TORONTO (CLN) On November 21st, Morgentaler’s case began in Toronto. At the opening of the court Morgentaler’s lawyer, Morris Manning, refused to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty, arguing that the charges against Morgentaler were invalid and unconstitutional on the grounds that the abortion section of the Criminal Code violated the Charter of Rights. Specifically, he argued that the law [...]
On December 8th, Manitoba Attorney General Roland Penner, who openly admits that he completely supports the pro-abortion position, announced that he was withdrawing the charge of conspiracy of performing an illegal abortion against Morgentaler and was placing a new charge of performing an illegal abortion against him. The significance of this move is enormous. There was ample proof that Morgentaler had in [...]
Ottawa (CLN) A shocking piece of legislation was slipped through the House of Commons with remarkable haste by an all-party agreement on October 25, 1983. On that day, in less than an hour, the first, second and third reading of a bill amending the Canada Elections Act was passed. At least one of these amendments could have a far-reaching effect, not only [...]
As my business occasionally takes me to different parts of Canada, recently I have begun to contact various pro-life groups in the cities I visit. In August, for example, I was in Calgary and in Edmonton (two days each), and in September, business took my partner and I to Vancouver for a week. I cannot speak too highly of the kindness and [...]
In September, a report from Planned Parenthood surfaced in New York reporting that male and female sterilization has now displaced the contraceptive pill as America’s most popular birth-control method. The report, published in Family Planning Perspectives, a journal of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, said sterilization is the most common choice among couples who have completed their families. The report noted that the [...]
Spain on slippery slope Spain’s socialist government got Parliament approval for legalized abortions on October 6. According to a report in the Globe & Mail, abortion was legalized for cases involving rape, malformation of the unborn baby or danger to the mother’s life. The law, approved by 186 to 109 votes, was sent to the Senate for ratification. The main opposition party, [...]
Two reports in the Medical Post of September 6, 1983, are of interest to those following the controversy surrounding in vitro fertilization. The British medical establishment is supporting the concept of research on “discarded” embryos. While the organizations whose members are GP’s and nurses refuse to approve this kind of research. Both the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of [...]
Over the last number of years many people have begun to grasp that there are interrelationships between such things as abortion, sterilization, the contraceptive mentality, homosexuality, euthanasia, artificial insemination, sperm banks, test tube babies, surrogate motherhood, cloning and experimentation on embryos. Those who accept abortion, for example, will experience no pangs of conscience in experimenting with human embryos, killing them when no [...]
The second report comes from the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, England. It is funded by all of the member countries of the Commonwealth; Canada’s contribution to their budget of $9,074,000 (for 1980-81) was $1,616,000. This organization’s stated purpose is to gather and to analyze information on topics of concern to Commonwealth governments, to prepare reports, and to submit recommendations for action to [...]
The first report was issued by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa. This public corporation was created by our parliament in 1970 to “support research designed to adapt science and technology to the needs of developing countries.” Of the five areas of their activity that are listed, I am concerned with these three: “social sciences,” “health sciences,” and “information sciences.” [...]
For years, we have listened and approved as the heads of various governments have told us that we citizens who enjoy the advantages of living in developed nations have a responsibility to help those in under-developed countries. So, we share our scientific knowledge, we export out advanced technology, we send out experts in every field to teach those not as “advanced” as [...]
Youth for Life The Canadian Youth Pro-Life Organization (CYPLO) came into existence in 1974 with a purpose: to bring together pro-life high school, college and university students and young working people to educate themselves, grow in leadership and effectiveness in the pro-life movement, to transform society, to ensure respect for all the weak, defenseless and helpless. In April 1983, the new executive [...]
The arguments favoring abortion rest on the proposition that women with unborn children have the unqualified right to dispose of those children, including action encompassing the extinction of those children, according to their convenience. The proposition is asserted that women are entitled to administer their bodies as they see fit, without being inhibited by the values of society. This is a simple-minded [...]
Abortion on demand is a fact in Canada. One million deaths prove it so. What are some of the factors that have led to this infant holocaust? Canadian Criminal Law makes a distinction between “aliveness” and “personhood”. Although a baby in the womb is alive our Criminal Code (Sect. 206) fails to recognize its humanity until “it has breathed” and “it has [...]
Dear Mr. Pierre Juneau, President CBC Surely it is time for the CBC to do some soul-searching when it finds it has put out an edition of The Journal like the one last night in which Barbara Frum interviewed Federal Justice Minister Mark McGuigan. Here you have two full-grown adults engaged in national dialogue, one asking all the wrong questions and the [...]