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ITALIAN LAW ON ARTIFICIAL PROCREATION PASSES LOWER CHAMBER OF PARLIAMENT

Artificial procreation for singles or homosexual couples is disallowed. ROME, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Italian lower Chamber of Deputies passed legislation on artificial procreation today which has some of the world's most life-respecting characteristics. However, the bill, which passed 268-144, is expected to face tough opposition in the Senate. The legislation bans experimentation on human embryos and also the freezing of embryos as well as cloning. It also respects the rights of children conceived unnaturally via artificial procreation to at least have a father and a mother. Artificial procreation for singles or homosexual couples is therefore disallowed. The […]
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US SENATE REJECTS PRO-ABORTION AND ANTI-FAMILY ASPECTS OF UN DOCUMENT

WASHINGTON, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The US Senate approved two protocols contained within the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), rejecting other parts of the convention that were disrespectful of life and family.  The CRC has come under fire by the Bush administration for its promotion of abortion under the guise of “reproductive health services” and its placing the rights of children over those of parents.  The Senate approved the Protocol on the Sale of Children which criminalizes such activities as the outright sale of children, pornography and the prostitution of children. Also approved was […]
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TESTIMONY REVEALS ABORTIONIST USED SANITARY PADS TO SILENCE PATIENTS

Abortionist given sedatives to calm his temper tantrums   BRISBANE, Australia, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Court testimony during an inquest into the death of an abortionist saw the deceased’s anesthetist admitting that Dr. Peter Bayliss had left a patient tied to a bed with a sanitary pad stuffed in her mouth to “shut her up.” An earlier inquest found that Bayliss’ death was due to a heart condition in turn caused by sleeping pill toxicity.  Bayliss’ anesthetist and his wife slipped sedatives into Bayliss’ drinks in order to calm his temper tantrums.  “The patients were terrified of him when […]
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NEW WEBSITE DOCUMENTS PRO-CHOICE VIOLENCE

VANCOUVER, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A new internet-based web service documents abortion-related violence by supporters of the pro-choice movement.  Entitled “Prochoiceviolence.com” the web site documents material in the public domain of murder, rape, and other crimes, all associated with abortion and abortion rights supporters.  Developer Ted Gerk stated: “We are merely educating the public as to the real stories surrounding abortion. The abortion industry has done a fabulous PR job keeping this information hidden.  This web site will expose the truth, both of pro-choice violence but also of media complicity in keeping this information hidden from legislators and the […]
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13 ANGLICAN BISHOPS OPPOSE SAME-SEX BLESSINGS

VANCOUVER, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Thirteen Anglican bishops from British Columbia to Newfoundland expressed “regret” on Monday over the Diocese of New Westminster’s decision last weekend to provide official blessings to same-sex unions. The bishops said matters of moral teaching and Church order and discipline are beyond the jurisdiction of a single diocese acting alone.  “We regret the decision of the Diocese of New Westminster to move independently toward the blessing of same-sex unions,” the bishops said, saying that the move is in conflict with the “moral teaching of the Holy Scripture and the tradition of the universal Church.” […]
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CHINA FACES CRISIS AS MEN OUTNUMBER WOMEN

Ultrasound for sex-selected abortions cited as cause   WUHAN, China, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – China is increasingly being forced to confront a demographic nightmare that threatens to destabilize society and undermine meager steps toward freedom in the totalitarian country.  “Over the next two decades, as many as 40 million young Chinese men won’t be able to marry, settle down and start families. There won’t be enough wives to go around,” says a feature in USA Today. Historically, governments have dealt with troublesome, unmarried men by tightening the reins of government, sending men off to war, banishing them to far-away […]
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MINISTER RISKS JAIL TO PROTEST ABORTUARY

U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft approves buffer zone   WASHINGTON, D.C., June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Rev. Patrick Mahoney, a Presbyterian minister and director of the pro-life Christian Defense Coalition, says he will risk six months in jail for reading scripture inside an abortuary bubble zone.  “I’m going to pray and read scripture 25 feet [away] on the public sidewalk. I am then going to move within 10 feet, which would be in the 20 foot zone and do the exact same thing,” Mahoney said. “We feel that the only way to deal with this is to peacefully go out and […]
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SEX SURVEY FOR 10-YEAR-OLDS ENRAGES PARENTS

LOS ANGELES, June 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Seven parents filed a claim against a Los Angeles area school district after their 10-year-old children were asked to fill in an explicit sex survey. The survey had asked children if they thought about “having sex” or “touching other people’s private parts” and “if they didn’t trust people because they might want sex,” according to reports.  The claimants charged: “Parents have the statutory right to know, in advance, whether their children will be given sex education at a school, and if they choose, in their sole discretion, to exempt their children from such […]
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PRO-LIFE HUNTLEY STREET’S MAINSE CELEBRATES 40 YEARS ON TV

TORONTO, June 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – TV evangelist David Mainse, the Ottawa Valley-born founder, host and mainstay of the popular Christian show 100 Huntley Street, celebrated the 40th anniversary of his Crossroads television ministry this year. Next weekend he will mark the 25th anniversary of the worldwide version of the show. Mainse has been renowned for his unapologetic pro-life stance on the airwaves. “There are no pastel shades of sin,” he told journalist Michael Valpy. “Anything outside a sexual relationship in marriage is a sin. Sin is sin. Don’t expect me to say that something like taking the life of […]
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NORTH IRELAND FERTILITY RATE AT LOWEST EVER – 1.74 FOR YEAR 2000 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_2050000/2050270.stm   LESBIAN ACTIVIST TENNIS STAR MARTINA NAVRATILOVA WANTS TO ADOPT A CHILD http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/06/18/wmart18.xml   PORN SCANDAL AT CATHOLIC CHILDREN’S AID TORONTO The Catholic Children’s Aid Society fired five staff, four of them women, and disciplined 32 others, for exchanging online pornography. Most were support staff not directly engaged in serving area youth and their families – but six supervisors and seven child-protection workers were implicated. http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1022100185558&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News   “CATHOLIC” UK SUPERMARKET BOSS SILENT ON MORNING-AFTER PILL SALES The chief executive of Tesco, a major British supermarket chain, has […]
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