Articles for Month: February 2006

Harper Says Abortion "has not been my issue in my entire career"

By Gudrun Schultz and Steve Jalsevac CALGARY, Alberta, February 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of Calgary’s mainstream newspapers wants to see a limit on how far into pregnancies abortions may be done in Canada. In an editorial published on Sunday, Feb. 26, the Calgary Herald said it’s time Canada follows the example of most western nations in imposing some legal restrictions on abortions. The article relates the various limits of 12 to 24 weeks gestation in place in European nations as examples to emulate. “It is absurd that alone among its peers, Canadians cannot create a moderate, well-conceived law regulating […]

Canada’s Feds to discuss Senate elections this fall: Kleinhttps://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060227/klein_senate_060227/20060227?hub=TopStories&s_name= Ban on adoption by gays and lesbians is next target for U.S. Righthttps://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/26/wadopt26.xml Marriage activists headed for Colorado showdownhttps://washtimes.com/national/20060227-124635-3594r.htm No challenge to Roe foreseen in Texashttps://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3686132.html RU486 hits a new hurdle in Australiahttps://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0%2C5478%2C18273696%25255E662%2C00.html Lesbian Teacher, Suspected Sex Offender, Uses Post to Indoctrinatehttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/2/242006b.asp Homosexuals want deliverance – Record Crowd for St. Louis Love Won Out Eventhttps://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0039675.cfm Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Marriage – By Maggie Gallagherhttps://www.nationalreview.com/comment/gallagher200602230759.asp The U.N.‘s human-rights cure is worse than the disease.https://www.nationalreview.com/bayefsky/bayefsky200602241358.asp Comatose man wakes up to give daughter awayhttps://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=iol1140879164413C500 Continuing heartburn for ‘pro-choicers’https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48985 The Boston Globe: […]

By Gudrun Schultz MATTRAI, Pakistan, February 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A young woman was raped by three men in retribution for refusing to perform illegal abortions in a rural community in the western Punjab last Wednesday. Rubina Kousar, 26, worked as a nurse in the Mattrai health center. She refused to carry out abortions on two women, reported the Telegraph, despite six months of constant pressure from the women’s families. “In the past our staff have been subjected to this type of victimization for refusing to carry out illegal abortions, but they have not raised their voices for fear of […]

by Hilary White AUCKLAND, February 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New Zealand Catholic organization, Family Life International, has called broadcasters to task for showing an episode of the satirical animated series, South Park, that they say is libelous and blasphemously obscene. The programme, “Bloody Mary,” aired Wednesday Feb. 22nd and was brought to the country’s airwaves by Winnipeg, Canada-based CanWest Global Communications Corp. The program aired first in North America in December 2005, and received similar complaints in the US from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. The show is intended as a satire on the miraculous statue […]

Says tolerance for gays has "developed into suppression of majority heterosexual lifestyle"

By Terry Vanderheyden VATICAN CITY, February 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an address to a group discussing the human embryo, Pope Benedict XVI emphasized that “the love of God does not distinguish between the newly-conceived infant still in its mother’s womb, the baby, the youth, the grown adult or the elderly, because in each of them He sees the sign of His own image and likeness.” The Pope made his comments today before a Pontifical Academy for Life international congress on “the human embryo prior to implantation, scientific aspects and bioethical considerations.” The congress, which is being held to mark […]

By Gudrun Schultz VATICAN CITY, February 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Absent parents cause more harm to the mental health of their children than family violence, according to a new study by the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care (PCHPC). In a report on mental health research conducted by the Council, the lack of “parental figures of reference” was cited as the most significant family factor leading to the development of a mental disorder. Children who do not have solid parental figures in their lives are at far greater risk of developing mental illness as adults. The study found the second […]

By Hilary White and John-Henry Westen VATICAN, February 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On March 25, Pope Benedict XVI will elevate fifteen men to the College of Cardinals. Of the fifteen only twelve will be of an age to vote in the conclave for a new pope and thus the remainder are seen as honorific appointments. LifeSiteNews.com has compiled a short summary of pro-life and pro-family statements by those twelve. Those statements reveal that the Pope has placed a high priority on choosing Cardinals who have made a priority of defending the sacredness of life, the natural family and traditional Christian […]

by Hilary White WINNIPEG, February 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada decided that it will not hear a case brought by two women trying to force the Manitoba government to pay for abortion in private facilities. In December 2004, a Queen’s Bench judge ruled without trial that the province must pay for abortions in privately owned abortion mills. The Province appealed the decision, arguing that it violates the agreement that provinces may decide which procedures are medically necessary and must be covered by taxpayers. The appeals court overturned the Queen’s Bench decision saying that the case […]