Articles for Month: June 2003

The following report is based on viewing of the still on-going live debate (at the time of writing) today in The Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights in Ottawa. OTTAWA, June 12, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A motion by NDP MP Svend Robinson which asked the The Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights to request that the government avoid appealing the Ontario court decision in favour of gay marriage ignited a heated debate today in the Committee. The debate lasted most of the afternoon and ended with what some considered underhanded political manoeuvring by gay rights activist Svend Robinson […]

A conservative Ethicist argues on behalf of the embryo https://www.msnbc.com/news/920617.asp   Vaccines fueling autism epidemic?  Report: U.S. infants exposed to mercury beyond EPA, FDA limits https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32988   Gauging the Media’s Nasty Impact on Young Minds More Studies Point Up Negative Effects of Violence in Entertainment   https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=36832   Justice won’t bar ‘gay pride’ event after all Spokesman clarifies agency won’t pay for celebration https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33017   Are U.S. Taxpayers Funding ‘Gay Pride’ Activism at Department of Transportation?  https://www.cwfa.org/articles/4100/CFI/cfreport/index.htm   Email Spam a Growing and serious Problem for Youths Says Study https://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030609.gtspamjune9/BNStory/Technology/  AT&T Pro-Gay Policy Challenged https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0026382.html

London, June 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Telegraph reports that the cross-party Commons health committee report says Britain faces a public health emergency caused by the failure of ministers over many years to confront the issue of sexual disease.  The committee members recommend the immediate introduction of a national screening programme for chlamydia, a disease that infects one in 10 sexually active young men and women and can cause infertility.  MPs also criticise sex education for placing a “mistaken emphasis” on sex at the expense of young people’s wider concerns about relationships.  The Telegraph report says syphilis rates in Britain […]

San Francis, June 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Confirming LifeSite’s previous warning about serious on-going efforts to legitimize adult-child sex, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) recently sponsored a symposium in which participants discussed the removal of pedophilia from the psychiatric manual of mental disorders.  Cybercast news Service reports today that Psychiatrists at the May 19 conference in San Francisco proposed removing several long-recognized categories of mental illness – including pedophilia, exhibitionism, fetishism, transvestism, voyeurism and sadomasochism – from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).  “Normalizing” pedophilia would have enormous implications, especially since civil laws closely follow the scientific […]

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Embryology Authority, granted a licence to Prof Ian Wilmut, the creator of Dolly the sheep, to carry out human parthenogenesis to hopefully boost the supply of human eggs for fertility treatments and help refine plans to use cloning to create stem cells from a patient's own tissue for research and treatments . Suzi Leather, the HFEA chairman, said: “After careful consideration of all the scientific, ethical and medical aspects of the project, the HFEA Licence Committee agreed to grant an initial one-year research licence to the Roslin Institute which is sponsoring Prof Wilmot's research.”

UNITED NATIONS, June 11, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a confidential note from the Bush Administration to European Union governments obtained by the Washington Post, the United States warns the EU that their actions to undermine U.S. efforts to shield Americans from prosecution by the International Criminal Court would be “very damaging.”  Yesterday the U.S. tabled a request to extend for another year a UN Security Council provision exempting U.S. citizens from ICC prosecution.  The resolution (1422) was adopted last July and expires at the end of June.  While the U.S. resolution looks like it will pass, Canada and ambassadors from […]

Student Government Allowed to Ban Images of Aborted Babies

Evangelical and Catholic leaders condemn homosexual marriage ruling