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CANADA MOVING FROM ‘NON’-RELIGIOUS TO ‘ANTI’-RELIGIOUS Ted Byfield writes in his weekly Edmonton Sun column that Canada “is not becoming a non-religious country but an anti-religious one, a very different phenomenon.”  http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/byfield.html   CHINA DOCTORS USING OVA FROM ABORTED BABIES TO TREAT MENOPAUSE SYNDROME http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200205/19/eng20020519_96019.shtml   CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP USES HUMOUR TO POINT OUT UNNATURAL NATURE OF HOMOESXUALITY Australia’s Catholic Archbishop George Pell refused communion to gay activists yesterday, explaining “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve and important consequences follow from this.”  http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&story_id=150010&subclass=national
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CALIFORNIA SENATE APPROVES BILL ALLOWING SOME NURSES TO PRESCRIBE RU-486   http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/3284713.htm   COLLEGES RECRUITING HOMOSEXUAL STUDENTS A growing number of American colleges are actively recruiting homosexual students in a deliberate attempt to socially engineer “diverse freshman classes,” the Boston Globe reports.  http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/141/metro/College_recruiters_look_to_gays+.shtml   CHURCH STOPPED HOMOSEXUAL PRIEST’S ABUSE ONLY AFTER PUBLIC PROSECUTION The post-Vatican II breakdown of doctrine and discipline in the Roman Catholic Church continues to scandalize believers and non-believers alike. In one case, only public prosecution stopped a homosexual priest from preying on further victims, says an extensive Washington Post article.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47940-2002May20.html   17 US CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES […]
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ONTARIO’s NEW GOVERNMENT: MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN CONSERVATIVE

LifeSite Special Report   TORONTO, May 16, 2002 (lsn.ca) – In the recent leadership race, say Ontario Progressive Conservatives, the party faced a clear choice between (a.) adopting moderate positions that would shift the party towards the political centre, and (b.) adhering to the proven election-winning formula of staking out bold positions on the right.  Former deputy premier Jim Flaherty was slow at first to take strong conservative stances, particularly on life issues, notes Jim Hughes,  president of Campaign Life Coalition. But the Flaherty campaign eventually did so with increasing strategic acumen during the race, climbing from 6% support in […]
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ABORTION OPPONENTS LOSE APPEAL OVER CHARGES OF VIOLENCE

CALIFORNIA, May 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A federal appeals court ruled against activists who had produced Wild-West Wild West-style posters and a Web site condemning abortionists. They decided that this tactic amounted to illegal threats, not free speech. The same court came to the opposite decision last year, and this time around the court was sharply divided, issuing a 6-5 decision. At the same time, the federal court ordered a lower-court judge to reduce the $108.5 million in punitive damages awarded by a Portland, Ore., jury.  The case came to court when four doctors, claiming they feared for their lives, […]
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HEALTH CANADA HAS “NO RECORDS” SHOWING ABORTION IS NECESSARY OR RISKY

OTTAWA, May 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Canadian Alliance M.P. Garry Breitkreuz has been told by Health Canada that the department has no statistics on whether abortions are medically necessary or medically risky. On 23 April 2002, Breitkreuz submitted an Access to Information request asking for: “Copies of documents, reports and correspondence in the department with respect to the total death risk by women having an elective abortion compared to women carrying their baby to term.” Health Canada’s reply, dated May 9, 2002, says the department could find “no records relevant to your request.”  Breitkreuz got an identical response to his […]
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BELGIUM LEGALISES EUTHANASIA

BELGIUM, May 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Belgium partially legalized euthanasia yesterday, becoming the second country in the world after the Netherlands to sanction murder in specific circumstances under the guise of “mercy killings.” The bill, passed 86 to 51 with 10 abstentions, is expected to come into force in three months. The law allows a doctor to kill his patient if the person is terminally ill and suffering “constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain” from an accident or incurable illness, and if that patient requests death. The doctor must also be satisfied that the patient is “of age and […]
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ANTI-AMERICAN RADICALS AT UN CHILD SUMMIT HAD ULTERIOR MOTIVE

ANTWERP, BELGIUM, May 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-lifers will probably not be surprised to learn that a radical group of people who showed particular disrespect for Americans at the recent UN child summit had ulterior motives. Ipas distributes a portable abortion device called a manual vacuum aspirator, reports the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute today. The “website also directs potential buyers to a catalogue published by UNICEF that also sells MVAs,” C-Fam notes. (UNICEF claims that it does not support or promote abortion.) Outside of a very distorted definition of health, it would be hard to argue that Ipas’s […]
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CANADIAN SUPPORT DROPPING FOR HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS

OTTAWA, May 17, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The general population in Canada does not seem to be as zealous as it once was about advancing homosexual rights. A 1990 survey found that 81% of Canadians supported the statement: “homosexuals are entitled to the same rights as other Canadians.” A 2000 opinion poll saw that figure drop to 70%. The figures were release by University of Lethbridge sociologist and author Dr. Reg Bibby.  In an interview with The Ottawa Citizen, he suggested that in the wake of significant pro-homosexual legal and social reforms over the past decade, “there is some trepidation in […]
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UK TORIES REFUSED TO OPPOSE HOMOSEXUAL ADOPTION REFORMS

LONDON, May 17, 2002 (lsn.ca) – British Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith faced his first caucus revolt on Thursday as several Tory MPs refused to oppose the Labour government’s adoption legislation that will allow homosexual and unmarried couples to adopt children. Mr. Duncan Smith, who is leader of the opposition, tried to impose the strictest form of party discipline, arguing that the party must protect “vulnerable” children who could be adopted into “unstable” domestic situations. The law passed the House of Commons by 288 votes to 133, but is expected to receive strong opposition in the House of Lords.  […]
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ALMOST HALF OF CANADIANS BELIEVE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT IS CORRUPT   “Forty-five per cent of Canadians believe the Chrétien government is corrupt, according to a new poll by Pollara Inc., the Liberal party’s own pollster,” reports the National Post today. “Of those 45%, the national polling firm found, 65% believe the corruption runs ‘right through’ the entire government while 30% believe it is ‘just around the edges’.”  http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020517/256348.html   FLYLADY.NET MEETS HUGE DEMAND FOR ORDER IN MODERN HOMES A relatively new website called flylady.net is causing a revolution of order in North American homes. The description of the site says “FlyLady […]
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