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Presidential Hopeful Governor Howard Dean Said to Misunderstand Origins of Homosexual Behaviour

ENCINO, CA, January 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Governor Howard Dean’s recent comments on homosexuality evidence a lack of understanding about the origins of same-sex attractions and the psychological and physical problems associated with homosexual behaviour,” said Dr. A. Dean Byrd today. Dr. Byrd is a Scientific Advisory Committee member of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality.  Dr. Byrd’s statement comes in the wake of Dr. Dean’s widely quoted remarks in the Washington Post that, “From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people….The overwhelming evidence […]
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U.S. Archbishop Burke Orders Priests to Refuse Communion for Anti-Life Politicians

LA CROSSE, Wisconsin, January 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, of the La Crosse Diocese, has issued an official order stating that politicians who support abortion or euthanasia are to be refused Holy Communion.  The notification, published yesterday in the diocesan paper The Catholic Times begins by quoting extensively from authoritative Vatican documents explaining that support for abortion by Catholic politicians is gravely sinful. The key paragraphs in the notification read:  “I hereby call upon Catholic legislators, who are members of the faithful of the Diocese of La Crosse, to uphold the natural and divine law regarding the […]
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Archbishop Burke Issues Pastoral Letter Saying Right to Life is Most Important Political Issue

LA CROSSE, January 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, of the La Crosse Diocese, has issued a pastoral letter in which he clearly explains that life issues such as abortion and euthanasia take precedence over any other political considerations.  The letter states, “Some will say that the defence of innocent life is only one issue among many, that it is important but not fundamental. They are wrong. In the natural moral law, the good of life is the most fundamental good and the condition for the enjoyment of all other goods.”  Quoting Pope John Paul II, the Archbishop […]
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The Difference between Artificial Contraception and Natural Family Planning

OTTAWA, January 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Often it is heard that artificial contraception does not fit with the philosophy of the culture of life, but birth regulation by natural family planning (NFP) does.  Many have asked why that is so, especially for non-abortifacient contraceptives such as the condom, when the end result is the same.  Christopher West, a world-renowned expert on the “Theology of the Body”, explained the difference during a talk near Ottawa Tuesday. West said that the difference was in taking God’s authority over life into one’s own hands.  West, a professor of sexual ethics in the St. John […]
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Prime Minister Working on Civil Union Proposal for Canadian Supreme Court Review

OTTAWA, January 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The CBC is reporting that Prime Minister Paul Martin is working with senior advisors on a same-sex marriage ‘compromise’ strategy of recognizing civil unions.  The proposal is to be finalized Friday before being presented to the cabinet.  The proposal will then be submitted to the Supreme Court for review along with the same-sex marriage legislation proposed by the Liberal government under Jean Chretien.  The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in the reference case April 16.  It is widely speculated that there will be an election in the spring of 2004 which may […]
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Stem Cell Bill to be Reintroduced – Pro-Lifer to be Interim Leader of Conservative Party

OTTAWA, January 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A spokesman for Prime Minister Paul Martin told reporters yesterday he would reintroduce stem cell omnibus bill C-13. The bill will come back at the Senate stage having already passed the House. Even though the spokesman said the bill was a priority, he was unsure of its passage given the tight timeline prior to the election being called. “This one is also at the top of the list but there is a batting order,” said Lague. “There is a timing issue. Your guess is as good as mine right now (whether it will pass).” […]
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Ten Years Later Evidence Points to Abortion as Motive Behind Bobbitt Mutilation

SPRINGFIELD, IL, January 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ten years ago, on January 10, 1994, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial for the “malicious wounding” of her husband’s manhood with an eight-inch kitchen knife. After an eleven day trial, she was acquitted on grounds of temporary insanity. On the tenth anniversary of this internationally watched trial, the Elliot Institute is releasing a special report on the case, entitled “The John and Lorena Bobbitt Mystery, Unraveled” that reveals surprising new information on the case. According to Dr. David Reardon, author of the Elliot Institute report, “All the evidence presented at Lorena’s trial supports […]
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Father of Unnecessarily Aborted Twins Sues Hospital for Negligence

SAN FRANCISCO, January 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In 2003, a Kaiser Permanente hospital obstetrician-gynaecologist misdiagnosed Jennifer Jewell as having an ectopic tubal pregnancy, for which she was prescribed a drug to abort her and husband Robert Ferro’s twin babies.  In a follow-up appointment, a different OB-GYN did an ultrasound and found that Jewell’s pregnancy was not ectopic, but that she had been carrying live twins. By then, the drug had aborted the foetuses and she was required to undergo surgery to remove their remains.  Ferro and Jewell filed a malpractice claim against Kaiser for its negligence; Jewell was given compensation, […]
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Teenage Abortion Rate Increased in Netherlands

AMSTERDAM, January 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Dutch newspaper Trouw reported Friday that the number of teens aged 15 to 19 undergoing abortions has risen by 1,000 from 4,400 in 2002 to 5,400 last year. A similar trend was notable in girls aged 13 to 14, with a doubling of abortion rates in that group between 2002 and 2003.  Abortionist Hanneke Bolt told Trouw that “Girls of 15, 16 years, we see at least one every day. And if I ask why she didn’t use a condom, she says, ‘I don’t know.’”  Bolt also told Trouw she felt the “only […]
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