Toronto’s NOW magazine reports that professing homosexual MPP George Smitherman is lobbying the federal government to legalize homosexual marriage. “I am a politician who is tired of seeing chicken-hearted politicians who follow rather than lead,” Smitherman says, adding that he’s spoken with “many members of the Liberal caucus in Ottawa and one cabinet minister, and I intend to add my voice to those reasoned voices that say it’s time.” https://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/current/newsbriefs2.html
SPUC has learned this afternoon that members of the British House of Commons will be asked to vote on the government’s statutory instrument which would authorize research on cloned human embryos next Tuesday (19 December) In light of this, the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales have written the government opposing the measure. Their letter was published in the Times at: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,51047,00.html
The British Medical Association revealed its pro-abortion activism as it blasted the government for restricting the over-the-counter availability of abortifacient morning-after pills to girls over 16. The doctors group wants the drugs available to girls under 16 as well. https://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=31602&keyword=the
An editorial in the New York Times urges outgoing President Clinton to sign onto the International Criminal Court despite the massive opposition in the US. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/13/opinion/13WED2.html
CP reports that fourteen women who were sterilized at a provincial mental hospital are suing the British Columbia government, saying the procedure was done for no valid medical reason and without their consent. https://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSTopNews/women_dec13-cp.html