Articles for Month: October 2004

WINNIPEG, October 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lech Kowalewski, the spokesman for the Polish Federation of Pro-life Movements, told LifeSiteNews.com about new legislation proposed in Poland that seeks to legalize abortion on demand, same-sex ‘marriage’, embryonic stem cell research and sex-education from grade one.  Kowalewski, in Canada for the National Pro-Life Conference held October 14-16, said that the legislation was before the constitutional commission to determine if its provisions are constitutional. He suggested that there is little chance of the passage of the bill in its current state.  The pro-life leader was concerned however that the commission may remove some of […]

SANTA MONICA, CA, October 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Los Angeles based expert in Canon Law, the legal code used by the Catholic Church, announced Friday on EWTN’s the World Over Live with Raymond Arroyo that an important Vatican congregation has given an unprecedented boost to his case for heresy against presidential candidate John Kerry. Marc Balestrieri, JCL who has filed a formal case for Heresy against Kerry for his support of the right to abortion, revealed that he has received a written response prompted by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, affirming that Catholic politicians who […]

Kinsey critic screened out of screening of new movie   Two private screenings of an upcoming Hollywood feature film on the famed “father of the sexual revolution”  attended by Alfred Kinsey’s chief critic and whistleblower were mysteriously canceled.  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40931   Implantable chip prompts privacy concerns https://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/10/14/implantable.chip.ap/index.html   Pro-Abortion Pierre Berton Has Smoked Pot Since the 60s https://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2004/10/15/Arts/quickhits041015.html   Will Implantable Chips Turn Into a Surveillance System?  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3742684.stm   British Evangelicals Told To ‘Vote Their Values’  https://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=572304   Drug Makers ‘Bribe Doctors and Ghostwrite Drug Reviews’  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/15/ndrug15.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/15/ixhome.html

Highlights from the Canadian National Pro-Life Conference - Day 1

DUNCAN, October 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A witness for the Crown has testified in the Evelyn Martens trial that she felt disconnected from the suicide of Monique Charest at her apartment in Duncan BC on Jan. 7, 2002. Brenda Hurn told the jury she felt the experience was “surreal.” She said, “I was there and then part of the time I was kind of far away. It was kind of a strange feeling. Surreal. There, but not there.”  Hurn, 82, testified that she was in the 64 year old Charest’s apartment when the woman was committing suicide. She said she […]

Reassured by 'Safeguards' shown to be useless in Holland and Belgium

WINNIPEG, October 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The latest pro-life polling was released at the National Pro-Life Conference yesterday by Joanne Byfield, president-elect of LifeCanada.  Byfield told the assembled crowd that although the polling firm Leger Marketing had conducted their polls in both 2002 and 2003, they refused to do so in 2004 saying, “we aren’t doing controversial issues.”  Leger does however do polls on same-sex ‘marriage’.  The polling firm Environics conducted the poll – commissioned by LifeCanada – finding 68% of Canadians favored some legal protection before birth, most of those, 33%, believed that protection should be from conception forward.  […]

UNITED NATIONS, October 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations debate on banning all forms of human cloning is to take place October 21-22.  Samantha Singson the International Affairs Officer for Campaign Life Coalition will be there to lobby delegates to support the ban. Singson told LifeSiteNews.com that the final vote on the ban is expected on October 29.  The debate centers around a motion put forward by Costa Rica which asks for a comprehensive ban on cloning humans as opposed to competing suggestions which would see human cloning permitted but those cloned human beings killed for research before birth […]

Democrats vehemently opposed to non-activist judges loyal to U.S. constitution

OTTAWA, October 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has reversed a decision advocating that employees, as a sign of solidarity with their homosexual coworkers, display gay-pride rainbow stickers at their workstations. The action may have been the result of a Canadian Family Action Coalition-initiated boycott.  In a company newsletter in September, RBC launched a sexual orientation campaign requesting its employees to “be supportive” of “gay, lesbian and bisexual issues,” by displaying a rainbow coloured triangle at their workstations. The first issue of the company’s “Rainbow Space” newsletter, suggested their purpose was to “highlight the importance of […]