Articles for Month: March 2004

Abortionists begin Giving Testimony against Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act https://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040331_196.html   Australian State Government to Introduce Legislation Making Killing an Unborn Child an Offense; Follows on conviction of man who intentionally killed girlfriend’s unborn child https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/29/1080544424743.html   Reaction to Lancet: Breast Cancer Rates could be Reduced by More than Half if Women had More Children   https://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/news/040330/index.htm   New Zealand’s euthanasia advocate found guilty of attempted murder of her terminally ill mother https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3586233.stm   Surrogate Mother Facing Prison after Selling Surrogate Child to Three Different Couples https://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=506513   Fr. Frank Provone: Don’t Elect Pro-Abortion Politicians https://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=45177   Abstinence Pledge Reduces […]

BURLINGTON, Ontario, March 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Halton Organization for Pride in Education, or HOPE—formerly Halton-Anti-Homophobic Committee—has received a $14,000 federal grant to promote tolerance and acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle in four Halton Hills area high schools—including two Catholic high schools.  MP Paddy Torsney told the Hamilton Spectator that the federal government is providing the money as an initiative of the National Crime Prevention Strategy.  Marcus Logan, HOPE co-chair, told the Spectator, “We offer the students sensitivity training in ongoing sessions once a week and teach them how to develop strategies that reflect their school community, such as […]

CHELTENHAM, March 31, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the British Fertility Society conference in Cheltenham, England, the fertility research community heard today that vasectomies may be more difficult to reverse than was previously suspected. Queen’s University Belfast researchers have found that men who have had vasectomy reversals have a sperm count that is as much as three times lower than men who have never undergone a vasectomy. One of the Queen’s researchers, Dr Carmel McVicar, said: “We did not expect to see this reduction in sperm count or pregnancy due to previous vasectomy and ongoing studies are attempting to decipher the […]

BELFAST, March 31, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study has suggested that smoking cannabis can damage male fertility. Researchers at Queen’s University, Belfast, have examined the effects on sperm of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. THC makes it more difficult for an individual sperm to penetrate the egg membrane. Researchers were alerted to the possible problems of THC in fertility when it was discovered that a large number of the men attending fertility clinics were heavy pot smokers.  The Irish government has reduced the illegality of cannabis, making it the equivalent of over-the-counter tranquilizers. Dr Sheena Lewis, from the […]

Korean population expected to diminish by two-thirds over the next century

CYPRESS LAKE, Florida, March 31, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An eighth-grader is suing Cypress Lake Middle School for forbidding her from distributing pro-life literature on April 16—a “Day of Remembrance” for children killed by abortion.  The suit states that Michelle Heinkel “has a sincere religious belief that abortion is wrong, and is sinful,” prompting her to distribute information that warns of the dangers “both to babies and to mothers who abort their babies.”  The sixth annual Day of Remembrance event marks the deaths of more than 40 million children who have been killed by abortion in the United States since the […]

She was underage and her parents were not notified

600 babies a day are aborted - only 300-a-year are placed for adoption

OTTAWA, March 31, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Statistics Canada today released information that 106,418 babies were deliberately killed in their mothers’ wombs in the year 2001 in Canada. The numbers do not include chemical abortions by the abortion pill or the abortifacient morning-after pill or abortions by abortifacient ‘contraceptives’. The reported death toll is added to the more than two million killed since 1969. The statistics reveal that almost one-quarter of all Canadian pregnancies end in abortion, or, for every three babies born, one is killed.  Jim Hughes, President of Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSiteNews.com that “This is an alarming figure,” […]

Plans for a full-out Bush-bashing ad campaign