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CANADA TEAMS WITH UN TO TARGET GUATEMALA FOR ABORTION ADVOCACY

OTTAWA, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Canada has put two million dollars into a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) campaign targeting Guatemala for chemical abortion advocacy. The five-year project, according to CIDA, aims for "Increased demand, supply, access and quality of reproductive health services, including contraceptives, in Guatemala." Moreover the plan aims to promote a change in law advocating population control. The CIDA document lists as one of its components for support: "advocacy for a law on population and development."

Mercedes Wilson, formerly the official delegate of Guatemala to the United Nations, told LifeSite "it is horrible that Canadian taxpayers are going to pay for something that will do so much harm to our country."

Mrs. Wilson said that UNFPA's activities in the largely Catholic country are to promote abortifacient birth control pills (such as morning after pills) and to advocate for the decriminalization of abortion. Wilson noted, "in the poor countries we don't have the hospitals or facilities to deal with the complications of these abortifacients."

The CIDA release notes that the "UNFPA will work in partnership with the Ministry of Health and other relevant ministries to address the key constraints that have prevented the Health Ministry from meeting the large unmet demand for reproductive health services." Wilson noted that the new government in Guatemala led by President Tortillo is destroying the Guatemalan culture. Wilson called it the "most corrupt government Guatemala has ever had."

Referring to the population control component of the UNFPA plan, Wilson said "the West has taken everything away from poor countries. The last thing we have left is our children and our faith. The West is taking away our faith and now our children - our means of social security."

See the CIDA release on the UNFPA Guatemala project:
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cida_ind.nsf/852562900065549a85256250006cbb1a/88adb21...

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NOVA SCOTIA SUPREME COURT RULES PROVINCE MUST ALLOW HOMOSEXUAL ADOPTION

HALIFAX, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Nova Scotia provincial Supreme Court Justice Deborah Gass rendered a written decision Monday stating that a provincial law that restricted adoption to married couples was unconstitutional and discriminated against homosexual and common-law couples. The ruling stems from a legal challenge launched by two lesbians with children who argued that they were being discriminated against because the province prevented both from being recognized as parents.

In her ruling Gass wrote: "Prohibiting a joint adoption where all the evidence indicates these adults are providing optimum care and loving .. defeats the very purpose of the legislation . The evolution of the concept of family and the importance of family to children ... support the contention that this exclusion is unjustified."

See the Globe and Mail coverage at:
http://globeandmail.ca/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/C/20010709/wgaycouples?t... fullstory.html&cf=tgam/realtime/config-neutral&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&slug=wgaycouples&date=20010709&archive=RTGAM&site=Front&ad_page_name=breakingnews

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NEW BC GOVERNMENT DROPS CASE TO FORCE HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE IN CANADA

VANCOUVER, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The newly elected Liberal government in British Columbia has dropped out of a court case, launched by the previous New Democratic provincial government, to force Canada to allow homosexual marriages. The BC Catholic reports that the spokesman for BC Attorney General Geoff Plant confirmed the province had pulled out of the case.

The former NDP BC government, which suffered a crushing defeat in the recent elections, was the most extremist pro-abortion and pro-homosexual government in Canadian history. Launching the legal challenge against the federal government last July, then BC Attorney General Andrew Petter said, "if the institution of marriage is a positive and beneficial institution for society, and works for heterosexual couples, it should work for same sex couples. ... We have no right to deny same-sex couples the same opportunity to participate in that institution."

The case will go forward as it is supported by Canada's homosexual activist group EGALE. It is set to be heard July 23. The BC Catholic reports that similar legal challenges have also been launched in Ontario and Quebec, but the B.C. challenge is considered the leading case because it's due to be heard first

See related LifeSite coverage:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/july/0007203 .html

See the BC Catholic story at:
http://bcc.rcav.org/01-07-09/fp.htm

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BUSH MOVE TO RECOGNIZE UNBORN CHILD CAUSES FUROR AMONG CANADIAN PRO-ABORTS

OTTAWA, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Newspapers across Canada featured stories today reporting that "the anti-abortion United States government is having an effect north of the border." The frenzy was initiated last week when the Bush administration drafted a policy to allow states to cover "unborn children" under the Children's Health Insurance Program.

While pro-lifers are hopeful that pro-life measures in the US will encourage similar legislation in Canada, pro-abortion activists are worried that a pro-life victory in the US would embolden pro-lifers in Canada. Both pro-lifers and those opposed to life recognize that the influence of the United States on the policies of other governments is substantial, particularly for those governments in close proximity to the US.

A Canadian Press story carried by the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and other Canadian papers quotes Campaign Life Coalition's Mary-Ellen Douglas as saying the Bush move "will help to peel the scales from people's eyes, stop the denial of reality and the killing of the pre-born." Douglas noted pro-lifers in Canada are watching the legislation closely since, "whatever happens in the United States usually happens in Canada."

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FAMILY COALITION URGES ACTION OVER HUMAN RIGHTS DECISION AGAINST BIBLE VERSES

OTTAWA, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) is urging pro-family Canadians to express their concerns over the recent decision of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission which noted that a newspaper ad publishing Bible verses on homosexuality was discriminatory. In a release CFAC says it "is very concerned about the serious implications of this ruling on religious freedoms in Canada" and "with the process by which this decision was made."

The CFAC release notes " Human Rights Commissions have clearly become another tool of radical special interest groups. Human Rights Commissions are made up of appointed people - not elected. Most appointments to HRC are ideologically based - including 'gay rights activists' and others with specific political agendas. Agendas and political philosophy, not justice and equality, is at the heart of these commissions."

CFAC questions the training in law and justice of many of the people appointed to the commissions as well as the 'hearing process' which it calls "faulty." There are, for example, no 'rules of evidence', and no 'cross examination' with HRC cases, states CFAC. "There is a tendency to elevate certain people's rights over those of others. For example, in the Owen's case, the rights of religious people, as specifically guaranteed in the Canadian constitution, were overridden by 'sexual orientation' rights, even though such rights are not even mentioned in the same constitution. The arbitrary powers to impose sentences and fines by a "one person" adjudicator are even questionable under the rule of law in Canada. There is no appeal process in the HRC "world"," says CFAC.

CFAC urges pro-family Canadians to express their concerns over the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. It suggests that the Justice Minister as well as the Leader of the Opposition Party be called and requested to take the following actions: * The role and powers of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission be reviewed and be limited or eliminated. * That the SHRC be phased out and that the Legal Courts of Canada be restored with the role of dealing with legitimate cases of human rights violations as is done with assaults or defamation cases.

Minister of Justice/Attorney General of Saskatchewan, Chris Axworthy
Phone: 306-787-5353 Fax: 306-787-1232
Email:

The Saskatchewan Party Leader , Elwin Hermanson
Phone; 306-882-1350
Email :

See the LifeSite coverage of this story:
http://lsn.ca/ldn/2001/june/010619.html#1

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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES

A researcher in Australia says she has found a way to fertilize ova without the use of sperm. Dr. Orly Lacham-Kaplan, from Monash University in Melbourne told the BBC that her team had been able to successfully fertilize mice eggs in lab cultures using other cells in the body known as somatic cells. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1431000/1431489.stm

Human Life International has announced the appointment of Fred J. Turek as the organization's new executive vice president. For 28 years he worked for the Mobil Corporation handling financial, operational, managerial and strategic planning activities at the local, regional and international corporate levels. Upon his retirement, Turek became president/CEO of An Educated Choice, Inc. (AECI), a pro-life chastity educational corporation, in addition to serving in other areas related to his Catholic faith and to pro-life interests.

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