The need to organize a group of intelligent, articulate women, who uphold pro-life and pro-family values, has become pressing in the last year. Increasingly, strident feminists speaking on behalf of all Canadian women, without our knowledge or consent, have been representing us. Recent examples were the inclusion of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1982 Canadian Constitution, and the trial balloon of [...]
Our new coast-to-coast, pro-life newspaper will inform you of the many successes and fewer (hopefully) failures in the day to day battle to protect unborn babies. The philosophy of this monthly will always be one of no compromise on abortion. A human life, from the moment of conception represents an individual, precious gift from God. The Latin motto Semper Fidelis appears to [...]
Archbishop Edmund C. Szoka of Detroit demanded the resignation of Sister Agnes Mary Mansour as state Social Services director because of her support of state-funded abortions. "If you are opposed to abortion (as Sister Mansour says she is), how can you not be opposed to the funding of abortion?" Detroit's Roman Catholic archbishop asked yesterday at a press conference. A spokesperson for [...]
The Minister of Health in the Ontario Government has spent several years drafting a very ominous piece of legislation known as Bill 138 which deals with health protection in the province. This bill has serious ramifications for Ontario and the pro-life movement for the following reasons: (1) The programs and services of the local boards of health under this legislation would change [...]
The Most Rev. James F. Carney, Archbishop of Vancouver, in a letter to the pastors of the Vancouver Archdiocese dated January 1983, removed the Catholic Community and charities from funding provided by United Way. The association had lasted for the past 50 years. The move, effective January 1st of this year, was made to demonstrate the disappointment with United Way permitting Panned [...]
In its revised manifesto written in January by a select NDP executive committee, the party has included a strong pro-abortion position. Included in the eleven-page statement of NDP principles and objectives it is stated that "people should have the right of choice in reproductive matters." This document will be presented at the party's next convention scheduled for the Canada Day weekend in [...]
Gordon Fairweather, who anguished as a Conservative Member of Parliament for the federal riding of Fundy-Royal in New Brunswick for many years, was picked out of obscurity in 1977 by Prime Minister Trudeau and appointed Chief of Commissioner of Human Rights Commission of Canada. It may we be that his appointment was due more to the fact that the Liberal party felt [...]
Mr. Borowski commenced legal action against the Federal Ministers of Justice and Finance, alleging that they are misappropriating tax payers' money for the wrongful purpose of funding abortion procedures. The case has now been set down for trial for May 9, 1983. However, on January 25, 1983, two pro-abortion organizations, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Canadian Abortion Rights League (CARAL) applied [...]
Dr. Henry Morgentaler wants a pubic apology from Pro-life Advocate Joe Borowski who alleged Morgentaler's abortion clinics have been found unsanitary in the past. Valdyn Duke, Morgentaler's Winnipeg lawyer, said in an interview yesterday (Feb. 9) that she will send a letter to Borowski asking for a retraction of the statements made at a pubic debate between the two men at the [...]
Edmonton's mayor, Cec Purvis has proclaimed the week of May 8th to the 15th, beginning Mother's Day 1983, as Respect Life Week. Campaign Life in Edmonton has appealed to supporters to launch a signature proclamation during that week to state publicly their beliefs in protecting the right to life of innocent human beings from conception to natural death, a summary of the [...]
The Hon. Jean Chrétien, energy minister, may be awarded the prestigious Christian Cultural Award by Assumption University, this April 10th. Chrétien, the Minister of Justice during the introduction of the Charter of Rights, excluded the unborn from any protection and, as seen in a letter in the February 19th Catholic Register, as well as in letters sent to Father Health of Assumption [...]
Manitoba's Premier Howard Pawley went on a fact-finding mission throughout his province in early January. Mr. Pawley and most of his NDP cabinet are strong advocates of abortion-on-demand and, in fact, his party has a policy for unrestricted abortion in its platform. However, after his fact-finding mission, Pawley may not be so keen to impose his pro-abortion views on the population of [...]
The Varsity
January 27 was the date and the University of Manitoba was the place where, Joe Borowski, one of the most upright pro-life advocates, met head on with the champion abortionist, Henry Morgentaler. Lacking a chairperson this time round, the two men addressed a large student audience and exchanged their well established views. Mr. Borowski based his statements on established modern scientific and [...]
In 1971, the Canadian Medical Association in a close vote (78 to 74) stated that "there is justification on non-medical social grounds for the deliberate termination of pregnancy as long as the abortion is performed by a qualified medical practitioner with the approval of therapeutic abortion committees." The Canadian Medical Association has been in deep trouble ever since, not only because it [...]