Latimer appeal denied Ottawa - The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to reconsider the conviction of Robert Latimer. Convicted of second-degree murder, Latimer is ineligible for parole for at least 10 years. The appeal was based on the claim that the court was wrong in its original case in saying that 12-year-old Tracy's pain could have been effectively treated despite her [...]
Abortionists want mandated referrals SAINT JOHN — Pro-abortionists in New Brunswick are accusing the Saint John medical community of denying women access to abortion and birth control. The bulletin of the New Brunswick College of Physicians and Surgeons says the body is seeking input from members on whether doctors should be mandated to refer patients to other doctors. Peter Ryan of Campaign [...]
Five Christian Truth activists charged REGINA – Five members of the Regina-based Christian Truth Activists were charged with "performing an activity likely to distract users of a highway" on Feb. 18 while standing in a peaceful pro-life demonstration outside Regina General Hospital, which commits abortions. Six signs held by the demonstrators depicting graphic scenes of abortions were also confiscated. Activist spokesman Bill [...]
Portugal may have abortion referendum LISBON — Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio suggested during a BBC interview that the country will hold a referendum on abortion. Sampaio is seeking to liberalize Portugal's current law which limits abortion to cases where a pregnancy is thought to endanger a woman's health or in cases of pregnancy caused by rape, and forbids all abortions after the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Long tolerated, euthanasia now legal in Netherlands AMSTERDAM — Passed by the Dutch parliament last April, the law permitting active euthanasia came into force Jan. 1. Tolerated for decades, euthanasia is now governed by what euthanasia advocates claim are stringent restrictions, including that euthanasia is only available to Dutch residents who have developed a relationship with their family doctor and who are [...]
Adult stem cells cure sickle cell patient PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Keone Penn was diagnosed with sickle cell, a genetic blood disease, at six months of age. He suffered a stroke at five and was in and out of hospitals until he was 11 to receive blood transfusions; doctors expected him to die by 20. When he was 15, the University of Pittsburgh's [...]
End support for RU-486 trials, says Unity Party VICTORIA, B.C. - Noting that the Liberal government of Gordon Campbell is seeking ways to reduce spending, B.C. Unity Party leader Chris Delaney called upon the government to cease its financial support for clinical trials of the abortion drug RU-486. Following the announcement last year that a Canadian woman had died during the second [...]
British court rejects appeal for assisted suicide LONDON - The House of Lords rejected an appeal by Dianne Pretty, a 47-year-old British woman suffering from motor neurone disease, who asked the courts to allow her husband to assist in her suicide without facing criminal charges. The appeal was dismissed unanimously with the law lords saying that human rights legislation, on which grounds [...]
Fetal pain study LONDON, England - A British study suggests that an unborn child might feel pain as early as 20 weeks. The head of the government-appointed Medical Research Council at Edinburgh University in the United Kingdom said an unborn child was absolutely aware of pain by 24 weeks and perhaps as early as 20 weeks - earlier than the previously accepted [...]
New Physicians for Life president VANCOUVER - Dr. Will Johnston has succeeded Dr. Robert Pankratz as president of Canadian Physicians for Life. Johnston, co-chair of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of B.C., heads the organization of 3,000 members who are committed to the Hippocratic Oath and the principle, "first, do no harm." Recently, PFL wrote Health Minister Allan Rock urging a dialogue on [...]
Fetal pain study LONDON, England - A British study suggests that an unborn child might feel pain as early as 20 weeks. The head of the government-appointed Medical Research Council at Edinburgh University in the United Kingdom said an unborn child was absolutely aware of pain by 24 weeks and perhaps as early as 20 weeks - earlier than the previously accepted [...]
New Physicians for Life president VANCOUVER - Dr. Will Johnston has succeeded Dr. Robert Pankratz as president of Canadian Physicians for Life. Johnston, co-chair of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of B.C., heads the organization of 3,000 members who are committed to the Hippocratic Oath and the principle, "first, do no harm." Recently, PFL wrote Health Minister Allan Rock urging a dialogue on [...]
Media ignores study linking crime and abortion NEW YORK, N.Y. - Despite widespread media attention in recent years of a dubious study linking falling crime rates and the availability of abortion, there was scant media coverage of a study that illustrates abortion increases the crime rate. In May, a study by John R. Lott of Yale Law School and John Whitley of [...]