Monthly Archives: February 2002

UNICEF funds anti-life group that targets children

Lifesite News The United Nations Children's Fund supports a South African organization that encourages children to engage in sexual and homosexual behavior and to have abortions, without their parents' knowledge or consent. The organization, called loveLife, says on its website that UNICEF provides "major funding" for its programs. LoveLife seems eager to shepherd children towards abortion and provides the toll-free phone number [...]

2010-07-22T09:34:59-04:00February 22, 2002|Abortion|

UNFPA whitewashes Chinese forced abortions

LifeSite News A presentation to the United States Congress on the complicity of the United Nations Population Fund in coercive family planning programs in China has U.S. lawmakers reconsidering funding for the organization. The controversy over UNFPA funding came to a head in November when the entire $15-plus billion foreign aid bill stalled in conference committee. The foreign operations appropriation (HR 2506) [...]

2010-07-22T09:29:50-04:00February 22, 2002|Abortion|

CFAC campaigns to raise age of consent

Brian Rushfeldt, the executive director of the Canada Family Action Coalition, must have a sense of how William F. Buckley Jr. felt when he launched his National Review magazine in the 1950s to "stand athwart history yelling ‘stop.'" At a time when sex is being marketed to young teenagers through television programs such as The Jerry Springer Show and Buffy the Vampire [...]

2010-07-22T09:28:51-04:00February 22, 2002|Society & Culture|

B.C. Liberals follow NDP lead in repression of abortion stats

B.C. pro-life activist Ted Gerk is slamming the recently elected Liberal government for following the lead of the New Democrats in refusing to make abortion statistics publicly available. In November, when Gerk made a request for the latest numbers of abortions being done in the Okanagan-Similkameen Health Region and, specifically, Kelowna General Hospital, his request was denied. Now it is apparent, he [...]

2010-07-22T09:25:14-04:00February 22, 2002|Abortion Law, Abortion statistics|

Sartre: ‘Atheism is a cruel, long-term business …’

Shortly after the turn of the century, a French country doctor married the daughter of a landowner. The day after the wedding, he discovered, to his rude surprise, that his father-in-law was penniless. Disgusted, he did not speak to his wife for the next 40 years. At meals, he communicated to her by signs. She came to refer to him as "my [...]

2010-07-22T09:21:57-04:00February 22, 2002|Donald DeMarco|

Brockie case before Ontario court

Ruling on second complainant favours Brockie On Dec. 5, three days of appeal began in the Ontario Divisional court. Scott Brockie's lawyers contended with those representing a homosexual man named Ray Brillinger, the Gay and Lesbian Archives and the Human Rights Commission over the right of Brockie, a practising Christian, not to print material he found objectionable. On April 3, 1996, Brillinger [...]

2010-07-22T09:15:57-04:00February 22, 2002|Human Rights Commissions|

New video aims to get youth involved

Campaign Life Coalition has just released a video, "It Takes a Little Spirit: A Contemporary Look at Abortion in Canada." Produced at the request of the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic school board to provide a tool to educate young people regarding abortion and prepare them to attend the annual March for Life in Ottawa each May, the video is aimed at high school students [...]

2010-07-22T08:52:08-04:00February 22, 2002|Society & Culture|

Video exposes horror of ‘exit bag’

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is selling a video that exposes the horror and illegality of a suicide device distributed by the Right to Die Society of Canada. The Exit Bag Video features EPC executive director Alex Schadenberg interviewing three guests on various aspects of this grisly product. Wesley Smith, author of Culture of Death : The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, [...]

2010-07-22T08:48:16-04:00February 22, 2002|Euthanasia|

Doctors pushing for easier access to ‘morning after’ pills

In their relentless push to make so-called emergency contraceptives or "morning-after pills" as available as possible, some doctors – with the approval and even urging of certain leaders in the medical community – are issuing open-ended, "just in case" prescriptions for the medications. "We're going our own way," declared Ted Boadway, executive director of the Ontario Medical Association. "Lots of doctors are [...]

2010-07-22T08:34:55-04:00February 22, 2002|Issues|

Ontario Tories don’t know the meaning of ‘conservative’

When Mike Harris announced that he was retiring as premier of Ontario, his possible successors began to state their positions: Red Tory, neo-conservative, centrist. Taken together, their statements provided some understanding of what conservatism means in Ontario in the 21st century In a column under the headline "Neo-con Long is key to leadership," Toronto Star columnist Ian Urquart wrote that Tom Long, [...]

2010-07-22T07:53:51-04:00February 22, 2002|Politics|

Quebec bans research on human embryos

‘The best pro-life news I've heard in 13 years,' says pro-life leader The province of Quebec has announced a ban on all destructive research involving human embryos. David Cliche, Quebec's minister of state for science and technology, unveiled new guidelines on ethical research Jan. 10 in which the creation and use of stem cells extracted from human embryos (resulting in the death [...]

2010-07-22T07:52:02-04:00February 22, 2002|Bioethics|

‘Right to life’ wording prevents Canada condemning terrorism

In what pro-lifers consider one of the most flabbergasting statements by Canada at the United Nations, the Canadian representative at the world body explained the country's opposition to a document on Human Rights and Terrorism, saying the inference to the supremacy of the "right to life" was "unacceptable." At a United Nations meeting Nov. 30, the representative of Canada objected to "the [...]

2010-07-22T07:49:45-04:00February 22, 2002|Pro-Life|

Each Alliance hopeful declares self to be ‘pro-life’

With the announcement by Stephen Harper on national television that he is "moderately pro-life," it seems that each of the four contenders for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance supports a pro-life position, at least to some degree. As LifeSite has reported: "While former leader Stockwell Day and Dr. Grant Hill were clear on their pro-life stands from the beginning of the [...]

2010-07-22T07:42:36-04:00February 22, 2002|Paul Tuns, Politics, Pro-Life|

US Briefs

Congressional abortion advocates flex muscle WASHINGTON — Abortion advocates in Congress killed funding for community health centres that serve uninsured Americans after pro-life legislators led by retiring House Majority leader Dick Armey (R-Tex) inserted language into the bill that would allow hospitals and health plans to opt out of performing abortions. The measure, designed to help Catholic and other private hospitals and [...]

2010-07-22T07:22:56-04:00February 22, 2002|US Briefs|

Across Canada

B.C. group opposes violent video games VANCOUVER — The Coalition Opposing Violent Entertainment, which includes B.C. teachers and RCMP, is speaking out against the video gaming industry's marketing of violence to children. buy viagra in usa The National Post reports COVE spokesman Stephen Kline, a professor at Simon Fraser University, has condemned the games which he sees as "more graphically violent" and [...]

2015-05-21T08:30:42-04:00February 22, 2002|Across Canada|
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