Articles for Month: July 2002

EVIDENCE OF COERCIVE STERILIZATIONS IN OREGON SHREDDED   https://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/1028030290179750.xml

WORLD YOUTH DAY ORGANIZER GIVEN KEY TO CITY OF TORONTO Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman awarded WYD organizer Fr. Tom Rosica the key to the city Wednesday.  https://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20020731-007/page.asp   IN THE POPE, TEENS FIND LOST STRENGTH https://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id=83850EB3-3F7A-457E-B9A2-4CB1B15C4E8F   STUDY FINDS BETTER HEALTH OUTCOMES WHEN PATIENTS’ SPIRITUAL NEEDS ADDRESSED https://www.religionnews.com/press02/PR072402.html   NATIONAL POST EDITORIAL CRITICIZES MALTHUSIAN POPULATION CONTROL THEORIES https://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id={5097151D-68FA-45EE-8B3F-39BAEB0EF235}

LONDON, July 31, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A survey of nearly 2,000 of the Church of England’s 10,000 clergy has revealed that a third of the clergy doubt or disbelieve the physical Resurrection of Christ.  Moreover the survey found that only half the clergy accept the Christian teaching on the Virgin birth.  See the coverage from the Telegraph at:  https://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/07/31/ncreed31.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/07/31/ixhome.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=440739

Chretien advisor 'outraged' by ultimatum

Chretien and Clark finally on way out?

Helms says findings "out of step with generally held values of democratic nations."

Would focus on "those issues that were swept under the rug at the June bishops' meeting."

What are the Catholic bishops thinking?

HPV has reached epidemic proportions in the West

HOMOSEXUALS TO PARENT QUADRUPLETS  Two homosexuals, are about to become the first “gay couple” to become parents of quadruplets—three boys and a girl—born to a surrogate mother in Kentucky. Attorney Michael Meehan, 36, was the biological father of the quads born of a mother through in vitro fertilization, and will raise the children with his partner (for the time being), hairdresser Thomas Dysarz. The boys were reportedly named Tristan, Michael and Jacob and the girl was named Taylor. Please pray for them.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020729/hl_nm/quadruplets_gay_dc_1   JUDGE SUPPORTS BOY SCOUT BAN  Accuses Scouts of “discriminating” vs. gays A federal judge has ruled […]

WASHINGTON, July 30, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The American Life League claims that a new bill in the U.S. Senate would oblige insurance companies to cover abortifacient drugs.  As early as this week, Senators Harry Reid (Nevada Republican) and Olympia Snowe (Maine Republican) plan to tack S. 104, their contraceptive mandate bill, to a prescription drug bill recently passed by the House. The Reid-Snowe bill would force all bodies covered by prescription drug insurance to include “contraceptive” coverage including abortifacients.  “The possibility that prescription drug insurance companies may be forced to cover abortion-inducing drugs and devices is positively revolting,” said the […]

Accused of misrepresenting 45 years of research

Fine now equal to eight years' income

KINGSTON, Ont., July 30, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Tanya Meyers, 22, of Kingston, is 10 weeks pregnant and wants to abort her unborn child because of “verbal and emotional abuse” and threats of bodily harm by her ex-boyfriend, the child’s father. But John Stachokus, 27, of Plains, Pennsylvania, filed an injunction in his county court to stop the abortion, and wants full custody of his unborn child. It is unclear what effect Mr. Stachokus expects a Plains county injunction to have in Ontario.  Meyers and Stachokus conceived the child during better times. She says their relationship remained stable at first, but […]

Appointed board overrides decision of elected City Council

LA JOLLA, Calif., July 29, 2002 (LSN.ca)—Stem cells taken from adult bone marrow can be grown into new blood vessels in the eyes of mice, and may lead to a treatment for some illnesses that cause blindness in humans, such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. The study, led by Dr. Martin Friedlander, at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, will appear in the September issue of the journal Nature Medicine. Reports made clear that the study used “adult” cells from bone marrow and that they need not be harvested from human embryos, a process that kills […]

Three pharmaceutical companies delighted

TORONTO, July 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a Saturday morning editorial on World Youth Day, the National Post’s editors showed a breadth of mind unusual in Canadian journalism—and reminiscent of the paper’s editorial heyday under Conrad Black and John O’Sullivan.  Entitled “Mother and papa,” meaning the CBC (“Mothercorp”) and the Pope, the editorial blasts the CBC for pursuing the “marginal story of anti-Catholic political activism as though it were of roughly equal scale and importance,” leaving CBC viewers with the impression that WYD was “an affair saturated with controversy.” In sum, the Post said this was “not balanced reporting but […]

It is often heard that faithful priests are persecuted by chancery bureaucrats and bishops

Pope warns that a society which attempts to build itself without reference to Christ will hurt humanity

OTTAWA, July 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-family and religious groups breathed a sigh of relief today as the federal Justice Minister announced that Ottawa would appeal the Ontario Superior Court decision in favour of homosexual marriage.  Martin Cauchon, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, explained the decision saying: “there are important reasons why we as a society must consider carefully the issues around changing the fundamental nature of marriage and what the implications of such a change might be. At present, there is no consensus, either from the courts or among Canadians, on whether or how the laws […]

OTTAWA, July 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A source with a connection to the Attorney General’s office has informed LifeSite that the Canadian Government will appeal the Ontario Superior Court decision in favour of homosexual marriage.  Today, was the last day to appeal the decision.  Federal Justice Minister/Attorney General Martin Cauchon will file the appeal later this afternoon.  More as the story develops…

JUDGE ORDERS ABSTINENCE PROGRAM TO DROP “RELIGION”  A federal judge in Louisiana ruled yesterday that the state illegally used federal money to promote religion in its abstinence-only sex education programs, a decision that could jeopardize President Bush’s ambitions for expanding the effort nationwide.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2530-2002Jul25.html

RAPE VICTIM ALLEGES BLACKMAIL BY LIBERAL CABINET MEMBER An 18-year old woman who claims that Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s adopted son sexually assaulted her has said that Liberal Cabinet member Ethel Blondin-Andrew warned her not to press charges.  https://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2002-07/jul26_02pmo.html   FAMED CANADIAN FIDDLER STANDS UP FOR HER BELIEFS INCLUDING PRO-LIFE https://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1027591330975&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News   OUTSPOKENLY PRO-LIFE GERMAN CARDINAL DIES Johannes Joachim Degenhardt (76), archbishop of Paderborn, died Thursday of heart failure.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62567-2002Jul25.html   FERTILITY TREATMENT PERILS SHOWN AS WOMAN PREGNANT WITH NINE BABIES https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=573&e=3&u=/nm/20020725/od_nm/pregnancy_dc_1   MALAYSIA GOV’T CONSIDERING LEGALIZING ABORTION IN CASES OF INCEST AND RAPE https://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/7/26/nation/ihabort&sec=nation   CHILDREN CREATED WITH DONOR […]

SEOUL, Korea, Kuly 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – With a Korean affiliate of the Raelian cult claiming that it has impregnated a woman with a cloned human embryo, Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare will conduct an on-site inspection of the Cloniad laboratory to see if laws have been violated.  A report in Joongang Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper, says the implanted woman is expected to give birth to a human clone early next year. Human cloning is not yet illegal in Korea and if the parliament votes to ban the practice, the suborned 20-year-old woman would be moved to another […]

Promises more free votes, money

Study offers hope for 'ethical transplant'

OTTAWA, July 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – True to form, the Liberal Party has employed a polling company to help them decide whether to appeal the recent Ontario Divisional Court ruling that orders governments to end all distinctions between homosexual and heterosexual marriage.  Pollara was asked to gauge support for “gay and lesbian marriage,” especially among respondents under 34.  The poll claims that 48 percent overall are in favour of granting “marriage rights” to homosexual couples; 43 percent are opposed, and 9 percent have no opinion. Among the young, the poll suggests an overwhelming 65 percent of those aged 25 to […]

Triumph of the natural law

TORONTO, July 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Prayer by World Youth Day Pilgrims over sixty feet away from a Toronto abortuary is driving the abortuary staff delusional.  Beginning Tuesday WYD pilgrims have taken time, sometimes up to five hours, to pray silently in a Park across the street from a Toronto abortuary.  However the reaction by the abortion clinic as reported by the media is frenetic.  “There is the feeling that these people, because they carry a rosary, because they are kneeling, because they call themselves Catholics, that they’re entitled to do this,” clinic manager Maria Corsillo said. “These people are […]

TORONTO, July 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pope John Paul II challenged young people in his first official address to World Youth Day participants yesterday to reject “the lure of sin, however attractive it may be.”  Getting to the heart of the matter which drives the abortion and contraceptive industry, the Pope warned against enticing voices which “propose a joy that comes with the superficial and fleeting pleasure of the senses.” Rather than the fleeting and false joy “that can be had with money, with success, with power,” the Pope reminded the youth that true happiness – which we were made […]

TORONTO, July 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite’s roving reporter covering the various World Youth Day events in Toronto has been tremendously impressed by the joy and exuberance of the youth and has come to appreciate their discernment.  Each morning the young people are given teachings at churches all over the city by the cardinals and bishops of the church.  The reactions of the pilgrims vary greatly according to what they receive. LifeSite’s Steve Jalsevac was present at a few catechesis sessions and noted the differing reactions with interest.  Archbishop George Pell from Australia, who gave his attentive audience in a […]

US SENATE TO VOTE TODAY ON UN FEMINIST TREATY The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is a United Nations treaty that has been at the top of the abortion-rights agenda this year. Those who believe that abortion and abortive forms of “contraception” are the keys to achieving equality between men and women have finally succeeded in bringing this treaty to a vote, American Life League reports.

ELEMENTARY TEACHERS OF TORONTO ENDORSE ANTI-POPE DEMO https://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/levy.html   FR. RAYMOND DE SOUZA’S NEW WYD COMMENTARY https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id={8B71DE04-ABFC-492D-81B5-8D8FB19E1B7A}  TORONTO POLICE STOP ANTI-CATHOLIC ACTIVIST FROM PUSHING CONDOMS ON PILGRIMS https://cbc.ca/stories/2002/07/24/challenge020724

SALVADOR, Brazil, July 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Lawrence Stanley, 47, a key source in the case surrounding Judith Levine’s pornographic book “Harmful to Minors” has been apprehended at his home in Brazil, and is now in custody awaiting trial.  Levine says Stanley is “the most thorough research[er] of child pornography in the 1980s.” Her book, “Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex,” argues that it is “harmful” to protect children from exploitation by perverts, quotes Stanley several times. Author Levine is also an apologist: “The fact is, most kids will say yes to sexuality at some point […]

CLEARWATER, FL, July 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Children of God for Life, a pro-life group which specializes in information on vaccines using tissue from aborted babies, has announced the discovery of plans by Crucell, N.V. and the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institutes of Health’s Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to jointly develop a new vaccine against ebola.  The vaccine will be manufactured using Crucell’s PER C6 cell line, which is derived from the retinal tissue of an 18-week-old aborted baby.  Children of God for Life has already received over 450,000 signatures in their Campaign for Ethical Vaccines.  Last […]

New study of 10-year success-failure rates

HYATTSVILLE, Maryland, July 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A new study shows that, for those who want to increase the chances of a happy relationship, marriage is a much better bet than ‘living in sin’.  Couples who live together unmarried are more than twice as likely to split up than couples who tie the knot. In other words, people who live with their boyfriend or girlfriend have an almost 50-50 chance of break-up within five years—compared to 20% among married couples, according to the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) based on a five-year survey period.  The 100-page report, by […]

OTTAWA, July 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a column published yesterday in the National Post, Alliance Family Critic Vic Toews warned “The deadline to appeal this decision is next Monday (July 29). In the interest of ensuring that the voices of Canadians are heard on this issue, the federal Liberal government must appeal this case.” Toews notes that “the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice are nowhere to be found on this issue” despite having promised to defend the traditional definition of marriage. “They are taking the easy way out, letting unaccountable and unelected judges make law in place […]

Senate and White House likely to approve landmark ban

TORONTO, July 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Toronto's Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic received thunderous applause as he responded to a question on abortion in a Catechesis session he offered yesterday as part of the World Youth Day celebrations. Asked about abortion and embryonic stem cell research the Cardinal said, “the Church will forever be opposed to it. I don't feel the Church has any choice in the matter” – a response which elicited heartfelt approval from his the several hundred youth in attendance. Responding bluntly on the issue of embryo research he said: “You don't have to produce babies and kill them […]

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL WEBSITE LISTS ONLY “CATHOLICS FOR A FREE CHOICE” IN “CATHOLIC” SECTION https://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/22/column.shields/index.html   MAN ORDERED TO GIVE UP TRADEMARK DOMAIN NAMES POINTED TO PRO-LIFE WEBSITES https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020724/ap_on_hi_te/cybersquatting_ruling_2   WHITE HOUSE ALLOWS CONSERVATIVE TO REMAIN IN PRESIDENTIAL AIDS ADVISORY COUNCIL https://www.cnsnews.com/Politics/archive/200207/POL20020723a.html

UNFPA COMPLAINS ABOUT LOSING U.S. FUNDING https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2002/pop836.doc.htm   AUSTRIA’S HIGH DIVORCE RATE WORRIES CHURCH LEADERS Virtually half the marriages that have taken place in Austria in recent years have ended in civil divorce.  https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=23691   NEW UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER CHOSEN UN Secretary-General Annan has announced Sergio Vieira de Mello of Brazil as the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.  The appointment would be for a four-year term, beginning on 12 September 2002.  He replaces the pro-abortion Mary Robinson of Ireland.  https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2002/SGA808.doc.htm   IVF MIX-UPS ‘OCCUR REGULARLY’ SAYS UK EXPERT https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2148423.stm

LOS ANGELES, July 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Today at noon 50 young people from the pro-life group Survivors conducted a sit-in and demonstration a pharmacy in Los Angeles which distributes the abortifacient morning after pill.  The group noted in a release that the protest will launch a statewide campaign to challenge pharmacy owners not to distribute the drug.  Survivors “calls for Rite-Aid to protect young women and babies from being exploited and killed by this destructive pill,” says the release. Anrianna Gumbine, one of the participants said: “As a 16 year old high school student I find it offensive that […]

Korean Raelians claim cloning project underway

BRUSSELS, July 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The European Union is going to give the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) US$34 millon for “sexual and reproductive health” programs including abortion, contraception and sterilization in developing countries to make up for the U.S. decision to cancel its contribution. The European commission says it will send the money to projects run by the UNPFA and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.  A spokesman for Poul Nielson, the EU’s development commissioner, claimed: “The losers from this [U.S.] decision will be some of the most vulnerable people on earth,” including 80,000 women the pro-abortionists claim “die […]

Law since 1970s doesn't reflect opinion of 75%

Media Omits United Nations Involvement

TORONTO, July 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – With the vast majority of media outlets in Canada providing at least unbiased if not positive coverage on World Youth Day and the papal visit, Canada’s national public broadcaster the CBC is sticking out like a sore thumb.  Inordinate time on news broadcasts is given to pro-abortion dissenters and those critical of Pope John Paul II.  Special programming is being reserved for presentations of a tiny dissident group hosted in a Toronto Anglican parish which tonight plans to hold a ‘Mass’ presided over by an officially excommunicated ‘Catholic’ woman.  Some of the WYD pilgrims […]

TORONTO, July 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday’s WYD report was filed before the end of the Tuesday afternoon opening mass at World Youth Day. Following that event the massive crowd of young people divided into many directions flooding the entire Toronto Exhibition grounds and buildings with singing, cheering and dancing groups. Our LifeSite reporter says that although the crowd was estimated to be 200,000 it seemed to be a million because of the exuberance and energy of the young pilgrims.  There was a wide variety of first-class entertainment throughout the huge area – all of it clean, healthy entertainment with […]

NAIROBI PRO-LIFERS HOLD PRO-LIFE DEMONSTRATION https://allafrica.com/stories/200207210052.html   NETHERLANDS SWEARS IN NEW CENTER-RIGHT GOVERNMENT https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020723/ap_on_re_eu/netherlands_politics_11   FEMALE COLUMNIST PRAISES DIVORCE REPORT   Last week, the Institute for American Values (www.americanvalues.org) released a study on the effects of divorce on the unhappy couples themselves. It seems that another great myth is about to tumble—the myth that at least divorce makes unhappily married adults happier. To read Mona Charen’s column about the study: https://www.townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/mc20020719.shtml   MORE PRAISE FOR ABSTINENCE PROGRAMS   Uganda’s abstinence program is the only international success story in the battle vs. AIDS. But critics of President Bush’s proposal to spend […]

HONGKONG, July 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The land of the one-child policy and forced abortions has yielded the largest embryonic stem cell bank in the world.  The Straits Times reports that by cloning “more than 30 human embryos” it has become “the first country in the world to have an abundant supply of embryonic stem cells.” The report notes that the “embryos were grown to a 200-cell stage, large enough to harvest.”  At least five laboratories in China are known to be engaged in the research. See the Straits Times report:  https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,132058-1026856740,00.html (Paid subscription necessary to access article.)

CANTERBURY, July 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The new Archbishop of Canterbury, titular head of Anglicans worldwide, was named today by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The appointment of Dr. Rowan Williams was dreaded by some conservatives wary of his dissent from his predecessor, Dr. George Carey, on homosexuality and the remarriage of divorced persons in the church but at the same time praised by some pro-lifers.  The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), welcomed the choice of “a life-member of the Society” as Archbishop. John Smeaton, national director, said: “We are delighted to see that someone of such […]

Pro-life concerns remain

Reissues solitary stand for life

TORONTO, July 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pope John Paul II’s arrival in Canada has transformed Toronto and Canada seemingly overnight.  Pro-life and Catholic leaders in Canada have been stunned by the surprisingly positive (with some exceptions) media coverage of World Youth Day (WYD) beginning Monday.  Moreover, a LifeSite reporter roaming the streets of Toronto covering WYD events has been amazed by the number of singing, joyful groups of pilgrims present everywhere throughout the city’s large downtown area.  Television and radio coverage of the Pope’s remarks as he was welcomed to Toronto today was thorough.  The two national newspapers, The National […]

TORONTO, July 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – After being greeted by Prime Minister Jean Chretien at the Toronto airport today, Pope John Paul II had words of blessing and warning for Canada.  In his opening remarks the Pope spoke of the need for peace, justice, human solidarity, joy and hope.  The Pope praised Canada saying “In a world of great social and ethical strains, and confusion about the very purpose of life, Canadians have an incomparable treasure to contribute.” However, he said that that contribution was “on condition that they preserve what is deep, and good and valid in their own […]

TORONTO, July 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – This morning about 100 World Youth Day pilgrims joined Msgr. Phillip Reilly of Helpers of God’s Precious Infants praying for about one hour outside of the Scott Abortion Clinic in Toronto.  Today’s vigil started with a Mass and then a talk with carefully laid-out instructions at the headquarters of Campaign Life Coalition in downtown Toronto. The pilgrims then walked several blocks to the abortuary while praying and singing hymns, returning in the same manner after the vigil at the abortuary. Afterwards, the Msgr. related stories about the extraordinary national and international growth of the […]

SOURCES SUGGEST BUSH WILL OFFICIALLY DENY UNFPA FUNDING TUESDAY https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,58329,00.html   MORE TEENS RETAINING THEIR VIRGINITY A decade ago, more than half of high school teens had sexual intercourse while they were in high school. Now, according to new federal data, it appears that the tables have turned, and virginal teens outnumber the sexually active ones. https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020722-76660856.htm   RELIGIOUS GROUPS PREPARE FOR FIGHT ON EDUCATION VOUCHERS Religious groups on the left and right are preparing for local skirmishes after the Supreme Court allowed education vouchers, which have been used mostly for church-related schools. The liberal Interfaith Alliance, says the Washington […]

POPE’S OFFICIAL ITINERARY IN TORONTO FOR WORLD YOUTH DAY https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/travels/2002/documents/trav_canada-guatemala-mexico_program_20020716_en.html   SINGAPORE APPROVES CLONING HUMAN EMBRYOS FOR RESEARCH Singapore will allow human cloning for research in addition to deadly research on human embryos from fertility treatments.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020718/ap_wo_en_po/singapore_stem_cells_2   WORLD MAGAZINE COVER STORY ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD CONCEALING SEXUAL ABUSE https://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/07-27-02/cover_1.asp

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Six couples who have agreed to become the parents of the first clones will be smuggled out of Britain “to an unnamed developing country” this year, according to a report from Glasgow’s Sunday Herald. One of the six couples, Bill and Kathy from the U.S. (their surnames are secret), say fertility scientist Panos Zavos will oversee the operation and perform the experiment.  A report quotes the couple: “We want children so badly and we have tried so hard and for so long. No one has tried as hard as Kathy has to have […]

Hall's court defeat of his Catholic school board has given him special gay activist stature

"about as contrived as you can get" - "The whole system is corrupt, from top to bottom"

OTTAWA, July 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The presidents of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) and Focus on the Family Canada have joined pro-family groups in calling for the protection of marriage.  In a letter to the federal Minister of Justice, Bishop Jacques Berthelet, President of the CCCB, said Canadian bishops are “greatly troubled by the recent decision of the Ontario Divisional Court that the definition of marriage be changed to include same sex partnerships.”  Focus on the Family Canada president Dr. Darrel Reid warned that “If there is no appeal, then same-sex marriage will likely become legal in […]

Now say that they "value the right to ask uncomfortable questions"

KINGSTON, ON, July 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – National Post occasional religion columnist Raymond J. de Souza was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on Saturday, as World Youth Day festivities that he is chronicling in the National Post get underway in Toronto.  A year ago, De Souza wrote one of the most incisive commentaries on Canadian politics from a pro-life perspective in First Things magazine. He wrote: “Jean Chrétien … was re-elected last November 27—his third straight majority government. That was expected. The surprise was that the so-called moral and religious questions—abortion, homosexuality, public funds for private religious schools—were being […]

TORONTO, July 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) has called on all Canadian hospitals and abortion facilities to establish a moratorium on abortions during the Pope’s visit.  In an official release CLC National President Jim Hughes said: “We are calling on every hospital and abortion facility in Canada and particularly in Toronto to hold a life-affirming moratorium on abortion during this visit by the Holy Father.”  The release explained that “on July 23, 2002, the world’s pilgrim for peace, the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, will come to Toronto to lead the World Youth Day celebrations.  This […]

Equate the Vatican with the Taliban

Harvard Report Credits Chastity, Fidelity, Rejection of Sexual Revolution

IN VITRO FERTILIZATION: RISKY FOR MOTHER AND CHILD https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=23297   ABORTION PILL USE IN GERMANY ON THE RISE The number of German women using the abortion drug mifepristone, also known as RU-486 , increased by 21% over the previous year, the federal statistics institute Destatis reports. Mifepristone, marketed as Mifegyne in Germany, was used in 1,739 abortions in the first quarter of 2002, compared with 1,437 in the first 3 months of 2001.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020718/hl_nm/women_abortion_dc_1   NATIONAL CITIZEN’S COALITION URGES WITHOLDING SUPPORT FOR ONTARIO TORIES Says the party has moved too far to the left under new leader Ernie Eves.  https://www.nationalpost.com/national/story.html?id={5331B0D2-3D04-473B-92BC-58F73E105DD5}

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday evening gave final congressional approval to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (H.R. 2175).  The bill would guarantee that live-born infants are afforded full legal rights under federal law, regardless of their stage of development or whether their live births occurred during an abortion. After an earlier version of the bill was killed in the Senate in late 2000, the legislation was reintroduced in the current Congress by Congressman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) and Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.).  It passed the House on March 12 by a voice vote and cleared […]

PHILADELPHIA, July 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Big Brothers, the internationally respected organization that provides mentors for troubled youngsters, has paved the way for predatory homosexuals to prey on unsuspecting boys.  The opportunity is created for them by a new Big Brothers policy that bans so-called discrimination” against open homosexuals who apply to become mentors in 500 affiliates across the U.S.—thanks to a memo from Clay Brewer, executive vice president, which stated: “Volunteer Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and Board Members are not excluded on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, marital status, sexual orientation…”  Dr. James Dobson, president […]

TORONTO, July 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Toronto city clerk, Ms. Ulli Watkiss, braved homosexual wrath and media frenzy yesterday by denying two homosexual men a marriage licence at City Hall. Watkiss said she does not have the authority to grant such a licence unless federal and provincial laws are changed in reponse to last week’s Ontario Divisional Court ruling.  “I can’t do anything other than not issue a marriage licence at this time,” Ms. Watkiss told the duo. “Under the current legislative framework, within the country and within the province, I do not have the right to give you […]

MONTREAL, July 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The same day Premier Klein vowed to oppose homosexual marriage (see above), two Montreal men became the first same-sex couple in Quebec to be married under the province’s Civil Union Bill. The bill replaced the definition of marriage in the Civil Code as between “two persons,” instead of a man and a woman.  Roger Thibault and Theo Wouters perfunctorily exchanged rings and wedding vows at the Montreal Courthouse in front of family, friends and reporters. A deputy clerk then declared them legally joined in a civil union under the provisions of Bill 84, passed […]

EDMONTON, July 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Alberta Premier Ralph Klein says he would invoke the notwithstanding clause, s. 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to protect the “sanctity of marriage” between a man and a woman.  “It’s the only circumstance under which the notwithstanding clause would be used without a referendum,” Klein said. “And it would be automatic. So it simply will not happen in this province, because the sanctity of marriage and the solemnization of marriage, under the Marriage Act, is written law, that it is between a man and a woman. Marriage is where we draw […]

OXFORD, England, July 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Modern feminist culture, which influences millions of women to choose careers and materialism over motherhood and a large family, imposes a higher risk of breast cancer on its victims.  Researchers led by Valerie Beral of Cancer Research UK in Oxford, England, studied data from 30 developed countries in 47 epidemiological surveys of childbearing and breastfeeding among 97,000 women who were healthy and 50,000 who developed invasive breast cancer. Women with breast cancer had fewer children (2.2) on average than those who were healthy (2.6), according to a report published in the forthcoming issue […]

CALGARY, July 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Calgary Bishop Fred Henry criticized the selection of pro-abortion former Prime Minister Joe Clark as the keynote speaker at the Red Mass reception in Toronto September 19.  Bishop Henry, who presides over Clark’s diocese, told LifeSite “I don’t know why he has been chosen.  He has been disappointment, as a Catholic.  He has taken positions contrary to the teaching of the Church. I am surprised he would be invited to speak at the Red Mass dinner.”  St. Thomas More Lawyers’ Guild President Todd McCarthy told LifeSite that Clark was selected “not because of his […]

The Pro-Life Kick-Off To World Youth Days - Moderator will be Catholicity's Bud McFarlane

TORONTO, July 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – One of the most positive regular international events is about to begin this coming Monday in Toronto. World Youth Day 2002 has the city buzzing with intense preparations and already heavy media coverage. Except for the odd anti-Catholic diatribe in a few media sources, there has been a generally positive and respectful reporting of the countdown to the many exciting events that will start Monday and end with the dramatic papal mass next Sunday morning. LifeSite will be at many of the WYD events and will especially report on developments that concern the dignity […]

MTV MANIPULATED SEPT 11 TO FAVOUR HILARY CLINTON Friday’s 20/20 (10:00p edst) television program will expose some of the many ways the media manipulates news and entertainment. (For example, Hilary Clinton was booed at a New York fund-raising concert after September 11th? MTV replayed the concert, but electronically converted the boos to applause.) HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN   https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020717/ap_to_po/congress_abortion_3   KEVORKIAN WANTS SUPREME COURT REVIEW EUTHANASIA CONVICTION https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020717/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_kevorkian_1

POPE ACCEPTS RESIGNATION OF SOUTH AFRICAN BISHOP IMPLICATED IN GAY WEB SITE SCANDAL   https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020717/ap_wo_en_po/vatican_gay_web_site_1   STUDY FINDS HUMAN BRAIN MADE FOR ALTRUISM https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id={131E81B8-C68D-4D52-A75E-E8AB10CF2FA3}

Commission dictatorship decides Canadians with certain views on 'medically necessary' are not welcome

NEW YORK CITY, July 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Mothers who go back to work before their baby reaches 9 months consign the child to poorer mental and verbal development by age three than those with stay-at-home mothers, according to findings from Columbia University reported in the July-August Child Development journal.  Researchers measured the cognitive and verbal development of children and found lower scores for three-year-olds whose mothers neglected them by working at least 30 hours a week. They also found that no matter how positive were other factors such as the quality of child care and the home itself, children […]

TAIPEI, Republic of China, July 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Some women from the Chinese mainland who are married to men from the Republic of China on Taiwan (ROC) have been pressured to have abortions when they visit mainland relatives—to comply with Beijing’s one-child policy, an official in Taipei said today.  The nominally Communist regime in Beijing maintains the fiction that the island state on Taiwan is a “renegade province,” when in fact it is, historically, the legitimate successor of Nationalist China founded in 1911 by Dr. Sun Yet-Sen. Since Communist armies took over the mainland in 1949, Taiwan has preserved […]

Conservatives vow not to overturn the law

OTTAWA, July 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Tom Wappel, one of a handful of pro-life Liberal MPs, said he expects the Supreme Court would overturn last week’s Ontario Divisional Court ruling that grants homosexual marriage the same significance as traditional marriage—but only if the government decides to appeal the provincial court decision.  “Who’s going to vote for a government that destroys the traditional definition of marriage?” said Wappel. “I wouldn’t want to go into the next election wearing that.”  Wappel criticized Ontario Premier Ernie Eves for saying he has no “personal” objection to same-sex marriage—a view which he is effectively imposing […]

TORONTO, July 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Associate Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court, Madame Heather Smith was the most senior of the three justices who ruled unanimously in the July 12 decision saying that restricting marriage to heterosexuals violates the constitution. Justice Smith’s husband, David Smith, is one of Prime Minister Chretien’s top advisors.  In a recent Sun column, Douglas Fisher, dean of the Ottawa press gallery points out that “David Smith, former MP, recent Senate appointee and the husband of Justice Smith” is “an old hand at fast-tracking legislation.”  Fisher concludes, “Surely, his redoubtable influence will speed his […]

Members of parliament must be contacted all across Canada

Growing list of scandals of anti-Catholic speakers being allowed by Canadian bishops

KEYES COMPARES GUILT OF BIN LADEN TO GUILT OF U.S. FOR ALLOWING ABORTION Speaking at the American Life League conference in New Orleans July 12, former U.S. ambassador Alan Keyes said, “If we pray down destruction on the head of Osama bin Laden for that violation of innocent life, we have to be aware that we pray down destruction as well on a nation that is willing to enshrine in principle a right to administer the self-same blow to those innocent lives of our offspring that ought to be more sacred in our obligation to God than any others.” COURT […]

THE MONEY BEHIND ‘CATHOLICS FOR A FREE CHOICE’  According to IRS records CFFC funding came mostly from a handful of major donors:  Ford Foundation ($4.4 million), Packard Foundation ($3.8 million), The MacArthur Foundation ($1.6 million), Hewlett Foundation ($600,000), Buffett Foundation ($375,000), the Turner Foundation ($150,000)  https://www.insightmag.com/news/258196.html   UK FERTILITY RATE FALLS TO LOWEST EVER The Office for National Statistics reports that the total fertility rate fell to a new low of 1.64 in 2001 from 1.66 in 2000.  https://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT36W1XXA1D&live=true&tagid=ZZZPB7GUA0C&subheading=UK

Unwed and pregnant, Reiche announces she will get married

LONDON, England, July 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – British Parliamentarians have called for a review of the country’s policies for “reducing teenage pregnancies,” pointing out that Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in Europe. Meanwhile, a university study has found that current policies may actually increase teen pregnancies and abortions.  The Labour government’s Department of Health defended its policies, including wide availability of condoms, the pill and the morning-after pill alongside explicit “sex education.”  But MP’s and peers—both pro-life and pro-abortion—said the strategy now in use may be doing more harm than good. It may be, they said, that […]

Australian says Canada's "exit bag" maker "was arrested"

PORTLAND, July 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Brita Stream, the winner of the Miss Oregon beauty pageant Saturday, won her crown with a speech on the link between abortion and breast cancer.  During her speech Stream pointed to various studies showing a link between abortion and breast cancer and the need for accurate information to be given to women on the issue.  “This gives me the chance to wear a crown for something I’m passionate about,” said Stream.  Stream’s passion on the subject is not only for the cameras.  An internet search revealed she had written a letter to the editor […]

Voice of Faithful Catholic Laity Was Shut Out of Dallas Conference

OTTAWA, July 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance Chief Justice Critic and Provencher MP, Vic Toews, is calling on the federal government to appeal the recent Ontario Court decision that ruled Canada’s definition of marriage violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms because it does not recognize homosexual marriages.  “While the Supreme Court of Canada has in the past extended economic benefits to same sex couples, these decisions have purposely excluded extending rights related to marriage and family structure to individuals in gay and lesbian relationships,” said Toews.  Canadian law defines marriage as the “lawful and voluntary union of one […]

Federal Government May Not Appeal Decision

LONDON, England, July 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – “Queer Duck,” the successful Showtime TV cartoon about an “intellectual, homosexual” duck who is a male nurse, and his friends, Openly Gator, Bi-Polar Bear (who sports leather), and Oscar Wilde-Cat, has been picked up by the BBC. Twenty episodes, of three minutes each, will air on BBC Choice as part of the weekly magazine “That Gay Show.” The Duck show is described as having “enjoyed terrific success” in the U.S. and “a loyal, almost cult-like, fan base.”“Queer Duck” was created and written by Emmy-winning cartoonist Mike Reiss, best-known for “The Simpsons,” and designer/director/animator […]

NEW YORK, July 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A new study has found that diabetics who attend religious services at least once a year had lower levels of an inflammation indicator linked to heart disease than those who never went to a church.  However, the authors said they only measured how often people attended a religious service—not how religious they were in belief. Curiously, no link was found among non-diabetics.  The author, Dr. Arch G. Mainous of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, told a Reuters health reporter that there are many reasons why attendance seems to aid physical […]

BUFFALO, N.Y., July 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Accused abortionist-shooter James Kopp, 47, wearing a bullet-proof vest under his jacket, watched from the dock as lawyers argued over the prosecution’s request for a protection order masking the identity of trial witnesses.  Deputy District Attorney Joseph Marusak, the prosecutor, cites the “substantial risk of annoyance” and media harrassment, as well as the “extremely emotionally charged atmosphere” given the divisiveness of abortion. He also alluded to the potential for pro-life violence against witnesses.  Paul Cambria, the defence attorney, said he could accept witness secrecy provided that it does not hamper his defence. Instead, […]

NEW YORK, July 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Scholastic Inc., the producer of the popular children’s Goosebumps series, has published a bizarre and highly offensive book called “Conversations with God for Teens” by Neale Donald Walsch—the four-times divorced New Age guru whose heterodox “Conversations With God” lingered for 132 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.  In the Scholastic book, Walsch’s “God” dispenses morally relativist advice to teenagers, encouraging them to be sexually active and distrustful of parents and all orthodox beliefs. It presents God as not interested in right or wrong; teaches that God welcomes immodesty and sex of […]

Column supports Equity in Education Tax Credit

OTTAWA, July 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Stockwell Day, Foreign Affairs Critic for the Canadian Alliance, questions where the Federal Government draws its battle lines. Day’s comments concerned Canada’s Ambassador leading the UN attack on the United States because of its request for a twelve-month exemption from the International Criminal Court for its peacekeepers in Bosnia.  “Our government supported Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair in his successful request for an International Court exemption for soldiers from Great Britain and 19 European countries involved in the Afghanistan mission,” Day said. “It makes no sense to attack the US for making […]

UNITED NATIONS, July 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Cuban representative at the United Nations preparatory commission for the International Criminal Court this week said her country “had not ratified the Rome Statute because the crime of aggression had not yet been defined.”  As LifeSite has pointed out in earlier coverage, those countries which have ratified the ICC have done so without a definition of the crime of aggression.  The preparatory meeting has established a working group on the crime of aggression. A UN report on the meeting notes that the group has “created a rolling text on the crime of […]

Speakers at Anti-Catholic Event Include Those Advocating Violence Against Churches

HOMOSEXUALS BATTLE U.S. MARRIAGE AMENDMENT Advocates for religious and legal “marriage” for homosexuals are moving toward their goal, racing against a countermove to amend the U.S. Constitution to say marriage is between a man and woman.  Since May, lawyers for homosexual couples have sued Massachusetts and New Jersey for denying them marriage licenses. And last week, the Episcopal bishop of Kansas became the first in his denomination to approve religious rites for same-sex unions publicly.  https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020715-22306932.htm   SEMINARIAN WINS NATIONAL COVERAGE FOR WORLD YOUTH DAY Starting in today’s National Post, Raymond J. de Souza starts a series of columns on […]

CANTERBURY, England, July 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The designated Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has announced that there is no impediment to a rumoured marriage between Prince Charles, a widower, and the divorced Camilla Parker-Bowles. Williams’ opinion contradicts his outgoing predecessor, George Carey, who said only five years ago that a church wedding for the future Supreme Governor of the Church of England “would cause a crisis for the Church.”  New rules passed last week by the General Synod lift the ban on a church marriage for persons with “a former partner still living”—and it is assumed that Prince Charles […]

Catholic League president says makers pick easy targets

WASHINGTON, July 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Alarmed by the revival of public expressions of religious faith in America in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, 71 organizations representing atheists, secularists and humanists are planning a “Godless Americans March on Washington” on November 2.  “We are participating in this march to reclaim the American nation as a secular nation because we feel it’s being moved more and more to a religious nation,” said Katherine Bourdonnay, a spokesperson for the Council for Secular Humanism. “While America has many religious roots, it was founded as a secular nation, with a distinct […]

Toronto, July 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Canada’s national television and radio network is maintaining a web page on the history of the advances of the gay movement in Canada and the world. While purporting to be a credible news service on the issue the web page is notable for what it does not contain – links to credible articles, commentary and web sites warning of the dangers of gay advances. The CBC, known for outrageous bias and censorship of traditional social views is heavily taxpayer funded. The network has consistently favoured abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, radical environmentalism, population control and just […]

ROME, July 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – At the First General Chapter of the Lay Missionaries of Charity, Cardinal Saraiva Martins, the Prefect of the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints, expounded on Mother Teresa’s advice to families.  The cardinal said Mother Teresa was fond of repeating, “Love begins at home,” and urged families to spend time together being present to one another.  She warned, “many of the problems of today’s world stem from this lack of love and attention to the people who are closest to us.”  Mother Teresa-the cardinal said- “was aware of the frantic rhythm of that […]

Support for special rights for homosexuals contradicts Christian principles

U.S. Threatens "Serious Consequences" if "the ICC eventually seeks to detain any American"

CANADA A SAFEHAVEN FOR POLYGAMISTS https://www.nationalpost.com/national/story.html?id={93DAAFDA-F4F5-41A0-928C-4ED40BFEE8C7}  11 DAYS UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF WORLD YOUTH DAY   https://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/vis/dinamiche/a0_en.htm   UN WORLD POPULATION DAY FOCUSES ON “REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH” I.E. ABORTION https://www.unis.unvienna.org/en/news/2002/pressrels/note203e.htm   CAN WEST GLOBALS’ ASPERS SAY HE WON’T DICTATE NEWS COVERAGE https://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1026143375728&call_page=TS_Canada&call_pageid=968332188774&call_pagepath=News/Canada&pubid=968163964505&StarSource=email SESAME STREET TO HAVE HIV-POSITIVE MUPPET The South African version of the popular children’s TV series Sesame Street is about to welcome an HIV-positive muppet. The cheerful female character, whose name and shape are not known, will join the “Takalani Sesame” show’s third season this September.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_2123000/2123697.stm   SCOTTISH MUSIC FESTIVAL TO SELL MORNING-AFTER PILLS The Catholic Church in […]

Spring 2002 Regent Law Review Tackles Entire Gay Agenda

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, July 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Betsy Hansen, who graduated from Pioneer High School in June with the highest honors, was censured for violating the public school pro-homosexual agenda. Taking up her cause, the Thomas More Law Center has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the student and her mother, who are practicing Roman Catholics.  School officials also prevented Betsy from expressing her view on homosexuality at a panel on “Homosexuality and Religion.” School officials claimed that Betsy’s religious view toward homosexuality was “negative” and would water-down the positive (meaning “tolerant”) religious message they wanted […]

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A study released at the national conference of the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education in Washington, D.C. today shows that individuals who divorce are no happier than those who stayed together over a five-year period. The study, “Does Divorce Make People Happy?” by the Institute for American Values, a New York-based marriage-advocacy group, uses 12 measures including depression, alcohol use and self-confidence. It says two-thirds of those who stayed together reported that their marriages were happy by the five-year follow-up study—in contrast to the divorced, who remained unhappy. Co-author Bill Doherty, a […]

NAIROBI, July 12, 2002 (C-FAM/LSN.ca) – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and its allies in the U.S. Congress are trying to bolster their support for U.S. funding by implicating the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nakuru, Kenya in its work—a strategy that drew an outraged response from the local bishop.  According to UNFPA, the “U.N. Population Fund has been working with the Catholic Church in Nakuru to provide peer counseling for adolescents, parents and priests to prevent teenage pregnancies and STIs [Sexually transmitted infections], including HIV/AIDS…” UNFPA contends that this “unique and successful” program “would have to be abandoned or […]

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Joe Pitts, Pennsylvania Republican Congressman, said yesterday that hospitals and healthcare workers should not be forced to perform or participate in abortions. He and a co-sponsor, Health Subcommittee Chairman Mike Bilirakis (R-Fla.), have put forward the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act.  “No hospital should be forced to take the life of an unborn child against its will,” Pitts said. “Religiously affiliated hospitals and hospitals that simply don’t want to offer the elective procedure shouldn’t have to. Forcing hospitals to perform abortions is wrong.” Pitts, speaking at a meeting of the House Health Subcommittee, said Congress needs […]

VATICAN, July 12, 2002 (LSN.ca)  Despite running 26% of all AIDS-treatment centers around the world, the Catholic Church has been excluded from the 14th world conference on AIDS.  Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragan, the Vatican’s top prelate dealing with health care issues, commented on the exclusion from the UN-led conference in a recent interview. UN officials, he said, “have been saying the same thing constantly for the past dozen years,” despite the fact that their approach has produced “no visible results.” On the contrary, “The number of AIDS victims is rising, in a terribly important trend.” Catholic World News reports that […]

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2002 (LSN.ca)  A young Protestant couple has issued a book about the Biblical basis for rejecting artificial contraception.  The couple is part of a growing trend of non-Catholic Christians who have embraced the gift of large families as a blessing.  The Washington Times reports that in their new book, “Open Embrace: A Protestant Couple Rethinks Contraception,” Sam and Bethany Torode note that it was not until the 20th century that Protestant churches endorsed birth control. Prior to that, “They believed contraception would increase promiscuity and encourage adultery by separating sex from procreation.”  Martin Luther and other early […]

ROME, July 12, 2002 (LSN.ca)  Four lawsuits by parents against doctors who had prescribed the morning after pill and birth control pills to their underage children were all individually unsuccessful. However, collectively they have produced a result. The Italian counseling gynecologists association (Agico) has decided to stop prescribing the abortifacients to underage girls until the law is amended to give doctors immunity from lawsuits.  Dr. Luigi Cerzosimo, president of Agico, is looking to have the law specify that doctors are allowed to prescribe such drugs to underage girls without parental consent or notification.  See the coverage by Reuters Health:  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020711/hl_nm/italy_pill_dc_1

FRANKFURT, July 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) Germany's Federal Cabinet on Wednesday issued legal regulations for a new embryonic stem cell research law, a law similar to that of the United States. Under the new regulations researchers are not permitted to use human embryonic stem cells from Germany but are permitted to import such stem cells. Further, approval for such imports will be given only for “high-ranking” goals for which there are no alternatives to using embryonic stem cells. The law stipulates penalties for infringement of up to 3 years in prison or fines up to 50,000 euros. Similar to US directives, […]

Charter of Rights and Freedoms Used Again to Impose Radical Change to Social Laws

PRESIDENT’S BIOETHICS COUNCIL SUBMITS CLONING REPORT The President’s Council on Bioethics has endorsed a four-year moratorium on therapeutic cloning and a ban on reproductive cloning. See the full report:  https://www.bioethics.gov/cloningreport/  PRESIDENT BUSH NOMINEE TO FEDERAL APPEALS COURT FOUGHT BY PRO-ABORTS Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen was nominated by Bush for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which decides appeals from federal courts in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Abortion groups are attacking the nomination outraged that Owen ruled against young women seeking to bypass the state’s parental notification law for minors seeking abortions.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47887-2002Jul10.html   ASHCROFT’S […]

ONTARIO COURT DECISION ON HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE EXPECTED FRIDAY Homosexual activists in Toronto who sued the province to recognize their homosexual “marriage” by a Metropolitan Community Church pastor have vowed to take their case to the Supreme Court if the Ontario ruling goes against them.  ANGLICANS FACE HOMOSEXUAL CLERGY BATTLE   Church of England bishops are heading for an early clash with Dr. Rowan Williams, who now looks certain to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury, over the bishops’ plans to defend the Church’s ban on the ordination of practicing homosexuals to the Anglican priesthood. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2002/07/11/nchuch11.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/07/11/ixnewstop.html&_requestid=528765

LONDON, England, July 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A British transsexual has won his battle in the European Court of Human Rights to be recognised as a woman and be allowed to marry. The man, who is 64 and is respectfully referred to as “she” and “her” in news reports, underwent an operation in 1990 to have his male organs removed and mock-female organs attached in their place, calls himself “Christine” Goodwin. He took his case to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that English law denies him the “right” to the sexual identity of his choice.  The unanimous judgment […]

TEL AVIV, July 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Israeli parliament has voted to ban cable and satellite broadcasters from showing pornography. In a striking display of unity across cultural and religious lines, Muslim and Christian Arab members voted alongside conservative and religious Jewish members to get the bill through.  The measure adds cable and satellite pay-per-view channels to the law after ordinary channels were prohibited from transmitting pornography last year. The new law will, however, allow pornographic material to be shown “if it has a cultural, scientific or journalistic value, although it does not stipulate who would decide,” the BBC […]

TORONTO, July 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Spokesmen for the abortion industry are pretending they “fear” that World Youth Day pilgrims “will block access to abortion clinics.” Carolyn Egan, with the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics, says the term “direct action,” used by some pro-lifers planning activities during the event, “means intimidation, harassment and attempts to prevent women from gaining access to abortion clinics. We’re very afraid,” Egan claimed, “of what might happen.”  Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim newspaper, says: “There are, to my knowledge, pro-life individuals hoping to have legal, peaceful demonstrations outside the bubble zones of abortuaries in […]

NEWTON, Mass., July 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Doctors have told New Scientist magazine that competition to score a high ranking in published tables of in-vitro fertilization successes is driving some clinics “to select younger patients with a higher chance of getting pregnant, to implant more embryos than necessary, and even to recommend IVF to women who do not need it.”“Multiple pregnancies are more dangerous for both mothers and babies,” the New Scientist reports, and are not necessary to achieve success. Mothers are more likely to suffer from complications including high blood pressure, haemorrhage and pre-eclampsia. The babies are more likely […]

ST. THOMAS, Ont., July 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an attempt to deflect mounting negative publicity from their bungled Aylmer intervention/abduction, Child and Family Services of St. Thomas and Elgin County have begun harassing another practicing Christian family.  The social workers saw some local parents discuss, on TV, the use of “belts and sticks” to discipline their children—and seized on these “disclosures” as “sufficient to start a child-protection investigation,” according to Steve Bailey, the executive director of the discredited agency. “It is clear now that the social workers cannot find it within themselves to repent their previous mistake—even in the […]

UNITED NATIONS, July 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Facing loud opposition, especially from Canada and Europe, the United States has altered its demand for permanent immunity from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to yearly renewable immunity.  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte placed a resolution before the members of the UN Security Council yesterday requesting that they approve a 12 month deferral from prosecution for U.S. peacekeepers. A public meeting on the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina was held to allow the council and other U.N. member states to air positions on the stalemate over the ICC. The United States vetoed […]

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A subcommittee of the House of Representatives today approved, on a party-line vote, a new bill to place a national ban on partial-birth abortions.  Supporters of the bill hope for approval by the full House Judiciary Committee and by the full House later this month. Congress has approved such bans twice before, but they were vetoed by President Clinton in 1996 and 1997.  On each occasion, the House voted to override the vetoes, but supporters fell short of the necessary two-thirds majority in the Senate.  President Bush supports a ban on partial-birth abortion.  But […]

OTTAWA, July 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Recent statistics have revealed that Canada is suffering tremendously from the revolution in attitudes towards sexual relationships.  A July 11 report entitled “Changing conjugal life in Canada” based on new data from the 2001 General Social Survey (GSS), showed that close to 1.2 million couples were living in a common-law relationship, up 20% from 1995.  The statistics reveal that while the vast majority (90%) of Canadian men and women aged 50 to 69 had started their conjugal life through marriage, younger generations are opting for common-law marriage particularly in Quebec.  More than 40% of […]

TORONTO, July 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Following reports of a high-profile murder case which centers around a Canadian woman involved in the manufacture of a suicide device called the “Exit Bag”, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) has demanded an investigation into the production and distribution of the device in Canada.  The Exit Bag, produced by the Right to Die Society of Canada is a suicide bag that is made of heavy-duty plastic that has been designed for optimum effectiveness in killing persons who wear the bag which is distributed with an instruction booklet entitled: The Art & Science of Suicide.  […]

TORONTO, July 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite has learned that the Queer Television website featuring a heretical advice column by Toronto Catholic priest Fr. Gianni Carparelli has been taken off line.  Following LifeSite inquiries to the Toronto Archdiocese Tuesday, Cardinal Ambrozic intervened in the case to ensure that Fr. Carparelli would request the website stop using his writings.  Suzanne Scorzone, spokesperson for the Toronto Archdiocese refused to answer questions related to Fr. Carparelli’s case. When asked if the archdiocese found the statements made by the priest on the site problematic and if the priest was reprimanded for his actions, Ms. […]

MEXICAN CITY BANS SWEARING https://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-mexico-criminal-cursing0705jul05.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines   MALTESE AND SLOVAK BISHOPS BLAST EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ON ABORTION RESOLUTION https://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=22996 https://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=23078   BABIES EXPOSED TO CANCEROUS CHEMICALS IN HOSPITALS   Hospitals are exposing patients, including babies and young children, to high levels of potentially dangerous chemicals, according to a report by the group Health Care Without Harm. Researchers in the UK and US has found that medical equipment, like tubes and blood bags, may contain high levels of phthalates – a chemical that has been linked to cancer and infertility. Studies in Europe, Canada and US have concluded that children may already be […]

STRASBOURG, July 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an interview with the Italian paper Avvenire, Dana Rosemary Scallon, the pro-life singer turned Member of the European Parliament, warned that the European Parliament is set to go beyond its push for legal abortion throughout Europe which was recently passed in a narrow 280-240 vote. A translation of the article by Zenit News quotes Scallon saying: “There is certainly an attempt to include the right to kill among human rights, whether it be of conceived children or sick elderly people. And, through a certain view of sexual education, which provides for the availability […]

LONDON, England, Jul 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The governing body of the Church of England—the founding church of Anglican and Episcopal churches worldwide—voted yesterday to let divorced persons remarry within the Church. Some sources said the move would pave the way for Camilla Parker-Bowles, a divorcée, to marry Prince Charles, who is a widower and heir to the throne of Great Britain, Canada, Australia and several other Commonwealth countries. Within the UK, the monarch is “established” as the Supreme Head of the Church of England and lays claim to the title “Defender of the Faith,” although Prince Charles has said […]

Severe blow to radical feminist groups within the church

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Republicans in Congress are fast-tracking their latest attempt to ban partial-birth abortion, hoping to bring it to the House of Representatives in two weeks. President Bush has promised to pass such a bill if Congress can get it through (after Bill Clinton vetoed two such bills), but it is not clear that the new bill would survive a Supreme Court review.  Rep. Steve Chabot’s bill would ban the procedure except to save “the life of the mother” but not her so-called “health”—one of the problems the Court found with the Nebraska bill. Instead, the […]

Homosexual activist thankful for the solace she found from Father Gianni Carparelli

Pre-empted Parliament by passing unilateral embryo regulations

CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS IN GERMANY LOOK FOR HOMOSEXUAL SUPPORT In a great disappointment to conservatives Edmund Stoiber, the Christian Democrat leader appointed Katherina Reiche, 28, who has been appointed the shadow spokeswoman for family affairs who is courting the homosexual vote for the party. Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Cologne, said of Frau Reiche’s promotion that it was “not worthy of a party which claims to be Christian”.  https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-351151,00.html   ANOTHER IVF MIX-UP REPORTED   A blunder involving mixed-up sperm and embryos in a New York IVF clinic led to the birth of twins—one black, and one white—and a fierce legal […]

TORONTO, July 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian government is refusing entry visas to 6,000 young people hoping to attend World Youth Day with Pope John Paul II starting July 23. The number reportedly represents a 25% rejection rate among international visa applicants hoping to be here for the pope’s visit. The rejections primarily affect students and other youth from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Colombia, Uganda and Sudan.  “The message is the Canadian government is not welcoming youth to World Youth Day,” says Joe Byrne, Prince Edward Island regional coordinator. But Immigration Department officials say the government cannot grant special […]

OTTAWA, July 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In reaction to public embarrassment, after it was revealed that the Prime Minister would not be in Toronto to greet Pope John Paul II when the pontiff arrives for World Youth Day on July 22, Jean Chretien’s Office has announced that Mr. Chretien’s plans have changed and he will show up at the airport after all.  World Youth Day officials were previously informed that Mr. Chretien would not come to greet the pontiff this time. Organizers were told that Deputy Prime Minister John Manley would fill in for Chretien, but the prime minister’s infamous […]

Laments “Poor Europe With Its Demographic Winter”  VATICAN, July 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an interview with the Vatican official news agency Fides, the President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, warned that “Everyone, believers or non, have the moral duty to support the family if humanity is to have a future”. The interview touched on United Nations population control efforts.  Recalling the United Nations Special Session on Children, the Cardinal fondly remembered the motto of various youth at the conference: “We are not the source of the problems, we are the resources… to solve […]

Montreal conference endorses 'ethical' alternatives MONTREAL, July 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Stem cells from umbilical cords are being recognized as an alternative to cells from human embryos in the treatment of several diseases and for restoring immune systems damaged by chemotherapy, delegates to an international blood conference said yesterday. Progress is also being made in England by researchers using umbilical-derived treatments on patients for whom bone-marrow treatments after chemotherapy have failed. “Normally,” says Dr. Denis-Claude Roy, a Montreal specialist, umbilical-cord cells “are thrown in the garbage, but now we can save lives” by making better use of them. He also […]

CANBERRA, Australia, July 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Australia’s leading assisted suicide group, Exit, plans to market free plastic suicide bags. Philip Nitschke, this country’s answer to Dr. Kevorkian, says the bags are made of thick clear plastic and are large enough to fit over a person’s head, with an adjustable elastic collar that can be comfortably tightened to slowly deprive the user of oxygen. “They are the poor person’s access to a peaceful death,” Nitschke told reporters. Euthanasia is illegal in Australia. Helping people commit suicide is also illegal in Queensland state, where Nitschke plans to launch the bags on […]

SAN ANTONIO, July 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Breast cancer researcher Brent Rooney has revealed that a San Antonio, Texas, USA clinic (A Woman’s Choice Quality Health Center) has women sign abortion consent forms that include the following: “… I also realize that the following risks and hazards may occur in   connection with this particular procedure: … possible increased lifetime risk of breast cancer….”  Rooney’s latest newsletter also features Australian pro-life leader Babette Francis encouraging pro-lifers worldwide to follow the example of Australia where in 2001 a woman won a settlement from an abortionist who put her at increased risk […]

OXFORD, UK, July 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Richard Gardner, an embryologist at the University of Oxford, UK, has repeated little known experiments first conducted in the 1980s in Flushing, New York by Jean Smith of Queen’s College which demonstrate that the human body is shaped beginning at the moment of conception/fertilization.  Which side of the microscopic embryo will form the back and head, are not left to later development as has been believed by embryologists, but are set out in the minutes and hours after the sperm and egg unite to form a new human being. The July 4 issue […]

CASE AGAINST ACCUSED ABORTIONIST SHOOTER KOPP LACKS HARD EVIDENCE https://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20020707/1002311.asp   EX-HOLLYWOOD SUPERAGENT REGRETS “GAY MAFIA” REMARK https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020703/en_nm/people_ovitz_dc_4   ALAN KEYES’ MSNBC SHOW HAD BETTER RATINGS THAN REPLACEMENT https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28106   ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN LAWS AGAINST HOMOSEXUAL SEX https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020706/ap_on_re_us/sodomy_law_2

EUROPEAN BISHOPS CONDEMN EURO PARLIAMENT VOTE CALLING FOR ABORTION IN ALL EUROPE https://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=22908   UK GOV’T OFFERS OFFICIAL TRAVEL ADVICE FOR HOMOSEXUALS https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020704/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_britain_gay_2   PRO-LIFE WEBSITES USE FORMER PRIME MINISTERS NAMES TO ATTRACT TRAFFIC https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id={EC1F781C-022E-4C03-A18D-4166A33EAF9D}  AUSTRALIAN COURTS STRIKES DOWN LAWS AGAINST HOMOSEXUAL SEX https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/po/20020703/co_po/austrian_court_strikes_down_gay_sex_law

Urges Youth To Follow Martyr’s Example Of Heroic Chastity   VATICAN, July 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of a 12 year old girl who was “cruelly stabbed” for denying a man’s sexual advances, Pope John Paul II urged the youth of the world to practice chastity.  St. Maria Goretti, chose death rather than consent to impure relations. Maria’s forgiveness of the attacker before her death resulting in his radical conversion. The Pope warned youth that today’s culture “overestimates physical relations between men and women” and hoped the example “is a reminder that man does […]

Scotland Rejects Measure   LONDON, England, July 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Tony Blair’s Labour government has launched a pilot project to provide women at family planning clinics with the abortifacient Mifepristone RU-486 pill, known in pro-life circles as the “human pesticide.” The intention is “to reduce the time patients must wait to end pregnancies,” which in some parts of the country “can be as long as five weeks,” the Health department announced.  The program was reported in Sunday’s Observer newspaper. Pro-lifers predicted the reduction in waiting time means only that an unborn British child will have even less chance of […]

RICO ruling against Scheidler seen as threatening free speech rights of minority groups

Canadian clinics also breaking rules   LONDON, England, July 8,2002 (LSN.ca) – A British white couple have had black twins after a mix-up at a National Health Service fertility clinic. The blunder is expected to lead to an ugly court battle over who are the legal parent—since the clinic must have used a black man’s sperm to fertilize the white mother’s egg, or by the clinic implanting a black couple’s already fertilized egg into the white woman. An NHS spokesman called it “a one in a million chance.”  Meanwhile there are reports that safety rules are being violated on a […]

WASHINGTON, July 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A loophole in the Bush administration's guidelines for stem cell research means that Clinton era guidelines for aborted fetus research are still in effect. The result is that, in late May, a federally-funded project using stem cells obtained from fetuses aborted up to eight weeks after conception has been given approval, according to reports. At the eighth week, the fetus already has all the attributes present in a fully developed adult, including brainwaves (at 40 days), heartbeat, eyes, organs and sensitivity to touch. But it turns out that Bush's August 2001 restrictions on human […]

OTTAWA, July 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A national public opinion survey of 1000 Canadians, sponsored by the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers of Canada, and conducted by Strategic Communications Inc., indicates that a majority (74%) of Canadians believe there is too much media concentration in Canada.  The poll released Friday also indicates that media owners exercise too much control over the content of news and opinion in Canada’s newspapers, radio and television stations (49% too much, 28% right amount, 9% too little control), and that the problem of media concentration warrants action by the federal government (66%).  In the wake of […]

OSLO, July 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Norwegian government presented a bill to Parliament yesterday proposing a permanent ban on therapeutic cloning as a method to produce embryonic stem cells for medical research.  The bill also proposes to maintain the 1994-established prohibition on research on human embryos. Moreover, the government notes that the “bill also proposes to clarify that this prohibition includes research on stem cell lines created by isolating and culturing stem cells from human embryos.”  The Norwegian government press release notes that stem cells created from “spare embryos after IVF-treatment or embryos created by therapeutic cloning” raise “several […]

Will likely undermine Harper when time is ripe   OTTAWA, July 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Stephen Harper is continuing to purge staffers who some party insiders say pose no loyalty threat to his leadership of the Canadian Alliance. Perhaps unwittingly, however, he is replacing them with less-qualified, die-hard Manning loyalists and Grant Hill campaigners. Manningites will soon be ideally placed to undermine Harper as soon as the opportunity arises—likely after a future election debacle against a strong new Liberal leader such as Paul Martin.  Harper recently named Jim Armour, Manning’s communications advisor from 1997 to 2000, as his own director […]

President George W. Bush celebrated a highly spiritual Independence Day, invoking “the wisdom and the blessing of Divine Providence” that he believes have guided the nation “under God” for 226 years, criticizing the recent circuit court decision (now suspended pending appeal) to ban the Pledge of Allegiance from schools. For U.S. media coverage see: https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020705-19828104.htm and: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A25857-2002Jul4

OTTAWA, July 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Activists who claim to represent victims of abuse by lay officials and clergy in Catholic institutions are hoping to cash in on Pope John Paul’s upcoming visit to Canada. Described by activists and media as “survivors” (presumably to shamefully garner some of the resonance of Holocaust survival), they want a “10-minute sit-down” with the pontiff to “restore some of their lost dignity, if not their faith,” reports Canadian Press.  “The bishops in Canada have been treating many survivors with utter contempt and hatred,” David Gagnon, director of the so-called Survivors Network of those Abused […]

PRETORIA, South Africa, July 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The investigation into the abuse of patients undergoing abortions at Philadelphia Hospital near Groblersdal, which started in the last week of June, has placed some much-needed attention on the plight of traumatized healthcare workers pressured into participating in abortions.  Doctors for Life in South Africa published quotes from some healthcare workers, who chose to remain nameless to protect their jobs, in a recent press release, as follows:  Healthcare worker 1: “I never really understood what a TOP [Termination of Pregnancy] was, and didn’t really think to find out, I didn’t ask the […]

THE HAGUE, July 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The newly elected Dutch government, described by observers as a “sharp turn to the right,” will in all likelihood do nothing to change the notorious euthanasia and homosexual marriage laws brought in a year ago by the former leftist government.  The changes proposed so far will slightly alter the country’s liberal drug laws, banning safety tests of ecstasy narcotics at dance parties, and relocating marijuana cafes farther from schools and borders.  Other reforms will tinker with the refugee/asylum system and oblige immigrants to learn Dutch. The notorious one-fifth of Dutch citizens who receive […]

ST. THOMAS, Ont., July 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The legal strategy of the parents’ lawyers in the Aylmer child abduction case is becoming clear after the trial judge’s publication ban was lifted last week by a more senior court. The mother’s lawyer, Valerie Wise, is not aguing the case on religious freedom grounds or the right of parents to spank. Instead, she has argued that social workers and police violated the parents’ Charter rights by entering their home and abducting their seven children without warrant—and that all their evidence is therefore inadmissible.  Family and Children’s Services of St. Thomas and […]

Pro-lifers Around the Globe Dismayed NEW YORK, July 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-lifers around the globe were dismayed Monday at the Vatican’s welcoming of the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC).  Archbishop Renato Martino, the Vatican’s representative at the United Nations issued a release in support of the ICC and noted that the Vatican had contributed a symbolic donation of $3,000 to the ICC trust fund set up by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.  Pro-life lobbyists who attended the United Nations conferences leading up to the ICC’s creation and have closely followed its progress have warned from its inception […]

Pro-life group responds with offer of enhanced ultrasound training   NEW YORK, July 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – “Mike” Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, has ordered that starting July 1, medical students in the city’s public hospitals, the nation’s largest public system which trains one-seventh of the nation’s doctors, will be required to master the “art” of abortion, writes Kathryn Jean Lopez, a National Review Online editor.  The announcement will please the National Abortion Rights Action League, which is very concerned that most abortionists in America are over 50 and that young doctors are less interested. In fact, Lopez quotes […]

“highly unusual” for any Nations’ Leaders to Avoid Greeting the Pope   TORONTO, July 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – It is being reported that neither the Governor General of Canada nor the Prime Minister will take the trouble to greet Pope John Paul II when he arrives in Toronto on July 24 for World Youth Day (WYD).  According to unconfirmed reports from CFTO, Ottawa told WYD organizers last Friday that neither Adrienne Clarkson nor Jean Chretien will show up at Pearson International Airport to meet the pope’s plane—as would be normal for a visiting head of state, let alone the spiritual […]

BROOKLYN, N.Y., July 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Loretta C. Marra and Dennis J. Malvasi, the Brooklyn pro-lifers who unwittingly put the FBI on the trail of James C. Kopp, are getting a plea deal with the probability of a much lighter prison sentence because they helped persuade Kopp not to fight extradition from France in 2001. One of Marra’s associates—a man who was offered the opportunity to have dinner with Kopp abroad—was an FBI informer masquerading as a member of the pro-life community to track down Kopp.  The report comes from sources quoted by Buffalo News—one of the few media […]

OTTAWA, July 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The last two decades have seen Canadian fertility drop to a record low of 1.52 children per woman in 1999, compared to an American rate of 2.08.  In “Trends in Canadian and American fertility 1980 to 1999” Statistics Canada laments that, “For almost a century, Canada’s population growth rate had been higher than that of the United States,” but that “Canada’s growth is now only about three-quarters of the growth south of the border.” Stats Can offers several theories to explain the growing difference:  – Marriage occurs earlier and more often in the United […]

WARSAW, July 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Polish politicians reacted with indignation to a resolution by the European Parliament calling on all of Europe to legalize abortion.  The BBC reports that the Polish parliament’s European affairs committee rejected what it called pro-abortion pressure.  Poland and Ireland were the main targets of the abortion pushing report.  See related LifeSite coverage:  EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PASSES RESOLUTION CALLING FOR ALL EUROPE TO LEGALIZE ABORTION https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/jul/02070301.html   See the BBC report:  https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_2092000/2092896.stm

Says all religious schools must bow to Human Rights Code on “same sex partnership status” TORONTO, July 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – At a press conference today, Ontario Human Rights Commissioner Keith Norton took direct aim at religious schooling.  The Canadian Press reports that Norton, said he was deeply troubled by the lack of any regulatory requirement for private schools to comply with the provincial human-rights code.  Singling out publicly funded Catholic education and the proposed Ontario private school tax credit, Norton said, “If public funds are to be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to fund such schools, there […]

TORONTO, July 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Scott Brockie, the Christian printer who was embroiled in court cases over refusing a printing job for a homosexual activist organization, has decided not to appeal the June 17 ruling in his case. In a letter to supporters, Brockie explained his decision saying: “After much thought, prayer, and discussions with many lawyers, we have decided not to appeal the court’s ruling, as the grounds for appeal are fairly thin, and we risk losing the gains that we have made…remember that an appeal needs to be made when it is felt that there are ‘errors […]

US GOV’T $27.7 MILLION FUNDS ABSTINENCE-ONLY EDUCATION PROGRAMS   https://newsroom.hrsa.gov/releases/2002releases/abstinence.htm   FOCUS ON THE FAMILY’S DOBSON BLASTS BUSH APPOINTMENT TO CDC Dr. James C. Dobson, president of Focus on the Family, responded today to reports citing Dr. Julie Gerberding as the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Her writings clearly show that she believes the ‘safe sex’ lie that has entrapped millions of our teenagers—many of whom are now fighting incurable sexually transmitted diseases.”  https://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/first/0702-137.html   US VP’S WIFE LYNNE CHENEY HAILS SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=Nationarchive

PRAY FOR NETTIE VON DEHN OF B.C.  15 year old Nettie Von Dehn (Daughter of well known Vancouver Pro-life activist Sissy Von Dehn) has been admitted to hospital with a brain tumor. Prognosis is not encouraging but she is receiving the best of care. Please pray for Nettie and her family and spread this prayer request to everyone   CHEMICALS IN PRODUCTS DAMAGE MALE FERTILITY   Artificial female-hormone chemicals found in soya, beer, pesticides and paint can adversely affect male fertility, says a study with the first evidence that a range of potent environmental estrogens disrupt the behaviour of sperm […]

MELBOURNE, July 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Nearly 9,000 Australians consider themselves to be “witches”, according to the country’s 2001 census, up from fewer than 2,000 in 1996. Self-described “pagans” have more than doubled to 10,632 while the number of people calling themselves “druids,”“animists” and “pantheists” have also increased. Muslims and Hindus grew by around 30%, while the overall proportion of Australians identifying with a religion other than Christianity grew from 3.5% in 1996 to nearly 5% in 2001.  By contrast, most Christian denominations suffered attrition, according to Philip Hughes of the Christian Research Association. Overall, the population grew by 5.4% […]

VANCOUVER, July 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has condemned Michael Ingham, Vancouver’s renegade liberal bishop, and his local synod, for causing schism among Anglicans by voting to bless homosexual unions. As titular head of the world’s 70 million Anglicans, Carey lacks disciplinary powers outside the Church of England proper, and his imminent retirement further weakens the authority of his letter. But he made it clear that he regards Ingham’s maneuver a “departure from the main thrust of Anglican moral tradition” and proof that “individual dioceses should not ‘go it alone’ in respect of such […]

LOS ANGELES, July 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The United States Justice Foundation (USJF) has announced a campaign to force Planned Parenthood (PP) to obey California law. After hearing testimony that non-medical PP staff had assisted in abortions, USJF sent a notice, pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1782, to PP on June 7, 2002.  USJF Staff Attorney Richard D. Acherman demanded among other things that PP cease having unlicensed personnel performing invasive medical procedures on patients; and that PP advise patients as to the qualifications, or lack thereof, of the employees involved in such invasive medical procedures.  According to Gary […]

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, a women’s group concerned with the issue, reported yesterday that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has taken down an inaccurate web page discussing abortion-breast cancer research.  According to the Coalition the NCI’s fact sheet misrepresented research in the area and even included false statements and refused to acknowledge the deleterious effects of abortion on the confirmed breast cancer risk factor – postponement of first full term pregnancy. Early last month, 28 members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson requesting a review […]

DUNCAN, B.C., July 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Evelyn Marie Martens, 71, of Langford, B.C., appeared in Duncan provincial court Tuesday morning, charged in connection with two assisted suicides. On June 26, she helped Leyanne Burchell, 52, kill herself in Vancouver. Last Thursday she was charged for counselling and helping Monique Charest of Duncan, a former nun originally from Quebec, to end her life on Jan. 7.  At the end of the hearing, Judge Keith Bracken released Martens on $5,000 bail with a curfew and other conditions—including that she not be allowed use the Internet or possess plastic tubing, rope, helium […]

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Most people who ask their doctor about assisted suicide are simply depressed or fearful of pain. If properly counselled and treated, 90% choose to continue living, according to a new study of the impact of Oregon’s unique 1997 “Death with Dignity Act.”“People usually change their minds,” Dr. Susan Tolle, director of the Center for Ethics in Health Care at Oregon Health & Science University, told Reuters. “The doctors are never taught in medical school what to do, what to say, how to help people with their fears that led to their request,” said Tolle, […]

EDMONTON, July 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A major Canadian study, released in the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Public Health has found that a abortion mother’s history of abortions is a factor in the necessity of newborns’ re-admission to hospital. The main finding of the study, which examined 81,956 live births between April, 1997, and March, 2000, in Alberta, showed that early maternal discharge is a relatively minor reason for newborn re-admissions to hospital.  But in a list of factors that influenced newborn re-admissions “history of abortions” was listed.  Numerous other published studies have confirmed risks for later-born […]

TORONTO, July 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The World Youth Alliance (WYA), has finalized its programs for its two Toronto World Youth Day (WYD) forums on July 24 and 26. This international youth-run group, with headquarters near the UN in New York, will be presenting WYD attendees the opportunity to hear some of today’s most prominent and dynamic Catholic personalities.  The speakers list includes:  Father Richard John Neuhaus, editor of First Things, John Paul II biographer, George Weigel, Fr. Robert Sirico, Janet Smith, Wendy Shalit, Fr. Roger Landry, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Jim Nicholson, Pia de Solenni, Canadian Member […]

Bashes Bush administration’s Mexico City Policy   STRASBOURG, July 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The European Parliament voted 280 to 240 (with 28 abstentions) today to adopt a resolution calling on all member nations, and those seeking European Union membership to provide abortion. The resolution, known as the Van Lancker report after the Belgian MEP who drafted it, says “in order to safeguard women’s reproductive health and rights, abortion should be made legal, safe and accessible to all.”  The document calls on Europe to “promote emergency contraception” and goes so far as to demand that abortifacient drugs be available “over-the-counter and […]

WOMEN WHO GIVE BIRTH BY CAESARIAN ARE LESS LIKELY TO CONCEIVE   The UK Times reports that women who give birth by Caesarean section are almost twice as likely as those who give birth naturally to take more than a year to conceive again—a standard measure of reduced fertility—according to research at Bristol University. And while the wait may not matter to a woman in her early twenties, it could be most important to the growing number of older mothers.  https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-344309,00.html   U.S. JUDGE DECLARES DEATH PENALTY UNCONSTITUTIONAL   A New York trial judge yesterday declared the federal death penalty […]

MCLEAN, Va., July 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Princeton University philosopher Peter Singer told a national meeting of animal rights activists that “mainstream Christianity is a problem for the animal movement.” Singer, who has won notoriety for his belief that homo sapiens (mankind) has no right to claim superiority over other animals, singled out “more conservative mainstream fundamentalist views” that “want to make a huge gulf between humans and animals”—a form of discrimination he calls “speciesism.”  Singer is also famous for endorsing “consensual” sexual relationships between animals and people, and for arguing that parents should be allowed to kill an unwanted […]

LOS ANGELES, July 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Bankrupt movie-maker Michael Ovitz says homosexual cooperation within Hollywood is responsible for his loss of $200 million when Artists Management Group went bust a year ago. He called such cooperation among homosexuals and their sympathizers effectively a “gay mafia”—including openly homosexual record mogul David Geffen, Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, Ron Meyer of Universal Studios, and Bernie Weinraub, the New York Times’ Hollywood reporter.  Ovitz told Vanity Fair magazine that their combined efforts wrecked three attempts to rescue his company: AT&T had agreed to put in $150 million, but backed out at the […]

ST. THOMAS, Ont., July 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The lifting of the publication ban on the case of seven Aylmer children abducted by Family and Children’s Services of St. Thomas and Elgin confirms that the children were well-loved and well-looked after; that they defended their parents actions, including spanking with instruments, because they knew it was done out of “love”; and above all, that the primary social worker responsible was a zealous rookie with little experience off the university campus.  Also confirmed is that it was an anonymous phone call that sparked the events that led to the abduction, which […]

Rules TV ad defamatory   VANCOUVER, July 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A judge has ordered the Hospital Employees’ Union to stop broadcasting a defamatory TV ad that links A & A Services to gross acts by other, totally unrelated companies. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Alison Beames supported the company in a ruling Friday, granting its request for an injunction. “It’s clear to me the advertisement … is defamatory,” Beames said.  The HEU ads juxtaposed abortion headlines with a montage of graphic descriptions of troubling incidents of cleaning negligence in U.S. and Scottish hospitals, including severed human body parts delivered with […]

Only Chemical Abortions Permitted So Far   AMSTERDAM, July 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Dutch Ministry of Health has cleared the way for Dr. Rebecca Gomperts’ converted fishing trawler to distribute the RU-486 human pesticide to customers outside the 12-mile limit of countries where abortion is not legal. However, Minister Els Borst rejected Gomperts’ wish to conduct surgical abortions at sea, citing safety reasons.  Gomperts claims several unnamed countries have invited Women on Waves, her company, to come and promote what she calls “women’s right to self-determination of which the right to abortion is part” by offering abortifacients at sea. […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. July 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Media reports on a study published in the June 27 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine claiming no link between taking oral contraceptives and breast cancer have come under fire for bias. “Unbiased reporting has taken a permanent holiday,” said American Life League president Judie Brown. “The recent media hype over a lopsided study arguing that the birth control pill does not contribute to a rise in the rate of breast cancer is further proof that fair reporting is history.”“A number of other studies document a link to breast cancer from […]

Faithful Catholic writer says “Dallas should be understood as a call to arms!” July 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Fred Martinez, in his June 26 Newsmax article, Sex Abuse Wars: How CBS, ABC, NBC and the Gay Movement Suppress Free Speech, exposes media bias in reporting of the bishops’ Dallas meeting.  Martinez reports that a major gay activist organization triumphed that discussion of the homosexual and dissent issues was shutdown by the media and many bishops. The Newsmax article also reveals that aggressive attempts will be made by the media and homosexual activists to sabotage the Apostolic Visitation of the seminaries.  […]

OTTAWA, July 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Episcopal Commission for Social Affairs of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has lobbied the government to ratify the United Nations’ Kyoto Protocol.  While supposedly addressing ‘climate change’ pro-lifers following the treaty’s formation have consistently warned that Kyoto will be used as a tool to promote population control.  Bishop Jean Gagnon, Chairman of the CCCB Commission, wrote Environment Minister David Anderson June 25 noting that the commission had already urged Kyoto ratification in February 2001 and was now repeating its call. Pro-life attendees as the Kyoto Convention on Climate Change in 1997 voiced […]

OTTAWA, July 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Supreme Court Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dubé, with a well deserved reputation as the court’s foremost radical feminist activist justice, retired from the Supreme Court yesterday.  Her future plans include numerous speaking engagements and a teaching post at the Université de Laval in Quebec City. Many social conservatives in Canada have noted that Justice L’Heureux-Dubé has been ideological in her judgments, particularly on family issues and homosexuality.  Her personal bias was not concealed as she promoted homosexual unions in books and conferences.  See related LifeSite coverage:  FEMINIST SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CAUGHT LYING   https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/april/990409b.html Canadian Supreme […]

WASHINGTON, July 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Washington Post reports that President George Bush’s aides have directed State Department officials in recent days to devise a plan to eliminate this year’s $34 million funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).  While the official announcement is only expected after July 15, the Post reports that senior administration officials “expect [the funds] to be permanently withheld.”  The defunding of UNFPA will be a major pro-life victory based on a united effort of pro-life groups led by the Population Research Institute (PRI).  The movement to withhold funding from UNFPA began when PRI […]

U.S. Questions Why, Unlike Other Nations, It Is being Forced To Accept ICC Without Exceptions NEW YORK, July 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – John Negroponte, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, vetoed a resolution that would have extended the UN Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina (UNMIBH) until the end of the year.  The action was taken in response to the Security Council members failing to support a US-proposed exemption for nationals of countries who are not party to the International Criminal Court from the court’s jurisdiction.  U.S. diplomats have negotiated intensely, but unsuccessfully, at UN headquarters and in the capitals of the […]

THE HAGUE, July 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court (ICC) entered into force.  “Crimes” under the ICC’s purview committed anywhere on earth can be tried by the international court, according to its foundational documents.  In its initial stages the court will be involved in setting up operations, however, “crimes” committed as of July 1, 2002 are open for prosecution by the court once it is fully operational.  An advance team for the ICC began its work yesterday to start recruiting and begin basic operations.  The team, consisting of eight experts, will work closely […]