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JUDITH REISMAN WARNS 2003 MAY SIGNAL HOLLYWOOD’S COMING OUT IN SUPPORT OF PEDOPHILE RIGHTS Warning:  article includes some offensive language https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30789   INTERNET CONSIDERED MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4041-2003Jan30.html
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FORMER DEAN OF STUDIES AT TORONTO SEMINARY BUILDING RETIREMENT HOME FOR GAYS AND LESBIANS

TORONTO, January 31, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Toronto Star reports today that   Fr. Gordon Davies, former dean of studies at St. Augustine Seminary who left his position and the priesthood two years ago, is now attempting to develop a retirement home for gays and lesbians in Toronto.  Sources told LifeSite that Fr. Davies’ departure from the Catholic seminary and his abandonment of his University of Toronto teaching position with tenure was very strange and unexpected. The Toronto Star seemed to relish its interview with the former priest. The very liberal Star has for many years been a frequent critic […]
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BELGIUM APPROVES MARRIAGE RIGHTS FOR HOMOSEXUALS

BRUSSELS, January 31, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week Belgium became only the second country in the world, after the Netherlands, to officially grant marriage rights to homosexual partnerships. Other countries, such as Denmark, Hungary, France and Portugal, recognize same-sex partnerships as marriages in all but name.  Belgium’s lower House of Representatives endorsed full recognition by 91 votes to 22, with 9 abstentions, but stopped short of allowing same-sex couples to adopt children as in the Netherlands, where the practice is now common.  The size of the Belgian majority “makes it clear that any enduring and loving relationship is appreciated in […]
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UNETHICAL FETAL TISSUE EXPERIMENTS CONTINUE

LONDON, January 31, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite at least two previous experiments that resulted in permanently debilitating many of the human subjects involved, medical researchers are celebrating the early results of new fetal tissue transplants. Fetal eye tissues (reports seldom mention they are from aborted babies) “seem to have improved the vision of two out of four people with a degenerative eye disease,” the New Scientist reports. However, the magazine adds, “It is too early to be sure the improvements are real and lasting…” Indeed, the results are so early that the New Scientist admits it is “also difficult to […]
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OTTAWA ILLEGALLY CHANNELED MONEY TO BAIL OUT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

OTTAWA, January 31, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite financial mismanagement and cost overruns that have been compared to the discredited Registry of All Firearms, the federal government has been funneling money into the politically-charged Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) without the approval of Parliament.  Several Liberal and opposition MPs in the Public Accounts Committee, examining the breach of spending rules, went as far as to question the body’s continued relevance.  “The [CHRC] is broken,” said John Bryden, a Liberal backbencher and author of books on government waste. “It needs to be fixed and the government is reluctant to take action. … […]
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FIVE RELIGIONS JOIN TO CONDEMN ATTEMPT TO LEGALIZE ABORTION IN INDONESIA

JAKARTA, January 31, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Buddhist, Catholic, Muslim, Hindu and Protestant religious leaders issued a joint statement to condemn abortion and a government move to liberalize the abortion legislation.  The declaration, signed by leaders of the five religions – which comprise all the officially recognized religions in the country – states, “We agree to firmly refuse abortion and efforts to legalize it and urge all components of society to preserve life from conception.” The Union of Catholic Asian News reports that the statement was presented Jan. 22 at a press conference after the religious officials met at Jakarta’s Istiqlal […]
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ONE OPPOSITION PARTY SIGNALS SUPPORT FOR STEM CELL BILL AS DEBATE CONTINUES

OTTAWA, January 31, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The BQ Party signaled their support for Bill C-13 yesterday, the assisted reproduction legislation currently being debated in the House of Commons.  Réal Ménard said “With the sense of responsibility that has always characterized our party, we will vote in favour of Bill C-13” saying the bill’s claim to ban cloning was his motivation. Speaking on the bill, Liberal MP Paul Szabo, called for the regulation of the practice of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Mr. Szabo quoted a recent report by Dr. Françoise Baylis in the Health Law Review which “says that there are […]
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BUSH AND CLINTON ADMINISTRATIONS – NO DIFFERENCE ON HOMOSEXUALITY The American Family Association is accusing the Bush Administration of having a blind spot on an issue of critical importance to Christians: the homosexual movement.  https://catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=31&art_id=17369   PARENTS KEPT IN DARK REGARDING SCHOOL SURVEY OF TEENS SEX HABITS https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/302003f.asp
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SEN. BROWNBACK LAUNCHES BILL FOR TOTAL CLONING BAN

WASHINGTON, January 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback introduced a bill on Wednesday to ban all human cloning, including the use of human embryos for experimentation. “This president can walk and chew gum at the same time, and he'll make cloning a priority, despite what's happening in Iraq,” said a spokesman for Sen. Brownback, a Kansas Republican. The House of Representatives has already passed a ban on all cloning, but it was blocked last year by Senate Democrats. Most Senators oppose “reproductive cloning” but there remains resistance, particularly from Democrats, over “therapeutic cloning” to extract stem cells in […]
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UK GOVERNMENT CAUTIONS DOCTORS ABOUT DANGERS OF MORNING AFTER PILLS

LONDON, January 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Evidence has forced the UK government to alert young women to the danger of potentially deadly ectopic pregnancy from the morning-after pill.  Sir Liam Donaldson, the government’s Chief Medical Officer, has sent a communication to all doctors asking them to be extra vigilant about the morning-after pill because it is related to a high rate of ectopic pregnancy. He also ordered Schering AG to change the wording of patient information leaflets to make it clearer that there is a risk of ectopic pregnancy. Commenting on the announcement, John Smeaton, national director of the Society […]
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NEW WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION CHIEF INVOLVED IN POPULATION CONTROL VACCINE SCANDAL

GENEVA, January 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Jong Wook Lee, a relatively unknown World Health Organization (WHO) insider beat out high profile competitors to become the head of the World Health Organization Tuesday.  Other candidates for the post included Dr. Julio Frenk Mora – currently Mexico’s Minister of Health and Dr. Pascoal Mocumbi – the Prime Minister of Mozambique.  However, Lee’s work with WHO included being in charge of and weathering one of the most scandalous accusations to be brought against the organization.  Lee, a vaccine expert was in 1994 placed in charge of the WHO Global Programme for Vaccines […]
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STEM CELL DEBATE CONTINUES IN OTTAWA – MP DELIVERS IMPASSIONED PLEA FOR LIFE

OTTAWA, January 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mrs. Elsie Wayne, the Progressive Conservative MP from Saint John delivered an impassioned plea for the right to life of human embryos during the on-going House of Commons debate on Bill C-13 yesterday.  Speaking about human embryos at conception, Wayne said, MPs are “talking once again about a tiny cell which is a tiny baby.”  Wayne vividly expressed her distress at the legislators cold deliberations over destructive experimentation on embryonic humans.  “I have been so dismayed in the past few months when I have looked at what has been happening and the direction in […]
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CANADIAN ARCHBISHOP SAYS CATHOLIC POLITICIANS CANNOT SUPPORT STEM CELL BILL C-13

VANCOUVER, January 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Adam Exner of Vancouver has issued a statement warning that Catholic and other pro-life Members of Parliament may not support the proposed legislation on stem cell research.  Pavel Reid, Director of the Archdiocesan Office for Life and Family told LifeSite that Archbishop Exner issued the document so that his direction to the politicians would be in the public record. The Statement dated January 2, 2003 follows:  STATEMENT   Re: Bill C-13 and Section 73 of Evangelium Vitae   A number of Catholic and other pro-life Members of the Parliament of Canada have been […]
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US NEWS ROUNDUP

COLORADO HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSES BILL TO REGULATE ABORTUARIES https://www.denverpost.com/framework/0,1413,36~61~1140476,00.html   CALIFORNIA BILL WOULD EQUATE HOMOSEXUAL UNIONS TO MARRIAGE https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/po/20030129/co_po/california_bill_upgrades_gay_partner_rights   U.S. CONSERVATIVES CONCERNED THAT POSSIBLE SUPREME COURT PICK IS NOT PRO-LIFE https://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=8400   PIRATES OF SILICON – WHY MICROSOFT AND APPLE WILL FAIL Movie exposes exposes fatal flaw that brings down giants https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30723
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OTTAWA LIBRARY ACCUSED OF LETTING CHILDREN VIEW INTERNET PORN https://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/tfn/2003/012903.html   STUDENT’S PRO-LIFE T-SHIRT IS EQUIVALENT TO THE SWASTIKA SAYS SCHOOL PRINCIPAL https://www.thomasmore.org/index.cfm?location=5&subsectionid=1&release=161&pageid=1   PRO-ABORTION JACK LAYTON BECOMES NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADER https://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=%7B50814794-5EDB-43FC-B425-A4648AF5BE66%7D   UK HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST FOUND GUILTY IN FRAUD CHARGES https://uk.gay.com/headlines/3599   U.N. WORLD HEATH ORGANIZATION CHOOSES NEW LEADER W.H.O. insider Jong-wook Lee, a -known tuberculosis expert from South Korea was selected over several higher-profile candidates – including Mozambique’s prime minister and Mexico’s health minister.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030129/ap_on_he_me/who_leadership_1
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B.C. WOMAN IMPLICATED IN IRISH ASSISTED SUICIDE

DUNCAN, B.C., January 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Evelyn Martens, the 71-year-old Vancouver Island woman charged with facilitating the suicides of Vancouver teacher Leyanne Burchell, 52, and ex-nun Monique Charest, 64, may now also face extradition to Ireland for allegedly delivering a suicide-homicide bag to Rosemary Toole, 49, who, according to email evidence, ordered the bag from Martens last year.  To date, the Right To Die advocate has made three court appearances in B.C. for her preliminary hearing, which is scheduled to resume Feb. 5 and could last until March. There is a publication ban on court proceedings.  Irish police say […]
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HOMOSEXUAL PARTNER’S DEATH ENDS RECOGNISED GAY UNION IN CONNECTICUT

HARTFORD, January 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One half of a homosexual partnership that was seeking to establish gay marriage in Connecticut, making it only the second state in the union after Vermont to recognize same-sex unions, has died, ending prospects for the time being.  Two men from Connecticut, Glen Rosengarten and Peter Downes, obtained a civil union from the state of Vermont two years ago, according to WorldNetDaily. The relationship ended soon afterwards, with Mr. Rosengarten filing for dissolution. But first, he wanted Connecticut to recognize the Vermont civil union as a binding marriage so it then could be terminated […]
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WOMEN WHO SHOT HER CRIPPLED SONS WANTS PLEA BARGAIN

ATLANTA, January 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Carol Carr, the woman who admitted to shooting her two sons last June, Michael Randy Scott, 42, and Andy Byron Scott, 41, paralyzed by Huntington’s disease and cared for in a nursing home, hopes to win a plea bargain to avoid being charged with murder by pleading guilty to violating Georgia’s assisted suicide law instead.  Under the plea agreement, Ms. Carr, 63, would get five years in prison and be paroled about a year from now after being held without bond since June, defense attorney Lee Sexton told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Carol Carr could […]
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OVER HALF OF BRITISH DOCTORS BACK ASSISTED SUICIDE

LONDON, January 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An online survey of 1,000 British doctors has found that over half (55%) support physician-assisted suicide in cases of terminal illness and “uncontrollable physical suffering.”  The survey was conducted by medix-uk.com on behalf of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, and found that 40% of doctors have already received patient requests for suicide, while 46% of doctors with severe case patients reported that at least one said he or she “would prefer to die than remain alive.”  The British Medical Association (BMA) officially opposes euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, saying that it would “alter the doctor-patient relationship.”  […]
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PHILIPPINES BISHOPS CALL FOR REMOVAL OF ALL ABORTIFACIENT DRUGS AND DEVICES

MANILA, January 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  The Catholic bishops of the Philippines have said that the government should remove all abortifacient drugs and devices from the market to prevent “silent abortions” caused by “silent abortifacients”. Speaking at the bishops’ 86th plenary assembly on Monday, Bishop Teodoro Bacani of Novaliches asked the government to prepare a list of drugs which either prevented the implantation of an embryo in the womb or displaced an embryo after implantation had taken place. The bishop also demanded that the government publish an official study prepared during the previous administration which reportedly supported the Church’s claim […]
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POLAND WANTS ASSURANCE EU TREATY WILL NOT HAMPER PRO-LIFE LAWS

WARSAW, January 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Polish government has submitted a pro-life amendment to its accession treaty with the European Union.  AP reports that the declaration, which was sent to Brussels, states that “no EU treaties or annexes to those treaties would hamper the Polish government in regulating moral issues or those concerning the protection of human life.”“The declaration will prevent EU opponents from using false arguments that the EU would impose on Poland any regulations concerning moral and religious issues,” government spokesman Michal Tober said at a news conference. “The EU has always left such issues to be […]
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TEACHER AT CATHOLIC SCHOOL FIRED FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT OF ABORTION

WILMINGTON, Deleware, January 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Michele Curay-Cramer, a religion and language arts teacher at an independent Catholic school in Deleware was fired from her post after her name appeared in a public advertisement in support of abortion.  Ursuline Academy dismissed the teacher after her name appeared, among a list of 600 names, in a pro-abortion ad commemorating the Roe v Wade anniversary by the Coalition for Choice.  In the ad, Curay-Cramer, revealed her involvement with Planned Parenthood, for which she started doing volunteer work in April. Despite pressure the school has remained resolute.  “The Catholic Church is very […]
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CANADIAN BISHOP’S ORGANIZATION URGES CHANGES TO BILL C-13

OTTAWA, January 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) organization has released a statement on Bill C-13—An Act Respecting Assisted Human Reproduction. In the statement, positive elements of the bill are praised but the organization also calls for two important changes to the bill. The CCCB emphasizes that C-13 will permit destructive research on embryos who remain after fertility treatments. It urges “members of Parliament to strengthen Bill C-13 by amending it to prohibit research on embryos.” On the issue of cloning, the bishops organization states “Some questions have been raised as to whether the Bill […]
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FIRST DAY OF CANADIAN STEM CELL HOUSE DEBATE AWASH IN CONFUSION

OTTAWA, January 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to the government’s proposed legislative agenda, the omnibus bill regarding reproductive technologies and research will receive final reading and a vote on Thursday, after yesterday’s commencement of debate.  However, the bill which covers every thing from IVF to cloning, creating animal-human hybrids and payment for sperm donations, will take much longer to debate. Mass confusion in the House of Commons was evident yesterday as opposition MP James Lunney testified to in the House. “Madam Speaker, it has been an interesting day so far but, my goodness, I have to protest the confusion related […]
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PRESIDENT’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESSES ABORTION AND CLONING

WASHINGTON, January 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the major portion of U.S. President Bush's State of the Union address yesterday concerned economic issues and the U.S. response to terrorism, the President did manage to insert his hopes for pro-life legislation. “We are building a more welcoming society—a culture that values every life,” he said. “And in this work we must not overlook the weakest among us. I ask you to protect infants at the very hour of their birth and end the practice of partial-birth abortion.” The President also asked for the banning of both reproductive and therapeutic cloning saying: […]
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TRILLIUM FUND “FUNDING ILLEGAL ACTIVITY” WITH SUICIDE COUNSELLING

TORONTO, January 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following yesterday’s revelation by LifeSite News that an Ontario government agency, the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF), gave a nearly $180,000 grant to the pro-assisted suicide group Dying With Dignity, the Ministry of Culture has distanced itself from the agency.  Gary Wheeler, a spokesman for the Ministry of Culture told LifeSite that OTF “is an arms-length agency and the agency’s board has final authority on such grants.”  Wheeler said that the Minster would not comment on the grant and that the agency would have exercised due diligence.  Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention […]
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FIRST HISTORY OF EUTHANASIA MOVEMENT PUBLISHED

CHARLOTTETOWN, January 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first major account of the ‘right to die’ movement will be released this week. Based on access to the private records of pro-euthanasia groups and interviews with key right-to-die supporters, the book argues against legalization of either assisted suicide or actual mercy-killing in the U.S. and Canada.  The author, Dr. Ian Dowbiggin, chair of the history department at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), reveals that many leading euthanasia activists have approved extending the right to die to handicapped newborns, the disabled and the elderly—and not just consenting adults with terminal diseases—and […]
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PENNSYLVANIA JUDGE UPHOLDS FETAL HOMICIDE CHARGES

ERIE, Pa., January 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Pennsylvania judge has upheld murder charges against a woman accused of killing the unborn child of a romantic rival. According to Erie police, Corinne Wilcott, 22, attacked the pregnant woman at a graduation party last summer, kicking her in the stomach at least four times. The 15-week-old fetus died four days later from blunt-force trauma to the mother’s placenta, the autopsy found.  Pennsylvania is one of 27 states with fetal homicide laws, allowing murder charges for the killing of an unborn child of any age. Oddly, abortion is also legal during the […]
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SOUTH CAROLINA COURT UPHOLDS CONVICTION IN COCAINE DEATH OF FETUS

COLUMBIA, S.C., January 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The state Supreme Court of South Carolina has upheld the conviction of a woman accused of killing her unborn baby by taking crack cocaine. The mother, Regina McKnight, was sentenced to 12 years under the state’s homicide by child abuse law, for using cocaine in full knowledge that the baby could be killed.  In the 3-2 ruling, the two dissenting judges argued that it is not fair that a woman who gets an illegal abortion in her eighth month of pregnancy in South Carolina faces a maximum of two years, while McKnight was […]
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CHILDREN OF SINGLE PARENTS HAVE POORER HEALTH, SWEDISH STUDY SAYS

STOCKHOLM, January 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study from Sweden shows that, even when poverty is not a factor, children raised by single parents are twice as likely to suffer from psychiatric problems, suicide and other injuries than those raised in intact two-parent homes. The result of an eight-year study at the University of Umeå in Lapland, and reported in The Lancet, the survey of one million teens found that children of single parents were up to four times more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol.  In the past, leftists have tried to blame inequities of the capitalist economy […]
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ONE OF CANADA’S FOREMOST COLUMNISTS CALLS HIMSELF 100% AGAINST ABORTION

TORONTO, January 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mark Steyn, the star columnist of the Hollinger media chain and an internationally acclaimed writer, has proclaimed himself 100% against abortion.  Writing for Canada’s National Post yesterday, Steyn devoted his column to the thirtieth anniversary of the infamous U.S. Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision. Steyn wrote, “There are those of us who are opposed to all abortion—I’m one, at heart—and those who are hot for a woman’s right to kill full-term healthy partially delivered babies.”  With his cutting witt, Steyn who also writes for the Sun Times of Chicago, UK Telegraph and the […]
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15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF CANADIAN SUPREME COURT’S PRO-ABORTION RULING

On January 28 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down Canada’s already permissive abortion law to create the current situation of lawlessness on abortion.  However, the Supreme Court also said that it was up to Parliament to produce legislation to protect new human life.   In 1969 the Liberal Government’s Omnibus Bill opened the door to abortion on demand. Since that date more than two and half million babies have been deliberately killed in their mothers’ womb.  “As a young person who has was not even born in 1969 and one who is passionately opposed to the killing of […]
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PUBLIC HEARINGS ON MARRIAGE RIGHTS FOR HOMOSEXUALS START TODAY IN OTTAWA

OTTAWA, January 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The federal government’s public hearings on marriage rights for homosexual couples began today in Ottawa.  The House of Commons Justice and Human Rights Committee heard this morning from Statistics Canada on the recent census data on homosexual couples in Canada.  The committee was also addressed by a homosexual activist speaking for the Law Commission of Canada.  Doug Norris, the Director General of Census and Demographic and Pierre Turcotte, Chief of Families, Households and Housing, presented demographic information to the committee.  Using data collected for the first time, Statistics Canada found that 34,200 households in […]
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ONTARIO GOVERNMENT GIVES $177,800 TO PRO-EUTHANASIA GROUP

TORONTO, January 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that the Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Ministry of Culture has provided the pro-euthanasia group ‘Dying with Dignity’ (DWD) $177,800 over three years to create a pilot counselling program in Toronto.  However, counselling to commit suicide is illegal in Canada.  Section 241 of the Criminal Code reads: “Everyone who (a) counsels a person to commit suicide, or (b) aids or abets a person to commit suicide, is guilt of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years.” Marilynne Seguin, the Canadian assisted-suicide activist […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

MARK STEYN RIPS INTO WESTERN DEATH CULTISM OF ABORTION In his National Post column today, “Go forth and multiply” Mark Steyn says, ” I’d say the abortion crowd’s problem is that they’re up against science. There are those of us who are opposed to all abortion – I’m one at heart – and those who are hot for a woman’s right to kill full-term healthy partially delivered babies. But in the middle are a big swath of people whose position is more nuanced, and the trouble for the abortion absolutists is that, thanks in part to advances in medical science, […]
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MORE EVIDENCE OF IVF ABNORMALITIES

Rare eye cancer more common, and second study finds more tissue growth problems AMSTERDAM, January 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Children conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) are more likely to be afflicated with a rare form of eye cancer, according to new Dutch research from VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam, published in The Lancet. The study found that incidence of retinoblastoma, which normally occurs in one child in 17,000, is between five and seven times higher among IVF children. It is the third study in recent weeks showing increased likelihood of abnormalities resulting from IVF. Last week, LifeSite reported […]
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD SHIELDS ANOTHER ‘STATUTORY RAPIST’

ANCHORAGE, January 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The trial of an Alaska Planned Parenthood employee, accused of winking at sexual abuse of a minor and counselling a teen on a telephone help line to lie about her boyfriend’s age (22) to protect him from prosecution for statutory rape, is now in its third week.  Refusing to admit there is any crime involved, Planned Parenthood is challenging the state’s parental notification and consent law, which requires unmarried girls under 17 to get permission from a parent or judge before they can legally procure an abortion. The unnamed Planned Parenthood employee “exercised bad […]
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ACTOR ED HARRIS THINKS HE’S ‘A REAL MAN’ FOR PICKING ON UNBORN CHILDREN

WASHINGTON, January 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Actor Ed Harris (“Apollo 13,”“A Beautiful Mind,”“Enemy At The Gates,”“The Right Stuff, “The Truman Show,” etc.) apparently has no idea what a man is, but he claims to know what a man is not. Speaking at the fund-raising event of NARAL (National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League) Pro-Choice America, Harris decided that he could not leave the stage without attacking the manhood of President George W. Bush.  After concluding his prepared remarks, Harris decided to adlib: “I gotta say one last thing.I haven’t even been drinking-at all. But you know, being a man, […]
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PAPAL ENVOY TO WORLD MEETING ON FAMILIES STRONGLY CONDEMNS ABORTION

MANILA, Philippines, January 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Alfonzo Lopez Trujillo, the official representative for Pope John Paul II, closed the Fourth World Meeting of Families Sunday with a Mass for nearly one million.  The Cardinal urged the faithful to fight abortion “with all your might”. “Do not convert mothers’ wombs, which are fountains of life, into tombs,” said the cardinal.  “Laws all over the world should respect the gift of life and not conspire at death, in the cruelty and shame of procured abortion.”  Turning his attention to embryonic stem cell research and its attendant evils of IVF and […]
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PRO-LIFE PARLIAMENTARIANS TAKE SQUAWKING ABORTIONIST TO TASK

OTTAWA, January 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Representatives from each of the three main political parties in the parliamentary pro-life caucus issued a press release last week confronting Canada’s most notorious abortionist Henry Morgentaler.  Morgentaler, who has been badgering the government for more public funding for his private abortuaries was excoriated by the MPs who said “He continues to market his anti-woman, quick-fix solution of abortion to a shrinking audience.”  Responding to the notion of awarding Morgentaler the Order of Canada, Liberal MP Paul Steckle, Alliance MP Maurice Vellacott and Conservative MP Elsie Wayne, noted Morgentaler’s “legacy” of harming women.  “The […]
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CANADIAN BISHOP SENDING PRO-LIFE WAKEUP CALL TO CATHOLIC POLITICIANS

CALGARY, January 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Calgary Bishop Fred Henry has announced that he intends to send a wakeup call to Catholic politicians who fail to support “non-negotiable” church teachings on life and family issues. In an interview with the Calgary Herald, the bishop said he was planning to send out the recent Vatican document calling on Catholic politicians to support pro-life and pro-family laws.  “Once I get an official copy I’m likely going to send it to a select number of politicians for their edification and study,” said Bishop Henry.  See the full Vatican document at:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/jan/030116a.html   See […]
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WORLD’S OLDEST CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY FLOUTS CHURCH TEACHING ON EMBRYO RESEARCH

LEUVEN, Belgium, January 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic University of Louvain, founded in 1425 with the blessing of then Pope Martin V, has published a position paper contradicting Catholic Church teaching on stem cell research.  The university’s home page (in French) links to the document “The Use of Human Stem Cells in Research and Their Therapeutic Application” and the subtitle indicates that the paper is “The Point of View” of the Catholic university.  The document notes that parents can, “in an ethical spirit of solidarity”, turn over for experimentation their surplus embryos created originally for fertility treatments.  Moreover, the […]
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JACK LAYTON POISED TO WIN LEADERSHIP OF FEDERAL NDP PARTY Layton a very militant supporter of abortion and homosexuality https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/front/RTGAM/20030124/wndpp0124/Front/homeBN/breakingnews   MINISTER SHEILA COPPS ADMITS CORPORATE DONORS BUY POLITICAL INFLUENCE https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id={76069359-175B-40D6-9B4B-2588D37D2DE5}  ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE’S ARTICLE ON HOMOSEXUALS WHO LONG TO BE HIV+  https://www.rollingstone.com/features/featuregen.asp?pid=1525   BUG CHASER AIDS STORY DISPUTED https://www.washtimes.com/national/20030124-89194739.htm   PRO-FAMILY BUSH NOMINEE TO AIDS PANEL WITHDRAWS UNDER PRESSURE https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030123/hl_nm/aids_nominee_dc_1   LESBIAN PARTNER GETS $500,000 IN 9-11 FUNDS https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030123/ap_on_re_us/attacks_lesbian_compensation_1   ABORTION DOC ON TRIAL FOR RAPE OF PATIENT https://www.nbc6.net/news/1932400/detail.html   BROKEN HOMES FOUND TO BREAK CHILDREN https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/front/RTGAM/20030124/wsing0124/Front/homeBN/breakingnews
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VICTORY FOR PRO-LIFERS IN NORWAY AS GOV’T FORCED TO ADMIT ERROR ON ABORTION NUMBERS

OSLO, January 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Norwegian pro-life newspaper Dagen, successfully challenged the government on numbers of deaths caused by ‘unsafe’ abortions in developing countries.  In an attempt to justify funding for overseas abortions, Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, minister of culture and church and the leader of the Christian People’s Party (Kristelig Folkeparti or KrF) said, “Each year 800,000 women die in developing countries because abortions are not performed in a medically proper way.” Norwegian reporter Jostein Sandsmark consulted with international pro-life organizations to determine the veracity of the Minister’s claims.  Hillary White, director of research for Campaign Life Coalition […]
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CROATION GOVERNMENT INTRODUCES PRO-HOMOSEXUAL LEGISLATION

ZAGREB, January 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Government of Croatia sparked furor in the legislature today as it introduced amendments to existing family law which would give legal recognition to cohabitating homosexual couples.  Prominent legislators in the largely Catholic country condemned the bill which has weak support since members of the coalition government oppose the measure.  A legislator from the Croation Party of Rights called the bill “unacceptable” noting that the bill is “a step toward equalizing families and gay couples.”  Ljubica Lalic, a Member of the Peasants’ Party – part of the governing coalition, agreed saying: “We cannot consider […]
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BABY DEATH CENTRE DEATH BECOMES REPOSITORY FOR BIBLES

GULFPORT, DE, January 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A former abortuary has been transformed into a repository for Bibles.  Temple Baptist Church purchased the vacated offices of abortionist Dr. Brooker in Gulfport.  The church’s Bible, Education and Missionary Service ships Bibles to missionaries in 80 countries.  The room in which countless unborn babies were killed now houses some 18,000 Bibles.  Teresa Forrester, one of the people who protested outside the abortion mill until its closing March 2, 1998, said “This building where once life was taken here now life is given, the word of God is given out. So I can’t […]
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MAJOR U.S. NETWORKS IGNORED MASSIVE MARCH FOR LIFE

WASHINGTON, January 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Media Research Centre has issued a stinging evaluation of the major networks failure to cover the March for Life.  “True to the historical pattern and despite the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, ABC, CBS, and NBC studiously ignored (the Jan 22) March for Life in Washington, a stark contrast with the Bush-bashing anti-war march just four days before,” says the MRC. Compared to the in depth and extensive coverage of the anti-war rally which drew 10,000, the March for Life which drew a few hundred thousand received relatively […]
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OFFICIAL ESTIMATE AT U.S. MARCH FOR LIFE: 200,000

WASHINGTON, January 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite spoke today with Nellie Gray the organizer of the March for Life in Washington D.C.  Gray told LifeSite that the official estimate of those at the March was 200,000. Jim Hughes, President of Campaign Life Coalition Canada attended the March and told LifeSite that it was “Unbelievable.”  Hughes recalled “We were standing at the staging area and we couldn’t move, it took almost an hour to start walking.  It was the coldest day in 10 years in Washington but we were kept warm by a sea of bodies. Everyone was upbeat and positive […]
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WILL THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BE ABORTION’S FINAL VICTIM?  Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal https://opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/  FRASER INSTITUTE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES NEW CHILDREN FIRST PRIVATE EDUCATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Program will provide tuition assistance grants to 150 Ontario elementary school students in each of next three years, based solely on financial need. Grants will pay 50 percent of tuition at any independent schools in the province, to an annual maximum of $3,500. Grants are available as early as junior kindergarten and will continue until Grade 8.  https://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=nr&id=503   MEXICAN PRESIDENT USES UNBORN BABY SONOGRAM IN ELECTION CAMPAIGN https://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2089260&fromEmail=true   EARLY MARIJUANA SMOKING […]
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COURT PROCEEDS MEEKLY AGAINST WOMAN CHARGED IN TORONTO PEPPER-SPRAY ATTACK

Toronto, January 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a court hearing Tuesday morning, the court prosecutor elected to proceed ‘summarily’ in an assault-with-a-weapon charge filed against Carol-Ann Trueman. The employee of the Stop 86 women’s shelter in Toronto was charged after Aid to Women pro-life counsellor Robert Hinchey was pepper-sprayed in the face while assisting a client in St. Michael’s Hospital last August. A summary conviction carries less of a penalty than an indictable one, and does not entitle an accused to a trial by jury. The justice of the peace also granted a Crown request that Trueman be required to […]
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NETHERLANDS’ SOFT CHRISTIAN DEMS RE-ELECTED

THE HAGUE, January 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Netherlands’ centre-right Christian Democrats finished just ahead of the Labour Party by 44 seats to 42 in the 150-seat Parliament last night. The narrow victory means that Jan Peter Balkenende, elected only a year ago, will be forced into a coalition with his left-wing rivals unless he can forge an even more difficult coalition among other parties.  “If you talk about finance, welfare, education and health care, we have great differences,” Balkenende said of Labour, leaving it unclear which policies would be compromised. When they were elected last year, the Christian Democrats […]
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CELEBRITIES SAY THERE IS A BETTER ‘CHOICE’ THAN ABORTION

COLORADO SPRINGS, January 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A growing number of celebrities are lending their name to the pro-life cause. Swimsuit model Kathy Ireland, Emmy award-winning TV actress Patricia Heaton, and movie star Jennifer O’Neill have all publicly declared their opposition to abortion, writes Carrie Gordon-Earll of Focus on the Family.  “For [Kathy] Ireland, the humanity of the preborn child in the womb makes it impossible for her to accept that abortion is good for women. Heaton takes her cue from the founders of traditional feminism—early suffragettes-who vehemently opposed abortion as the ultimate exploitation of women. And O’Neill’s personal story […]
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POLAND’S WALESA TO RUN AGAIN

WARSAW, January 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lech Walesa, the first leader of an independent post-Communist Poland and a staunch pro-life Catholic, plans to run for president again in 2005. Walesa, 59, a founder of Poland’s anti-Communist Solidarnoshc (Solidarity) movement in the 1970s and the first president (1990-1995) of a free Poland since 1939, lost the presidency in 1995 to Aleksander Kwasniewski, a Social Democrat and former Communist apparatchik who was reelected in 2000.  Among Walesa’s achievements as president was working with the Solidarity-controlled Parliament 1993 to repeal Communist-era abortion on demand.  But after Kwasniewski’s election, the left regained the upper […]
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SCOTLAND CATHOLIC LEADER IDENTIFIES IVF AS CORE EVIL OF CLONING

GLASGOW, January 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow wrote a letter published in the Sunday Herald last week identifying the allowance of test-tube babies through in vitro fertilization as the first step in the downward spiral to cloning. He called our current situation regarding experimentation on embryonic humans a “bio-ethical house of horrors” comparing the allowance of such experimentation to the Nazi liquidation of Jewish people. “The first step on this nightmarish journey was the British government's acceptance of invitro fertilisation (IVF), namely the production of human beings in a petri dish. It is often forgotten that […]
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5 CARDINALS, 36 BISHOPS, 300 PRIESTS AND 7000 FAITHFUL AT PRO-LIFE MASS

WASHINGTON, January 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia, head of the U.S. Bishops’ Pro-Life arm, celebrated the Mass during the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington on January 21.  7000 faithful joined the 5 cardinals, 36 bishops and archbishops and over 300 priests for the service.  “We can celebrate that after 30 years those who defend abortion finally realize that we who defend life will continue day after day, year after year, to testify publicly on behalf of the unborn and that we promise […]
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CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO INTERVENE IN FAVOUR OF ‘MARRIAGE’ RIGHTS FOR HOMOSEXUALS

OTTAWA, January 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal government body, the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), has requested leave to intervene in court cases challenging the restriction of marriage to heterosexual couples. LifeSite was forwarded an email originally from Michael Hendricks and René LeBoeuf, the homosexual activist couple who challenged the marriage law in Quebec. In the email they boast that the CHRC will argue in favour of homosexual marriage using the following arguments:  – that the definition reserving marriage uniquely for heterosexual couples constitutes deliberate and direct discrimination against Canadian gays and lesbians;  – that such a definition infringes […]
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BISHOP REMINDS PRO-ABORT CALIFORNIA GOV. DAVIS HE IS EXCOMMUNICATED

SACRAMENTO, January 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sacramento Bishop William K. Weigand issued a warning to California Governor Gray Davis to renounce his support for abortion or else to refrain from receiving communion.  The bishop spoke of persons who hold pro-abortion views as being barred from communion and mentioned Davis specifically.  “As your bishop, I have to say clearly that anyone—politician or otherwise—who thinks it is acceptable for a Catholic to be pro-abortion is in very great error, puts his or her soul at risk, and is not in good standing with the church,” Weigand said. “Such a person should have […]
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MEMBER OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR LEGAL EUTHANASIA https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2678413.stm   HOLLYWOOD CITED AS CAUSE OF UGLY AMERICAN IMAGE Astounding results of international survey of teens. Although many American movies are also produced in Canada, Canadians avoid negative reactions because involvement not known.  https://www.newt.org/index.php?src=news&prid=473&category=Opinion   ACTOR ED HARRIS QUESTIONS BUSH’S MANHOOD FOR OPPOSING ABORTION https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive
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25% OF NEW HIV-INFECTED GAY MEN SOUGHT OUT VIRUS SAYS ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

NEW YORK, January 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Matt Drudge reported on his famous Drudge Report that Rolling Stone Magazine is set to run a story on “Bug Chasers: The Men Who Secretly Long To Be HIV+.”“The men who want the virus are called ‘bug chasers,’ and the men who freely give them the virus are called ‘gift givers.’ While the rest of the world fights the AIDS epidemic and most people fear HIV infection, this subculture celebrates the virus and eroticizes it,” reports Greg Freeman in the February 6, 2003 edition of the magazine.  Drudge reports that homosexual activist groups […]
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ALL SIX DEMOCRATIC HOPEFULS JOIN ABORTION CELEBRATION

WASHINGTON, January 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – All six declared Democratic presidential hopefuls last night marked the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade by pledging allegiance to abortion at a gala dinner – each promising to outdo the others in preventing any and all restrictions on abortion.  Each candidate took his turn addressing a crowd of 1,300 at the NARAL Pro-Choice America dinner. Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri said, “There is nothing moral in strong-arming a personal belief, and there is nothing moral to a presidency that imposes personal morality through acts of government power.” Sen. John Edwards (North Carolina) said, […]
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CAT CLONE NO LONGER RESEMBLES ORIGINAL

AUSTIN, January 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a development that will crush the hopes of people who wanted to clone their favourite pet or even a deceased child or spouse, a cat cloned last year by a private company has transmogrified into a completely different cat, one year later. “Rainbow the cat is a typical calico with splotches of brown, tan and gold on white,” reports CNN, “Cc, her clone, has a striped gray coat over white. Rainbow is reserved. Cc is curious and playful. Rainbow is chunky. Cc is sleek …” The cat clone was paid for by Genetic […]
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WOMEN WHO ‘REGRET ABORTION’ TO SPEAK AT WASHINGTON RALLY

WASHINGTON, January 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The “Silent No More” campaign will showcase 800 women who regret having had an abortion, and who believe that far from helping women, abortion leads to “depression, guilt and shame.” The Washington, D.C. event will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. tonight (Wednesday) in front of the Supreme Court building.  “We are the voice that hasn’t been heard,” says Georgette Forney, executive director of the National Organization of Episcopalians for Life and a Silent No More organizer. “There is a lot of talk about rights and choice, but very little attention is […]
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MORGENTALER RAISES THE ANTE IN MANITOBA CONFRONTATION

WINNIPEG, January 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Henry Morgentaler is offering discount abortions in a bid to increase political pressure on the Manitoba government, which refuses to use public healthcare dollars to fund his private clinic fees over and above his doctor’s abortion fee. The government also refuses to buy out the clinic using tax dollars. Starting on February 3, Morgentaler says he will cut the profitable surcharge at his Winnipeg outlet to $250 per abortion from the regular $530 to $580 (There is a sliding price scale depending on the size of the baby).  Health Minister Dave Chomiak said […]
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PROFESSOR SAYS MORGENTALER’S ABORTION CRUSADE DUE TO TROUBLED PAST

CALGARY, January 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Professor Tim Heslip of the University of Calgary had a letter published in the Globe and Mail in which he questions the motivation behind Canada’s foremost abortionist Henry Morgentaler. Weighing in on the debate over whether Morgentaler should be awarded the Order of Canada, Heslip says: “Henry Morgentaler suffered more than most people can imagine. He has said he felt responsible for his parents’ death and may have felt he should not have been born. He also witnessed many other terrible events. He probably suffers from post traumatic stress disorder.  “I suggest that his […]
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PLAYS HOST TO CLONING CULT RAELIANS

TORONTO, January 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to the University of Toronto newspaper, The Varsity, the Raelian movement is coming to give a talk at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) this Wednesday January 22nd.  Apart from the cloning hoax, the Raelians are virulently anti-Catholic causing concerned Catholics in Toronto to call the university for an explanation.  Jim Delaney, Assistant Director of Student Affairs, noted that the Raelians were not only speaking on campus, but were an officially recognized group on campus. Anti-Catholic actions of the Raelians include distribution of small crosses (with instructions for […]
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RAELIAN CULT LEADER ADMITS CLONES MAY BE FAKES

MONTREAL, January 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Raelian cult leader Claude Vorilhon who refers to himself as Rael admitted publicly for the first time Sunday that the cloning experiments may be a hoax.  Zenit News reports that Vorilhon told 300 followers at a Montreal gathering Sunday that the announcements of cloned babies “whether true or false, allow the Raelians’ sect to be known throughout the world.”  Speaking of the Raelian scientist working on the cloning project Vorilhon said “If Brigitte Boisselier has done it, she has achieved a wonderful thing and should receive a Nobel prize. If it isn’t true, it’s […]
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE MARCH FOR LIFE

WASHINGTON, January 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. President George W. Bush addressed the tens of thousands gathered for the March for Life in Washington today in a live phone call from St. Louis Missouri.  After some initial remarks the President clearly identified himself with the pro-life marchers saying, “You and I share a commitment to building a culture of life in America, and we’re making progress.”  The President continued to list his administrations’ actions in support of life from conception to natural death including the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, opposing embryo destruction for stem cell research, refusing taxpayer monies […]
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NON-CATHOLIC PRO-ABORTION CANADIAN GOVERNOR GENERAL RECEIVES COMMUNION FROM BISHOP

OTTAWA, January 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A photo in today’s Ottawa Citizen taken in September shows Canadian Governor General Adrienne Clarkson receiving communion from Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais.  The photo and commentary has stirred a controversy since Clarkson is not a Catholic but an Anglican.  Moreover, Clarkson is known to support abortion and marriage rights for homosexuals.  Clarkson was listed in 1983 as one of eighteen “Honourary Directors” of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League. In 2001 Clarkson sent official congratulations to homosexual activists who staged a “marriage” in Toronto’s Metropolitan Community Church.  The Canadian Bishops conference sent an official […]
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Presidential Address to the March for Life

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary January 22, 2003 Remarks by the President to the Right for Life 2003 Rally on the National Mall Via Telephone From St. Louis, Missouri 11:05 A.M. CST THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you, Nellie. I want to thank you very much for including me in the celebration of life. I want to thank the good folks there on the Mall today. I’m calling you from St. Louis, Missouri. I know there are some from Missouri there and, like many others, you’ve made great sacrifices to come to Washington today. A lot of you […]
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TV ‘HAS INFLUENCE ON ONE-YEAR-OLDS’  https://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/21/wtots21.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/01/21/ixworld.html/news/2003/01/21/wtots21.xml   BRITAIN IS A PAGAN SOCIETY, SAYS CARDINAL https://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/20/ncard120.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/01/20/ixnewstop.html/news/2003/01/20/ncard120.xml
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CLONING DOC ANTINORI UNDER POLICE INVESTIGATION IN ITALY

ROME, January 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the request of Health Minister Girolamo Sirchia, Italian police began investigating Dr. Severino Antinori who claims to be involved in human cloning experiments.  Antinori has commenced a hunger strike to protest the investigation which he called an invasion of his “scientific freedom.”  Antinori, who gained notoriety as a in vitro fertilization specialist impregnating a 65-year-old, announced last year that three women had been impregnated with cloned embryos.  The first of which was to be born this month.  However, Antinori refused to say he conducted the procedure, saying only that he had provided a […]
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ARGENTINA SPENDS MILLIONS DISTRIBUTING FREE ABORTIFACIENTS AND CONDOMS

BUENOS AIRES, January 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The predominantly Catholic country of Argentina is spending $14 million (US) on distributing free abortifacient birth control and condoms.  Health Minister Gines Gonzalez Garcia announced Monday that the nation’s new Sexual and Reproductive Health Law calls for the free distribution of intrauterine devices, condoms and birth control pills.  Garcia also said a new sex education program will be instituted nationally in schools. For years, Catholic doctors in the country have been attempting to amend an Argentinean law which has led to the situation.  The law allows the Argentinean public access to drugs already […]
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ADULT BONE MARROW CELLS CAN BECOME BRAIN TISSUE

WASHINGTON, January 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Adult bone marrow cells can become new brain cells, according to research at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke in Bethesda, Md. “This study shows that some kind of cell in bone marrow, most likely a stem cell, has the capacity to enter the brain and form neurons,” says the head researcher, Dr. Eva Mezey of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a branch of the National Institutes of Health. The results appear in the January 20, 2003 online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of […]
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ST. LOUIS ARCHBISHOP LEADS NEARLY 1000 IN MARCH AND PRAYER OUTSIDE ABORTUARY

ST. LOUIS, January 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis celebrated a pro-life Mass Saturday with over 1,200 in attendance.  Following the Mass, the archbishop led the faithful on a prayerful march from the Cathedral Basilica 16 blocks to the Planned Parenthood abortuary.  Archbishop Rigali asked the faithful to join him in praying for elected officials and others to join “the struggle to protect human life” and for God to “change hearts.”  The pro-lifers commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision also prayed for “the conversion of all those who participate in the abortion […]
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MORGENTALER TO EXPAND MANITOBA ABORTION BRANCH

WINNIPEG, January 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Henry Morgentaler is expanding his profit-making abortion clinic in Manitoba, vowing to sue the province for refusing to cover his lucrative $500 per abortion “clinic fee,” over and above the “doctor’s fee” already funded by taxpayers.  Morgentaler’s threat comes after a lengthy feud with the province (see previous LifeSite coverage, linked below). “It is incomprehensible that a minister of health, whose duty it is to protect the health of citizens, should be so insensitive to the suffering of women, and so delinquent in carrying out his duties,” Morgentaler said. “It is hard to […]
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HOLLYWOOD MAGAZINE CANCELS AD EXPOSING KINSEY

LOS ANGELES, January 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Variety, a leading entertainment magazine, has changed its mind about publishing a paid advertisement that warns industry readers and moviegoers of the truth about Alfred Kinsey, the fraudulent sex researcher who will be lionized in an upcoming Hollywood movie.  But Judith Reisman, author of a book exposing Kinsey’s deceit and pedophilia, believes Variety cancelled the ad because it would embarrass Hollywood, “who hypocritically scream ‘censorship’ when we protest their sex and sadism fare.”  Among her allegations is that one of Kinsey’s ‘research’ sources was a Nazi officer, whose young victims “had to choose […]
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PRO-LIFE U.S. SENATOR PROMISES TO PASS PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION LEGISLATION

WASHINGTON, January 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-lifers in Washington are capturing the distraught attention of pro-abortion opponents and media, saying they “have their first chance in years to put a dent in abortion rights now that Republicans control the House, Senate and the White House,” says a report from Associated Press.  “We will pass the first significant pro-life legislation actually limiting abortions in 30 years,” said Sen. Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican. It is expected that Congress will finally pass a partial-birth abortion ban now that Democrats are evicted from control of the Senate and White House.  Rep. Chris Smith, […]
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ALABAMA JUDGE USES NOVEL TACTIC TO GET TEENS TO RECONSIDER ABORTION

MONTGOMERY, Ala., January 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alabama is one of 32 states where parental consent laws or notification laws or both are reportedly enforced. In most cases this means that a girl under 18 who becomes pregnant and wants an abortion without parental consent must first obtain permission from a juvenile court judge.  Judge Walter Mark Anderson III is one such judge, profiled in the New York Times last week as “a conservative Republican who says he hates abortion – and hates granting such petitions”—but who does his best to discourage abortion during the hearing. One tactic he uses […]
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UK DOCUMENTARY BLAMED FOR BRITON’S SWISS ASSISTED SUICIDE

LONDON, January 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) in the UK has criticised documentary-makers for undermining the welfare and the right to life of disabled people by their treatment of assisted suicide.  Motor Neurone Disease sufferer Reginald Crew, who is reported to have died by suicide today, said he got the idea about how to kill himself after seeing a TV documentary about overseas groups willing to help disabled and elderly people end their lives.  Only a few such cases have been reported, but others have occurred without publicity.  Concern has also been […]
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POLISH PRESIDENT OPPOSES REFERENDUM TO LIBERALISE ABORTION LAW

WARSAW, January 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski responded to a request for a referendum on abortion by opposing any changes to the country’s pro-life legislation. In 1997 the Polish high court struck down a permissive abortion law as unconstitutional.  The move was later approved by Parliament.  The lax abortion law, imposed by the “former” communists, allowed doctors to kill preborn children up to 12 weeks of age if the mother was deemed to face financial or emotional difficulties. The law thus reverted to a 1993 law passed by the then Solidarity government which restricted abortion to those […]
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U.N. EDUCATIONAL BRANCH SLAMMED IN U.S. CONGRESS FOR ABORTION ASSOCIATION

WASHINGTON, January 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A U.S. Congressman from Texas introduced a bill earlier this month urging that the U.S. refuse to rejoin the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) due to their association with abortion.  The Honorable Ron Paul noted January 8 that “UNESCO has been fully supportive of the United Nations’ Population Fund (UNFPA) in its assistance to China’s brutal coercive population control program.”  Paul recalled that “in 1984 President Ronald Reagan withdrew the United States from membership in that UNESCO, citing egregious financial mismanagement, blatant anti-Americanism, and UNESCO’s general anti-freedom policies.”  The Congressman also […]
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ABORTIONIST’S SECRET SALARY REVEALED AFTER PROVINCE LOSES COURT BATTLE

TORONTO, January 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The top billing general practitioner in Toronto in 1998-99 was an abortionist say figures which the Ontario government refused to release prior to a court battle over its failure to disclose the information.  The Globe and Mail fought with the province for almost three years and in the end the province was forced to divulge that the family physician (who acts mostly as an abortionist) billed $522,695 for fiscal year and committed 2,280 abortions during that time period. With the public Ontario Health Insurance Plan paying over $100 to the doctor for an abortion, […]
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SENATOR KERRY REJECTS VATICAN POLITICAL CRITERIA https://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/1914709/detail.html   VATICAN WRITES ‘GLOSSARY’ ON SEX TERMINOLOGY https://www.washtimes.com/national/20030117-79632399.htm   R-RATED MOVIES NOT IN TOP 10 https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0023984.html
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DISCOVERY MAY LEAD TO IMPROVED ‘NATURAL’ FERTILITY

SAN FRANCISCO, January 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers at the University of California think they have discovered the natural chemical process that makes a human embryo stick to the wall of the womb and start developing. The research may lead to a test which could assess how likely a woman is to become pregnant. The results are published in Science magazine (see below).  After an egg is released, even if it is successfully fertilised and the embryo starts to develop, there is no guarantee that it will become implanted in the womb wall as it passes by. Some, the researchers […]
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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS LEADER SAYS ‘NO SOCIETY SHOULD TOLERATE’ ABORTION

NEW HAVEN, Conn., January 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of the 1.6 million strong Catholic men’s organization, the Knights of Columbus, blasted abortion in a release regarding the 30th year of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade abortion decision.  He said:  “This year, on Jan. 22, we note with great sadness, but greater determination, the 30th year of legalized abortion on demand in the United States. “For 30 years, abortion has been a stain on our nation; a deep wound in our nation’s soul. Abortion is the negation of our nation’s commitment to human rights and the equal dignity […]
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STUDY SHOWS UMBILICAL CORD MATRIX NEW RICH SOURCE OF STEM CELLS

MANHATTAN, Kan., January 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The cushioning material or matrix within the umbilical cord known as Wharton’s jelly is a rich and readily available source of primitive stem cells, according to findings by a research team at Kansas State University. The cells—called cord matrix stem cells to distinguish them from cord blood cells—can be obtained in a non-invasive manner from an abundant source of tissue that is typically discarded. According to researchers Mark Weiss and Deryl Troyer, “Umbilical cord matrix cells could provide the scientific and medical research community with a non-controversial and easily attainable source of stem […]
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CHILEAN GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS ABSOLUTE RIGHT TO LIFE OF THE UNBORN

SANTIAGO, January 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to a request for an abortion for a woman with fetal abnormality the Chilean Health Ministry reaffirmed the fact that the right to life of the unborn is protected by the country’s constitution and thus no authority in Chile has the authority to approve an abortion. However, medical details on the specific case in question were unclear.  Some reports indicated that the life of the mother was in danger.  The unborn child is beyond 20-weeks gestation.  LifeSite is seeking clarification on the matter.
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BC JUDGE REJECTS CHALLENGE TO BUBBLE ZONE LEGISLATION

VANCOUVER, January 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – B.C. pro-lifer Jim Demers has lost his challenge of the provincial bubble zone legislation at the B.C. Court of Appeal.  However, the result is a positive one for Demers who says the appeal was argued in terms of the right to life for the unborn and is now set to go to the Supreme Court of Canada.  Demers argued that the bubble zone infringed on his right to freedom of speech under the Charter.  He further argued that human embryos are included in the charter provision which says “Everyone has the right to life, […]
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MANITOBA JUDGE URGES LEGISLATURE TO PROTECT UNBORN FROM SUBSTANCE-ABUSING MOTHERS

EDMONTON, January 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Manitoba judge this week called on her province to legislate protection for unborn children from their substance-abusing mothers.  “In light of the evidence at this inquest, the time may have come for legislators in this province to tackle this difficult issue in order to assist family service agencies to protect unborn children,” wrote Judge Linda M. Giesbrecht of the Provincial Court of Manitoba in a 234-page ruling on the case of Patrick Redhead, a native foster child who killed himself in 1999 near Dugald, Man.  “The evidence strongly suggests that Martina Redhead [the […]
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NEW POLL SHOWS AMERICANS SWINGING TOWARD PRO-LIFE

WASHINGTON, January 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new poll suggests that 70% of Americans now favour “restoring legal protection for unborn children.” The poll, conducted by Wirthlin Worldwide, asked 1,000 adults whether, in light of medical advances that reveal the unborn child’s body and facial features in detail, “are you in favor of restoring legal protection for unborn children?”.  68% said they were in favour of such protection, with 44% in strong agreement. A further finding is that 66% favour nominees to the Supreme Court “who would uphold laws that restore legal protection to unborn children.”  For more coverage see:  […]
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WOMEN MAY SUE TWO CLINICS WHERE DOCTOR IMPLANTED ‘FAKE EMBRYOS’

LONDON, January 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of 75 British women who placed their hopes of having children in the hands of two IVF clinics now say they will sue the clinics at which a doctor implanted fake embryos to reduce overhead and pay off debts.  Claimants also include men who stored frozen sperm samples at one of the clinics prior to undergoing radiotherapy which might render them infertile.  Embryologist Paul Fielding was sentenced this week to 18 months in prison after being convicted in December of three charges of assault causing bodily harm and eight of false accounting […]
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BOTH CLONING AND IVF CARRY HIGHER RISK FOR EMBRYOS

LONDON, January 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scientists now say that not only clones, but IVF babies as well, are more likely to suffer from a rare gene disorder, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, than babies conceived naturally. Beckwith-Wiedemann is a rare condition that causes overgrowth of tissues, kidney abnormalities and tumours, and results from errors during the initial “imprinting” process—normally when DNA from the mother and father combine at conception. Scientists believe that fertility techniques such as IVF and ICSI—in which a single sperm is injected into an egg—may actually disrupting the imprinting process.  Researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge examined […]
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MEXICAN CONGRESS PROMISES LAW BANNING ALL HUMAN CLONING

MEXICO CITY, January 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Health Committee of the Mexican Congress' lower house has promised legislation banning all forms of human cloning. Committee chairwoman Maria Eugenia Galvan, of the ruling conservative National Action Party (PAN) said that “human cloning will be banned in both its reproductive and therapeutic forms, namely, for use in tissue repair, as the technique can be carried out satisfactorily without using embryos, but using umbilical cord or bone marrow stem cells.” Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lawmaker Nemesio Esquiliano Solis added that it was a matter of “preventing Mexico from opening the door to […]
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STUDY SHOWS ABORTION’S LONG-TERM NEGATIVE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

CHAPEL HILL, NC, January 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers at the University of North Carolina have found that “induced abortion increases risks for both a subsequent pre-term delivery and mood disorders substantial enough to provoke attempts of self-harm.”  The study published in the current edition of the Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey concluded that “informed consent before induced abortion should include information about the subsequent risk of pre-term delivery and depression.”  Moreover, the study notes that “avoidance of induced abortion has potential as a strategy to reduce” the prevalence of pre-term delivery and depression. The study also found that “a decision […]
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ACNE MEDICATION/ BIRTH CONTROL PILL MARKETED IN CANADA WITH DEADLY RESULT

TORONTO, January 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Diane-35, a drug permitted in Canada to treat severe acne is also being widely prescribed as a birth control pill. The abortifacient drug, was one of the first prescription drugs allowed to be actively marketed in Canada.  Slick ads with sexual innuendo were shown on television and movie theatres, but the ads left the medication’s exact purpose up to the imagination.  Following the ads, the makers of the drug saw Canadian sales shoot up 45 percent in one year alone, and more than 800,000 prescriptions for it were written last year. CBC’s Disclosure program […]
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CHRISTIAN POLITICIANS MAY NEVER SUPPORT LAWS ALLOWING ABORTION, EUTHANASIA, EMBRYO RESEARCH SAYS VATICAN

VATICAN CITY, January 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith made public today a document restating the obligations of Christian politicians. “John Paul II, continuing the constant teaching of the Church, has reiterated many times that those who are directly involved in lawmaking bodies have a ‘grave and clear obligation to oppose’ any law that attacks human life,” says the document.  “For (Catholic politicians), as for every Catholic, it is impossible to promote such laws or to vote for them,” says the note.  The note says that politicians come up against “moral principles that […]
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MEL GIBSON TO COME UNDER MEDIA ATTACK FOR JESUS FILM https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30497   SOUTH KOREAN LEGISLATORS DEBATE LAW ON HUMAN CLONING https://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200301/kt2003011318030211970.htm   ABC COVERS FEMINISTS FOR LIFE ‘WOMEN DESERVE BETTER’ CAMPAIGN https://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/abortion_feminism030115.html   MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO ELECT PRO-ABORT PRESIDENT IN 2004 LAUNCHED The National Abortion Rights Action League has targeted Michigan and 15 other “key” states in its new “multimillion-dollar” television and print advertising.  https://www.detnews.com/2003/politics/0301/14/a01-59737.htm
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PRO-LIFERS FORCE HOSPITAL TO WITHDRAW ABORTION OPENING

CLARKSBURG, W. Va., January 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Hospital Center board has been forced by public outcry to back down on a bylaw amendment to clear the way for medically unjustified abortions.  “Our policy will remain the same. We will not perform abortions, even in the very rare case where a lethal fetal abnormality exists,” said a disappointed UHC President Bruce Carter. “We respect the community’s values on this issue from a philosophical and religious standpoint, and the board has voted accordingly.”  Previously, on Dec. 17, the board voted 8 to 7 to pave the way for abortion […]
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IDAHO PRO-CHOICE VANDALISM NOT TREATED AS HATE CRIME

BOISE, Idaho, January 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life display of 3,000 small white crosses, placed in a churchyard to symbolize unborn lives eliminated by abortion, has been vandalized twice in two days.  On Saturday, members of Saint Mary’s Catholic Church in Boise put up the crosses, only to show up for church early Sunday morning to find them knocked over. Parishioners put the crosses back up, but found them destroyed again early Monday morning by what police call a “large group” of vandals.  Two suspects, aged 18 and 20, have been charged in the first incident. Although police said […]
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PHILIPPINE HEALTH WORKERS FIND INTERESTING USES FOR DUMPED CONTRACEPTIVES

MANILLA, January 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Contraceptives which are foisted on the Philippines in astronomical quantities by population-control minded nations are being used creatively by rural health care workers.  The Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper quotes Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit as admitting rural health centers are oversupplied with artificial birth control pills and condoms.  “Our supply (of contraceptives) is so high that in provinces people running health centres use the pills to grow orchids and (use) condoms for party balloons,” he said.  See the Sydney Morning Herald coverage:  https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/15/1042520673655.html
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EUROPEAN UNION DUMPS $81 MILLION ON ABORTION ORGANIZATION

STRASBOURG, January 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life Member of European Parliament, Dana Rosemary Scallon, reported today that the European Union has confirmed it diverted over $81 million (CAD) from the EU fisheries budget to the militant international abortion group Marie Stopes International (MSI).  Mr Struan Stevenson, chairman of the EU fisheries committee expressed deep concern over the move after being alerted to it by Scallon.  Dana said diverting funding to MSI which performs and promotes abortion worldwide was “totally unacceptable.”  She concluded, “At a time when our fishermen are facing severe economic hardship and suffering financial loss, there are serious […]
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VATICAN RULES ‘SEX-CHANGE’ OPERATION NOT VALID

VATICAN, January 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic News Service reports that the Vatican’s Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith sent out a confidential document in 2000 which authoritatively concluded that “sex-change” operations are invalid – they do not change a person’s sex.  Thus bishops are never to alter the sex listed in baptismal records and those who have undergone “sex-change” operations are not eligible to marry, be ordained to the priesthood or enter religious life.  While sent to papal nuncios in 2000, the document was virtually unheard of even by bishops and was thus re-issued to the presidents […]
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U.S. PRESIDENT PROCLAIMS NATIONAL SANCTITY OF LIFE DAY

WASHINGTON, January 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. President George W. Bush issued a proclamation yesterday declaring Sunday, January 19, 2003, as National Sanctity of Human Life Day.  In his proclamation, the President said, “Every child is a priority and a blessing, and I believe that all should be welcomed in life and protected by law.”“My Administration has championed compassionate alternatives to abortion, such as helping women in crisis through maternity group homes, encouraging adoption, promoting abstinence education, and passing laws requiring parental notification and waiting periods for minors,” said the President.  He further pleged that “Through ethical policies and the […]
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LIBERAL LEADERERSHIP CANDIDATE COPPS RUNS ON HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE TICKET

OTTAWA, January 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Deputy Prime Minister and current Minister of Canadian Heritage Sheila Copps has announced her bid to run for the leadership of the Liberal Party.  In releasing her intentions she noted that she would be pushing legal recognition of homosexual ‘marriage’.  The National Post reports that “Ms. Copps also promises to use ‘the pulpit of elected office to push forward full equality for all our citizens,’ in particular, legal recognition of gay marriages.” Campaign Life Catholic is urging Catholics to contact Copps’ bishop Anthony Tonnos to ask him to admonish her.  Copps, a stridently […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

NORTHERN VIRGINIA SCHOOL DISTRICT MODIFIES POLICY TO END DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RELIGIOUS GROUPS   https://www.clsnet.org/clrfPages/litigation/pr_fairfaxSchDist.php3   US SENATOR BROWNBACK WINS PRO-LIFE AWARD Catholic News Service reports that in a Jan. 8 letter accepting one of the Brooklyn Diocese’s annual Pro Vita Awards Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., told Bishop Thomas V. Daily of Brooklyn that “We must unambiguously confront the threats against human life, whether those threats emerge at the beginning of life in the form of abortion, cloning or destructive embryonic stem-cell research, or at the end of life in the form of euthanasia or assisted suicide.”
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PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONS TRIPLED IN FOUR YEARS SAYS GUTTMACHER SURVEY

WASHINGTON, January 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A just-released survey of abortion providers by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) showed the reported number of partial-birth abortions more than tripling from the same organization’s survey four years ago. The AGI survey for 1996 (released in 1998) for the first time asked a question relating to partial-birth abortion (which they called “D&X”), and then estimated that “about 650” such abortions were performed annually in the U.S.  Stanley Henshaw of the Alan Guttmacher Institute was quoted as saying, “The numbers aren’t exact, but I’m pretty sure it’s in the 500 to 1,000 range” (The […]
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ABORTION FOES JOIN TO PROMOTE ‘CIVILITY’

WASHINGTON, January 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life activist and an abortion proponent are joining forces to set an example of “civility.” Fr. Frank Pavone, the head of Priests for Life, has invited longtime pro-abortion counterpart Bill Baird, director of the Pro-Choice League, to spread the message that the abortion debate should be conducted with respect and without violence.  Mr. Baird was defendant in the 1972 Supreme Court case Baird v. Eisenstadt, which struck down a state law prohibiting distribution of contraceptives, according to CNS News. Justice Harry Blackmun later cited Baird as the precedent for Roe v. Wade.  Fr. […]
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PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION SPECIALIST TO OFFER FREE ABORTIONS ON ROE ANNIVERSARY

WICHITA, Kansas, January 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Notorious abortionist George Tiller plans on giving free abortions in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that decriminalized abortion on demand. But the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue West says, no abortion is free. Operation Rescue West’s Troy Newman said, “Abortion costs at least one human life and countless sorrow. A free abortion masquerades the deadly price tag of a lifeless baby. Abortion kills us physically and ultimately costs us our spiritual life. Plus the physical side-effects like pain, emotional suffering, punctured uterus and sterility add up to […]
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$1000 CONTEST CHALLENGES ANYONE TO FIND STUDY SHOWING ABORTION POSITIVE

VANCOUVER, January 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Reduce Preterm Risk Coalition (RPRC) has, after an extensive search, failed to find a single study showing that a woman’s risk of dying after an abortion improves.  Contrary to the claims of abortion advocates who assert that abortion can better women’s lives, studies have shown that women’s risk of dying increases dramatically after abortion. RPRC points out that “In 1997 the top Scandinavian journal in the field of women’s health reported that in the 12 months after an induced abortion, such women had a 252% higher relative TOTAL risk of dying compared to […]
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CHINA VOWS NOT TO RELAX ONE-CHILD POLICY

BEIJING, January 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite various media outlets that spoke of a relaxation in China’s brutally enforced one-child population control policy, greater China’s business newspaper – The Standard – reports that “there will be no relaxing of the 22-year-old one-child policy.”  The Minister of the State Family Planning Commission announced Friday that the government hopes to keep the country’s population below 1.33 billion for the next two years.  The government aims to keep the population below 1.6 billion by 2050 with zero population growth.  The paper reports that the population is currently 1.28 billion.  See The Standard at:  […]
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LIEBERMAN CONDEMNED FOR PRO-ABORTION VIEWS BY FELLOW JEWS

WASHINGTON, January 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman announced Monday that he was in the race for the Democratic nomination for president.  Despite being the highest pro-file Jewish candidate to run for President, Lieberman faces opposition from Jewish religious leaders for his rabidly pro-abortion and anti-family stands.  During Lieberman’s 2000 Vice-Presidential run, Rabbi Isaac Levy, chairman of Jews for Morality, warned fellow Orthodox Jews that “Lieberman’s voting record on Infanticide, Pornography, and “Gay-Rights” is a disgrace to the Orthodox Jewish community.” Rabbi Levy pointed out that on abortion and infanticide, “Joseph Lieberman supports abortion at any stage of […]
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CATHOLIC CHURCH ADVISED TO SUE ‘SEX-EXPERTS’ WHO COUNSELLED PEDOPHILE PRIESTS

NEW YORK, January 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Judith Reisman, Ph. D., the researcher who uncovered the fraud underpinning the field of sexology created by Dr. Alfred Kinsey, has advised the Catholic Church to sue the so-called sex “experts” who advised the Bishops and allegedly “treated” sex abuser priests. An article by the Catholic Citizens of Illinois and The Wanderer Press points out that Reisman believes that the ‘treatments’ given to predator priests in Kinsey-inspired therapy sessions were so grossly ineffective, that the Catholic Church and the victims of clerical sexual abuse have a legal claim against these sex clinics […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

UN GRANTS ASYLUM TO TWO WOMEN THREATENED WITH FORCED ABORTIONS https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030108/ap_wo_en_po/me_gen_egypt_abducted_wives_1 US CATHOLIC BISHOPS BACK WELDONSTUPAK CLONING BILL   https://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2003/03-005.htm CLONE COMPANY FOUNDER IS JESUIT-EDUCATED BRIT https://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=32739   BUSH NOMINATES HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS BUT FINDS LITTLE OPPOSITION https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/12/29/MN184289.DTL   AUSTRALIA’S ARCHBISHOP GEORGE PELL HAS BEEN APPOINTED TO THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE FAMILY.  https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/03/jan/19/02.html
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TEXAS HIGH COURT UPHOLDS ABORTION FUNDING LIMITS

AUSTIN, January 13, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Dec. 31 that Texas Medicaid restrictions on funding for “medically necessary” abortions for poor women don’t violate the state constitution. The 8-0 decision in Bell v. Low Income Women of Texas, et al. reverses a 3rd Court of Appeals ruling in December 2000 that the denial of funding for a poor woman to have an abortion when her health—but not necessarily her life—might be threatened by a pregnancy, violates the Texas Equal Rights Amendment.  The court has thus ruled constitutional a law that prefers childbearing over abortion. “The […]
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SCALIA CHASTISES COURTS FOR OVERSTEPPING BOUNDS

FREDERICKSBURG, Va., January 13, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said judges in the United States have exceeded their bounds out of mistaken zeal for separating church and state.  Scalia explained, as every student of basic U.S. history and law should know, that the Constitution says the government cannot “establish” or promote a religion. But this never implied that God must now be stripped from every corner of public life. “That is contrary to our whole tradition,” Scalia said, citing “In God We Trust” on coins, Thanksgiving proclamations by the President, chaplains in Congress and tax exemption for […]
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SUICIDE DEATH KITS TO BE ‘MADE IN USA’

SAN DIEGO, January 13, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australia’s Dr. Death, Philip Nitschke told a San Diego assisted suicide conference that he will manufacture suicide-homicide kits in the United States to avoid his recent humiliation by Australian customs.  As reported by LifeSite last week, customs officers seized Nitschke’s death bags at the airport as he was leaving for a Hemlock Society conference. Nitschke referred to the potential market for his device. “There’s a wave of baby boomers hitting this period of time,” he said. “They’re used to getting what they want. They’re used to having political clout.” Nitschke called Dr. Jack […]
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UBC STUDENT SOCIETY ABSOLVES ITSELF OF PRO-ABORTION VANDALISM

VANCOUVER, January 13, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – UBC’s Alma Mater Society (AMS) has withdrawn its previous admission of responsibility in the wanton destruction of a pro-life display by one of the AMS’s own councillors.  Lawyer Malcolm Maclean noted that the student society did not “endorse” the vandalism of the AMS Lifeline Club’s booth on Nov. 23, 1999. “Our position is that the AMS is in no way liable for the attack on this display,” the lawyer representing the AMS told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen, who reserved judgment after hearing final arguments this week.  Lifeline launched a legal bid two […]
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD ANNUAL REPORT SHOWS MORE ABORTIONS, MORE PROFITS

WASHINGTON, January 13, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Douglas R. Scott, president of Life Decisions International, has released of an analysis of Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s (PPFA) Annual Report (2001-2002).  PPFA’s Annual Report shows a large increase in the number of surgical abortions committed by the organization. Moreover, the books also reveal a substantial profit earned by the supposedly non-profit organization. “PPFA affiliates committed 213,026 surgical abortions between January 1 and December 31, 2001—an increase of 8.1 percent over the previous year. With one exception, Planned Parenthood has increased its share of the surgical abortion market every year. PPFA’s vastly more […]
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N.Y. SENATE LEADER CRITICIZES ANTI-CATHOLIC, GAY ACTIVIST SENATOR

ALBANY, NY, January 13, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York State Senator Tom Duane, a self-described practicing homosexual, fired off an angry letter complaining that Albany Bishop Howard Hubbard delivered the opening prayer for the legislative session.  The New York Post reports that Duane demanded that priests never be allowed to pray in the Senate due to the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.  Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, the recipient of the complaint, said through an aid that Duane’s letter “doesn’t even dignify a response.”  Not surprisingly, Duane, calls himself a ‘Catholic’.  See the New York Post online at:  www.nypost.com
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EUTHANASIA PREVENTION GROUP SEES HOPE FOR PAIN CONTROL IN NEW PAINKILLER

TORONTO, January 13, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Phase II clinical trials for a new painkiller named TectinTM, which is derived from the pufferfish, are being carried out in cancer centres throughout Canada. Current clinical trials are being done on late stage cancer patients who are experiencing uncontrolled pain and who have not undergone chemotherapy during the past month. Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, explained his group’s interest in the painkillers.  “The fear of experiencing uncontrolled pain is cited as the most important reason that people support legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide. When pain is controlled, dying people […]
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USAID TO HEAD AWAY FROM POPULATION CONTROL IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

WASHINGTON, January 13, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the primary governmental foreign aid agency, issued a major report last week to “to inform and focus international development assistance.” The report, “Foreign Aid in the National Interest: Promoting Freedom, Security, and Opportunity” suggests that the agency will ease up on population control pressure and concentrate resources on other strategies to improve development.  The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) points out that the report could signal “a major shift in USAID policy away from promoting fertility decline as a chief means to achieve international development.”  […]
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BAPTIST SEMINARY CHALLENGES CULTURE OF DEATH

LOUISVILLE, January 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Southern Seminary Magazine, a publication of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., is urging the Christian church “to shine light in a culture of death,” to mark the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  The magazine tackles such life-and-death issues as abortion, euthanasia and cloning in view of the Jan. 22 anniversary of the controversial 1973 Supreme Court decision decriminalizing abortion in all 50 states.  “The nation’s conscience is no longer seared by the scandal of abortion, and abortion on demand has become a routine part of everyday life,” writes R. Albert Mohler […]
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CAMPION COLLEGE UNDERWAY WITH 21 STUDENTS

SAN FRANCISCO, January 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campion College, founded last year by former faculty and alumni of the University of San Francisco (USF)‘s Saint Ignatius Institute, has completed its first term with 21 students enrolled.  “This is an invaluable program,” says Jason Kenney, Member of Parliament for Calgary-Southwest and an alumnus of Campion’s predecessor, the St. Ignatius Institute. “It will change young people’s lives for the better and continue the tremendous tradition of the Institute.”  LifeSite reported last year how the liberal-controlled California branch of the Jesuit order punished Fr. Fessio for his role in founding Campion College, which […]
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PRO-LIFERS TRY TO BLOCK ANOTHER PRO-ABORTION GOVERNOR’S ‘INTERFAITH’ SERVICE

KANSAS CITY, January 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League president Judie Brown has written to Archbishop James Patrick Keleher, archbishop of the archdiocese of Kansas City, asking him to cancel an interfaith service for Kansas Governor-elect Kathleen Sebelius, who is an openly pro-abortion politician who claims to be Catholic.  Brown is urging Catholics, in particular, to petition Keleher to stop the service. Brown’s letter says, in part, “Your Excellency, the Church teaches that the act of abortion is intrinsically evil. Governor-elect Kathleen Sebelius favors and promotes the intrinsically evil act of abortion. As an Archbishop, we believe that banning […]
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NEW EXPOSÉ OF CHINESE ‘GULAG’ PRISON CAMP SYSTEM

WASHINGTON, January 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Famous Chinese dissident Harry Wu has published a new book, titled “The Troublemaker,” exposing the horror of the Gulag-like prison system in the People’s Republic of China. The Gulag was a system of Soviet prison camps throughout Siberia, best-known from Alexandr Solzhenitzyn’s epic account, “The Gulag Archipelago.”  Although many people in Western countries believe China’s human rights practices were never as bad as in Russia and elsewhere (and are now often said to be improving), Wu argues that former Chinese dictator Mao Zedong “killed just as many people as Hitler, maybe even more. … […]
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UNFPA CAUGHT IN COERCIVE FAMILY PLANNING IN MEXICO

FRONT ROYAL, Va., January 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Population Research Institute reports that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the National Population Council of Mexico (CONAPO), have engaged in “involuntary sterilization and coercive family planning.”  According to Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission, “Public health servants have imposed methods of family planning on the native population without their consent and without informing them of the risks.” Threats and bribes are used to deprive men and women of their right to determine for themselves the timing and spacing of pregnancies, adds PRI.  Over 40 case studies of victims were obtained […]
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AUSTRALIA SUICIDE-HOMICIDE BAGS SEIZED BY CUSTOMS

BRISBANE, January 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australian customs officials at Sydney airport seized a number of death kits, the suicide-homicide bags with drawstrings to tighten around the neck, from Dr. Philip Nitschke, founder of the assisted suicide group Exit and Australia’s answer to Dr. Kevorkian.  Nitschke was on his way to the U.S. launching of the death kits, which he told reporters cost him $12,000 to develop, at a San Diego conference on Sunday, January 12. “I’m very angry about it,” Nitschke told reporters. “How do they implement a piece of legislation… where every plastic bag could be considered to […]
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CAMPAIGN TO REACH OUT TO MOTHERS WHO REGRET ABORTION

WASHINGTON, January 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ‘Silent No More’ lobby group is forming to raise awareness by placing at the forefront women who regret having had an abortion, and “to reach out to women suffering from their abortion experience.”“We are the voice that hasn’t been heard,” said Georgette Forney, Executive Director of NOEL, and a co-founder of Silent No More who had an abortion at age 16. “There is a lot of talk about rights and choice, but very little attention is given to women who have abortions. I regret my abortion and I know others who feel the […]
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MORE COVERAGE OF F.D.A. WARNINGS ABOUT ESTROGEN THERAPY https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/health/09HORM.html   ‘MALE PILL’ LIKELY TO *INCREASE* SEXUAL IRRESPONSIBILITY https://www.ncregister.com   MICROSOFT TRIES TO CRUSH ANOTHER COMPETITOR BY CLAIMING IT OWNS THE COMMON WORD “WINDOWS”  https://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20030109/wtwrobe/Technology/techBN/  See also IS MICROSOFT COURTING DISASTER?  https://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20030109/gtsurveyor2/Technology/techBN/
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WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE REVEALS LIES BEHIND ROE V. WADE

CAVE JUNCTION, Oregon, January 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The January issue of WorldNetDaily’s monthly print magazine, Whistleblower, in a story entitled, ABORTION:  The 30-Year War”, features Norma McCorvey, the real-life “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade.  In 1973, McCorvey was the young, unmarried, pregnant “abortion-seeking plaintiff and focal point of the fight for legalized abortion in America,” a WorldNetDaily promotional article says. “Today, having experienced a profound change of heart, McCorvey tells … how the Roe v. Wade case was fraudulent because she fabricated her story of being raped and thus impregnated, how she was callously used by heartless pro-abortion […]
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GROUP TO PROTEST AT BAPTIST CHURCH SERVICE HONOURING PRO-ABORTION GRANHOLM

DETROIT, January 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The movement continues to “re-convert” newly-installed Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who describes herself as a pro-life Catholic but believes in a woman’s right to choose.  Tomorrow, January 10th at 8:30 a.m., the Stop Granholm Church and Truth Project will hold an “educational picket” at the Interfaith Prayer Service, being staged at New Providence Baptist Church in Granholm’s honour. The church is located at 18221 Plymouth Road in Detroit, at the corner of Plymouth Rd. and Southfield Rd.  Lynn Mills, an organizer for Stop Granholm, says the group won a major success in persuading Cardinal […]
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RESEARCHERS CONTINUE TO ‘IMPROVE’ UNBORN SEARCH AND DESTROY METHODS

LIFESITE, January 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The latest issue of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology includes an article on “advances” in identifying Down’s Syndrome in unborn babies. The abstract under the title, “Combined Second-Trimester Biochemical and Ultrasound Screening for Down Syndrome,” says that, “Nuchal fold, femur, and humerus measurements, treated as continuous variables, can substantially enhance the quad test in second-trimester screening for Down [sic]syndrome.” The authors are Peter A. Benn, Lillian M.  Kaminsky, Jun Ying, Adam F. Borgida and James F. X. Egan.  The article may be available from the “green journal” website for a fee:  https://www.greenjournal.org/gj12-02.cfm   For […]
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LOBBY GROUP ASKS U.S. SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW OPPRESSIVE FACE ACT

ANN ARBOR, January 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Thomas More Law Center is applying to the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, signed by President Clinton in 1994 to “suppress and intimidate pro-life demonstrators,” the group says.  The law prohibits the use of “force,”“threat of force,” or “physical obstruction” to “intimidate” or “interfere with” a person seeking “reproductive health services,” on pain of severe punishment. The centre believes the law is unconstitutional because Congress lacked the constitutional authority under the Commerce Clause to enact this law.  “Federal and state law enforcement […]
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U.S. CONGRESSMEN FORM BIPARTISAN COALITION VS. ALL CLONING

WASHINGTON, January 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican Congressman Dave Weldon of Florida and Democrat Bart Stupak of Michigan are reintroducing legislation to ban all cloning of human life, to be voted on in February or March.  “Adult stem cells have been used for 20 years to treat a multitude of different diseases,” Rep. Weldon, who is a doctor, told CNSNews. “Every month, a new method is shown that can use adult stem cells to treat a new disease. … Cloning, in my opinion, is unethical and unnecessary.”  Opponents would prefer to see a ban on so-called reproductive cloning while allowing […]
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BRITISH COUPLE WANTS DESIGNER BABY FOR SPARE PARTS

LEEDS, England, January 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An immigrant couple told they cannot create a designer baby for spare parts to save their three-year-old son, who has the blood disorder thalassaemia, have vowed to take their quest abroad in search of a doctor willing to create a spare parts baby for their son.  Britain’s High Court ruled in December that the couple, Raj and Shahana Hashmi, could not use IVF technology to select a perfect match embryo for little Zain. According to BBC News, the couple have vowed to challenge that decision in the House of Lords.  “We as parents […]
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NORWEGIAN GOV’T CAUGHT USING INFLATED FIGURE FOR WORLDWIDE DEATHS FROM “UNSAFE” ABORTIONS

EDMONTON, January 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Just after last year’s UN child summit, David Hansen, a political advisor in Norway’s Department of international aid, admitted that the term “reproductive rights” in UN documents includes “safe” abortions. He added that it is important for Norway to emphasize that nations who allow abortion are responsible to do it in a proper way.  Later, Mrs. Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, minister of culture and church and the leader of the supposedly pro-life Christian People’s Party (Kristelig Folkeparti or KrF), followed up, saying, “Each year 800,000 women die in developing countries because abortions are not performed […]
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MALAYSIA MUSLIMS APPROVE CLONING, ABORTION UP TO 120 DAYS

KUALA LUMPUR, January 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Malaysian Muslims' National Fatwa Council, the local body of clerics that delivers “fatwas” (religious decrees), this week declared that “therapeutic” cloning of human embryos is ethically acceptable for research purposes so long as the embryo is destroyed before it reaches 120 days of age. The clerics said reproductive cloning of humans is not allowed because according to the Koran, “a baby must be a result of a union between a man and a woman who are legally married.” But council chairman Ismail Ibrahim explained that scientific “therapeutic” research on human embryos up to […]
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ALBERTA JUDGE ATTACKED FOR CALLING DIVORCE ‘ABHORRENT’

EDMONTON, January 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Judge Al Chrumka of Provincial Court of Alberta told his courtoom that he finds it “abhorrent” for couples to have children and then refuse to find a way to avoid splitting up and damaging the children’s lives irreparably. “That parties who decide to have children together should split for any reason is abhorrent to me,” he said while sentencing a 25-year-old separated mother to 9 months’ probation for locking her unattended children inside a car on a hot day.  The judge made the statement after both separated parents complained about the challenges of parenting […]
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U.S. GOV’T STRENGTHENS WARNINGS AGAINST HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=4&u=/nm/20030108/sc_nm/health_hormones_dc EU CALLS FOR ‘BAN’ ON HUMAN CLONING—BUT ‘THERAPEUTIC’ CLONING OK https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=9&u=/nm/20030108/sc_nm/health_eu_cloning_dc   MEXICAN BISHOP WILL NOT PUNISH PRIEST INVOLVED IN VIDEO-TAPED SEX   https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/01/06/international1432EST6152.DTL
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NEW YORK CATHOLIC DIOCESE FIGHTS CITY CONTRACEPTION ORDER

NEW YORK, January 8, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Roman Catholic dioceses in New York State are suing to block a new state law that requires them to provide health insurance coverage for contraceptives prescribed for their employees who work in Catholic schools, hospitals and social service agencies.  Advocates of the law say religious-affiliated hospitals and other institutions employ and serve people of other faiths and often accept public funds. As a result, they say, they must abide by the same laws as secular institutions. In fact, of course, a large proportion of tax dollars come from Catholic taxpayers, so there is […]
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MULTIPLE BIRTHS ON THE RISE IN U.S. DUE TO IVF

NEW YORK, January 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The number of multiple births in the United States is on the rise, growing as much as 60% from 1980 to 1998, with the largest increase occurring among women aged 40 to 44, according to a new report in the January issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology.  Researchers cite the increased resort to assisted reproductive technologies and other types of fertility treatments, now generally accepted as mainstream despite ethical objections stemming from the destruction of the vast majority of human lives created in the IVF process.  The report says “higher order births,” meaning triplets […]
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DRUG COULD HELP CANCER VICTIMS CONCEIVE – THROUGH IVF

ITHACA, January 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The drug tamoxifen, used in treating women with breast cancer, may also have potential to help women with damaged fertility to conceive test tube babies. Fertility experts at Cornell University successfully used tamoxifen to stimulate the ovaries of 12 women who had breast cancer. They found that a short, carefully timed course of the drug increased the number of eggs that could be retrieved for use in IVF.  Opposition to IVF is based especially on the fact that many tiny humans conceived through IVF are destroyed in the process of achieving a much smaller […]
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‘SEX AND THE CITY’ TV SHOW TO BE DISCONTINUED

NEW YORK, January 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The highly successful (and immoral) TV show “Sex and the City,” which offers a sometimes revolting guide to modern urban sexual mores under the illusion of a “risqué” comedy, will be pulled off the air next year after its sixth season because cast and crew members have become bored.  “Everybody involved is entitled to change their mind,” said Carolyn Strauss at HBO, the specialty channel that airs the Emmy-winning show and the ultra-violent mob hit “Sopranos,” which helped propel HBO into the mainstream of pop culture. The channel will run 7 extra “Sex” […]
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BUSH RENOMINATES 31 JUDGES FOR SENATE APPROVAL

WASHINGTON, January 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Bush is renominating 31 judges rejected by the Democrat-controlled Senate last year, including Charles Pickering of Mississippi and Priscilla Owen of Texas, both reviled by Democrats because they are not pro-abortion.  Republicans, under new Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, now control the Senate by a 51-48-1 margin, with independent Jim Jeffords of Vermont voting with Democrats.  Sen. Edward Kennedy vowed that Democrats “will use every tool in our arsenal to ensure [Pickering’s] nomination is rejected again this year.” This includes refusing to relinquish control of Senate committees until a new structure […]
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MICHAEL COREN ON CLONING https://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/coren.html   TED BYFIELD ON A SUPREME COURT ‘DISSENTER’  https://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/byfield.html   DEMOCRAT DASCHLE CANCELS RUN FOR PRESIDENCY https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=694&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20030107/ap_on_el_pr/daschle_democrats   EGYPT MAKES CHRISTMAS AN OFFICIAL HOLIDAY https://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20030107-87384126.htm   FEDERAL COURT RULES CONGRESS SHOULD NOT BAN CHILD PORN SIMULATIONS https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20030107-650364.htm
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CHRISTIAN STUDENTS SUE OVER DISCRIMINATION

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., January 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The local InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is suing Rutgers University in New Jersey for revoking the group’s recognition on religious grounds. Rutgers officials admit they have stopped funding because “the group is not willing to operate under the university’s non-discrimination policy.”  Meanwhile, in Colorado, the American Center for Law and Justice, a legal defence organization based in Virginia, is suing a Colorado school district because school officials allowed students to form a homosexual-related group but banned a Bible club.  For the Rutgers story see:  https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20030107-60455372.htm   For the Colorado story see:  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30348
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MICHIGAN’S FEMINIST, PRO-ABORTION GOVERNOR SWORN IN

LANSING, January 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Jennifer Granholm became Michigan’s first Democratic governor in 12 years and the state’s first woman governor, on January 1. And despite prior efforts by pro-lifers to stop the event, celebrations opened with an interfaith service at St. Mary’s Cathedral (Roman Catholic), a short walk from the state Capitol.  Cardinal Adam Maida hosted the gathering of Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Moslem, Sikh and Protestant ministers. A reported 40 pro-life protestors holding graphic signs of aborted pre-born children showed up to oppose the event. Granholm, who is nominally Catholic, says she is “personally opposed” to abortion but […]
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ANTI-LIFE STEAM ROLLER IN CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO, January 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over 1,000 new amendments and laws took effect at the stroke of midnight in California under recently re-elected Governor Gray Davis, who presides over the most anti-life state government in the United States.  The laws include a bill that represents California’s defiance of the federal government’s limits on human experimentation under the name of stem cell research, and actually encourages research using human embryos. Another imposes a so-called “ban” on human cloning. California will also promote wider distribution of the human pesticide RU-486 by empowering nurses and doctor’s assistants to dispense the pills even […]
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SCOUTS TO BE GIVEN FREE CONDOMS AT JAMBOREE

SATTAHIP, Thailand, January 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Up to 20,000 boy and girl scouts aged 14 to 18 attending the international scouting jamboree in Thailand are to be given free condoms on request. Local health officials quipped that they are “determined” that youths attending the event “would live up to their motto and ‘Be prepared.’”  For reasons hard to fathom, the location chosen by the scouts—a movement originally founded to promote self-sacrifice and manly virtue including chastity—is Sattahip, 80 km from Bangkok and “a short drive from the seaside town of Pattaya, which is notorious for its thousands of go-go […]
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COURT UPHOLDS UTAH BAN ON ‘WRONGFUL BIRTH’ SUITS

SALT LAKE CITY, January 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a victory for unborn children diagnosed with possible physical and mental disabilities, the Utah Supreme Court has upheld the state’s ban on so-called “wrongful birth” lawsuits.  Legislators opted in 1983 to protect doctors from being sued by parents who say they might have chosen an abortion given a prenatally-diagnosed abnormality. In this case, Marie Wood and Terry Borman sued the University of Utah Medical Center in 1999 after their daughter was born with Down’s Syndrome. They claimed that faulty prenatal tests led them to believe the girl would not have chromosomal […]
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FEW CREDIT UGANDAN SUCCESS DESPITE AFRICAN AIDS CRISIS

LUSAKA, January 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amidst continuing reports of Africa’s mounting HIV-AIDS epidemic, Zambia is the latest to witness a dramatic drop in life expectancy. From 1990 to 2000, life expectancy fell from 52 years to 40.5, while UNICEF says HIV-AIDS is now the leading cause of death, with 20 percent of the adult population infected.  Sub-Saharan Africa has nearly 30 million HIV cases, 60% of them women. In Swaziland, the government says more than 38.6% of adults have HIV, up 4 points from one year ago. U.N. figures show Botswana has the world’s highest adult infection rate, with […]
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UN’S KOFI ANNAN SENDS ONE-WORLDER MAURICE STRONG TO KOREA

NEW YORK, January 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Toronto Star and Canada’s CTV News report today that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has sent Maurice Strong to Korea to “assess the humanitarian situation” in the country. Strong, a Canadian, has visited Korea often in the past and is familiar with the region. His visit during the current international tensions causes alarm bells to ring amongst those aware of Strong’s history of international manipulations.  Democracy, national sovereignty and traditional religions are things which Maurice Strong has made clear must be replaced – and soon. For years, he has used his extensive web […]
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400,000 ABORTIONS PER YEAR IN PHILIPPINES?

MANILA, January 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study by the University of the Philippines Population Institute suggests that 400,000 children “are killed in the Philippines every year before they are born,” in the words of Gulf News, based in the United Arab Emirates.  Philippines Senate majority leader Loren Legarda said that the figures should serve as a wake-up call. “If this estimate on abortion is accurate,” she said, “then countless lives of children yet to be born are being silently extinguished with the murderers getting away with their dastardly crimes.” She said the government must refocus the school curricula “so […]
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BUSH ECONOMIC PLAN INCLUDES IMMEDIATE TAX RELIEF FOR MARRIED COUPLES AND FAMILIES

WASHINGTON, January 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The economic stimulus package presented by President George W. Bush today includes not only accelerated across-the-board tax cuts, but immediate tax relief for married couples and families with children.  For married couples, tax relief for 2003 would average $1,716 per tax filer. For families with children, the average tax break would be $1,473, and for income tax filers overall, the cut amounts to $1,083 per filer, according to White House sources. The plan also includes immediately expanding the child tax credit to $1,000 from the current $600.  To read network coverage see:  https://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030107_56.html
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CAESARIAN BIRTH INCREASES REHOSPITALIZATION RISK FOR WOMEN For the original Research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association (2003, vol. 289 pp. 46-47) see:  https://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/current/ffull/jlt0101-4.html   SURGICAL CUTS IN BIRTH ‘TOO COMMON,’ REPORT SAYS For a new report from Obstetrics and Gynecology (2002, vol. 100, pp.  1177-1182) see:  https://www.greenjournal.org/gj12-02.cfm (membership required)  MANY INTERNET USERS REPEATEDLY FALL FOR VIRUS HOAXES https://news.com.com/2100-1001-979045.html?tag=fd_top
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WAL-MART PULLS PREGNANT ‘MIDGE’ DOLL OFF THE SHELF

BENTONVILLE, Ark., January 6, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Midge doll, Barbie’s pregnant friend and the central figure in Mattel’s Happy Family Set, is being pulled off the shelves at Wal-Mart.  The pregnant version of Midge, Barbie’s best friend since 1963, wears a wedding ring and has a detachable stomach with a curled-up baby inside. The Happy Family set also includes her husband Alan and their 3-year-old son Ryan. Midge says “Mommy loves her new baby” and comes with a cradle and other baby gear.  A spokesman for Wal-Mart alleged: “Customers said they were not happy with the pregnant Midge doll […]
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HALIFAX NEWSPAPER INVESTIGATES COLUMNIST’S DEFENCE OF PORNOGRAPHY

HALIFAX, January 6, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The editor of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald promises to “get to the bottom” of an advice column that said men watching “a bit of porn” is harmless—a column that was approved by a junior editor.  Writing in response to a woman who woke up on her boyfriend’s couch to find him watching late night porn, columnist Dave Silverberg wrote: “Realize that watching porn – at least the run of the mill variety – is not rare, weird or creepy. Like it or not, it’s something that is ingrained in male culture… You wonder why your […]
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ABORTION LOBBY NARAL TRIES TO ‘FRESHEN ITS IMAGE’ (AGAIN)

WASHINGTON, January 6, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The largest pro-abortion lobby in the United States is relaunching itself under another new name, in response to what the New York Times calls “the most hostile atmosphere” for abortion rights in three decades. Their stated goals are to prevent the reelection of President Bush in 2004 and what they see as Bush supporters’ determination to reverse Roe v. Wade.  The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League hopes to “freshen its image” by changing its name to Naral Pro Choice America – the organization’s third name change since 1969.  “Through our name change […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

OUTFLANKED DEMOCRATS WONDER HOW TO CATCH UP IN MEDIA WARS https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/01/politics/01DEMS.html?ex=1042002000&en=e57c178b1dcc5d05&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
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CHINESE ARTIST DEFENDS PHOTOS OF HIMSELF EATING STILLBORN BABY

BEIJING, January 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chinese artist Zhu Yu has created an exhibit showing himself eating the body parts of a dead baby.  “An artist does not give answers, but possibilities,” Zhu told reporters, referring to photographs of himself washing a dead stillborn baby in a sink and putting its dismembered parts in his mouth. “When facing an issue, we must try to allow people’s debate of an issue to produce a deeper discussion,” Zhu said Thursday. “Only if people did not curse it, did not detest it, would there be something wrong. They are right to scold.”  Zhu, […]
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WOMEN’S SUBSTANCE ABUSE LINKED TO PRIOR ABORTION

WASHINGTON, January 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women with a prior history of abortion are twice as likely to use alcohol, five times more likely to use illicit drugs, and ten times more likely to use marijuana during the first pregnancy they carry to term compared to other women delivering their first pregnancies, according to a study published in the newest issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.  Based on the National Pregnancy and Health Survey, using a nationally representative sample of 2,613 women who had recently given birth, the study led by Dr. David Reardon is reportedly the […]
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TWO MORE PRO-ABORTION DEMOCRATS WILL VIE FOR PRESIDENCY IN 2004

WASHINGTON, January 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two more notorious pro-abortion Democrats, veteran Representative Dick Gephardt and neophyte Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, have announced their intention to seek the U.S. Presidency in 2004.  “I run for president to be champion, to be a champion for the same people I fought for all my life: regular folks,” said Sen. Edwards, who is in fact a multimillionaire trial lawyer. According to Issues 2002 https://www.issues2002.org/Senate/John_Edwards.htm#Abortion   Edwards voted against maintaining the ban on military base abortions (June 2000), against banning partial birth abortions (Oct. 1999), and against disallowing overseas military abortions (May […]
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RUSSIA POPULATION DECLINE MEANS WORKER SHORTAGE

ST. PETERSBURG, January 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Russia’s spiraling population decline means the once-populous country may face a worker shortage within three to four years. Vladimir Sokolin, head of the State Committee for Statistics, the government’s statistics agency, says Russia faces a “crisis of manpower resources,” and that the country’s population was down 760,000 for the first 11 months of 2002 to a total of 145 million.  For newswire coverage see:  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021225/ap_wo_en_po/eu_gen_russia_population_1   For related coverage see:  AGING AND POPULATION DECLINE TO HURT INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES IN 2010 https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/jan/01012603.html   SIX OUT OF 10 PREGNANCIES END IN ABORTION IN RUSSIA https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/oct/02102206.html
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ESTONIAN PRESIDENT CALLS FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE MORE BABIES

TALLINN, January 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Citing Estonia’s declining population, President Arnold Ruutel is urging the country’s 1.4 million citizens to have more babies.  “Let us remember that in just a couple of decades the number of Estonians seeing the New Year will be one-fifth less than today,” the President said in a live national TV broadcast this week.  Estonia recorded 16 births per 1,000 population in the late 1980s in the last years of Soviet occupation.  In 2001, after a decade of independence and relying on the West, there were 8.7 births per 1,000 population.  “Women are postponing having […]
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CLONAID HOAX BECOMING OBVIOUS

PARIS, January 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – International media continue to be captivated by the Raelian UFO cult’s increasingly ludicrous claims to have implanted several cult followers with cloned embryos. One of them, baby “Eve,” was allegedly born last week and flown back into the United States, according to Clonaid, the cult’s amateur research subsidiary.  Having yesterday promised imminent DNA proof that the newborn—whom no one outside the cult has actually seen—is a cloned replica of her mother, Clonaid chief executive Brigitte Boisselier told France 2 TV and BBC’s Newsnight that the tests have now been “delayed” and may never take […]
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BUSH POLICY FAVOURING ADULT STEM CELL RESEARCH ANGERS EMBRYO RESEARCHERS

WASHINGTON, January 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Bush Administration's awarding of $1 million in funding for five adult stem cell studies is being met with predictable complaints from scientists who, without evidence, claim that experimentation on human embryos will prove more fruitful. “If they spent the same amount of money on embryonic stem cells, we'd be on the verge of clinical trials right now,” claimed Dr. Robert Lanza without a shred of evidence. Lanza is employed by the Advanced Cell Technology company in Worcester, which performs experiments on human embryos. The American Society for Cell Biology, in Bethesda, Md., which […]
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ADULT STEM CELLS REJUVENATE DAMAGED HEART TISSUE

LONDON, January 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two new studies are showing the promise of adult bone marrow stem cells, this time in treating heart attack patients by rejuvenating cell growth in damaged heart tissue. Two teams of doctors from Germany and Hong Kong reported promising results after transplanting stem cells extracted from bone marrow into heart muscle. Prof. Gustav Steinhoff, leading a research group at the University of Rostock, injected the cells into six patients' hearts, and five showed exceptional improvement in blood flow. A second group under Dr. Hung-Fat Tse at the University of Hong Kong treated eight heart […]
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U.S. NEWS ROUNDUP

VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE TO BE SCENE OF PRO-LIFE DEBATES Abortion issues are expected to take centre stage when the Virginia General Assembly reconvenes next week. Several bills aimed at regulating the procedure have been prefiled, and others are expected to be ready once the 2003 session begins a week from today, the Washington Times reports.  https://www.washtimes.com/metro/20030101-947746.htm   NEW MICHIGAN GOVERNOR GRANHOLM MET BY PROTESTERS AT CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL Inauguration day interfaith prayer service in St. Mary’s Cathedral for new pro-abortion, pro-gay Catholic governor.  https://www.stopgranholm.com/index.htm
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JUDGE BANS SOUTH CAROLINA ‘CHOOSE LIFE’ LICENCE PLATES

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge declared unconstitutional South Carolina’s license plates bearing the slogan “Choose Life.” U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman said last week that the specialty plates, democratically approved by the state legislature in 2001, violate the First Amendment because they provide a forum for abortion foes that abortion rights supporters do not enjoy.  However, this is unlikely to be the last word. In October, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia allowed Louisiana to implement “Choose Life” plates. Scalia denied an emergency request to have the 1999 law allowing the plates, to be overturned.  For newswire coverage […]
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ANOTHER BRITISH MAN TO DIE IN SWISS SUICIDE CLINIC

LONDON, January 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Another elderly British man has applied to check into one of Switzerland’s assisted suicide clinics. The man, aged 70, reportedly has incurable motor neuron disease. LifeSite reported in November that a 77-year-old British man with terminal throat cancer had become the first British citizen to kill himself with the aid of the Dignitas assisted suicide group in Geneva.  Meanwhile the Dutch Supreme Court has ruled that a doctor who helped an elderly man “tired of living” to die was guilty of criminal assisted suicide. The Dutch ruling upholds “strict medical guidelines” for mercy killing, […]
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PRO-LIFERS SET TO CAPITALIZE ON REPUBLICAN SENATE TAKEOVER

WASHINGTON, January 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Galvanized as Republicans take control of the Senate this month, pro-lifers are readying their legislative wish list for what may prove to be a narrow window of opportunity before the 2004 elections. At the top of the agenda is a partial birth abortion ban, repeatedly vetoed by President Clinton and bogged down while Democrats controlled the Senate during much of the first two years of the Bush Administration.  Other items include supplementing parental notification laws to punish taking a minor across state lines for an abortion; making it a separate crime to harm an […]
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BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO INVESTIGATE CLONAID

WASHINGTON, January 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched an investigation into much-publicized claims by the American-based Raelian research company Clonaid (see previous item) that it has created the first-ever cloned human baby. The FDA – whose mandate includes regulating human trials on U.S. soil—says it is looking into the allegations even though the company claims the cloning was done outside the country.  Brigitte Boisselier, chief executive of Clonaid, told reporters late last week that, following the birth by Caesarian section of a little girl named “Eve,” four other women are due to give […]
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CLONAID PROMISES DNA PROOF OF CLONED BABY WITHIN A WEEK

NEW YORK, Jaunary 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the Raelian cult’s boldest publicity stunt to date, its amateur research subsidiary, Clonaid, alleges to have brought a baby girl clone and her 31-year-old mother to the United States to undergo genetic testing to verify that the child is a clone. Clonaid says the 7-pound girl, allegedly a replica of her mother, was delivered by Caesarean section on Dec. 26.  “The baby is going home,” said Brigitte Boisselier, chief executive of Clonaid, “Once a [DNA] sample is taken, we will see … perhaps by the end of the week, or early next […]
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