Articles for Month: October 2006

Pro-gay Catholic teachers' union applauds appointment of lesbian to education

Trend especially worries Homeschool Legal Defense Association

Organizers urge registering now for "Healing the Culture: A New Beginning!"

By Gudrun Schultz LONDON, United Kingdom, October 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – IVF drugs are dangerous for the health of mothers as well as babies, medical experts warned last week, and there is no clear evidence they increase a woman’s chance of conceiving. Hormone treatment during IVF procedures are intended to help stimulate egg production by the ovaries, to be collected artificially for petri-dish fertilization. The treatment leads to ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome in up to six percent of women, causing nausea, abdominal pain and bloating, and respiration problems, said a report published by Baby World October ninth. In some cases, […]

ANN ARBOR, MI, October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, yesterday sent a letter to city officials in Berkley, Michigan, offering to defend the City at no charge should the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sue the City over the nativity scene the City has included in its holiday display each December for the past sixty-five years. The Thomas More Law Center encouraged the City to keep the nativity scene as part of its annual holiday display. According to Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of […]

By Gudrun Schultz NANAIMO, British Columbia, October 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A blunt, compelling music video on YouTube produced by a Canadian disability rights advocate warns of the threat euthanasia poses to the aged, the ill and people living with disabilities. “Euthanasia Blues” is a seven-minute sequence of images with sung and illustrated original lyrics with a message about the inevitable deadly consequences of legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mwj8TUrbWg) “You might think that how you die/Should be your own choice/But if euthanasia becomes legal/Disabled people will lose their voice,” warns Norman Kunc, an educational consultant, family therapist and father […]

Only four out of nine justices would have had to vote to hear case

South African Constitution is anti-life, says cardinalhttps://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20061009061844999C128062 ‘Five pillars of Islam’ taught in public schoolhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52335 WashPost: Pro-Abortion Democrats Aren’t Liberal, They Fit In The ‘Party’s Mainstream’https://newsbusters.org/node/8200 Much At Stake In Mid-Term Electionshttps://ncregister.com/site/article/188 Bigger families gain in popularityhttps://www.washtimes.com/national/20061009-123833-4739r.htm South Dakota nears abortion ban votehttps://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/4244716.html Mom Accused of Swinging Baby As Weaponhttps://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/09/D8KL9F287.html Partial-Birth Abortion — Maintain the Focus – Fr. Frank Pavonehttps://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=26&art_id=34694 Councillor quits over gay ‘joke’https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/5415484.stm Christian arrested for picketing with Ten Commandments sign https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/62006c.asp Replacing Mom and Dadhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/92006a.asp House Passes Child Protection Bill But Could Be Ignored in the Senate.https://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2878 Homosexual agenda in Massachusetts schools only getting worse, reports local […]

By Hilary White TORONTO, October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A doctor and assistant professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Calgary is warning that a change in the rules defining death for purposes of organ donations could place patients in danger and ICU doctors in a conflict of interest. Dr. Christopher Doig, director of the intensive care unit at Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre, wrote in an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that allowing organs to be removed from patients after cardiac arrest could place vulnerable patients at risk. Currently Canada relies upon the “brain death” […]

By Gudrun Schultz LONDONDERRY, Ireland, October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women in Northern Ireland’s Londonderry and Belfast joined in a powerful witness to the devastation caused by abortion last weekend, standing with US pro-life advocate Georgette Forney in a rally giving voice to women who regret having an abortion. Forney was in Northern Ireland to address the issue of abortion, the Belfast Telgraph reported. The co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, Forney had an abortion at the age of 16. “It is my hope that, regardless of how you feel about abortion, you will listen to what we […]