Articles for Month: November 2004

RANCHO SANTA FE, CA, November 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a surprising turn of events, the United States Congress has joined the fight to keep the 43-foot tall cross atop Mount Soledad in San Diego, California, by designating the land on which it stands and the granite memorial walls surrounding it, a national veterans memorial. The congressional action came as a result of efforts by the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan that fights for the religious freedom of Christians.  San Diego area Congressmen, Reps. Duncan Hunter, R -El Cajon, and […]

OTTAWA, November 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as pre-term birth, low birth weight, small-for-gestational-age, stillbirth, and neonatal and post-neonatal mortality have been found to be more common in mothers living in common-law unions than those in traditional marriage relationships, according to a Statistics Canada study of pregnancy outcomes in Quebec. Statistics Canada, the government statistical service, notes that the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes among common-law mothers are of great public health concern because of the high and increasing proportion of births to mothers in common-law unions.  In 1997, 44% of births in Quebec were to common-law […]

OTTAWA, November 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Toronto-based homosexual activist group is organizing an anti-Bush demonstration to correspond with the US President’s visit to Ottawa scheduled for November 30 to December 1.  “People across Canada are coming together to show their opposition to Bush and everything he represents,” Toronto Coalition to Stop the War and the ACTivist Magazine’s Dylan Penner claimed, according to the homosexual “marriage” activist website, samesexmarriage.ca. “Bush and the Cheney gang want to pressure Paul Martin and Parliament to sign onto Star Wars, send troops to Iraq and backpedal on equal marriage.”“Their administration’s assault on peace, ecology […]

OTTAWA, November 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservatives frustrated by a committee decision last week to declare non-votable a private member’s bill defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman, may still see their hopes fulfilled.  Conservative MP Rob Moore has appealed the decision of the House of Commons Procedure and House Affairs Committee and will present arguments Thursday in favour of allowing his bill to at least receive a vote.  Conservative MP Bill Casey, one of the committee members, spoke to LifeSiteNews.com today noting that the Conservative Party stands behind bringing the measure to a vote. However, […]

Scaring Specter straight https://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20041122.shtml Civil Unions: Compromise or Surrender?  https://www.hillsdale.edu/newimprimis/2004/november/default.htm   Kyoto’s smoke screen imperils us all https://envirotruth.org/news/20041115.cfm   The United Nations’ Oily Outrage https://www.cwfa.org/articles/6901/BLI/reports/index.htm   Scientists debate blending of human, animal forms https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6534243   Big UK decline in Bible ownership https://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_041122bible.shtml   UK Christian MP to enter gay civil partnership https://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_041122exeter.shtml   Church of England Bishops turn blind eye to gay ‘wedding’ ceremonies in churches https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1369616,00.html   Muscle cells seen as potential source for fresh nerve tissue https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1507&ncid=1507&e=5&u=/afp/20041118/hl_afp/health_stemcells_041118231515   Christian Music Today Announces Best Christian Albums of 2004 https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=669&ncid=669&e=10&u=/usnw/20041122/pl_usnw/christian_music_today_announces_best_christian_albums_of_2004__sara_groves__twice_a_runner_up__finishes_no__1_with_the_other_si   US Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Adopted Parents […]

LONDON, November 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British doctor has admitted to referring women for illegal late-term abortions at a Spanish abortuary, as exposed by The Sunday Telegraph in early October. Dr Saroj Adlakha admitted she had taken an 18-year-old university student to the Ginemedex clinic in Spain for an abortion, based on a British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) recommendation. BPAS is the National Health Service’s biggest abortion provider, and a publicly-funded charity.  Last month, a 29-week pregnant Telegraph reporter told Adlakha she wanted an abortion; Adlakha referred her to the Ginemedex clinic in Barcelona, despite late-term abortions being illegal […]

HELENA, November 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Abortion Rights Action League has chosen Nancy Keenan, a former state legislator from Montana as its new president. The change comes at a moment when the national abortion group is attempting to rally support for its fight against conservative judicial nominees who may overturn the activist Roe V Wade decision that created a constitutionally non-existent right to abortion in the U.S. Keenan replaces Kate Michaelman who stepped down as interim president in May. The NARAL press release announcing Keenan’s appointment as president depicts her as a hero and lauds the “strength of […]

RUTLAND, Vermont, November 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two women who entered into a same-sex civil union in Vermont in 2000 have been awarded joint custody of a daughter born to one woman through artificial insemination. The court ruled both women were the legal parents of the two-year-old girl. A Virginia judge in August awarded Lisa Miller-Jenkins, the girl’s mother, sole custody, because the state does not recognize same-sex unions. Later, in September, a Vermont court disagreed, ruling Lisa Miller-Jenkins was in contempt of court, for denying her same-sex partner Janet Miller-Jenkins access to the two year-old toddler, Isabella.  On Wednesday, […]

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., November 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer has condemned a decision by Louisiana health officials to remove a warning from the department’s Web site informing women about the relationship between abortion and breast cancer.  Health department officials were intimidated by inquiries from an Associated Press (AP) reporter into the state’s “Woman’s Right to Know” booklet. A report from the AP inaccurately claimed women were being “wrongly warned” about an abortion-breast cancer link.  The AP story said the National Cancer Institute and a Lancet review found no link. However, the AP omitted important facts. Five […]

WASHINGTON, November 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Both the US Congress and Senate approved a measure Saturday ensuring that state and local governments who receive federal health and human services funds cannot discriminate against health care providers because they do not provide abortions, pay for abortions, provide coverage of abortions, or refer for abortions. President Bush is expected to sign the measure into law.  The new measure, the “Hyde-Weldon anti-discrimination amendment,” is named for the Republican sponsors of the bill, Congressman Henry Hyde (R-Il.) and Congressman Dave Weldon (R-Fl.).  The protection covers doctors and other health care professionals, hospitals, HMOs, and […]