The heavily pro-abortion editorial policies of Homemaker’s Magazine have been reported in The Interim. Regular readers will recall that we have pointed to the March and April 1983 issues of the magazine as containing pro-abortion pieces with no attempt to provide balanced reporting either before of since those dates with articles showing pro-life views. Homemaker’s Magazine is delivered free to over a [...]
Those who are kind enough to read that column may have noticed that every now and then I break out in “people” I think the reason is that I am temporarily pragmatic. When I come across a complicated machine I do not ask, “How does it work?” but simply, “Does it work? While, I am convinced that the world needs ideals. I [...]
About a year ago, in Joe Borowski’s behalf, I issued a writ out of the Queens bench of Saskatchewan, naming as defendants the Minister of Justice of Canada and the minister of finance, and I sought a declaration that those provisions in the criminal code permitting abortions with which we are all familiar are inapplicable and may not stand in the light [...]
On August 28, Iona Compagnolo, Liberal party president, attended a party meeting in Bryson, Quebec. She was picketed by about 20 members of Renfrew County Right to Life. One of those picketing was Mark Reilander of Pembroke, Ontario. The experience provoked him into writing the following letter. Pro-life organizations across the country have been asked to challenge Iona Campagnolo’s stance of abortion [...]
The shocking fact is that in the year 1967 while most Canadians were celebrating our Centennial, Prime Minister Pearson & Justice Minister Trudeau took advantage of the situation and launched a diabolical attack on the Family by bringing in Permissive Laws on Abortion and Divorce. In the same year they also revised the Bank Act which cleared the way for sky high [...]
For its report on the Canadian Medical Association survey of its member’s attitudes, the Toronto Globe & Mail used the heading “Abortion Question Divides Doctors.” In a letter published in the paper on August 27, that redoubtable McMaster University campaigner for abortion, Wendell Watters, contended that the headline did not reflect the body of the article. The doctors’ stand, he said, was [...]
The Centre for Life Understanding The following is Part 3 of a 6-part article. Originally published in The Canadian Messenger of the Sacred Heart, Toronto in 1980, reprinted here with permission. part 3…….. “If the physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether a life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous [...]
A Canadian study, performed by a research group at the University of Western Ontario, suggests that more then eighty percent of the doctors feel that they have the right to interfere in a patient’s life if there is a medical problem involved. Many doctors felt that in many situations they had a better idea of what was good for the patient then [...]
Patrick Macken is a perish priest at St. Anthony’s church in Bermuda. Father Macken is a member of the congregation of Resurrectionists and he went to this particular parish in Bermuda in April 1979 to test out a thesis of his: that by focussing on the very “least” members of the parish—those who were really without any kind of power, the handicapped—that [...]
Nova Scotia 1982 abortion statistics The 1982 Abortion Statistics in Nova Scotia reported a rise in total number performed of 30 over last year. If you add those listed as not available (n/a) under approved to those performed, the total would be 1,913 (possible abortions of N.S.). at this time we don’t have information telling us that the 100 abortions done in [...]
In the spring of the Ontario Public Employees Union (CLCOFL-NUPGE) passes resolution 41 on abortion clinics by vote of 294 to 171 after an intense ½ hour debate. The resolution follows: WHEREAS it should be the fundamental right of each woman to choose when and if she will bear, and WHEREAS present Criminal Code restrictions affect the legality and availability of abortions, [...]
In Saskatchewan roughly half of all abortions in the province are done in one hospital – Saskatoon City Hospital. Early in the year the directors were written to and asked pertinent questions, for example: numbers done; was any treatment tried prior to abortion; re anti-depressives, did the abortions cure the depression etc. etc. Letters and phone calls were ignored, so the hospital [...]
It was reported in the Windsor Star on Sept. 14 that Manitoba Health Minister Larry Desjardins rejected renewed calls for the hospital status for the Morgentaler Manitoba ‘clinic’. There had been hope for some change in the status of the abortuary because the Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons had voted on the weekend (Sept. 10, 11) to take abortions off a [...]
Ed. Note: Mrs. Toth attended the Fatality Enquiry into the morphine-related death of Candace Taschuk. The following is her report on the testimony at the enquiry. Mrs. Toth, chairman of Campaign Life Canada, subsequently sent a letter to the Attorney General of Alberta on September 1st, asking that criminal charges be laid against Dr. Gal. Mrs. Debbie Taschuk was transferred from the [...]
Ireland is now the only country in the world that protects the unborn. Maybe Ireland is ‘a little bit of heaven’ after all. And it could be that that is all the heaven that we are going to get in this world as far as nation states are concerned, in any case. The unborn are protected by law in Ireland as well [...]