Articles for Month: November 2002

BELGIAN SENATE APPROVES BILL FOR LEGAL RECOGNITION OF HOMOSEXUAL UNIONS The 46-15 vote now sends the bill to the Lower House.  The bill does not allow homosexual adoption of children.  https://www.rte.ie/news/2002/1129/gaymarriage.html   PATIENTS ‘GIVEN OTHER WOMEN’S EMBRYOS’  https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2524631.stm   CAMPAIGN LIFE COALITION GUELPH TO HOLD FREE SPEECH RIGHTS CONFERENCE DEC.5 Speakers Roy Hamel and Gwen Landolt will be speaking on the implications of MP Svend Robinsons Bill c-250. The evening will begin at 7pm at the Evergreen Senior’s Centre, Room # 4 on 683 Woolwich Ave. in Guelph

Bows to evangelical and traditionalist pressure

VANCOUVER, November 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Clergy from eight Anglican parishes that wish to remain faithful to Christianity have succeeded in forcing Bishop Michael Ingham to suspend enforcement of church homosexual marriages in his 80-parish diocese, pending further discussion. Previously, Ingham vowed to defy the Canadian House of Bishops, who in October deferred a decision on homosexual blessings until the 2004 national General Synod.  The eight parishes described by the media as “dissident” and “hard-line,” have withheld $30,000 a month in dues, provoking a 20 percent cut to Ingham’s budget and effectively forcing his hand. In a typical move to […]

WASHINGTON, November 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The laissez-faire attitude regarding abnormal sexuality in North America, has created international scandal as the peculiar sexual interests of a United Nations weapons inspector set to go to Iraq has been made public.  American Harvey John “Jack” McGeorge, a former Secret Service officer who once served in the U.S. Marines, was nominated to the U.N. inspections team by the U.S. However, McGeorge, in addition to offering highly priced seminars on weapons, offers seminars in his capacity as a co-founder of Black Rose, a “pansexual S&M group” based in Washington, and also as a founder […]

Kissinger Strongly Implicated in Population Control and Abortion

WINDHOEK, November 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Namibian Health Minister Dr Libertina Amathila said at a press conference yesterday that due to pressure from the public, churches and the pro-life movement, abortion on demand will not be legalized in the country for ten years.  “For the next 10 years, we are running against the wall. I am not ready to introduce that. Maybe the next Minister will have the courage,” she said.  The Namibian reports that a draft Abortion and Sterilisation Bill was issued for discussion in 1996 but was put on ice three years later because of pressure from pro-life […]

Daily Telegraph columnist charged with hate crime for pro-hunting rights remark

KENTUCKY SEX SHOP OWNER SWITCHES TO SELLING BIBLES AFTER CONVERSION https://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20021127_122.html   JUDGE REFUSES TO ALLOW KOPP’S NEW LAWYER AT FEDERAL TRIAL   A federal judge ruled late Wednesday that Long Island defense lawyer Bruce A. Barket cannot represent Kopp on federal charges because Barket already represents Loretta C. Marra, a friend and fellow abortion protester of Kopp’s.  https://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20021128/1014684.asp   BLASPHEMOUS PLAY ‘JESUS HAS TWO MOMMIES’  https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0023425.htmL   PRO-LIFER PUNCHED IN FACE WHILE PICKETING ABORTUARY https://www.crgazette.com/go_article/0,1336,46301%252D11,00.html?cks=0 CLC Nov 27 PRESS RELEASE RESPONDING TO RESULTS OF ABORTION QUESTION IN NATIONAL POST POLL https://216.122.249.80/clc/press/2002/021127.html

VATICAN CITY, November 28, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican’s top moral theologian has condemned as “offensive” the possibility of human cloning. Father Gino Concetti was interviewed by reporters following Dr. Severino Antinori’s claim that the first human clone would be born next year – a claim Catholic sources view with skepticism.  “The church condemns human cloning as a method of procreation because it contradicts the Biblical principle of procreation through marriage,” Concetti said. “Human cloning directly offends the dignity of the human being and God’s plan for procreation,” he said, adding “[Antinori] has only hypothetical theories. So far, he has […]

Scientist says if process goes awry it could be "too horrible to contemplate."

"there is life from the first instant of conception and, therefore, to attack it is murder."

TULSA, November 28, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rhema, an evangelical Christian ministry, has expelled a Wichita Kansas pastor from the ministry because of his pro-life activism.  Charisma News reports that Mark Holick had his ordination revoked this summer by the Oklahoma-based Rhema Ministerial Association International (RMAI).  “They [RMAI leaders] informed me that my wife, any of our church leaders, and myself could not for any reason go to any abortion clinic ever, not even to pray,” said Holick, 41.  Rhema’s Tulsa-based attorney, Tom Winters, told Charisma News Service that “Rhema is not for abortion.” Winters said he advised RMAI leaders to […]

Avoids huge expense and powerful drugs associated with IVF treatments

Pro-life representatives were systematically eliminated from consultation process

Infection with a second strain is called "superinfection" that may be drug resistant

HIV Infection 100 Times Greater in Experiments With Mice

WASHINGTON, November 28, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More than one-fifth or 22% of Americans in a nationwide Buffalo News/Zogby poll of 1,009 people say they are “less” in favor of abortion today than they were 10 years ago—twice the number (11 percent) who say they’ve become more pro-choice.  Among the other findings were that young people tend to be more opposed to abortion than the baby boomer generation (one-third of people aged 18 to 29 said abortion should never be legal, in contrast to about 23 percent for those aged 30 to 64 and about 20 percent for those aged 65+); […]

FACE TRANSPLANTS COMING SOON AS BODY PARTS INDUSTRY GROWS https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2516181.stm   26 HUMAN FOETUSES FOUND IN SHALLOW GRAVES IN BOTSWANA – ILLEGAL ABORTIONS SUSPECTED https://library.northernlight.com/FD20021125950000026.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc   PRO-FAMILY VEGGIE TALES MOVIE HITS BIG SCREEN – WARMLY RECOMMENDED https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/2002/nov/01veggietales.html

Faulty work backing Kyoto "driven by systemic ideological preferences for state intervention"

BUFFALO, November 27, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The judge presiding over the trial of James C. Kopp, who last week admitted to shooting abortionist Barnet Slepian in 1998, has placed a gag order on the case for the remaining months before the trial opens in February.  Judge Michael D’Amico ordered Kopp, his attorneys and prosecutors to refrain from discussing evidence or testimony before the trial. Prosecutor Frank Clark sought the order on grounds that further publicity could taint the jury pool.  For previous coverage see:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/nov/02112001.html

HONOLULU, November 27, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hawaii Right to Life has won the right to begin broadcasting ads in a special election this week, in what is being described by media as a “setback” for the U.S. government’s early efforts to enforce its new campaign finance law.  U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy granted a temporary injunction that allows the pro-lifers to air commercials in the state’s special congressional election campaign. He said the group qualifies for the exemption because it received only $50 in corporate contributions.  For more details see:  https://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20021127_551.html

ROME, November 27, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italian cloning promoter Dr. Severino Antinori claims to know a patient who is eight months’ pregnant with an “absolutely healthy” cloned baby boy.  In April, he claimed there were three clone pregnancies underway – then in the ninth, seventh and sixth weeks of gestation. But if that was true, then the longest pregnancy would already have passed nine months in mid-November—a discrepancy Antinori could not explain.  Experts dismiss Antinori’s claims, insisting that the technology does not yet exist to pull off a successful human clone. But Antinori has always distanced himself from his own […]

QUESNEL, B.C., November 27, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The lawyer for Chris Kempling, the B.C. public school teacher now being persecuted by his own union for private opinions expressed in letters to the editor of the local newspaper, told a B.C. College of Teachers (BCCT) hearing last Monday that there is no evidence Kempling “poisoned the atmosphere in his classrooms.”  Because Kempling’s letters were critical of the homosexual agenda, the usual defenders of free speech have kept their distance. The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is standing aloof. Kempling’s union, the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), are paying only half of his legal […]

WASHINGTON, November 27, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spurred on by a Washington Post story which indicated that the Republicans were ready to move on the pro-life agenda, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was questioned repeatedly yesterday on the President’s stand on the Roe v. Wade case.  Fleischer did not answer the question directly, responding only generally that President Bush is pro-life.  The Post quoted Republican Conference Chairman Rick Santorum (Pa.), the Senate GOP’s third-ranking leader, as saying that President Bush and the Republican-led Congress will take the country in a “more conservative direction” in the next two years. “There are a […]

ROME, November 27, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Italian doctors were sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday for performing illegal abortions.  Doctors Ilio Spallone and his nephew Marcello Spallone were convicted for doing late term abortions beyond the 90 days of gestation during which abortion on demand is decriminalized.  The 12 abortions in question were committed between 1995 and 1997.  Agence France Presse reports that an obstetrician involved in the abortions was given a 14-year term in prison, while an anesthetist and a secretary each received 12-year terms. A total of 67 people were charged in the case, with the […]

CHICAGO, November 27, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Chicago has joined in the campaign to demand that vaccines are made without the use of tissue from aborted babies.  The Archdiocese of Chicago’s Respect Life office has ordered 500 petitions from the pro-life group which specializes in the area of vaccines – Children of God for Life. The petitions and brochures will be sent in the archdiocesan December mailing to all parishes.  Children of God for Life is also working on translations of the material into both Polish and Spanish to accommodate the multi-lingual communities. For more information on tainted […]

BUKINDNON, Philippines, November 27, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the pro-abortion leaning media have lashed out at him, a Philippine parish priest is being praised by his archdiocese for preaching against the use of abortifacient IUDs.  The Philippine Daily Inquirer reports that a parish priest, Fr. Joseph Schwegmann, has refused communion to women who refused to remove the abortifacient devices.  The pro-abortion Population Commission was infuriated to learn that at least 24 women had removed the abortifacient devices.  However, when contacted about the incidents, the archdiocese praised the faithful priest.  Msgr. Rey Monsanto, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Cagayan de […]

Women's Rights A Cover For Real Motivation - Money

Previous Gallup Poll Gives Dramatically Different Result Than National Post Poll

PAPER REPORTS ABORTIONIST CAUGHT ON TAPE THREATENING TO RUN DOWN PRO-LIFERS https://www.belleville.com/mld/newsdemocrat/4568293.htm   UK FEMALE STUDENTS SELLING OVA FOR FERTILITY TREATMENTS https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/2510393.stm   UK DOCTOR CAUGHT FAKING IVF EMBRYO TRANSPLANTS https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2511959.stm

'There seems to be a politically correct hierarchy of victims...'

LONDON, November 26, 2002 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – The new Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, says there is a case for “acknowledging faithful same-sex relationships.” In a BBC documentary, “An Archbishop Like This,” to be broadcast next Sunday, Archbishop Williams says the Bible doesn’t forbid all homosexual activity. He says, “If the Bible is very clear—as I think it is—that a heterosexual indulging in homosexual activity for the sake of variety and gratification is not following the will of God, does that automatically say that that is the only sort of homosexual activity there could ever be?” He continues, “What about […]

Reference to "the inherent normality and superiority of heterosexuality" to be prohibited

Clinic staff anonynmous and secretive

Parents insist she is 'conscious' and could recover

MONTREAL, November 26, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Choices: The Henry Morgentaler Story” is another made-for-TV movie in the making.  The Montreal Gazette reported last week that the ACTRA website was listing the upcoming movie.  The reporter inquiring about the story was given the cold shoulder by producers however.  Kevin Tierney, of Park Ex Pictures, “was particularly edgy the other day when I called to ask him about his movie,” writes Freelancer Linda Massarella.  “There’s no reason for you to write about it,” he told the reporter ‘very tersely’, she added.  Vera Miller of Elite Casting admitted that there would be a […]

RAVENNA, Ohio, November 26, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kathleen Klamut, a school psychologist who is a practising Christian, won a battle over her teacher’s union dues based on her religious objection to the union’s support for abortion.  Klamut complained to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the Ohio Education Association was refusing to allow her to defer part of her union dues to the American Cancer Agency instead of pro-abortion lobbies. “They called me obstinate, they questioned my religious sincerity, they were most ungracious,” she said.  Klamut’s 18-month battle ended in victory last week when the OEA announced it was […]

UNFPA and IPPF Provide Lexicon of Double Talk on Abortion Promotion

Homosexual "widow" compares his struggle to Merchant Navy veterans

"freedom of speech ... is a one-way street for Mr. Robinson"

NAIROBI, November 22, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Church leaders in Kenya are protesting the promotion of the Shari-a, or Islamic Law, in a new constitution being imposed on the East African country by its dictatorial government next year. Christian leaders warn that the new constitution could be divisive for the Kenyan population, rather than uniting people of different religions, as a proper secular constitution should do.  But Muslim leaders want to follow the example of Nigeria, where certain regions are exclusively governed under Islamic law. In that country, the move has exacerbated deadly violence between extremist Muslims and Christians—a matter of […]

EDINBURGH, November 25, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Professor Ian Wilmut, the lead scientist in the creation of Dolly the sheep, is applying to Britain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for permission to clone human embryos.  A panel of experts has already recommended “limited” use of so-called “therapeutic” cloning – cloning technology aimed at producing medical treatments but morally no different from any other manipulation and destruction of embryonic human life.  Wilmut wants a licence to fertilize human ova without the use of sperm – a process called “parthenogenesis,” a process that may not be covered by existing regulations because the resulting […]

OTTAWA, November 25, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A COMPAS poll has surveyed over 600 Canadians and found that 60% favour legal limits on pornography, with 85% saying adults should not be allowed to enjoy in private any pornography that involves violence against women.  Those most in favour of making “violent” pornography illegal were likely to be women (80% compared to 68% of men), those over the age of 60 (81% compared to 60% of those younger), and people with a high school education or less (71% compared to 60% in the general public.) People under the age of 30 were least […]

Completely Ignores Opposing Opinion of Albertans Revealed in Recent Poll

VATICAN CITY, November 25, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano gave an interview in the Italian paper Il Corriere della Sera in which he suggested that the Vatican is considering joining the United Nations. The Vatican, intends “to study the possible ways for a greater presence in this assembly,” without discarding the possibility of becoming a full member of the United Nations, “if this would be useful,” the Cardinal told the paper.  However, he explained, “it is an open question.” Currently the Vatican has the status of “permanent observer of a non-member state,” which gives it […]

"Tolerance" and fear of Homosexuals Led to Use of Dangerous Donor Blood

Catholics Urged to Write Members of Parliament on Sacredness of Marriage

U.S. National Institutes of Health Hires Extreme Eugenicist and Cloning Advocate

GENOME PROJECT PROVES THE HUMANITY OF THE HUMAN EMBRYO Read this amazing little essay which puts a human face on the human embryo using the latest scientific information gleaned from the Human Genome Project.  https://cbhd.org/resources/aps/cheshire_02-11-14.htm   PRAYER REQUESTED FOR UPCOMING SCHEIDLER SUPREME COURT CASE Prayer is urgently needed as the case of NOW vs Scheidler comes to be decided.  The court date is December 4, 2002.  ISLAMIC DESPOTS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF MANY MUSLIMS Muslim delegates to the United Nations have often worked closely with the Vatican and other pro-life, pro-family delegates and NGOs. Questioned is how the Muslim U.N. delegates […]

Provincial Attorneys General Called to Clarify Positions on Bill C-250

Harassment by Canadian Human Rights Tribunals Increasing Over Homosexual Issue

LONDON, November 22, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has praised the decision of the general synod of the Church of England which voted overwhelmingly in favour of restricting the abuses of Britain’s Abortion Act. Meeting in London earlier this month, the governing body of the mother church of the worldwide Anglican (Episcopal) communion voted by 222 to 22 in favour of a motion expressing grave concern at the fact that over 500 abortions are performed in England every day of the year. The motion urged the British government “to bring in urgent legislation […]

Seeks to Counter Impact on Good Priests of Mostly Negative Media Stories

NEW YORK, November 22, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study in the current issue of the journal Fertility and Sterility, the official journal of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, boasts that artificial fertility techniques have become more effective over the years.  The author of the study, Dr. James P. Toner, of the Atlanta Center for Reproductive Medicine in Woodstock, Georgia, writes that the rate of births per IVF attempt at pregnancy has increased from 10% to 30% from 1985 to 1999.  However, a look at the government statistics Toner used in his analysis reveal that approximately 170,000 human embryos created […]

Astonishing Admission Indicates Foolishness of Previous Hype

PRO-ABORTION GROUP PARTNERS WITH WACO TEXAS LIBRARY SYSTEM Amazingly, the Planned Parenthood library also warns patrons that it can deny access “to anyone who has participated in protests,” against the group.  https://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archive/200211/CUL20021120a.html   JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION GIVES $20 MIL TO EMBRYONIC HUMAN RESEARCH https://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1035873376901   PRO-LIFE BILLIONAIRE BUILDS NEW CATHOLIC COLLEGE AND TOWN IN FLORIDA Ave Maria College announced it will build a 750-acre Catholic university and town in southwest Florida, scheduled to open in 2006.  https://www.avemaria.edu/thisnews.asp?id=87

Violent reaction to suggestion that teen try to change sexual orientation

SUBLETTE, Kansas, November 21, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A two-inch fetus preserved till now in a jar of formaldehyde will be buried under a monument to the unborn in an Ohio cemetery. The three-month unborn child died of unknown causes and was donated by the Life Institute in Cincinnati.  The gift pleased Vaughn and Sharon Lower, the couple who set up the monument. Their dispute with the Haskell County Cemetery had gone to the Kansas Supreme Court which upheld a trial judge’s decision that state law required human remains be buried with a monument in a county cemetery and that the […]

WASHINGTON, November 21, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new post-abortion awareness campaign called “Silent No More: Women speak out about their abortion experience”, will bring women who have had abortions together at state capitols and in Washington, D.C., in January 2003 to speak out about their abortion experience.  “Silent No More” expects to be the beginning of a national campaign to raise awareness about the aftereffects of abortion. The campaign will also seek to reach the many women who are suffering in silence, offering them abortion recovery help and resources.  State gatherings are being held in 35-50 states at various times […]

WASHINGTON, November 21, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. W. David Hager, a pro-life obstetrician under consideration by the Bush administration to head the Food and Drug Administration’s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee, says he wants the abortifacient RU-486, or Mifeprex, recalled—based on safety considerations and inadequate testing rather than his views on abortion.  Hager has made no secret of the fact that he thinks the FDA flouted the normal drug approval process in hastily approving RU-486 in September 2000. Dr. Donna Harrison, speaking for the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), agrees: “FDA, in approving Mifeprex, acted in a […]

But Outlaws All Human Cloning

Visiting Uganda to learn about its phenomenal abstinence/chastity program

BANGOR, ME, November 21, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When a Catholic Church in Maine allowed a pro-abortion political candidate to host a fundraising dinner despite complaints by pro-life individuals, concerned Catholics began a protest outside the church.  Now the church, St. John’s in Bangor, has sought a restraining order and has filed child abuse complaints against picket leader Terrance J. Hughes, a professor at the University of Maine.  St. John’s pastor Rev. Richard McLaughlin, has singed a formal complaint that the graphic abortion signs used by the picketers are disturbing for the children in the parish.  However, Professor Hughes’ wife told […]

British government now isolated with its support for "therapeutic" cloning

LONDON, November 20, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government will “modernize” Britain’s “archaic and incoherent” Victorian-era sex laws—including abolishing the offenses of sodomy, solicitation by men and gross indecency that are still on the books. “Consensual sex in private that does not harm anyone [sic] should no longer be a criminal offense,” said David Blunkett, the Home Secretary.  Coupled with this liberalization were measures to phase out “legal recognition of any consent for sex by children under 13,” protecting potential victims “up to the age of 18,” and possibly outlawing a new offense called “grooming” (befriending children for […]

Strange court ruling prohibited pro-life counsellors from showing critical video evidence

'life or health of the mother' myth prevails again

NEW YORK, November 20, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Society for Reproductive Medicine says the harvesting of so-called “spare embryos” for human experimentation is ethical. “The Ethics Committee believes it is ethically acceptable to derive and use embryonic stem cells in research to develop cell replacement therapies” and “if it is likely to provide significant new knowledge that will benefit human health and if it is conducted in ways that accord the embryo respect,” says the group's official statement in the November issue of the journal Fertility and Sterility. Typically, media simply caricature the position of “opponents of embryonic stem […]

WASHINGTON, November 20, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gary L. Bauer, a long-time pro-life and pro-family leader has warned that Al Gore is gearing up for the 2004 presidential race.  Any doubt, says Bauer the Chairman of the Campaign for Working Families, is dismissed by looking at Gore’s media schedule.  “Last week, he did 20/20 with Barbara Walters and appeared on David Letterman’s late night show where he displayed a sense of humor missing in the 2000 race. Katie Couric will interview him for three straight days on NBC’s Today show. He will do Larry King Live tomorrow night and appear soon […]

Says "it involves human beings (embryos) who are created in order to be destroyed"

Scheidler states, "you can't kill abortionists… I'm shocked, surprised and disappointed""

ALABAMA JUDICIAL BUILDING TEN COMMANDMENTS RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL https://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/11/18/ten.commandments.ap/index.html   MARY TYLER MOORE PUSHING EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH https://www.sltrib.com/2002/nov/11162002/utah/17175.htm   REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR WINS ALABAMA IN LAST UNDECIDED GOVERNOR’S RACE   https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,70781,00.html

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, November 19, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bruce Dennison, an Illinois public school superintendent, has threatened more than 22 families and sent police to their homes to summon them to what he calls a “pre-trial hearing” to prove they are in compliance with the law in educating their children at home.  But Chris Klicka of the Home School Legal Defense Association says Dennison is way out of line, adding that the threats amount to harassment: “One truant officer told a family that he ‘could take away the kids if he wanted to’,” according to WorldNetDaily.  It is unlikely that Dennison’s […]

CANTERBURY, England, November 19, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has made it known that he believes Christianity and Freemasonry are “incompatible,” and that he will not appoint Anglican clergy to “senior posts” if they are members of the “secret organisation.”  The move is a bold one in the context of England, where Anglicanism and Freemasonry have long been intertwined, and where many clergy and churchgoers who belong to the 350,000-member fraternity admit no incompatibility. Traditionally, Freemasons vilified Roman Catholics, but in recent years they have recruited Catholic members by muddling Church teaching, which in […]

NORTH VANCOUVER, November 19, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A second Anglican clergyman has resigned over his bishop’s endorsement of homosexual marriage. Rev. Dr. Timothy Cooke, rector of North Vancouver’s St. Martin’s Church, cited the failure of the Anglican House of Bishops to enforce its own 1997 guidelines on human sexuality, which preclude blessing of same-sex unions.  Last month, Rev. Colin Goode, rector of Vancouver’s Holy Trinity Church, also resigned. Both parishes were among the eight that wish to remain faithful to basic Christian teaching about marriage. The eight formed a coalition called the Anglican Communion in New Westminster, which includes one […]

NEW YORK, November 19, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “In its never-ending effort to promote the gospel of ‘choice,’ Planned Parenthood has chosen to mock the Christian faith by issuing a holiday card with the message, ‘Choice on Earth,’” said Jim Sedlak of STOPP International (a project of American Life League). “Planned Parenthood likes to portray itself as a tolerant organization constantly searching for diversity. But this blatant attack on Christian values—and Christ Himself—is just another demonstration of the truly bigoted nature of Planned Parenthood.” Planned Parenthood recently announced the release of its line of holiday cards. Each card reads, “Choice on […]

WASHINGTON, November 19, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Much to the chagrin of the body parts industry, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to block a lawsuit accusing the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office of wrongly removing the corneas of dead children without first getting permission.  AP reports that the coroner’s office was sued by the parents of two boys whose corneas were harvested and sold to an eye bank for several hundred dollars in 1997.  A class action law suit is planned which could involve families of 7,000 deceased.  “The lifesaving and life-enhancing benefits from organ and tissue donation will necessarily […]

WASHINGTON, November 19, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Messiah College, in Harrisburg, PA, will be hosting a concert by pro-abortion musician Aimee Mann.  Rock for Life (a division of American Life League) has asked why the Christian college would host a musician who “supports the killing of pre-born babies.”  Mann donated one of her songs to a CD benefiting an access to abortion project.  Her song is featured in Safe and Sound, a compilation CD benefiting the Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Clinic Access Project.  Sara McKalips, assistant director of Rock For Life and a recent graduate of Messiah is, along with other […]

Pro-life Pharmacists and Church Leaders Clear on Message

Ruling Seen As Attack On Religious Freedom

SENATE CONFIRMS JUSTICE MCCONNELL BUT DEBATES SHEDD NOMINATION – final vote Tuesday.  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021116/ap_on_go_co/senate_judge_1 https://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAPIUXPO8D.html   OHIO SENATE PASSES BILL TO DETER ASSISTED SUICIDE; PROMOTE PALLIATIVE CARE https://www.ohiolife.org/newsstory.asp?id=3   COURT BLOCKS INDIANA INFORMED CONSENT LAW PENDING SUPREME COURT RULING https://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-abortion-law1115nov15,0,6100780.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines   SOME US DIOCESES STILL ACCEPTING HOMOSEXUAL CANDIDATES TO PRIESTHOOD https://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=15861 NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS POLICE HOUNDING HOME-SCHOOLERS

WOMAN BORN MOSTLY BLIND REGAINS SIGHT DURING PREGNANCY   Doctors are calling it ‘a miracle” since.. .“The retina is by definition a part of the brain.  that which is destroyed is destroyed forever…That is why someone who has been terribly visually impaired suddenly seeing normally cannot be explained.”  https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_709540.html?menu=news.quirkies   ABORTIFACIENT MORNING AFTER PILL HANDED OUT TO AUSTRALIAN STUDENTS   https://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5501754%255E902,00.html

Human embryo-based companies unable to attract investors

Public criticism cited

BATON ROUGE, November 18, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican strategists are treating the December 7 run-off to elect Suzanne Haik Terrell as the junior senator from Louisiana, as if control of the Senate hung in the balance. Republicans have only a razor-thin majority and cannot count on liberal Republican senators to vote with their own party.  Terrell will square off against Democratic incumbent, Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, because the state holds its election and primary on one night, allowing several candidates from each party to run. On November 5, none gained a sufficient number of votes, thus triggering next month’s run-off.  […]

Double-talk sees minister upholding "marriage" while eliminating any distinction

Sign pro-Kyoto Statement Along With Prominent Pro-Abortion, Pro-Gay, Leftist Canadians

Not to do so would be "a serious pastoral omission" says Pope

Bishop Urged to Call 'Catholic' Politician To Task

BALTIMORE, November 18, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scientists from Johns Hopkins and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered that in vitro fertilization (IVF) appears to be associated with a rare combination of birth defects characterized by excessive growth of various tissues. After studying data from a national registry of patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS), the researchers found that IVF-initiated conception was six times more common than in the general population. The findings are slated for the January issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, and should be online by the end of November. BWS may predispose […]

UNFPA, IPPF to Address Meeting

Regarding the November 13 LifeSite story “CANADA SQUANDERS OPPORTUNITY TO HELP THIRD WORLD MOTHERS”, please note that rather than having “set up a clinic staffed by volunteer doctors from the West to operate on women to repair their damaged organs” Dr. Robert Walley has set up large project in a rural area of Ghana with 4 programs which are designed to reduce the number of mothers who die during pregnancy or sustain a birth injury, obstetric fistulae.  The corrected story is posted online at:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/nov/02111301.html

LONDON, England, November 15, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Doctors used ultrasound to perform a micro-surgical technique to dilate the child’s underdeveloped pulmonary valves while the baby was still in the womb 18 months ago. It is something that has been successful only half of the 14 times it has been attempted and which has yielded only one long-term survivor so far. In this latest case, the child is healthy and surviving well to date, and doctors are pronouncing it a success in The Lancet.  Dr. Helena Gardiner, the lead researcher, wrote in a research letter to The Lancet: “With more experience, […]

WASHINGTON, November 15, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican congressmen have saved a safety-valve for pro-life protesters who are frequently targeted by liberal courts with large-scale court-imposed fines. Typically, pro-lifers are forced to declare bankruptcy in order to avoid prohibitive penalties for exercising their right of free speech outside abortuaries.  A bill working its way through the House and Senate was supposed to be about bankruptcy generally—but Senate Democrats deliberately inserted language to ban pro-lifers from using bankruptcy to avoid paying ludicrous fines. “[The bill was] condemning peaceful innocent people who have a conscience to protest just to try to save the […]

But Several Democrats May be Organizing Filibuster Against Shedd Nomination

"The President believes that we need to be a culture that welcomes life at all stages."

WASHINGTON, November 15, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A U.S. law to reaffirm the reference to “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Motto “In God we trust” was signed by President George W. Bush Wednesday.  The law was rushed through the House and Senate after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled in June that the references to God violated the constitutional separation of church and state.  The legislation states that the court used “erroneous rationale” to come to its “absurd result.” Four House Democrats—Gary Ackerman and Nydia Velazquez of New York, Earl […]

NEW YORK, November 15, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – WAL-MART in the U.S. has responded to a campaign for decency launched by the American Decency Association (ADA).  The ADA campaign urged customers to confront WAL-MART on its practice of having offensive, near-pornographic magazines lining the checkout aisles. WAL-MART received thousands of ADA initiated complaints about their “careless, insensitivity in the sale and placement of numbers of erotic magazines Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and others featuring sexual imagery and eroticized verbiage and, in addition, being so insensitive as to stick it before our noses at the checkout counters.”   WAL-MART wrote the ADA to say […]

HPV is main cause of cervical cancer which is second most common cause of cancer death in women

MONCTON, NB, November 15, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The chief of obstetrics and gynecology at the Moncton Hospital, which began a debate in New Brunswick over abortion two weeks ago by stopping all but emergency abortions, has revealed the main reason for halting the procedure – lack of informed consent.  Dr. David Kogan told the press that patients often show up for abortions without critical information they need to make an informed decision such as how far along they are in their pregnancies, and without having arranged pre or post abortion counselling.  “You reach a point where you say I can’t […]

BRUSSELS, November 15, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Union will soon vote on a major reversal of current EU regulations on aid to developing nations which would force member countries to fund abortions and strip them of the right to act according to their religious and ethical principles.  The new regulation, related to the Plan of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, is to take effect January 1, 2003 if passed.  The new requirement would replace an existing rule which states: “The implementation of the recommendations contained in the Programme of Action is the sovereign right […]

UNITED NATIONS ESPOUSES “TOLERANCE” AS GREATEST VIRTUE https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2002/SGSM8492.doc.htm   NANCY PELOSI CHOSEN AS DEMOCRAT HOUSE LEADER   https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54117-2002Nov14.html   BILL GATES WELCOMED TO INDIA WITH GIANT CONDOM https://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=1737765   PRIEST’S FOR LIFE ANTI SEX ED CAMPAIGN https://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1105 https://www.priestsforlife.org/schools/projectmemo.htm   EXPERIENCE OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST FALSELY ACCUSED OF ABUSE https://www.ncregister.com/Register_News/111702priest.htm   BRITISH STUDY SAYS CANNABIS MORE DANGEROUS THAN TOBACCO Three cannabis joints a day cause the same damage to the lining of the airways as 20 cigarettes.  https://www.lunguk.org/news/index.html https://www.lunguk.org/news/a_smoking_gun.pdf   UNMENTIONABLE VICE GOES MAINSTREAM https://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/11-18-2002/vo18no23_vice.htm

WASHINGTON, November 14, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rule later this year on whether libraries can be required to use filtering software to screen sexually explicit websites from computers accessible to children in exchange for federal funding. However, one of the most common filter systems has the effect of screening out information on pro-life and anti-pornography groups.  A lower court ruled last May that tying federal funding to such an obligation would violate the institutions’ free speech and called for “less intrusive” means to protect children such as parental consent for Internet use.  The Bush […]

New Zealand Laboratory Records

'Somebody worked her over real good'

LONDON, November 14, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The governing body of the Church of England, the General Synod, voted today 308 to 110 to allow a church wedding for a divorcee whose former spouse is still living.  Press reports have speculated that the change would pave the way for Prince Charles to marry Camilla Parker Bowles, whose former husband is still living. See the Church of England statement on remarriage: https://www.gazette.cofe.anglican.org/articles/02_07_page2.html   See the AP coverage:  https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021114/ap_wo_en_po/britain_divorce_1

Will Give Autocratic Liberals More Opportunity to Control all Canadians

Encourages Italians to Have Children - Receives Standing Ovation at end of Talk

Pro-Life Stand Boosted Candidates Numbers More than Pro-abortion Stand

IPPF Renews Commitment To Racist Foundress's Goal of Population Control

POP STAR NICOLE APPLETON’S ABORTION CIRCUMSTANCES CONFIRMED   Robbie Williams, the pop star Appleton claimed to have conceived a child with and aborted when pressured to by her recording agent, has said that he did support Appleton in revealing the incident.  https://www.dotmusic.com/news//November2002/news27226.asp See related LifeSite coverage:  BRITISH POP STAR ADMITS SUICIDAL GRIEF CAUSED BY ABORTION www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/sep/02092302.html   GLUT OF PORNOGRAPHY ON INTERNET BLAMED ON POOR ENFORCEMENT OF OBSCENITY LAWS A former prosecutor with the Department of Justice is urging Attorney General John Ashcroft to pick up the pace on prosecuting Internet obscenity cases, and not continue the precedent of “doing […]

WASHINGTON, November 13, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. bishops meeting in Washington today are expected to approve Vatican arranged revisions to their Dallas policy calling for the zero tolerance of any priest who commits any act of sexual abuse.  David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests has stated that the bishops are not giving enough attention to the abuse problem at the current meeting.  The Kentucky Courier-Journal reports that Clohessy and others said today at a news conference that some bishops should resign or at least give up their leadership roles in the U.S. Conference […]

WASHINGTON, November 13, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two homosexuals removed from their positions as Boy Scout leaders failed in their legal bid for reinstatement.  The District of Columbia (D.C.) Commission on Human Rights had ruled last year that Boy Scouts of America had discriminated against the two men, Roland D. Pool and Michael Geller, but this week the D.C. Court of Appeals overruled the commission, ruling that Scouting officials were acting within their rights in barring them.  The appellate court invoked a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling from June 2000 that the Scouts could legally bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders […]

BUFFALO, November 13, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – James C. Kopp, accused of shooting abortionist Dr. Barnett Slepian, is now saying he may represent himself in court if he is not allowed to be represented by Bruce Barket, the strident pro-life lawyer he has retained in place of Paul Cambria Jr. “There are philosophical sympathies between me and Mr. Barket,” Kopp says. “I’d be hard-pressed to find another lawyer.” Judge Hugh Scott has yet to approve Kopp’s preference.  For previous LifeSite coverage see:  KOPP MAY TAKE THE STAND, NEW PRO-LIFE LAWYER SAYS https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/oct/02103107.html

SAN DIEGO, November 13, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The so-called Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund is declaring Bonnie Dumanis, 50, a California state judge, to be the first “openly gay district attorney in the United States” after last Tuesday’s elections.  “I think this was more about my opponent than it was about me,” Dumanis said. “The message was: It was time for a change.” Former district attorney Paul Pfingst’s office boasted a high conviction rate but was tainted with ethics scandals including accusations of anti-Semitism. But Dumanis, whose attempted suicide 17 years ago was exposed during the campaign, also declared herself […]

LONDON, England, November 13, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A large majority of British women surveyed by the French lifestyle magazine Top Sante blamed morally-lax TV shows for the contemporary breakdown of relationships. An impressive 74% criticized “EastEnders,” a popular evening soap opera, as “the No. 1 marriage wrecker,” while “Sex and the City” and other shows drew criticism for sending out the message that infidelity is normal. Meanwhile, 82% of women said, “it is possible to stay faithful forever.”  As is typical for such magazines, the survey focussed on what leads to “great” sex, but among its findings was that 95% […]

APPLETON, WISCONSIN – “Time to Speak” was the theme as nearly 250 Lutherans gathered, November 8-10, from across the United States and Canada for the 20th national convention of Lutherans For Life (LFL).  Dr. Laurence L. White , Senior Pastor of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Houston, Texas gave the keynote address at the meeting comparing abortion to the Nazi holocaust and blasting inaction of certain Christians during the Nazi era and the current culture of death.  Dr. White, in calling the Church to be faithful to God’s Word, said it should be clearly understood that on the issue of […]

WASHINGTON, November 13, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Sam Brownback has said that he will introduce legislation in the Senate early next year to ban all human cloning.  A similar bill passed the House last year but was stalled in the Senate by pro-abortion militant Senator Tom Daschle.  The Financial Times reports that if ‘therapeutic’ cloning is banned along with ‘reproductive’ cloning, “US medical research in the field would have to move offshore.”  Promoters of human cloning to harvest stem cells – killing the live human embryo in the process – are incredulous that the Bush Administration considers a total ban […]

CHICAGO, November 13, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A list of recipients of grants from the McArthur Foundation includes most of the enemies of life, faith and family that exist on the international level, as well as those in specific countries which the foundation targets.  Apart from funding ‘Catholics for a Free Choice’ and International Planned Parenthood, the foundation targets funds towards abortion and population-control-promoting groups in Brazil, India, Mexico and Nigeria.  The McArthur Foundation also directs its funds to the promotion of the most radical groups working to mold the International Criminal Court into a juggernaut against advocates of life and […]

LOS ANGELES, CA, November 13, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that in vitro fertilization (IVF) should be permitted for post-menopausal women.  Researchers looked at the results of IVF treatment on 77 women aged between 50 and 63 finding that “there does not appear to be any definitive medical reason for excluding these women from attempting pregnancy on the basis of age alone.”  Dr Richard Paulson and his team found that “During pregnancy, they appear at increased risk of preeclampsia and gestational diabetes and a majority can […]

UNFPA Initiative An Operation To Save Face?

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT DISCUSSION PAPER ON HOMOSEXUAL “MARRIAGE”  Public consultations on the matter will begin this winter. Individuals who wish to address the subject may write directly to their Member of Parliament or Senator, or send their views to the Minister of Justice at Room 100, 284 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H8, or by e-mail at [email protected] . ” See the full discussion paper online at: https://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/dept/pub/mar/  BILL GATES BLASTED FOR USING AIDS SCARE TACTICS TO PUSH CONDOMS Population control advocate and billionaire Bill Gates was blasted by Indian politicians for “spreading panic” by quoting inflated USAID projections of AIDS […]

TORONTO, November 12, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Comedy Network has decided to use an episode of South Park that ran six months ago in the U.S. as the Canadian season opener on December 6. The episode, titled “Red Hot Catholic Love,” was seen by American viewers mid-way through the 2002 season on July 3. The Canadian network offers no explanation as to why episode 603 was selected as the Canadian season opener, but the subject matter – a skewed view of clerical abuse scandals—may explain the choice.  According to South Park studios, “Priest Maxi travels to Rome in an effort […]

CANBERRA, November 15, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australia's Parliament is expected to legalize research on embryonic humans next week. In September, the Legislative Assembly (the lower house) approved a bill to allow about 70,000 “spare embryos” created for IVF to be used for stem cell research. Now, the Senate is expected to pass the bill next Monday after a week-long debate. The announcement comes even as the Australian natural fertility rate is hitting all-time lows. In the 25 years since 1976, fertility has remained below the 2.1 replacement level as is typical in contraception/abortion-plagued developed countries, with a drop to only […]

WASHINGTON, November 12, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Radical leftist Representative Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, is set to become her party’s leader in the House of Representatives.  Rep. Martin Frost, Pelosi’s only viable competitor, dropped out of the race Nov. 8 noting Pelosi has the support of most of the Democratic caucus.  Pelosi will take over from present Democratic house leader Richard Gephardt who announced he was stepping down Nov. 5.  Besides being a pro-abortion and homosexual activist, Pelosi leads the socialist-leaning Progressive Caucus, a bloc of about 60 votes or nearly 30 percent of the minority vote in the […]

Elections Show Strength of Pro-Life Movement, Bishops' Spokeswoman Says

Does Not Mention Possible Serious Risks of the Patch

Not Enough Viewers to Sustain its Existence

Document Calls Abortion Worst Violation of Human Rights

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT DISCUSSION PAPER ON HOMOSEXUAL “MARRIAGE”  Public consultations on the matter will begin this winter. Individuals who wish to address the subject may write directly to their Member of Parliament or Senator, or send their views to the Minister of Justice at Room 100, 284 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H8, or by e-mail at [email protected] . ” See the full discussion paper online at: https://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/dept/pub/mar/  UK MOTHER DEFIES DOCTORS ADVICE AND REFUSES LATE TERM ABORTION https://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100local/page.cfm?objectid=12353884&method=full&siteid=50081   ABORTIONIST MORGENTALER CRITICIZES MINISTER MCLELLAN’S EMPHASIS ON OBESITY He complained that the health minister spent money to fight obesity rather than […]

SEOUL, South Korea, November 11, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “If pastors keep silent on this problem (abortion), the culture of death will dull the conscience of Catholics,” said Bishop Boniface Choi-Ki-san of Inchon in a recent pastoral letter.  Zenit News reports that the bishop noted that many of the faithful are ill-informed on the issue and the preparation of priests on issues around abortion is inadequate.  “Abortion is a particularly heinous form of murder, because it kills an innocent child who cannot defend himself in its mother’s womb, which should be the safest place in the world,” he said.  Zenit reports […]

WASHINGTON, November 11, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study on rats has demonstrated that pregnancy hormones protect the brain against diseases such as Alzheimers.  University of Richmond psychology professor Craig Kinsley notes that from his studies with elderly rats, ‘‘Females who had two reproductive experiences were able to learn and remember the maze better than females with one or zero.’’  He added that ‘‘Females with zero were not able to do the maze as well as females with one (litter).’‘ ‘‘Our research shows that the hormones of pregnancy are protecting the brain, including estrogen, which we know has many neuroprotective effects,’’ […]

LONDON, November 11, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to a parliamentary question, a British government minister revealed the latest figures on the numbers of human embryos created, frozen, destroyed, implanted, experimented upon since the passage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. “The latest available figures from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) are that 925,747 embryos have been created through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment, 423,153 have been transferred for implantation, 225,627 stored for the patient's own use, 448 stored for the treatment of others and 53,497 given for research: 294,584 embryos remained unused during the course […]

TORONTO, November 11, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 16-month test program in Toronto which allowed pharmacists to dispense the abortifacient morning-after pill without a prescription from a doctor will shortly end.  The Ontario College of Pharmacists has voted unanimously to encourage legislation to permanently permit the direct distribution of the pills.  The program, which will end in two weeks, is in place in 40 pharmacies throughout the city and has handed out the abortifacient pills to 7000 women.  The Toronto Star reported Friday that the Ontario health ministry will not decide on expanding the program until it reviews the test data […]

Justice Minister Blames Vague "social and cultural differences" for Inaction

SAN FRANCISCO, November 8, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In A brief to a federal appeals court on Wednesday, Oregon’s attorney general defended the state’s law allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medication for assisted suicide.  U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has taken actions to overturn the Oregon law as a violation of federal regulations. Ashcroft has emphasized that “suicide is not a legitimate medical purpose.”  The 1994 Oregon law allows patients with less than six months to live to request medicated assisted suicide after two doctors confirm the diagnosis and deem the patient mentally competent.  To date, there have been 92 assisted […]

WASHINGTON, November 8, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Children of God for Life, a pro-life group specializing in information on vaccine tainted with the use of aborted foetal tissue, is advocating an immediate boycott of all Merck products – not just aborted foetal tissue vaccines. The boycott of Merck is part of the group’s ongoing Campaign for Ethical Vaccines. Children of God for Life says of Merck, “Since vaccines make up less than 5% of their revenues, our analysts have suggested an effective means of forcing a change in foetal tissue vaccines would be to boycott the products that most heavily impact […]

ANOTHER BLOW TO KYOTO PROTOCOL AND GLOBAL WARMING SCARE-MONGERING Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist details how green exaggerations could trigger needless global tragedy. The liberal Washington Post states “The Skeptical Environmentalist is the most significant work on the environment since the appearance of its polar opposite, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, in 1962.”  See detailed review in Report magazine https://report.ca/archive/report/20021104/p42i021104f.html

BUFFALO, November 7, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The lawyer defending James C.  Kopp, Bruce A. Barket, says his client “backs up his beliefs by putting his own life on the line. … People like Jim should be exalted in this country,” Barket said. “Jim is a devout Christian, a kind, gentle man who only acts after thinking and praying on things.”  There is much speculation that Kopp and Barket want to use the trial to grandstand against abortion rather than conduct a straightforward homicide case. Erie County District Attorney Frank J. Clark, whose office is prosecuting Kopp, is enraged.  Whatever Mr. […]

Can no longer cover up child abuse

LEEDS, England, November 7, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A white British couple who gave birth to black twins after an IVF mix-up are to be allowed to keep the children, now two years old, despite continued uncertainty over their legal status, a judge ruled yesterday.  The judge, Dame Elizabeth Butler Sloss, Britain’s most senior family judge, named the clinic, the Assisted Conception Unit at Leeds General Infirmary, but upheld a publication ban on the family’s identity. She added that the twins “have been loved … from the moment of their birth and nothing that has happened since then will change that.”  […]

MINNEAPOLIS, November 7, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Donald Grant, a medical technician who has conducted ultrasound scans for 15 years, was fired for counseling a female patient to reconsider having an abortion. Grant, a practising Christian, felt bound by his conscience to say something to the woman when he noticed in her file that she was considering aborting her child. He “prayed with her” and says she was not offended at the time, but two days later, his superiors at Fairview Health Services called him to account. He was fired four days later and is now suing his former employer for […]

Says Democratic Party "really doesn't represent mainstream America anymore."

Radical Feminists are Enraged

Another Step Towards Lessening Stranglehold of Prime Minister on Parliament

WASHINGTON, November 7, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has committed to passing the partial birth abortion restriction which passed the House but was stalled in the Senate by outgoing Majority Leader Tom Daschle. In an interview with American Family Radio, Lott said: “We will move the partial-birth abortion bill through . I will call it up, we will pass it, and the president will sign it. I’m making that commitment—you can write it down.”  See the report by AgapePress:  https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/62002d.asp

NEW YORK, November 7, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) has reported that the current executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Thoraya Obaid has tipped her hand revealing her strident pro-abortion stance at a recent UN meeting.  Speaking at a Women’s International Forum meeting Monday, Obaid slammed the U.S. funding cut to UNFPA over abortion and in typical ‘pro-choice’ activist rhetoric said the U.S. “does not support the idea that women can make choices in their lives.” Obaid stated that the UNFPA agenda was most difficult to promote in Catholic countries but, […]

VATICAN CONFIRMS DOCUMENT ON ADMITTING HOMOSEXUALS TO PRIESTHOOD IS IN PREPARATION Catholic News Service reports that the Vatican press office confirmed that the Vatican is preparing a document on the admission of homosexual candidates to the priesthood. The document is in the early stages of preparation and is not expected to be published before the end of the year, a press office official said Nov. 5.  VATICAN SOURCES SAY DOCUMENT COMING BARRING HOMOSEXUALLY INCLINED FROM SEMINARY https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/oct/02100903.html   “COMMITMENT TO DEFENSE OF LIFE”, AN “OBLIGATION FOR EVERY CHRISTIAN”  Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the highest ranking Catholic leader in Austria said “For […]

CALGARY, November 6, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Provincial justice ministers and federal minister Martin Cauchon agreed this morning to create a registry of convicted sex offenders. The registry will include annually updated contact information and aliases of offenders and will detail any identifying marks such as moles, tattoos and scars. Draft legislation and changes to the Criminal Code are expected to be presented to Parliament by the end of December.  Cauchon says the format, as presented to provincial ministers, will satisfy concerns about offenders’ rights under the Charter of Rights as well as confidentiality.  For Canadian Press coverage see:  https://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Law/2002/11/03/3670-cp.html (link […]

LONDON, England, November 6, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A German condom manufacturer is offering to pay British and Irish university students—making a point of including homosexuals—$150 per semester to participate in “market-testing” for its products. This, of course, means paying them to try out the condoms during sex with fellow students, staff or other acquaintances.  “We are trying to find out why people don’t like using condoms, and in the process promote safer sex and a reduction in unplanned pregnancies,” said Victoria Wells, marketing manager in Britain for the Cologne-based company Condomi, which is also seeking a bigger market share than […]

Alliance Motion Strengthens Hand of Paul Martin

RENO, November 6, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tuesday night’s Republican sweep saw Governor Kenny Guinn of Nevada reelected by a 68 percent landslide and the party seizing a newly-created congressional seat and all five top statewide offices. Voters also supported a state-constitutional amendment to ban homosexual marriage and to block marijuana legalization.  Nevada statutes already banned same-sex marriages, but the passage of Ballot Question 2 now binds lawmakers to amend the state Constitution to make clear that “non-traditional” marriages performed in other states will not be recognized in Nevada. It passed by 67 percent to 33 with four-fifths of the ballots […]

CANYON COUNTRY, CA, November 6, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-euthanasia Right to Die Movement is intentionally trying to change the philosophy of the Hospice movement by infiltrating it.  A website called Hospice for Hemlock claims to represent “Hospice Physicians, Nurses, Social Workers, Chaplains, Home Health Aids and Volunteers” and to support “Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and Self-Deliverance.”  Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, “Any attempt by the Right to Die Movement to ally itself with hospice is an attempt to take over the hospice movement.”  Nancy Valko, a hospice nurse warns that “Hemlock and other pro-euthanasia groups have […]

MADISON, WI, November 6, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Judgment has been entered against the Madison Abortion Clinic and others in a civil case stemming from an incident in December 2001in which Will Goodman, a pro-life advocate, was attacked by a staff member of the abortion facility. The Thomas More Law Center, a national pro-life, public-interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, represented Goodman in his lawsuit against the abortion facility.  Judgment was entered in favour of Goodman for his claims of assault and battery, false imprisonment, and negligent hiring, training and supervision.  The case revolved around an incident in which […]

UNFPA and UNICEF Lose and World Food Programme (WFP) Gains

U.S Says "We very strongly feel that no decision is better than a bad decision"

Pro-Life, Pro-Family Movement Happy With Outcome

FDA APPROVES NEW PERMANENT CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE   Planned Parenthood has announced the government has approved a permanent contraceptive procedure, called Essure, which is based upon the process of tubal ligation; it uses a 1.6-inch metal coil that is inserted into the fallopian tubes which irreversibly destroys their natural function after 3 months. The procedure is performed in 15-30 minutes.  https://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/1102/05sterilization.html   US BISHOPS PASTORAL MESSAGE TO HIGHLIGHT PRO-LIFE PROGRESS SEEN IN YOUTH INVOLVEMENT https://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2002/02-218.htm   IMPACT OF ABORTION ON WOMEN – TOPIC OF GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM NOVEMBER 16   https://www.unitedforlife.org/press_releases/021101_georgetown_symposium.htm

MANITOBA COUPLES SUES NUDIST COLONY AFTER CHILDREN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED https://www.nationalpost.com/utilities/story.html?id={C765C5A9-9117-47E6-8A7B-CBA09BB17586}  INDIA ANNOUNCES NEW EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH CENTRE https://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/02012016.htm   TIME MAGAZINE EXAMINES LIFE IN THE WOMB https://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,386873,00.html

Abortionists just "file for bankruptcy and open up under another name"

CALGARY, November 5, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Provincial justice ministers gathered in Calgary listened carefully as their federal counterpart, Martin Cauchon, implied that Ottawa would tighten child pornography loopholes in the Criminal Code that the Supreme Court claims make allowances for porn with “artistic merit.”“Obviously the legislation hasn’t been tabled, but it’s a start,” said Heather Forsyth, Alberta’s Solicitor-General. Dave Hancock, the province’s Justice Minister, added, “I don’t think anybody is suggesting the artistic merit defence should be entirely eliminated; that would be probably difficult to do constitutionally. We are very pragmatic when it comes to trying to achieve something that […]

NEW YORK, November 5, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Demonstrating its ultimate hypocrisy, Planned Parenthood is requiring parental consent for “children under age 18” to participate in the organization’s poster contest.  Meanwhile, the organization argues all around the world that children under age 18 should not require parental consent for abortion.  Under the “Terms and Conditions” section of the Planned Parenthood website advertising the Roe at 30 Artwork and Poster Contest, condition # 3 states: “Children under age 18 must have a parent or legal guardian’s permission to submit their designs and for us to publish it along with their name.” Strangely, […]

HALIFAX, November 5, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scientists who are looking to undertake deadly experimentation on live human embryos are about to find out how many such tiny human beings would be at their disposal. Josephine Johnston, a research associate with the department of bioethics at Dalhousie University is leading a project to survey Canada's 24 fertility clinics to determine the number of frozen embryos which could be handed over to scientists. Johnston says the researchers will inform the federal government of the number of embryos that will be available for 'research.' Ottawa is considering legalizing such research while banning the […]

TORONTO, November 5, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The popular fast food chain McDonalds has been providing millions of dollars in funding to UNICEF, the disgraced United Nations agency whose original intent of helping the world's children has been obscured with involvement in population control. The issue was raised by radical anti-life Toronto Star columnist Michelle Landsberg who was concerned that UNICEF, one of her favourite charities (she claims to be an “ardent supporter”), was “dancing with a fast-food devil.” The Star is by far Canada's largest circulation daily. Lansberg, pointed out that last summer, McDonald's and UNICEF announced a Happy Deal […]

MONCTON, NB, November 5, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The South East Health Authority, the largest abortion-performing hospital in the province (where more than half of the 600 hospital abortions are performed), has said that after December 31, it will not perform elective abortions.  The Authority explained that specialists at its Moncton hospital made a joint decision to stop based on frequent no-shows which waste already sparse operating time.  Authority Chief of Staff Dr. Ken Mitton told the Times & Transcript that with a surgical waiting list of about 2,900, the authority could not waste resources on abortion. About half the women […]

Says Senator has "made abortion THE issue of this year's campaign."

LONDON, Nov 4, 02 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – The Anglican Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, has warned his gay clergy to end homosexual relationships or face disciplinary action, reports The Sunday Times.  Bishop Chartres leads a diocese in which the proportion of gay priests is estimated at 30 to 40 percent, the highest in the Church of England. Many live with their companions,  often describing them as “lodgers.”  The bishop outlined his tough new policy at two recent meetings with conservative evangelical clergy in London. He told them he would act to “uphold the discipline of the church” and revealed that he […]

Differ from "Dallas policy" Approved in June on Several Key Points

Move would legalize homosexual marriage in Canada in all but name

ZURICH, November 4, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 77-year-old British man with terminal throat cancer was taken to Zurich by his own son and daughter to become the first British citizen to kill himself with the aid of the Dignitas assisted suicide group. In the past four years, Dignitas has facilitated 134 such suicides, mostly by foreigners travelling to Switzerland for that purpose, a phenomenon known as “death tourism.”  The London Observer’s account reads like a horror novel. The elderly man arrived in Zurich on October 23 and was taken to a small hotel, where he met Ludwig Minelli, the Swiss […]

LIFESITE, November 4, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his review of Reform Party founder Preston Manning’s autobiography, Edmonton Journal columnist Lorne Gunter points out that the book “indirectly confirm(s) what everyone suspected all along: Despite his denials at the time, Manning was foursquare behind the dissidents who broke away from the Alliance at the height of Day’s leadership troubles in the spring and summer of 2001.” The book also “confirmed Manning’s central characteristic, his habit of accusing others of crimes he himself is committing, in spades, and of justifying in himself actions he finds reprehensible in everyone else,” says Gunter.  “For […]

CALGARY, November 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Provincial justice ministers gathered in Calgary today are to discuss strengthening laws against sexual assault of children.  Alberta Premier Ralph Klein is asking the ministers to support actions to convince the federal government to raise the age of consent for sex from 14 to 16. “It’s simply not appropriate, in that most people look at a 14-year-old as a baby still,” said Klein.  Brian Rushfeldt Executive Director of Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) addressed the ministers in a press release calling them to act unanimously to raise the age of consent, establish a sexual […]

Vellacott's proposed legislation is Bill C-276

Priests for Life - "This is just the beginning of a massive effort to mobilize Christians as never before …"

Famine and Poverty Exploited to Advance De-Population Agenda

BANGKOK, November 4, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Bush administration enraged abortion proponents at the United Nations last week. The U.S. representative to a development conference in Bangkok said the U.S. would refuse to reaffirm its support for the 1994 Cairo program of action unless terms which subversively push abortion were removed or changed.  The 1994 document was agreed to by 174 nations. However, until June 2001 when a Canadian delegate to the U.N. finally admitted it, it was not clear that “reproductive health services” included abortions. Immediate criticism of the U.S. statement came from countries associated with forced abortion and […]

NEW PRESIDENT OF U.S. ABORTION MOVEMENT’S LEGAL ARM: NANCY NORTHUP The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) announced the appointment of Nancy Northup as president. Northup, the director of the Democracy Program of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and former consulting attorney at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, will head the 10-year old organization effective January 13, 2003.  https://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/prime/1031-119.html   SOUTH AFRICA HIGH COURT RULES NO EXEPTIONS TO LAW AGAINST CHILD PORN – CONTRARY TO CANADIAN SUPREME COURT RULING Doctors For Life International (DFL) is pleased with the judgment of the Johannesburg High Court […]

Another Court Decision Uses Charter to Overturn Law Passed by Canada's Elected Parliament

Those who do vote often give greater weight to monetary over moral concerns

MISSISSAUGA, ON, November 1, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Anglican Bishops of Canada have decided to refrain from blessing homosexual unions until the matter is resolved at the 2004 General Synod.  The bishops met in Mississauga on October 28 to discuss the matter but could not come to a resolution or agreement on homosexual blessings.  “We are referring the matter of the blessing of same-sex unions to our national governing body, the General Synod (2004) for discussion and if possible, resolution,” said the bishop’s report on the meeting.  “We agree that we will not make individual decisions in any additional dioceses […]

Maximum Penalty for Human Infanticide and for Killing an Animal Will be the Same

WASHINGTON, November 1, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Democratic Senator Tom Daschle, the Senate Majority Leader, has put aside all pretense and exposed himself as a single-issue pro-abortion activist politician.  Moreover, in writing a begging letter for the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), the Democrat Majority Leader made it plain that Democrat control of the Senate means pro-abortion control of the Senate.  Daschle’s begging letter on behalf of NARAL, disseminated to email lists, contains five separate appeals from Daschle for readers to send money to NARAL, with links to the NARAL website.  “As the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, […]

NEW YORK, November 1, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Renato Martino, the Vatican’s permanent observer at the United Nations addressed the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday noting that population growth is not a significant obstacle to or burden on the development of poor nations.  Moreover, the Archbishop noted that the U.N.‘s war against population growth harms the poor.  Archbishop Martino, called attention to paragraph 22 in the U.N.‘s Millennium Development Goals which reads: “Social obstacles can also be powerful impediments to economic development and poverty eradication. Among these, some of the most significant are population growth and a lack of access to […]