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US SCIENTISTS ADMIT CREATING HUMAN BEINGS TO EXPERIMENT ON THEM

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – For the first time in history, scientists in the US have admitted to creating human beings explicitly for experimentation that will lead to the deaths of those human beings. A study published today in the journal Fertility & Sterility, published by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), admits that scientists harvested ova from 12 women and sperm from 2 men to create human embryos for stem cell experimentation. Scientists at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk claimed their experimentation was “ethically and scientifically justifiable” and […]
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UNITED NATIONS PUSHES FOR ABORTION IN SMALL EUROPEAN CATHOLIC COUNTRY

NEW YORK, July 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations is harassing a tiny Southern European Catholic country with less than 70,000 citizens for not allowing abortion. Yesterday, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women called on Andorra, a country located between France and Spain and about 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC, to deliver its report on compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). In its report to the committee the Catholic country, represented by Esteve Vidal, Counsellor-Delegate for Institutional Relations of Andorra, indicated that it regarded […]
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WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT ORDERS FATHER NOT TO HAVE MORE CHILDREN

MADISON, Wis., July 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Tuesday the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that a man who owed $25,000 in child support could be ordered not to father anymore children as a condition of probation. AP reports that if David Oakley, who already has had nine children with four women, fails to abide by the condition, he faces 8 years in prison. The decision by the justices was split along gender lines as all three female justices dissented from the ruling saying having children is a basic human right guaranteed by the Constitution. Justice Ann Walsh Bradley wrote […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

A Thailand university is saying that the country’s population program has been “successful” in making for population decline. The report argued that Thailand’s success in birth control should be attributed to women, who shouldered the burden of contraception, sterilization and abortion. http://library.northernlight.com/FA20010711790000129.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc Kenya is pledging to reduce population growth. Earlier LifeSite reports have demonstrated how this pro-population control mentality has been forced on the country. http://ippfnet.ippf.org/pub/IPPF_News/News_Details.asp?ID=1247
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US NEWS ROUNDUP

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Food and Drug Administration has clamped down on fertility clinics practicing a new technique using DNA from three parents, saying that the government needed to give approval to any procedures that involve human cloning and other forms of genetic engineering. The targeted technique, “ooplasmic transfer,” combines the eggs of two different women and is generally used when an older woman is trying to conceive. New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim McGreevey is demonstrating religious intolerance towards his Republican opponent Bret Schundler. Schundler a pro-life Catholic, is being attacked for his uncompromising pro-life stand. […]
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CANADA TEAMS WITH UN TO TARGET GUATEMALA FOR ABORTION ADVOCACY

OTTAWA, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Canada has put two million dollars into a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) campaign targeting Guatemala for chemical abortion advocacy. The five-year project, according to CIDA, aims for “Increased demand, supply, access and quality of reproductive health services, including contraceptives, in Guatemala.” Moreover the plan aims to promote a change in law advocating population control. The CIDA document lists as one of its components for support: “advocacy for a law on population and development.” Mercedes Wilson, formerly the official delegate of Guatemala to the United Nations, told LifeSite “it is horrible that Canadian taxpayers […]
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NOVA SCOTIA SUPREME COURT RULES PROVINCE MUST ALLOW HOMOSEXUAL ADOPTION

HALIFAX, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Nova Scotia provincial Supreme Court Justice Deborah Gass rendered a written decision Monday stating that a provincial law that restricted adoption to married couples was unconstitutional and discriminated against homosexual and common-law couples. The ruling stems from a legal challenge launched by two lesbians with children who argued that they were being discriminated against because the province prevented both from being recognized as parents. In her ruling Gass wrote: “Prohibiting a joint adoption where all the evidence indicates these adults are providing optimum care and loving .. defeats the very purpose of the legislation […]
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NEW BC GOVERNMENT DROPS CASE TO FORCE HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE IN CANADA

VANCOUVER, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The newly elected Liberal government in British Columbia has dropped out of a court case, launched by the previous New Democratic provincial government, to force Canada to allow homosexual marriages. The BC Catholic reports that the spokesman for BC Attorney General Geoff Plant confirmed the province had pulled out of the case. The former NDP BC government, which suffered a crushing defeat in the recent elections, was the most extremist pro-abortion and pro-homosexual government in Canadian history. Launching the legal challenge against the federal government last July, then BC Attorney General Andrew Petter said, […]
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BUSH MOVE TO RECOGNIZE UNBORN CHILD CAUSES FUROR AMONG CANADIAN PRO-ABORTS

OTTAWA, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Newspapers across Canada featured stories today reporting that “the anti-abortion United States government is having an effect north of the border.” The frenzy was initiated last week when the Bush administration drafted a policy to allow states to cover “unborn children” under the Children’s Health Insurance Program. While pro-lifers are hopeful that pro-life measures in the US will encourage similar legislation in Canada, pro-abortion activists are worried that a pro-life victory in the US would embolden pro-lifers in Canada. Both pro-lifers and those opposed to life recognize that the influence of the United States […]
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FAMILY COALITION URGES ACTION OVER HUMAN RIGHTS DECISION AGAINST BIBLE VERSES

OTTAWA, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) is urging pro-family Canadians to express their concerns over the recent decision of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission which noted that a newspaper ad publishing Bible verses on homosexuality was discriminatory. In a release CFAC says it “is very concerned about the serious implications of this ruling on religious freedoms in Canada” and “with the process by which this decision was made.” The CFAC release notes ” Human Rights Commissions have clearly become another tool of radical special interest groups. Human Rights Commissions are made up of appointed […]
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