The Associated Press reported that in 2002, 19 states considered more than 60 bills regarding birth control pills and devices. Most of the laws require health insurance policies that cover prescription drugs to also cover prescription contraceptives … Robert Knight inWorldNetDaily.com: “Most socialist revolutionaries are also sexual revolutionaries, because the strength of families presents an obstacle to the growth of the state. Sexual relations outside marriage weaken the family, providing opportunity for social engineers and more government” … Newsweek reports: “Rejecting the get-down-make-love ethos of their parents’ generation, this wave of young adults represents a new counterculture, one clearly at odds with the mainstream media and their routine use of sex to boost ratings and peddle product” … The Centres for Disease Control says the number of high school students who say they’ve never had sexual intercourse rose by almost 10 per cent in the last decade.

All five declared Democratic candidates seeking their party’s presidential nod for 2004 are pro-abortion … Responding to the Wall Street Journal‘s John Fund‘s claim that pro-lifers have lowered their expectations for the 108th Congress, Family Research Council president Kenneth Connor agreed that while Roe could not be rolled back “in one fell swoop … we have a unique opportunity to begin dismantling the pro-abortion culture” … The Birmingham News reports President George W. Bush is considering 40-year-old William H. Pryor Jr.for appointment to the 11th Circuit Court. In 1997, the Wall Street Journal quoted Pryor: “I will never forget Jan. 22, 1973, the day seven members of our highest court ripped the Constitution and ripped out the life of millions of unborn children” … R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Southern Seminary Magazine on the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade: “Three decades of post-Roe v. Wade experience reveal a downward spiral from abortion to euthanasia, from embryo research to human cloning, from assisted suicide to advocated infanticide.”

Zhang Weiging, minister in charge of China’s State Family Planning Commission, said family-planning work “must be a top priority” to sustain economic development. His comments follow claims in the Western media that China is liberalizing its one-child policy … The number of abortions increased slightly in New Zealand in 2001, the latest year for numbers. Almost all the 16,400 abortions were granted on the grounds that to continue the pregnancy would pose a serious danger to the mental health of the mother … The Providence Journaleditorializes that President Bush’s “evangelical Christian … constituency” is responsible for the fact that the “United States now donates only about 300 million condoms a year abroad, down from 800 million at the start of President Bush’s term.” Paper complains Bush is responsible for AIDS deaths in the developing world … Uganda is the only sub-Saharan African country to reduce its AIDS toll – by 50 per cent between 1992 and 2000 – and has done this by promoting the virtues of abstinence, chastity and fidelity.

Pro-abortion Heritage Minister Sheila Copps signals that she will run against former finance minister Paul Martin for the Liberal leadership. She will also campaign for the legal recognition of same-sex marriage … In a CBC debate, all six candidates for the leadership of the federal New Democratic Party came out in favour of abortion, with two of them – Joe Comartin and Pierre Ducasse – prefacing their declaration by noting they are Catholic. The question from a viewer that prompted the reply said that the NDP stood for the “downtrodden” in all but one circumstance – abortion … Report editor Kevin Michael Gracein theambler.com said that Svend Robinson‘s (NDP-Burnaby-Douglas) Bill C-250, which adds homosexuals to the specially protected classes under the hate crime law, “will likely pass. It is supported by every party in the House of Commons except the Canadian Alliance. And the Alliance’s opposition is suspect. Its leader, Stephen Harper, a so-called ‘libertarian,’ has repeatedly demonstrated his disinclination to speak out against the gradual extermination of free speech in Canada.”

Henry Morgentaler on CBC radio regarding the Moncton Hospital’s decision to get out of the abortion business: “It’s very sad that doctors and hospitals decide to stop providing abortions – services which are essential to the health and welfare of women and to children as well” … Ian Gentles, vice-president of the deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research, tells the Catholic Register that Canadians believe abortion is an important issue, but politicians choose to ignore it: “The present government would prefer to believe the issue has been settled – it’s dead and buried and should not be revived.”

Looking back at 2002, homosexualist newspaper Xtra! calls World Youth Day in Toronto “the papal invasion” … Ford’s luxury car line Jaguar will launch a campaign targeting homosexual consumers. Spokesman Simon Sproule says “They have more money to spend.”

The Media Research Centre “honoured” liberal media bias with its list of the most outrageous quotes from journalists from 2002.

Among the winners is PBS’s Bill Moyers, from just after the November midterm elections: “The entire federal government – the Congress, the executive, the courts – is united behind a right-wing agenda for which George W. Bush believes he now has a mandate. The agenda includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to surrender control over their own lives. … Above all, it means judges with a political agenda appointed for life. If you like the Supreme Court that put George W. Bush in the White House, you will swoon over what’s coming. And if you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture.”