentation would be morally better than any other.  The researchers, Mina Alikani and Dr. Steen M. Willadsen of the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St. Barnabas in West Orange, N.J., report that some of their embryo mixtures derived from infertile couples resulted in a kind of hybrid embryo, or chimera, that […]

  UNITED NATIONS, June 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women met yesterday to commence a three-week session during which it will review reports from various countries on adherence to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women.  The session which will run until June 21, will consider reports from Suriname, the Republic of Congo, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Belgium, Tunisia, Zambia, Ukraine and Denmark.  The committee has traditionally been known to pester countries which have ratified the document to adhere to the committee’s interpretation of the document.  […]

JERUSALEM, June 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Jerusalem, one of the world most revered cities, according to Christians, Jews and Muslims, will be desecrated by a homosexual “gay pride” march on Friday.  Open House, the homosexual activist group organizing the march, recognizes it as more than a march in support of local homosexuals and is expecting thousands of participants including delegations from homosexual activist groups around the world.  Hagai Elad, director of the Jerusalem Open House said, “We are expecting thousands to participate in this unprecedented march, including groups from Italy, Sweden and Canada.”  The group had demanded that the city […]

WASHINGTON, June 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Frances Kissling, president of the pro-abortion group Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), admitted in an interview with USA Today that pro-abortion groups knowingly mislead their supporters. In the interview published Tuesday, Kissling said “I don’t like to say it because we’re supposed to keep people scared” about the possibility that Roe vs. Wade could be reversed, “But the country has reached an accommodation: Abortion is going to be regulated, and it’s going to be legal.”  CFFC is an anti-Catholic, pro-abortion group as well as a front group for large, U.S., anti-Catholic foundations including […]

JUDGE RULES US MILITARY MUST PAY FOR ABORTION OF BRAIN DISORDERED UNBORN CHILDREN https://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-brf-military-abortion-judge0601jun01.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines   COURT DISSMISSES WRONGUL LIFE SUIT SAYING DOCTORS HAD TO TREAT PREMIE   https://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/29052002-020715-2070r.htm

UK PRO-LIFERS FILM INSIDE ABORTUARIES AND RELEASE FOOTAGE OF WORKERS https://www.sundayherald.com/print25138 (with files from Pro-Life E-News)  EPSOM SALTS COULD PREVENT PRE-ECLAMPSIA IN PREGNANT WOMEN https://www.abc.net.au/news/scitech/2002/05/item20020531181319_1.htm   AUSTRALIAN GOV’T SLAMMED FOR FUNDING EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH   https://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/archive/200205/FOR20020531b.html   HOMOSEXUAL ‘PRIDE’ MARCH IN BRAZIL ATTRACTS THOUSANDS https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020603/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_gay_parade_2

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, June 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Scientists have successfully grown tissues for transplant which will not be rejected, including miniature kidneys and small “patches” of heart tissue from cloned cow cells. But the technique is unlikely to be used in humans because the law, at least for the present, does not allow organs to be removed from mature human fetuses.  The problem in studies so far has been that animals produced by cloning inherit some DNA from the egg rather than the donor cell, and these “foreign genes” create a risk of rejection after transplantation. They said that the […]

Calls the Clintons “perverse, disturbed and destructive. And immoral.”  WASHINGTON, June 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Famed social conservative talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger said in a recent interview with NewsMax magazine that she would feel compelled to run for president if Hillary Clinton ran.  Dr. Laura, heard by an estimated 15 million listeners each week, said a presidential run by Hillary Clinton would be “horrifying.”  Speaking of Hillary and former president Bill Clinton Dr. Laura said: “Everything I’ve read about her … the book the FBI guy who was in the White House, Gary Aldrich – I mean, you […]

GENEVA, June 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Swiss referendum result on Sunday, approving abortion on demand, removes one more pocket of resistance to the Europe-wide embrace of the abortion culture. Now only Poland, Ireland, Portugal and Malta place any restraint on the willful destruction of human life in the womb.  Results from 25 out of 26 cantons showed a 72 per cent victory for the proposal to allow abortions up to the 12th week of pregnancy, compared to anywhere from 10 to 22 weeks in other Western European countries. The results showed 81 per cent rejecting a pro-life counterproposal to […]

VANCOUVER, June 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a move that shows contempt for freedom of conscience, the B.C. Children’s and Women’s Hospital has bowed to hysteria and cancelled a cleaning contract with a company whose part-owner is pro-life.  Elizabeth Whynot, the hospital’s executive director of women’s and family health, confirmed on Friday that the contract with A & A Services Ltd., of which Cecilia von Dehn is a 10% owner, had been cancelled.  Until a new contract can be awarded, A & A will continue to provide the services, Whynot said. But she did not explain why, if there is […]

OTTAWA, June 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The stinging criticism of the proposed Canadian stem cell legislation issued last week by leading international expert Dr. Dianne Irving, shows bill C-56 to be toothless according to legal opinion.  Richard Marchak, a lawyer with Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSite that the current incorrect and incomplete definitions in the bill would leave loopholes rendering the prohibitions unenforceable.  “Since the legislation allows for jail terms and large fines, the courts would be hard pressed to issue penalties based on ambiguities on what is prohibited and what is not,” said Marchak.  Dr. Irving, whose Ph.D. included […]

Pope’s Trip to Canada Hoped to Revitalize Faith   WINNIPEG, June 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Leger poll released yesterday claims that 72% of Canadians believe that “the doctrine of the Catholic Church regarding things such as abortion, contraception and the marriage of priests is dated and out of sync with the times.”  However, even a larger percentage of Canadian Catholics, 74%, agree with the statement.  Paul Kilbertus, director of communications for World Youth Day (WYD) in Toronto told LifeSite that the fast approaching WYD will revitalize the faith in Canada.  “What you will see at WYD will be hundreds […]