Articles for Month: July 2003

WASHINGTON, July 31, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. President George Bush told the press yesterday that he supports a law to protect the traditional definition of marriage.  He indicated that such a law was already being worked on.  “I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. And I think we ought to codify that one way or the other. And we’ve got lawyers looking at the best way to do that,” said Bush in response to a reporters question on the subject.  Bush said he believed it “very important for our society to respect each individual, to welcome […]

Commemorates martyrdom of Ugandans killed by homosexually abusive king

For "all persons committed to promoting and defending the common good of society"

Other media repeat pro-gay Canadian Press and Globe and Mail's harsh spin

Toronto Star columnist says Paul Martin “uncomfortable with same-sex marriage” Confirms that Stockwell Day defeated “not so much because of the policies he promoted but because they (left-leaning voters) assumed, based on his track record, that once in power he would force (read, “allow MPs free votes”) his personal moral beliefs on the Canadian public https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1059516609713&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795   The Women of Roe v. Wade – Mary Ann Glendon “the public has never really grasped how extreme the legal treatment of abortion is in the United States”  https://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0306/articles/glendon.html   Congress Spends Billions on Bad Parental Substitute   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/4370/BLI/dotcommentary/index.htm   The Moral Coherence […]

False presentation of Catholic teaching "should humiliate any serious Catholic"

Questionable decision provides handy loophole for unethical scientists

Free speech does not include counselling the health dangers of homosexuality

OTTAWA, July 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal MP David Kilgour, Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, has voiced his support for traditional marriage.  In a July 23 letter to a constituent on the issue Kilgour wrote, “Like you, I support the current definition of marriage as ‘the lawful and voluntary union of one man and one woman’ and in the past voted to sustain this definition.”  Like all cabinet members, Kilgour is expected to support the government legislation.  However, he hinted that he may not vote with the government. Polling residents in his riding, Kilgour found the vast majority against homosexual […]

OTTAWA, July 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has decided to argue at the Supreme Court against same-sex ‘marriage’.  When the Court considers the government’s draft law altering the definition of marriage to include homosexual couples, the CCCB has asked permission to argue in defence of traditional marriage.  Monsignor Peter Schonenbach, general secretary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, told the Toronto Star: “Our position is: Keep the traditional definition of marriage. It has served society well and it will serve society in the future.  I know the minister has said, `Why do you worry […]

Harsh new population control laws being contemplated

The End of Marriage?  Contains much resource material on the issue https://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0026649.cfm   Q&A: The Homosexual Agenda https://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0027070.cfm   N.Y. to Open 1st Public Gay High School https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030728/ap_on_re_us/gay_school_2   “Bride’s” magazine has first full-page article on homosexual weddings https://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0703/29gaybrides.html   Sharp rise in syphilis cases among homosexual men alarms Germany https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030728/hl_afp/health_syphilis_germany_030728155040   Norway Teenage abortion rate falls to new low https://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=593350

FREDERICTON, July 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortionist Henry Morgentaler has filed suit against the the New Brunswick government to fully fund private abortions at his personal Fredericton abortion clinic, filing in the New Brunswick Court of Queen’s Bench this month.  New Brunswick taxpayers pay for abortions only in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, if they are carried out in a hospital, and only after a woman has approval from two doctors. Morgentaler says this process is “unconstitutional” and violates the Canada Health Act because it denies women full access to abortion.  The Morgentaler clinic has been performing abortions in […]

One poll indicates backlash against homosexuality caused by Supreme Court decision

Process Could Lead to Attempts to Create 'Superior' Human Beings

WASHINGTON, July 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Congressman Chris Smith, a champion of the rights of the unborn, introduced legislation last week that will significantly increase the nation’s inventory of stem cells obtained from placentas and umbilical cords, materials that have been proven to successfully treat a number of life-threatening diseases. While blood from the placenta and umbilical cord is rich in stem cells and successful in treating diseases, the nation’s inventory of cord blood units is too small and not genetically diverse enough, meaning ethnic minorities frequently find difficulties in securing timely transplants with units currently available.  Smith’s legislation authorizes […]

OTTAWA, July 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The appointment of Maurice Strong as the Special Advisor to a high-level UN Commission on the Private Sector and Development,  has cast a shadow over the Commission’s seemingly noble goal of encouraging local entrepreneurship in developing countries and left doubts about the true focus of its co-chairman Paul Martin, a close friend of Strong’s.  Maurice Strong’s socialist, one world government leanings make him unlikely to have altruistic reasons for boosting local business in developing nations. He has distinguished himself by using entrepreneurial success to gain political leverage and resources which he has then applied […]

BRITAIN, July 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British women are for the first time to be offered drug-induced abortions at home under plans drawn up by The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which is responsible for 50,000 abortions a year.  The abortion agency is asking the Department of Health for the go ahead for a pilot study of 500 drug-induced home abortions in an effort to offer more abortions to women and to enable them to be done sooner.  Its newly appointed chief executive, Ann Furedi, explained the procedure saying, “It would be like having a drug-induced miscarriage.  It would be painful. […]

MADRID, July 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spain has legalized destructive research on embryonic humans. Reuters reported last week that the predominantly Catholic country has allowed for human embryos, conceived for fertility treatments and 'left over', to be used for destructive experimentation with the consent of the embryonic child's parents. Health Minister Ana Pastor praised the legislation saying, “it gives couples the final word on the fate of the embryos that they currently have frozen, and it's an ethical solution because it doesn't permit the manipulation of embryos and, above all, it prevents people making profit from the use of stem […]

OTTAWA, July 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Official Opposition, the Canadian Alliance Party, is planning to introduce a motion on the definition of marriage when Parliament resumes mid September.  A report issued last week by Alliance House Leader John Reynolds said the motion would force a vote on the marriage issue, “before the Supreme Court does what the Liberal government wants them to do.”  On June 9, 1999, Parliament voted 216-55 to affirm “that marriage is and should remain the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others”.  Pro-family leaders have encouraged citizens to remind […]

PETERBOROUGH, ON, July 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Nicholas De Angelis, of Peterborough Ontario has called on the faithful to defend marriage.  In his strongly worded letter, published in parish bulletins July 20, Bishop De Angelis says “Even though same sex unions have recently received the approval of some lower civil courts in this country, these decisions will not alter the teaching of Christ regarding the profound mystery of marriage. The Church which has received this teaching from Christ must and will remain faithful to this truth which has been taught and lived for centuries.”  The letter refers to statements […]

VATICAN CITY, July 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Thursday July 31 the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will release a document entitled “Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons”.  Catholic World News reports that the 12- page document which has already been signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the prefect of that Congregation, and also has the approval of Pope John Paul II, will be directed particularly toward politicians. The document, which was sent to Bishops’ conferences in June, will, says CWN, make it clear that Catholics who serve in public office have […]

Dismantling Marriage—Prime-Time Flaunts Assault on Morality https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/282003a.asp   HIV cases rise among U.S. gay men https://www.msnbc.com/news/945018.asp?0cv=HB10&cp1=1   Anti-Porn Bill Targets Internet ‘File Sharing’  “The Protecting Children from Peer-to-Peer Pornography Act” is intended to prevent children from downloading pornographic material that is widely available through file-sharing services.  https://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/archive/200307/NAT20030728a.html   Schwarzenegger Won’t Run for California Governor https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93106,00.html   Court Protects Parents from Overzealous Social Workers https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0027083.cfm   New York City Opens Public School For ‘gay students’ https://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/1711.htm https://www.frc.org/?i=WU03G19

OTTAWA, July 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Eight provincial governments have given notice that they will not go along with Ottawa’s attempt to impose homosexual marriage in Canada until the proposed federal law is actually in place.  “Our legal analysis is that we are bound by the current federal definition of law and should we start issuing marriage licences in advance, they would not be legal documents,” Riva Harrison, communications director for the Manitoba Justice department, told reporters.  Ontario and British Columbia, both led by supposedly centre-right governments, are the only provinces moving swiftly to comply with provincial court rulings ordering […]

Another attempt to use the legal system to supress differing opinions

BRATISLAVA, July 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Slovakia’s President Rudolf Schuster has vetoed an abortion bill that would have allowed abortions up to the 24th week of pregnancy “in cases of genetic defects.” Liberal coalition members forced the bill through parliament over the objections of their Christian Democrat coalition partners.  “Given the aim and content of the law, the president considers it appropriate to wait for a decision of the constitutional court on this matter,” presidential spokesman Jan Fule told reporters.  The delay is being cited as evidence that the Catholic Church still enjoys some influence in the post-communist country, which […]

A law’s fetal flaw Parents can now conceive babies whose cells can cure a sick sibling. But what if the pregnancy goes wrong?  https://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030721/health/21cure.htm   Enlisted Women Opposed To Combat https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/7/19/125623.shtml   Aids ‘threatens economic catastrophe’  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3089227.stm   After a three-decade experiment initiated by Roe v. Wade, the results clearly show that abortion harms women https://www.cwfa.org/articles/4321/BLI/dotcommentary/index.htm   Infidelity Growing Because of the Internet https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0026988.cfm   Finally, Good News on Marriage https://www.frc.org/?i=WU03G16   Jerusalem touted s world’s capital Israel’s Peres wants shrines under stewardship of U.N., Annan as mayor https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33711

Quebec City, July 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The family Coalition Party of Ontario reported today that Quebec will abolish the current voting system in favour of proportional elections in time for the next provincial election. Minister responsible for Reform of Democratic Institutions, Jacques Dupuis, said on July 9, “There is a big enough consensus in our society for us to go ahead. That is the mandate I have received from the Premier.”  Prior to last spring’s provincial election, the Parti Quebecois government announced its intention of adopting a proportional voting system. The project has been taken up by the new […]

Ottawa, July 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadians Against Same-Sex Marriage   (CASSM) announced today that on Friday, August 22, 2003, it will host a National Marriage Day rally at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, in support of traditional marriage.  Participants are expected to arrive at the Supreme Court of Canada by 1:00 p.m., when activities will commence.  Shortly before 3:00 p.m. there will be a march to Parliament Hill for a peaceful rally, prayers and speeches from prominent pro-family dignitaries and politicians.  The CASSM are also looking into the possibility of a simultaneous witness in the West.  For more information, contact:  […]

GM’s Diversity Policy Excludes Religious-Based Employee Groups https://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archive/200307/CUL20030718b.html   ‘Bring It on,’ Climatologist Says of Global Warming Litigation https://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/archive/200307/NAT20030721a.html   Gays applaud Michigan governor’s attitude Groups hope support translates into passage of key legislation https://www.detnews.com/2003/politics/0307/14/c01-216576.htm   Gay Lawmakers Assail Marriage Amendment https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0026942.cfm

EDMONTON, July 18 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Health Canada is warning of a syphilis outbreak mostly around homosexual men.  Seventeen cases of the previously rare sexually transmitted disease, syphilis, have sprung up since March in Edmonton.  The outbreak, with cases mostly occurring in gay or bisexual men, is the first such outbreak in Edmonton since the mid-1980s.  The Edmonton incident is not an isolated incident, however, with syphilis cases on the rise among ‘gay’ men in a number of North American and British cities which had no such problem a decade ago. Ottawa is on syphilis alert with 11 cases detected […]

Edmonton, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Western Canadian journalist Lorne Gunter has written another revealing article on the dangers to Canada of upcoming Liberal Party leader Paul Martin’s likely appointment of Maurice Strong as a senior advisor.  Gunter relates that “Everything that is wrong can, in Strong’s mind, be traced to three sources—industrialization, wealth and free markets. I’d add a fourth—Christianity—except Strong never quite comes out and blames it for the world’s ills. He merely hints at it with statements such as “We are all gods now, gods in charge of our own destiny,”  Strong, Gunter says, sees himself as […]

ADELAIDE, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A South Australian police task force into child sex abuse has identified 217 victims and 48 possible offenders among both married and unmarried Anglican clergy, with the number of victims expected to rise to over 400.  “We have well over 200 matters to follow through on at this stage, with the possibility of that number increasing significantly,” said Police Commissioner Mal Hyde. “There is evidence, over the years, of some networking … which is what you expect from offenders of this type,” he said.  Meanwhile another denomination, the Uniting Church of Australia, with which […]

MOMBASA, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kenya’s Catholics are girding themselves as feminist MPs promote the legalization of abortion and the glorification of homosexuality. Several government ministers are calling for legalization. Others say what is needed is tougher laws to support pregnant women and to force adulterous men to support the children.  Mombasa archbishop John Njenga called abortion “outright killing” and said the proposals are a threat to the moral fabric of society. “Nobody should interfere with the unborn child; it has the right to be in the womb until it’s time to be born, and anybody flushing it out […]

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The more time young children spend in day care, the more likely they are to be aggressive or disobedient, says the latest report from an ongoing U.S. federal study released today by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIHCD).  The report confirmed the importance of the majority of young children’s time being spent with their parents.  The link between daycare hours and behavioural problems “occurred across all family backgrounds and all types and quality of care,” said the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, which involved more than 1,000 […]

DALLAS, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Norma McCorvey, the former Roe of Roe v. Wade, has filed a Notice of Appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals of the District Court’s Order denying her Motion to have her landmark 1973 Supreme Court Case reheard.  Her attorney, Allan E. Parker, Jr., Justice Foundation CEO, stated: “Ultimately, the United States Supreme Court will determine whether Roe should be vacated because it is no longer just.”  He explained that “the Supreme Court has a duty to reexamine its precedents because of changed legal and factual conditions.”  McCorvey presented 5,437 pages of evidence […]

OTTAWA, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada have expressed deep disappointment with the Liberal Government’s proposed legislation on the redefinition of marriage and the legislation’s reference to the Supreme Court.  In a release the CCCB said it continues to promote the traditional role of marriage, which is ‘the lasting union of a man and woman to the exclusion of others’ in opposition to that set out in the proposed legislation because ‘it discriminates against heterosexual marriage and the family, which will be deprived of their social and legal […]

OTTAWA, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some Canadian pro-family activists have suggested another political strategy in the battle to retain the traditional marriage definition in Canadian law. On June 9, 1999, Parliament voted 216-55 to affirm “that marriage is and should remain the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others”.  This vote was taken with the knowledge that court decisions were headed in the direction of possibly changing the definition of marriage and that the vote would be Parliament’s pre-emptive strike against any such abuse of legislative decision-making by the courts on this issue.  […]

Ottawa Area Catholic, Hindu, Orthodox, Muslim Religious Speak Out

Astonishing contempt for parliament since legislation has not yet been voted on

VATICAN, July 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The theme chosen by Pope John Paul for the January 1, 2004 World Day of Peace is “International Law, A Path for Peace.”  A Vatican communiqué released yesterday afternoon says that the theme “hopes to underline the importance of law as a guarantee of international relations aimed at promoting peace among nations.”  On January 13, 1997, in his annual address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, Pope John Paul expressed his conviction that “International law has been for some time a law of war and peace. I believe it is called […]

Chicago, Jul. 18 (CWNews.com) – At their annual meeting in Chicago this week, the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy (CCC) approved resolutions urging the US bishops to curtail public theological dissent, and to take action against Catholic politicians who support legal abortion.  The CCC, a group of American priests devoted to orthodox Catholic teaching, offered their best wishes to Pope John Paul II as he moves toward the 25th anniversary of his pontifical election. “We pledge our complete obedience and respect to the successor of St. Peter,” the group pronounced.  In public statements on the sex-abuse scandal, the CCC raised objections […]

Emphasizes that Rome "spelled it out …you can't be Catholic and pro-abortion."

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Pro-Life Group Prepares For Hawaii Campaign https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=413&ncid=413&e=2&u=/ibsys/20030717/lo_kitv/1700511   Ultrasound Could Provide First Safe, Non-invasive Treatment for Uterine Fibroids, Study Says https://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_repro.cfm#18852   New Orleans Hospital To Begin Participating in Stem Cell Recovery, Storage Program https://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_repro.cfm#18852   Unborn mothers? Horrific research must be stopped, bioethicist says https://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=16289   Baby teeth yield “adult” stem cells, as featured in Popular Science:  https://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,12543,462719,00.html   Oxfam says people should be able to choose between abstinence and condoms, but says more condoms are needed:  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3067205.stm   U.S. President Bush is expected to nominate Janice Rogers Brown of the California Supreme Court to the U.S. Court of […]

WELLINGTON, July 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Zealand’s Parliament will debate legislation to create civil unions for homosexuals, including all legal rights of married couples without legal marriage. The Labour-led coalition, led by Prime Minister Helen Clark, will bring forward a Civil Union bill that would require same-sex as well as opposite-sex partners only to fill out forms and pay a fee, and they could dissolve the union after two years of separation.  Failing to create a civil union option would leave New Zealand “very vulnerable” to human rights complaints on grounds that current laws discriminate against homosexuals, said Tim […]

IRELAND, July 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A member of the European Parliament has accused her government of not doing enough to defend the Irish Constitution against the European Commission’s dictatorial attacks in the wake of a European Commission decision to approve funding for research on ‘spare embryos’ from IVF treatments.  Connacht/Ulster MEP, Dana Rosemary Scallon protested that, “This flies in the face of democracy and reduces Ireland’s Constitution to nothing other than a reference book. Europe’s appointed Commissioners have approved this controversial destructive research funding without public debate and without the opportunity of Parliamentary response or debate from either Dáil […]

BOSTON, July 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The world's most influential medical journal, the Boston-based New England Journal of Medicine, has pledged to aggressively seek out and publish research on embryonic stem cells to boost the controversial field's standing among politicians and the public. In today's editorial, the journal's editors pledge to “do our part” to promote stem cell science by giving the growing research field a prominent place in its pages. Dr. George Q. Daley, a stem cell specialist at the MIT-affiliated Whitehead Institute and Harvard Medical School called the new policy “an enormous endorsement.” Drazen explained that combating arguments […]

Washington, July 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The FDA has told Berlex Laboratories, a unit of pharmaceutical company Schering AG, that a television advertisement for its oral contraceptive Yasmin is “misleading” because it overstates the product’s efficacy and minimizes the health risks of the drug. The FDA has ordered the company to immediately discontinue running the ad. On July 12, the FDA sent a warning letter to Nancy Konnerth, associate director for advertising and labelling for Berlex, addressing concerns that its ads falsely lead the public to believe that Yasmin is better than other birth control pills because it contains the […]

Books Called '"the Baywatch view of human sexuality"

TAMIL NADU, July 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a region of India where 16 of every 1,000 newborn girls are killed after they are born because of a cultural preference for having male offspring, there is mounting effort to combat female infanticide.  The Campaign Against Female Infanticide reports that the mother of an unwanted girl is often as much a victim as the child herself; some mothers commit suicide or suffer other consequences. “The decision to kill the baby is made by her husband and parents-in-law,” said a retired Bombay High Court judge quoted by the BBC, referring to some […]

European fertility conference "sparked criticism that science had gone mad."

"This ominous legal development casts a very dark shadow over… religious freedom"

New definition "makes a mockery of marriage"

Marriage to be only "the lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others"

U.S. House Vote to leave United Nations Defeated 350-74 https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33589   Missouri Gov. Bob Holden eliminates money for “Alternatives to Abortion”  https://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/Metro/987A45089E1CA1BD86256D64000EF2FD?OpenDocument&Headline=Holden+eliminates+money+for+%22Alternatives+to+Abortion%22   Fla. Gov Jeb Bush does not consider Parental Notification Law Urgent Says constitutional amendment to ensure parental notification on abortion not necessary for ballot issue can wait   https://www.gainesvillesun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030715/APN/307150740   Australian Father of Six Spent 2 Months in Jail for Pro-life Picket – May be sent back to Jail https://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6763298%255E3102,00.html   Canadian Catholic Church lobbies against letting gays wed https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030716/UCATHN/National/Idx   Scouts to Fight Connecticut Ruling   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/4277/CFI/cfreport/index.htm   New York Times’ New Editor an Anti-Catholic Lefty […]

Father Ted Colleton: simple humanity animates his pro-life stand https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2003/july/14colleton.html     Courts, government put marriage under siege https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2003/july/01courts.html   500 celebrate freedoms won by ‘Racketeer for Life’  https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2003/july/03fivehundred.html   Judges threaten our democracy   https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2003/july/05judgesthreaten.html   Solzhenitsyn’s message and the conservative challenge https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2003/july/editordesk.html How to research MPs and legislation https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2003/july/23howto.html   And much more https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2003/july/index.html

UPI report summarizes situation in various parts of the world

AUSTRALIA, July 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new test, which may soon allow parents to genetically screen their unborn child for “abnormalities” and discover its sex just five weeks into pregnancy, offers great potential for abuse by eugenic selection of children. The test is based on the same technique as the smear test used to check women for cancer and could be performed by a GP with the results available in less than 24 hours.  Current tests usually wait until 16 weeks gestation and results take three weeks to return. Dr. Ian Findlay, a senior scientist at the Australian Genome […]

JERSEY CITY, July 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A diverse group of 11 national and international non-profit organizations that serve people conflicted over unwanted homosexual attractions has formed a non-profit coalition called PATH (Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality) and established a joint Web site at www.pathinfo.org.  The new coalition includes secular, therapeutic and research organizations in the U.S. and Germany as well as African-American, Catholic, Jewish, Latter-day Saint and Protestant ministries.  “It’s an utterly false stereotype to assume that anyone with homosexual feelings just wants to be accepted and affirmed as gay,” said Arthur Goldberg, president of PATH (and co-founder of Jonah, […]

BURLINGTON, July 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – David Mainse, 67, the Ottawa Valley-born host of 100 Huntley Street for 41 years, is retiring to work with Canada’s Indians and to campaign in defence of traditional marriage. Mainse’s son, Ron, will take over as host.  “My wife and I believe that our primary focus of our time and energy is to be involved with our native people in helping to address some of the difficulties that are there,” said Mr. Mainse, an honorary chief of the Oneida Tribe.  Mainse also vowed to work “on the maintaining of the word marriage to mean […]

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The three most anti-life Democratic candidates for the 2004 presidential nomination have publicly endorsed homosexual marriage. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio), ex-senator Carol Moseley Braun (Ill.) and Rev. Al Sharpton (New York) all drew applause when they pledged to a large audience of homosexual organizers that they would legalize marriage for homosexuals.  Sens. John Kerry (Mass.) and Joseph Lieberman (Conn.) “drew hisses from the audience,” the Washington Post reports, for saying marriage is a “historic, cultural institution.” Former Vermont governor Howard Dean and Rep. Richard Gephardt (Mo.) said the same thing but were not booed. […]

NEW YORK, July 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Any attempt by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) to claim neutrality has been put aside by the announcement of its appointement of Sharon Camp as President and CEO.  Camp will begin her new role with AGI in January.  She is currently President and CEO of Women’s Capital Corporation, a Planned Parenthood run group set up to market the abortifacient morning-after-pill Plan-B.  Under Camp’s leadership, the public can expect the same biased and misleading policy analysis and research AGI is known for.  Camp was well known for her refusal to admit the morning after […]

SYDNEY, July 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The President of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), Rev. Professor Anthony Fisher, has been appointed by Pope John Paul II to become an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia.  SPUC chairman Robin Haig commented: “I warmly congratulate Professor Fisher upon his appointment and, together with all members of SPUC, thank and applaud Pope John Paul II for choosing Professor Fisher for the episcopate. Both the Church and the world sorely need such dynamic advocates for the culture of life and his appointment will be a tremendous encouragement to […]

Toronto, July 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The July Interim newspaper interview with Christian Rock artist and Grammy Awards winner Rebecca St. James highlights her commitment to, and promotion of, sexual purity among young people.  James frequently mentions the topic at her concerts, has written a song about the subject – Wait for Me – and has composed a book with the same title. Her most recent recording, a greatest hits compilation, is her seventh and is also called Wait for Me.  “Wherever we’ve gone”, she tells the Interim, “we’ve received great responses to this whole message of sexual purity, even […]

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (ANDA) was introduced in the Senate Monday. Introduced by Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) and six others as S. 1397, the bill clarifies an existing legal protection for health care providers who choose not to participate in abortions. The bill makes clear that the full range of health care entities, including hospitals and individual health care providers, are protected by federal law.  The measure passed the House in the 107th Congress “with the support of 192 Republicans and 37 Democrats” but was not considered in the Senate.  […]

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A House Judiciary Subcommittee examining the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, also known as the ‘Laci and Conner’s Law’, passed the measure 6-3 on a party-line vote Tuesday.  The Unborn Victims of Violence Act would recognize an unborn child as a legal victim when he or she is injured during the commission of a federal crime of violence.  As LifeSiteNews reported earlier the bill is strongly supported by President Bush.  The bill has been approved by the House of Representatives twice (in 1999 and 2001).  However, it has been blocked in the Senate by […]

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The House of Representatives has voted 216 to 211 to block Democratic amendments to a $30 billion bill that withholds funds from questionable U.N. family planning programs, some of which collaborate in forced abortion and sterilization in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC).  A year ago the Bush administration cancelled $34 million in UNFPA funding because of concerns about UN activities in China. But Reps. Joseph Crowley (N.Y., D.) and Barbara Lee (Oakland, D.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (Calif., D.) tried to scupper the president’s policy and to restore UNFPA funding.  The Population Research […]

CNSNews.com reports that the U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly voted down a proposal to end U.S. contributions to the United Nations or any of its affiliated agencies.  Abortion Bill Stalled by Democratic Tactics Remember those partial-birth abortion bills passed on Capitol Hill? Why hasn’t the ban reached the president’s desk?  https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0026881.html   Some don’t like U.S. flag at school ‘I want to raise my children to be citizens of the world’  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33570   Movie Trailer for The Passion by Mel Gibson.  https://www.themoviebox.net/trailers/thepassion/thepassion_tr_lo.htm   Youth Gambling on the Rise in U.S.  A growing number of young people are gambling and […]

TAMPA, July 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ongoing tragic case of the fight for the right to life of Terri Schiavo, who is paralyzed as the result of an unexplained heart attack and seizure continues.  Schiavo’s family have been in a 10-year battle with her estranged husband who is attempting to disconnect her nutrition and hydration through a court order.  Schiavo’s parents learned Friday that the appellate court to which they appealed would not halt an order to remove their daughter from nutrition.  Her parents report that in two weeks Schiavo’s case will “head back to Judge George Greer’s court […]

NEW YORK, July 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – General Electric has developed a moving commercial to promote their new 4D Untrasound system. The commercial is very moving with images of a couple viewing their unborn child for the first time, set to the tune “The first time ever I saw your face.”  Reports suggest that the company has received negative feedback on the commercial from abortion advocates who are concerned about the compelling demonstration of the humanity of the unborn child.  Pro-lifers are encouraged to view the commercial and give GE positive feedback.  To watch the commercial go to:  https://www.gemedicalsystems.com/rad/us/4d/commercial.html   […]

STOCKHOLM, July 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR) ruled that ‘active’ and ‘passive’ euthanasia – or mercy killing – and suicide are all forbidden in Islam. Wrapping up its 11th session held in the Swedish capital Stockholm from 1-6 July, the council said, “It is prohibited for a patient to kill him/herself or for others to kill him/her even if the patient himself allowed them to do so. The first case is nothing but suicide, while the second one is taking one’s life.”  The council ruled that the removal of life-support machines for the […]

LONDON, July 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A dossier revealing that dozens of the British Government’s most influential advisers have close links to biotech firms and drug corporations, has environmental activists and some Ministers concerned.  Moreover, pro-life leaders are concerned that it was such biased advice that led the UK to adopt one of the world’s most permissive laws regarding humane embryo research and cloning.  The dossier, obtained by the UK paper, The Observer, reveals “for the first time the extent of the close connections between big business and scientists hired to give independent advice to Ministers.”  The Observer reports that […]

Kofi Annan ignores evidence of dangers of contraception and abortion

BRUSSELS, July 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Belgium officials announced Sunday that they will scrap a controversial war crimes law that closely mirrors that of the International Criminal Court by giving Belgium jurisdiction over war criminals regardless of where their alleged crimes occurred.  Critics of the impractical 1993 law warned that it would interfere with Belgian’s foreign relations and would likely bring on a flurry of politically motivated cases. Their allegations were proven correct by the filing of, among others, futile cases against Bush and Blair over the war in Iraq, and a case against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon   […]

Says "silent apostasy" is spreading through Europe

PHILADELPHIA, July 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the retirement of staunch pro-life Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, 80, the longtime archbishop of the prestigious See of Philadelphia, the Vatican has named papal ally Justin F. Rigali, 68, currently archbishop of St. Louis, to replace Bevilacqua.  Before returning to the U.S., California-born Rigali spent much of his career inside the Vatican as the pope’s “right hand man.” In St. Louis, he led pro-life marches and was a vociferous defender of life from conception to natural death.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030715/ts_nm/pope_usa_philadephia_dc_1   For Rigali’s pro-life credentials:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/jan/03012104.html https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/jul/00071702.html   For an example of Bevilacqua’s defence of the […]

WASHINGTON, July 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New York Times special report today, which looks at artificial procreation after 25 years, reveals that in vitro fertilization is a billion dollar a year industry in America causing the deaths of countless human embryos.  The Times reports that “Nearly 100,000 attempts in year 2000 led to more than 35,000 babies,” and notes further that “Costs remain high – an estimated $10,000 to $15,000 per attempt.”  On a conservative estimate, two to four live human embryos are transferred to the mother’s womb with each attempt.  Thus, in the year 2000, with some 300,000 […]

BOSTON, July 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has postponed its decision on whether marriage licences should be granted to homosexual partners in the case of Goodridge v. Department of Public Health.  The court has an “administrative goal” of deciding cases within 130 days of hearing oral arguments, but misses that deadline several times a year. One commentator said, “If the cake isn’t baked, you don’t take it out.”  Homosexuals are inspired by Canada’s example. “Canada has set a tremendous example for the U.S., not just in legal impact but in cultural impact,” said Evan Wolfson, […]

Also says Bill C-250 is "insidious, draconian and not worthy of support in a free nation"

OTTAWA, July 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Reports suggest that the federal government will release legislation recognizing same-sex marriage by the end of the week.  Sources told Canadian Press that the “package” will be made public after Justice Minister Martin Cauchon returns from overseas. The government will ask the Supreme Court three questions including whether the proposed legislation conforms to the Charter of Rights and whether the definition of marriage lies solely under federal jurisdiction. A favourable ruling on the latter would knock a hole in Alberta Premier Ralph Klein’s vow to opt out of any federal law sanctioning homosexual marriage.  […]

Federal Appeals Court Rules State can Discriminate Against Boy Scouts for Pro-Family Stand https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030710/ts_nm/rights_scouts_dc_4   Canadian PM offers premiers input on senators; Would review lists when filling seats https://www.nationalpost.com/utilities/story.html?id=C129BCAE-E425-4B2E-9517-83C058198ED3   PM Chretien planning to step down in January say insiders https://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1058134212085&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News&pubid=968163964505&StarSource=email   Ontario Provincial Election Could Be September 18 Says Premier https://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1057961413924&call_page=TS_Ontario&call_pageid=968256289824&call_pagepath=News/Ontario&pubid=968163964505&StarSource=email   Australian Court rules man who had sex to be a sperm donor to lesbian couple must pay child support https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/11/1057783356093.html   Hugh Hefner of Playboy admits agenda to normalize recreational sex “I tried to create a magazine and a lifestyle around it that incorporated sex as a […]

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Bush’s praise of Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni for his leadership in combatting AIDS, through a primary emphasis on abstinence and fidelity, is now available online.  Addressing the Ugandan leader, Bush said: “You have been a world leader—not just a leader on the continent of Africa, but a world leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS. You have shown the world what is possible in terms of reducing infection rates. You have been honest and open about the AIDS pandemic, and therefore have led your people to seek prevention and treatment and help and love.”  […]

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The guest list of a private conference of senior Catholic leaders gathered to discuss “The Church in America: The Way Forward in the 21st Century” reads like a Who’s Who of liberal dissidents, reports a July 11 e-Letter from Deal Hudson, editor of Crisis magazine.  Hudson, who is considered a leading Catholic contact for the Bush White House, found out about the event only after the fact—thanks to a report in the July 11 Boston Globe. Not a single orthodox representative was invited, Hudson relates, noting that papal biographer George Weigel, First Things editor […]

AMSTERDAM, July 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Canada and several U.S. states move toward the legalization of so-called homosexual “marriage,” a new study has found that homosexual partnerships last, on average, only one-and-a-half years.  The study is based on the health records of young Dutch homosexuals by Dr. Maria Xiridou of the Amsterdam Municipal Health Service and published in the May issue of the journal AIDS. It also found that men in homosexual relationships have an average of eight partners a year outside their main partnership, adding more evidence to the “stereotype” that homosexuals tend to be promiscuous.  The findings […]

MONTREAL, July 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com)  In an exceptionally well argued piece, Dr. Margaret Somerville , a Professor of Law at the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, defended the traditional definition of marriage in an article published in the Globe and Mail last week. Somerville, writes her secular defense of traditional marriage as a response letter to homosexual activist MP Svend Robinson.  See the letter in today’s Special Report:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/jul/030714a.html

ATLANTA, July 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new Mennonite Church USA policy says, “We stand in opposition to sacrifice of life in the womb.” However, the church policy delegates also passed a motion discouraging political lobbying for pro-life laws. The statement says Mennonite tradition opposes “using the government to force others to comply with our Christian standards.”  The policy allows for abortion to save the life of the mother but rejects abortion in cases of unwanted pregnancy, or fetal handicap.  See the Mennonite Church USA release:  https://www.mennonites.org/news/news/abortion.htm

PRINCETON, July 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Peter Singer, the Australian-born celebrity animal rights theorist who believes it is ethical to end the life of a disabled infant up to 28 days after birth, has received an international ethics award.  Singer, often referred to as a “philosopher,” was appointed Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University in 1999 after 20 years at Monash University in Clayton, Australia. Last month, he was awarded the World Technology Network’s 2003 Award for Ethics for contributions to the ethics of biotechnology.  “The fact that the World Technology […]

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday, July 15, or Wednesday, July 16, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on an important pro-life amendment. Pro-life groups and citizens are being encouraged to contact their U.S. House members to urge them to support the Smith-Oberstar-Hyde Amendment to the State Department authorization bill (H.R. 1950). A close vote is expected.  At issue is an important pro-life law, the Kemp-Kasten Anti-Coercion Law. The Kemp-Kasten law, which has been in effect for 18 years, prohibits U.S. funding of any organization that “supports or participates in the management of a program […]

Federal judge blocks Louisiana’s “Choose Life” license plate measure https://www.gomemphis.com/mca/midsouth_news/article/0,1426,MCA_1497_2098608,00.html   Missouri’s Democratic governor vetoes 24-hour abortion waiting period;  Legislators to attempt override in September https://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/news/3994CB7D518F0F4A86256D5F0031B0BF?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2Cholden%2Cveto&headline=Holden+vetoes+GOP+bills+on+abortion,+malpractice   Gays cautioned to let new rights ‘sink in’ https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/135236808_gaymarriage11m.html   Should five-year-olds have sex classes?  https://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=188137&in_page_id=182   NOW Conference Heats up Abortion Debate https://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archive/200307/CUL20030711b.html   AIDS Activists Fault Abstinence Model https://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/archive/200307/FOR20030711e.html   Gay TV Channel on Hold, For Now https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0026848.html   Study finds gay unions brief https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20030711-121254-3711r.htm

Ottawa, July 11, 2003 (/LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Columnist and broadcaster Lorne Gunter recently commented on CBC radio on the Kyoto-shattering results of a study by Canadian scientist Jan Veizer of the University of Ottawa and Nir Shaviv, an astrophysicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and published by the Geological Society of America.  The study discovered that nearly three-quarters of the variability in our climate can be attributed to the interplay between solar radiation and cosmic rays. This result, says Gunter, has profound implications for federal climate change policy. “If human activity is not the cause of global warming then […]

Seeks to eliminate the influence of the Church in this Catholic country

Natural Law vs Positivism

BRUSSELS, July 11, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The commission writing a constitution for the European Union has submitted a final draft for individual member states to vote on. Former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, a prominent freemason who oversaw the drafting of the charter, called the agreement a “fragile compromise.”  The document provides for a common European president, foreign affairs minister, and diplomatic service and enshrines the official EU flag, anthem (Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’), motto, currency and “national holiday” called Europe Day (May 9). It also promises a bill of rights guaranteeing freedom of speech and religion and the rights […]

WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush praised Uganda’s “journey out of the scourge of AIDS,” calling the country’s unique record a successful example for fighting the pandemic. That success—built mostly on promoting abstinence and monogamy—stands in stark contrast to Bush’s previous destination, Botswana, which promotes condoms and has the world’s worst HIV infection rate.  “You have shown the world what is possible in terms of reducing infection rates,” Bush told Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in a meeting. Bush’s five-year, $15 billion AIDS plan is inspired by the example of Uganda. “This is the deadliest enemy Africa has ever faced and […]

BERLIN, July 11, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The German government committee on prescription drugs has proposed switching the status of abortifacient morning after pills from prescription-only to over-the-counter.  If the measure is approved by the Ministry of Health it will be voted upon by the Upper House of Parliament before becoming official.  The news comes on the heels of a Canadian proposal to do the same. Proponents of the scheme are confident of the support of the Health Ministry and suggest that the pills will be available over the counter in pharmacies by January 2004.  See the Deutche Welle coverage:  https://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1448_A_917500_1_A,00.html

NEW YORK, July 11, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a statement issued last month, the New York State Catholic Conference, representing the eight Catholic dioceses of New York State, allowed for the use of abortifacient “emergency contraception” in Catholic hospitals.  The June 19 statement notes that the Conference (NYCC) “withdrew its objection” to legislation “mandating that hospital emergency rooms provide ‘emergency contraception’ drugs to survivors of rape, provided the drugs are not contraindicated, the woman is not pregnant, and it is within a medically appropriate amount of time from the attack.”  Pro-life Catholic leaders are shocked and disappointed with the move […]

OTTAWA, July 11, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF), an arm of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), has released a message praising the Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae.  The message, dated June 30, was given on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Encyclical.  The message says, “The Church, like Paul VI, calls today’s men and women to love through the total gift of themselves.” It notes that “Natural family planning methods respect the indivisible link between a loving union and the procreative potential of intercourse in […]

Fears Grow Over Academic Attempts to Normalize Pedophilia https://www.cnsnews.com//Culture/archive/200307/CUL20030710c.html   U.S. Federal Judge Rules Abortuary Buffer Zones are Constitutional https://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2322934/detail.html   Federal judge blocks Louisiana from issuing “Choose Life” license plates https://www.choose-life.org/  Bush Poll Numbers Dropping https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0026832.html   Textbook ‘Language Police’ Busted https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0026831.html   …SO WHY ELECT REPUBLICANS?  https://www.frc.org/?i=WU03G07   Left Turn – Is the GOP conservative?  https://www.nationalreview.com/28jul03/editors072803a.asp   Europe Grows Hostage to Its Muslims https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/7/10/160934.shtml

BOSTON, July 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Focus on the Family is mobilizing in preparation for a ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on whether to order the state grant marriage licences to homosexuals – a ruling expected this weekend or early next week.  Glenn Stanton, a senior analyst for Focus on the Family, said, “The foundation of marriage, as a union between male and female, has been recognized and accepted throughout all of human history. But now the courts, in their arrogance, have the ability to erase all of that in favour of their own personal ideas of what […]

ST. PETERSBURG, July 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Florida’s 48-hour parental notification law has been quashed by the state Supreme Court, on grounds that it violates the privacy rights of teenage girls. The court ruled 5-1 to strike down the 1999 law, which never came into effect because it has been hamstrung by legal challenges from feminists who support abortion.  Justice Leander Shaw wrote for the majority, “We recognize that the legal issue of abortion has been one of the most gut-wrenching, emotionally laden issues of the past decades in Florida. Sitting as a court, however, we cannot be ruled by […]

MELBOURNE, July 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australian doctors have developed a screening test that detects deafness in babies at the embryo stage.  One embryo was found to be carrying two affected genes related to deafness, five carried one deafness gene and one was clear. The “clear” embryo was selected for transfer into the mother but she was not successfully impregnated. The doomed carrier embryos, which had been frozen, were then used but without success. All seven embryos were thus destroyed but the screening test was a success.  Victoria’s Infertility Treatment Authority authorized researchers to apply the test to 7 artificially […]

MIAMI, July 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has signed a death warrant for Paul Hill, an anti-abortion activist who shot an abortion doctor and his associate in 1994, who is slated for execution on September 3.  Media admitted that Hill “was on the fringe of the movement opposing abortion as he promoted the ‘justifiable homicide’ of abortion providers.” For that reason, pro-lifers do not consider Hill to have been a “pro-life” activist but a mis-guided anti-abortionist.  For local coverage:  https://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/071003/Local/ST003.shtml

WASHINGTON, July 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Senate has supported, on a voice vote, a move to overturn President George W. Bush’s pro-life Mexico City policy that prevents tax dollars from funding abortion overseas under the guise of innocuous-sounding family planning programs.  The move, sponsored by abortion activist Sen. Barbara Boxer (D., California) was part of a $27 billion State Department package for foreign assistance programs. But the bill may not survive because the House of Representatives is considering a different version that does not contradict the Mexico City policy. And even if it did survive, the President would […]

OTTAWA, July 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com)  LifeSite has obtained a copy of the Health Canada request for comment on the proposal to change the status of the abortifacient morning after pill Levonorgestrel from prescription-only to over-the-counter.  Comment from Provincial Health Ministers and other interested parties are requested by July 16.  The letter admits that the drug is abortifacient (although it does not use the term) by noting that one of its actions is “altering the endometrium (thereby inhibiting implantation).”  The letter also says: “Levonorgestrel, the only approved emergency contraceptive in Canada, is currently available by prescription only.  Levonorgestrel for emergency contraception […]

TOKYO, July 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com)  A Japanese law which received unanimous approval Thursday allows persons who have undergone sex-change operations to alter their official identity documentation switching sexes. Conditions on the alteration include diagnoses by two doctors of gender identity disorder, applicants must be at least 20 years of age, single and have no children. See the coverage in the Japanese press:  https://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030710p2a00m0dm022001c.html

BRATISLAVA, July 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com)  Slovak Speaker of Parliament Pavol Hrusovsky and Deputy Speaker Bela Bugar, have said that they will not sign a bill passed in the legislature last week which would legalize abortion until the 24th week of pregnancy “in cases of genetic defects.”  Slovak President Rudolf Schuster has said he would not even consider signing the bill without the signatures of the Speaker or Deputy Speaker.  Slovak media reports that the Slovak Health Ministry has established a “right” to abortion in a statutory instrument, and the bill was merely supporting that Health Ministry directive.  However, one of […]

WASHINGTON, July 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com)  Focus on the Family reports that the Democratic National Committee is refusing to acknowledge pro-lifers within the Party. The pro-life group Democrats for Life have been denied a link on the DNC website even though the site has hundreds of links which have only remote ties to the Party.  Kristin Day, executive director of Democrats for Life, said the group was told by the DNC that, because their pro-life view isn’t consistent with the Democratic platform, they wouldn’t be included on the very long list of official Democratic groups. “We’re excluded even though we’re supposed […]

BRUSSELS, July 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned the decision by the European Commission allowing European Union funding of destructive stem cell research using so-called “spare embryos”.  SPUC political spokesman Anthony Ozimic commented: “The European Commission’s decision undermines the freedom of nations to defend the right to life, in particular the right to life of newly-conceived embryonic children, the smallest and most vulnerable members of the human race. Destructive research on human embryos is banned in a number of EU member states including Ireland, where such research is contrary to the […]

Federal Judge Blocks Pro-Life Plates in Louisiana https://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030709/APN/307090826 Federal prosecutors reject Kopp plea to end case against him.  https://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030709/1016515.asp   Critics say Supreme Court’s sodomy ruling spells end for laws based on morality https://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/6264344.htm   State pays ACLU $121,500 in Ten Commandments fight https://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/07/09/loc_kytencommandments09.html   Military Homosexual Ban to Be Challenged https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0026795.html   SAVAGE BIGOTRY https://www.frc.org/?i=WU03G05

JERSEY CITY, July 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of 11 organizations that “serve people conflicted over unwanted homosexual attractions” has formed the PATH (Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality) coalition to help penitent homosexuals to combat their homosexual tendencies.  “It’s an utterly false stereotype to assume that anyone with homosexual feelings just wants to be accepted and affirmed as gay,” Arthur Goldberg, coalition president, told MarketWire. “Many do not. They don’t object to others choosing to live a homosexual life, but it’s not what they want for their own lives. Those who voluntarily choose an alternative path deserve equal respect and […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ark., July 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Terry Wallis, who has been in a coma since a 1984 car accident which left him a bedridden quadriplegic   and killed a friend driving with him, suddenly woke up and began talking last month. “He started out with ‘Mom’ and surprised [his mother] and then it was ‘Pepsi’ and then it was ‘milk.’ And now it’s anything he wants to say,” said the director of the rehabilitation centre which was sheltering Wallis at the time. Wallis, 39, believes Ronald Reagan is still the president. “You see, he’s still back in 1984,” […]

BOSTON, July 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts will rule shortly on whether the state should grant marriage licences to seven same-sex couples. Court rulings in Ontario and British Columbia have lent momentum to the push for homosexual marriage, but in the U.S., 37 states and the federal government have passed legislation in defence of marriage. So far, however, no American court has recognized same-sex relationships as legally equivalent to traditional marriage.  “This case has the potential to be revolutionary,” said David Garrow, a law professor at Emory University in Atlanta. “If they come down in […]

MONTREAL, July 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) Researchers told a recent international symposium that embryologists are grading embryos at the early stages of cell division to help push up in vitro fertilization (IVF) success rates. The news comes in the wake of studies carried out at both Harvard Medical School in Boston and Yale University's school of medicine in Conncecticut which indicated that it is possible to identify the embryos deemed most likely to implant by monitoring their developmental markers. “We define 'high implantation potential' embryos as those with four or more cells on day two, and seven or more cells and […]

University of Saskatchewan scientists ignorant of 99% effective modern NFP methods

Vancouver Plans First Legal ‘Safe-injection’ site in North America https://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:bst7aIZH1sgJ:famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap06-26-230605.asp%3Freg%3DAMERICAS+Vancouver+Plans+First+Legal+%27Safe-injection%27+site+in+North+America+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8   FRC President Ken Connor Has Announced his Resignation Effective July 14   U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Says She Will Not Retire https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nyt/20030706/ts_nyt/oconnordismissesrumorsthatsheplanstoretirefromcourt   Pope asks Young to Discover Once Again the Value and Importance of Chastity https://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=37354   Texas Case Spotlights ‘Gay-on-Gay’ Domestic Violence https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0026698.html   REALITY CHECK: WHAT ARE THE FACTS ON TEEN SEXUALITY?  https://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/analysis/030303_rcteensexuality.html   Pro-Family Groups Question Choice of Anti-AIDS Program Head https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/82003b.asp https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/aug/02082807.html   “Hands-On” Love of teens https://www.cwfa.org/articles/4243/BLI/dotcommentary/index.htm   Man wakes after nearly two decades in coma, greets mother https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/07/08/national2117EDT0796.DTL

OTTAWA, July 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Most Rev. Terrence Prendergast, Archbishop of Halifax, and Chairman of the Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF), has sent a letter on behalf of COLF to Federal Justice Minister Anne McLellan regarding the lack of Government leadership on marriage and the current legislative vacuum on the reproductive and genetic technologies. Bishop Prendergast said COLF leaders were “very disappointed that the Government has chosen not to appeal the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal that allows same-sex partners to marry.” The letter also noted that they were “genuinely shocked at the media reports […]

UNITED KINGDOM, July 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human fertility scientists are coming under increased pressure to rein in the work of unethical researchers after two studies presented in Madrid at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology’s annual meeting raised public ire.  Both of the studies, one involving the creation of bizarre hybrid human embryos and the other advocating the use of eggs from aborted babies for fertility treatments, brought the ethical crisis around human embryonic stem cell research into vivid relief and resulted in alarming headlines across the world.  Paul Serhal, director of the assisted conception unit at […]

BRUSSELS, July 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Commission recently published guidelines for public funding of stem cell research which propose that funding be made available for research on so-called “spare embryos” created during the in vitro fertility procedure. The Commission endorsed the proposal, which must be approved by the European parliament and the council of ministers, in an effort designed to help put Europe at the forefront of the new unethical research. The guidelines will likely bring the Commission into conflict with Europe's five most Catholic countries, Italy, Portugal, Spain Germany and Ireland, who have expressed serious ethical concerns […]

LIMA, July 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week, the 16 Peruvian government ministers submitted their resignations to Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo as they have every year in these politically tumultuous times.  With his approval ratings dropping and under pressure from activist groups Toledo axed a few key ministers including Health Minister Fernando Carbone and Prime Minister Luis Solari, both of whom were strongly pro-life.  The two, who were recently berated in the international media for not approving wide distribution of the abortifacient morning after pill, were under constant attack from feminist groups, according to pro-life sources in Peru.  Moreover, LifeSite […]

BELFAST, July 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Five frozen embryos at a Belfast artificial fertilization clinic may be destroyed because the labels broke and fell off, and the embryos can no longer be identified with any certainty. The scandal was revealed by an audit of the clinic’s 3,700 embryos.  A local health official received a legal opinion that the embryos should be destroyed. “If the trust cannot be certain about the identity of these, then consent to use them would not be valid,” the official said. “It is a huge issue for [the couple involved] to decide, ‘do we dispose of […]

OTTAWA, July 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Television and radio show host, LifeSite personality and Sun Media columnist Michael Coren has been targeted for attack by a homosexual activist linked to Canada’s largest pro-homosexual lobby EGALE (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere).  Just after Coren’s masterful article on “self-marriage” satirizing the notion of homosexual ‘marriage’, an email circulated on the EGALE email list encouraged members to target Coren and his family by providing Coren’s full home address, and home phone number.  The email sent by an EGALE list member using the alias Wolfman encouraged ringing Coren’s doorbell at 3am, leaving dog’s […]

OMAHA, July 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rather than single out pro-abortion groups, Warren Buffett has ordered his subsidiary Berkshire Hathaway Inc. to abolish an entire charity program that enabled shareholders to choose which charities the company would contribute to—$197 million since 1981. Some pro-lifers boycotted subsidiaries like The Pampered Chef and Dairy Queen because some of the holding company’s donations were going to pro-abortion groups.  According to Berkshire Hathaway’s press release, “about 3,500 charities have been designated annually, with schools the favorite (about 800 different institutions have benefited), followed by more than 400 churches and synagogues.”  Life Decisions International (LDI), […]

VANCOUVER, July 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled that the province must force through same-sex marriages immediately, not wait until next year as a previous ruling provided.  “The reformulation of the common law definition of marriage as ‘the lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others’ will take immediate effect,” the ruling declared yesterday. In an earlier decision, the Court rewrote the definition but also suspended the requirement for implementation until July 12, 2004. The delay has now been quashed.  For Globe and Mail coverage:  https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030708.wmarr0708/BNStory/National/  For related LifeSite coverage:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/jul/03070702.html

Wal-Mart, Focus on the Family Spar Over Homosexuality https://www.crosswalk.com/news/1208286.html   Archbishop Myers and Cardinal George Raise Concerns About Voice of the Faithful https://ncregister.com/Register_News/062903_3a.htm   O’Connor’s Supreme Court Adrift https://WWW.FRC.ORG/?I=WU03G04

BELFAST, July 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-lifers in Northern Ireland declared victory as a senior judge rejected the Family Planning Association’s attempt to have guidelines for legalized abortion put in writing because, the FPA alleged, the current unwritten law is “unclear.”  Common law in the province of Northern Ireland states that abortion is permitted when the life, mental or physical health of the mother are at risk. The judge did not change this, but suggested that the Government could bring greater clarity if it chose to legislate on the issue.  But Betty Gibson, spokesman for the Society for the Protection […]

LONDON, July 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British government has announced “another step to treating everyone equally, whatever their sexuality,” by granting the right to legally marry to transsexuals—persons who have undergone operations to mutilate their own sexual organs. The change will also allow transsexuals to change the sex on their birth certificate.  Some critics are noting the inordinate amount of time spent by the new Constitutional Affairs department on small minority concerns. Whitehall sources (i.e., in the public service) “admitted that the Government could be seen as becoming obsessed with what were described as ‘narrow sectional interests’,” The Observer […]

LONDON, July 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canon Jeffrey John, the active homosexual Anglican cleric who was promoted to bishop a few weeks ago, has announced that he will not accept the position after all. “It has become clear to me that in view of the damage my consecration might cause to the unity of the Church … I must seek the consent of the Crown to withdraw acceptance of my appointment,” he said.  Several pro-homosexual clerics lashed out anonymously. “You can take it he was bounced. This stinks to high heaven. There is no way that he has resigned voluntarily. […]

Watson denounces Catholic Church stand on stem cell research

Almost complete news blackout of Polish pro-life organizations

A weak and "very limited course of action" on a very serious matter

Liberal government's queries to Supreme Court overshadowed by appeal

Strong no fan of democracy, national sovereignty or any traditional religions

Bush taps ex-drug CEO for AIDS effort https://washingtontimes.com/national/20030702-113116-5041r.htm   Fidelity of ‘Voice of the Faithful’ Group Comes Under Scrutiny Again   https://www.ncregister.com/Register_News/062903_3.htm   REALITY CHECK: WHAT ARE THE FACTS ON TEEN SEXUALITY?  https://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/analysis/030303_rcteensexuality.html   Ontario ruling may also affect Hawaii   Professor: Canadian case exposes limits of anti-gay arguments https://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/07/03/3f03c633e68d8   Baroness backs use of eggs from aborted foetuses https://hoovnews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&doc_id=NR20030702670.4_772500109196878e   Abortion advocates are using rape victims to further agenda of forcing Catholic hospitals to provide abortions https://www.osvpublishing.com/periodicals/show-article.asp?pid=814   Web spawns grid and all will change https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/03/1057179100264.html

NEWPORT, Wales, July 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Pro-Life Party candidate for the Welsh Assembly faces new public disorder charges for displaying an image of a baby aborted at 21 weeks, in her South Wales East by-election campaign.  Fiona Pinto, a 23-year-old political researcher, expects to be charged under the Public Order Act. “We were not being disorderly,” said Pinto. “There were four police officers, two city rangers and … only two of us, and we both had our hands full. As a political party, we will never use violence or harassment. We have to work democratically.”  Last week, one […]

LIMA, July 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Peru’s centre-right government is promoting safe pregnancy and childbirth, in a country where the ousted Fujimori government’s population control policy included forcible sterilization of the poor.  Health Minister Fernando Carbone and Prime Minister Luis Solari stand accused of “pushing their conservative Roman Catholic philosophy by promoting motherhood and cutting off free contraceptives and birth-control information to the poor,” according to a report from Newsday.  But Fujimori himself imposed his sterilization philosophy on the poor and the same critics were silent.  Carbone, whose office is decorated with glossy posters promoting “the child to be born,” […]

Washington, July 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. government has suspended military aid to about 35 countries because of their failure to meet a deadline to sign an agreement exempting the U.S. from prosecution by the International Criminal Court.  The threat of aid sanctions does not apply to NATO members, Taiwan and major non-NATO allies Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Jordan, New Zealand and South Korea.  The 44 countries which have signed the agreements are: Albania, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, the Dominican Republic, East Timor, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, […]

Los Angeles, July 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) -A new web site has been launched that is covering the case of Diana Lopez, a 25-year-old woman killed at Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles in February 2002. LifeSite has published previous reports on this sad situation and the lawsuit filed by her family against Planned Parenthood and the itinerate abortionist from Sacramento who, documents indicate, performed the six-minute second-term abortion that killed her. See https://www.DianaLopez.com

Says 'What I do support is the notion that marriage is between a man and a woman".

Washington, July 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Crisis magazine, editor Deal Hudson warns in his June 27 e-letter of the serious implications of the Supreme Court decision in the case of Lawrence v. Texas which struck down the right of states to legislate on sodomy.  The politically well-connected Hudson says “Lawrence is a devastating decision, worse than most people think – and for reasons that haven’t fully dawned on them yet”.  Following his communications with Professor Robert George of Princeton, Hudson concludes that “this is without question the most damaging decision handed down by the courts since Roe v. Wade – […]

BAD FÜSSING, Germany, July 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a June 25 New York Times article Richard Berstein reports on the ominous drain on European pension funds resulting from the wealthy, comfortable continent’s low birth rates.  The new demographics of an increasingly older population “has produced political uncertainty and crowds of angry demonstrators” says Berstein, in reaction to the resulting necessary reductions in social services. A study by demographer William Frey, from Washington’s Brookings Institution, predicts that the median age in the United States in 2050 will be 35.4, only a very slight increase from what it is now. In […]

Judges, intelligentsia, commentators and "experts," are priests and prophets

"we are tampering with things deeper than our own understanding"

Opposing groups to announce legal strategy Monday

Another Abortionist involved in Woman’s Death Awaits Decision on Medical Licence https://www.cnsnews.com//Culture/archive/200306/CUL20030630a.html   Bush Administration Gives $15 Million for Abstinence Education https://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2003pres/20030702.html   Abortionist Jumps in Front of Bus to Saves Ducks Crossing Street https://www.insightmag.com/news/446036.html   Virginia to Appeal Federal Judge’s Ruling to Block Partial Birth Infanticide Ban https://washingtontimes.com/metro/20030702-094308-3869r.htm   Former Abortuary Guard Backs Pro-Life Challenge to Bubble Zone Law https://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/abor07032003.htm   10 Commandments judge defies court order Alabama chief justice won’t remove granite monument from state building   https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33407

Toronto, July 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite re-publishes as a Special Report today, with the permission of the author, a June 28 article by Michael Coren on the redefining marriage issue:  I have wonderful news, and I’d like to share it with all of you. I’m going to marry myself. There, I’ve said it. Same-person marriage, at last. And I’ve never been as happy or as proud. Well, both of us are really. Equally happy and proud. I’m going to rush down to City Hall with myself and get a marriage licence and everybody in that office will cheer and […]

LONDON, July 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British fertility clinics whose clientele includes HIV-positive patients, have been accused of failing to separate HIV-positive sperm from that of healthy patients.  A study has found that only 6% of responding clinics ensured separate storage for sperm from HIV positive patients. “This is a very small minority,” Dr. Leila Frodsham told the annual European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology meeting in Madrid this week. “While there has never been a case of HIV being transmitted in this way, we know that hepatitis C can be. We feel that separate storage facilities are essential.” […]

BRATISLAVA, July 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Slovakia’s Parliament has approved an abortion law by 70 votes to 32 (with 30 abstentions) that permits abortion up to the 24th week of pregnancy “in cases of genetic defects.” The bill was authored by the liberal party in the coalition government.  According to news services, Liberals in Slovakia fear that a “religious agenda” of the Christian Democrat party (KDH), which leads a coalition government, is “creeping too much into daily life after decades of being pushed underground by communism.”  Some members of the party have moved that students in the predominantly Catholic country […]

BOSTON, July 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Sean O’Malley, only recently appointed to a Florida diocese, has been placed by Pope John Paul II as the bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston.  A Vatican official told Catholic News Service that the move demonstrated both the seriousness of the problems in the Boston diocese – the epicentre of the sexual abuse scandal – and the confidence the Vatican places in Bishop O’Malley.  O’Malley, a Capuchian friar, was described by the Vatican official as “a man of great spirituality.”  Archbishop-elect O’Malley delivered a strong pro-life statement when appointed to the Palm Beach […]

OTTAWA, July 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Canada ruled June 27 that the federal election act, which requires that a political party run candidates in fifty ridings in order to be registered as an official party, is unconstitutional.  Canadian Alliance Elections Act Critic Ted White commented on the ruling saying, “With the exception of the Liberal Party, all parties have agreed that the requirement to achieve official party status should have been set at 12 candidates, as that is the minimum for recognition as a party in the House of Commons.  See the Ottawa Citizen coverage:  https://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=8163121c-c2ab-412a-878f-5c8cea985092

LOS ANGELES, July 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com)- Scientists at the University of California sacrificed human embryos to harvest stem cells that were used in treatment designed to help paralyzed rats walk. The scientists have claimed limited success and say they intend to apply the procedure to humans with recent spinal cord injuries and localised damage. However, they were quick to admit that no trials with humans were likely in the near future due to the fact that all such experiments in the past have ended with horrific results due to the embryonic stem cells causing tumors. Dr. Hans Keirstead at the […]

"Very serious sexual revolution" is "destroying" Russian society

UN Urges Change

European academic groups expressed opposition to the research

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United States Supreme Court ruling against the Texas anti-sodomy law was another example of the infringement of international law in domestic policy.  The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) points out in a communiqué released today that “The majority opinion was guided, specifically, by the pro-homosexual rulings of the European Court of Human Rights.”  C-Fam also points out that Justice Kennedy in writing for the majority referred to a “Friends of the Court” brief submitted by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson. In the brief Robinson wrote: “This Court […]

British Catholic Archbishop Peter Smith of Cardiff on taking ova from aborted babies:  “How is it that we can recognize that the aborted foetus is human enough to become a biological parent and yet not human enough to have the right to life?”“During the last 18 months scientists working in this field seem (to have) have completely lost their way. This is like going back to the Nazi experiments performed during the Second World War.”  (With files from Catholic News Service and Independent Catholic News)

Most Americans Oppose Gay Marriage, Gallup Poll Says https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0026734.html   Homosexual Activists in Wales Celebrate First Officially Registered Civil Union https://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/content_objectid=13132430_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=-Wales-s-first—official—gay-couple-welcome-new-rights-name_page.html   Ontario Superior Court Upholds Act Barring Catholics From Throne of England & Canada https://www.nationalpost.com/utilities/story.html?id=4E9960C8-8FDB-4981-AF53-7FCD066C8031   Canadian Inmates get access to soft-core adult films https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id=3F3EA83B-0F91-455F-8D66-BB69C1EEFB49   Swedish scientists hope to conceive baby in transplanted womb https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3035628.stm   Regular cannabis users ‘at greater risk of mental illness’  https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_796035.html   Bill Clinton as NATO Chief?  https://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2003/07-14-2003/insider/vo19no14_nato.htm   Welcome To Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Judicial Tyranny   https://traditionalvalues.org/article.php?sid=1024

LONDON, July 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British lesbian will become the mother of a baby conceived through IVF using sperm that was purchased on the Internet.  The mother and her lesbian roommate both paid over the Internet to carry artificially conceived babies from the same for-hire sperm donor. It cost $180 Canadian to search a sperm donor database. The pair selected a donor who was “quite tall” with brown hair and blue eyes, and then paid close to $2900 Canadian for “premium service” with full medical screening of the donor.  The selection of physical attributes echoes the race selection […]

AUSTIN, July 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Activist judges have thrown up new obstacles for democratically passed pro-life legislation in Texas and Virginia.  In Texas, a federal judge ruled that medical clinics can receive federal tax dollars without making a commitment not to perform abortions. A provision in the state’s 2004-05 budget, denied federal money to organizations that provide abortion services and the Texas Department of Health was attempting to obtain commitments from organizations to adhere to the policy.  In Virginia, a judge ordered prosecutors to no longer enforce Virginia’s “partial-birth infanticide” ban, which was passed by the state legislature only […]

OTTAWA, July 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A man came home to find his 21-year-old wife hanging dead by the neck from a dog-leash after reading detailed suicide instructions on the Internet, says a feature in Newsweek’s June 30 issue. The young woman had been in mourning over her grandmother’s death—but her family blames the availability of Internet “advice” that “should not be allowed.”  Supporters of such websites “have an almost evangelical fervour,” Newsweek says, quoting an Ottawa woman whose son committed suicide. “It’s about the validation, the unconditional acceptance,” says Maxine, who “says she’s glad [sic] her son was able […]

WASHINGTON, July 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new homosexual anti-discrimination policy launched by Wal-Mart, which includes “sensitivity training”, has upset pro-family groups which looked on the retail giant as family-friendly.  Focus on the Family commented on the policy saying it “is profoundly disappointed that the largest family-friendly company in the nation has surrendered to a small handful of homosexual activists and will subject 1.3 million employees to ‘sensitivity training’ on homosexual issues.”“Focus on the Family shares Wal-Mart’s commitment to treating all people with dignity and respect, but this sensitivity training offends the values of the vast majority of Wal-Mart’s associates […]

NEW YORK, July 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A two year study released by the Center for the Advancement of Women admitted that fifty-one percent of women support abortion only in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the women, or not at all.  The report, coming from an organization led by radical feminist icon Faye Wattleton, signals an important admission from a mainstream feminist movement that has long trumpeted the importance of such supposed rights. Faye Wattleton served as President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1978 to 1992 and was awarded the organization’s Margaret […]

SWEDEN, July 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, have found that mothers who separated their children by an interval of at least six years were 50 percent more likely to have a stillborn child, compared to women who waited between one and three years between children.  The findings, which appeared in the journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, were drawn from a review of the outcomes of two consecutive deliveries of 410,021 women who gave birth in Sweden between 1983 and 1997.  The study also disagreed with previous research which had suggested that short intervals between […]

MALTA, July 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Malta Gay Rights Movement has attacked the Maltese government, suggesting that is not fully implementing an EU Employment Equality Directive.  Jim Hughes, vice-president of International Right to Life, told LifeSite, “This is a concerning development since decisions by international bodies are increasingly infringing on the sovereignty of individual nations particularly in areas of life and family.”  Sandro Mangion, leader of the homosexual activist group, claims that the European Commission has commented that Malta is lagging behind in observing the directive. The Maltese Government defended itself saying that the existing legislation is enough to […]

TORONTO, July 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops announced their intention to work to defend marriage.  The short statement delivered to all dioceses and parishes in the province was read out at some churches Sunday.  Parishioners at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Cathedral greeted the announcement with applause when it was delivered at a Sunday night Mass.  The statement in full reads:  “The Catholic bishops of Canada have made it clear to the federal government that we are firmly committed to the maintenance of the common law definition of marriage as ‘the voluntary and lawful union of one […]

WASHINGTON, July 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Spanish-language campaign websites for Democratic Presidential candidates Rep. Dick Gephardt and Senator Joseph Lieberman fail to mention their pro-abortion stand.  While campaign representatives are suggesting the omissions are a result of not-yet-completed translations, pro-life leaders are questioning the motives behind the omissions.  The English-language site for Gephardt, lists the “Right to Choose” as one of the categories in the “issues” section and also links to a January speech by Gephardt entitled, “One thing must be certain: The freedom to choose.” A survey of the Presidential candidates’ websites by the Columbia Daily Tribune reveals […]

United Nations Personnel Accused of Involvement with Child Prostitution Portuguese newspaper says UN personnel were involved in bringing girls from Thailand to East Timor as prostitutes https://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6682018%255E401,00.html   Minnesota Informed Consent Law Takes Effect Today https://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/living/health/6206652.htm   Virginia Law Banning Partial Birth Infanticide and Requiring Parental Consent for Abortion Take Effect Today https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54371-2003Jun30.html   Columbian Men Bribed With Cash and Land to get Sterilized https://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2003/06/30/eline/links/20030630elin021.html   Happy Dominion/Canada Day!

Topics:  *C-13 delayed for the summer – CLC urges Canadians to contact MPs *CIHR go-head with research *Is Canada better because of abortion?  *Health Canada approves abortifacients *Provincial election results * Marriage and same-sex unions * Arthritis society backs away from ESCR * Morgentaler flick on CTV * Summer students * MP and bishop take part in walk for LifeSite   * Join us for Fr. Ted celebration * National Conference November 6-8 * Aid to women needs volunteers – July 12 workshop * Upcoming Show the Truth tours * Air Miles * Campaign Life celebrates 25 years https://www.lifesitenews.com/clc/national_news/2003/news_0703.pdf

LONDON, July 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British government announced Monday plans to legally register homosexual “civil partnerships” which would entail most of the rights and privileges afforded to married couples.  Divorce, pension, and tax benefits are all included in the package.  While the legislation still requires passage through both houses of Parliament, activists are hoping to see the legislation passed in 2004.  See the CNS News coverage:  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=ForeignBureausarchive

WASHINGTON, July 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Belleville Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that the Supreme Court’s decision, Lawrence vs. Texas, striking down that state’s sodomy law, “is to be deplored.”  Bishop Gregory warned that the ruling “reduces respect” for “the purpose of human sexuality and the family”.  He noted that “The Catholic Church teaches, in agreement with other faith traditions and with what were once the norms generally accepted by society, that sexual activity belongs to the marital relationship between one man and one woman in fidelity to each other. This […]

WARSAW, July 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A feminist group involved with the abortion boat which is taking Polish women into international waters, is boasting that “Women on Waves successfully performed the first abortion in international waters off the coast of Poland.”  The Feminist Majority Foundation, which gave legal counsel to the crew of the abortion ship, has confirmed what the crew of the ship would not confirm, that they have committed abortions.  During the boat’s first excursion into international waters last Thursday, some 11 Polish women were on board.  On the ship’s return, Polish authorities discovered that the seal which […]

UNITED NATIONS, July 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) has prepared a report based on the 2002 audit of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) showing that the UN population-control arm exhibits massive financial irregularities.  The audit, which was released at the UNFPA Executive Board meeting in New York City, highlights a large number of serious lapses in both financial matters and program oversight.  C-Fam reveals that the UNFPA audit team investigated 41 UNFPA country offices, and in almost every category of financial management, more than half of the offices were found to be […]

MADRID, July 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first study to look at the risk of ectopic pregnancies after IVF in a complete national assisted reproductive technology register has found that women face a slightly increased risk of ectopic pregnancies after IVF. Elizabeth Asung, an honorary research fellow at Leeds University and The Bridge Centre in London, UK, told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology that she had analysed data from the UK’s Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) on 97,240 women, aged between 18-50 who underwent either straightforward IVF embryo transfer (IVF-ET) or embryo […]

MADRID, July 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At a meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction yesterday, Israeli scientists put forward the notion of using ova from aborted baby girls for fertility treatments. Tal Biron-Shental, a gynaecologist from Meir Hospital-Sapir Medical Centre in Kfar Saba, announced that he and his team extracted ovarian tissue from seven aborted baby girls aged 22 to 33 weeks. The scientists were able to keep the tissue alive long enough for follicles to develop – one stage in the development of mature ovaries. Experiments with mice have demonstrated that ova from aborted foetuses (mice) have […]