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SPUC has released a 30-page analysis of the BBC’s Sex and the Holy City Panorama programme, exposing its slanted reporting and anti-life bias. The document can be linked to here: https://www.spuc.org.uk/papers/biasbbc.pdf   Pro-abortion activist MP Elinor Caplan to quit politics https://toronto.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=to_caplan20040224 Rosie O’Donnell Ridicules President, First Lady for Supporting Traditional Marriage https://www.talonnews.com/news/2004/february/0227_odonnell_bush.shtml   The federal marriage amendment would strike a blow for freedom.  https://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004735   Institutionalizing homosexual marriage would be bad for marriage, bad for children, and bad for society https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/107/41.0.html   MTV goes right back to its bad sex habits   https://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/168131p-146935c.html   ‘Passion’ critics retract reviews https://washingtontimes.com/national/20040226-113738-4289r.htm   […]
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Maine Senate Approves Morning-After Pill Without Prescription Direct from Pharmacists

AUGUSTA, February 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Maine Senate has approved the sale of the so-called emergency contraceptive, abortifacient morning-after pill without a prescription, to be dispensed by pharmacists. The move makes Maine the sixth state to approve such a measure. Illinois approved a similar measure earlier this week.  The vote carried 20-13 in favour. Maine’s Governor is expected to sign the bill into law.  Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage “Republicans Against Over the Counter Morning-After Pill” at: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/jan/04011409.html
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World’s Most Renowned Movie Reviewer – Roger Ebert – Raves About The Passion of Christ

CHICAGO, February 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Besides grossing the most ever for a Wednesday opening at $26,556,573 for the first day ($41,337,889 as of Thursday), Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ has garnered a rave review by the world best known movie critic.  Roger Ebert says of the film in a Chicago Sun Times review, “Is the film ‘good’ or ‘great?’ I imagine each person’s reaction (visceral, theological, artistic) will differ. I was moved by the depth of feeling, by the skill of the actors and technicians, by their desire to see this project through no matter what. To […]
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US Supreme Court Rules No State Scholarships for Theology Students

WASHINGTON, February 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that states do not have to honor tax-funded scholarships for students enrolled in theology programs. The case grew out of a dispute between Joshua Davey, the recipient of a state scholarship, and the state of Washington after Davey chose Pastoral Ministry as a double major along with Business Management/ Administration. Because he chose to study Pastoral Ministry, Davey was stripped of his state scholarship. Davey received a $1,125 scholarship in 1999 but was denied its use when he told school officials at the Northwest College in Kirkland, Washington […]
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US Department of Justice Thwarted in Bid to Secure Women’s Records in Partial Birth Abortion Ban Def

WASHINGTON, February 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Justice Department continues to be thwarted in its bid to procure medical records from Planned Parenthood clinics that conducted Partial Birth Abortions throughout the US before the ban was signed into law last November by US President George W. Bush. In response to the subpoenas, Planned Parenthood officials cite a breach of confidentiality as their main reason for denying the request. “We believe it is an invasion of confidential medical records,” Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Elizabeth Toledo told the Las Vegas Sun today. “People ought to have a reasonable expectation of privacy.”  As […]
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Michael Schiavo Facing Charge of Contempt

CLEARWATER, FL, February 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The parents of Terri Schindler-Schiavo are seeking to have her husband and guardian, Michael Schiavo, arraigned for contempt of court. Michael was ordered by the courts on numerous occasions to divulge treatment information as well as information on Terri’s whereabouts and other details, which he has universally neglected, according to a report released today by WorldNetDaily.com.  In 1996, the court ordered Michael Schiavo to make Terri’s parents aware of any significant changes in her health status. Attorney for the parents, Patricia Anderson, filed a “show cause” motion Tuesday in Pinellas County Circuit Court, […]
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Terminally Ill UK Man Fights for Right to Not be Killed by Withdrawal of Food and Water

LONDON, UK, February 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British man is fighting the UK’s General Medical Council for the “right to life”. Leslie Burke, 44, suffers from a terminal degenerative brain condition called cerebellar ataxia. In the UK, doctors are allowed to euthanise the terminally ill by refusing them food and water. The suit is considered a ‘test case’ for the terminally ill. Burke’s barrister, Richard Gordon, QC, said that the case is an important one because “Patients like Mr. Burke may die when they don’t want to die. They may die because of the withdrawal of artificial nourishment and […]
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Pedophile Voices Support for Canada’s Proposed Child Protection Bill

OTTAWA, February 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Comments by notorious pedophile John Robin Sharpe praising the Liberal child protection Bill C-12, further validate Conservative opposition to the bill according to Conservative Justice Critic Vic Toews.  Instead of raising the age of consent for adult-child sexual contact from 14, one of the lowest ages of consent in the western world, to 16, C-12 creates the category of “exploitative relationships”, which is “a vague provision that will not serve as a real deterrent and will simply result in longer trials and more litigation,” according to Toews.  “We have already been told by child […]
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11 Major Flaws of Canadian Stem Cell Bill C-6 Concisely Explained by Dr. John Shea

Toronto, February 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. John Shea, who has extensively researched the reproductive technologies issues related to the Canadian Stem Cell Bill C-13, has produced a brief, point-form list of the major flaws of the bill. The legislation is currently before second reading hearings in the Canadian Senate.  This list is more detailed than a similar list from Campaign Life Coalition that was published on LifeSiteNews.com on February 26. https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/feb/04022602.html   See the list and the remainder of this LifeSite Special Report at https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/feb/040227b.html
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Pope Denounces In Vitro Fertilization

VATICAN, February 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Meeting with the Pontifical Academy for Life Saturday, Pope John Paul II denounced artificial procreation of which the most common procedure is in vitro fertilization.  The Pope said artificial procreation is “a technology that wants to substitute true paternity and maternity and therefore that does harm to the dignity of parents and children alike.”  John Paul II emphasized that the conjugal act in which husband and wife become father and mother “through total reciprocal gift of self makes them cooperators of the Creator while bringing a new human being into the world who is […]
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11 Major Flaws of Canadian Stem Cell Bill C-6 Concisely Explained by Dr. John Shea

Toronto, February 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. John Shea, who has extensively researched the reproductive technologies issues related to the Canadian Stem Cell Bill C-13, has produced a brief, point-form list of the major flaws of the bill. The legislation is currently before second reading hearings in the Canadian Senate. This list is more detailed than a similar list from Campaign Life Coalition that was published on LifeSiteNews.com on February 26. https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/feb/04022602.html 1.  The Bill allows invitro fertilization of human beings. 2.  Because of the inadequate definition given for the words “human clone”, the Bill allows the following kinds of […]
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Ex-Liberal MP John Bryden joins Conservatives   https://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/02/25/360573-cp.html   Kerry expects to walk fine line on gay ‘marriage’  https://www.washtimes.com/national/20040226-120406-2501r.htm   ‘Vile’ Bush Rings Wedding Bells for ‘Horrified’ Rosie O’Donnell https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/26/102807.shtml   Clear Channel Head ‘Ashamed’ of Programs   https://apnews.myway.com/article/20040226/D80V1S7G0.html   Microsoft’s Tokyo offices raided https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3488186.stm   Illinois House Committee Approves Sale of Morning After Pill Without Doctor’s Prescription https://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/0/C2FAD7D8D648FD8B86256E4500160137?OpenDocument&Headline=Panel+advances+%22morning-after%22+bill++  Tennessee Senate Committee Approves State Constitution Amendment to Allow Abortion Restrictions https://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/midsouth_news/article/0,1426,MCA_1497_2680964,00.html   UN General Assembly Approves Appointment Of Louise Arbour Of Canada As High Commissioner For Human Rights https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/ga10231.doc.htm   Controversial Actress Rosie O’Donnell ‘marrying’ girlfriend today https://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=1670963   PM […]
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Costa Rican President Abel Pacheco Receives Peace Prize for Fight Against Human Cloning

NEW YORK, February 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Abel Pacheco, President of the Republic of Costa Rica, will receive the Kolbe Prize for Peace in recognition of his leadership at the United Nations in the ongoing debate over human cloning. The prize will be awarded this evening at a black-tie dinner held at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. The evening begins at 8:00 p.m. and will include the reading of a letter from President George W. Bush congratulating President Pacheco for his work that led to him receiving this prestigious award.  “President Pacheco has gathered a coalition of […]
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Pope John Paul II to Resume Pastoral Visits to Parishes of the Roman Diocese; Theme: Sanctity of the

VATICAN CITY, FEB 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his customary address at the beginning of lent, Pope John Paul II told the priests of his diocese of Rome that he was planning to renew his pastoral visits to the parishes. The Holy Father articulated his plans to the priests, saying “In the first place, Rome: what does Rome mean? A petrine city. And every parish is petrine. There are 340 parishes in Rome and I have visited 300. There are 40 left to go. But this Saturday we will resume these visits. Let’s hope that all goes well.”  John Paul […]
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Gay and Lesbian Alliance OK in Oregon High School; Bible Club Taboo

PORTLAND, February 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some teachers at Marshall High School in Portland have complained to their principal about Christian books and a Bible that were put on display by the Bible Club. The display was dismantled on the advice of the district lawyer. Officials wanted to avoid giving the impression that they might be endorsing Christianity, according to a report by FOXNews.  The Hispanic Club, the Chess Club, and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance have set up similar displays in the school.  Bible Club leader Jeff Chatterton, after speaking to the American Center for Law and Justice has […]
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Wisconsin Assembly Ushers In Nation’s Most Comprehensive Conscience Clause Bill

MADISON, February 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Wisconsin Assembly approved a conscience clause bill Tuesday which would protect health care professionals and facilities from penalties for refusing to be involved with abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia and unethical medical experiments involving the deliberate destruction of in vitro human embryos or the use of tissue from aborted babies. The bill was approved by the Senate on February 4th by a vote of 20 to 13.  The new law replaces one that has been in existence since the early 1970’s, but was, according to Rep. Jean Hundertmark (R-Clintonville), lead sponsor of the bill, […]
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Meeting of Catholic Bishops of America on ‘Threat to the Family’ Ignores Massive Homosexual ‘Marriag

SAN ANTONIO, February 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishops from Canada, the United States and Latin America met in San Antonio, Texas, last week to consider the question: ‘Is the institution of the family threatened in America?’  The February 16-19, 2004, produced a statement which shockingly ignores the threat to marriage currently posed by very aggressive homosexual activism.  According to a release prior to the meeting, the bishops were to be reflecting on Pope John Paul II’ 1999 warning to the Catholic church in America that, “Many insidious forces are endangering the solidity of the institution of the family in most […]
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U.S. House Passes Bill to Recognize Unborn Child as Second Victim of Violent Crimes

WASHINGTON, February 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  The U.S. House of Representatives today recognized that a federal crime against a pregnant women claims two victims, passing the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 1997), also known as “Laci and Conner’s Law,” by a vote of 254-163.  The bill would recognize as a legal victim any “child in utero” who is injured or killed during the commission of a federal crime of violence.  The bill defines “child in utero” as “a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb.” The bill explicitly exempts […]
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Quick Summary of Canadian Stem Cell Bill C-6, Formerly C-13

OTTAWA, February 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the possible imminent passage of the fatally flawed Reproductive Technologies in the Canadian Senate LifeSite provides below a simple point-form list of the complex bill’s problems and good points.  Problem points:  1.  Denies the humanity of the unborn child 2.  Does not ban all forms of cloning 3.  Encourages in vitro fertilization (test tube babies), to create more “spare” embryos for research 4.  Allows the implantation of clones into artificial wombs and mandates the killing of cloned babies before birth 5.  Allows doctors to perform in vitro fertilization for homosexuals and unmarried person […]
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South Dakota Senate Approves Abortion Ban

PIERRE, S.D., February 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The South Dakota Senate narrowly passed the abortion ban bill Tuesday by a vote of 18-15. The bill was passed in a slightly different form, allowing for abortion in the event that the pregnancy poses a serious risk to a mother’s health. The House ratified the change on Wednesday.  The bill has yet to be signed into law by Governor Mike Rounds, who hasn’t revealed his position, although he is not expected to oppose the bill, having a record of voting in favour of life.  The new bill effectively outlaws most abortion in […]
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PM on course for spring election https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040225.wcaucus0225/BNStory/National/  Liberal Party divided over spring election call https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1077709089877_31///?hub=Canada   South Dakota Abortion Bill Passes https://www.ksfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=1669206&nav=0w0jL5gu   Clear Channel declares war on indecent broadcasts https://www.newsday.com/business/ny-etrad0226,0,1340302.story?coll=ny-business-headlines https://www.clearchannel.com/documents/press_releases/2004_02_25_CC_Decency_Initiative.pdf   Howard Stern Show Taken Off Clear Channel Stations https://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040225/255963_1.html   Gospel Artist Talks Abstinence with Bush Administration https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/2/afa/252004d.asp   Russia can’t ratify Kyoto, official says https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040225.wkyot0225/BNStory/Business/  Reinforcing the Foundation – Chuck Colson https://www.townhall.com/columnists/chuckcolson/cc20040225.shtml   An Open Letter on the Federal Marriage Amendment – Dr. James Dobson https://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0030937.cfm   Congress Leery of Amendment Banning Same-Sex Marriage https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/25/93659.shtml   Odds ‘stacked against’ passage of amendments https://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/161933_amend25.html   Abortionists Try […]
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US Supreme Court Ruling Seen as Blow to Religious Freedom

Washington, DC, Feb. 25 (CWNews.com/LifeSitenews.com) – The US Supreme Court expanded on the current judicial precedents on the separation of church and state on Wednesday, by ruling that states can withhold scholarships and grants from students who study theology.  The court decided 7-2 that the state of Washington had acted properly in revoking a taxpayer-funded scholarship from a college student who majoring in religious studies. “Training someone to lead a congregation is an essentially religious endeavor,” Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote for the court majority. “Indeed, majoring in devotional theology is akin to a religious calling as well as […]
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Who Will You Bring to the Passion?  https://www.ncregister.com/current/0222lead3.htm   Human Life International Denounces Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandate https://www.hli.org/wv_vaccine_press_release.html   Local Christians Upset with Planned Parenthood Program at YMCA Camp St.  Croix, Hudson, Wisconsin www.spacestar.net/users/meyersdm/YMCAPressRelease2.doc   Playing Politics: Inside the US Bishops’ Conference, Part II Most Catholics don’t seem to know much about the gospel of life. They don’t know it rationally, such as how violent abortion is to the mother and baby. And they don’t know it spiritually. Why can’t the Church in America, at a time when anti-Catholic bigotry is far less intense and pervasive than it was in the […]
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University of Manitoba Students for Life Enjoy Successful Day of Abortion Displays and Debate

WINNIPEG, February 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A student pro-life group has had a successful Show the Truth day at the University of Manitoba January 29-30. University of Manitoba Students for Life displayed graphic abortion images for two days while debating and challenging students and faculty on the stark realities of abortion and the humanity of the unborn child. The students set up a display that included photographs of aborted children and made presentations and debated points with all comers. In a media release, Justin Veenendaal, Vice President of the student group, said that “representatives of the Dean’s office came storming […]
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Child Pornographer Sharpe’s Trial for Indecent Assault Begins Today

VANCOUVER, February 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – John Robin Sharpe, who sparked a national debate on child pornography, is being tried beginning today on charges of gross indecency, sexual assault and indecent assault on one of the children depicted in his pornographic photographs. His trial started today and Sharpe, now 70, has pleaded not guilty.  Sharpe was at first acquitted by the BC Supreme Court on charges of possession of child pornography but later the Supreme Court of Canada ruled to uphold most of the law. However, new exemptions were added to the law on the basis of almost indefinable “artistic […]
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Jewish Columnist Praises Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ for “Accuracy”

CALGARY, February 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Calgary Sun columnist Ezra Levant, an observant Jew, has come out in defence of the Mel Gibson epic The Passion of the Christ, to be released in theatres Wednesday.  Levant, who attended a preview of the film with Christian pastors says, “The Passion is no more ‘anti-Semitic’ than the Gospels upon which they are based. It is a historical fact that Jesus of Nazareth was tried and condemned by a Jewish court and executed by the Roman Army. ” Levant adds, “For some, that might be an uncomfortable fact, but it is a historical […]
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Case to Overturn Roe v Wade Advances as Appeals Court Names Three-Judge Panel

WASHINGTON, February 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit has named a three-judge panel to rule on a motion filed by Norma McCorvey to reverse Roe v. Wade. The panel consists of Judge Edith Holland Jones, Judge Edward Prado of San Antonio, and Judge Jacques L. Wiener.  The three-judge panel has announced that it does not need to hear oral argument in order to rule on McCorvey’s motion, which included over 5000 pages of evidence with affidavits from over 1000 woman who have been harmed by abortion. This decision does not indicate how the panel […]
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Toronto Catholic Hospital Corrects Doctor For Immoral Sex Talk to Teens

TORONTO, February 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic hospital in Toronto has taken seriously the action of one of its doctors whose talk to teens about sex contravened church teaching on sex before marriage and the use of abortifacient contraception.  LifeSiteNews.com exposed the talk by Dr. Sari Kives of St. Michael’s Hospital two weeks ago. The hospital initially responded to citizen complaints with letters stating that the LifeSiteNews.com coverage was not accurate.  However Chuckie Shevlen, the St. Michael’s Director of Mission and Values was contacted by LifeSiteNews.com with verification of the report. After receiving further information from LifeSiteNews.com, the hospital […]
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Cal Thomas on The Passion: It’s Showtime https://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20040223.shtml   Breakpoint:The Passion of the Christ: A Viewer’s Guide https://www.pfm.org/BPtemplate.cfm?Section=BreakPoint_Home&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=11696   Catholic Passion Outreach https://passion.catholicexchange.com/  The Case Against Physician-Assisted Suicide Dr. Hendin is professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College and medical director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He is the author of Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients, and Assisted Suicide and co-edited The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care with Kathleen Foley, M.D. His work was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its decision that there was no constitutional right to assisted suicide.  […]
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Ontario Catholic Teachers Union Proposes More Pro-Gay Measures

TORONTO, February 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since LifeSiteNews.com reported last week on the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA) meeting resolution to encourage the federal government to allow homosexual ‘marriage’, Catholic teachers have emailed to express their disappointment and outrage with the union to which they are forced to contribute dues.  However, in addition to promotion of homosexual marriage, other proposals to be voted on at the union’s upcoming March 13 annual general meeting call for more actions contradicting Catholic moral or other principles: * No.59 proposes “That Policies Human Rights be amended by the addition of a new section […]
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Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Claims Abortion and Homosexuality Are “Canadian Values”

OTTAWA, February 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bill Graham, Canada’s minister of Foreign Affairs, in a speech to the Kroeger Leadership Forum, claimed the pro-abortion, anti-family position as that of most Canadians. The speech focused on the improvements of Canada’s relations with the US since the dispute over Canadian involvement in the war in Iraq. Near the end of the speech Graham related questions put to him by representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations working at the UN at an annual government human rights meeting. Graham said one questioner asked him “whether we were prepared to compromise our strong international support for sexual […]
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Bush Recess Appoints Pro-Life William H. Pryor Jr. to US Court of Appeals

WASHINGTON, February 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a press-release Friday, the White House announced the appointment of William H. Pryor Jr. to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.  Pryor has served as the Attorney General of Alabama since 1997.  President Bush used his recess-appointment powers to seat Pryor, after his nomination had been blocked by filibusters in the Senate.  The President has a constitutional right to fill judicial vacancies while the Senate is in recess.  The appointment marks the second such move by Bush in five weeks, as he made a similar recess appointment […]
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First Things on Gibson’s Passion https://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0403/opinion/hittingerlev.html   Gibson’s Family: Father Tricked Into Interview https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/20/125718.shtml   Virginia House Approves Pain Killers for Babies About to be Aborted https://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031773744819&path=%21news%21politics&s=1031773094959   President Bush Wants to See Gibson Film The Passion of the Christ https://apnews.myway.com/article/20040220/D80R5KIO0.html   New Hampshire House rejects ban on publicly funded abortions https://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2004/02/20/house_rejects_ban_on_publicly_funded_abortions/  Catholic Priest Prof Rips Mel Gibson movie as “anti-Jewish, theologically flawed and historically dubious”  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040219/COPASSION19/TPEntertainment/Film Sparks fly as Spiritual War Intensifies and Gibson Movie nears Release https://www.spiritdaily.com/gibsonspiritualwarfare.htm [SJ – Feb. 19 – not sent]  Conservative Spokesman Urges Congress to Restrain Runaway Judiciary https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/2/afa/202004d.asp   The Forum: Discipline for […]
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California Rejects Altered Same-Sex “Marriage” Forms

SAN FRANCISCO, February 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California state agency that records marriages is rejecting the altered forms, as submitted by same-sex couples who were granted marriage licenses recently in San Francisco. If the standard application form for marriage licenses in California “has been altered in any way, then it will not be registered and recorded,” Nicole Evans, spokeswoman for California Health and Human Services secretary Kim Belshe, told the Washington Times.  “It will be sent back to the county of origin,” she said.  The common changes found on the licenses has been to replace “bride” and “groom” as […]
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New Mexico County to Issue Same-Sex “Marriage” Licences

BERNALILLO, NM, February 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sandoval County Clerk Victoria Dunlap has told reporters of a plan to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples.  She says that the decision has no connection with “politics or morals.”  The county claims that the decision has more to do with the legal implications inherent in refusing same-sex couples access to the licence.  The state defines marriage as a civil contract between contracting parties, and makes no mention of the necessity for the “contract” to involve a man and a woman.  The county attorney said that refusing same-sex couples access to the licence […]
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Chicago’s “Devout Catholic” Mayor Daley Says “No Problem” to Issuing Marriage Licences to Homosexual

CHICAGO, February 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, whom the Chicago Sun Times has dubbed a “devout Catholic”, has told his County Clerk, David Orr, that he has “no problem” with Orr issuing marriage licences to same-sex couples.  His decision to emulate San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is based on his belief that homosexuals “love each other just as much as anyone else.” When asked by the Sun Times if he thinks allowing same-sex couples to “marry” would undermine the institution of marriage as between a man and a woman, he said “Marriage has been undermined by […]
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Schindler Family Grateful of Prayer, Support

SOUTHAMPTON, Pa, February 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a Mass which was celebrated for Terri Schindler-Schiavo in her parents former parish of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Terri’s father Bob Schindler expressed his gratitude for the support. “I’m ecstatic for Terri that these people would come out—and pray for her. It is so meaningful,” he told the Catholic Standard & Times, Philadelphia’s archdiocesan newspaper. With tears in his eyes, he said “Personally, I’m just overwhelmed at coming home again and being in our church. I’m so thankful, I’m so grateful.”  The parish came together in the celebration of the Mass […]
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French Pro-Life Geneticist Jerome Lejeune to be Considered for Catholic Beatification

Rome, Feb. 20 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini has called for the opening of a cause for the beatification of the late French geneticist Jerome Lejeune. Cardinal Angelini made his proposal during the first day of a four-day meeting of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Lejeune was appointed by Pope John Paul as the first president of that body when it was created in 1994. The French physician died just 33 days after the appointment.  “He was a man of science who lived his Christian faith in his profession work, heroically, showing his faith with a simplicity and joy, serving […]
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Georgetown Not Acting in Accordance With Church Doctrine Says American Bioethics Advisory Commission

WASHINGTON, February 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Joseph Howard, director of the American Bioethics Advisory Commission, has issued a statement about the use of stem cell lines derived from aborted babies. The statement was prompted by the ongoing controversy at Washington’s Georgetown University where researchers at the Catholic university have refused to stop using cells derived from aborted fetal tissue.  The statement reveals that the US bishops’ own directive for ethics in medical research contradicts the conclusion of Catholic ethicists at Georgetown who found nothing to object to in the research. “The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care […]
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USAID Misuses Funds Intended for Pro-Family, Abstinence-Only AIDS Programs

WASHINGTON, February 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bush administration efforts to keep US funding out of the hands of population control zealots has failed the Population Research Institute reports. In 2003, the US Congress installed important safeguards in their AIDS programs in Africa to prevent funding falling into the hands of anti-family, anti-life groups. In July of 2003 the Bush administration cancelled the $34 million Congress had set aside for UNFPA and shifted the funds to USAID. Now Stephen Mosher of PRI, reports that the safeguards have failed. There are serious problems with the disbursement of the shifted funds by USAID, […]
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Anti-Family Canadian Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour Nominated as United Nations High Commission

OTTAWA, February 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour has been nominated today to the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.  Justice Arbour is expected to retire from the Supreme Court of Canada to take up her post in Geneva in late June.  As described by LifeSiteNews.com last week, while the development may be welcome news to social conservatives in Canada who will see at least one radical leftist judge leave the Supreme Court, from her new post, Arbour will now tax pro-family supporters the world over. Justice […]
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EFC and Ontario Bishops Call For Human Rights Code Change to Protect Those Who Solemnize Marriage

TORONTO, February 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Press Releases on Feb. 18 and 19, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) and the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops (OCCB) have announced their request to provincial governments to provide freedom of religion and conscience protection for those who solemnize marriage. In its Feb. 18 release, the EFC states it “has written letters to the provincial governments of Ontario and British Columbia to amend their solemnization of marriage legislation to provide specific protection for religious freedom for those who solemnize marriages”. In addition to protection for clergy, the EFC writes that it “is […]
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How the New York Times got the president’s marriage initiative wrong https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/750qovjm.asp   California will reject altered marriage forms https://www.washtimes.com/national/20040219-123003-6956r.htm   San Francisco to Sue State Over Gay Marriage Ban https://apnews.myway.com/article/20040219/D80QIBUO2.html   Cardinal Ratzinger Blames 1968 and 1989 for the Contempt of Ethics: Says Postwar Cynicism and Marxism’s Fall Paved the Way for Pragmatism https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=49325 Chicago Mayor Daley would have “no problem” with County Clerk issuing marriage licenses to gay couples https://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gay19.html   Newly Formed Conservative Party Endangered https://www.realwomenca.com/alerts.htm#feb4   Number of Screens To Show The Passion Increasing Daily https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/variety/20040219/va_ne_al/_passion__building_among_exhibitors_1   Video Games Proven Harmful to Kids https://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/tfn/2004/021904.html   Iran’s […]
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Canada Customs and Revenue Creates Opening for Gay Activist Groups to be Considered Charities that ”

OTTAWA, February 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, (CCRA) in September, 2003 issued a new policy statement governing the activities of groups “promoting racial equality.” The Policy Statement Registering Charities that Promote Racial Equality, was approved by the CCRA in September, 2003. The new policy includes definitions that make it easy for the terms, “racial equality” to admit homosexuals as a minority racial group. It has already been a source of serious concern to pro-family advocates that groups promoting the homosexual agenda have had regular, publicly funded access to the schools as part of their “outreach” and […]
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Judge Rules Against Nativity In New York Public Schools

NEW YORK, February 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. District Court Judge Charles Sifton ruled against the plaintiffs today in the discrimination suit against the New York City Department of Education’s policy regarding “Holiday Displays”. The policy allows the Jewish menorah and Islamic star and crescent while banning the Christian nativity scene. The Catholic League arranged for the Thomas More Law Center to file the suit in December 2002 on behalf of a Queens mother and her two children.  Sifton ruled that the policy is not unconstitutional and does not discriminate against Christians. In his decision, he wrote that the policy […]
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South Korean Cloners Will Stop Using “Human Eggs” for the Moment

INCHEON, February 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – South Korean researchers, Profs. Hwang Woo-suk and Moon Shin-yong, who succeeded in creating 30 cloned human embryos, have announced that they will cease using human oocytes (eggs) for their cloning activities for the time being. “We tentatively stopped cloning with human eggs. We will resume such studies only after receiving international opinions and the views of the Korean government and people.” It is not known if the researchers will be employing the newly developed techniques of creating human gametes, “eggs” and sperm, by manipulating other cells. “If we don’t stick to human eggs, we […]
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South Koreans Cloned Human Embryos in 1998: Ignored by World Media

SEOUL, February 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In December, 1998, The Korean newspaper, Chosun-Ilbo, reported that researchers Kim Seung-bo and Lee Bo-yeon had successfully replaced the nucleus of a human oocyte (egg) with the nucleus from a somatic cell and cultivated it until it had divided twice before destroying it. International news media almost completely ignored the event which was announced at a press conference but never appeared in a peer review journal. South Korean civic and religious groups, however, mobilized and the government introduced legislation to regulate the activity. In response to opposition, the researchers protested that what they had […]
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In the Feb. 18 LifeSiteNews.com story, “Forceful Catholic Response from Bishop and Newman Society Cancels Offensive Play at Catholic Campuses”, it was reported that Wheeling Jesuit University was one of the colleges that cancelled the Vagina Monologues presentation.  Fr. Daniel R. J. Joyce, S.J., Vice President of Wheeling, responded to LifeSiteNews.com that “Wheeling Jesuit has never hosted or has any connection with the production you name on your site.  This V-Day production has been performed in our town under the sponsorship of a local non-profit corporation that works against domestic violence.  Some of our students who volunteer with this organization […]
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Ontario Catholic Teachers Association Mulls Promotion of Homosexual ‘Marriage’

TORONTO, February 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At its annual general meeting next month, the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA) will consider a resolution to promote homosexual ‘marriage’.  The resolution (no. 151) put forward by OECTA’s own Human Rights Committee states: “That the Association communicate with the federal government its support for the passing of the legislation changing the definition of marriage to allow for same-sex unions.”  The proposed OECTA ‘action directive’ is offensive to many faithful Catholic teachers forced to belong to the association and pay dues to it.  Several Catholic teachers who are part of the association communicated […]
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“‘The Passion’ … for Its Author, Is a Mass”: Vittorio Messori on Mel Gibson’s Work https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=49259 UN-Backed World Human Rights Forum in Nantes (France) May 16 to 19   https://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php@URL_ID=18567&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Americans Urged to Take Action on San Francisco’s Faux Marriages https://www.cwfa.org/articles/5253/CWA/family/index.htm Senator Decries Fall of U.S. From Biblical Values https://www.cwfa.org/articles/5254/CWA/freedom/index.htm LA Times – Cardinal Mahony’s Mea Culpas Not Very Convincing https://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez18feb18,1,5799329.column?coll=la-home-utilities Medical Examiner And Crucifixion Expert Describes Exact Way He Says Christ Died   https://www.spiritdaily.com/zugibe2.htm UNFPA working with Planned Parenthood International on AIDS project https://www.unfpa.org/news/news.cfm?ID=416 ABC News Report Acknowledges Bias Against Conservatives   https://www.talonnews.com/news/2004/february/0217_abc_news_bias.shtml First Lady Laura Bush Hopes to […]
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Southern Baptist Convention Withdraws from Baptist World Alliance over Encroaching Liberalism

NASHVILLE, TN, February 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Southern Baptist Convention committee voted Tuesday to leave the Baptist World Alliance, claiming that the Alliance has become too liberal and is promoting “aberrant and dangerous theologies.”  The Southern Baptist Convention committee report directed the withdrawal in order “to politely withdraw from an organization that, at least for us, no longer efficiently communicates to the unsaved a crystal clear gospel message that our Lord Jesus Christ is solely sufficient for salvation.”  The Southern Baptist Convention represents 16 million Christians in the US, the largest Protestant group, whereas the Baptist World Alliance, established […]
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“Ex-Gay” Educator’s Caucus Officially Registers with Teacher’s Union

WASHINGTON, February 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Education Association (NEA) has decided to allow the Ex-Gay Educator’s Caucus to become officially registered as a group – a privilege which will allow them to influence NEA policy changes. The recent decision indicates a marked shift away from their former promotion of a “leftist agenda,” which included “gay rights in curriculum development and teacher hiring, [and] comprehensive sexual health education,” as described by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld, the author of “NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education.”  The NEA, by accepting the Ex-Gays Caucus, is acknowledging a group of educators who disagree […]
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China’s One-Child Policy to Cripple Chinese Economy

GRANTS PASS, OR, February 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report released yesterday by WorldNetDaily.com’s Joseph Farah reveals that China is quickly catching up with a trend that was previously thought would only endanger the industrialized world, a failing labour pool, as birth rates there were stalled in response to the institution of the one-child policy in 1980.  In 1999, there were 10 workers per retiree, by 2020, this ratio is expected to fall to six workers and to three workers per retiree by 2050.  The worker shortage in China is expected to have disastrous economic consequences, a forecast which parallels […]
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Arlington Diocese Rejects Secular Sex Ed. Programme for Child Protection

ARLINGTON February 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The diocese of Arlington has rejected the anti-Christian sex-ed program that was to be installed as a child protection measure after strong protests from parents and a scathing report from Crisis magazine’s Deal Hudson. Opponents of the secular programme, “Good Touch/Bad Touch” said it was sex-ed for kindergarteners and alleged that it shifted the responsibility of protecting children away from clergy and onto children. The diocese has replaced the offensive curriculum with a less controversial, Catholic program, Protecting God’s Children.  Parents asserted that the now rejected program introduces sexual concepts to children and threatens […]
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Porn King Larry Flynt Again Accuses Bush of Procuring Abortion

WASHINGTON, February 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Porn peddler, Larry Flynt has joined in the frenzy of mudslinging at President Bush, accusing him of procuring an illegal abortion for a girlfriend in the early 1970’s. During the early days of the campaign for US president, neither Bush nor Senator Kerry have themselves engaged in any personal attacks, however, this high note has not been followed by their supporters in some circles.  Larry Flynt, owner and purveyor of the Hustler pornographic magazine, was interviewed October 20, 2003 on CNN’s political talk programme, Crossfire, where he made the accusation, but refused to offer […]
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President Bush and Governor Schwarzenegger Speak out on San Fran Gay “Marriages”

SAN FRANCISCO, February 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Given that more than 3000 homosexual activist couples have used illegally issued marriage licences in San Francisco, both President Bush and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have made statements opposing the ‘marriages’. Governor Schwarzenegger recalled that by handing out the licenses, the city was violating California’s Proposition 22, but he only encouraged a halt to the abuse rather than terminating it.  “Californians spoke on the issue of same-sex marriage when they overwhelmingly approved California’s law that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. I support that law, and I encourage San […]
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Lukewarm Anglican Leadership Criticizes both ‘extremes’ of gay clergy debate https://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=459737§ion=news Genetically altered muscle-bound rats prompt fears for genetically modified athletes https://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994688 UK Mom Thankful that abortion did not successfully end pregnancy https://www.sundaymail.co.uk/features/content_objectid=13953356_method=full_siteid=86024_headline=-I-FELT-I-HAD-BEEN-GIVEN-A-SECOND-CHANCE-WHEN-PAMELA-SURVIVED-ABORTION-name_page.html Judge Delays San Francisco Gay Marriage Ruling Till Friday https://www.news-journal.com/news/content/news/ap_story.html/National/AP.V4526.AP-Gay-Marriage.html;COXnetJSessionID=Ay2CePXTEKLubc2nDc14fDr0782qr8UmdX7X48DK2s6wFcQm5SI9!-1300863784?urac=n&urvf=10770510102440.07174953171494258 Mel’s Movie and Even the Music are Divinely Inspired https://www.freep.com/news/religion/mel17_20040217.htm ABC Interview with Mel Gibson on The Passion of the Christ https://abcnews.go.com/sections/Primetime/Entertainment/mel_gibson_passion_040216-1.html Draft survey: 4,450 priests accused of sex abuse in last 52 years https://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/16/church.abuse/index.html Montreal backs down on HIV tests for seminarians https://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040216.whivv0216/BNStory/National/ New Ipsos Reid Poll Liberals 35% Conservatives 27% NDP 17%  https://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040216.wxpoll0217/BNStory/National/ Georgia Senate […]
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Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cell Treatments a Success

DURHAM, NC, February 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scientists at Duke University have proven for the first time that stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood can successfully treat children with rare genetic diseases that affect the brain, liver, and heart. Many scientists have shown that stem cells derived in this way can transform into cells of other types in the lab, but this is the first instance of it being utilized in people. The Duke researchers found that the stem cells entered damaged heart tissue, and transformed themselves into healthy heart cells.  Scientists are realizing more and more the potential […]
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Portuguese Women Acquitted in Illegal Abortion Trial; Doctor Penalized

AVEIRO, Portugal, February 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Portuguese court acquitted seven women today who were charged with procuring illegal abortions. The doctor in the case was also acquitted, as were nine accomplices, including the doctor’s two employees and parents, boyfriends, or husbands of the accused, who accompanied them to the clinic for the abortions. Judge Paulo Teixeira said that public prosecutors had not satisfactorily proved that the seven women charged had truly undergone the abortions. The doctor, although also acquitted, was to be penalized by having his medical equipment, car, and an undisclosed sum of money seized by the […]
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Canadian Pro-Life Heroine Elsie Wayne Retiring from Federal Politics at 72

SAINT JOHN, NB, February 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Elsie Wayne, Member of Parliament for Saint John and Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, announced yesterday that she will not seek re-election to the House of Commons in the next federal election.  The pro-life and pro-family MP has been one of the most outspoken defenders of life and family in the legislature over her eleven year foray into the federal spotlight.  “There comes a time in our lives when we must decide whether the journey is ours to continue or if the torch should be passed to another,” said […]
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Kansas City Archbishop Bans Pro-Abortion Speakers from Catholic Institutions

KANSAS February 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Another US bishop has instituted a no-welcome policy for pro-abortion “Catholic” politicians. Archbishop James P. Keleher, the bishop of Kansas City KS., has published a statement in the diocesan newspaper, The Leaven, asking Catholic organizations under his jurisdiction to stop inviting pro-abortion speakers to their events.  The statement came after pro-abortion “Catholic” Governnor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius spoke at the University of St. Mary in Leavenworth.  The next day, the statement appeared in the Leaven. Said the Archbishop, “it is imperative that our Catholic churches, schools and institutions make every effort not only to […]
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San Francisco Hospital refusing to turn over partial birth abortion info https://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/14/BAG0O517Q61.DTL   Seven women and their doctor to receive sentencing in illegal abortion case in Portugal next week: https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/15/1076779840025.html   Pro-Aborts trying to raise $25 Million to Defeat Bush https://www.washtimes.com/national/20040215-123404-6151r.htm   Parents Boycotting Girl Scouts over Relationship with Planned Parenthood https://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/zeiger_20040214.html   Growing Al-Qaida forces south of U.S. border   https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37133   If we want to clean up television, then the best thing we can do is throw our televisions out the door.  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37118   U.S. Court of Appeals to hear ‘Roe’s’ challenge to ‘73 ruling https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37112   Gay […]
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Couple Highlight Selfish Motives for Sex Selection

PLEASANT GARDEN, February 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A North Carolina couple have made local news for being able to choose the sex of their child as part of the process of creating a child at an IVF clinic. Tommy and Dana Paschal contacted the genetics and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Va. to request the sex selection procedure known as MicroSort. After two attempts at the sperm selection procedure, Dana became pregnant with Heather who turned two years old October 12. Christian ethicists object to creating a child to specifications on the grounds that it objectifies and demeans the child and […]
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Australian Clinic Uses IVF to Search out and Destroy Embryos With Cancer Gene

MELBOURNE, February 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The eugenic practice of genetic testing to screen out the “unfit” has moved a step forward in Australia. Nathan Charles Runciman, a child born January 20, was conceived in a lab by in vitro fertilization. Using a process called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis he had two of his cells removed to test for the gene for bowel cancer. When the cells were found to be free of the cancer gene, he was implanted in his mother’s uterus and allowed to live. The Age reports that on her first cycle at Monash IVF clinic, the reproductive […]
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Anonymous Baby Drop-Hatches in Germany: Successful Alternative to Abandonment or Abortion

BERLIN, February 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An alternative to abandonment or abortion is now available in several German cities – a “drop-hatch” designed to allow mothers to deliver an unwanted child anonymously through a small door in a hospital wall. Within one minute, health-care workers hear an alarm and retrieve the child. The hatch is an invention of a private organization called Sternipark, who opened the first hatches in April of 2000 in Hamburg in response to the discovery of a fifth child who had been abandoned in a garbage bin that year. Germany reports approximately 50 abandoned babies per […]
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Spanish Central Government Objects to New Embryo Research Facility

MADRID, February 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The creation of 30 human clones by South Korean researchers has re-ignited the stem cell/cloning debate all over the world. In Spain, Government authorities have objected to the creation of an embryonic stem cell bank in socialist-controlled Andalusia. The bank opened in late January in Granada with the Andalusian government promising over $ 5 million for research grants. The ruling party of Andalusia is accusing the conservative central government of pandering to Catholic groups opposed to human cloning. Early this month, Health Minister Ana María Pastor announced a plan to set up a stem […]
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U. S. Court Of Appeals Will Consider Whether To Reverse Roe V. Wade

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans will consider whether to reverse Roe v. Wade on March 2.  Allan E. Parker, Jr., CEO and founder of The Justice Foundation, the organization representing Norma McCorvey in her pursuit to reverse her role in Roe v. Wade, has called for the pro-life community to join in days of prayer and fasting until that date.  The Justice Foundation has received official notice from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that the Court will hear oral argument and make a preliminary decision some time between 1:00 […]
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Mel Gibson Film The Passion of the Christ Review by LifeSiteNews.com Editor

TORONTO, February 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the February Interim newspaper, mailed out in January, LifeSite’s John-Henry Westen reviewed Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.  Westen wrote that the film is “the most realistic and spectacular portrayal of Christ” as it focuses on Jesus’ torturous final 12 hours.  Westen, editor of LifeSiteNews.com, says that The Passion’s artistry is “superb,” its power “beyond mere tears.” He recounts that during the screening for pastors and ministry leaders that he attended on January 13, “a gentleman behind me began openly sobbing”, adding, “the effort to resist joining him was real – it […]
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CBC Continues to Bash Christianity with “Gag” Portraying Nun and Priest Necking

OTTAWA, February 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s national public broadcaster, the CBC, is apparently not satisfied with offending Christians with a live gay marriage aired on the day designated by Christian groups to celebrate the sanctity of marriage.  A CBC comedy program called ‘Just for Laughs Gags’ which aired Friday night, had two actors dress up as a nun and a priest and go out on a busy street for a “make out” session in order to secretly film reactions of passers by.  The incident is not the first time the CBC comedy program has offended Catholics.  LifeSiteNews.com spoke with […]
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Homosexual Rush to ‘Marry’ in San Francisco is a Political Ploy Warn Canadians

SAN FRANCISCO, February 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom opened the city’s doors to homosexuals on Thursday, issuing an order that officials grant marriage licences to same-sex couples there. Thus far, a reputed 1700 couples have received the licence. Pro-family advocates are set to appear in court Tuesday to seek a restraining order to stop the weddings.  Newsom has not set any restrictions on the decree – partners have been lining up from around the country, including Curtis McAdams, of Austin, Texas, and David Miller, 34, who said they plan to file a lawsuit in Texas to […]
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The Emperor’s New Climate: Is Global Warming Real?  https://www.crisismagazine.com/feature1.htm   ‘Passion’ Won’t Be in All Theaters https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/13/114005.shtml   Why Mel owes one to the Jews https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37095   Catholic Passion of the Christ Outreach!  https://passion.catholicexchange.com/  Gun registry cost close to $2 billion https://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/02/13/gunregistry_rdi040213   Prime Minister’s Martin’s take-no-prisoners strategy in Response to Scandals https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040213/COIBBI13/National/Idx   Malaria Misappropriation: International bureaucracies hurt those they’re supposed to help.  https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/bate200402130847.asp   Presbyterian Minister Ousted for Gay ‘Marriage’ Reinstated https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=1&u=/ap/20040210/ap_on_re_us/minister_gay_marriages Catholic bishop of Arlington rejects controversial Good Touch bad Touch program after parents express concerns https://washingtontimes.com/metro/20040211-102139-3073r.htm Brownback pushes his anticloning bill https://www.washtimes.com/national/20040212-102847-9346r.htm Arizona Legislature set to […]
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FDA Delays Morning After Pill Status Change

WASHINGTON February 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The campaign to keep the Morning After Pill, sold in the US as “Plan B”, available only by prescription, is gaining ground in the US.  Food and Drug Administration officials voted in December to change the status of Plan B. from prescription-only to over the counter and it was thought that the decisive vote of 24 to 3 would have been the end of the matter. However, last month a letter was sent to President Bush by 49 members of Congress bringing up the issues of concern to pro-life and pro-family advocates. The FDA […]
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Court Rules in Favour of Gov. Bush in Schindler-Schiavo Appeal

TAMPA, Florida, February 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Florida’s 2nd District Court of Appeal has ruled today in favour of Florida Governor Jeb Bush. The appeal was filed in response to a lower court’s decision to disallow Gov. Bush and Terri Schindler-Schiavo’s parents the right to intervene in the constitutional challenge to a law passed by the Florida Legislature last October in order to keep Terri alive. The Appeal court ruled that, in denying Gov. Bush and Terri’s parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, the ability to intervene on their daughter’s behalf, “Pinellas Circuit Court Judge W. Douglas Baird did not follow […]
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Massachusetts Constitutional Amendment to Re-define Marriage Debate “Filibustered”

BOSTON, February 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lawmakers came to a mandatory midnight halt to their same-sex marriage debate without a vote yesterday. The move is being labelled by Representative Democrat Philip Travis, original sponsor of the same-sex marriage ban, as a “filibuster”.  Travis said that “We should never have politics like that in this state.  They’re called filibusters. They do them in Washington. We don’t do them in Boston. This is a new step in the recorded history of Massachusetts. It’s bad government.” Travis’ statement refers to the homosexual-rights supporters’ use of delay tactics to kill time and foil any […]
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UNESCO About-Face: Directive Ends Support and Promotion of Abortion

NEW YORK, February 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com/c-fam.org) – The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) Friday Fax revealed today that the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)—historically radically pro-abortion in its directive—is taking an about-face on its abortion policy. The memo, released by Director-General Koichiro Matsuura, “promised to make substantial internal reforms to ensure that its publishing offices around the globe no longer produce documents endorsing abortion rights.” The reversal seems to be the result of a letter written in January by Tommy Thompson, Secretary of US Health and Human Services (HHS), to Matsuura voicing Bush administration displeasure with […]
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Peru Being Illegally Targeted for Abortion by USAID

FRONT ROYAL, February 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ten Peruvian Congressmen have written a letter to USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios charging the United States Aid agency with conniving to change Peru’s laws to allow abortion. Mexico City Policy prevents U.S. family planning funds from being used to promote, perform, or lobby for the legalization of abortion. The accusation has been denied by USAID, but the letter cited actions by that organization that proves the allegation beyond any doubt, giving names and dates.  “Peru is a democratic country, with a constitution that protects human life from conception and strong pro-life laws,” says […]
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Defenders of Family Boycott CBC News Sunday Homosexual ‘Marriage’ Love Fest

TORONTO, February 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Programme directors at the CBC were left scrambling today as Canada’s most well known and best defenders of the traditional family boycotted the upcoming CBC discussion on their airing of a live gay ‘marriage’.  The CBC’s history of bias and distortion is so well known that the pro-family groups rejected participation in the national broadcaster’s televised ‘debate.’ In addition to LifeSiteNews.com, the list of groups which were asked to come onto the program and boycotted included, the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, Catholic Civil Rights League, Toronto Right to Life, […]
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San Francisco officials marry same-sex couple- Mayor’s unprecedented move defies state law https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37094   Idaho House Approves gay ‘marriage’ ban amendment   https://www.idahostatesman.com/story.asp?ID=60838 Sex-Ed Beginning As Early as Grade 4 Across Canada https://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040210/SEXED10//?query=oral%2Bsex Democrat Presidential Contender Kerry quote from the 1960’s: “I’m an internationalist. I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.”  https://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=352185 Franciscan University of Steubenville plans pro-life conference June 5-6 www.franciscanconferences.com ‘Catholic’ Notre Dame Holds Gay Film Festival https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&ncid=2027&e=1&u=/chitribts/20040211/ts_chicagotrib/atnotredamegayfilmfestafirst Utah House OKs ban on abortion funding   https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,590042664,00.html Bush Dismisses Question about membership in Skull and Bones Society […]
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The Latest Passion Surrounding “The Passion of the Christ”

LOS ANGELES, February 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A flurry of news and activity is preceding the February 25 release date of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.  Theatres around the world have been inundated with calls requesting group showings of the film, with, in some cases, whole theatres being booked – only permitted after the opening week.  Even though faithful Jews such as Michael Medved and Rabbi Daniel Lapin have panned the charge of anti-Semitism flung at Gibson and his film (https://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.17815/article_detail.asp ), the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in anticipation of the film, is nevertheless publishing a […]
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Texas Pharmacists Fired by Eckerd Corporation for Ethical Stand on Morning After Pill

DENTON, February 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Eckerd Corporation, the owner of the Eckerd Pharmacy chain, has fired three pharmacists six days after they refused to fill prescriptions for the abortifacient Morning After Pill. Gene Herr, one of the pharmacists, said that his refusal to fill the prescription was based on religious convictions. Herr said, “I went in the back room and briefly prayed about it. I actually called my pastor … and asked him what he thought about it.” Joan Gallagher, spokesman for Eckerd said the company employment manual says pharmacists are not allowed to opt out of filling a […]
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Human Clones Created to be Mined for Spare Parts

SEOUL, February 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The race to create living, cloned human beings for use in stem cell research has been won by researchers in South Korea. Seoul National University’s Woo Suk Hwang and colleagues have created 30 human embryos that were cultured long enough to start producing the earliest body parts, and plan to destroy them to salvage the stem cells. The stem cells, the researchers claim, can then be used to replace damaged tissue and to treat diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. However, no experimental therapies in human or animal trials have been successful. On the […]
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Recent Polls Indicate Bush Besting Kerry Because of Life and Family Positions

WASHINGTON, DC, February 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A poll released today indicates that President George W. Bush is outstripping democratic front-runner John Kerry – largely because of life and family issues. The Rasmussen Reports survey found that 43 percent of voters favour Bush’s Pro-life stance, versus Kerry’s 39 percent support for his pro-abortion position.  Bush’s view on the role of religion in American society has garnered a backing of 46 percent versus Kerry’s 30 percent support. Most significant, Bush’s stand against homosexual ‘marriage’ has earned him a backing of 46 percent versus Kerry’s pro-homosexual ‘marriage’ position, with only 29 percent […]
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Kerry’s Campaign Heading Straight for Rocks Says Drudge Report

WASHINGTON, February 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In late-breaking news, the US political watchdog Matt Drudge has reported that liberal Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is being investigated by several formerly fawning news media about a possible marital infidelity that may ruin his chances of securing the Democratic Presidential nomination. A serious investigation of a woman who has fled the country at Kerry’s prompting, “and of the nature of her relationship with Sen. John Kerry, has been underway at TIME magazine, ABC NEWS, the WASHINGTON POST, THE HILL and the ASSOCIATED PRESS” says Drudge. “General Wesley Clark plainly stated: ‘Kerry will implode […]
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Brazil’s Health Ministry to Hand Out 10 million free condoms for Carnival https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&ncid=1516&e=1&u=/afp/20040209/od_afp/brazil_aids_carnival_040209195711 Supreme Court Justcie Scalia Says U.S. Constitution Allows states to ban or allow abortion or homosexual conduct https://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/02/11/scalia_affirms_state_rights_under_constitution/ University of Virginia Threatened over Failure to provide Domestic Partner Benefits https://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive
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San Francisco Mayor to Issue Marriage Licence to Homosexual Couples

SAN FRANCSICO February 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Perhaps to no-one’s surprise, the newly elected Democrat mayor of San Francisco has ordered the County Clerk to investigate what needs to be done to begin issuing marriage licences to homosexual “partners”. Mayor Gavin Newsom said that he wants the “forms and documents used to apply for and issue marriage licences” to be modified for use by same sex “couples”. The forms must be available “on a non-discriminatory basis, without regard to gender or sexual orientation.”  The fight in the United States over the definition of marriage is being fought at every level […]
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South Dakota House Passes Abortion Ban after Women’s Testimony

PIERRE, February 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill that would effectively outlaw most abortion in that state has passed the House in South Dakota. The bill passed after dozens of women testified to the House State Affairs Committee to the disaster abortion had caused in their lives. Women had spoken of being haunted by emotional agony and lingering shame years after having abortions. Some recounted suicide attempts and legislators were told of others who had killed themselves. The bill passed by a wide majority, 45-15. Pro-life observers are pleased with the passage but fear that should the bill be made […]
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Paul Martin’s Liberals Break New Ground in High Handedness

OTTAWA, February 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Paul Martin’s government has broken new ground in Liberal high-handedness and invoked closure on a crucial motion after the House had been in session only six days. On Friday afternoon, when most MP’s were on their way home to their constituencies, Jacques Saada, Government House Leader, moved that bills that were in waiting before the proroguing of the House will be considered “approved at all stages completed at the time of prorogation”. Nine bills will be brought back for consideration at the point at which they were left by the previous government, including the […]
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Included in Pope’s Vision for Reform of United Nations is Pro-Life/Family Reform

VATICAN, February 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a meeting with the president of the 58th General Assembly of the United Nations on Saturday, Pope John Paul II stressed that reform of the United Nations is “‘a clear moral and political obligation which calls for prudence and determination and a necessary prerequisite for the growth of an international order at the service of the whole human family.”  Media coverage of the meeting has tended to focus on the fact that the Pope considers the United Nations “a significant means for promoting the universal common good.”  However, understanding the Pope’s aspirations for […]
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Anti-Family Canadian Judge to be New United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights

OTTAWA, February 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour appears to be headed to the United Nations in Geneva to serve as the UN Commissioner for Human Rights.  She is considered the top contender for the position, and a highly placed UN source has informed Reuters it “appears a done deal.”  While the development may be welcome news to social conservatives in Canada who will see at least one radical leftist judge leave the Supreme Court, from her new post, Arbour will tax pro-family supporters the world over. Her role will be to police governments worldwide on […]
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By a 2 to 1 margin – 60 percent to 31 percent Americans Oppose Homosexual Marriage https://www.washtimes.com/national/20040209-115420-5105r.htm Future of Democracy Hinges on the Family, Vatican Says at U.N.  https://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=48759 BBC cartoon mocking Pope may never be aired thanks to massive complaints   https://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1144421,00.html Virginia Senate Passes Foetal Homicide Bill https://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=1637099&nav=23iiKi8T Guidelines Urged for Taking Organs From the Comatose https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/10/162134.shtml   Hollywood Heavies Funding Lobby to Make California Centre for Human Embryo Research https://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/02/09/news/state/2_8_0421_21_25.txt Theatres Showing The Passion of the Christ in Canada https://www.equinoxefilms.com/default.asp New York City Pharmacies Not Carrying Abortifacient Forced to Put up Sign https://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/17504.htm Adult day-care center to […]
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Honduran Bishops Warn “Morning After” Pill is Grounds For Excommunication

Tegulcigalpa, Feb. 10 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic bishops of Honduras have denounced a campaign to distribute the “morning-after” pill in their country, and warned the faithful that complicity in abortion is grounds for excommunication.  In a joint public statements, the Honduran bishops said that the morning-after pill “is abortifacient, since it deliberately and directly ends the life of a human being immediately after conception.” The bishops add that “abortion is an abominable crime.”  In the statement on church moral teaching, that could be applied to Catholics anywhere in the world, the bishops state, “It is not possible to be living […]
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After ‘Wedding’, Britney Spears Makes Altar Call in California Church

INGLEWOOD, February 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The latest installment of the Britney Spears self-promotion saga involves a religious “experience” at a Christian church. Immediately following her 55 hour “marriage”, Spears has followed with another mockery of Christianity. Spears and her mother, attended a service at the Faithful Central Bible Church in Inglewood, California at which they made an “altar call”. The altar call is a common practice in some Protestant congregational churches where, after a sermon, a person is called upon to make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ. The British newspaper the Daily Record reports that Spears and […]
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Romania: Abortions Continue to Exceed Live Births

BUCHAREST, February 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Romania has released its abortion statistics for 2003 which reveals that abortions still exceed live births. In the first nine months of 2003 alone, 170,000 abortions were committed – 8000 more children were aborted than were born alive in the same period. Romania, a Russian – controlled dictatorship until 1989, saw more than three abortions recorded for each birth in 1990.  Romania leads the world, second only to Russia, in its abortion rate.  A 2000 report from the World Health Organization revealed that “Russia and Central-Eastern Europe, with roughly 10 percent of the global […]
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Washington State Introduces Population Control Measure

OLYMPIA, February 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In spite of global alarm over disastrous population decline in the developed world, Rep. Maralyn Chase has introduced a bill to the Washington State House that would require State health authorities to issue a pamphlet to 'encourage' families to limit the number of children to two or fewer. House Bill 3111 is called “An Act Relating to Population Sustainability” and reflects the now widely discredited cliché popularized in the 1970's that overpopulation would cause massive food shortages and environmental disintegration. The bill concerns itself largely with routine activities of public health until the last […]
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Argentine President Proposes Self-Described “Militant Atheist” for Supreme Court

BUENOS AIRES, February 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Argentine President Néstor Kirchner has proposed Carmen Argibay to be a member of the Supreme Court of Justice. Argibay has called herself a “militant atheist” and has said she is in favour of abortion.  The Argentine Constitution recognizes human life from the moment of conception and mandates its protection. Consequently, abortion is not legal in overwhelmingly Catholic Argentina. The appointment of pro-abortion, feminist and militant atheist justices has been the biggest obstacle to the protection of human life around the world.  Bishop Jorge Luis Lona of San Luis said in a statement that […]
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Boston Archbishop Warns Teens TV can be a ‘Poisonous’, ‘Brainwashing’ ‘Glass Idol’

BOSTON, February 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to 1,300 teens gathered at a youth rally Saturday, Boston Archbishop Sean O’Malley warned against the corrupt influence the “glass idol” of television can have in peoples lives.  “The great spiritual sicknesses of our age and our culture come in great part from the extreme individualism and materialism of our age. Television is the pulpit of those influences,” he said.  He cautioned the youth particularly about a popular music video station “MTV” which he said packages negative trends “in an attractive way” adding, “but it’s poisonous.” Archbishop O’Malley also warned the young people […]
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Malaysians Protest United Nations Attempt to Force Acceptance of Homosexuality

KUALA LUMPUR, February 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Malaysian government leaders and citizens protested this week the upcoming United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) resolution seeking to add “sexual orientation” to the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination.  Professor Amina Salim of the University in Penang told an Islamic news service yesterday, “The new resolution that would force Malaysia and Muslim countries to accept and legalize gays and lesbians is an offence to Islam and to Muslims.”  As LifeSiteNews.com reported last week, the resolution will be presented at the 60th session of the UNHRC which runs March 15-April 25 in Geneva […]
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Minister who Performed Homosexual ‘Marriage’ Awarded Order of Canada

OTTAWA, February 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homosexual activist United Church minister who performed a homosexual ‘marriage’ in New Brunswick where homosexual marriage remains against the law, has been awarded the Order of Canada.  Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada – an advocate of homosexuality herself – announced the award to Eldon Hay January 27.  In announcing his award, the Governor General said “With intelligence, integrity and compassion, this human rights activist has championed a more tolerant, inclusive society.”  Hay, Professor Emeritus of religion at Mount Allison University and a United Church minister, was the first president of the activist […]
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UK Opposition Leader Pledges Support for ‘Civil Partnerships’

LONDON, February 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK Guardian is reporting today that Michael Howard, leader of The Conservative Party, Britain’s main opposition party, is pledging to support new legislation to legalize ‘civil partnerships’ for same-sex couples and unmarried heterosexual couples.  In a speech promising “to give people greater control over their own lives,” the Tory leader said that “It is not up to the state to stop others who want to “live their lives in different ways.”  Howard replaced former leader Iain Duncan-Smith, a pro-life Catholic, as leader of the opposition last fall. Howard has a mixed voting record […]
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Christian, Islamic, Jewish Leaders Unite to Oppose Homosexual Marriage

BOSTON, February 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a statement released Saturday, leaders of several religious groups’ petitioned legislators to support a constitutional amendment that would preserve marriage as the union of one man and one woman.  The leaders, which included Archbishop Sean O’Malley, as well as several representatives of evangelical and Christian Orthodox churches, Islamic councils, and Jewish groups, wrote that “Should the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision to redefine marriage as any voluntary union of persons become the law of the land, it would have an enormously negative impact on our society.” A constitutional convention will take place on Wednesday […]
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Vulgar Play Promoting Homosexuality to be Shown at 32 U.S. Catholic Colleges

WASHINGTON, February 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Diocese of Cleveland has warned Catholics about the ‘dangers’ of the upcoming Mel Gibson film, “The Passion of the Christ” but has apparently not been concerned about the production of the controversial play the ‘Vagina Monologues’, being sponsored by the local Catholic John Carroll University.  The vulgar play is being shown at 32 Catholic colleges and the Cardinal Newman Society (CNS) is fighting to have the colleges abandon the productions.  CNS president Patrick Reilly wrote to the presidents of all U.S. Catholic colleges and universities, involved with the play.  He informed them: “The […]
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Senate House Leader Calls for Marriage Amendment

WASHINGTON, February 06, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bill Frist (R-TN) has responded to the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling that marriage, and all its rights and privileges must be available to same-sex couples. The Senate House leader has called for a constitutional marriage amendment and said that he would block gay “marriage” legislation from coming through the United States Senate. He stated that liberal activist judges must not create legislation. “Marriage should not be redefined by the courts and we in this body can’t let it, we won’t let it,” Frist said. In 1986 the Defence of Marriage Act passed Congress, stating […]
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Massachusetts House Speaker Working to Halt “Gay Marriage” Juggernaut

MASSACHUSETTS, February 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran a Democrat who is a staunch opponent of “gay marriages”, is attempting to delay the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling on homosexual “marriage”. The SJC ruling is scheduled to come into effect in May, before any possibility of federal intervention. However, an amendment has been proposed for the Massachusetts constitution that would define marriage as being between one man and one woman. Finneran is among a group of legislators who are lobbying to have the amendment come to a House vote next week. “There seems to be, particularly […]
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Schiavo Case One ‘Out of Tens of Thousands’ Says George Felos

CLEARWATER, Florida, February 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an editorial titled Lawmakers Intrude Into Family Privacy published Friday, George Felos, attorney for Michael Schiavo, criticizes the Florida government for being “politically motivated” to fight on Terri Schindler-Schiavo’s behalf. Michael Schiavo is the husband of Terri Schindler-Schiavo who has been battling to have his wife’s feeding tube removed in order that she be starved to death. In the Felos editorial, which appeared in the Lakeland Ledger of Lakeland, Florida, he writes that “Because of the notoriety of the Schiavo case, which is one isolated case out of tens of thousands over […]
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Canada’s Notorious Stem Cell Bill C-13 to be Resurrected

OTTAWA, February 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Quietly, on a Friday when most MPs are traveling back to their home ridings, the Liberal government attempted to resurrect bills still pending a final vote under Jean Chretien.  However, pro-life MPs in the House raised enough objections to delay the reproductive technologies measure Friday and it was debated again on Monday.  Like Svend Robinson’s homosexual hate crime bill, a re-introduced stem cell bill (previously C-13), would be considered passed in the House and as pending passage in the Senate.  Interestingly, Robinson also slyly presented his motion to resurrect his bill late on a […]
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Dr. Dobson’s Open Letter on The Passion of Christ https://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36973 Former Homosexual: ‘Gay Marriage is a Counterfeit and Fraud’  https://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=105-02052004 New York City Uses AIDS as Excuse for Earlier Sex-Ed https://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/16012.htm South Dakota Bill to Ban Abortion Goes to House Floor https://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/7886050.htm Lawsuit Over Jackson’s Super Bowl Incident Seeks Billions In Damages https://www.talonnews.com/news/2004/february/0206_lawsuit_jackson_superbowl.shtml President Delivers Remarks at 52nd Annual National Prayer Breakfast https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/02/20040205-1.html PM muzzles caucus on gun vote https://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=f79e5eea-d55f-45c3-8fa9-c7fd774a0b4e French cardinal fears trend toward euthanasia   https://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=43593
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NY State Approves Sale of ‘Morning-After’ Pill Over-The-Counter

ALBANY, February 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over-the-counter sale (OTC) of the abortifacient ‘morning-after’ pill, precluding the need for a prescription, has been given the green light by the Democrat-dominated New York Assembly on Monday.  Debate over the availability of the morning-after pill is still ongoing at the national level, by the Food and Drug Administration. Assemblywoman, Democrat Amy Paulin, who proposed the legislation, said that, “If they won’t do it, we will do it in New York.” The Assembly is hoping their action will put pressure on the F.D.A. to approve the OTC sale of the drug in America. An […]
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Catholic Philosophy Professor Punished for Expressing Religious Beliefs

KIRTLAND, OH, February 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lakeland Community College near Cleveland, Ohio, has removed a professor of moral philosophy from his classes as punishment for refusing to hide his religious identity from students. The college threatened Dr. James Tuttle, who espouses traditional Catholic beliefs, with dismissal because he made statements on his syllabi and in class that disclosed his religious faith and how that shaped his personal philosophy. Dr. Tuttle’s problems began in March 2003 when he received a copy of a student complaint forwarded to him by Dean James L. Brown of the Arts and Humanities Division at […]
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Gearing up for a Pro-Abortion March in Washington

WASHINGTON, DC, February 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sensing their political support slipping away the largest pro-abortion groups in the United States have joined in a massive effort to mobilize a pro-abortion march in the hopes of copying the annual March for Life.  Planned Parenthood Federation of America, The Feminist Majority Foundation, National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL Pro-Choice America), and the National Organization for Women are planning their march for April 25, with lead-up gatherings set for the third Tuesday of every month beginning Feb 17.  Although in line with their rhetoric, the “March for Women’s Lives” remains an ironic […]
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Wisconsin Senate Passes Nation’s Most Comprehensive Conscience Clause Bill

MADISON, February 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Wisconsin Senate passed a conscience clause bill Wednesday which would protect health care professionals and facilities from penalties for refusing to be involved with abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia and unethical medical experiments involving the deliberate destruction of in vitro human embryos or the use of tissue from aborted babies. Susan Armacost, Legislative Director for Wisconsin Right to Life, the lead organization promoting the legislation, said the legislation passed in spite of a campaign of misinformation and inflammatory rhetoric by the pro-abortion lobby.  Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin, were relentless in literally making […]
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United Nations Tells Ethiopia to Decriminalize Abortion, Publicly Fund Contraceptives

NEW YORK, February 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women urged Ethiopia to decriminalize abortion and to publicly fund contraceptives.  The committee met with Ethiopian Government officials January 26 and was informed that abortion is illegal in Ethiopia. Despite the stated UN policy not to promote abortion in countries where it is illegal, UN Committee member Sjamsiah Achmad, the expert from Indonesia, asked the Ethiopian representatives, “Would (the government) consider reviewing the punitive measures contained in the penal code against women who had undergone abortions?”  She also claimed: “Something along those lines […]
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Abortion: Conundrums and Common Sense   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/5196/LEGAL/life/index.htm   Cardinal Ratzinger Says Pope’s Health has Improved https://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html?id=29128F51-0FD2-4D49-8E3D-489B786CEAA6 Vaccines Linked to Autism and ADHD https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1076000448085_71409648/?hub=Health Kentucky Senate Approves ‘Choose Life’ Licence Plates https://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2004/02/04ky/met-5-plate0204-2732.html FDA Deems Some Birth Control Patches Fake https://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040204_1891.html Yahoo! and Microsoft are giving serious thought to the idea of e-mail “postage” that costs senders a small fee https://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/3307601   Gay rights go global   https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36938 Consequences of the homosexualist agenda if Bill C-250 becomes law https://catholicinsight.com/online/features/billc250.shtml   Deathblow to Marriage, Gay marriage has real implications.  https://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz200402050842.asp
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Twelve-year old IVF newborn

JERUSALEM, February 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Israeli woman has given birth to the world’s “oldest” in vitro twins. The embryos had been in frozen storage for 12 years and the woman already has two children from the same batch.” The implication is that the length of time that embryos are frozen is not crucial and probably there is no more damage happening during the many years they are frozen,” said her doctor, Ariel Revel of the Hadassah Hospital. It is thought that the previous record was seven years. In the process of in vitro fertilization, one of many different […]
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Swiss following Dutch euthanasia model

Following the Dutch model, the Swiss medical association has given the green light to “passive” euthanasia as a legal medical practice. Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) has said that there is a need for strict controls on the practice of medical doctors “helping” terminally ill patients to die.  Werner Stauffacher, president of the Academy said, in a strangely self-contradictory statement, “We still state that assisted suicide is not part of normal medical practice, but we add that there are situations where assisted suicide can be comprehensible. So it’s no longer a complete ‘no’.”  Active euthanasia remains illegal in Switzerland, […]
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Child of Holocaust Survivors and Co-Star Says Gibson Film ‘Not Anti-Semitic’

ROMANIA, February 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – She is the daughter of holocaust survivors, and she co-stars in Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ.” In a recent interview, Maia Morgenstern, who plays the role of Mary, the Mother of Christ, rejects allegations that Gibson’s film is anti-Semitic.  Morgenstern, best known in her native Romania, where she has appeared in over 30 films, rebuffs concerns that Gibson’s portrayal will fuel anti-Semitism. She says that “Gibson is an artist, a director. He never imposed his religious convictions on anyone. If there is a message, it’s more about how people can be […]
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Canada is Premier Destination for Homosexuals: ‘Marry’ Here, Change Laws at Home

MELBOURNE, February 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Australian homosexuals who were ‘married’ in Toronto, Ontario are seeking recognition of their ‘marriage’ at home. The Melbourne twosome is appealing to the Family Court for acknowledgment of their status as a ‘married’ couple.  Jason McCheyne and Adrian Tuazon hope to set a precedent, opening the door for similar legislation allowing same-sex ‘marriage’ in their native Australia.  The duo traveled to Toronto last month where they were ‘married’ at city hall.  While the Netherlands has a provision in their same-sex ‘marriage’ legislation which requires that at least one of the two be a […]
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Philippine Congress Passes Gay Rights Law

MANILA, February 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Philippine House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting discrimination based on “sexual orientation”.  The bill, filed by Akbayan Party-list Representative Loretta Ann Rosales, is a product of a legislative partnership between Akbayan and the Lesbian and Gay Legislative Advocacy Network Philippines (LAGABLAB-Pilipinas, Inc.). Passed on January 23, House Bill 6416 prohibits discrimination in areas such as employment, education, health services, public service (including military service), commercial and medical establishments.  The bill must still pass in the Philippine Senate and be signed by the President.  Since federal elections are scheduled for May 2004, […]
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Cardinal McCarrick Links Janet Jackson’s “Performance” to Wider Cultural Decline

WASHINGTON, February 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com/CWN) – In a recent column in his archdiocesan newspaper, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick of Washington called Janet Jackson’s Superbowl half-time exhibitionism “a sign of the decline and fall of a culture that made this nation great.” He also cited the low American birthrate, anti-family judicial activism and the proliferating pornography industry as indicating “trouble ahead” for American society. “What disturbs me the most,” he wrote in The Catholic Standard, “is that I see really wonderful young people falling for this pernicious anti-culture and losing their ideals and their values, with the resulting danger to our nation.” […]
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Polish Pro-Life Youth Group Discovers Illegal Abortuaries in Poland, Demands Police Action

WARSAW, February 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – All Poland Youth, a pro-life group in Poland has discovered several abortion clinics operating illegally in the country.  After calling over 20 of the clinics and recording the phone conversations with clinic staff, the group approached the Warsaw Public Prosecutor’s Office with the evidence of the criminal activity.  The group informed LifeSiteNews.com that they are demanding prosecution of the individuals working in the clinics who “kill unborn children.”  All Poland Youth was one of the groups which protested the arrival of the Dutch abortion ship on its shores last year.
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Conservative Leadership Candidate Tony Clement Slams MP Spencer as Homophobic

OTTAWA, February 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative Party Leadership candidate Tony Clement, in comments to the Toronto Star today has shown himself to be extremely intolerant of traditional views on homosexuality.  Clement defended the Conservative Party caucus decision to refuse MP Larry Spencer re-entry into the Conservative Party based on Spencer’s politically incorrect comments to a reporter on the issue of homosexuality. In response to a repeated hypothetical question, Spencer conceded to a reporter that he would likely support a colleague’s motion to reinsert sodomy into the criminal code, clarifying that “I wouldn’t want homosexuals to ever go to jail […]
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Conservative Party Dealings with Social Conservative Larry Spencer Finally Revealed

OTTAWA, February 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The truth on the Larry Spencer affair has finally been revealed.  For weeks after the initial story broke that the Regina MP had given a politically incorrect interview to a known ‘so-con headhunter’ reporter at the Vancouver Sun, LifeSiteNews.com attempted in vain to speak with Spencer to get his side of the story, knowing the strong anti-family bias of the mainstream media in Canada.  Spencer was silent.  Now, after being barred from entry into the Conservative Party, and thus barred from running for the Party in the coming election, Spencer has revealed that he […]
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Statement of Position of MP Larry Spencer by His Executive Assistant Larry Birkbeck

STATEMENT OF POSITION Spencer / O’Neil – Interview – November 25, 2003 The Interview Peter O’Neil, who mysteriously secured a copy of a November 5, 2003 email sent by Mr. Larry Spencer to a colleagues’ constituent, initiated this interview.  The email in question also contained an attachment of an email that had been sent to all Canadian Alliance Members.  The attachment was a copy of a letter sent to a Senator by Stephen Gray, expressing his opposition to Bill C-250, wherein he quoted (Michael Swift, “Gay Revolutionary” in the February 15, 1987 issue of the homosexual newspaper Gay Community News […]
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Co-star Defends Mel Gibson Film https://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/7865484.htm   Liberals unveil Parliamentary reform package https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1075926808054_71336008///?hub=Canada   Maine Catholic Bishop Joseph Gerry tells Politicians Homosexual Marriage is Unnatural https://www.wmtw.com/Global/story.asp?S=1629492 Contractors Building New Abortion Clinics Face Negative Publicity https://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/nation/7864779.htm New Hampshire lawmakers consider requiring abortionists to report abortion stats   https://wbz4.com/nhnews/NH-XGR—AbortionStati-en/resources_news_html Indiana Senate votes to ban gay marriage https://www.wtvw.com/Global/story.asp?S=1628987&nav=7CPEKb3v Gibson Removes Scripturally Accurate Scene From ‘The Passion’  https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/3/232426.shtml Coming-out day for conservatives https://www.washtimes.com/national/20040203-103504-2926r.htm Sexual Abuse in Social Context: Catholic Clergy and Other Professionals https://www.catholicleague.org/research/abuse_in_social_context.htm   Labatt apologizes for provocative Super Bowl ad https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1075892689669&call_pageid=968332188492&col=9687939721   Worse things than spanking https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040131/COWENT31/National/Idx
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Ex-Homosexual Testifies about Ex-Gay Ministry Before U.S. Committee on Faith-Based Initiatives

WASHINGTON, February 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On January 23 Mike Haley, a former homosexual and Manager of Gender Issues at Focus on the Family (Focus), testified before a congressional subcommittee addressing faith-based organizations.  Haley, who lived as a gay activist for 12 years, now coordinates Love Won Out conferences, which present information on the causes and prevention of homosexuality and are sponsored by Focus, a non- profit Christian organization. Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) was pleased that Congress heard Haley’s testimony.  “As the mother of a son in the homosexual lifestyle, I am pleased to see that […]
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Ohio Passes Ban on Homosexual Marriage and Benefits

COLUMBUS, February 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Final approval of the Ohio bill banning homosexual marriage and benefits came yesterday. The bill passed narrowly in the Senate but received overwhelming support from the House. The Massachusetts Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage sparked the debate, and prompted the Ohio Senate to draft the Defense of Marriage Act. Governor Bob Taft is expected to sign the bill into law.  Supporters of the bill argue that the measure reflects the will of the people, as revealed through polls which indicate that most people want to retain a traditional definition of marriage as […]
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Judge Strikes Down Virginia Partial Birth Abortion Ban – State to Appeal

RICHMOND, February 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the ongoing struggle between state legislatures and the activist judiciary, U.S. District Judge Richard L. Williams has struck down Virginia’s partial birth abortion ban. Williams said that the law violated privacy rights and failed to make an exception for the health of the woman. In the history of abortion, the term “health” of the mother has been interpreted so broadly as to make any form of abortion legal for any reason or no reason. The aggressively pro-abortion, Center for Reproductive Rights filed suit to strike down the ban and called the lawsuit a […]
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Texas Pharmacy Chain Disciplines Employee for Refusing to Dole Out Abortifacient

DENTON, February 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The fears of Catholic pharmacists have been realized in Denton, Texas this week as a pharmacy chain disciplines an employee for refusing to fill a prescription for the abortifacient “morning after pill”.  A young woman, who has not been identified, complained to the company when the pharmacist at an Eckerd pharmacy refused to fill a prescription for the drug on moral grounds.  Joan Gallagher, vice president of communications for Largo, Florida-based Eckerd Corp, said in a statement, “Apparently there was a request for a prescription to be filled and the prescription was denied based […]
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Likely Democrat Presidential Candidate Kerry – A Textbook Pro-Abortion ‘Catholic’

MASSACHUSETTS, February 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the last week, zealously pro-abortion Massachusetts senator John Kerry has left the pack behind in his race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Kerry swept the Super Tuesday nomination votes, winning the support of Democrats in five of seven states. John Kerry, who does not hesitate to promote himself as a Catholic, has made a point of highlighting his support for abortion with no restrictions. He was praised by the abortion extremist group, NARAL Pro-Choice America as having a 100% pro-abortion voting record. See the rest of this LifeSiteNews.com special report at:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/feb/040204a.html
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BC Supreme Court Upholds Kempling Suspension for Exercising “Free Speech”

VANCOUVER, February 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The BC Supreme Court ruled yesterday to uphold the right of the BC College of Teachers to suspend Christian high school teacher and student counsellor Chris Kempling for one month, without pay. Kempling wrote letters to the editor in the local newspaper during the summer holidays of 2002 critical of homosexuality. Among his “crimes” is quoting Scripture to imply that homosexual acts do not meet with the highest standards of morality.  Justice Ronald Holmes of the BC Supreme Court heard Kempling’s appeal in July of 2003 but reserved judgement until yesterday. In his statement, […]
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United Nations Insists Japan, Armenia and Guyana Criminalize Spanking by Parents

GENEVA, February 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its thirty-fifth session Friday and issued its conclusions and recommendations to various countries reporting on their compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.  The Convention prohibits parents from using spanking as a form of discipline and intrudes on many other aspects of family life including insisting on graphic sex education, and major restrictions on parental authority over their minor children.  A UN press release on the session indicates that during the session the committee told Japan, Guyana and Armenia […]
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U.S. President Now Supports Federal Marriage Amendment

WASHINGTON, February 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family leaders from around the United States met in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to discuss the importance of marriage and the proposed federal amendment to protect it. The Free Market Foundation, one of the groups at the meeting, reported that the leaders were informed that President Bush has now agreed to join in the effort to protect marriage by way of a federal amendment to the Constitution. He will make a formal statement of his position to support the amendment in the near future.  Free Market Foundation President Kelly Shackelford expressed that this was […]
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Renowned Porn Battler Appointed to Central Role in Justice Department https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/2/afa/32004b.asp   Signs of strong support for John Kerry among Catholic voters https://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1137835,00.html   President Bush finally speaks out against activist judges – Phyllis Schlafly https://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/ps20040202.shtml   New Poll Says Canadians Split on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’  https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1075504709204_29/?hub=Canada   Kentucky House Passes Fetal Homicide Bill https://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/legislature/7841334.htm   Utah House Committee Passes Measure Prohibiting State Funding for Abortions   https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,590039631,00.html   Rio Archbishop Halts Gov’t Plan to Mail Out Abortifacient Pill https://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4179213   In Japan Teenage abortion declines for 1st time in seven years https://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040201p2a00m0dm009000c.html   Shift in Politics seen in Illinois as […]
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Pope Speaks on Italian Pro-Life Day

ROME, February 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his Sunday Angelus address, February 1st, Pope John Paul II highlighted the work of Italian pro-life activists and called upon all ecclesial communities to support their efforts to fight against the many attacks against human life in the modern world. “We must not be resigned to attacks on human life, above all, abortion!” the Pope said February 1st was the 26th annual pro-life day in Italy where the Italian government has recently passed legislation limiting the in vitro fertilization industry. The pope said that efforts must be expanded “so that the right of […]
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Catholic Sisters Expose Gruesome Organ Trafficking in Mozambique

MOZAMBIQUE, February 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Zenit.org reports that five missionary nuns working in Mozambique have revealed a gruesome network trafficking in human organs that involves kidnap and murder of child victims and the complicity of police. In a report revealed by the Catholic aid agency, Veritas, the nuns described “kidnappings and multiple killings of persons, many times children, victims of an organ trafficking network.” The nuns have received death threats for uncovering the network and report that they have already themselves escaped four attempts at ambush. The nuns were able to gather in the information because the operation was […]
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U.S. National Right to Life Announces Endorsement of George W. Bush for President

WASHINGTON, February 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, National Right to Life PAC announced its endorsement of George W. Bush for President of the United States.  “President Bush has shown himself to be a great pro-life president,” stated Carol Tobias, political director of the National Right to Life Committee. “He has backed with actions his statement that unborn children should be ‘welcomed in life and protected in law.’”  Since taking office, President Bush has, among other things, reinstated the Mexico City Policy, blocked federal funding of research that kills human embryos, and signed both the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and the […]
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Toronto Catholic Priest Files Supreme Court Affidavit Supporting Same-Sex Marriage

TORONTO, February 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A highly credentialed Toronto Catholic priest filed an affidavit with the Supreme Court of Canada in support of homosexual marriage.  Fr. Tim Ryan, in the affidavit of August last year, called himself “a Roman Catholic priest” and “an active member in good standing of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society”.  He wrote, “As someone with many decades of experience in ministry to the gay and lesbian community, I welcomed the decisions of the (courts which ruled on the issue) reformulating the common law definition of marriage as ‘the voluntary union for life of two persons […]
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National Broadcaster to Air Live Gay Marriage on February 15 – Day to Honour Traditional Marriage

OTTAWA, February 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the very day on which Christian groups across Canada have agreed to promote traditional marriage, the country’s national broadcaster, the CBC, on its CBC News Sunday program, will do a one hour live broadcast of the homosexual ‘marriage’ of Douglass Drozdow-St. Christian (50) and Stephen Drozdow-St. Christian (33).  The move is yet another slap in the face to Christian groups by the national broadcaster which is notorious for its pro-abortion and pro-homosexual bias.  Numerous official complaints by the Catholic Civil Rights League to the CBC have resulted in little more than trite apologies […]
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Utah House Votes to Persuade United States to Back Out of UN

SALT LAKE CITY, February 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Utah House of Representatives voted yesterday in favour of persuading the United States Congress to pull America out of the UN.  The Utah House contends that the UN is a threat to American sovereignty.  The vote went 42-33 in favour of the resolution.  The resolution espouses “freeing the nation from a large financial burden and retaining the nation’s sovereignty to decide what is best for the nation and determine what steps it considers appropriate as the leader of the free world in full control of its armed forces and destiny.”  Republican […]
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Weekly Standard Exposé on Fanatical Focus on Abortion by UNICEF, UNFPA, CPR

LONDON, February 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An article by Joseph Bottum, appearing yesterday in Britain’s Weekly Standard begs the question: “What price are the international activists who cluster around the United Nations willing to pay to achieve the ability of any woman—at any place, for any reason—to have an abortion?”  In the exposé, Bottum cites figures from a British Lancet article on the increasing childhood mortality rates in the third world.  He writes “Of the world’s 10 million children who died last year of preventable diseases and starvation, two-thirds could have been saved by effective international intervention through UNICEF, according […]
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Homosexual Activists Move to Force Anti-Family Policy via United Nations

GENEVA, February 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) is once again promoting a motion at the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) to ban discrimination based on “sexual orientation.” The motion will be presented at the 60th session of the UNHRC which runs March 15-April 25 in Geneva Switzerland.  Experts have suggested the proposal has serious ramifications for religions.  The motion, which was sponsored by Brazil and co-sponsored by Canada, was postponed last year by a narrow vote at the UNHRC.  Jane Adolphe, an international law expert and an assistant professor of law […]
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Dangerous Homosexual Hate-Crime Bill Reintroduced into Canadian Senate

OTTAWA, February 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activist MP Svend Robinson has reintroduced his homosexual hate crimes bill C-250.  Since it has already passed in the House of Commons it is currently at Second Reading in the Senate.  The bill has been warned against by all pro-life and pro-family groups as well as by religious leaders from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, as well as Jewish and Islamic leaders.  In a release today, REAL Women of Canada stated “Parliament will be sitting for approximately 6 weeks before the election is expected to be called […]
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FCC launches investigation into halftime show https://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/entertainment/7856257.htm   Urge FCC to Fine CBS for the Super Bowl Indecency https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=AL04B01&f=PG03I03   Selling sex and corruption to your kids https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36598   Massachusetts Democratic Leaders Back Gay ‘Marriage’  https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0030356.cfm   D.C. Voucher Plan Threatened https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0030354.cfm   Foes Plan to ‘Mute’ Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’  https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/2/142127.shtml   Threats Linked to Uncovering of Organ-Trafficking Network Women Religious in Mozambique Report Ambush Attacks https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=48378
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Utah Prohibition of Federal Funding for Abortions Bill 68 Passes House Committee

SALT LAKE CITY, February 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of a South Dakota legislative decision last week to outlaw abortion, the Utah House Committee has passed the Prohibition of Federal Funding for Abortions Bill 68.  Senator Curtis Bramble (R-Provo), the sponsor of the bill, said that the bill has been around for more than a year.  It would make illegal any funding by the federal government, either directly or indirectly, of abortion.  The bill still has to be passed by the House floor.  In response to Democrat David Litvack’s (D-Salt Lake) proposed amendment to remove the term “indirect […]
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South African Pro-Lifers Hold Vigil, Marches on Anniversary of Legalized Abortion

BRAAMFONTEIN, South Africa, February 2 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As part of nation-wide protests commemorating the legalization of abortion on demand in South Africa seven years ago, the Christian Democratic Party held a prayer vigil in front of Constitutional Court.  “On February 1, 1997, abortion on demand was legalized in South Africa,” CDP national director Denise du Plooy said.  “It will be recorded in history to have been even more controversial than the apartheid laws of old.”  Ms. du Plooy also said that “This South African holocaust of baby murders is even more atrocious than the Jewish holocaust because here we […]
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Pope Praises Large Families in 2004 Lenten Message

VATICAN CITY, February 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With large families often experiencing vocal societal disapproval of their generosity towards new life, the Pope’s praise for large families last week came as a welcome assurance.  Pope John Paul II issued a message of praise and admiration for large families in his 2004 Lenten Message released Saturday in anticipation of Lent which commences February 25 – Ash Wednesday.  The Pope noted that this year’s Lenten theme – ‘Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me.’ (Mt 18:5) – “invites us to reflect on the condition of children.”  The Pope said […]
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Archbishop Burke Says No Communion for Pro-abortion Kerry Even If He Becomes President

Archbishop Raymond Burke continues to make waves with his stand regarding pro-abortion “Catholic” politicians.  He is quoted in an article in today’s online edition of the St Louis Post Dispatch stating that he would refuse John Kerry Holy Communion if he were to appear in the Archbishop’s Communion line. “I would have to admonish him not to present himself for Communion,” said Burke. “I might give him a blessing or something,” he said.  John Kerry is moving into the front of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination and is a Catholic who has vociferously defended his pro-abortion stand. The […]
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Legalization of Surgical Abortion Promoted in Peru by USAID

LIMA, February 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com/pop.org/cwnews.com) – The Population Research Institute and Catholic World News have both reported today that the U.S. Agency for International Development (Catalyst Project) funded an October, 2003 event aimed at the promotion of legalization of surgical abortion there. A letter from 10 members of the Peruvian congress addressed to Andrew Natsios, administrator of USAID, expressed concern over the USAID sponsorship of an event aimed at promoting a new proposed law, Bill 7869.  In the letter, the members highlight sections of the proposed bill which states that “reproductive health should include measures to promote…abortion…” and that “legal […]
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