Articles for Month: October 2005

WASHINGTON, October 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Bush today nominated Harriet Miers to the United States Supreme Court to fill the seat of retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Harriet Miers, 60, is a longtime friend and adviser to President Bush. She represented him while he was Governor of Texas and has been serving as White House counsel, succeeding Alberto Gonzales who left that post to become Attorney General. In her role as White House counsel,ÂMiers has been instrumental in assisting the President in choosing and winning confirmation for judicial nominees. Previously, Ms. Miers was the first woman to lead a […]

BIRMINGHAM, October 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A police raid on a Birmingham brothel, where women from 10 different countries were forced into prostitution against their will, highlights the real loophole behind the modern slave trade – legal “sex trade” or prostitution. A special task force of female officers led 19 women out of the Cuddles massage parlour in Birmingham Thursday. It was later discovered that an electric fence at rear prevented the women from escape; other evidence of forced sex-trade labour included firearms and batons. Three persons were later charged with operating a brothel and with firearms offences. A police […]

LAPEER, Michigan, October 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Euthanasia campaigner Dr. Jack Kevorkian, in an interview from prison, said he would not perform euthanasia if his 10-25 year second-degree murder conviction for killing a 52-year-old man in 1998 is commuted by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm before he is eligible for parole in 2007. Known as Dr. Death for his euthanasia of dozens of sick and disabled persons, Kevorkian demonstrated his recalcitrance describing the reason for his incarceration as a “so-called crime.” When asked by MSNBC’s Rita Cosby what he would say to the Michigan governor if he knew she was watching […]

MONTREAL, October 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A lesbian woman from Quebec has won a human rights suit she filed after being denied in-vitro fertilization allegedly because of her sexual orientation, forcing the hospitalÂclinic to pay her $19,000. Helen Zylberszac charged that the McGill reproductive centre in Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital allegedly denied her IVF treatment in 2002 because she was not accompanied by a male partner. “One of the doctors said if I had of shown up with a man, they would have treated me,” she told CTV News. The Quebec Human Rights Commission decreed that the hospital pay her […]

OTTAWA, October 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A common Canadian political reality is the prevalence among federal politicians of ‘nominal’ Catholicism. In other words, Canada harbours many federal politicians who hypocritically enjoy the public esteem and respectability of calling themselves Catholic – often adding the self-appointed epithet “devout”– and love to be seen during election campaigns receiving communion from prominent bishops, but deny the Catholic religious tenets as it suits their political ambitions. A particular case in point is the current Prime Minister, Paul Martin, who has presided over the passage of some of the most socially destructive legislation in Canada’s […]