Recent Catholic News

VANCOUVER, Oct 30 (LSN.ca) – The pro-life GAP display which took place Wednesday at the University of British Columbia went extremely well according to BC pro-life leaders. Ted Gerk of the BC Pro-life Resource Centre told LifeSite that police officers and university security prevented opponents from shielding the pro-life display with bed sheets. Stephanie Gray, of UBC’s pro-life group Lifeline said that the display, which features large posters of aborted babies and compares them to images of victims of the Nazi holocaust, attracted much attention and fruitful debate. Gray said over 400 pamphlets were handed out and they had “great […]

VANCOUVER, Oct 30 (LSN.ca) – Pro-life heroine Mary Wagner was arrested and released last Tuesday as reported by LifeSite, but one day after her release she was again arrested and held another two nights in prison for no understood reason. Originally, on Tuesday, Wagner was picked out of a crowd of onlookers watching three pro-lifers engaged in civil disobedience at Vancouver’s Everywoman’s abortuary. She was arrested for violating bail conditions – none of which she was forced to sign or promise to uphold. After her arrest she was released the same day after being told that her probation forbids her […]

VANCOUVER, Oct 30 (LSN.ca) – The British Columbia government has brushed aside safety concerns and plans to offer abortifacient morning-after pills directly from pharmacists without a doctor’s consultation as of December 1. Last Thursday, Premier Ujjal Dosanjh announced that the provincial government had altered the law to allow the bypass of a doctor’s assessment. Brenda Osmond, deputy registrar of the College of Pharmacists of B.C., said that pharmacists who have moral or religious objections to the pill can opt out of distribution by not taking the training program. She did not however suggest that pharmacies would be forbidden to require […]

WASHINGTON, DC, Oct 30 (LSN.ca) – Catholic World News reported that on Thursday the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would block Oregon’s legalized physician-assisted suicide, but President Bill Clinton has vowed to veto the bill. The legislation would amend the 1970 Controlled Substances Act to make it clear that doctors cannot use narcotic drugs, such as morphine, to intentionally cause patients’ deaths. At the same time, it would recognize that such drugs can be legitimately prescribed to control terminally-ill patients’ pain—even if the large doses required may hasten their deaths. For more see the CWN story at:  […]

Assisted suicide, while already decriminalized in Switzerland has now been invited into Zurich’s homes for the elderly. Zenit News reports that Robert Neukomm, head of the Zurich Health Department, has allowed “assisted suicide” advocates into the homes where they were formerly banned. The new move will thus encourage use of the practice.  http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=8653 Use of RU-486 has been permitted in Bermuda. In a Bermuda Sun report circulated by Pro-Life E-News, Bermuda’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. John Cann said that there are no barriers to the importation and use of the drug and it has been confirmed that at least one […]

SAN DIEGO, Oct 25 (LSN.ca) – For the first time US scientists have admitted publicly to creating human embryos knowing that they will be used for experimentation which will cause their deaths. While scientists have long used human embryos for such revolting ends, the embryos used were those “left over” from fertility treatments. The current research from Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Virginia created 40 human embryos with ova and sperm donations from young, healthy donors. The study, revealed at a reproductive medicine conference yesterday, harvested 162 mature ova from 12 young women and created human embryos using frozen […]

LONDON, Oct 25 (LSN.ca) – The hospital, which is holding the joined Siamese twins Jodie and Mary, is planning to go ahead with the separation of the twins, which will cause the death of at least one of the children. The parents who are devout Catholics tried to fight the decision in the courts but lost. While the hospital, St Mary’s in Manchester, is choosing to perform the separation sanctioned by the Court of Appeal last month, it is refusing to make public the date when the operation will occur. A spokesman for the hospital told BBC “The operation will […]

WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (LSN.ca) – Congressional negotiators have agreed on a $14.9 billion foreign aid measure which will allow US monies to be used to pay for abortion and abortion lobbying overseas. The agreement allows for $425 million to overseas “family planning programs”, up from last year’s $385 million. Pro-lifers were however able to ensure that no monies would be spent until Feb. 15, leaving the decision to the next US President. Commenting on the decision, pro-life Rep. Christopher Smith said, “First and foremost, it’s not good . . . (but) the real outcome will be decided on Nov. 7 […]

BC pro-lifer Mary Wagner, who was arrested as an innocent by-stander yesterday, was released that afternoon at 4:30 pm BC time. She was told that her probation forbids her from any attending at an abortuary even though she refused to sign any agreement promising to stay away. See yesterday’s story at:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/oct/001024.html#3 Mother Angelica discusses the many issues pertaining to the upcoming elections – in particular the importance of moral implications of the vote. (Wait till after the first few minutes)  http://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/resolve.asp?rafile=mal102400.ra New Zealand’s secondary teachers union has published a handbook for teachers promoting homosexuality. The handbook, out next month, […]

All-Time-Low Teen Birth Rate Figures Tainted With Blood OTTAWA, Oct 24 (LSN.ca) – Statistics Canada released a report on Teenage Pregnancy Friday which noted that for the first time, statistics are showing that Canadian pregnant teens aged 15-19 aborted most of their babies. The report says that “in 1997, for the first time, the percentage of teenage pregnancies ending in abortion (50.3%) surpassed that of live births (46.8%). The remaining 2.9% of pregnancies ended in a miscarriage or stillbirth.” Thus the news that the number of births and the birth rate of teens reached an “at all-time low” in 1997 […]