Recent Catholic News

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 […]

VANCOUVER, September 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian woman who died during a trial of the abortion pill RU-486, died on September 1 according to a story in the National Post Monday. The Post, after an interview with the main researcher conducting the trial – Dr. Ellen Wiebe of Vancouver – reported that: “On Aug. 23, the pregnant woman began treatment for an abortion, first receiving the drug mifepristone, known as RU-486 or the abortion pill. Two days later, she received misoprostol, also a commonly used drug in medical abortions in Europe. By Aug. 28, she was bleeding and suffering […]

Unaccountable, appointed Human Right’s Commission is supreme VANCOUVER, September 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday, the Canadian Human Rights Commission ruled that Canada’s prison system’s ban on sex change operations for inmates is discriminatory. The National Post reports that the tribunal has given Corrections Canada six months to come up with a new policy, as well as new directions on better meeting the needs of transsexuals in jail. The ruling was based on the case of Synthia Kavanagh, formerly Ricky Chaperon, a male convicted of murder who said he felt his gender was female. LifeSite reported in 1999 that Kavanagh was […]

OTTAWA, September 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In an editorial in today’s Financial Post section of the National Post, Terrance Corcoran reveals that a CBC writer blamed the terrorist attacks on New York on “anti-abortionists.” Corcoran wrote on page B19 of the paper, “Another adventure into the ideological absurd was a CBC Radio interview, on the day of the attack, with a writer who disliked the idea that Islamic terrorists were being singled out as the likely perpetrators. Instead, he offered the implausible conclusion that the destruction of the World Trade Center could have been the work of American right-wing extremists. […]

LIFESITE, September 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Confirming LifeSite’s previous warning about an increasing severity and number of computer virus’s spreading via the Internet, new virus’s are causing some havoc. A virus now called the Nimda Worm Virus by-passed most existing antivirus software Tuesday morning. Until a new virus definition is developed to block the worm, security experts are telling everyone who receives an e-mail with a “readme.exe” attachment not to click on it, and to delete the e-mail. However, virus experts are warning that the worm can also be affected through websites. “If an individual visits a compromised site, Web […]