Articles for Month: August 2002

REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER TO GRAY DAVIS CHANGES POLICY ON GAYS Republican challenger Bill Simon, whose struggling campaign for governor of California is short on advertising cash, has made a desperate bid for publicity this week by reversing his position on legal benefits for unmarried couples, including homosexuals. He also endorsed Gay Pride Day. Social conservative supporters have expressed dismay over Simon’s opportunistic cave-in although a spokesman for the candidate insists he has not changed his position.  https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020830-68264188.htm https://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/8/29/120046   “UNDER GOD” ATHEIST WANTS CONGRESS CHAPLAINS ABOLISHED The California atheist who sued to remove “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance is […]

ENVIRONMENTALIST DEPLORES ‘INVENTION OF THE TOILET’ AT EARTH SUMMIT In what some see as a sign that the Earth summit is literally going down the drain, an environmentalist at the Earth summit here has lamented the introduction of the flush toilet. One of the panelists taking part in a television special on the Earth summit complained about the “pernicious introduction of the flush toilet.”  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=ForeignBureausarchive

MONTREAL, August 30, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The third-generation contraceptive pill, long promoted as a “safe” and even as a beneficial pregnancy-prevention method, has once again been declared “safe” in a new study—except for a “slightly increased risk of blood clots.”  The third generation, which includes the products Femodene, Femodette, Marvelon, Mercilon, Minulet, Triadene and Tri-Minulet currently on the market, has been found not to increase the risk of heart attacks in young women. However, the BBC reports, “there remains a slightly increased risk of blood clots with the newest pills.” Yet inexplicably, Britain’s High Court recently threw out a suit […]

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, August 30, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Studies at the University of Michigan have revealed that some types of stem cells in adult laboratory rats survive from before birth. Neural stem cells are gestational cells that develop into the peripheral nervous system. “This is the first indication that [such cells] remain in the peripheral nervous system—not only after birth, but into adult life,” says study author Dr. Sean J. Morrison. “We don't know what these neural crest stem cells are doing in the gut or whether they persist into adult life in humans, as they do in rats. The […]

LONDON, England, August 30, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A survey by Britain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has found a great variation in the “success” rates of the country’s IVF clinics. Those with high rates of success in implanting artificially fertilized embryos that are carried to term in a woman’s womb are being described as “better than nature in producing babies.”  However, “better than nature” is an ironic overstatement, given that most of the G-7 societies most likely to “improve upon” nature using technology (the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Japan and Italy) – have populations in decline, while […]

Rat researcher forced to admit video deception

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION CRUSADER DIES Reverend Steven L. Snyder, described as a “tireless global traveler and advocate for voiceless Christians abroad who faced religious persecution under communist and Islamic regimes,” has died aged 53.  https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020829-26312760.htm

HYATTSVILLE, Maryland, August 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The rate of births that are induced has doubled in the U.S. over the past decade, says the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The percentage of births induced by medical intervention rose from 9% in 1989 to 19% in 1998, according to findings published in the August issue of Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.  Traditionally, induction is advised only for sound reasons, such as a medical condition or when the pregnancy runs over 42 weeks. But Marian McDorrman’s NCHS team found that only half of pre-term inductions listed an identifiable medical reason. Their […]

Company still maintains serious concerns are 'unfounded'

LANSING, Michigan, August 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Kathleen Holey, 43, took a plea bargain this week, under a reduced charge of attempted assisted suicide for helping her own son Patrick and daughter-in-law Jennifer in a suicide pact.  Jennifer Holey survived, and is now serving a 4-year to 15-year sentence for her role in the rape of a 14-year-old girl. The mother, Kathleen, was accused of supplying painkillers to the couple and helping them find an abandoned farmhouse in which to kill themselves in April while under investigation for the rape.  Michigan banned assisted suicide in 1998, under pro-life Republican Gov. […]

As usual, Parliament will have no significant input into the treaty

CALGARY, August 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – “No Catholic can responsibly take a pro-choice stand when the choice in question involves the taking of innocent human life,” said Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary,  backing up a Medicine Hat priest’s decision not to allow a Planned Parenthood employee to be married in her Catholic parish. “The whole Planned Parenthood agenda is not in accordance with the teaching of the Catholic Church,” Henry said. “And consequently if a Roman Catholic is going to work for them, then they have to be prepared to accept the consequences of that decision.”  Celina Ling and her […]

Bernard Lord shuns pro-life contact and support

ABORTIONIST SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS IN JAIL FOR PRACTICING WITHOUT LICENCE Virginia abortionist Rodger A. Fraser, appeared in Henrico County Circuit Court for sentencing yesterday. He was sentenced to three years on four separate charges of practicing medicine without a licence after being caught doing abortions after his licence was suspended.  https://www.mttu.com/Articles/Abortionist%20goes%20to%20jail.htm   US WARNS EUROPEANS NATO WILL CHANGE IF US NOT EXEMPTED FROM ICC ACTIONS https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/26/international/europe/26COUR.html?ex=1031025600&en=9df98e4a739620d0&ei=5038&partner=ASAHI

"Do American women have to read Pravda to learn the truth?"

WASHINGTON, August 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Children of God for Life report that five big-name pharmaceuticals and the National Institutes of Health have acquired rights to use an aborted fetal cell line for the manufacture of new vaccines.  Pfizer, Novartis, Schering-Plough, Glaxo SmithKline (formerly SmithKline Beecham), Aventis Pasteur and the NIH have purchased licensing agreements with Crucell to use its patented designer cell line PER C6 developed with aborted baby tissue.  See the Children of God for Life site at:  www.cogforlife.org

PARIS, August 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A drug used to treat severe sepsis, a potentially deadly blood-clotting disorder, has been found to have been manufactured using aborted baby tissue.  Children of God for Life, a pro-life group specializing in identifying abortion-tainted vaccines reports that Xigris Sepsis, manufactured by Eli Lilly uses aborted fetal cell line HeK293 derived from the kidney of an aborted fetus.  The drug was just approved for use in Europe on August 26 and was approved last November for use in the USA.  See the Children of God for Life site at:  www.cogforlife.org

Another case of activist national court threatening to override democratic process

Life Dynamics makes legal brief available to every school district in the U.S

Many couples only need time to conceive naturally

Will begin storing vast numbers of cells from human embryos

Shows Women's Death Rate Following Abortion Much Higher than Previously Known

Catholic Wedding Not Possible For Unrepentant Abortion Supporter

10 STATES AND CONGRESS CONSIDER PARENTAL NOTIFICATION FOR BIRTH CONTROL https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive

Previously Won "artistic merit" Child Porn Exemption From Canadian Supreme Court

Tissue From Aborted Babies, Not Embryonic Stem Cells From Fertilized Eggs

"Suggestive and prejudicial" Shenanigans Continue

Teams Up Again With E.U. Against U.S. and Vatican on Usual Abortion Pre-Occupation

Two Physicians Argue That the Therapy is Both Ethical and Effective

Parish Hounded by Hostile Media Since Decision Made Public

CABLE COMPANY REFUSES SHOW WITH FOOTAGE OF WOMEN ENTERING ABORTUARIES https://www.boston.com/dailynews/235/nation/Cable_company_says_TV_show_can:.shtml   CALIFORNIA SENATE BACKS ANOTHER PRO-ABORTION BILL https://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/3921878.htm   PENSYLVANIA COURT ALLOWS HOMOSEXUAL ADOPTIONS https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020824/ap_on_re_us/same_sex_adoptions_1   HOMOSEXUAL EPISCOPALIAN PRIESTS BATTLE TO BE ‘MARRIED’ IN NEW JERSEY https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nypost/20020826/lo_nypost/gay_clerics_battle_n_j__for_right_to_be_married

JAPAN PONDERS WHAT TO DO ABOUT ITS FALLING BIRTHRATE Japan’s total fertility rate fell to 1.33 in 2001.  https://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=kuchikomi&id=189   5,000 YOUTH GATHER ON PARLIAMENT HILL FOR PRAYER RALLY https://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id={A45643ED-5553-4A58-915B-81D14D790742}

Alliance Ahead of Tories in Polls

Ex-boyfriends no longer want offspring to live

Study Done in Cities Where Homosexuality Not Only Condoned but Widely Endorsed

Faith Orientation Linked to High Standards

MONTPELIER, August 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A state-wide campaign was launched today to advise Vermont school officials about the legal liabilities associated with legitimizing homosexuality in public schools. STARS Vermont, headed by State Representative Nancy Sheltra (R), has obtained the assistance of two California-based public interest law firms who have produced an advisory for schools titled “The Legal Liabilities Associated with Homosexuality Education in Public Schools.” The participating firms, the United States Justice Foundation of San Diego and the Pro-Family Law Center of Sacramento modeled the document on a report of the same name distributed to schools in Ohio earlier […]

Aging Population Will Hurt the Public Health System, and the Economy in General

Current Law is Hampering law Enforcement Agencies

Suicide Prevention Group Insists Depression and Mental Illness Are Main Causes

Number of Babies Being Put Up For Adoption Has Sharply Declined

WASHINGTON, August 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-life activists are seeing an increase in dirty trick tactics by homosexual activists out to deprive pro-family groups of their rights. Sandy Rios, president of Concerned Women for America, cites a systematic pattern by homosexuals who “will stop at nothing to win,” including:  * Caving in to homosexual activists, Miami police came to Anthony Verdugo’s house on August 16 at 6:00 a.m.—as if he were a drug criminal – and arrested and handcuffed him on a single count of “falsely certifying a petition,” even though Verdugo maintains he certified thousands of signatures legitimately;  * […]

Getting their 'expert' advice from some who covered up sex between men and children

Media Quick to Pounce on This One Study

Executive Director of Association of American Physicians and Surgeons emails Self Magazine

Cleared for Use in Canada

US BISHOPS OFFICIAL APPLAUDS PETITION AGAINST FDA’S RU-486 APPROVAL https://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2002/02-162.htm   SPERM DONOR NOT ENTITLED TO PARENTAL RIGHTS UNDER FLORIDA LAW https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020820/ap_wo_en_po/us_sperm_donor_rights_2

ADULT STEM CELLS TRANSORMED INTO CARTILAGE https://library.northernlight.com/FF20020821800000028.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc   JAPANESE DOCTOR MAY BE CHARGED WITH EUTHANASIA https://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5104027&BRD=1713&PAG=740&dept_id=226965&rfi=6   1200 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TEENS HAD ABORTIONS LAST YEAR https://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,4941818%255E2682,00.html

Lawyer calls PPF malpractice a 'timb bomb'

HOUSTON, August 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Officials at the University of Houston (UH) officials have dropped their opposition to allowing a large poster display of aborted fetuses in a main campus plaza as part of a pro-life demonstration during the first week of classes.  Last month UH tried to ban the display. But according to the Houston Chronicle, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week refused the university’s request to delay the exhibit. UH wanted a delay until after its appeal of a lower court ruling that the display be allowed.  “It’s about time that the university stopped […]

CANBERRA, August 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The centre-right Liberal-National federal coalition government has warned that purveyors of the so-called exit bag, who launched their gruesome wares in Australia this week, could face prosecution.  Justice and Customs Minister Chris Ellison reiterated the government’s anti-euthanasia stance, and noted that it was putting resources into trying to discourage suicide, especially among young people. “Aiding, abetting or inciting the killing of a person,” he said, “is a criminal offence in all states and territories.”  But Queensland state premier Peter Beattie reiterated that he doubts the bags can be outlawed. “If the government were to […]

WASHINGTON, August 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Richard Prosper, US ambassador at large for war crimes has revealed that the United States is seeking an agreement with NATO to ensure its soldiers are not subject to the political prosecutions of the International Criminal Court. The European Union has chastised Romania for signing such an agreement with the U.S. ahead of a NATO meeting at which Romania hopes to be invited to join the organization. See related coverage:  https://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1028185936452&p=1012571727179 https://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/506662p-4034779c.html

BUFFALO, August 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – U.S. District Judge Richard Arcara, startled both defense and prosecution attorneys Wednesday, refusing to accept a plea bargain for a couple accused of assisting James Kopp who was charged in the shooting death of abortionist Barnett Slepian.  Loretta C. Marra and Dennis J. Malvasi had agreed to plead guilty in order to obtain a reduced sentence of 27 to 33 months and avoid testifying in Kopp’s trial.  However, UPI reports that Judge Arcara said he wondered why he shouldn’t consider the couple as accessories after the fact, in the murder of Slepian after hearing […]

Vatican Releases New Book On Environmental Issues

WOMB TRANSPLANT ON MICE   Scientists who transplanted a womb into a mouse were able to bring about a pregnancy. Dr. Mats Brännström of the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenberg hopes the same technique can be used on human females who have lost their womb after surgery.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2205086.stm AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY FIRST AUSSIE STATE TO LEGALIZE ABORTION https://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&story_id=173761&category=General+News&m=8&y=2002   STUDY SHOWS NEWBORNS FEEL PAIN   https://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/current/abs/joc12153.html   PM SAYS CANADA PROBABLY WILL RATIFY KYOTO TREATY https://www.nationalpost.com/utilities/story.html?id={625437AA-9FD1-4AF9-B281-BC2DA931C4CC}

Accused of being pro-life, influenced by his Catholicism

WASHINGTON, August 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Bush administration plans to spend $1 million for public awareness campaigns promoting embryo adoptions. Surprisingly, the measure was put forward by Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, who supports both abortion and embryonic stem cell research. Pro-abortion groups are frightened that the move may give rights to the unborn. Specter commented on the initiative saying: “If any of those embryos could produce life, I think they ought to produce life.”

WASHINGTON, August 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Physicians’ and women’s groups yesterday filed documents with the Food and Drug Administration calling on the agency to shelve the chemical abortifacient RU-486 pending a thorough review of its own approval process and the subsequent deaths and complications attributed to the abortion drug.  The Christian Medical Association (CMA, www.cmdahome.org) joined Concerned Women for America and the American Association of Pro Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists in filing a 90-page “citizens petition” based on 22 months of research. Using information obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, the document chronicles how political pressure corrupted the normally […]

OTTAWA, August 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Prime Minister Jean Chretien says he will not run again in the next election but will retain his post till February 2004.  “I will not run again. I will fulfill my mandate focusing on governing until February, 2004, at which time my work will be done and at which time my successor will be chosen,” he told a news conference.  To read CBC online coverage see:  https://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/08/21/chretien_steps020821

Gov't and Media Fail To Mention Doctor Was An Abortionist

OTTAWA, August 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal yesterday ordered John Micka, Machiavelli and Associates Emprize Inc., Joanne Vestvik and Ken Fast to immediately cease communicating ‘hate’ messages on a particular Internet Web site https://www.citizensresearchinst.com/. Mark Schnell, a self-proclaimed homosexual filed complaints with the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 1999 and 2000, claiming that John Micka and Machiavelli and Associates Emprize Inc. discriminated against him. He felt the site communicated messages likely to expose “persons to hatred and contempt based on their sexual orientation.” Schnell alleged that the comments on the site were “offensive and derogatory, and […]

SACRAMENTO, August 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Officials from the state Department of Education in California, which has a $23 billion budgeting deficit, are threatening parents that they can no longer provide home education for their children unless they obtain so-called professional teaching credentials. Failure to comply, said the cash-strapped bureaucracy, will be met with charges of “truancy.”  Deputy Superintendent Joanne Mendoza wrote in a July 16 memo to all school employees that, “In California, ‘home schooling’ – a situation where non-credentialed parents teach their own children, exclusively, at home … is not an authorized exemption from mandatory public school attendance.”“This […]

Second Known Time Bag Used To Kill - Police Don't Seem Concerned

ABORTIONISTS COMPLAINS OF NON ACCEPTANCE BY EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN GROUP The National Abortion Federation is complaining that its application to exhibit at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) 2002 Scientific Assembly has been rejected for a second year because ACEP’s Educational Meetings Committee has determined that “NAF would not have significant educational value to the practice of emergency medicine.” CHRISTIAN COALITION WARNS AGAINST BANKRUPTCY BILL AIMED AT PRO-LIFERS “The Schumer language is so intentionally vague, sidewalk counselors at abortion facilities could be sued and forced to pay abortionists and their supporters settlement money,” says the coalition.  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=Nationarchive

FORMER PORN STAR RUNNING FOR GERMAN PARLIAMENT Peter Bond, who in addition to his porn fame became a national celebrity during the 1990s as the host of the German verson of the game show “Wheel of Fortune,” is a candidate for the liberal Free Democrats Party (FDP), and hopes to be the first actor elected to parliament.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2202720.stm AUSTRALIA LAW MAKERS TO BEGIN TWO-WEEK STEM CELL DEBATE Legislation would allow destructive use of human embryos created for infertility treatments by IVF.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020820/ap_wo_en_po/australia_stem_cell_research_1

Premier criticizes 'pressure campaign'

WASHINGTON, August 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The U.S. Supreme Court will review several free speech cases in the coming year that will be of interest to pro-lifers.  Justices have already agreed to hear a challenge to a 50-year-old Virginia law outlawing cross burning this fall, and a federal racketeering law used against pro-lifers who protest outside abortion clinics.  During the past three years, the court heard 18 free speech cases, and in half of them ruled in favour of challengers who claimed their rights were violated. For example, this year the court overturned parts of a 1996 child pornography law, […]

NEW YORK, August 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The New York Times issued warnings from United Nations Statistics chief Dr. Joseph Chamie today noting the soon-to-be-felt high toll of the low birth rate in developed countries.  The paper described the current situation of low births and growing elderly populations as dynamics which “cause havoc” in retirement systems such as those in place throughout most of the developed world.  The paper reports that in countries such as Italy with a fertility rate of 1.2 children per woman, contributions of workers into the social security system can be as high as 40 percent […]

Governor Davis Likely To Sign Anti-Democracy Measure

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, August 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Isabel Santana, 28, gave birth on Saturday to a healthy baby boy despite having a large tumor in her uterus which caused doctors to warn her to abort her child.  Jeremi Johnny Antonio, a 6.8-pound (3 kilogram) baby was dwarfed by the 16-pound benign tumor in his mother’s uterus which was also removed during the caesarian.  “The important thing is that I trusted God and my family because without them I would not have been able to do this,” said the happy mother.  See the AP coverage at:  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020819/ap_wo_en_po/dominican_tumor_1

AUSTRALIAN ARCHBISHOP URGES MATERNITY LEAVE TO INCLUDE STAY-AT-HOME MOMS https://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2002/08/16/1029114013441.htm   GERMAN WOMEN TOP WORLD IN USE OF BIRTH CONTROL PILL   59%of women in long-term relationships use the pill.  https://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2002/08/15/eline/links/20020815elin021.html   CAESAREANS “REDUCE FERTILITY”  Having a caesarean section may make it harder for a woman to get pregnant again, according to researchers. A new large-scale study involving thousands of woman found that it was more likely that conceiving naturally could take more than a year if the woman had a caesarian.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2078844.stm EPIDURAL STILL RISKS BACK COMPLICATIONS   A report finding no link between backache and epidural injections used […]

US BISHOPS PRESIDENT COMMENDS BUSH ON DEFUNDING UNFPA https://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-23-2002/0001769703&EDATE=  NY TIMES TO RUN HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE-LIKE NOTICES https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020818/ap_on_re_us/newspaper_gay_weddings_3

CANBERRA, August 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The centre-right Liberal-National coalition government's Research Involving Embryos and Prohibition of Human Cloning Bill, now working its way through Parliament, outlaws the “collection” of a viable human embryo from a woman after fertilization. Section 18 of the bill refers to removing the embryo from the uterus after fertilization has occurred—considered by ethically-challenged scientists as a prime source of embryos for experimentation. The bill would apply a maximum 10 year sentence for doing so, and gives courts the discretion to fine a doctor $66,000 and a corporation $330,000. MPs and senators polled yesterday by The […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Presbyterian Church (USA) general assembly has reaffirmed its support for abortion in cases where the fetus is too young to survive outside the womb.  “The ending of a pregnancy after the point of fetal viability is a matter of grave moral concern to us all,” says the statement, “and may be undertaken only in the rarest of circumstances and after prayer and/or pastoral care and when necessary to save the life of the woman, to preserve the woman’s health in circumstances of a serious risk to the woman’s health, to avoid fetal […]

WASHINGTON, August 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A growing number of reports are pointing to a presidential run by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton: building a national political organization, softening her liberal image and standing at the forefront in Democratic criticism of President Bush—all seen as “steps toward a potential campaign to become the first woman president” in 2008.  Mrs. Clinton told reporters last Friday that she will not break a pledge to serve her full Senate term until 2006. “I have no plans to run for president,” she said in a telephone interview.  However, the Washington Times has compiled a list […]

BUFFALO, August 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The couple charged with helping James C. Kopp while he was on the run after the shooting of abortionist Barnett A. Slepian has agreed to plead guilty in federal court this week.  Loretta C. Marra and Dennis J. Malvasi, the Brooklyn couple who sent Kopp money and were preparing to help bring him back from self-exile in France, will probably face greatly reduced prison terms in exchange for their plea bargain—ranging from 27 to 33 months, compared to the original 10 years cited when they were charged.  The plea bargain means they will not […]

KRAKOW, Poland, August 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Addressing two million of his countrymen at a Mass before departing his beloved homeland, Pope John Paul II warned against playing God.  Speaking of this century’s “unheard-of dangers”  he said, “Frequently man lives as if God did not exist, and even puts himself in God’s place. He claims for himself the Creator’s right to interfere in the mystery of human life.”  He referred to the “evil” fashioned by the “mystery of iniquity” which marks our times, calling special attention to genetic manipulation, euthanasia and attacks on the family. See the full address of […]

Difficult to find doctors to give lethal overdoses to patients

Calls pro-abortion, pro-gay Joe Clark "one of the most prominent Roman Catholic laymen in the country"

CNN MISREPORTS STORY ON CONVICTION OF ANTHRAX HOAXER CNN news misreported a story about Clayton Waagner, the crazed man who sent fake anthrax letters to abortuaries.  Waagner was sentenced to 19 years in prison for firearms and theft charges.  However the CNN headline read: “Abortion foe gets 19 years for anthrax hoaxes”  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020815/ap_wo_en_po/us_attacks_fugitive_1 https://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/08/15/anthrax.hoaxes.ap/index.html   PARENTS OF DEAD 15-YEAR-OLD WARN OF DEADLY DANGERS OF THE PILL https://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/stories/Detail_LinkStory=16525.html?r   MOTHER TERESA VOTED GREATEST PERSON IN INDIA SINCE INDEPENDENCE https://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20020815.htm   VATICAN LIKELY TO REJECT US BISHOPS’ DALLAS PLAN Catholic World News reports that the US bishops’ policies, adopted during a June […]

Pro-Abortion Confab held in Pro-Life Philippines

Fine Was One Of The Highest Ever Demanded For The Offence

"Why would anyone … want to use them … when there are ethical alternatives"

Couples with more than two children barred from local elections and gov't jobs

Meanwhile in Washington UN Reps Argue CEDAW Does Not Support Abortion

30 CONSERVATIVE GROUPS PRAISE PRESIDENT BUSH FOR REFUSING TO ATTEND EARTH SUMMIT “Your presence would only help to publicize and make more credible their various anti-freedom, anti-people, anti-globalization and anti-Western agendas,” they wrote Bush.  https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/08/15/earth.summit.ap/index.html   ROYAL OAK MICHIGAN POLICE FACING LAWSUIT OVER CONFISCATING PRO-LIFERS VEHICLE https://www.thomasmore.org/index.cfm?location=5&subsectionid=1&release=149&pageid=1   CHINESE GIRL SEEKING U.S. ASYLUM BECAUSE MOTHER FORCED TO ABORT TWICE https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020814/ap_on_re_us/chinese_girl_1   GEORGIA RIGHT TO LIFE REFUSES TO ENDORSE CANDIDATES WITH RAPE AND INCEST EXCEPTIONS https://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/prime/0814-117.html HUMAN TISSUE COMPANY ORDERED TO SHUT DOWN The US’s largest processor and supplier of donated human tissue for transplantation has been ordered to shut down […]

STDs ON THE RISE IN UK ESP AMONG HOMOSEXUALS Increases among young women were high, but the biggest increases were among gay and bisexual men, with syphilis up 180%, chlamydia up 40%, and gonorrhea by 20%. https://dailynews.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&ncid=751&e=4&u=/nm/20020815/hl_nm/std_sex_dc_1 INSIGHT INTO NEW ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY The next Archbishop of Canterbury, writes Digby Anderson in The Spectator, “is going to be a ‘radical’, we are told. By this is meant that he will regurgitate ideas fashionable among an intellectual elite half a century ago, an elite whose dominance over the Church has helped reduce it to its current low ebb. That will certainly […]

Boys' testes could be preserved inside a mouse

WARWICK, England, August 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The health benefits of marriage are so large that single men suffer worse health effects than smokers, according to a new study.  Professor Andrew Oswald of Warwick University north of Oxford, studied thousands of records from the British Household Panel Survey and the British Retirement Survey. He found that, even when the effects of smoking, drinking and other unhealthy activities were factored in, married men had a much lower risk of death. Over a seven year period, the married male had a 9% lower risk, and the married female 2.9% lower, compared with […]

Merely a pro-abortion symbol inspired by a totalitarian impulse

Two-year-old law school reached the milestone on its first attempt

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., August 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry reveals that abortion is associated with psychiatric episodes suffered by women. By examining Medi-Cal records for 173,000 low-income California women, researchers Priscilla K. Coleman, David C. Reardon, Vincent M. Rue and Jesse Cougle, compared the rate of psychiatric outpatient treatments for women who had abortions versus those who carried to term. To control for differences in prior psychological health, they excluded all women who had any psychiatric care for a year prior to their pregnancy outcome. The study found that […]

U.N. population control efforts threaten Afghan women, Afghan laws, and undercut American aid operations

ANCHORAGE, August 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Metropolitan Herman, who is – as of July – the new leader of the Orthodox Church in all America and Canada answered questions on abortion during his first official visit.  Visiting Alaska, where the church began in America more than 200 years ago, the 70-year-old primate, who was raised in a family of 10 children, reiterated church teaching prohibiting abortion.  Referring to questions about abortion he said that rather than take positions, the church is bound to follow Christ.  “When it comes to the church, it’s not old-fashioned or new-fashioned, it’s what was established […]

Both Catholic and major Protestant denominations

SASKATCHEWAN PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST BILL WHATCOTT ARRESTED   Whatcott was arrested for and charged with causing a disturbance. He was also charged with breach of recognizance and resisting arrest for peacefully refusing to move and thus being dragged to the police car. His court appearance is set for Sept. 17.  (Pro-Life E-News quoting from https://www.mjtimes.sk.ca/ )  PRO-ABORTION GROUPS ATTACK PARENTAL NOTIFICTION Parental-notification laws “would likely increase unintended pregnancies, abortions and out-of-wedlock births, says a study released yesterday. “Underage girls would stop seeking birth-control products from Planned Parenthood clinics if there was a law requiring that their parents be notified,” said researchers […]

NEW YORK, August 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – DC Comics, creator of Superman and Batman, is publishing what media are calling “a cutting-edge new story line: a gay teenager who is the victim of a hate crime.”  Since last year, Kyle Rayner, a.k.a. the Green Lantern superhero, has had a homosexual sidekick named Terry Berg. In issue No. 154 of the comic book Berg and his boyfriend (not the Green Lantern) are walking down a street when three men yell epithets, chase them, and give Berg a sound thrashing. The comic hits newsstands in September.  In 2001, says cartoonist Judd Winick, […]

Government Employees Had Abortions Fearing They Would Lose Their Jobs

NEW YORK, August 14, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Big Apple is preparing to become the first U.S. jurisdiction to extend the word “marriage” to same-sex unions. A bill before City Council this week would grant recognition to “members of a marriage that is not recognized by the state of New York, domestic partnership, or civil union, lawfully entered into in another jurisdiction.”  Christine Quinn, one of the bill’s sponsors, said: “The use of the word ‘marriage’ is done deliberately to make it clear that New York City is going as far as it can possibly go legislatively to recognize lesbian […]

Result Not Changed By Having Stepfathers Nor Caused by Poor Economic Status

CNN Releases Full Transcript of Interview With Couple Attempting First Cloned Baby

Kids whom teachers and peers rated as meanest watched the most violent media

Priest Warps Catholic Teaching on "Pro-Choice"

NEW ULTRASOUND GIVES PHOTO-LIKE IMAGES OF UNBORN A new generation of ultrasound technology allows parents to see the unborn child in clear living colour months before they leave the womb. Mary Ellen Douglas, national organizer of the Campaign Life Coalition, called the images so amazing that “we want to use it as a tool to show the humanity of the baby.” Thus, news media are calling the technology “a favourite of the anti-abortion movement”—although the cost, at 120,000 per machine, means they will be rare in Canada’s health systems, which lack the private sector input that makes such resources widely […]

Faith-based groups may also be included

ATLANTA, August 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The American husband and wife collaborating with Italian Dr. Panos Zavos and six British couples to create the world’s first cloned baby claim it is the will of God that they have a child—even though every natural and unnatural means of conceiving a child has already failed.  “God really wants us to do this,” said the couple, who are keeping their identity secret. “I think that God really wants us to do this, that this is the next step,” the would-be mom said in an interview on CNN’s Sunday night program with Connie Chung. […]

Severe penalty for non-compliance would be loss of state accreditation

BRUSSELS, August 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The European Union issued a threat yesterday that any country hoping to join the EU must not support immunity from the International Criminal Court for U.S. peacekeepers.  The EU, which often shows imperial pretensions, is considering membership applications from 10 former Soviet-controlled states—Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia—as well as from Cyprus and Malta. Yugoslavia, subjected to a U.S-led bombing campaign in 1999 which aggravated regional instability, said yesterday it would not sign an American-immunity agreement. But Romania has already become the first to agree to immunity for […]

GENEVA, August 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Swiss assisted suicide group is performing assisted suicides for foreigners according to a BBC report.  Dignitas, one of four assisted suicide groups in Switzerland, offers its killing services to foreigners, providing them with the poisonous drugs required as well as a Dignitas owned apartment in which to kill themselves.  See the BBC report at:  https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/2189340.stm

Prominent speakers support homosexuality, abortion, contraception, female priests and more

MORE GENDER-BENDING CHEMICALS A global report cites risks to humans as well as wildlife from “endocrine disrupting” chemicals in the environment. EDCs often have the same properties as hormones that the body uses to control a wide variety of functions, including reproduction.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2188169.stm   PRO-LIFERS ACCUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL SCIENTISTS OF HIDDEN MOTIVES A week before Australian lawmakers deal with stem cell research, Do No Harm, a pro-life doctors’ group has accused the bio-tech industry of hiding their true motivation for wanting the go-ahead to use human embryos for research. While they claim their hope is to treat terrible diseases, […]

Homosexualists claim Williams now against gay marriage

Donations and donors for rumoured run at the White House

Purpose is 'to advance human health'

Ottawa Catholic University Attracts Sexual Abusing Professors

ONE OF WORLD’S LEADING ABORTION BUSINESSES TO OPEN REPRO HEALTH CLINIC IN KABUL https://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/archive/200208/FOR20020808d.html PRO-LIFE TORY MP ELSIE WAYNE URGES CLARK TO LEAVE SOONER THAN LATER https://www.canada.com/national/story.asp?id={3C37D483-EAAE-475B-8E4B-5E5C7028444E}  INTEL CORP. CHAIR FUNDS EMBRYONIC RESEARCH $5 MILLION Intel Corp. Chairman Andy Grove has offered a $5 million grant to University of California San Francisco for embryonic stem cell research barred from federal funds by President Bush.  He has urged others to match his donation.  https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2002/08/09/MN105802.DTL   UNWANTED BABY GIRLS KILLED IN INDIA   Despite new legislation banning the use of ultrasound tests to determine the sex of unborn children, the killing of […]

BERLIN, August 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Catholic Church in Germany, which employs numerous people of differing faith backgrounds, has announced that it will dismiss employees who enter into homosexual civil unions.  The church considers legally recognized homosexual civil unions, which were introduced in legislation last year, an affront to marriage and the family.  The diocese of Limburg released a letter Thursday which was sent to all heads of church organizations last month outlining the policy.  The letter says that an employee entering such a union “loses credibility in fulfilling the tasks he has to perform in an ecclesiastical institution.”“Since […]

Organization resolves not to invite guest speakers unless genuinely pro-life

Does not include Supreme Court ruling protecting porn deemed to have "artistic merit."

NEW YORK, August 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) has repeated its endorsement of destructive research on human embryos.  Celebrating one year after the U.S. President’s approval of use of stem cells derived from human embryos, the JDRF boasts of having spent millions of donor dollars on funding research involving the destruction of human embryos.  JDRF says it has increased its own funding for embryonic stem cell research in eight countries. JDRF has created a Stem Cell Research Development Fund-a new major gifts campaign which seeks to raise $20 million directly for stem cell research. […]

TOKYO, August 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Japanese Health Ministry survey released Thursday showed that 46,571 girls aged 19 or younger aborted their unborn children last year. The abortions for the minors make up 14% of the total Abortions by minors hit record high 341,588 recorded abortions in Japan last year.  Kyodo News reports that the Health Ministry is setting up a research team to look at sexual activity among youth in Japan to confront the problem.  See the Japan Today coverage:  https://japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=225927

OTTAWA, August 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Demonstrating that it is little more than a homosexual activist organization, the federal government’s Canadian Human Rights Commission has sent out a press release saying, “Society Must Recognize the Reality of Same-Sex Couples in the Definition of Marriage.”  The release says the Liberal government appointed Commission “applauds the decision of the Ontario Superior Court allowing for same-sex marriages.”  In related news, Mary Gusella has been appointed the new chief of the Commission. The Toronto Star reports that the commission was formed in 1978 and uses its budget of $22 million a year to deal […]

By this appointment Chretien has revealed his views on the issue

EGYPTIAN DOC HELD FOR ILLEGAL ABORTIONS AFTER 16 FETUSES FOUND DUMPED https://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=85&art_id=qw102864708221B221&set_id=1   WOMAN FIRED FOR REPORTING SEX ABUSE BY UN WORKERS WINS SUIT https://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/07/wbos07.xml   PRAYERS REQUESTED   It is with sadness that we announce the following:  Barrie Charles deVeber, age 36,  the youngest son of Euthanasia Prevention Coalition President, Dr. Barrie deVeber, died suddenly in his home on August 3, 2002   15 year old Nettie Von Dehn (Daughter of well known Vancouver Pro-life activist Sissy Von Dehn), for whom we asked prayers on July 3,  has died from her brain tumor.

Aborted babies used in Singapore lab as "feeder layers" instead of mice

Study authors want women to stay on the pill anyway

Chrétien refuses to reveal his position on Homosexual Marriage

Based on prototype from a Canadian pro-euthanasia group

Alberta Premier Ralph Klein supports the move

OTTAWA, August 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Mme Justice Marie Deschamps, from the Quebec Court of Appeal, was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada today.  Deschamps, who will take up her duties at the opening of the Fall session on September 30th, replaces retired Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dubé who was known for her pro-homosexual activism.  Little is known at this time about Prime Minister Chretien’s latest appointment to the Supreme Court. The Canadian selection process does not require any public or parliamentary review of candidates to the nation’s highest court prior to their appointment. There have been many calls in recent […]

SAN FRANSICO JUDGES FIRST TO CUT TIES WITH BOY SCOUTS OVER HOMOSEXUALITY https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020807-26501292.htm   US PUBLICLY FUNDED RESEARCHERS DOING EMBRYO RESEARCH WITH PRIVATE FUNDS https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/07/politics/07STEM.html?ex=1029384000&en=615faaf8d235d883&ei=5038&partner=ASAHI

Human embryos on "suicide mission," scientist says

Six other couples to work with Zavos for unknown fee

WILKES-BARRE, Penn., August 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Tanya Meyers, the ex-girlfriend who wanted an abortion to provide closure to her relationship with John Stachokus, had a miscarriage hours after a Luzerne County Court judge gave her clearance to abort their child.  A temporary court injunction obtained by the father before the weekend was quashed by Judge Michael Conahan’s ruling that Stachokus had no grounds for interfering with what he called the woman’s “constitutional” right to abortion. Meyers’ mother, Tracey Curry of Kingston, Ont., said yesterday that her daughter began bleeding heavily on Monday and an ultrasound confirmed that she had […]

One of the most comprehensive divorce studies ever conducted.

Wording may also give husbands legal right to force wives to abort children

Supreme Knight Anderson Calls the Right to Life the 'Pre-Eminent Moral Issue' of Our Time

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus and Prof. Charles Rice warn that policy is panic response

Another appointed human rights commission intimidates elected politicians to capitulate

KOPP LAWYERS TRYING TO FORCE INFORMATION OUT OF PROSECUTION BY RESISTING SAMPLES https://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20020803/1035818.asp   VATICAN RELEASES DECREE OF EXCOMMUNICATION FOR BISHOP WHO ‘ORDAINED WOMEN’  https://www.vatican.va/cgi-bin/w3-msql/news_services/bulletin/news/11707.html?index=11707&lang=it   BREAST-FED BABIES GROW FASTER IN FIRST THREE MONTHS Healthy infants exclusively breast-fed for the first three months grow faster than their formula-fed peers—but at the age of one year, there are no differences in weight, length or head circumference, a new study shows. The findings contradict the anti-breastfeeding myth that infants who are breast-fed for the first year gain less weight.  https://dailynews.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&ncid=751&e=4&u=/nm/20020805/hl_nm/breastfeeding_children_dc_1

Contradicts the stereotype that conservative religious fathers leave child-rearing to stay-at-home wives

Ceremony reminiscent of "Monty Python sketch"

Says a woman's right to abortion

Another horror story behind the manufacture of human embryonic stem cells

Toronto Archdiocesan Communications Director refuses to comment

Indicates that "This law is a step toward the day when America" welcomes all unborn children

Has called for a leadership convention for early 2003

UK ABORTIONIST WORKED IN UK HOSPITALS EVEN AFTER BAN IN CANADA AND UK https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2165578.stm   COUPLE IN LEGAL FIGHT OVER “OWNERSHIP” OF IVF CREATED EMBRYOS https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2167590.stm

LONDON, August 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Anglican Bishop of Rochester, the Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali, who is ethics chairman of Britain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, has criticized the about-face of an influential British thinker who once opposed human cloning. The bishop, said to have been second choice for next Archbishop of Canterbury, blasted Mary Warnock’s new human cloning proposals which he said would “let the genie out of the bottle.” In 1984, she achieved a ban on cloning after publishing the landmark Warnock Report on fertility, which formed the basis of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act six […]

To select a perfect tissue match embryos would be destroyed in the process

56 provincial statutes changed at once

Globe and Mail reported WYD comments out of context

Clinic accepted grocery store ID as proof of age

Poor attendance at religious services prior to College may be major factor

Court precedent suggests the unborn baby has only days to live

Astonishing amount of positive news stories during the event

Huge downtown crowd reduced to reverent, prayerful silence

OHIO SUPREME COURT ALLOWS LESBIAN COUPLE NAME CHANGE https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020731/ap_on_re_us/name_change_1   EUTHANASIA DOC’S PATIENT DIES SEVEN DAYS AFTER ATTEMPTED SUICIDE https://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=national&category=general%20news&story_id=167784&y=2002&m=7

LONDON, England, August 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Japanese scientists have grown mice eggs in a laboratory and used them to create healthy mice. The technique offers the potential to save endangered species some day using immature eggs taken from dying species in a technique similar to the cloning of Dolly the sheep. But the discovery is already being touted for its potential to create in-vitro fertilization babies for cancer patients.  Reports say that ovaries from young women diagnosed with cancer could theoretically be removed before they undergo treatment, in an effort to artificially preserve fertility and create babies through IVF, […]

BRUSSELS, August 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The European Union has postponed financing of human embryo and stem cell research until the end of 2003, shelving its five-year US$17 billion funding package for future use. Late last year, the European Parliament rejected a recommended ban on public funding of human embryo research. Denmark reiterated that no EU funds will go to research activities aimed at human reproductive cloning, modification of the genetic heritage of human beings, or the creation of human embryos solely for the purpose of research or stem cell procurement. Although the point of EU directives is to foster […]

SAINT PAUL, Minn., August 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Jesse Ventura, Minnesota’s staunchly anti-religious governor, has inadvertently proclaimed Oct. 13-19 as Christian Heritage Week. The proclamation, submitted every year by Virginia-based Christian Heritage Ministries, quotes Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry and George Mason as statesmen “who did not hesitate to express their faith.”“Somehow it got in the wrong pile,” spokesman John Wodele said. “It would not [otherwise] have been approved.” Ventura has always refused to sign religion-related proclamations in the past, although he did sign one from an atheist association. His office tried in vain this […]

YELLOWKNIFE, August 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – At least part of the story of an alleged rape victim alleging blackmail by a Liberal Cabinet Minister has proved true.  Last week an 18-year-old girl alleged that Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s adopted son sexually assaulted her. This resulted in the arrest and subsequent release and upcoming trial for Michel Chretien.  Liberal Cabinet Minister Ethel Blondin-Andrew who was accused of blackmail by the mother of the 18-year-old has admitted she called the girl’s mother.  The mother of the girl says she called the Prime Minister’s office before calling police to lay charges.  She says […]

TORONTO, August 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Ontario Human Rights Commissioner Keith Norton has been asked to resign for comparing public funding of faith-based schools to support for apartheid.  Canadian Jewish News reports that Toronto lawyer Joseph Adler with two children in Jewish day schools and Charles McVety, president of the Canada Christian College are demanding Norton step down.  Norton, also a homosexual activist, commented on the Ontario government’s proposed private school tax credits saying they could lead to educational apartheid and foster hatred. Adler has filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission over Norton’s remarks saying, Norton “has […]

Major Canadian bank discriminates against any organizations opposed to homosexuality

TORONTO, August 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Toronto police have reported that the crime rate in Toronto actually dropped during World Youth Day’s week-long events.  Muggings and street crime were down from the usual numbers, Sergeant Robb Knapper told the Toronto Star.  “There were no crime-related incidents involving pilgrims,” he said. “We had tons of lost passports, knapsacks and other stuff, but no reports of anyone being involved in crime.”  World Youth Day 1993 attendees informed LifeSite that police in Denver Colorado – where the event was held that year – reported a similar crime drop.  See the Toronto Star coverage […]

Calls traditional interpretation "a perversion of the message of the Gospel"

Highly organized feminists and pro-abortion groups have caught conservatives off guard