Articles for Month: August 2004

AUSTIN, August 31, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an unusual effort to promote the use of fat to obtain stem cells, a Texas doctor has performed liposuction on himself in front of television crews. Dr. Robert Ersek performed the self-surgery, under a local anesthetic and removed 1 ½ pounds of his own fat from one side of his body. With media looking on, he joked, “Somebody said we’re doing our part to keep Austin weird.”  Stem cells have been found present in abundance in human fat as well as other tissues of the body. Stem cells, those cells in the body […]

BEVERLY HILLS, August 31, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a mail-out catalogue to fertility physicians and interested would-be parents, obtained by LifeSiteNews.com, a Beverly Hills company, B Coming, is marketing the profiles of egg donors and surrogate mothers.  Price ranges for donor’s eggs vary considerably, and depends primarily upon level of education, ranging from: high school at $3-4 thousand, to PhD at $20,000.  The accompanying letter says, “B Coming is an agency that offers Egg Donors and Surrogate Mothers to infertile couples that are looking for help to start or expand their families.”  The women catalogued (photographs included) advertise their statistics, […]

John Tory strongly in favour; Jim Flaherty strongly opposed; Frank Klees opposed -- suggests civil unions

TORONTO, August 31, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On September 3rd, CTV will be re-airing the film “Prom Queen” about the Oshawa teenager Marc Hall’s successful fight to force the Catholic school board to allow him to attend the highschool prom with his homosexual partner. The movie was criticized by representatives of the Catholic Civil Rights League, the organization that monitors anti-Catholic bigotry in the media, when it first aired in June. Michael Connell of the CCRL said at the time, “Given CTV’s track record of anti-Catholic stereotypes in its comedy programming, including recent offerings of the show Comedy Inc. and most […]

SANTIAGO, August 31, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Jorge Medina, ex-Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Sacraments has called the common use of euphemisms in abortion rhetoric, ‘demonic’. Speaking in the auditorium of Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, the senior Vatican prelate said that the devil makes use of euphemism in persuading people to sin by defending abortion ‘rights.’  “The devil is very present, and he uses lies and euphemisms to deceive. He calls abortion the ‘termination of pregnancy’ and children burdens. He fosters homosexual marriage and laws allowing for divorce, presenting evil as good and making money a […]

WHEELING, August 31, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The bishop of Charleston-Wheeling Catholic diocese, Bernard Schmitt, has written an editorial for the local paper in which he distances himself and his diocese from the actions of one of his priests who gave the invocation at a rally for John Kerry. Rev. Lawrence Dorsch, rector of St. Joseph Cathedral offered the invocation as representative of a local charitable association, said the bishop. The editor of the local paper claimed that the diocese was attempting to ‘soften the blow’ of Catholic opposition to the Kerry Campaign by sending one of its prominent priests to […]

U.S. Catholic Religious Orders Conference Keynoted by Pro-Abortion Leader

People Getting Bored With Sex in Advertising https://news.ft.com/cms/s/9c88bde4-f9dc-11d8-b984-00000e2511c8.html   Fertility Expert Aiming to Clone the Dead https://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10613578%255E401,00.html   50-state rundown on gay marriage laws https://www.stateline.org/stateline/?pa=story&sa=showStoryInfo&print=1&id=353058   Major book publishers and mega bookstores cashing in on pornography https://www.cwfa.org/articles/6262/legal/pornography/index.htm   UN plan to Replace Current Calendar With New Age Calendar https://www.canadafreepress.com/2004/cover082704.htm   Milwaukee Bishop Dolan continues to employ pro-abort lawyer who made $400,000 hush money deal for previous bishop Weakland https://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/comments.php?id=P3832_0_1_0   Scotland Cardinal yesterday signaled start of massive campaign against Scottish executive over sex education https://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1293386,00.html   Disappointing Turnout for Anti-Bush March https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/8/29/235307.shtml   Top Canadian court becomes a tool for […]

AUSTIN, August 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Parents who allege their child was stillborn because of a doctors’ negligence have been told by the Texas Supreme Court that they cannot sue, because the law does not acknowledge the child as a person.  The court decided 7-1 Friday to uphold the legal definition that a child only becomes a person once it has started breathing. The ruling overturned a lower appeals court decision that would have allowed Tara and Donnie Reese to sue a Fort Worth hospital for negligence in the death of their son.  In May, 1998, Tara Reese, seven months […]

Washington, August 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The divide in modern western society between traditional, humanistic anthropology and modernist feminist ideology is becoming more pronounced says the wife of Justice Robert Bork in an interview with Zenit Catholic news agency. Mary Ellen Bork’s credentials as an authority on Catholic womanhood and the value of traditional feminine roles are difficult to discount. She is a writer and lecturer with MA’s in English literature and theology. The interview was in response to public criticism of the recent Vatican letter on the problems of feminism. The document, titled Letter to the Bishops of the […]