Articles for Month: January 2004

WESTMINSTER, UK, January 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – John Harris, the British Medical Association’s “preferred bioethicist” and Manchester University professor of ethics revealed yesterday that he felt infanticide was justifiable for disabled children.  During an unreported debate last week on sex selection, Harris told the Commons Science and Technology Committee that he did not see a difference between killing a child at 40 weeks gestation versus killing the child after it was born. He also said that infanticide is accepted in most countries and that it was for families to decide the fate of their child. “I don’t think infanticide is […]

MEXICO CITY, January 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The International Consortium on Emergency Contraception, a group of abortion supporters, are succeeding in their mandate to proliferate abortifacient “emergency contraception” world-wide, as Mexico announced on Thursday its decision to legalize the chemical abortion drug.  There was strangely little opposition voiced from pro-life, Catholic or other religious organizations in this predominately Catholic country.  With files from SFGate

WASHINGTON, DC, January 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study by a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-MIT Data Center indicates that state laws against abortion reduce the number of abortions.  The research, by Harvard-MIT Data Center post-doctoral fellow Michael J. New, is published by the Heritage Foundation.  It explains the key role of life- affirming state laws in the substantial decline in the number of abortions during the 1990s-after a rise in abortions during the 1970s and 1980s.  “Dr. New’s research shows that when politicians and judges decide against life-affirming legislation, they are like lifeguards turning their backs to the […]

WASHINGTON, DC, January 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Of all the speeches delivered just before the 31st annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. last week, the one delivered with the most vigor and which roused the most passion was that of Rabbi Yehuda Levin. Pulling no punches, Rabbi Levin began, “Three decades ago, in 1973, a decadent Supreme Court, in this city of Washington, D.C., issued a shameful decree-the ROE vs. WADE ruling that empowered the abortion establishment to murder and mutilate tens of millions of G-D’s children in cold blood.”  He spoke of America’s promise of life, liberty and […]

ANN ARBOR, MI, January 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With legal assistance from the Thomas More Law Center, South Dakota State Representative Matt McCaulley introduced a bill Thursday making abortion a crime unless it is necessary to save the life of the mother. House Bill 1191, which already has the support of a majority in the state house and senate, directly confronts the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which gave women a constitutional right to abort their babies. Representative McCaulley presented the legislation on the 31st anniversary of the landmark 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, saying, […]

Pro-Abortion Attitudes At FDA under Bush has Even the New York Times Suprised Peggy Noonan on the Kafuffle over Gibson’s Passion of Christ        

LEIDEN, Netherlands, January 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers at the Netherlands Leiden University and Flinders University have revealed today that IVF children are at a tripled risk for very premature birth—a baby born prior to 32 weeks gestation—and, in addition, a doubled risk of a “mildly” premature baby, born between 32 and 36 weeks of gestation. The study also found that there was an increased risk of “small for dates” babies, babies that are underweight at birth, in IVF children compared with children who were conceived naturally and born after the same period of gestation. The findings prompted one collaborator […]

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio, January 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Less than one week after the Ohio Legislature made one of the U.S.‘s most vocal statements in opposition to the legalization of same-sex “marriage,” a Cleveland suburb has voted to open a “domestic partner registry” for unmarried couples. The first 16 of 17 registrants were same-sex “couples.”  Although the registration carries no legal rights binding on governments or employers, opponents worry that it will usher in same-sex benefits such as pensions and health care, and erode the traditional idea of marriage which the majority of U.S. citizens support. Eventually, the city will […]

WASHINGTON, DC, January 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over 15,000 youth filled the Washington MCI Center yesterday for a youth rally and Mass immediately preceding the March for Life.  After the youth sang joyfully with Catholic monk rapper Fr. Stan Fortuna and other pro-life musicians, three Cardinals, 21 Bishops and 300 priests concelebrated the Mass.  The Mass, celebrated by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, was graced with the moving singing of the Bishop McNamara High School Gospel Choir. After the Mass, Cardinal McCarrick asked the 700 seminarians in attendance to stand.  Their rising was greeted with massive applause, and the […]