Articles for Month: June 2003

TUSCON, June 5, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, Karen Malec, announced the publication of her article discussing the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, a publication of the Tucson based Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). The article is entitled, “The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link: How Politics Trumped Science and Informed Consent”.  It discusses the epidemiologic evidence of an ABC link; the silence and denial of the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, the American Medical Association and women’s groups; media bias; the […]

Hundreds to Hear Experts Challenge Myths About Homosexuality

WASHINGTON, June 5, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study shows that sexual activity among high school age boys and girls often has harmful emotional and psychological consequences. Sexually active teens are less likely to be happy, more likely to be depressed and more likely to attempt suicide. The majority of sexually active teens state that they regret their initial sexual activity and wish they had waited until they were older before becoming sexually active.  Family Research Council’s Bridget Maher, policy analyst on marriage and family issues, said, “This study is one more reason why abstinence education is a more compassionate […]

WASHINGTON, June 5, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives, by a two-thirds vote (282-139), yesterday joined the Senate in approving a bill to ban partial-birth abortions. The bill (H.R. 760) legally defines a partial-birth abortion as any abortion in which the baby is delivered alive until “in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother,” or if the baby is delivered head first, “the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother,” before being killed.  H.R. 760 would allow the method if it […]

NEW YORK, NY, June 5, 2003 (C-Fam/LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute reports that “on Tuesday, a high ranking UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official called for the legalization of prostitution and for UNICEF to make condoms available ‘for everybody, everywhere and at all times.’ Speaking at the annual session of UNICEF’s Executive Board, Urban Jonsson, UNICEF Eastern and Southern African Regional Director, said that UNICEF would need to pursue such ‘controversial ideas…in the near future if we are to win the war against HIV/AIDS.’”  C-FAM reports that “Johsson urged that UNICEF take actions to ‘de-criminalise sex-work and […]

UNFPA still deviously covering for China's brutal, enforced, one-child policy

OTTAWA, June 5, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the first hour of debate on hate crimes bill C-250 set to take place Friday, one amendment to the bill has already been placed on the Notice Paper.  While this is the only amendment identified thus far, Parliament Hill sources told LifeSite that more amendments are expected.  Liberal MP Derek Lee (Scarborough-Rouge River) has submitted an amendment seeking to protect freedom of religion.  The amendment seeks to protect religious expression or expression of “opinion based on a belief in a religious text.”  See the amendment online at:  https://www.parl.gc.ca/37/2/parlbus/chambus/house/orderpaper/112_2003-06-05/ordrs112-E.htm (scroll to bottom)  See related […]

OTTAWA, June 5, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activist MP Svend Robinson is once again drawing the ire of family supportive Canadians.  Just as his hates crimes Bill C-250 is in its final stages of consideration in Parliament, he has introduced a motion seeking total abortion on demand in Canada.  Motion 440, introduced by Robinson Monday, calls on the government to “establish a task force on the integration of abortion into the health delivery system as a medical procedure in accordance with the five principles of the Canada Health Act and ensure Medicare-funded hospital and clinic abortion services exist in all […]

Florida Governor Jeb Bush builds case on guardian for fetus https://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6007702.htm   Parents Clueless About Harmful Affect Of Media On Their Children “Sixty-four percent of kids ages 8 to 12 have televisions in their bedrooms. What else do they have stashed in there? VCRs: 43%. Video game consoles: 42%. Computers: 13%. Telephones: 22%.”  [Source: Washington Post, 5/8/03; provided by Plugged in via Focus on the Family Canada]

THE HAGUE, June 4, 2003 (- CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Vatican criticisms of the draft version of a new European constitution have received strong support from a noted French Orthodox theologian.  Olivier Clement, perhaps the leading Orthodox intellectual in western Europe, said that the absence of any recognition for Christianity in the preamble to the draft constitution was a “sensational” omission, which “flies in the face of the historical evidence.” The Vatican has sharply criticized the preamble—which refers to the important factors that have built a common European culture—for failing to acknowledge the historical role of Christianity.  In an interview with the […]