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Deported mother argues her unborn child is U.S. citizen   https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001991631_fetus29.html   Cardinal Warns Christians to Take Satan Seriously https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57568   DNC Convention Director Caught on CNN using profanity and four-letter words https://www.drudgereport.com/dnc86.htm   Behind rarely opened doors, a little-known religious community is quietly offering its prayers for us all https://www.time.com/time/pacific/magazine/article/0,13673,503040802-673610-1,00.html
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ABC’s Sam Donaldson Vows to “Never” Tell the Truth About Abortion

BOSTON, July 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – ABC veteran reporter Sam Donaldson was confronted by huge photos of aborted babies posted on trucks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Donaldson was crossing the street at a traffic light just a few feet in front of one of the Operation Rescue West’s ‘Truth Trucks’ when ORW president Troy Newman spotted him entering a rally hosted by Missouri Representative Dick Gephardt. Newman pulled out his bullhorn and said to Donaldson, “Look at the babies,” referring to the graphic images of aborted children that were displayed on the Truth […]
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State Refuses to Rescind Mandatory Abortifacient Distribution Despite Federal Order to Contrary

MONTGOMERY, July 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alabama State public health officials were told to repeal their mandatory requirement that Department of Public Health employees distribute the abortifacient morning-after pill. Tommy Thompson, the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, was asked to clarify the federal regulations, which he did in a letter to Alabama Representative Robert Aderholt (R-Alabama). “The current Title X statute, regulations and guidelines do not mandate the distribution of emergency contraceptive pills,” Thompson’s letter affirmed, as reported by the Tuscaloosa News. Aderholt requested a clarification of federal guidelines in response to a number of complaints received from public […]
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Prominent Canadian Abortionist Drags Out Theory on Why it’s Good to Kill Potential Criminals

TORONTO, July 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian abortionist, Henry Morgentaler, responding to a recent Statistics Canada report, is claiming that access to abortion on demand is the reason for the country’s lowest violent crime rate since 1967. Morgentaler asserts that ‘unwanted’ children would be abused and maltreated and turn into criminals and thus society is better off when abortion has killed them off before they are able to inflict societal damage.  In his own words, “The recently reported decrease in violent crime in Canada continues a trend evident since 1991. It confirms again my theory that access to abortion has […]
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Abortion Supporter Campaigning for Kerry asked to Resign from Catholic Job

WASHINGTON, July 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the Democratic National Convention went on in Boston, one outspoken fan of pro-abortion presidential candidate John Kerry lost his $54,000-a-year job with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). In March, LifeSiteNews.com reported that the program coordinator for the Secretariat for African-American Catholics at the USCCB was also running a website, “Catholics for Kerry”, directly challenging the USCCB’s policy.  Ono Ekeh, 33, of Waldorf, Md., an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention, has been asked to resign his position with the USCCB. Ekeh is unrepentant in his support for the radically […]
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Deadly Pornography and its link to Homosexuality https://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57511   Susan Buffett, wife of Warren Buffet, Likely World’s Foremost funder of Abortion-Lobby Dies https://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5816977   Germany has registered 6,000 homosexual unions in last 3 years https://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_id=10012   MSN Poll: Do you support embryonic stem-cell research?  https://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Promos/P90525.asp   Oregon high court agrees to review question of gay marriage https://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_072804_news_gay_marriage.21706eea.html   Miami Beach OKs partnership registry giving homosexual couples rights of married couples https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-ddomestic29jul29,0,2867904.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines   Alaska Gov. Signs into Law Bill Making info on Abortion and Fetal Development available on State Website https://www.adn.com/front/story/5354855p-5293399c.html
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UK Boy Treated for Blood Disorder with Genetically Matched Sibling’s Stem Cells

LONDON, July 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A five year-old British boy Charlie Whitaker has received stem cell treatment for a rare blood disorder; the cells came from his genetically matched IVF baby brother. Last week the UK Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) decided to relax its rules to allow the creation of children specifically genetically selected in IVF labs to serve as tissue donors for sick siblings and other family members. Charlie’s parents, Michelle and Jayson went to the United States for the IVF procedures.  The controversy surrounded Charlie’s parents request to have the IVF procedure. They said the […]
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Court Ruling on Child Support has Sperm Donors Thinking Twice

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, July 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Penn state appeals court has ruled that the verbal agreement between a sperm donor and the mother of their child is not binding, meaning he is now obliged to pay child support.  A decision by three judges stated that the deal between Joel McKiernan and Ivonne Ferguson—where McKiernan would be under no obligation to support his offspring—was moot, due to “legal, equitable and moral principles.”“It is in the interest of the children we hold most dear,”’ Judge Patrick Tamalia wrote in his decision. tv
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Stands on Moral Issues Greatly Affected by Religiosity Even Among College Students

LOS ANGELES, July 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Strongly religious college students tend to identify themselves as politically conservative and hold conservative views on issues of sex, abortion, gay rights, and drugs, according to new research released today by UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute.  The analysis, part of a national study of 3,680 third-year college students at 46 diverse colleges and universities, also shows that about one-fifth of college students are “highly religious,” while about the same number have low levels of religious engagement.  Highly religious was defined as a pattern of behavior that includes such things as attending religious services, […]
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Research finds that Infants Need Mother’s Gaze for Neural Development

MEXICO, July 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Science is starting to show what family advocates have pointed out for years, that mothers and fathers and especially day care workers, are not interchangeable in child development. Babette Francis, a pro-family lobbyist who has spent years tracking the UN’s ‘gender agenda,’ has written extensively on the damage done to families – and the laws that protect them – by feminist notions of gender identity. Francis writes in an article in News Weekly, about scientific findings showing the physical necessity of the presence of a child’s mother in his neural development.  Christine De Vollmer, […]
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Korean Court Refuses to Acknowledge Same-Sex ‘Marriage’

INCHEON, Korea, July 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Korean court has refused to acknowledge the request of a plaintiff who claimed her same-sex relationship constitutes a marriage, entitling her to half of assets shared with her partner, and alimony.  The court ruled that a woman, identified only as Lee, was under no compulsion to pay a partner of 20 years, identified as Kim, alimony or for shared assets. The court said that the Korean Constitution only recognizes marriage between a man and a woman, and so does not accept the relationship as valid.  tv
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Stanford Researchers use Human Fetal Tissue in Stroke Research

SAN FRANCISCO, July 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scientists at Stanford University have used human fetal stem cells in experiments with rats. Dr. Gary Steinberg, a Stanford neurosurgeon has shown that rats who have the same kind of strokes as human beings benefited after human stem cells were injected into their brains. The cells have migrated to the damaged areas, and scientists hope that the cells will begin to rebuild the damage in human stroke victims.  Steinberg said that he was ‘optimistic’ about the results for human stroke victims but gave the usual caveat that actual stem cell treatment was ‘years […]
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APA Endorses Homosexual “Marriage”

HONOLULU, July 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Psychological Association, at their annual convention Wednesday, made a decision to endorse homosexual “marriage.” The APA also recommended that same-sex parents be granted all the legal rights of normal married parents. The APA is following in the footsteps of the Canadian Psychological Association, which in November 2003, made the startling announcement that there is no heightened risk of problems from same-sex parenting, or an increased likelihood for children living in such partnerships to become gay themselves. APA president Diane Halpern made the claim that children raised by same-sex parents suffer no more […]
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United Nations Women’s Committee Gets In-House Lobby by Radical Pro-Abortion Group

NEW YORK, July 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the United Nations Committee which monitors the implementation of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) wrapped up its latest three-week session it heard from various groups on how to ensure implementation of the convention’s policies.  Apart from hearing from groups concerned with legitimate women’s issues such as protection from armed conflict, the CEDAW committee also heard from the radical pro-abortion group Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) on July 21.  Known as the legal arm of pro-abortion militants in the U.S., CRR is notorious for fighting even health and […]
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Former US Ambassador to Vatican says Catholics Excluded from DNC

BOSTON, July 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The former ambassador to the Vatican and three-term Democratic mayor of Boston, Ray Flynn, has said that the average American’s opinions, especially on such matters as abortion and gay marriage, just isn’t being heard or welcomed at the Democratic National Convention and by the Democratic Party in general. “The Democratic Party delegates, hierarchy, [and] leadership are out of touch with American mainstream values,” he said, as reported by CNSNews.com. Flynn is critical of presidential candidate John Kerry’s and the party’s views on such issue as abortion. He highlighted that the former Democratic governor of […]
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Slovak Ruling Party Protests Swedish Pastor Jailed for Comments Offending Homosexuals

BRATISLAVA, July 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The recent jailing of a Swedish Pentecostal pastor for “hate speech against homosexuals” has incited a rebuke from Slovakia’s ruling Christian Democratic Movement (KDH). Interior Minister Vladimír Palko took his complaint directly to Cecilia Julin, the Swedish ambassador in Slovakia. Palko told Julin that he felt compelled to voice his complaint directly to her. Palko called the Swedish court’s decision a case in point of how “a left wing liberal ideology was trying to introduce tyranny and misuse the EU for this purpose,” according to a Slovak Spectator account. The KDH organized a press […]
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“I had an abortion” T-shirt Story Sparks Firestorm

TORONTO, July 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com broke the story about Planned Parenthood’s latest addition to their ‘social fashion’ line—“I had an abortion” t-shirts—on Friday. Since then, it has elicited a firestorm of coverage—numerous news sources have joined the fray, among them: the Drudge Report, the Vancouver Sun, the New York Post, the San Diego Channel, the National Post and others. Available from Planned Parenthood’s on-line store, the t-shirt is marketed to post-abortive women to “assert a powerful message in support of women’s rights,” according to their web-site. Toronto’s News Talk 1010 CFRB hosted a live radio call-in show on […]
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Abortion Stand and the Latino Vote in the Presidential Election – Pro-Life Advantage

WASHINGTON, July 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Presidential candidate looking to capture the Latino vote will do slightly better to be pro-life in 2004, and likely much better in the future, according to a survey released last week by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation – both groups which are known to support abortion.  “The 2004 National Survey of Latinos: Politics and Civic Participation,” conducted by telephone from April 21, 2004 to June 9, 2004 among a nationally representative sample of 2,288 Latino respondents, including 1,166 registered voters, examines the views of Latino registered voters on a […]
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When Bishops Fear to Lead https://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/27828.htm   90 Million Missing Females, and a $45 Trillion Gap – The Fruits of Misguided Family Planning https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57297   Satanism Linked to Priest’s Murder in Chilean Cathedral https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57388   ‘Art’ Exhibit Featuring Gay Porn Investigated by Police https://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/artslife/story.html?id=e386525f-a64b-498e-b791-19cba384653b   Linda Ronstadt: I don’t like singing for Christians https://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39542   ‘Simpsons’ Cartoon to Promote Homosexual ‘Marriage’ with ‘Gay’ and Legal ‘Gay Marriage’  https://www.channel3000.com/entertainment/3582014/detail.html   Kerry can’t shoot deer or stop terror By Mark Steyn https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;sessionid=O3INY3JCST2KDQFIQMGCNAGAVCBQUJVC?xml=/opinion/2004/07/27/do2702.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/27/ixnewstop.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=15234   Hotel Porn Causing Problems for Female Staff Being Accosted by Guests https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3928441.stm   French court nullifies gay marriage https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040727.wfran0727/BNStory/International/  […]
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British Health Authority Calls for More Condom Use after 57% Rise in STD’s

LONDON, July 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British health officials have seen a rise of 57% in sexually transmitted diseases since 1995, from 449,666 to 708,083 cases in 2003. Sex education campaigners immediately called for an increase in sex education for the young and for greater access to clinics specializing in treatment of STD’s, despite the fact that these same measures were pushed during the time of the dramatic rise of the diseases. Many of the diseases are new and many also cause permanent infertility in women. Recent statistics have shown that Britain has one of the world’s highest rates of […]
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Nicaragua Government Moves to Close Legal Loophole Allowing Abortion

MANAGUA, July 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nicaraguan Deputy Jamileth Bonilla of the conservative ruling Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) has announced that her party will push for the closing of a loophole in the pro-life legislation which allows for “therapeutic” abortions.  In comments to the Inter Press Service, she said it “should be made a criminal act”.  The move comes after feminist groups used the tragic rape, and subsequent pregnancy of a nine year old girl to push for legalization of abortion.  The child referred to as Rosita eventually did get an abortion even though it was deemed illegal since the […]
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France’s First Homosexual “Marriage” Nullified

BEGLES, France, July 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A court nullified Tuesday the first same-sex “marriage” performed in France. Noel Mamère, mayor of Begles, despite warnings from government officials that the ceremony was illegal, “married” two men, a nurse and a shop worker, June 5. As a result of his defiant action, Mamère, who is also a Green Party member of national parliament, was later stripped of his mayoral duties by Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin for one month. French legislation allows for mayors to be penalized if they “gravely misunderstand the duties of their office.”  The court decision to nullify […]
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Malaysian Movie Censors Restrict Gibson’s The Passion to Christian-Only Audience

JOHOR BARU, July 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Muslim government of Malaysia has decided to restrict viewing of Mel Gibson’s blockbuster, The Passion of the Christ, to Christian audiences. The Film Censorship Board of Malaysia had originally intended to ban the film outright but after intervention of the Prime Minister has allowed it to play in ‘designated’ cinemas without advertising. Malaysia’s population is made up of no more that 9% Christians while the great majority is Sunni Muslim. The official state religion of Malaysia is Islam.  Islam prohibits the depiction of humans or animals and considers Jesus to be a […]
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Abortion Docs Don’t Have to Report Statutory Rape Court Rules

WICHITA, Kansas, July 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a decision handed down Monday, a federal judge ruled that abortionists are not required to comply with a law requiring the reporting of sexual abuse or rape of minors to authorities. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten argued that most underage sex is consensual, thus a mandatory reporting of all underage sexual activity would constitute an invasion of privacy. He also reasoned that mandatory reporting would deter minors from seeking abortions out of fear of the abusive relationship being exposed.  Although the several media reports lead readers to think all underage reporting […]
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Canadian Government Insists Immigrant Strippers Bare All for Officials

TORONTO, July 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sergio Mercado, of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico has issued a memo ordering all Canadian Immigration Officers to insist on seeing the full monty if a woman wants to come to Canada to work as a stripper. Canadians were informed by their immigration officials in June that there was a severe shortage of professional table and lap ‘exotic’ dancers which would be made up by inviting foreign professionals to come to Canada on special visas. Since then, hundreds of women, mostly from severely economically depressed former Soviet Bloc nations, have come to Canada. “Canadian […]
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Teresa Heinz Kerry Caught on Tape Tell Pittsburgh Reporter To “Shove It” – Pretending she didn’t say what she said https://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/3576476/detail.html   Cardinal Arbishop of Lagos Nigeria Olubunmi Okogie Warns Abortion Supporters Vengence is the Lord’s https://www.dailytimesofnigeria.com/DailyTimes/2004/July/26/Okogie.htm   Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Gloria Feldt to Address Democratic National Convention https://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=158-07232004   Secret Service Sued for Forbidding pro-life protest outside of Kerry residence https://www.cnsnews.com//ViewNation.asp?Page=Nationarchive
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Portuguese Government Back-Pedals on Referendum Vote to Ratify EU Constitution

LISBON, July 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Portugal’s new centre-right government is repealing a decision by former prime minister Jose Manuel Barroso, suggesting the country may not hold a country-wide referendum to ratify the new European Union constitution as the Barroso government decided. Barroso stepped down from his post last month to take up residence in Brussels as European Union Commission head. Before his resignation, Portugal had been gearing up for a referendum on the measure set for 2005.  A new program presented Friday by Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes spoke of the referendum option as only a possibility.  The constitution […]
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Federal Judge Thwarts Mississippi Law Illegalising Abortion after 13 Weeks

JACKSON, July 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge overturned Friday a new Mississippi law that would have made abortions performed after 13 weeks gestation illegal. The new legislation made abortions illegal after 13 weeks except when committed at hospitals or ambulatory surgical clinics—neither of which perform abortions in the state.  U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee upheld a temporary injunction issued on July 2, after one of the two state abortuaries, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, challenged the law that came into effect July 1. The Jackson Women’s Health Organization is trying to attain the status of a ambulatory […]
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Priest to Deliver Invocation to DNC in Boston- Archbishop Planned to be Out of Town

BOSTON, July 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Paulist priest who regularly gives Kerry communion will give the opening blessing to the Democratic National Convention. The Democratic Party has been increasingly criticized by Catholic bishops for its aggressive support of abortion. Rev. John B. Ardis, director of the Paulist Center, will be giving an ‘invocation,’ to the delegates. Ardis has made himself a central figure in the public row over the reception of communion for publicly pro-abortion Catholics. Kerry and his wife, who live nearby, attend services at the Paulist Center in Boston. Ardis said that he had received the sanction […]
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France to Boost Payment for Abortions by 29%; Allows RU-486 at Home

PARIS, July 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  France’s Health Ministry announced Friday that the government would increase payments for individual abortions by 29%.  In addition, the measure signed by Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy allows for the abortion drug RU-486 to be doled out by family physicians rather than in hospitals only, thus making for home abortions with the deadly drug.  The action comes in response to lobbying by pro-abortion groups which complained that private abortuaries would close since abortion in not profitable enough.  See local coverage (in French only):  https://www.leparisien.fr/home/info/vivremieux/article.htm?articleid=241090957 https://actu.voila.fr/Depeche/depeche_sante_040723143147.wjmgcm4s.html   jhw
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U.S. judge blocks Mississippi late-term abortion law https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-07-23-miss-abortion_x.htm   Canadian Government Wants to Eliminate Definition of Spouse in Divorce Act – Will do it after Supreme Court ruling on homosexual ‘marriage’  https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040723.wxdivorce23/BNStory/Front/ Gay Clinton Appointee Surrenders Medical Licence after molestation and subtance abuse allegations https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/nation/9226294.htm   62% of public favor Missouri ban on gay marriage https://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/9226409.htm   New Mexico Health Department Backs Teacher having kids tasting flavored condoms https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39588   Once-atheist parents of murdered 9-year-old Cecilia Zhang find relief in religion https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040723.wxcecilialink0723/BNStory/Front/  US House votes to restrict courts on gay marriages https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040723/WORLD23-5/TPInternational/Americas   Gun registry used by U.S. as study […]
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Florida Court Holds There Is No Right to Transsexual Marriage

LAKELAND, July 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, Florida’s Second District Court of Appeals issued a unanimous opinion holding that Florida does not recognize transsexual marriage. Liberty Counsel represented Linda Kantaras in her appeal of an 809-page ruling issued by lower court Judge O’Brien in Pasco County, Florida, which held that gender was primarily a state of mind. The lower court ruled that “Michael” Kantaras (formerly known as Margo) (“MK”), who was born female, desires to be a man and therefore, the “marriage” between MK and Linda did not violate Florida’s Defense of Marriage Act, which limits marriage to only one […]
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Federal Appeals Court Backs Florida Ban on Homosexual Adoption

ORLANDO, July 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting as a full court of twelve judges, refused yesterday to reverse its earlier opinion upholding Florida’s ban on same-sex adoptions. The Eleventh Circuit’s earlier opinion, which remains in effect as a result of today’s decision, holds that the Florida legislature properly made a policy judgment that it is not in the best interests of its displaced children to be adopted by individuals who engage in current, voluntary homosexual activity. The Court stated that, “[W]e have found nothing in the Constitution that forbids this policy judgment. Thus, any […]
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U.S. House Passes Measure Ensuring States not Forced to Recognize Homosexual ‘Marriage’

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday the Marriage Protection Act, passed the House by a vote of 233-194. The Marriage Protection Act is designed to remove from all federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, the authority to force states to recognize homosexual ‘marriages’ from other jurisdictions.  Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family commented on the passage saying, “While this legislation will not protect marriage across the nation, it will prevent unelected rogue judges in federal courts from overturning the will of the people.”  He added, “Before the institution of marriage is fully out of reach of […]
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Pharmaceutical tries again for FDA Approval of Morning After Pill Without Prescription

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This May, the Food and Drug Administration rejected nonprescription sales of emergency contraception, in the midst of controversy. Now the manufacturer of the abortifacient drug is again pressuring the US government to allow its sale without a prescription. The FDA decision left a loophole when they said they might reconsider if the company, Barr Pharmaceuticals, could show some way of guaranteeing that the drug will only be sold without prescription to girls and women over 16. In their letter to Barr, the FDA said that there would have to be some means of selling […]
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Reality Show to Feature 1000 Men Competing to Impregnate Woman without Sex

LONDON, July 23, 2004 (LifeSitenews.com) – A proposed television reality show has pushed the boundaries of offence by offering a program in which a thousand men compete for the chance to impregnate a woman by IVF. It is unlikely that the production company, Brighter Pictures, will find a market in the UK; a spokesman for the BBC has already said, “It is absolutely not for the BBC.” In its coverage of the intended program, called Make Me A Mum, The Daily Mail has called the idea “sick” and “depraved.” The idea has been greeted with public expressions of revulsion from […]
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“I had an Abortion” – Pride T-shirts Available from Planned Parenthood

NEW YORK, July 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – International abortion giant, Planned Parenthood has a line of consumer products, coffee mugs, bumper stickers and t-shirts to spread their message and raise funds. The latest in their ‘social fashion’ line is a t-shirt for post-abortive women to “assert a powerful message in support of women’s rights.” The shirt says simply, “I had an abortion.” The world’s leading abortion-promoting organization has long striven to undo the stigma attached to women killing their unborn children, but with little result. Despite the enthusiastic support of politicians, rock musicians and movie stars, abortion still has powerful […]
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Indian Mother Left in a Coma after Legal Abortion

CHANDLODIA, July 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A ‘safe, legal’ abortion has left an Indian mother comatose and partially paralyzed. The woman, 27-year-old Nehal Yagnik, who had previously given birth to a boy sought an abortion from Dr. Atul Patel when she found herself pregnant again. During the procedure there were complications either from internal blood clots or from improperly administered anaesthesia; the exact cause is in dispute. Nehal went to the abortion facility in Ghatlodia, the Jyoti Maternity and Nursing Home and when she did not arrive home, her family went to find her. They were told that she was […]
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John Kerry Thinking on Abortion Same as Supreme Court on Allowing Slavery

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry gave an inteview yesterday on abortion on ABC News.  Host Peter Jennings asked Kerry about his statement that “life begins at conception” to which Kerry responded by drawing a distinction between the beginning of human life and ‘personhood’. Jennings asked, “If you believe that life begins at conception, is even a first-trimester abortion not murder?”  Kerry replied, “No, because it’s not the form of life that takes personhood in the terms that we have judged it to be in the past. It’s the beginning of life.”  Catholic League president […]
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Catholic Politicians Unmoved; Won’t Abstain from Communion or Change Abortion Stance

July 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Associated Press has reported on a survey of 75 Catholic public officials in the US who they say are ‘undaunted’ in their determination to continue supporting abortion. All of the persons interviewed said that they will neither change their position on abortion nor refrain from presenting themselves for communion in their churches. They told AP reporters that they see no conflict in their support of abortion and their continued participation in the Catholic Church’s most sacred rite. Lt. Gov Tim Kaine of Virginia, who supports abortion but with restrictions, said, “I believe that what […]
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Canada Prime Minister Reaffirms Promise to Decriminalize Pot https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1090407666147&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467   Poll Claims 70% of Spaniards back gay ‘marriage’ law https://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=551941§ion=news   Conservatives name Shadow Cabinet   https://conservative.ca/english/shadowcabinet.asp   Healthy Baby born with heart outside body   https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/3910561.stm
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New Research: Handedness Determined by 10 Weeks in the Womb

BELFAST, July 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New research from Irish scientists has revealed that a person’s dominant hand is determined by 10 weeks gestation. Scientitsts previously thought the dominant hand was not determined until at least three years old. The researchers noted that, by using ultrasound, the determination of a preferred hand was set at just 10 weeks, and correlates to the dominant hand later in life.  As reported by New Scientist magazine, of 60 babies who sucked their right thumbs in the womb, 100 percent were right handed when investigated at age 10 to 12, whereas of 15 who […]
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Divorce: The most expensive life event according to 61% of those who know

WINNIPEG, MB – July 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new poll of divorced Canadians shows that a majority believe divorce is the most financially expensive event that can happen in a person’s life.  Focus on the Family Canada quoted the results of the poll this week urging Canadians to think twice about the hurtful step. An Investors Group poll of 160 divorced Canadian adults conducted by Decima Research shows that divorce often comes with a financial penalty: 47 per cent of respondents say divorce made their financial situation worse. In fact, respondents also reported that because of their divorce:  35 […]
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Germany Acknowledges Impending Pension System Collapse from Low Population

WITTENBERGE, July 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – German officials are waking up to the realization that their current pension system is headed for imminent collapse. The present demographic trend reveals that, by 2050, more then half the population will be age 65 or older. Although the trend is uniform across Europe, Germans may feel the pinch most, because of their highly state-funded pension system. Compared to other countries such as the UK, pensioners in Germany receive twice as much money from the public purse as their British counterparts.  In order to maintain the pension system, there must be at least four […]
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Fertility Drugs used in IVF a Health Hazard for Women

CHICAGO, July 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In-vitro fertilization involves a process known as ovulation induction, where a woman is placed on drugs that promote the formation of several eggs. A new study published in the Journal of Periodontology reveals that the drugs used are leading to increased incidence of gingivitis, a condition of inflammation of the gums, leading to bleeding and painful gums.  Whereas a woman normally releases only one egg during ovulation at a time, ovulation-inducing drugs such as the most common, clomiphene citrate, causes a woman’s ovaries to produce multiple eggs. The drug is not without its dangers, […]
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UK Authorities to Allow Mining of IVF Designer Babies for Stem Cells

BELFAST, July 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has allowed the creation of IVF babies to be used for tissue donors. In some cases a patient suffering from a variety of illnesses can benefit from stem cells obtained from a sibling or other close relative. Pressure has been on to allow the creation of children in IVF clinics in hope of obtaining a source of matched stem cells. Using pre-implantation genetic screening, an embryo that is selected to live is implanted in the mother and if the baby survives the umbilical cord blood is used […]
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Malta Stands Fast against UN Feminist Offensive

NEW YORK, July 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has met with the Maltese delegation to continue discussion of that country’s compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Malta entered and maintains a set of ‘reservations’ to the full implementation of the treaty, which it ratified in 1991. Abortion is illegal in overwhelmingly Catholic Malta and the Maltese appear determined to keep it that way. The Committee met again with the Maltese representatives on July 19th to hear replies to questions posed to it […]
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President of Catholic Missions Fully Supports ‘Pro-Abortion’ Politician in High Level Post

TORONTO, July 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Sebastien Groleau President of Catholic Missions In Canada (CMIC), an organ of the Catholic Church and chaired by Toronto Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic, has responded to concerns over his appointment of a former Ontario cabinet minister listed as ‘pro-abortion’ by a pro-life group to a high-profile post within the Catholic organization.  Following a LifeSiteNews.com story which exposed former cabinet minister Tina Molinari’s controversial background, several pro-lifers and past donors to CMIC expressed their concerns to the organization.  Rev. Groleau side-stepped the concerns expressed by pro-lifers over the appointment of Molinari, merely stating that CMIC […]
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Canadian pot use doubled in last 13 years, other drug use also up: StatsCan https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=737&e=1&u=/cpress/20040721/ca_pr_on_na/health_drug_use   “See” what the unborn think on Bush vs. Kerry on ‘04 https://vividology.com/rightchoice/  France Anti-Homophobia Legislation Could Stifle Free Speech, Warn Bishops https://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57053   Ottawa to introduce biometric passports – Computer chip will hold digital information on holder https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1090148464198&call_pageid=968256289824&col=968705899037&tacodalogin=no   UN Abortion-Pushing Agency Complains of U.S. Funding Cut   https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11383&Cr=unfpa&Cr1=
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UK Reports Nearly 6000 more Abortions in 2003 over 2002

LONDON, July 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The abortion rate in the UK jumped by 3.2 per cent last year, from 175,900 in 2002 to 181,600 in 2003, according to recent statistics released by the Department of Health.  Among women aged 15 to 44, there were 17.5 abortions per 1,000, with highest figures for women aged 20 to 24, at 31.3 abortions per 1,000 women. The largest jump of 5.4 percent, however, was realized in girls under the age of 16, where abortions were committed on 3.9 girls per thousand, as compared to 3.7 per thousand in 2002.  Youth pro-life groups […]
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Opus Dei Bishop Sent by Vatican to Austria to Investigate Homosexual Seminary Scandals

VIENNA, July 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On July 12, the Austrian news service, Profil, published a series of lurid photographs and a report of homosexual activity at Sankt Poelten seminary. The German language newspaper also reported 40,000 pornographic images having been downloaded onto seminary computers. The Austrian bishops’ conference has instigated an internal investigation, there have been demands that the bishop resign, and two seminary officials have already resigned. There is also a possibility of a criminal investigation since the scandal involves child pornography – illegal in Austria. Seminary rector Ulrich Kuechl and vice-rector Wolfgang Rothe have stepped down while […]
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Abortion Center Fights Playground – Sound of children playing strains abortion-bound mothers

PERTH, Australia, July 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Marie Stopes International Australia abortuary is objecting to a planned childcare centre being built next door—officials are worried that the happy sounds of children playing will be upsetting to women who are about to kill their own unborn children.  ‘The main reason (for the objection) was that their clients would be hopping out of their car to enter the back door of the clinic and would hear the voices of children and I guess they felt that was going to emotionally upset them,” Mayor Charlie Gregorini said, as reported by Australia’s Sunday […]
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Last Chance to Express Opposition to ‘Morning-After Pill’ Over the Counter Status

OTTAWA, July 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s pro-life organizations are reminding Canadians that the last opportunity to make known opposition to the reclassification of the so-called morning-after pill is almost here. In May, the Health Canada agency announced its intentions to allow the drug, formally known as levonorgestrel, to be available over-the-counter at pharmacies without a doctor’s prescription.  Pro-life advocates have been opposing this reclassification on a number of grounds, especially because of the fact that at least in some cases – and despite claims to the contrary – the drug causes an early abortion. It prevents a newly created […]
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Actor George Clooney’s Dad Running for Democrats, Claims to be Against Abortion

WASHINGTON, July 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nick Clooney, the 70-year old father of actor George Clooney, is running for Congress on a Democratic ticket for Kentucky’s 4th district.  Clooney has the financial backing of Hollywood’s biggest names such as Catharine Zeta Jones, Michael Douglas and Renee Zellweger.  Certain press reports on his candidacy call him a “commonsense” Democrat who is opposed to abortion.   However, if he is opposed to abortion, Clooney’s website is not eager to admit it, nor are his press people.  LifeSiteNews.com contacted Clooney’s press handler B.J. Neidhardt to ask about Clooney’s views on abortion but Neidhart […]
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New Canadian Health Minister Begins Early With Double Talk on Privatization of Healthcare

OTTAWA, July 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his first public comments as Canada’s new Health Minister, Ujjal Dosanjh took a swing at private health care, even though he backed private abortion clinics while serving as the NDP Premier in British Columbia.  “What we need to do is stem the tide of privatization in Canada and expand public delivery of health care, so that we have a stronger health-care system for all Canadians,” said Dosanjh yesterday.  Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition commented on the appointment of Dosanjh saying, “The Prime Minister should take a second look at whom […]
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Canada’s First Same-Sex Divorce: Separated after 5 Days of ‘Marriage’ – Set-Up Suspected

TORONTO, July 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A same-sex couple has filed what is believed to be the first homosexual divorce since the introduction of homosexual “marriage” in Ontario in June last year. The women, referred to only by their initials, M.M. and J.H., were “married” June 18, 2003, and separated five days later. The pair had reportedly been together for five years before that date.  M.M. argued in court that Canada’s Divorce Act needs to be changed to reflect the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in Ontario, Quebec, B.C. and the Yukon. She wants the court to decree that the definition […]
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Canadian Woman Awarded $60,000 for “Failed” Abortion

VANCOUVER, July 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The B.C. Supreme Court awarded a single mother $60,000 in damages for a “failed” abortion. The child survived the 1997 attempt on its life, and was later born healthy. The money awarded covers general damages for the “emotional turmoil” she experienced for having to go through with an unwanted pregnancy, and for wages lost during the recovery from giving birth. The court denied compensation for the cost of raising the child. Justice Glen Parrett said “the joy she derives from the presence of this child in her life” constituted enough of a reward to […]
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France Allows Deadly Experimentation on Human Embryos but Claims to Ban All Human Cloning

PARIS, July 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The French government has passed a new law claiming to ban all human cloning but allowing deadly research on human embryos left over from fertility treatments. While they claim to ban both reproductive and ‘therapeutic’ human cloning, many countries have adopted the Canadian legislation as a model, which, while claiming to ban human cloning, nonetheless leaves open the possibility for human cloning for research proposes.  Read related coverage:  https://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/94729/1/.html
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B.C. Child Porn Peddler Sharpe Handed Two-Year Minimum Sentence for Assaulting Boy

VANCOUVER, July 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – John Robin Sharpe was sentenced Monday to two years less a day for indecent assault committed against a boy in the late 1970’s. Sharpe challenged Canadian child pornography laws at the Supreme Court, after a charge of possession of child pornography. The Supreme Court ruled that some child pornography could be protected as free speech if it is found to have “artistic merit.”  The crime carries with it a minimum sentence of two years, up to a maximum of 10 years. Justice Robert Edwards said Sharpe, who is 71 and in poor health, was […]
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Japanese Abortuary Disposing Aborted Babies in Regular Garbage

YOKOHAMA, July 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Japanese abortuary has been discarding aborted babies as regular garbage for several years. Former employees of the Isezaki Women’s Clinic in Yokohama City, southwest of Tokyo, said they had been disposing of the aborted babies in plastic bags and putting them out with the regular trash.  “It is horrible if it is true,” Chikara Sakaguchi, Japan’s health minister said at a news conference, as reported by the AFP. “We will take measures after finding out what is actually going on.” Up until two years ago, before the clinic discontinued late-term abortions, staff reportedly […]
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Dept of Justice Appeals Oregon Assisted Suicide Ruling

PORTLAND, July 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Department of Justice has asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to re-evaluate its 2-1 May ruling upholding Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act. The attorney general’s office has requested a new ruling or for a retrial by a full panel of 11 judges. Attorney general John Ashcroft had challenged Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide law, arguing that the prescribing of lethal medications by doctors was in contravention of the federal Controlled Substances Act. Two of three state judges disagreed, arguing that the regulation of medical practice is outside the jurisdiction of the federal government.  “Under […]
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Iran Legalizes Abortion

TEHRAN, July 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Iranian parliament approved a draft bill legalizing abortion Tuesday. The new legislation will allow the abortion of “deformed” babies, or if the pregnancy poses a potentially fatal health risk to the pregnant mother. Because Islamic teaching says that a baby does not have a soul until 17 weeks, few Moslem religious leaders have opposed the measure. One cleric who disapproves of the move, Mohammad Taqi Mohassel, told the Associated Press, “The bill tells the world that Iran’s parliament has permitted abortion. That’s why I oppose it.” The 12-member Guardian Council must also approve […]
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Diogenes of Catholic World News’ Blog reports Archbishop Francis Zayek, shepherd of the Eastern rite Eparchy of St. Maron in Brooklyn gave $500 to John Kerry back in 1989—4 years after Kerry made his first impassioned defence of legalized abortion as a newly elected senator https://www.cwnews.com/offtherecord/offtherecord.cfm?task=singledisplay&recnum=2026   Plans to relax “designer baby” rules to allow more screening and selection of embryos have been welcomed by medics but condemned by pro-life groups.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3903535.stm A childless couple are searching for an egg donor by handing out leaflets and putting up posters in local bars.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/3905955.stm   Homosexual Conference Proposes Multiple Sex Partners […]
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Homosexual Porn Web site Run from Residential Home Shut Down by Neighbours

SANFORD, FL, July 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Seminole County judge has ruled in favour of a homeowners’ association that claimed a group of men leasing a house in its neighbourhood were violating its restrictions on running a business out of a home.  The men installed 24 cameras in the house and charged customers to view their sex acts on a Web site. According to the lawsuit, residents were concerned about a wide variety of activities surrounding the business at the home, including increased speeding traffic, noise related to parties at the home that were advertised through the Web site, […]
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Planned Parenthood’s Kids’ Conference Distributes Pornography – Parents Barred

WACO, Texas, July 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood’s week-long conference for children, Nobody’s Fool, opened Thursday, attracting 350 youngsters, according to a Waco news source. The conference, open to children from grades 4 to 9, or 10 to 14 years old, bans parents from attending. American Life League’s STOPP International executive director, Jim Sedlak called the conference a “thinly veiled attack on parental rights, public morality and the health and well-being of our children,” according to a MichNews account. For the $5 admission charge, children also receive a free copy of the book, “It’s Perfectly Normal,” an 89-page primer […]
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U.S. Bishop Notes Practical Reason for Not Allowing Homosexual Men to Become Priests

FORT WAYNE, July 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop John M. D’Arcy of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese in Indiana has spoken out against allowing homosexual men to become priests.  While some have argued that the main issue in the debate is celibacy, a requirement for the priesthood in Roman Catholicism, Bishop D’Arcy points out that it is not practical for homosexual men to be placed in seminary with other men.  The bishop compared the case of a homosexual man entering seminary to that of heterosexual men entering seminary.  ‘‘We don’t put these [heterosexual] men in with attractive women,” he said. […]
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Pro-life Students Walking across U.S. States for Life Denied Permission to Speak in Philadelphia Cat

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Undeterred by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s refusal to permit them to speak at area masses, American Life League’s Summer Crusade for Life walkers arrived in Philadelphia last week. During their stay they will pray at local abortion mills, meet with Catholic public figures and speak to gatherings of faithful Catholics in their homes and other venues. “We are disappointed that the Archdiocese would not allow us to speak at parishes in my home diocese, but there is much more good news than bad. We have been welcomed overwhelmingly in other dioceses,” said Ann Furlong, […]
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Germany Opens Door to Homosexual Adoption of Children

BERLIN, July 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Germany announced a plan Sunday to expand same-sex partnership laws to include allowing adoption of children. The expanded law will also usher in more extensive pension rights, alimony for separated couples, and official registration of “engagements” by same-sex partners. The expanded law is set to come into effect January 1, 2005.  Christian Democratic member of parliament Norbert Röttgen said, “We don’t know how homosexual relationships affect children.” He vowed that his party would fight the new ruling all the way to the country’s highest court if necessary, according to a dw-world report. Röttgen continued […]
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U.S. Refuses to Air Canadian Teen Soap Opera Episode Pushing Abortion

NEW YORK, July 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. television station, Viacom-owned N Channel, that normally broadcasts the Canadian show, “Degrassi: The Next Generation,” has refused to air two episodes—because they depict a lead character who chooses to abort her unborn child. The episode is described by New York Times writer Kate Arthur: “Two 14-year-old girls are talking. One, named Manny, says to the other: ‘I’m just trying to do the right thing here. For me. For everyone, I guess’”—a conversation about a girl describing to her friend why she has decided to abort her child. Underscoring why many LifeSiteNews.com […]
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Catholic Missions in Canada Appoints “Pro-Abortion” Former Cabinet Minister to Leadership

TORONTO, July 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a press release today, Catholic Missions In Canada (CMIC) said it was “pleased to announce that former member of Ontario provincial parliament, Tina Molinari, has joined the senior professional team of Catholic Missions In Canada as national director of development.”  However, LifeSiteNews.com has learned that during her political tenure, Molinari was listed as “pro-abortion” by the pro-life group Campaign Life Coalition.  CMIC, a charitable organization mandated by the Vatican to support the Canadian missions established in 1908, will distribute close to $4-million in grants, loans and bursaries in 2004.  The CMIC release notes […]
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Court Nixes Law Requiring Parental Consent on Abortion for Minors in Idaho

BOISE, July 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a 65-page ruling handed down today, a federal appeals court ruled that the Idaho law requiring parental consent when minors ask for abortions was unconstitutional.  The three judge panel ruled that the law, even though it provides for an exception in ‘emergency’ cases, “fails to provide sufficient access to an abortion for minor women whose life or health necessitate one.”  Jhw
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17 National Disability Groups File Briefs in Case to Back Florida Law Protecting Terri Schiavo

PALM BEACH, July 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday July 12, disability advocates filed a friend of the court brief in a case that affects the rights of people with cognitive disabilities across Florida and, potentially, nationwide. The Disability Brief urges the state Supreme Court to reverse the lower court and uphold Terri Schiavo’s right to food, water and rehabilitation. The groups are among the nation’s leading civil rights organizations representing people with disabilities. They joined to support ‘Terri’s Law’ noting that “the standards upon which Ms. Schiavo’s life or death turn may, if defined broadly enough, (can) also be […]
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Having More Babies and Later in Life Can Reduce Cancer Risk

LOS ANGELES, July 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Malcolm Pike, a researcher at the University of Southern California and his colleagues reported in Wednesday’s issue of the journal Fertility & Sterility that late pregnancy seems to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer. The researchers’ statistical investigation found that women who had their last children after the age of 35 had a 58 percent lower risk of ovarian cancer compared with women who had never had a child. What is more, the researchers seem to have found that having many children reduces risk even more. Women who had four or more children […]
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NAACP Loses Presidential Addresses by Hateful Anti-Bush Rhetoric

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US President George W. Bush has chosen to address the Urban League while declining to attend a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People assembly, White House spokesman Scott McClellan told the Washington Times Thursday.  NAACP chairman Julian Bond, at the organization’s national convention, called Republicans “neo-fascists,”“the white-people’s party” and “a crazed swarm of right-wing locusts,” who “draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics, and now they want to write bigotry back into the U.S. Constitution.”“It really is disappointing to see the current leadership continue to repeat the […]
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IVF Child Conceived With Dead Man’s Sperm is Ruled by Court to be His Child

TAKAMATSU, July 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The moral labyrinth created by the IVF industry is producing some of history’s more memorable legal decisions. A Japanese court has ruled that the child born of IVF using a dead man’s sperm is, in fact, the man’s child. The child was conceived in a lab after his father died of leukemia. When the child’s mother tried to register the birth, the local government refused to allow it on the grounds that the father had died more than 300 days before the birth date. The normal length of human gestation is about 270 days. […]
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Ex-MP and Admitted Thief Svend Robinson on NDP-Sponsored Trip to Europe Funded by Taxpayers

EDINBURGH, July 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Svend Robinson was sent by the Canada’s New Democratic Party on a taxpayer-funded trip to Scotland as a political representative of Canada – soon before his criminal trial, and despite no longer being a Member of Parliament.  A delegation of eight MPs from the country were sent for the July 5-9 meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, held in Edinburgh. The OSCE “is active in early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation” in Eastern European countries, according to their web-site. The OSCE is made up of 55 member […]
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The Link between Abortion & Contraception

Toronto, July 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  “Contraception” is NOT a solution to abortion, but rather part of the problem” says Toronto RTL Executive Director Natalie Hudson in an article in the summer 2004 issue of Right to Life News Canada.  In her educational report on this issue Hudson lays out the factual and statistical case indicating an historically strong Link between abortion and the availability and promotion of contraception. In Canada, she notes, the legalization of both the birth control pill and abortion in 1969 was followed by an almost immediate huge increase in the number of abortions. Hudson continues […]
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U.N.‘s Top AIDS Envoy Forgets Diplomacy in Demonizing U.S. Abstinence First Strategy

BANGKOK, July 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The International AIDS Conference in Bangkok is in an uproar.  While overpopulated with pro-condom ideologues, it is hearing from Uganda, the only African nation that has dramatically reversed the epidemic, on why condom use is a very distant third add-on to their successful ABC program of promotion of abstinence before marriage and being faithful during marriage.  However, rather than slamming the Ugandan delegation at the conference which included the Ugandan President, the anger of the pro-condom activists has been directed at the United States which has taken Uganda as an example and adopted a […]
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Bush Administration Continues to Deny Funding to United Nations Arm over Forced Abortion

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com has been informed that the Bush Administration announced today that the United Nations Population Fund’s support for the coercive Chinese forced abortion and involuntary sterilization program makes it ineligible for United States funding. UNFPA will thus not receive any federal funding for the Fiscal Year 2004.  Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton), Vice Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations and a leading human rights advocate in Congress commented on the decision stating, “The UNFPA continues to be guilty of shamelessly supporting and whitewashing terrible crimes against humanity, and the United States will have […]
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German Cardinal Who Opposed Pope over Abortion Counselling Slammed by Colleague for Fostering Dissen

COLOGNE, July 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Breaking with the custom of diplomacy, a German cardinal has made some blunt accusations in a public forum against another leading German prelate. Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Cologne, known for his “conservative” views, has accused his colleague, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, the Archbishop of Mainz of promoting a leftist, liberalized view of the Catholic faith according to England’s Catholic magazine, The Tablet. The article says, Cardinal Meisner, who will host the Pope and the youth of the world next year for World Youth Day, says Lehmann has encouraged dissident theologians and ideas at last […]
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Japan Gov’t Approves Human Cloning for Research

TOKYO, July 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Japanese government has accepted the advice an advisory panel handed down Tuesday to allow human cloning for research purposes.  Japanese media report that the Science Ministry and other relevant government branches will compile guidelines based on the recommendations.  The panel recommended permitting the cloning of human embryos in the hopes of embryonic stem cell treatments for various diseases.  See local coverage:  https://www.asahi.com/english/nation/TKY200407150183.html jhw
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Brazil Legalizes Abortion of Anencephalic Babies

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Brazil expanded its abortion law July 1, allowing the abortion of anencephalic children – children with no brain. Abortion is already legal in Brazil for women whose pregnancy is the result of rape, or if a pregnancy endangers the mother’s life.  Supreme Court justice Marco Aurelio de Mello said that forcing women to carry their anencephalic children to term would “[damage] their moral and psychological integrity,” because the chance of anencephalic children surviving more than a few minutes after birth was a “medical impossibility.” The decision came despite strong criticism from the […]
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Euthanasia Movement in Canada far more Radical than UK Counterpart

LONDON, July 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The euthanasia movement in Canada is far more radical than the euthanasia movement in Britain, according to Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. After admitting that he advised terminally ill patients how to commit suicide, leaders of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (VES) decided to expel euthanasia campaigner Dr. Michael Irwin from the group. The VES stated that their wish to distance themselves from their former chairman was in order to maintain its reputation as a lawful enterprise.  Euthanasia activists in Canada, on the other hand, have gone so far as to defend and […]
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US House Committee Passes Conscience Protection Amendment

WASHINGTON, July 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee has approved an amendment that will prevent health workers from being sued for refusing to co-operate with abortion. Because the United States Supreme Court has interpreted abortion as a constitutionally protected right, health care workers who refuse to commit, refer for or pay for abortion have been vulnerable to legal action. The amendment would block funding for any federal, state or local agency that takes legal action against health care providers that refuse to carry out abortions, pay for them or refer patients. The amended spending bill […]
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United Nations Feminist Enforcers Turn the Pressure on Catholic Malta

NEW YORK, July 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The tiny island state of Malta has long been coveted by conquerors for its strategic position off the tip of Sicily in the Mediterranean. In their more than five thousand year history, the Maltese have not been strangers to conquest and colonialism. The latest attempt at conquest is coming from the United Nations in the form of the UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). A compliance committee of the notoriously strident group is putting pressure on the Catholic nation to adopt their leftist feminist ideologies into its domestic law. CEDAW’s […]
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Canada Broadcast Regulators Allow Al Jazeera and CNN, Fox News still under Consideration

OTTAWA, July 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Broadcasts regulators who years ago gained notoriety for allowing the Playboy channel on the same day they turned down the all-Catholic EWTN (more recently allowed in Canada), announced today that they have approved the Arab news station most noted for airing terrorist threats – Al Jazeera.  Yesterday, the regulators noted that they are just now considering allowing Fox News into Canada and are seeking public input, even though Ted Turner’s left-leaning CNN and CNN Headline News have been long permitted in Canada.  The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released three public notices […]
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Canada’s Yukon Territory Forced to Legalize Homosexual Marriage by Judicial Fiat

WHITEHORSE, July 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Yukon Supreme Court told a homosexual couple Wednesday that their “marriage,” planned for the weekend, is legal. Justice Peter McIntyre ordered the territory to change its legal definition of marriage to say, “The voluntary union for life of two persons, to the exclusion of all others,” calling the old definition “discriminatory.” The Yukon government subsequently issued a marriage licence to Stephen Dunbar and Rob Edge. The Yukon government was also ordered to pay costs for the legal proceedings. Dunbar decided to sue both the Yukon and Dominion governments in February, after being denied […]
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United States is facing a moral crisis of stupendous proportions https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/7/13/161041.shtml   Dobson: Senators ‘cowed’ by homosexual lobbyists https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39429   Democrats Attempt to force FDA to allow over the counter abortifacient Morning After Pill https://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-exec/2004/jul/13/071307919.html   Mayor wants to Make 9-11 Film Creator Michael Moore an honorary Canadian citizen https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1089756612331&call_pageid=968332188492&tacodalogin=no   Health Canada Urged to Make Bettter Dope https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=1845&e=20&u=/cpress/20040712/ca_pr_on_na/new_improved_dope   Big US retailers profit from Christmas but refuse to mention holiday by name https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125516,00.html   Significant increase in violence, sex and profanity in films from 1992-2003 https://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=filmNews&storyID=5665263   U.S. Gov’t Planning Embryonic Stem Cell Bank https://www.11alive.com/news/usnews_article.aspx?storyid=49188   San Francisco Same-Sex […]
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Charges Dropped against New Paltz Ministers who Illegally “Married” Homosexuals

NEW PALTZ, New York, July 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A judge threw out all charges Tuesday against Unitarian Universalist ministers, Kay Greenleaf and Dawn Sangrey, for presiding over the weddings of 13 homosexual couples in March. None of the 13 same-sex couples possessed valid marriage licenses. “There can be no constitutional rationale for denying same-sex couples the right to receive the benefits that are so lavishly bestowed on mixed-sex couples,” New Paltz Town Justice Judith Reichler wrote in her decision, as reported by the Associated Press. District Attorney for Ulster County, Donald Williams, charged the women after they performed the […]
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Commission Says Teen Curfew Violates Quebec Charter

MONTREAL, July 14, 2004 – Quebec’s human rights commission has told a town plagued by vandalism that imposing an overnight curfew on residents younger than 16 would violate the provincial Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. The commission told the town of Huntingdon that the charter guarantees Quebecers freedom of movement and freedom of peaceful assembly regardless of their age.  The curfew was to be implemented as a response to a rash of vandalism in recent months that damaged windows, gravestones, and public property. The statement amounts to an opinion to guide municipal officials as they decide whether to implement […]
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Israeli Court allows Removal of Life-Support without Patient Consent

TEL AVIV, July 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Israeli court set a precedent Tuesday by allowing a man to be removed from life support without his written consent. The 74 year old man has been in a persistent vegetative state for eight months following cardiac arrest.  The man’s son and wife testified at a hearing last week that, in 2001, after an unrelated traffic accident in which he was injured but still conscious, the man said he did not want to be placed on life support, as he would cause the family an undue burden. Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of […]
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Conservative MP Says Caucus Leaks on Move to “the Centre” are Unfounded Rumours

OTTAWA, July 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Unabashedly Pro-Life Conservative Saskatchewa MP Garry Breitkreuz, spoke with LifeSiteNews.com yesterday about press stories on a touted shift to “the centre” by the Conservatives.  In the article, “Harper to steer party to centre”, the National Post alarmed social conservatives last week by reporting that unnamed sources claimed “Harper made private assurances to his caucus he wants to steer the party closer to the political centre.”  However, Mr. Breitkreuz told LifeSiteNews.com that he did not get that out of the meeting at all.  The Post article began: “Stephen Harper, whose bid to be prime minister […]
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How Individual U.S. Senators Voted on Marriage Amendment Procedural Vote

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following is the detailed Senator by Senator vote on today’s vote that killed the federal marriage amendment. List is provided courtesy of the Culture of Life Foundation: Vote Counts: YEAs—-48 Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Allen (R-VA) Bennett (R-UT) Bond (R-MO) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burns (R-MT) Byrd (D-WV) Chambliss (R-GA) Cochran (R-MS) Coleman (R-MN) Cornyn (R-TX) Craig (R-ID) Crapo (R-ID) DeWine (R-OH) Dole (R-NC) Domenici (R-NM) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Fitzgerald (R-IL) Frist (R-TN) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Kyl (R-AZ) Lott (R-MS) Lugar (R-IN) […]
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“Mainstream” reporters aren’t just liberal—they’re fanatical https://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005312   The Death of Morality https://www.crisismagazine.com/feature2.htm   Dobson, Archbishop O’Malley, Laura Bush, Karl Rove Named ‘Most Dangerous People in America’   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/5937/CFI/family/index.htm   Ron Reagan Shocker: Stem Cells WON’T Cure Alzheimer’s https://www.lifesitenews.com/admintools/breakadmin/index.php   Supreme Court sides with pornographers, again https://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/ps20040712.shtml   Population of India to overtake China’s within 30 years https://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,12559,1259206,00.html   Still no easy choice https://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10129938%5E28737,00.html   Closing Microsoft – John Dvorak https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1622629,00.asp   The Right of U.S. Hospitals to Choose NOT to Participate in an Abortion https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU04G09&f=PG03I03   Senate Resumes Debate on Gay Marriage Ban   https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040712/ap_on_go_co/gay_marriage   UNICEF leaves unborn […]
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Bishop and Governor Intervene to have Offensive Material Removed from South Dakota State Library Sit

SIOUX FALLS, July 13, 2004 (lifeSiteNews.com) – The State Library service of South Dakota has removed links to Planned Parenthood from the library website. The library had refused to comply when a school librarian in Huron made the request in April that they remove links to Planned Parenthood Teenwire website and the Kaiser Family Foundation. The bishop of the Catholic diocese of Sioux Falls then asked Governor Rounds to intervene with the Library Board.  In a 12 May letter to Rounds, Bishop Carlson wrote, “I trust that you will agree that the information found on these links are not only […]
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Study: Teens’ “Religious Commitment,” linked to Lower Promiscuity, Delinquency

AUSTIN, Texas, July 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New research released Tuesday by the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society highlights a number of studies that show an inverse correlation between levels of religious commitment in teens and rates of juvenile delinquency, premarital sex, and substance abuse. The research also found that in teens involved in more devout forms of religious life, especially conservative Catholic or conservative Protestant, there was an even greater restraint on such adolescent behavior. University of Texas at Austin professor Mark D. Regnerus found that religious devotion, as measured by church attendance and church membership, did […]
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Federal Marriage Amendment Debate Stalls in Senate

WASHINGTON, July 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As debate nears a prescheduled close on the Federal Marriage Amendment proposal before the US Senate, Republicans find themselves divided by a Democrat-induced tangle. Democratic Senators surprised the GOP by agreeing not to block a proposed vote on the amendment, granted that the amendment was unaltered.  The wording of the proposed Amendment, sponsored by Colorado Republican Senator Wayne Allard, is as follows: “Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman,” with a second line that states “Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, […]
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Abortion Ship Beached by Dutch Government

AMSTERDAM, July 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Dutch abortion ship operated by the radical abortion group, “Women on Waves” has been restricted by the government to Dutch territorial waters. The ship can only operate within 25 kilometers of Slotervaart Hospital in Amsterdam. Health State Secretary Clemence Ross informed Parliament of the decision Tuesday. The ship was beached in response to objections by members of the Christian Democrat and other parties.  The ship’s appearance in other countries where abortion is illegal has been seen as an act of neo-colonialism by pro-life spokesmen in Ireland where it was also called a “noxious […]
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Bush-Cheney Campaigning on Faith, Life, Freedom and Democracy

PITTSBURGH, PA, July 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At a Victory 2004 reception today, Vice President Dick Cheney said, “President Bush and I will also continue to defend our society’s fundamental rights and values.” To applause, Cheney said, “We stand for the fair treatment of faith-based charities, so they can receive federal support for their good works. We stand for a culture of life, and we reject the brutal practice of partial birth abortion.” Addressing the pledge of allegiance controversy, Cheney said, “We believe that our nation is one nation under God, and that Americans ought to be able to say […]
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Kerry Attempts to Appeal to Hispanics as “A Man of Faith,” former Altar Boy

WASHINGTON, July 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator John Kerry has debuted a Spanish language ad aimed at New Mexico Hispanics, touting himself as “un hombre de fe,” a man of faith, according to an Albuquerque Tribune report. Although the advertisement does not explicitly state his religion as Catholic, the religion of nearly all Hispanics, it does claim that he was an altar-boy and that he considered the priesthood. “John Kerry is a man of faith, as is the overwhelming majority of the Hispanic community,” New Mexico campaign spokesman Ruben Pulido told the Tribune. “This is another value that connects John […]
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Canada Forbids Free Bible Distribution to New Canadians

TORONTO, July 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Bible Society is disappointed and strongly questioning the rationale behind a recent decision by Senior Citizenship Judge Michel Simard, removing the Society’s ability to present bibles on request to new Canadians.  For more than 50 years the Society has welcomed immigrants in citizenship courts, offering them copies of the Scriptures. The right of the Society to do that was formalized in an agreement signed in 1998 with the government. At all times, it was made clear that acceptance of the bibles was purely voluntary on the part of the recipients.  “We don’t […]
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Vatican Cardinal Confirms Leaked Memo on Communion and Pro-abortion Politicos as “Doctrine of the Ch

VATICAN, July 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The document which appeared in the pages of the Italian paper L’Espresso claiming to be Vatican Cardinal Ratzinger’s paper giving direction to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on the question of pro-abortion Catholic politicians and communion has been confirmed as authentic.  In a letter sent to Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Cardinal Ratzinger confirms he did compose the document “Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion.”  In fact, Ratzinger, who heads the most important congregation in the Vatican, says in the letter that the document was to “clarify the doctrine of the Church on this specific […]
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ACLU calls Amendment to protect Traditional Marriage ‘Dangerous’  https://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=106-07122004   Schiavo’s parents ask appeals court to reconsider case https://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Florida/03FloridaSTAT08071004.htm   North Dakota Bishops Tell Priests to Preach on Sanctity of Marriage – Get Catholics to Lobby to Protect Traditional Marriage https://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=63571§ion=News   Reagan’s son Ron Jr. to speak at Dem convention https://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-07-12-reagan-dems-convention_x.htm
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Since Denver Meeting Divisions Between US Bishops on Communion Issue Continue to Surface

ST. AUGUSTINE/AUSTIN, July 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Different statements from two US Catholic bishops on the communion issue has brought to the surface what has probably been a long-simmering lack of unity among US bishops on critical issues. Bishop Victor Galeone of St. Augustine Fl., who has given a rousing defence of the supremacy of the life issues in Catholic moral teaching, still will not insist that abortion supporters be actively refused communion despite recent clear directions from Rome on the issue. Conversely, a month ago, Bishop Gregory Aymond of Austin said that when a person is determined to continue […]
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Pro-Abort “Catholic” Congressman Suggests Catholic Church’s Tax Status be Revoked

ST. LOUIS, July 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The conflict in the US Catholic Church over the issue of communion for pro-abortion public figures has again revealed the wide chasm between faithful and dissident Catholics. Congressman William Lacy Clay, another “Catholic” Democrat who supports abortion on demand, has said that his Archbishop, Raymond Burke of St. Louis, has “gone too far.” Rep.Clay has complained that Burke, one of the few US bishops who has said he would order his priests to refuse communion to public abortion-supporters, is crossing the Church/State line. He suggests that the Catholic Church ought to have its […]
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Marriage Amendment “Only Alternative” to Judicial Activism Says Bush

Washington, D.C., July 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a recent radio address, President Bush strongly urged the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate “to pass, and send to the states for ratification, an amendment that defines marriage in the United States as a union of a man and woman as husband and wife.” He insisted that “American democracy, not court orders, should decide the future of marriage in America.”  Decrying judicial activism, Bush said that “When judges insist on imposing their arbitrary will on the people, the only alternative left to the people is an amendment to […]
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Ontario Government Told to Rehire Senders of Large Volume of “very offensive” Email Porn

July 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An arbitrator has ordered the Ontario government to rehire six employees it fired three years ago for swapping pornographic e-mails at work. The arbitrator, Ken Petrayshen, decided that, although the six exchanged sexually explicit material that was in some instances “very offensive,” the government did not have proper cause to dismiss them. The decision was quietly released on June 18, the same day Michael Briere pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the killing of Holly Jones, saying the killing had been motivated by pornography.  The six men were picked out as the worst of […]
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Richmond’s New Bishop Cleans House

RICHMOND,Virginia, July 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Diocese of Richmond’s newly appointed bishop, Francis X. DiLorenzo has delighted faithful Catholics in what has been until recently one of the more dissident dioceses in the US. The Richmond diocese has been ruled by extreme liberal bishop William Sullivan for 29 years. Sullivan, considered one of the most left-leaning US bishops, has retired at the normal retirement age of 75.  Bishop DiLorenzo has come from the diocese of Hawaii with a strong record of orthodoxy. When he first receiving the news of his transfer DiLorenzo said, “There is no agenda the pope […]
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U.S. House Maintains Blockade of UNFPA Funds

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A US House of Representatives committee voted Friday to continue its funding embargo of the controversial United Nations Population Fund, the UNFPA. The House Appropriations Committee approved a $19.4 billion foreign aid bill, but denied a Democratic-sponsored initiative to spend $25 million on UNFPA-sponsored “family planning”—a euphemism for population-control, contraception, abortion, voluntary and coerced abortion.  The denial marks the fourth year the Bush-led administration has withheld the funds, arguing that the UNFPA’s support for coerced abortion in China violates US law.  Read the LifeSiteNews.com Special Report:  UNFPA Supports Coercive Family Planning-Including Forced Abortion-in China […]
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Survey: 18% reveal Gibson’s “Passion” Inspired Greater Church Attendance and Personal Prayer

VENTURA, California, July 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ inspired a greater frequency of church attendance, personal prayer, and church-related activity, according to a Barna Group Survey. In total, 18 percent of respondents admitted that their practice of religion was altered as a result of seeing the film.  The Barna Group surveyed 1,600 adults from across the US on the impact that viewing The Passion had on their lives. In total, one-third (31 percent) of Americans reported having seen the film. Although this is not as high as other block-busters released in the last year […]
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Winona’s St. Mary’s University Refuses to Promise it Will Not Invite Pro-Abort Honorees

WINONA, July 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On July 7, in the wake of the USCCB’s meeting in Denver on the issue of pro-abortion Catholic politicians, Winona Wisconsin Bishop Bernard Harrington wrote a column in the diocesan newspaper calling on Catholic institutions to refuse honors to pro-abortion politicians and public figures. He asked “Catholic institutions not to honor those ‘in defiance of our fundamental moral principles’ with awards honors or ‘platforms which would suggest support for their actions.’” The reaction of a local University has been an emphatic denial that the bishop can make such a demand of a Catholic institution […]
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International AIDS Conference Told by Leading AIDS Fighter Use Abstinence Not Condoms

BANGKOK, July 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The International AIDS Conference which opened in Bangkok yesterday was launched with a presentation by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, the leading promoter of the unusually successful Ugandan AIDS program. The Ugandan program has led to a drop in the nation’s AIDS rate from 30 percent to six percent.  While AIDS researchers constantly push condoms as the solution to AIDS Museveni has discouraged condoms saying, “I look at the condom as an improvisation—not a solution—an improvisation.”  The Ugandan ABC program promotes abstinence and sex within marriage as the primary solutions to AIDS.  “[In the first […]
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HLI Goes Head to Head With Warren Buffet https://www.hli.org/lone_naysayer.html   Weblog: What John Edwards Believes https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/127/12.0.html   Cosby Does Serious Stand-Up https://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/lifestyle/hc-cosby0709.artjul09,0,3344967.story?coll=sfla-entertainment-headlines   UK Parliament to Review Abortion Policy in Light of New Ultrasound Showing Life in Womb https://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040709-123308-4753r.htm   Mothers share own abortion stories with teens at right-to-life convention https://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0403755.htm   Movie Review: Spider-Man 2 https://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=2&art_id=24417&sec_id=#section46729   Drudge Asks – What’s all the touching between Kerry and his Running Mate https://www.drudgereport.com/kerryk.htm   Calgary Judge Rules Father Did not Infringe Law By Spanking 8 year-old son https://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/CalgarySun/News/2004/07/09/532794.html   NDP Leader Vows to Push Liberals to an Even More Leftist Agenda […]
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Judge Denies Request: Schiavo Legal Guardian Remains Estranged Husband Hell-Bent on Killing Her

CLEARWATER, Florida, July 9 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Florida judge has dissolved and denied a writ of quo warranto against the legal guardian of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo filed by her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler. “Quo Warranto” is a legal term that questions “by what authority” someone acts—in this case it challenges Michael Schiavo’s legal guardianship of his estranged wife, Terri, arguing that he has been negligent in his duties as guardian. The Schindler’s argue that Michael has failed to provide rudimentary health care, as evidenced by the extraction of five decayed teeth in April. Nor has he provided the […]
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Kerry’s New York Fundraiser a Star-Studded Anti-Bush Sleaze Fest

NEW YORK, July 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Bush campaign has demanded that John Kerry release a video of a fund raising event he held in New York. The event was attended by many prominent members of the celebrity culture and characterized by a stream of crass insults and obscene comments by the stars. Even the normally anti-Bush New York Times said the evening deteriorated into “an unsparing skewering of the Bush administration.” In monetary terms, the event was a success raising a record $7.5 million US for the Democratic ticket.  It is no secret that Hollywood is dominated by […]
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Adult Stem Cells An Effective Treatment for Heart Attacks

FREIBERG, Germany, July 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers in Germany have found that adult stem cells are an effective treatment for patients who have had heart attacks. Researchers at the University of Freiberg treated sixty patients either with stem cells taken from their own bone marrow, or with the best conventional treatment. After six months the hearts of those who received the stem cell treatments were working far better. The stem cells used were taken from each patient’s own bone marrow and injected into their heart muscle. The researchers believe that the adult stem cells turned into blood vessel or […]
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Stem Cells from the Baby Benefit Mother Study Finds

BOSTON, July 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Organizations that support abortion are only too willing to tell their clients that the unborn child is a kind of parasite, a foreign being that contributes nothing to a woman’s health and which will be an intolerable burden after birth. Now, however, science is disproving the polemics again. Researchers at Tufts new England Medical Center have found that the child in the womb is a possible source of stem cells for the mother. There is evidence that shows stem cells move from the child through the umbilical cord and into the mother to help […]
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France to Allow Research on Living Embryos: Only “Reproductive” Cloning a Crime Against the Human Ra

PARIS, July 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – France's Parliament has passed legislation making embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) legal in that country. The new law, according to the Associated Press article, “updates” a bioethics law of 1994 to make living human embryos available for research. The legislation also allows the “selection” of embryos in IVF labs to create children who will serve as tissue donors for sick siblings. The legislation makes “reproductive” cloning of a human being, that is, the creation of a cloned person who will be allowed to live, a “crime against the human race” punishable by up to […]
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Spanish Homosexuals Renounce Ties to Catholic Church

MADRID, July 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of 1,500 Spanish homosexual rights activists handed in letters to the Catholic Church Thursday, requesting that their names be dropped from Church registries. The group claims that the Church’s opposition to homosexual “marriage” is discriminatory. The group is calling for an end to all state-funding of the Church. Spain is one of the world’s most Catholic countries, with 95 percent claiming to be Catholic.  The primate of Spain, Toledo Archbishop Antonio Cañizares Llovera, in his homily on Sunday, said, “the proposal of a homosexual marriage, and the fact that political leaders assume […]
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Marriage “Under Serious Attack” Say American Bishops

WASHINGTON, D.C, July 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Saying the institution of marriage is “under serious attack,” the President of the United States Conference of Catholic bishops (USCCB) strongly urged the Senate to vote in favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment and to turn back any attempt to prevent consideration of the measure.  “Recent actions in various state courts and courthouses have placed the institution of marriage under serious attack and in grave danger,” said Bishop Wilton D. Gregory in a letter to the Senate. He explained that preserving traditional marriage is “not simply a Catholic concern . . . this […]
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Federal Marriage Amendment Debate Hits U.S. Senate

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senate debate over an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, to include the phrase “marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman,” begins Friday. Debate is expected to continue until Tuesday with Senators casting their votes Wednesday. A Senate vote is the first stage in the constitutional amendment process. Besides the support of two-thirds of the members of both houses of Congress, the proposed marriage amendment must be ratified by three-quarters of the state legislatures to become part of the Constitution. Proponents of the amendment say […]
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Canadian Bishops Ask Pharmacists to Inform Clients of Abortifacient Nature of Morning After Pill

OTTAWA, July 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF), the life issues branch of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, has written the Canadian Pharmacists Association asking that pharmacists inform clients of the abortive potential of the Morning After Pill.  In addition, the letter signed by COLF chairman Bishop Pierre Morissette of Baie Comeau also requests the “Association’s position on respecting the freedom of conscience and religion of pharmacists who do not wish to distribute this pill” and notes the health risks of the pill.  The letter says COLF is “concerned” about the association’s strong […]
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Manitoba Private Surgical Center Asks Why Only Private Abortion Facility Gets Public Funding

WINNIPEG, July 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Manitoba government’s decision to fund a private abortion clinic has the owner of another private surgical centre in the province asking – what about us?  As of July 1, the province began funding the former Morgentaler abortion facility recently renamed “Jane’s clinic” after Morgentaler worked out an undisclosed deal to transfer the surgical abortion facility to ownership by a pro-abortion group. Dwayne Venter, the general manager of Maples Surgical Centre in Winnipeg told LifeSiteNews.com today that while Jane’s is given public funding, the province won’t even speak to him about proposals to offer […]
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Family Members Convicted of Violent Crimes against Spouses, Children and Seniors less likely to get a Prison Term than Non-Family: Statistics Canada https://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/040706/d040706a.htm   ACLU Sues Baltimore and four other Maryland counties to allow homosexual marriage https://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2004/07/08/ap/entertainment/d83m7n6g0.txt   First genetically-screened baby born in NY https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1089292187659_158/?hub=Health
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Gay-Activist Former MP Svend Robinson Trial for Theft Held Over Until August 6

VANCOUVER, July 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Svend Robinson was to appear in provincial court today in Richmond, British Columbia to enter a plea on charges of theft over $5000.00. He did not appear at the hearing but his attorney, Michael Bolton, said that he will be there on August 6 due to a delay in the hearing. Although Robinson admitted to the theft two days after the video which recorded the act was handed over to police and was only charged two months after the fact, special prosecutor Len Doust told Judge Dennis Schmidt that there had not been enough […]
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Manitoba to fund Private Abortion Facility with Taxpayer Dollars

WINNIPEG, July 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Manitoba government, after sensibly holding the line for twenty years against funding for private abortuaries, has knuckled under to pressure from the 18 pro-abortion staff of Jane’s abortuary in Winnipeg. The province began publicly funding abortions at the centre on Canada Day, July 1.  “Why, after all this time is the government of Manitoba washing its hands of its responsibility to provide good health care for the women of the province,” asked Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition. “Tax payers should never have to finance life style choices.”  Two women have […]
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New Mexico Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Hand Out More Homosexual “Marriage” Licenses

SANT FE, July 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday to deny Sandoval County clerk Victoria Dunlap’s request to issue more same-sex “marriage” licenses. A temporary restraining order had been issued against her in February after she illegally issued 66 licenses. Attorney General Patricia Madrid told Dunlap, after the February ruling, that the licenses were invalid. Madrid said that “Until the laws are changed through the legislative process or declared unconstitutional by the judicial process, the statutes limit marriage in New Mexico to a man and a woman.”  tv
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Australian Authorities Approve Scheme to invite Canadians for “Sperm Donor” Holidays

ALBURY, July 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Reproductive Medicine Albury is a small country IVF facility in New South Wales that placed an ad in a University of Calgary newspaper to attract young Canadians looking for a cheap holiday down under. The facility is offering a holiday package that is valued at $7000.00 Can. on the condition that the participants masturbate every other day to provide sperm for the facility’s IVF donor program. The offer includes return airfares, accommodation for two weeks and a daily allowance of $150. The MP’s who passed the Canadian Reproductive Technologies bill likely had no idea […]
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Australian Television to Air British Early Abortion Documentary

SYDNEY, July 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British documentary that re-kindled the abortion debate in Britain will be shown on Australian TV. In April, the made-for-television program that included a graphic depiction of an abortion at four weeks gestation, was shown on British television. The show was made by a pro-abortion woman, Julia Black, the daughter of the founder of the abortion organization, Marie Stopes International who said that it was time to “lift the veil of secrecy” about abortion and allow people to choose a side based on the facts. Abortion is legal in Australia up to 20 weeks.  […]
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European Court Rules it’s not Desirable or Possible to Determine if Unborn Child is a Person

STRASBOURG, France, July 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that a doctor responsible for the unintended death of a six-month-old unborn baby is innocent, because the 17-member court could not agree on whether “the unborn child was a person.”  The 14-2 ruling stated, “It was neither desirable, nor even possible . . . to answer in the abstract the question whether the unborn child was a person.”  The ruling comes as little surprise to pro-lifers.  As LifeSiteNews.com reported, last year, the only two NGO’s to which the European Court granted intervener status were Family […]
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CLC July National News Says Election Proved Being Pro-life Not Only Did Not Hurt But Actually Helped

Toronto July 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In its post election July newsletter Campaign Life Coalition states that the Liberal strategy of targeting the Conservatives as social extremists “backfired and it was emphatically proved that being pro-life not did not hurt candidates”.  “In fact”, says CLC, “in many cases it considerably helped them while revealing that abortion obsessed Paul Martin and his Liberal strategists and the NDP were the real fanatics”.  Campaign Life goes on to stress that the election results prove “Abortion is NOT the hindrance many political strategists, media pundits and indeed candidates themselves believe it to be. The […]
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Teens with Cell Phones – a bad sign – Study finds 60 per cent of teenagers who use cell phones had a lot of sex, whereas, only nine per cent of the children who seldom or never used mobile phones had had sex https://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=42292&cat=Science   Dutch Government issues ‘seal of quality’ for brothels maintaining standards https://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2962676a4560,00.html   UN takes aim at spam epidemic https://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/07/06/un.spam.summit.ap/index.html   2,400 lawmakers warn of Kinsey influence https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39290   Sunspots reaching 1,000-year high https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3869753.stm   Asia warned of ‘Aids catastrophe’  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3867401.stm   Infinity Restores Stern’s Lost Markets, Sues Clear Channel   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/5906/CFI/pornography/index.htm   Portland Archdiocese to […]
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Same-Sex Female Partner of Mother can be Child’s Father, Court Rules

LOS ANGELES, July 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An appeals court ruled Wednesday that the same-sex partner of a mother can claim parental status if she is classified as the “presumed father” according to California’s Uniform Parentage Act. The case arose when Kristine Renee H., the same-sex partner of Lisa Ann R., decided to mother a child through artificial insemination. The couple had a court-sanctioned pre-birth agreement that both women would be the child’s legal parents. Lauren was born in 2000—the couple separated 23 months later, at which time the child’s mother, Kristine, sought sole custody of the child.  “Though the […]
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Kerry-Edwards “Most Gay-Supportive National Ticket in American History”

WASHINGTON, July 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and running-mate John Edwards have been declared “. . . the most gay-supportive national ticket in American history,” according to National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute Executive Director Matt Foreman. In a news release Tuesday, the Task Force described Kerry’s running-mate, John Edwards, as having “a record of strong support for key issues important to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and [transgendered]” persons. The Task Force rated Edwards against 13 key issues of importance to homosexuals—he was deemed supportive of nine, including opposition to US President George W. […]
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Dutch Marriage Registrar Ordered to Resign for Refusing to Officiate at Gay Marriages

AMSTERDAM, July 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Leeuwarden City Council is demanding that a marriage registrar who refused to officiate at gay and lesbian weddings resign her position. The city council previously tried in 2001 to force the resignation of the public servant – who is in principle opposed to gay ‘marriages’ – but a judge thwarted the move due to a procedural error on the part of the municipal authority.  The public servant has not yet said whether she will take legal action against the council’s decision, which was passed by a small majority. If the issue does go […]
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Spanish Abortions Double As Half of all Pregnant Teenagers Have Abortions

MADRID, July 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Half of the Spanish teenagers who become pregnant opt for abortions, said a new study. The General Council of Scientific Investigation (CSIC) found that at least 40 percent of the abortions carried out in Spain were for women under the age of 25.  The total number of abortions between 1990 and 2001 rose by 87 percent.  As well, in 1990, only 8 percent of Spanish women had had abortions, while this figure rose to 15 percent in 2001. As well, among the women who had abortion, the number of teenagers also rose sharply from […]
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U.S. Senate Confirms Pro-Life Bush Nominee to Federal Court

WASHINGTON, July 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Senate voted 51 to 46 Tuesday in favour of President Bush’s choice for the federal bench for Little Rock – former Arkansas Right to Life president James Leon Holmes.  Holmes, a Little Rock lawyer, is the last of 25 nominees agreed upon after a compromise was reached between President Bush and opposing Democratic Senators in May. Democratic Senators had orchestrated a seven-week deadlock in the Senate to protest the President’s use of recess appointments earlier this year. President Bush agreed to abandon the appointment of seven controversial nominees in exchange for 25 […]
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Blair Says Abortion Limit May Be Re-Examined

LONDON, England, July 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tony Blair said today that the legal time limit for abortions could be re-examined because of new medical research. Blair was asked about calls for the 24 week time limit for abortion for “social reasons” to be reduced to 12 weeks. The calls came in the wake of a new type of ultrasound scan last month that produced vivid pictures of a 12 week-old fetus “walking” in the womb “I have not had an opportunity myself to study in detail the evidence that has been provided,” said Blair. “But I am sure that […]
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Vatican Cardinal Warns of Coming Persecution Against Christians in Europe

ROME, July 7, 2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Europe is not safe from religious persecution, warned Vatican Cardinal Paul Poupard-although, he said, modern-day attacks on believers may take more subtle forms.  Speaking to the Italian daily Avvenire, the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture observed that in Europe today: “Christians are mocked for their faith; many young couples are ostracized socially if they want a lot of children; those who oppose same-sex ‘marriage’ are considered intolerant.” All these “forms of persecution, hidden or overt, will bear their fruits,” Cardinal Poupard said. The French prelate explained that an aggressive secularizing trend in […]
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U.S. Supports Latin American Population Resolution With Caveat Opposing all Abortion

SAN JUAN, July 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Thirtieth Session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) ended on Friday July 2 with the approval of 17 resolutions on the range of issues dealt with at the meeting held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Among the resolutions passed was a controversial one on population and development which, in addition to legitimate reproductive rights such as safe delivery and treatment for pregnant mothers, includes abortion.  The U.S. gave its support to the resolution with the understanding that the terms used in the document such as “reproductive rights”, […]
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On last day of U.S. Supreme Court session Justice Scalia writes: “This court seems incapable of admitting that some matters – any matters – are none of its business.”  https://www.washtimes.com/national/20040705-012426-5169r.htm   Feminist hypocrisy no help for Iraqi women https://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=85a21e28-bf8d-4671-867f-0d09b0611f36   Paper reports Mel Gibson may Fight to Keep Cross in Los Angeles County Seal   https://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E21653%257E2252764,00.html?search=filter   Singer Etheridge Charges Bush with ‘Discrimination’ Against Gays https://www.talonnews.com/news/2004/july/0705_etheridge_discriminati.shtml   Christian Coalition Leads Effort to Impeach Ninth Circuit Abortion-Activist Judge Phyllis Hamilton https://www.talonnews.com/news/2004/july/0705_impeach_hamilton.shtml   Oregon gets highest number of signatures ever to support traditional marriage amendment on ballot https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001969599_gaymarriage01m.html   Michigan Pro-Family Supporters […]
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Colorado Court Declares Null Order that Prohibits Mother from Exposing Her Child to “Homophobic” Rel

DENVER, July 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Colorado Court of Appeals issued a 50-page opinion Thursday in the case involving a mother who was ordered by a judge to “make sure that there is nothing in the religious upbringing or teaching that the minor child is exposed to that can be considered homophobic.” While the court vacated that ruling, it also sent the case back to the trial judge to determine the definition of “homophobic” and whether the child would be harmed by being introduced to whatever “homophobic” teachings and upbringing means. The Court also affirmed the trial court’s ruling […]
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Presbyterians Reject Gay-Ordination Plan

RICHMOND, Va., July 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Presbyterian Church legislative assembly strongly adopted a measure Friday that retains the current interpretation of church law forbidding the ordination of gay clergy. An earlier and narrower vote put the measure before the assembly when it rejected a majority report that had recommended allowing regional governing bodies to ordain gay clergy and lay officers.  Conservatives had warned that a vote for gay ordination at the denomination’s national meeting could cause a large split in the church. Opponents of the proposal said a network of 1,300 congregations with 450,000 members was poised to […]
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Alabama allowed to distribute information to women considering abortion

ALABAMA, July 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge has ruled that the state of Alabama may proceed with the distribution of informational materials to women who are considering an abortion. Senior U.S. District Judge Harold Albritton ruled recently that the state has met all the requirements of the settlement of a lawsuit that challenged the 2002 Women’s Right to Know Act. The Act requires that women be informed about agencies that offer assistance before and after a child’s birth, adoption agencies, the development of the unborn child, the risks of both abortion and childbirth, and alternatives to abortion.  “I’m […]
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Homosexual “Marriage” Soon to be Reality in Spain

MADRID, July 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spain’s new Socialist government has passed a preliminary resolution paving the way for the legalization of homosexual “marriage” by early next year, Justice Minister Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar said last week. The legalization of homosexual “marriage” would make Spain the third European country to do so, after Belgium and the Netherlands. Massachusetts, Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia have enacted similar laws in the US and Canada.  In a bid to garner election support, Spain’s ruling Popular Party legalized civil unions for homosexuals in March, before losing the election to the Socialists, led by Prime […]
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Vandals Target Pro-Life Sign in Ontario

TIMMINS, Ontario, July 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vandals targeted a large Timmins, Ontario pro-life billboard, defacing the “Justice for the Unborn” message with a spray-painted “Pro-Choice” slogan. The sign, located on a busy thoroughfare and worth several thousand dollars, was erected in October, through the generous donations of local artist Mike Reeder, and funding from the Knights of Columbus and Campaign Life Coalition Timmins.  “The pro-choice people do not advocate choice, they advocate abortion,” Eileen Meunier, President of Campaign Life Coalition Timmins said. Although “throughout the election some political leaders have been referring to a woman’s ‘right’ to abortion and […]
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House of Lords Compromises on Banning Traditional Parenting – Spanking by Parents

LONDON, July 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British House of Lords has rejected a move to criminalize spanking but in doing so has voted to insert wording that could make the use of physical punishment effectively prohibited. As LifeSiteNews.com reported last week, a consortium of lobbyists have been pressuring the British government to make any spanking or use of physical discipline a criminal offence. Last night the Lords voted 250 to 75 not to go so far. However they also voted 226 to 91 to pass a compromise to allow moderate spanking, “mild smacks” that do not leave a red […]
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Western Australia Allows Embryo Research: Canadian Legislation Criticized

PERTH, July 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Western State Parliament of Australia has voted to allow the use of embryos in research. Despite warnings and lobbying from pro-life organizations and opposition from a consortium of Members of the State Parliament, the Human Reproductive Technology Amendment Bill passed July 2. A spokesman for the group of MP’s, Phillip Pendal, the Member for South Perth, argued the bill would open the door to other activities that most Australians would find ethically unacceptable. “There will be people wanting to push the boundaries and introduce cloning within five or 10 years,” he said. The […]
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Babies that Survive Abortion ‘Deserve Life’ Says British Medical Association

LLANDUDNO, England, July 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Medical Association decided recently that babies born alive after an attempted abortion should be given the same care and treatment as other infants. Delegates at the Association’s annual conference in Llandudno voted for the motion by a majority of 65%, The motion was proposed by medical student Ibukumoluwago Adedugbe from Imperial College London, who said that “If a child is alive then it surely has rights.” Comparing babies born alive after an abortion to premature babies, she cited the case of a baby who lived unsustained by life support for three […]
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Chilean Court Reiterates Stance: Morning After Pill Remains Banned as an Illegal Abortifacient

SANTIAGO, July 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal court has ruled that the morning-after pill, because it prevents implantation and is thus abortifacient, is illegal and is not to be distributed in the country, according to a Catholic News Agency report.  The decision comes after three years of clashes between the courts, the Minister of Health, and municipal officials. In 2001, the same day the Supreme Court banned one morning after pill because of its abortifacient nature, the Ministry of Health approved another similar pill arguing that the court only banned a certain brand-name of abortifacient morning-after pill, Postinal. Since […]
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Homosexual Civil Unions Exclusivity Halted in House of Lords by Expanding Definition

LONDON, July 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill that would have allowed homosexuals to register their liaisons as legal “civil unions” has been stopped in the House of Lords by adding amendments broadly expanding the domestic arrangements it covers. A group of Conservative Peers has used the ambiguity of the term “civil union” to thwart the homosexual lobbyists’ dream of creating a legal definition of civil unions exclusive to homosexual partnerships. The amendment was successfully added to the Civil Partnerships Bill and passed by a vote of 148-130. Pro-family activists have frequently pointed out that civil unions, if they include […]
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Kerry Chooses Running Mate Also With Extreme Pro-Abortion Position

WASHINGTON, July 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry has selected John Edwards as his running mate.  In response, National Right to Life Committee Political Director Carol Tobias said, “With John Edwards, Kerry has selected a running mate whose position is as extreme as his own, even opposing the ban on partial-birth abortions.” In 1999 Edwards voted against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, and in 2003 he attacked President Bush for signing the bill, which would ban partial-birth abortions unless necessary to save a mother’s life.  Edwards also voted against the “Laci and Conner’s Law” which recognizes unborn […]
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Catholic Group Blasts HBO Documentary on ‘Celibacy’  https://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive200407CUL20040701a.html   Schwarzenegger Blasted for Taking Steps to Protect Animals’ Lives While Ignoring Right to Life of Human Babies https://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=124-07012004   Homosexual Porn Star Charged in Serial Rapes https://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3009977,00.html   Colorado Supreme Court strikes down state voucher program https://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_2998452,00.html   Free Speech Survey Shows Strong Support for Broadcast Indecency Enforcement   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/5905/CFI/freedom/index.htm
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Vatican Role at United Nations Formalized by Unanimous Resolution

NEW YORK, July 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican Information Service reports that a United Nations General Assembly resolution on the participation by the Holy See (the Vatican representation) in the work of the UN passed unanimously last week at UN headquarters in New York. The Holy See’s role as a permanent observer now includes all the same rights and privileges as other observers and it will be easier for it to participate in U.N. sessions without a vote.  The Holy See no longer has to ask permission to participate in debates, it has a right of reply, the right […]
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Supreme Court of Canada Decision seen as Protecting Religious Freedom

OTTAWA, July 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Supreme Court of Canada decision handed down last week has received praise from the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) for protecting religious freedom. The Supreme Court has come out strongly in favour of accommodating personal religious beliefs and practices in a case involving the Jewish observance of Succat, a nine day religious observance.  In the judgment, Syndicat Northcrest v. Amselem, the court ruled that Orthodox Jews must be permitted to build succah huts on the balconies of their high-rise condominiums so long as they are not a threat to safety.  “This decision makes […]
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UK Teenagers as Young as Fourteen Seek IVF from Shocked Doctors

SWINDON, July 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in the world. According to recent statistics, it also has the second highest rate in Europe of teenage sexual activity. In a new, and bizarre twist, it has come to light that some girls at least are becoming pregnant intentionally. Jo Heaton, a fertility doctor who runs a sexual health clinic for teenagers in Swindon, said she was stunned to have four fourteen year-old girls approach her asking for IVF treatments after “trying for years” to become pregnant. Dr. Heaton said she was shocked […]
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Swedish Pastor Sentenced to Month in Prison for Preaching Against Homosexuality

STOCKHOLM, July 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ake Green, the pastor of a Swedish Pentecostal church in Kalmar, Sweden, has been sentenced to one month in prison by a Swedish court, for inciting hatred against homosexuals. Green was prosecuted in January for “hate speech against homosexuals” for a sermon he preached last summer citing Biblical references to homosexuality. During a sermon in 2003, Green described homosexuality as “abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumour in the body of society”. Sweden passed an equivalent to Canada’s Bill C-250 last year—a “hate crimes” law that forbids criticism of homosexuality. In a WorldNetDaily article, the author […]
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US Bishops Non-Decision in Denver on Pro-Abortion Politicians and Communion Widens Catholic Divide

WILMINGTON, July 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The disciplinary split in the US Catholic Church continues to widen with bishops contradicting each other over the issue of pro-abortion politicians and communion. In April, Washington’s Cardinal McCarrick appeared to contradict the instructions of Francis Cardinal Arinze who said that pro-abortion politicians should be refused communion. McCarrick responded that though he is personally opposed to pro-abortion politicians receiving communion, he would not be “comfortable” refusing them.  Since then the US bishops have met in Denver to discuss the problem and the result has been a document that threw the “difficult” question back onto […]
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John Kerry Comments on Abortion Seen as Attempt to Avoid Heresy Charges

LOS ANGELES, July 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Those involved in pressing a Dual Class-action Denunciation and Bill of Complaint for Reparation of Harm for Heresy filed against presidential candidate Senator John F. Kerry on 14 June 2004 have seen Senator Kerry’s recent comments on abortion as an attempt to avoid heresy charges.  The Seattle Times and Telegraph Herald are reporting today that the Senator stated the following yesterday:  “I oppose abortion, personally. I don’t like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception. I can’t take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or […]
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Presidential Candidate John Kerry charged in Catholic Court for Abortion Stand

BOSTON, July 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic canon lawyer has filed suit with the Archdiocese of Boston, charging John Kerry with causing a “most serious scandal to the American public,” for continuing to take Communion while being an active proponent of the grave sin of abortion.  Marc Balestrieri, a Canon lawyer and Associate Judge for the Los Angeles archdiocese tribunal, launched the suit June 14, which was released to the public on Sunday. “Heresy is a public, ecclesiastical crime,” Balestrieri told the Washington Times. “It affects entire communities. It is one of the greatest sins you can commit.” The […]
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