Articles for Month: July 2006

By John Jalsevac TORONTO,  ON, July 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-abortion columnist writing for the National Post has followed the logic of pro-life arguments about the evils of embryonic stem cell research and concluded that, if true, then artificial reproduction techniques must also be considered murderous on the scale of genocide. “In short, if embryos are human beings with full human rights,  fertility clinics are death camps—with a side order of cold-blooded eugenics,” writes Michael Kinsley in an article entitled Where’s the Logic? “No one who truly believes in the humanity of embryos could possibly think otherwise.”   Kinsley […]

By Hilary White   LISBON, July 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A team of researchers from Hospital de Egas, Lisbon, Portugal and Wayne State University Medical School in Michigan, USA, have shown that stem cells taken from the olfactory mucosa can be used successfully to treat spinal cord injuries, even years after the injury occurred.   A report published by the American Paraplegia Society says that seven patients, ranging in age from 18 to 32 years, who suffered severe spinal cord injuries as much as six and half years before, were treated with stem-like progenitor and ensheathing cells derived from the olfactory mucosa.   […]

By Gudrun Schultz   NEW DELHI, India, July 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – India’s National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) has joined the efforts of activist organizations to decriminalize homosexual behaviour, saying the ban on homosexual activity is driving HIV/AIDS infections underground.   NACO, the regulatory government body responsible for efforts to control the spread of the infection, filed a statement in the Delhi High Court on Wednesday in support of a petition put forth by a local AIDS group that asks that the law against homosexual activity be lifted.   UNAID and other non-governmental organizations are also backing the decriminalization of […]

By Gudrun Schultz   FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, July 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Population control organizations, in particular the United Nations, are ignoring the growing crisis of an aging world population, said Joseph D’Agostino, vice president of the Population Research Institute, in a weekly briefing today.   A report by the United Nations Population Division (UNDP), released in the fall of 2005, predicted an accelerating trend of population aging in developing nations that would surpass the rapid aging trend already underway in Western nations. “The UNDP expects the aging, predicted to begin in earnest mid-century in Asia, the Middle East, and […]

By Gudrun Schultz BRUSSELS,  Germany, July 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Germany is working to influence members of the European Union to join together to try to block EU funding for embryonic stem-cell research, Reuters reported yesterday.  “The European Union science programme should not be used to give financial incentives to kill embryos,” German Research Minister Annette Schavan wrote, in a letter seen by Reuters. “The current proposal from the European Commission and the European Parliament does not rule this out.”   A proposal by Finland, the country currently holding the EU rotating presidency, would permit funding for research on embryonic […]

Health Canada Approves Vaccine against cervical cancer https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060719.wxhvaccine19/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home Top Hollywood Stars Donated to Sen. Hillary Clintonhttps://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/19/D8IVCDHOF.html Study: 19 minutes – how long working parents give their childrenhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=396609&in_page_id=1770 UK Paedophiles face cancelled bank and credit cards https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5194150.stm Mexico Communist Presidential Loser pondering civil disobedience, as his advisor hints at violencehttps://www.angus-reid.com/analysis/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=12591 Oregon Pharmacists being Forced to Refer for Abortifacient Pillshttps://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0604056.htm Ethical Alternatives Stem Cells – Keeping a focus on ethics in medical researchhttps://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWU4MDI0NmUzZThhNWM3ODdmZTRiZGRhODY4N2I1NmE= Illegal New Zealand abortion pill trader jailed https://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10392092 Amnesty International should not take position on abortion, says pro-abortion advocatehttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7202

By Hilary White   WASHINGTON, July 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Internal Revenue Service of the US has issued a warning to churches that it will not wait until tax return time to go after churches that the agency judges to be indulging in political campaigning.   As in Canada, the US keeps close restrictions against direct involvement of churches in political campaigns, using the threat against the churches’ tax-exempt status as the stick.   The Associated Press reports that more than 15,000 tax-exempt organizations received the notices. The agency’s new enforcement program, called the Political Activity Compliance Initiative, will rely upon complaints […]

By Hilary White   DUBLIN, July 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Charges have been dismissed against two pro-life demonstrators in Dublin who were arrested for displaying signs depicting aborted babies at a picket. The two were charged in April with provoking a breach of the peace.   According to the charges made by the arresting Gardai, Donal O’Driscoll and Colm Callanan had displayed “… a visible representation which was threatening, abusive, insulting or obscene with intent to provoke a breach of the peace…”   The placards read: “There are no nice pictures of an abortion,” and included a photo of a baby of viable […]

By Hilary White  WARSAW,  July 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The confirmation of the appointment of Jaroslaw Kaczynski as Prime Minister of Poland by his twin brother,  President Lech Kaczynski, has left the mainstream media breathless with shock. The Times Online called the brothers “bizarre” for their vociferous opposition to abortion and the homosexual political movement.   The Times objected that the appointment “will accentuate the country’s status as one of the most awkward members of the European Union.”   What seems to have given the Times and other news outlets their bout of journalistic indigestion was the acceptance speech in which the […]

By Peter J. Smith UNITED STATES, July 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Education Association’s (NEA) endorsement of same-sex “marriage” has lead a number of teachers to consider alternative organizations to the powerful liberal teachers union for job insurance and legal aid,  according to Agape Press.   As Agape Press reports, the NEA’s pursuit of an anti-family agenda and its promotion of homosexual “marriage” has caused an upsurge in the numbers of conservative, Christian, and pro-family educators looking for alternatives to the liberal teachers union. Just one day after the American Family Association (AFA) warned its members that the NEA […]