Recent Catholic News

TALLAHASSEE, May 1 (LSN) – A bill requiring that girls under 18 notify at least one parent before procuring an abortion was passed by the Florida Senate Thursday, and is awaiting final approval from Governor Lawton Chiles. The law does not require parental permission for abortions. It also for court-approved exemptions in some cases. In spite of such concessions, it appears the governor may veto the measure.

WASHINGTON, May 1 (LSN) – A bill was passed by the US Congress Thursday to enable 2,000 poor   children in the District of Columbia to attend private or religious schools. The initiative has   been fought by the Clinton administration since it was first proposed, and the president has vowed   to veto the bill when it arrives at the White House.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA, May 1 (LSN) – Most doctors in the state of Western Australia stopped committing abortions yesterday, protesting delays in efforts to liberalize the state’s abortion law. That law,  while relatively strict on paper, had not been enforced for decades. Recent charges against two abortionists touched off a storm of controversy, with abortion supporters calling for repeal. Reacting to news of the doctors’ protest, pro-abortion groups suggested that taxpayer money be used to airlift abortion-minded mothers to hospitals where abortion “services” are still available.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, May 1 (LSN) – The Florida Senate approved a measure Wednesday to allow a pro-life specialty licence plate after an amazing effort by the pro-life group Choose Life Inc. The group collected over 10,000 signatures to support the measure and also raised the $30,000 (US) development fee required. The bright yellow plate includes a drawing of a smiling boy and girl with the logo “Choose Life.” Three fourths of the proceeds from the $20/year tags will go to the care of mothers and infants in need while the rest will go to support adoption services. The Florida House […]

NEW YORK, May 1 (LSN) – On Friday, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (CAFHRI) reported on the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) “Round Table on Adolescent and Reproductive Health and Rights,” which ended on April 17. Among the many anti-life statements at the conference, UNFPA head Nafis Sadik expressed the need to undermine pro-life religious and cultural values around the world. Speaking about restrictions to children’s access to “reproductive health” (abortion), Sadik said,“legal, religious and social barriers remain.”“The main battle in most countries,” she said, is to “remove [such] conceptual barriers.”

BOSTON, Apr 30 (LSN) – The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a report today on a study of RU486 conducted by “researchers” from the Population Council, an extremist pro-abortion group. The report, which predictably found in favour of the abortifacient drug, was commissioned after President Bill Clinton took the extraordinary step of inviting the manufacturer to apply to market the poison in the United States, in 1993. Clinton, whose abortion advocacy is nothing short of fanatical, also interfered with Federal Drug Administration attempts to prevent illegal importing of the drug.  The Population Council “researchers” concluded mifepristone (RU486), is […]

ALBANY, NY, Apr 30 (LSN) – On Wednesday, the Task Force on Life and the Law, a New York-based panel of 24 “experts” in medicine, law, and ethics, recommended selective abortions for multiple pregnancies.  In such cases, which commonly result from in vitro fertilization procedures, the panel advised “fetus reduction,” in order to improve the chances of survival of the other children conceived.  Despite its offensive conclusion, the panel did expose a dangerous trend within the field of IVF.  They warned that information given to IVF candidates is “seriously deficient,” and they urged state legislators to require that clients be […]

TORONTO, Apr 30 (LSN) – In court yesterday, Crown Attorney Michael Leshner called for a six-year jail term for prominent Toronto AIDS doctor Maurice Genereux, convicted in January of assisting the suicide attempts of two of his patients. Genereux’s lawyer called for a suspended sentence.  Mr Leshner described Genereux as “cunning, deceitful, lying, and manipulative” in his prescription of drugs to be used for suicides, and in his subsequent concealment of the evidence. Mr Leshner said that Genereux handed “a loaded pharmaceutical gun to people with suicidal tendencies.”  The defense brought forward testimony from psychiatrist Graham Glancy, who treated Genereux […]

BRAMPTON, ON, Apr 30 (LSN) – Yesterday, The Toronto Star reported that parents of several 10-year-old students at Kingswood Drive Public School are protesting a shockingly explicit and unauthorized sex education lecture given by teacher Peter Rowan to his grade five class. The students told their parents that Rowan described homosexual activity and condom use in graphic detail.  After being confronted by the school principal and several concerned parents last Friday, Rowan was removed from the class until a disciplinary hearing was held on Monday. By Tuesday, Rowan was back in the classroom, and the school board refused to reveal […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 29 (LSN) – Authors Cornel West and Sylvia Ann Hewlett have written a new book which hit bookstores two weeks ago arguing powerfully that society has undermined parenting. In “The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America’s Beleaguered Moms and Dads” (Houghton Mifflin), the authors present solid arguments showing how modern culture has manufactured the downfall of stable family life with anti-family salaries, taxation, media and pop psychology.  The book, reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle, demonstrates the devastating effects of the war against the family with truly alarming statistics. The authors conclude with a […]