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Feinstein AIDS Bill Amendment Defeated California senator sought to strip President Bush’s initiative for international AIDS prevention of its emphasis on abstinence-before-marriage education.  https://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0028686.cfm   The mainstream media’s leftward tilt isn’t just obvious on network TV and in big-city newspapers. Look hard at local coverage and you’ll find the same slant—and a lot more opportunity to do something about it.  https://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0028668.cfm   Professor Appointed to Investigate Terri Schiavo Case A judge on Friday selected a university professor to conduct an independent investigation into the situation regarding a brain-damaged Florida woman – over her parents’ objections https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive
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U.S. Anglican Bishop Wants Homosexual Marriage Ceremony

WASHINGTON, October 31, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Washington’s Episcopalian bishop is to unveil plans for homosexual marriage ceremonies, based on a number of “rites” circulating across the U.S.  “In keeping with good Anglican liturgical order, it is my intention at some point,” Bishop John Chane wrote in an October 15 letter to an Anglican group that opposes same-sex marriage, “to form a task force to study those liturgical rites that have clearly been in use for some time within the Diocese of Washington to see if there is a form that could be uniformly used by parishes, should they request it.”  […]
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Brave New World of IVF: Woman’s Legal Appeal For Former Partner’s Frozen Sperm

LONDON, October 31, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British woman plans a legal appeal to have her former partner’s frozen sperm thawed, against his wishes, so that she can try to have the baby she has planned through IVF before her ovarian cancer makes it impossible.  Britain’s High Court ruled that the woman, Natallie Evans, must get permission from her ex-partner. “She believes that while her embryos remain alive and in storage, then there is still hope and she must do everything she can,” said a statement from her lawyer, announcing plans for an appeal.  For BBC coverage:  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3223651.stm
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U.S. Federal Funding of Sex Studies Questioned

WASHINGTON, October 31, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers on teens and birth control who receive millions of dollars in federal grants are getting cold feet because the U.S. government is “questioning the value” of their tax-funded research. Studies of AIDS are getting similar scrutiny.  “I just keep thinking that this is a bad nightmare and I’m actually going to wake up from all this,” said Dr. Liana Clark at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who received $300,000 from the National Institutes of Health to study teens’ “misconceptions” about birth control.  Clark feels a chill because pro-lifers and Republican Congressmen have prompted NIH […]
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Gibson Movie Not Remotely Anti-Semitic Says U.S. Reviewer Keith Fournier

LIFESITE, October 31, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a widely circulated review of Mel Gibson’s movie “The Passion” Catholic Deacon Keith Fournier emphasizes “There is not a scintilla of anti-Semitism to be found anywhere in this powerful film.”  Fournier was invited, along with many other Washington “movers and shakers” to a special preview of the controversial film that the major U.S. movie companies have declined to distribute. After seeing “The Passion” Fournier wrote, “it was an encounter, unlike anything I have ever experienced. In addition to being a masterpiece of film making and an artistic triumph, ‘The Passion’ evoked more deep […]
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Polish Government on Collision Course with Church

WARSAW, October 31, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the Catholic Church in Poland has criticized lawmakers over legislation to ease abortion restrictions and provide so-called “protection” to homosexuals. But the ruling Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) under Prime Minister Leszek Miller, took power in 2001 vowing to conform Poland’s laws to those of other decadent liberal democracies.  “Some SLD politicians are returning to the old Lenin traditions, a time when tactics were more important than values, than a solid program, than respect for human life,” said Archbishop Jozef Zycinski of Lublin.  One pro-abortion SLD politician, Izabela Sierakowska, feared Poland may […]
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National Post Opinion Piece says Social conservatives are not a liability https://www.nationalpost.com/components/printstory/printstory.asp?id=A150DFB7-5017-46AF-A242-71BCDDA1BAAE   Democrats Again Block Bush pro-life judicial nominee Charles Pickering https://www.wdam.com/Global/story.asp?S=1503926&nav=1Pw1IovC   Bipartisan Senate measure restores important abstinence- and faith-based provisions to the global AIDS bill.  https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028635.cfm   Pro-aborts pepper spray pro-lifers at Chicago abortuary (with thanks to Pro-Life E-News)  https://www.illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=9447   Singapore drafts bill to allow destructive research on human embryos https://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-10/30/content_1152137.htm   Hair Cells Grown from Embryonic Mouse Stem Cells https://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=457983   Canadian Fertility Clinics Complaining that they can’t pay for sperm donors under C-13 https://www.nationalpost.com/utilities/story.html?id=F7C5E7CA-6F8B-4A58-95FA-9B34D70B165C   Canadian PM Chretien hints at early departure (before February)  […]
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Abortion Drug Causes Massive Increase in Abortion in Indian State: Up 165% in Two Years

TRIVANDRUM, October 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kerala, the southernmost state in India, has seen a horrific 165% rise in abortions in the last two years according to a survey conducted by the women’s magazine Vanitha.  The India Times reports that senior gynaecologist Leela Mathew of the Malayala Manorama group said the availability of abortion-inducing drugs have contributed to the trend.  The state health department shows that induced abortions in government-run hospitals shot up from 16,339 in 1999 to 43,368 in 2001-02, an increase of 165%.  The paper reports that there are 651 government and private hospitals in the state that […]
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Court Orders Christian Mother to Not Expose Her Child to “Homophobic” Religious Upbringing

DENVER, CO, October 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Christian mother of a young child, is appealing a court decision which ordered her to “make sure that there is nothing in the religious upbringing or teaching that the minor child is exposed to that can be considered homophobic.”  The natural mother, Dr. Cheryl Clark, converted to Christianity and left a lesbian relationship with Dr. Elsey McLeod, but the courts awarded shared parenting responsibilities to McLeod, who has no legal relationship to the child or the mother and is still a practicing homosexual,.  The Colorado Court of Appeals will hear the appeal […]
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Pro-Life Group Challenges President Bush to Keep Iraq Abortion-Free

WASHINGTON, October 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League, the nation’s largest pro-life educational organization, held a press conference today in front of the White House encouraging President Bush to keep Iraq abortion-free.  “As Congress debates the $87 billion Iraq funding bill, we are urging President Bush to ensure that not one dime of that money will go to the pro-death vultures who seek to impose the Western immorality of abortion and contraception on the recently liberated Iraqi people,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League.  The group’s concerns are well founded since re-building missions headed by the United […]
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Growing Number of Groups Warn Against UNICEF Box Support on Halloween

TORONTO, October 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The number of groups warning against UNICEF and donations to the organizations through Halloween boxes has grown.  The pro-life movement in Canada and the United States has warned against such donations for years.  However in recent years the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute at the United Nations has warned against UNICEF as has the World Youth Alliance and most recently Focus on the Family.  In an alert from Focus on the Family Canada today, the organization suggests: “If your child has brought home a UNICEF collection box from school, you may want to […]
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PM hints at early exit – the Globe and Mail reports Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appears to be setting the stage for an early exit, signalling for the first time that he may give up his determined plan to stay until February.  https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031029.wprim1029/BNStory/Front/  Halloween banned in Moscow schools https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_833100.html?menu=news.latestheadlines   Globe and Mail Poll asks: Parliament has approved the use of human embryos in some scientific research. Do you believe human embryos are human beings? Vote here:  https://www.globeandmail.ca   First-Ever Meeting Between Catholic Bishops and Irish Prime Minister Concerns Embryos and Euthanasia https://www.rte.ie/news/2003/1029/bishops.html   Hard-Core Harm: Why You Can’t Be […]
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Canadian Anglican Priests May Face Excommunication over Opposition to Homosexual ‘Marriage’

VANCOUVER, October 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It has been revealed that the renegade Anglican Bishop of the BC diocese of New Westminster has appointed a commission of inquiry into the conduct of seven priests who are charged with disloyalty to their bishop.  The disloyalty stems from their objections to Bishop Michael Ingham’s decision to contravene the worldwide Anglican hierarchy by blessing homosexual unions.  The report of the committee is due back to the bishop the next few weeks and the priests face penalties of simple censure to excommunication, although some have suggested that the latter is highly unlikely.  Lesley Bentley, […]
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Public Outcry Against Abortion Delays St. Lucia Law to Liberalize Abortion

CASTRIES, October 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Caribbean-island country of St. Lucia saw the abortion debate heat up last month.  The 90% Catholic nation of 160,000 was shocked in early September with the government’s introduction of a bill to allow abortion in cases of rape, incest or for the health of the mother.  Pro-life legislator and cabinet Minister Sara Flood Beaubrun joined a large demonstration of over 2500 against the proposed bill.  Beaubrun, Home Affairs Minister, fended off charges of breaching cabinet unity saying, “In all true democracies that I know of, there are certain subject matters that ministers of […]
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Largest Ever Study on Life After Homeschooling Reveals Very Positive Outcomes

SALEM, OR, October 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Brian D. Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute has just released the largest-ever study looking at the lives of over 7,000 adults from across the United States who were home educated during their elementary and secondary school years.  “For nearly 20 years, critics and the curious have been asking about the homeschooled: But how will they do in the “real world” of adulthood? As a corollary, they have also asked: What about socialization?,” said Ray.  The study entitled, Home Educated and Now Adults, answers those questions.  A summary of the […]
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Denmark Permits Destructive Research on Human Embryos

COPENHAGEN, October 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move that has greatly concerned pro-lifers in the European Union, Denmark has given permission for scientists to undertake destructive research with human embryos 'left over' from fertility treatments. The Scientist reports that a law to allow such research came into effect September 1. The Scientist reports that the bans on both reproductive and therapeutic cloning remain in effect. The news is particularly troublesome for the European Union since it was at the insistence of Denmark last year that the European Union postponed funding of embryonic stem cell procurement until 2003. Denmark which […]
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Contraception Sure, But No Safe Drinking Water International Right to Life Federation October Newsletter reports that the World Bank Atlas 2002 says “25% of the Chinese population lack access to a source of safe water, whereas 83% of childbearing age women have access to contraception. In Vietnam it’s 44% without safe water, but 75% who have contraception available.”  https://www.lifeissues.org/international/v14no5.htm   Janet Smith on how the contraceptive mentality has affected the family: The pattern of marriages in the United States is often something like this: multiple sexual partners before marriage; a two or three year period of cohabitation, all the while […]
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President Bush Proclaims Protection From Pornography Week; Canadians Oppose Loose Child Porn Bill

WASHINGTON, October 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While President Bush issued the proclamation of Protection from Pornography Week for this week in the U.S., October 26- November 1, Canada’s Official Opposition recognized the week by attacking Canada’s shameful allowance of some child pornography.  “Pornography can have debilitating effects on communities, marriages, families, and children. During Protection From Pornography Week, we commit to take steps to confront the dangers of pornography,” said Bush Saturday. “The effects of pornography are particularly pernicious with respect to children.  We are vigorously prosecuting and severely punishing those who would harm our children.”  Meanwhile in Canada on […]
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UNFPA Complains that Philippine Government Diverted Funds for Contraceptives to Natural Family Plann

MANILA, October 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) which promotes abortion, abortifacient contraceptives and sterilization in its drive toward depopulation, has criticized the Philippine government over its allocation of funds. Florence Tayzon, assistant representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Manila complained bitterly that the government under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo re-allocated funds destined for contraceptives to natural family planning (NFP).  UNFPA claims $1.5 million was originally allocated for contraceptives in 2000 by then-President Joseph Estrada (ousted by a popular uprising due to a corruption scandal).  “They used the money for natural family planning instead […]
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Canadian Senator Cools Warns Colleagues of “Danger and Enormity” of Homosexual Hate Crime Bill

OTTAWA, October 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Anne Cools rose in the Senate yesterday to speak in opposition to Bill C-250, the private member’s bill by homosexual activist Svend Robinson which seeks to add the term ‘sexual orientation’ to hate crime law. Cools told her colleagues that they should “grasp the enormity and danger of the proposal before us.”  She referred to the legislation as “pernicious and unprecedented,” a “menace” and “a cruel proposition intended to criminalize the verbal and written expression of moral opinion on human sexuality and on human sexual practices.”  Cools pointed out that “Bill C-250 will […]
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Protection From Pornography Week, 2003   By the President of the United States of America https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031025-1.html   Halloween Celebration as Popular as Christmas https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028540.cfm   Miss America 2003 Erika Harold, who last year fought pageant officials’ attempts to stifle her abstinence message, says growing numbers of young people are rejecting sexual promiscuity, despite “what they see on television.”  https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20031027-121013-8524r.htm   Maryland Atheists Want State to Remove Roadside Memorial https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=Nationarchive
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One Step Forward Two Steps Back: Taiwan to Abolish Death Penalty, Approve Homosexual Marriage

TAIPEI, October 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Legislation drawn up by the Taiwanese government would abolish the death penalty but also legalize homosexual marriage and homosexual adoption.  The legislation, jointly drafted by the office of President Chen Shui-bian and the cabinet, is expected to be debated in parliament by December.  A statement form the presidential office indicates that the massive press coverage given to the Canadian homosexual ‘marriage’ ruling and legislation, as well as the pro-sodomy ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, contributed to the decision to propose the legalization of homosexual ‘marriage’.  “The human rights of homosexuals have been gradually […]
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Cord Blood Stem Cell Bill Introduced With Bi-Partisan Support

WASHINGTON, October 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Sam Brownback (R-KS), along with co-sponsors Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), announced introduction of the Cord Blood Stem Cell Act of 2003 last week. This begins a new commitment to developing a national infrastructure for cord blood stem cell collection and research that could, in time, save the lives of thousands of gravely ill Americans.  The success of these adult stem cells trumps any need for recourse to morally objectionable embryonic stem cells.  The bipartisan Cord Blood Stem Cell Act of 2003 would […]
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Constitutional showdown brewing over Terri’s Law Husband’s attorney expects Florida Supremes to rule on intervention by legislators, Jeb Bush https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35258   ‘Save Terri’ calls are pouring in https://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/7080018.htm   Shockingly High Abortion Stats in Scotland – 27 abortions per 100 births in Lothian https://www.news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1173702003   CTV Reports Four in 10 Would Vote for Merged Conservative Party: Poll https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1067017827327_62427027///?hub=Canada   Attack on Morality “The Next great Heresy” Said Chesterton What many people can’t see today. G.K. Chesterton could see in 1926: “the next great heresy”, he wrote, “is going to be an attack on morality; and especially on sexual morality… I […]
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Knights of Columbus Hall Nixes Witchcraft Event

SALEM, MA, October 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scratch up one for SpiritDaily.com, which first broke the story that the Salem, Mass. Knights of Columbus hall was to be used for a witchcraft ceremony.  The SpiritDaily notice which was picked up by LifeSiteNews.com and several other websites created a new awareness of the event for those involved and led to its cancellation after “many complaints.”  SpiritDaily reports today that Massachusetts Knights of Columbus “State Deputy Thomas Ledbetter and the State Board of Officers of the Massachusetts State Council Knights of Columbus and the Salem Knights of Columbus have announced that the […]
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Anglican Priests Loses Pay and Slated for ‘Termination’ for Opposition to Homosexual Unions

ABBOTSFORD, BC, October 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rev. James Wagner, from the Church of the Holy Cross in Abbotsford, British Columbia has had his job terminated as a result of his refusal to support blessings of homosexual unions, the position of his controversial Bishop Michael Ingham. Rev. Wagner who runs a mission parish and is supported by Ingham’s diocese was threatened in a letter from the diocese that if he did not sign a statement of unreserved loyalty to the pro-homosexual-blessing bishop he would be placed on leave.  The National Post reports that the diocese did not admit to firing […]
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Denver Archbishop Chaput Rebukes Secular Feminism which “Hates Fertility”

DENVER, October 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an address to the Catholic Daughters of the Americas last week, Denver Archbishop Charles Caput argued for the equality of men and women but noted the unhealthy result of seeking uniformity. The archbishop said that secular feminists take the wrong approach in seeking a “false equality” denying femininity and trying to be like men in everything.  They deny the “feminine genius” he said, and he discussed the great cost to society that that denial entails.  “The price tag of this kind of ‘equality’ too often means denying the differences between women and men. […]
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Massachusetts Catholic Bishop Shocks with Openness to Homosexual Benefits

BOSTON, October 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Daniel P. Reilly of Worcester created a stir yesterday as he spoke on behalf of the state’s four Roman Catholic bishops giving testimony before a State committee examining the question of homosexual ‘marriage’.  While he did state the Church’s opposition to homosexual ‘marriage’ or ‘civil unions’ he suggested an openness to homosexual benefits.  Reading from a prepared text Bishop Reilly said, “If a bill alters marriage’s definition or changes the meaning of spouse, we cannot support it. If the goal is to look at individual benefits and determine who should be eligible beyond […]
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Adult Blood stem cells can repair damaged muscle https://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20031020-090436-5529r.htm Newfoundland Elects Conservative Majority Government https://stjohns.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=nf_exln-wrap_20031022 Catholic Nurses of Nigeria Restate Opposition to Abortion https://allafrica.com/stories/200310230483.html
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Terri Schiavo Moved Back to Hospice; Legal Guardian to be Appointed

CLEARWATER, October 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Terri Schiavo was moved back to the Woodside hospice after her feeding tube was reinserted at Morton Plant Hospital Wednesday.  The court has also agreed to appoint a guardian at litem for Terri, but the guardian would only oversee legal matters, with decisions as to Terri’s care still to be made by her estranged husband Michael Schiavo, who is seeking her death.  Since Michael is regarded as the surrogate for Terri, Florida law prohibits hospital officials from communicating Terri’s condition or whereabouts to her parents.  As such, her parents were distraught for some time […]
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The Bizarre Motivation behind Michael Schiavo’s Right-to-Die Lawyer George Felos

CLEARWATER, October 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The motivation behind Michael Schiavo’s dire quest to end the life of his severely disabled wife is not certain.  He has a child and another on the way with another woman but a divorce would suffice in that case.  However, there is the suggestion that he has life insurance money pending on her death – a suggestion which he has refused to comment on.  Moreover Terri’s parents suspect he was to blame for his wife’s condition and see that as the reason he has requested her body be cremated.  His claim is that Terri […]
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Most Canadians Want Alternatives to Embryo Research

OTTAWA, October 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Leger poll of 1500 Canadians shows that 70% favour ethical alternatives to embryonic stem cell research. These results contradict a recent Pollara poll suggesting 57% public support for such research.  The poll, commissioned by LifeCanada/vieCanada, the national educational pro-life group, asked respondents if they thought it was acceptable to use human embryos for stem cell research or if they thought it would be preferable to use other sources of stem cells which do not involve loss of life or harm.  Bill C-13, the Assisted Human Reproduction Act currently before Parliament, would allow researchers […]
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Mel Gibson’s Film The Passion to be released Ash Wednesday Feb. 25, 2004 Distributed by his own company Icon Entertainment https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mel22oct22,1,4189524.story   Abortion Activist’s Other Cause – Right to Public Nudity https://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/7074530.htm   Alaska to Appeal Court Decision to Quash Parental Consent Law https://www.juneauempire.com/stories/102203/sta_abortions.shtml   Abortifacient Contraceptive Depro Provera Found to Weaken Bones https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3177544.stm   Montreal may not have to host ‘Gay’ Olympics https://montreal.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=qc_gaygames20032110   Private Christian school sued after gay student expelled https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-cgaystudent22oct22,0,1196074.story?coll=sfla-news-broward   Next International Gay Pride Day Headed for Jerusalem https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35203
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Study Reveals Long-term Psychological Problems of Children of Divorce

WASHINGTON, October 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study in the Journal of Family Studies shows that the majority of babies who alternate living with their divorced parents develop long-lasting psychological problems. Jennifer McIntosh, a clinical psychologist and family therapist, says alternating between divorced parents causes “disorganised attachment” in 60% of children under 18 months. In the long term, these children grow up to have “alarming levels of emotional insecurity and poor ability to regulate strong emotion” as teens and adults.  A federal parliamentary inquiry into child custody is looking at the merits of 50-50 arrangements, something the doctor called […]
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Paraguay, Croatia and Civil Unions For Same-Sex Couples

NEW YORK, October 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Croatia has legalized same-sex unions and “human rights” protections for homosexuals. The post-communist, historically Catholic country stopped short of granting full marriage “rights.”  In Paraguay, the Minister of Women’s Affairs will propose legislation to create civil unions for same-sex couples. The announcement dispels homosexual predictions that Ms. Argana would refrain from this move because she allegedly belongs to the Roots Church, affiliated with the Mennonite Brethren.  So far in Latin America, only the city of Buenos Aires and Rio Negro province, both in Argentina, have homosexual civil unions. The so-called International Gay and […]
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Polish cardinal Criticizes Plans to Legalize Abortion, Gay Partnerships

WARSAW, October 22, 2003 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Warsaw, primate of Poland, this week criticized government plans to grant legal recognition to homosexual relationships and to weaken the country’s abortion laws. He was commenting on announced plans by ruling parties to introduce the bills in the parliament.  Prime Minister Leszek Miller’s Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) pledged to grant special rights to homosexuals and allow more abortions in new laws after the 2001 general election. But those plans were shelved in order to win the Catholic Church’s backing for Poland’s accession to the European Union.  But now a group […]
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Lesbian, Pro-Abortion Activist Patricia Ireland Dismissed as YWCA Chief

WASHINGTON, October 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Radical pro-abortion activist Patricia Ireland, former head of the National Organization of Women, has been “terminated” from her post as chief executive of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA).  The YWCA board made the decision after requesting that she resign.  She refused the request.  U.S. pro-life organizations railed at the decision to appoint Ireland to head the YWCA six months ago.  Since then it seems that Ireland irritated the board by pursuing her activist agenda.  However, full details on the removal remain hidden.  In a release the Traditional Values Coalition stated “We don’t know […]
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President Bush Applauds Passage of Partial Birth Abortion Ban – Looks Forward to Signing

WASHINGTON, October 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a statement yesterday, President George W. Bush said “I applaud the Senate for joining the House in passing the ban on partial-birth abortion.”  He promised to sign the legislation and also said he saw it as a step in building the culture of life.  “This is very important legislation that will end an abhorrent practice and continue to build a culture of life in America,” he said.  “I look forward to signing it into law.”  See the statement from the White House website:  https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031021-16.html
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November 6 Vote Likely on United Nations Cloning Ban

UNITED NATIONS, October 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com has learned from sources at the United Nations that both lobbyists and delegates attending a crucial United Nations Committee meeting on human cloning suspect a vote will be held on the issue at the close of their meeting on November 6.  Deliberations on a proposal to enact a United Nations ban on human cloning have stalled over opposition to a ban on all human cloning by supporters of a Franco-German position asking for a ban on only ‘reproductive’ cloning. A large majority of nations support the Costa Rican resolution, which seeks a […]
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Liberals Seek to Silence Scalia Conservative Supreme Court justice asked to bow out of all religious cases.  https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028501.cfm   Sponsor Pulls Ad from CBS News After Homeschoolers’ Complaints https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive
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Ontario Premier McGuinty Visits Catholic School After Mocking Catholic Principles.

OTTAWA, October 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On October 11, the Ottawa Citizen reported on pro-abortion and pro-homosexual “Catholic” Dalton McGuinty’s visit to St. Patrick’s High School, his alma mater. The students cheered as he accepted a gift of a school sweater. He spoke briefly about the need to be involved in political activities, to participate in public service and to “dream big dreams.”  McGuinty follows in the footsteps of many current Canadian politicians with a Catholic background. It has become the accepted practice among Canadian Catholic politicians to claim the status of Catholic in good standing or so-called “devout” Catholics, […]
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Knights of Columbus Hall in Salem MA. to be Used for Witchcraft Ceremony

SALEM, MA., October 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A witchcraft ceremony called “Death and Rebirth: Ritual Transformation” is to take place at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Salem Massachusetts.  The ceremony, part of the “Festival of the Dead”, is set for 8:30 pm, Saturday, November 1.  An advertisement for the event on the official Festival of the Dead website says: “Draw on the magick of Salem, the power of Witchcraft, the strength in numbers, and take action to create the life you have dreamed of having.”  It adds, “It is not necessary to be a Witch to participate.”  LifeSite was […]
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Film on Reagan Produced by Hollywood Democrats Presents Reagan as Cold-hearted, Ruthless

WASHINGTON, October 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An upcoming CBS film made for television presents former President Ronald Reagan as cold-hearted and ruthless.  Drudge report revealed in a shocker today that in one scene former First Lady Nancy Reagan is portrayed pleading with the President to help people battling AIDS. The film character playing Reagan says resolutely, “They that live in sin shall die in sin” and refuses to discuss the issue further. The show’s writer’s admit the dialogue never happened.  Drudge also reveals that the film’s producers, Zadan and Meron, acknowledge their liberal politics, as do the stars of the […]
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Calgary Hospitals Mulling Policy to Ban Bibles

CALGARY, October 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Under the pretence of not “endorsing any one religion over another”, the Calgary Health Region (CHR) is mulling a policy that would see the Gideon Bibles found in most bedside tables of hospitals in North America, banned.  Toni MacDonald, the CHR’s director of spiritual care said, “There’s no interest in restricting access. It’s just that we want it to be non-discriminatory.  We thought we needed to do a more careful review of what our current practice is to ensure we are being considerate of all religious faiths.”  However, religious leaders of diverse faiths vehemently […]
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U.S. Senate Gives Final Approval to Partial Birth Abortion Ban – President to Sign

WASHINGTON, October 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Senate gave final approval to the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (S. 3) Tuesday afternoon on a vote of 64-34, clearing the measure for President Bush’s signature.  “In 2000, five Supreme Court justices said that Roe v. Wade guaranteed the right of abortionists to perform partial-birth abortions whenever they see fit— but Congress is now inviting the Supreme Court to re-examine that extreme and inhumane decision,” said Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).  In the case of Stenberg v. Carhart in 2000, by a 5-4 vote, the […]
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Poor Efforts by Florida Bishops on Shiavo Case Severely Criticized by American Life League

STAFFORD, Virginia, October 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League president Judi Brown has taken the Florida Catholic bishops to task for their poor efforts on the Terri Shiavo saga. In a press release earlier today, the AFL says Brown “notes a serious void in leadership within the Florida Catholic Conference of Bishops. ‘Most stunning throughout this lengthy, three-year battle to save Terri Schiavo’s life has been the lack of consistent action by Florida’s Catholic bishops, especially Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg.  It is inexcusable that these shepherds find it acceptable to sit by virtually silent while one of […]
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Florida Gov. Bush Issues Order to Stop Starvation of Terri Schiavo

TALLAHASSEE, October 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Florida House voted Monday night, shortly after 10 PM, 68-23 to give Governor Jeb Bush the authority to rescue Terri Schindler-Schiavo from the court ordered starvation she has undergone since Wednesday, October 15. Today, the Senate passed the bill 23-15, sending it to Bush for his signature.  Governor Bush, who arranged for the extension of the special session to allow for the bill, signed the legislation immediately. He issued an executive order just over an hour after the bill’s passage, halting the starvation death.  The bill allows for a stay in cases of […]
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YWCA Fires Pro-abortion Lesbian, Wiccan praising, socialist Patricia Ireland The YWCA’s decision to fire Patricia Ireland is late but welcome, according to the pro-family lobby which conducted a national campaign for her removal.  https://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1246   Vote in CNN’s marriage poll:  https://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/30/bush.gay.marriage/index.html   Strong Indications Mike Harris Will Join New Party Leadership Race Former Ontario premier will give speech Wednesday on new party in N.S.  Toronto Star reports Tom Long, a key adviser to Mike Harris, said people should pay close attention to the Wednesday speech to the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, a right-wing think-tank. A united conservative party lead […]
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Practicing Homosexual Anglican Bishop-Elect Says it is “God’s Will” He Continue

NEW HAMPSHIRE, October 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Gene Robinson, the practicing homosexual Episcopal Minister who is to be consecrated a bishop November 2, has refused to step down from his appointment and has gone even further saying that “it is God’s will” that he become a bishop.  Anglicans the world over including the Archbishop of Canterbury have acknowledged the move will cause a massive split in the Church but Robinson remains determined to go ahead.  However, even within the diocese there is much unrest.  Donations to the diocese are down due to protests by some parishes. See local coverage:  https://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=61204&ran=195906
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Study Proving Male/Female Genetic Uniqueness Warped to Suggest Evidence for “Gay Genes”

LOS ANGELES, October 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  A study published in the current edition of the journal Molecular Brain Research has found (to no one’s surprise) that being male and being female are distinctly different genetically.  Dr. Eric Vilain, the lead researcher of the study and a professor at the University of California, said the study shows “Sexual identity is rooted in every person’s biology before birth and springs from a variation in our individual genome.”  The researchers found that in mice over 50 genes lead to brain differences between males and females.  Thus the research suggests that the widely […]
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Researcher Questions Motivation of Pro-Life MPs Who Oppose Stem Cell Bill

OTTAWA, October 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian media is rife today with stories on the fact that destructive research on human embryos is already being done in Canada. And 'experts' in the field are thus questioning the motivation of pro-life MPs who are objecting to the legislation which, they say, seeks to regulate the research. A proponent of the current bill, Francoise Baylis, an ethicist at Dalhousie University, has claimed pro-life MPs are being inconsistent in opposing the bill. The Canadian Press reports that Baylis said, while embryonic stem cell research is not currently going on, destructive research on […]
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Governor Bush Calls for Special Session Bill in Florida Legislature to Save Terri from Starvation

CLEARWATER, October 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, has called a special session of the Florida Legislature for Monday, October 20, 2003. Florida’s Speaker of the House will introduce “Terri’s Bill”. By Florida law, two thirds majority vote are required to have a topic entered.  The Bill would put an immediate moratorium on all dehydration and starvation deaths currently pending in Florida.  Volunteers with the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation have learned that Senate President, Jim King is against this bill. On Friday two state courts rejected pleas to have Terri’s feeding tube reinserted.  Terri’s parents, devout Catholics, […]
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U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case to Protect Children from Internet Porn https://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3263777,00.html   Mel Gibson forced to rename The Passion in America after Miramax objects https://metromix.chicagotribune.com/news/celebrity/sns-ap-film-gibson-passion,0,7510662.story?coll=mmx-celebrity_heds   UK Paper claims Plan to Press Pope to Resign revealed by “a very senior church official who declined to be named”  https://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=453804 Canada’s MD shortage among worst in Western world https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031016.wdoct1016/BNStory/National/  Author Says It’s Time GOP Fought Back Against Liberal Tactics https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/162003e.asp   Publisher Fears Canadian Law Could Label Holy Scriptures ‘Hate Speech’  https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/162003a.asp   ‘They Want Marriage to Mean Nothing’  What do you think of the new report from the […]
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Canada Seen as Model for Homosexual Activists Worldwide

PHILADELPHIA, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activist Canadian politicians – federal MP Svend Robinson, Ontario MPP George Smitherman and Winnipeg Mayor Glen Murray – will be featured guests at an international homosexual activist conference this Spring in Philadelphia. The ‘Equality Forum’, is featuring Canada this year as a model country for homosexual activism.  The executive director of the international forum, Malcolm Lazin, said of selecting Canada, “It was an easy choice, Canada is really a leader when it comes to gay and lesbian civil rights.”  Two of the homosexual activists who were part of the organized campaign of court […]
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World Leader of Anglicans Acknowledges Massive Split Coming Over ‘Gay’ Bishop

LONDON, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, has come out against the appointment of a practicing homosexual as an Anglican Bishop.  The US Anglican diocese of New Hampshire has refused to halt the consecration of homosexual minister Gene Robinson as a Bishop, which will take place November 2.  An emergency meeting to discuss the crisis over the U.S. bishop-elect and another Anglican Bishop in Canada who is also refusing to heed the direction of the worldwide Anglican leadership asking him to refuse to bless homosexual ‘marriages’ ended without resolution.  “Undoubtedly there is a huge crisis […]
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November Campaign Life Coalition News Now on Line

Stories are as follows:  *Dirty tricks to get C-13 passed   *Pro-life M-83 defeated   * Canadian duplicity at UN cloning talks   * Municipal elections   * Ontario election   * Pro-life premier re-elected in PEI   * Supreme Court rejects BC bubble zone challenge   * Judges cozy ties to gay activists exposed   * Paul Martin is PM in waiting   * RU-486’s lethal history   * Youth proclaim truth about ABC link   * Sr. Lucille Durocher, RIP   * Edmonton National Conference, Nov. 6-8   * Christmas cake sales   * Fr. Ted Scholarship   […]
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LifeSite Posts New Page on Federal MPs Voting Records on Life and Family Issues

TORONTO, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, LifeSite has posted a new page on voting by federal Members of Parliament on life and family issue votes that have been recorded in the House of Commons.  The page also gives brief summaries of the bills and motions concerned and links to the original Hansard records of the vote.  This service is intended to help our readers hold the Members accountable for their actions and to facilitate praise and encouragement for those who have acted on behalf of life and family and facilitate effective grassroots lobbying of those who have done the […]
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Belgian Cardinal Holds Press Conference to Slam Curial Cardinal over Statements Against Condoms

MECHELEN, Belgium, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, 70, the left-leaning media favorite to become the next pope, held a press conference at his residence Wednesday, in which he publicly belittled fellow Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo. Cardinal Trujillo, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family, repeated the Church’s teaching against contraception to a BBC program, and also noted the scientific evidence showing that condoms are not fail-safe protection against AIDS.  He suggested that rather than allow the false image of ‘safe sex’ with condoms, condom packages should warn consumers that they are not reliable protection against […]
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Priest Who Blessed Terri Schiavo with Relic of Mother Teresa Hints at Hope for Miracle

TAMPA BAY, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The parents of Terri Schiavo, the disabled Florida woman who is destined to starve to death after a court ordered the removal of her feeding tube, were able to have a supervised visit with their daughter after her feeding tube was removed. Bob and Mary Schindler visited their daughter accompanied by Rev. Thaddeus Malanowski, a Roman Catholic priest who visits Terri weekly. The New York Times reports that Father Malanowski took a scrap from a robe worn by Mother Teresa into Terri’s room and blessed her with it.  Recalling the fact that Mother […]
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Florida Bishop’s Statement on Euthanasia-Starvation of Terri Schiavo Deplorably Weak

TAMPA BAY, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life Catholics reacted with dismay to the weak statement issued by Bishop Robert Lynch of St Petersburg regarding Terri Schindler, the disabled Florida woman whose life-sustaining feeding tube was removed by court order two days ago.  Whereas pro-life leaders and anti-euthanasia experts internationally have identified the act as an act of euthanasia, the official statement from the bishop failed to even mention that there was wrongdoing at work in Terri’s starvation.  The two paragraph statement by the bishop reads:  “With the news that the feeding tube has now been removed from Terri Schiavo, […]
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Frozen Embryos Linked to Ectopic Pregnancy

LONDON, October 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study has found that women implanted with frozen embryos in an effort to become artificially pregnant face a higher risk of ectopic pregnancy, as the embryo lodges itself in the fallopian tubes, ovary, abdomen or cervix rather than safely in the womb itself.  Researchers at Brown University and Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island found that of 490 pregnancies from non-frozen embryos, only 9 (or 1.8%) were ectopic, compared to 31.6% rate for women who were implanted with frozen embryos.  According to reports, “The condition is potentially life-threatening. The embryo […]
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Holland Pro-Life Leader Warns Schiavo Case Opens Door to Euthanasia in USA

HILVERSUM, Holland, October 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bert P. Dorenbos,  President Schreeuw om Leven (Cry for Life) in Holland, has sent a dire warning to the United States regarding the Schiavo case.  “At the moment that, in the Dutch debate on euthanasia, a court ruled that withholding food and fluid is a permissible medical treatment, the road was paved for the Euthanasia Law that is in force in Holland now,” writes Dorenbos.  “It was in the case of Mrs. Ineke Stinissen,” the Dutch pro-life leader explains, “who had been in coma for several years that a Dutch court ruled in […]
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Pope John Paul II “World’s Greatest Defender of Life and Family”

TORONTO, October 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “John Paul II is the world’s greatest defender of life and family,” Jim Hughes, President of Campaign Life Coalition Canada and Vice President of the International Right to Life Federation, told LifeSite News. Today, as John Paul celebrates his 25th anniversary as Pope, pro-life groups across the world are reflecting on his valiant leadership.  Since 1995 LifeSite News has covered the Pope’s statements on life and family issues writing well over 400 articles concerning his urgent pleas on behalf of defenceless unborn children.  People of all faith backgrounds who accept the sacredness of all […]
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Evangelical and Catholic Religious Leaders Propose Marriage Week in Canada – February 8-15

TORONTO, October 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Religious groups have come together to sponsor “Marriage on the Rock” as a national event for Sunday, February 8 to Sunday, February 15, 2004 (the week leading up to Valentine’s Day).  “Biblical marriage is important to us all – singles, couples, children, families, communities and society as a whole,” says the joint release by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada in partnership with Crossroads Christian Communications; Focus on the Family, Canada; Listen Up TV.com; MarriageCanada.ca; Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops and The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada   Marriage on the Rock will be a week, […]
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Picketers Demonstrate as Knights of Columbus Dinner Keynoted by Pro-Abortion Politician https://www.insidevc.com/vcs/county_news/article/0,1375,VCS_226_2345915,00.html   Record Attendance at Right to Life fundraiser featuring pro-life actress Jennifer O’Neill https://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/10/13/news/local_state/news08.txt   French Canadian company may expand porn in America https://www.afa.net/activism/IssueDetail.asp?id=93   Homosexual couple booted from U.S. Catholic Church choir after ‘marriage’ in Canada https://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny—churchchoir-gays1015oct15,0,6577951.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire   Barbra Streisand receives award for pro-homosexual activism https://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=82868868&p=8z869574
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U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Pledge of Allegiance Case

WASHINGTON, October 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear the infamous Ninth Circuit case involving the constitutionality of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools. The Ninth Circuit justified declaring it unconstitutional on grounds that the mention of God in the Pledge of Allegiance violates the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution. The Pacific Justice Institute has announced that it will file an amicus brief in defense of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.  “We are committed to stand up to the outrageous decision by the Ninth Circuit,” said Brad […]
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Hillary Clinton Blasts Bush Declaration of Marriage Protection Week

WASHINGTON, October 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Hillary Clinton has come out swinging against President Bush for his declaration of October 12-18 as Marriage Protection Week.  Speaking Thursday to homosexual activists at a New York fundraiser for the Empire State Pride Agenda, Clinton called the Bush supported effort to protect marriage as “taking away rights and undermining the ability of Americans to live their own lives.” Clinton predicted that the issue around marriage would be “center of the presidential election next year”, and left no doubt about her position on the issue.  Alan Van Capelle, the executive director of the […]
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Senior Liberal Minister Says Homosexual Marriage ‘Profoundly Difficult’

OTTAWA, October 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A senior Liberal cabinet minister has said for the first time that same-sex marriage raises “profoundly difficult” issues—issues that could damage the Liberals’ electoral prospects in Western Canada.  Ralph Goodale, Minister of Agriculture and a Paul Martin supporter, said: “On same sex it’s a profoundly difficult set of issues. No doubt there’s some [seats] it would cost and others it might gain, it depends on what part of Western Canada you’re talking about. Finding the appropriate balance between those two very vital sets of values [referring to equality and religion] is what this current […]
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Anglicans Prepare for More Homosexual Battles

VANCOUVER, October 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – B.C.‘s Anglican hierarchy sounded surprisingly authoritarian in condemning Terry Buckle, the Anglican bishop of the Yukon who has declared his willingness to act as bishop for a group of Vancouver parishes outside his diocese that are unwilling to toe the homosexual line. Archbishop David Crawley, B.C.‘s senior cleric, said: “Many of us are deeply grieved and embarrassed that a bishop, who has sworn an oath to maintain order in the life of the church, is himself the author of disorder.”  In Britain, Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury is expected to side with […]
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Cash Likely Not Enough to Reverse Italy’s Population Decline

ROME, October 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The right-of-centre Italian Government of Silvio Berlusconi is hoping to reverse Italy’s status as the country with the lowest birth rate and fastest-aging population in Europe. To get things rolling, his government has announced a cash bonus for the birth of a second child.  “It is possible that it [will work],” says Maura Mitziti of the national institute of population research. “Measures like these have been used in Sweden, and we do see a peak of fertility when the measure is first implemented. But then we see that the attitudes come back to normal […]
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CBS Attempts Smear Job Against Homeschoolers with “The Dark Side of Homeschooling”

LOS ANGELES, October 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An “Eye on America” segment in the October 13 edition of The CBS Evening News suggested that a tragic murder-suicide in a rural county two years ago was somehow evidence of the “dark side” of home-schooling. Correspondent Vince Gonzales portrayed home education as a haven for potential abusers and worse. In fact, the Warren family—whose 14-year-old son killed two teen-aged siblings and then himself in July 2001—had chosen to duck North Carolina’s homeschool law. CBS News could show no evidence that the Warrens were typical of homeschoolers, or that this senseless tragedy would […]
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Students Used as Political Fodder in Effort to Pass Controversial Canadian Stem Cell Bill

OTTAWA, October 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In what the Toronto Star calls an unusual move, three Toronto high schools are being used in a pilot project to promote to teenagers the use of embryonic human beings in experimental research. A curriculum supplement “kit” has been developed and will be sent to every high school in the country to train students in an anti-life position on the ethics of stem cell research and cloning. Students would then be encouraged to lobby their MP's, to write articles and letters to politicians and newspapers encouraging the passage of C-13 and the use of […]
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Terri Schiavo’s Starvation Order is a Clear Act of Euthanasia Akin to Nazi Times

EDMONTON, October 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As efforts in the United States heat up to call attention to the plight of disabled Florida woman Terri Schiavo, the Canadian effort to save Terri’s life is causing Americans to reflect on the threat to the right to life posed by the case.  As LifeSite reported previously, Edmonton-based disabled activist Mark Pickup of HumanLifeMatters has taken up Terri’s cause, seeking to have her granted asylum in Canada.  Pickup spoke to LifeSiteNews.com today, minutes before the feeding tube was set to be removed from Terri.  “It seems something is happening here which will either […]
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Video Demonstrates Florida Woman Scheduled for Euthanasia Wednesday NOT in Vegetative State

TAMPA BAY, October 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The parents of Terri Schiavo, Bob and Mary Schindler, have risked their freedom in order to save their 39-year-old daughter from euthanasia by starvation and dehydration.  In a dramatic crescendo to a 10-year legal battle to fight the attempts of Terri’s estranged husband, Michael Schiavo, to have her nutrition and hydration tube removed, the Schindler’s released a video tape of Terri interacting with her mother.  Far from the “vegetative state” claimed by her husband, Terri is seen in the video with eyes wide open, sitting up and even attempting to speak with her […]
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Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (a Catholic) has vetoed legislation to ban partial birth abortion https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/10/10/national2201EDT0778.DTL   French ministry opens euthanasia debate https://www.expatica.com/france.asp?pad=278,313,&item_id=34889   Australian MP decries lowering of homosexual sexual consent age from 18 to 16 “rent-boy legislation”  https://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7551036%5E13569,00.html   British Columbia University of Victoria Hosts Bondage Rope Class https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35039
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Embryos With Three Parents Created by Chinese

GUANGZHOU, China, October 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The BBC reported Tuesday that scientists at Sun Yat-Sen University, in Guangzhou, China say they have created embryos using eggs from two women and sperm from one man.  The embryos were implanted into a 30-year-old Chinese women who later miscarried the embryos. The technique used by the Chinese scientists was developed in the United States but was outlawed in 1998 and is also banned in the UK.  The BBC reports that Dr Mohammed Taranissi of the Assisted Reproduction & Gynaecology Centre in London said the technology had been around for a while.  He […]
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Ad Asks Bush to Ensure pro-Life Judges are Appointed to Courts

WASHINGTON, October 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League, held a press conference today to unveil its newest ad: No More Dodgeball During Recess!  “We hope the president will heed our call for action on this very important matter,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. “Bush should use his power to make recess appointments to ensure that pro-life judges are appointed to the courts. This is his best option for breaking the deadlock created by pro-abortion zealots in the Senate.”  The ad will run Oct. 14 in The Washington Times, and will also appear in several other national […]
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New Evidence Against RU-486 Filed by Concerned Women for America

WASHIGNTON, October 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of 18-year old Holly Patterson’s death after taking the abortion drug RU-486, Concerned Women for America, with two doctors’ groups, filed a second legal document on Oct. 10 supporting the case for the FDA to withdraw its approval of the dangerous drug.  This document responds to the attempt by Danco, the distributor of RU-486 (brand name is Mifeprex), to rebut the medical, scientific and legal arguments presented by Concerned Women for America (CWA), American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) and Christian Medical Association (CMA) in a Citizen Petition filed […]
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Investigators Infiltrate Raelian Cult – Find Evidence of Cloning Hoax https://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=2b63541f-0154-4454-94d4-cea6037f954c   Ugandan Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala Warns Condoms Promote Immorality https://allafrica.com/stories/200309290586.html   Judge Blocks Missouri Law Requiring 24-hour Cool-Down Wait Before Abortion https://www.darnews.com/articles/2003/10/09/news/news6.txt   Russian Orthodox Church Demolished after being ‘Defiled” by Homosexual ‘Marriage’  https://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20031009-093905-1734r.htm   Decline in Down Syndrome Tied to Abortion More than 8 in 10 babies diagnosed with the disease in the womb are killed.  https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028329.cfm   Limbaugh Admits Drug Addiction https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive
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Pro-abortion Group Collecting $162 Million U.S. Funding Under Guise of Anti AIDS/HIV

WASHINGTON, October 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Population Research Institute (PRI) has released a report outing a pro-abortion group which is contravening the U.S. (Mexico City) policy barring abortion-promoting international groups from receiving U.S. government funding.  In April of 2002, USAID announced that it was awarding nearly $162 million to Family Health International (FHI) and its partners over the next five years. This award followed a 1997 five-year grant to FHI for $148 million. Ostensibly, the grants have been provided to help fight the global AIDS pandemic. USAID HIV/AIDS funds are not subject to the Mexico City policy.  However, PRI […]
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Pope Blasts Laws Which Relegate Religion to the Private Sphere

VATICAN CITY, October 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope John Paul II met with participants in the parliamentary assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) today.  He stressed the “right to religious freedom” reminding legislators that “the respect of every expression of religious freedom is therefore seen to be a most effective means for guaranteeing security and stability within the family of Peoples and Nations in the twenty-first century.”  The Pope said, “just as damage is done to society when religion is relegated to the private sphere, so too are society and civil institutions impoverished when legislation […]
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Survey Which Found a Majority of Canadians Opposed to Spanking Was Biased

TORONTO, October 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Focus on the Family Canada has pointed out that the widely reported survey showing a majority of Canadians opposed to spanking was biased.  The survey which was commissioned by Toronto Public Health and carried out by Decima research asked just over 2000 Canadians if Section 43 of the criminal code which permits spanking should be repealed.  However, rather than asking the question straight, all those surveyed were read the following loaded statement before being questioned:  “Canada’s Criminal Code no longer allows physical punishment of adults, but Section 43 of the Code allows physical punishment […]
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New Controversial Scottish Cardinal Swears to Uphold Church Teaching on Homosexuality and Contraception and Celibacy Rule

EDINBURGH, October 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scottish Bishop Keith O’Brien, created a media frenzy a few days ago after being publicly selected by Pope John Paul II to be made a Cardinal. He used the occasion to broadcast his unorthodox views on birth control and homosexuality. However, later, on October 7 Cardinal Designate O’Brien made the customary “Profession of Faith” but added an unusual extra promise of fidelity to Church teaching on the very issues he questioned only days earlier.  O’Brien, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, said in the ceremony at St Mary’s Cathedral Edinburgh on Tuesday, “I further […]
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LifeSite Ontario Election Database Updated to Show Winners and Votes

LifeSite, October 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite’s Oct. 2 Ontario election pages have been updated to identify the winning candidates in each riding and the votes received by all candidates. Winning candidate names are in bold red.  See https://www.lifesitenews.com/elections/provincial/Ontario/2003/index.html
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Boston Archbishop O’Malley Leads 1000 in Pro-Life Walk https://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/279/metro/O_Malley_buoys_abortion_foes_at_rally+.shtml   U.S. Doctors Group Passes Pro-Life Resolution Citing Hippocratic Oath https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34911 See the group’s website https://www.aapsonline.org/  Minnesota Government brochure lists risks of abortion https://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/6957060.htm Big Brothers Big Sisters accused of turning down a Christian because his morals were too high.  https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028276.cfm   Sex-Ed Groups Pressure Congressional Members https://www.cwfa.org/articles/4704/CWA/education/index.htm   FCC Says TV Obscenity Is Okay if Used as an ‘Adjective’   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/4709/CWA/pornography/index.htm   East African Gov’t Urged to Legalize Homosexual Activity https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=ForeignBureausarchive
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Rabbi Says “Israel Abortionists kill more children than terrorists”

BROOKLYN, NY, October 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a recent article, Rabbi Yehuda Levin of Jews for Morality relates quotations on an Israeli pro-life group poster saying, “STOP The Silent Holocaust – 2,000,000 children destroyed by abortion in Israel”.  Rabbi Levin says he was shocked by the enormity of the numbers and investigated the veracity of the claims.  He presents the findings of his investigation and deems the statistics believable.  Rabbi Levin then comments: “Should we be surprised that the sword has been unleashed against our people in the Holy Land? Our continued silence on this issue makes us vulnerable, […]
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Bauer Gives Sage Commentary and Warning on Schwarzenegger Win in California

LOS ANGELES, October 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gary Bauer, Chairman of the Campaign for Working Families and a long-time life and family leader in the U.S., has issued a stinging commentary on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s successful bid to become Governor of California under the Republican banner. “Top NBC media personality Tim Russert said this morning that the Schwarzenegger victory represents a triumph of a new moderate Republican Party that can win anywhere IF it just drops a few pesky issues. Guess which issues he is talking about? That’s right – the issues we care the most about!,” said Bauer in a […]
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BBC Launches Propaganda Campaign to Discredit Catholic Church View That Condoms Are Not Solution to AIDS

LONDON, October 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The BBC has attacked the Catholic Church for its stand on the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa and other developing countries. As a result of a new study by the virulently anti-Catholic United Nations Population Fund, the media is staging a new phase of assaults against the Catholic teaching that abstinence before marriage and continence within marriage is the only certainly effective way of combating AIDS and other STD’s. The UNFPA report, which has yet to be substantiated by any unbiased agency, claims that a young person is […]
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Canadian Supreme Court Rejects Application to Appeal Ontario Homosexual Marriage Decision

OTTAWA, October 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The religious and family groups which applied to Canada’s Supreme Court to be granted leave to appeal the Ontario Superior Court’s homosexual ‘marriage’ decision were disappointed with today’s announcement that their application to appeal has been denied. The Liberal government and homosexual activists intervened in the case to demand that the court quash the appeal application.  Alliance Justice Critic Vic Toews called the decision troubling.  “One more door has now been slammed to the public on the same sex marriage debate,” said Toews.  “After the Liberal Government failed in its responsibility to appeal the […]
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Military Expert Agrees Women Should Be Excluded From Draft Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness is concerned that if feminists ever succeed in forcing the Pentagon to allow women to be given combat assignments, then the draft might have to be expanded to include women.  https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/82003g.asp   Former sex abuse panel head says he was subject of smear campaign https://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20031002.htm   U.N. Debate on Cloning Ends in Indecision   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/4694/CWA/life/index.htm   NEA, SIECUS to Attack Abstinence Ed A top teachers union is teaming up with a liberal sex educators group to teach your kids about condoms.  https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028246.cfm   […]
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Outgoing California Governor Davis Signs Spate of Anti-Life Anti-family Bills

LOS ANGELES, October 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Outgoing California Governor Gray Davis, whose predictable loss to Republican actor-turned politician Arnold Schwarzenegger was confirmed today, took a last shot at political opponents by signing a flood of anti-life and anti-family legislative initiatives into law in recent days.  Davis signed a radical new law that allows public schools to ask students any sex questions imaginable, without the parental permission required by the current law.  SB 71, signed Wednesday by Davis, also authorizes “comprehensive” sex education for elementary school students including kindergarteners. Where the current law requires schools to obtain written parental permission […]
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National Pro-Life Conference Next Month in Edmonton

EDMONTON, October 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 2003 National Pro-Life conference with its timely theme Silent No More is only a month away. The organizing groups are urging people to register now for the November 6-8 event at The Fantasyland Hotel in Edmonton at the world famous West Edmonton Mall. Hosted by the Alberta Pro-Life Alliance Association and sponsored by Campaign Life Coalition, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and Life Canada, the conference features speakers such as Scott Klusendorf of Stand to Reason; Ted Byfield, founder of Alberta Report; Richard Doerflinger of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; Heather Stilwell, a […]
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UNFPA Releases Yearly Propaganda Sheet to Promote Abortion

NEW YORK, October 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which has been denied US funding due to its collusion in China’s coercive one-child population control programme, today released its State of the World’s Population (SWP) 2003 report. Scott Weinberg, spokesman for the Population Research Institute which conducted the investigation into the UNFPA collusion in China’s coercive policy, blasted the UNFPA report.  “The SWP report is an annual affair in which the organization racks its collective brain to come up with new euphemisms for promotion of abortion and licentious sexuality,” Weinberg told LifeSiteNews.com.  This year’s propaganda piece […]
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Governor Bush in Last-Minute Appeal to Save Life of Disabled Terri Schiavo

MIAMI, October 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With a judge’s order to remove the nutrition and hydration tube from disabled 39-year-old Florida woman Terri Schiavo looming on October 15, a flurry of activity to save the woman’s life has erupted.  Most significantly, on Monday Governor Jeb Bush filed an Amicus Memorandum into the federal proceedings of Terri’s case. Also in recent weeks a Canadian disabled activist began working with Canadian politicians to offer Terri asylum in Canada to protect her from what is being called the “starvation order”.  The memorandum cuts to the heart of the case seeking to “ensure that […]
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Jeb Bush steps in for Schindler-Schiavo Supports woman whose court-ordered starvation begins in 8 days https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34974   Boy Scouts threatened in Portland schools Last week, Steven Wagenhoffer of Portland, Ore., filed a complaint against his sons’ elementary school for its continued distribution of Boy Scout promotional flyers. The homosexual “father” claims that the school violates the First Amendment by offering his sons an opportunity to swear, “On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country” and to remain “morally straight.” This Wednesday, radical atheist and homosexual activists will take time off of […]
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Life Chain 2003 Brings Pro-Life Message to Countless Millions

TORONTO, October 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This past Sunday October 5, from 2-3pm pro-lifers lined streets across North America and elsewhere to bring the pro-life message to passers-by and to pray for a return to a culture of life.  Royce Dunn, Life Chain founder and currently National and International Director of Life Chain told LifeSiteNews.com that it was an encouraging year.  “We try to build a national Life Chain and commit it to the Lord for Him to use,” said Dunn.  While Life Chain in the U.S. stopped compiling statistics on attendees, Dunn said more than 1000 chains were participating […]
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Supreme Court Reserves Judgement on Application to Appeal Homosexual ‘Marriage’ Ruling

OTTAWA, October 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, a 5-judge panel of the Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments in the application to appeal the June Ontario Court of Appeal decision to redefine marriage to allow homosexual couples to wed. After hearing arguments the court reserved its decision without offering a date for the ruling. In addition to the family groups which sought to appeal the decision, another group representing religious organizations also sought to appeal. The Association for Marriage and the Family in Ontario included REAL Women of Canada, Focus on the Family and the Canada Family Action Coalition.  The […]
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Cardinal O’Malley buoys pro-lifers at rally https://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/279/metro/O_Malley_buoys_abortion_foes_at_rally+.shtml   The Real Wesley Clark Crisis magazine editor Deal Hudson exposes the pro-abortion and pro-gay civil unions democratic nomination candidate who has never held elected office.  https://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=50   Archbishop O’Malley Calls Same-Sex Marriage a Threat WAYLAND, Massachusetts, OCT. 3, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Boston Archbishop Sean O’Malley told a group of religious leaders that “any redefinition of marriage must be seen as an attack on the common good,” the Boston Globe reported.  https://www.zenit.org/english/  FCC Fines Insufficient, Critics Say https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028228.cfm   FCC Issues Fine in Opie & Anthony St. Patrick’s Cathedral Case   The Federal Communications […]
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LifeNews.com is Not LifeSiteNews.com.

Increasing numbers of readers have been asking LifeSiteNews.com about a new pro-life news service called LifeNews.com and expressed confusion about it appearing to be similar to LifeSiteNews.com. LifeNews.com was launched on June 23 this year by Steve Ertelt , who formerly re-published news stories from other sources under the title of Pro-Life Infonet. That service was very similar to another service run for years by Ted Gerk which is called Pro-Life E-News. Very soon after the LifeNews.com launch was announced, LifeSiteNews personally contacted Steve Ertelt suggesting that his use of a trademark name and service so similar to ours would […]
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World Renowned Authority on Sexual Orientation Now Says Some Homosexuals Can Change Orientation

NEW YORK, October 6, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Robert Spitzer, the social scientist behind the removal of homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental disorders has published a study showing that some homosexuals are able to change their sexual orientation. Published in the current issue of Archives of Sexual Behaviour, the study interviewed 200 men and women who underwent successful reparative therapy.  “It’s better not to consider homosexuality as a mental disorder. But I do believe that people who are bothered by their homosexuality have a right to have this therapy,” Spitzer said.  “This study provides evidence that […]
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President Bush Declares October 12-18 Protection of Marriage Week

WASHINGTON, October 6, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move that has enraged homosexual activists, President George W. Bush signed a declaration Friday proclaiming the week of October 12 through October 18, 2003, as Marriage Protection Week.  “Marriage is a union between a man and a woman,” says the proclamation.  Homosexual activist groups were quick to point out that “No such proclamation was issued by the White House for a similar week supporting same-sex relationships.”“Marriage is a sacred institution, and its protection is essential to the continued strength of our society. Marriage Protection Week provides an opportunity to focus our efforts […]
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Pope Tells Anglican Leader of ‘Serious Difficulties’ over Practicing Homosexual Bishop

VATICAN, October 6, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope John Paul II received the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in an audience Saturday.  The Pope’s short address welcomed the new Anglican leader but also mentioned the “new and serious difficulties” to Christian unity brought about by the Anglican Church’s decision to ordain a practicing homosexual as a bishop.  “As we give thanks for the progress that has already been made we must also recognize that new and serious difficulties have arisen on the path to unity. These difficulties are not all of a merely disciplinary nature; some extend to essential matters of […]
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Alberta Government Seeking to Prohibit Registration of Homosexual Unions

EDMONTON, October 6, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Government of Alberta is seeking to ensure that the federal Government in Ottawa cannot impose homosexual ‘marriage’ on the province.  The Conservatives under Ralph Klein are contemplating two initiatives to counter the pending federal legislation.  The new considerations were driven by the possibility that the use of the notwithstanding clause to stop the intrusion may not be effective.  Although nearly universally rejected by social conservatives, legal opinion from left-leaning law experts suggests that the province’s use of the notwithstanding clause to protect marriage would be disallowed by the Supreme Court.  Conservative experts retort […]
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Chicago Catholic Prep School Hosts Fundraiser for Pro-abortion Candidate.  To complain about St Ignatius College Prep email their administration at: [email protected] See coverage: https://illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=8727   Cardinal Estevez Assures Reporters Pope Will Not Resign https://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200310011226-1039-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia   Study shows increased religiosity in countries leads to disapproval of abortion, prostitution, homosexuality, divorce https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-10/ps-iri100203.php
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Pennsylvania Catholic Bishops Question Election Candidates on Essential Issues Only

HARRISBURG, October 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In stark contrast to the secular pre-occupations of some North American Catholic bishops’ organizations, the Catholic Bishops of Pennsylvania have issued a questionnaire to political candidates which addresses only key Catholic concerns.  Such concerns, according to Pope John Paul II, are to be considered fundamental when deciding whom one should vote for.  All candidates are receiving a written questionnaire from the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference. Results of those questionnaires are to be published in diocesan newspapers before the election.  In the 11 question survey, the first 6 questions deal with pro-life concerns, demonstrating the primacy […]
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Supreme Court of Canada to Consider Hearing Homosexual ‘Marriage’ Appeal Monday

OTTAWA, October 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Canada will hear arguments Monday in an application to appeal the June Ontario Court of Appeal decision to redefine marriage to allow homosexual couples to wed.  The Application for Leave to Appeal the decision on same-sex marriage was filed by the Association for Marriage and the Family in Ontario, which includes REAL Women of Canada, Focus on the Family and the Canada Family Action Coalition.  Gwen Landolt, a lawyer with REAL Women told LifeSite that normally three justices of the Supreme Court decide whether or not to grant leave to […]
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Senate Hearing Promotes Surgery for Unborn Children https://www.christianity.com/CC_Content_Page/0,,PTID4211|CHID617576|CIID,00.html   Catholic Permanent Deacon Running for NDP Party in Ontario Election https://www.envoymagazine.com/envoyencore/Detail.asp?BlogID=1219   Teen Prostitution a Growing Problem https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/22003f.asp   More Depravity at Disney ‘Gay Days’  https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/12003d.asp   Gambling-related suicides soar five-fold in Quebec since VLTs legalized https://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2003/10/02/215489-cp.html   Girls having sex earlier but still lack knowledge of risks, says report https://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2003/10/01/214478-cp.html
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September Interim Newspaper Now on LifeSite.

* Ottawa funds Planned Parenthood with grants making up more than half of budget   * UNFPA invades Iraq – 648 boxes of reproductive health products from the de-population organization delivered to Baghdad.  * Looking back on a century of Hope – Donald Demarco With the passing of Bob Hope “America has lost a great citizen…”  * Quarter century of IVF and the ghastly future * Bush’s AIDS plan is all about the ABCs   * Fr. Ted’s excellent adventure – The fascinating story of Fr. Ted’s expulsion from Kenya by President Yomo Kenyatta.  and much more…  https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2003/sept/index.html   Subscribe […]
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Church of England Caught in Attempt to ‘Spin’ Homosexual Issue

LONDON, October 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Church of England documents reveal that the Anglican hierarchy plans to use brazen political spin to recover from its recent homosexuality crisis.  “In addition to attempting to manage the gay issue strategically, there is at least the challenge … of displacing it at least partially from public and media attention,” say the “strictly confidential” documents entitled “Notes towards a Handling Strategy on Gay Issues,” written by one of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s top advisers and leaked to The Daily Telegraph.  “This involves, principally, finding attractive alternative stories involving ABC [the Archbishop of Canterbury] and/or […]
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Heavy Metal Show to Feature Live Suicide

ST. PETERSBURG, October 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The rock band Hell on Earth will go ahead with an onstage suicide during a small private performance in St. Petersburg, Fla., despite an emergency city law banning the use of suicide in any kind of show or advertising. Initially planned for a large public venue, the event will now take place at an undisclosed private location.  “The show will go on,” said Billy Tourtelot, 33, the band leader. “It will be available on the Internet and it will be in the city limits.” He claimed the purpose is to highlight the need […]
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Cardinal Mahony Spokesman Blasts Pro-Life Leader While Defending “Right” of Pro-Abortion Catholics to Communion

WASHINGTON, October 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life ad by the American Life League (ALL) calling on Los Angeles Cardinal Mahony to bar pro-abortion Catholic politicians Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Cruz Bustamante from reception of Communion was met with outrage by the liberal Cardinal’s spokesman. Tod Tamberg, Director of Media Relations for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles commented on the ad, insulting ALL President Judie Brown but at the same time revealing himself ignorant of Catholic teaching on reception of Communion.  Tamberg told Cybercast News Service (Conservatives Attack Schwarzenegger on Abortion, Homosexual Marriage—10-01), “The reception of Holy Communion by […]
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Council of Europe, Planned Parenthood Attack US Pro-Life Foreign Policy

New York, October 2, 2003 (C-Fam.org/LifeSiteNews.com) – C-Fam reports in its Oct. 2 Friday Fax that on Tuesday, the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly voted 89 to 8 to condemn the U.S.‘s Mexico City Policy and to encourage President Bush to rescind its controls on U.S. taxpayer funded foreign aid programs. At the same time, a group of abortion providers and population control advocates, including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, released a report making the far-fetched claim that, because of the policy, the administration was responsible for killing women and for subverting democracy throughout the developing world.  The Mexico City […]
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Canadian Stem Cell Bill C-13 Scheduled for Resumed Parliamentary Final Debate Friday

OTTAWA, October 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that the pernicious omnibus stem cell Bill C-13 is scheduled for resumed third reading debate on Friday.  While Pro-life leaders are warning that the vote on the legislation could come at any time, tomorrow included.  Karen Murawsky, Public Affairs Director of Campaign Life Coalition, told LifeSite that pro-lifers across the country are praying for the courageous politicians protecting the right to life by fighting the legislation.  “We stand with them in our prayers,” she said.  Bill C-13, an omnibus bill addresses human reproductive technology, such as embryonic stem cell research.  The […]
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Copy of Holy See Statement to UN Demanding Comprehensive Cloning Ban https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=41826   French doctor admits euthanasia death https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3155924.stm
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Scottish Ministers Press towards Homosexual Civil Unions; Country Split over Issue

GLASGOW, October 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scottish Government ministers have published a consultation paper approving of a legal partnership registration scheme for homosexual couples, it was revealed today.  Also released today were the results of a survey showing opinion in the country divided down the middle over acceptance of such disordered relationships.  The “Attitudes to Discrimination in Scotland” report revealed that 48 per cent of Scots thought that it was wrong for men and women to be involved in homosexual relationships, reports the Daily Telegraph.  The survey also found the 60% objected to taxpayer monies funding homosexual activist groups as […]
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Conference Committee Approves ‘Clean’ Partial-Birth Abortion Ban

WASHINGTON, October 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A House-Senate conference committee yesterday approved the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (S. 3/H.R. 760) in the form supported by the sponsors of the bill and by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).  On party-line votes, the conference committee dropped from the bill the Harkin Amendment, an endorsement of Roe v. Wade that had been added to the bill by a close vote in the Senate in March.  Wednesday evening, from about 8:30 to about 9:30 pm ET, pro-life lawmakers will give a series of speeches on the House floor in favour of the […]
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Non-Partisan Pro-Family Group Has No Party other than Family Coalition to Recommend to Ontario Voters

TORONTO, October 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canada Family Action Coalition has decided against issuing a voter’s guide in the Ontario election.  The group told LifeSite today that the reason is simply because we have concluded that at this point in Ontario’s history there are no significant differences in the major parties regarding family related policy.”  Brian Rushfeldt, executive director of CFAC said, “A voter guide would not show much. It would perhaps show the Family Coalition Party (which has nothing to do with our CFAC organization) has policies that are very Family friendly.”  In a letter to supporters, CFAC […]
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Vancouver Catholic Bishop Advised by Police to Seek Protection From Gay Activists

VANCOUVER, October 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Adam Exner of Vancouver has been the target of nasty protests from homosexual activists outraged with his decision to withdraw Catholic schools in his diocese from a VanCity Credit Union banking program because of VanCity’s promotion of homosexuality.  The Vancouver Sun reports that Exner was threatened by an angry crowd of protesters yelling obscenities outside his window late at night.  “We have been in contact with Archbishop [Adam] Exner about the incident and talking to him about security measures he can take,” Vancouver Police spokeswoman Anne Drennan told the newspaper.  Although he would […]
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