Articles for Month: November 2002

GENOME PROJECT PROVES THE HUMANITY OF THE HUMAN EMBRYO Read this amazing little essay which puts a human face on the human embryo using the latest scientific information gleaned from the Human Genome Project.  https://cbhd.org/resources/aps/cheshire_02-11-14.htm   PRAYER REQUESTED FOR UPCOMING SCHEIDLER SUPREME COURT CASE Prayer is urgently needed as the case of NOW vs Scheidler comes to be decided.  The court date is December 4, 2002.  ISLAMIC DESPOTS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF MANY MUSLIMS Muslim delegates to the United Nations have often worked closely with the Vatican and other pro-life, pro-family delegates and NGOs. Questioned is how the Muslim U.N. delegates […]

NEW YORK, November 22, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study in the current issue of the journal Fertility and Sterility, the official journal of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, boasts that artificial fertility techniques have become more effective over the years.  The author of the study, Dr. James P. Toner, of the Atlanta Center for Reproductive Medicine in Woodstock, Georgia, writes that the rate of births per IVF attempt at pregnancy has increased from 10% to 30% from 1985 to 1999.  However, a look at the government statistics Toner used in his analysis reveal that approximately 170,000 human embryos created […]

Provincial Attorneys General Called to Clarify Positions on Bill C-250

Astonishing Admission Indicates Foolishness of Previous Hype

Harassment by Canadian Human Rights Tribunals Increasing Over Homosexual Issue

British government now isolated with its support for "therapeutic" cloning

WASHINGTON, November 21, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. W. David Hager, a pro-life obstetrician under consideration by the Bush administration to head the Food and Drug Administration’s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee, says he wants the abortifacient RU-486, or Mifeprex, recalled—based on safety considerations and inadequate testing rather than his views on abortion.  Hager has made no secret of the fact that he thinks the FDA flouted the normal drug approval process in hastily approving RU-486 in September 2000. Dr. Donna Harrison, speaking for the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), agrees: “FDA, in approving Mifeprex, acted in a […]

BANGOR, ME, November 21, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When a Catholic Church in Maine allowed a pro-abortion political candidate to host a fundraising dinner despite complaints by pro-life individuals, concerned Catholics began a protest outside the church.  Now the church, St. John’s in Bangor, has sought a restraining order and has filed child abuse complaints against picket leader Terrance J. Hughes, a professor at the University of Maine.  St. John’s pastor Rev. Richard McLaughlin, has singed a formal complaint that the graphic abortion signs used by the picketers are disturbing for the children in the parish.  However, Professor Hughes’ wife told […]

PRO-ABORTION GROUP PARTNERS WITH WACO TEXAS LIBRARY SYSTEM Amazingly, the Planned Parenthood library also warns patrons that it can deny access “to anyone who has participated in protests,” against the group.  https://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archive/200211/CUL20021120a.html   JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION GIVES $20 MIL TO EMBRYONIC HUMAN RESEARCH https://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1035873376901   PRO-LIFE BILLIONAIRE BUILDS NEW CATHOLIC COLLEGE AND TOWN IN FLORIDA Ave Maria College announced it will build a 750-acre Catholic university and town in southwest Florida, scheduled to open in 2006.  https://www.avemaria.edu/thisnews.asp?id=87

Violent reaction to suggestion that teen try to change sexual orientation