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 […]

Health Minister: Terminally Ill should have "Right to Die in Dignity"

Slams UN, WHO and UNESCO

New York, August 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s Royal Society is part of a international consortium pressuring the US to stop its push for a complete ban on human cloning. The US delegation to the UN has, since the Bush administration, been insisting that the only way to stop human cloning is to create an effective ban on both so-called ‘reproductive’ and ‘therapeutic’ cloning. The language used to describe the procedure has caused much confusion and there are questions as to whether any proposed ban will actually effectively prohibit the creation of human beings no matter what purpose is […]

". . . if the ship decides to disrespect the orders of the Portuguese government it will have to get round a navy vessel."

His emotion-laden, fact-deprived statements are patently false

An ageing U.S. population will strain public finances and hurt the economy without swift fixes to the social safety net says Greenspan https://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=O5AXO0QBGHAW0CRBAEZSFEY?type=businessNews&storyID=6092800   Unborn with disabilities protected in UN document https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=1821   Vatican Cardinal says promoters of abortion have no place in the Church https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=1818   Democrats Rely on Non-religious Voters   https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/8/27/83705.shtml   Marital status influences women’s votes https://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2004/election/20040826004304.shtml   Leftist Groups Target Pastors in Fall US Elections https://www.alabamapolicy.org/gary-2004-8-11.html   Buchanan Launches Fall Offensive On Neocons https://thewandererpress.com/a9-2-2004.htm   Liberal Catholics are Kerry’s Katholics.  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40174   Producers hope to distribute DVD on president’s faith to 300,000 churches https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40166

San Diego, Aug. 27 (CWNews.com) – A Catholic apologetics group whose guide for Catholic voters was criticized by the US bishops’ conference’s lawyers is now preparing to put the guide before over one million voters in eight major metropolitan areas.  The group Catholic Answers is taking out a full-page ad in USA Today on Tuesday, August 31, which will provide a synopsis of the five key issues they’ve identified for Catholic voters to consider when they go to the polls: abortion, same-sex unions, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning, and euthanasia. Catholic Answers’ president, Karl Keating, said the guide will inform […]

Greer continues to uphold Michael Schiavo's bid to kill his wife

CAMDEN, New Jersey, August 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fertility specialists create more embryos than are needed when performing in-vitro fertilization. The question arises: what is done with all the “extra” embryonic children? Researchers at Rutgers and Pennsylvania State Universities conducted a survey of fertility clinics to answer the dilemma. The scientists found that besides simple disposal, clinics will also offer other options, such as adoption. Some clinics even allow the parents to take their embryonic children home, or allow them to attend a “funeral” for the children.  “There is certainly a lot more ambivalence about what embryos are than I […]

LONDON, August 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Statistics revealed today by British government sources show that abortion reached a record level in England and Wales in 2003, rising 3.2% since 2002 to reach the all-time high of 17.5 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44.  The abortion count reached 181,600 during 2003 in England and Wales – not counting the many abortions caused by the morning-after pill. Though the highest abortion rate is in the age bracket of 20-24 years old, there was a large number of teenage abortions: a total of 37,043 among girls of 15 to 19 higher […]

NEW YORK, August 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As more countries from Eastern Europe join the European Union, a new wave of politicians is entering the ranks of European government. Many are pro-life and pro-family. Witness Anna Zaborska, Slovak Member of the European Parliament who was elected July 26 as chairman of the Committee for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality.  The 56-year-old Catholic parliamentarian is outspoken against abortion and homosexuality. She distinguishes the problem from the individual, saying “It is not true to say that I am against women who have had an abortion or against men or women who are […]

Embryonic stem cells still do nothing but kill the embryo babies they are extracted from

Pope Releases Message for World Youth Day 2005 https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/youth/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_20040806_xx-world-youth-day_en.html   Formal Complaing Filed with DOJ and IRS Questionning Planned Parenthood’s Connection to Kerry Campaign https://www.livelyackerman.com/new_page_3.htm   Republicans Retain Pro-Life Platform and agree on constitutional amendment to protect marriage https://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2759963   ‘Unborn’ Boy Sues Mom For Car Crash – Teen With Cerebral Palsy Blames Mother For Causing His Condition https://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40144   Archbishop decries “sexual excess” in New Orleans   https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=31713   Massachusetts Court: Lesbian can forgo child support https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-08-25-mass-court_x.htm   Vatican backs conservative priest; Australian bishop to appeal?  https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=31717   Oregon County Ordered To Give Marriage Licenses https://www.local6.com/family/3682860/detail.html   Singapore offers […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. August 26, 2004 (culture-of-life.org) – In the wake of controversy surrounding a presidential candidate questionnaire produced by the lay staff of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, many Catholics have embraced an alternative voting guide issued by a Catholic apologetics organization. Though the USCCB has discouraged use of this new guide, it has been circulated by at least one major archdiocese and thousands of parishes, according to the publisher.  “Voter’s Guide for Serious Catholics” is a 10-page booklet produced by Catholic Answers, a lay apostolate based in San Diego whose primary mission is defending Catholic teaching. Citing […]

VICTORIA, British Columbia, August 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Evelyn Martens, 73, a notorious Canadian euthanasia campaigner arrested and released on bail in 2002 for assisting in the suicides of two B.C. women, has likely broken the conditions of her release. Martens, whose trial is set to commence September 20, 2004, was forbidden to own a computer, to have any access to the Internet, and was forbidden to cooperate in any way with providing information or means to allow people to commit suicide as conditions for her bail release. In an e-mail released to LifeSiteNews.com, it appears likely that she has […]

WICHITA, August 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A year after her violent arrest while protesting against abortion at the Kansas Coliseum, 20-year-old Karen Myers was declared innocent of failing to obey a policeman’s order. The judge declared August 24 that the police officer’s order – to move back from the Coliseum driveway 100 feet – was unlawful.  Sheriff’s Deputy Edwin Simpson not only issued an unlawful order to Myers and the other protesters: he also inflicted severe injuries on the girl while arresting her, threatening two others with “you’re next” if they did not leave the scene.  According to witnesses, Simpson […]

OTTAWA, August 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Liberal Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish, one of the more outspoken defenders of abortion in the House, has once again insulted Americans, this time calling them “idiots.”  Much to the embarrassment of Canadians last year Parrish demonstrated rank intolerance saying, in reference to the war in Iraq, she hated “damned Americans” and referred to them as “bastards.”  Unlike last year, Parrish seems unwilling to apologize for her latest affront.  While an aid to Prime Minister Paul Martin said the comment was unacceptable, Parrish retorted, “That’s Mr. Martin’s opinion . . . I’m not […]

DUBLIN, August 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Members of Youth Defence, a pro-life youth group in Ireland, protested the visit of former US president and “big-time” abortion advocate Bill Clinton to Dublin yesterday. Clinton was in Easons signing copies of his autobiography My Life. Spokesperson for Youth Defence, Mr Eoghan de Faoite, said, “No country should welcome pro-abortion politicians and you can’t get more pro-death than Bill Clinton. This is the same person who used his presidential veto to facilitate the killing of babies who are inches from birth. He has absolutely no regard for human life – and no amount […]

WASHINGTON, August 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite exaggerated recent claims about the benefits of embryonic stem cell research, Americans strongly prefer funding research that does not require destroying human embryos. They also strongly oppose human cloning for either reproductive or research purposes.  These are the chief findings of survey questions commissioned by the Pro-Life Secretariat of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The questions are part of a national survey conducted by International Communications Research, which polled over one thousand American adults by telephone in mid-August.  The poll suggests that Americans are closely divided on federal funding of stem […]

Says "current federal law is not in accordance with the Charter"

SACRAMENTO, August 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California Senate’s Office of Research (SOR) recently issued a report entitled “Protecting Californians from Hate Crimes: A Progress Report”. In the report’s opening paragraph is a thinly veiled accusation that pro-lifers are of the same mold as hate-filled and violent extremists. The report describes several white supremacist, anti-Semitic, and anti-government criminals as emblematic of the hate crime problem, pointing out that one of the two killed abortion doctors.  California State Assemblyman Tim Leslie, expressing outrage and dismay at the document, wrote to the SOR requesting a retraction and an apology. In his August […]

BEIJING, August 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – 29-year-old Ma Weihua was reported to have been forced by Chinese police to have an abortion last February, shortly after her arrest for smuggling drugs. She was transporting 1.6 kg of heroin for a friend and is now facing a possible death sentence.  During a routine physical examination in prison, doctors found that Weihua was 50 days pregnant. In Chinese law, being a mother – like being under age – mitigates an accused woman’s punishment. The amount of heroin she was carrying, under China’s draconian criminal code, was enough for her to incur capital […]

NEW YORK, August 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Federal District Judge Richard Casey in New York today ruled that the federal government cannot enforce the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act because the law conflicts with an earlier 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in favor of partial-birth abortion. Casey said the law failed to include an exception to protect the mother’s health as required by the Supreme Court decision.  Despite his ruling, Judge Casey also said, “The Court finds that the testimony at trial and before Congress establishes that D&X [partial-birth abortion] is a gruesome, brutal, barbaric, and uncivilized medical procedure.”  Casey also referred […]

Mysteries at The Hague https://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Peter_Worthington/2004/08/25/600588.html   Jaguar, Land Rover Partner With Homosexual Activist Group https://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive

DAVENPORT, Iowa, August 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney announced his opposition to President George W. Bush’s push for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex “marriage” Tuesday. In comments made at a campaign rally, Cheney, whose daughter Mary is lesbian, said, “People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to,” according to an ABC News report. Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins released a statement in response to Cheney’s remarks: “In preparation for the debates over the Republican Platform this week, Family Research Council staff members have been working diligently with […]

NEW YORK, August 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In anticipation of its national convention Monday, debate has begun on the GOP platform, including a draft proposal for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion. The move indicates a decided shift to the right from its two-paragraphs in the 2000 platform to the present five paragraphs, under the heading “Upholding the Rights of All.” The Republican plank asserts that “the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed,” according to an ABC News report.  The platform draft also reiterates the party’s uncompromising stance on same-sex “marriage,” continuing to […]

WINCHESTER, Virginia, August 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lisa Miller-Jenkins and Janet Miller-Jenkins entered into a civil union in Vermont four years ago and Lisa had a child by artificial insemination, but the lesbian couple did not live happily ever after; Lisa Miller-Jenkins and Janet Miller-Jenkins are now separated and involved in a legal battle over legal custody of two-year-old Isabella Miller-Jenkins.  Frederick County Circuit Judge John Prosser ruled yesterday that same-sex civil unions in Vermont do not bestow parental rights. Vermont allowed same-sex unions in 2000, while Virginia enacted a statute last year that makes such unions void. Prosser refused […]

Recognition of abortion-breast cancer link could embarrass researchers and cancer fundraising industry

LISBON, August 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the abortion propaganda machine Women on Waves Foundation prepares to target its third pro-life majority country, the Portuguese defense ministry is scrutinizing its every step.  Women on Waves was told last week by the Dutch health ministry that they were only authorized to perform chemical abortions within 25 km of Amsterdam’s Slotervaartziekenhuis hospital. Despite the ruling, a boat sailed for Portugal this Monday. Women on Waves does not attempt to perform surgical abortions.  A Portuguese defense ministry source was quoted by national news agency Lusa as saying that the ministry “has been following […]

Vast majority of Canadians still not aware of severity of new Elections Act restrictions

Depo Provera appears to triple women’s risk of infection with chlamydia and gonorrhea https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20040823/ts_usatoday/contraceptiveislinkedtohighstdrisk   Ted Turner Bankrolls Major Anarchist Group https://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2002-06-19/rant.html   We are all pagans now https://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=20040819202   N.Y. Daily News Unearths ‘Stunning’ Democrat Vote Fraud https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/8/23/163727.shtml   Skimpy out, modesty in: Back-to-school trend is toward covering up https://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/news/story.html?id=1dbecda9-ec79-437f-acb3-80385d4ad3b1

LOS ANGELES, August 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Episcopal parishes in the diocese of Los Angeles have cut all ties to the U.S. national Episcopal church, criticizing the latest move by the national assembly to approve the election of openly homosexual Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire. All Saints Church in Long Beach and St. James Parish in Newport Beach have announced a decision to place themselves under the authority of a conservative Anglican bishop from Africa.  The two California churches, along with as many as 100 other concerned parishes in the U.S., also decry the U.S. General Convention’s […]

WESTMINSTER, August 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A possible review of Britain’s abortion law is gathering momentum in parliament, as the majority of MP’s move towards a consensus on late-term abortions. In British law, babies can be aborted up to 24 weeks after conception – and as many as 1,300 are aborted between the 22nd and 24th week of pregnancy every year. New images of children in the womb, as well as an awareness that medical expertise can now save some babies born at 24 weeks, is making some politicians change their minds about how late abortions should be carried out.  […]

CALGARY, August 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood Alberta wants to be Alberta’s authority on doctors for all pregnant women. The organization stated on its website that it will soon publish a list of “anti-choice” doctors, enabling women to choose only “non-judgmental” and “friendly” professionals. The website warns women that pro-life doctors will only “delay you from seeking appropriate services” and “scare you with misinformation about the dangers of abortion.”  Planned Parenthood Alberta encourages women to send a formal complaint about their doctor to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta is responsible […]

JOHANNESBURG, August 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A nurse has begun legal proceedings after being denied access to work in an operating room for refusing to commit abortions. Although the South African parliament made abortions committed by nurses legal only on Thursday, the practice has presumably been ongoing for some time.  The legal brief, filed by Doctors for Life International (DFL) on behalf of Sister Wilhelmien Charles, named the Kopanong hospital and South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. DFL and sister Charles initiated the suit after receiving no answers from a letter writing campaign that began last spring. DFL provides “legal […]

OTTAWA, August 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Liberals gather to brainstorm for the throne speech to be delivered to Canadian Parliament in six weeks time, pro-life Liberal MP’s are worried that the abortion and homosexual marriage issues will be pushed into the sidelines.  “Our first mission [at the meeting] and our sole priority must be to remain exclusively focused on getting our agenda and platform implemented,” CTV quoted pro-life Ontario MP Dan McTeague. “Everything else is secondary and a distraction.” However, it remains to be seen how the outspokenly pro-life McTeague and the now larger percentage of social conservative Liberal […]

OTTAWA, August 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Irwin Cotler today announced two nominees for appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada: Madam Justice Louise Charron, and Madam Justice Rosalie Abella—both from the Ontario Court of Appeal. Charron and Abella will be vetted in a new parliamentary screening process to start this week.  In a press release today, Canada’s largest pro-life organization is decrying both the nominees for, and the process involved in, proposed new appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada by federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler.  “We fear that, should they […]

"Let's not be blackmailed into giving up our faith," says national pro-life leader

U.S. Will Grow, The Rest Of World Shrinks, Says Report   https://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48853   Canadian Police Want Power To Screen All Emails, Internet Activity https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040823.wxpolice23/BNStory/National/  Five thousand marchers take to streets in New Zealand to protest gay civil unions https://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3011975a10,00.html   Buchanan Book Declares No Conservative Party Left in Washington But Bush Preferable to Kerry https://www.drudgereport.com/flashpb.htm   Pope Condemns Human Cloning and Arrogance of Man   https://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6037000   International Law, the U.S. and the Holy See https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57870   Public screening of Canadian Supreme Court nominees https://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Law/2004/08/21/596012-cp.html   Risks of falling lowest in seniors who wear sneakers https://scienceblog.com/community/article3733.html

FORT WORTH, August 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A speaker at the conference meeting of U.S. Catholic religious orders, meeting August 21 at the Forth Worth Convention Center, sent a message of defiance to American bishops and the Vatican. The theme of the conference was “No Longer Bystanders: Creating Peace in Violent Times”.  The heads of religious orders belonged to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) and the Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM). CMSM represents 20,000 priests and brothers belonging to male religious orders, and LCWR represents 74,000 Catholic nuns in the United States.  Participants in one of […]

One in Five Contemplate Assisted Suicide in Oregon

DAR ES SALAAM, August 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Zanzibar government has passed a law making homosexual sex illegal, and carrying a stiff prison sentence – 25 years in jail for sex between men, and seven years for sex between women. Life imprisonment is the penalty for sodomy with a minor. “This is what we have been aspiring for,” said Islamic leader Sheikh Muhammed Said, according to a Reuters news report. “If the government takes such steps, the country will really move ahead.”  The bill passed through parliament with unusual unanimous support in April; President Amani Karume signed the bill […]

AMSTERDAM, August 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite being told only Thursday that they are not authorized to commit abortions in International waters, as their mandate prescribes, the Women on Waves abortion boat sailed for Portugal on Monday to do just that.  The floating abortuary offers first trimester chemical RU-486 abortions to women from countries where abortion is illegal. The boat’s visit to Poland last year and Ireland in 2001 sparked indignation from both countries. After taking on pregnant mothers, the boat sails for international waters – 12 miles from shore – and there fulfills its sinister undertaking. Last week, the […]

August 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – That the Catholic Church hierarchy is divided over fundamental moral issues is becoming more and more of an open secret. This week, Barbara Kralis published another article on the Catholic World News website including interviews with three US bishops in which they mince no words in their criticism of Catholic dissident, retired Chicago sociologist and novelist, Fr. Andrew Greeley.  Since the US bishops met in Dallas to decide what action to take on the problem of ‘Catholic’ politicians who support abortion, dissident priest, Fr. Andrew Greeley wrote in an article in the New York Daily […]

WEST MONROE, Louisiana, August 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An 89 year-old woman who suffered a debilitating stroke is being denied life-sustaining food and water by her family and doctors—a court said it was okay because Doris Smith signed a living will. The daughter of the woman argues, however, that her mother never intended to be starved to death when she signed the legal document before her stroke.  Nurses at the nursing home stopped administering food and water to Mrs. Smith Monday, following the instruction of two other children, despite the efforts of attorney Jack Wright. The Louisiana Supreme Court refused […]

RINO Republicans Seek To Strip Pro-Life Plank From GOP https://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1835   New study finds those with friends who have sex are more likely to try substance abuse https://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2747506   Judge Upholds Federal DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act)  https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002010602_gaymarriage20m.html   California’s Hate Crimes Expansion Potentially ‘Dangerous’ for Christians, Activists Say https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/afa/182004a.asp

TACOMA, WA, August 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Paul Snyder, a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge in Tacoma Washington, has ruled that the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA,) which defines “marriage” as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife,” is constitutional.  The In re Kandu case is the first challenge to the Federal DOMA to be decided by a court and comes just weeks after a Washington State court held that homosexuals have a constitutional right to marriage under Washington’s Constitution. Kandu arose after two women, Ann and Lee Kandu, were married in British Columbia […]

PAXTANG, Pennsylvania, August 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A couple who refused to remove a pro-life sign that officials said defied a borough ordinance has been told the sign can stay. Paxtang codes enforcement officer Brian Seneca told Colman and Frances Wessel last month that their sign, a picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with the message “This home supports the pro-life cause and is dedicated to the sacred heart of Jesus,” defied a local bi-law. The ordinance allows signage for “public, religious and charitable institutions and uses.” The Wessels were ordered to remove the sign from their front porch […]

TORONTO, August 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Global Communications Corporation announced Wednesday that it has begun work on a new series planned for the Canadian television audience for early 2005: My Fabulous Gay Wedding. Each of six one-hour episodes will focus on a different same-sex couple, as they prepare for and are “married.”“With two weeks to make the couple’s wishes for a dream wedding come true, the My Fabulous Gay Wedding team must surprise each couple with a wedding day more fabulous than they could have imagined,” a CanWest Global news story reported Wednesday.  The show will be hosted by Global […]

Charged with wrongful death of abortion victim in Alabama.

WASHINGTON, August 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Results of a back-to-school survey conducted by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University were published in a press release yesterday. The study results highlighted the need for parents to be vigilant over their teenage children’s friendships.  The CASA survey found that sexually active friends and dating practices signal an increased risk of drinking, getting drunk, smoking, and using illegal drugs.  Compared to teens with no sexually active friends, teens who report half or more of their friends are sexually active are more than six times likelier to drink, […]

STANFORD, California, August 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK pro-life organization SPUC today publicized a BBC news item indicating US and Swiss doctors believe they will one day be able to reverse the symptoms of Down’s Syndrome. The late, renowned geneticist, Dr. Jerome LeJeune, who in 1959 discovered the genetic cause of Down’s syndrome, was also convinced that a treatment for Down’s was possible. The researchers referred to in the BBC report, Professor William Mobley from Stanford University and his colleagues, say they have found a gene which is responsible for mental impairment. They are researching whether a drug could […]

WASHINGTON, August 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Madeline Mann, possibly the tiniest surviving baby ever born, is now a healthy 14-year-old. Madeline had the lowest birth weight – 9 ounces – in medical records and was born only 27 weeks after conception. Madeline was 13 weeks premature and was delivered by cesarean section. She was so tiny because her mother had pre-eclampsia, a condition that causes dangerously high blood pressure and threatens the life of both mother and unborn child.  Madeline is short for her age, just 4 1/2 feet tall, but physically normal. She has a 3.7 grade average out […]

McGreevey is not ‘gay’  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40031   Norwegian Olympic Women’s Volleyball Team Paid to Wear Contraceptive Patch – Breaking Olympics Rules https://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/english/article266805.ece   In effort to avoid abortion teen keeps pregnancy and birth secret but baby dies https://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-shoe19.html   Two Days Without TV seems too much for the average family https://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040819.gttelevision19/BNStory/Technology/  Peruvian Bishops’ Bioethics Commission informs Gov’t of Abortion-Causing Potential of “Morning-After” Pill https://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57789   Prime Minister Martin announces changes to key staff in the PMO https://www.canada.com/national/story.html?id=ffb7b020-8de1-44e2-9bc5-b5c8912e1c77   Read Concerned Women for America’s Scathing Review of the U.S. Supreme Court Term https://www.cwfa.org/images/content/sc-review-2004.pdf   Judge Rules Constitutional Amendment Requiring Abortion Parental Notification […]

TAMPA BAY, August 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recent national poll found that 46 percent of Americans felt that Terri Schindler-Schiavo should continue to receive her nutrition and hydration through a feeding tube, while 32 percent felt that her feeding tube should be removed.  Twenty-two percent said that they did not know or that they had no opinion. Respondents were asked: Terri Schiavo is a disabled woman in Florida who currently receives food and water through a feeding tube.  Her husband, who lives with another woman and with whom he has two children, says she would prefer to die.  Her […]

LOS ANGELES, August 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles is the subject of multiple complaints of racism filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The formal complaints were filed by Afro-American and Latino employees.  Specifically, several male employees have officially filed claims, or sworn affidavits, with the EEOC and California Fair Employment & Housing Administration.  They allege that Planned Parenthood is controlled by white women who have created a hostile environment for male and minority employees. According to one affidavit, a management employee of Planned Parenthood “used the word nigger directed to me.  I am African […]

AMSTERDAM, August 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Dutch court ruled that the Women on Waves abortion boat cannot commit abortions in international waters, but must remain within 25 km of Amsterdam’s Slotervaartziekenhuis hospital, in case of medical emergency.  The Women on Waves Foundation was founded in 1999 by Dutch abortionist Rebecca Gomperts, to bring media attention to bear on countries where the right to life is still protected by the state. The foundation was authorized by Dutch authorities to provide chemical, RU-486, abortions in international waters 12 miles from shore where the women are no longer subject to their own […]

PORT OF SPAIN, August 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Trinidad and Tobago, pro-abortion advocates are stepping up their campaign to legalize abortion on demand. In this south Caribbean republic, doctors can legally abort in cases of threats to the life of the mother, and there are many illegal abortions committed by medical doctors and “backyard” abortionists. Politicians appear to be neutral on the topic of abortion, although members of the present government who favor abortion are not very outspoken.  The main group leading the campaign is Safe Parenthood: Improving Reproductive Equity (ASPIRE), whose official website states: “ASPIRE’s goal is to […]

LIVERMORE, California, August 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In September, Monty Patterson will travel to Washington, DC to speak against the RU-486 abortion pill. A year ago, the pill spelled the death of his 18-year-old daughter Holly.  Patterson will meet with officials of the Food and Drug Administration September 16, the day before the first anniversary of Holly’s death. He has kept September 17 free of commitments, saying he will “hold that day close to my heart. I don’t want any kind of agenda to deal with other than to just think of Holly.” He is working on scheduling meetings with […]

WASHINGTON, August 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – First lady Laura Bush has been front and center stage during the current U.S. presidential election campaign. In debates over the past several weeks, she expressed her agreement with the president’s position on limiting funding for stem cell research. She was interviewed by Washington Times reporter Bill Sammon Tuesday. Sammon asked Mrs. Bush if she believed life begins at conception, to which she replied that she did. She reiterated support for her husband’s position opposing abortion. He asked if she was pro-life, she replied that “Yes, I think abortion should be rare.” Sammon also […]

CAPE TOWN, August 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today the South African parliament passed a bill allowing registered nurses to perform abortions and authorizing abortion in a wider range of health care facilities. In a democracy in which 9 out of 10 citizens oppose abortion, it is surprising that the bill passed with little opposition from MP’s and almost no public debate.  ChristianView Network, a South African pro-life group dismayed at the government’s unwillingness to debate the issue publicly, offered a substantial reward to whoever found a politician willing to debate the issue on South African radio, but kept its money […]

WASHINGTON, August 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Deal Hudson, publisher of the acclaimed U.S. Catholic magazine Crisis and since 2000 the advisor to President George W. Bush on Catholics, has resigned his post as presidential advisor.  The move came in anticipation of a smear campaign on Hudson in a just released article by the National Catholic Reporter (NCR), a weekly publication that features prominent dissidents in the Catholic Church in America.  In an article published in the National Review yesterday, Hudson revealed, without naming the publication, that the smear piece was in the offing and also told of his resignation from […]

BRUSSELS, August 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New statistics on the Belgian teen pregnancy rate were released today indicating a four percent increase in pregnant adolescents in 2003 over 2002.  Commenting on the increase, Christianne Vienne, who has nine children of her own and is Health Minister of the southern Belgian region of Wallonia, said, “I prefer that younger girls of 14 abort in 100 percent of the cases.  I am not pleading for abortion as a general rule, but in this particular case, yes.”  Of note, the abortion rate among adolescent mothers – one fifth of the 15,000 abortions annually […]

VANCOUVER, August 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The federal government has given approval for a plan to provide drug addicts with free heroin in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.  The North American Opiate Medication Initiative plans to study the effectiveness of the free narcotic for 21 months, comparing 88 who will receive heroin to 70 who will receive methadone.  The British health authority is considering a similar move to provide taxpayer-funded prescriptions of heroin to heavy addicts, modeled after a Swiss program tested there between 1994 and 1996.  tv

Canadian Association of Broadcasters fight to keep Fox News out of Canada https://www.broadcastermagazine.com/article.asp?id=33779&issue=08162004   Google bars ‘hate’ sites’ ads, but runs porn ads – Criticism of homosexuality banned while anal-sex videos featured https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40012   Scots Cardinal Pleads for Prayers for Ailing Pope John Paul II https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=14542613&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=plea-to-pray-for-ailing-pontiff-name_page.html

9 out of 10 South Africans are opposed to abortion

NAIROBI, August 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, Catholic Archbishop Raphael Ndingi Mwana ‘a Nzeki led a silent pro-life march last August 14. Simultaneous marches were planned in at least six Kenyan cities in what has become an annual pro-life event. The Nairobi march took place peacefully at Uhuru Park and featured prayers, sermons, songs and poetry recitals.  In Kenyan law, abortion is illegal unless a doctor confirms that the life of the mother is in jeopardy. However, Kenya is in the process of drawing up a new constitution and may bend to international pressure in […]

WELLINGTON, August 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Zealand’s Associate Justice Minister, David Benson-Pope, lashed out against Catholic and Evangelical groups opposed to proposed civil union legislation for same-sex couples Monday. Schoolchildren from evangelical Destiny Church have planned a protest against the proposed legislation at parliament for next Monday. Benson-Pope, using the now common gay activist tactic of intimidation and personal defamation of opponents, likened their opposition with the intolerance that led to the destruction of headstones in a Jewish cemetery in the same week. “That the Destiny protests – bussing schoolchildren dressed in black shirts to rallies where they are […]

OTTAWA, August 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Justice Minister Irwin Cotler announced this week that the government would no longer oppose any court challenges to existing marriage laws.  Canada currently allows same-sex “marriage” in B.C., Ontario, Quebec, and the Yukon Territory. Until now, challenges to Canada’s marriage law had been opposed in provincial courts by the federal government which argued that the decisions should be deferred until after the Supreme Court rules in the reference case on the matter.  “We will not be opposing any of these,” Cotler said Monday at the Canadian Bar Association’s annual meeting in Winnipeg. “We will […]

SUN VALLEY, Idaho, August 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry was back for vacation in Sun Valley, where he made a point to attend mass – and receive communion. This time he at least wore a proper suit, rather than the ski suit he wore during his last appearance. The-Times News reported that the church—Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church—was more highly attended than usual, apparently by people trying to catch a glimpse of the Kerry phenomenon.  CBS was on-hand for a photo before being removed by a contingent of Secret Service agents.  Midge Stastny, who […]

Canadian Public Broadcaster Sponsors Homosexual Film Festival

AUSTIN, August 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Covered in over 100 newspapers today, a conference put on by the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) carried the catchy title “How Would Jesus Vote.”  Conference participants, referred to as “Religion Experts” by much of the media came out strongly in favour of John Kerry over George Bush.  However, one fact missing from the mainstream coverage is that TFN is a decidedly leftist outfit billing itself prominently as “A mainstream voice to counter the religious right.” (https://www.tfn.org/index.html )  The conference was sponsored by the intensely anti-Christian Planned Parenthood organization, among others (https://www.tfn.org/conference/partners.php ).  Participants applauded […]

Euthanasia organizations reorganize to make their goal sound better. Again.  https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/471lzceh.asp   Naming the Enemy https://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14674   A Stem-Cell Defection – A congressman educates https://www.nationalreview.com/ponnuru/ponnuru200408160825.asp   Stem cell debate is riddled with dishonesty https://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnleo/jl20040817.shtml   Muslim Patients Prompt New Hospital Gowns https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129210,00.html   Fahrenheit 9/11 is Having “Devastating” Impact on Military Morale, Says Soldier Deployed Overseas https://www.nationalcenter.org/PRIraqFahrenheit911704.html   Survey Finds U.S. Teens Involved, Concerned About Country’s Future https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/162004b.asp   Britons are amongst the most promiscuous people in the world, according to a new survey.  https://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13195374,00.html   Expert on stem cells exhorts Catholics to understand issue https://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0404478.htm   Pro-lifers win right […]

MELBOURNE, August 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australian scientists have conclusively confirmed that children conceived through in-vitro fertilization are at a much greater risk—up to nine times more likely than children conceived naturally—to develop a rare disease known as Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS). BWS is a genetic syndrome associated with an increased predisposition to certain types of cancer. Children with this condition may also grow larger tongues or other body parts. BWS occurs as a result of errors in the imprinting of DNA. Scientist are unsure why the association is higher in IVF children, although one speculation is that growing the embryo […]

BERLIN, August 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Germany’s foremost medical associations and leading political parties called on the German government on Friday to take a firmer stand against cloning. Though cloning is already illegal in Germany, many feel that the country’s ethical stand on cloning should be more vigorous, and that cloning should be banned throughout the European Union.  Friday’s appeal from top doctors and politicians came after a group of British doctors, mostly connected with Newcastle University, were authorized August 11 to clone embryos and harvest their stem cells for therapeutic purposes. The Newcastle doctors are the first to receive […]

SAN FRANCISCO, August 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s request for an appeal of a May ruling that upheld Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide law has been rejected. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made the decision Wednesday—in a release Monday, they said that a majority of 25 judges had voted against holding an appeal.  In May, 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 […]

Warns that a single pedophile could wipe out Scouts Canada

LONDON, August 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British scientists are implicating the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV) as a cause of prostate cancer in men. HPV is a known cause of cervical cancer in women, but, until now, was never associated with the increasingly prevalent cancer in men. HPV is not preventable with condom use.  “There is an almost religious conviction that HPV causes cervical cancer in women and it is clear that men and women are exposed to the virus equally,” Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry professor of medical oncology Tim Oliver revealed to the UK’s […]

JOHANNESBURG, August 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More countries are using the false distinction between so-called ‘therapeutic’ and ‘reproductive’ cloning to allow the creation of human beings as living research subjects. An article on the online magazine, allAfrica.com, demonstrates the danger of a chain reaction when one country after another allows unethical research practices.  In recent months, LifeSiteNews.com has reported that Britain, Korea, France, Canada, Japan and Israel have allowed scientists to proceed with cloning experiments, either openly or clandestinely through loopholes in regulating legislation. Now South Africa has followed suit. The Health Department of South Africa has offered draft regulations […]

Priests for Life Leader on Tour in South Dakota to Promote a Truly Catholic Vote

Belgian Cardinal: Pope’s Health Seriously Weakened https://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=F01A2B71-5834-4453-AB7BFFF48454B7D9   Ontario to make ratings, proof of age mandatory for violent video games   https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=1845&e=20&u=/cpress/20040813/ca_pr_on_na/ont_video_games   EU orders health ID cards for all tourists https://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=551564

VANCOUVER, August 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has awarded a claimant $6,000 in damages against a nightclub that ordered her to wear a bikini top during work as a server.  In April, 2001, Andrea Mottu, 26, was told she could not serve drinks by Barfly Nightclub manager Cass MacLeod unless she wore a bikini top for a B.C. Institute of Technology fundraiser. She called her union who told her she was under no obligation to fulfill McLeod’s order. Mottu was told by a fellow employee that she would not be able to serve the drink […]

PHNOM PENH, August 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen recently intervened to stop an international organization from testing an anti-HIV drug called Tenofovir in Cambodia. He urged Cambodians to boycott the program, saying the country was not a test bed for “out-of-date” technologies. Cambodian Health Minister Nuth Sokhom said the prime minister was worried about the trial’s effects. “He is worried that the drug testing will affect the health of Cambodian people, human values and rights,” the minister said.  The testing is spearheaded by Family Health International, which describes itself as an NGO committed to “improve people’s […]

TORONTO, August 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce this year joined forces with homosexual activists, and hosted its first “Gay Pride” reception to coincide with Toronto’s “Gay Pride” parade. CIBC employees carried a company-endorsed banner in the parade.  CIBC chairman John Hunkin gave the address at the company-sponsored “Gay Pride” reception, June 24. “CIBC . . . has a long history of supporting the Gay & Lesbian Community,” Hunkin boasted. “In the mid-1990s, for example, CIBC made same-sex benefits available to its employees well before employers across Canada were legally obligated to do so.”“CIBC also had an […]

HALIFAX, August 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of same-sex “marriage” activists is planning an action to force Nova Scotia courts to decide on the status of homosexual “marriage” in that province. The group, Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project (NSRAP), bemoans that the federal government and Supreme Court of Canada is stalling on a national decision. NSRAP is trying to force the matter by seeking a court order. “We are now considering a change in strategy, to proceed with a similar application in Nova Scotia in the near future, rather than wait for the Reference,” NSRAP chair Sean Foreman said […]

LOURDES, August 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope John Paul II concluded his 104th international trip yesterday, celebrating Mass at France’s foremost Marian shrine in the presence of over 300,000 pilgrims. Lourdes is an especially meaningful place for the ailing Pontiff, who took time out between public appearances for private devotion at the shrine.  When he instituted the World Day of the Sick in 1992, Pope John Paul II chose February 11, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, as the date on which the event would be celebrated each year.  Though Lourdes is famous for miraculous cures and draws ailing […]

LONDON, August 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hours after undergoing an abortion at King’s College Hospital in London, 29-year-old Davina Chambers came face to face with her aborted baby. Chambers was discharged from the hospital after the abortion, and hospital personnel told her that they had done three scans on her and that everything was fine. Then the unthinkable happened. “At midnight, I went to the bathroom and as I was sitting there, I just felt something slip out of me as if I had just given birth. I looked in the toilet and saw this lump that seemed to have […]

TOKYO, August 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Mainichi Daily News reports that the “trade in aborted fetuses” has “created a lucrative niche in the pregnancy termination market.”  The newspaper describes recent police raids on an abortion center in Yokohama which was accused of dumping aborted fetuses with household garbage, an illegal act since it sidesteps disposal fees for body parts.  Under the Waste Disposal Law, unborn children are classified as “infectious waste” and municipal government fees of $15 (US) per fetus must be paid for their proper disposal.  It is alleged that such costs prompted the Isesaki Abortuary, the subject […]

PARIS, August 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  In an interview with the French magazine Le Figaro, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, reiterated that Catholic politicians out of step with the Church on abortion should not receive communion.  Cardinal Ratzinger called it an obvious point of reason, not one of faith, that the right to life must be protected from the first moment to the last by any State.  He added however that it would be contrary to the faith to be opposed to this obvious fact of reason.  “A politician who takes […]

WASHINGTON, August 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Catholic News Service (CNS), the official news service of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has published a story highlighting the “clear differences” on abortion between the two main presidential contenders.  Speaking of abortion, CNS says “no issue shows a clearer distinction between the major party candidates, Republican President George W. Bush and Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts.”  The article outlines the two stands stating, “As president, Bush has signed the ban on partial-birth abortions, which his administration has defended against court challenges; signed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act; reinstituted […]

Mississippi investigating local abortionist Dr. Malachy Malvin deHenre who had medical license suspended while in Alabama https://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/9388045.htm   Pro-Life Africans Fight Back Against Drive to Legalize Abortion https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=%5CForeignBureaus%5Carchive%5C200408%5CFOR20040813b.html

HAVANA, August 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The official youth magazine of the Cuban Communist Party has published an interview with a pro-life spokesperson, Dr. Maria Concepción Morales, physician for internal medicine at the Diez de Octubre hospital in Havana. In the July 24 on-line edition of Juventud Rebelde, or “Rebellious Youth,” Dr. Morales explains the Billings method, calling it a “very easy and effective” means of natural family planning (NFP).  The interview appeared in the Sexo Sentido section of the daily publication, whose authors generally offer a liberal take on human sexuality and relationships.  In the interview with Dr. Morales, […]

OTTAWA, August 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Paul Martin said Thursday that the two vacancies on the Supreme Court would be filled without delay. Nominations have been pending since the resignation of two Supreme Court judges, Louise Arbour and Frank Iacobucci. Iacobucci retired from the Supreme Court in June and Arbour moves on to her new post as United Nations high commissioner for human rights in Geneva.  The fall appointments are seen as crucial by pro-life and pro-family circles, as the Supreme Court is to hear a milestone same-sex marriage case when the fall session begins. The pro-family movement […]

WASHINGTON, August 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Republican Party has decided to feature Michael Reagan, son of former President Ronald Reagan at this year’s National Convention to speak on stem cell research. Family Research Council (FRC) praised the move, saying “The Republican Party, in keeping with its pro-life platform, has invited staunchly pro-life Michael Reagan to speak in front of a national audience and address both sides of stem cell research – adult and embryonic.  We applaud this decision and trust that Michael Reagan will defend his father’s memory by reiterating that he was unabashedly pro-life and believed that life […]

CANBERRA, August 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Australian Senate voted overwhelmingly in favour of a ban on homosexual “marriage” Friday. Passed by a 39-7 margin, the new bill adds the words: “Marriage means the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life” to the Marriage Act. The decision to amend the law was rushed through before the courts legislate otherwise, according to Senate members. One case before the courts involves a same-sex “couple” vying to have their “marriage”—performed in Ontario—recognized as legal in Australia. In direct contradiction to this suit, […]

OTTAWA, August (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prominent Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler is in the spotlight again with his Ottawa abortion centre being sued for $185,000 plus costs, for an alleged “botched” abortion occurring on August 8, 2003.  Documents filed with the Ontario Superior Court last week name one doctor and five nurses and claim that the abortion was performed without anaesthetic due to an inability to insert an IV.  The woman claims she only discovered she was pregnant in July 2003. Court documents note that immediately after the abortion she experienced cramping and bleeding which continued for weeks.  A nurse at the […]

China Offers Financial Perks to Stop Aborting Baby Girls https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=731&e=2&u=/nm/20040812/wl_nm/china_girls_dc   Gay actor starring in blasphemous play about a homosexual Christ caught in police sting for seeking sex with 14-year-old boy https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39925   Lesbian kills her mother because mother is opposed to her “girlfriend.”  https://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040812p2a00m0dm002000c.html   New Hampshire Parental Notification Abortion Law Defended before Federal Appeals Court Panel   https://www4.fosters.com/august_2004/08.10.04/news/co_0810a.asp   Keyes Urges Bush Not to Select Pro-Abortion O’Connor as Supreme Court Chief Justice https://www.talonnews.com/news/2004/august/0811_keyes_judicial_nominees.shtml   Leveraging Sept. 11, Giuliani Raises Forceful Voice for Bush https://nytimes.com/2004/08/12/politics/campaign/12rudy.html

SAN FRANCISCO, August 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California Supreme Court nullified Thursday all marriages performed by San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom earlier this year, ruling that he contravened his authority by issuing the licenses. The judges decided 5-2 that the San Francisco mayor violated state law, and California’s Proposition 22—a 2000 referendum vote that was overwhelmingly in favor of preserving the traditional definition of marriage in the state. Newsom issued almost 4,000 licenses to same-sex couples between February 12 and March 11. Justice Joyce Kennard wrote in her decision that the constitutionality of same-sex marriage for California has yet […]

ROME, August 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Italian Health Minister commented during an interview with Italy’s La Republica Tuesday that abortion is essentially “murder.”“Before resorting to a violent and bloody act that suppresses a life, substantially murder, contrary to my morals, there are other ways to act,” Girolamo Sirchia said, as reported by Italy’s English online news, AGI. “I accept it only if the woman’s health is in serious danger. I believe abortion to be a serious act, detrimental to the rights of the unborn child and to society.”  Although Sirchia claims he is not intending to alter Italy’s abortion […]

VIENNA, August 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – 50 miles west of the Austrian capital, Bishop Klaus Kueng is wrapping up his investigation of the seminary that has been a center of heated controversy since mid-July. On July 12, the Austrian news service Profil published a series of lurid photographs and a report of homosexual activity at Sankt Poelten seminary, involving both seminarians and staff. The Austrian bishops conference took prompt action and ordered an internal investigation. Seminary rector Ulrich Kuechl and vice-rector Wolfgang Rothe have stepped down while continuing to insist that they are innocent of any wrongdoing, and the Austrian […]

BRASILIA, August 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Brazilian government is planning to distribute three billion free condoms per year in an effort to stem the country’s skyrocketing HIV infection rate. Experts have warned that condoms are in no way a reliable method for preventing the spread of HIV. The availability of condoms statistically increases promiscuity and risk of contracting HIV according to medical experts who presented their findings on the HIV Pandemic in Washington, DC in January. Dr. Norman Hearst of the University of California – San Francisco, for example, reported on statistics from Kenya, Botswana, and other countries, which […]

ATHENS, August 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The World Congress of Families called the planned distribution of 130,000 free condoms to athletes at the Olympic Games in Greece “a pathetic publicity ploy that contradicts the spirit of the Games,” and chided Olympic officials for accepting the prophylactics.  Durex, a condom manufacturer, recently announced that it will provide the devices to the 17,000 athletes and officials at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, August 13-29. The company is also donating 30,000 packets of lubricant to (as it leeringly explains) “smooth the performance of the world’s elite sports people in the arena […]

WASHINGTON, August 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholics for Kerry 04 website has been blasted by the Catholic League for referring to President George W. Bush as the Antichrist.  Under the heading “President Bush?”, the website says “Antichrist?” and links to comments by Wayne Madsden, who says,  “George W. Bush’s blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs and his constant references to ‘evil doers,’ in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations-the anti-Christ.”  Catholic League president William Donohue blasted the website saying, “This is the […]

BRUSSELS, August 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso today named 24 new commissioners to the EU Commission.  Rocco Buttiglione, the Italian minister for European Affairs and former Professor of Philosophy, was named commissioner in charge of the Justice, Freedom and Security portfolio for the Commission.  In 2001, as Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s new government took power, Minister Buttiglione proposed pro-life legislation which aimed at encouraging women in crisis pregnancies to decide against abortion.  The proposal would have seen women choosing to carry their children to birth given funds to off-set child rearing costs for the […]

Marriage Foes Outspend Marriage Defenders by 24 to 1 in Missouri https://www.cwfa.org/articles/6137/CFI/family/index.htm   Civil Union Leads to Battle Over Child https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/8/11/104110.shtml   Analysis of Speeches at 2004 Democratic National Convention https://www.cwfa.org/articles/6140/BLI/commentary/index.htm   Penn Pro-Family Leader Says Scouts’ Policy Protects Young Boys https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/afa/112004c.asp   Gallup finds split Catholic vote in US https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=31400   Japanese women shun the pill. Five years after legalization, usage at 1.3 percent compared with 15.6 percent in the United States https://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/08/10/japan.pill.ap/  Group complains Bush still giving massive dollars to USAID for population control programs https://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2004/082004/08102004/1454353   Canadian Pro-aborts Complain “More Anti-Choice MPs Elected than Before”  https://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/discouraging-victory.html   […]

FREDERICTON, August 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New Brunswick Human Rights Commission recently demonstrated its political muscle by forcing the government to allow a partner in a same-sex relationship to adopt the other partner’s child. Overriding existing legislation contained in the Family Services Act and the Vital Statistics Act, the decision by the board of inquiry of the Human Rights Commission permits both same-sex partners to be recorded as parents on a child’s birth registration document.  One of the partners filed a human rights complaint, stating that the government was discriminating against her on the basis of sexual orientation and […]

SAINT LOUIS, August 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Representative David Obey (D-Wisconsin) has staked out his position against Archbishop Raymond L. Burke in a soon to be published article in America magazine. The article, recently released to journalists by America staff, will be published in the August 16-23 issue of the prominent Jesuit weekly under the headline “My Conscience, My Vote.” Mr. Obey, who describes himself as a defender of human values and a man of deeply Catholic roots, accuses Archbishop Raymond L. Burke of ‘coercing’ him on public policy issues when Burke was bishop of La Cross, Wisconsin. Mr. […]

MONTREAL, August 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to recent articles in La Press, the Montreal Gay Pride was heavily funded by the Canadian government on national and local levels this year. The July 26 to August 1, 2004 event was organized and promoted by Montreal’s foremost gay rights organization, Divers/Cité. (See website, https://www.diverscite.org/anglais/index.htm). The organization, whose mandate is to “promote and develop gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and transgender rights and cultures”, received over $550,000 in government subsidies: $ 200,000 from the Government of Quebec, $160,000 from the Government of Canada, $130,000 from the City of Montreal and $60,000 from the […]

Bishop hopes "both presidential candidates will refuse to reply to the Questionnaire"

LONDON, August 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers at the University of Newcastle are set to commence cloning with human embryos after final authority was granted by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).  The go-ahead for Newcastle issued today, marks the first license for so-called therapeutic cloning to scientists.  Dr Miodrag Stojkovic, from the university’s Institute of Human Genetics, told the press: “We are all set up and ready to go immediately as soon as the paper work is sorted out.”  Despite objections from leading scientists in the UK and around the world, the human cloning will be allowed and […]

OTTAWA, August 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Canadian Minister of Justice Martin Cauchon has revealed the names of the four men responsible for the Liberal political strategy to bring about homosexual ‘marriage’ in Canada.  Cauchon made the revelation during a speech to homosexual activists at an international event held in Philadelphia called the Equality Forum.  REAL Women Canada obtained a transcript of Cauchon’s speech and reports in its latest newsletter that in addition to himself, Cauchon named Paul Genest, policy advisor to former Prime Minister Chrétien, Alex Himelfarb, Clerk of the Privy Council and Morris Rosenberg, Deputy Minister of Justice, […]

BRASÍLIA, August 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Brazil is set to consider legalizing abortion in the mostly Catholic country. After the matter had traveled through lower courts, the Supreme Court was set to consider abortion of anencephalic babies (a condition where the fetus does not develop parts of the brain).  However, in an unexpected announcement last week the government news agency revealed that “The justices of the supreme court will consider also the situation in cases of other diseases, and the right to abortion itself, even when the child is healthy.”  The news does not come as […]

Google Ad Rules Discriminate Against Church Outreaches on Abortion https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/09/BUGAD835EP1.DTL   Pope greets women who chose life over abortion https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=1694   Majority of Portuguese oppose homosexual “marriage”  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=1707   Albertan ordered to pay ex-wife $200 a month for pet support https://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/08/09/dogsupport_040809.html   Graphic Consent Form Warns of Obscure risks of childbirth https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002000203_consent09m.html   Many Pharmacists refuse to dispense abortifacient birth control pills https://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/borderland/20040729-148612.shtml   First lady Bush calls Kerry stem cell criticism ‘ridiculous’  https://www.mlive.com/newsflash/politics/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0443_BC_StemCell-Politics&&news&election2004

WASHINGTON, August 10, 2004 (culture-of-life.org/LifeSiteNews.com) – A political questionnaire issued by the government relations staff of the US Conference of Catholics Bishops and distributed to both major-party presidential candidates has received criticism from prominent Catholics who say most of the questions take the Democratic side of non-binding policy issues such as immigration and gun control. Bill Ryan, spokesman for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops acknowledged that Catholics are not bound by many of the policies promoted in the questionnaire. “No. On issues like that people can take different stances,” he told Culture and Cosmos.  The questionnaire contains 41 questions […]

WASHINGTON, August 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week the American Bar Association (ABA) will vote on a proposed resolution that would strip “conscience” protection from healthcare providers who make medical judgments on issues including abortion and contraception based upon their religious beliefs. This proposal comes just days after Family Research Council (FRC) filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court arguing to overturn a California Supreme Court decision which requires Catholic Charities of Sacramento to offer contraception prescriptions for its employees. FRC’s President Tony Perkins commented saying, “At its core this proposal is a direct attempt to discriminate […]

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, August 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alan Keyes, former Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1996 and 2000, and American ambassador to the U.N., accepted the Republican invitation to run for U.S. Senate for the state of Illinois Sunday. Keyes faces Barack Obama in the bid to replace retiring Republican Sen. Peter Fitzgerald in November’s election. Keyes, an ardently pro-life Catholic, began his acceptance speech with “Praise God!” Keyes described the many policy differences between himself and opponent Obama, including such things as taxation, gun control and school choice. “What finally caught my eye, however,” he said, […]

DENVER, August 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Peter Coors, while on leave to campaign for the U.S. Senate, announced that his family’s beer company will no longer be offering abortion coverage as previously covered by the company health plan. “We’re revising our health care plans right now for the fall when people have to sign up again,” he announced last week during a conversation with a Christian Coalition of Colorado official. “It will not be in there.”  The Denver Post first reported the contents of the tape, including that Coors expressed surprise to the Coalition member when he learned that the […]

OTTAWA, August 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tom Kent, one-time social policy advisor for the Liberal party of Canada, in a newly published essay for the Institute for Research and Public Policy, is urging the Martin government to change Canada’s immigration policy to attract young immigrants. Kent’s recommendation is in response to plummeting fertility rates among Canadians and the serious economic repercussions of a rapidly aging Canadian population.  Mr. Kent told the National Post “If we want to restore a balanced group of ages in the population, then we need young people.” He stresses the importance of importing youngsters from overseas, […]

ROME, August 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Antonio Gentile, a senator belonging to Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party, proposed a law August 8 that would limit tax-payer funded abortions to one per woman. After her first abortion, a financially comfortable woman would have to pay part and then all of further abortions, which cost the equivalent of roughly $3,000 Canadian.  Mr. Gentile, now being vilified by political opponents as a Catholic reactionary and enemy of women’s rights, plans to present the law to parliament in a month’s time. He has the support of about 20 senators among his own and allied parties. […]

DALLAS, August 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of Operation Save America-Dallas (OSA-Dallas) street counselors, including 10 and 16 year-old girls and a one and a half year-old baby, were assaulted Saturday when a woman on her way into a Dallas abortuary doused them with a can of pepper spray.  “The woman obviously had no value for any life whatsoever, born or unborn from the largest to the smallest that she would use this weapon upon gentle Christians, including a baby!” Rev. John D. Reyes, Director of Operation Save America-Dallas said. The woman was later charged by police.  On the […]

Extraordinary abuse of influence by Liberal government

MONTREAL, August 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The following press release was issued by Campaign Life Coalition Canada following the sudden death of a great LifeSiteNews.com fan, friend, and inspiration:  The Pro-life family is deeply saddened by the death of one of its most loved and respected leaders, Mr. Gilles Grondin of Montreal.  M. Grondin, after working for several years in the Ottawa office of Campaign Life Coalition bringing the pro-life message to French speaking MPs, established Campagne Quebec-Vie in September 1989, as the Quebec branch of CLC. Gilles brought with him experience gained from a 30 year career with the […]

Town to fine couple for putting pro-life sign on their own home https://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/9345561.htm   Rome laicizes priest charged with blackmail   https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=31345   Has The American Psychological Association Gone Mad?  https://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1788   Democracy’s Trojan Horse – A borderless world is unlikely to be a democratic one…some aspects of globalization, “point to a long range danger to democracy.”  https://www.hudson.org/files/publications/fonte_national_interest_summer_04.pdf   The Implications of Saudi Arabian oil declining https://www.hudson.org/files/publications/Simmons%20—%20Implications%20of%20Declining%20Saudi%20Oil.pdf   China may age on a scale and speed the world has never encountered, and its vulnerabilities will multiply https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,265711,00.html?

LONDON, August 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK government plans to allow chemical abortions to be carried out at home, rather than under the supervision of medical staff at hospitals or abortion clinics. The new guidelines are set to begin next month.  The drug, RU-486, already available to French and U.S. women for self-administration, has met with disastrous consequences—Since RU-486 received U.S. approval, Danco, the distributor of the drug there, has reported 400 complications to the FDA. These include one woman who died from an ectopic pregnancy, another who suffered a heart attack, and two 15-year olds who contracted life-threatening […]

HONG KONG, August 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The South China Morning Post reported today that one-third of all pregnancies in Hong Kong end in abortion. Analysts say the number is probably even higher, because it does not take into account the illegal abortions committed in mainland China, where many women go to ensure anonymity.  According to the Post, 2001 statistics revealed 20,235 babies were aborted v. 49,144 live births in the same year. Abortion thus ended the lives of 29.2% Hong Kong babies that year.  A Medical News Today report speculates that the strong social stigma associated with pregnancy in […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, August 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Michael J. Sheridan’s August column decrying same-sex unions did more than sound a warning note. After sketching the Catholic Church’s teaching about marriage, the Colorado Springs prelate extended an open invitation to a series of in-depth explanations on the issue. The issue is certainly crucial to the bishop’s vision of Church and society, as he refuses to delegate the sessions to co-workers. All are welcome to attend Bishop Sheridan’s talks at four locations throughout the diocese over the course of the next three months.  The Colorado bishop stands in contrast to his […]

Svend Robinson's Sentence a Miscarriage of Justice

KUALA LUMPUR, August 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alarmed by the growing rate of divorce among non-Muslim couples, the Home Affairs Ministry of the Malaysian government is creating a new marriage preparation course to be implemented nationwide. In the Southeast Asian country under Muslim rule, the divorce rate is 5% among non-Muslims, who are allowed relative freedom to follow their respective religions.  Abortion is among the foremost dangers to marriage relationships, according to the courses’ architects. Deputy Minister Datuk Tan Chai Ho said “We encourage the screening of Silent Scream to allow couples to see what happens to the foetus when […]

Non-pro-life Catholics not to be given recognition or placed in leadership roles in diocese

TORONTO, August 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Responding to concerned Catholics who wrote about the appointment of former Ontario PC cabinet minister Tina Molinari – listed as ‘pro-abortion’ by a pro-life group – to a high profile post within Catholic Missions in Canada, Toronto Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic’s spokeseman said he backs the appointment. Despite a 1999 pro-life group’s evaluation and a July 20 LifeSiteNews.com interview with Tina Molinari, both of which indicated that she was not pro-life, Cardinal Ambrozic says in a letter of July 23, “I am completely confident that the staff of Catholic Missions In Canada fully believe and […]

The US Women’s Vote: Up for Grabs?  https://www.cwfa.org/articles/6116/BLI/commentary/index.htm   Media Gives Porn Industry Pass – Again https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/afa/62004jl.asp   Living near busy roads may shorten lifespan https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1091735446893_87144646/?hub=TopStories   Coors: Brewer to end abortion coverage https://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~64~2317203,00.html   New Documentary “I do exist” covers lives of Former Homosexuals https://www.movieguide.org/index.cgi?Playing&07/21/200414.40.00#07/21/200414.40.00 Madonna opens Kabbalah Cult Religious School https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow/803820.cms   Keyes reportedly set to accept GOP bid https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0408060207aug06,1,4280254.story?coll=chi-news-hed

MONTREAL, August 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Curious calls are pouring in to the Saint Joseph’s Oratory information line as the Oratory gears up for the August 14 visit of eastern spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, authority on Vedic literature and master of therapeutic breathing techniques. When LifeSiteNews.com called the Oratory today, the Oratory staff was barely able to attend to the call due to the volume of callers asking about the Sri Sri event. Oratory staff assure callers that the event is not a religious one, likening it to the Dali Lama’s visit to the Oratory June 21, 1993. […]

Will receive neither jail time nor criminal record for the theft

Exposes her as anti-religion campaigner

Single and lesbian women can now be categorized as "socially infertile"

WASHINGTON, August 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood (PP), the pro-abortion group which shocked even its own supporters with an “I had an abortion” pride T-shirt, is once again revealing its extreme sex obsession with another product.  The pro-abortion behemoth is now selling a 6-inch ruler that poses the sarcastic question, “Does Size Matter?” The ruler then directs children to Teenwire.com, a web site filled with graphic sexual content that many parents find offensive. This web site was recently banned from public libraries in South Dakota.  Jim Sedlak, executive director of American Life League’s STOPP International, which counters PP, commented, […]

LA PAZ, August 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A proposed new law aims to radically reshape Bolivian society’s sexual mores. Article two, section a. will give Bolivians “The right to exercise a pleasurable, responsible and freely decided sexuality, without any limits except those expressly stated by law…” In effect, the proposed legislation would remove all limits to aberrant sexuality, including that of children.  The bill met with a storm of concern and disapproval from religious leaders, obliging President Carlos Mesa to send it back to the senate for review prior to his signature. But it is unlikely that the legislation, which […]

LIMA, August 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the United Nations Convention on Human Rights does not refer to abortion, at least according to official lines at the U.N., a U.N. emissary to Peru is nonetheless urging the predominantly Catholic and legislatively pro-life country to allow abortion.  United Nations Special Rapporteur Paul Hunt, appointed by the UN Commission on Human Rights to “help States and others promote and protect the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health,” is to prepare a 25-page report on his June 6-15 mission to Peru.  The full […]

ST. LOUIS, August 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an exclusive interview with Barbara Kralis of CatholicOnline.org, St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke has become the second U.S. Bishop to admit that the letter from Vatican Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger intended to guide U.S. Bishops in their deliberations around the subject of communion and pro-abortion politicians was withheld from the bishops.  The letter was sent to Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick who heads the U.S. Bishops’ task force studying the matter.  On the Ratzinger memo which spelled out that obstinately pro-abortion Catholic politicians must be denied communion, Burke was asked, “were the contents of […]

Toronto, August 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his latest Corporate Watch Update in the Interim newspaper, journalist Tony Gosgnach reports on mostly good news items.  The Curves fitness chain receives praise for donating 10% of its gross revenue – $10 million – to charities such as pro-life pregnancy care centres. Gosgnach also reports that An AT&T Broadband employee who was fired for refusing to abide by company rules on homosexuality because of his religious beliefs has won a federal court case. Clear Channel Communications is noted for firing shock jock Howard Stern and the Castrol oil company is reported to […]

Toronto, August 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s national pro-life political organization, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), has indicated in its August newsletter that it is “extremely disappointed with the cabinet Paul Martin selected for himself and announced on July 20.”  CLC notes that former NDP British Columbia premier Ujjal Dosanjh who has been appointed as the new Health Minister “might very well be the most pro-abortion politician in Canada.” Irwin Cotler, who has reiterated his long-standing support for redefining marriage to include homosexuals continues as the Liberal Justice portfolio where, CLC says, “he no doubt will be responsible for promoting the […]

James Dobson on Bush, Kerry, Thune, gay marriage and the impact of Christians on the 2004 election https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/445jeipn.asp?pg=1   Father John Richard Neuhaus in First Things on National Review Board report on clergy scandals:  Some bishops may have failed to do their duty because they were themselves sexually compromised. That is, priests either explicitly or implicitly threatened to reveal compromising information about a bishop if the bishop took steps against the priest. Anyone who “could be subject to blackmail,” the report says, “should not allow himself to be elevated to bishop or placed in any other position of authority.”… Too […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, August 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Colorado Springs’ vigorously outspoken Bishop is not afraid to take a stand. If Bishop Michael J. Sheridan is not always looked upon kindly by the secular media and politicians, it is not surprising: Bishop Sheridan doesn’t mince his words when it comes to abortion, homosexuality and Catholics in politics. Bishop Sheridan is accused by the media of mixing religion and politics, but for Sheridan it’s a question of principle, not political agendas. He wrote a pastoral letter May 1, 2004 (www.diocesecs.org/bishopsOffice/PastoralLetterMay2004.pdf) stating that not only anti-life and anti-family politicians but also the Catholics […]

WASHINGTON, August 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League’s Crusade for the Defense of Our Catholic Church has today released its newest ad, which appeals to Pope John Paul II to clarify enforcement of Canon 915. This section of Church law states that persons who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to communion. Today’s advertisement continues the Crusade’s effort to encourage American bishops to withhold Holy Communion from known pro-abortion “Catholic” public figures. The full-page ad in today’s Washington Times displays a photo of Pope John Paul II. American Life League president Judie Brown said […]

EUGENE, Oregon, August 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A lesbian couple has sued a Catholic school and its parish after their daughter was refused admittance. After describing her irregular domestic arrangement to school principal Dianne Bert last year, Lee Inkmann was told her daughter would not be allowed to attend O’Hara Catholic School, because the lesbian relationship conflicted with Church doctrine, and could be confusing to other pupils. Inkmann and partner Trish Wilson are suing for $550,000 in damages, naming the school principal, as well as pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church Fr. Mark Bachmeier, in their claim.  Archdiocesan spokesman Bud […]

TORONTO, August 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recent ad run by Internet money lending group TheCashStation reads as follows: “Need Money for Abortion? Get Instant Cash Loan. Up to $500. Approved within 24 hours!” The ad was shocking even for Gillian Long of Campaign Life Coalition (see www.campaignlifecoalition.com), who sees a lot of the abortion industry from her workplace. When interviewed about the CashStation ad by LifeSite staff, Gillian said, “It’s disgusting. To me it’s a real example of how much a part of our culture abortion has become. It’s sad that so many people are willing to make money […]

ROSTOV, Southern Russia, August 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At age 55, a Russian woman finally learned the cause of her life-long infertility—the bony remains of the baby she had aborted at age 19 was still lodged in her uterus. Galina Skvortsova learned the news from her gynecologist after an examination to determine the cause of an unrelated condition.  Gynecologist, Dr. Olga Kogan, when conducting a hysteroscopic (camera device) exam, was startled by her finding. “I could not believe it”, she said. “. . . The ‘cannon-bone’ [was] 2.5 centimeters in size, and this means that Galina had an abortion when […]

DALLAS, August 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  The head of the Knights of Columbus, the largest Catholic fraternal organization with 1.6 million members throughout the United States, Canada, and half a dozen other countries, has told the membership that the pro-life fight is their supreme calling.  Speaking Tuesday at the 122nd annual convention in Dallas, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson reminded the 2000 delegates of Pope John Paul’s encyclical on the Gospel of Life, in which he calls Christians to be “a people of life and a people for life.” Anderson declared, “We Knights have no higher calling. We must fight for […]

OTTAWA—The Ottawa Citizen reports today that the Canadian Bar Association’s (CBA) aboriginal law section is encouraging Prime Minister Paul Martin to appoint at least one native Canadian to fill one of the openings on the Supreme Court left by the June retirement of Justice Frank Iacobucci and the resignation of Justice Louise Arbour to become the United Nation’s human rights commissioner. This push could result in Ontario judge Harry LaForme, author of the Ontario Superior Court’s 2003 same-sex “marriage” decision, being promoted to the top court in the country.  The CBA notes that the First Nations are one of three […]

"more complaints about Canada than any other western country" says anti-trafficking leader

Survey Finds 65% of Chileans Oppose Homosexual Marriage and Homosexual Adoption https://www.cpod.ubc.ca/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=3640   Former President Clinton in Toronto Tomorrow to Sign Books https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1091571051032&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154   Australian Senator Says Late-Term Abortions are Common https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/04/1091557904872.html?oneclick=true   Suicide Rate in Japan Jumps 7.1%  https://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57624   Spain Homosexual Activist Group Calls for investigation of Catholic Church for Crime of ‘Homophobia’  https://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57626   Mom awarded $1 million over embryo mix-up https://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/04/EMBRYO.TMP   KlannedParenthood.com website says What the Ku Klux Klan Could Only Dream About The Abortion Industry is Accomplishing https://www.klannedparenthood.com/History_of_Abortion_Statistics/  45% of Hollywood execs claim not to have any religious affiliation compared to only 4% of […]

SEATTLE, August 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Seattle judge ruled Wednesday that denying same-sex couples the right to marriage defies the constitution.  The decision by King County Superior Court Judge William Downing will be stayed until the Washington State Supreme Court studies the ruling. No marriage licences will be issued until the Supreme Court review.  Washington state’s current official definition of marriage is the union of a man and woman.  Tv

Pro-life groups demand clause allowing health care workers to opt out of abortion provision

DALLAS, August 4, 2004 – (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday President George W. Bush addressed the 122nd Knights of Columbus Convention in Dallas. The President spoke at length to the Knights about the steps his administration has taken in favour of the needy. But he also stressed that private enterprises, especially faith-based ones, do best: “I believe one of the most effective ways our government can help those in need is to help the charities and community groups that are doing God’s work every day.”  President Bush congratulated the Knights on a number of counts, including their participation in the faith-based initiatives […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, August 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Missouri voters have overwhelmingly decided to introduce a state-wide constitutional ban on same-sex “marriage.” In an election Tuesday, 70 percent of voters were in favor of the proposed constitutional amendment.  As many as 12 other states may vote on similar constitutional bans this year. Missouri is one of 37 states that already defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman, however its citizens suffer from the same anxiety as residents of many other states—that activist judges will thwart the wishes of the people by overturning the law.  “I’m very […]

NEW YORK, August 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rev. Brenda Bartella Peterson, an ordained minister of the Church of Christ, is the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) newly appointed Senior Advisor for Religious Outreach. An odd choice, since Rev. Peterson appears to be no friend of religions. Commenting on her nomination, Catholic League president William Donohue said “Are they out of their minds? Would they hire a gay basher to reach out to homosexuals?” Presumably not. But leaders and faithful of all religions are wondering why the Kerry campaign’s liaison with religious groups is herself an anti-religion campaigner.  Rev. Peterson was one […]

Unfortunately many are persecuted by liberal clergy, bishops and church bureaucrats

WASHINGTON, August 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Department of Education has just released the latest statistics on homeschooling in America.  Since the last survey in 1999, the statistics indicate that the number of homeschooled students has increased from an estimated 850,000 in 1999 to about 1.1 million (1,096,000) in the spring of 2003.  In addition, the estimated homeschooling rate-the percentage of the school-age population that was being homeschooled-increased from 1.7 percent in 1999 to 2.2 percent in 2003   The survey also noted that parents chose homeschooling to be mainly out of concern with the school environment and the […]

Kerry's parish is "where people who hate the Church go to church"

VANCOUVER, August 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Svend Robinson will return to work. He’s landed a contract with the British Columbia government as a union arbitrator. Robinson faces a criminal court hearing Friday for his theft of a $64,000 ring in April. In a tearful and highly publicized media event following the larceny, he admitted his guilt and blaming the temporary lapse in judgement on “extreme stress.” Last month, he was seen “tanned and relaxed” while on an expedition to Scotland to represent Canada.  Robinson was hired by the B.C. Government and Service Employees Union to settle unresolved grievances by public […]

MANILA, August 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A two-child population control policy being considered in the Philippines which would see massive amounts of money going to condom and contraceptive promotions has some Philippine legislators concerned.  The policy would see parents who had more than two children deprived of tax incentives and education grants, and would see 50 percent of the internal revenue allotments of local government units directed towards buying and distributing artificial contraceptives   Manila Mayor Lito Atienza has called the bill “destructive”.  He noted that the bill encroaches on the power of local governments and will “sacrifice local development […]

ATLANTA, August 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Atlanta, the diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, and the diocese of Charleston, South Carolina have enacted a joint policy forbidding Catholic politicians who support abortion from being given Communion.  Atlanta Archbishop John F. Donoghue, together with Charleston Bishop Robert J. Baker and Charlotte Bishop Peter J. Jugis issued a statement giving the reasons for the action.  The statement, available on the Spirit Daily website, notes that “Catholic public officials who consistently support abortion on demand are cooperating with evil in a public manner.  By supporting pro-abortion legislation they participate in manifest […]

Child pornography: an international perspective   https://www.crime-research.org/articles/536/  NARTH Rips Psychologists’ for Sanctioning Homosexual ‘Marriage’  https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/afa/22004b.asp   Open letter to the cable TV industry, the FCC and Congress   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/6077/LEGAL/misc/index.htm   Just in case you were wondering the Satanist is on the Pro-abortion Side https://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/10198860p-11119391c.html   Yet another IVF embryo mix-up https://cbs5.com/news/local/2004/08/02/Embryo_Mix-up_Leads_to_Lawsuits.html   Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Expected in Washington State This Week https://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive

LANCASTER, August 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Leslie Burke of Lancaster, UK has won a legal challenge to the General Medical Council (GMC) guidance on the treatment of the terminally ill. Mr. Burke, whose cerebellar ataxia may eventually prevent him from communicating his views on his own treatment to family and doctors, is overjoyed: the High Court ruling may save his life from being prematurely cut off.  In the course of his appeal, Mr Burke argued that the GMC guidance should be changed to oblige doctors to assume that the patient would want to keep on living were he in a […]

WASHINGTON, August 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over 2,000 doctors associated with the Christian Medical Association signed a letter sent Friday to Congress and the President urging investment in adult stem cell research that is already providing therapies for patients.  Executive Director David Stevens, M.D. noted, “As the nation’s largest faith-based organization of physicians, we have a vested interest in such research because we care for patients every day who desperately need cures that might arise from regenerative medicine. We also have the motivation, knowledge and experience to analyze stem cell research without the inherent bias of fund-seeking firms and researchers […]

Gender Feminism a Harmful Reaction to Sin Says Vatican

Follows UNESCO document published last year which advised how to avoid parents

SAN FRANCISCO, August 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday The U.S. Department of Justice appealed a June ruling by a federal judge who declared the partial-birth abortion ban to be unconstitutional. The ban—making illegal the grisly and unnecessary procedure that smudges the boundary between abortion and infanticide—was signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush last November. It was immediately challenged by a group of Planned Parenthood abortionists represented by the National Abortion Federation. The NAF filed suits in three locations – Lincoln, Nebraska, New York City, and San Francisco. Rulings in both the New York and Lincoln trials […]

LONDON, August 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Aborted babies are now available in a growing clandestine market in the United Kingdom.  From speculators enticed by soaring prices to private museum owners, people are scanning the Internet in search of human body parts. In the United Kingdom human organs and entire fetuses are sold by medical institutions, often clandestinely, after being used for research or as educational material. In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com, Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics, the pro-life group which first provided hard evidence exposing the market for aborted baby body parts, commented, “once you cross the line, where you […]

Massachusetts Council Enforces Knights Policy That Pro-Abortion Politicians Unwelcome