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PRO-LIFE CANDIDATES IN FEDERAL AND STATE RACES WWW.wevoteprolife.com GUIDANCE FOR VOTING PRO-LIFE FROM PRIESTS FOR LIFE www.priestsforlife.org/elections INDIANAPOLIS LAW REQUIRING INFORMED CONSENT TAKES EFFECT MONDAY https://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=993681&nav=0Ra7C6mv   TEEN SURVEY SAYS SEX OFTEN PART OF CASUAL RELATIONSHIPS https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20021029/hl_nm/sex_teenagers_dc   British scientist who helped clone Dolly the Sheep said Wednesday he will create 10 new human stem cell lines for his own research and to raise funds.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021030/ap_wo_en_po/singapore_stem_lines_1
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DEPO-PROVERA IS USED FOR ABORTION, STUDY CONFIRMS

BOSTON, October 31, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some women who inject their arms or buttocks with Depo-Provera to prevent conception still become pregnant—for a total of 0.42 pregnancies per 1,000 women each year, according to Dr. Lynn Borgatta, who heads a research team at Boston University. Borgatta says many Depo women discover they are pregnant only after the first trimester—requiring one-fifth to get additional injections to eliminate the baby, even at three months gestation.  “When pregnancy symptoms occur,” says Borgatta, who also teaches Family Planning and Reproductive Health at Boston U’s medical school, “liberal use of pregnancy testing would provide the […]
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WOMAN WHO PEPPER-SPRAYED PRO-LIFER COUNSELLOR MISSES COURT DATE

TORONTO, October 31, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that Carol Ann Trueman, the woman who was charged with assault after she pepper-sprayed a pro-life counsellor in Toronto’s St. Michael’s hospital, missed her court appearance this week.  A clerk appeared on Trueman’s behalf to say that she is in the Carribean visiting her mother.  The judge issued a discretionary bench warrant for her arrest and she is to be in court to face the charges on November 20 at 10am at the College Park Court.  See related LifeSite coverage:  TORONTO PRO-ABORTS KIDNAP YOUNG WOMAN USING PEPPER SPRAY   https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/sep/02090501.html POLICE […]
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DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE MAKES CONTROVERSIAL APPOINTMENT

TORONTO, October 31, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP) has announced new appointments of which one has raised eyebrows in the pro-life community. Richard Renshaw, C.S.C., the former Assistant Secretary General of the Ottawa-based Canadian Religious Conference, has been appointed Deputy Executive-Director of CCODP.  Renshaw was the chief apologist at the Canadian Religious Conference regarding their support for the pro-abortion, pro-homosexual March of Women. Other appointments announced by CCODP included: Sylvie Thériault, as Director of the Education Department’s French Sector; Mary Durran, as Researcher; Jacques Bouchard, as special advisor on fund-raising responsible for donations […]
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SCOTTISH BIRTH RATE HITS ALL TIME LOW

EDINBURGH, October 30, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scotland’s birth rate has fallen to the lowest point since records were first taken in 1855 – falling from 57,797 in 2000 to 57,382 in 2001. The 2001 census shows that Scotland’s population fell by 2% in the past 20 years.  Registrar General John Randall says, “A declining birth rate means that deaths now exceed births and this is a major factor in explaining why Scotland’s population has declined or increased less strongly than in other countries.”  The number of marriages also fell, from 30,367 in 2000 to 30,058 last year. More than 43% […]
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ITALY BEGINS TESTING RU-486 ABORTION DRUG

TURIN, October 30, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The destructive RU-486 abortion drug mifepristone, also known as the human pesticide, has spread to Italy.  The Sant’Anna hospital in Turin, responsible for the highest number of abortions in Italy, announced this week that the Piedmont region’s ethical committee has approved a test using 400 women to take the chemical to abort their own babies up to 7 weeks after their last period.  By blocking normal progesterone release, media are openly reporting, mifepristone causes the lining of the uterus to break down and bleed. Misoprostol is then added to the mix to induce contractions, […]
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NEW BUSH RESEARCH GUIDELINES CLASS EMBYROS AS ‘HUMAN SUBJECTS’

WASHINGTON, October 30, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Bush administration has issued new regulations that, for the first time, classify human embryos used by scientists for experimental material as “human subjects.” The change, part of the revised charter for the federal advisory committee that oversees the safety of research volunteers, is seen as a political victory for opponents of embryonic stem cell research and experiments with unborn human tissues generally. Now, scientists may possibly begin to feel some restriction of their untrammeled freedom to experiment with human life in its most fragile stages. Media are suggesting the change “could wreak havoc” […]
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DETROIT DIOCESE PRIEST TO DO ‘PENANCE’ FOR PRO-ABORTION LETTER

DETROIT, October 30, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although details are sketchy, it appears Detroit’s Cardinal Adam Maida has taken to task three priests who publicly defended the pro-abortion stance of Michigan governor candidate Jennifer Granholm.  Archdiocesan officials told The Detroit News that the cardinal has “addressed the matter.” Moreover, the paper reports that one of the priests involved in the scandal, Rev. Kenneth R. Kaucheck, put a note in his parish bulletin announcing that he would do ‘penance’ for a week to make up for the damage he caused.  “Please know that I will enter on retreat the week of Oct. […]
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VATICAN APPOINTS NEW PREMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE UNITED NATIONS

UNITED NATIONS, October 30, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Msgr. Celestino Migliore, undersecretary of the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State, has been appointed as permanent observer of the Holy See to the Organization of the United Nations.  The appointment is accompanied by an elevation to the level of archbishop. Dan Zeidler, President of the Family Life Council and a representative for the Latin American Alliance for the Family told LifeSite that he has met with and spoken to Msgr. Migliore on an number of occasions.  “I’ve always been impressed with his ability and dedication to the church […]
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DEMOCRATS REFUSE BISHOP’S DEMAND TO REMOVE ANTI-CATHOLIC LINK FROM WEBSITE https://www.newsmax.com/archive/print.shtml?a=2002/10/26/124101 QUOTE OF THE WEEK BY DENVER ARCHBISHOP CHAPUT “I think one of the worst moments in recent political history was when John F. Kennedy promised a Texas audience that he’d keep his Catholic faith out of his public service. I think all Americans—not just Catholics—have been paying for that mistake for 40 years.”
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AUTOMAKER CHEVROLET CRITICIZED FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN EVENT “Chevrolet Presents: Come Together and Worship” presentation, which debuts next Friday in Atlanta with famed Christian recording artist Michael W. Smith.  SPUC MARKS 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF LEGAL ABORTION IN BRITAIN The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children in the UK reports that last Sunday (27 October) marked the 35th anniversary of the passing of Britain’s Abortion Act. Since the Act came into effect on 27 April 1968, nearly 6,000,000 unborn children have been killed under its terms. Despite assurances by the original supporters of the bill in parliament that it would not […]
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UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA SUED FOR DISCRIMINATION AGAINST CHRISTIANS

VANCOUVER, October 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An English student seeking her M.A. degree has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the University of British Columbia and four U.B.C. professors and lecturers under the province’s Civil Rights Protection Act.  Cynthia Maughan filed the Statement of Claim in B.C.‘s Supreme Court last week, describing a year-long pattern of religious and ethnic discrimination against her. Under B.C. law, victims of discrimination may sue for “exemplary damages”, to set a public example that will deter further discrimination. Gerald Chipeur, Cynthia’s lawyer, will ask the Court to set the damages at an amount equal to […]
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IVF EMBRYO MIX-UP ENDS IN DOUBLE ABORTION

LONDON, England, October 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two human embryos that had been implanted in separate mothers’ wombs were simply aborted in a London hospital after it was discovered that the mothers and embryos had been mixed up during IVF fertility manipulation.  Reports said that, “A doctor in charge of the clinic at St. George’s Hospital [in London] spotted the error hours after the embryos had been transferred. Both women required medical procedures and drugs to prevent pregnancy”—a euphemism for drug-induced abortion.  Paul Tully, general secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), said: “Here we have […]
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POLICE TO INVESTIGATE ABORTION OF ‘CLEFT PALATE’ BABY

CAMBRIDGE, England, October 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Police in England are to investigate allegations of unlawful killing by a doctor who is alleged to have aborted a six-month-old foetus because the baby may have had a cleft palate.  In Britain, abortion is legal up to six months except in cases of “serious handicap.” It is being reported that the mother requested the abortion because “she did not want to give birth to baby who had a cleft lip.” A Cambridge University theology student discovered the event in a list of official abortion statistics and lodged a complaint with police.  Alexandra […]
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IPPF SAYS UN CHILD RIGHTS TREATY ENDORSES ABORTION FOR CHILDREN

UNITED NATIONS, October 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com/C-fam.org) – International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has started distributing a brochure to inform children that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has established for them an international right to abortion. A summary of the brochure by the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute notes that both the CRC’s recognition of a child’s right to life as well as a child’s right to health can be interpreted to mean that children should have access to abortion. For example, the CRC’s broad right to health includes the right to “visit a […]
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ABORTION NOTED AS INCREASING DEPRESSION IN DEPRESSION AWARENESS MONTH

SPRINGFIELD, IL, October 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mental health officials with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have designated October as National Depression Awareness and Education Month. The Elliot Institute, an organization that deals with the effects of abortion is taking the opportunity to draw attention to three studies published this year linking abortion to higher rates of clinical depression and suicide.  The first of the three, published in the prestigious British Medical Journal (2002; 24:151-2), examined a national survey of American women whose first pregnancies were unintended. Examining depression scores an average of eight years after the […]
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VICTORY FOR PRO-LIFE NURSE REFUSING TO DISPENSE MORNING AFTER PILL

NEW ORLEANS, October 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has agreed to stop discriminating against a public health nurse from New Orleans who was threatened with termination for refusing to dispense pregnancy-ending medication. The move comes less than one week after the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a pro-life law firm, filed formal complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Louisiana Commission on Human Rights contending that Louisiana Dept. of Health and Hospitals is discriminating against the nurse because of her religious beliefs.  Cynthia Day of Marrero, Louisiana who is […]
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DENVER ARCHBISHOP GIVES BLUNT INSTRUCTIONS TO CATHOLIC VOTERS

DENVER, Oct 23, 02 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com)—In an unusually clear and forthright statement of Catholic political responsibilities, Denver’s Archbishop Charles Chaput, OFM Cap, has urged Colorado voters to judge political candidates by their stand on legislation regarding abortion.  In a column published October 23 in his archdiocesan newspaper. Archbishop Chaput writes: “Catholics have a very clear, very specific piece of pending federal legislation by which we can measure every Congressional candidate.” He explains that the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (ANDA), which would “protect the conscience rights of Catholics and other health-care providers,” is an essential measure, protecting the freedom of conscience.  “Any candidate—Republican […]
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FIRST U.S. JURY TO DECIDE IF FIRST TRIMESTER ABORTION TERMINATES LIFE

RANDOLPH, N.J., October 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New Jersey Appellate Court issued an opinion today which clears the way for a trial which requires a jury to determine if a first trimester abortion terminates the life of a living human being.  In reversing the decision of the trial court, the case is historical because it marks the first time that a jury, at the direction of a court anywhere in the nation, will answer the question left open by the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade: when does the life a human being begin? The trial in […]
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CANADIANS UNEASY ABOUT ABORTION FUNDING AND LACK OF FOETAL RIGHTS

OTTAWA, October 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Only 23% of Canadians want all abortions to be publicly funded, and only 30% would deny legal protection to unborn children, according to a new Léger poll.  51% of 1500 Canadians polled said that abortion should only be tax-funded in medical emergencies such as a threat to the mother’s life, or in the case of rape or incest. Another 15% said that paying for abortion should be a private responsibility. The results had a 1.8% margin of error.  The poll was commissioned by LifeCanada, representing the educational branch of the pro-life movement in Canada.  […]
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CATHOLIC U.S. COLLEGE CANCELS FEMINIST SPEAKER

BOSTON, October 28, 2002 (lifesitenews.com) – Holy Cross, a small Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Mass., has cancelled a November 7 speaking engagement with Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice. Kissling, who habitually denounces Pope John Paul II as “authoritarian,” was to lecture on “abuse of power in the church” and her role in promoting pro-abortion feminism through United Nations programs.  Mary Hobgood, director of Women’s Studies at Holy Cross, who scheduled the speech, complained to the Boston Globe: “Feminists on Catholic campuses find this to be a difficult time. Many of us often do not […]
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HUMAN IMPLANTABLE VERICHIP BEING PROMOTED AT DISCOUNT PRICE

Palm Beach, Florida, October 28, 2002 (lifesitenews.com) – Verichip, a division of Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach Florida, has launched a national campaign to promote its implantable human ID chip. It is offering $50 discounts to the first 100,000 people who register to get embedded with the microchip.  In its Oct. 25 on line edition, Wired magazine reported that the rice-size device costs $200. Those implanted must also pay for the doctor’s injection fee and a monthly $10 database maintenance charge.  The company is marketing the device for a variety of security applications, including: controlling access to government or […]
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STEM CELLS SUCCESSFULLY GROWN FROM UMBILICAL BLOOD

SEATTLE, October 28, 2002 (lifesitenews.com) – American scientists have developed a way of using cells from umbilical cord blood to grow stem cells that may, with further research, prove as effective as rare sources like bone marrow in treating leukemia. “Studies suggest that multiplying the number of cells from one [umbilical] cord just by two or three times could be enough to treat an adult,” Irwin Bernstein, who leads a team at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, told the New Scientist magazine. Stem cells from umbilical cords develop faster than those in bone marrow and are less […]
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CATHOLIC PRIEST BLESSES HOMOSEXUAL COUPLE AND BAPTIZES THEIR CHILDREN

LEXINGTON, KY, October 28, 2002 (lifesitenews.com) – A homosexual couple was blessed by a Catholic priest at a ceremony where the couple’s quadruplets born by in vitro fertilization and a surrogate mother were baptized.  Rev. Paul Prabell, Rector at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Lexington said his only concern was the couple’s promise to raise the children in the Catholic faith – they claimed they would raise the children Catholic.  Prabell said in an interview Friday, “some people would feel that the christening would be an endorsement of homosexuality and surrogate parenting.”  Michael Meehan and Thomas Dysarz were […]
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BILL TO ADD “SEXUAL ORIENTATION” TO CANADIAN HATE CRIMES LAW REINTRODUCED

OTTAWA, October 28, 2002 (lifesitenews.com) – Homosexual activist MP Svend Robinson’s previous Bill C- 415, to add “sexual orientation” to hate crimes legislation, was reintroduced in the current session of parliament as Bill C-250.  According to new parliamentary procedures, the bill resumes the stage which it reached in the former session of parliament, leaving it before the Justice Committee.  Brian Rushfeldt of the Canada Family Action Coalition told LifeSite that many concerned Canadians should make their views known to the newly formed Justice Committee which includes the following MPs:  Andy Scott; Vic Toews , Kevin Sorenson, Pierrette Venne; Carole-Marie Allard, […]
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KOPP LAWYER CAMBRIA TO QUIT CASE The lawyer for accused abortionist-shooter James Kopp, Paul J. Cambria Jr., is expected to quit as Kopp’s defense attorney in the next few days. Sources cite “sharp differences of opinion” between Cambria and Kopp’s friends and advisers. When Cambria first agreed to represent Kopp in June 2001, he said he would defend the case “on the evidence” and would never turn the case into a political forum on the politics and ethics of abortion.  https://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20021020/1023308.asp   ARIZONA SUPREME COURT RULES STATE MUST PAY FOR ABORTIONS   The Arizona Supreme Court ruled 3-2 Tuesday that […]
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ONTARIO MINISTRY MEMO SAYS PROVINCE WONT SEEK PRIVATE SCHOOL TESTING FOR TAX CREDIT

TORONTO, October 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The memo to Ontario Finance Minister Janet Ecker from a staff member dated Sept. 17, obtained by The Star, was prepared for the minister before the Conservative caucus retreat held in Sarnia. The 10-page memo, which covers a number of topics, reveals Premier Ernie Eves is backing off on plans to bring in a standard for testing private schools as part of the government’s controversial tax credit for parents who send their children to those schools. It appears the Eves government has become politically cautious, at least for the time being, to retain votes […]
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BRITISH EXPERTS INVESTIGATE HEALTH OF IVF BABIES

LONDON, October 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – British health authorities have been asked to investigate problems among children conceived through artificial fertility methods, including a greater likelihood of birth defects.  Two studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine this year suggest that test-tube babies are more likely to be underweight and born with a major birth defect.  An estimated 1 million babies worldwide have been conceived through IVF since Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in 1978 after being transported, as an embyro, inside a rabbit before insertion into her mother’s womb.  For two sample abstracts from […]
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VATICAN ANNOUNCES MEMBERS OF JOINT US-VATICAN SEXUAL ABUSE COMMISSION

ROME, October 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Vatican has annoucned the members of the mixed commission of the Holy See and the United States Catholic Bishops Conference to review the norms and the charter of the U.S. bishops’ new sexual abuse policy. Members from the Vatican include:  Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy;  Archbishop Julián Herranz, President of the Pontifical Council for the Legislative Witnesses;  Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith;  Archbishop Francisco Monterisi, Secretary of the Congregation for the Bishops. Member from the USCCB include:  Cardinal Francis […]
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CANADIAN BISHOPS TO REVISE SEX ABUSE POLICY https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20021017/UCATHIV/Headlines/headdex/headdexNational_temp/15/15/36/  SAVING BABIES AT THE BRINK How four babies and their mothers were saved from abortion in one day by Toronto’s Aid to Women   https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2002/oct/01saving.html   CONCERNS LINGER OVER NEW CONTRACEPTIVE PATCH Evra contraceptive patch causes “all the usual, dreadful effects” of the pill   https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2002/oct/03concernslinger.html   AN EASY TO READ SUMMARY OF THE DANGERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2002/oct/20whatwill.html   PRO-LIFE EDUCATION: PRO-CHOICE, PRO-ABORTION: IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?  https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2002/oct/23looking.html
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OUTGOING ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ISSUES LAST WARNING

TORONTO, October 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Dr. George Carey, who is retiring as Archbishop of Canterbury, warned this week that his successor, Dr. Rowan Williams, must deal with the worldwide repercussions for Anglicanism of renegade Vancouver Bishop Michael Ingham’s endorsement of same-sex marriage.  “What I’m very worried about,” Carey said after a service to mark the 125th anniversary of University of Toronto’s Wycliffe College, “is when one diocese in province X makes a decision that actually is going to undermine our collegiality and unity. … I’m saying to [Ingham] and to the House of Bishops [that] if you go this […]
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MALAYSIAN MUSLIM COUNCIL RULES ABORTION LEGAL IN RAPE CASES https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/  [story has been archived for subscribers]  SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON RECEIVES HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST AWARD https://www.miami.com/mld/miami/living/people/gay_lesbian/4324745.htm
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EU EXPAND FROM 15 TO 25 COUNTRIES BY ADDING EASTERN EUROPE

DUBLIN, October 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – With Ireland changing its mind on allowing expansion of the European Union, the EU is set to expand to 25 countries from 15.  To be included are former Communist countries Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Cyprus. Bulgaria and Romania are due to enter in 2007. See the Telegraph coverage at:  https://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,5327289%255E401,00.html
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COMPLICATIONS FROM ABORTION PILL CAUSE INDIA TO REVISE GUIDELINES

NEW DELHI, October 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Indian government has announced that it will revise its lax guidelines on the abortion pill RU-486.  Reports of life-threatening complications arising from the use of the pill from around the country have led to the changes.  Dr J V R Prasada Rao, secretary, Department of Family Welfare told reporters that despite a prescription-only regulation, the abortion pill was being handed out over the counter in some places.  Dr Ashwani Kumar, Drug Controller of India, said that caution was needed for using RU-486 as it could lead to life-threatening haemorrhage. Ashwani hinted at […]
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HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES TO BE COUNTED IN 2001 CENSUS OF CANADA Statistics Canada has added a new category within the Census information on families and living arrangements: same-sex common-law relationships. The results are due out next Tuesday, October 22.  https://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/10/18/census_samesex021018   NATIONAL POST ARTICLE SLAMS IRRATIONAL ABORTION LAWS   In his October 18 comment page article, “A mother’s choice can’t define life”, Hugo Gurdon forcefully exposes the irrationality and often extreme bias of U.S. and Canadian laws on abortion. Gurdon concludes the article by stating “The abortion wars can end only when society tires of relativist intellectual fashion, and accepts again […]
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N.B. PREMIER BERNARD LORD WILL SEEK FEDERAL PC LEADERSHIP

FREDERICTON, October 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – With polls indicating that the federal Progressive Conservative leadership is his for the taking, New Brunswick premier Bernard Lord, 36, has decided to resign and enter the federal arena, according to sources cited by the National Post.  Premier Lord has raised some pro-life hopes by defying Henry Morgentaler’s demands to provincially fund his profit-seeking abortuary chain. However, the premier also plays his cards carefully, avoiding ties with New Brunswick pro-life leaders.  It is unclear what attitude Lord would take toward cooperation with the Canadian Alliance. Stephen Harper, who has distanced the party from pro-life […]
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KOPP FRIENDS WILL BE TRIED IN NEW YORK

BUFFALO, October 18, 2002 – Dennis Malvasi and Loretta Marra, the New York City couple accused of aiding James Kopp, the only suspect in the shooting of abortionist Barnett Slepian, will be prosecuted in New York instead of Buffalo.  The decision, supported by prosecutors who say information revealed in an imminent Buffalo trial would have jeopardized the Kopp prosecution, means the couple will no longer face obstruction of justice and other charges that carry a sentence of up to 10 years. Instead, they will face a criminal complaint filed in Brooklyn’s federal court charging the couple with a single count […]
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ABORTION-PHOTOS GROUP FREE TO TRAIL BANNERS FROM PLANE, FOR NOW

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., October 18, 2002 – A pro-life group is free to trail explicit banners showing aborted baby parts over a beach town from the back of a low-flying plane, at least for a few weeks. A temporary restraining order signed by U.S. District Judge Alicemarie Stotler suspends an ordinance by Huntington Beach town officials attempting to ban the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform from flying the banners. But the order lasts only until an injunction hearing scheduled for November 1.  The restraining order was obtained by the Thomas More Law Center, a lobby group based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. […]
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WORLD YOUTH ALLIANCE ASSISTS U.S. IN PROMOTING TOTAL BAN ON CLONING AT U.N.

UNITED NATIONS, October 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The World Youth Alliance (WYA) was able to bolster the U.S. government’s arguments in support of a total ban on human cloning at the United Nations.  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, Sichan Siv, read an official statement to the Economic and Social Council yesterday in which he noted that the over one-million strong WYA supports the U.S. position.  In a process that started over a year ago, the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly is deciding how to begin drafting a convention to ban human cloning. There […]
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SOUTH AFRICA ABORTION RATE HIGH DESPITE HIGH AWARENESS OF ‘FAMILY PLANNING’  https://iafrica.com/news/sa/94642.htm   U.S. SUPREME COURT AGAIN REFUSES TO BLOCK PRO-LIFE SPECIALTY PLATE https://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?n4192_BC_LA—Abortion-LicenseP&&news&newsflash-louisiana   IRISH PRO-LIFERS WARN AGAINST NICE TREATY BUT BISHOPS BACK PROPOSAL https://www.ireland.com/focus/nice/comment/comment13.htm https://www.credopub.com/archives/2001/iss20010611/20010611p14b.htm https://www.online.ie/news/irish_examiner/viewer.adp?article=1854401 https://www.spuc.org.uk/releases/20021007.htm
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CONSCIENCE DILEMMA FOR CANADIAN HEALTH CARE WORKERS ADDRESSED IN SERIES OF ARTICLES

VANCOUVER, B.C, October 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) –  The B.C. Catholic newspaper has published an excellent series of articles on the conscience dilemmas faced by Canadian Health Care workers. The four part series by Greg J. Edwards relates the history of discrimination against morally principled health care workers and some of the attempts to defend their right to refuse to participate in procedures that violate deeply held moral or religious beliefs.  These conflicts experienced by principled doctors, nurses and now pharmacists are exposed in the Respect for Life Medicine series which can be viewed at:  https://bcc.rcav.org/special/index.htm
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GERMAN DELEGATE DOUBTS MORALITY OF U.S. POSITION ON CLONING

NEW YORK, October 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A German delegate at United Nations negotiations on human cloning says the U.S. position in favor of a comprehensive ban on all human cloning is “morally questionable,” according to the Friday Fax service from the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), which monitors U.N. activities in New York.  Citing German news sources, C-FAM says the German legal adviser to the UN, Christian Müch, condemns Washington’s “all or nothing” approach, calling it “morally questionable … because the chance for at least a quick ban on reproductive cloning would be lost.” Müch’s call echoes […]
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BRITISH UPPER HOUSE REJECTS UNMARRIED AND HOMOSEXUAL COUPLE ADOPTION

LONDON, England, October 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Labour government of Tony Blair, determined to impose its Adoption and Children Bill allowing unmarried and homosexual couples to adopt children, suffered a blow this week when a non-partisan pro-life bloc in the House of Lords rejected the bill. The House of Lords voted 196 to 162 to maintain the current system that only married couples and single people can adopt, with 23 Labour peers and 48 crossbenchers [non-party-affiliated members] voting against the Bill.  Homosexuals, lesbians and shacked-up couples can already adopt a child in Britain if they apply as individuals rather […]
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PRO-ABORTION GROUPS TARGET BUSH-APPOINTED DOCTOR

WASHINGTON, October 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-abortion groups are targeting a Christian pro-life doctor for political assassination. Dr. W. David Hager, an obstetrician and gynecologist from Lexington, Ky., was chosen by the Bush Administration to sit on a Food and Drug Administration panel. Hager has written 41 journal publications, 14 book chapters and six books, and has served on the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine and the University of Kentucky School of Medicine. He was named one of the “Best Doctors for Women” by Good Housekeeping magazine in 1997.  The targeting of Hager is the latest example of […]
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ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS MARVEL AT WONDERS OF ADULT STEM CELL TREATMENT

ROSEMONT, ILL, October 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Speaking at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Orthopaedics Update 2002 Web conference, Joseph Iannotti, MD chairman of the Cleveland Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery said, “Adult stem cells have not only proven to be effective in bone healing today, they hold great promise for the future of orthopaedics – especially in the areas of reconstructing all types of tissues, as well as improving the healing of diseased tissues.” Dr. Iannotti explained that adult – as opposed to embryonic – stem cell therapy has shown remarkable success.  “For example, a young man […]
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BABY SEX SELECTION ALIVE AND WELL IN U.S. – OVER 300 DONE BY COMPANY

FAIRFAX, VA, October 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The American Society of Reproductive Medicine Conference which ends today in Seattle heard that the Genetics and IVF Clinic in Fairfax, Virginia has had 300 babies born using their Microsort technique for sex-selection.  The technique involves using dye to mark sperm and a laser to sort the sperm based on the knowledge that sperm which will produce girls have more DNA.  The procedure costs over $2000 which is charged over and above the costs for in vitro fertilization and related procedures which can run the bill up to $20,000.  See BBC coverage:  https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2335979.stm
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MANNING ATTACK ON DAY IN NEW BOOK SPARKS IRE OF ALLIANCE MPS https://www.nationalpost.com/utilities/story.html?id={971B91E5-263F-4695-9741-0F6B2E33EF78}  REPORT SHOWS HUNDREDS OF ELDERLY DYING IN NURSING HOMES FROM NEGLECT Most of the deaths are caused by neglect traced to caregivers whom the elderly rely on for food and liquid, and for turning them in their beds to prevent life-threatening sores, investigators and researchers say.  The latest national compilation of more than 500,000 nursing home deaths – for 1999 – lists starvation, dehydration or bedsores as the cause on 4,138 death certificates.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021015/ap_on_he_me/nursing_homes_2   WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO GRANDDAUGHTERS   https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021015/ap_on_he_me/surrogate_twins_1   EDITORIAL CALLS ON SENATORS […]
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TAIWAN PLANS FINANCIAL REWARDS FOR COUPLES TO BEAR MORE CHILDREN

TAIPEI, October 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Taiwan’s Ministry of the Interior and Council for Economic Planning and Development has drafted a plan to award couples who give birth to more than two children approximately $855 per child. Statistics indicate that the birth rate has declined to unsustainable levels from 6 children per woman in the 1950s to 1.16 children per woman in 2001.  The plan would also provide approximately $450 a month—equal to one month’s pay at minimum wage—to any working mother with more than three children. Other tax incentives to encourage child bearing are also under consideration.  For more […]
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COURT BATTLE OVER FROZEN EMBRYOS CONSIDERS SANCTITY OF LIFE FROM CONCEPTION

SEATTLE, October 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A divorced couple’s battle over frozen embryos they once contracted to create could establish a precedent that favours the right to life, lawyers claim.  Courts in the U.S. have ruled on embryo custody disputes in the past, but in this case the embryos do not have genetic material from both parties—because the former husband and wife contracted with a Loma Linda University laboratory in California to fertilize eggs from a donor with sperm from ex-husband David Litowitz.  Mr. Litowitz wants the embryos destroyed against the wishes of his former wife, Becky. Her lawyers are […]
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PRO-LIFE LAW STUDENTS WIN STATUS THROUGH FIERCE LOBBYING

ST. LOUIS, October 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The student body that controls clubs and organizations at Washington University law school in St. Louis has been forced to back down from its refusal to grant official status to a pro-life law student society.  In what supporters hail as “a dramatic and complete reversal,” the Student Bar Association (SBA) at the university’s law school voted overwhelmingly to recognize Law Students Pro-Life.  Twice in the past, the SBA refused to recognize the group, making the prolifers ineligible to receive funding, campus office space and tax-exempt status that other clubs enjoy at the university. […]
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STOPP INTERNATIONAL RELEASES PLAN FOR DEFEATING PLANNED PARENTHOOD

WASHINGTON, October 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – STOPP International, the American Life League division dedicated to fighting Planned Parenthood has issued a detailed plan for defeating Planned Parenthood in local communities. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the largest operator of abortion facilities in the U.S. and has admitted to committing over 3,000,000 post-implantation abortion procedures since it first started doing them in New York state in 1970. In 1993, PPFA operated 938 facilities across the country and announced an aggressive plan to have “2,000 clinics by the year 2000.” In answer to this threat from Planned Parenthood, STOPP […]
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MACLELLAN-MORGENTALER POSITION SPELLS END OF MEDICARE

OTTAWA, October 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Peter Ryan, President of LifeCanada (the new umbrella group for Canada’s pro-life educational branch) has sent a warning to the government regarding funding of abortion on demand: “If Anne MacLellan and Henry Morgentaler have their way on abortion, it will spell the end of the Canadian Medicare system. Both the federal health minister and Canada’s leading abortion advocate say that any surgical termination of pregnancy, for any reason or for no reason, is automatically ‘medically necessary’ and must be funded by Medicare.  “If a wealthy woman with a healthy pregnancy can abort the baby […]
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REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY BILL REINTRODUCED AS BILL C-13

OTTAWA, October 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Reproductive Technology bill known in the last session of parliament as C-56 was reintroduced in the current session on October 9 with the new bill number C-13.  The bill is in the same form as Bill C-56 from the first session and in accordance with a special order of the House of October 7, 2002 was reinstated at the same stage that it had reached at the time of prorogation.  That status leaves the bill passed second reading and before the Health Committee.  See the bill online at:  https://www.parl.gc.ca/37/2/parlbus/chambus/house/bills/government/C-13/C-13_1/C-13_cover-E.html
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COURT RULES MOTHER CAN USE LETHAL FORCE TO PROTECT FOETUS

DETROIT, October 16, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a pregnant woman may use deadly force to protect her foetus even when she does not fear for her own life. Legal experts quoted by the New York Times suggest that the decision has “opened another front in the legal wars surrounding abortion.”  The case involves Jaclyn Kurr and her late boyfriend, Antonio Pena, the man with whom she became pregnant. She testified that after Pena punched her in the stomach when she was 16 to 17 weeks pregnant with quadruplets, Kurr stabbed him in the […]
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFERS GATHER FOR BIBLE STUDY AND PRAYER WEEKLY https://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20021014/4531562s.htm   SCHOOL RETREATS FROM PRO-HOMOSEXUAL POLICY AFTER STUDENT CHRISTIAN CLUB THREATENS LAWSUIT Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has amended its non-discrimination policy relating to sexual orientation after the Pioneers for Christ student club challenged it.  According to the Thomas More Law Center, which represented the Christian Club, the policy would have unconstitutionally prohibited members from expressing their Christian view against homosexuality.  https://www.thomasmore.org
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AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP PELL CLEARED OF ALL ABUSE CHARGES   Archbishop George Pell yesterday said he felt no ill-will towards a man who falsely accused him of molesting him at a church camp 40 years ago.  https://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,5285194%255E3163,00.html   ANGLICAN CLERGY BEGIN ACTION AGAINST ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY’S PRO-HOMOSEXUALITY VIEWS https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F10%2F14%2Fnarch14.xml   DOLLY THE SHEEP CLONER NOW TO CLONE HUMANS FOR EXPERIMENTATION https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2322489.stm   LUTHERAN PRO-LIFE MAGAZINE “LIVING” NOW AVAILABLE www.lutheransforlife.org
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BLACK MARCH AGAINST ABORTION CALLS ABORTION ‘BLACK GENOCIDE’

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. October 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – On Monday over 50 African-Americans gathered in Birmingham to march for life.  The “Say-So” (after the saying – If you love children say-so) march calls attention to the fact that “Every day in the United States, 1,452 African-American children are violently executed…before they’re ever born.”  The event is sponsored by the Life Education and Resource Network, or LEARN, which calls abortion “black genocide.”  Along the way, marchers have an opportunity to educate the communities they pass through as they carry graphic, 13-foot signs depicting both the historic mistreatment of born African-Americans, and the […]
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PRO-LIFE FREEDOM OF SPEECH VICTORY IN CANADIAN COURT

REGINA, SK, October 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-Life activist Bill Whatcott was victorious in a court battle over his placing pro-life pamphlets on car windshields in a University of Regina parking lot.  In an 18-page decision released on Friday, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Dennis Ball set aside Whatcott’s conviction for “the unlawful distribution of literature,” saying application of a parking bylaw stopped Whatcott from communicating his views, contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  Ball said the act also infringed Whatcott’s freedom of expression as protected by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code.  The judge also noted that […]
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RADIO STATIONS UNEASY ABOUT ABORTION MENTION IN TIM MCGRAW SONG   https://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20021010/4522961s.htm   FIRST UK CHILD BORN FROM IVF PROCEDURE USING FROZEN OVUM https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2318609.stm   US NEWS ROUNDUP  SENATE LEGISLATION ATTEMPTS TO REMOVE ‘UNBORN’ HEALTH COVERAGE SUBSTITUTING PREGNANT MOTHER COVERAGE https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021011/ap_on_he_me/pregnant_women_health_3   APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS ARIZONA LAW REQUIRING MINORS TO GET PARENTAL CONSENT FOR ABORTION   https://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breaking/10_9_02appeal.html   WOMAN’S RIGHT TO KNOW LEGISLATION TAKES EFFECT IN ALABAMA MONDAY The act states that women must be informed at least 24 hours before having an abortion about the following: agencies that offer assistance before and after childbirth, adoption agencies, the development of […]
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PRO-LIFE WEBSITE ATTRACTS ONE MILLIONTH VISITOR

PORTLAND, October 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – StandUpGirl.com—the pro-life web space that creates a positive ‘culture of life’ environment for girls to share the truth about abortion has officially had it’s 1 millionth visitor.  The cutting-edge use of flash design technology and professional artistic presentation have made the site not only attractive to internet savy youth but also to internet design experts looking for the latest and greatest in the ever expanding industry.  With an unheard of average visitor stay of over 13 minutes (this week) StandUpGirl.com is a sign of hope on the e-horizon that the internet can serve not […]
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NATIONAL COMING OUT OF HOMOSEXUALITY DAY CELEBRATED

COLORADO SPRINGS, October 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Focus on the Family celebrated the changed lives of ex-gay men and women on the seventh annual “National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day” yesterday. Former homosexuals will present their stories and struggles when the pro-family group brings its 19th national Love Won Out conference to Washington, D.C., on Nov. 2. The event comes amid increasing controversy over the issue of homosexuality. According to a recent Gallup poll, most Americans believe that one out of every five people are gay or lesbian. In reality, only 2 to 3 percent of the population is homosexual. […]
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U.S. INFERTILITY ASSOC. RECEIVES FEDERAL FUNDS TO PROMOTE EMBRYO ADOPTION

WASHINGTON, October 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association announced that the organization has received a major Federal grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop and implement a comprehensive public awareness campaign on embryo adoption. The program, Embryo Donation—An Option, will help educate medical professionals, patients and the general public about the medical, legal and emotional aspects of embryo donation. It is estimated that there are currently over 100,000 embryos in frozen storage across the U.S. as a result of infertility treatment.  RESOLVE’s public awareness campaign will reach more than 500,000 consumers who […]
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NEPALI KING FIRES ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS A WEEK AFTER LEGALIZING ABORTION

KATMANDU, Nepal, October 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A week after signing a law to legalize abortion in his country, Nepal’s King Gyanendra fired the elected government, dismissed the prime minister and took over executive power, indefinitely postponing parliamentary elections.  The legalization of abortion in the Himalayan nation went into effect September 26 after years of United Nations pressure. It legalized abortion on demand up the twelfth week of pregnancy and allowed it anytime for disabled unborn children or when the mother’s health is endangered   Using the double-speak typical of his Western pro-abortion counterparts, the King proclaimed his commitment to […]
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A PRO-LIFE HALLOWEEN UNICEF STRATEGY

As Halloween approaches, the now familiar UNICEF boxes will be much in evidence again. Banks, credit unions and some of the major grocery and department stores and, last but not least, children, will participate in this annual fund drive under the mistaken notion that they are supporting a worthy cause. While UNICEF may say it does not support abortion, its reputation for sponsoring organizations that do goes back a number of years. For this reason, the Vatican withdrew its support for UNICEF in 1996. There has been no indication to date of any new developments that would cause the Vatican […]
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HALF U.S. PHARMACIES DO NOT STOCK ABORTIFACIENT MORNING AFTER PILL https://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/25739p-24347c.html   US BISHOPS CONFERENCE INTERCESSIONS FOR LIFE FOR DECEMBER https://www.usccb.org/prolife/liturgy/woldec02.htm   BLACK PRO-LIFERS MARCH ON BIRMINGHAM   African-American right-to-life group wants to highlight the horrors of abortion in the black community.  https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0022613.html   ANTHONY CARDINAL BEVILACQUA WRITES SENATORS TO SUPPORT CONSCIENCE LEGISLATION https://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/abortion/andasen.htm
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IRISH TRIO PLANNING TRIP TO SWITZERLAND FOR ASSISTED SUICIDE https://www.online.ie/news/irish_examiner/viewer.adp?article=1855183   SYPHILIS ‘EPIDEMIC’ SEEN AMONG GAY MEN IN GERMANY https://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/reuters20021009_632.html
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PRO-LIFE GROUP FACES BANKRUPTCY AFTER COURT ORDER

SAN DIEGO, October 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The United States Justice Foundation (USJF), a non-profit legal group that defended pro-life demonstrator Cheryl Sullenger last year, now faces bankruptcy after a judge ordered them to pay Planned Parenthood’s legal fees.  San Diego Superior Court Judge Kevin Enright ruled Oct. 1 that the Foundation’s motion to dismiss Planned Parenthood’s application for an injunction against Ms. Sullenger in 1999 was “frivolous.” Sullenger was accused of holding up graphic signs of aborted foetuses and “harrassing” employees, and photographs of Sullenger talking to people outside the clinic were used to prove that USJF’s application was […]
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MISS AMERICA OFFICIALS WITHDRAW CENSURE OF ABSTINENCE MESSENGER

CHICAGO, October 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Erika Harold, Miss America 2003, yesterday told a local audience that officials have withdrawn their attempt to suppress her right to speak to teenagers about chastity.  “I don’t think the pageant organizers really understood how much I am identified with the abstinence message,” Miss Harold told reporters. “If I don’t speak about it now as Miss America, I will be disappointing the thousands of young people throughout Illinois who need assurance that waiting until marriage for sex is the right thing to do,” she said.  Miss Harold tells audiences how she was subjected to […]
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McGILL SPEAKER CONDEMNS NEW ‘EUGENICS’

MONTREAL, October 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a third installment of National Post op-eds in connection with the McGill conference on Pluralism, Religion and Public Policy, Margaret Somerville, a professor at McGill’s Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, condemns “new genetics” which she says “is functioning as eugenics.”“Decisions by individuals based on preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) of IVF embryos, or prenatal screening of foetuses,” she says, “mean we will eliminate certain groups of people, for example, Down’s syndrome children, from our society.”“Intense individualism leads to claims of rights to ‘absolute reproductive freedom’,” she says, “that is, claims that decisions about […]
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U.S. PUSHING TO HAVE U.N. CLONING-BAN TREATY IN PLACE BY NOVEMBER

UNITED NATIONS, October 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The United States proposal for the United Nations treaty on human cloning which aims to ban all forms of human cloning – both reproductive and so-called ‘therapeutic’ is facing opposition from France and Germany.  The total-ban proposed by the U.S. as well as the Philippines and Spain has the backing of the Vatican and several other countries including Italy, Argentina and Costa Rica.  The U.S. proposal, a draft of which was obtained by ABC News Tuesday, calls for a moratorium on human cloning pending the adoption of an international convention. It also urges […]
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U.S. ABORTION RATE DOWN SAYS REPORT BY PRO-ABORTION RESEARCH CENTER

WASHINGTON, October 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The pro-abortion Alan Guttmacher Institute has released the results of a national survey of women who have obtained abortions.  The overall abortion rate in the United States decreased by 11% between 1994 and 2000, from 24 to 21 abortions each year per 1,000 women aged 15-44, says the report.  Declines in abortion rates were especially steep among adolescents, particularly 15-17-year-olds. The rate for this group fell to 15 abortions per 1,000 women in 2000 from 24 abortions per 1,000 women in 1994, a decline of 39%. The study also found that:  o 56% of […]
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INDIA’S TOP COURT BANS SEX-SELECTION ABORTION ADVERTISING

NEW DELHI, October 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – India’s Supreme Court has ordered state governments to enforce the law and punish clinics that advertise and promote sex-selection abortions.  Like China, India officially discourages families from having “too many” children—but does not officially encourage sex-selection. But the Indian Medical Association says up to two million baby girls are aborted every year due to a cultural preference for sons.  Sanjay Parikh, the lawyer representing an NGO that opposes famale infanticide and ultrasound sex selection, told the high court that advertisements for the “service” continue to appear, in violation of lower court orders as […]
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SCIENTISTS ADMIT GENE TESTS WILL BE USED FOR ‘SEARCH AND DESTROY’ MISSIONS

MONTREAL, October 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – After years of research, scientists have found the mutant gene that causes Andermann’s syndrome, the crippling neuro-degenerative disease that affects people from Charlevoix and Lac St. Jean, Quebec.  Where both parents are carriers, the children have a 25 percent chance of developing the condition. Dr. Guy Rouleau of McGill’s neuroscience research centre says the discovery raises hopes for a drug therapy for carriers.  Carriers may decide not to have children. But a pregnant carrier could now undergo amniotic fluid screening to identify a foetus with the gene—and then abort the baby. “We’ve created a […]
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OFFICIALS ORDER MISS AMERICA NOT TO TALK ABOUT ABSTINENCE

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., October 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Officials at the Miss America Organization have ordered Erika Harold, Miss America 2003, not to speak publicly about sexual abstinence, a cause she has been advocating among teenage girls in her home state of Illinois.  A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Illinois and the recipient of $80,000 in pageant scholarships, Miss Harold was said to be “furious” about the official bullying. “Quite frankly, and I’m not going to be specific, there are pressures from some sides to not promote [abstinence],” the 22-year-old beauty queen from Urbana, told the Washington […]
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VATICAN SOURCES SAY DOCUMENT COMING BARRING HOMOSEXUALLY INCLINED FROM SEMINARY

VATICAN, October 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Vatican has prepared a draft document of directives or norms, to be used throughout the universal church, barring admission of homosexually inclined men to the seminary and thus priesthood, Vatican sources told the Catholic News Service (CNS). CNS, the official news service of the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference, quotes an unnamed “informed Vatican source” as saying: “The document’s position [on admission of homosexuals to the priesthood] is negative, based in part on what the ‘Catechism of the Catholic Church’ says in its revised edition, that the homosexual orientation is ‘objectively disordered.’  Therefore, independent […]
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HOMOSEXUAL CLUB FAILS TO ACHIEVE CLUB STATUS AT CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

TORONTO, October 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A homosexual club which was set to receive official club status at St. Michael’s University, a Catholic affiliate of the University of Toronto, failed to turn in its application by the deadline last Thursday.  Four days prior to the deadline, LifeSite published the story revealing that Q@SMC (Queers at St. Mike’s College) was well on its way to receiving official approval at the college having already obtained the required signatures of three religious, among whom was St. Michael’s College chaplain Fr. Terry Kersch.  Since the LifeSite coverage, the administration has received a flurry of […]
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PRO-ABORTION ACTIVISTS TO HOLD FUNDRAISER IN CALIFORNIA OCT. 9 The California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (CARAL) will host its 17th annual One Fine Day fundraising dinner and auction on October 9th, 2002, from 5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.  https://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-27-2002/0001808039&EDATE
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SENTENCING BY BC TEACHERS FEDERATION OF PRO-FAMILY TEACHER DUE OCT 21 https://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/story.asp?id=C8F2E768-149D-4B2F-8B79-BA831733277E   CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN SCOTLAND NOW ALLOWED TO DISCUSS HOMOSEXUALITY https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=ForeignBureausarchive
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MANNING WRITES ON EXCLUSION OF RELIGION FROM PUBLIC SPHERE

CALGARY, October 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a National Post column in connection with this week’s McGill Conference on Religion and Public Life, Canadian Alliance founder Preston Manning tries to fathom the hostility of media and political figures toward religion. “Sadly,” he writes, “perhaps one reason is that during the latter half of the 20th century, many people in politics and the media have ‘lost’ their own personal faith and are therefore uncomfortable with expressions of faith by others who have retained or discovered faith.”  To read the full column enter “Manning” in the search engine at www.nationalpost.com
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CLONING CULT BACKS OUT OF DEMONSTRATION AGAINST CATHOLIC CHURCH

MONTREAL, October 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Raelian cult, notorious for its claim to be carrying out human cloning, was a no-show at a Raelian march against the Catholic church in Montreal over the weekend.  The announcement of the demonstration at which the cult said it would burn crosses attracted both media and counter-demonstrators but the Raelians failed to turn up to their own event.  When one of the cult members did arrive he handed out to the hungry media a sheet bashing the church and a spokeswoman for the group was reached by phone to explain that they were […]
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BC COURT SEES EVIDENCE OF PRO-ABORTION VIOLENCE

VANCOUVER, October 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The pro-life club at the University of British Columbia presented their case in court last month.  The case involves a November 23, 1999 incident where pro-life students’ Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) display was destroyed, trashed and vandalized by three pro-abortion student leaders from the Alma Mater Society (AMS: student society at UBC). The court saw a video which showed the attackers- Erin Kaiser, Jon Chandler and Lesley Washington demolishing the pro-life students display. Mr. Chandler can also be seen making an obscene gesture. Ms. Kaiser and Mr. Chandler were members of the AMS External […]
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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS JOIN IN LIFE CHAIN DEMONSTRATIONS WORLDWIDE

MISSISSAUGA, ON, October 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In Mississauga, Ontario, just one of the hundreds of towns and cities to take part in last Sunday’s annual Life Chain, nearly 1000 people stood on the streets for an hour to pray for an end to abortion.  The annual pro-life event which began in the United States in 1987 has spread the world over and media outlets from as far away as South Africa are running with stories on the pro-life demonstrations.  The Mississauga gathering was one of the largest in Canada where the demonstrations are held in each major city and […]
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ALLIANCE MP REINTRODUCES BILLS TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM PAEDOPHILES

OTTAWA – Canadian Alliance MP Art Hanger yesterday reintroduced two Private Member’s Bills.  One is entitled: Carrie’s Guardian Angel Law. This bill was inspired by the painful experiences of two Calgary sisters, ages six and seven, who were sexually assaulted by a paedophile, and calls for a minimum sentence of 20 years for paedophiles.  The second is a bill to raise the legal age of sexual consent from 14 to 16 – again, to protect children from sexual predators.  “The evidence is clear – paedophiles can’t be rehabilitated, most will re-offend.  It’s shocking that convicted paedophiles can serve only days […]
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LATINO SWING VOTE IS PRO-LIFE

WASHINGTON, October 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – With the expanding Latino population in the United States, the Hispanic electorate has become a focus for political groups.  A recent survey indicates that the Latino vote is shallow on party loyalty and supportive of life and family.  A new Pew Hispanic Center and Kaiser Family Foundation national survey of Latinos who are registered to vote has found that “Latinos show significant partisan ambivalence.”  Further, the survey suggests the Hispanic electorate breaks the mold of social and fiscal conservative vs social and fiscal liberal. While, over half (55%) of the Hispanic electorate would prefer […]
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WOMAN FOUND HER ABORTED FOETUS IN JAR

GLASGOW, Scotland, October 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Nicola McManus, 27, a mother of three who had a painful drug-induced hospital abortion, was stunned to find her foetus in a jar labelled with her name while taking a phone call in another room in the hospital. “I fell apart,” McManus said. “I couldn’t believe anyone could be careless enough just to leave it lying there. That image will live with me forever.”  She also described callous, business-like treatment by staff: “They explained the [RU-486] procedure and got me to sign some forms. But no one actually sat down and asked me […]
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U.S. SUPREME COURT REJECTS KEVORKIAN BID

WASHINGTON, October 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from convicted second-degree murderer Jack Kevorkian, now crusading for assisted suicide part-time from his cell in Kinross Correctional Facility in Michigan’s upper peninsula, where he is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence.  The court is able to hear only about 80 cases out of 8,000 appeals annually. This year, Kevorkian’s application on the opening day of the court’s 2002-03 term on Monday did not make the cut.  Kevorkian sought to argue that his prosecution for the 1998 lethal injection of Thomas Youk, who suffered from Lou […]
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UPSKIRT FILMING IS RULED LEGAL IN WASHINGTON STATE   The Washington state Supreme Court has ruled that filming up women’s skirts, though “disgusting and reprehensible,” is not against the law, ruling unanimously that the existing voyeurism law “does not apply to actions taken in purely public places.”  https://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/87863_voyeur20.shtml TV HOST BILL O’REILLY ACCUSED OF PROMOTING HOMOSEXUALITY AND BASHING EX-GAY https://www.charismanews.com/online/articledisplay.pl?ArticleID=6665
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FAITHFUL PRIESTS RECEIVE THREAT LETTER DUE TO STAND AGAINST HOMOSEUXALITY

NICHOLASVILLE, Kentucky, October 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Three conservative Catholic priests in the Diocese of Lexington have received threats to “immediately cease and desist from your persecution and outing of gay priests in the diocese,” reports the Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper.  Letters purporting to be from the “Gay Priests Association” (although no such organization is known to exist locally) accuse the priests of “wounding and slandering” the diocese, its homosexual priests, and its former bishop. Their tone is severe enough that police regard the letters as a case of “terroristic threatening.”  The letters were read out to astonished parishioners. “So many […]
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HUMANIST SOCIETY WANTS RELIGIOUS CHARITY STATUS

TORONTO, October 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Humanist Association of Toronto wants the Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency, formerly Revenue Canada, to recognize the group as a religious-based charity and to grant it equivalent tax privileges.  “Organizations which seek to foster ethical or moral standards have not been held to advance religion,” wrote Maureen Kidd, director-general of the agency’s charities directorate. “Further, there is no evidence that the association undertakes to worship a deity or supreme being”—a requirement.  But Sheena Sharp, a spokesman for the Humanists, says: “We are a principled organization, an organization centred around principles, centred around principles […]
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SEX ABSTINENCE PROGRAM A SUCCESS, STUDY FINDS

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, October 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A sex education program based on abstinence is achieving strong enough results that a major publication has reported on it. The American Journal of Health Behavior says high school students who took part in the “Sex Can Wait” curriculum, developed at the University of Arkansas, were more likely to remain virgins and to have a commitment to abstinence, than students who did not participate in it—even after just eight weeks of exposure to the program. “Sex Can Wait” does more than simply tell youth how to behave, but helps them understand why such […]
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CARDINAL ADDRESSES POLITICS AND PRO-LIFE ONE MONTH BEFORE ELECTIONS

DETROIT, October 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an address from Detroit Cardinal Adam Maida read in all 308 parishes of the archdiocese Sunday, the Cardinal told Catholics that in deciding how to vote they must consider “most importantly” the candidate’s stand on abortion.  The cardinal said that the pro-life position “must shape our political judgments and our decisions about how we vote.”  Read on Respect Life Sunday, Cardinal Maida’s letter admonished politicians saying: “Catholic public officials have a special moral obligation to understand and accept wholeheartedly the Church’s teaching on the dignity of innocent human life; they may never advocate […]
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JUSTICE MINISTER PROMISES RESEARCHERS EMBRYO USE PRIOR TO LEGISLATION

OTTAWA, October 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Justice Minister Anne McLellan has given assurances to researchers that Canada will allow embryonic stem cell research before the legislation has even been debated in the House of Commons. “It's obviously a controversial issue for some people but within an appropriate framework, embryonic stem cell research should be allowed to take place,” she said. McLellan made her comments after the revelation that Gregory Korbutt, an associate professor of surgery at the University of Alberta Surgical Medical Research Institute plans to use human embryonic stem cells as part of his research. McLellan told the Edmonton […]
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CARDINAL ANTHONY BEVILACQUA STATEMENT FOR RESPECT LIFE SUNDAY 2002 (OCT 6)  “Abortion is advanced in the name of freedom, but it undermines freedom by demeaning life itself. No society can be truly free if its most vulnerable members can lose their very lives at the hands of others.”  https://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/abortion/rlsstate1002.htm
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SWISS BISHOPS COUNTER VATICAN ON BARRING HOMOSEXUALLY INCLINED INTO PRIESTHOOD https://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=111&sid=1376281   HIGHEST NUMBER OF UK ABORTIONS The Society for the Protection of the Unborn in the UK reports that the official 2001 abortion figures show the number of publicly-funded abortions was the highest ever at 134,705. 186,274 abortions were recorded in England and Wales. 176,364 were performed on residents. Overall, at least one baby dies by abortion for every five conceived. The official government figures exclude ‘hidden abortions’ by use of so-called emergency contraception.  https://www.spuc.org.uk/releases/20020930a.htm   TEL AVIV GRANTS HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES SAME RIGHTS AS MARRIED COUPLES https://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=216261&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
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HUMAN CLONES ALREADY IN GESTATION, CULT CLAIMS

LAS VEGAS, October 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Raelian cult, whose adherents profess to believe that human life was introduced to earth 25,000 years ago by alien cloners, claim to have several “viable” human clone pregnancies underway in undisclosed locations.  “Yes, we have viable pregnancies, that is to say three months or more,” says French scientist Brigitte Boisselier, president of Clonaid, whose headquarters are in Las Vegas and which is owned by the Raelian cult. Some miscarriages had occurred, she admitted, “as they do in test-tube conceptions.” Last July, at the first International Bio Exposition in Tokyo, Clonaid Vice President […]
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NEW SWISS ABORTION LAW IN FORCE

BERN, October 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Switzerland’s new abortion law, devised after a June referendum endorsed a proposed liberalization, is now in force.  The change puts an end to one of the last pockets of official resistance to the Europe-wide abortion culture. Swiss mothers will now be permitted to surgically execute and dismember their own child in the womb within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy after filling out a form and receiving counselling.  The country’s abortion rate has, until now, been one of the lowest of any developed country. Due to loopholes and lax enforcement since the 1980s, between […]
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HOMOSEXUAL ‘MARRIAGE’ AND HUMAN REPRODUCTION BILL ON LEGISLATIVE AGENDA

OTTAWA, October 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Liberal House leader Don Boudria, outlined the fall legislative agenda in a speech Thursday mentioning issues of concern to social conservatives.  Boudria said the government will reinstate and advance The Human Reproduction Bill.  Boudria noted that “the government will bring forward a Resolution on the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.”  This session the government will also “seek the views of committees on major policy issues, including a study of marijuana by the special committee on the use of non-medical drugs and the Justice Committee’s review of same-sex marriage.”  See Boudria’s speech at:  https://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/lgc/default.asp?Language=E&Page=NewsRoom&Sub=Speeches&Doc=20021003_newsmaker_e.htm
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EU FUNDING FOR UNFPA DELAYED OVER LINKS TO COERCIVE ABORTION

BRUSSELS, October 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Population Research Institute (PRI) reports that EU funding for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has been delayed. This delay indicates the grave disquiet among members of the European parliament about increased spending for the UNFPA in the light of the U.S. State Department's findings that the UNFPA is helping China to “more effectively” carry out its program of forced abortion. After presentations by PRI to the Members of the European Parliament outlining the UNFPA collusion in China's forced abortion regime, a vote on a report detailing the European Unions contribution to groups such […]
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VATICAN UNITED NATIONS REP PULLS OUT OF FUNDRAISING DINNER OVER ABORTION

NEW YORK, October 4, 2002 (CWNews.com/LSN.ca) – The Vatican’s representative to the United Nations has pulled out of a fundraising dinner in New York because the dinner will honor an abortion-rights advocate.  Archbishop Renato Martino has asked the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement to remove his name from the program for the dinner (which had already been printed). The archbishop—who will soon move to Rome to become president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace—withdrew from the fundraiser after learning that Libby Pataki, the honoree for the Friday-night dinner, has a clear record of support for legal abortion.  Archbishop […]
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US SENATE URGED TO TAKE UP PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION RESTRICTION

WASHINGTON, October 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – After one US Senator, pro-abortion activist Diane Feinstein, blocked Senate consideration of the partial-birth abortion restriction last week, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is being urged to allow the Senate to consider the bill.  Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) rallied pro-life forces this week to urge immediate Senate consideration of the bill. The US Catholic Bishops conference and the Family Research Council (FRC) are among the groups demanding the Senate take up the legislation.  Interestingly the FRC points out that Sen. Daschle has voted to support a ban on the procedure on no fewer than […]
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LOYAL BISHOPS COME TO VANCOUVER ANGLICANS’ RESCUE

VANCOUVER, October 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A diverse group of Anglican bishops who uphold Christian teaching have come to the defence of Vancouver Anglicans under siege by their own bishop, the trendy pro-homosexualist Michael Ingham, who in June endorsed church blessing of homosexual unions.  Now, five senior clergy from Africa, the U.S. and Asia have visited the New Westminster diocese and issued a report recommending that Ingham and his followers be suspended from sacramental communion unless they return to Scriptural teaching. To many Anglicans, communion is a symbol of unity among believers. “A liturgy of blessing is essentially a prayer […]
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OUTSPOKEN FEMINIST ATTACKS ABORTION PILL INSTEAD OF PROMOTING IT

SYDNEY, AU, October 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Feminist icon Germaine Greer spoke at a gynecologists and obstetricians conference in Sydney today startling her fans worldwide by attacking the abortion pill.  Dr. Greer, speaking at the “Best for Women” conference told her listeners that she had been asked to assist in “bringing pressure to bear” to increase access to the abortion pill RU-486.  However, Greer said it was “odd” that access to abortion would be regarded as a privilege.  “Of course we need access to amputation but we need even more to make sure that as few people are in a […]
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ORTHODOX JEWS APPALLED WITH FIRST OPENLY HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST LEGISLATOR Uzi Even, a professor at Tel Aviv University and an admitted practicing homosexual and homosexual activist is to take his seat in November. Lawmaker Nissim Zeev of Shas, the largest Orthodox Jewish party, said he would have difficulty sitting beside a man “whose way of life is repugnant and should be rejected with disgust.”  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021003/ap_wo_en_po/israel_gay_lawmaker_1   UN HEAD WARNS WORLD TO GET ACTIVE ON DEALING WITH AGEING POPULATIONS https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=4893&Cr=ageing&Cr1=  SWEEDISH WOMAN WHO ABORTED ONE CHILD KILLED TWO OTHERS https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021002/ap_wo_en_po/sweden_babies_killed_2
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PRO-LIFE GROUP SUES CALIFORNIA CITY OVER AERIAL ADVERTISING BAN

ANN ARBOR, MI, October 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The affluent City of Huntington Beach, California, has aimed its legislative guns on aircraft towing large graphic images of aborted babies over its beaches by enacting an ordinance effective October 16, 2002, that bans all aerial displays above or within the boundaries of the city.  According to one council member, the pro-life group sponsoring the aerial display has gone “one step too far.”  In response, the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in the central district […]
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SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SCALIA REJECTS BID TO BLOCK PRO-LIFE LICENCE PLATES

WASHINGTON, October 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has allowed Louisiana to go ahead with its plan to issue “Choose Life” licence plates.  On Tuesday Scalia denied an emergency request to have the 1999 law allowing the plate overturned. (Henderson et al vs. Secs. Stalder and Kennedy)  Although the request was denied without comment it follows similar higher court rulings.  The same pro-abortion group which lost the fight against the pro-life plates in Louisiana also attempted to stop the plates in New Orleans.  After an initial injunction against the plates by a federal judge, a federal appeals […]
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NEW STUDY FINDS MARRIAGE HELPS BOTH MEN AND WOMEN

MELBOURNE, October 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A new study is casting doubt on the 30-year old received wisdom that marriage benefits men more than it does women. To the contrary, data on 10,641 adults from the 1996 national survey of mental health suggest the benefits of matrimony extend to wives as well as husbands.  In 1972, sociologist Jessie Bernard publicized her finding that men are psychologically better off married, but that these benefits are gained at the expense of women. “That became a central tenet of the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s,” notes the journal New Scientist. It was […]
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ABORTIONIST CRITICIZED FOR CALLING PEI “A JOKE OF A PROVINCE”

CHARLOTTETOWN, October 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Canada’s most notorious abortionist Henry Morgentaler has once again publicly demonstrated his vulgarity, calling P.E.I. “a joke of a province.”  The comment came as Morgentaler was asked why he was not including the province in his lawsuit against New Brunswick and Nova Scotia for not funding his private abortuaries.  “Prince Edward Island is a joke of a province. Let’s face it. They have about 230,000 population. If we win in any of these cases it will be a precedent for Canada,” Morgentaler responded. (The Guardian (Charlottetown) Thu 03 Oct 2002 News A4 News)  Jim […]
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SCIENTISTS TO PLACE HUMAN GENES IN CATTLE   New Zealand gave the go ahead Tuesday to begin experiments that involve inserting human genes into cattle to produce proteins that could be used to treat medical conditions such as multiple sclerosis. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&ncid=564&e=75&u=/nm/20021001/ts_nm/science_newzealand_genes_dc_2   HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO LIFT BAN ON CHURCH POLITICS   The House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on a bill that would allow churches, synagogues and other religious organizations to preach politics from the pulpit, without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status. An IRS rule imposed in 1954 banned partisan political activity at religious institutions, including endorsements of […]
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BRITISH SCHOOL TO GIVE ABORTIFACIENTS TO 11-YEAR OLD GIRLS

LONDON, October 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A south London school will soon begin offering the morning-after pill to students. CNSNews reports that the board and principal of Chestnut Grove School in Wandsworth have launched a “pilot project” to provide so-called “emergency contraception” to female students as young as 11 years old.  To read CNSNews coverage see:  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive
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FORMER ADULTEROUS LOVER SLAMS MAJOR’S “FAMILY VALUES” CAMPAIGN

LONDON, October 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Edwina Currie, the former British cabinet minister who recently went public about an affair with ex-prime minister John Major, is slamming her former lover for mounting a “Back to Basics” campaign “all about family morality”—in spite of their own adulterous affair. “Governments should not start running morality campaigns,” she said. “Here we are in this country, we’ve the highest divorce rate in the world, the highest illegitimacy birth rate in the world, the highest rate of teenage pregnancy…”  Major’s family values campaign, launched in the early 1990s, collapsed amidst a string of Tory scandals. […]
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ANGLICAN ARCHBISHOP SILENT ON EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIRS

CANTERBURY, England, October 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Rowan Williams, the next Archbishop of Canterbury, refuses to affirm traditional Christian teaching “that sex outside marriage is wrong.” In response to a request from a prominent conservative clergyman for clarification, he said: “My personal views are on record and I have not found reason to change them. Somehow I have to try and discern the will of God in all this, knowing all too well the risks to the unity of the Church.” Williams pledged only to “exercise the discipline of the Church as I am bound to do. I can’t go […]
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD CAMPAIGN CALLED “CYNICAL PLOY”

STAFFORD, Virginia, October 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The American Life League is condemning Planned Parenthood’s so-called “National Family Sexuality Education Month” as “plain hypocrisy.”“When you consider all that Planned Parenthood has done over the years to undermine parental authority and destroy the very essence of the family,” said Ed Szymkowiak, national director of American Life League’s STOPP International, the awareness campaign is no more than “a deceptive gimmick designed to betray parents while simultaneously promoting contraceptive use among their children.” He called it a “cynical ploy… to bolster Planned Parenthood’s bottom line.”  To read ALL’s press release see:  https://www.all.org/news/newsroom.htm
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OTTAWA TO BAN “HIGHER LIFE FORM” PATENTS

OTTAWA, October 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Ottawa is expected to reaffirm its opposition to the “patenting of higher life forms,” as part of an update of patent rules in light of advances in biotechnology. “Canada needs to modernize, revamp, adapt its intellectual property framework,” a federal source told reporters, adding that the Supreme Court of Canada will rule within weeks on whether the genetically-altered Harvard mouse may be patented here for cancer research. The House of Commons Standing Committee on Health said last year that, “Treating human biological components as patentable property is repugnant to many of us, but confusion […]
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LOW BIRTH RATE PUTS CANADA ON ROAD TO PERDITION

TORONTO, October 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A prominent economics reporter with the Globe and Mail is one of the few Canadian opinion-makers to have said anything at all about the failure of Canadians to have children, historically a key sign of a doomed culture.  “Canadian couples are not having enough kids even to replace themselves—and have not for more than three decades now.”“So long as we Canadians don’t replace ourselves, we put ourselves on a path that’s almost impossible to alter,” Little writes. In addition, he challenges the conventional wisdom (shared by all the federal political parties) that immigrants will […]
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BRITISH SURVEY INDICATES TODAY’S WOMEN “TERRIFIED” OF CHILDBIRTH

LONDON, October 1, 2002 (BBC/LSN.ca) – The abortion/contraceptive mentality culture appears to have affected British women’s ability to cope with childbirth. A survey of British women has found they are “terrified” of giving birth, finding it “more painful than they ever imagined” even though a vast number have recourse to drugs and Caesarians to avoid natural childbirth. Only 6% had a natural birth, with 23% opting for a Caesarean. Even of those who did give birth normally, 38% had an epidural, 41% had the painkiller pethidine and a quarter were induced.  Outside factors also do not help. Three-quarters said they […]
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MICHIGAN CARDINAL SAYS POLITICIANS HAVE MORAL DUTY TO ACTIVELY OPPOSE ABORTION

DETROIT, October 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – As the Michigan governor’s race enters its final month,  Detroit’s archbishop, Adam Cardinal Maida, took aim at politicians who claim to be pro-life but do not actively oppose abortion. In a “letter to the priests and people” for Respect Life Month, delivered on Sunday, he said: “Catholic public officials have a special moral obligation to understand and accept wholeheartedly the Church’s teaching on the dignity of innocent human life; they may never advocate for, or actively support, legislation which would allow direct attacks on innocent human life.”  The letter continues: “When it is impossible […]
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YORKTON ALLIANCE M.P. SPONSORS PRO-LIFE MOTION

On September 30, Yorkton-Melville MP Garry Breitkreuz sponsored Motion M-83 in Parliament—one of many such motions he has put forward over the years only to be rejected by the Liberals who control which Motions will be drawn upon. The Motion states, “That the Standing Committee on Health should fully examine, study and report to Parliament on: (a) whether or not abortions are medically necessary for the purpose of maintaining health, preventing disease or diagnosing or treating an injury, illness or disability; and (b) the health risks for women undergoing abortions compared to women carrying their babies to full term.”“Medical necessity” […]
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AUSTRALIAN DOCTOR SAYS ULTRASOUND SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED ROUTINE

SYDNEY, October 1, 2002 (SPUC/LSN.ca) – Most parents view ultrasound “as a mid-pregnancy milestone and a first photo opportunity for their unborn baby.” But doctors are casting doubt on whether it helps for parents to be told their unborn child may have a remote chance of abnormality.  The Sydney Morning Herald quotes Lachlan de Crespigny, director of ultrasound at Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, as stating that pre-natal ultrasound examinations are wrongly regarded as routine, often revealing only “imprecise signs” of abnormality and the many mothers would prefer not to be burdened with “inconclusive findings” that may turn out to […]
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CALGARY BISHOP WRITES POWERFUL ABORTION COLUMN

SYDNEY, October 1, 2002 (/LSN.ca) – Calgary Bishop Fred Henry once again emphatically defends the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion in a column in today’s Calgary Sun. Not mincing any words Bishop Henry says “Some behaviours are always wrong, always incompatible with our love of God and the dignity of the human person…Abortion willed either as an end or a means is gravely contrary to the moral law. ”  Seeming to emphasize his recent support for a pastor who would not marry a Planned Parenthood employee, Henry writes “Formal co-operation in an abortion constitutes a grave offence. The Catholic Church […]
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