Articles for Month: October 2004

Event continues to be ignored by Canadian media

If Neither Candidate is Fully Pro-Life Catholics Must Vote for the One Who Would Limit

OTTAWA. October 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the past few days, marriage commissioners have begun to surrender their right to solemnize marriages because of court rulings legitimizing same-sex ‘marriage’. Manitoba marriage commissioners were sent a letter by the director of vital statistics for the province telling them they would be expected to ‘marry’ gay and lesbian couples – or resign. As a result, two marriage commissioners in Manitoba have already resigned. One Conservative MP has had enough.  Maurice Vellacott, the Member of Parliament for Saskatoon-Wanuskewin Saskatchewan said, “Canada’s renegade courts are tearing up the constitution as they make decisions which […]

WASHINGTON, October 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Right to Life Committee in the US has revealed that Martin Haskell, George Tiller, and Warren Hern, three abortionists notorious for committing and defending the practice of late-term abortion, have contributed financially to the Kerry campaign fund. Haskell admitted at an abortion conference in 1992 to having committed over 700 partial birth abortions and claimed to have coined the term ‘Dilation and Extraction’ as the euphemism of choice to describe the gruesome killing of late term babies. George Tiller is notorious for offering at his late-term specialty practice, a bizarre pseudo-religious ceremony […]

WASHINGTON, October 4, 2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – A majority of representatives in the US House voted last Thursday to approve a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, but failed to reach the necessary two-thirds supermajority required by the Constitution.  The House voted 227-186 in favour of the amendment. Most supporters of the amendment had already acknowledged that the outcome was foreordained, as it was in a similar Senate vote this past summer, but that it put lawmakers on the record on the issue before Election Day. Voting in favour of the amendment were 191 […]

WASHINGTON, October 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the fourth consecutive year of his presidency, U.S. President George W. Bush has refused the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, its designated annual US government contribution. The $25 million normally earmarked for the organization was diverted by the president into a State Department initiative against human trafficking and prostitution.  The UNFPA support for coerced abortion contravenes a U.S. law that prohibited any funding of abortion supporting organizations. The UNFPA has been actively supporting, through funding and training, China’s one-child policy, which involves forced abortion. Read the related LifeSiteNews.com reports:  U.S. House Maintains Blockade […]