Articles for Month: June 2004

SOFIA, June 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a week of ongoing, intense debate, the Bulgarian parliament voted against legalizing euthanasia Wednesday. An overwhelming majority, 93 of 107 MPs, were in favour of maintaining the ban.

ROME, June 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Francis Cardinal George is in Rome at the bishops’ regular meeting with John Paul II where he told the Pope that the free exercise of religion is under threat in the United States. “The Church’s mission is threatened externally by an erosion of institutional freedom,” he said. The Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago cited the inadequate response of the US hierarchy to revelations of sexual abuse by priests as a major cause of a new rise of anti-Catholicism, which he says, “has always marked American culture. “In this context, courts and legislatures are more ready […]

DAVENPORT, Iowa, June 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At a recent conference on the link between abortion and breast cancer, Karen Malec, of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, argued that drug-profit financed research, such as a recent Lancet study, is a conflict of interest. “The American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and many cancer fundraising groups and major U.S. cancer research centers are funded by self-interested pharmaceutical companies that manufacture cancer drugs and hormonal contraceptives,” she argued. Malec explained that the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer has nothing to gain by exposing the link between abortion and breast cancer. “On the other […]

OTTAWA, June 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recent survey has ‘discovered’ that women who work are having fewer children and are consciously choosing professional success over motherhood. The study of 281 professional and managerial working women, found that almost a third of female professionals and managers had no children and cited the importance of their work as a factor in that decision. Of the women interviewed, 28% had no children and of those who did have children, only 54% had more than two. The study found what pro-family activists have said for years; the declining birth rate represents a threat […]

Elects New Primate for Canada: Open to Blessing Same-Sex Unions

OTTAWA, June 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the media and several Liberal politicians continue to condemn Conservative Health Critic Rob Merrifield for his suggestion to have counselling prior to abortions, few have paid attention to the fact that abortion advocates themselves have called for such counselling when their moneyed interests suggested it.  Liberal MP Anne McClellan, a former federal Minister of Justice, was quoted on the CBC as saying that what Mr. Merrifield proposed is akin to “state imposed counselling”.  However, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that all persons undergoing any medical procedure in Canada must be fully […]

"Anyone who is afraid of information worries me"

Ontario to have fixed election dates; voters to next go to polls Oct. 4, 2007   https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=1845&e=1&u=/cpress/20040601/ca_pr_on_na/ont_fixed_election_dates   President Launches Faith-Based Initiatives by Executive Order https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040601-1.html   Family Ties Vs Internet Porn https://www.profam.org/pub/xnr_cur.htm#Family_Ties_vs._Internet_Porn   Poll puts Martin’s stumbling Liberals ahead by 4 points…34-30…which may result in a government led by Stephen Harper https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040601/ELECPOLL01/TPFront/TopStories   Pro-Life Students Target Northeastern Politicians, Including Kerry https://www.cnsnews.com//ViewNation.asp?Page=Nationarchive

RAYMORE, Missouri, June 1, 2004 (LifeSIteNews.com) – A judge has issued a stay of the deportation order of an illegal immigrant, because her unborn baby is an American. According to The Kansas City Star, Senior U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright asked “Isn’t that child an American citizen?” He then said the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which ensures that perpetrators of violence against the unborn are tried for their crime, also ensures that this unborn child be allowed to be born on American soil.  Myrna Dick, 29, lied to immigration authorities in 1998, claiming to be an American, and […]

SRI LANKA, June 2, 2004 (LifesiteNews.com) – Sri Lankans have expressed serious concerns with a February 2004 draft Bill on Women’s Rights.  The bill, introduced by the Sri Lankan National Committee on Women, employs ambiguous and misleading terminology that allows for the promotion of contraception and abortion.  Clauses in the bill use popular abortion and contraceptives rights terminology, including stating that women “shall enjoy. . . the right to control their bodies, and rights in relating to child birth.” The Bill comes in the wake of calls by the Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka (FPASL), an active wing of […]