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Radical NGOs React Angrily to Presence of Pro-Family Youth

Reprinted with permission from – Vivant! – March 8, 2000 By Vivant! staff NEW YORK – Unhappy over the unexpected presence of a substantial international contingent of pro-family youth NGO representatives, radical-feminist lobbyists objected publicly yesterday to the presence of the World Youth Alliance (WYA). In a one-page circular distributed in the afternoon to Beijing+5 PrepCom participants, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) issued an “alert” to European delegations “concerning the threat to the five-year review process caused by a large presence” of what the EWL called “right-wing, ‘pro-life’ participants.” According to the EWL, the “numerous right-wing fundamentalists are so far […]
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BEIJING +5 FINAL PREPCOM ANTI-LIFE AND ANTI-FAMILY AS EVER

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-abortion, anti-family machinations continue this week at the UN as the Commission on the Status of Women hosts the final prepcom for the June Beijing +5 meeting (General Assembly Special Session, “Women 2000: Gender Equality,  Development and Peace for the 21st Century”). Today’s issue of Vivant, the magazine of the NGO Caucus for Stable Families, reports that UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, addressed a panel discussion yesterday morning.  Robinson praised feminists at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994, where national governments acknowledged “sexual and reproductive […]
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UPDATE ON ANDREW’S CANADIAN PILGRIMAGE FOR LIFE

ANTIGONISH, NS, Mar 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a day of rest Friday, Andrew walked along the highway from Grand Narrows to Whycocomaugh, NS.  He set out the next day for Mabou.  There he was able to take in the musical talents that Nova Scotia is known for.  At the gathering he met the Minister of Tourism Rodney MacDonald and a collection was taken for the pro-life causes being championed by Andrew.  While some in the area where Andrew had begun his walk were concerned by a 12” snowfall,  thankfully no snow fell where Andrew was walking.  After some struggle a […]
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

Pro-Life Info-Net reported that the pro-life Cuban doctor Oscar Elias Biscet jailed for three years for his pro-life activities and flying the Cuban flag upside down has waived his right to appeal as a further act of protest. “He is not going to appeal the sentence,  because in his country there is no justice, the courts are biased,” his wife Elsa Morejon told Reuters.  Amnesty International is working to get Biscet released from prison. A British survey has found that nine out of 10 women pregnant for the first time are frightened of giving birth.  A team of Japanese and […]
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US NEWS ROUNDUP

Dr. Laura has lashed out at homosexual activists saying it is alright to criticize her but they should refrain from attacking her mother.  The Chicago Tribune reports that last week New York Supreme Court Justice Hugh Gilbert issued a “temporary order barring a former jail inmate from having an abortion until a court hearing on whether county corrections officials should pay for the procedure. The New York Civil Liberties Union is contesting the order. Lee County, Florida’s sheriff famous for his courageous pro-life activism is being denounced  by two candidates hoping to replace him as sheriff.  “Evolutionary psychologists” Craig Palmer, […]
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EUTHANASIA: SOUTH AFRICA-YES, UK DOCS-NO, FRANCE-SOMETIMES

JOHANNESBURG, Mar 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The South African Law Commission has recommended decriminalization of euthanasia.  The suggestion keeps options for active voluntary euthanasia open but says doctors should be allowed “under specific circumstances, to cease,  or authorize the cessation of, all further medical treatment of a patient whose life functions are being maintained artificially while the person has no spontaneous respiratory and circulatory functions or where his or her brainstem does not register any impulse”. The Mail and Guardian reports that after publication of the recommendations public comment will be sought prior to parliamentary debate. After a two-day conference, the […]
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20/20 COVERAGE OF BABY PARTS STORY CONFIRMED FOR WEDNESDAY

TORONTO, Mar 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Through TV listings it has been confirmed that tomorrow ABC’s 20/20 program will cover the baby parts trafficking story.  While the date and time is listed as Wednesday, March 8, 10 p.m. EST, please check local listings for confirmation. On the show, the pro-life “spy”, Kelly, who once worked at abortuaries chopping up and shipping out baby parts to researchers, will reveal her identity. A Life Advocacy report notes that the show’s airing fits perfectly with the US House hearing on the topic scheduled to convene Thursday, March 9, at 2 p.m. EST. The hearing […]
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RU-486 IN THE US BY HOOK OR BY CROOK

WASHINGTON, Mar 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While remaining banned by the Federal Drug Administration, the abortion drug RU-486 (mifepristone) is being distributed to American women.  The New York-  based Abortion Rights Mobilization (ARM) copied the deadly drug years ago and has given over   5,000 women the ‘chemical coathanger.’  While the Danco Group – the investors who hold the rights to sell mifepristone in the United States, are forbidden to sell it, ARM are allowed to skirt the law by claiming that its actions are for “research purposes.” Abortion supporters are desperately trying to have the drug legalized and may have […]
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UPDATE ON YOUTH’S PRO-LIFE PILGRIMAGE ACROSS CANADA

GRAND NARROWS, Nova Scotia, Mar 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Andrew Fournier, the nineteen year Ontario pro-  lifer who is walking across Canada to raise awareness and garner support for the pro-life movement took a day of rest Friday after walking 50 km on the first two days of his journey.  After being graciously hosted in a Catholic Church in Boisdale, NS, Wednesday night, on Thursday he made the difficult trip to Christmas Island, much of which was up hill. There he stayed with the Farrell family.  Friday Andrew stayed at a local Bed and Breakfast and began his journey again Saturday.  […]
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CARDINAL: ENVIRONMENTALIST ANTI-CHRIST “WALKS AMONG US”

BOLOGNA, Italy, Mar 6 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The London Times reported that Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, 71,  the Archbishop of Bologna spoke recently at a conference in Bologna, on the work of Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900), the Russian philosopher and mystic.  Part of the cardinal’s talk focussed on Antichrist, which the cardinal described as “walking among us.”  The evil would harbor a false ecumenism promoting “vague and fashionable spiritual values.”  Antichrist would substitute “feel-good” causes, such as animal rights, environmentalism, ecology and humanitarian aid, for “true religion”.  Interestingly, the terms which the Archbishop of Bologna uses to describe Antichrist are all in vogue […]
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