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The WHO deserves stinging criticism for failing on malaria https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/bate200404300908.asp   Teresa Heinz Abortion Shocker: I Planned to End Pregnancy https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/4/30/173343.shtml   Blowing the whistle on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s credibility https://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=f688a74b-2c24-4e54-b214-101d41783e7a   Homosexual leader vows to ‘torture’ opponents https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38275   Catholic institutions grapple with handling married gay workers https://www.boston.com/dailynews/120/region/Catholic_institutions_grapple_:.shtml   Principal tells pro-life students to remove pro-life T-shirts https://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2004/042004/04292004/1346091   Spain’s Socialist Leaders Ask Catholic Cathedral to Allow Muslim Services https://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=696   Kansas Attorney General Kline decries filth at abortion clinic https://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/legislature/8553710.htm   Abortion rights march covered extensively; Pro-lifers continue to be ignored https://www.illinoisleader.com/columnists/columnistsview.asp?c=14448   Tiny, Evil Thing – […]
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Taiwan Jesuit Defends Video Depicting Abortion

TAIPEI, April 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A video, circulated through some Taipei-area high schools in Taiwan has been criticized by some women’s associations. The video, titled The Eclipse of Reason, portrays an in-utero baby being ripped apart during an abortion. The video was produced by leading former US abortionist turned pro-life activist, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, as part of his many efforts to undo the damage of the abortion movement. The images left some girls with nightmares, which triggered the criticism. The video is produced and distributed by the Catholic Church.  In response to the public outcry, Fr. Louis Aldrich, SJ, […]
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NZ Euthanasia Champion Martin Given Light Sentence for Attempted Murder

WANGANUI, April 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lesley Martin, New Zealand’s most notorious euthanasia advocate, has been handed a 15-month sentence for attempted murder of her terminally ill mother. Martin, a leading advocate for legalizing euthanasia, wrote a book about her action, prompting police to re-open an investigation of the murder of her 69 year-old mother, Joy. Martin admitted in her book, To Die Like a Dog, to giving her mother an overdose of morphine and then smothering her with a pillow. Martin maintains that her mother asked to be killed.  The maximum sentence for attempted murder in New Zealand is […]
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Terri Schiavo had Five Teeth Removed

TAMPA, Florida, April 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The parents of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo, Bob and Mary Schindler, have filed Petition for Writ of Quo Warranto against Schiavo’s husband and guardian, Michael Schiavo. “Quo Warranto” is a legal term that questions “by what authority” someone acts—in this case, Schiavo’s parents question the authority that Michael Schiavo has as guardian over their daughter, and by what authority he denies them access to her. Last month, mysterious needle marks were found on Schiavo’s body. Michael Schiavo’s lawyer, George Felos, implicated Schiavo’s parents, her most recent visitors. Michael Schiavo immediately banned all visitors to […]
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Canadian Bishops Conference Encourages Participation in May 13 March for Life

OTTAWA, April 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the Canadian National March for Life a mere two weeks away, the Canadian Organization for Life and Family (COLF), an arm of the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops and the Knights of Columbus, has encouraged participation in the March.  The official March for Life page on LifeSite.net notes events surrounding the March commencing on the evening of May 12 with a Mass and Candlelight vigil and ending May 14, the day after the March with a pro-life youth conference.  Calling Canadians both to the March and pro-life action, the Bishops’ message says, “It […]
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Pope Prayer Intention for May Centred on “Marriage of a man and a woman”

VATICAN, April 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope John Paul II has asked Catholics throughout the world to join him in praying for the traditional family this month.  The Pope’s general prayer intention for the month of May is: “That the family, founded on the marriage of a man and a woman, may be recognized as the basic cell of human society.”  In related news, the Pope on Wednesday spoke of “an aggressive evil in the world whose inspiration is Satan.”  Reflecting on second part of Psalm 26, “The prayer of the persecuted innocent.” It is, he said, “a song of […]
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Catholic League Notes Results of Homosexual Hate Crime Law in Other Countries as Warning to Canada

OTTAWA, April 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL), which was one of the main opponents of homosexual hate crime Bill C-250, has warned of possible persecution due to the bill’s passage.  With the passage of Bill C-250, Canada has now embarked upon a course of criminalization of dissent, says the Catholic group. CCRL President Tom Langan commented: “We do not hate persons who may have homosexual inclinations or who engage in such behaviour.  Likewise, we do not hate persons who engage in adulterous relationships, or other illicit sex outside of marriage.  But we will continue to […]
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Owner of Large US ‘Curves’ Fitness Chain Attacked for Contributing to Pro-Life Cause

SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A successful Christian business owner has come under attack by feminist extremists for using his profits to support pro-life charities. Gary Heavin, the owner of a chain of extremely successful health and fitness centres for women, is a born-again Christian who gives 10% of his gross annual income to charities. Heavin is also the author of two books on fitness that take a Christian approach. His wife, Diana produces Christian music. Curves fitness centres cater particularly to middle-aged women who may be intimidated by other more youth-oriented fitness venues. Curves franchises have surpassed […]
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Ugandan Abstinence AIDS Prevention Program Equivalent to a Highly Effective Vaccine, Researchers Fin

April 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The African nation of Uganda, until recently suffering one of the worst cases of post-colonial political corruption and social misery, has surpassed all expectations in its AIDS program based on abstinence and social cohesion. Uganda has decreased its rate of AIDS by as much as 75% in some demographics, an unprecedented success in the story of African AIDS combat. Reiterating a study published by the British Medical Journal earlier this month, a group of Cambridge University researchers have attributed the success of the Ugandan program to a later age of first sexual activity and a […]
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Washington Cardinal Attempts Denial of Vatican Cardinal’s Statement on Denying Communion to Pro-Abor

ROME, April 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As recorded by a large number of the world’s media, the Vatican’s leading prelate on the Sacraments, Cardinal Francis Arinze, declared unequivocally last week that unambiguously pro-abortion politicians should be denied Holy Communion.  Arinze said such a politician “is not fit” to receive Communion.  “If they should not receive, then they should not be given,” he said. However, in an interview with the National Catholic Reporter (NCR), Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick attempted to deny Cardinal Arinze’s statements meant what he said and what everyone has understood they meant.  NCR’s John Allen asked Cardinal McCarrick, […]
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May CLC National News Reveals Why Reproductive Technologies Could Not be Passed

Toronto, April 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s National Pro-Life political organization, Campaign Life Coalition, reveals in its May newsletter 12 specific reasons why Canadians who valiantly opposed the Liberal governement’s stem cell bill for almost three years were in the end unable to stop it. CLC says the reasons were:  1. The lack of religious leadership;  2. Large pharmaceutical companies pushing for embryonic stem cell research;  3. A media that failed to report the truth about embryonic stem cell research;  4. A media that would not report the truth about the government’s claims about what C-6 (C-13) did and did […]
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Silent pro-lifers stood for real “choice”  https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/solenni200404290853.asp   Kerry to be Replaced as Democratic Nominee?  https://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20040428.shtml   U.S. Department of Justice Files First Criminal Complaint Under New Can-Spam Act https://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5201906.html?tag=nefd.lede   Federal Trade Commission Officials Surprisingly Oppose Legislation Against Computer Spyware Plague https://news.com.com/2100-1023_3-5202016.html?tag=nefd.top   Ted Turner, ‘Environmentalist’ Driller https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/4/29/152729.shtml   Humanism becomes one of the new gods of British Religious Education https://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/27/nre27.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/04/27/ixhome.html/news/2004/04/27/nre27.xml   Pro-Life US Congressman Santorum Bemoans Priests and Nuns Who “teach a culturally influenced American Catholicism”  https://www.washtimes.com/national/20040428-104911-5587r.htm   Democrats Very Worried About Kerry Performance https://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/19818.htm   Liberals claim Red Tories jumping ship https://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=68aafca2-7b53-4883-8dd7-b11fee5a1218   Top House Dem Says […]
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Judge Denies Request of Mayor to Dismiss Law Suit Against Him for Illegally “Marrying” Homosexuals

KINGSTON, NY, April 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York Supreme Court in Ulster County, rejected an attempt by New Paltz Mayor Jason West to dismiss a lawsuit against him for performing same-sex “marriages” contrary to New York State law. The lawsuit against Mayor West was filed by Robert (Bob) Hebel, a member of the New Paltz Board of Trustees. Mr. Hebel is represented by Mathew D. Staver, President and General Counsel of Liberty Counsel, and Rena Lindevaldsen, Senior Litigation Counsel for Liberty Counsel.  On February 26, 2004, Mayor West announced he would solemnize “marriages” of same-sex couples. On February […]
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Alberta Delays Judgement on Baby’s Rights Within the Womb

EDMONTON, April 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new bill that could affect the rights of children while still within the womb was put on hold Tuesday. Alberta Members of Legislative Assembly (MLA’s) deferred the decision on a private bill seeking to allow a child the right to sue her own mother for damages incurred while within the womb. Debate and voting on the bill will resume when the House reconvenes in August.  The father of a severely brain-damaged child wants the right for his two year-old daughter to sue her mother for damages resulting from a single-vehicle crash that resulted […]
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Canada OB/GYNs Propose Abortions in Schools via Morning After Pill

OTTAWA, April 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a pamphlet issued last month, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada advocates early abortions to be available to students in schools with the use of the morning after pill. The pamphlet entitled Contraception Consensus Guidelines, says that “Hormonal emergency contraception should be available without a prescription in pharmacies, family planning clinics, emergency rooms, walk-in clinics, and school health programs.”  See the pamphlet online at:  https://www.sogc.org/SOGCnet/sogc_docs/common/guide/pdfs/ps143_1_3.pdf See related LifeSite coverage:  VATICAN REPEATEDLY DENOUNCES MORNING AFTER PILL AS ABORTIVE www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/may/01051502.html
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Marriage Tax Break May Be Made Permanent https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0031842.cfm   U.S. journalist debunks myths about Vatican https://www.chnonline.org/current/newsstory1.html   ‘NYPD’ Producer Angry About Being Forced to Curb Frequent Sex Scenes, Nudity and Coarse Language on TV Program https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/187978p-162755c.html   $1,000 Haircut? Kerry Flies in Hairdresser for Touch-up before ‘Meet the Press’  https://www.drudgereport.com/rcig.htm   Liberals reject call for fixed election dates https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040428/NATS28-6/National/Idx   A Muslim Who Acted in Mel Gibson’s “Passion”  https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=52662
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Massachusetts Gay Marriage Author Accused of Conflict of Ethics Violation

BOSTON, April 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Margaret Marshall, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court delivered a keynote speech to the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association in 1999. She is now being accused of an ethics violation since she was the author of the Massachusetts decision that allowed homosexual “marriage.” In the speech Marshall praised the growth of “gay friendly” legislation in international jurisprudence. Brian Camenker, president of the Parents Rights Coalition and a leader of the Article 8 Alliance, accused Marshall of violating the state’s Code of Judicial Conduct. “Being at a fund-raiser is something you’re not […]
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New Phoenix Bishop Orders Priests to Disassociate from Gay Document

PHOENIX, April 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, the newly appointed leader of the Phoenix Catholic diocese, has ordered nine priests and one religious brother to remove their names from a document written and promulgated by an activist organization for homosexual clergy, “No Longer Silent: Clergy for Justice.” The “Phoenix Declaration” states “Homosexuality is not a sickness, not a choice, and not a sin. We affirm that GLBT persons are distinctive, holy, and precious gifts to all who struggle to become the family of God.”  The bishop has ordered the priests and brother to remove their names “under […]
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Washington’s Cardinal Equivocates on Communion for Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians

ROME, April 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Church’s highest authority on matters pertaining to its sacraments stated recently that Catholic politicians who support abortion may not receive the Eucharist when they attend Mass. At a press conference April 23, Francis, Cardinal Arinze, the prefect for the congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of Sacraments said that a politician such as John Kerry “is not fit” to receive communion…If they should not receive, then they should not be given.” In the Catholic Church, it is not possible to receive communion unless it is given by a priest or person delegated […]
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Pro-Life Medical Student at University of Manitoba Reinstated after More than a Year of Trials

WINNIPEG, April 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A medical student in his last year at the University of Manitoba Medical School who was threatened for years with failure for his unwillingness to partake in any abortion-related activity has finally been reinstated in good standing. The Christian student, who wishes to remain unnamed, has for years lost successive appeals on a failing grade in an Obstetrics and Gynecology portion of his program for his refusal to perform or refer for any abortive procedure. Prior to this reversal, three separate appeals to the Medical School beginning in October last year all failed to […]
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Liberal Government Hypocritical on Same-sex Parenting

OTTAWA, April 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The media recently reported that the Justice Department has completed a summary of studies that allegedly indicate that there are no differences between children of heterosexual and homosexual parents.  This was in response to the Liberal government’s recent support of same-sex marriage in the courts.  REAL Women Canada points out that by taking this position the Liberal government contradicts the position it took only one year ago at the Ontario Court of Appeal when it argued against the constitutionality of same-sex marriages.  To corroborate its arguments against same-sex marriages in the Ontario appeal case, […]
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Canadian Parliament Passes Homosexual Hate Crime Bill Threatening Freedom of Speech

OTTAWA, April 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This afternoon the Canadian Senate voted 59-11 for final passage of homosexual hate crime Bill C-250 which places the undefined term “sexual orientation” into Canada’s already contentious hate crime legislation. The vote was recorded and a list of those who voted for and against the bill will be available on Hansard. The new provision in the criminal code could readily open up prosecution of individuals and groups who express views considered by courts to be “publicly inciting hatred” In order to be found guilty of an indictable offence under the code, which carries a […]
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Senate Closure Debate on Svend Robinson’s Bill C-250 on Tuesday April 27, 2004 – Part 2

Senator Anne Cools continues… I am reading from the Debates at page 895. I continued: I was on my feet, ready to speak to Senator Murray’s motion, which is an important motion and to which many of us want to speak, and you chose, Your Honour, chose to hear Senator Joyal first. It was your duty to ask, “Are there any honourable senators wanting to speak to that motion?” You did not do that. That is the practice and the rule of this place. The Speaker of the Senate has a duty when any motion is put to look around […]
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Cardinal Not ‘Comfortable’ Denying Kerry Communion https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/4/27/174629.shtml   John Kerry’s Catholic problem https://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20040426.shtml   Abortion trials underway ignored by media, USCCB official https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=1038   Rolling Back Government: Lessons from New Zealand We made it possible for privately owned schools to be funded in exactly the same way as publicly owned schools, giving parents the ability to spend their education dollars wherever they chose. Again, everybody predicted that there would be a major exodus of students from the public to the private schools, because the private schools showed an academic advantage of 14 to 15 percent. It didn’t happen, however, because […]
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Sisters of Life Receive Official Recognition as a Religious Order from Vatican

NEW YORK, April 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The success of New York’s Sisters of Life, a Catholic community of religious sisters founded June 1, 1991 by the late John Cardinal O’Connor, has been recognized and approved by the Vatican. The community has received official approbation as a religious order, a step forward that, if it comes at all, normally comes only after many decades of steady work. The speed of this move shows the high priority of the life issues in Rome. In July 2003, Edward Cardinal Egan, current archbishop of New York, submitted to the Holy See’s Congregation for […]
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Cost Cutting Leads to Abortion Clinics Failing to Screen Women for Risk Factors for Abortions

SPRINGFIELD, IL, April 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A law review article published in the latest issue of The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy concludes that the number of women suffering abortion-related injuries can be dramatically reduced through better pre-abortion screening. The study includes an analysis of 63 medical studies identifying predictive risk factors for negative psychological reactions to abortion.  According to the review’s author, biomedical ethicist Dr. David Reardon, most abortion clinics fail to screen for even the best known risk factors. He prefaces his explanation for this failure with a citation to a New York Times article […]
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Department of Justice Surrenders Demand for Partial-birth Abortion Medical Records

NEW YORK, April 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Department of Justice has rescinded its request for redacted medical files from New York-Presbyterian hospital. The files were subpoenaed last November by the Department of Justice when the constitutionality of the partial-birth abortion ban was challenged by the National Abortion Federation and seven Planned Parenthood abortionists. The files were necessary for the Justice Department’s defence of the ban, because the lawsuit challenging the ban argues that partial-birth abortions are sometimes necessary for the health of the mother. The only proof of this assertion, other than from expert testimony, lies in the […]
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Washington Pro-Abortion March Characterized by Naked Anti-Christian Bigotry

April 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – First-hand accounts are being published online of the behavior of the marchers in Washington’s “March for Women’s Lives” that show the undisguised hatred of Christians that characterizes such events. Websites and personal weblogs are carrying accounts of abuse and vitriol hurled at Christian counter demonstrators who attended the march to witness the value of life. The Free Republic website carries a first hand account that highlights a priest who prayed for the conversion of the marchers as they marched past. “Father Reynolds stood for hours this afternoon on Pennsylvania Avenue…Almost nonstop, he made the sign […]
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Bush Pulls USAID Funds for “Reproductive Rights” Conference

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The White House has announced a decision to zero-fund the upcoming reproductive rights and global heath “Youth and Health: Generation on the Edge” conference. The conference, said by the Washington Times to promote a liberal agenda, will feature several pro-abortion groups, as well as MoveOn.org, the anti-Bush campaign that is spending millions to oust U.S. President George W. Bush.  A senior government official told the Times Tuesday that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is set to cancel its support of the conference. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which claimed […]
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Swiss MP Calls on European Countries to Decriminalize Euthanasia

STRASBOURG, April 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Swiss Parliamentarian Dick Marty called on European countries to study and eventually decriminalize euthanasia.  In a report presented today to the Council of Europe, Marty claimed that although only two European countries, the Netherlands and Belgium, officially permit euthanasia, studies have shown that the practice is rampant in several other European countries with authorities purposely ignoring the situation.  Similar to tactics used to have abortion decriminalized, Marty said that such rampant euthanasia must be controlled by decriminalizing it and having it regulated.  He suggests falsely that the legalization of the practice in the Netherlands […]
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Being nearly fatally killed by car accident strengthened Fr. Groeschel’s faith https://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/186836p-161848c.html   Left-Wing CNN allowed but Conservative Fox Barred from Canada https://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2004/04/26/436740.html   Kerry Caught in Lie over Vietnam Medals https://abcnews.go.com/sections/Politics/Investigation/kerry_vietnam_medals_040425.html   Bork criticizes court’s interpretation of Constitution in gay marriage debate https://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct—bork-gaymarriage0426apr25,0,1056852.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire   New Jersey Governor James McGreevey still claims to be Catholic despite flouting Church teaching on abortion, embryonic stem cell research and homosexual unions https://www.wnbc.com/news/3103988/detail.html   Over 3 years Canada accepted 2,500 refugees claiming discrimination due to their homosexuality most from countries with thriving homosexual communities https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040423.wrefugee24/BNStory/Front/  Toronto School Board Debates Changing name of ‘Christmas’ Break […]
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Australian Feds Push to Block Homosexual “Marriages” Performed Overseas

MELBOURNE, April 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As same-sex “marriages” become more of a reality for Canada and the U.S., Australian officials are planning a blockade—to disallow “marriages” of same-sex couples carried out on foreign soil from being recognized in Australia. The move is meant to make it clear that homosexual “marriage” is unwelcome by Australian officials.  The government plans to explicitly define marriage in law as the union of one man and one woman, until now the normal definition was assumed.  The Cabinet plans to implement the measure without any invitation for official consultation before the measure is passed.  Damien […]
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Massachusetts Officials Ordered to Perform Homosexual “Marriages” or Quit

BOSTON, April 26, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In anticipation of Massachusetts May 17 date for the legalization of same-sex “marriage,” the Governor’s top legal counsel has told the state’s justices of the peace that, if they are unwilling to solemnize same-sex unions, they should resign.  Even though Republican Gov. Mitt Romney opposes the measure, Daniel Winslow told justices gathered in Boxboro, Mass., Romney’s office has mandated that the state’s justices prepare themselves to carry out the same-sex services.  “Gov. Romney understands and respects that people have very strong personal views both for or against same-gender marriage,” Winslow said. “But on this […]
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German MP’s Allow Open Sexual Activity in Military Barracks, both “Gay” and “Straight”

BERLIN, April 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – German Social Democrats have decreed that, in spite of considerations of discipline and order in the military, soldiers in “relationships” with each other will be allowed to have sex in barracks, whether they are homosexual or heterosexual, single or married. MP’s claimed that the change was necessary to reflect, “social normality.”  MP’s are also claiming that the new rules allowing more sexual activity in the barracks will reduce the number of sexual abuses on women in the service of which 83 claims were made last year.  Historically in military life it is regarded as […]
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Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada Awards Lifetime Achievement to Morgentaler

OTTAWA, April 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood has awarded a “lifetime achievement” award to Canada’s notorious abortionist, Henry Morgentaler. Planned Parenthood often asserts it is merely a benevolent health information organization. This subterfuge is often employed when the organization sends its materials and speakers to schools and youth organizations such as the Girl Scouts. Morgentaler accepted his award Sunday at the Human Rights Monument on Elgin Street as part of a series of pro-abortion events across the country. Despite disclaimers to the contrary, the fact that PPFC is a branch of the largest and most aggressive abortion-providing lobby group […]
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Students To Take Pro-Life Message Into Public Schools With Legal Backing April 27

ANN ARBOR, MI, April 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Marking the second annual “National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day,” thousands of students across the country are preparing to bring the pro-life message to America’s public schools on Tuesday.  In addition to the pro-life messages on their clothing, students will also bring the legal backing of the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  The Law Center has pledged to defend the free speech rights of these pro-life students from any attempt by school officials to force them to remove their t-shirts.  According to Richard Thompson, […]
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Mainstream Christian Religions Backed 300,000 Strong Pro-Abortion March

WASHINGTON, April 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  While pro-abortion organizers claimed some 1.1 million marchers, police and media estimates put the marchers at last weekend’s pro-abortion march at somewhere between 300 and 500 thousand.  More than the numbers however, some observers were saddened by the support of mainline Christian church denominations (or at least their leaders) for the anti-life march.  The Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), United Methodist Board of Church and Society and the United Methodist Women’s Division were all listed as endorsers of the march.  The march’s organizers included the American Civil Liberties Union, Feminist Majority, NARAL Pro-Choice America […]
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Kerry in next Photo Op at Catholic Expense Receives Communion after Vatican Says No

BOSTON, April 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The day after Cardinal Francis Arinze, the Vatican’s leading prelate dealing with the Sacraments, said pro-abortion politicians should be refused Communion, Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry received Communion at a Catholic Church near his home.  The elaborate description of Senator Kerry’s participation in the Mass at the Paulist Center indicates that at least the Associated Press was on hand to record the event.  The Paulist Center is a controversial parish known for questionable catering to practicing gays and lesbians.  The church refused to read a letter on homosexuality last November which was requested to […]
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Adult Stem Cells Proven to Benefit Heart Patients

TORONTO, April 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A team of American and Argentinian researchers has proven that adult stem cells can significantly improve damaged heart tissue. In findings presented April 25, to the American Association for Thoracic Surgery in Toronto it was shown that the patients’ own stem cells injected into the damaged areas dramatically improved heart function after surgery.  Twenty patients with weak hearts participated in the experiment. Ten patients had their own stem cells injected into the damaged areas of their heart during surgery and ten had surgery alone. The results were conclusive. The stem cell patients, after six […]
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Gibson pays surprise visit to Little Sisters of the Poor nursing home https://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20040423.htm#head9   Liberals told to get ready for June 14 election https://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=4c55a9be-eef1-4c63-a5ef-ab963f5699d5   Louisiana May Ban ‘Low-Rider’ Jeans https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,117983,00.html
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Toronto Catholic University Alumni Magazine Boasts of Alumnus’ Homosexual “Marriage”

TORONTO, April 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – St. Michael’s University, the Catholic College affiliated with the University of Toronto, has boasted of a homosexual “marriage” of two of its alumnae.  The recently released Spring 2004 edition of the St. Michael’s alumni newsletter, Double Blue, notes the homosexual marriage in its Info Update Bravo section which publishes information about alumni/ae concerning promotions, honours, degrees, marriages, births etc.  The note in question reads: “Janet L. Graham ‘83 and Rita Mascherin ‘83 were married at Toronto City Hall 3 September ‘03; they continue to live in Toronto, where Janet is a writer and Rita […]
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European Parliament Human Rights Report Hijacked by Pro-Abortion Agenda

BRUSSELS, April 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A so-called human rights report adopted yesterday by the European Parliament in a vote of 189 votes to 111 (with 29 abstentions) pushes abortion as a fundamental human right.  Drafted by pro-abortion MEP Veronique De Keyser, the report was heavily influenced by pro-abortion organizations such as Marie Stopes International, the UN Population Fund and the German Foundation for World Population   Europe’s largest pro-life group, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), has condemned the report.  Fiorella Sultana De Maria, SPUC spokeswoman, stated: “The adoption of the De Keyser report serves as […]
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John Kerry Joins Pro-Abortion Rights Rally Before Pro-Abortion “March for Women’s Lives”

WASHINGTON, DC, April 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, was in Washington, D.C., today, joining with pro-abortion activists in town for the so-called “March for Women’s Lives.” According to the Associated Press, tens of thousands of abortion supporters in town for the March attended the rally. Kerry took aim at U.S. President George W. Bush’s pro-life stance, particularly with respect to the nomination of pro-life Supreme Court Judges. Kerry warned that upcoming appointments to the Supreme Court, if filled by President Bush, would jeopardize a woman’s access to abortion. “If you need any motivation let […]
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Vatican Cardinal Arinze Says Pro-Abortion Politicians Must be Denied Holy Communion

VATICAN, April 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today at a press conference in the Holy See Press Office, Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of Sacraments, presented a new Vatican document aimed at stemming abuses connected to the reception of Holy Communion entitled “Redemptionis Sacramentum.” During the press conference Cardinal Arinze was asked about U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry, a Catholic, who causes scandal by receiving Communion despite his pro-abortion stand. Asked if Kerry should be refused Communion, Arinze responded, “The norm of the church is clear.  The Catholic Church exists in the […]
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Planned Parenthood Opens Fredericton, New Brunswick Clinic

FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, April 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood has opened a new “reproductive and sexual health clinic” in Fredericton. Beth Paynter, Planned Parenthood executive director, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that “We really are providing a service for women who are just not comfortable perhaps with having a male physician or with discussing these very intimate things with the family doctor they may have had, and their parents may have, and it’s just not a comfortable situation for them. Or perhaps their family doctor doesn’t prescribe birth control,” she said. Paynter said she has converted the Planned Parenthood […]
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1,100 Excess Brain Damaged Babies are Born Yearly in US Due to Previous Abortions

April 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Recently, Australian Justice Michael Grove ruled that a Sydney girl, Kristy Bruce, was born with brain damage as a result of her mother’s uterine rupture—an apparent complication from a previous abortion. As a result, the girl’s family has lost their bid to sue the mother’s obstetrician for negligence. Kristy, now 15, was born at least 2 1/2 weeks overdue and has cerebral palsy.  Most babies with cerebral palsy due to their mother’s prior induced abortions are not overdue but are born prematurely, less than 37 weeks gestation, according to Brent Rooney of the Reduce Preterm […]
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Pro-Life Groups Sue after Permit to Protest Abortion March Revoked

WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Center for Law and Justice filed a suit Tuesday against the Secretary of the Interior and the National Park Service after the government revoked a permit issued to pro-life organizations to display pro-life signs in Washington, D.C. this upcoming weekend – to counter the pro-abortion message expected to be delivered at the upcoming March for Freedom of Choice. “The National Park Service maintains the sidewalks along the National Mall but it does not own them, and it cannot, barring exceptional circumstances, deny to citizens the right to use them for the […]
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Planned Parenthood’s Triumph: UN Reports 61% of Planet’s Reproductive Age Women Using Contraception

NEW YORK, April 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ (DESA) Population Division, has issued a report on April 20 showing the statistics around the world for women’s use of artificial methods of contraception among those aged 15-49 “who are married or in union.” The United Nations has been working for decades, with a core group of other organizations to promote or coerce a massive campaign of contraception, sterilization and abortion; the report gives a concrete appraisal of their success. In a press release the DESA boasts that 90% of women using contraception are […]
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Judge Casey Fines Hospital for Contempt of Court for Not Furnishing Medical Records

NEW YORK, April 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. District Judge Richard C. Casey fined New York-Presbyterian Hospital for contempt of court late Tuesday for failing to provide medical charts of women who had procured partial-birth abortions. The medical files, necessary for the continuation of the partial-birth abortion ban challenge, were subpoenaed by the Department of Justice earlier this year, and subsequently challenged by the hospital. In March, Judge Casey ordered the hospital to release the records. The refusal of the hospital is another road-block being thrown in the way of the DOJ’s efforts to prove the procedure is never medically […]
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National Silent No More Awareness Event Will Follow May 13 Ottawa March For Life

OTTAWA, April 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Silent No More awareness campaign is an effort dedicated to raise awareness about the physical, emotional, and spiritual pain women experience after abortion. They want women who are silently suffering to know help is available. Silent No More is planning to meet on the steps of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 13,2004 at 3:00 p.m after the March. Silent No More organizers are asking women who regret their abortion and who feel it is time to speak the truth about the aftermath of abortion to join them. They will meet other […]
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Responses to Drop in Canada’s Birth Rate Ignore Major Cause

OTTAWA, April 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadians are reacting to the Statistics Canada report of April 19, 2004, indicating the country has developed dangerously low birth and fertility rates.  The fertility rate is now 25 % under the minimum replacement level.  However, discussion seems to be ignoring a major element that is contributing to this crisis. Statistics Canada on March 31, 2004 released three-year-old statistics on the number of babies killed by abortion in Canada. 106,418 babies were killed in their mothers’ wombs in 2001 while there were 333,744 births during the same year. In other words, one quarter of […]
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Commentary on the address by Pope John Paul II to the participants in the International Congress on

ROME, April 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition’s Alex Schadenberg issued a special commentary yesterday on Pope John Paul’s recent address to the International Congress on “Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State”. Schadenberg said, “I feel the need to make a commentary on Pope John Paul II’s address to the international congress. Many people who were not present at the congress, have attempted to distort the papal address, by either misinterpreting the address or by attacking the very nature of the papal address.”“Pope John Paul II established two very important precedents by making this address on March 20,” […]
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Report from the International Congress: “Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific

ROME, April 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – From March 17 to 20, the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations and the Pontifical Academy for Life hosted the International Congress on “Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas” in Rome at the Augustinianum University. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition’s Alex Schadenberg was in attendance, and authored a special report released on April 20.  Dr. Gian Luigi Gigli, President of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, in a news conference on the question of nutrition and hydration, said that patients in a persistent vegetative state “should not be treated as […]
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Oregon Judge Orders Halt to Issuing of Same-Sex “Marriage” Licences in Multnomah County

PORTLAND, April 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A state judge ruled that Oregon’s statute declaring marriage between one man and one woman is in accord with the state constitution and that Multnomah County has to stop issuing marriage licences to same-sex couples.  Multnomah county, Oregon’s most populous, is the only district where same-sex couples were still being issued marriage licences. Jordan Lorence, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund said that today’s order in Oregon by Judge Frank Bearden was good but mixed news. “We’re happy with the judge’s ruling on the marriage statute, though we’re not surprised by his other […]
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Julia Black Still “Pro-Choice” Despite Grim Reality of Abortion Shown in “My Foetus”

LONDON, April 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Around 1.5 million UK viewers tuned in to watch the Channel 4 documentary My Foetus at 11pm Tuesday night. According to the UK’s Telegraph, the actual abortion footage only lasted 90 seconds. The four-week pregnant woman remained conscious during the manual vacuum abortion. The Telegraph reporter described the sound as if it were a “muffled cough” as the instrument was inserted. As the 4-week-old baby was killed and sucked out, the woman said “oh dear.”  In her own confusing essay account, Why I Had To Lift Abortion Veil Of Secrecy, Julia Black describes her […]
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Wisconsin Governor Doyle Vetoes Conscience Legislation for Heath Care Workers and Facilities

MADISON, April 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, at the State Capitol Wednesday, vetoed Assembly Bill 67, a bill that would have protected medical professionals and facilities from being forced to participate in abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, the deliberate destruction of human embryos for research purposes and the use of fetal tissue from aborted babies.  Susan Armacost, Legislative Director of Wisconsin Right to Life said, “While we are not surprised that the Governor will veto AB 67 given his ties to the radical pro-abortion lobby, it should be shocking to all Wisconsin residents that he would want to […]
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Democrats wooing dumbed down Catholics They’re doing it with the help, directly or indirectly, of most of the Catholic hierarchy. Let me explain. There are 71 pro abortion ‘Catholics’ legislators in U.S. Congress and 415 pro abortion ‘Catholic’ state legislators. These legislators, week after week, continue to receive the Eucharist (sacrilegiously) in many (not all) dioceses nationwide. Except for two courageous bishops, Archbishop Burke and Bishop Bruskewitz, no other bishops have placed canonical sanctions against these pro abortion legislators. This send the clear message those Catholics in the pews that it’s perfectly alright to vote for abortion and still be […]
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UN Human Rights Commission Proceedings Final Report: Violence Against Women Resolution

GENEVA, April 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Violence Against Women resolution was voted on Tuesday morning and despite strong statements made by the United States and Costa Rica and pro-life groups’ best lobbying efforts, the motion to delete the word “services” from paragraph 7 was defeated 50-2 with one abstention.  In explanations of their votes, Egypt and Mexico stated that their countries would never be able to support language that would support abortion and that the term “health care services” was agreed language from the Beijing Platform for Action and that it was a term that referred to comprehensive basic […]
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Over 2000 Attended National Liberty Day Rally to Oppose Bill C-250

OTTAWA, April 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Saturday’s National Liberty Day Rally on Parliament Hill was well attended with estimates of attendance at between 2,000 and 2,500. The cool Canadian spring weather may have played a part in keeping more would-be attendants from coming. The music, led by David MacDonald, was inspiring and encouraged heartfelt participation. MacDonald led the group in his well-received Liberty Day theme song, “Freedom of Speech.” Speeches were presented by Free Dominion’s John Pacheco. Pacheco said, “It is no surprise to anyone here, of course, that the liberal media and the more vocal supporters of Bill C-250 […]
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UN Human Rights Commission Proceedings: Clarification on Special Rapporteur Paul Hunt’s Resolution

GENEVA, April 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday, LifeSiteNews.com reported on the acceptance of Paul Hunt’s resolution on the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health. We failed to clarify a change that had been made regarding this report before its final vote of approval occurred Monday.  While Hunt’s report was ultimately accepted as written, a very important change to the UN’s formal acknowledgement had been amended. Although pro-life groups had lobbied unsuccessfully to have his report completely removed, they did score a big success in downgrading the UN reference to […]
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Commentary on the address by Pope John Paul II to the participants in the International Congress on

By Alex Schadenberg Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Participant – International Congress on “Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State” As a participant to the International Congress (March 17 – 20, 2004) on “Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State” I feel the need to make a commentary on Pope John Paul II’s address on to the international congress. Many people who were not present at the congress, have attempted to distort the papal address, by either misinterpreting the address or by attacking the very nature of the papal address. Pope John Paul II established two very important precedents by making this address […]
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Dobson Emphatically Endorses Pro-Family Republican in Penn. Senate Primary https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/afa/192004a.asp   FTC to Require Label on Porn ‘Spam’  https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0031685.cfm   Teachers Angry Over National Education Association Support for Abortion March https://www.washtimes.com/national/20040419-124027-8621r.htm   World Health Organization – A politicized and irrelevant global agency   https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/bate200404190820.asp   New York Cardinal Egan Unsure When Life Begins?  https://anti-abomination.com/egancathproabort.htm   The Next Great Catholic Scandal https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=115&ncid=742&e=6&u=/uclicktext/20040413/cm_ucmg/thenextgreatcatholicscandal   Blair Gives Gay Anglican Priest Top Job https://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,1194379,00.html [SJ April 18]  Superrich stand to profit from Kerry https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38077   Infanticide promoter: Bush morally stunted   https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38086
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UN Commission on Human Rights: Violence Against Women Resolution

GENEVA, April 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The last item Monday was the introduction of the Violence Against Women resolution by the Canadian delegation. The Canadians introduced the resolution on behalf of 40 co-sponsors. The main problem surrounding this resolution centers on paragraph 7 which states:  “…Violence against women has an impact on their physical and mental health, including their reproductive and sexual health and, in this regard, encourages States to ensure that women have access to comprehensive and accessible health care services and programs and to health care providers who are knowledgeable and trained to recognize signs of violence against […]
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UN Human Rights Commission Proceedings Update: Resolution on Special Rapporteur Paul Hunt’s Report

GENEVA, April 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Human Rights Commission convention in Geneva is wrapping up, with this being the final week. This week will see voting on more than 200 resolutions that have been tabled over the last several weeks.  In a press release today, the UN revealed the results of a vote taken on whether Paul Hunt’s report, On the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health, would be accepted. The highly criticized report called for the promotion of “reproductive rights” for women – a UN euphemism […]
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Russians in Orthodox Church Laud Passion https://context.themoscowtimes.com/index.php?aid=132169   Many U.S. Catholic Hospitals Defer to U.S.C.C.B. “ERD” Guidelines, Call Tube-Feeding an Optional “Treatment,” not a Necessity for Life https://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/8443879.htm   White House Backs Clinton Order on ‘Sexual Orientation’   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/5515/CFI/family/index.htm   Denver Archbishop Chaput Chastises Pro-Abortion Politicians https://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2084561,00.html   Scientists Debunk Pentagon “Exaggerated Report” of Global Climate Change https://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=283cb04f-d325-499f-868f-e74c3e3389f7   Do Abortion, Religious Apathy, Sexual Perversion Mark Beginning of the End for America?  https://www.afajournal.org/2004/april/404same-sexmarriage.asp   Kerry and Cardinal McCarrick Hold Private Meeting Thursday https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=28963&popup=soundoffconf&CFID=1556701&CFTOKEN=21195534 https://www.indystar.com/articles/7/138476-1227-010.html   Proponents of Traditional Marriage Disagree with Homosexual’s Claim that U.S. Tax Code Discriminates against Them […]
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Medical Experts Testify Partial-Birth Abortion Never Medically Necessary

NEW YORK, April 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Center for Law and Justice, which specializes in constitutional law and pro-life litigation, said today the Department of Justice, which is defending the national ban on partial-birth abortion in three trials nationwide, presented sound and convincing testimony this week in New York concluding that partial-birth abortion is never medically necessary, the procedure itself is unsafe, and that the partially-born child experiences pain during the life-ending procedure. “The evidence presented by the Department of Justice produces a clear picture of a procedure that takes the life of a partially-born child in a […]
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Woman Sues Ohio Abortion Mill Over RU-486 Abortion

CUYAHOGA FALLS, April 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Cuyahoga Falls woman claims in a lawsuit that an RU-486 chemical abortion has left her unable to conceive.  Dana Powell, 30, filed her lawsuit in Summit County Common Pleas Court against the Akron Women’s Center for Choice, abortionist Dr. Raymond Robinson and nurse Mike Finke.  In her lawsuit, Powell states she began suffering cramping and bleeding during an otherwise normal pregnancy. In October 2002, despite the clinic’s assurance that it was a normal pregnancy, Powell opted to abort her child. She opted for the abortion drug, RU-486, and was also instructed to […]
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Planned Parenthood Recruits Numerous Hollywood Celebrities to Promote Pro-Abortion “March for Women’

WASHINGTON, DC, April 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – NOW, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Black Women’s Health Imperative, the Feminist Majority, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America are enlisting the support of Hollywood celebrities to hopefully boost attendance at their April 25 “March for Women’s Lives.” A press release on the Planned Parenthood web-site revealed that supporters expected to attend include such figures as Helen Hunt, LisaGay Hamilton, Bradley Whitford and Whoopi Goldberg. The large list of actor-supporters of abortion is not surprising to pro-life leaders. The “Hollywood” establishment, […]
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The Passion worldwide gross receipts now up to $518.5 million https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/feb/040225a.html   Denver Archbishop Chaput Says Right to Life Should Come First in Voting Now we have Catholic senators who take pride in arguing for legislation that threatens and destroys life – and who then also take Communion. Catholic lawmakers who do not vigorously seek to protect human dignity and the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death are not serving democracy. They are betraying it. The right to life comes first. It precedes and undergirds every other social issue or group of issues. Candidates who claim to […]
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Minnesota Health Department Drops Abortion-Breast Cancer Warning from Web-Site

ST. PAUL, April 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Minnesota Health Department has decided to eliminate information from its web-site warning about a link between abortion and increased breast cancer risk. The Health Department, under Minnesota disclosure laws, must post information about possible dangers of abortion.  The decision to change the information was prompted by the publication of seemingly contrary evidence claiming there is no proven link between abortion and breast cancer. One study, appearing in the March edition of the British journal, the Lancet, claimed “What we can truly rule out is an increased risk (of breast cancer),” according to […]
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Jury Rules Texas Doctor Only “10% Negligent” for Performing Abortion on Minor Without Parental Conse

HOUSTON, April 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A jury returned a mixed verdict Wednesday in the case of Cherise Hughes, who procured an abortion from a Texas abortionist while still underage, using fake identification. After two hours of deliberation, the jury concluded that the abortionist was negligent—but only to a 10 percent degree. The jury held Hughes responsible for the remaining 90 percent, for faking the identification in order to procure the abortion.  The abortionist committed the abortion on an underage girl, without notifying her parents, on the faith that the 17 year-old was telling the truth about her age. A […]
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“Vote Christian” During European Vote, Polish Bishops Say “The presence within this important assembly of Christians, Catholics, people who stand for high moral values, is even more important today, as strong trends aimed at wiping Christian values out of the lives of European people appear,” Polish bishops said in their appeal.  https://www.eubusiness.com/afp/040414175512.rxe4qaow   Report: Gibson Wants to Bring Unedited ‘Passion’ to TV https://sg.news.yahoo.com/040414/3/3jhfz.html   Priest to lawmakers:Don’t emulate JFK https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38035   Harper must move left, reject homophobia,etc., instructs Montreal Gazette writer “The Harper crowd is not renowned for its inclusiveness, and the early signs of outreach to the other leadership […]
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Thames Valley School Board Trustees Approve “Gay” Program for Schools

LONDON, Ontario, April 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The trustees of the Thames Valley (Public) School Board have approved a measure that will bring in “gay” programming for students. The measure went ahead despite opposition from hundreds of pro-family advocates and students who came out to protest the idea on previous occasions.  The move is being touted as an expansion of its “safe schools” policy, meant to foster a more “gay-friendly” environment at district schools. The London Free Press account said the measure will “put same-sex books in libraries, and have homophobia discussed in plays.”  A London Free Press article claimed […]
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Uruguay Senate to Vote on Legalizing Abortion

MONTEVIDEO, April 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Uruguayan Senate is set to vote Wednesday on a measure that could legalize abortion. If passed, the new legislation would be the first in existence in Latin America.  Analysts say the bill, which was narrowly approved by the House, is likely to pass the Senate.  Even if the measure is passed, however, Uruguay President Jorge Batlle has said that he will not sign the bill into law.  The new law would authorize abortions in the first trimester for women suffering the sweeping stipulations that the abortions can only be committed for financial, social […]
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Geneva UN Human Rights Commission Update

GENEVA, April 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Human Rights Commission convention in Geneva continues this week, with pro-family groups awaiting the results of votes on a number of key issues.  Although Brazil dropped its resolution to introduce “sexual orientation” as an inalienable right protected by the U.N. charter, there is still the possibility that a delegation from another country, perhaps Sweden, will re-introduce this proposition later in the proceedings. Pro-life representatives at the convention credit the outpouring of opposition to Brazil’s resolution as the reason for its earlier demise.  Also, pro-life groups at the convention are working tirelessly to exclude […]
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Australian Court Authorizes Sex-Change for 13 Year-Old Girl

SYDNEY, April 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Australian Family Court ruled Tuesday in favor of a 13 year-old girl who wants to become a boy. The ruling allows the girl to begin hormonal treatments to suppress feminization in preparation for full sex-change operations and male hormone treatments to induce masculinization in the future. A psychiatrist and expert witness in the trial said, “[Alex] is a bright, engaging, biologically normal 12-year-old girl who has a strong, persistent, longstanding belief and desire to live life as a male . . . She has repeatedly stated her desire to be a boy and […]
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“Catholics” for a Free Choice to Protest Vatican “Fundamentalism”

WASHINGTON, April 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A march is planned for April 24-25 by the pro-abortion, anti-Catholic, “Catholics” for a Free Choice organization, to protest Vatican “Fundamentalism.” A statement on the CFFC web-site says, “Speak out against the Vatican and Bush administration’s worldwide efforts to limit access to family planning, safe abortion, condoms to prevent the transmission of HIV, sexuality education, and emergency contraception.”  The march is inspired by the CFFC contention that “Catholics are pro-choice.” The CFFC argues that “Conservative Catholics want all Americans to believe that you can’t be Catholic and prochoice, but the majority of Catholics ARE […]
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Infant Orphans in NY Catholic Home Used as “Guinea Pigs” in Dangerous Drug Experiments

NEW YORK, April 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Up to a hundred children infected with HIV, some as young as three months, were used as “guinea pigs” for experimental research by pharmaceutical companies anxious to test dangerous drugs on human subjects. The children were in the care of a charitable home for HIV infected orphans, Incarnation Children’s Center run by the Catholic Archdiocese of New York and the New York Administration for Children’s Services. The Center was the location of at least 36 experiments since 1995, testing “safety,”“tolerance” and “toxicity” of drugs for a variety of illnesses related to HIV infection, […]
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Cardinal McCarrick: Kerry taking Communion “An Issue”  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/  Traditional Values Coalition Chairman says NEWSDAY Columnist Jimmy Breslin is “Struggling to Defend a Quotation from Me that He Knows I never said.”  https://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1572 China Warns Health Officials: No Cover-Up of AIDS Reality https://www.unwire.org/News/328_426_22702.asp Student Challenges Radically Liberal Ideologies of Berkeley Professors https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/122004e.asp Bible Says Homosexuality is OK, Episcopalian Argues https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/122004h.asp Kevorkian Interview: Legalize Death Penalty in MI for a Source of Organ Donors https://www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/041204/opi_20040412027.shtml Anti-Depressant Drug Studies in Children: “Only One of Nine Showed a Statistical Advantage for Drug over Placebo”  https://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/328/7444/879 U.S. has 20,000 More “Public Relations Experts” Doctoring the […]
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Moviegoers Favour Conservative Movies with Moral Values, Five-Year Study Shows

CAMARILLO, CA, April 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  A recent five-year study of the top movies released by Hollywood reveals that moviegoers prefer conservative movies with positive moral values rather than movies that push a left-wing agenda.  “Movies that support capitalist ideals, traditional moral values, and patriotism do much better at the box office than movies promoting socialism, communism, radical feminism, left-wing political correctness, and atheism,” said Dr. Ted Baehr, publisher of MOVIEGUIDE®: A Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment and chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission, a Christian advocacy group in Hollywood that authored the study.  For example, […]
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Fertility Doctor Seeks Permission to Create a Designer Baby for use as a Tissue Farm

LONDON, April 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life activists, philosophers and Church leaders have warned for years that the in vitro fertilization industry will lead to the creation of people as property and for use in experiments. Now the creation of designer babies is being taken a step forward. A UK fertility doctor is hoping to use eugenic embryo-screening techniques to create a baby to be used as a tissue farm. Mohammed Taranissi, Director of the Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre in London, wants to create a tissue-match donor for a child, Joshua Fletcher, who has a rare blood disorder, called […]
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Kerry Can’t Dodge Catholic Issue

NEW YORK, April 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US Catholic League president William Donohue commented Monday on Senator John Kerry’s inability to dodge the issue of his Catholicism: “In today’s newspapers, all the buzz is over John Kerry’s voting record on abortion and whether this should disqualify him from receiving Holy Communion. But this is not Kerry’s biggest problem with the Catholic Church. The question of his status as a married Catholic is: there is no evidence that John Kerry and Teresa Heinz were ever married in the Catholic Church. “We know that Kerry continues to receive Holy Communion, but if […]
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EGALE Canada very concerned about effectiveness of organized opposition to Bill C-250

KINGSTON, Ontario, April 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a bid to garner support for opposition to Bill C-250, Presbyterian minister Rev. Tristan Emmanuel has been addressing groups throughout Canada, including an address to a group last week in Kingston. Kingston’s Whig-Standard newspaper was there to report on the event. “Precedent has been that religious rights are relative and minority rights are absolute, and that’s dangerous,” Emmanuel told the assembly. “If you don’t defend your faith in the public square, no one else will.”“I don’t believe anything I stand for, or say, is hate,” he told Robin Heron of the Whig-Standard. […]
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B.C. Youth Adopt “A More Conservative Lifestyle”: Study https://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/tfn/2004/040804.html Peruvian Bishops Protest Plan to Allow Sale of Morning-After Pill without a Prescription https://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20040408.htm#head9 No Easter Basket for Terri Schiavo ‘Needle-Mark’ Incident called ‘Stunt’ to keep Parents from Brain-Disabled Daughter https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37992 NOW Oppresses Pro-Lifers, Despite High Court Ruling https://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37974   Hispanic TV Network Stands by Show on Ex-‘Gays’  https://www.cwfa.org/articles/5488/CFI/family/index.htm   New report will focus on abstinence education in three nations not known for having abstinence programs: Mexico, South Africa and Thailand https://www.cwfa.org/articles/5489/CWA/education/index.htm   ‘Passion’ Reclaims Top Box-Office Spot – Unheard of – Re-Writing Box Office History https://apnews.myway.com/article/20040411/D81SP90G0.html Kerry Ignores Reproaches of […]
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Americans don’t Approve of Homosexual Lifestyle, but don’t Hate Gays

LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A slim majority of Americans favour a federal constitutional amendment that would define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The Los Angeles Times polled about 1600 people and found that most Americans do not support the granting of “marriage rights” to homosexual partnerships. 55 % agreed that “if gays are allowed to marry, the institution of marriage will be degraded.” Sixty-two percent of respondents said that homosexuals should receive the kind of civil rights protection afforded racial minorities and women. About the same number felt that homosexual activity is […]
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ACLJ Transcripts from Partial-Birth Abortion Challenge

NEW YORK, April 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Jay Sekulow, American Center for Law and Justice Chief Counsel,  is supporting the Department of Justice in its defense of the partial birth abortion ban at the trial in New York. His notes, A Trial Notebook, document highlights of the grisly proceedings. “The plaintiff, National Abortion Federation, has finished putting on their case. As they attempted to defend the procedure, about which the plaintiff doctor on Thursday said, ‘There is nothing I can do to make the procedure palatable,’ they were largely unsuccessful. Their experts were often exposed brilliantly by Assistant U.S. Attorney […]
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Catholic Seton Hall University to Award Pro-Abortion Judge

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ, April 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Friday, April 16, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a notoriously pro-abortion judge who voted to strike down the partial-birth abortion laws of more than 30 states, is presenting the annual “Sandra Day O’Connor Medal of Honor” to Judge Maryanne Trump Barry (Sister of Donald Trump) of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Trump Barry is the pro-abortion author of the opinion striking down the New Jersey partial-birth abortion statute. Seton Hall is a Catholic arm of the Archdiocese of Newark. The Seton Hall website states that it is “the oldest […]
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Manitoba Government Says No Money for Non-Profit Abortion Mill: More Profit if We Open Our Own

WINNIPEG, April 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a ruse to force the government to fund abortions with public money, Henry Morgentaler sold his Winnipeg abortion clinic to a non-profit organization. The not-for-profit board of “Jane’s Clinic” told the CBC that they want equal treatment, in other words, full funding for abortion procedures provided by their clinic, as is the case for abortions committed in hospital settings. Similar moves have garnered public funds for abortuaries in Newfoundland, Ontario, Alberta and B.C. Jim Rondeau, Manitoba’s minister responsible for healthy living told CBC that there will not be any public money for Jane’s […]
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British Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor Endorses Abortion TV Production

London, Apr. 12 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor has given his personal support to the first screening of an abortion on British television later this month.  The cardinal said he hopes the Channel 4 documentary, “My Fetus,” will have a “devastating” effect on viewers, and will bring home the message that abortion involves the “deliberate destruction of human life.”  Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor said: “The searching questions which we all, at some time or another, ask about ultimate truth and the meaning of human life continue to reveal the limits of scientific knowledge. Issues, such as abortion, […]
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Harvard University Hosts Full Month of “Gay Pride” Events

CAMBRIDGE, April 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Most non-Christian universities in Canada and the US host “gay pride” events, but prestigious Harvard University has gone all out for the month of April. The university has sponsored a series of events for the full month by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) of Harvard, featuring “Gay Games,” a faculty dinner, and a panel discussion on sadomasochism. Music and “club nights” also feature in the month of events that is geared toward garnering support among Harvard students, faculty and alumni for the full acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle in every […]
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TVC Chairman Says Breslin Faked Interview

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition sent a telegram to the editor of the New York Daily newspaper Newsday Thursday complaining about quotes attributed to him in a Jimmy Breslin column.  “I know Jimmy Breslin fills his column with interesting and often fictional characters,” said TVC Chairman Rev. Louis P. Sheldon. “But the line between amusing fiction and political commentary seems to have been blurred in today’s Breslin column. I have never met Jimmy Breslin, never had the conversation described in his column today and never said those sentences to anyone in my […]
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HRC Foundation “Workplace Project” Rates U.S. Corporations on their Homosexual-Friendly Record

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Human Rights Campaign is tabulating its records for its annual Workplace Project, a rating system for determining how homosexual activism-supportive an employer is. Companies are rated on “Corporate Equality Index scores,” which rate various parameters on a scale of 1 to 100. Example parameters include voluntary medical leave to homosexual workers and their families, and “domestic partner” benefits coverage. On their web-site, 368 companies are scored. Twenty-one scored a perfect 100: Aetna Inc., American Airlines, Apple Computer Inc., Avaya Inc., Bank One Corp., Capital One, Financial Corp., Eastman Kodak Co., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM […]
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Grisly Testimony Continues in Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Trials

NEW YORK, April 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The partial-birth abortion ban trials are in their ninth day. Testimony Thursday in New York was provided by the Plaintiff’s key witness. The abortionist testified that he had performed abortion procedures on fetuses that were completely healthy, and whose mothers were also completely healthy. The abortionist also testified that there were no studies that show babies experience pain. The abortionist related that he performs abortions up to the twenty-three weeks and six stage of fetal development. When he was questioned as to what he typically does when the baby’s head is stuck in […]
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Construction Company Sues Minneapolis for Domestic Partner Benefit Ordinance

MINNEAPOLIS, April 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Titus Construction, a Minnesota company, sued Minneapolis Wednesday because a city ordinance requires city contractors to provide unmarried employees and their partners the same benefits as married couples. Any company with a city contract of over $100,000 refusing to comply with the ordinance is not allowed to participate in the city’s contract bidding process. “The incredibly unfair ordinance uses economic power to implement a coercive social agenda to redefine ‘family’,” said Jordan Lorence, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, who is representing Titus. “The ordinance is a classic example of political correctness run-amuck […]
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FDA Proposes “Compromise” on MAP Over-the-Counter Plan

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Food and Drug Administration is proposing a questionable compromise in its proposal to make the morning after pill available over the counter without a doctor’s prescription. The FDA’s original proposal would have had the abortifacient drug as available as aspirin on drug store shelves. Some pro-family representatives have delayed the proposed change by sending letters questioning the drug’s safety. David Joseph Weldon (R-Fla.) wrote to President Bush warning him that the widespread availability of the morning after pill, sold in the US as “Plan-B”, would lead to more promiscuity with its attendant dangers […]
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Non-Profit Status for Morgantaler Winnipeg Clinic a Ploy for Public Funds

Winnipeg, April 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a blatant attempt to put pressure on the Manitoba provincial government to fund their killing business, a group of women in Winnipeg are turning Henry Morgentaler’s Winnipeg abortuary into a non-profit facility. They are at the same time pressuring the Manitoba government to fund their business. “These women claim they will miss Morgentaler’s ‘deep pockets.’ This is a tragically funny statement about a man who tried to save 79 cents by re-using disposable curettes on his patients in the eighties,” said Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition. “Morgentaler never has had […]
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Halton Catholic District School Board Defends Homosexual Sensitivity Training for Students

BURLINGTON, Ontario, April 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to the LifeSiteNews.com report last week that the Halton Catholic District School Board would be hosting gay-sensitivity training at two of its high schools, LifeSiteNews.com received the following rebuttal: The director of education for the board stated in his reply, “The H.O.P.E. (Halton Organization for Pride in Education) Peer Education Pilot Project was launched…” as “a Human Rights education initiative, designed to raise awareness of the harmful effects of homophobia and to reduce the instances of violence that can occur in our school communities and beyond.” In a LifeSiteNews.com Special Report, […]
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Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Trials Continue to Shock and Dismay

NEW YORK, April 7, 2004 (LifeSIteNews.com) – The American Center for Law and Justice’s Jay Sekulow, in a daily update on the ACLJ web-site, publishes highlights of the dialogue in the partial-birth abortion ban challenge being heard before Judge Richard Casey.   In today’s testimony, Judge Casey questioned a pathologist who was called by the National Abortion Federation, to establish the advantage of having an intact fetus for the purposes of identifying fetal abnormalities. Judge Casey asked the doctor about diagnoses made in her pathology lab. Judge Casey asked, “The diagnosis of the abortion is incorrect sometimes?”  A: “Well, I […]
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Major Parliament Hill Rally Scheduled for April 17 to Protest Bill C-250

OTTAWA, April 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Many of the same persons who organized the successful National Marriage Day Rally on Parliament Hill last August are gearing up for another major rally in Ottawa on Saturday April 17. The National Liberty Day Rally is calling for the defeat of Bill C-250 which organizers say “seeks to criminalize the expression of opinions against homosexual behaviour”.  Connie Wilkins, one of the National Liberty Day organizers, told LifeSiteNews.com the event is supported by much of the same ad hoc group of persons and organizations who successfully brought over 8,000 persons to Parliament Hill for […]
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Boston Archbishop O’Malley to Priests: Challenge the ‘Culture of Death’

BOSTON, April 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a Holy Week sermon Tuesday, Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley told his priests to challenge the American “culture of death,” and a society dominated by “consumerism, hedonism, [and] individualism,” the Boston Globe reported today. Archbishop O’Malley, though not spelling out the issues, exhorted his priests to preach explicitly about “public issues” and “social causes. No one will follow an uncertain trumpet blast,” he said. He said that the Church’s position on family values were “essential for civilization in the long run.” The Archbishop warned those gathered that “the word of God cannot be changed,” […]
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“Gay” Activists Disrupt Palm Sunday Procession at England’s Most Important Cathedral

LONDON, April 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A confrontation between homosexual activists and high-ranking Catholic clergy was staged on Palm Sunday at London’s Westminster Cathedral. Homosexual activists from what media are calling a “gay human rights group”, “OutRage!” protested in front of the primatial church of English Catholics and disrupted the annual Palm Sunday procession. Activists were shouting and waving placards which read, “Vatican blocks gay human rights at UN”, “Catholics! Stop crucifying queers!”, and “Gays are not ‘intrinsically disordered’ – Shame on Catholic Catechism!”. The feast of Palm Sunday marks the beginning of the most holy season of the Catholic […]
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Holy See Address at U.N. Warns of “Emerging Subtle Form” of Opposition to Religion

GENEVA, April 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vatican observer at the United Nations, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, addressed the Human Rights Commission, expressing concern for a “subtle new form of religious intolerance.”“An emerging subtle form of religious intolerance,” he said, “is opposing the right of religion to speak publicly on issues concerning forms of behavior that are measured against principles of a moral and religious nature.” Archbishop Tomasi reminded the UN of their commitment to religious freedom, as set out in the UN Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, which the […]
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California State Supreme Court Upholds and Expands Fetal Homicide Law

SAN FRANCISCO, April 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.) – California’s Supreme Court has upheld and given a broad reading to the state’s fetal homicide law. In a 6-1 ruling, the court decided that the law applies even if the assailant did not know a woman is pregnant. In March 1999, Harold Taylor, fatally shot Patty Fansler, 33, at her Ukiah apartment. Fansler was 11-13 weeks pregnant and her pregnancy was not visible; Taylor claimed he was not aware of it. Taylor was convicted of killing Fansler and her child, and had been sentenced to 65 years in prison. The case has made […]
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Coalition for Life Denied Intervenor status in Morgentaler vs. New Brunswick

FREDERICTON, April 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The request by the Coalition for Life and Health to intervene in the case of Morgentaler vs. New Brunswick has been denied by Mr. Justice David Russell in his ruling of April 2. The Coalition was formed in response to the launching of a lawsuit by abortionist Morgentaler against the province of New Brunswick because of its refusal to subsidize his private abortion clinics with provincial tax dollars.  Coalition members include the national pro-life organizations Campaign Life Coalition and Life Canada as well as New Brunswick Right to Life, The Roman Catholic Diocese of […]
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UN Human Rights Commission Battle on Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health Expected to Begin Next

GENEVA, April 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As reported by LifeSiteNews.com on April 1, UN Special Rapporteur Paul Hunt asserted in his recent report to the General Assembly that “The rights to sexual and reproductive health had an indispensable role to play in the struggle against poverty, HIV/AIDS, gender inequality and intolerance.” The unexpected inclusion of the abortion agenda into yet another UN meeting, has sent pro-family nations and delegates scrambling to head off this latest attempt to impose on the world’s nations, via the UN, the obligation to provide abortion and other interferences in family and cultural life.  LifeSite has […]
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US Justice Department Begins Defense in Partial Birth Abortion Ban Trial

LINCOLN, April 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. government lawyers began their defense by calling on testimony from physicians in the partial-birth abortion ban challenge in Lincoln Monday. Dr. Watson A. Bowes, professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine said that he knew of no instance where a partial-birth abortion would be of any benefit to the health an expectant mother. Congress passed the ban last year, which was signed into law in November by U.S. President George W. Bush. Congress argued the procedure is never medically necessary for the health of a […]
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13 Year-Old Girls Being Sold Abortion Pills in Australia

PERTH, West Australia, April 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Girls as young as 13 years old have been purchasing the morning-after pill “repeatedly,” an Australian news source reported today. Since its approval for over-the-counter sale, pharmacists there report increased demand for Postinor-2, with many girls taking the pill repeatedly in a span of weeks. Many groups are warning that increased use may foster promiscuity and an increase in the rates of sexually transmitted disease, and resulting infertility. There are currently no restrictions on the sale of the drug since its approval for OTC sale January 1. The morning-after pill delivers a […]
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New push to give Australian parents right to know https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/03/1080941730821.html   Al-Qaida suspect urges Rome’s destruction https://msnbc.msn.com/id/4652795/  Feds won’t warn parents about vaccine contaminations https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37874   Disney hopes ‘W.i.t.c.h.’ will enchant young readers https://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/entertainment/8353066.htm [SJ – Mon. April 4]  Sen. Orrin Hatch pushing an amendment that may split conservatives on the issue of same-sex “marriage.”  https://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCommentary.asp?Page=Commentaryarchive
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Sacramento Catholic School Fires Teacher for Assigning The Passion

SACRAMENTO, April 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic teacher has been dismissed by his Northern California Catholic school for recommending that his students see the Passion of the Christ with their parents. Stephen Hathorn suggested that his seventh grade students see the Passion with parental supervision as an extra credit for their religion class and was given notice on March 26th. The school has no official comment saying that Hathorn was dismissed for personal reasons, however, the school principal said that it is against school policy to assign R-rated films from kindergarten to eighth grade. Hathorn is vowing to fight […]
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Hamilton School Children Imitating TV and Internet Porn in Sexual “Experiments”

HAMILTON, April 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hamilton, Ontario police are investigating the effects of television and internet pornography after three children ages 12 and 13 were discovered to be using other children to act out what they had seen in the media. One boy admitted to targeting neighbourhood children and his own siblings in what police are calling a “misguided” attempt at sexual experimentation. The boy’s father overheard a strange comment at the breakfast table and after asking questions called local police. The boy admitted that he had “experimented” sexually with an 11 year-old girl from the neighbourhood and three […]
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Minnesota House Passes Taxpayer Protection Act to Restrict Abortion Funding

ST. PAUL, April 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Minnesota House has passed the contentious health-funding bill called, the Taxpayer’s Protection Act. LifeSiteNews.com reported March 29th, that the Minnesota Health Human Services Finance Committee had approved the Taxpayer’s Protection Act that would, among other things, restrict public funding for family planning to agencies that do not procure or refer for abortions. Naral Pro-Choice Minnesota had lobbied against the bill calling it a “super gag law” and complaining that it would hamper the ability of abortionists to provide their ‘services.’ Representative Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, argued that restricting family planning funds to organizations […]
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Rwanda’s 1994 Massacre Toll Now Put at Over 1 Million

Kigali, Apr. 5 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic bishops’ conference of Rwanda has determined that more than 1 million people died in the massacres of 1994, the Fides news service reports.  That estimate is even higher than previous accounts, which put the number of people killed in the genocidal rampages of 1994 at about 800,000. But Father Dominique Karekezi, speaking for the Rwandan bishops Office for Social Communications, said that a new census pointed to the deaths of over 1 million. See Dec 1998 LifeSiteNews.com Special Report Was Rwanda genocide UN supported de-population?  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1998/dec/981210b.html   See other LifeSiteNews.com reports by entering […]
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Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Challenge: Continuing Coverage and Highlights

Trials in the 3 lawsuits against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act began Monday, March 29th in three separate U.S. District Courts. The primary plaintiff in the Southern District of New York is the National Abortion Federation (NAF); the plaintiffs in the District of Nebraska are Dr. Leroy Carhart and several other abortion doctors (Abortion Doctors), and the primary plaintiff in the Northern District of California is Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). The Attorney General of the United States is the defendant in each case.  After opening statements from each side, plaintiffs began presenting their evidence. Excerpts from the unofficial […]
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UK Channel 4 TV to Air Suction Abortion in Documentary Titled “My Foetus”

LONDON, April 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – UK’s Channel 4 has announced a decision to broadcast a filmed abortion as part of a Channel 4-initiated documentary on abortion. The portrayal, to be aired in late April, is of a four-weeks pregnant woman submitting to a “vacuum suction” abortion. The film will also feature filmed close-ups of aborted children at 10 and 21 weeks development, their “faces, limbs, and other details clearly visible,” according to the UK’s on-line news source, the Independent.  UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children’s spokesman Peter Smith told LifeSiteNews.com that he was surprised when he heard […]
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Maryland Senate Rejects Unborn Victims Bill by Vote of 25-22

BALTIMORE, April 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Senate of Maryland has rejected a proposal to enact a state version of Laci and Connor’s law, the federal statute that would add a separate criminal charge for harming an unborn child in an assault on a pregnant woman. The Senate vote was close at 25-22. The proposed law would have established the legal existence of the unborn child as a separate person, whose interests are protected by law. The assertion that the child not a distinct individual but a part of a woman’s body has been a major point of argument for […]
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West Virginia Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Seeking to Establish Same-Sex Marriage

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, April 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The West Virginia Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit Thursday filed by same-sex couples seeking to establish same-sex “marriage” there. The ruling brings to an end the attempt to overturn West Virginia’s law that preserves marriage for one man and one woman. One couple involved in the suit had received a “marriage” license from Canada and the other a civil union license from Vermont. West Virginia’s Defense of Marriage Act states, “Every application for a marriage license must contain the following statement: ‘Marriage is designed to be a loving and lifelong union between […]
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Tennessee Senate Passes Pro-life Constitutional Amendment

NASHVILLE, April 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Senate of Tennessee has overwhelmingly passed a measure to amend the state constitution to remove a guarantee for a “right” to abortion, should Roe v. Wade be overturned. The Senate vote, 23-6, passed the measure which must now be passed by the House of Representatives and go on to the public in the next election. The wording of the measure says that ‘‘nothing in the Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or the funding thereof.”  Democrats in the Senate attempted an amendment to guarantee abortions in cases of rape or incest. […]
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Passion Movie News

BEIJING, April 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – AsiaNews sources report that pirated version of the Passion are being shown throughout Beijing in small group and parish settings. A non-Catholic youth told AsiaNews, “My only intention was to practice my English by watching the film. Instead, however, the movie really struck me. I can’t believe that someone would sacrifice himself for others, even to the point of dying for them,” he said. “I want to learn more about Christianity,” the youth added. “When I was a student at university I read the Bible, but as a work of literature like any other. […]
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Abortion Advocates Disgruntled Over Stalled Access to Abortion on Demand: Complain to UN

NEW YORK, April 2, 2004 (c-fam.org /LifeSiteNews.com) – The C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute) Friday Fax revealed Friday that abortion advocates met last week to complain that the global advance for abortion on demand has been stalled because of ongoing opposition from the Bush Administration and the Catholic Church. The onset of what some are calling the demographic winter of rapidly aging European populations was also blamed. At the meeting, which was organized by Ipas, the manufacturer of the portable abortion machine, and Population Action International (PAI), a longtime advocate for population control, it was concluded that certain […]
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World Congress of Families III Forges International Alliances

MEXICO CITY, April 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The World Congress of Families III was held in Mexico City this week with over 3,200 delegates from more than 75 nations participating. “No matter what country we come from today we have a common vision, the value of the family. Family is the hope of the world,” Martha Fox, first lady of Mexico, said, in an opening address. The World Congress of Families III (WCF III) is the largest international gathering of pro-family leaders, activists and thinkers ever assembled. Its theme was The Natural Family and the Future of Mankind and it […]
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ACLJ: Trials Put Spotlight on Horror of Partial-Birth Abortion

NEW YORK, April 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Center for Law and Justice, which specializes in constitutional law and pro-life litigation, said today the first week of testimony in the federal court trials involving the challenge of the national ban on partial-birth abortion is putting a spotlight on the horrific procedure that takes the life of an unborn child moments before birth.  “The testimony is graphic, disturbing and points to an undeniable fact – that the life of an unborn child is taken in a manner that is violent, painful, and barbaric,” said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the […]
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Excerpts of Statements Against C-250 During April 1 Canadian Senate Debate

OTTAWA, April 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following are excerpts from the April I Canadian Senate debate that prevented further consideration of the bill until the end of the Senate recess on April 20. Speakers included Senators Gerry St. Germain, Gérald-A. Beaudoin, David Tkachuk, Noël A. Kinsella, Lowell Murray, Joan Fraser, and Anne C. Cools.  Hansard Excerpts:  Hon. Gerry St. Germain:  …most Canadians who practise their faith aggressively oppose Bill C-250… Why the government, and indeed the Senate itself, seems so determined to rush through this legislation and not provide Canadians the opportunity to be heard and their questions seriously considered […]
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Bill C-250 Vote Still Pending; PM Says no Election Call Until Guite Testimony

OTTAWA, April 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Liberal-dominated Commons Committee announced Thursday that an election call will be delayed until testimony from Chuck Guite, a key figure in the federal sponsorship affair, is made public. Guite is not due back from his holidays until April 22 or 23. The bill, which would add ‘sexual orientation’ to Canada’s hate crimes law, is delayed now until the Senate’s scheduled return on April 20. This means the Senate will have time to vote on Bill C-250 before the expected testimony from Guite.  A small group of pro-family Senators, led especially by the fearless […]
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Bush Signs Unborn Victims of Violence Act

WASHINGTON, April 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins praised President Bush’s signing of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act on Thursday. The new law will force the courts to recognize two victims in a violent crime committed against a pregnant woman, which results in the harm or death of her unborn child. Twenty-nine states have already passed similar legislation, and more than 80% of Americans favored the passage of the federal ‘Unborn Victims’ bill.  “As these and the other families understand, any time an expectant mother is a victim of violence, two lives are in […]
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Tennessee Senate Rewrites Abortion Rights Out of Constitution – House Vote Next https://www.tennessean.com/government/archives/04/03/49191025.shtml?Element_ID=49191025   Study Says Treatment of Sex Offenders Found to Have Very Little Affect https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040331/TREATMENT31//?query=Sex+offender+treatment   Voter’s Guide for Serious Catholics https://www.catholic.com/library/voters_guide.asp   Google to offer gigabyte of free e-mail https://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5182805.html?tag=nefd_top   Will the bishops confront Kerry?  https://www.townhall.com/columnists/terencejeffrey/tj20040331.shtml   Priests Should Refuse Communion to Kerry, Leading Catholic Says   https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/3/31/170532.shtml   Will Rome Tell U.S. Bishops To Stop Ordaining Homosexuals?  https://thewandererpress.com/c3-25-2004.htm   Mass. Senator Should Reprimand Chief Of Staff Over Vulgar Comments Made Against Traditional Values Coalition   https://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1538   Text of Pope John Paul’s recent address on […]
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Planned Parenthood Fuming Over Pharmacist Refusal to Fill Contraceptive Prescription

TEXAS, April 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The CVS pharmacy chain is under the gun from Planned Parenthood Federation of America after one of its pharmacists refused to dispense the birth control pill to a customer. In a letter to CVS, Planned Parenthood President Gloria Feldt said “The refusal to provide [contraception] is an unacceptable imposition of narrow personal ideology on women’s rights.”  In related news, Ohio passed a new law ensuring that pharmacists who follow their conscience by refusing to dispense abortifacients will not lose their jobs.  Rep. Keith Faber (R-Celina), sponsor of the bill, told the Port Clinton News […]
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Law Center Issues Report Exposing Disturbing Details of National Right to Life’s Efforts to Kill Sou

ANN ARBOR, April 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One week after accusing the National Right to Life Committee of betraying the pro-life movement, the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has released a seven page report claiming to detail the role of the National Right to Life Committee and its state affiliate, South Dakota Right to Life, in opposing and ultimately defeating a South Dakota law that would have banned virtually all abortions and challenged Roe v. Wade.  The Law Center report states that both NRLC national and local officials opposed the […]
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SPUC Presents 96,500-Signature Petition against Morning-After Pills in Schools

LONDON, April 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) presented a 96,500-signature petition against morning-after pills in schools to parliament Wednesday.  “Morning-after pills are described as contraception but they can also cause an early abortion,” John Smeaton, SPUC’s national director, said. “They contain a massive dose of hormones and do not protect against sexually-transmitted disease. It is particularly wrong that schoolgirls as young as 11 can be given these pills without even their parents’ knowing.”  The petition states that “The supplying to schoolchildren of abortifacient birth control drugs and devices is ethically and socially […]
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Operation Rescue West President Troy Newman Relates Testimony from Lincoln Court

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 1, 2004, LifeSiteNews.com) – Three abortionists were in Lincoln court challenging the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. Troy Newman recounts his experience Wednesday: Anthony Coppolino, special litigation counsel for the US Dept. of Justice was presented by U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf “with a scenario: ‘Suppose a 17-week pregnant woman is generously dilated, the fetus’ presentation is breech; the doctor delivers the fetus except for the head, then collapses the skull and completes delivery. Is this a violation of the ban?’ To my astonishment, the government attorney (supposedly in the pro-life position) said ‘probably not’ unless it was […]
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Judge asks Abortionist if Dismembering a Live Baby During Partial-Birth Abortion Causes it Pain

NEW YORK, April 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Judge Richard C. Casey did not let partial-birth abortionist Dr. Timothy Johnson off easy. In court testimony Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, Judge Casey grilled Johnson about the grisly procedure. Associated Press reported the dialogue between the judge and the abortionist. Partial-Birth Abortions often necessitate dismemberment of the live baby while the head remains entrenched in the womb. Judge Casey asked Johnson “Does the fetus feel pain?” Johnson replied that he was not sure, that he was not familiar with any research that suggested they do. A doctor […]
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