Articles for Month: September 2002

HOUSE PASSES CONSCIENCE PROTECTION FOR HEALTH PROVIDERS The House of Representatives yesterday approved a bill to protect hospitals and other healthcare organizations from being forced to perform or pay for abortions. https://www.washtimes.com/national/20020926-881694.htm   U.S. TEEN SEX RATE DECLINES The percentage of sexually active US high school students has declined over the past 10 years, as have certain risky sexual behaviors, according to a government report.  https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&ncid=751&e=2&u=/nm/20020926/hl_nm/teens_active_dc   PRO-CHOICE SENATE ZEALOT TAKES THE FALL Amid rampant speculation, scandal-plagued Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-New Jersey, was scheduled to hold a press conference late Monday afternoon. Sources told CNN the embattled incumbent will announce […]

ANGLICAN HOMOSEXUAL WOES PROLIFERATE The decision of Vancouver’s Anglican archdiocese to bless homosexual unions may have slipped from the headlines, but the cultural challenges for the church, which counts 70 million followers worldwide, are far from over.  https://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/archive/200209/FOR20020930a.html   RAELIANS ANNOUNCE QUEBEC RECRUITING DRIVE Perhaps sensing a weak link, the Raelien movement has announced a recruitment drive in Quebec schools. As in their recent leaflet campaign, they are encouraging Christian students to commit apostasy, to renounce their faith.  https://www.canada.com/montreal/story.asp?id={E5E46C5B-2A4A-44C7-BB4D-3E1241348F24}  EU APPEARS ABOUT TO COMPLY WITH US EXEMPTION FROM INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT The Guardian newspaper reports that The EU is ready […]

Legal documents suggest much of the evidence used by abortion advocates was false

Extends program coverage to low-income children from conception to age 19

OTTAWA, September 30, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Marie Deschamps has been sworn in as the newest justice on the Supreme Court. She replaces Mme. Justice Claire l’Heureux-Dubé, who retired this year. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin claimed that Supreme Court watchers have “not been able to pigeon-hole” Deschamps as a judicial liberal or conservative—although in fact her Liberal Party ties are known.  There are few indications of her position on life issues, but she did once allow a class action suit to proceed when only the applicant’s initials were provided. See Intitulé de la cause: Assoc. pour l’accès à l’avortement (Re) Entre […]

Fr. Richard Neuhaus, Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin are speakers

"Henry Morgentaler is once again trying to bully New Brunswickers"

ALLEGED CLONE-CARRYING WOMAN FLEES KOREA BAN A controversial group that claims to have implanted a cloned embryo into a South Korean woman says the “surrogate mother” has been moved out of the country ahead of government moves to ban cloning.  https://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/archive/200209/FOR20020927b.html   EDUCATION DOES NOT STOP NEEDLE-SHARING Most young injection drug users infected with hepatitis C continue to share needles and other drug paraphernalia, even after being given risk counseling and referred to needle-exchange programs, a new report has found.  https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020927-76849229.htm   WHAT IS PROROGATION?  The Prime Minister recently prorogued Parliament until Sept. 30. Many Canadians responded, “he did what?” […]

"Whose interests were being served by the Toronto Crown's office, and why."

Popular youth recreational quite dangerous to neurological health

ATHENS, September 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Greek Orthodox Church has taken a bold stand against the Socialist government's law regulating artificial insemination—one that Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of the Church in Greece, labeled a sop to the feminist movement which he says seeks to undermine the family and to “overthrow the natural and ethical order.” The Church opposes in vitro fertilization and any form of human experimental foetal-cell research. It claims the new legislation would also allow same sex couples to “conceive” children using surrogates. The bill, which has not yet been debated by Parliament, bans cloning, but allows […]

WASHINGTON, September 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The House of Representatives has authorized payment of $244 million in unpaid membership dues to the United Nations, the final part of the $926 million in back dues the United States agreed to pay in 1999, plus $78 million in new fees.  As part of the U.S. agreement to pay up, the United Nations promised to reform its notorious bureaucracy—a sticking point for longtime UN-monitor Sen. Jesse Helms, who is retiring. But the payment is also seen as a goodwill gesture as the Bush Administration seeks international support for “regime change” in Iraq.  For […]

Netherlands proposed 5-year moratorium on all cloning; Mexico wants total ban

Canadians have accepted the role of "subjects" of a periodically-elected king

Published in a Church bulletin this past Sunday   HI-TECH PSALM 23   The Lord is my programmer, I shall not crash;  He installed His software on the hard disk of my heart.  All of His commands are user-friendly.  His directory guides me to the right choices for His name’s sake.  Even though I scroll through the problems of life,  I will fear no bugs;  For he is my back-up;  His password protects me.  He prepares a menu for me in the presence of my enemies;  He is only a stroke away.  Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all […]

SCIENTISTS CHAFE AT STEM CELL GUIDELINES U.S. federal rules limiting human experimentation on embryonic stem cells are “hampering” efforts to find new treatments for conditions ranging from diabetes to spinal cord injuries, a panel of scientists complained, echoing the emotional appeals of actor Christopher Reeve, who accused President Bush of endangering “separation of church and state” by listening unduly to Catholic advisors.  https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=541&ncid=751&e=10&u=/ap/20020926/ap_on_he_me/stem_cells

Now down to 1.49 with immigration as only source of population increase

Appealing to human rights tribunal vs. homosexualist agenda

California/Berkeley Survey may herald shift in "culture wars" over family values

Accused still does not know who are his accusers

WESTMINSTER, September 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has forced the British Foreign Office to address for the first time the gross violations of human rights committed under China’s one-child policy. Following SPUC-initiated criticism by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and pressure from SPUC’s 45,000-strong membership, the Foreign Office has for the first time included a section on the one-child policy in its Human Rights Annual Report. The report expresses “concerns … such as enforced sterilisations, the abortion of female foetuses and the abandonment of female children”, noting that these “are […]

Homily given to faculty at Ottawa's St. Paul University, one of Canada's most liberal

College priest chaplain charges critic with using Nazi tactics

HONOLULU POLICE DROP ‘GOD’ FROM OATH   The Honolulu Police Department will take the words “so help me God” out of its oath used to swear in new police recruits.  https://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Sep/24/ln/ln31a.html

AUSTRALIA’S LOWER HOUSE PASSES LEGISLATION ALLOWING EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020925/ap_wo_en_po/australia_stem_cells_2   NEW SOUTH WALES GOV’T CONSIDERS INCLUDING UNBORN IN HOMICIDE LAWS https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/25/1032734209582.html   STATE OF ISRAEL WILL NOT RECOGNIZE HOMOSEXUAL ADOPTION https://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=212032&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

WASHINGTON, September 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The US Agency for International Development (USAID) said Tuesday it would end its supply of contraceptives to the Philippines within two years.  AFP reports that USAID will continue to push three million dollars worth of contraceptives in 2003 and 2004 on the largely Catholic country but will end the supply afterwards.  The AFP coverage notes that in the past 11 years, USAID has donated about 40 million dollars worth of contraceptives to the Philippines, accounting for over 80 percent of the country’s total supply.  (Agence France Presse; September 24, 2002; International News)

WASHINGTON, September 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The U.S. House of Representatives approved the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 4691) today.  Rejecting opposition by NARAL and other pro-abortion advocacy groups, the House passed the bill 229-189. The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) applauded the bill’s passage noting that “The bill is needed because officials and courts in some states are forcing health care providers to participate in abortions.” Increasingly in recent years, pro-abortion groups have been actively engaged in a concerted campaign to coerce hospitals and other health care providers, both religiously affiliated and secular, to provide, facilitate, or pay for […]

WATERLOO, ON, September 25, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-abortion Progressive Conservative Party Leader Joe Clark addressed St. Jerome’s Catholic University giving the Wintermeyer Lecture in Christianity and Public Policy last Friday.  The attendees at the event were greeted at the door by pro-life students from the University handing out pamphlets indicating the scandal caused by the selection of the pro-abortion politician as the keynote speaker.  The demonstration had its effect on the attendees and organizers as Clark was introduced before his address as “The Grand Marshal of the Calgary Gay Pride parade” to which the audience laughed and clapped.  However, pro-life […]

Professor's views "do not - nor can they ever - reflect those of our Seminary."

EMERGENCY SERVICES CHIEF RETIRES AFTER PRESSURING 3 SUBORDINATES INTO ABORTION https://www.washtimes.com/metro/20020923-25231452.htm   US BISHOPS PUSH FOR APPROVAL OF CONSCIENCE LEGISLATION   https://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/abortion/andacard.htm   MEL GIBSON TO PRODUCE FILM ON CHRIST’S PASSION IN ORIGINAL LANGUAGES https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2277858.stm

NEW YORK, September 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – United Nations members are in meetings this week to prepare the way for negotiations toward an international convention to ban reproductive human cloning. Members of a committee of the United Nations General Assembly, dubbed the “U.N. Ad Hoc Committee on an International Convention against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings” and formed in December 2001, are preparing an agenda for talks which are expected to begin next year.  The committee met for the first time last February to recommend which legal issues should be addressed in a future convention, describing reproductive cloning as […]

SALEM, September 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The US Justice Department issued a challenge to Oregon’s notorious Death with Dignity Act yesterday, filing an appeal with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on grounds that federal regulations dating from 1970 prohibit American doctors from prescribing lethal doses of controlled substances.  The Oregon law dates from a state-wide referendum in 1994. Since it was upheld by a 1997 plebiscite, at least 70 patients with terminal illnesses have “medically” committed suicide in the state. But supporters remain defiant: “What’s happening here is that Oregonians have decided twice that there is […]

Nicole Appleton reveals her record company pressured her into abortion

Spoke of her personal abortion experience

Human Pesticide Approved in 26 Countries

MANILA, September 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A pro-abortion piece of legislation in the Philippines, which only two weeks ago was touted as having the support of half of the country’s congress, is reportedly in trouble thanks to outspoken opposition by the Catholic Church.  The Philippine Inquirer reports today that two of the co-sponsors of the Reproductive Health Care Act (House Bill 4110) have withdrawn their sponsorship and the author of a parallel Senate bill is having difficulty finding co-sponsors.  A forum intended to launch the legislation in Baguio City was attended by only one public official who said her colleagues […]

Completely contradicts past UNFPA claims

Will funnel taxpayer dollars to UNFPA via CIDA

POPULAR AND PRO-LIFE QUEBEC ADQ PARTY LEADER SPEAKS TO CANADIAN CLUB Mario Dumont, leader of the Action Démocratique du Québec spoke to the Canadian Club today who explained the invite saying, “Public-opinion polls say he might be the next premier, so we want to hear from him. He’s a newsworthy figure in Canadian politics.”  https://www.canada.com/montreal/news/story.asp?id={FBEACD2C-37F7-439C-BB21-430C103A7610}  ZURICH SWITZERLAND APPROVES HOMOSEXUAL UNIONS IN REFERENDUM Voters in the largest Swiss canton voted 63-37 percent Sunday to allow civil registration for homosexuals giving them the same privileges normally reserved to married couples.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020923/ap_on_re_eu/switzerland_gay_rights_1   PERUVIAN CARDINAL DENOUNCES ABORTIFACIENT MORNING AFTER PILL Peruvian Cardinal Juan […]

SOUTH CAROLINA LAW ALLOWING STATE ACCESS TO ABORTUARY RECORDS UPHELD https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020920/ap_on_re_us/abortion_regulations_1   FORMER CLINTON AIDS ADVISOR – HOMOSEXUAL SCOTT HITT – CHARGED WITH SEX ABUSE https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/po/20020921/co_po/noted_aids_doctor_cited_for_sex_abuse

TORONTO, September 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) has announced that it is joining its US counterpart in boycotting Miramax.  In a release, CCRL notes that Miramax, a film distribution arm of Disney, has a history of antagonizing Catholic audiences and has re-offended with its distribution of The Magdalene Sisters – a film by director Peter Mullan that has been described as a scathing attack on the Catholic Church, and more specifically, one order of Irish nuns.  “Until such time as a film is made depicting the egotistical brothers who co-own a Disney affiliated, anti-Catholic […]

Openly defies policy of President Bush

Now third jurisdiction in world to allow doctors to help kill patients

LOS ANGELES, September 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – During the Emmy awards Sunday Oprah Winfrey was awarded the inaugural Bob Hope Humanitarian Award.  In her acceptance speech, she said, “We all are just regular people seeking the same thing: the guy on the street, the woman in the classroom, the Israeli, the Afghani, the Zuni, the Apache, the Irish, the Protestant, the Catholic, the gay, the straight, you, me—we all just want to know that we matter. We want validation.”  Pro-family and pro-life groups have been concerned with Oprah’s promotion of anti-life and anti-family measures.  In 2000 Winfrey was the keynote […]

NASHVILLE, September 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The famous photo of baby Samuel’s hand reaching out from the uterus of his mother at 21-weeks gestation during foetal surgery, has turned the veteran photo-journalist hired by USA Today for the shoot into a pro-life activist.  Michael Clancy, who snapped the photo after seeing the baby’s hand jut out of the hole in the womb made by the surgeons, now offers his image free of charge to pro-life groups.  On his website, Clancy explains that “During a spina bifida corrective procedure at twenty-one weeks in utero, Samuel thrusts his tiny hand out of […]

LONDON, September 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pop star Nicole Appleton a former member of the All Saints band, admits in her new book “Together” to be released later this year that she aborted the child she conceived with pop star Robbie Williams.  Appleton claims the record company London Records pressured her to have the abortion.  “After having my abortion I was in shock. I couldn’t believe what I had done. I wanted to kill myself,” writes Appleton.  “What happened still lingers in my life. I want people to know what I went through,” Appleton told the Daily Mail paper Sunday. […]

TORONTO, September 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Terence J. Fay, a professor at St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto, has written a new book in which he denounces the pro-life movement as a centre for Catholic “dissenters”.  A book review of Fay’s offering “A History of Canadian Catholicism” by Interim editor Paul Tuns reveals an author with great animosity towards the pro-life movement.  In a section entitled, “Dissent to the Right and to the Left,” Fay begins, “Catholic dissenters from the right are centered in Opus Dei, Comunione e Liberazione, Focolare and the pro-life movement.” Fay takes direct aim at “the well-organized […]

TORONTO HOMOSEXUALS GET OFF CHARGES FOR PUBLIC NUDITY BY WEARING ONLY SHOES. Another example of many special exemptions from morality laws given to gay activists by Toronto courts and politicians.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020919/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_canada_nudity_1   THE MOVIE NETWORK NOW AIRS XXX PORN ON REGULAR CABLE https://www.canoe.ca/Television/sep20_tmn-sun.html   MARRIAGE MAKES YOU BEHAVE BETTER If you want to avoid a life of crime, get married. Ex-convicts who tied the knot were less likely to commit another crime, says a new study from University of Florida researchers. Those who couldn’t make the commitment and simply lived with their significant others didn’t fare as well. The findings […]

Says Apostolic visit to U.S. seminaries must have method to identify moral dissenters

Reinforces Pope's recent statement to Brazilian bishops

Uses that legal reason to refuse an inquest into possible malpractice

EBBW VALE, Wales, September 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Sarah Heathorn, 36, lived just long enough to give birth prematurely to her son, Joshua, by caesarian section, before dying of cancer discovered during the pregnancy.  She learned that she was pregnant with Joshua earlier this year after she, her husband Andrew and their two and-a-half-year-old daughter, Emily, had moved to Munich, Germany. At the time, the former primary school teacher was unaware that cancer was gaining footholds in her breast, liver and spine.  Backache and breathlessness were attributed to first trimester side-effects. After several months, Sarah discovered a lump under her […]

NEW YORK, September 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – President George W. Bush indicated in a speech to the UN last week that the United States would rejoin the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.  The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), a pro-life lobby group at the United Nations, said that while social conservatives have problems with the United State’s cooperation with the pro-abortion UNESCO, they are hoping Bush will appoint a social conservative US representative to the UN body.  In communications with the Bush administration, C-FAM noted that social conservatives object to UNESCO’s collaboration with the UN Population […]

Public Reacting Negatively To Homosexual Hate Crime Bill

OTTAWA, September 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Government documents obtained by the National Post reveal that the federal Liberals have been penalizing Nova Scotia $39,000 a year for refusing to pay the full cost of abortions in private abortuaries.  However, the documents also indicate that four other provinces which either do not fund abortions in private abortuaries at all, or only partially, are not being fined.  All provinces except P.E.I. provide taxpayer-funded abortions in hospitals.  P.E.I. pays for them in hospitals outside the province.  The Post indicates that Health Canada has pressured New Brunswick, Manitoba, P.E.I. and Quebec to fund private […]

Pro-Abortion Red Mass Dinner Keynote Speaker Listens To Homily From Front Row

SECULAR PEDOPHILE RING SENTENCED Ten men behind the biggest pedophile ring ever discovered in France have all received jail sentences of between four and 15 years.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2268704.stm   FRENCH BISHOP CONVICTED FOR ABUSE COVER-UP A court has convicted a Roman Catholic bishop of concealing knowledge that a priest was sexually abusing children, sentencing him to a three-month suspended prison term. The prosecution said Pierre Pican, 66, bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux in Normandy, had failed to ensure the case was brought to the attention of judicial authorities. He becomes the first bishop in modern French history to receive a criminal conviction.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1525053.stm

Less Home Support and More Behavioral Problems Among Children of Post-Abortive Mothers

Pro-lifers welcome opportunity to challenge bills again

But Christopher Reeve says religion should not influence government

Could be as dangerous as Norplant

TORONTO, September 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The fact that pro-abortion Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark endorsed legal marriage privileges for homosexuals one day before giving the keynote address at the Red Mass Dinner is par for the course in scandal-ridden Canada. In a similar scandal in 2000, population control zealot David Suzuki appeared in full frontal nudity shielded by a small fig leaf on the cover of a TV guide magazine to promote his show on the penis only weeks before keynoting the Catholic Health Association of Canada (CHAC) conference. The warnings of pro-life groups and concerned Catholics and the […]

Cardinal says Red Mass while Bishop, priests and provincial politicians attend Clark talk

Two-Faced Organization Attempting to Conceal Abortion Support

CALIFORNIA JUDGE STRIKES DOWN WOMEN’S RIGHT TO KNOW ACT Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Ronald Alvarez struck down a law mandating that abortion doctors must provide potential patients with certain information.  https://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/tuesday/local_news_d3689aaf343c003110b1.html   HALF OF UNIVERSITY-BASED HEALTH CLINICS OFFER ABORTIFACIENT MORNING AFTER PILL https://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2002/09/16/eline/links/20020916elin019.html   LAWSUIT CLAIMS COACH TOLD ASSISTANT TO HAVE ABORTION OR GIVE UP JOB   https://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/wednesday/sports_d38871f4b12660fc10d2.html   UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO HANDING OUT EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/18/MN241671.DTL   CATHOLIC LEAGUE ACCEPTS CHRISTOPHER REEVE’S APOLOGY https://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/9/18/134646   DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE SAYS NOTHING ANTI-CATHOLIC ABOUT LISTING CATHOLICS FOR A FREE CHOICE ON ITS WEB SITE https://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/9/18/130209

FRIENDS URGE COPPS TO QUIT RACE Sheila Copps, the four-times-married, pro-choice “Catholic” Heritage Minister, is being advised by her close friends to bow out of the Liberal leadership race because she has no hope of winning, Liberal sources have told the National Post.  https://www.nationalpost.com/utilities/story.html?id={B406953E-B13C-4E6A-8990-32AC888D379C}  PRO-EUTHANASIA PRIVATE MEMBERS BILL INTRODUCED IN WEST AUSTRALIA https://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-18sep2002-142.htm Story has since been moved.

But military has approved some porn magazines

Fifth and latest target is 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee

New Archbishop issues plea for unity

OTTAWA, September 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A new study of “Canadian Women’s Attitudes Toward Contraceptive Methods” has found that 32% of women regard “convenience” as the most important factor in choosing a method of contraception. Efficacy, or whether it provides the “desired result” (i.e. obstruction of the free transmission of life) is next at 29%, followed by “safety” at 27%. In the words of the Canadian Press reporter, “Women are choosing the easy route rather than the safe route, when it comes to sex.”  It is not clear whether “safety” refers to themselves or their partner. Nor did the study […]

WASHINGTON, September 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Feminists for Life of America launched a nationwide ad campaign to reach women at highest risk of abortion, announced FFL President Serrin Foster. “By the end of this year, four million students at top campuses across the country will hear our pro-woman message: Refuse to Choose.(SM) Women Deserve Better.(SM)”“One out of five women who has an abortion is a college student—and the abortion industry knows it. They target vulnerable women who have been abandoned by those they count on the most,” said Foster. “We are here to tell them that they are not alone, […]

Pro-Abortion E-Mag Alters Sponsor Page To Deflect Criticism

Refused To Allow Planned Parenthood Worker To Be Married In Church

STUDY SHOWS EVIDENCE OF LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS A new book by a Dartmouth College professor to be released later this month, provides evidence that news media ignore both far-left, moderate and conservative viewpoints in favor of a “narrow brand of liberal bias.”  https://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archive/200209/CUL20020917b.html   STUDY OF CAR CRASH IMPACT ON “UNBORN”  One in every 100 babies born in the U.S. has been involved in a car crash – while they were in their mother’s womb—a statistic that prompted calls for extra research into improving car safety for pregnant women.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2262086.stm   MICHIGAN PUBLIC SCHOOL PARENTS ARGUE SUCCESSFULLY AGAINST   GRAPHIC […]

Former star desperately supports cloning and embryonic stem cell research

TORONTO, September 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper requested a one-on-one meeting with Ontario Tory cabinet minister Jim Flaherty last week, but the two agreed not to disclose any details of what, if anything, transpired.  The meeting took place amid rumours that Jim Flaherty is pondering a run at the federal Tory leadership when Joe Clark retires. It is broadly accepted that a compelling replacement for Clark would pose a formidable problem for the Canadian Alliance, which currently has a convincing grip only on Western, rural ridings.  Ironically, Flaherty’s supporters include some Ontario Tory organizers whom Harper […]

Correctly define difference between euthanasia and ethical use of palliative care

Should Hospitals Be Forced to Perform Abortions Against Their Will?

Also, some serious errors in Michael Rose's Good Bye Good Men

Surprising use of logical, traditional arguments used to exclude same-sex couples

ATHENS, September 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Reacting to draft legislation which would legalize in vitro fertilization and other methods of artificial procreation, the Greek Orthodox Church warned Monday that the legislation posed a serious threat to Greek family values. AFP reports that the legislation to allow artificial procreation is contained within legislation to outlaw human cloning.  The Synod said that the church must have a say in the matter.  “Before it is adopted by parliament, this draft legislation must be discussed by the appropriate bodies and within the Church, as was the case, for example, with legislation on transplants.”  Artificial […]

TORONTO, September 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite was pleased to learn today that Toronto Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic will not be attending the Toronto Red Mass dinner featuring the notoriously pro-abortion former Prime Minister Joe Clark as keynote speaker.  Suzanne Scorsone, Director of Communications at the Archdiocese of Toronto contacted LifeSite today noting that the Cardinal “had another commitment.”  Only days ago some lawyers with the guild were informed the Cardinal was attending the dinner.  Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition, said, “I’m happy the Cardinal will not be associated with any Catholic politician who holds a pro-abortion point […]

LESBIAN FERTILITY CLINIC OPENS IN UK https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2260844.stm   WAR AGAINST IRAQ BEGAN A FEW MONTHS AGO National Post columnist Diane Francis reported in the September 12 National Post that the on-going debate about whether or not to attack Iraq “could be a smokescreen” for large scale covert attacks that have been happening for the past few months.  https://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id=80073175-2F29-4A13-AF01-A3C5ADFD01BE

WASHINGTON, September 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer reported today that the National Physicians Center for Family Resources has released a CD in which increased breast cancer risk is cited as a long-term medical complication resulting from abortion.  The CD is intended to be a resource for parents and health educators to assist them in answering children’s questions about puberty, reproduction and sexual health. It says: “During a normal pregnancy, the female’s body produces high levels of the hormone estrogen.  This causes the milk producing glands in the breast tissue to become active, a process that is […]

Extreme intolerance of pro-life views and material by UBC Alma Mater Society

Says Not Many Have Called to Protest

Studies Have Shown Such Use Leads To Abuse of Women

Joe Clark has been outspokenly opposed to Church on abortion and homosexuality

On-line registration now available

Attacker Apparently Charged and Released At the Scene

EXPERT WANTS ABORTIFACIENT ‘OVER THE COUNTER’  Dr. David A. Grimes of Family Health International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina says women “would not be at risk” if so-called “emergency contraception” went from being available only by prescription to being sold over the counter in pharmacies.  https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&ncid=751&e=10&u=/nm/20020911/hl_nm/women_contraception_dc   JANET RENO IS SORE LOSER Bungling Clinton-era Attorney General Janet Reno, who several times deployed paramilitary forces against civilians during her reign of error, refused last night to concede Florida’s Democratic Party gubernatorial primary, despite trailing Tampa lawyer Bill McBride by 11,000 votes with 99 percent of the state’s precincts reporting. The […]

"stealing a man's career over a personal ideological dispute"

TORONTO, September 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The screening of an hour-long propaganda film called “Prom Fight: The Marc Hall Story” will see Toronto’s homosexualists and allied artistic poseurs converge on the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) tonight and tomorrow.  Hall was the homosexual student who, backed by the manipulative gay lobby, ran circles around the Durham Catholic School Board earlier this year with a publicity stunt based on what supporters disingenuously called a “simple request to bring his [male] date to the prom.”  The film will be shown at ROM on Thursday, Sept. 12 at 18:30 and Friday the 13th at […]

St. Paul's said to be be "a curious sort of revolving door" for problem priests

Five things every Canadian (and others) should know about Kyoto

Earth Charter Was Unveiled at Johannesburg Summit

FR. RAYMOND DE SOUZA ON SEPTEMBER 11 The 9/11 rescue worker at Ground Zero who found the steel girders in the shape of a cross said: “When I found the cross I fell to my knees and cried for about 20 minutes,” said the burly concrete excavation specialist, who had volunteered to help with the rescue effort. “Other firemen were brought to their knees too, and we prayed around that cross.” …now the only thing that stands in Ground Zero is the cross.  https://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id={28EF594B-A87E-4595-BA55-05A7F26A4118}  MOZART’S REQUIEM PLAYED ALL AROUND THE WORLD Choirs in New Zealand began a round-the-world 24-hour chorus […]

LONDON, England, September 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Two Englishwomen initiated legal action to prevent their former partners from destroying their frozen fertilized embryos. Natallie Evans, 30, and Lorraine Hadley are going to London's High Court to challenge the law that says both parties must give their consent to storage and use of frozen embryos. Ms. Evans put six frozen embryos in cold storage when her ovaries were removed in cancer surgery, while Ms. Hadley has two embryos in storage for an undisclosed reason. But their former partners don't want the embyros they conceived together to have a chance to live.

BEIJING, People’s Republic of China, September 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A couple in eastern China has been fined $51,000 (six times their annual income) for having a third child in violation Beijing’s one-child policy—in what is being described as a “record” warning to others.  Mr. and Mrs. Zhang (only their surname is available) already have a son and a daughter. Reforms that took effect on Sept. 1 allow certain sectors of society, particularly in rural areas, to have a second child if the firstborn is a girl. Ethnic minorities, too, may have two or even three children because of their […]

COLLEGEVILLE, Pennsylvania, September 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A victim of Norplant contraceptive side-effects is suing the manufacturer, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, and the ObGyn Yazoo City Medical Clinic in Yazoo City, Mississippi which prescribed the product and misinformed her about its side effects.  As a direct result of Norplant since 1993, the suit alleges, the woman has suffered and will continue to suffer, headaches, dramatic weight gain, facial, chest and stomach hair growth and constant bleeding. She also suffers blurred vision, heart damage, seizures which render her disabled, and other damage to her mind and body.  “Throughout the period that defendant, Wyeth, […]

"Serious biological barrier to cloning"

GENEVA, September 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – One of the last genuinely democratic hold-outs against liberal internationalist ideology has given up. Switzerland, where 75% of an earlier generation of voters rejected UN membership in a 1986 plebiscite, today became the 190th member of the United Nations. Unlike most people, however, the Swiss were able to approve the capitulation in another plebiscite in March, by a vote of 55 percent to 45.  Switzerland’s membership changes little in practice, but is of major symbolic importance since it marks the abandonment of the traditional robust sense of independence uniquely cherished by the Swiss for […]

ANN ARBOR, MI, September 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A pro-life homily delivered by Cardinal Adam Maida at the opening of the school year at Ave Maria Law School has inspired pro-life political activism.  A group of students from the Law School attended a meet-and-greet pancake breakfast Saturday where Michigan gubernatorial candidates Jennifer Granholm and opponent Dick Posthumus were to shake hands and discuss issues with hundreds of voters.  Their goal was to meet Granholm face to face and challenge her strong support for abortion since she bills herself as a practicing ‘Catholic.’ Unlike her opponent, Granholm left the event after […]

OTTAWA, September 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Senate Committee which issued a report approving legalizing marijuana use has come under fire for foul play during hearings on the subject.  “Anyone who believes the Senate’s Report on Illegal Drugs is an impartial analysis of the issue, must also believe in leprechauns and fairies,” says Gwen Landolt, National Vice President of REAL Women of Canada. Landolt presented several facts on the hearings that reveal a tainted procedure:  -Although the Committee is presented as being comprised of nine Senators, in fact, only Conservative Senator Pierre Claude Nolin and his sidekick and deputy chairman, […]

Prime Minister's Speech Does Not Mention God, Opposition Leader Does

NEW YORK, September 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Mary Robinson, who today leaves her post as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, announced yesterday plans to head a new project to force governments to meet their ‘legal’ obligations stemming from U.N. treaties.  Robinson, who in her U.N. post pushed acceptance of abortion and homosexuality as human rights, takes her new post as the head of the “Ethical Globalization Initiative” effective October 1.  The initiative was launched by the Aspen Institute (which counts depopulationist Maurice Strong as one of its Trustees), the State of the World Forum (founded by former Soviet […]

The struggle to defend life and family can frequently be overwhelming for those involved with the various organizations.  Most are quite ordinary, family people who often wonder how it is that they became so involved in this. They often ask, “Why don’t others see what I see?” And also, “how much longer can this go on?”  Exhaustion is common and the temptation to become discouraged frequent. Most disheartening can be active opposition or lack of any useful support from those we would most expect to be on our side.  As well, there seems to be a perpetual shortage of dedicated, […]

POPE URGES URUGUAY TO PROTECT LIFE OF THE UNBORN   Addressing the new ambassador Thursday, the Pope said society should always defend the inalienable rights of all human beings, “such as the right to life from conception to natural death, the right to be born and raised in a family, to build a stable home and to profess one’s religious faith without obstacles, privately and publicly. Fundamental rights of the person cannot be sacrificed for other objectives which are mistakenly considered benefits, for this would attack the true dignity of all human beings.”  https://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/vis/dinamiche/b0_en.htm   VANCOUVER ARCHDIOCESAN PAPER EDITORIAL SAYS […]

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, September 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Concluding a meeting of Latin American Catholic Bishops from 25 countries last week, the President of the Latin American Bishops Council said bishops must lobby their governments to prevent threats to pro-life values and the traditional family. Catholic News Service quotes council president, Colombian Bishop Jorge Jimenez Carvaja, as saying bishops must pressure for state measures against abortion, divorce, euthanasia, widespread poverty and hunger, and the killing of children to obtain their organs.  See the Catholic News Service summary at:  https://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20020906.htm#head9

JOHANNESBURG, September 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – South Africa’s highest court ruled Tuesday that laws preventing homosexual couples from adopting children are unconstitutional.  The Constitutional Court ruled in favour of a pair of homosexual activist judges, Anne-Marie de Vos and Suzanne du Toit, who pursued the case.  The constitution bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.  See the AP coverage in the UK Guardian:  https://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2003831,00.html

Justice Minister Promises Public Hearings On Homosexual Marriage

Evidence that decriminalization does in fact lead to greater use of cannabis

Abortion is the preeminent threat to human dignity because it directly attacks life itself

GERMAN BISHOPS TELL FAITHFUL TO REMEMBER LIFE AND FAMILY ISSUES WHEN VOTING https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=24786 GENETIC STRUCTURE OF HEALTHY SPERM MAPPED A team of experts has mapped out a 3,000-part genetic sequence from a single sperm from an apparently healthy, fertile man. The researchers hope the sequence will offer treatments for infertility.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2241490.stm EUROPEAN STEM CELL BANK ‘WITHIN A YEAR’  Europe’s first stem cell bank, to be based in the U.K., could be up and running within a year. The National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) has been awarded a £2.6m contract to set up the bank by Britain’s Medical […]

GHENT, Belgium, September 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Belgian clinic is offering couples the option of choosing the sex of the child they are hoping to conceive. Britain’s Observer newspaper broke the story that a fertility centre in Ghent run by Dr. Frank Comhaire provides a “discreet service” to couples “who already have one or two children, but want their next to be of the opposite gender”—a whim of modernity known as “family balancing” which does not yet enjoy universal approval: the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology, which represents 4,000 doctors, remains undecided.  The technique used is not […]

Frustrated that bishops have not implemented recommended reforms to seminaries

Reckless driving, theft and disorderly conduct charges

Graphic, sexually explicit content aimed at children

Vatican Joins Sustainable Development Document Without Reservations

MANILLA, September 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Filipino media are reporting that more than 100 of the 214 members of Congress are backing the Reproductive Health Care Act (House Bill 4110 ) which would allow for abortion. Church leaders, in the heavily Catholic country said they would maintain their stance on the need for protection of the life of the unborn regardless of the outcome of the legislation.  Msgr. Rey Monsanto noted that Pope John Paul II remained outspoken on the issue despite the passage of even worse laws in other countries.  “We will sustain our stand even if it means […]

Activist judge rules in favour of homosexual marriage using Charter arguments

Director says incident

Says "The whole of human society is deeply rooted in the family"

SAN FRANCISCO, September 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a brazen all-out concession to the pro-abortion movement, California’s Democratic governor Gray Davis has passed three bills that place his state at the forefront of jurisdictions whose laws stand in contempt of human life.  The three bills, highlighted by Operation Rescue, are: (1.) SB 1301, the Reproductive Privacy Act, an attempt to enshrine abortion as a protected right even if in future the Supreme Court overturns Roe. v. Wade; (2.) AB 2194, which order many hospitals and doctors to provide and undergo abortion training; and (3.) AB 1860, which requires that rape […]

WASHINGTON, September 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to defeat Bush nominee Priscilla Owen’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Liberal interest groups made it their goal to kill her nomination in committee, and Senate Democrats made it so.  “The leftists’ attack against Justice Owen was based on lies, and Owen clearly refuted the bogus charges brought against her in her hearing,” said Sandy Rios, president of Concerned Women for America. The Judiciary Committee should have rejected the false and misleading accusations leveled against this decent, highly qualified woman of integrity.”  Family Research […]

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TORONTO, September 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite has learned that an anti-Catholic, pro-abortion publication is being funded by church-funded organizations.  The Social Edge, a magazine featuring well-known dissident ‘Catholic’ Joanna Manning as one of three regular contributors, is sponsored by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (the official Catholic social justice arm of the Catholic Bishops Conference), Novalis Publications (publishers of the missalette used in most Catholic churches throughout Canada), the Canadian Catholic Health Association, and Scarboro Foreign Missions among others.  In an April article featured in the magazine, Manning spouts her pro-abortion anti-church rhetoric. “By opposing abortion […]

No Charges Laid Despite Illegal Use of Weapon on Pro-lifer

FAITH-BASED INITIATIVES RATED A SUCCESS   A study suggests that U.S. faith-based programs implemented after the landmark 1996 welfare reform act are showing great success at helping individuals cope and recover from their various social problems even as the programs make sure participants are not pressured to practice religion.  https://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/Archive/200209/CUL20020905a.html BRITAIN BACKS U.S. EXEMPTION FROM ICC   Key advocacy groups rapped the European Union and Britain in particular on Wednesday for considering a bid by the United States to exempt Americans from the new International Criminal Court. The Bush administration continues to persuade signatories to sign bilateral exemption accords protecting […]

CANADIAN SENATE COMMITTEE RECOMENDS LEGALIZING MARIJUANA https://www.canoe.ca/CNEWS/pot_sep4-cp.html   STUDY: MOTHERS OFTEN MISTAKENLY BELIEVE SEX-ACTIVE CHILDREN ARE VIRGINS https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/05/national/05SEX.html?ex=1031889600&en=ab40421dc1bc27c7&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1   FAILURE OF RADICAL ELEMENT AT EARTH SUMMIT GOOD FOR POOR NATIONS https://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/archive/200209/FOR20020905b.html

Tried to enter U.S. illegally to attend prayer meeting

OTTAWA, September 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A new study says one in four Canadians who work for a living now put in over 50 hours a week—compared to one-in-ten who did so 10 years ago. Those putting in the most hours are company managers and professionals, according to Health Canada’s National Work-Life Conflict Study.  For fathers, the “big change” over the past ten years has been in assuming a more “equal share of responsibility” for looking after children and older family members. For mothers, the time spent on looking after children has declined by 33%.  60% of men surveyed work […]

WASHINGTON, September 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Teenage girls who have a close relationship with their mothers are more likely to abstain from premarital sexual activity, researchers say. The findings, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, was done by researchers at the University of Minnesota.  Researchers found several characteristics of mothers whose daughters were “still virgins.” All had made it clear they strongly disapproved of their daughters having sex; there was a good mother-daughter relationship; they had regular contact with the parents of their daughters’ friends; and were more likely to have a college education.  Amie McLain, 18, a sophomore […]

Weigel says abusive priests and timid bishops are "inadequately converted Christian disciples"

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, September 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Catholic Bishops from 25 Latin American countries ended a three day conference yesterday with a final document blasting the United Nations and groups such as the European Union for pressuring governments to legislate in favour of abortion, homosexuality and divorce.  “Latin American governments have been pressured to legislate against Christian family unity by strong groups like the United Nations and the European Union who want to impose their experiences here,” said Monsignor Carlos Aguiar of Mexico, president of the Catholic council for Latin America. AP reports that the specifics of the […]

President Incensed Robinson Thinks She Can Order Costa Rica to Support Abortion

Toronto Police Turn Blind Eye to Kidnapping and Assault in Hospital Waiting Room

CONROE, Texas, September 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Montgomery County library has opted to remove from its shelves the notorious homosexualist tract—marketed as a colourful, illustrated, child-friendly text—called “It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health.”  Vigilant parents noted that the book advances the agenda among children that homosexuality is a “normal, healthy lifestyle” and matter-of-factly informs young readers about “pills that contain drugs that can end a pregnancy and are used as another method of abortion in some countries.”  Several Christian parents want the book removed permanently, and County Judge Alan Sadler and Library Director Jerilynn Williams […]

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, September 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – University of Maryland freshmen are being assigned to read a play about a homosexual college student. Officials are distributing 10,000 copies of “Laramie Project,” a play based on the 1998 death of student Matthew Shepard—elevated by activists to the status of a gay martyr—to all incoming freshmen.  “This book can be used to look at the issue of hate crimes and healing particularly after September 11,” alleged spokesman Dave Ottalini. But in fact, the play “portrays those who adhere to traditional values as irrational or bigoted,” said Steve Crampton, chief counsel of […]

WASHINGTON, September 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A bill sponsored by Congressman Walter B. Jones Jr., a North Carolina Republican, would restore the First Amendment rights of churches and synagogues by removing the threat that they could lose tax-exempt status—a threat that currently discourages religious bodies from making political endorsements.  “Our churches and synagogues are denied their First Amendment rights in this country, at least when it involves political issues,” Mr. Jones said, pointing to the 1954 separation law which “stifles freedom of speech,” by limiting the involvement of pastors, priests and rabbis in political activities.  The bill has bipartisan support […]

BUFFALO, September 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – James Kopp, the only suspect in the 1998 sniper slaying of abortionist Barnett Slepian, stood in police line-ups wearing false whiskers and make-up last week. Reports suggest that at least one witness identified Kopp, while another could not.  Kopp’s lead attorney, Paul J. Cambria Jr., said: “His picture has been in the media so many times, any person in Western New York should be able to identify James Kopp… It’s like asking me to identify a picture of George Washington. … The prosecutors are being allowed to alter [their preferred suspect’s] appearance to make […]

Users "may suffer physical changes which increase their risk of heart disease."

But Environmental Leader Says "'We should never have such shameful summits again''

Will Have Major Impact on Both US and International Trends

DETROIT, September 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The saga of parishioner response to an article in the bulletin of Detroit’s Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic church, supporting a pro-abortion politician, continues to build steam.  CNSNews.com reports that many of the parishioners plan to leave the parish as a result of the Aug. 4 article written by Rev. Doc Ortman. As well, Nancy Restuccia of Canton, another Detroit suburb, led a protest Saturday at Cardinal Maida’s residence and joined other pro-life activists in delivering a letter to the cardinal Tuesday. CNS reports that Restuccia said her group decided on the public […]

A Victory For Both Reason and the Developing World

Absence of Clinton-Gore Influence Continues Major Changes at UN Conferences