Articles for Month: February 2008

By Hilary White   CANBERRA, February 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two jurisdictions in Australia are bringing forward legislation that would reinstate “medically-assisted voluntary euthanasia” in the island nation.   Senator Robert Brown, leader of the Green party, is introducing a private members’ bill in the Federal Parliament that would reinstate the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act in the Northern Territory. The Rights of the Terminally Ill Act, which permitted euthanasia, was initially passed in the Northern Territory in 1995, but was later overruled by a 1996 law.   At the same time, in the state of Victoria, Liberal MP […]

By John Connolly and John Jalsevac   JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, February 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Missouri judge has ruled in favor of a challenge, filed by the pro-life group Cures without Cloning, against language that was adopted by the Missouri Secretary of State for the ballot title of an anti-cloning amendment. The group claimed that the Secretary of State’s language for the amendment title, which they are attempting to have placed on the November 2008 ballot, was unfair and biased against the anti-cloning proposal.   Judge Patricia Joyce agreed with the group, and ruled that the ballot title, which […]

By John Connolly   HYANNIS, Massachusetts, February 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An abortionist responsible for the death of a 22-year-old woman permanently resigned his medical license in the United States on Wednesday. Dr. Rapin Osathanondh, a gynecologist from Massachusetts, relinquished his medical license in an effort to avoid an investigation by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine. Osathanondh was responsible for the death of Laura Hope Smith, a 22-year-old woman who went to Osathanondh’s clinic for an abortion on September 13, 2007.   Although early reports indicated that Laura Hope Smith died of hemorrhage from the abortion, her mother, […]

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman   LIMA, February 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Archbishop of Arequipa, Javier del Rio Alba, is denouncing a recent decision to create a “protocol” allowing abortions for virtually any reason in regional hospitals. Bishop Alba says the protocol is illegal and unconstitutional, according to the Catholic news service ACI Prensa.   According to the Archbishop, who is vice-president of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, the protocol will convert Arequipa into the “death capital” of the area and said that those who had collaborated in creating the protocol “should only be compared to Satan.” “The Regional Health […]

By Hilary White   NASHVILLE, February 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill meant to stop discussion of homosexuality in elementary and middle school classrooms in Tennessee has failed, but its sponsor insists it is necessary. State Representative Stacey Campfield, a Republican of Knoxville Tennessee, said that efforts around the country to bring such instruction into schools now require attention in Tennessee. The House Education K-12 Subcommittee voted to allow the state Board of Education to examine the bill, a move that Campfield said effectively killed it.   After the bill was defeated, Campfield continued to insist it is a necessary […]

TOPEKA, KS, February 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A subpoena issued by a citizen-called grand jury for abortion records in the custody of Attorney General Steve Six has been stayed by Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Kay McFarland.   The now-stayed subpoena asked for 60 abortion records that were obtained by former Attorney General Phill Kline in 2006, which have already had all patient identifying information redacted, and have been certified for release by the Supreme Court to investigative agencies of the Executive Branch. Some of those records are the basis for 19 criminal charges of illegal late-term abortions that Tiller […]

By Hilary White   MOSCOW, February 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists have taken the authorities of the city of Moscow to the European Court of Human Rights for their refusal to allow the so-called “Gay Pride” parades that have become an annual feature of urban life in most western countries. “I am absolutely certain of our final victory in Strasburg,” organiser Nicolas Alexeyev told Interfax.   The first attempt to hold the homosexual march in 2006 was met with flat refusal by authorities. Mayor Luzhkov, a chairman and one of the founders of the ruling United Russia party, said […]

By John-Henry Westen   OTTAWA, February 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  It seems playing a key role in legalizing homosexual ‘marriage,’ over the objections of a majority of Canadians, is one way to get named to the Order of Canada, Canada’s most prestigious award.   Governor General Michaëlle Jean will give the nation’s highest honor for ‘lifetime achievement’ to former Prime Minister Jean Chretien, making him a Companion of the Order, on Friday February 22.  The notice that was sent out by the Governor General’s office, noting the award recipients and their major contributions to Canada, cited Chretien’s “legacy” of homosexual […]

By Hilary White   OTTAWA, February 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this month, LifeSiteNews.com reported that some Canadian abortion activists were stepping up efforts to have Dr. Morgentaler awarded Canada’s highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada, for his years of advocacy for legalizing abortion and for the thousands of abortions that he personally has performed. In a piece appearing in the Globe and Mail, several of Canada’s most prominent abortion advocates proposed a public campaign to have Dr. Morgentaler awarded the Order of Canada. They said that the matter was especially urgent now that he is ill and not […]

Set to become third country in EU to legalize euthanasia