Articles for Month: April 2003

ABORTION PUSH STARTS IN POST-WAR IRAQ https://www.ncregister.com/Register_News/042903iraq.htm   JOHN PAUL II’S PONTIFICATE IS FOURTH LONGEST IN HISTORY https://catholicreporter.blogspot.com/  REALITY CHECK: HOMOSEXUALITY AND MARRIAGE IN CANADA https://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/analysis/041103_rcmarriage.html   FOURTH CIRCUIT RULES PRAYER UNCONSTITUTIONAL https://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=3856&department=CWA&categoryid=freedom   CORCORAN SAYS WHO PRACTICED DELIBERATE INCOMPETENCE OVER TORONTO SARS TRAVEL ADVISORY “The world’s socialists are rallying round the WHO and Ms. Brundtland over SARS. A classic fall-into-line directive came from the London Observer. ‘The U.S. and Canada cannot plead they are exceptional. They must accept WHO judgment, even if they consider them controversial, in the interests of the greater good. And they must argue for the […]

GRAND RAPIDS, April 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A legal settlement was reached ending the requirement for women to prepay for abortion services in Michigan. The settlement, reached by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights and the Michigan Attorney General’s Office, is being described as a victory for women by Michigan Right to Life.  Right to Life of Michigan President Barbara Listing said, “Women will no longer be forced to invest financially in an abortion while they are considering their options. Women will now be protected from the added pressure of financial obligation when making a decision about an unplanned […]

WASHINGTON, DC – This past Monday, thousands of youth participated in the first-ever National Pro-Life T-shirt Day, an event organized by Rock For Life. Young people from all over the country – mostly students at public schools – had been eagerly anticipating the opportunity to simply wear a pro-life T-shirt as a peaceful statement of support for the pro-life movement.  “We are absolutely thrilled that these young people participated in this event,” said Sara McKalips of Rock For Life.  “We are encouraged that so many are willing to speak up peacefully for the rights of pre-born people.”  Over the past […]

BRATISLAVA, April 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A draft rewrite of Slovakia’s criminal law agreed to by the country’s legal cabinet committee April 15 would see some human reproductive and therapeutic cloning banned. Violators would face up to eight years in prison.  However, the legislation as described by local media covers only cloning which results in humans at any stage of development which are “genetically identical” to another human being.  Experts in the field have warned for years that such terminology would fail to ban all cloning procedures since several do not create “genetically identical” copies of other human beings.  See […]

VATICAN CITY, April 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking yesterday to members of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and their president, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope John Paul II spoke about the theme of the gathering, “The Bible and Morals”.  He said: “Everyone can see that there is a paradox: man today, disillusioned by so many unsatisfactory answers to the basic questions about life, seems to open himself to the voice that comes from the Transcendent Being and is expressed in the bible message. At the same time, however, he seems to be more and more intolerant of being asked to behave in […]

Bombshell: Homosexual Activist MP Revealed to Have Switched Sexual Orientation

OTTAWA, April 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The latest information on Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction Act, Bill C-13 is that the Rob Merrifield motion to send the bill back to committee was voted down yesterday but no further debate on the bill took place yesterday or today.  The motion, which would have allowed for revision of the fatally flawed bill within committee, failed with a lopsided vote of 60-170.  See the recorded vote on the motion:  https://www.parl.gc.ca/37/2/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/091_2003-04-29/HAN091-E.htm#Int-517284

HARRY POTTER AUTHOR ROWLING RICHER THAN THE QUEEN https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/27/1051381831642.html   FRENCH NATIONAL FRONT PARTY GOES PRO-ABORTION https://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901030505-447186,00.html   CHRISTIANS PLACE FULL PAGE AD IN WASHINGTON TIMES URGING BUSH TO PRO-LIFE ACTION Ad calls on President Bush to use the same commitment that compelled him to provide leadership regarding the war in Iraq to now fight the war on behalf of pre-born babies.  https://kgov.com/gallery/justice-momentum-ad.jpg   BURUNDI RATIFIES THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT https://www.misna.org/eng/default.htm [search for Burundi news from April 23-25, 2003 – Subscription required]  PLANNED PARENTHOOD TO START ABORTIFACIENT ‘DRIVE-IN’  An Oregon Planned Parenthood office that launched an online “emergency contraception service” […]

BERN, April 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An anti-HIV/AIDS advertising campaign in Switzerland that uses anti-Catholic messaging has been shelved, apparently out of respect for the country’s 3.3 million Catholics, almost half of the 7.3 million population. According to government spokesmen, the objections of Catholic bishops influenced the decision to pull the ads. One poster in German said: “Dear Father, if Rome doesn’t want you to talk about contraception, then talk about condoms instead.”  A spokesman said cryptically, “We had intensive talks with the Bishop’s conference, and agreed to drop that part of the campaign because we had used the word […]

BUDAPEST, April 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hungary’s constitutional court has rejected a bid to legalize assisted suicide, on grounds that terminally ill patients can already refuse medical care, under the country’s so-called “passive euthanasia” laws, if they wish.  “The current state of affairs is not unconstitutional,” said presiding judge Janos Nemeth. “We have considered international examples and euthanasia has only been made legal recently in Belgium, in the Netherlands and in a state in the United States [Oregon].” He said the foreign examples did not make a convincing case for adopting the practice in Hungary.  For newswire coverage:  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030428/hl_afp/hungary_euthanasia_030428140953

WASHINGTON, April 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to rule on whether states should have the ability to research the previous medical records of women who want an abortion. Pro-abortionists were trying to stop South Carolina state investigators from being able to copy the medical records without a guarantee of “confidentiality.” The pro-abortionists’ lawyers claimed they fear that private records will be “leaked” to pro-lifers. But state lawyers argued that there is no basis for believing that routine medical records would be disclosed—and that therefore the Supreme Court need not get involved. The high court agreed.  […]

Nobel laureate James Watson says, "I don't think there are any gods up there"

OTTAWA, April 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the Ontario Court of Appeal continues its hearings on the homosexual ‘marriage’ challenge and the federal Justice committee winds up its consideration of the same subject, none of the three main contenders for the federal Liberal Leadership have come out in opposition to homosexual marriage. Both Heritage Minister Sheila Copps and Finance Minister John Manley have endorsed homosexual ‘marriage’ but lead contender and former Finance Minister Paul Martin has said he is undecided on the issue but will not object to judicial decisions on the matter.  Martin, who political pundits suggest will most […]

Population control programs indicted for devastation of African women by AIDS

WASHINGTON, April 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A national Fox News / Opinion Dynamics poll released April 25 found that 84% of registered voters agree that a double homicide charge is appropriate in the much-publicized Peterson murder case in California.  Only 7% said that a one-victim charge would be appropriate.  The murder of Laci Peterson and her preborn baby has resulted in double murder charges against husband Scott Peterson.  However, radical feminists with the National Organization of Women objected to the double murder charge saying Peterson should not be charged with murder in the death of the unborn child.  National Right […]

BUSH SIGNALS SUPPORT FOR BAD GLOBAL AIDS BILL https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0025702.html   THE SANTORUM FLAP IS NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT’S COMING https://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz042803.asp   MARK STEYN – THE UNITED NATIONS: UNFIT TO GOVERN International columnist says “the UN has little interest in solving problems, only in Establishing bureaucracies to manage them.”  https://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2003-04-26&id=3031   MARYLAND CATHOLIC PARISH WEBSITE LISTS ‘GAY FRIENDLY’ PARISHES IN U.S.  https://www.stbernadette.org/frparish.htm   HEART EWTN’S RAYMOND ARROYO’S APRIL 25 INTERVIEW OF ACTOR JIM CAVIEZEL WHO PLAYS CHRIST IN MEL GIBSON’S MOVIE “THE PASSION”  https://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/seriessearchprog.asp?seriesID=-6892288&T1=The+World+Over

GADSDEN, Ala., April 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is fighting off a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and various atheists and leftists, because he placed a large Ten Commandments monument in the judicial building rotunda in Montgomery, the state capitol.  Moore said America’s “way of life is under attack” from a belief system in opposition to Christianity. “It’s time to open our eyes and unstop our ears and listen to the truth,” the jurist said. “Drugs, homosexuality and abortion have become an acceptable way of life.”“Liberty is not the freedom to act like a […]

WASHINGTON, April 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Actor Charlton Heston, 78,  renowned as one of the few great Hollywood stars with a solid Christian faith and as a supporter of pro-life, pro-family causes, has taken a major step out of the public limelight. This weekend he retired as president of the National Rifle Association, citing his recent diagnosis with Alzheimer’s.  Heston remained prominent long after the peak of his film career in the 1960s, partly because of “his outspokenness about conservative causes, including opposition to abortion,” media said.  He was an early advocate of civil rights for blacks in America and […]

LONDON, Ont., April 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Ontario Superior Court judge of the Family Court Branch has rejected the application of a lesbian mother who wants her same-sex partner to be declared a legal parent or second mother. The two had the support of the boy’s natural father, who was never married to either of them but is their “friend” as well as their sperm donor, and a virtual member of the household.  The trio sought legal recognition for what they call their “loving circle of family.” In an indication of what he would have preferred to do, Justice […]

Putting Toronto on travel danger list considered WHO "junk science" power grab

MINNEAPOLIS, April 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scientists at the University of Minnesota Medical School have used adult stem cells to create brain cells in mice. Further research could one day lead to treatments for Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases.  Dr. Walter Low led the U.S. team that injected stem cells from adult mice into a mouse blastocyst (an embryonic mouse) to create a chimera – an animal with both its own cells and transplanted stem cells. Tests revealed that the latter had successfully developed into functioning nerve cells. The next step will be to test the […]

WASHINGTON,  April 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Three separate instances of pro-abortion speakers highlighting Catholic events are being vigorously challenged by different pro-life groups in the U.S.  American Life League (ALL) has written Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles about a college within his diocese which is having two pro-abortion politicians address their students at graduation ceremonies.  Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.), and her sibling, freshman Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), militant supporters of abortion on demand, are scheduled to speak at Mount St. Mary’s graduation in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 10. ALL is calling for an immediate cancellation of the pro-abortion […]

NORTH BRANCH, NJ, April 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At a shareholders meeting for Merk pharmaceutical company last week, two pro-life groups who have acquired enough stock in the company to put forward resolutions had a resolution passed to force the company to make known its use of aborted fetal tissue in its vaccines.  Father Thomas Euteneuer, President of Human Life International revealed to the meeting that the company was profiting illicitly from the sale of vaccines manufactured with tissues from aborted babies.  Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director of Children of God for Life blasted the Board for their inherent disregard for […]

WASHINGTON, April 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Bush is calling for congressional approval this year of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, a bill to recognize as legal victims all unborn children who are injured or killed during the commission of federal crimes, the White House said today. The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) applauded the statement by White House press secretary Ari Fleischer.  Mr. Fleischer told reporters, “The President does believe that when an unborn child is injured or killed during the commission of a crime of violence, the law should recognize what most people immediately recognize, and […]

GENEVA, 25 April (LifeSiteNews.com)—The United Nations Commission on Human Rights concluded its 59th (2003) annual session Friday voting to postpone consideration of the controversial proposal to ban discrimination based on “sexual orientation.”  International law experts have warned that approval of such language could threaten religious rights. The motion, which was sponsored by Brazil and co-sponsored by Canada, was heavily promoted by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC).  The Commission decided, in a recorded vote of 24 in favour and 17 against, with 10 abstentions, to postpone consideration of the draft resolution until its sixtieth session.  While the […]

Scientists falsely attempt to argue these embryos are not human beings

NORWAY RELEASES ABORTION STATS: 13,500 BABIES KILLED IN 2002 https://www.spuc.org.uk/index.htm   SLOVAK COALITION GOVERNMENT SPLIT OVER ABORTION https://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok.asp?rub=online&cl=12573   UN POPULATION FUND BOASTS OF RECEIVING AMERICAN FUNDS DESPITE BAN https://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2626044 WHITE HOUSE UNDERCUTS CONSERVATIVE AIDS EFFORTS https://www.frc.org/?i=WU03D26   WEBSITE DEDICATED TO EXPOSING MICHAEL MOORE DUPLICITY Provides details claiming that Michael Moore, who received best documentary Academy Award, “invented facts, fabricated events, staged scenes, or doctored the depiction of what actually happened.”  https://www.revoketheoscar.com   CATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION UPDATED STATEMENT ON HOMOSEXUALITY AND HOPE https://www.cathmed.org/homosexuality_and_hope9-4-02.htm   BRITISH COLUMBIA PARENTS AND TEACHERS FOR LIFE https://www.bcptl.org/

Catholic Hospitals Threatened With Fines and License Revocation

CALGARY, April 25, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) has exposed the hypocrisy of the British Columbia College of Teachers (BCCT) in their action against a Christian teacher who objected to the pro-homosexual agenda being fostered in the classroom.  “The Code of conduct espoused by the BC College of Teachers apparently does not apply to the College elite, but only to the teachers over whom they ‘rule’”, says a CFAC release.  BCCT Registrar Doug Smart has made critical comments to the media about teacher Chris Kempling, because Kempling expressed his views in letters to the editor.  Smart […]

CARDIFF, April 25, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fiona Pinto and Joseph Biddulph, two candidates for the Pro-life Party in the upcoming May 1 Welsh election, have been arrested for showing a picture of an aborted baby.  They were charged with a Public Order Offence.  In a statement they said; “Democracy assures citizens of the right to freedom of speech, and never is that freedom more precious than at the time of political elections.  It is both extraordinary and shameful that the police have chosen to press charges.”  Speaking in support of its candidates, the ProLife Party said it would “continue its […]

TORONTO, April 25, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition has produced an inspiring and useful 30 minute video of key comments by the international cast of pro-life leaders at the Toronto Creating a Culture of Life International Forum.  An excellent education resource for home, classroom use, pro-life groups and others, the video helps viewers to be able to speak the truth and speak it with love. World-class experts present easily understood information on abortion, bioethics, stem cell research, euthanasia, post abortion complications, population control and more.  Members of the International Right to Life Federation discuss problems facing them at home […]

VATICAN, April 25, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the Vatican's recently published lexicon nears translation into English and other languages, the Italian version released earlier this year has stirred considerable controversy. The 876 page document involves the interpretation of 78 “ambiguous terms” involved in “discussion of the family, life and ethical questions”. In a recent interview with the Italian news agency I-Media, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, the president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, reaffirms that the document is an official document of the Holy See and was directed to politicians as well as to the faithful. Catholic World News […]

Canada Quotes Pierre Trudeau Phrase to Justify its Pro-Homosexual Activism

PRO-ABORTION GROUP CLAIMS “ONLY 20%” OF CANADIAN HOSPITALS DO ABORTIONS https://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=19F36A41-F788-458A-9A7D-730EC9D4BDBF COURT STRIKES DOWN FLORIDA LAW ON ADOPTION RULES Adoption groups praised the ruling since they said the law encouraged abortions.  It required mothers who wished to put their children up for adoption to publish in the newspaper their names, ages and the name of the father of the child or names of potential fathers if she was unsure.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030424/ap_on_re_us/publishing_adoptions_8   COLORADO SPRINGS WITHDRAWS HOMOSEXUAL PARTNER BENEFITS https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030423/ap_on_re_us/brf_benefits_withdrawn_2 TEACHERS UNION FORCED TO DIVERT PROFS DUES TO NON-PRO-ABORTION CHARITY https://www.pacificjustice.org/press/2003/pr042303.htm   FTC SUES MAN OVER PORNOGRAPHIC SPAM https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0025643.html

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com)  Powerful homosexual activists groups have been frustrated in their attempts to malign U.S. Senator Rick Santorum over his statements regarding the Supreme Court case on the Texas sodomy law. The Associated Press reported Santorum saying, “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.”  Family Research Council President Ken Connor said “The Human Rights Campaign’s attack […]

Professionally Drafted Interim Plus Study Guides available for Classrooms

GRAND RAPIDS, April 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Michigan law which was to come into effect this month has been challenged by the legal arm of the pro-abortion movement.  The law, which forbids prepayment for abortions, was designed to keep women from being financially bound to abortion providers. The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights has challenged the law and a hearing before U.S. District Court Judge John O’Meara is scheduled for April 25.  Legislation prohibiting prepayment for abortions was introduced in the Michigan legislature to clarify the meaning of “abortion-related services” in the Informed Consent law. The legislation was […]

NEW DELHI, April 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Ish Aggarwal, who runs a nursing home in Uttam Nagar where she performs abortions, has been arrested for selling babies.  In a sting operation police sent a woman to pose as one interested in paying for a child.  Once the deal was nearing completion police raided the nursing home.  Officials say that when abortions are too dangerous (late term) Aggarwal encouraged her patients usually poor parents or single mothers to give up their children.  Allegedly, Aggarwal would then falsify birth papers to make it seem as if the woman purchasing the child […]

AIDS Programs based on "false" and "deadly premise" of African promiscuity

SENATOR SPECTOR ASKS BUSH TO FUND MORE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH In a letter sent on Monday Sen. Arlen Specter asked President Bush to allow federal funding for research on “potentially safer” human embryonic stem cell lines.  https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/national/23CELL.html   IOWA REQUIRES ABORTIONISTS TO REPORT CHEMICAL ABORTIONS Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack signed legislation Monday requiring doctors to report dispensing mefepristone for medical abortions.  https://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4780934/21066515.html   MISSOURI GOVERNOR PROMISES VETO OF ANY MEASURE THAT WOULD HINDER ABORTIONS Speaking to pro-abortion activists Tuesday, Gov. Bob Holden vowed to veto any legislation that he believed would ‘hinder a women’s right to get an abortion […]

Radical Bill's "Reverse Discrimination" Brings in $150,000 fines for non-compliance

BRATISLAVA, April 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Slovakia’s Constitutional Court has shelved its decision indefinitely on whether abortion is constitutional. Christian Democrat (KDH) MPs have been arguing that Slovakia’s abortion law, which permits abortion up to the 12th week and afterwards in cases of a so-called threat to the health of the mother, violates the constitutional guarantee of the right to life. The Slovak law is considered one of the most liberal in Europe.  Some MPs are expressing personal discomfort with the current law. KDH MP Peter Muránsky, who accepts the destruction of unborn children under a variety of circumstances, said […]

TOPEKA, April 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has vetoed a bill sponsored by pro-lifers that imposed minimum safety and health standards on abortion clinics in the state. Under the bill, the state would have started regulating clinic supplies, equipment, lighting and ventilation, and ensure minimum sizes for interview rooms, bathrooms and dressing rooms. It also required that every clinic have a doctor as its medical director, a female staffer present during any procedure done by a male doctor, and have ultrasound equipment if it provides abortions after the 12th week.  Gov. Sebelius, a pro-abortion Democrat, said she […]

TORONTO, April 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) issued a press release yesterday commenting on the murder of Laci Peterson and her preborn baby which has resulted in double murder charges against husband Scott Peterson.  A New Jersey chapter of NOW (National Organization of Women) has claimed that only the murder of the mother should be considered because the child was one month away from birth. CLC National President Jim Hughes responds in the release that “These outrageous remarks by members of NOW show clearly the lengths the pro-abortion fanatics will go to in order to preserve their […]

OTTAWA, April 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that the next scheduled date for a vote on the contentious Assisted Human Reproduction Act, C-13 is Tuesday April 29.  Several dates scheduled for debate and voting have come and gone, thus it remains to be seen if the final vote on the bill will actually take place Tuesday.  Pro-life groups have called on their members to contact their members and ask them to vote against the legislation.  For more information see LifeSite’s stem cell page at:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/features/stemcellembryo/index.html

Ontario Trillium Foundation and Minister of Culture Continue to Deny Clear Information

UNITED NATIONS, April 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday, Luis Moreno Ocampo of Argentina was officially ‘elected’ as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).  A press release from the United Nations on the election notes that the election of Ocampo was unanimous with 78 members voting.  However, the release fails to mention that Ocampo was the only candidate for the position.  LifeSite reported on March 24 that Ocampo had been selected to be prosecutor in a secret meeting of the ICC’s steering committee.  The term of office of the newly elected Prosecutor will commence on June 16, 2003. Ocampo […]

Federal Judge Overrules Elected School Board Decision and Some Parents Wishes

UNIVERSITY HALTS DISTRIBUTION OF ABORTIFACIENT AFTER LEGISLATOR OBJECTS In response to a complaint from state legislator Robert Marshall, James Madison University will stop providing “morning after” pills at its campus health center.  https://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va—brf-jmu-contracep0419apr19,0,3341392.story?coll=dp%2Dheadlines%2Dvirginia

BETHESDA, April 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scientists have found that stem cells from baby teeth can be used to create replacement nerve and fat cells, according to a report from UPI, meaning that cells “from a child’s discarded molar could be frozen in cell banks to benefit its donor for decades.”“These cells … are very capable of providing huge numbers of cells,” says Songtao Shi, a pediatric dentist at the National Institutes of Health. Two years ago, Shi’s then 6-year-old daughter lost her first baby teeth. “I’m a pediatric dentist, so naturally I was the first person to take care […]

But Plan B drug is still an abortifacient, not a contraceptive

MODESTO, April 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Scott Peterson murder case has become a pro-life issue and a great embarrassment to feminist pro-abortion groups like the National Organization of Women (NOW). As California police charged Peterson with two counts of first-degree murder—one for the murder of his wife, Laci, and a second for the death of her eight-month unborn child, networks across the U.S. are referring to the baby—whom the parents had already decided to name “Connor”—as Laci’s “unborn child.”  The second murder count is based on a California law that, as in 23 other states, protects “viable fetuses” that […]

TORONTO, April 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An interfaith coalition of Roman Catholics, Evangelical Protestant Christians, Muslims and Sikhs is intervening in the case of Halpern v. Canada in the Ontario Court of Appeal, being heard April 22-25 in Toronto.  This case is an appeal of an Ontario Divisional Court ruling that constitutional protection of sexual orientation requires the redefinition of a fundamental institution such as marriage. The coalition argues that across all religions and cultures in Canada and worldwide, marriage is understood as being between a man and a woman   Bruce Clemenger, president-elect of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada […]

SIOUX FALLS, SD, April 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sioux Falls’ Bishop Robert Carlson has not denied the veracity of a report in the Weekly Standard in which it is said that the Bishop wrote leading Democratic Senator Tom Daschle ordering him to stop calling himself Catholic.  Daschle, one of the foremost promoters of abortion in the U.S. Senate, has also refused to deny the letter.  An April 17 press release sent to LifeSite from the Bishop’s office noted that he had seen the article and admitted that he has had discussions with Daschle on abortion.  “I have encouraged the Senator […]

OTTAWA, April 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National headquarters of the Catholic Women’s League of Canada has been receiving many complaints from faithful members around the country who were scandalized that the leaders of the organization demanded from parliament the legal recognition of homosexual civil unions.  As LifeSite reported April 11, CWL President Marie Cameron made a presentation before the Justice Committee hearings on same-sex ‘marriage’ in which the CWL, while asking that the term ‘marriage’ be retained for heterosexual couples, asked that registered same-sex civil unions be allowed “with all legal implications and responsibilities including separation, divorce, maintenance, etc.”  […]

New York Times and David Suzuki caught telling global warming fibs https://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost/story.html?id=FBB34E4E-FBBA-4DBC-9939-3CB6E24352AE   CONDOLEEZZA RICE POSSIBLE GOP VP CHOICE IS ‘PRO-CHOICE’ ON ABORTION The Weekly Standard reports: “In 1999, after stepping down as provost at Stanford to work for Bush’s campaign, she told the San Francisco Chronicle that despite her devout Presbyterian background, she is a “pro-choice evangelical,” and that “there’s a lot of room in the middle [on abortion]. . . . I don’t think Americans think abortion is something you do lightly.” Later that year, she told National Review’s Jay Nordlinger that she is “mildly pro-choice,” and more […]

EDINBURGH, April 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a letter being distributed to all parishes in Scotland over the next two weeks, Scotland’s Catholic Bishops highlight the need for participation in the political process and provide guidance for those deciding how to vote.  Topping the list of concerns for the Bishops in giving guidance to the faithful in casting their vote was the family.  “The importance of the family to the well being of the nation is critical, yet many threats to the welfare of the family exist in our society today, in particular attempts to redefine the nature of the […]

TRENTON, April 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A high-ranking NARAL Pro-Choice America official has torpedoed her own bid for a seat on the New Jersey Supreme Court by failing to pay a speeding ticket. Zulima Farber is a black Cuban-American, a partner with a large New Jersey law firm, and a state board chairperson for NARAL Pro-Choice America.  Democratic Governor Jim McGreevey, who had nominated Farber, has now withdrawn his support in light of a warrant issued for her arrest in January in connection with an unpaid speeding ticket.  Farber was seen by many Democrats “as the perfect choice,” according to […]

BRUSSELS, April 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the former French President who chairs the convention on Europe’s future, has aligned himself with the EU’s largest member states who want a powerful new EU presidency to wield influence on the world stage. Smaller members prefer a rotating system in which each country serves six months as EU president, but it appears their preference will be defeated in the coming negotiations.  The creation of a super-president, said The Times, “would help to settle the decades-old question posed by Henry Kissinger of whom to call in Europe in an emergency.” The […]

MILAN, April 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers have found that brain stem cells from adult mice can repair damage and sharply reduce symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. Scientists at Italy's San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan found that 7 of 26 mice recovered completely from hind-leg paralysis from an MS-like disease, while others showed substantial improvement, according to the latest issue of the journal Nature. The next stage will be to try the process on monkeys, said Gianvito Martino, one of the study's authors. “This opens new hope for patients, but the way is very long and very hard,” he said. […]

OTTAWA, April 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Msgr. Peter Schonenbach, General Secretary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, has written Federal Justice Minister Martin Cauchon Regarding Bill C-250 – An Act to Amend the Criminal Code regarding hate propaganda.  Writing on behalf of the Conference, Rev. Schonenbach writes: “Our concern with Bill C-250 is not about the objectives of prohibiting the incitement or willful promotion of hatred or the advocacy of genocide. What troubles us is the possibility that someone who finds the expression of the beliefs of the Catholic Church on the sexual conduct of homosexual persons too blunt […]

SIOUX FALLS, SD, April 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Weekly Standard has reported that Tom Daschle has been ordered by his Bishop to remove from his congressional biography and campaign documents all references to his standing as a member of the Catholic Church.  Daschle, who is one of the foremost promoters of abortion in the U.S. Senate, has nonetheless continued to refer to himself as a Catholic.  According to the paper, Sioux Falls’ Bishop Robert Carlson issued the order in a recent letter.  LifeSite contacted the diocese for confirmation and was told that officials were currently discussing the matter and […]

New York Times and David Suzuki caught telling global warming fibs https://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost/story.html?id=FBB34E4E-FBBA-4DBC-9939-3CB6E24352AE KERRY VOWS PRO-ABORTION SUPREME COURT JUDGES LITMUS TEST IF HE BECOMES PRESIDENT https://www.nationalreview.com/ponnuru/ponnuru.asp   ABC DAYTIME SOAP OPERA TO FEATURE LESBIAN KISS https://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/15/television.kiss.reut/index.html   IVF USE SOARS AMONG OVER-40 WOMEN IN INDIA https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=43500910   PARENTS BEWARE: POPULAR MUSIC SHARING SITES ALSO ALLOW TRADING OF PORN WHICH FILTERS DO NOT STOP https://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/14/downloading.porn/index.html   MAIN ‘CIVIL RIGHTS TEAM’ REJECTS REAL ‘DIVERSITY’  https://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=3774&department=CFI&categoryid=cfreport   PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION: DISPELLING THE MYTHS https://www.frc.org/get/if03c1.cfm

KATMANDU, April 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nepalese authorities are debating what to do with at least 50 women currently jailed on abortion-related charges, after the government passed a liberal abortion law last September.  The law says women can abort a pregnancy under 12 weeks gestation and at 18 weeks in cases of rape or incest. However, as is typical of liberal abortion laws masking as “restricted” laws, a doctor can also authorize an abortion after 18 weeks if the pregnancy would allegedly be “detrimental to the health of the mother” or if a diagnosis finds that the child could be […]

NEW YORK, April 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York couple who helped convicted abortionist shooter James Kopp to escape have pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to harbor a known fugitive” when Kopp fled overseas. The charge could carry   a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine—but it is not yet clear what terms were agreed to in the plea bargain.  Loretta Marra, 39, and Dennis Malvasi, 53, have already spend two years in jail over charges that they sent money to Kopp and communicated with him by e-mail, discussing how he might return to […]

VANCOUVER, April 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The lead editorial in The Vancouver Sun yesterday came out against the passage of bill C-13, the Assisted Human Reproduction Act. “Law on human cloning shouldn't pass as it stands The government has produced an incoherent piece of legislation, ” the piece was headlined. The statement from the ultra-leftist Sun indicates that the bill may not see passage after-all. The paper notes accurately that the legislation has offended interested parties on both sides of the debate. The paper objects to the legislation's claim to ban human cloning for research and recommends a moratorium on […]

OTTAWA, April 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rita Curley, the Christian Family Life Chair of the St. Ignatius Martyr Parish Council of the Catholic Women’s League (CWL), made a presentation to the House of Commons Justice committee considering marriage and homosexual unions in February.  Curley’s CWL council urged her to present on their behalf and after her presentation she received a standing ovation from her council for her courage.  Curley presented a faithful Catholic position on the problems with homosexual behaviour which was deemed hateful by homosexual activist MP Svend Robinson but well received by other committee members. Taking Robinson’s lead, […]

Penalty is More Than That Given to Teachers Guilty of Criminal Acts

Clinton Policy Was to Force Abortion on Unwilling Nations

Winner Has Called the Vatican "an anti- contraceptive Gestapo."

KYOTO HIDDEN COST OF VICTORY?  After the dust settles, Mr. Blair wants Mr. Bush to drop his steadfast opposition to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming says the Washington Times. The Kyoto Protocol is wildly popular in Britain largely because the country seems to lack scientists courageous enough to point out that the government’s alarmist view of climate change is without merit.  https://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20030415-23117866.htm   THE LIBERAL ARTS AND MORALITY Sexual morality is at an all-time low…and is sinking further with each passing generation. Peter Kreeft argues that the drop in morality is connected to the disintegration of the liberal arts.  […]

NEW YORK, April 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homosexual man in New York is a legal spouse and able to sue St. Vincent’s Hospital for medical negligence leading to his homosexual partner’s death, a New York court has ruled. Lambda Legal, a homosexual activist law firm, which represents the man, said the ruling is the first in the nation to recognize homosexual couples who have a Vermont civil union as spouses outside of Vermont.  In the decision, issued late Monday and being published Friday, Nassau County Supreme Court Justice John P. Dunne noted that “common-law” spouses from other states are […]

SCOTTSDALE, April 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Christian legal defence fund is spreading the word on American university campuses that Christians need not endure discrimination without recourse to legal assistance in defence of their rights   The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is a national legal organization based in Scottsdale, Arizona. This week the group put out advertisements at five state universities soliciting complaints from students who believe they have suffered “anti-Christian bigotry” on campus.  “Students must understand that the protections of the First Amendment do not stop at the university gate,” said Benjamin W. Bull, chief counsel for ADF. “In […]

ST. PAUL, April 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a victory for Minnesota pro-lifers, Governor Tim Pawlenty, a Republican, has signed into law an informed consent bill requiring hospitals and abortion clinics to provide certain information, with a 24-hour waiting period, before having an abortion, effective July 1.  “It’s a moderate, reasonable piece of legislation and I’m going to sign it,” the governor told reporters. Eighteen other states have adopted informed consent and waiting-periods; West Virginia legislators approved one earlier this year.  “If ever there is a time to reconsider or to take an extra moment – what if it is […]

BETHESDA, April 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers have announced that the human genome sequence is now almost completely deciphered. The decoding of three billion letters of the genetic code in human DNA was completed two years ahead of schedule thanks to advances in computer technology, and gives scientists “the chance to explore everything that is genetically [pre-]determined about our lives,” according to a BBC report.  Researchers are already working on a multitude of biomedical projects to find the genetic roots of diseases like diabetes, leukemia and eczema. “Now they have a highly polished end product which will assist them even […]

Dating or Not Dating is Strongest Predictor of Teen Sex

BOULDER, CO., April 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A nursing assistant who went to authorities after a nursing home patient died a suspicious death has been fired.  Karmon Babcock, said she was terminated from Terrace Heights Care Center after she reported that a patient was left to choke on her own vomit and that paperwork was later destroyed.  The patient, Barbara Busch Endres, 67, had requested she receive CPR in case of an emergency.  She died March 9 and her death certificate indicated she died of cardiac arrest.  However, a state health department investigation found Endres was not properly resuscitated after […]

Constitutional Lawyer Argues Change Would Require Constitutional Amendment

DON’T TURN IRAQ OVER TO THE UN https://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id=193AAD7A-80E1-496A-8436-DBFE46BD5676   INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD INSTALLS NEW EURO REGION HEAD IPPF has announced the appointment of Vicky Claeys as the new Regional Director of the European Network of IPPF. She replaces Lyn Thomas who now serves as the Deputy Director-General of the Federation.  https://ippfnet.ippf.org/pub/IPPF_News/News_Details.asp?ID=2718   BIHAR INDIA ANNOUNCES FIRST SUCCESSFUL TEST-TUBE BABY https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=43212389   SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE INVESTIGATING DUMPING OF BODIES OF ABORTED BABIES https://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=500&fArticleId=131287   LEARN HOW SPYWARE INFECTS COMPUTERS AND HOW TO GET RID OF IT Spyware https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,978170,00.asp Spyware: It’s lurking in your machine https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,978161,00.asp

1,500 PRO-LIFERS MARCH IN CHICAGO ON ROE V WADE ANNIVERSARY SATURDAY https://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/041303_ns_prolife.html   ARKANSAS HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES PARENTAL CONSENT BILL https://www.gomemphis.com/mca/midsouth_news/article/0,1426,MCA_1497_1879838,00.html   CATHOLIC LAW SCHOOL FORBIDS FELLOWSHIP LAW STUDENTS FROM ADVOCATING FOR ABORTION https://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/opinion/local2/region/5574752.htm   THE SCOURGE OF SEXUAL TRAFFICKING https://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=3737&department=BLI&categoryid=dotcommentary

HOUSTON, April 11, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – District Court Judge John Coselli, Jr. has ordered mediation to resolve a class action lawsuit filed by 145 women who were injured by abortions and are suing the state of Texas for failing to enforce its own abortion regulations.  The plaintiffs suffered a variety of physical and emotional injuries, including ruptured uterus, sterility, severe guilt and depression. Their suit alleges that the state failed to properly regulate informed consent; failed to investigate unlicensed abortion facilities or to regulate licensed clinics; failed to prosecute illegal activities; failed to crack down on unlicensed individuals carrying out […]

MANILA, April 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Authorities in the Philippines have arrested six suspected abortionists and two middlemen who were part of an illegal abortion racket, in a remarkable entrapment operation at a clandestine clinic in Obando, Bulacan.  Chief Supt. Eduardo Matillano, director of the National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIGD), named the suspected abortionists—six females and two female middlemen—arrested by agents of the CIDG’s Women and Children’s Concern Division at their hideout, a rented apartment that doubled as a black market abortuary.  An eight-man CIDG squad engaged the help of a two-month-pregnant wife of a policeman in […]

CHRISTCHURCH, April 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Zealand doctors have issued a surprising warning about the abortifacient morning after pill. Mifepristone or RU-486, has been touted by its advocates as a “quicker, easier, safer” alternative to surgical abortion. The country’s High Court ruled last week that women who take Mifepristone do not have to stay in an authorized clinic until the baby is expelled—meaning that women will experience a chemically-induced miscarriage, possibly alone, at home, at work, or in a public washroom.  But Dr. Rob Aitken, medical director at Lyndhurst Hospital in Christchurch, said: “It’s certainly not a quick fix. […]

NAIROBI, April 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA), the Anglican Church of Kenya, the Methodist, and Catholic Church have come together to denounce foreign aid organizations which attempt to suggest condoms as the way to combat AIDS.  Muslim religious leaders also objected that condoms were for use only within marriage.  Kicking off a government initiative to combat the deadly virus, the churches noted that fighting AIDS with treatment for those afflicted with the disease plus abstinence and chastity were the only ways forward.  The Moderator of the PCEA General Assembly, the Right Rev Dr Jesse […]

WASHINGTON, April 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Family Research Council (FRC) reports on a new study released today that finds abstinence is the major reason for the falling birth and pregnancy rates among single teenagers. FRC says the study, published in the journal Adolescent and Family Health, is the most extensive yet on this issue. Among unmarried girls, says the study, abstinence accounted for 67 percent of the drop in pregnancies. Previous studies linked falling birth and pregnancy rates to greater use of condoms. See the FRC report at https://www.frc.org/?i=WU03D11   See the study and related documents in Adobe Acrobat […]

WATERLOO, April 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau, who initiated and passed the 1969 legislation that began Canada’s abortion slaughter, is to be posthumously honoured at St. Jerome’s Catholic University in Waterloo, Ontario on May 9-10.  The event, “The Hidden Pierre Trudeau: A conference about his spirituality, his faith, his life, his times,” is sponsored by The Catholic Register, as well as St. Jerome’s.  Keynote speakers at the event include Trudeau’s ‘partner in crime’ in passing the pro-abortion legislation – former Prime Minister John Turner, also a Catholic.  Trudeau’s controversial stands on sexuality including the legalization […]

Harry Potter, The Star Wars Series, The Matrix Are Signs of Renewal of Gnosticism

22 DEMOCRATS VOTE TO PRESERVE SEX TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION https://www.frc.org/gov/l03d002.cfm   DEMOCRATS TAKE AIM AT NEXT JUDICIAL TARGET https://www.frc.org/?i=WU03D10

"Heterosexism is far more insidious than homophobia…It's insidious and pervasive."

"to recognize lesbian and gay rights, it's absolutely unfathomable", says MLA

UNAIDS Head Stephen Lewis Denies AIDS Positive Mothers Baby Formula

Self-described Catholic is "proud" to be "pro-choice"

LONDON, April 11, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-lifers seeking to have an abortion broadcast on British television have received a setback. The House of Lords has supported the BBC and other television broadcasters who are refusing to put the “grossly offensive” footage on TV in 2001. A Court of Appeal judgement ruled the censorship illegal last year, and would have allowed the Pro-Life Alliance to broadcast the abortion as part of its election ads for television. But the BBC and others appealed and the Lords quashed the free speech ruling this week.  Lord Justice Laws of the Court of Appeal branded […]

AUSTIN, April 11, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A court hearing was held today to certify a class action lawsuit by women injured by abortion against the State of Texas, State Department of Health, and the Texas Medical Disclosure Panel.  Women who have been injured by abortion in Texas filed suit against the state for failing to enforce existing abortion facility regulations to protect the health of women seeking abortions. A hearing will be held on whether the class action can proceed.  The plaintiffs are women who sought and received abortions in Texas and received a variety of physical and emotional injuries, […]

NEW YORK, April 11, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York City Council voted yesterday to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto of legislation requiring hospitals with city contracts to provide abortifacient “emergency contraception” to rape victims. A related bill, the veto for which was also overturned, required pharmacies to post the availability of such abortifacients.  The law relating to hospitals, which denies the ability of Catholic hospitals to function while maintaining their religious convictions, did not receive much media coverage.  A two page article in the New York Times which discussed the council’s override of three of Bloomberg’s veto’s devoted a scant […]

Catholic Group Demands of Government What Pope Has Specifically Denounced

EDINBURCH, April 11, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ian Wilmut, the scientist credited with cloning Dolly the sheep, has announced he will seek permission to create a human clone of a Lou Gehrig patient in order to experiment on the cloned embryo.  The Wall Street Journal reports that Wilmut does not intend to implant the cloned embryo, but to compare the embryo with the disease to healthy embryos.  (Wall Street Journal, April 11, 2003)

PITTSBURGH, April 11, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study published today in the journal science identifies reasons why cloning of primates – monkeys – differs from that of sheep and which make cloning of primates nearly impossible. Analysis of hundreds of failed attempts to clone rhesus monkeys, found that the removal of nuclei from oocytes stripped proteins essential for proper cell division.  The researchers said that the findings put “a nail in the coffin of reproductive cloning.”  However, the same scientists continue to support therapeutic cloning.  See the Post-Gaxette coverage:  https://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20030411clonescip1.asp

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers at Advanced Cell Technologies, a Massachusetts-based cloning company, have put down a cloned Asian banteng calf because it was born twice the normal size. Abnormal size is a common cause of death in cloned animals, according to Dr. Robert Lanza. “A banteng should only be 40 pounds (20 kg). The first calf weighed 40 pounds, but the second was 80 pounds, almost twice what is normal. … The vets at the zoo decided for humane reasons that it should be euthanized,” he said. “You don’t ever know with cloned animals – the first […]

PITTSBURGH, April 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Pittsburgh has announced that it is part of a group of investors taking over an American subsidiary of the British company that helped clone Dolly the sheep. It is part of a trend in which university-based researchers are turning to private financing to engage in human embryonic stem cell experimentation and animal-to-human organ transplants. Regenecor Holdings, the company now co-owned by the University, has purchased PPL Therapeutics, Inc., of Blacksburg, Va., a subsidiary of Britain's PPL Therapeutics Plc, the Dolly company. It raises genetically engineered pigs, develops stem cell technology and […]

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President George W. Bush has nominated Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor, 40, for a seat on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Pro-abortionists were quick to pounce. “Many of Bush’s appellate court nominees have troubling records on a handful of issues,” said Nan Aron of the Alliance for Justice, a liberal lobby group in Washington. “With Pryor’s record there is something to offend virtually every constituency in the country.”  Some speculate that Pryor, who has a long record of public pro-life positions, is eventually destined for a seat on the United […]

Totalitarian Type Policy Will Not Even Exempt Home Schooled Children

BRATISLAVA, April 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Slovak Christian Democratic Party (CDP) has launched a constitutional challenge against legal abortion.  Last month the Parliament rejected a CDP bill seeking to ban most abortions.  A 1958 law, amended in 1986, allows for first trimester abortions (till 12 weeks).  However, Article 15 of the country’s 1992 constitution safeguards the right to life including the life of the unborn.  The case is expected to be heard later this month.  Inspired by Slovak pro-lifers, a pro-life effort has commenced in the Czech Republic.  However, pro-abortion activists who concede that right-to-life will likely prevail in […]

CHICAGO, April 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chicago scientists are boasting that they have used a combination of in vitro fertilization and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to screen out embryos with potential disability and eliminate them. Published in the current edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, the study says a birth defect which is tied, in two thirds of cases, to the presence of a third 13th chromosome (called trisomy 13), was prevented in a born child by screening embryos prior to implantation. The condition known as holoprosencephaly reportedly causes death shortly after birth in 80% of cases and in […]

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Right to Life Committee is gearing up for the last fight on the partial-birth abortion issue.  As the U.S. Congress will be on Spring recess from April 11-28, the partial birth abortion legislation will not be taken up in the House before early May.  On March 13, the U.S. Senate approved the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (S. 3).  On March 26, the House Judiciary Committee approved its version of the ban (H.R. 760).  NRLC has urged pro-lifers to prepare for the battle by educating the public on the issue.  NRLC warns that […]

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Robert Knight, of The Culture and Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women for America, states in a commentary published yesterday that we should be happy private Jessica Lynch was rescued in Iraq but, he also asks, “what was she doing there in the first place?”  This latest article adds to the growing controversy about the wisdom or lack thereof of the U.S. armed forces increasingly placing women and especially mothers closer to combat situations.  Knight writes that radical feminist and former Congressman Patricia Schroeder has responded to the latest female battle stories by […]

TORONTO, April 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On April 24, at the Spirale Banquet Hall in Toronto, one of the world’s longest running and most successful pro-life newspapers, The Interim, will host a gala dinner and remembrance of its extraordinary history.  Months of preparation have culminated in a wonderful and fun agenda for the evening including comments from special guests Campaign Life Coalition president Jim Hughes, Real Women co-co-founder and vice-president Gwen Landolt, long-time pro-life missionary Fr Ted Colleton, renowned author Dr. Donald DeMarco, and Catholic Insight editor Fr Alphonse De Valk. As well, former Interim editors will briefly reminisce about […]

"Tony Blair's government… makes Britain a pariah state on the issue.""

All-party agreement to Vote on Rob Merrifield Motion on April 29

OTTAWA, April 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – There are only 34 days remaining until the National March for Life in Ottawa. Organizers are asking pro-life Canadians to make plans NOW to attend this important, national event. Pro-life Members of Parliament are said to always receive a deeply appreciated boost from the visible presence of the marchers on the Hill. The March events provide them with special, if not essential encouragement to persevere in their difficult battles, such as those on Bill C-13 and other life and family issues currently before the House. Organizers emphasize that Parliament, the Senate and all Canadians […]

VOTE NO IN ONLINE POLL ASKING IF NON-DOCTORS SHOULD PRESCRIBE ABORTIFACIENTS https://www.jaapa.com/be_core/j/index.jsp   BILLS BANNING ALL HUMAN CLONING AND FETAL TISSUE RESEARCH REACH SENATE IN NEBRASKA https://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=36&u_sid=706571

CANBERRA, April 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australia’s immigration system has rejected an application for asylum, or refugee status, based on the applicants’ homosexuality. The same-sex couple, from Bangladesh, has appealed the tribunal ruling that said even if the two men could not live in an openly same-sex relationship in Bangladesh, they would have no problems if they were discreet about their homosexuality, CNSNews reports.  Australia’s immigration ministry says the couple has no case under the U.N. Convention on Refugees, which requires a “well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or […]

VAN NUYS, Calif., April 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the popular radio host, profiles the latest in explicit sex education trends in a WorldNetDaily feature this week. Recommendations such as, “homosexual love relationships can be as satisfying as heterosexual relationships,” and that “touching or rubbing one’s own genitals to feel good is called masturbation,” are the tip of the iceberg.  “Even though I’ve been warning parents about this attack on their children for years on my radio program,” Schlessinger writes, “it seems to come as a surprise to so many parents that their children are being exposed to […]

Women lobby to expel abortionist who pulled out internal organs

ORISSA, April 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 65-year-old woman in India’s eastern state of Orissa has become the oldest woman in the world to give birth.  Mrs. Satyabhama Mahapatra, married for 50 years but reportedly childless until now, was delivered of a healthy six-pound boy by Caesarean section.  The woman had undergone in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment, with ova donated by her 26-year-old niece together with the niece’s husband’s sperm. Agarwal said doctors had tried to dissuade the woman and her 68-year-old husband, Krishnachandra Mahapatra, from having a baby at their age, but relented after they insisted.  A doctor admitted […]

Propaganda Used To Goad Populations into Permanent Sterilization

TORONTO, April 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Daddies and Pappas 2B is allegedly the first course in North America geared to homosexual men, providing practical instruction on obtaining children.  The course encourages homosexual men to make use of surrogacy, adoption and co-parenting with another couple to have children.  The course is a take-off of a similar course directed at lesbians called Dykes Planning Tykes.  See the National Post coverage:  https://www.nationalpost.com/artslife/story.html?id=1CE0EB8C-268C-4AEB-B5DC-73AF9B785306

LONDON, April 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dolly the cloned sheep has been stuffed and placed on exhibit at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.  The famed cloned sheep who was born in an experiment in which 275 cloned sheep embryos were killed in cloning attempts, had to be put down in February at the tender age of six due to lung disease which followed another diagnosis of arthritis.  Dolly’s fame as the first cloned adult mammal raised hopes for successful cloning however, her premature death and the fact that she was the sole survivor of 276 trial embryos has seriously reduced […]

Researcher claims it is "the first human cloned embryo for reproductive purposes"

No Money in Adult Stem Cells - Don't need to be Purchased and Don't Require Costly Meds

DR. ALAN C. CARLSON ON MOMMIES GOING TO WAR It’s “integration” taken to an absurd end, argues historian Allen Carlson of the Family Research Council, a pro-traditional family think tank. “We’ve let an ideological drive to achieve perfect equality get in the way of common sense. … No other nation has ever put so many women in combat or near-combat, and children are paying the price,” he says. https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-04-07-military-moms_x.htm   DR. LAURA WARNS ABOUT DANGEROUS SCHOOL SEX-ED PROGRAMS https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31916   REPUBLICAN PARTY CHIEF MEETS WITH GAY LOBBY https://www.frc.org/?i=WU03D06&CFID=1823716&CFTOKEN=4390068   URBAN MYTHS WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY https://www.family.org/cforum/hotissues/A0007214.html   GLOBAL AIDS BILL […]

STEINBACH, April 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Mennonite Heritage Village was the scene of a House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights hearing this week on same-sex marriage.  University of Manitoba law professor Lisa Fainstein claimed that denying marriage to homosexuals is analagous to banning interracial marriage. “Let us remember there was a time when a person of colour could not marry a white,” she said—a completely false claim since interracial marriage has never been illegal in Canada. She claimed that since neither procreation nor sexual activity are requirements for marriage, and the lack of either is […]

LYON, April 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning U.S.-born scientist who 50 years ago with Francis Crick unraveled the double-helix structure of DNA, told a gathering of scientists in Lyon this week that only individuals have a right to make decisions about genetic research and manipulation. “I'm against society imposing rules on individuals for how they want to use genetic knowledge. We're too multicultural to say we know how other people should behave. The state should stay out of genetics,” the 75-year-old scientist told reporters. “Civilization is about giving people the right to try and improve things.” […]

No exceptions on grounds of conscience or religion

Teacher told students about her lesbian lifestyle when asked

MELBOURNE, April 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Drs Evelyn and John Billings celebrated 50 years of untiring work developing and making known the Billings Ovulation Method on six continents.  Delegates from over 30 countries attended the 50th Anniversary of the Billings Method International Jubilee Conference held in Melbourne, Australia 28th – 30th March 2003.  Pope John Paul II recognized their achievements by conferring on them the award of St Gregory. Dr Evelyn Billings received the award of Papal Dame while Dr John Billings received a Star to accompany his already held award of Papal Knight.  A Conference report is available at:  […]

Vatican, Apr. 8 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – A high-ranking American official will visit the Vatican on Wednesday, April 9, in an evident bid to repair frayed relations between the Holy See and the White House.  John Bolton, the Undersecretary of State for arms control, will meet with Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States. Bolton will be the first US representative to visit the Vatican since the beginning of the war in Iraq.  Vatican officials expect Bolton to re-state the American rationale for military action against the regime of Saddam Hussein. Sources inside the Vatican, noting Bolton’s credentials in […]

BALTIMORE, April 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Review, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Baltimore published an article March 27 entitled “Cardinal Keeler assails Sen. Mikulski’s vote against partial-birth abortion ban.”  The article refers to a March 21 letter in which Cardinal Keeler writes U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), a Catholic living in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, regarding her vote against a ban on the late-term abortion procedure.  “I am deeply troubled by your continuing insistence that such a heinous procedure should be available in the United States of America,” said Cardinal Keeler.  The paper notes that […]

LONDON, April 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court decision from last year which banned the creation of 'designer babies'. The court overturned a ban on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) issuing a licence for human tissue typing following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in order to treat thalassaemia sufferer Zain Hashmi. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) warned that the ruling “is the thin edge of the wedge to allowing embryos to be created and selected for non-medical reasons. Many embryos will now be created – and die […]

OTTAWA, April 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal MP Paul Szabo, believed to be the foremost expert in the House of Commons on stem cell research, has brought to light new and very disturbing information about Bill C-13, An Act Respecting Assisted Human Reproductive Technologies and Related Research.  Wording in cloning and stem cell bills from the legislatures of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Texas, have been crafted to allow the artificial manufacture of cloned human beings to be implanted into a uterus at the embryonic stage and harvested for research and killed at any time from the embryonic period […]

LOS ANGELES CARDINAL MAHONY MAY BE NEXT LEADING U.S. CATHOLIC PRELATE TO FACE RESIGNATION OVER SCANDALS The very liberal Cardinal and his priest and bishop friends from St. John’s Seminary College in Camarillo are under close legal scrutiny for alleged repeated negligence regarding abusing clergy.  https://www.laweekly.com/ink/printme.php?eid=42623   https://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=2876&department=CFI&categoryid=papers 15 Good Reasons to Oppose ‘Sexual Orientation’ (Homosexuality) Codes in Schools   https://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=3266&department=CFI&categoryid=papers Anatomy of a Smear:  How ‘Gay’ Activists, the Media and the White House Shredded Jerry Thacker https://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=2792&department=CFI&categoryid=papers So, You Want To File a Broadcast Indecency Complaint?

Boston, April 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Feb. 26 Massachusetts News reported that Judge Edith Jones Told Harvard Law School students that the American legal system is “way out of kilter” and “corrupt beyond recognition”.  Jones was speaking to the University’s Federalist Society on February 26 and said “the question of what is morally right is routinely sacrificed to what is politically expedient. The change has come because legal philosophy has descended to nihilism”. She continued, “Having lost sight of the moral and religious foundations of the rule of law, we are vulnerable to the destruction of our freedom, our […]

TAMPA, April 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The lawyer for severely handicapped Terri Schiavo is making a last effort to convince the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Florida to overturn a circuit judge’s order that the woman’s feeding tube should be removed so that she will be “allowed to die.” Her husband, Michael, has been battling to secure her death for years—even though his wife’s parents insist that if proper treatment were resumed (her husband stopped it) Terri would again show signs of improvement as before. The decision is expected in the next few weeks.  “The fact that she cannot […]

MONTREAL, April 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fertility clinics across Canada are going ahead with human embryo screening to weed out genetic imperfections in the laboratory, even though the Canadian government says it plans “firm restrictions” on the practice, sometimes referred to under the euphemism “designer babies.”  Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is similar to standard prenatal testing, but with one difference—the testing for abnormalities is done before a woman is necessarily pregnant but is done in conjunction with in vitro fertilization. The embryos are screened and selected for transfer to the woman’s uterus. It is used to weed out some 100 […]

Has Acted Almost Exact Opposite to George Bush on Life and Family Issues

LONDON, April 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A survey of Catholic priests in England and Wales has revealed that 62 per cent reject the Church’s teaching on contraception with some 43% “actively opposing” it.  The survey, which was responded to by over 25% of all priests, indicated that 21% believed practicing homosexuals should be permitted in the priesthood.  Twenty-five per cent said they believed a woman could be ordained a bishop and 40% were in favour of permitting divorce. One in ten did not believe pedophilia should bar priests from active ministry.  Regarding homosexuality, younger priests demonstrated far more divergence from […]

USAID clearly implicated

LifeSite, April 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – National Geographic’s Kids magazine has just sent its young readers a special issue titled ‘Save the Earth’.  An 11 page section of the edition, headlined ‘Save the Planet’, discusses ‘5 Big Problems Facing the Earth’. The ‘Alert missions’ given to the young readers in 5 brief articles are global warming, pollution, declining biodiversity, overpopulation, and habitat destruction. The Global Warming article warns many scientists predict that “temperatures may continue to rise by as much as ten degrees Fahrenheit over the next hundred years” and that “heat is melting glaciers and polar ice sheets, which […]

"History Shows It was a Wonderful Period of Plenty"

MONROE, Wisc., April 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Pat Roggensack, 62, a state Appeals Court judge from Madison, has defeated an openly pro-abortion rival in the state election to succeed retiring Justice William Bablitch for a 10-year term on the Wisconsin state Supreme Court.  Roggensack followed an election strategy of keeping ‘mum’ about her views on abortion, playing up her resume and refusing to take positions on big issues. “It is not good for the independence of the court,” Roggensack said, to reveal all of one’s opinions on issues that might come before the court at a future date.  The result […]

CONCORD, New Hampshire, April 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Episcopalian Diocese of New Hampshire, which has been a separate Anglican jurisdiction since 1802, appears ready to name a homosexual who left his wife to run off with a male lover as its next Archbishop.  Canon Gene Robinson, 55, currently the second most senior cleric in what media are calling a “liberal” diocese, is on a shortlist of candidates to become the next bishop.  For more coverage:  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2003/04/04/nbish04.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/04/ixhome.html

Oxford University study finds substantial increased risk

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Opposition Moves that Bill Be Sent Back To Committee for Further Amendment

OTTAWA, April 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal MP Paul Szabo, who has written a book on stem cell research and related technologies, told LifeSite today that human cloning is unfortunately still permitted by the current wording of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, Bill C-13, despite the successful passage of his amendment 13, which attempted to ban all types of cloning.  Last week, Mr. Szabo’s amendment to the creation of “a human clone by using any technique” passed in a narrow vote in the House.  However, Mr. Szabo notes that since the definition of cloning in the bill is still faulty, […]

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN SOUTHERN AFRICA RECONSIDERING HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE https://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,6119,2-7-1442_1342682,00.html   MYTHS ABOUT CARDINAL LAW’S RESIGNATION George Weigel writes, “However slow it has sometimes been to measure accurately the breadth and depth of the crisis in the American Church,  the Vatican is not clueless.”  The The Vatican was not influenced by a public letter signed by fifty-eight Boston-area priests and Law himself decided Law’s resignation.  https://www.eppc.org/publications/xq/ASP/pubsID.1365/qx/pubs_viewdetail.htm   THE END OF “I’M PERSONALLY OPPOSED BUT…”  https://www.eppc.org/publications/xq/ASP/pubsID.1367/qx/pubs_viewdetail.htm

Canada's most articulate critic of judicial activism speaks out

BERNE, April 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Swiss authorities have lost track of how many “surplus” human embryos are in storage in Swiss laboratories. Switzerland’s “usually scrupulous statistics gatherers,” SwissInfo says, “have failed to keep a tally,” spreading alarm through both sides of the debate on the merits and ethics of human experimentation.  To date the only numbers that have been made public by the Federal Health Office are estimates of how many embryos are produced each year, based on reporting from local canton authorities.  For SwissInfo coverage:  https://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=1738870

STAMFORD, April 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-lifers marched on the Connecticut state capitol this week to deliver a message to legislators. They want parental consent legislation for abortion and a stop to same-sex marriage legislation, the Stamford Advocate reports.  Some 200 Catholics (likely more than 200, because the media always under-report numbers at rallies they disagree with) lobbied for legislation requiring parental consent for teenagers seeking abortion, a 24-hour waiting period and a ban on late-term abortion. “I believe this is a fundamental human value, it’s not a Catholic value,” said Msgr. Peter Cullen, a local Catholic leader.  For local […]

WASHINGTON, April 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview with Zenit News, U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, a Catholic, responded to the question “How can the Church and lay Catholic leaders help Catholic politicians in their task of being faithful to moral principles?”  Santorum responded: “Primarily, Catholic politicians will be faithful to moral principles if the Church, and in particular, the clergy, are truly faithful to the teachings of the magisterium of the Catholic Church.  “Unfortunately, the greatest problem we have today is the lack of orthodox clergy who hold to the true teachings of the Church. Many within the Church […]

OTTAWA, April 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has published a list of “Resources on Marriage” on its website in order to assist faithful in defending marriage from redefinition by homosexual activists.  Included among the resources are four Backgrounders on Marriage which have just been released by The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF).  1 – Catholic Teaching and Public Statements on Marriage;  2 – The Law on Marriage in Canada;  3 – Recent Statistics About Marriage and other Unions; and 4 – Frequently asked questions about granting same-sex partners the legal right to marry. […]

BAYREUTH, Germany, April 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The German Catholic Bishops Conference and the Evangelical Church in Germany have joined in an effort to promote the upcoming May 3-10 pro-life week. “The Possibilities and Limits of Medical Progress,” this year’s theme for the event indicates the focus on embryonic stem cell research and such illicit forms of modern technology which chase the “dream of perfect humans” at the expense of life.  Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German Bishops’ Conference and Praeses Manfred Kock, chairman of the Evanglical Church in Germany, launched the pro-life week preparations at a press conference […]

WASHINGTON, April 3, 2003 (C-Fam.org/LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move that took opponents by surprise, more than one hundred volunteers lobbied on Capitol Hill Tuesday in support of President George W. Bush’s pro-life, pro-family positions in the international arena. Organizers chose the day to overlap a planned lobbying push of international pro-abortion groups, who feel increasingly threatened by President Bush’s commitment to a new set of pro-life development priorities for the third world.   The lobbyists, organized and led by the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, the Eagle Forum, and the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, wore bright […]

TORONTO, April 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ontario Pro-life supporters are being encouraged to make their views known to the justice system on the “sentence” given the woman convicted of a pepper spray attack on Toronto crisis pregnancy counsellor Robert Hinchey last week. Carol Ann Trueman was given an absolute discharge in a Toronto courtroom last Friday, four days after pleading guilty to a charge of assault.  Trueman admittedly pepper-sprayed Hinchey at a St. Michael’s Hospital clinic last August, leaving the Aid to Women counselor blinded and in pain for a period of about 15 minutes. Hinchey suffered a scratched eyeball […]

ALBANY, April 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York State Catholic Conference condemned a bill passed by the state Assembly March 19 that authorizes the creation of human life by cloning for use in medical experiments. The Conference called the bill a moral outrage. Richard E. Barnes, executive director of the New York State Catholic Conference said, “This bill is a moral outrage, made worse by the deceptive nature of the arguments in its favor. The sponsors are calling it a 'cloning ban,' but in fact the exact opposite is true. According to the language of the bill, doctors in […]

"Doctors take an oath to 'DO NO HARM'. The Government should take the same oath"

OTTAWA, April 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sheila Copps, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, announced this week that her department is about to place a statue of Pierre Elliott Trudeau on Parliament Hill. “It speaks to showing our heroes and respecting our prime ministers,” said Copps. “His time in politics was a time of great vision for the country and I think obviously, if you see the response of the people when he died, he’s a person who is remembered. This is a tangible way of remembering him.”  Pro-lifers well know the sinister backdrop to all of Trudeau’s achievements. As Minister […]

LONDON, UK, April 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British researchers are confirming what many traditional educators already knew: that boys are able to achieve higher grades in school if they are taught in single-sex classes and given subject matter that is not primarily of interest to girls.  The government commissioned the study from researchers at Homerton College in the University of Cambridge, in order to determine why British schoolgirls now outperform their male classmates at every level, and what may be done about the trend.  The initial report summary, based on observation of four schools, said that “using single-sex groups was […]

HOUSTON, April 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Texas district judge has dismissed a “divorce” application by two men who entered a civil union in Vermont last year and now want the union dissolved in Texas.  Beaumont State District Judge Tom Mulvaney had decided to grant the divorce but Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott intervened, saying the court is not able to make a divorce where no marriage exists.  For local coverage:  https://timesargus.nybor.com/Local/Story/63141.html

SPRINGFIELD, April 2, 2003 (LifeSitNews.com) – Pro-lifers who protest outside abortion clinics could face 30 days in jail and a costly lawsuit under a law passed by Illinois legislators this week. The bill got approval from the House 62 votes to 49, and now goes to the state Senate.  Rep. Elaine Nekritz, a Democrat from Des Plaines and a key proponent, said pro-lifers must be prevented from “obstructing” access to clinics, even though the number of cases in which such a complaint is alleged have been declining.  “There is a right for peaceful access for someone to move forward and […]

JACKSON, Miss., April 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pregnant teenager who is being pressured by her parents to have an abortion was able to obtain a temporary restraining order to block her parents’ wishes—because she wants to have the child. A preliminary hearing will be held next week in federal court.  Michael DePrimo, a lawyer with the American Family Association’s Center for Law and Policy, says the 16 year-old was scheduled to have an abortion this week. But she managed to reach DePrimo’s pro-life legal group to intervene. “A mother’s desire to protect her baby is among the strongest in […]

NEW YORK, April 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – GravityTeen.com, an online destination for teenagers, unveiled its Web site dedicated to building self-esteem and offering advice to Gen Y kids facing challenging problems. GravityTeen is based on the belief that increasing self-esteem and personal power in teenagers, through positive peer advice and real life stories, will cultivate the tools and strength needed for teens to make educated and well thought-out decisions.  Teens faced with peer pressure, pregnancy issues, or major, life-altering choices have turned to GravityTeen to gain advice and an extra boost of self-esteem. The enormous amount of daily responses from […]

VANCOUVER, April 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Michael Ingham, the Anglican Bishop of New Westminster diocese who has caused a near-schism in the Anglican church in Canada by insisting on performing blessings of homosexual unions in churches, has threatened those parishes which remain pro-family with ‘discipline’.  Ingham has issued a strongly-worded letter to eleven of the Diocese’s clergy – who minister to 23% of the diocese’s attending population – asking them whether or not they affirm their obedience to him and reject the March 23 resolutions of their vestries accepting an offer of episcopal oversight from Yukon Bishop Terry Buckle.  Bishop […]

NEW YORK, April 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) complained Monday that only about $9.4 billion was spent on “population and reproductive health” in 2001.  The group says the Cairo Conference agreed to put $17 billion a year at the service of population control.  In 2000 it is estimated that $11.2 billion was spent.  Addressing the Commission on Population and Development, UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid trotted out the numerous programs through which UNFPA has surreptitiously supported abortion and population control.  Such programs include addressing “maternal mortality”, “HIV/AIDS”, “reproductive health services”, and “girl’s education”. Responding […]

B.C. College of Physicians Executive, Suzuki Foundation Co-chair, U.N. Lobbyist

FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL LAUNCHES LOBBYING AND AD BLITZ AGAINST UNFPA FUNDING https://www.frc.org/get/n03c017.cfm   CHRETIEN, CANADA’S UNCROWNED MONARCH https://www.citizenscentre.com/stories/p04.html   THE CANADIAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS – A JUDICIAL COUP D’ETAT https://www.citizenscentre.com/stories/p08.html   BUSH FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE DRASTICALLY WATERED DOWN BY LIBERAL GROUPS https://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/archive/200304/NAT20030401b.html

But Has Not Retracted It's Neutral Stance on Homosexual Civil Unions

Please note that the March 27, 2003 story on the stance of the Quebec bishops’ conference on homosexual civil unions was based on information from March 2002, rather than this year.  LifeSite received a news tip claiming that the information was current and the link to the source document still on the Quebec Bishops’ website was indeed March, but March 2002 rather than March 2003.  While the Bishops’ Conference has not retracted its stance “not opposed” to homosexual civil unions, they have noted that they consider marriage as the union of a man and a woman.  An article dated March […]

NEW YORK, April 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A March 30 Sunday New York Times feature reflected astonishment among baby boomer parents that their children—“teenagers and college-age Americans” are now “more conservative about abortion rights than their counterparts were a generation ago.”  Students are reaching conclusions independent of their parents’ pro-abortion mindset, and the Times quotes parents and “experts” to explain why. The main explanation, according to boomers, seems to be that today’s youth did not experience the horrors of life in America for women before Roe v. Wade. Another explanation is the undue influence of the pro-life movement, raising awareness […]

Identifies UNFPA As Participating in China's Coercive Population Control Program