Articles for Month: September 2004

OTTAWA, September 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), Canada’s National Pro-Life Political organization, has announced that on Monday Oct. 4 at 9 a.m. it will protest the swearing in of newly appointed Supreme Court judges Louise Charron and Rosalie Abella.  In a press release, CLC notes that the event will be a “protest of the selection of radical Justices Abella and Charron by people concerned about increasing judicial activism, and the threats that these judges pose to the Supreme Court and Canada’s legal system.”  Mr. Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition said “that we fear that […]

SINGAPORE, September 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mother of a child with Down’s Syndrome is suing the delivery doctor in a ‘wrongful birth’ suit, the first such for the city state of Singapore. Katharine Soh Lea Chin, 47, is launching a lawsuit against her obstetrician, Dr. See Tho Kai Yin. The woman is seeking $700,000 (US$409,000) in damages. The concept of wrongful birth is vigorously opposed by disability advocates organizations that say that it inevitably decreases the dignity and perceived value of persons with disabilities. In January 2002 the French National Assembly passed legislation to outlaw such lawsuits. The law […]

WELLINGTON, September 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – A new poll has backed up New Zealand MP Judith Collins’ parental notification amendment into a pending bill for child protection. A Herald-DigiPoll survey showed broad support for legislation that would require a doctor to inform parents of any underage girl seeking an abortion. The amendment, which would apply only to girls under 16, comes with an exception that would allow a girl from an abusive environment to abort her child without parental notification. However, the Herald-DigiPoll has shown that the New Zealand public wants families to be involved in potentially life-threatening medical […]

CAMBRIDGE, September 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia said, at an appearance at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, that the abstractions of the Supreme Court’s moralizing over abortion ‘rights’ has led the Court into an inextricable quagmire and that such issues as abortion and euthanasia are too fundamental for judges to decide. The topic was the right of judges to make decisions that contravene public morals and judicial activism in general. “What I am questioning is the propriety, indeed the sanity, of having value-laden decisions such as these made for the entire society … by judges,” […]

ROME, September 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Pope’s message for 2005’s World Day of the Sick has been published by the Vatican. It emphasized the ability of all persons to live chaste lives. Millions are suffering from AIDS in Africa and its social and economic consequences are devastating the continent. Pope John Paul II said, “As for the problem of AIDS, I already have underlined on other occasions that it is also ‘a pathology of the spirit’. To combat it in a responsible manner it is necessary to work on its prevention through an education that respects the sacred value […]

Gay “Marriage,” Abortion, Stem Cell Research Taken off Fort Mill HS Debate Topic List. Restriction is in the state’s comprehensive health education act, which prohibits health class discussion on abortion and homosexual sex.  https://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2369434&nav=0RaPRU6d Temporary Reprieve for Abortion-On-Demand in Spain: proposal should be included in next year’s revision of the country’s penal code.  https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=32483 Women Support Bush—Feminism is Dying, Editorial: “It’s simply a fact that most Americans oppose abortion.  That’s why liberals had to take it to the Supreme Court in 1973…”  https://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/s/sterrett/2004/sterrett093004.htm A doctor who used knitting needles to perform one of about 14 abortion attempts on his girlfriend […]

WOLFVILLE, NS, September 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A church pastor in Nova Scotia has formally resigned his license to register marriages as a result of the decision by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia to declare traditional marriage unconstitutional and redefine marriage to include same-sex couples.  Reverend Lewis H. How, Rector of the Anglican Catholic Parish of Saint George announced his decision Friday in a letter to the Deputy Registrar General for the province.  “In response to the ruling today by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia against the Institution of Holy Matrimony and your government’s dereliction of duty in […]

WASHINGTON, September 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it would appeal the latest of three court decisions declaring the ban on the barbaric practice of partial-birth abortion unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf in Lincoln, Nebraska handed down the ruling now being appealed. In a decision handed down in early September, Kopf ruled that the law banning partial birth abortion is unconstitutional because it does not include an exception for the ‘health of the mother.’ The law contains a clause for exceptions for the ‘life’ of the mother but not her health. The exception […]

MADISON, September 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In May 2002, pharmacist Neil Noesen refused to fill a prescription for oral contraceptives on the grounds that to do so was in violation of his religious principles. LifeSiteNews.com reported in May 2004 that the woman had filed a complaint of unprofessional conduct against Noesen with the Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing. Noesen refused to accept a settlement fine of US $250 and is contesting the charge. Noesen faces possible fines or revocation of his license. His hearing on charges of unprofessional conduct was scheduled for September 23rd but was cancelled. The hearing […]

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