Articles for Month: September 2005

European Union Demands U.S. Share Control of Internethttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/30/161912.shtml U.S. won’t hand over control of Nethttps://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/TechNews/Internet/2005/09/29/1240965-ap.html China Bans Internet Religious Informationhttps://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4200 China’s 4 bishops will not attend Synod https://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4236 Corruption threatening legitimacy of China Communist Party’https://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=9/30/2005&section_id=26&newsid=2285&spcl=no Foetuses found at Bogota airporthttps://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4293934.stm Nigerian Anglicans deepen rift with West over gayshttps://www.mmorning.com/ArticleC.asp?Article=2876&CategoryID=7 Aussie U Appoints ‘Heterosexuality Officer’https://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0%2C5744%2C16745672%25255E2702%2C00.html Animal activists target children’s nurseryhttps://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/29/nhls29.xml Strip club T-shirt sales are taking offhttps://www.dhonline.com/articles/2005/09/22/news/oregon/state01.txt Linking teen sex to teen suicidehttps://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46574 Wisconsin Moves Toward Total Ban on Human Cloninghttps://www.earnedmedia.org/plw0928.htm Abortion-Drug Abuse Link, Study Claimshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/292005f.asp Chief Justice’s Confirmation Cheers 2 Catholic Groupshttps://www.zenit.org/english/show_4.php Real story of HIV in the UK which exposes […]

TORONTO, Ontario, September 30, 2005, (LifeSite.net) – If religious people in Canada feel that they’ve been having a tough time lately, it’s probably not their imagination. So writes Lorne Gunter in a National Post column published Sept. 26, in which he makes it very clear that the “religious right” has to wake up and face reality. In his lengthy, hard-hitting article Gunter makes many sobering claims that most leaders of Canada’s life and family defending organizations would regrettably largely agree with. All of them, to varying degrees have suffered from the indifference, short term commitments, weak efforts or even betrayal […]

Now being fought in the courts, regardless of the will of the people

ROOSENDAAL, September 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Many Canadian MP’s, journalists and marriage defenders warned that the degradation of marriage in law would lead from the legitimizing of homosexual relationships to polygamy. They have been roundly ridiculed for it by supporters of the same-sex “marriage” legislation. Now, with predictable promptness, the Dutch have proved that the warnings have been on the mark. A Dutch man and two women have been given a license for their three-way “marriage” by the government. Victor de Bruijn, 46, from Rosendaal, and his wife Bianca, 31, have signed a “co-habitation contract” with a woman, Mirjam Geven, […]

COLMENAR VIEJO, September 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Spanish objectors to the socialist party line on same-sex“marriage” will have their day in court. Judge Isabel Lopez Garcia-Nieto of Colmenar Viejo, has filed the first case of conscientious objection against the new law to a Federal Court. In June Spain, led by its recently elected and openly anti-Catholic socialist government, joined the ranks of the international leftist movement to abolish the traditional family. In so doing it become the third country in the world to declare that homosexual partnerings could be considered “marriage” under the law. In her submission, Judge Lopez said […]

AMSTERDAM, September 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dutch officials are set to give child euthanasia the go-ahead. The practice is already widespread there with an estimated 15-20 cases per year despite it being illegal. No paediatricians have been prosecuted. The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia in 2001. The governing Christian Democrats said they will approve the Groningen Protocol, the child euthanasia guidelines named after the euthanist doctors from Groningen University Medical Centre. The protocol suggests that euthanasia be permitted when a child is terminally ill with no hope of recovery and in pain, and that […]

School board vendetta extended to censoring Kempling's appearance before parliament

Bishop says, "for too long we have been silent " and "We are complicit in this"

LifeSiteNews.com Interview with Michael D. O'Brien on His Latest novel, Sophia House

WASHINGTON, September 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Wednesday, in an official briefing before the House International Relations Committee, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan’s Chief of Staff Mark Malloch Brown clarified that the term “reproductive health” does not include abortion. “The UN refuted the idea that abortion is part of reproductive health. This is a clear rejection of the abortion lobby’s efforts to use this term to pressure pro-life countries to remove protections for unborn children,” said Congressman Chris Smith. During the on-the-record public briefing, Congressman Smith referenced a section of the 2005 UN General Assembly World Summit Outcome document […]

VANCOUVER, B.C., September 29, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – This past February Canadian gay activist and former New Democratic Party MP Svend Robinson told CBC News Sunday that a return to politics for him is not out of the question. It seems that possibility is soon to become a reality. According to a Vancouver Sun report Robinson is testing the waters in preparation for a comeback. The Sun quotes Robinson as saying “I still have a lot of energy and passion and care deeply about many of the issues that are front and centre in political life today … I still have […]

LISBON, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The push for a referendum on abortion in Portugal by the country’s ruling socialists has moved forward with a vote in parliament approving the measure. The thin edge of the abortion wedge is in place if the country supports de-criminalizing abortion in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy as the referendum question will request. Current law in Portugal restricts abortion to cases where the mother’s medical health is threatened or in cases of rape. Despite enormous international pressure, Portugal, one of the world’s most Catholic countries, has resisted full legalization of abortion. A June […]

John Roberts Sworn in as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

WASHINGTON, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The newly appointed head of the US Food and Drug Administration is no friend to women, says Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. Andrew Von Eschenbach was named acting commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday, following the abrupt and unexpected resignation of Commissioner Lester Crawford after just two months in the position. “Von Eschenbach is no friend of women,” warned Malec, a cancer survivor. “He’s a friend of the anti-woman abortion and pharmaceutical industries.” Dr. Andrew Von Eschenbach was director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute […]

COBOURG, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com reported on August 11, that Fr. Edward Cachia, a Catholic priest in Cobourg, Ontario, submitted an Op Ed piece, published in the local paper, strongly supporting the internationally publicized “ordination” of a group of women on a boat in the St. Lawrence River. A number of dissident, anti-Catholic and even pro-abortion organizations, including Catholics for a Free Choice, were vocally supportive of the St. Lawrence River “ordination” stunt. The Cobourg Daily Star reported September 7 that Fr. Cachia had taken a one-month leave of absence from his parish duties. The paper strongly implied […]

OTTAWA, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an expected vote, but nevertheless shockingly outrageous to many observers, a strong majority of Canada’s Members of Parliament rejectedÂtwo proposals to raise the age of consent for sex from one of the lowest in the world at 14 to 16 – the norm in most of the world, with some nationsÂeven having it at 18. Bill C-313, which would have raised the age of consent, was supported by 99 MPs, including all Conservative Party membersÂand a few Liberals, whileÂthe New Democratic Party, the Bloc Quebecois, and the majority of Liberals combined to defeat […]

PHILADELPHIA, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The release of the Grand Jury Report on the sexual abuse of minors by clergy in the Philadelphia Diocese highlights the danger of having homosexuals serving in the ministry, a pro-family group said today. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA) reviewed the over 400-page report and found that of the 28 ‘Selected Case Studies” listed in the report the victims of 23 priests were males ranging in age from 11-18 and the victims of two priests were both male and female. This review also reveals the efforts by media to downplay […]

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Alabama Senator wrote that hurricanes Katrina and Rita are God’s judgment being visited upon a sinful nation. “New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have always been known for gambling, sin and wickedness,” Sen. Hank Erwin wrote in a column appearing in the Birmingham News Wednesday. “It is the kind of behavior that ultimately brings the judgment of God.” He said that after visiting the Alabama gulf coast, he was “awed” but not surprised at the devastation that occurred. “Warnings year after year by godly evangelists and preachers went unheeded. So why […]

CALGARY, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry has come out swinging again, this time warning that the normalization of same-sex “marriage” will “usher in an era of intolerance and discrimination the likes of which we have rarely seen before.” In a pastoral letter published in the Calgary Sun on September 11, Bishop Henry warned that “Same-sex marriage proponents use the language of openness, tolerance and diversity, yet the foreseeable effect of their success will be to usher in an era of intolerance and discrimination the likes of which we have rarely seen before.” He warned that same-sex […]

The United Nations wants the Internethttps://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ramosmrosovsky_barillari200509280810.asp Israeli Researchers Develop Freezing Technique that could Help the Infertilehttps://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050914/ca_pr_on_he/health_ovary_transplant CTV bringing back Raunchy MTV for Teenshttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050928.wCTV0928/BNStory/Business/ $10M in federal funds go to firm linked to Canada’s PMhttps://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=bff57a28-437b-4f24-b5b6-df80f4185969 Abuse of mentally ill is reported in Turkeyhttps://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/27/news/turkey.php Palm Beach Passes ‘Bubble Zone’ Law Against Pro-Life Protestershttps://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/09/27/s1b_buffer_0927.html Embryo destruction order appealedhttps://washtimes.com/upi/20050927-082311-7108r.htm Judge rules against abortion protestorshttps://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b4-5contemptsep24%2C0%2C2455991.story?coll=all-newslocal-hed Stemming the Embryonic Tide: Pro-lifers face a scientific and public relations juggernaut.https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/010/22.60.html US bishop asks prayers for conversion of pro-abortion politicians https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=39869 EU prepares internet lawshttps://afr.com/articles/2005/09/23/1126982224201.html Terri Schiavo’s family writes tell-all bookhttps://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/12758347.htm Mich. Judge: Gay Couples Can Get Benefithttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/28/101350.shtml Just […]

ROME, Italy, September 28, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – On September 21st, amid severe criticism, Italy’s health minister Francesco Storace halted experiments surrounding the abortion pill RU-486 citing health and legal reasons. Doctors and pro-choice advocates criticized the move stating that the decision was politically and religiously motivated. Margherita Boniver, a top Foreign Ministry official in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right coalition and a pro-choice supporter, was quoted in the Corriere della Sera newspaper saying “In the end, (the abortion law) is the target … The current government doesn’t have enough time to change the law but they are going to keep […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 28, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The old saying “tell a lie often enough and people will begin to believe it” has been reinforced by the events surrounding the hijacking of Fr. Mychal Judge’s reputation after his heroics during the September 11 terrorist attacks. The Concerned Women for America posted an editorial, written by Dennis Lynch, that details the attempts, and seeming success, of homosexual activists to portray Fr. Judge as a “gay priest”. Mr. Lynch detailed the life and death of Fr. Mike, a Franciscan priest who died ministering to the victims in the twin towers of New […]

PARIS, September 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – France, once one of Europe’s most fecund nations, has seen the writing on the wall and begun to offer parents financial incentives to encourage more childbirth. At a replacement rate of 1.9 babies per woman – still below the 2.1 rate necessary to simply maintain a population – France is one of the better off European nations, second only to Ireland in fertility rate. The French have introduced incentives to try to counter the fiscal disaster the birth decline will eventually cause by offering financial incentives to couples to have a third child, such […]

NEW ORLEANS, September 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move billed as a humanitarian gesture, one Little Rock abortuary is offering free abortions to Katrina evacuees. Little Rock Family Planning clinic director Jerry Edwards argues that if the women don’t abort their children right away, they could be facing more hazardous partial-birth abortions later. “If we didn’t provide it now, they would get it later – a late-term abortion that would give greater risk to the mother’s health,” he claimed, as reported by the Denton Record-Chronicle. A local area Right to Life group said the free abortion offer was adding […]

FRONT ROYAL, VA, September 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human Life International President Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer has released a strongly worded statement praising reports that Pope Benedict is about to release, through a Vatican Congregation, a document noting men with homosexual orientation are not to be admitted to the priesthood. The full statement from Fr. Euteneuer follows: It appears that Pope Benedict XVI has given his approval to a policy statement that men with a homosexual orientation should not be admitted to seminary and should be barred from receiving Holy Orders in the Roman Catholic Church. The Congregation for Catholic […]

FREDERICKSBURG, VA, September 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stand True Ministries is gearing up for the second annual Students’ Day of Silent Solidarity (www.silentday.org ) on Tuesday, October 25. On this date, students from hundreds of campuses in both the United States and Canada will take a vow of silence to express their contempt for the murderous act of abortion that has claimed one-third of their generation and continues to take the lives of over 4,000 babies per day in the United States alone. “Thousands of American babies are permanently silenced every day by the violent act of abortion,” said Bryan […]

Editorial

Civil Union ‘Compromise’ Never Massachuestts Gave Legislature A Chancehttps://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=508597 ADF attorneys vow to appeal ruling against “Choose Life” license plates https://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=3539 ‘Ex-gays’ study central to debatehttps://www.washtimes.com/metro/20050926-095613-8795r.htm The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedomhttps://www.heritage.org/press/events/ev093005a.cfm Bolder Sex-Ed Classes Unsettle Some Collegeshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/26/AR2005092601444.html Proposed amendment shows Florida anti-gay-marriage opponents are serioushttps://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050927/COLUMNIST36/509270313 Some Catholics do not support Cardinal O’Malley’s call for action against gay ‘marriage’https://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2005/09/26/news/news03.txt A new wave of persecution against Chinese Catholicshttps://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4205 U.S. to U.N.: Keep Away from Internethttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/27/160211.shtml Plurality of Americans still describe news media as too liberalhttps://poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=18766 UK Hospital bans cooing over newborn babieshttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/womenfamily.html?in_article_id=363576&in_page_id=1799&in_a_source= […]

September 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The movie, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, is proving to be a sleeper hit with increasing numbers of reviews praising the surprising quality and depth of the production. Emily Rose deals with the question of whether or not there is an evil presence in the world and a consequent battle between good and that evil that effects us all. Advocates of the spreading abortion, euthanasia and sexual liberation culture of course totally reject a belief in evil as a separate reality. To them, good and bad, right and wrong, are merely decided by each person […]

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, September 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After speaking at a convention to honour the pro-euthanasia physician who pronounced that Terri Schiavo was in a “persistent vegetative state,” Terri’s estranged husband and killer, Michael Shiavo, drew a standing ovation. Michael Schiavo, speaking at an “ethics” convention honouring Dr. Ronald Cranford, who is retiring from medicine because of a cancer diagnosis, spoke publicly about the euthanasia of his wife Terri for the first time since her death in March. “Terri didn’t die an awful death,” he claimed. He said that, as Terri died, he “laid a red rose in her hand […]

LONDON, September 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Michael Irwin, former chairman of the UK- based Voluntary Euthanasia Society (VES), who was arrested on charges of conspiracy to aid a terminally ill patient kill himself in 2003, has been disciplined by the UK’s General Medical Council, which struck his name off the medical register. Irwin admitted to police that he conspired to kill Patrick Kneen, a retired farmer and Isle of Man resident. He later told London Telegraph reporters that Kneen died of his terminal prostate cancer before he was able to administer the lethal medications. Although a doctor could face […]

EDINBURGH, Scotland, September 27, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scotland is reported to be on the verge of enacting legislation that will add homosexual persons to the list of groups covered under that nation’s hate crimes law. Racial minorities and religion are already covered in the act. The new Scottish Sentencing Bill, unveiled by First Minister Jack McConnell at the beginning of September recommended that the new aggravated offence should be used to stop homophobic attacks. While the Bill does not add any offences to the list of crimes it does allow for any crime committed against a homosexual to be deemed […]

Pro-Family groups will note individual MP votes on 2 items raising age of consent for sex

Three federal appeals courts ruled the ban to be unconstitutional

TORONTO, Ontario, September 27, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ongoing fallout from the imposition of gay culture on Canadians manifested itself again this past week when Ontario’s health minister, George Smitherman, actively courted gay and lesbian medical workers at a Montreal conference. Delegates at the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association’s annual conference in Montreal, most of whom were visiting from the United States, heard a keynote address from the cabinet minister (who is described as openly gay by the website Gay365.com) extolling the virtues of working in Ontario. In his comments Smitherman pointed out that “Many of you work in states […]

LONDON, September 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An article appearing in Sunday’s News Telegraph, says that wealthy British career women who are either not married or who cannot be bothered to conceive the natural way are turning more frequently to private IVF treatments.  Aldous Huxley’s classic novel Brave New World has become a benchmark for predictions on the trends in the new reproductive technologies. Huxley’s predictions are coming true at an alarming rate in our times when babies can be manufactured according to specifications and implanted in surrogates so that busy IVF clients need not be troubled with marital sexual relations, […]

The ACLU vs. America: Exposing the Agenda to Redefine Moral Values. https://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19607 Why Religious Values Support American Valueshttps://www.heritage.org/Research/Religion/hl899.cfm Why is Bush Coddling Clintonhttps://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19604 A look at the women who may replace Justice O’Connorhttps://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007311 Roberts Heads Toward Easy Confirmationhttps://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/26/D8CSB9DO3.html I want to marry my mum-in-lawhttps://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/175/175129_i_want_to_marry_my_muminlaw.html Canadian Health Minister Wants More Drug Injection Sites https://healthandfitness.sympatico.msn.ca/News/ContentPosting.aspx?contentid=f354bd9d9fce46919d64eaaebf7e043e&show=True&number=6&showbyline=False&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc If The Church Gets Tough—Very Tough—With Deviance, Pope Will Make His Markhttps://www.spiritdaily.org/Quickhive%20articles/vaticanandgays.htm India proposes free school for one-girl familieshttps://www.happynews.com/news/free-school-for-one-girl-families.htm Cocktail of medicine used for abortionshttps://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=e315cb80-bffc–  41dd-8ee9-a85705c0d75e Asper-inspired museum… “…Treasury Board president Reg Alcock’s pledge of $100 million toward the $200-million museumhttps://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=6185 Svend Robinson must face Law Society […]

Bill C-2 includes "serious loopholes" for those charged with violating child porn law

Peter Kent wants fair coverage of next federal election

No record of any previous Governor Generals refusing

LEXINGTON, Mass, September 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a Massachusetts school board decided to incorporate so-called diversity training in its classes, which includes indoctrination in the homosexual lifestyle, local superintendent Paul Ash notified schools that parents need not be contacted about the program. Last April, as reported by LifeSiteNews.com, one parent of a six-year-old kindergartner, David Parker, was arrested, allegedly for “trespassing” at his son’s elementary school while attending a scheduled meeting with the principal and the city’s Director of Education. He had arranged a meeting to object to the homosexual curriculum materials and discussions his son was subjected to […]

Words "homosexual", "homosexuality", "dissent" still do not appear once in latest report

Most Canadians Want Early Electionhttps://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/9077 Cardinal Pell on the Dictatorship of Relativismhttps://www.zenit.org/english/show_4.php The IMF has lost its influencehttps://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/22/opinion/edwiesbrot.php 300 churches threaten to leave Baptist grouphttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/22/AR2005092201014.html Science creates Down’s syndrome mousehttps://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1793066,00.html HIV Remains Rife in Porn Industryhttps://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050922/hl_nm/testing_hiv_dc;_ylt=Aqej40OVIlrCNZeN1u5yi9HrSLYF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl New Stats Reveal Dangerous Trend in Teen Promiscuityhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/232005c.asp Florida Marriage Protection Amendment Goes To The Florida Supreme Courthttps://libertyblogs.blogspot.com/2005/09/florida-marriage-protection-amendment.html Over 2 Million Students Pray at Flagpoleshttps://www.religionjournal.com/showarticle.asp?id=3308 Katrina Rescue Team Saves Abandoned Embryoshttps://abcnews.go.com/Health/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1145996&page=1 Michael Schiavo speaks at local medical ethics conferencehttps://www.startribune.com/stories/1556/5631487.html Arkansas Schoolbooks Contain Graphic Sexhttps://www.washingtontimes.com/culture/20050921-102415-2511r.htm STD vaccines in works, but for childrenhttps://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/breaking_news/12702336.htm Conservative Activists’ Enthusiasm for Judge Roberts Somewhat Subduedhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/232005b.asp Not As Many Homosexuals as […]

Will be guest speaker at Oct. 3rd pro-life dinner in Walkerton, Ontario

Says inclusion of "reproductive health" does not "constitute support, endorsement, or promotion of abortion"

LONDON, September 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – UK opposition Conservative Party MP Liam Fox suggested he is in favour of a reduction in the legally allowed age that an unborn child can be aborted, from 24 to 12 weeks. Speaking to the Mail on Sunday, Fox, who is the shadow foreign secretary, said, “A society which aborts 180,000 unborn children every year is a society that needs to be asking a lot of questions about itself.” Vying for leadership of the opposition party, Fox, who is also a physician, also asserted that increased access to the morning-after pill by girls “sends […]

OTTAWA, September 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian pharmacies are soon to be a place where you can not only buy prescription drugs like marijuana, but sex toys too. Not to mention Wal-Mart, Zellers, Loblaws, and a host of other department and grocery stores – thanks to the lobbying of condom (and sex toy) manufacturing giant, Trojan. The product line developed by Trojan is being sold under the name Elexa, and includes such products as “intimacy gel” and a vibrating ring, according to a Globe and Mail report. Besides Wal-Mart and Loblaws, Shoppers Drugmart, Pharma Plus, Pharmx Rexall, IDA, Guardian, Jean […]

TORONTO, September 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Self-styled feminist, abortion campaigner and former Toronto Star newspaper columnist Michele Landsberg has been elected to help lead head up Women’s College Hospital, which the province has just announced will divorce from Toronto’s Sunnybrook hospital to focus on women’s health. The hospital had been merged with Sunnybrook by the previous Progressive Conservative government. Michele Landsberg is well known to be an extremely outspoken advocate of abortion rights and radical feminism and has for years been an often harsh opponent of the pro-life movement. In 2002, a Landsberg column strongly supported Toronto World Youth Day […]

Canada's age of consent law among the lowest in the world

SURREY, September 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The administration of the Surrey School district in British Columbia has cancelled a sexually explicit play meant to preach acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle to school children. The play, The Laramie Project, is based on theÂmurder of U.S. homosexual student Matthew Shepard which the gay rights movement has for the past several years heavily exploited to promote its agenda. School officials said that the play’s sex, violence and foul language are “unacceptable” for their students. “The play wasn’t appropriate as family entertainment,” said Doug Strachan, communications manager of the Surrey school district. “It’s not […]

Ridicule of FBI memo ignores massive criminal and social problems linked to porn

BBC Report on Chinese One Child Policy Reads Like Communist Party Media Release

TORONTO, September 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Toronto Sun reported today that Mark Pickup, one of the speakers at a euthanasia symposium in Toronto this Saturday, is coming to Toronto to emphasize that federal Bill C-407, already making its way through Parliament, is a licence to kill. Pickup, who resides in Edmonton and has advanced multiple sclerosis, told the Sun C-407 “is anti-disability bigotry disguised as right-to-die legislation” and is “a horrible bill that would open the door to killing the disabled and you wouldn’t need a physician to do it.” He also added, “It’s intended to cull the population […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), today expressed disappointment with President Bush’s decision to waive or reduce sanctions against some countries that are known to be among the worst offenders in human trafficking. “Ally or not, America cannot condone human trafficking by any nation, and that is what we seem to be doing,” said Smith, who has long championed efforts to eliminate human trafficking. “I have said it time and time again, ‘friends don’t let friends commit human rights violations.” In fall 2000, Smith’s Victims of Trafficking Protection Act became law. In addition to provisions […]

Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved John Roberts’ nomination as next Supreme Court chief justice, virtually assuring confirmation by Senate next weekhttps://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/22/roberts.ap/index.html?section=cnn_us The Supreme Court: The Next Senatorial Assault May Be Even More Intemperatehttps://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2005/050921.asp Campaign called “Ally Week”, promoted across the US in schools, is doorway into schools that the pro-homosexual movement is constantly seekinghttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/222005a.asp Two sex ed groups stepping up criticism of federally-funded abstinence-only programshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/222005c.asp Ex-Lesbian Wants Homosexual Magazines Out of Local Libraryhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/212005b.asp Illinois launches stem-cell research institute without public approval https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4951 Bishop asks for prayers for politicians https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4950 Scientists: You Can’t Modify Hurricaneshttps://apnews.myway.com/article/20050922/D8CPF0EO2.html Bashing Bush in Aspenhttps://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20050922.shtml Arnold: […]

WASHINGTON, September 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A speech given by a prominent official of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, praising a well-known pro-abortion rabbi, has raised the ire of US pro-life advocates and at least one organization is calling for his resignation and an apology to the pro-life movement. Dr. Eugene Fisher, Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, wrote on the occasion of the death of Rabbi Balfour Brickner that he was “one of the great leaders of Reform Judaism and one of the greatest American religious leaders of the second half of the […]

PALO ALTO, September 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The use of human foetal brain tissue in spinal cord experiments with mice has shown some success, but is likely to alarm medical ethicists as well as raise objections from pro-life advocates. Researchers at University of California at Irvine injected stem cells derived from the brains of human foetuses into mice with severe spinal cord injuries. The mice regained some mobility and the research team is cautiously hopeful that this experiment will lead to progress with spinal cord injuries in humans. The stem cells were derived from babies aborted at about 16 to […]

American Civil Liberties Union credited for spread of porn in US

LUGANO, Switzerland, September 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Angelo Sodano said that cohabitation might be a desire for some, but that does not make it a “right,” in an address to a human rights congress at a Swiss School of Theology. “Today, one speaks of the ‘right’ to live together outside of marriage,” the Vatican Secretary of State said, according to a Zenit report. “But it is not a right! It will be a desire, a yearning for some.” “There doesn’t exist a right to other forms of union that aren’t the family,” emphasized Sodano, who is also Dean of […]

OTTAWA, September 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A plan to sell pot through pharmacies in Canada is back, with intended sales starting in early 2006. Canada once again follows on the Netherlands heels, with medicinal marijuana being stocked by some pharmacies for the use of authorized patients. The first drugstores to carry the drug will be in British Columbia, with the remainder of the country following suit by 2008. Health Canada currently authorizes 943 people nation-wide to make use of the drug; 237 access pot through Prairie Plant Systems, while the remainder grow their own. A 2004 StatsCan survey revealed that […]

LAGOS, September 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Nigerian Anglican church has made a decision to break with the Anglican Communion world-wide over criticism of the world body’s tolerance and even blessing of same-sex “marriage,” and the ordination of homosexual clergy. Archbishop Peter J. Akinola called the blessing of same-sex unions and ordination of gay clergy by Anglicans in the UK and North America a “Satanic attack” on the congregation. The Nigerian communion deleted from its Constitution all former references to “communion with the see of Canterbury,” replacing it with another provision of communion with all Anglican Churches, Dioceses and Provinces […]

Bishops endorse signature campaign against same-sex marriage legislation https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4940 Mr. President, You’re the ManÂÂÂÂhttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/9007/LEGAL/scourt/index.htm Specter Urges Delay in Replacement of O’Connor at Supreme Courthttps://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aRLlfRJo_9MA&refer=us The case for policing pornographyhttps://www.townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/bs20050921.shtml Relative levels of poverty in America are best predicted not by race, but by family makeuphttps://www.townhall.com/columnists/terencejeffrey/tj20050921.shtml Malay converts to Christianity “cannot renounce Islam”https://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4157 Czech Gov’t Closer To Passing Gay Partner Billhttps://www.365gay.com/newscon05/09/091905czechWed.htm Medical study supposedly proving legalized euthanasia does not lead to slippery slope to mercy killing needs another lookhttps://www.westernstandard.ca/website/index.cfm?page=article&article_id=1038 Carol Jamieson Makes her move against Stephen Harperhttps://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2005/09/carol_jamieson_.html America’s Top 100 Pro-Gay Companieshttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46426 Corporate America snuggles up to ‘gays’https://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46425 Thomas More Attorney […]

GLASGOW, Scotland September 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scottish parents have increased demands to keep their children out of increasingly explicit school sex-ed programs says Gregory Carlin, spokesman for The Rights of the Scottish Child organization. Carlin told LifeSiteNews.com this past June that “The dreadful record of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases in Glasgow is largely because of the harmful sexualized environment created by educators and officials.” This motivated the original challenge to Glasgow City Council’s attempt to make its graphic sex-ed curriculums compulsory. Yesterday Carlin told LifeSiteNews.com that concerns about the UK Liberal Democrat Party’s continuing support for mandatory […]

ROME, September 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rome’s Carabinieri in cooperation with Europol conducted a huge raid today, code-named “Icebreaker 2”, against child pornography on the Internet, according to an AGI report. The raid resulted in 130 people being placed under investigation, 60 of those in Italy, and dozens of searches in 6 European countries. Hundreds of PCs and recording media were seized. 25 of the individuals were charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. One is also charged with child sexual abuse. AGI reports the raid is part of an investigation started on June 14, 2004. That raid led […]

Brussels, September 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education is calling for action to protect children from inappropriate content on the internet. In adopting on Sept. 6 a report from Marielle de Sarnez of France on the protection of minors and human dignity, MEPs said action was needed from politicians, the industry, schools and parents.   The committee is recommending the creation of a new top-level domain name “.kid” (like .com or .org) with content reserved for children, which could provide a secure Internet area regularly monitored by an independent authority. MEPs said the Commission […]

September 22, 2005 (culture-of-life.org/LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the Senate’s best known Catholics has worked to reject a proposal by President Bush that would have given families displaced by Hurricane Katrina financial aid to send their children to private or parochial schools. A bipartisan student relief package put forth by Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy and Wyoming Senator Michael Enzi did not include a provision that would have given students up to $7,500 because Kennedy opposed the provision, according to a high level Congressional staffer who spoke with Culture & Cosmos. Culture & Cosmos also learned that a prominent Church prelate said […]

MADRID, September 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spain’s opposition Popular Party (PP) announced Sunday their decision to appeal the new same-sex “marriage” and adoption laws as unconstitutional. PP secretary general Angelo Acebes said the party “never doubted the unconstitutional nature of the law and had instructed its legal office to make the appeal.” Spain’s Socialist-led government legalized same-sex “marriage” June 30. The measure, which passed by a margin of 187-147 in Spain’s Congress of Deputies, also legalized the adoption of children by homosexual couples, and granted same-sex couples inheritance rights. Eduardo Hertfelder, president of Spain’s Family Policy Institute, welcomed the decision […]

LONDON, September 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life protesters outside the Chinese embassy in the UK have been given an historic thumbs-up by authorities who have normally discouraged or arrested those who tried to draw attention to human rights atrocities in the Communist country. Police “embarrassingly” acknowledged the lawful right of British citizens to peacefully assemble on the pavement outside the Chinese Embassy in London’s Portland Place, after about two-dozen members of the UK Life League assembled there Saturday morning. The group took the issue to a judge Sunday, after which time the police finally conceded the group’s right to peaceful […]

LONDON, September 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In October 2004, LifeSiteNews.com reported that officials of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) were making referrals to a late-term abortion facility in Spain for abortions past the UK’s 24-week legal limit of gestation. The British magazine, The Telegraph exposed the practice and BPAS staff faced possible criminal charges under the Offences Against the Person Act of 1861 and the 1967 abortion law. This week, British Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson announced that BPAS, the organization that is responsible for up to 50,000 abortions in Britain a year, was not in contravention of […]

GRANTS PASS, OR, September 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The founder of the American Civil Liberties Union was a card-carrying communist whose goal was to undermine the Judeo-Christian foundations of America, according to author David Kupelian. The ACLU is “engaged in trying to eliminate every vestige of Judeo-Christian expression in public places in America,” Kupelian explained in his landmark book, The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom, according to a review by Agape press. “It’s frightening—and they are using our tax dollars to do this. They use the laws of the land to […]

Euthanasia activist's 'research' taken seriously by Canadian politicians re: Bill C-407

Local Activists in Four States Stop Movie Gallery Porn Sales https://www.afajournal.org/2005/september/905MG_activists.asp Changing unjust laws justlyhttps://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=156 Bishop Wuerl says intelligent design has rightful place among modern ‘origin of man’ theories https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4927 Attorney General Gonzales and the Senate Condemn Pledge Ruling https://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0037953.cfm The Next Conservatism: Conservative New Urbanismhttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/8986/CWA/misc/index.htm Ontario: A Shari’a-Free Zonehttps://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19547 Is anyone ever going to be seriously punished for AdScam? https://www.torontosun.com/Comment/Commentary/2005/09/19/1226521.html “Hollywood’s New Gods”https://www.newsmax.com/adv/sept05/ What We Lose When We Forget What Sex Is Forhttps://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=18-06-022-f Pro-choice side needs to cool it https://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/opinion/94047.php Church offers morally acceptable options for infertile coupleshttps://www.catholic.org/cathcom/national_story.php?id=16756 Big business of assisted reproduction raises myriad legal issueshttps://www.catholic.org/cathcom/national_story.php?id=16755 State says […]

COSTA MESA/TORONTO, September 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Paul McGuire is a California radio talk show host who frequently uses his show to urge political action from his listeners. On KBRT, a Christian station that broadcasts to most of Southern California, McGuire is asking his listeners who are pastors of churches, why they remained silent on the attempt to abolish marriage in California. “I recently interviewed Dr. James Dobson [of Focus on the Family] and Dr. James Kennedy [of Coral Ridge Ministries] on my program,” McGuire stated this week. “They both agreed that one of the major reasons that homosexual marriage […]

SAN FRANCISCO, September 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Same-sex “marriage” advocates have a meeting scheduled with aides to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for Wednesday, two days before Schwarzenegger receives a bill passed by lawmakers there that legalizes same-sex “marriage.” The governor said he plans to veto the bill. Schwarzenegger’s spokesman, Margita Thompson, claimed that the “marriage” bill was not going to be discussed at the meeting tomorrow and that it is not an indication that his will is wavering on the issue. “This is an outreach meeting that happens within the normal course of business, and I understand there is heightened […]

TAMPA, Florida, September 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thirty major companies stopped advertising on the new Entertainment (E!) Channel’s Playboy’s Girls Next Door Show after receiving emails from concerned citizens and faxes from a pro-family lobby group. The Florida Family Association (FFA) explained that “Playboy started the porn industry with their first magazines being less explicit than a Cosmopolitan. However, once Playboy got a foothold into the market with magazines in many stores the publications slowly turned more explicit and other publishers joined them. Playboy’s new unrestricted, advertiser supported television show must be opposed now before it is accepted in the […]

Cardinal says legislation would "sow confusion and undermine the meaning of marriage"

WASHINGTON, September 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The confirmation vote for US Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts will happen Thursday, with one conservative analyst suggesting that the strong pro-abortion lobbying against Roberts will divide the Senate, but that his confirmation will ultimately succeed because of a pro-life Republican majority. Chief Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, Jay Sekulow, said the fact that liberal public interest groups are complaining is “a really good thing.” For example, Sekulow said, “the fact that ‘People for the American Way’ have opposed John Roberts should be worn by John Roberts as a […]

Mulroney’s sick cityhttps://www.canada.com/windsor/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=1c6b8c30-1f8f-4ad0-8bc8-09a693f24652 Americans who don’t believe in God have decided it’s time they had a lobbyist in the nation’s capitalhttps://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-09-18-atheists_x.htm Boy-girl barrier falls in B.C. locker-roomshttps://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=96f44ded-77e4-4114-a4fb-b2afd7c5bf0a Sex Workers Paid to Have Sex With the Disabledhttps://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=32f028fe-abf6-47d5-a5d9-9c84c0150cf2 Dissident Quebec Conservatives slam Harper’s leadershiphttps://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2005/september/19/conservatives/&c=1 NBC to Air Christian Showhttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/17/140204.shtml Michael Schiavo Writes A Bookhttps://wcco.com/topstories/topstories_story_262074029.html Book promotes sex with childrenhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46394 Medical Implants Edge Toward ‘Bionic Man’https://www.eetimes.com/issue/fp/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170701960 Soft porn funds go to Katrina victimshttps://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16631400%25255E1702,00.html Christian Coalition fading fasthttps://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/politics/12676171.htm Study Suggests Shift in Teen Sex Practiceshttps://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-oralsex16sep16,1,6131822.story?coll=la-news-science Atheist Challenge to Presidential Inauguration Prayer Dismissedhttps://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a6W8O0Z2XcYQ&refer=home Ministers ask faithful to help ban gay marriagehttps://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3357687 Vatican publishes account of […]

LONDON, September 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Entrepreneurs say they will begin floating “sperm ships” in the North Sea off of the UK coast, in order to take advantage of international law allowing them to provide anonymous sperm donations for infertility treatments to UK couples, after the country tightens UK law forbidding anonymous donations starting in April. Ole Schou, founder of Cryos International – the world’s largest sperm bank based in Aarhus, Denmark, which already exports sperm to 40 countries, is acting as a consultant to companies who plan to float ships in the North Sea off the UK coast. Based […]

Women blame themselves for choices made without being fully aware of consequences

WASHINGTON, September 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The White House has once again denied the controversial United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) financial backing – for the fourth year running, despite assurances from the UNFPA that it is not involved in coercive abortion in China. The UNFPA would normally receive $34 million; instead, $25 million will be redirected to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). US law prohibits the country from contributing to any organization that participates in coercive abortion – a practice widely acknowledged in Communist-ruled China. Despite alleging that they have no participation in this practice – as a […]

TORONTO, Two Canadian researchers have been awarded the prestigious “Lasker” prize for their discovery of stem cells. Ernest McCulloch and James Till, respectively a cellular biologist and a biophysicist, discovered the existence of stem cells in the early 1960’s in experiments with mice and bone marrow. Their discoveries led to successful treatments of cancer, among other illnesses, with bone marrow transplants. The two have been called the fathers of the stem cell field. In 1963 they obtained evidence that bone marrow cells were capable of self-renewal, a crucial aspect of the definition of stem cells. Though their breakthrough work with […]

TORONTO, September 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Social conservatives in Canada have long asserted that a major obstacle to the establishment of a real conservative political alternative has been the absence of a structured conservative political and social movement in this country. This weekend, a meeting of Canadian conservatives, both within and independent of the Conservative Party met in Toronto to address a plan to create a conservative policy institute that would attempt to create that missing infrastructure. Preston Manning, the founder of the Reform and Canadian Alliance parties, announced in an Op Ed piece in Wednesday’s Globe and Mail, an […]

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, September 19, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Teenage first year university students, as well as returning students, not only face the daunting task of adjusting to new academic challenges but are also faced with moral assaults as evidenced by the University of Winnipeg’s (UW) “Reorientation Week” and its blatant lesbian recruiting. Fully advertised and promoted on the UW official website the school plays host to the “Lesbian Rangers”, a presentation featuring two Winnipeg residents, Lorri Millan and Shauna Dempsey. The idea, as described in their literature, is to “to insert a lesbian presence into the landscape “. The “Lesbian National […]

NEW YORK, September 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former US President Bill Clinton has long dreamed of power in international affairs. He has long been rumoured to be the next to be tapped for UN Secretary General, and is a key player in the international movement that seeks to “unite” the world’s nations under a single, all-encompassing state governed by the UN’s favoured class of leftist elites.   Clinton’s latest project, the Clinton Global Initiative, (CGI), has attracted 1000 of the world’s most prominent internationalist movers and shakers this week. The three-day conference, which kicked off last night in New York, […]

Innumerable sexual ads are now employed by numbers of companieshttps://www.americandecency.org/ Outrage at Vatican’s US hunt for gay seminarianshttps://www.smh.com.au/news/world/outrage-at-vaticans-us-hunt-for-gay-seminarians/2005/09/16/1126750132841.html?oneclick=true ‘Human rights industry’ picks targets carefully https://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Byfield_Link/2005/09/16/1219703.html September 30 closing date for appeal against the anti-constitutional law approving ‘homosexual marriage’.https://www.fides.org/eng/news/2005/0509/15_5651.html Disability Rights Group Charges Missouri With ‘Medical Killings’https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/152005g.asp Vatican cardinal calls for defense of marriage against legalization of civil unions https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4906 Humanist Group Blasts Bush for ‘Promoting Prayer’https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive200509CUL20050916a.html Canada ‘s large Catholic community has become overwhelmingly apostatehttps://www.crisismagazine.com/idler.htm US religious right plans a home-school revolution https://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_050916school.shtml Embarrassment of how we appoint our Supreme Court justices north of the borderhttps://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=a6260b97-a9c6-4996-bbea-f633560e31da The feminist connection at […]

WICHITA, Kansas, September 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) ¬ A delay in receiving care is to blame for the death of a teenage girl after an abortion went awry at the notorious late-term abortuary of abortionist “Tiller the killer,” George R. Tiller, according to an autopsy report released August 24. The autopsy report for the 19-year-old Texas teen, Christin A. Gilbert, who died in January after a botched abortion at Tiller’s Women’s Health care Services, stated that she “died as a result of complication of a therapeutic abortion,” according to an Operation Rescue West report. “Most likely the mechanism of death is […]

NEW YORK, NY, September 16, 2005, (CFam.org/LifeSiteNews.com)—Â After months of demands to include language that would create a broad international right to abortion, proponents of abortion were disappointed with the final document issued by UN Member States at the Millennium Development Summit ending today in New York. Everyone from Kofi Annan to special UN commissions to non-governmental organizations to UN member states called vigorously over the past year that the new document must contain far reaching ratification of reproductive rights language, language that is used to promote abortion. It appears they have for the most part failed. Earlier drafts of […]

Some threaten violence, according to homosexual activist web site

LINYI, September 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) ¬ A massive campaign by China’s population-control authorities is underway in the country’s Shandong province, south-east of Beijing, with accounts of horrible atrocities, including infanticide, forced abortions on women, ¬even of those in the ninth month of pregnancy, ¬and the sterilizations of thousands. Time magazine published a report, describing the situation as “one of the most brutal sterilization campaigns of recent years.” Time reported the case of Li Juan, a woman whose term baby was forcibly aborted. “The men with the poison-filled syringe arrived two days before Li Juan’s due date. They pinned her down […]

TORONTO, September 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Before the practice of organ donation and transplants began, the definition of death was not very difficult. If a person had no signs of life, if his brain, heart and other organs had ceased to show any activity, he was dead. But in the age of transplants and “miraculous” resuscitation, what constitutes death has become a controversial issue. Increasingly, the need to wait until the patient is no longer using his organs, is being overlooked in the rush to get fresh organs to transplant patients. The longer a donor has been dead, the less […]

NEW YORK, NY, September 16, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com)— The gathering at the United Nations in New York to discuss and debate the Millennium Development Goals (MDG +5 Summit) was presented with a document signed by various religious scholars, clergy and advocates that promoted a “commitment to Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health”, UN code language for abortion and contraception. The document, supported by various organizations such as Catholics for Free Choice (CFFC), has been opposed by the Vatican. A Sept. 9 Zenit news service report revealed the Holy See asked Argentina’s bishops not to support a campaign by “Catholics for a Free […]

Knights of Columbus Will Appeal Decision in Pledge of Allegiance Casehttps://www.earnedmedia.org/kofc0915.htm Bush slams UN for choosing ‘abusers’for Human Rights commissions https://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/346558p-295792c.html Information Shows Tiller is to Blame in Abortion Deathhttps://www.operationrescue.org/?p=263 Attorney Sees Pattern in Pro-Homosexual Lawsuits Against Schoolshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/152005e.asp  Census Numbers Show Cohabitation Becoming the Normhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/132005d.asp March of the Penguins Film as Political Fodder for Conservativeshttps://nytimes.com/2005/09/13/science/13peng.html Clinton-Soros initiative at U.N. summit: ‘Vacuum’ caused by United Nations corruption creating new power centerhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46334 Katrina didn’t change everything, but it changed a lot – Peggy Noonanhttps://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/ Catholic probe to look at gays in seminaries: NY Timeshttps://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050915/ts_nm/religion_homosexuals_times_dc;_ylt=A86.I2h9YClDO8cAPCBZ.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl Mass sterilizations taking place in Chinahttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4883

Raises "uncomfortable questions" about current orthodoxy in HIV prevention

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A coalition of Catholic and Christian organizations worldwide is coordinating the 13th Annual International Week of Prayer and Fasting to promote a “Culture of Life,” in the words of the late Pope John Paul II. The organization began the campaign to promote life and family in the public sphere with a week of prayer and fasting and related events sponsored by churches and groups around the world. Sponsored by a coalition of lay Catholic organizations, the annual Week of Prayer and Fasting urges people around the globe to pray and fast for 9 […]

CINCINATTI, September 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pat Trueman, senior legal counsel for the Family Research Council, commented on the confirmation hearings for Judge John Roberts, nominee for US Supreme Court Chief Justice, saying that, “John Roberts is doing so well, he’s disarmed the opposition.” “On abortion, they’ve tried six ways from Sunday to get him to tip his hand,” Trueman explained, in an interview with Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink magazine. “You’d think this was a confirmation hearing for the next executive director of NARAL. But this is what primarily concerns Democrats on the Judiciary Committee.” “But John Roberts won’t […]

TORONTO, September 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Jeffrey Nisker is a Professor of Obstetrics-Gynaecology and Oncology, and Coordinator of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario. He spent years in the fertility industry creating, and experimenting upon and destroying, embryonic children. While Nisker seems far from converting to the pro-life position, radical developments in the IVF industry, including sex and genetic selection of embryos, has prompted him to abandon IVF work and move full time into ethics. He sits on a number of national ethics boards and has contributed to the […]

Implications of measure could be far-reaching, and have repercussions for religious freedom in U.S

Law was passed by House and Senate and supported by record 460,000 citizens' petition

COLOMBIA, September 14, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com)—Â Dan Zeidler is Representative in the USA for the Venezuela-based Latin American Alliance for the Family (ALAFA). He is very worried at the moment that Columbians may be about to lose the battle to protect their legislatively protected right to life for the unborn. Today, Dan sent out an urgent appeal today for prayer for the country to stave off a seemingly impending decision by the Colombian Constitutional Court to declare existing pro-life protections unconstitutional. Dan notes that for “For three decades, Colombia has been attacked by well-financed, internationally-backed pro-abortion proponents” and yet Congress and […]

U.S. House adds sexual orientation to ‘hate crimes’https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46324 EEOC Considers Forcing Christian Groups to Hire Non-Christianshttps://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0037923.cfm What Truth Serum Would Produce at the Roberts Hearings

CALGARY, Alberta, September 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The case against Stephen Boissoin, a young Alberta pastor facing an Alberta Human Rights tribunal over letters he wrote on the issue of homosexuality, has received widespread publicity which is generating a growing wave of support for the Christian pastor, even from homosexuals. In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com last night Boissoin revealed that he has received a barrage of phone calls from the US and Canada since the publication of the Sept. 2nd LifeSiteNews.com story on his case. A US organization is even seriously considering funding his legal defense. All afternoon yesterday Boissoin […]

RICHMOND, Virginia, September 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Virginia Court of Appeals did not issue an immediate ruling today after hearing oral arguments in a parental rights battle between two women, joined in a same-sex civil union in Vermont in 2000, one of whom later became a Christian and renounced the lesbian lifestyle. The cases involve Lisa Miller, her biological child, and Janet Jenkins. Lisa gave birth to a child through artificial insemination. Janet never adopted the child. The relationship ended when Lisa became a Christian and Janet became abusive. Lisa is no longer a lesbian. She resides with her […]

Consideration was multiculturalist political correctness run amok

BEIJING, September 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Chinese manufacturer of injectable collagen for use in cosmetic lip and wrinkle treatments has admitted to a UK news source that the company routinely sources materials from the skin of executed convicts as well as from aborted babies. An agent from the company told a Guardian reporter posing as a prospective client that use of skin from these sources is not unusual in China. “In China it is considered very normal and I was very shocked that western countries can make such a big fuss about this,” he said. The company exports their […]

prolifeblogs.com "cautiously optimistic" about his likely future as next Chief Justice

TORONTO, September 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the government body overseeing Canadian experiments in cloning and use of embryos for research and was the major lobbyist in favour of the unrestricted use of living embryonic human beings for destructive medical research. It will come as no surprise to many, therefore, that the CIHR has changed the rules to continue making embryo research a more open field. According to Dalhousie University bioethicist Francoise Bayliss this June, the CIHR quietly changed the rules regarding embryo donation to allow for the use of “fresh” embryos. In […]

OTTAWA, Ontario, September 14, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com)— Events are unfolding rapidly in Ontario that may see the Ontario Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council (HPRAC) rule in favour of restricting pharmacists ability to exercise their conscience. On March 22, 2005, the Ontario College of Pharmacists submitted their recommendations regarding the “Code of Ethics for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians”. Iain T. Benson, executive director of the Center For Cultural Renewal in Ottawa, issued a release yesterday calling attention to “Principle 4” of that submission. The statement reads: The pharmacist and pharmacy technician respects the autonomy, individuality and dignity of each patient and provides […]

La. nursing home owners charged in 34 deathshttps://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9156612/ CWA: Judge Roberts is a Nominee Who Will Honor the Constitutional Freedom to Worshiphttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/8925/MEDIA/misc/index.htm John Roberts still has most conservatives buffaloed says WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farahhttps://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46291 New Orleans not unmitigated disaster hysterical media led America to expecthttps://news.yahoo.com/s/nypost/20050913/cm_nypost/seeingthecrisisclearly;_ylt=Aj_aHbtZpqRk04xsdjJx8qBOZ0YC;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl Bill Clinton: Saviour of the world?https://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article312061.ece Authorities considering criminal investigation into failure to evacuate St. Rita’s Nursing Home before hurricanehttps://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/13/katrina.impact/index.html A new political party in Sweden says it will abolish marriage if it gets into powerhttps://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1533698.html Globe Says Harper Won’t Rule Out Fall Electionhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050913/ELECTION13/National/Idx Tory Leader hunts for new troopshttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050913/TORIES13/National/Idx Headphone Use May Worsen Hearing Losshttps://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/12/D8CJ24E83.html […]

OTTAWA, September 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Physicians for Life will hold this year’s Medical Students Forum in Montreal, from November 17-19, to coincide with the annual national pro-life conference to be held at Montreal’s St. Joseph’s Oratory. “Pro-life medical students who are interested in deepening their understanding of the life issues and who want to acquire the knowledge, the skills, and the courage to defend the pro-life ethic in the medical profession are invited to apply for sponsorship to attend this event,” Canadian Physicians for Life Administrator Barbara McAdorey wrote in a release. “We are encouraging students to take […]

NEW YORK, September 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 37 year old woman who suffered a pulmonary embolism after using the Ortho Evra contraceptive patch for seven months has filed a lawsuit against the patch’s manufacturer, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc., a division of Johnson and Johnson Inc. Recent reports have indicated that the risk of developing blood clots, pulmonary embolism, heart attack and stroke may be significantly higher with the Ortho Evra patch than with other hormonal contraceptives. Pulmonary embolism is a potentially fatal condition triggered by a blood clot that obstructs an artery in the lungs, often leaving victims with chronic […]

Senate confirmation hearings continue into second day

Front-runner for Next Supreme Court appointment is Federal Appellate Judge Priscilla Owenhttps://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-9_12_05_RN.html Roberts: ‘It is My Job to Call Balls and Strikes, And Not to Pitch or Bat.’https://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0037897.cfm Beijing bars 4 bishops from going to Vaticanhttps://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/11/news/china.php The real hurricane story is that the mainstream media rioted.https://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8726 How local officials in China launched a brutal campaign of forced abortions and sterilizationshttps://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1103579,00.html New Breed of Internet Smut Peddlers Polluting Our Young Generationhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/9b2005gst.asp Same-Sex Marriage May Stay Legal in Mass.https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050912/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage;_ylt=AhJ.OhIBaKNxS2ttlLsJ.Rus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MjBwMWtkBHNlYwM3MTg Porn Common Among Child Molestershttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/122005f.asp Stand up to them, Mr. President!https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46276 The last thing Louisiana needs right now is mosquitoes. https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/miller200509090843.asp Supporters Rally […]

KHARKOV, Ukraine, September 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK report has revealed that the booming unborn baby parts market may have also now spilled over into born babies, with allegations that newborn babies are disappearing from Ukraine maternity wards to fuel the increasing demand. One Ukrainian research institute advertises foetal body parts, such as “Foetus spleen cells,” and “fragments of foetus spine.” The Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences claims all the materials for sale are produced legally from early aborted babies. In the Ukraine, however, any baby born less than 27 weeks […]

Planned Parenthood offering abortion to rape victims

NEW ORLEANS, September 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A doctor from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans has admitted to euthanizing patients, rather than leaving them to potential death at the hands of looters. In an interview with the UK’s The Mail on Sunday, a doctor, whose name was protected by the euthanasia-supportive Daily Mail media, claimed that those who were killed were killed out of “compassion.” “This was not murder, this was compassion,” the doctor emphasized. “They would have been dead within hours, if not days. We did not put people down. What we did was give comfort to the end.” The doctor […]

BRUSSELS, September 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – About 4,600 people joined the March for the Family Belgian pro-family coalition to rally against a government proposition to legalize adoption by homosexuals Saturday. Michel Ghins, co-organizer and professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve spoke at the march. “This march for the family is not an action against homosexuals, who deserve all our respect but we refuse that they be put at the same level of equality when it comes to the union between a man and a woman,” he said. Ghins added, “Men and women have specific roles in the […]

LONDON, September 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – UK abortionists are authorizing abortions on women whom they have never met or examined, contrary to British law that requires a woman seeking an abortion have a medically necessary reason, even if the over-used and meaningless “mental health” excuse is used. An investigation by the Daily Mail revealed that National Health Service (NHS) abortuaries are using public money to pay abortionists to illegally authorize abortions. A senior London surgeon said, “I know of doctors who charge £14 an hour to sign these approval forms. They are faxed or biked to them, sometimes hundreds of […]

WASHINGTON, September 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The infant daughter, Susan Anne Catherine Torres, born to brain dead Susan Rollin Torres, has died. The tiny girl’s health failed rapidly over the weekend after emergency surgery to repair a perforated intestine. The girl’s mother was maintained on life support after suffering a severe stroke in May after cancer had spread to her brain. The baby, born prematurely last month, was otherwise healthy and given a fair chance of survival. She died of heart failure Sunday at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington. “After the efforts of this summer to bring her into […]

NEW YORK, September 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations’ 2005 World Summit, to be held from 14 to 16 September at United Nations Headquarters in New York, is expected to bring together more than 170 Heads of State and Government: the largest gathering of world leaders in history. At this august assembly the noble goal of eliminating poverty will be a centerpiece. In 2000, all 191 UN Member States pledged to meet eight goals – the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – to eradicate poverty by the year 2015 and to promote a Make Poverty History campaign. The Millennium Development […]

The Contenders to Replace O’Connor on US Supreme Courthttps://www.opinionjournal.com/nextjustice/?id=110007222 European Parliament to China: End Religious Repressionhttps://www.zenit.org/english/show_8.php Unwed women set record for births in 2003 – 1.4 millionhttps://www.washtimes.com/national/20050909-122225-7993r.htm ‘Population Bomb’ Bombs With the Birth Dearth https://www.jewishworldreview.com/0905/medicine.men090905.php3 Dolly Creator Says Experimentation on Human Embryos Justified to Save Animalshttps://www.theherald.co.uk/news/46611.html Canadian Official Did Nothing About UN Kickbackshttps://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=b77b9137-29a5-48cc-a0ac-50d935d3c494 New Orleans slideshowhttps://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=14ewb3ap.b147fdut&Uy=nyvoby&Ux=1 Unwed women set record for births in 2003https://washtimes.com/national/20050909-122225-7993r.htm Tips to Child Porn Fighting website lead to Canadian Arrestshttps://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/tfn/2005/090905.html Saddam invested one million dollars in Paul Martin-owned Cordexhttps://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover042205a.htm Louisiana Parish Coping as It Aids Hurricane Evacueeshttps://www.zenit.org/english/show_5.php

HALIFAX, September 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The venomous attacks against the United States leadership and its citizens by brazen Liberal politicians using any excuse (Iraq, missile defence, mad-cow, softwood lumber) to assuage their seething hatred of American pro-life and pro-family policies by Bush-bashing, is beginning to have palpable effects. The President of the United States seems to have less and less time and priority for Prime Minister Paul Martin, and given the strained relations, it’s no surprise suggests Conservative Leader Stephen Harper. In an address to the Conservative Caucus Wednesday, Harper noted poignantly that “This government’s lack of competence and […]

DUBLIN, September 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Roslin Institute, which also created Dolly the sheep, reported creating the first embryonic Humans without the use of sperm – from the genetic material of the mother alone. The group said they stimulated an egg to divide without the use of human sperm, to a stage of development where they hope they can “mine” cells for experimental research purposes. “At the moment we have not managed to get stem cells from these embryos but that continues to be our ambition,” Dr Paul De Sousa said at the British Association’s Festival of Science in […]

LONDON, September 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has reversed a ban preventing scientists from creating embryonic children derived from the combined ova of two women with the sperm from a single father. The need to combine the ova from two women is argued to be a necessary means to prevent mitochondrial disease like muscular dystrophy being passed from a woman who carries the genetic trait to her offspring. By inserting the non-nuclear portion of the ovum from a woman free of the disease into the ovum of a woman who carries the disease, scientists […]

85% of Human Embryos Produced During IVF do not Survive till Birth

QUEBEC CITY, September 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a measure that deprives Christian parents the constitutionally guaranteed right to religious schooling, Quebec lawmakers “quietly” passed a law over the summer that effectively eliminates all religious instruction from public schools in the province. On June 15, the province passed a law eliminating all religious education in public schools, to be replaced by 2008 with a course in ethics or religious culture if desired. In 1997, Quebec enacted a constitutional amendment that eliminated denominational religious schools – an institution guaranteed in the country’s founding document, the British North America Act of 1867. […]

LAFAYETTE, La., September 9, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – City-Parish President Joey Durel is warning individuals who are set on parading through his city streets in celebration of “Southern Decadence” that they will be arrested by police. Encompassing 5 days of parades, pub crawls and the most public nudity and sexual activity of any North American gay event, the Southern Decadence festival is a New Orleans phenomena hosted by the city’s gay community. This year’s celebration was definitively cancelled just days before its beginning by Hurricane Katrina. Though a few dozen tried to celebrate in New Orleans in spite of the damage […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 9, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com)— After seven years of litigation initiated by the American Civil Liberties Union the U.S. District Court in Cincinnati has upheld an Ohio law (H.B. 421) that requires girls under the age of 18 to get parental consent for an abortion. Another requirement is that a meeting with a doctor 24 hours prior to the procedure must take place so that a woman can get a description of the procedure and be made aware of the risks and alternatives. As in other states an exception is made which allows a minor to seek a judge’s […]

TORONTO, September 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In 2002, the US bishops were hearing evidence from victims of homosexual priestly sexual abuse. Michael Bland, formerly a priest in the Friar Servants of Mary or “Servite” order, without naming him, told them about the spiritual and psychological damage done to him by a priest of the Servites. Bland is now a clinical psychologist helping abuse victims for the Archdiocese of Chicago and the man who molested him when he was a teenager, Dr. John M. Huels, is scheduled to give a lecture to the Canadian Canon Law Society at their annual meeting […]

TORONTO, September 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The rule that Truth is scarier than fiction, seems to have been largely lost on Hollywood along with most other guidelines for quality filmmaking. An implausible film cannot frighten. But The Exorcism of Emily Rose is different in that it followed the rule. It broke not once from the evidence of real demonic possession and the theological rules governing it. Most people will compare Emily Rose with The Exorcist, the controversial 1973 film that was also based on recorded accounts of real exorcisms. But for anyone who likes a good supernatural thriller it might […]

Bush declares Sept. 16 national day of prayer and remembrance for the nationhttps://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=21571  Louisiana churches link arms in reliefhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46204 Report: Louisiana blocked Red Cross https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46224 Analyst: Local, State Officials Given ‘Pass’ on Katrina; Media Place Blame on Bush Insteadhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/72005d.asp Judge Overturns Supermajority Vote Favoring Transfer of Memorial Cross to Fedshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/72005e.asp Study Finds Liberal Viewpoints Predominant Among U.S. Law Professorshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/72005f.asp Subsidiarity and the New Orleans Tragedyhttps://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=29978 Canada’s Liberal government to avoid confidence measureshttps://www.canada.com/national/story.html?id=3cd0aa86-bd2f-4422-931f-6dd5c0219a11 One-Worlder Maurice Strong took tainted cheque, inquiry findshttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050908/OIL08/International/Idx Quebec passes law eliminating Catholic instruction in public schools https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4826 Group Lists Best and Worst in Family-Friendly Advertising https://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0037787.cfm U.S. […]

WASHINGTON, September 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, the bishop of the US Catholic Military Archdiocese and the prelate picked to lead the official investigation of the US Catholic seminaries has told Catholic News Service that even celibate homosexuals ought not to be ordained. “I think anyone who has engaged in homosexual activity, or has strong homosexual inclinations, would be best not to apply to a seminary and not to be accepted into a seminary,” said O’Brien. O’Brien is also known for his strong and outspoken views on abortion and, being a bishop without a territorial diocese, is in […]

MADRID, September 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Only 22 same-sex “marriages” have been registered in Spain since the law was introduced July compared to the 35,000 heterosexual marriages that took place in the same period. The lack of interest in “marriage” by same-sex couples has one writer commenting that the move was a bust. “The so-called need for legalizing homosexual marriages in Spain has one big problem. Hardly anybody wanted it – that is except the politicians,” writes Spero News writer Robert Duncan. Duncan quotes from the Spanish newspaper La Razon, which contacted Spanish marriage registries in order to compile their […]

CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 8, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recent study, just published in the American Journal of Health Behaviour, shows that “abstinence-until-marriage” programs have produced encouraging results among middle school students in Greater Cleveland. The study was conducted by surveying 2,069 grade seven and eight students that had participated in the school-based program called “For Keeps”, run by Operation Keepsake in Mayfield, OH. The program consists of five 40 minute sessions. The sessions stress abstinence-until-marriage, presents virginity as a “gift” that should be shared in marriage and emphasizes the dangers of teen pregnancy and sexual diseases, including HIV. Those students […]

Gay activist group vows to intimidate all signers of petition to approve the ballot

STAFFORD,Virginia, September 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League’s STOPP International emphasized that Planned Parenthood is “undeserving of any public support” as evidenced by its callous exploitation of the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina for its own financial gain. “America is in the grips of what could be the worst natural disaster in its history, and all Planned Parenthood can think of is how to get its hands on the money pouring in for rescue operations,” said Jim Sedlak, STOPP International’s executive director. On its national web site, Planned Parenthood urges people to donate to Hurricane Katrina relief. The fine print […]

LOS ANGELES, September 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced through his press secretary late Wednesday that he would be vetoing the gay ‘marriage’ legislation which received final passage in the Assembly Thursday. The announcement noted that his decision to veto the law comes in response to the public expression against homosexual ‘marriage’ in 2000 when 61% of Californians voted to support Proposition 22 – the Defense of Marriage Act. However, the statement from Gubernatorial Press Secretary Margita Thompson also indicates that the Governor would be open to the courts redefining marriage and thereby imposing it on the […]

Silver Lining to Hurricane tragedyhttps://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU05I04&f=PG03I03 PR Compassion – Hurricane Katrina Reliefhttps://www.prccompassion.org/ Operation Share Your Home Helping Hurricane Victimshttps://www.shareyourhome.org/ Louisiana Officials Could Lose the Katrina Blame Gamehttps://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=Nationarchive200509NAT20050907a.html Louisiana Officials in Flood-Money Scamhttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/6/222032.shtml Harper dares Liberals to test poll popularity with election callhttps://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050906/ca_pr_on_na/harper_shakeup Latest FEMA outrage has 1,400 firefighters in sex-harassment traininghttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46179 Sacrificing Humans to the Condom Gods – UN’s Stephen Lewis – “in Africa, marriage can be dangerous to women’s health”https://www.thefactis.org/default.aspx?control=ArticleMaster&aid=214&authid=9 Corrupt and blundering: Saddam oil inquiry savages UNhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/07/wun07.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/09/07/ixworld.html How God is a Dilemma for CNN and a Consolation for Almost Everyone Elsehttps://www.thefactis.org/default.aspx?control=ArticleMaster&aid=216&authid=10 A Homily on the federal legislation on so-called […]

Homosexual activists celebrate the announcement

Henry Hyde calls scandal "criminal"

SAN FRANCISCO, September 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A California appeals court reduced the punitive damages a confrontationalÂanti-abortion group must pay to a coalition of abortionists and their Planned Parenthood affiliates to $4.73 million, down from the original $108 million originally awarded after a jury in the 1999 case found the American Coalition of Life Activists guilty of inciting violence. The case involved a campaign initiated by several anti-abortion individuals that sought information on abortionists who were suspected of injuring patients. Posters drawn up for the information gathering campaign looked like “wanted” posters and gave rise to the lawsuit by Planned […]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, September 7,(LifeSiteNews.com) – Many people in different countries work tirelessly and ceaselessly to protect the unborn, and the question is often asked “at what cost”. Apparently no price is too high for Archbishop Cardinal Jorge Beroglio of Buenos Aires. While encouraging Catholics to defend the unborn against abortion the Cardinal made it clear that they should strive for justice even if“they persecute or kill you.” As in many other predominantly Catholic South American countries, Argentina is engaged in a debate over the legalization of abortion that is being sought by NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) and various government officials, […]

BEIJING, September 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chinese authorities arrested yesterday an activist who campaigned against the country’s forced abortion policy – a measure aimed at preventing the man from meeting with sympathizers in the ruling Communist regime. Chen Guangcheng, 34, a blind farmer from the rural region near the city of Linyi, initiated a class-action suit against the government after a concentrated effort to implement the country’s forced-abortion policy began in the region in March. The policy requires that parents with two children be sterilized, and that women pregnant with a third be forcibly aborted. Family members of pregnant women […]

WASHINGTON, DC, September 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking at the National Press Club Tuesday, former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork said that the likelihood that the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision permitting abortion would be overturned within the next ten years is “virtually nil.” Speaking of Bush Supreme Court nominee John Roberts Bork said, “I simply do not know if he would vote to overturn constitutional mistakes of the past.” Nonetheless Bork contends that Roberts is the best conservatives could hope for.“They’re not going to get any better nominees through,” he said. Bork also expressed criticism of the courts, […]

SACRAMENTO, September 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As recently as August 2004, the California Supreme Court was nullifying homosexual partnerings that had been recognized illegally in San Francisco. The Court’s argument was that state law defined marriage as the exclusive union of a man and a woman. As of this week, however, that statute will no longer stand in the way of homosexual activists working to abolish traditional marriage. California lawmakers became the first to pass a full-fledged homosexual “marriage” law yesterday, after the Assembly confirmed 41-35 the bill passed in the Senate last Thursday. Gov. Schwarzenegger now has 30 days […]

Rehnquist never succumbed to the prevailing fashionhttps://www.nationalreview.com/editorial/editors200509050908.asp How to help hurricane Katrina victimshttps://www.nationalreview.com/comment/woods200509011557.asp New Orleans Bishop: I’m convinced that God is going to purify us through thishttps://www.spiritdaily.com/neworleanspriests.htm How could this happen in America?https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46151 Don’t Blame Bush for Katrinahttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/4/151327.shtml Some evacuees see religious message in Katrinahttps://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=globalNews&storyID=2005-09-04T180203Z_01_BAU462115_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHURCH.xml The Coming Battle Over New Orleans: Toxic and unhealthyhttps://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200509021731.asp Who lost New Orleans?https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46147 They still try to carry on with ‘decadence’ paradehttps://apnews.myway.com/image/20050904/HURRICANE_KATRINA.sff_LAEG101_20050904173941.html?date=20050905&docid=D8CDRMSG2 Stemming the tide of internet pornhttps://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=147 Doctors are getting better at telling parents their baby has Down syndromehttps://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=148 Explaining the Battle against the Boy Scoutshttps://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=16614 Six U.S. Catholic universities have United Nations Children’s […]

BRUSSELS, September 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-family group has organized a march to protest a Belgian Parliament draft proposal to legalize homosexual adoption. Although Belgium has had legal same-sex “marriage” since 2003, the law currently does not permit adoption by same-sex partners. In addition, a birth within a same-sex “marriage” does not impute affiliation, thus the same-sex spouse of the biological parent has no way to legally claim parental ‘rights’. “Not only does the new proposed law undermine the traditional family at its core, but this also implies a complete disregard for the child’s right to a mother and […]

NEW ORLEANS, September 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexuals, a few of whom already marched Sunday, have rescheduled their planned Southern Decadence homosexual festival for tomorrow, despite the death and destruction left behind by hurricane Katrina last week. The event draws 125,000 homosexual revelers to New Orleans annually. The festival, a six-day festival highlighted by a parade on the Sunday before Labor Day, is a yearly event that “earned its reputation by being one of the most unapologetically racy exhibitions of gay life, where outlandish costumes and outdoor sex were the norm,” according to a sovo.com report. “The shocking callousness of […]

  LIMA, Peru, Sep. 06, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) A court injunction has been granted in Lima that will stop the distribution of the morning-after pill in that country. The injunction was granted in response to a petition filed by the “Association for the Struggle Against Corruption Without Compromise”, a non-governmental organization located in Peru. The Catholic News Agency is reporting that health authorities must suspend the distribution of the morning-after pill until such time as it is determined not to be an abortifacient. The Peruvian Health Minister, Pilar Mazzetti, must cease the practice of distributing the pill until “the implementation of […]

WASHINGTON, September 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US President George W. Bush ordered flags to half mast to observe a period of mourning for former Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who passed away from thyroid cancer Saturday. Rehnquist, who served on the court for a total of 33 years, 19 of those as Chief Justice, will be remembered by pro-lifers for his opposition to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the US. “Even today, when society’s views on abortion are changing, the very existence of the debate is evidence that the ‘right’ to an abortion […]

WASHINGTON, September 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US President George W. Bush today announced his nomination of Judge John Roberts to the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. “Judge Roberts has earned the nation’s confidence and I’m pleased to announce that I will nominate him to serve as the 17th chief justice of the Supreme Court,” President Bush said in a press conference at the oval office this morning. “I’m confident that the Senate can complete hearings and confirm him as chief justice within a month.” “Twenty-five years ago, John Roberts came to Washington as a clerk to Justice […]

WICHITA, Kansas, September 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women’s Health Care Services, the late-term abortion mill run by the notorious George R. Tiller was caught Friday, September 2, 2005 shredding hundreds of medical documents. The action occurred just days before oral arguments are to be heard by the Kansas Supreme Court on September 8 in the dispute between Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline and Tiller over Kline’s demand for medical records in his criminal investigations of child rape and possible illegal late term abortions. Operation Rescue witnessed and photographed two large trucks from Security Shredding & Recycling, Inc., parked in the […]

SEP. 2, 2005: Unfinest Hour – David Frumhttps://frum.nationalreview.com/ Katrina has nothing to do with global warming. Nothing.https://www.techcentralstation.com/083105JKG.html The Levee Breach Was All Bush’s Fault—And I Have A Bridge To Sell You https://www.redstate.org/story/2005/9/1/221441/6933 Is monogamy dead?https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9117931/#storyContinued Court Upholds Christian School’s Right to Fire ‘Gay’ Teacherhttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/8854/CFI/family/index.htm New Orleans had murder rate “nearly 10 times the national average” before Hurricane Katrinahttps://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8684 New Orleans Disaster – Perfect case of government failure https://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=8faab9b8-c820-43a9-985b-9f6809d63afd An Attack on Naval Academy’s Mealtime Gracehttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/8828/CFI/freedom/index.htm Air Force Academy gives up pregame prayerhttps://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/sports/12536006.htm California Senate OKs same-sex marriage: 1st legislative body in U.S. to approve homosexual matrimonyhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46097

DUBLIN, Ireland, September 2, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) –Ireland’s Attorney General has reportedly cleared the way for homosexual couples living in Ireland to adopt children. AG Rory Brady has put forward a new interpretation of the Adoption Act which makes it clear that homosexuals can be considered as adoptive parents. The impact of this interpretation was quickly felt when a lesbian couple promptly applied to adopt a child that they have been fostering for a number of years. According to an article in the Irish Independent, the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) has confirmed the existence of the bid by the […]

BERN, Switzerland, September 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A panel of experts has concluded that there is no reason to exclude a controversial piece of “art”– depicting the head of an unborn baby grafted onto the body of a bird – from a collection of Chinese works on display in a Swiss museum, with one legal expert claiming opposition to the piece is a matter of “taste.” The piece was removed from the Mahjong art exhibit at the Bern Fine Art Museum after a visitor filed a complaint last month with Bern’s District Attorney. “I want to know where this baby […]

SACRAMENTO, September 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California Senate voted Thursday to legalize same-sex “marriage,” despite a state-wide plebiscite – Proposition 22, the Defense of Marriage Act –which the people of California had approved and therefore already decided the issue during the 2000 general election. Passage of Thursday’s measure makes California’s Senate the first legislative body in the US to approve homosexual “marriages.” The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act, which redefines the civil definition of marriage as between two persons rather than a man and a woman, passed by a margin of 21-15, the minimum necessary for a […]

NEW DELHI, September 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Indian health officials gave the go-ahead for sales of the abortifacient morning-after pill without a prescription there Wednesday. Although no official announcement was made to the public, manufacturers were contacted by the office of the Drugs Controller of India about the change. The pills are sold in India under the generic names of “No-preg” and “72-pills,” because the abortifacient must be taken within 72 hours of intercourse. tv

SYDNEY, September 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In August, Australian Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson told reporters that the theory of Intelligent Design (ID), would have a place alongside Darwinian evolution in schools. The announcement has raised the fury of secularists in the education and scientific communities and received the approval of Sydney’s Catholic Archbishop, George Cardinal Pell. So far, one school has taken up the challenge and is planning on including ID in this year’s curriculum. Pacific Hills Christian School is ready to offer both theories in either its religion or science classes giving students opportunity to critically examine the […]

Will not pay fines or write apology should decision go against him

Three profs supported euthanizing Terry shiavo

NEW YORK, NY, September 2, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The national director of Priests for Life, Fr. Frank Pavone, issued a statement today praising the courage of a victim of botched “abortion.” Melanie Mills revealed her story on a radio station in St. Louis, Missouri, which was met with a lawsuit from abortionist Yogendra Shaw from the Hope Clinic in Granite City, IL. Ms. Mills had not been given a pregnancy test prior to the abortion, only later to realize she was never pregnant; she was suffering from a blighted ovum. Fr. Pavone stated that “Thank God for the willingness of […]

Defense attorney feared case could "give reproductive rights a big push backwards"

TORONTO, September 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – InÂhis thought-provoking editorial in September’s Catholic Insight magazine, editor Rev. Alphonse de Valk puts the same-sex “marriage” onslaught into a perspective that perhaps many have been thinking but have not voiced. Writing about the recent enactment of gay “marriage” legislation in Canada, Fr. de Valk writes, “But let us not be despondent. Instead, let us set this latest defeat in its proper context so that at least we may understand what we are facing.” The editorial quotes the Roman Catechism (Council of Trent, 1546) as teaching that “the general judgment will be preceded by […]

Pro-Life Group Poses Five Questions for John Robertshttps://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=Nationarchive200509NAT20050901b.html Same-sex marriage showdown in Californiahttps://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46081 FDA Official Quits Over Plan B Pill Delayhttps://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/08/31/D8CAUKI04.html Vatican Document on Gay Priests Up in Airhttps://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-vatican-gay-priests,0,3218724.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines Clinton Sex Scandal Ready for Broadwayhttps://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/30/182234.shtml Canada puts up front of Public Consultation in Supreme Court patronage posthttps://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050830/ca_pr_on_na/scoc_casting_call Age of Vatican officials fuels talk of Curia overhaul https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=39309 Chinese researcher warns Moral Chaos as nude Web chatrooms proliferatehttps://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050830/ca_pr_on_od/china_naked_chatrooms FDA Official Quits Over Plan B Pill Delayhttps://www.breitbart.com/index.cgi?id=2005-08-31_D8CAUKI04&show_article=1 California Catholic Bishops In Support Of Proposition 73: Parental Notification Prior To Minors’ Abortionshttps://www.cacatholic.org/docsppr/BishopsPNIStatement.pdf Suit to Allow Gay Marriage in Maryland Arguedhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/30/AR2005083001706.html Michael Schiavo to […]

NEW ORLEANS, September 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The popular adage, “there are no atheists in the trenches” sums up the truth that in times of disaster it is natural for people to turn to God, for help and also for an explanation. The devastation wrought by hurricane Katrina has brought that reality home to the United States, particularly in the affected regions. Yesterday Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco called for a state-wide day of prayer. “As we face the devastation wrought by Katrina, as we search for those in need, as we comfort those in pain and as we begin the […]

HOUSTON, September 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Red Cross has volunteer teams with food, water, emergency shelters and medicine and is working around the clock to help the people struck by Hurricane Katrina. The Catholic Charities is there too, as is the National Guard, the Salvation Army and nearly every other humanitarian assistance organization imaginable, bringing every sort of assistance to the people left homeless and dazed by Katrina’s incredible fury. Thousands of individuals, organizations and commercial companies are donating time, material resources and cash in an international effort to help as quickly as possible. Planned Parenthood, founded by an […]

PHOENIX, AZ, September 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since being installed in the Phoenix diocese, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted has become something of a celebrity for pro-life and pro-family forces. In a time when definitive action and spiritual courage are rarities, Olmsted has proven a beacon of light in the darkness, joining a thorough doctrinal soundness with a deep spiritual compassion and personal courage, making him an ideal pastor and teacher. In an interview with IgnatiusInsight.com, bishop Olmsted addressed some of the more contentious issues that have been the focus of his ministry, and for which he has often received criticism […]

TORONTO, Ontario, September 1, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an era of increasingly large and impersonal global corporations it becomes difficult to know what and whom to trust. Some corporations are engaged in highly unethical practices while others attempt to take the high moral road in their business dealings. With more individuals desiring to boycott the bad, and support the good, accurate information is not only vitally important but also difficult to obtain. Tony Gosgnach of The Interim, a monthly pro-life newspaper published in Toronto (along with its on-line component), provides just such information in a section entitled Corporate Watch Update, […]

"I am also a refugee," Hughes said

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, September 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Utah Supreme Court heard Tuesday the case of a mother who wants a lower court decision granting parental standing to her former partner, a lesbian, overturned. “I am here to protect my child,” Cheryl Barlow said. “That’s the only reason.” In a courtroom with standing room only, Barlow’s attorney argued that, “This case is about the right of a natural mother to decide what is best for her child. My client decided what she thought was best for her 2-year-old child and left a relationship and a lifestyle,” said Alliance […]

Says "substantial increase in sexually transmitted diseases" resulted where pill allowed without prescription

TORONTO, August 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Civil Rights League today urged the federal government to stop funding anti-religious bigotry through its Status of Women Canada Department, or any other fund-granting agency. An Access for Information request by Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott recently found that Pro-CAN, the B.C. Pro-Choice Action Network, received $27,400 in fiscal 2004-05. League President Phil Horgan said that government should not be in effect subsidizing opinions and causes that the vast majority of Canadians would consider to be at best controversial  and at worst, insulting. Pro-CAN often employs vitriolic, anti-Christian language in its diatribes in […]

BOGATA, Colombia, September 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com/Catholic News Agency) – It is not just in Canada that the courts and media have been abused as a means of imposing immoral practices into national legislation. In the South American nation of Colombia, a former high-ranking official of the Justice Ministry, Rafael Nieto Loaiza, has accused abortion activists of using the country’s court system to impose abortion on a country that doesn’t want it. Nieto wrote in an article about efforts by a Colombian radical feminist activist to use a campaign of media trickery to sell abortion to Colombian courts and the public. […]