Recent Catholic News

Boasts of His Extreme Pro-Abortion Stand VANCOUVER, Feb 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In a half-hour paid TV broadcast yesterday, British Columbia NDP Premier Ujjal Dosanjh laid out his platform for the soon to be announced provincial election. During his speech, Dosanjh boasted about his militantly pro-abortion record. “Another fundamental issue to me is protecting a woman’s right to make her own decisions about her body and about abortion. Our government helped make a woman’s right to choose a reality. We must never go back to the days a decade ago when politicians imposed their personal, anti-abortion values on women,” he […]

TORONTO, ON, Feb 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Many Toronto transit users have been disturbed in recent months by the increasingly explicit, sexploitation ads that have been appearing on bus shelters, in subways cars and in subway and bus stations. A half-nude women holding her bare breast, another half-nude woman with only her long hair barely covering her breasts, a woman in revealing red lingerie, a bare-chested man with his pants well below his waste line and with his leg against a woman’s crotch – these and other explicit or highly suggestive, sexual, in-your-face, large graphic advertisements have been greeting Toronto […]

DUBLIN, Ireland, Feb 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Abortion statistics reported in Ireland demonstrate the dismal failure of a 1995 abortion related law supposedly aimed at reducing abortions. The statistics showed that there were 4,921 Irish women reported traveling abroad to abort their babies in by September 2000, compared to 3,444 for the same period in 1999. The Pro-Life Campaign blamed the results on liberal legislation enacted in 1995 known as the Abortion Information Act. “The Act which made it legal to provide the names and addresses of abortion clinics and for clinics to advertise in Irish newspapers has singularly failed […]

MUMBAI, India, Feb 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Abortionist Dr. Neelang Shah of the family planning center of the Indian Medical Association in Tardeo is under police investigation for negligence after a two-month pregnant, 28-year-old woman died shortly after he aborted her baby. The Indian Medical Association is supporting the abortionist and noted that the center is government recognized and Shah has been working there full time for several years.  For more see the Indian Express at:  http://www.indian-express.com/ie/daily/20010228/ina28021.html

The Federalist yesterday quoted a story by Kathryn Jean Lopez in Organization Trends which notes: “[The Senior Scout handbook for girls 14 and over contains exercises relating to] ‘ending a pregnancy’ and ‘how to organize an event to make people aware of gender bias.’ Girl Scouts executive director Marty Evans boasts, ‘We’re not your mother’s Girl Scout troop.’ No kidding. Remember that when you consider buying this year’s box of Thin Mints.” An experimental trial at all-boy and all-girl classes in a Memphis Tennessee school is showing very positive results.  http://www.washtimes.com/culture/default-2001226213215.htm Bush appointee to the EPA,Christine Todd Whitman, addressed the […]

ST JOHN, NS, Feb 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A Halifax couple is seeking to overturn a Supreme Court decision that denied public funding of their in-vitro fertilization treatment. They are accusing a Supreme Court Justice of bias because he is a Roman Catholic. The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) reacted to the case noting that “having exhausted all legal avenues to force the government to cover the high cost of in vitro fertilization, the couple hopes to capitalize on current anti-religious sentiment in Canada by attacking the personal beliefs of [Justice Louis Lebel].” CCRL President Thomas Langan said, “The mere […]

WASHINGTON, Feb 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Abortion proponents in South Carolina were fuming Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the pleas of the four main abortionists in the state. The abortionists attempted to paint the state’s requirement that they and their facilities live up to safety regulations as an “anti-abortion” initiative. The abortionists will not be able to perform abortions until they meet the new licensing requirements. They have requested a delay in the implementation of the rules, allegedly to give them time to meet the requirements. The abortionists must now conform to a 27-page rule-book which was to […]

LONDON, Feb 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A study about to be released by the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) in England reports that British women are harboring a breast cancer ‘time-bomb’ because of the high abortion rate and low number of children. The Oberserver reported yesterday that the RSS paper, “Legally Induced Abortion, Fertility and Age at First Birth as Risk Factors in Female Breast Cancer” notes that the by 2030 the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer each year will have risen from 30,000 to 50,000. The paper quotes a study showing that having an abortion before a child, […]

NEW YORK, Feb 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The ethical use of stem cells shows more promise than embryonic stem cells says David Prentice, professor of life sciences at Indiana State University and an adjunct professor of medical & molecular genetics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The whole interview is reprinted in today’s Special Report at:  http://lsn.ca/ldn/2001/feb/010227a.html

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – California biotechnology company StemCells Inc. has announced that mice have replicated human brain cells. Neural stem cell research seeks to cure diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s and uses for the most part the human brain cells of aborted babies, sorting them to discover stem cells and injecting those into the brains of mice. While the media is rife with stories of mice with human brains most do not even mention the aborted babies required for this macabre experimentation. For more see the Reuters coverage at: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010224/ts/brain_dc_1.html See the company website at: http://www.cyto.com