August 12, 2001 - CLONED IN THE USA: ATTEMPT TO CLONE HUMAN BEING IN SECRET WEST VIRGINIA LAB REVEALED
It was a perfect place to hide their scheme: an old classroom in a squalid former high school tucked away in the hills of rural West Virginia. The town of Nitro's police station is in the rundown 1950s-era building whose brown bricks are blackened with soot. Bingo games are played in another room.
From the London Times

May 13, 2001 - School cuts cards for Mother's Day
Happy Mother's Day, and I hope you got some flowers. Enjoy them while you can. Mother's Day is suddenly on the hit list of politically incorrect holidays. A school in New York City decided to ban any observance of Mother's Day to avoid hurting the feelings of children with gay parents.
From the Plain Dealer

April 11, 2001 - Tolerated for years, euthanasia made legal
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - In a groundbreaking decision three decades in the making, the Dutch Senate yesterday approved a terminally ill patient’s right to suicide and a doctor’s immunity from prosecution for assisting.
from the Los Angeles Times, reprinted in the Columbus Dispatch

Novemeber 29, 2000 - Dutch lawmakers vote to legalize euthanasia
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -The Dutch parliament approved a bill legalizing euthanasia yesterday, positioning the Netherlands to become the first nation to openly let doctors help suffering patients end their lives. Advocates of patients’ right to die voiced praise for the vote, but many Christian groups and others condemned it, led by the Vatican, which said the law “violates human dignity.”
From the The Plain Dealer

October, 2000 - Situation: Critical
COLUMBUS - Consumers can keep their household thermostats at a comfy 70 degrees this winter, but they’ll pay through the nose for it, natural-gas executives said yesterday. At a daylong conference in Columbus discussion focused on supply described as tight but adequate and surging demand, which is expected to keep prices high through spring.
from the Cleveland Plain Dealer

June 10, 2000 - Gay, Lesbian pride comes in from the cold at CIA headquarters
WASHINGTON - Not many years ago, the Central Intelligence Agency automatically denied a security clearance to anyone it suspected was homosexual, on the theory that gay men and lesbians were ripe for blackmail. This week, the CIA held a gay pride celebration at its Langley, Va., headquarters, hosting gay Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, at a ceremony intended to underscore how far the agency has come from its homophobic past.
from the Cleveland Plain Dealer

June 9, 2000 - Base Commander answers accusers who questioned his stand on gays
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky- departing commander of Fort Campbell, where a gay private was bludgeoned to death by another soldier last July, said yesterday there hasn’t been a climate of homophobia during his nearly 2 1/2 years in charge of the Army base.
from the Plain Dealer

June 9, 2000 - AUTO FIRMS TO PROVIDE SAME-SEX BENEFITS
The nation’s Big Three automakers announced yesterday they will offer full health benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of their nearly 500,000 U.S. employees, a move hailed by gay-rights activists as a potential tipping point in persuading other old-economy employers to do the same.
from the Plain Dealer

June 10, 2000 - Teens Enjoy Gay Prom in Peace
A lip-syncing drag queen. Girls kissing other girls. And guys actually dancing. This was not your typical prom. What really made it unusual was that the 30 or so teens gathered at a West Side community center on Saturday said they didn’t have to fear being themselves.
from the Cleveland Plain Dealer

June 10, 2000 - Transfer of general at site of anti-gay killing protested
The Army's decision to reassign the commander of Fort Campbell, Ky., where a gay soldier was beaten to death last year, is provoking criticism from members of Congress and gay-rights advocates who complain that an investigation of anti-gay harassment under his command has not yet been completed. from The Plain Dealer

June 10, 2000 - New England Methodists to Defy Church's Gay Policy
A month after the United Methodist Church voted to uphold its policies against same-sex unions and gay ordination, the church’s New England conference is leading a backlash of open defiance against the controversial stands.
-from The Plain Dealer

March 9, 2000 - Congress to Look at Sale of Fetal Parts
Anti-abortion groups say law being broken
The price list is macabre: Fetal eyes cost $75 apiece, pituitary glands go for $300 and brains fetch $999.  Almost as disconcerting are researchers' orders for livers, thymuses, tracheas and spleens.
-from The Cleveland Plain Dealer

December 2, 1999 - Government Issues Draft Guidelines for Stem Cell Research
To a dissonant chorus of cheers and objections, the National Institutes of Health released draft guidelines yesterday for research by federally funded scientists on human embryonic stem cells.
- from The Cleveland Plain Dealer  

November 12, 1999 - Abortion Clinic Must Get License
A Cleveland abortion clinic and 11 others around Ohio were ordered by the Ohio Department of Health yesterday to apply for a state operating license within 10 days or face potential legal action.
-from The Cleveland Plain Dealer

October 30, 1999 - Abortion Clinic Licensing
This document has been provided to inform you that of the 21 abortion clinics in the state of Ohio only 4 are licensed.
- from The Greater Cleveland Life Link

October 22, 1999 - Senate Ok's late-term abortion ban
The Senate yesterday again approved legislation to ban a controversial late-term abortion procedure but fell narrowly short of the two-thirds majority that would be required to override a promised veto by President Clinton.
- from the Cleveland Plain Dealer

September 14, 1999 - Campaign Finance Issue Divides Abortion Foes  
It sounded like a meeting of natural allies, a chance for leaders of the National Right to Life Committee to lobby House Democrats who oppose abortion about a key issue on their agenda. But it quickly got as heated as a rally at a clinic.
- from the Washington Post

August 11, 1999 Legal mercy killing considered by Dutch
The Dutch government published plans yesterday to legalize mercy killing under strict guidelines, which would allow children as young as 12 to demand and receive euthanasia.
- from the Cleveland Plain Dealer

August 11, 1999 - Crime-Abortion Study Continues to Draw Pro-life Backlash
A study by a Stanford University law professor and a University of Chicago economist has sparked a national stir over its racist conclusion: legalizing abortion in the 1970s may be a leading cause of plummeting crime rates in the 1990s.
- from the Pro-Life Infonet

August 11, 1999 - A Prescription Drug Proposal
Fred Hassan, chief executive officer of Pharmacia & Upjohn, is proposing a plan to cover prescription drug costs for seniors with chronic or devastating diseases.
- from the NCPA

August 6, 1999 - Virginia Planned Parenthood Facility First in Nation to Offer "Choice"
Women walking into the confines of Planned Parenthood of Blue Ridge Inc. have two choices regarding their unborn child: Through one door, they may choose to abort her. Through another, they can put her up for adoption.
- from the Pro-Life Infonet

July 13, 1999 - Dutch want to drop law against euthanasia
The Dutch government has recommended decriminalizing mercy killing, a proposal that would take its world-renowned liberal euthanasia policy out of a legal gray area.
- from the Cleveland Plain Dealer

July 9, 1999 - Clinton's drug plan numbers don't add up
The President wants to add prescription drugs to the list of Medicare benefits -- and he claims he can do so by charging seniors between $10 and $25 a month. He even predicts that adding that benefit would reduce overall Medicare spending.
- from the National Center For Policy Analysis

July 9, 1999 - Kevorkian to judge: 'Please don't help me'
The judge who presided over the murder trial of Jack Kevorkian implored the retired pathologist to allow representation by legal counsel rather than defend himself, a transcript shows.
- from the Pro-Life Infonet

July 2, 1999 - Britain Bars Cloning of Human Embryos for Medical Research
LONDON -- The British government banned the cloning of human embryos June 24th for any kind of medical research, saying more time is needed to consider the implications.

July 2, 1999 - Abortion and the Media
Oklahoma -- Syndicated columnist Joseph Sobran writes in the Daily Oklahoman that the "hard-hitting" media coverage of the war in Kosovo has "disarmed opposition to U.S. intervention in the Balkans, lending powerful emotional support to the view that we must 'do something' to alleviate the suffering."

June 4, 1999 - Unborn Not Human in Wisconsin
The 2nd District Court of Appeals of Wisconsin recently held that an unborn child is not a human being in the eyes of Wisconsin law.

May 4, 1999 - Packard Foundation Continues to Push for Legal Abortion
Washington -- David Packard, "computer tycoon and former deputy defense secretary in the Nixon administration," posthumously funds numerous pro-abortion efforts, and is considered one of the world's greatest source of population control funds, the Washington Times reports.
- from the Pro-Life Infonet

Prez 2000: Steve Forbes Addresses Abortion at Iowa Event
Sioux Center, IA -- Republican presidential candidate, Steve Forbes, outlined his pro-life plan of action before an overflow audience of 160 attendees at Dordt College saying, "If we recognize the joy of life and persuade our neighbors and friends, we can reach our goal."
- from the Pro-Life Infonet

April 27, 1999 - Constitutional Right to Be Murdered?
Does Oregon's Death With Dignity Act allows the direct killing of the physically disabled...
-from the Family Research Council

April 26, 1999 - Ohio Vaccine Legislative Alert! House Bill 200
In 1998, with no committee hearings or discussion, the Ohio legislature mandated three Hepatitis B vaccine injections for all kindergarten students in the state, effective autumn 1999.

April 20, 1999 - Annals of Internal Medicine
The litany of U.S. health care woes is depressingly familiar: the only industrialized nation without universal access to health care; 44 million persons uninsured, most of them employed; one in every four Americans either uninsured or underinsured on any given day; an infant mortality rate higher than that of most other industrialized countries; decent care at the end of life increasingly unaffordable; a life expectancy ranking between 16th and 21st in the world (black men in Harlem are less likely to reach the age of 65 or even the age of 40 than are men in Bangladesh)-the list goes on. Tragedy is compounded by irony here, given that we already spend $1 trillion annually on health care and that the quality of care, for those who can get it, is unparalleled.

April 10, 1999 - Committee Releases Details of Stem Cell Research Ethics Plan
Despite pro-life opposition, federally funded researchers eager to study human embryonic stem cells inched closer to their goal, as a 13-member National Institutes of Health advisory committee charged with developing guidelines discussed a near-final draft during a public hearing at NIH.
- from the Pro-Life Infonet

Prez 2000: Gary Bauer Responds to Elizabeth Dole on Abortion
Republican presidential contender Gary Bauer today challenged Elizabeth Dole's retreat on the abortion issue and called on the Republican Party to stand firm on pro-life principles... 
- from the Pro Family Network

April 10, 1999 - Prez 2000: Elizabeth Dole Outlines Abortion Stance
Elizabeth Dole said yesterday she supports the idea of a constitutional amendment banning abortion but feels the idea is politically unfeasible.
- from the Pro-Life Infonet

March 30, 1999 - Abortion Group Fears Loss of Abortion "Right" After 2000 Election
One of the nation's biggest abortion advocates warned Monday that if the next president elected supports the right to life that the so-called "right" to abortion could fall.
- from the Pro-Life Infonet

March 29, 1999 - The Assisted Suicide Slope is Slippery Source
When Oregon made "assisted suicide" legal, opponents predicted the law would one day be declared discriminatory against disabled people because it required the self-administration of lethal drugs. This would then open the door to state-sanctioned killing. Well, that day is just about here. When Patrick Matheny, dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, decided to take lethal drugs he had received under Oregon law, he could barely swallow. So his brother-in-law, Joe Hayes, had to "help" Matheny die, as he recently told the press. The precise details, Hayes said, were "too personal."
- from the Pro-Family Network

March 12, 1999 - New ID tags will help Ohioans control final hours
Some time in the next six months, Ohioans may be able to purchase state-approved bracelets and necklaces declaring they prefer a natural death to the life-supporting machines of modern medicine.
- from the Cleveland Plain Dealer

March 5, 1999 - Canadians With Medical Needs Follow Doctors South
Last month the Ontario government announced that it was entering into a contract with private U.S. health care providers to deliver essential cancer treatments to Canadians.
- from the Wall Street Journal

January 5, 1998 - Welcome to Section 4507
Confusion will reign today in doctors' offices throughout the land, with the implementation of Section 4507 of the Medicare law, forbidding doctors from accepting payment from anyone over 65 without permission from Washington.
- from the Wall Street Journal

December 10, 1997 - One Piece At a Time
It’s not just health care that bedevils the Clinton administration. It’s also the Clinton administration that bedevils health care. And occasionally it has the connivance of congressional Republicans.
- from the Cleveland Plain Dealer

February 18, 1997 - U.S. To Pay New York Hospitals Not to Train Doctors, Easing Glut
In a plan that health experts greeted as brilliant and bizarre, federal regulators announced on Monday that for the next six years they would pay New York state hospitals not to train physicians.
- from the New York Times

January 7, 1997 - The Painful Truth About Euthanasia
Mention euthanasia and the image that enters your mind is of a gaunt patient lying in bed, writhing in excruciating pain. It is the image created and reinforced by TV profiles and magazine article like the one about Betty Rollins’s mother. It is for that patient - and for the fear that it may one day be you or someone you love - that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral ar-guments tomorrow on whether to legalize euthanasia or physician - assisted suicide.
- from the Wall Street Journal