Recent Catholic News

New Democrat Michael Prue has won a provincial Toronto-area byelection. The only pro-life candidate, Ray Scott of the Family Coalition Party garnered just under 1% of the vote.  http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSPolitics0109/20_byelection-cp.html http://www.electionsontario.on.ca/byelections/eoresultsDisp.asp NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING FEATURED IN LARGE PAPER   A form of Natural Family Planning was featured by the Chicago Tribune today. The article called NFP “a relatively obscure birth control method that is 100 percent natural, costs nothing and by some accounts, can be as effective as the pill.”  http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/women/chi-0109190374sep19.story Zenit News this week offered a brief historical account of UNICEF’s decent into abortion advocacy. In it they note that […]

A study conducted by the Texas Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League found that 67 percent of hospitals surveyed do not offer abortifacient emergency contraception.  http://www.dallasnews.com/science/health/476266_abortion_21tex.html The Christian Science Monitor ran a feature this week on large families, their struggles and joys.  http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0919/p15s1-lifp.html The results of an investigation of sexual harassment of patients by Phoenix abortionist, Dr Brian Finkel was reported in the Phoenix New Times. Dr Finkel wears a gun to work to protect himself from the pro life movement. (with files from Sue Widemark)  http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2001-09-20/feature.html/page1.html

COLORADO SPRINGS, September 20, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The influential Citizen magazine, published by the U.S. headquarters of Focus on the Family, currently features a lengthy cover story on World Youth Alliance co-founder and president Anna Halpine. The Halpine family has been involved in pro-life work with Campaign Life Coalition in Canada for many years. Anna was on the national board of the organization and for a time, while still a student, was an effective president of its New Brunswick branch. She was asked to become a member of CLCs U.N. lobby team and, like a duck taking to water, quickly […]

VANCOUVER, September 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Notorious Vancouver abortionist, Ellen Wiebe, revealed to the Vancouver Province yesterday that the RU-486 abortion pill trial, which led to the death of an unnamed Canadian woman on September 1, is the second such study in Canada. The Province reports today “Wiebe has already completed one trial involving 1,042 Canadian women in Vancouver, Toronto, Quebec City and Sherbrooke, Que.” She informed the paper that the second trial began in March and will involve 1,500 women. So far, 900 women have enrolled in the second study. The abortion pill trials were approved by the Canadian […]

MANAGUA, September 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), internationally known for its promotion of abortion, has signed deals with the governments of Pakistan and Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan human rights defense office has signed an agreement with UNFPA to promote the sexual and reproductive rights of women, children and adolescents through a series of programs over the next four months. Managua’s La Prensa reported yesterday that The agreement was signed by human rights defender Benjamin Perez Fonseca and Tomas Jimenez Araya, a UNFPA representative in Nicaragua . The UNFPA will provide $4,800 for the office of special […]

CANBERRA, September 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An Australian parliamentary advisory committee on stem cell research has come out 6-4 in favour of using surplus embryos in stem cell research. The group, which was formed to years ago to develop national guidelines on the matter, also unanimously endorsed research on adult stem cells. The 300-page report by the committee issued Thursday, recommended a total ban on human cloning and a ban on the creation of embryos for research. Australia presently has no national laws on cloning but Prime Minister John Howard is pushing for uniform federal laws by mid-2002. See the […]

DAYTON, September 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – U.S. District Judge Walter Rice today blocked the state of Ohio from enforcing a ban on partial-birth abortion. Rice called the law unconstitutional citing the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning a similar ban in Nebraska. The judge said that the procedure was determined to be safer than other late term abortion procedures for some women. The New York Times reports that the bill had been signed by Gov. Bob Taft in May 2000. It would have made doctors who perform the procedure subject to up to eight years in prison. See the New York […]

PARIS, September 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A French appellate court ruled this week that a 10-year-old girl with mental and physical disabilities should receive financial compensation because her mother was not told during pregnancy that the child might be disabled and was thus “den[ied] … the opportunity to have an abortion.” Reuters reports today that Alicia and her parents should receive $85,000 in compensation (Reuters/New York Times, 9/20). The ruling follows a similar ruling from France’s highest court this July which said that when doctors fail to detect deformities in unborn children and do not suggest abortion to their parents, […]

A special PBS series promoting Darwin’s theory of evolution as if it were the absolute truth is being challenged by documentation debunking Darwin’s theories. The website, http://www.pbsevolution.com provides a 152-page antidote to the PBS specials. Judge Patricia Cleary of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court was suspended from practicing law for six months yesterday by the Ohio Supreme Court. In 1998 Cleary denied the request of a young woman convicted of fraud to go on probation rather than serve a jail term. The 20 + weeks pregnant woman claimed she wanted probation so that she could have an abortion.  http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/19/abortion-judge.htm The […]

NEW YORK, September 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC) has put out a press release indicating it is offering free abortions for a limited time in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the city. Following the example of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) which over the past few years has used tragic events to target stricken communities with “reproductive health kits” – including abortifacient drugs and devices – PPNYC is offering “complete reproductive health care from Sept. 18-22 free of cost.” The press release by PPNYC lists among the “services” they provide “birth […]