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Thursday September 27, 2001
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Print- PRO-LIFERS PURSUING LEGAL ACTION DESPITE POLICE INACTION
- MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION CALLS FOR CREATION OF EMBRYOS FOR RESEARCH
- LATIMER DEFENCE PUBLICITY LINKED TO INCREASED CHILD KILLING
- MORE HOMOSEXUAL QUESTIONS BEING PREPARED FOR CANADIAN CENSUS
- NEW POLISH MINORITY GOVERNMENT PROMISES PRO-ABORTION LAW
- LIFESITE NEWSBYTES
- US NEWS ROUNDUP
PRO-LIFERS PURSUING LEGAL ACTION DESPITE POLICE INACTION
ALL TODAY'S HEADLINES
Officers Threatened to Charge Victims Rather Than Assailant
SUDBURY, ON, September 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Rosemary Connell, who heads Show the Truth, spoke to LifeSite today regarding the Sudbury man who attacked the demonstration outside of a high school this past Monday. Connell told LifeSite that the man, who police refuse to name, was captured on video destroying seven pro-life signs after pulling them from the hands of various demonstrators.
Connell notes that police had arrived on the scene while the man was destroying 2 of the signs. When three of the pro-lifers were called in by police for a fact finding meeting, they were interrogated in a hostile manner. "Who are you, why are you here and why are you targeting children?" said one of the officers according to one of the pro-lifers present. Police refused to press charges against the man, despite information given by the demonstrators and actions witnessed by the arresting officers. Police even went so far as to suggest charging the victims with blocking pedestrian traffic.
The police also refused to acknowledge that a total of seven signs were destroyed, since officers at the scene of the crime only returned with three of the destroyed signs. Pro-Life lawyer Blaise MacLean noted that the police are denying the pro-lifers access to the courts by their inaction.
Connell said that the rest of the tour, which began Monday and will conclude Friday, has gone remarkably well. Despite almost constant rain, the demonstrators numbering 30-40 were regularly speaking, discussing and sharing with students. Outside Laurentian University the group stopped and were blessed with a traffic jam which brought with it a massive educational opportunity for the hundreds of motorists.
To express your concerns to the Greater Sudbury Police:
190 Brady St.,
Sudbury, Ontario,
P3E 1C7
Telephone: (705) 675-9171
Fax: (705) 675-8871
See LifeSite's former coverage:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/sept/01092602.html
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MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION CALLS FOR CREATION OF EMBRYOS FOR RESEARCH
OTTAWA, ON, September 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada (MDAC) appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health yesterday demanding that Canada permit the creation of human embryos specifically for use in experimentation. The macabre suggestion of creating human beings for research , which will lead to their destruction, has been condemned by almost every group involved in the stem cell debate, even those who agree with embryonic stem cell research.
In the past MDAC has enjoyed the financial and volunteer support of numerous Christians and Christian organizations. Their anti-life lobby effort yesterday will likely cost them in this regard. On their website, MDAC boasts that the Knights of Columbus in Ile Des Chnes raised $6,000 for MDAC at a 1995 Dinner and Dance. Similar support in the future is unlikely, former Grand Knight Frank Kennedy told LifeSite. Kennedy, who used to head up the North York Knights Council, said, "No Christian or Christian organization should give any money to MDAC unless they change their stand on this issue. Support for research on embryos is contrary to the widely held understanding of Christians that embryos are persons deserving the right to life."
To express your concerns to MDAC:
Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada
2345 Yonge Street Suite 900
Toronto, Ontario
M4P 2E5
Tel: (416) 488-0030
Fax: (416) 488-7523
1-800-567-CURE
See the MDAC press release regarding their lobby effort:
http://www2.cdn-news.com/scripts/ccn-release.pl?/2001/09/26/0926104n.html
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LATIMER DEFENCE PUBLICITY LINKED TO INCREASED CHILD KILLING
Estimate of 20 extra Canadian child deaths per year linked to Robert Latimer's influence
EDMONTON, AB, September 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) - A study completed by Dick Sobsey, director of Alberta's JP Das Developmental Disabilities Centre, has exposed the apparently deadly effects of the wide and positive publicity given to Robert Latimer's defence for killing his handicapped daughter Tracy. The study, covered in the September 24 issue of Report magazine, presents evidence linking at least 20 copycat child killings by parents per year to Latimer's influence.
Prof. Sobsey reports that, between 1994 and 1998, the number of children under the age of 12 murdered by their parents increased by 45%, at a time when the overall homicide rate dropped by 14.5%. During the same time period the number of filicides (murders of children by their fathers) increased 54%, suddenly by-passing the usually greater percentage of mother-murderers. The greatest increase in these murders by fathers took place in 1997, when the most Latimer supportive articles were published. There was no comparable filicide increase during that period in the United States where the Latimer case received little publicity.
See Report Magazine at:
http://report.ca/
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MORE HOMOSEXUAL QUESTIONS BEING PREPARED FOR CANADIAN CENSUS
OTTAWA, September 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Statistics Canada (StatsCan) has stuck a committee to study how to ask Canadians questions to identify their sexual orientation. Not satisfied with having asked to identify whether their relationships were "same-sex" relationships as was done in the last census, StatsCan is looking for more specific information.
Homosexual activists on the StatsCan committee, no doubt upset at the tiny number of couples StatsCan found to be "same-sex", are demanding that census and survey data should cover other sexual orientations. StatsCan's Pierre Turcotte, chief of housing and family statistics, told the Hamilton Spectator: "There could be a question about behaviours. The number of sexual partners, for example, and the gender of those partners, might tell us more."
Barbara Findley, described by the Spectator as "an activist lesbian lawyer from Vancouver who is a member of the StatsCan advisory group", explained ""It is important to know how many gay and lesbian and bisexual people there are in Canada for policy purposes."
Turcotte said it is not known when the question might be added. The federal cabinet would have to approve inclusion of such questions in the census, as required by law.
For more see the Spectator at:
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/news/474749.html
See related LifeSite coverage:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/may/01051002.html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/may/00050804.html
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NEW POLISH MINORITY GOVERNMENT PROMISES PRO-ABORTION LAW
Ex-communists see abortion as an immediate priority
WARSAW, September 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Yesterday, the very day the weekend's election results were made final, the ex-communist SLD ,which won the election but narrowly failed to achieve a majority government, promised to introduce legislation permitting more abortions. Speaking at a news conference Wednesday, Marek Pol Leader of the small Labor Union (UP) party which is allied to the victorious SLD, said, "We believe abortions should be allowed when the woman faces hardship."
Reuters reports that the abortion vote could be tight since, although the SLD-UP coalition is only short a majority by 10 seats, the other parties are "generally opposed to abortion on demand."
A BBC reporter reporting on the elections noted that the populace was generally unimpressed with the political selections and that the voter turnout - 46% - was the lowest turnout in the country's short democratic history.
See the Reuters and BBC coverage:
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/09/27/national/POLAND27.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1565000/1565094.stm
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LIFESITE NEWSBYTES
VATICAN EXPLAINS CONDITIONS FOR ETHICAL ANIMAL-TO-MAN ORGAN TRANSPLANTS
Zenit News reports that the Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life has presented a special document on Xenotransplantation in order to explain the Church's view.
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=10450
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US NEWS ROUNDUP
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR NOMINATES PRO-ABORTION SUPREME COURT JUDGE
U.S. District Judge Carlos R. Moreno, Governor Gray Davis' first appointee to the California Supreme Court is pro-abortion.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000077364sep27.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2D...
COURT TO RULE ON FORCING CATHOLIC HEALTH PLAN TO SUPPLY CONTRACEPTIVES
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to review an appeals court decision requiring a Catholic charity to comply with a state law demanding employers include contraception in health plans that cover prescription drugs. the case is Catholic Charities v. Superior Court, S099822
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/bayarea/stories_baybreak/contracep_20010926...
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