Articles for Month: June 2005

WASHINGTON, June 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On June 23, US Senator Sam Brownback held a subcommittee hearing examining “The Consequences of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton.” Testimony focused on the social and medical harms of abortion including the significant statistical link between abortion and incidence of breast and other forms of cancer.Teresa Stanton Collett, a Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, testified that Roe and Doe “have significantly undermined the well being of women and children in the United States, as well as seriously damaged the political fabric of American […]

TRENTON, N.J. – Surrounded by data which indicates that the ‘safe-sex’ message is doing little, if anything, to slow the rapid spread of STD’s, senator Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, is leading the battle to ensure that appropriate warning labels are placed on condom packages in the United States. Coburn’s spokesperson John Hart indicated that Coburn is currently blocking the nomination of Lester Crawford as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to encourage Crawford to support a law which will ensure more accurate information about the “effectiveness or lack of the effectiveness” of condoms is printed on packages. Currently […]

LISBON, June 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Portugal’s Socialist-led parliament has approved a referendum on abortion for next week, July 8. In the February election, the Socialist party ran on a platform that included a promise to conduct a national referendum to overturn the country’s official prohibition on abortion. Socialists hold 121 of the 230 seats in parliament. In May, Portugal’s president said an abortion referendum would be delayed until 2006, fearing that a summer referendum would not yield the minimum 50% voter turnout necessary for the result to be binding. The proposal seeks to make abortion on demand legal up […]

OTTAWA, June 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The following chronology traces Canada’s legislative and judicial activist path to Tuesday’s landmark passage of Bill C-38, the Liberal government’s same-sex “marriage” legislation. In 1969, former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, claiming, “The State has no place in the bedrooms of the nation,” declares sodomy legal.https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/oct/001003a.html In 1999, the Canadian House of Commons votes 216-55 in favour of enshrining the traditional definition of marriage as “one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.” See https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/jun/99060801.html In 2000, the federal government passes the homosexual omnibus legislation Bill C-23, affording homosexual unions near […]

MADRID, June 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spain’s Socialist-led government legalized same-sex “marriage” today. The measure, which passed by a margin of 187-147 in Spain’s Congress of Deputies, also legalizes the adoption of children by homosexual couples, and grants them inheritance rights. The bill passed despite the opposition and indignation of Spain’s population, as evidenced by the well over one million strong crowd gathered to oppose the pending legislation in Madrid on June 18. In addition, a Catholic group, the Spanish Family Forum, presented a petition signed by 600,000 Spanish citizens opposed to same-sex “marriage” to parliament Wednesday. The conservative opposition […]

OTTAWA, June 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Presbyterian pastor Tristan Emmanuel is a very busy man of late. The founder of Equipping Christians for the Public Square (the ECP Centre) debated homosexual activist Rev. Brent Hawkes on CTV News with Mike Duffy at 8:15 p.m. on the day of the gay ‘marriage’ vote. Later that Tuesday night, after the vote, he was a guest panellist on CH 11 News at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday morning he was on two radio morning news shows on CBC. All these programs focussed on the gay ‘marriage’ legislation. His popularity is due in part to the […]

OTTAWA, June 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bruce Clemenger, president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) lamented the passage of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act saying, “Parliament is embarking on a social experiment that removes the language of husband and wife from the law and eclipses its ability to champion the rights of children to know and be raised by a mother and a father.” The EFC says it has been working to preserve the historic definition of marriage for over a decade.“Evangelical Christians have engaged on this issue because it’s part of our deeply held religious beliefs that […]

OTTAWA, June 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper declared the new same-sex “marriage” law passed yesterday is “illegitimate,” promising that his Conservative government would revisit the issue if elected to power in the next federal election. “I don’t see Canadians will see this as a legitimate way to settle this debate, and so this will be an issue for some Canadians in the next election,” Harper promised, as reported by the CBC. “There will be a chance to revisit this in a future Parliament,” he added, according to Canadian Press coverage. “Our intention is to have […]

OSHAWA, ON, June 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In 2002 Marc Hall was, using the words of Durham school board chair Mary Ann Martin, “the centre of the gay universe”. The 17-year-old high school student burst onto the international scene when he demanded that his Catholic high school allow him to bring his 21-year-old boyfriend to the prom. When the school board refused to acquiesce, standing firmly behind the moral convictions of the Catholic faith to which the board adheres, he pursued legal action. After costing the Durham school board well over $150,000 in legal fees, Marc was given what he […]

MADRID, June 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spain’s federal government will be facing more massive protests against the legitimization of homosexual unions if President Zapatero refuses to meet with representatives of the Family Forum. The group has pledged more rallies but has little time left since the bill is set for a vote tomorrow. The Family Forum staged one of the world’s largest rallies protesting these measures with between 1.5 and 2 million attendees. Support from Christians and others opposed to the eradication of the family in Spanish law flooded in from across the globe with messages coming from as far […]

OTTAWA, June 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Civil Rights League predicts that the vote to pass the same-sex ‘marriage’ bill in parliament yesterday will result in numerous court cases and complaints to human rights tribunals, as well as challenges to the charitable status of institutions that uphold the traditional definition of marriage. “The rights of marriage commissioners to refuse to perform these marriages, the rights of Church organizations to control the use of their properties, the rights of parents and school teachers to address what is taught in family life programs, are just some of the problems that are […]

OTTAWA, June 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Catholic Prime Minister Paul Martin began in earnest his final push for the passage of the same-sex ‘marriage’ bill last week, he had the audacity to go on radio and say “I’m actually a very strong Roman Catholic” while at the same time justifying his imposition of homosexual ‘marriage’ on Canada. LifeSiteNews.com asked for comment on the matter from Martin’s bishop, Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais. In the request for comment from Archbishop Gervais, LifeSiteNews.com noted, “On Vancouver’s CKNW radio on Monday June 20, 2005, the Prime Minister said, ‘I’m actually a very strong […]

Every Politician Who Voted in Favour Will be Targeted for Defeat

Becomes third nation in the world to legalize same-sex 'marriage'

TORONTO, June 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The likely final passage this evening of Canada’s same-sex marriage bill C-38 was eerily highlighted by today’s daily Mass readings, encountered by Catholics who attended Mass across the nation. Today’s scripture readings, which are established years ahead according to an international liturgical calendar, contained passages that astonished many by their direct relevance to the disturbing culmination of the same-sex marriage legislation battle. The first reading, from the book of Genesis Chapter 19, relates the infamous story of the punishment of Sodom and Gomorrah as a result of its sexual and especially homosexual immorality. The […]

LifeSiteNews.com Interviews Jim Hughes

OTTAWA, June 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the Canadian Parliament completed its second last day of debates on the same-sex ‘marriage’ legislation yesterday Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant presented to the House of Commons a letter from an eight-year-old boy in her riding. Gallant rose in the Commons to thank “the thousands of constituents in my riding of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke who took the time to personally contact me in support of the traditional definition of marriage as being the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.” Gallant said she drew strength from their support, “in what […]

LONDON, June 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the Canadian Parliament slips its euthanasia bill under the media radar, the UK’s House of Lords is once again revisiting the idea of dispatching inconvenient patients. With the Dutch model leading the way, most western countries are considering implementing legislation allowing patients to be killed on request. The UK’s bill, like Canada’s, is a private member’s bill tabled by Lord Joffe and has been making headlines for some time. In 2004, the husband of Queen Elizabeth expressed his support at the same time the UK’s Voluntary Euthanasia Society issued a report that showed […]

MONTREAL, June 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A McGill professor is encouraging Canadians to reject the new same-sex “marriage” legislation. Douglas Farrow, associate professor of Christian thought at McGill University in Montreal, proposes that Bill C-38 is “illicit legislation, the binding nature of which must be contested.” The change to the legal definition of marriage assumes a “positivist view” of law – one that “admits few givens, and no firm limits, for political or juridical authority.” The positivist view contrasts with the classical tradition, which, like the preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, links belief in the rule […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Life Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit legal organization based in Ohio, today released a comprehensive study analyzing the current status of state laws on abortion and what would happen if Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the cases that legalized abortion throughout the country in 1973, were to be overturned. The study concludes that only seven states (Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Wisconsin) would have enforceable laws on the books that would ban abortion. These states represent less than 10 percent of the U.S. population. For the […]

Says few effective protections in bill for Canadians who have conscientious objections

AMSTERDAM, June 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Dutch cabinet has passed a law relaxing rules prohibiting same-sex couples from adopting children from abroad, as well as waiving the mandatory three-year waiting period for a lesbian partner to adopt a child born to her same-sex partner. The Netherlands legalized adoption by same-sex couples when it became the world’s first country to make same-sex “marriage” legal in 2000. According to an Associated Press report, Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner “reluctantly” approved a change to the law, “arguing that no country will allow a gay Dutch couple to adopt a child anyhow.” tv

CALGARY, June 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian bishop Fred Henry, in a letter published in the Calgary Sun Sunday, argues that the proposed same-sex “marriage” law for Canada ignores what is in the best interests of children. “The most overlooked and disenfranchised group in the current debate about marriage are children,” Bishop Henry writes. He argues that the proposed Bill C-38 is a measure that is in the best interest of adults, not children. Parodying the “It’s the Charter, stupid!” logo coined by the Young Liberals at the last national convention, Henry retorts, “It’s about children, stupid!” “According to the […]

TORONTO, June 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Organizers for the annual March for Life both in Ottawa and in Washington are accustomed to having the mainstream news media drastically under-report the size of the crowds. What seems to be a policy of media-mandated expansion or deflation of crowd size appears to be directly proportional to the event’s rating on the political correctness scale: the more liberal the cause; the higher the crowd estimate. Among the most enthusiastic media exaggerators is the publicly funded Canadian national broadcaster, the CBC. This weekend the annual “Gay Pride” parade was staged, with all the now-standard […]

Expert: Real focus in gay debate being losthttps://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=38059 Homosexuality ‘a disease’ claims Spanish professorhttps://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=648979 The rush is on for biotech bonanzahttps://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story147.htm Frozen eggs allow women to put motherhood on icehttps://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C3-1670393%2C00.html Florida County Ending Official Support of Gay Eventshttps://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/national/26pride.html?ei=5090&en=1d4534d8eea5535e&ex=1277438400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print The Magic Pill? Does Your Doctor Defend Life?https://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=2&art_id=28904 MP Comuzzi expected to resign over same-sex billhttps://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2005/june/27/comuzzi/&c=1 Test reveals gender early in pregnancy. Ethicists fear use in sex selectionhttps://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/women/articles/2005/06/27/test_reveals  _gender_early_in_pregnancy/ Gay pride parade is brought to you by … Microsoft, Starbucks, Wamu among local corporate supportershttps://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/230034_gaypridebusiness25.html Hillary Pressures Networks to Cancel Appearances by Critichttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/6/26/195513.shtml MPs will pay for supporting same-sex billhttps://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=afd587fd-3483-4b30-a17e-5f1f35742639 U.S. Senator […]

"Entire gay agenda is build on a faulty, sinking foundation," says Stephen Bennett

NEW YORK, June 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former US President Bill Clinton along with his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, appeared on stage with Billy Graham in a thinly veiled attempt to shamelessly portray themselves as “born again” Christians, at Graham’s final American revival in New York Saturday. Analysts have suggested Hillary as a likely Democratic presidential nominee for 2008. Her effort to soften her image as a radically pro-abortion feminist may be another leading indication of her aspiration to be ruler of the free world. The AP reported that Graham, 86 and in frail health, referred to the Clintons as […]

JERUSALEM, June 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Jerusalem court ruled Sunday that a city council injunction banning the fourth-annual gay “pride” parade there is illegal and ordering the homosexual activist organizers to proceed as planned. The Jerusalem District court judge added an order that rainbow flags be flown along the streets of the ancient city, and to pay the homosexual organizers, Open House, $13,245 in legal fees. “The city is not permitted to discriminate against any sector of the public due to the disagreement of any of its officials with the views or sexual orientation of any particular sector,” the […]

MANCHESTER, June 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK bank asked an evangelical Christian group to close its account because of the group’s opposition to homosexuality. The Co-operative Bank said the opinions of Christian Voice were “discriminatory” against homosexuals. “It has come to the bank’s attention that Christian Voice is engaged in discriminatory pronouncements based on the grounds of sexual orientation,” a bank spokesman said, as reported by the BBC. “This public stance is incompatible with the position of the Co-operative Bank, which publicly supports diversity and dignity in all its forms for our staff, customers and other stakeholders.” In February, […]

BAGOTA, Columbia, June 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the repeated failure of attempts by the UN to pressure Colombia into decriminalizing abortion, the UN funded Women’s Link Worldwide (WLW) is suing Colombia into permitting abortion in so-called ‘extreme cases’. WLW is funded by the notoriously pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). This recent case is merely the latest in a series of attempts by the UN and UN-funded Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to impose their idea of “reproductive” and “women rights” on Colombia. In 1999 the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against women (CEDAW) demanded […]

OTTAWA, June 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative Party Member of Parliament Maurice Vellacott (Saskatoon-Wanuskewin) has always stood firmly against the Liberal agenda of changing the legal definition of marriage. It has been clear, however, that the Liberals were committed to bulldozing their marriage redefinition bill, C-38, through Parliament. Vellacott has, therefore, submitted amendments attempting to mitigate the serious damage that the Liberal anti-marriage bill will do to Canadian society. Vellacott has introduced several Report Stage amendments to Bill C-38 that, if passed, he says, “might afford a bit of protection for those who fear the loss of their constitutional freedoms […]

Justice Scalia slams "dictatorship of a shifting Supreme Court majority"

BOSTON, June 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Massachusetts, as has happened in nearly every province of Canada, the courts have ruled that homosexual partnerings must be legally equated with normal marriage. The Massachusetts court said that any bill that fails to call homosexual unions ‘marriage’ would create an “unconstitutional, inferior, and discriminatory status for same-sex couples.” In March 2004, in an initial vote, the state legislature passed a bill to amend the state constitution to prohibit same-sex “marriage” but allow homosexual partnerings to be recognized as “civil unions,”- the legal equivalent to marriage in all but name. If this compromise […]

June 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While research lobbyists pressure governments for access to embryos, more work is being done obtaining stem cells from ethical sources proving that embryonic stem cells are a dead end. This has not been lost on private investors who are now pouring money into adult stem cell research. In April, at a meeting of the Institute of Physics, Professor Josef Käs and Dr Jochen Guck from the University of Leipzig announced that they had discovered a procedure that can extract and isolate embryo-quality stem cells from adult blood for the first time. In the past, researchers […]

Christian America’s political arm is more complex and more dynamic than it first appears. And it will be hard to stophttps://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4102212 Thursday’s ruling by the Supreme Court allowing cities to seize property for private development sends a dangerous messagehttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/242005a.asp ACLU Now Defends Polygamy, Further Eroding Traditional Marriagehttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/242005c.asp Expert Says U.S. Porn Industry Feeds International Sex Tradehttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/242005e.asp Spanish Senate vetoes gay marriage lawhttps://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=38002 From Porn Club to School BoardÂhttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/8411/LEGAL/pornography/index.htm Feedback on Women in Combathttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/8413/CFI/family/index.htm ‘Mother’s Day’ too offensive? Campus administrator says newsletter reference must be ‘Parent’s Day’https://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44953

ROME, June 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI paid a visit to the Italian presidential palace today to meet with Italian President Carlo Campi, and other political leaders including Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. In his speech to the leaders and those gathered the Pope stressed that while states are to be governed by state law and not church law, ethical considerations rooted in religion must not be excluded. Moreover, he added that laws must be in “harmony with higher and more complex necessities deriving from an integral vision of man and of his eternal destiny.” The Pope indicated that […]

OTTAWA, June 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Bloc Québécois MP Francine Lalonde has introduced a private members bill to legalize assisted suicide in Canada. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) has condemned the measure saying, “This bill is so wide open it provides no effective restrictions whatsoever and if passed it will be assisted suicide on demand.” The bill, introduced June 15 and tentatively set for debate next Wednesday, does not necessitate someone to be terminally ill to request assisted suicide. Should the bill pass, anyone in Canada at least 18 years of age can request assisted suicide if they are experiencing “severe […]

Liberals once again prove anyone can be bought with taxpayers' money - even the separatists

Children who have opted out not becoming pregnant

CHICAGO, June 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An employee of the Allstate insurance company has been fired from his job for comments that appeared in a men’s journal denouncing same-sex “marriage,” even though the statement was penned in the employee’s own spare time and from home. “I explained to Allstate that the article was a reflection of my personal Christian beliefs, and that I had every right to both write it and to have it published,” J. Matt Barber told WorldNetDaily news. “I further explained that I had written the article while at home on my own time, that I never […]

JERUSALEM, June 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Jerusalem officials cancelled this year’s fourth annual “gay pride” parade Thursday, originally scheduled for June 30, citing the fear that the march would offend Jewish, Muslim and Christian residents of the holy city. Jerusalem city council decided, “it is not right to allow the march or other planned activities to take place in the streets of Jerusalem, fearing that it will create an uproar, offend a wide sector of city residents and out of fear of public disturbances,” according to a letter sent by City Hall director general Eitan Meir to organizers, as reported […]

  MONCTON, June 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Brunswick is the latest casualty in the judicial tyranny that seeks to establish same-sex “marriage” as the norm for Canada, as a judge there struck down prohibitions on two people of the same sex becoming “married” Thursday. Court of the Queen’s Bench Judge Judy Clendenning, in an activist judicial decision, altered the legal definition of marriage as a lawful union “between two persons” rather than of a man and woman. Her ruling was in favour of four same-sex couples who challenged the existing law, according to a CBC report. Clendenning denied several […]

Brownback Sets Sights on Roe https://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0036950.cfm Denied Access to PTA Gathering, PFOX Stages Alternative Conferencehttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/232005a.asp High-Court Showdownhttps://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=29012 Act Would Give Marriage Rights to Foreign Same-Sex Coupleshttps://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0036954.cfm Homosexuals Challenge Jerusalem for Refusing ‘Gay Pride’ Parade

ALBANY, NY, June 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York Senate has passed legislation that would enable women of any age to procure the abortifacient ‘morning-after’ pill without a prescription, joining seven other states which have instituted similar measures. The bill passed 34-27 and is now due to go before Republican governor George Pataki, who has the option of vetoing it. The morning-after pill, or Plan B, delivers a massive hormonal dose, combining estrogen and progestin, and is marketed as a means to prevent pregnancy within 72 hours of engaging in unprotected sex. Until this point it was necessary to […]

NOTTINGHAM, England, June 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The global Anglican Communion’s Consultative Council maintained their expulsion of clergy members of the Canadian Anglican and US Episcopal churches over disagreement with their respective positions on homosexual “marriage” and clergy Wednesday. A motion prohibiting the Canadian Anglican Church and Episcopal Church of USA (ECUSA) from participating in two key committees, the Standing Committee and Anglican Finance Committee, passed by a narrow margin (30-28, with 4 abstentions) Wednesday in Nottingham. This motion upholds and strengthens the suspension of the Canadian and US Churches from Communion activities as decided in February, until the next […]

OTTAWA, June 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Shameless bribery, using taxpayers’ money or abuse of position, as revealed by the Gomery enquiry and theÂGrewal and Stronach affairs, continues to be the modus operandi for the Liberal Party’s efforts to maintain power in Canada. Facing a possible defeat of its budget and thus a forced election (along with the elimination of the gay ‘marriage’ bill), the Liberals haveÂjust arranged for a hefty sum ofÂ$1.3 billion of unassigned funds in the budget to go to Quebec. This has in turn led the Quebec Liberal government and trade unionsÂto pressure the federalÂBloc Quebecois Party […]

Proceeds to go to annual Toronto 'Pride Week' events

MADRID, June 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spain’s Senate has voted against a bill to legalize same-sex “marriage.” The measure simply delays what most analysts see as inevitable – that the lower House will frustrate the Senate’s attempt to quash the measure by a peremptory vote, expected next week. The Catalan Christian Democrat party joined forces with the opposition Popular Party in the Senate to defeat the controversial bill, opposed by millions of faithful in the predominantly Catholic country. A demonstration Saturday in Madrid saw nearly two million protesters gathered to voice their opposition to the Socialist ruling party’s measure. In […]

OTTAWA, June 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Roman Catholic priest has challenged Liberal Cabinet Ministers ordered by Prime Minister Martin to toe the party line on same-sex “marriage” to not yield in the “battle between ambition and principle.” Rev. Raymond J. de Souza, in a captivating editorial appearing in the National Post today, encouraged lawmakers to follow the example of St Thomas More, whose feast day was celebrated by the Catholic Church Wednesday. De Souza explained that St Sir Thomas More – the 16th century LordÂChancellor of England beheaded for his opposition to King Henry VIII’s illegal divorce from his […]

Situation changing constantly says Liberal MP

MONTREAL, June 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Margaret Somerville is a highly respected ethicist and professor of law and medicine at prestigious McGill University in Montreal. Like most modern ethicists however, in what may be an overzealous attempt to be fair to all sides, Somerville has on occasion contributed to the muddying of the waters on the life issues. In an article appearing in yesterday’s Globe and Mail, Somerville reveals a deeply confused and contradictory position in her response to the University of Western Ontario’s awarding of an honorary degree to notorious abortionist Henry Morgentaler. Somerville has contributed to the argument […]

WARSAW, Poland, June 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This past weekend a number of Polish youth organized and held a so-called “Normal” parade through the streets of Warsaw, starting at the parliament buildings. The parade was held in order to publicly celebrate sexual normality, the marriage of a man and a woman, and Polish tradition. The widely under-reported event came only weeks after and in response to the controversial Warsaw pro-gay “Equality” parade, which received a great deal of publicity on account of its being banned by Warsaw mayor, Lech Kaczynski, who is also a leading presidential candidate. Despite the mayor’s […]

Lodz, Poland, June 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Citizens of Lodz, a city in central Poland, were greeted this week by a massive pro-life display featuring 14 billboard-size photos super-imposing graphic pictures of aborted babies next to images from the Rwandan massacre of 1994 and the Srebrenica massacre of 1995 in Yugoslavia. According to a Radio Polonia report, pictures of an aborted baby with a severed head appear next to pictures of bodies massacred in Rwanda. The display, whose author remains anonymous, is titled “Different methods. Different motives. The same result.” “These pictures definitely negate the view of pro-choice circles,” said […]

"The hottest place in hell is reserved for the lukewarm."

Morning after pill, a contraceptive, not abortifacient says Archer

VATICAN CITY, June 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his first book published since his election as Pope, Benedict XVI rejects the suggestion that the Church has given up its fight for the right to life of the unborn, instead emphasizing that “There is no such thing as ‘small murders.’” “Respect for every single life is an essential condition for anything worthy of being called social life,” he wrote, as reported by Reuters news. The book, The Europe of Benedict, in the Crisis of Cultures – only available in Italian – is a compilation of three sermons delivered between 1992 and […]

CLEARWATER, June 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Michael Schiavo has carried his war with Terri’s parents right up to her grave. He has placed a grave marker that says Terri “departed this earth February 25th, 1990” and was “at peace, March 31, 2005.” Not content with his victory over Terri and her family in having succeeded in having her dehydrated to death, Michael has used her bronze grave marker as an occasion to get in one last parting shot at her parents. The marker ends with the words, “I kept my promise.” Schiavo’s case against allowing his wife to live was […]

NIAGARA ON THE LAKE, ON, June 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some may say that God was givingÂPrime Minister Paul Martin a final warning just beforeÂheÂforced throughÂhis gay ‘marriage’ legislation, Bill C-38. On Saturday night Martin attended a Catholic Mass at St. Vincent de Paul parish in Niagara on the Lake.ÂÂHe was in the posh resort town for a meeting with Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the EU Council. Rev. Paul J. McDonald, the celebrant of the Saturday night Mass told LifeSiteNews.com that he did not know the Prime Minister was coming to the Mass nor did he even know Martin was […]

CHICAGO, June 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Medical Association is backing a proposal that would force pharmacists to dispense abortifacients like the morning-after emergency abortion and birth control pill or refer to another pharmacist to have the prescriptions filled. A resolution passed Monday by the AMA’s House of Delegates states that pharmacists who oppose abortifacients on moral grounds should provide an “immediate referral to an appropriate alternative dispensing pharmacy without interference,” according to a Chicago Tribune report. “Our position is on behalf of the patient,” claimed AMA board member Dr. Peter Carmel. “The AMA strongly believes patients have to […]

OTTAWA, June 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the midst of making plans to extend parliament into the summer, and forcing Members of Parliament (MP’s) to daily sit in the House until as late as midnight in order to ram through same-sex ‘marriage’ Bill C-38, Canadian PM Paul Martin has made a public profession of his confusing personal credo. “I’m actually a very strong Roman Catholic,” Martin told Vancouver’s CKN radio station Monday. However, he then continued, referring to his views on same-sex marriage, “But I’m also a legislator, and I believe that clearly what I’ve got to do is take […]

COPENHAGEN, June 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of English researchers has shown that it may be possible to create human ova and sperm from embryonic stem cells. Primordial germ cells (PGCs) are those cells created in the human reproductive system that later form ova and sperm and any genetic alteration made to them at this early stage, can then be carried down into future offspring. Many opponents to human cloning research have warned against this possibility of genetic tampering with future generations, but it was a possibility that seemed far off until now. Mr. Behrouz Aflatoonian, a PhD student […]

TORONTO, ON, June 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the midst of preparations for Toronto’s “Gay Pride” week, the Canadian government is being accused of possible “dirty tricks” surrounding the recent temporary suspension of its Exotic Dancer Program. While the program was shut down thanks to international pressure from anti-trafficking groups, a court challenge against the closure of the program may reinstate it, saving the government the political ramifications. The latest in a long series of controversies and scandals around the program surrounds a group of six American male strippers, referred to by the Globe and Mail as “the Backstreet Boys […]

"Could threaten Europe's population"

MANILA, Philippines, June 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin, once hailed as “the divine commander in chief” by former President Fidel Ramos, has passed away at the age of 76. Over the past several decades Cardinal Sin repeatedly stepped into the international spotlight as a consequence of his central role in planning the massive peaceful protests which led to the downfall of two corrupt regimes, one in 1986 and another in 2001. Pro-lifers, however, have their own especial reasons to mourn his loss, recognizing Cardinal Sin’s unrelenting and faithful promotion of the sanctity of life from […]

GLASGOW, June 21, 2005 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Scottish parents will lose the right to withdraw their children from sex education classes under plans being considered by Glasgow school officials. Glasgow city council is planning to take away parental choice in what it sees as an attempt to tackle teenage pregnancy rates in the city, which are among the highest in Europe. The move has been condemned as “arrogant” and “outrageous” by the Catholic Church in Scotland and by parents’ groups. The Church maintains that the right to determine when children receive information about sexuality and what kind of information to impart […]

Dear LifeSiteNews.com readers, This is the third and final special article of our current fundraising campaign. We don’t like harassing our readers with appeals for funds so that’s why this is the last one for this campaign. Thankfully, since the lastÂupdate, LifeSiteNews.com did receive some more donations over $250 and a flurry of smaller, but also most welcome donations which brought the total up to a more reasonable level. However, we are still very far from meeting our annual expenses which are now in the range of $150,000+. Regardless, we are thankful for those generous persons who responded and for […]

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HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican governor Jodi Rell of Connecticut has signed legislation which gives $100 million in taxpayer money to stem cell research over a period of ten years. This new state law comes shortly after George W. Bush put in place restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, citing the severe and insurmountable ethical issues involved in what is essentially the destruction of human life for questionable medical returns. According to Paul Davis, a state legislator and former science teacher, the Connecticut bill focuses on embryonic stem cell research. The bill provides for […]

BURLINGTON, June 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chris Kempling, the BC teacher who was disciplined by the College of Teachers for writing letters to the editor of a local paper outlining his opposition to the gay agenda in schools as well as homosexual marriage, is the beneficiary of a fundraiser this Friday. The fundraiser is organized by Tristan Emmanuel, a Presbyterian pastor who has recently been in the media spotlight for his work in defending traditional marriage. Internationally renowned speaker, Stephen Bennett – a former homosexual who is now happily married with two children – is headlining the event. The money […]

MADRID, June 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over a million Spanish citizens turned out Saturday to bring their views on marriage and homosexuality to the attention of Spain’s socialist government. The massive gathering stretched from Cibeles Square down Alcala street and spilled over into neighboring streets, parks and plazas. TheÂprotest, held under the patronage of Foro Español de la Familia (Spanish forum on the family), called for the proposed legislation allowing homosexual marriage to be recalled. Journalist Cristina Lopez Schlichting read aloud before the enormous crowd the statement which Forum on the Family had published earlier, calling for a government policy […]

CHICAGO, Ill., June 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Conference of Catholic Bishops is being accused of ‘side-stepping’ the issue of whether or not homosexuals ought to be permitted to be ordained. At a recent meeting of the conference, the bishops voted by a wide majority to extend for another five years a ‘zero-tolerance’ policy for admitting sexual abusers into the seminary, or allowing them to continue serving in the priesthood. This policy has been in place since 2002. However, some, including Don Lattin of the San Francisco Chronicle, have complained that “The new 84-page report on seminary admission makes […]

Insists that based on clinical evidence and autopsy results, "an aware woman was killed"

MADRID, June 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -ÂGiven massive discrepancies in numbers reportedÂfor Saturday’s demonstration for traditional marriage in Spain, LifeSiteNews.com directly contacted sources in Spain to determine what the real numbers were for theÂevent that receivedÂhuge advanceÂinternational support. Organizers of the eventÂinsist that actual attendanceÂwas between 1.5 and 2 million, making it by far the largest protest ever against attempts to impose same-sex marriage. The difficulty in reporting the numbers accurately is that the socialist government which is pushing through a law to allow gay ‘marriage’ is purposely attempting to downplay the huge demonstration. That fact explains the ridiculously low national […]

Concern that pro-family MPs being manipulated to let down guard while doublecross planned by Martin

Bush opening investigation into the delay calling 911 after Terri's 1990 collapse

STRASBOURG, June 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Polish woman who claims her health was in jeopardy because of a pregnancy has taken her case to the European Union’s court of human rights. In 2002, Alicja Tysiac, a 34 year mother of three, was pregnant with her third child. She claims that doctors had warned her not to become pregnant because of an unspecified condition that could have left her blind. In Poland, it is legal for a woman to procure an abortion if the pregnancy poses a risk to the mother’s health. Tysiac claims her gynaecologist destroyed her referral to […]

OTTAWA, June 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Western Ontario’s decision to give an honorary doctorate of laws to notorious Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler continues to hurt the institution. In addition to a petition signed by 12,000 protesting the move, a demonstration of some 600 pro-lifers including 6 UWO professors took place atÂUWO when Morgentaler was awarded yesterday. In addition to millions of dollars in lost donations, Veronica M. Granic, Student Senator, resigned from the University Senate because of the university’s shameful decision. “I am ashamed that Western has decided to ignore the voice of students and to honour […]

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LONDON, ON, June 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As graduates and their parents and the administration of the University of Western Ontario (UWO) entered the grounds for the graduation ceremony this morning they passed by some 600 pro-lifers who prayed silently protesting the honorary doctorate of laws to be conferred on notorious Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler. Graphic abortion signs and other signs protesting the scandalous award were prominent,.Media presence was abundant. Six UWO professors took part in the pro-life demonstration, some dressed in their professorial regalia. For months pro-lifers have protested the decision. As many as 12,000 signed a petition against […]

MADRID, June 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Massive rallies are expected in Spain to protest the attempt by the socialist government to change the definition of marriage to include same-sex partners. The Spanish Family Forum has organized the protest rally in support of marriage and has had unprecedented support from Catholic and other leaders across Europe and Asia. A bill passed the lower house in April that includes the phrase: “Matrimony shall have the same requisites and effects regardless of whether the persons involved are of the same or different sex.” If the bill is approved by the Senate as expected, […]

KAMPALA, June 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since the death of Pope John Paul II, the world’s press has carried comments from international aid organizations and homosexual activists accusing the late pope, his successor and the Catholic Church in general of complicity in the AIDS pandemic. The equation is simple: because the Church advocates fidelity and chastity and prohibits the use of condoms, she is directly responsible for the death of millions. Despite its massive failure, with sky rocketing rates of AIDS in every country that adopts it, the UN-sponsored organizations purporting to fight AIDS in Africa still cling doggedly to […]

RIVERSIDE, June 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California embryonic stem cell initiative which passed with the backing of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, has come under fire by a new lawsuit filed on behalf of California’s embryonic children. The National Association for the Advancement of Preborn Children (NAAPC) has launched the lawsuit against the measure which would provide $3 billion in public funds to embryo-destructive research noting that it violates the constitutional rights of embryonic children. Martin Palmer a lawyer and the founder of NAAPC told LifeSiteNews.com that the case was filed in the name of Mary ‘Scott’ Doe a frozen embryo […]

BALTIMORE, June 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study assessing human immunodeficiency virus rates in Baltimore-area homosexual men has revealed that a third have the disease, while in African-American homosexual men, the rate is 50 percent. The federally funded study, conducted by John Hopkins School of Medicine from June 2004 until this April, has prompted the Maryland Department of Health to implement programs to combat high-risk behavior. Although not specified, one presumes the programs referred to will recommend condoms as the order of the day – despite evidence pointing to a complete lack of efficacy of condom use to stop […]

ARLINGTON, June 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A family in Virginia is pulling together to save the life of their unborn child. On May 7, Susan Torres suffered a brain hemorrhage and has since been on a respirator. Doctors have pronounced her ‘brain-dead,’ and her husband was assured there is no medical hope for her recovery. Mrs. Torres was suffering from cancer and was pregnant at the time of her collapse. Today, her family and doctors are engaged in a struggle to keep her alive long enough for her unborn child, now at 20 weeks gestation, to be born safely. They […]

NANAIMO, BC, June 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two homosexual Nanaimo women were granted the first same-sex “divorce” by the province of British Columbia Wednesday. In order for B.C. Supreme Court Justice Laura Gerow to grant the “divorce,” she had to rewrite the law, which originally defined a married couple under the Divorce Act as a man and woman. Justice Gerow declared the Act unconstitutional, granting the divorce to the unnamed couple who were “married” in 2003. The new Divorce Act now refers to married couples as any two persons. Swedish statistics revealed that lesbian “marriages” are more than three times […]

Open Letter to Clergy

WASHINGTON, June 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A so-called scientific analysis of the efficacy of abstinence pledges that concluded that young people who make pledges of abstinence were at equal risk for sexually transmitted disease (STD) and more likely to engage in anal and oral sex has been criticized as “deliberately” misleading, “inaccurate,” and “junk science.” The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector and Dr. Kirk Johnson re-examined the data and claims as presented by professors Peter Bearman and Hanna Bruckner in the April 2005 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, concluding that “Bearman and Bruckner’s conclusions were inaccurate . . . […]

LONDON, ON, June 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the University of Western Ontario (UWO) prepares to grant notorious Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler an honorary degree despite immense popular opposition, hundreds of thousands of students are gearing up to protest the event through whatever means are at their disposal. Already the London Catholic School board has announced that each of its eight high schools will observe a minute of silence and prayer at the beginning of the day. “We do this as a symbol of our unity . . . to observe one minute of silence in recognition of the thousands […]

LONDON, ON, June 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thousands of pro-life Canadians from across the province are preparing to protest the conferring of an honorary degree on Canada’s most notorious abortionist, Henry Morgantaler, at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) tomorrow. Jim Hughes, the president of Campaign Life Coalition has sent out an automated voice message to pro-life supporters in the area, encouraging their attendance at the event. Nikki Cooke, spokesperson and organizer of the event, stressed that “this is a peaceful protest, as peaceful as an unborn child. We are the voice of the pre-born, because they have no human […]

LONDON, June 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com/Culture of Life Foundation) – The prestigious British medical journal has denounced media claims that cures for diseases from embryo stem cells are around the corner. Calling it “sensationalist” and “hype.” In a June 4th editorial titled “Stem cell research: hope and hype,” The Lancet warns that “no safe and effective stem cell therapy will be widely available for at least a decade, and possibly longer.” While this warning may be true for stem cell therapies derived from human embryos, the Lancet mentions that the future of stem cell therapies is far from dead in the […]

Diocese avoids taking any position on parents' effort

LARGO, FL., June 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At a news conference held at 11:00 a.m. today the Florida medical examiner released the results of the autopsy performed on Terri Schiavo, performed after her high-profile court-ordered execution resulted in her death on March 31 of this year. The results of the autopsy were highly anticipated given many unanswered questions around the controversial case, especially the unknown cause of her initial collapse in 1990. Schiavo’s parents and siblings have often alleged, throughout their decade long battle to protect Terri from the fatal wishes of her legal husband, that Terri was being abused […]

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. June 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today the Presbyterian Church in America voted to receive a personal resolution encouraging Christian parents to remove their children from the public schools and see to it that they receive a thoroughly Christian education. The resolution was offered by Rev. Steven Warhurst with sponsorship from Dr. D. James Kennedy, President, Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc., and Ruling Elder Joel Belz, founder and publisher of World Magazine, along with several others. The resolution will be debated in the Bills and Overtures committee, then it will be brought to the floor of the assembly on […]

VANCOUVER, June 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Christian Legal Fellowship is very concerned with the Kempling v. BC College of Teachers decision handed down Monday by the British Columbia Court of Appeal. Justice Lowry, writing on behalf of the court, asserted that Mr. Kempling’s newspaper editorials articulating his religious beliefs on the homosexual lifestyle were not deserving of Charter protection because the court considered them discriminatory and damaging to the integrity of the public school system as a whole. The Christian Legal Fellowship, along with other members of Canadian Religious Freedom Alliance (Alliance), intervened on behalf of Mr. Kempling in […]

TRENTON, N.J., June 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court yesterday affirmed 2 to 1 a trial court decision that said limiting marriage to members of the opposite sex does not violate the New Jersey Constitution. “The court hit the ball out of the ballpark,” said Alliance Defense Fund attorney Dale Schowengerdt, who authored a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the Family Research Council for the appellate division.“The court acknowledged what is undeniable-that marriage between members of the same sex has no foundation in our history or tradition. Same-sex couples do not have a […]

TOPEKA, KA, June 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts unanimously voted this past Saturday to revoke the medical license of abortionist Krishna Rajanna. The vote comes two months after Krishna’s “Affordable Medicine Clinic” was shut down due to unsafe conditions. Krishna’s clinic has been the subject of scrutiny for several years, ever since Detective William Howard was called into the clinic by Rajanna in order to investigate ultimately unsubstantiated claims of theft. Although the detective investigated Rajanna’s allegations, his concern quickly shifted to the criminally negligent hygienic state of the clinic. In a statement to […]

GREENWOOD, June 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two male members of Canada’s military were “married” May 3, according to the base’s head chaplain, Lt.-Cmdr. David Greenwood, an Anglican minister. “This couple had been waiting a very long, long time,” said Greenwood. Though he could not be the officiant at the ceremony himself, far from objecting, Greenwood made all the arrangements for a United Church minister to come and do the ‘honors.‘“I looked after the co-ordination in accordance with our military policy of receiving the couple with dignity and respect,” said Greenwood. “I was there to preach and welcome the community on […]

OTTAWA, June 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A vote in the House of Commons last night will see Parliament sit till midnight every night in order to finish Parliamentary business prior to the summer recess. Although the Liberal government claims to be concerned about passage ofÂits budget, several Parliamentary sources on both sides of the House informed LifeSiteNews.com that the extension of hours is also in place to assure passage of the gay ‘marriage’ bill prior to the summer recess. The vote to extend hours passed 146-120. Only one Liberal MP in favour of traditional marriage, Tom Wappel, absented himself from […]

Doctor: Gay Lifestyle and "Safer Sex" is, Like Crystal Meth., Dangerous to Gay Community

BC Pro-Family Teacher Chris Kempling Loses 2nd Appeal In "Discrimination" Case

WASHINGTON, June 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study released today by the US Department of Health and Human Services, and completed by a contract with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc, reveals that abstinence education works. According to the interim report, teens who participated in abstinence programs had an increased awareness of the potential consequences of sexual activity before marriage, thought more highly of abstinent behaviors, and had less favorable opinions about sexual activity before marriage than did students who were not in abstinence programs. “Students who are in these [abstinence education] programs are recognizing that abstinence is a positive choice,” […]

WASHINGTON, June 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American researchers have found a method of growing batches, or lines, of fully mature brain cells. This has often been predicted as the end of such neurological diseases as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s. The ethical new technique mimics the brain’s own natural process of changing stem cells into neurons. For the moment, the research has been confined to mice, but the researchers are hopeful that their work can soon be transferred to human patients. Bjorn Scheffler, a neuroscientist at Florida University said, “Our study shows for the first time the entire process that goes […]

Christians Threatened With Violence by Homosexual Mob

LONDON, Ontario, June 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Concerned students, alumni, faculty, and area citizens plan to protest the University of Western Ontario’s decision to confer an honorary doctor of laws degree on abortionist and abortion campaigner Henry Morgentaler Thursday. Protesters plan to meet at 8:30 am Thursday at the gates of Western on Western Rd near Alumni Hall. Free parking is provided at Althouse College, which is two blocks south of the gates on Western Rd. For more information contact Brian & Nikki Cooke at: 519-666-2517 or CLC London at: 473-7077. Meanwhile, abortion campaigner, feminist Doris Anderson, who received an […]

TORONTO, June 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian Conservative MP is calling for a boycott of the Bank of Montreal (BMO) after the bank announced a decision not to renew an Affinity MasterCard fundraising program for LifeCanada. “This is a case of discrimination here, plainly,” said Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott, according to a SunMedia report. “This was a straight business transaction.” The Affinity MasterCard program links purchases on the card with points – similar to AirMiles – where the proceeds instead go towards helping the pro-life group. “As a financial institution, we really can’t and don’t want to be involved […]

KOLKATA, June 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Indian couple has written to the West Bengal Chief Minister asking to have their two adult disabled daughters euthanized. The request is tantamount to asking that a law allowing murder by euthanasia be enacted. The growth of euthanasia in developed countries has been rapid with the introduction of the materialist philosophy of modern bioethics into hospitals and government. Many bioethicists posit that no human being is valuable for himself alone, but only for what his contribution may be to society. This ethic was behind the rise of the euthanasia philosophy in Germany in […]

CORDOBA, Spain, June 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking at the Conference on Anti-Semitism and on Other Forms of Intolerance sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), June 8-9, 2005 in Cordoba, Spain, the head of the Vatican delegation called on Europe to halt anti-Christian discrimination. Archbishop Antonio Canizares of Toledo, Spain, who led the Vatican delegation said, “The Holy See delegation would thus like to underline once more that, in the geographical area covered by this organization, intolerance and discrimination against Christians and members of other religions represent worrying phenomena. And they must be combated with […]

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U.S. National Center for Health Statistics had been sitting on explosive data for a year

EDINBURGH, June 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scotland’s Catholic prelate, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, criticized a decision by Scottish officials to legalize adoption of children by homosexuals as “clearly not in the best interests of children.” “Such a measure would distort the understanding of the family, cause harm to children and promote the status of homosexual relationships,” Cardinal O’Brien said, as reported by scotsman.com. “Homosexual unions are notoriously fragile and unstable, and the small number of homosexual couples living together make the suggestion that this measure would increase the number of potential adoptive parents unrealistic.” Deputy education minister Euan Robson made the […]

HALIFAX, June 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group providing information about the link between abortion and breast cancer were asked to leave an international conference on Breast Cancer in Halifax last week. Ellen Chesal of the group, Positive Options for Women, told LifeSite News.com that their table at the conference was very well received by most of the conference attendees. “We ran out of material and had to go out to run off more,” she said. On the second day of the conference, however, the group was approached by one conference organizer and accused of misleading women. Chesal said, “A […]

BRUSSELS, June 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Parliament voted 360-272 Wednesday, June 8th 2005, to adopt a report on the protection of minorities and anti-discrimination policies in the EU, which urges that same-sex ‘marriages’ which are legal in some member countries receive recognition in all EU countries. The Moraes report, was described by the pro-family group Euro-fam as a “threat for the family”. Written by UK Socialist Claude Moraes, the report goes as far as to ask that these same-sex ‘marriages’ be recognized in the host country, even where same-sex unions or same-sex marriages are not legally recognized. “This […]

IVF restrictions to remain in place

TORONTO, June 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Numerous companies have affiliated themselves through sponsorship of the Toronto Gay Pride parade. Included in the list are: Labatt’s beer – diamond sponsor; TD and Canada Trust banks – platinum sponsors; Via Rail, Air Canada and Showcase television – gold sponsors; Rogers cable television, IKEA, Naya water, and Hewlett-Packard – silver sponsors, and Pizza Pizza and OPSEU (Ontario Public Service Employees Union) – bronze sponsors. CityTV and Toronto Star – the “official newspaper”– are listed as media sponsors. For Toronto residents who wish to avoid the display, the parade is taking place Sunday June […]

OTTAWA, June 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activist Kevin Bourassa, co-sponsor of equalmarriage.ca, along with his “spouse,” Joe Varnell – whose Ontario court win paved the way for same-sex “marriage” for Canada – claimed Sunday that churches who vocally oppose the legalization of same-sex “marriage” for Canada should have their charitable status revoked, for participating in politics. “We have no problem with the Catholic Church or any other faith group promoting bigotry,” Bourassa charged, as reported by the Ottawa Citizen. “We have a problem with the Canadian government funding that bigotry.” Federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler admitted Wednesday that, under […]

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MOSCOW, June 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Russian officials are warning that the so-called “safe-sex” message is having the reverse of its intended effect – it is the cause of an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). According to Russia’s Pravda news source, lawmakers are calling the safe-sex message “propaganda.”“People started thinking after the ‘Safe Sex’ program that they would be able to protect themselves against any disease,” said Moscow’s parliamentary committee for healthcare spokesman Ludmila Stebenkova. “They let themselves go on this assumption.” Because of the false sense of security many people feel, the misled belief that condoms will act […]

Under 24 weeks, only those showing strong chance of survival to be "kept going"

URBANA, Illinois, June 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A nurse who had worked part-time for 4 years is suing the Eastern Illinois University’s Health Services Department for denying her a full-time position after she told the employer that she would not dispense the morning-after pill because it violates her religious beliefs. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) filed a federal lawsuit against Eastern Illinois University Wednesday, on behalf of Andrea Nead, the nurse who has worked part-time in the department since 2000. “It is not only wrong to deny an applicant a position based on her religious beliefs, it […]

CHICAGO, IL, June 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Illinois court of appeals has ruled that, after a decade long battle, a wrongful death lawsuit being filed against a Chicago abortuary can finally be heard. The lawsuit is being brought by Dianne Adams, the mother of Deanna Bell who died in 1994 at the age of 13 after undergoing a D&E abortion procedure. Deanna Bell died on the third day of the abortion procedure from cardiac arrest while still in the abortion facility. The prosecuting attorney, David Myers, intends to prove that this was brought about because Deanna was consistently administered […]

LONDON, June 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Relativism – the idea that there is no absolute truth and that any religious idea is just as ‘true’ as any other – is a philosophical error that collapses quickly upon even perfunctory critical analysis. But since relativism is the basic philosophical building block of political liberalism, no matter how little sense any such laws make, and no matter how much legal chaos they create, western democracies committed to liberalism keep proposing and passing them. The most recent case of this is a British bill that proposes to outlaw criticism of any religious ideas. […]

One chapter: "How can I be good at sex?"

OTTAWA, June 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative Deputy House Leader Jason Kenney today released a letter to Conservative Leader Stephen Harper from Randy Dash, Senior Editor and Manager of Operations of dMAX Media in Ottawa. The letter summarizes Mr. Dash’s analysis of copies of original recordings supplied by Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal. “Mr. Dash’s analysis of the recordings shows that they are clean and unaltered,” Kenney said. “These recordings speak for themselves. Now, it’s time for Paul Martin, Ujjal Dosanjh and Tim Murphy to begin answering the questions about their involvement in offering rewards to members of parliament in exchange […]

HOLLYWOOD, CA, June 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nick Cannon, an accomplished actor, comedian, songwriter and producer with a host of credentials to his name at the age of twenty-four, including his own television show, has released his debut solo album. The album marks Cannon’s first all-out effort to cross from the film-making/television industry into the music industry, although he has been involved in the music scene for years, working closely with the likes of Will Smith. The feature song entitled “Can I Live”, on the album by the same name, is being praised by advocates of the culture of life […]

VATICAN, June 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to Bishops from Africa today, Pope Benedict XVI stressed how “family life has always been a unifying characteristic of African society,” but expressed concern that “the fabric of African life is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking and a contraceptive mentality, all of which contribute to a breakdown in sexual morality.” After explaining how he shared the bishops’ “deep concern over the devastation caused by AIDS and related diseases,” the Pope said: “I especially pray for the widows, the orphans, the young mothers and all those whose lives have been shattered by […]

OTTAWA, June 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nine women activists, eight American and one Canadian, have announced that on July 25 they will conduct their own “ordination” ceremony on a boat on the St. Lawrence River. The location, in the belief that their action would be of any interest to the local Catholic Church, was picked as ecclesiastically neutral territory of “international waters.” Feminists have long contended that the Catholic priesthood is an office of political power in the world from which they are unjustly excluded. Their longstanding efforts to have women ordained, have fallen off the map of issues important […]

Russian health officials debunk “safe-sex” myth and promote abstinence in Moscowhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4111 Archbishop calls on Cuban families to teach children true vision of the familyhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4112 CWA Joins Effort Against AFL-CIO’s Homosexual Agendahttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/8326/CFI/family/index.htm Tories can panic, or learnhttps://www.torontosun.com/Comment/Commentary/2005/06/09/1078255.html  Ex-Hollywood Actress: Abortion Hurts Womenhttps://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=34&idsub=127&id=1500 Top court strikes down Quebec private health-care lawhttps://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/06/09/newscoc-health050609.html Judge orders St. Augustine to fly gay pride flagshttps://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-68gayflags,0,277561.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines Expert tells doctors: let youngest premature babies diehttps://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-210-1641429,00.html Calif. Parents Upset Over Decision Allowing School Contraceptive Distributionhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/72005a.asp Mandatory Sentencing Proposed for Crimes Against Childrenhttps://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0036791.cfm Nurse Who Refused to Dispense Morning-After Pill Sueshttps://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive200506CUL20050608b.html African Anglican bishops refusing millions from American Episcopal Church over […]

RICHMOND, Virginia, June 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling Monday declaring a Virginia law banning late-term partial-birth abortions as unconstitutional due to a lack of an exception to protect the so-called “health of the mother”. The ruling carried by a vote of 2-1, with Judge M. Blane Michael and Judge Diana Gribbon Motz in favor. Judge Paul V. Niemeyer, in his dissent, described the act of partial-birth abortion as “infanticide of the most gruesome nature.” “The majority’s opinion is a bold, new law that, in essence, constitutionalizes infanticide of a most gruesome […]

NEW YORK, NY, June 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a statement during an appearance on ABC’s the view, outspoken lesbian Rosie O’Donnell confessed that she had ordered her lesbian partner to stop breastfeeding her child because of her jealousy. The topic came up when the moderator Meredith Vieira mentioned the recent New York protest—or “nurse-in”—which involved 200 women breastfeeding outside of ABC’s headquarters in protest against negative remarks Barbara Walters had made about breastfeeding. “Kelly [Rosie’s partner] only nursed for like about a month,” said Rosie at the time, “and then I was very angry, because as the other mommy…with […]

OTTAWA, June 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic Insight magazine, a prominent Canadian Catholic magazine, is asking Archbishop Marcel Gervais of Ottawa to deny Prime Minister Paul Martin the status of “faithful parishioner” and to deny him access to Holy Communion. Father Alphonse de Valk, editor of the national magazine, states in his forthcoming July editorial that bishops cannot remain silent about Catholic politicians who publicly favour replacing marriage between man and woman for a union between any two persons. Rev. De Valk quotes Pope Benedict as saying “Gay marriage is a fake” and “an expression of anarchic and false freedom.” […]

Appointee has all the right enemies

WARSAW, June 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following on news of a second consecutive ban imposed by the Warsaw mayor against holding a “gay pride” parade, homosexual activists have asked the European parliament to intercede. Mayor Lech Kaczynski imposed the ban this year for the second time. In response, the Warsaw Pride organizers sent out a press release stating that they have decided to oppose the ban by illegally holding the parade anyway, June 11. “Last year’s ban of the Equality Parade . . . was an action aimed against the most fundamental human rights, guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of […]

OTTAWA, June 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a revealing exchange in the House of Commons committee on the gay ‘marriage’ bill C-38 Monday, Calgary Bishop Fred Henry was grilled by openly homosexual MP Bill Siksay. Siksay was the MP chosen to replace disgraced gay activist MP, Svend Robinson in his Burnaby-Douglas riding in Vancouver BC. Siksay has been vigorously supporting the proposed legislation and in committee hearings has made no secret of his contempt for religious arguments. Bishop Henry, however, stressed that he had made no reference to religious reasoning but had argued purely from the Natural Law philosophy common […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, June 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Missouri judge has upheld a state prohibition against state funds going towards abortion providers by ordering two separate Planned Parenthood facilities to return a total of $668,850. This ruling marks the third time that a Missouri judge has declared that Planned Parenthood is not entitled to state grants for family planning. Governor Matt Blunt hailed the decision, saying it was “very encouraging to see a court embracing the culture of life that Missourians hold dear.” Both Planned Parenthood facilities that are affected by the decision have indicated that they will appeal […]

OTTAWA, June 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler admitted Wednesday that, under the proposed Liberal same-sex “marriage” bill being fast-tracked through parliament, there would be no guarantees of protection for religious organizations that refuse to “marry” homosexuals. When asked whether the provinces have supremacy over matters of marriage, thus overriding any federal protections in the bill, Cotler replied, “that’s right,” according to a National Post report. A vote on the controversial C-38 could happen as soon as next week, with Senators promising to work into the summer to ensure it becomes law. Several marriage commissioners in Newfoundland, […]

Exploit suffering of Canadians with serious diseases to gain support for research with dismal chance of success

Toronto, June 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In its just mailed June newsletter, Canada’s national pro-life organization, Campaign Life Coalition, reports on the stunning rejection by an Ottawa Conservative riding association and party leaders of pro-marriage candidate John Pacheco. Pacheco was the principal organizer of the huge April 9 Ottawa rally in defence of marriage. CLC reports in the section titled, Marriage activist nixed as Ottawa CPC candidate, “Despite the fact that Pacheco worked with life, faith and family groups to organize the largest demonstration in memory on Parliament Hill, drawing 15,000 Canadians from all denominations and which had Tory leader […]

EDMONTON, Alberta, June 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family activist Bill Whatcott, fined $17,500 last month by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal for distributing pamphlets in Regina that several homosexual activists claimed were offensive hate speech, is now under investigation by police for hate crimes, according to the CBC. Detractors charged that a pamphlet Whatcott distributed that referred to same-sex “marriage” as “sodomite marriage,” and quoted bible verses against homosexual lifestyles, was hate speech. After the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal ordered Whatcott to pay the $17,500, he said, “To give me a $17,500 fine and say I can’t say that is […]

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democratic chairman Howard Dean’s latest controversial remarks have stirred up a hornet’s nest, with many critics in both parties wondering whether Dean’s tendency to grab unfavorable headlines is further polarizing an already split country. Responding to a question about his party’s outreach to minorities, Dean responded by criticizing the Republicans saying “The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people. They’re a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same and they all look the same. It’s pretty much a white, Christian party.” Stats show that in the 2004 election […]

OTTAWA, June 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A private members bill currently before the Canadian Senate seeks to criminalize spanking as a form of discipline by parents. Introduced as Senate Bill S-21 in December, the private member bill was sponsored by Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette – a Chretien-appointed Liberal. The bill seeks to amend the criminal code, Clause 1: Section 43, which states, “Every schoolteacher, parent or person standing in the place of a parent is justified in using force by way of correction toward a pupil or child, as the case may be, who is under his care, if the force […]

OTTAWA, June 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â In House of Commons committee hearings on the same-sex ‘marriage’ Bill C-38 Monday, Calgary Bishop Fred Henry revealed details of threats levelled against him by government officials for putting forward Church teaching. Bishop Henry described in detail how he was called by Terry De Marche of Revenue Canada after issuing a pastoral letter which pointed out to his diocese that the media’s description of Prime Minister Paul Martin as a “devout Catholic” was inappropriate due to Martin’s support for abortion and gay ‘marriage’ legislation.  Speaking of the conversation he had in June 2004 with […]

No gay marriage, no civil unions but recognize adult interdependent relationships

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Ottawa, June 8, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) organization issued a letter yesterday to Prime Minister Paul Martin requesting an explanation for the Liberal government’s rush to pass Bill C-38 which would change the definition of marriage in Canada. The letter points out that Canadians are deeply divided on Bill C-38 and this is not the moment to rush into legislation a Bill that has such “enormous social and legal consequences.” The CCCB urges “continued reflection, research, study and discussion” for the sake of society and for children.  The CCCB reiterated its persistent concern about the […]

IQALUIT, June 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leadership of the Anglican diocese of the Arctic have put themselves at odds with both the authorities of the Anglican Church of Canada and the federal government for statements supporting the Christian understanding of marriage. The Venerable Haydn Schofield, Anglican archdeacon of the Western Arctic said, “Any union outside of marriage is unbiblical.” Schofield, representing a meeting of 70 Anglican leaders of Canada’s north, added, “For there to be a relationship, even common-law, is unbiblical.” The diocese leadership held a vote on the issue of blessing homosexual unions. The Anglican Church around the […]

No human clones this century – stem cell experthttps://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-06-07T114932Z_01_N07412591_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-KOREA-CLONING-DC.XML  Study shows G-rated fare more profitable https://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005060704040002116241&dt=20050607040400&w=RTR&coview= Why Judges Are THE Issuehttps://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU05F04 EDITORIAL: Media married to Liberalshttps://www.torontosun.com/Comment/Commentary/2005/06/06/1074394.html

TORONTO, Tuesday, June 07, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interesting and unexpected twist, an unsigned editorial printed in today’s Toronto Sun, one of Canada’s most highly circulated newspapers, defends the same opinion that Canada’s alternative conservative media has been repeating ad nauseam for years—that the mainstream media in Canada is thoroughly biased in favour of the Liberal government and its leftist agenda. In order to prove this assertion the editorial compared mainstream media coverage of Liberal MP Pat O’Brien’s defection from his party on account of its support for Bill C-38, the same-sex marriage bill, and former Conservative MP Belinda […]

Mother who requested killing cannot be charged as accomplice

Says "pseudo-marriage between people of the same sex" is an expression of "an anarchical freedom"

Corporation seen "at least partly responsible for enhancing and sustaining anti-Americanism in Canada "

June 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Associated Press/Ipsos Poll of the United States and nine of its closest allies has revealed that Mexico is the most religious, with 86% saying that religion is important in their lives. The US itself followed in a close second with 84%, and France trailed at a distant last with a mere 37%. Canada floated somewhere in the realm of the lukewarm with 64% responding that religion is important to them. The Poll, conducted between May 13 and 26 asked 1,000 adults from each of the countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, […]

WASHINGTON, June 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the largest provider of abortions in the United States, is “celebrating” the 40th anniversary of the legalization of birth control today in Washington. They have planned a display where they will hoist a giant pill and pill pack as part of the event. On June 7, 1965, the US Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law prohibiting married couples from using artificial contraception. Planned Parenthood interim president Karen Pearl claimed that the fight for the right to access to birth control is not over, citing incidents where a few […]

TUPELO, Mississippi, June 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A boycott of the Ford Motor Company has been suspended by the American Family Association (AFA), after a meeting with auto dealers revealed the dealers want time to see if the concerns raised by AFA in their boycott announcement could be addressed by the dealers in cooperation with officials from Ford Motor Company. “We believe the dealers were making a good faith effort and agreed to accept their request,” said AFA chairman Donald Wildmon. “Therefore, we accepted the suspension request and will work with the dealers in attempting to resolve our differences.” Last […]

CAMBRIDGE, June 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A team of Cambridge University researchers has discovered a protein that controls the action of an embryo when it is implanting in the uterine lining. The molecule, called STAT3, has been shown to play a key role in creating the chemical signals for the cells of the uterus to accept the implantation of the embryo. This discovery could be significant in treating infertility since in many cases the difficulty lies not in the sperm penetrating the ovum, but in the embryo implanting successfully in the uterine wall. The medical establishment, however, is exploiting this […]

AP Poll: Religion Key in American Liveshttps://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050606/ap_on_re_us/religion_ap_ipsos_poll;_ylt=AipSwtdt6sgF1HuTv8CjIuWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2MTQ3MTFjBHNlYwN0cw— Pope condemns gay marriages as ‘anarchy’https://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8709268 Geldof condemned over Pope ‘invite’https://uk.news.yahoo.com/050606/344/fki0j.html New Zealand Pro-Life group takes case to court https://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3304712a11,00.html Homosexuality Taboo in South Asiahttps://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4566091.stm Doctors Doubt Darwinismhttps://www.jewishworldreview.com/0605/medicine.men.php3 Stem-Cell Rift in Golden Statehttps://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,67753,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_9 Expert tells doctors: let youngest premature babies diehttps://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1641429,00.html Sperm banks offer designer childrenhttps://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_2780115 Montgomery parents seek more say on sex educationhttps://washtimes.com/metro/20050604-094737-4467r.htm U.S. Lavender Revenge?Âhttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/8292/CFI/family/index.htm Thin-skinned Canadian MPshttps://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=982e8911-e315-4835-b8c6-653fed21ddc4 Christian groups look to influence Canadian Liberals, not just Torieshttps://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050605/ca_pr_on_na/christian_liberals;_ylt=Av0Rhp.B3Ox2FCZCBAaCPceFM1IB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl Eighth “Foetal Abduction” Reported from Columbia – “I was drugged, cut open with a razor and my baby was stolen from my womb”https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=03IFKKJ2A1CR3QFIQMFSM5WAVCBQ0JVC?xml=/news/2005/06/05/wfoet05.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/06/05/ixnewstop.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=22869 […]

Call Pope Benedict "homophobe, AIDS accomplice"

RICHMOND, June 6, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com)Â The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, by a vote of 2-1, has upheld a ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Williams of Richmond that declares a Virginia law banning a type of late-term abortion as unconstitutional due to its lack of an exception to protect a woman’s health. The law, passed by the 2003 Virginia General Assembly, was challenged by The Center for Reproductive Rights. It called for a ban on “partial birth abortion”, where the child is partially delivered before being killed. The Virginia statute called it “partial-birth infanticide.” Judge Williams immediately […]

VICTORIA, Australia, June 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his address to the 4th International Inter-Religion Abraham Conference, Cardinal Pell of the Sydney Archdiocese called on Christians, Jews and Muslims to work together to oppose what he called “the excesses of individualism”. The cardinal listed some of the most notable of these excesses, including “pornography, drug abuse, alcoholism, sexual promiscuity and abortion.” “We who profess a religious faith have a solemn duty to uphold key moral values and to propose them to society,” said the Cardinal. In light of the theme of the conference, Pell spoke of the necessity of focusing […]

TOKYO, June 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Japan is seeing skyrocketing levels of AIDS, HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, increasingly among middle school children and teenagers. The Japan Family Planning Association, a group affiliated with International Planned Parenthood Federation, began distributing condoms and promoting the free sex culture in 1982. Since then the rates of sexually transmitted diseases has steadily climbed. According to UNAIDS statistics, among Japanese who are sexually active, the rate of condom use is 80%. Even so, the rate of AIDS infections has risen 14%, the same rate that it has been increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, although […]

GENEVA, June 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Swiss voters approved a law created last year that allows same-sex couples civil union status, with most of the same privileges accorded to married heterosexual couples – including inheritance rights, pensions, joint taxation, and the option of next-of-kin visiting rights for hospitals. The “registered partnership” law created last year by Swiss lawmakers was challenged by a pro-family coalition, whose 50,000-strong petition ensured them the right to a referendum on the issue. Although 58 percent of voters nation-wide supported a change to allow same-sex couples legal status, regions with a high degree of opposition to […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two strongly pro-family bills, one of which was passed in the Texas Senate last week, have received the signature of Texas governor Rick Perry. The first bill, an abortion parental-consent law, requiring the consent of parents in order for a minor to procure an abortion, comes into effect with the signature of governor Perry. It is a stronger law than the previous law governing minors seeking abortion, which only required that parents be notified of their daughter’s intentions. The second bill is a constitutional amendment banning gay-marriage. The Texas public is set to vote on […]

LONDON, Ontario, June 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Western Ontario’s decision to honour abortionist Henry Morgentaler has sparked an onslaught of letters, petitions and protests – one letter from Ontario lawyer Joseph P. Hamon to UWO VP of communications Ted Garrard, copied to LifeSiteNews.com, makes clear how ridiculous a choice Morgentaler really is. Take, for example, that in 1998, Morgentaler’s Nova Scotia clinic was ordered by the court to pay $395,000 in damages for failing to properly counsel patients regarding post-abortion dangers – a decision upheld by a court of appeal. In 1973, Hamon pointed out, a foreign […]

LONDON, June 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Western Ontario’s controversial decision to give Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at its June 16th convocation, continues to cause a stir. Among the growing opposition to this decision, student athletes of the London Catholic School board protested at a track and field meet at the UWO campus by wearing black wristbands. “It sort of stands for all the (unborn) babies that have been killed in the moms’ stomach,” said 12 year-old Henry Peters, a long-distance runner. The very powerful demonstration by the Catholic students has, however, […]

VATICAN, June 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A letter from Pope Benedict XVI commits the Catholic Church to always proclaiming that marriage is between a man and a woman and that the Church can never admit alternatives. In the letter released Saturday and addressed to Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Pope Benedict says, “The marriage bond, in which man and woman together constitute a life-long association, ordered by its very nature for the good of the spouses and the generation and education of children,” is the basis of the family, the heritage and shared […]

OTTAWA, June 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A champion of real marriage in the House of Commons has quit the Liberal Party because of the party’s ramming through of bill C-38, which would force homosexual ‘marriage’ on all provinces. Pat O’Brien elected to sit as an independent after, he says, the Prime Minister broke his promise to him to have fair hearings on the gay ‘marriage’ bill. Unlike the jump to the Liberals of Belinda Stronach which was motivated by a cabinet post, O’Brien’s leaving the Liberals is based on principle and done with the knowledge that it may cost him […]

Washington, D.C., June 3, 2005., (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a May 31 press conference, U.S. President George W. Bush made reference to several life issues in response to questions fielded by journalists. Mr. Bush reiterated his stand against the creation of embryos to be used to harvest embryonic stem cells for research and also confirmed his desire to build a culture of life in all its aspects. See today’s LifeSite’s Special Report detailing the President’s responses to reporters questions on these issues at https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jun/050603a.html

Ottawa, June 3, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Canada’s Liberal Government is trying to rush Bill C-38 through Parliament prior to the July summer recess, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has publicized its brief presented on 18 May 2005 to the Special Legislative Committee on Bill C-38. Addressed to the Members of the Senate and the House of Commons the communiqué expresses the collective concern of Roman and Eastern Catholic Bishops regarding the impact Bill C-38 will have on Canadians “both in terms of altering the significance of marriage and also in terms of the challenges that are already […]

Ottawa, June 3, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – L. Earle Wicklum, at the age of 30, the president of the largest pharmaceutical company in Canada, abruptly resigned when his company was taken over by a firm he considered unethical. After this he joined the Robert Simpson Company and rose to the position of president before retiring. With great reluctance and sorrow Mr. Wicklum deplores the path that Paul Martin Jr. is taking on same-sex marriage. The now 93 year old long time Martin family friend, in an open letter to the Prime Minister, writes, “I wept when I read about the enthusiastic […]

LEICESTER, June 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com/Telegraph) – On May 16th, LifeSiteNews.com reported that a hospital in Fredericton New Brunswick had decided to restore the bibles made available to patients in bedside tables after a protocol had been put in place that would prevent the possibility of them spreading disease bacteria. Jane Stafford, Regional Manager Infection Prevention & Control Services of River Valley Health admitted that the move to remove the bibles had been hasty. She denied that the hospital’s motives had been, as the Mayor of Fredericton had said, ones of political correctness. A British public health Trust, however, is publicly […]

LANSING, June 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The State of Michigan has legislation in place that prohibits cloning and the use of existing human embryos for stem cell research, but the ban will not last long if a bill passes the State Senate to appropriate public funding for the research. Michigan legislators supporting a US $1 billion appropriation of public funds, some of which would be earmarked for cloning and embryo research, employ the now-standard propaganda: we need to kill embryos so we can use them for their stem cells in order to obtain cures for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. The […]

SACRAMENTO, June 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill seeking to legalize same-sex “marriage” in California died Thursday in the State Assembly, after failing to garner a majority. Several Democrats sided with Republicans in opposing the bill or abstained from the vote. The legislation would have deleted “a man and a woman” from California’s marriage laws, thus requiring same-sex “marriage” licenses to be issued in every county in the state. Pro-family groups are pushing for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex “marriage,” hoping to have the measure on a ballot in a referendum June 2006. Pro-family groups hope the amendment will happen […]

OTTAWA, June 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal MP Roger Gallaway is calling for the dismissal of Liberal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh and the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Tim Murphy, after hearing a taped conversation of the two negotiating with Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal to cross the floor with enticements including a Senate seat or a foreign appointment. Leading into the budget no-confidence vote in May, the Liberals, desperate to cling to power, had already signed Belinda Stronach and were in need of a second defection to secure the majority vote on the budget. Grewal, indicating his willingness to cross […]

WASHINGTON, June 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This morning U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice released the fifth annual Department of State Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report on Wednesday. The 150-country report is the most comprehensive worldwide report on the efforts of governments to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons, or modern-day slavery. The document says “Canada needs to use its anti-trafficking law to vigorously increase investigations, arrests, prosecutions, and convictions of traffickers, especially those who may be abusing visa waivers and entertainment visas.” The report mentions specifically Canada’s exotic dancer program which afforded work visas to women who were […]

By Dr. Will Johnston, president of Canadian Physicians for Life

Mich. Parents Protest Pro-Homosexual Posters on Public School Campushttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/22005c.asp Pro-Family Advocate: Selfish Homosexual Subculture Has Annexed Friscohttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/22005a.asp Homosexual forum incites violence against upcoming pro-life demonstrations in Madridhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4057 Removing Bad Teachers a Challengehttps://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0036759.cfm Supreme Court Conservatives Blasted at Liberal Conference

MARINA DEL RAY, California, June 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a new domain name for pornographic web content Wednesday – .xxx. ICM Registry, the company that submitted the application to register the new domain claims the new suffix will help to regulate porn, protecting children from illicit content. Websites that register to use the suffix will be expected to put in place measures to protect children from unwittingly viewing their content, however, so far there are no plans for mandatory compulsion for pornographic sites to switch from the more common and […]

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, June 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Indiana judge has ruled that Planned Parenthood must turn over to state investigators medical records for abortions committed on children under 14. Planned Parenthood is under investigation by the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit for failing to report child abuse as mandated by state law. A girl under 14 years of age who is pregnant is presumed to be a victim of rape, however Planned Parenthood argues that for them to comply with the underage reporting law would be a breach of the doctor-patient confidentiality agreement. Judge Kenneth H. Johnson, in his […]

Only Two Pro-Aborts Are Members of Maltese Social Liberal Instant 'Groups'

Toronto, June 1, 2005., (LifeSiteNews.com)ÂThe Ford Motor Company has been singled out for its support of same-sex marriage and a boycott of the car manufacturer is being organized by Donald E. Wildmon, Chairman of the American Family Association (AFA). Mr. Wildmon points out in a letter explaining the reason for the boycott that “From redefining family to include homosexual marriage, to giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to support homosexual groups and their agenda, to forcing managers to attend diversity training on how to promote the acceptance of homosexuality, to sponsoring a “commitment (marriage) ceremony”, to sponsoring Gay Pride Parades, […]

OTTAWA, June 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal MP Pat O’Brien, a staunch defender of real marriage has revealed that to his dismay his party intends to fast-track the Liberal gay marriage Bill, C-38.“It became obvious today that there is an agenda to fast-track this,” O’Brien told the National Post. “My clear indication from caucus was they want this bill done, they want it done before the end of June. They want it out of the House and over to the Senate, which is prepared to do the damn thing. I don’t support that, there’s a whole lot of us that […]

ATLANTA, GA, June 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – International news media mogul, Ted Turner, who is hardly renowned for his modesty, has claimed credit for ending the Cold War. Turner surprised his listeners with this revelation during his speech at CNN’s twenty-fifth anniversary celebrations in Atlanta Georgia. Upon being asked by CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour if he really thought he had a hand in it, Turner responded “I’m absolutely certain I did.” Turner was not forthcoming with details on exactly how he had caused this event to come about. Critics noted that the ambiguity and scope of the claim resemble Al […]

Cardinal Newman Society says they are "Harboring the enemy and training new spokesmen for the culture of death"

SEATTLE, June 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Focus on the Family will bring its international Love Won Out conference to Seattle on June 25, amidst the gay-pride activities planned for that weekend throughout the city. Northshore Baptist Church will host the one-day event, designed to educate and equip attendees on the issues surrounding homosexuality and provide help for those struggling—and those whose loved ones struggle—with unwanted same-sex attractions. “As the homosexual life is celebrated in ‘gay-pride’ events throughout Seattle, we will be there to offer a different message – one of hope and healing for those who don’t share that sense […]

JACKSON, June 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Mississippi state judge has thrown out a law that banned late, second-term abortions by abortuaries. U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee – misinterpreting the constitution in typical judicial fashion – ruled the law barring women from procuring second-term abortions from private abortion clinics unconstitutional. The law created in 2004, set to come into effect July 1, 2005, required all second-term abortions – those performed after 13 weeks – be performed at hospitals or ambulatory surgical centers. The ruling allows the single operating abortuary in the state – the misnamed Women’s Health Organization in […]

Dutch Voters Reject European Union Charterhttps://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158238,00.html Canadian democracy is in peril says professorhttps://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/news/ideas/story.html?id=882e2d3c-1ac6-41d2-bc0c-4752e5ce82e5 A defeat for Senator Santorum would have repercussions well beyond Pennsylvaniahttps://www.nationalreview.com/lopez/lopez200506010759.asp Experts Say Schiavo Injuries Classic Signs of Strangulationhttps://www.theempirejournal.com/61053_experts_say_schiavo_injuri.htm Condom Ads Hit Network TVhttps://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=807089&page=1 Clinic asks judge again to halt abortion notification lawhttps://www.kokh25.com/uploads/local/oklahoma_ok/409d0c78.shtml Bush OKs stricter oversight for some abortion providershttps://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-fabort01jun01,0,3430006.story?coll=sfla-news-florida The Intolerance Of Absolute Moral Relativistshttps://www.thefactis.org/default.aspx?control=ArticleMaster&aid=132 The “Mainstream” Doesn’t Run Through Main Streethttps://www.nationalreview.com/mccarthy/mccarthy200506010758.asp Baptists revive anti-public-school resolutionhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44526

BURLINGTON, Ontario, June 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recovered homosexual is scheduled as the keynote speaker at a June 24 Equipping Christians for the Public Square (ECP) fundraising dinner aimed to help beleaguered BC teacher Chris Kempling. “As a man who once lived the ‘gay’ lifestyle until he was 28 years old, Stephen Bennett is now happily married to his wife Irene of 11 years,” according to Bennett’s web site. “Stephen, 41 years old, is the founder and Executive Director of Stephen Bennett Ministries (SBM) in Huntington, CT – a national pro-family advocacy group. He is an outspoken, passionate speaker […]

TALLAHASSEE, June 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-lifers at the Witchita, Kansas abortion mill of the notorious late-term abortionist, George “the killer” Tiller, have often watched in horror as women are rushed out of the facility to the local emergency room. In recent months, two women have been sent to the emergency room and one died. Pro-life activists have long lamented the indifference of government health agencies to the poor standards of hygiene and medical care in such facilities which, in Canada and the US, are not subject to the same oversight by health officials as hospitals or doctor’s offices. In […]

Canada, June 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – 22 cases of the dangerous and sometimes fatal STD, lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), have been reported in Canada in the last number of months. All of the cases whose behavioural histories are known, without exception, have been in gay or bisexual men who engage in what have been called “higher-risk sexual activities”. Most of those infected had engaged in anonymous sexual encounters in bathhouses, through internet partnering, or at raves, within several months before testing positive. LGV is a bacterial infection, a form of chlamydia. The Canadian Medical Association Journal report says that “If the […]

WASHINGTON, June 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Appearing Sunday on ABCs “This Week,” US Senator Sam Brownback called for a limit to the number of embryos created during in vitro fertility treatments. “In a number of countries, they limit the number of these in vitro fertilizations from outside the womb,” Brownback said, according to a Yahoo news report. A look at government statistics revealed that approximately 170,000 human embryos created in 1999 died in the process of attempting to conceive a child via in vitro fertilization. In 2003, researchers at Canada’s Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI) admitted that only 10-20% of […]

BOSTON, June 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Massachusetts legislature has moved to override Governor Mitt Romney’s veto of a bill that allows the creation of cloned human embryos to be used for destructive medical experimentation. In a vote in which both chambers exceeded the two-thirds vote needed to override a veto – 112-42 in the House and 35-2 in the Senate – the state of Massachusetts is ready to enter into the business of human experimentation on a large scale. New Jersey, Connecticut and California have approved bills that allow living human beings to be used for experimental research and […]

Emotional pitch seen as attempt to divert attention away from serious factual concerns about issue

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday the lawyers of California Attorney General, Bill Lockyer, filed an appeal with the 1st District Court of Appeal. The appeal seeks to overturn a ruling by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer which concluded that the state ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. It is believed that the Court of Appeal will take approximately a year to process the appeal, at which point it is expected that the case will be heard by the California Supreme Court. In the meantime Judge Kramer has agreed to put a hold on […]