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Russia Questions Widespread Abortion, Population Decline

MOSCOW, August 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Russian legislators are bringing forward new legislation to limit the high abortion rate that is decimating the country’s population. The former Soviet Union was the world’s first nation to legalize abortion in 1920.  Abortion was the favourite “birth control” method during Soviet rule, and Russia still has one of the world’s highest abortion rates: twice as many babies are aborted in Russia as are born.  President Vladimir Putin has called Russia’s dramatic population decline “a creeping catastrophe.” What’s more, Russian authorities are admitting that some abortions have adverse consequences for a woman’s health.  “Artificial […]
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New Brunswick Catholic Bishops Take Out Ad in Paper to Air Views on Marriage

MONCTON, NB, August 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The four Catholic bishops of the province of New Brunswick took out a newspaper advertisement Tuesday to publicize their position on same-sex ‘marriage’.  The statement, which is signed by Most Rev. J. Faber MacDonald, Bishop of Saint John; Most Rev. André Richard, Archbishop of Moncton; Most Rev. François Thibodeau, Bishop of Edmundston; and Most Rev. Valéry Vienneau, Bishop of Bathurst endorses a similar letter issued by the permanent council of the CCCB (see the LifeSite coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/jun/03062002.html )  “We are in complete agreement with Reverend Berthelet’s remarks,” the New Brunswick bishops stated, “and […]
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Homosexual ‘Marriage’ Hearings, Ignored by Ottawa Cost $250,000

OTTAWA, August 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Taxpayers are paying $250,000 and counting for the Liberal government’s public hearings on same-sex ‘marriage, even though it appears the government had decided to legalize homosexual ‘marriage before the committee even submitted its findings.  “Our report was totally pre-empted by the government,” said committee member and Liberal MP Pat O’Brien, who opposes homosexual ‘marriage’ and believes the whole exercise was a charade. “The process was farcical.”  Justice Minister Martin Cauchon requested the hearings last year after the Ontario court ruling that said homosexuals are entitled to marriage under the equality provisions of the Charter […]
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LifeSite NewsBytes

Vietnamese Bishop Paul Tinh Nguyen Binh Tinh of Da Nang Has condemned allowance of in vitro fertilization (Based on Union of Catholic Asian News report VT4057, May 28)  Plea to Halt Abortionist Shooter Paul Hill’s September 3 Execution Rejected by Justices http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030828/NEWS/308280437/1003/news01   Madison Wisconsin Catholic Bishop Leads Prayer Vigil Outside Abortuary http://www.prolifewisconsin.org/actiondetails.asp?actionID=41   Dr. Dobson Goes to Alabama To Support Judge Moore Dr. James Dobson said the battle in Alabama is not about the Ten Commandments. “It is mostly about the appointed but un-elected and non-accountable, arrogant, imperious judiciary that is determined to shove their wishes down our throats,” […]
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Colombian Senate Defeats Bill to Give Homosexual Couples Marriage Benefits

BOGOTA, August 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill to grant homosexual couples benefits belonging to married couples failed in the Columbian Senate by a vote of 55-32.  The initiative, promoted by the co-director of the Liberal Party, was voted down despite support from three ex-presidents of the country.  Conservative Senator Enrique Gómez Hurtado, who fought the measure, said it was a “foolish and immoral exercise to try to equate marriage between a man and a woman to the union between a couple of the same sex.”  Prior to the vote on the legislation the Catholic Bishops warned against the legislation […]
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U.S. Cuts Off Funding For Marie Stopes Group For Supporting China Forced Abortion

WASHINGTON, August 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. State Department has cut funding to Marie Stopes International in response to the organization’s association with China’s coercive one-child population control programme. Marie Stopes, an international pro-abortion group akin to International Planned Parenthood, carries out abortions in many of its centres around the world, targeting especially third world countries.  The State Department found that Marie Stopes works as a partner with the United Nations Population Fund in China.  U.S. law forbids public funding of groups which are involved with coercive birth control and forced abortion. The latest funding cut came to an […]
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