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ABORTION-BREAST CANCER AD VICTORY IN CANADA

VANCOUVER, February 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pro-abortion groups are admitting defeat of their attempt to have an advertisement regulator declare inaccurate an ad presenting scientific evidence of the link between abortion and breast cancer. The Pro-Choice Action Network, run by pro-abortion activist Joyce Arthur, filed a formal complaint about the abortion/breast cancer ad by Surrey Delta Pro-Life with Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) in October. The pro-abortion group’s publication reveals that in late December, ASC declined to review the breast cancer/abortion ad any further. It said there are “serious and noteworthy considerations in dispute”, but they are “complex” and “beyond the […]
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BUSH ADMINISTRATION FILES BRIEF SUPPORTING PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN IN OHIO

WASHINGTON, February 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Department of Justice has filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to support Ohio’s ban on partial-birth abortion. The brief argues that Ohio’s law banning partial-birth abortion is different from the Nebraska law that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Stenberg vs. Carhart, and therefore should be upheld. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio struck down Ohio’s law, claiming it did not comply with the Supreme Court’s decision in Stenberg vs. Carhart. The Supreme Court had ruled that Nebraska’s law […]
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21 PEOPLE KILLED BY ASSISTED SUICIDE IN OREGON LAST YEAR

SALEM, February 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Oregon Health Division released its “Death with Dignity Act Annual Report 2001” Wednesday noting that in the fourth year of the legal physician-assisted suicide program 21 people killed themselves – down from 27 in both 1999 and 2000. In 2001, 44 prescriptions for lethal doses of medication were written by 33 physicians, compared with 39 prescriptions in 2000, 33 in 1999, and 24 in 1998. The report indicates that the 21 patients who committed assisted suicide during 2001 were demographically similar to patients who participated in previous years, except that a slightly higher […]
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JESSE HELMS STATES THAT “FOR UNBORN AMERICANS EVERY DAY IS SEPTEMBER 11”

U.S. “will not survive long as a nation” unless moral and spiritual foundations are restored Washington, February 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – On Dec. 5, at the annual Hillsdale College Churchill Dinner in Washington, D.C., retiring pro-life Senator Jesse Helms gave a no holds barred speech on the emerging threats to U.S. National Security. His comments on certain U.N treaties, abortion and the need for the U.S. to return to its moral and spiritual roots were especially noteworthy. Helms said, “Instead of focusing on new dangers, they (the Clinton administration) spent their time and energy forging ridiculous new treaties – like […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

CBC REPORTS “YUKON SYPHILIS OUTBREAK LINKED TO LIFESTYLE CHOICES”  With infection rates of more than 100 times the national average, a major syphilis outbreak in the Yukon has health officials warned against the rampant casual sex.  http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/02/07/syphilis_yukon020207 AUSTRALIAN ARCHBISHOP CALLS POLITICIANS TO PROTECT RIGHT TO LIFE Catholic Archbishop Francis Carroll urged politicians to vote in favour of life two weeks before the ACT Assembly is to vote on decriminalizing abortion and repealing laws mandating waiting periods before abortions. “No human right is more basic than the right to live,” Archbishop Carroll said. “And no human life is more vulnerable and […]
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CATHOLIC LEAGUE URGES ACTION AGAINST CFFC TARGETTING OF WORLD YOUTH DAY

TORONTO, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) has urged Catholics around the world to respond to the targetting of World Youth Day by the pro-abortion group “Catholics for a Free Choice” (CFFC). As LifeSite reported earlier, CFFC has launched a campaign in Toronto to target the 750,000 youth expected at the upcoming World Youth Day. The campaign includes billboard and public transit advertising as well as a planned condom and propaganda distribution at the Catholic event featuring Pope John Paul II, the world’s most renowned pro-life and pro-family advocate. CCRL is currently focusing on […]
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POPE WARNS AGAINST ABUSES OF BIOTECHNOLOGY IN LENTEN MESSAGE

VATICAN, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday, in his message released for Lent 2002, Pope John Paul II warned against abuses of biotechnology. “The achievements of medicine and biotechnology can sometimes lead man to think of himself as his own creator, and to succumb to the temptation of tampering with ‘the tree of life,’” he said. The Pope touched on issues surrounding the human embryo. “The beginning of life and its marvellous development: this is a gift. And because it is gift, life can never be regarded as a possession or as private property, even if the capabilities we now […]
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UNFPA RECRUITS GLOBAL STUDENT UNION TO PUSH POPULATION CONTROL

UNITED NATIONS, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has entered into collaboration with a global student union to promote population control. On January 29, UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the President of AIESEC International Student Network – which claims to be “the largest global student organization”. AIESEC bills itself as “a unique and growing network of 50,000 students, typically studying business and technical subjects, in over 800 higher education institutions in 83 countries and territories.” Observers suggest that the UNFPA outreach to student organizations comes as its ranks are […]
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NEW COMMERCIAL INFORMS WOMEN ABOUT ABORTION-BREAST CANCER LINK

PALOS HEIGHTS, IL, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer has collaborated on a powerful new made-for-television commercial informing women about the existence of abortion-breast cancer research. The commercial features an attractive women’s basketball coach in a gym coaching her team. There is a voice over which says: I wish I’d known. I’ve got breast cancer and wish someone had told me earlier that abortion could increase the risk of breast cancer by 50% or more. Learn the facts today. Contact information is provided at the end of the commercial for the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute which […]
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UK PRO-LIFE GROUP GIVEN GO-AHEAD FOR LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST ALL ABORTIFACIENTS

LONDON, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Last week, on the basis that the morning after pill can cause an abortion, the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC) was given leave to proceed with a judicial review of the decision to reclassify the drug as one available from pharmacists without a doctor’s prescription. SPUC argues that the Offences Against the Person Act, in place since 1861, prohibits supply of any “poison or other noxious thing” with intent to cause miscarriage. Pro-abortion groups however are alarmed since they say a ruling on the abortifacient nature of the morning after […]
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