Articles for Month: September 2004

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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,” […]

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 […]

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 […]

RICHMOND, VIRGINA, September 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At a time when homosexual activists are seeking special rights, such as “gay marriage,” hate crime laws, adopting children and promoting homosexuality in schools, they are also attacking the freedoms of the ex-gay community. As a counter to homosexual activists’ campaigns, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) has put up a billboard on one of the busiest Interstate highways in the nation—on I-64 near the turnoff for I-95 in the Richmond, Virginia area. The billboard features a photo of a young man who overcame homosexuality, and says: “Ex-Gays Prove that Change […]

Post-abortion ministry now to be found all over the world

MARKHAM, Ontario, September 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has issued an urgent request to Churches and all people of faith to pray for marriage in Canada. Beginning October 6, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the marriage reference questions. The EFC is calling all Christians to prayer in advance of this hearing.  Following the hearing, the Supreme Court will consider the questions and write their decision within two to six months. The EFC urges everyone to keep this issue in your prayers during this time.  The EFC has compiled a list of intentions and individuals […]

Neurotoxin Could Revolutionize Treatment of Intractable Pain

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 […]

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 […]

CALGARY, September 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a column titled Ten Questions For Paul Martin: Tax Minister’s Visit Calls For More Answers, Calgary Herald writer Mark Milke reveals that Calgary Bishop Fred Henry was called and warned by Canada Customs and Revenue Agency not to engage in partisan rhetoric during an election.  The CCRA was referring to Bishop Henry’s denouncement of Prime Minister Paul Martin during the election. In his June pastoral letter, the Bishop criticized so-called Catholic politicians like Martin who do not uphold church teachings in their electoral duties, especially on fundamental issues such as abortion.  “All too […]

Says "when courts legislate, democracy is undermined."

Analysis: ‘Seismic’ Catholic shift to Bush https://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040928-044932-2558r.htm   Conservatives may vote against throne speech, Harper warns https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=737&e=1&u=/cpress/20040928/ca_pr_on_na/harper_throne_speech   Argentinean Archbishop says totalitarian “sex-ed” programs anything but education https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=2065   Marriage Amendment Author Says Voters Must Voice Opinion https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/282004a.asp   Cardinal Julian Herranz denounces “secular fundamentalism” in Spain   https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=2066   Royal Bank Workers Urged to be Sensitive to Homosexual Staff and Not Use Words Such as “married”, “spouse”, “girlfriend”  https://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/tfn/2004/092804.html   Child Abuse Costs Canada Billions Says Study https://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/tfn/2004/092804.html Justice Department says it will appeal Nebraska judge ruling that Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act is unconstitutional https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133844,00.html   CNN LARRY KING […]

PORTSMOUTH, September 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Charlotte Wyatt weighed no more than one pound when she was born three months premature. She has severely damaged lungs and doctors have predicted she will not live past infancy. Her parents were told that should she have life-threatening problems, the child would be kept alive long enough for them to attend her death but that it would be “against the child’s interests” to resuscitate her.  The hospital has said it will seek a court injunction if the parents insist on resuscitation. The child is now ten months old, weighs ten pounds and, say […]

WASHINGTON, September 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Friday’s Life Issues Forum, a United States Conference of Catholic Bishops column by Cathy Cleaver Ruse, examines the “Roe effect” – a term coined by Wall Street Journal reporter James Taranto to describe the effect that abortion has had on voting.  The Roe effect says that, because liberals are much more likely to abort their children than conservatives, a very significant shift in values and voting trends is occurring in society. In other words, the 40 million U.S. young people who have been killed since abortion was legalized there in 1973 would likely have […]

LACONIA, New Hampshire, September 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pharmacist is in the spotlight for refusing to fill a prescription for the abortifacient morning-after pill over the week-end. Suzanne Richards reported to a local newspaper that Brooks pharmacist Todd Sklencar refused to fill her prescription Saturday when she drove up to the drive-through prescription counter. After initially being refused by Sklencar’s assistant, she told the assistant that she had received the same prescription there before. Sklencar then came to the window and said he disagreed with abortion on moral grounds, and would not provide the prescription.  He advised her to […]

Previously stated, ". . . we would find it ethically unacceptable to think of [cloning humans]."

OTTAWA, September 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ontario taxpayers paid $400,000 last year to send 56 women to the United States for late term abortions, reports Life Canada, the educational arm of the pro-life movement in Canada.  The Ontario Ministry of Health admitted the figures after stories last week claimed 15 women were sent from Ontario and 30 from Quebec. The new information shows that each abortion costs taxpayers an average of $7000.00.  The government’s proposed solution is to open and fund a late-term abortions private clinic in Quebec, suggesting it would be easier to have such abortions committed in Canada. […]

CORPUS CHRISTI, September 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) -The excuses for unwillingness to deny communion to pro-abortion politicians are debunked in an article submitted to LifeSiteNews.com by Bishop Rene Henry Gracida, Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi Texas. In his article, Bishop Gracida notes that the Vatican has already ruled authoritatively on the question of denying communion.  “According to the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts in that Council’s June 24, 2000 Declaration on the question: ‘Should a priest deny Communion to a Catholic who is an obstinate public sinner?’ The answer is ‘yes,’” writes Bishop Gracida.  The Church’s Code of Canon Law (can. […]

Unauthorized abortion pills causing health problems https://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=313318   National Geographic melting down?  https://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20040906-095901-4595r.htm   LA Cardinal to take sabbatical in Central Africa, Italy as legal proceedings in clergy sex abuse cases gain momentum https://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/state/9760528.htm?1c   U.S. House Votes to Protect “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance from Court challenges https://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4510626,00.html   Newsweek: Kerry Losing the Catholic vote Because of His Pro-Abortion Stance https://msnbc.msn.com/id/6083383/site/newsweek/  Singapore Father of child offered to marry, keep baby but could not save his child from abortion https://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/top/story/0,4136,73607,00.html   Constitutional Lawyer: Limited Legal Options Remain for Terri Schiavo: ‘Tyrannical Ruling a Death Sentence,’ Says Dr. Dobson […]

NEW YORK, September 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute revealed that abortion is big business, as attested to by the enormous executive salaries at the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). In its most recent Friday Fax weekly report, c-fam revealed that, despite complaints about funding cut-backs from U.S. taxpayers, the IPPF is actually increasing its executive salaries.  Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Gloria Feldt, for example, earned $460,277 in 2003.  The organization has also increased funding for a marketing campaign to legalize abortion in Latin America – its spending for the project increased from […]

MONTREAL, September 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  The 59-year-old mother of a playwright with multiple sclerosis has been arrested after admitting to police that her son died as a result of assisted suicide.  CBC reports that Charles Fariala, 36, whose play Victoria will premiere at the National Arts Centre in October was found dead in his Montreal home Sunday after his mother called authorities.  The incident comes as the trial of assisted suicide trial of Evelyn Martens is underway in B.C.  See LifeSiteNews.com coverage of the Martens trial:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/sep/04092008.html See the CBC coverage:  https://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/09/27/suicide_mom040927   jhw

Led by Fr. Frank Pavone, President of the National Pro-life Religious Council

WINNIPEG, September 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Manitoba judge ruled on September 16th, that the definition of marriage in Canada is unconstitutional. Justice Douglas Yard ordered the definition of marriage to be “reformulated to mean a voluntary union for life of two persons at the exclusion of all others.” The government refused to contest a court ruling ordering it changed.  The activist judge made Manitoba the fifth Canadian province, after the Yukon, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec to have been mandated by activist court decisions to redefine marriage to include same-sex partners.  The same day as the ruling, letters went […]

Only 2.3 percent seeing nurses or counselors

NEW YORK, September 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former U.S. president Bill Clinton used Scripture to imply that the pro-life stance is not explicit in the Bible. Clinton attacked the Republican Party for its pro-life position in an address to a left-wing congregation of New York’s Riverside Church during the Republican National Convention in August.  During his address, Clinton avoided the conundrum imposed by the IRS against churches endorsing specific candidates or parties by saying “I like Senator Kerry,” and then stating his reasons.  Associated Press writer Richard N. Ostling gave a sample of Clinton’s homily in a column appearing in […]

NEW YORK, September 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  John Allen, the Rome correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter reports that Julian Hunte, a pro-abortion Catholic politician in the West Indies, was made a Knight of the Grand Cross Pian Order by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano.  The honor was bestowed as Hunte completed his term as president of the United Nations General Assembly.  The honor which was presented in New York is especially controversial in light of Vatican approved US Conference of Bishops regulations which prohibit honors being given to pro-abortion policians. (https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/jun/04062102.html )  Allen notes that “Hunte was […]

Says "I approve of gay adoption. I approve of gay parenting"

Vancouver Safe injection site visited by 600 users daily “exceeding expectations:”  https://www.canada.com/news/national/story.html?id=08700fc3-15d3-4857-8a94-5cb4d279c2f2   French court recognises gay couple as parents https://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=565108   BBC Drops Pogoing Pope Series After Complaints https://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=6319141   Does US law mute voices of churches?  https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0923/p11s02-lire.html   Billboard pushes tolerance for ex-homosexuals https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40598   The U.N.‘s approach to terrorism https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/bayefsky200409240915.asp   Microsoft sues Web hoster over spam https://news.com.com/Microsoft+sues+Web+hoster+over+spam/2100-1030_3-5380485.html?tag=nefd.top   Two former Jean Chrétien cabinet ministers Plot to Replace Martin https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040922.wxliberals23/BNStory/National/  Congress to Court: Hands Off Our Pledge!  https://www.afa.net/clp/GetArticle.asp?id=30

TORONTO, September 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A full-page ad set for publication in the National Post Saturday presents the chilling comparisons between court decisions that allowed slavery, the subjugation of native Americans and women, the holocaust against the Jews, and abortion. Under the heading, “Sometimes the most important lessons take the longest to learn”, the Toronto Right to Life sponsored ad lists a succession of court decisions that have denied the personhood of various sectors of humanity with atrocious results. The ad text related to each decision is:  * “In the eyes of the law… The slave is not a […]

HALIFAX, September 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Most Rev. Terrence Prendergast, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Halifax and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Yarmouth commented on the Nova Scotia Supreme Court redefinition of marriage today.  “We must recognize this decision as the end of state support for marriage as we have always known it,” said Archbishop Prendergast.  The Archbishop explained the ramifications of the ruling saying, “The civil institution of marriage is now a registered domestic partnership system for adults in a co-dependent relationship.  The reality we are now facing here is that there are two definitions of marriage which are […]

HALIFAX, September 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Heather Robertson has ruled traditional marriage between one man and one woman unconstitutional redefining it to “the lawful union of two persons, to the exclusion of all others.”  Nova Scotia marks the sixth Canadian region to redefine ‘marriage’ through judicial fiat.  The five other regions are: Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, British Columbia and the Yukon.  The case was brought by three homosexual activist couples Ross Boutilier and Brian Mombourquette, Ron and Bryan Garnett-Doucette, and Kim Vance and Sam Meehan, and argued by their lawyer Sean Foreman.  Neither the federal government […]

Not aware of any health risk for mother from simply carrying handicapped child

U.N. ignores pro-Life and anti-cloning references in its report on speech

America’s Increasing Decadence Giving Aid and Comfort to Muslim Terrorists:  The jihadists claim that wherever freedom travels-“especially in America and Europe-it brings sexual license and corruption, decadence and depravity.” Islamic militants are angry at the West, … for exporting “hedonism and materialism into their very homes through television, enticing Muslims to become religiously lazy and morally corrupt.”  When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography to invade our homes via the Internet, and allow babies to be killed at the point of birth, we are inflaming radical Islam. This makes reversing U.S. decadence an urgent priority, not just for Christians, […]

NEW YORK, September 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Xia J. Lin has two children and in China that is an illegal act punishable by forced sterilization. Lin is pregnant with a third child and says she has already undergone three forced abortions in China. She is living in New York City and hopes to have her husband and two other children join her soon. Lin had fled China to the US and applied for refugee status, which was turned down by an immigration judge. On Wednesday, a federal appeals court in Chicago overturned the first decision. The 7th Circuit U.S. Court […]

VANCOUVER, September 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The so-called ‘harm reduction’ philosophy on social issues has become fashionable among politicians. The mayor of Vancouver, Larry Campbell has asked Ottawa for permission, in the wake of that city’s publicly funded ‘safe’ heroin injection centres, to open one for users of crack cocaine. “It makes perfect sense,” he said and went on to cite the European cities that justify it.  In related news, Libby Davies, MP for the riding of East Vancouver has called for a moratorium on prostitution charges. Using the harm-reduction rationalization, she says that legalization will lower the danger of […]

DENVER, September 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Charles Chaput’s latest column in the diocesan newspaper, has chronicled the history of the modern Catholic politician’s “personally opposed but…” compromise. The Archbishop of Denver says it started with Kennedy’s capitulation to anti-Catholic public sentiment in the 1960 election when he said that he would not put the “national interest” above “religious pressures or dictates.” At the time, Chaput writes, the compromise looked relatively innocuous when the issues were divorce, federal aid to Catholic schools or diplomatic relations with the Vatican. However, the essential conflict created by this capitulation, that morality and the […]

PINELLAS COUNTY, FL, September 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Florida Supreme Court ruled unanimously today to strike down Terri’s Law which protected disabled Florida woman Terri Schiavo from her estranged husband’s order to have her feeding tube removed. The law, passed by the Florida legislature and signed by Governor Jeb Bush, was ruled by the justices to be a violation of the separation of powers between the courts and the legislature.  The ruling notes that an appeal must be filed within ten days.  Concerned Women for America (CWA) said the ruling should have no effect on Terri Schindler-Schiavo’s fundamental right […]

TORONTO, September 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Every Fall as United Way commences its fundraising activities, part of its campaign is to attempt to present itself as an agency which does not fund abortions. Case in point – today’s North Platte Telegraph has a United Way spokesman calling the fact that United Way supports abortion providing agencies a “myth”.  (https://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12984865&BRD=377&PAG=461&dept_id=531813&rfi=6 )  But that is simply not true.  United Way supports Planned Parenthood one of the world’s foremost abortion promoting and performing agencies.  Websites for the United Way chapters in cities such as New York and Toronto demonstrate clearly that the agency […]

OTTAWA, September 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com has learned that Conservative Senator Noel Kinsella has been chosen as Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.  The appointment is being seen as a “slap in the face” to small ‘c’ conservative members of the party recently created from a merger of the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties.  Like disgraced former NDP MP Svend Robinson, Kinsella has been a political champion of nearly every anti-moral cause related to life, family and freedom.  Brian Rushfeldt of the Canada Family Action Coalition told LifeSiteNews.com that the move was a “slap in the face […]

Robert H. Bork: Federal Marriage Amendment The Necessary Amendment   https://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0408/opinion/bork.htm   Islamic Counter-Reformation https://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0408/opinion/marshall.htm Spyware bill moves to U.S. Senate https://news.com.com/Spyware+bill+moves+to+Senate/2110-1032_3-5377997.html?tag=nefd.hed   Youth Revolt at Kerry Steubenville Rally https://www.ncregister.com/current/0919lead1.htm   Skewed Science? Some Psychology Gives Homosexual Marriage Clean bill of Health https://www.ncregister.com/current/0919lead2.htm   Anti-homeschooling bigots strike again https://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20040922.shtml   Auckland Bishop Says Pope Presides From the Cross https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=59154   Islamic Human Rights Commission sanctions Islamic terror as rational response to “Islamophobia”  https://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15138   Europe Being Rapidly Islamized https://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15095   Homosexual activists have joined abortion rights supporters to oppose “conscience clauses”  https://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive

VANCOUVER, September 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A “draconian” publication ban has been placed upon not only information referring to the Evelyn Martens trial but also any information, commentary, speculation, etc. about Evelyn Martens herself.  According to a CP report, Martens is charged with aiding and counseling former nun Monique Charest, 64, to commit suicide on Jan. 7, 2002 in Duncan B.C.  She also faces charges related to the June 26, 2002 death of Leyanne Burchell, 52, a Vancouver school teacher. Jurers are to be selected October 12, with Martens facing a maximum 14 year jail sentence.  The court order banning […]

WASHINGTON, September 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study released by the Heritage Foundation of Washington, DC proves that teens who pledge to abstain from sexual activity until marriage have “better life outcomes and are far less likely to engage in risky behaviors than non-pledgers.” The study, based on recently released data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, revealed the following:  Teens who make a virginity pledge:  Are less likely to experience a teen pregnancy Are less likely to be sexually active while in high school and as young adults Are less likely to give birth as teens […]

DUBLIN, September 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ireland’s Crisis Pregnancy Agency, an organization that pushes abortifacient contraception, has released the results of a survey claiming that 90% of the country under age 45 support abortion.  The telephone survey alleges 51% support abortion on demand and another 39% support abortion in certain circumstances. Responding to the survey, Mr John Smyth of the Pro-Life Campaign said, “The latest CPA survey is sloppy and misleading and its findings run contrary to most other recent surveys on attitudes to abortion in Ireland. Were it accurate, it would mean Irish attitudes to abortion were much more […]

HEREFORDSHIRE, England, September 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Police investigating a late-abortion case have submitted their findings to the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service for advice on whether charges should be laid.  Police had initially refused to charge the abortionist for a breach of UK’s abortion law after he committed a 28-week abortion on a baby in 2001. Church of England curate, Reverend Joanna Jepson, challenged the decision in the High Court. Rev Jepson won her challenge of the police’s refusal to prosecute; the police investigation opened in May.  Dr. Michael Cohn committed an abortion on a 28-week old baby with cleft […]

WARSAW, September 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Poland’s President, Aleksander Kwasniewski, said Tuesday he would oppose any attempt by lawmakers to legalize abortion on demand, as proposed by a new bill tabled by Kwasniewski’s ruling Social Democrats. “I remain firmly opposed to abortion being considered as a radical means of contraception,” Kwasniewski stated in a press conference, as reported by Agence France-Presse. The proposed bill seeks to allow abortion on demand by women until the 12th week of pregnancy. Polish law currently allows abortion for rape or incest, for irreversible fetal malformations, or if the mother’s health is at risk. “This […]

First openly-homosexual Israeli Politician ‘marries’ in Canada   https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/479582.html   Former premier Eves says giving up seat for new leader not an easy decision   https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=1845&e=2&u=/cpress/20040921/ca_pr_on_na/ont_conservatives_tory   Gay Paris mayor campaigns for homosexual ‘marriage’ and homosexual hate crime laws https://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=12016&name=Gay+Paris+mayor+strikes+out+at+French+homophobia   Scalia: Courts Taking on Too Much Politics   https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/9/20/222153.shtml   Anger as the 10-day divorce is approved by Spain https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/21/wdiv21.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/09/21/ixworld.html   The Therapeutic Nanny State https://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul204.html   Chirac: Time for global tax https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40559   HIV/AIDS Fuels Tuberculosis Crisis – UN https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&ncid=541&e=1&u=/ap/20040920/ap_on_he_me/africa_tb_crisis

VILLANOVA, September 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Robert Drinan, a Jesuit priest who has made a life work of supporting abortion and leftist political causes, is scheduled to speak at Villanova, a Catholic university in Pennsylvania, today. Fr. Drinan’s career as one of the more prominent members of the 1960’s sexual and social revolution reached its nadir with his support, in a series of New York Times articles, of President Clinton’s veto of the partial birth abortion ban. Fr. Drinan, who was ordered by the Vatican to give up his seat in Congress, will be speaking on “Pursuing Economic Justice […]

ROME, September 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The International Theological Commission, a Pontifical theological research body based in the Vatican, has offered a document that warns against the threat of the new reproductive technologies to the genetic integrity of the human species. The document, titled, “Communion and Stewardship: Human Persons Created in the Image of God,” rules out human cloning, destruction of embryos, genetic enhancement, abortion or euthanasia. It warns that the modern ability of man to alter himself at the genetic level threatens to destroy the biological integrity of humanity. The question posed by the document was, “How far is […]

Says "Judges have no more capacity than the rest of us to determine what is moral."

BROWNSVILLE, September 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rene Henry Gracida, Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi Texas, has written a letter to the editor of the Brownsville Herald, giving his clarification on the contentious issue of ‘proportionate reasons’ for a Catholic to vote for a pro-abortion politician. Naming names, he writes that Catholics cannot vote for presidential candidate John Kerry. To do so, he says, “would be formal cooperation in the sin of abortion if that candidate were to be elected and assist in passing legislation that would remove restrictions on abortion on demand.”  He says that it is not enough to […]

Calls such politicians receiving communion "a travesty", "a mockery", "a sacrilege"

Wants authority to decide which churches to authorize, which to exempt

TORONTO, September 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homosexual activist group was quick to send kudos to the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party after the election of John Tory as its new Leader. The Globe and Mail reports that Egale Canada, the principal activist group behind homosexual ‘marriage’, “thanked the Ontario Progressive Conservatives for choosing a leader who supports their cause.”  Tory, who supports abortion and homosexual ‘marriage’, was running against two candidates who support traditional marriage and describe themselves as pro-life, Jim Flaherty and Frank Klees.  On the second ballot, Flaherty received 14,353 votes or 4664.14 electoral votes to Tory’s 18,037 […]

NEW YORK, September 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking at United Nations headquarters in New York today, President George W. Bush addressed the United Nations General Assembly.  The theme of the President’s speech focused on the reason for humanitarian action on the part of the U.S. flowing from the belief in “human dignity.” Among many topics such as fighting poverty, disease, and terrorism, the President included a reference to protecting life. He stated, “Because we believe in human dignity, we should take seriously the protection of life from exploitation under any pretext. In that context he noted his support for the […]

TORONTO, September 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Sunday October 3rd, hundreds of thousands of Americans and Canadians will take part in the 17th annual Life Chain witness for life.  At numerous major intersections in cities and smaller communities, all participants will hold up one of several signs, each with a brief slogan related to abortion, in order to raise awareness of the issue in their respective communities. All participants are encouraged to pray while holding their signs.  Life Chain involves only one hour of participants’ time, from 2 to 3 p.m. on Sunday. The event often produces a positive result […]

Left-wing Artists Depicts Bill Clinton as Christ on Catholic-Style Holy Cards https://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40523   Why won’t the Catholic bishops solve the ‘gay priest problem?’  The question is: Why do our bishops at the conference level seem unwilling to do what Keating proposes, what any conscientious Catholic would propose? It may have a lot to do with the Lavender Mafia and its allies in episcopal ranks.  https://www.cruxnews.com/NORNotes/nor-17sept04.html   Analysis: Does Disney empire preach a Mickey Mouse religion?  https://www.skagitvalleyherald.com/articles/2004/09/17/religion/religion01.txt   Ban on gay marriages looking like a sure bet for Ohio https://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/10956727673151.xml   County to debate abortion restriction; Official: Put ban into hospital […]

Media reporting so far completely one-sided

LONDON, September 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion advocates have for years successfully used a strategy of wildly exaggerating the number of illegal abortions in order to convince legislators in various countries to legalize abortion. Euthanasia advocates now seem to have begun emulating their fellow death advocates. The latest testament comes from a story in The UK Guardian that claims 18,000 Britons are euthanized by their doctors every year.  The 18,000 claim comes from “euthanasia expert” Dr. Hazel Biggs, director of medical law at the University of Kent and author of Euthanasia: Death with Dignity and the Law. Briggs claims her […]

From Parents to Teachers - A Declaration of Spiritual Values

LA JOLLA/VANCOUVER, September 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNew.com) – Despite the claims of some researchers that only embryonic stem cells hold any promise, the most promising work is being done without any ethical difficulties on so-called adult stem cells, those taken from a patient’s own body.  One group is working to treat an incurable degenerative eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa, that leads inevitably to complete blindness. Dr. Martin Friedlander at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla leads a team that has taken mice with the disease and injected stem cells taken from their bone marrow. The cells migrated to the damaged blood […]

MADRID, September 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spain’s Socialist government is set to bring in a bill to legalize same-sex “marriage” for the country October 1, according to a Socialist party leader at a rally Sunday. It would require parliamentary approval before becoming law.  Spain’s new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose Socialists won the March election, pledged to legalize homosexual “marriage” the day he was raised to the office of Prime Minister of the country. He has also expressed a desire to ease Spain’s restrictions on abortion, and to end compulsory religious education in public schools. Read related LifeSiteNews.com […]

NEWARK, September 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop John Myers of Newark was featured Friday in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal in which he explained the question of voting for politicians who support abortion. The bishop attempted to clarify terms such as ‘proportional reasons’ and called abortion, “a tragedy of epic proportions.” Bishop Myers also said that the Holy See document called “On Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion,” far from being ambiguous, “dealt primarily with the obligations of bishops to deny communion to Catholic politicians in certain circumstances.” The opposite was claimed by Washington’s Cardinal McCarrick who declined to […]

PARIS, September 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The French doctor who is internationally renowned for cutting the French preterm birth rate in half has linked preterm birth to abortion.  Dr. Emile Papiernik published research this year that establishes the link.  Researcher Brent Rooney, with the Reduce Preterm Risk Coalition, informed LifeSiteNews.com that Papiernik and colleagues released a study of 10 European countries, including France, that reported that prior IAs (Induced Abortions) boosted the risk of very preterm (i.e. before 32 weeks’ gestation) birth.  One IA elevated every preterm risk by 1/3 and two prior IAs boosted the risk by 47%. Rooney […]

NEW YORK, September 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The contraceptive “sex patch” has been found responsible for 17 deaths in women age 17 to 30 since its release in 2002, according to a recent exposé by the New York Post. The Post used Freedom of Information laws to obtain records from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which also revealed 21 other “life-threatening” conditions such as blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks.  The contraceptive, marketed by ads with super models and Olympic athletes, is touted as a sexy alternative to the Pill. The Ortho Evra patch’s manufacturer, Ortho-McNeil, claims the patch […]

Bush vs. Kerry: The Conscience Issues https://www.ncregister.com/current/0912lead1.htm   Abortion called the top issue for Catholics https://www.washtimes.com/national/20040917-120812-1228r.htm   The American Civil Liberties Union: Uncomfortable Truths About the Origins https://www.etherzone.com/2004/beam091604.shtml   Campaign of Hate – Chuck Colson https://www.townhall.com/columnists/chuckcolson/cc20040916.shtml   Christian Leaders Urge Caution on ‘Passion’ DVD Release https://www.beliefnet.com/story/152/story_15284_1.html  ’  She Resigned in Protest Over Massachusetts Marriages https://www.ncregister.com/current/0912lead3.htm   Catholics Support Bush in Battleground States https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/16/210534.shtml   Loyola University Chicago ignore Cardinal and US bishops, grant award to avowed pro-abortionist https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=1970

VATICAN, September 17, 2004 (CWNews.com/ LifeSiteNews.com) – Although an embattled Austrian bishop has not yet agreed to submit his resignation, the Vatican still expects him to step down soon.  Bishop Kurt Krenn of Saint Palten, whose diocese exploded in scandal this summer when police uncovered a homosexual network at the seminary, has “certainly not offered his resignation,” a spokesman said on September 16. But the Austrian bishop had earlier indicated, through the same spokesman, that he would submit his resignation if the Pope asks for it. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, has asked Bishop […]

VATICAN, September 17, 2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Marriage tribunals in some countries are abusing Church laws regarding annulments, a leading Vatican authority has charged. Tribunals in some countries (notably the United States and Canada) are quick to provide annulments on uncertain grounds, while in other countries the faithful find it difficult to pursue even clear-cut cases of nullity. That was the testimony of Joaquin Llobel, a canon-law instructor at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross and a member of the tribunal for the Apostolic Signatura. Speaking on Vatican Radio on September 17, Llobel decried in inconsistency of treatment of marriage […]

Dobson: Procter & Gamble Gay Marriage Stance Deserves Boycott

ATLANTA, September 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “There’s no debate about abortion. It is intrinsically evil.” So says John F. Donoghue Archbishop of Atlanta in an interview on his latest pastoral letter. The letter was issued in the wake of the recalling of the USCCB voters’ guide. Many Catholics and pro-life organizations had criticized the guide because of its handling of the precedence of life issues. Austin Ruse, president of Culture of Life Foundation, wrote a scathing critique of the US bishops’ guide saying, “some candidates have been able to show that even though they support abortion they still merit the […]

McCorvey motion to overturn Roe v. Wade moves toward Supreme Court

TROIS-RIVIÈRES, September 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com)  The Quebec Bishops Conference (AEQ) released a message on late-term abortions yesterday during their plenary session which commenced September 14 and concluded today.  After mentioning the fact that the Quebec Health Ministry has confirmed that it allows and publicly funds late term abortions even after 24 weeks gestation, the bishops noted that they “wanted to make known our disagreement.”  They noted that while Canada with its biotechnology laws affords at least some protection to the human embryo, abortion is permitted at any time during pregnancy.  The AEQ encouraged alternatives to abortion such as adoption, counseling […]

Nairobi Abortion Babies Shock Police   https://allafrica.com/stories/200409150877.html   A federal appeals-court judge on legal abortion’s terminal obstacles https://www.nationalreview.com/coffin/coffin200409160630.asp   Defiant Latimer refuses to ask for clemency https://www.canada.com/search/story.html?id=5aa11e1b-bd3b-4654-8a5f-6c2a71541523   U.S. West Coast quickly becoming focus of ‘gay marriage’ debate https://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=19096   President is openly religious, but his true beliefs remain mystery https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6014570/  Abstinence programs run by Catholic groups get $3.2 million from HHS https://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20040916.htm

WINNIPEG, September 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Manitoba judge declared the province’s opposition to same-sex “marriage” unconstitutional Thursday. The decision was unopposed by Ottawa. The decision makes Manitoba the fifth Canadian jurisdiction where the measure has been adopted.  Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Douglas Yard said, “. . . the traditional definition of marriage is no longer constitutionally valid in view of the provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The traditional definition of marriage in Manitoba is reformulated to mean a voluntary union for life of two persons at the exclusion of all others.”  The federal government said […]

BRUSSELS, September 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The refusal by Portuguese officials to allow the Dutch Women on Waves abortion boat access to their sovereign waters sparked heated debate in the European parliament Thursday, including bigoted anti-Catholic statements from a British member. “Anything you do to those weaker, you do unto me,” Polish member of European parliament (MEP) Michal Tomasz Kaminski said, quoting from the Bible in support of Portugal’s refusal to allow the floating abortuary, the Borndiep, sanctuary. UK MEP Michael Cashman replied, “I see the fingers of the Vatican all over this. Women need no lectures from men in […]

CENTURY CITY, Calif., September 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Hollywood portrayal of men in ever more negative characters has a counter point in the new video/DVD release of “Love Comes Softly” by Fox Home Entertainment which hit video stores Tuesday. Written, directed and co-produced by Michael Landon Jr., the film based on the best selling novel by famed Christian novelist Janet Oke, presents a man of faith who amidst the struggles and hardships of 19th century living on the great American plains, remains steadfast in his faith and constant in prayer.  The film is also notable in that it presents […]

ANKARA, September 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rather than jeopardize the country’s chances of joining the European Union, Turkey’s government announced Tuesday a decision to scrap a proposal to make adultery illegal. The decision came after a meeting between the ruling Justice and Development Party and the main opposition, the pro-secular Republican Peoples Party.  An EU commission is expected to release a report on the country’s readiness to join the alliance in October, based on pre-determined EU criteria. EU Commissioners from the Netherlands, which allows homosexual ‘marriage’, and Austria are opposing Turkey’s entrance into the EU. Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner […]

NEW DELHI, September 16, 2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Top Islamic leaders in India are rejecting demands that Muslims embrace the government’s family-planning norms, which propose a limit of 2 children per family. Hindu nationalists and family-planning advocates have joined to pressure Muslim families to adopt birth-control measures, after release of census figures that showed a rapid increase in India’s Muslim population. Islamic leaders are rejecting that pressure. “It is not proper to stop the birth of those whom Allah has destined to be born,” said Maulana Rabey Hasan Nadvi, president of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.  Meanwhile, two prominent […]

MONTREAL, September 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chantal Daigle, the woman who successfully challenged Canada’s late-term abortion restriction in 1989, went on record as approving the grisly procedure in an interview with Quebec’s La Presse Sunday.  La Presse announced Friday that the government of Quebec currently finances sending expectant mothers to the private clinic of George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas, at a cost of $5,000 U.S., because there are no late abortion services in the province. Last year about thirty women made the voyage to Kansas.  Daigle said it was a shame that women should have to make a long voyage […]

SYDNEY, September 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Pell of Sydney has banned dissident Catholic groups from speaking in his diocese and has prevented two priests and a bishop from speaking at the annual conference of the organization Australian Reforming Catholics (ARC). The group calls itself an organization of lay people “seeking reform in the Catholic Church in Australia.” The group’s website complains that in spite of what it calls achievements in the ‘renewal’ of the Church, “in recent decades reactionary forces within the traditional male structures of the Church have inhibited true reform.”  Pell has told the organization that they […]

OSLO, September 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite its continued claims not to support abortion, the UNFPA has used two notorious Norwegian abortion promoting organizations to launch its annual report on the State of World Population in Oslo. The Norwegian online news magazine, Dagen, says that the launch also featured Ms. Agnete Stroem of the Women’s Front who spoke about ‘reproductive rights,’ and claimed that the Catholic Church is “murderous” in its resistance to abortion.  According to the information from Planned Parenthood International, Norway is an ideal country for the UNFPA to push its population control agenda. The country has achieved […]

ROME, September 16, 2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Renato Martino has denounced the involvement of UN agencies in promoting abortion, pointing out that this policy violated the agreement struck by UN member-states at the Cairo Conference of 1994. The president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace told the Italian daily Avvenire that the UN member-states have a duty to restrain the activities of agencies such as the UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), and to control the expenditures of UN funds. He charged that the UNFPA is violating the terms of the Cairo agreement, which stipulated that “no UN […]

Bad dog! Bad driving!  https://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/09/15/dog_whitehorse040915.html   Dobson Tells Christian Voters ‘Enough is Enough’  https://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0033582.cfm   Bush Not 100% Pro-Life But Can be Supported Says Barbara Kralis Explaining Catholic Theology of Proportionate Reasons https://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=1327   Australian Opposition Party Pledges to Outlaw Religious ‘Vilification’  https://www.crosswalk.com/news/1284647.html   Scientists Debunk ‘Global Warming’ Effect on Hurricanes https://www.cnsnews.com//ViewNation.asp?Page=Nationarchive

LONDON, September 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNew.com) – A British Christian group is warning that proposed legislation before the House of Lords may usher in an era of religious discrimination and threaten free speech in the UK. In a press release, the Barnabas Fund issued a warning over a proposed law by the British government to ban incitement to religious hatred. British Home Secretary David Blunkett announced that the government is planning to introduce a new law banning incitement to religious hatred “as soon as possible” in a speech given in July. Blunkett is calling for an extension of existing legislation banning […]

EVANSVILLE, September 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Another Catholic bishop has lined up on the side of Vatican direction and stated that he would refuse communion to politicians who publicly deny their faith on abortion or homosexuality. Bishop Gerald Gettelfinger of Evansville Indiana said in a talk to the local Rotarians, that Catholic politicians who vocally support abortion rights or gay marriage are not in communion with Catholic teachings.  Gettelfinger said that though Catholic voters had the responsibility of voting in accordance with Catholic principles, reception of communion was up to the conscience of the individual. However, politicians or other public […]

AUGUSTA, Maine, September 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A University of Maine professor publicly chastised a bishop for not putting his pro-life rhetoric into action, by denying pro-abortion Catholic politicians Communion. Earth sciences professor Terrence Hughes told Diocese of Portland Bishop Richard J. Malone that he is “talking the talk” while failing to “[walk] the walk,” according to a ManieToday.com report.  Hughes told Bishop Malone that his promotion of the pro-life cause is hypocritical, given that he does not direct his priests to deny Communion to pro-abortion politicians. “The action you took is in direct contrast to the words you share […]

WINNIPEG, September 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A judge in Manitoba, after a conference with homosexual plaintiffs challenging their right to “marry” in the province, has agreed to change the law. Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Douglas Yard is expected to declare the province’s opposition to same-sex “marriage” unconstitutional in a public ruling in court Thursday. The federal government said it would not oppose the measure, a first, since the federal justice ministry opposed the same measure in court battles in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec. The feds asked for a deferral in the Yukon decision, until the Supreme Court decided on […]

New York, September 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In today’s National Review OnLine, Culture of Life President Austin Ruse addresses the USCCB withdrawal of its controversial presidential questionnaire. The framing of the questions and the issues addressed by the questionnaire have been receiving strong criticism for the advantage they give to John Kerry, despite his strong pro-abortion position. In “Holy Democrats! The Catholic presidential questionnaire is dead – thank God” , Ruse voices what increasing numbers of Catholics and non-Catholics have been thinking about these unhelpful questionnaires produced by liberal, dissenting staff of U.S. and Canadian bishops conferences.  Ruse makes it […]

OTTAWA, September 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During a televised conference of Provincial Health Ministers with Prime Minister Paul Martin, the Prime Minister was overheard on national television blurting out “Jesus Christ”.  An irritated Martin acknowledged cursing saying he thought he was swearing under his breath. He joked about the incident while mentioning his aunt called him to tell him to wash his mouth out with soap, and said he told her he was calling out to God for help in the difficult meeting.  The Catholic Prime Minister supports both abortion and homosexual “marriage”.  He has been openly criticized by Canadian […]

Priest ethicist says it's OK because the children aren't going to live anyway

NEW YORK, September 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Population Fund has released its annual ‘State of World Population’ report. The UNFPA’s indomitable thesis is that world population is growing beyond the capacity to produce food and that more contraception and abortion is needed to safeguard women’s ‘rights’ in the developing world. Despite the growing alarm at the dropping birth rate and the greying workforce in most countries, the UNFPA continues to say that ‘universal access’ to contraception and abortion “is an essential condition for meeting the UN’s Millennium Development Goals to reduce global poverty by 2015.”  They also […]

‘Question of God’ Airs on PBS https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/142004c.asp   Proctor & Gamble pushes homosexual agenda   https://www.pgboycott.com/SignPetition.asp?id=1270   Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger approved a bill that would require insurance companies to offer coverage to registered domestic partners https://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040914/news_1n14bills.html   Melbourne bishop joins calls to remove gays from prime-time TV   https://www.cathnews.com/news/409/67.php   NZ Deputy PM proud of anti-life and anti-family trends which worried Pope https://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3591363&thesection=news&thesubsection=general   Couple settles lawsuit over embryo mix-up – mother who birthed child denied visitation https://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Misplaced%20Embryos   Pill propelled into abortion debate https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3652462.stm   Gay students are offered special college scholarships https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/09/13/national1451EDT0574.DTL&type=printable   Teens’ Mental Health In Sharp […]

AMSTERDAM, September 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dutch abortionist Rebecca Gomperts, foundress of the Women on Waves floating abortuary has vowed a return to Portugal in time for their next federal elections in 2006. The boat has set sail for a return to the Netherlands after being denied access to Portuguese ports by both politicians and the courts, and backed up by the navy.  The embargo was condemned by Gomperts, as reported by the Dutch newspaper, De Telegraaf. The Portuguese “used violence” against her ship, she claimed, as reported by Expatica news. Portuguese officials ordered two naval vessels out to ensure […]

LONDON, September 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Behavioural and emotional troubles have steadily risen over the last 25 years in teenagers, a new study has found. Stealing, disobedience, and lying are all on the increase—in 25 years the rates have doubled for boys and increased by a third for girls. The study, conducted by London’s King’s College and University of Manchester researchers also revealed increased rates of depression and anxiety. None of the findings were linked to socio-economic factors, as the increase was identical among all classes of society.  Although psychologists suggest the vague explanation that the transition to adolescence has […]

NEW YORK, September 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At a forum in New York on Thursday, Gene Robinson, the homosexual activist who’s ‘ordination’ to the episcopate of the US branch of the Anglican church has caused the fracturing of the entire worldwide Anglican communion, has accused faithful Christians of hypocrisy. Referring to the scandal caused by a Christian church endorsing active homosexuality, Robinson said, “How self-absorbed can we be, to be fighting over this when people are dying everywhere?” Canadian columnist and then-Anglican, David Warren, writing for the Ottawa Citizen in 2002, predicted that the acceptance of active homosexuals within that […]

SCRANTON, September 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Population Research Institute of Penn State University has completed a study on mortality among US men. “The Long Arm of Childhood: The Influence of Early Life Social Conditions on Men’s Mortality,” has shown that men and boys whose mothers left the home to work have a shorter life expectancy. Data was collected between 1966 and 1990, a time in North American history that saw unprecedented numbers of married women, under the influence of feminism, go out to work instead of staying home to care for their families.  In the face of the ‘baffling’ […]

BERLIN, September 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The rapid pace of development of the new reproductive technologies, including human cloning, has left many governments scrambling to define the ethical boundaries of the new research. In 2001 Germany, a country that retains painful memories of past ethical catastrophe, established an ethical board, The German National Ethics Council, that advises the government. On Monday, the Council announced that it will continue to oppose the creation of cloned human beings to be used for research material. Factions within Germany’s government as well as the research and pharmaceutical lobbyists have been attempting to loosen the […]

Activist Judge: Canada's Divorce Act unconstitutional

TORONTO, September 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Recent comments by Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler, the abortionist who pushed Canadian law to allow abortion, may indicate a softening of his stance against the unborn or just another ploy to dupe the public. Commenting on the story of Quebec women being sent to Kansas for late-term abortions, Morgentaler told the press, “We don’t abort babies, we want to abort fetuses before they become babies.  Around 24 weeks I have ethical problems doing that.” Morgentaler added, “What we do at our clinics is if we have a problem like that we usually council the […]

QUEBEC CITY, September 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec City and Primate of Canada has called abortion an “abomination.”  The Cardinal’s comments came in response to questions from the Canadian Press on the recent revelations that women from Quebec are sent for late term abortions to Kansas abortionist George Tiller.  “It’s easy to see it’s an abomination when someone reaches a certain number of months, we can see it’s killing a human being,” Ouellet said. “But why do we draw such subtle distinctions? What’s the difference of a few months? The whole thing is unacceptable.” Cardinal […]

WASHINGTON, September 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit has dismissed a motion to overturn the Supreme Court Roe v Wade ruling which brought abortion to the United States.  The case was brought by Norma McCorvey the original “Roe” in the infamous 1973 abortion ruling. McCorvey, through her lawyer, argued that she had new information on abortion regarding its harmful psychological and health consequences that would affect the case.  McCorvey’s motion included over 5000 pages of evidence with affidavits from over 1000 woman who have been harmed by abortion.  The panel […]

The September issue of Canada’s national pro-life, pro-family newspaper is now available on line at https://www.theinterim.com/2004/sept/index.html   Some of the more notable stories are:  * A former colleague fondly remembers Grondin, a man of faith * Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler being sued for negligence: Media turning a blind eye to alleged misdeed   * Court challenge imperils Canadian law against assisted suicide * Prime Minister Paul Martin proves inconsistent on Charter of Rights notwithstanding clause * Shocking HLI report on abortion in Russia * Civil unions no way to renew the culture: Iain Benson’s proposal to recognize gay unions is […]

BBC Radio 4 Report on Skull and Bones https://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio/091204skullandbones.htm   The judge who wrote in red ink – Douglas Fisher on Abella appointment to Supreme Court https://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Ottawa/Douglas_Fisher/2004/09/12/625669.html   Analyst cites abortion stance as some Catholic voters shift to Bush https://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0404979.htm   Very Late Term abortions must be done in U.S.: Quebec Government Minister https://ottawa.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ot_abortion20040910   Rogue safe injection site nurse honoured with international award https://www.canada.com/news/national/story.html?id=96a198cb-e5ed-4aa8-97ae-f80e44de3d7f   Do Newspapers Make Good News Look Bad?  https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/business/yourmoney/12view.html?ex=1095652800&en=662be44cd0308d8f&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1   Buying Babies https://www.viewmag.com/viewstory.php?storyid=2274   Calling Evil, Good https://www.afa.net/culture/GetArticle.asp?id=167   Pope Denounces Variations of ‘Marriage’  https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/9/13/94700.shtml   Beslan Siege Was Work of al Qaeda Cell from… […]

MONTREAL, September 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Montreal women in a homosexual relationship are battling in court against the girl’s sperm-donor father who wants to be acknowledged as the legal parent of the girl. The girl turned one year old in June. The case is before the Quebec Superior Court this week. The man was a former boyfriend to one of the women, who claims he always intended to be considered the child’s father. The women, however, say they had an agreement that only they would act as parent and legal guardian.  A Quebec law dating to 2002 brought in full […]

WASHINGTON, September 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Schools, colleges and churches all over the country will be showing a new video that documents the transformation in the lives of people who have gone from being identified as gay to being identified as straight. The premiere will be held during the weekend of October 8-11 in response to National Coming Out Day activities on October 11.  “The documentary “I Do Exist” features people who have a story to tell that is not often heard. “Many in our country are skeptical that people who once identified as homosexual can make profound transformations. This […]

Vatican, September 13, 2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Kurt Krenn of the scandal-ridden Sankt Poelten diocese in Austria has been asked to resign, informed Vatican sources have indicated.  Bishop Krenn’s resignation “is not official,” an informed source said; but an announcement is expected soon.  Austrian press reports have indicated that Bishop Krenn has considered resignation for some time, even before the eruption of the scandal that engulfed his Sankt Poelten diocese this summer, when a police investigation uncovered a homosexual network in the diocesan seminary. Although he is only 68 years old—7 years short of ordinary retirement age—Bishop Krenn’s health is […]

EXETER, September 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The “BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science) Festival of Science” at the University of Exeter, heard last week about research being done that may result in treatments for brain damage using the patient’s own stem cells. Dr Huseyin Mehmet of Imperial College told the conference that transplanted human foetal bone marrow cells were found to integrate into the brains of mouse foetuses still in utero and repair damaged tissue.  Dr. Mehmet says he is hopeful that treatment can be developed that would reverse brain damage in newborns and treat genetic defects while […]

OTTAWA, September 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Novalis publishers are Canada’s most prolific producers of books on Canadian Catholic spirituality. Their missalettes can be found in almost every Catholic parish as the quasi official version. The September edition of the ubiquitous pamphlets feature laudatory sections on the ‘spirituality, theology and religion’ of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada’s most notorious architect of the ‘new society’ that includes abortion on demand, no-fault divorce, legalized sodomy, contraception, and an ever increasing devotion to leftist principles that threaten Canadian sovereignty.  The current struggle to preserve the existence of marriage and to protect the rights of the […]

MEXICO CITY, September 13,2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Several Mexican bishops are demanding government officials inform the public regarding the abortifacient nature of the “morning-after” pill, which is now for sale in the country’s pharmacies, and regarding the pill’s adverse effects on women’s health.  Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martinez of Matehuala, president of the Bishops Committee for the Family, lamented that in “the plurality of ideas prevalent in society, truth ends up losing, as there is a lack of information in society regarding the harmful effects on the consumer of the pill.”  Bishop Aguilar said that considering the serious scientific studies that warn […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. September 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  American Life League is calling on the media to stop reporting as fact the allegation that a top Vatican official, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, has given Catholics the green light to vote for relentlessly pro-abortion public figures. “It simply didn’t happen,” said Joseph M. Starrs, director of the Crusade for the Defense of Our Catholic Church. “It is unfortunate that the media has twisted the cardinal’s words to fit a certain agenda, and then quoting dissident Catholics to prop up a remarkably inaccurate interpretation of comments Ratzinger added as an afterthought in a private […]

Canadian Physicians for Life comments on Quebec sending moms to U.S. abortionist Tiller

WELLINGTON, September 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An amendment to a bill mandating that parents be notified of a child’s desire to procure an abortion was proposed Monday by the National party’s health spokeswoman Judith Collins.  New Zealand’s law was amended in 1977, allowing girls to procure abortions without their parents’ knowledge or consent. In 2003, 89 girls age 11 to 14 had abortions. The number has been steadily climbing, up from 56 in 1999. Girls 15 to 19 years old had 3757 abortions there last year.  Collins wants girls under 16 years of age to be required to notify their […]

VATICAN, September 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com)  In feeble attempts to defend marriage several bishops and bishops conferences throughout the world have failed to present the full teaching of the Catholic Church.  Some have gone so far as to back unacceptable compromises when confronted with homosexual ‘marriage’ such as same-sex civil unions or some such scheme to give societal benefit to homosexual couples.  In that light, Pope John Paul’s comments to the bishops of New Zealand today are of particular significance.  The Pope pointed to “the distortion of reason by particular interest groups and exaggerated individualism” which lead to “the tragic consequences […]

TURKEY, September 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com)  The European Commission has taken Turkey to task over a proposed law that would see extramarital affairs punishable by jail.  The commission, which is to recommend on October 6 whether the EU should consider Turkey’s bid to join the EU, said the anti-adultery law is problematic.  “This could trigger confusion and damage the perception in the European Union of Turkey’s reform efforts,” European Commission spokesman Jean-Christophe Filori told reporters.  EU Commissioners from the Netherlands, which allows homosexual ‘marriage’, and Austria are opposing Turkey’s entrance into the EU.  Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner said the anti-adultery […]

VENICE, September 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This year’s favourite at the Venice film festival, “Vera Drake,” is a film perpetuating the myth of the so-called back-alley abortion. British film maker Mike Leigh teams up with actress Imelda Staunton who portrays a working class single mom turned back-alley abortionist. Staunton also won the award for best actress at the festival. The film perpetuates the myth of the back-alley abortion, in other words, that large numbers of women, desperate to end their unborn children’s lives, sought out illegal abortions from non medically-trained persons, such as a single mom like Vera Drake. In […]

DUBLIN, September 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dana Scallon, the former Member of the European Parliament for Constituency of Connacht-Ulster, Ireland, is considering a bid for President of the Republic of Ireland. Scallon is a long-time pro-life activist and politician who became world famous after singing for the Pope at World Youth Day in Denver in 1993. She turned from singing to politics when she moved back to Ireland from the US and ran for President. Though an independent candidate with no party political organization behind her, she came in a credible third, ahead of the candidate of the mainstream Labour […]

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OTTAWA, September 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), Canada’s national political pro-life organization, will be present on September 13 – 15, to protest health care funding of abortion as the provincial Premiers meet in Ottawa.  The group is calling on the Premiers and Health Ministers to halt funding of abortion with public funds.  CLC cites recent statistics indicating that the majority of Canadians oppose taxpayer funding for abortion. “Scarce health care dollars should be used for healing, not killing,” said the organization in a press release.  To participate in the demonstration contact CLC at 613-729-0379   jhw

WINCHESTER, Virginia, September 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two women who entered into a same-sex civil union in Vermont in 2000 have been battling for custody of a daughter conceived through artificial insemination. A Vermont court has ruled that the girl’s mother, Lisa Miller-Jenkins, residing now in Winchester, Virginia, to be in contempt of court, for denying her same-sex partner Janet Miller-Jenkins access to the two year-old toddler, Isabella.  Custody of the child has yet to be determined, according to a Washington Post report. A Virginia judge ruled last month that same-sex civil unions in Vermont do not bestow parental rights. […]

Majority of both favour embryo research.

September 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study just released by the Centre for Research and Information on Canada (CRIC) shows a considerable decline in the religious faith of Canadians. In 1980, 79% of Canadians polled said that religion was an important factor in the moral and ethical life of the country. In their personal lives, 76% said that religion was very important to them. Twenty years later, the same questions were asked with answers that most pro-life activists and observers will find unsurprising. CRIC shows that only 61% of Canadians believe that religious practice is an important factor in the […]

AMSTERDAM, September 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Dutch Women on Waves’ floating abortuary is expected to return home after failing in its bid to enter Portuguese waters. The pro-abortion activist group’s aim was to commit abortions on expectant mothers at sea, in international waters.  Abortionist Rebecca Gomperts, director of Women on Waves, said the crew was tired. “They have spent a lot of time on the high seas,” an Expatica News report said. But the real purpose of the trip, according to some pro-life analysts, is to ignite controversy and debate over the illegality of abortion in countries where the […]

VENICE, September 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Actress Ellen Barkin, who stars in the newly released film Palindromes, has made controversial remarks to reporters regarding abortion.  AFP reports Barkin saying, “I am the mother of a 12-year-old girl and I can tell you unequivocally that if my daughter was pregnant, I would take her kicking and screaming to have an abortion.”  Barkin’s comments came during a press conference to promote Todd Solondz’s movie “Palindromes”.  In the film Barkin plays the mother of a 12-year-old girl Aviva who runs away from home to get pregnant.  The bizarre film is described by […]

MONTREAL, September 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pregnant mothers from Quebec whose unborn children are beyond 24 weeks gestation, are being sent to Wichita, Kansas for late-term abortions, at the private clinic of controversial abortionist George Tiller.  Each procedure costs Canadian taxpayers at least $5000.00 U.S. and the procedure entails mortal danger not only for the unborn child but also for the mother.  While late-term abortions are not illegal in Quebec, there are few abortionists willing to commit the gruesome procedure, especially since the unborn child is fully formed at the late stage of pregnancy and can in most cases survive […]

The Feminist State of Emergency https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/lukas200409090830.asp   Adult stem cells get the shaft.  https://www.nationalreview.com/smithw/smith200409090835.asp   Unholy war, but Muslims are on both sides now https://www.townhall.com/columnists/cliffordmay/cm20040909.shtml   Christian Morality and Test Tube Babies https://www.crosswalk.com/news/weblogs/mohler/?adate=9/9/2004#1283885   Animal Rights Activists Draw Parallels With Holocaust https://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=4dc38cfd-d06b-43cd-abd9-44540f7ea985   U.S. Declares Genocide in Sudan’s Darfur https://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20040909_220.html   California Campaign for California Families Rejects ‘Homosexual Marriage by Another Name’  https://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive

MAINE, September 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American novelist Nicholson Baker has published a new novel, Checkpoint, whose main character is bent on assassinating U.S. President George W. Bush. The character, Jay, discusses in detail all the reasons for the apparent necessity for killing the president, as well as methods.  Jay contends that President Bush is a mass murderer because of the war in Iraq. As a result, Jay argues, the president deserves to die. “By causing a minor blip of bloodshed in one human being, I’m going to prevent further bloodshed,” he states.  Baker was interviewed by the UK’s Telegraph. […]

AMARILLO, September 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Texas court is hearing a case where a woman has pleaded guilty to delivery of cocaine to a minor: the child in her womb. Tracy Yolanda Ward, 30, pleaded guilty to the charge in 320th state District Court, in a case that may challenge a new law that re-defines the legal term ‘individual’ as, “a human being who is alive, including an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth.” Because Ward pleaded guilty, she may now appeal her conviction on constitutional grounds. The law was intended as a protection […]

LONDON, September 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain’s Voluntary Euthanasia Society (VES) has conducted a “poll” in preparation for testimony that begins Thursday before a House of Lord’s Select Committee on Lord Joffe’s Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill. The poll claims that nearly half of the public would break the law to “help terminally ill loved ones die.” Britain’s Campaign Against Euthanasia is urging people not to accept the claim.  The VES poll asked 790 adults about their opinions on euthanasia. The poll claimed to find that 82% of Britons want a change to the law; while only 11% […]

THE HAGUE, September 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) is in session at The Hague. Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan, the session president of the assembly of State Parties to the ICC, commended the States Parties for defending the court from domestic attempts to weaken its powers. Dr. Bernard Bot, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands criticized the U.S. for refusing to ratify the court. The Prosecutor, Moreno-Ocampo, announced that his Office will be investigating alleged crimes falling within the jurisdiction of the Court and will be making arrests in the Democratic Republic of […]

WHO Preparing Document to "Prove" MAP not Abortifcacient

BRUSSELS, September 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Belgians from the ruling party are seeking to expand the country’s euthanasia laws to include children and teenagers.  Jeannine Leduc and Paul Wille, senators in the ruling Flemish Liberal party, are the sponsors of a bill introduced in parliament Wednesday that would open the door for physician killing of terminally ill children. Along with an expansion of the law to include children, the senators also want the euthanasia law, enacted in 2002 despite strong physician opposition, to include a provision for patients to kill themselves with the assistance of a doctor.  Read related LifeSiteNews.com […]

NEW YORK, September 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life (PFL) has called all Church leaders “who fail to point out the difference in seriousness between abortion and other issues” to “resign their positions.”  In the latest release from PFL, Fr. Pavone explains that the reason for his suggestion is that such Church leaders “obviously lack the most basic capacity for moral judgment.”  PFL refuted secular news reports claiming that a recent letter of the Vatican’s Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger allows Catholics to vote for pro-choice candidates.  Fr. Pavone, who was himself an Official at […]

OTTAWA, September 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative Leader Stephen Harper met with the editorial board of the Canadian Press Wednesday.  One of the stories that came out of the meeting, by CP’s Sue Bailey, was entitled, “Harper to be ‘more severe judge’ of MPs whose views damage party”.  The story caused an uproar among social conservatives, but according to Harper’s spokesman, the fear is unwarranted.  The CP article left the impression that Harper would muzzle Conservative candidates quoting selectively from Harper and framing his quotes to make it appear as if he was initiating a major crackdown on social conservatives […]

Conservative Leader Harper to be ‘more severe judge’ of MPs whose views he thinks damage party. Bad news for numerous pro-life, pro-family party MPs and supporters who continue to be unjustly scapegoated for election results https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=737&e=2&u=/cpress/20040908/ca_pr_on_na/harper_loose_cannons   Cardinal Mahony Ordered to Release Files on Accused Priests   https://ktla.trb.com/news/local/ktla-090804priest_lat,0,7142328.story?coll=ktla-news-1   Gay/Hetero Polygamous ‘Marriage’ the Next Attack on the Family https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1094293631396   Gym teacher wins religious discrimination lawsuit against three teacher unions. Union dues may go to charity not to pro-abortion organizations.  https://www.masslive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1094543376209320.xml?nnse   Global suicide toll exceeds war and murder   https://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996373   German Judges try to snatch homeschoolers https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40332   […]

WASHINGTON, September 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following on yesterday’s story ‘Teen Promiscuity Linked to Sex on TV’, LifeSiteNews.com interviewed Frank Vespe, executive director of the TV Turnoff Network based in Washington, D.C. The organization encourages children and adults to watch much less television in order to promote healthier lives and communities. Since 1995, more than 24 million people have participated in the organization’s TV-Turnoff Week.  Vespe says that the television and teen promiscuity study “re-enforces what we already know, that television influences behaviour. You just have to ask business why it continues to spend billions every year on television advertising”.  […]

Congressman calls it "a classic case of what an activist judge can do."

MADRID, September 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spanish Bishop Jose Gea Escolano of Mondoñedo-Ferrol diocese lashed out against government proposals to legalize abortion on demand during the first trimester of pregnancy.  Spain’s Catholic News Agency reported this week that he said abortion is “the greatest crime ever committed in history.”“We talk about killings, concentration camps, gulags, but really thousands and thousands of children are sacrificed in the wombs of their mothers.  This is so absurd that it cannot be compared with any other genocide in history,” the bishop said.  jhw

Significant U.S. Court Victories for Religious Freedom

ROME, September 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican has made public a letter written to the superior general of the Redemptorists by Pope John Paul II that honours an obscure pro-life hero, St. Gerard Majella, the wonder-worker patron of expectant mothers. St. Gerard entered the Redemptorist order in 1749. When the young man was accused of fathering a child, he endured the scandal so patiently St. Alphonsus declared that he was a saint. Although prone to illness, his superiors said that he did the work of three, and he was called the Father of the Poor for his great charity.  […]

LINCOLN, September 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf in Lincoln Nebraska is being denounced as biased by pro-life groups. 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 for ‘health’ has proven to be a wide open door for abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy, with the term ‘health’ being interpreted so broadly as to make it effectively […]

NEW YORK, September 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Culture of Life Foundation release today stated, “In a letter released to the US Bishops on Friday, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office of Government Liaison announced they have withdrawn the Presidential Questionnaire which had been delivered weeks ago to the Bush and Kerry campaigns”. Culture-of-Life reports that USCCB press office has no statement prepared but diocesan sources have indicated that at least one of the campaigns did not return the questionnaire by deadline. “We have been critical of the Presidential Questionnaire because it improperly equates doctrinal issues like abortion with […]

From 1994-2000, USAID provided 41,967,200 units of Depo Provera into developing world

Effect of Pro-Life Countries Entering EU being felt

WINNIPEG, September 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 2004 Canadian National Pro-Life conference, Life 2004 – Alive and Loving It, is only a month away. Life 2004 will be held in Winnipeg from October 14-16 at the Delta Downtown.  Hosted by the League for Life in Manitoba Inc., and sponsored by Campaign Life Coalition and LifeCanada, the conference features speakers such as Christina Alarcon, co-ordinator for Pharmacists for Life in British Columbia; Samantha Singson, the International Affairs Officer of Campaign Life Coalition; Ian Gentles, Professor of History at York University’s Glendon College, and Vice-President and Research Director of the De Veber […]

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ROME, September 7, 2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – The vice-president of the Pontifical Academy for Life has roundly condemned a new Dutch proposal extending the possibility of euthanasia to children under the age of 12. Bishop Elio Sgreccia said that with this policy, “the final boundary will have been crossed.”  In a strongly worded article on euthanasia in Holland, appearing in L’Osservatore Romano , Bishop Sgreccia warned of a “moral relativism” that has “anesthetized society,” aggravated by an approach to medicine that accentuates economic factors rather than the welfare of the sick.  The Italian bishop observed that Dutch law, approved by that […]

Boat restocks, taking on two Dutch politicians to boot

Former politician plans to re-enter B.C. Law Society

LONDON, September 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams and the Archbishop of Westminster, Cormac Cardinal Murphy O’Connor, have taken the unusual step of issuing a joint statement opposing a euthanasia measure before the House of Lords this week. The private members bill, ‘Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill’ is before a House of Lords committee and is not expected to pass. The bill would make it legal for doctors to “assist a person to die…who is suffering unbearably.” The bill specifically states that a doctor may actively kill patients. “‘Assisted dying’ means the attending physician, […]

CHICAGO, September 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Teens who view television programs containing a lot of sexual content are twice as likely to become involved sexually at a younger age than teens who watched less, a new study published Tuesday revealed. The survey asked 1,792 teens aged 12 to 17 about their television viewing habits and about their sexual activity, repeating the survey a year later. The study was published in the September issue of the American Academy of Pediatrics journal, Pediatrics.  Lead researcher, psychologist Rebecca Collins, told Reuters news, “This is the strongest evidence yet that the sexual content of […]

STEUBENVILLE, September 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of Catholic protesters gave John Kerry an unexpectedly cool welcome in that working class, traditionally Democrat town. Students, children, workingmen, housewives and nuns in full habits arrived in the rain at the park where Kerry planned to speak hours before his arrival. Carrying signs that read, “Crusade for the Defense of Our Catholic Church,”“You Can’t be Catholic and Pro-Abortion,” and “Pontius Pilate was Also Personally Opposed.” Clutching rosaries, a crowd that the Sheriff’s department estimated as large as 500, marched and silently protested the presidential candidate’s anti-life stand on abortion. Kerry who […]

Contrary to media reports, Burke has not softened or changed his position

OTTAWA, September 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to a direct call from Pope John Paul II to Canada to protect the traditional definition of marriage, the spokesman for Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin dismissed the concern with a deceitful comment.  Speaking for the Prime Minister, Melanie Gruer told the press after the Pope’s statement, “The government respects and is fully aware of the pope’s position on the matter of same-sex marriage and any decision on that issue will be taken by the Parliament of Canada.”  Brian Rushfeldt of the Canada Family Action Coalition commented on Gruer’s statement saying, “When […]

VATICAN CITY, September 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Saturday morning at the Pope’s summer residence of Castelgandolfo, Pope John Paul received Donald Smith, Canada’s new ambassador to the Holy See. In his speech in English to the diplomat, he warned, “Any attempts to change the meaning of the word ‘spouse’ contradict right reason: legal guarantees, analogous to those granted to marriage, cannot be applied to unions between persons of the same sex without creating a false understanding of the nature of marriage.” Notably, the Pope’s comments referred to the granting of legal marriage rights under the broad category of same-sex unions, […]

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SALT LAKE CITY, September 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In February, the state of Utah passed the Prohibition of Federal Funding for Abortions Bill 68 that made it illegal to fund abortions using federal money. Since then State Health Department officials have attempted to circumnavigate the law by providing accounting loopholes that would allow children to continue to be killed at government expense. Critics say that the Health Department is deliberately whittling away at the law.  In a media release, the public advocacy group, Accountability Utah, says Sen. Curt Bramble and the Utah Department of Health, (UDOH) are attempting, by re-working […]

LONDON, September 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Swiss group, Dignitas, has assisted 22 British citizens to kill themselves since its founding in 1998, rather than the five previously thought, according to the sister of a UK man who sought out Dignitas to end his own life. The revelation comes one week before Lord Joffe is scheduled to table proposed legislation to legalize euthanasia for the British isles before a House of Lords committee.  John Close paid Dignitas to assist him to commit suicide. His sister, Lesley Close, made the revelation that 22 other Britons underwent the same procedure.  Lord Joffe’s […]

MANCHESTER, September 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A priest of the diocese of Manchester has stood up to the abortion organization that wants to move into his parish neighborhood. The pastor of St. Kentigern’s Catholic Church in Fallowfield, a suburb of Manchester, is working to prevent Marie Stopes International from opening a centre for abortions. Fr. Tom Connelly calls the proposed centre a “house of death and carnage.” In keeping with the abortion movement’s record of setting up facilities in poorer neighborhoods where low-income and single mothers can be targeted, Marie Stopes plans to open the new abortion facility next door […]

"Some women have had as many as thirty abortions…"

SAN FRANCISCO, September 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Chinese man who sought refuge in the U.S. and was originally denied asylum has been granted a reprieve by a U.S. appeals court. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the original judge had overlooked that Chinese officials had forcibly aborted Xiao Lan Zheng’s first child, and threatened to sterilize his wife after their second child was born.  Zheng and his wife, Xiu Qin Wen, were married in a traditional ceremony despite not having reached the legal age for marriage in the country. When Wen became pregnant with their first […]

NEW YORK, September 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amid cries of “viva Bush! viva Bush!” and “four more years!” U.S. President George W. Bush delivered his address to the Republican National Convention Thursday. Although focusing largely on defense and the struggle against terrorism, President Bush used the opportunity to renew his commitment to uphold traditional values for Americans.  “Because a caring society will value its weakest members, we must make a place for the unborn child,” he said. The president reiterated his stance to oppose activist judges in the fight for traditional marriage: “Because the union of a man and woman […]

Pa. Man Gets Prison Time for Killing Cat—Unborn children   are fair game   https://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2004/aug/26/082602972.html   Home Depot Announces Homosexual Benefits for Employees https://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/9564162.htm   Coulter Rails on Abortion, Says Dems Support Murder https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200409%5CCUL20040902a.html   New York Cardinal Egan to give official benediction at RNC Thursday https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=1835   Huge Pro-Life Sign Across from Abortuary Offers Mothers “A Better Choice”  https://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0404811.htm   President Bush encourages passage of domestic partnership laws for gays. Tells Larry King, “If states choose to do that, in other words, if they want to provide legal protections for gays, that’s great! That’s fine!”  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40248   Q and […]

TALLAHASSEE, September 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Terri Schindler-Schiavo’s parents, who have spent years battling for their daughter’s life in the courts, are being threatened with contempt of court for airing a video that showed Terri responding to her mother and attempting to speak. Michael Schiavo’s attorney, Deborah Bushnell, says she will pursue contempt charges if the family do not remove the video from their website. The video has aroused sympathy for the Schindler’s case all over the world. A court ordered in 2002 that the video not be made public. However, the video was never declared sealed by the court […]

"Indian society…disapproves of homosexuality"- government

NEW YORK, September 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Protesters were arrested by police using plastic netting to coral 100 at a time Monday during the Republican National Convention. Police say over 1,000 people had been arrested by 11 p.m. Monday, many for malicious attacks on GOP delegates attending the meeting. Protesters were arrested for spitting on delegates as they entered the convention. A 63 year-old delegate from Mississippi told the New York Post he was physically blocked from entering the convention by protesters. “I don’t mind them demonstrating, but to spit on people is unbelievable,” he told The Post, after himself […]

CAPE TOWN, September 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lazaron Biotechnologies, a biotech company based in Cape Town, South Africa, has established the first ethical stem cell bank on the continent that would collect the cells from umbilical cord blood. Cord blood has been called one of the most promising sources of stem cells for research and disease treatment.  Daniel Barry, chief executive officer for the company said in a statement, “The limited option already exists to store stem cells abroad, and we took the decision to offer this opportunity to the broader spectrum of the South African population.”  In Canada, Dr. […]

'Bans' Only Implantation, Allowing the Child to Live

EDINBURGH, September 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scotland’s prelate, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, has lashed out at lawmakers for their public school sex education program, calling it “state-sponsored sexual abuse.” He described the new sexual health strategy as “one of the biggest challenges to the morality of our nation in a generation.” Included in a critique published in the Sunday Times, Cardinal O’Brien said the new guidelines would mean sex education would now be taught to children three and four years old, while contraceptives and abortion would be available to teenage girls without the knowledge or consent of their parents.  Cardinal O’Brien […]

Schwarzenegger Presented Bill for Signature

AMSTERDAM, September 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Dutch Foreign Minister, Ben Bot, and a majority of Dutch elected officials are behind an appeal to Portugal to allow the Women on Waves floating abortuary access to port. The abortion ship was denied entry into Portuguese sovereign waters Saturday, because of their intention to carry out chemical abortions on Portuguese women; elective abortion is illegal in the majority Catholic country. A Portuguese official said Saturday the country would resort to force if necessary to prevent the boat from entering their waters.  The Dutch parliament held an emergency debate Wednesday, resulting in a […]

Medicare spending exceeds input already, fund exhausted by 2019

George Soros – “world’s angriest billionaire” – mastermind behind efforts to bring down President Bush and overthrow traditional morality https://www.family.org/cforum/citizenmag/coverstory/a0033418.cfm   Puzzling Exchange Between Rome and US Bishops Over Communion for Pro-abort Politicians https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=31289   Very Liberal Cardinal Mahoney Diocese May Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Clergy Sex Abuse Claims https://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6097341   Microsoft XP code base out of control says John Dvorak https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1640914,00.asp   Conservatives Take Issue with ‘Unflinchingly Conservative’ GOP Platform https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/afa/312004b.asp   Low Birthrate Empties Quebec Schools https://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/08/30/Quebec_schools040830.html

CENTURY CITY, CA, September 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Focusing on the final 12 hours of the life of Jesus of Nazareth’s life, the year’s most talked about movie, The Passion Of The Christ, made its highly anticipated DVD and VHS debuted on August 31, 2004.  Fox Home video announced Wednesday that 4.1 million copies of the video were sold on the first day of its release.  Released in theaters on Ash Wednesday, February 25, 2004, the powerful Mel Gibson created epic went on to gross more than $600 million at the box office – earning a spot in the top […]

September 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The organization, Catholics Against Kerry (CAK) has launched a series of radio ads designed to attract the attention of Catholic swing voters in Pennsylvania, a key battleground according to their public relations officer, Michael Pearce. “One-third of its population is Catholic makes it an essential audience for our message,” said Pearce.  The ads run about 30 seconds and say that John Kerry is an ardent supporter of abortion, and will be effectively anti-Catholic in his decisions as President. “John Kerry’s very first Senate speech was a pledge to support abortion,” says the announcer in the […]

WASHINGTON, September 1, 2004 (culture-of-life.org/LifeSiteNews.com) – The Culture of Life Foundation has released its assessment of the 2004 Republican Party platform, approved Tuesday at their national convention. Austin Ruse, president of the Foundation, says the platform “is a homerun for pro-lifers.”  The GOP vigorously endorses U.S. President George W. Bush’s promotion of abstinence: “Abstinence from sexual activity is the only protection that is 100 percent effective against out-of-wedlock pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, including sexually transmitted HIV/AIDS.” The party recommends increasing abstinence education spending by 100 percent. In the section titled Protecting Marriage, the GOP endorses the President’s call for […]

NEW YORK, September 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a radio interview, Republican Senate candidate Alan Keyes called U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter, Mary, a “selfish hedonist” because of her homosexual lifestyle. Keyes was interviewed Tuesday by Sirius OutQ satellite radio, a station aimed at homosexuals. “The essence of … family life remains procreation,” Keyes said, as reported by the Drudge Report. “If we embrace homosexuality as a proper basis for marriage, we are saying that it’s possible to have a marriage state that in principal excludes procreation and is based simply on the premise of selfish hedonism.”  The interviewer […]

ROME, September 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A plaintive classified ad by an elderly Italian widower, a retired teacher of Latin and Greek, has unexpectedly brought to public attention a fact that pro-life activists have been pointing out for years. Giorgio Angelozzi, 79, placed an ad in a Rome newspaper that said he would be willing to pay the equivalent of 500 Euros a month to any family willing to adopt him as a ‘granddad au pair.’ “I watched an army of people go by,” he sighed. “Now I find myself begging for human contact,” said Mr. Angelozzi who retired after […]

WASHINGTON, September 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An editor at Reuters news responded to a press release sent out by a pro-life group, charging that, by not killing unwanted children, the result would be countless numbers of criminal and uneducated children. The U.S. National Right to Life Committee solicited hundreds of news services with a press release, responding to Judge Richard Casey’s recent ruling opposing the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. A Reuters news service editor, Todd Eastham, responded to the press release with a scathing rebuke of the group.  “What’s your plan for parenting & educating all the unwanted children you […]

ANN ARBOR, MI, September 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Kentucky Supreme Court issued a stunning decision on August 26th granting legal authority to the state of Kentucky to end the life of a totally innocent ward of the state.  The case involved a mildly retarded black male, Matthew Woods, who was placed on a ventilator after suffering cardiac arrest at the age of 54.  The state requested permission to remove his life support, contrary to the wishes of Woods’ guardian at litem. Although Woods died of natural causes during the litigation process, the Court agreed to rule on the legality […]

LOGAN, September 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Akiane Kramarik, a soft-spoken 10 -year old girl who lives in Idaho with her parents and three brothers, is very much a normal little girl who comments on having three brothers as sometimes “very difficult”, but she is by no means common.  Drawing with life-like accuracy from the age of 5, Akiane has garnered international attention and been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and on CNN, CBS and ABC.  Her paintings have sold for upwards of $50,000 and she has made substantial charitable contributions to alleviate poverty and hunger especially in children.  However, […]