Part Four of Six…. “Once you permit the killing of the unborn child, there will be no stopping. There will be no age limit. You are setting off a chain reaction that will eventually make you the victim. Your children will kill you because you permitted the killing of their brothers and sisters. Your children will kill you because they will not [...]
“The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada believe that the unborn child is a human person. Human life, possessing a special sanctity in that it is created in the image of God, begins at conception. We believe that this view is in conformity with the teachings and principles of the Word of God.” This statement is the introduction to a position paper , entitled [...]
Returning to Toronto after teaching for three years in the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, I have been asked to try to interpret the pro-life situation in Britain in hope of seeing what can be learned from the British experience. I believe that a look at that experience can be helpful since the present situation in Britain is considerably worse than it [...]
Comac Publications, publishers of the infamous Homemaker’s magazine, otherwise known as “Homebreaker’s” magazine, also publishes eight times a year a magazine called Quest magazine, which is delivered at no charge to 710,000 homes in pre-selected areas in twenty-one of Canada’s largest cities. The executive editor of Comac Publications is well known pro-abortionist, Jane Gale, editor of Homemaker’s and co-founder of the newly [...]
From a letter to H. Morgentaler Dear Henry: Forgive the liberty of calling you by your first name. It’s just that I feel I know you so well after all these years of watching and listening. I would have written before but there didn’t seem to be any point. You seemed so single-mindedly consumed with the pursuit of your career. I was [...]
It has been alleged that the Minister of Finance of Canada, his servants and agents, allocate money from the consolidated revenue fund, comprised of taxes levied upon and collected from the Plaintiff and all other taxpayers in Canada, for various purposes, including the provision of health care and treatment services throughout Canada, and that a portion of the money so allocated is [...]
IN THE COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH FOR SASKATCHEWAN JUDICIAL CENTRE OF REGINA BETWEEN: JOSEPH BOROWSKI PLAINTIFF -and- - THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA and - THE MINISTER OF FINANCE OF CANADA DEFENDANTS M.C. Shumiatcher, Q.C. And R.B. Hunter for the Plaintiff E.R. Sojonky, Q.C. And M.R. Kindrachuk for the Defendants JUDGEMENT MATHESON, J. The Plaintiff, as a citizen of Canada, and [...]
The decision in the Borowski case is a major one for the abortion issue in Canada. Although the decision by Mr. Justice Matheson was not what we had hoped for, he did make important findings, which will be very helpful for the pro-life movement. Dr. Morris Schumiatcher writes on the Judgement elsewhere in this issue. In view of the important findings made [...]
The following letter, from the Kenya Catholic Secretariat (Waumini House, Westlands, P.O. Box 48062, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa), is the one mentioned in the above article. Dear Friends, The Catholic Church in Kenya is keenly aware of the pressure to liberalize abortion in this country, and the Bishops are deeply concerned about it. Recently the public media in press and radio and [...]
The British Columbia Pro-Life group’s booth at the World Council of Churches Assembly was warmly received by delegates from all over the world. The Assembly was held in Vancouver in July. Despite the fact that abortion and euthanasia were carefully left off the list of social justice issues in the official programme, the presence of the Pro-Life display and volunteers excited much [...]
Freedom of Choice Advocated Mrs. Margaret Mitchell/) Vancouver East): Madam Speaker, tomorrow women and men across the country will mark a day of action for “Choice on Abortion.” The issue is choice, not pro or anti-abortion. The right of the individual male or female to exercise freedom of choice in private medical and sexual matters is a hallmark of Canadian society. The [...]
At the annual Canadian Bar Association meeting held in Quebec City in August, one of the guest speakers was obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Patrick Steptoe, who together with Prof. Robert Edwards of Cambridge University, developed the technique of in-vitro fertilization, which led to the birth of the first “test-tube” baby, Louise Brown. The thrust of Dr. Steptoe’s whole talk was to justify [...]
Free will and the ability to assume responsibility for one’s actions establish the spiritual importance and dignity of man. Indeed, we have come to equate maturity with a willingness to direct our behavior in terms of our goals as well as to accept the consequences of our choices. If we look at family planning methods in this light, we can see that [...]
When people asked me how many I expected at the Rally for Life in Toronto on October 1, I said , “Oh, we should get around fifteen thousand.” But, in my heart, I doubted that number and was prepared for a ten thousand total. Never in my wildest dreams did I—or anybody else for that matter—expect such a tremendous response. Some say [...]
Two very important events took place in Manitoba this last month. The Manitoba Federation of Labour (MFL) narrowly passed a resolution demanding the legalization of all abortions—without any restrictions. At their Annual Meeting in Brandon, the MFL attempted to include in this resolution a demand that the provincial government drop all criminal charges against Morgentaler and his clinic staff. When it became [...]