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CLEVELAND CATHOLIC DIOCESE DONATED $30,000 TO GROUP WITH TIES TO N.A.R.A.L.

CLEVLAND, OH, July 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pro-life U.S. Catholics were distressed on learning that the Cleveland Diocese donated $30,000 last year to an Ohio community organization affiliated with the National Abortion Rights Action League. Several Catholics had contacted the Diocese to protest last year’s funding. However, the diocesan newspaper, the Cleveland Catholic Universe Bulletin, reported June 22 that the Cleveland Diocese’s Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) grants for this year once again include $30,000 to the same organization – Organize! Ohio – Grassroots Leadership Development Program. Organize! Ohio’s (OO) list of member organizations last year included the National […]
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EVIDENCE OF EUTHANASIA IN CANADA AS ELDERLY PATIENTS STARVED TO DEATH

EDMONTON, July 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A story in the May 28 edition of Report newsmagazine details the horrifying story of a caring wife who alleges that her husband was euthanized in an Alberta hospital. Irene McNeilly of St. Paul, Alberta has lodged a complaint with the College of Physicians and Surgeons regarding the treatment her late husband Dr. Keith McNeilly received at the St. Therese Hospital in St. Paul. However, an advocate for the elderly in Alberta, Ruth Adria of Edmonton, told the magazine that euthanasia is becoming more common and that she has other charges in progress. Adria […]
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US CHAIR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE SUPPORTS US PULLING OUT OF UN

CHICAGO, July 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An important statement made recently by U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde about pulling the United States out of the United Nations was largely ignored by the media. Republicans for Fair Media (RFM News) reported last month that at a June 9 conservative conference Hyde answered a series of questions about America’s membership in the United Nations. Referring to House Resolution 1146, sponsored by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) which would essentially call for the United States to end its membership in the United Nations, Hyde said, “As Chairman of the International Relations Committee, I don’t think […]
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BIG BROTHERS STOPS ASKING POTENTIAL GUARDIANS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY

TORONTO, July 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The homosexual activist group EGALE has put out a press release cheering the decision of Big Brothers of Toronto, an organization which encourages men to become temporary guardians for boys, to remove a question on sexual orientation from its screening questionnaire. The release notes: “In early June, EGALE was contacted by a person who had been asked to provide a reference for an acquaintance who had applied to become a Big Brother. This person, who is heterosexual, was offended that one of the questions on the personal reference form asked if they were aware […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

Statistics Canada reported yesterday that “children from both ends of the income distribution attend private schools; 29% of children who attend private schools are from families with incomes below $50,000, while 26% are from families with at least twice as much income.”  http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/010704/d010704b.htm An American firm has boasted about its ability to allow parents to select the sex of their children using a sperm sorting machine and in vitro fertilization.  http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001230966,00.html CNS News reports that the National Education Association Wednesday decided not to vote on a homosexuality resolution at its annual meeting in California in response to hundreds of pro-family […]
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MEDIA FAILS TO MENTION DOCTOR CHARGED FOR SEX OFFENCES IS AN ABORTIONIST

VANCOUVER, July 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A former abortionist at the center of a sexual molestation scandal in British Columbia has had his profession hidden by the media which refers to him only as a doctor. Dr. Mark Walter Stewart, is facing a dozen sex charges involving nine female patients and has been identified by pro-lifers from his home town of Campbell River, BC as an abortionist. Reports by Global Television, the Canadian Press, and The (Nanaimo) Daily News all refer to Stewart merely as a “doctor”. John Hof, President of Campaign Life Coalition BC, told LifeSite: “If Stewart were […]
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ABORTIONISTS EXPERIMENTING WITH AROMATHERAPY TO REDUCE PATIENT STRESS

VANCOUVER, July 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Notorious Vancouver abortionist Ellen Wiebe has been experimenting with aromatherapy to reduce anxiety in women undergoing abortions. A write-up of the study in the journal, Effective Clinical Practice (Jul-Aug 2000), showed that Wiebe had patients sniff either essential oils or hair conditioner for 10 minutes. However, there was no helpful effect found with the aromatherapy. Pro-life observers wonder whether the women involved in the experiment are now tormented with the memory of the abortions every time they use conditioner. Post-abortion counselors have often noted that post abortive women are tortured by the memories of […]
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CALIFORNIA COURT RULES CATHOLIC CHARITIES MUST PAY FOR CHEMICAL ABORTION

LOS ANGELES, July 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A California State appellate court ruled Monday that a new California law requiring Catholic Charities to provide contraception and abortion chemicals to women who receive health insurance coverage does not violate religious freedom. Arthur Scotland, presiding justice of the three-judge Court of Appeal panel in Sacramento, revealed that he and the other justices accepted the pro-abortion ideology that not providing abortifacient birth control pills discriminates against women. Catholic Charities is not required to support the principle of contraception, but “having chosen to provide employee health insurance coverage with prescription drug benefits, it simply […]
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CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY REJECTS PAX CHRISTI’S PRO-ABORTION SPEAKER

ERIE, PA, July 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pax Christi USA, which bills itself as the “National Catholic Peace Movement”, has cancelled its national assembly after the Catholic university where the event was scheduled refused to allow the pro-abortion keynote speaker on campus. Pax Christi national coordinator Nancy Small told Catholic News Service that Christian Brothers University in Memphis Tennessee refused to allow Rev. James Lawson to speak at the scheduled Aug 3-5 annual meeting. According to a report in the United Methodist News Service (UNMS), Lawson, a civil rights leader in the 1950s and 60s and pastor of Holman United […]
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PRO-LIFE TAPE DISTRIBUTION IN ISRAEL MEETS WITH SUCCESS

JERUSALEM, July 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) – An Israeli pro-life group which distributed pro-life videos to some 350,000 Israeli households has met with success. Israel’s Health Minister, Nissim Dahan (Shas), was motivated by the tape to take action. The tape distribution caused a stormy session in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) yesterday. Ha’aretz News reported today that feminist MK’s were outraged at the video. However Minister Dahan said, he found the tape instructive. “I received the impression that the social workers don’t do their jobs faithfully and that the abortion committees [medical committees that by law must approve all abortions] approve terminations […]
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