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CMA HAS PROBLEMS WITH REPROTECHNOLOGY BILL The Canadian Medical Association thinks that the government’s new reproductive technologies bill is too restrictive in its treatment of “activities associated with assisted human reproduction.”  https://www.cma.ca/cma/menu/displayMenu.do?tab=422&skin=432&pMenuId=4&pageId=/staticContent/HTML/N0/l2/advocacy/news/2002/05-09.htm   NEW ZEALAND SPERM DONORS WITHHOLD CONSENT FROM LESBIANS The phenomenon of lesbian parenthood seems much further advanced in New Zealand than in Canada. A report Sunday reveals concern among that country’s lesbians and reproductive technology professionals over a shortage of sperm donations for same-sex couples. Donors must give their consent for their sperm to be given to a lesbian partnership and one woman said that nine out of ten men she asked, refused to give that consent, suggesting that the general population is not as enthusiastic about same-sex parenting as is the medical community or the government that permits the practise.  https://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,1199222a11,FF.html   WILL CANADA FOLLOW THE U.S. AND ABANDON THE KYOTO PROTOCOL?  https://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/politics/story.html?f=/stories/20020514/221474.html   BRITISH SCHOOL SEEKS RIGHT TO SPANK UNRULY STUDENTS A Christian school in Britain has gone to court to win the right to spank unruly pupils. Currently, to do so would be a violation of a 1998 law that bans all corporal punishment in schools.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020514/ap_wo_en_ge/britain_spanking_1