TORONTO - More than 2,500 pro-life supporters braved chilly temperature and gushing winds to march through the streets of downtown Toronto on Mother's Day eve to protest against hospitals performing abortions. The walk was organized by the Right to Life Association of Toronto and Area to celebrate respect for life and the protection of the unborn. This was the fifth annual walk [...]
On Saturday, May 12, 1984, Planned Parenthood of Canada placed an ad in the Toronto Globe and Mail. The ad stated that Planned Parenthood has "helped make birth control legal in this country," and that "a vocal minority world-wide is gaining support to ban all forms of birth control." The ad asked for financial support to "help prevent this from happening in [...]
On May 25, 1984, at the Toronto Harbour Castle Hotel, eight R.E.A.L. Women were guest at a luncheon to meet and hear Progressive Conservative leader Brian Mulroney. This was the first in a series of "Luncheon with the Leaders," organized by the feminists to meet political leaders. The experience of being in the company of 2,300 other women, mostly feminists, was educations. [...]
The slipshod and slovenly way in which Ontario hospitals make their official reports on abortions is both startling and shocking. The Report on Therapeutic Abortions, which hospitals are required to complete, gives specific instructions to "record by designated code number ALL operative procedures performed." (The stress on ALL is the ministries.) Despite this very explicit directive, the official reports for 1982 state [...]
On Father's Day (June 17th), Campaign Life organized a province-wide one-hour vigil in front of many of the Ontario hospitals that perform abortions. Vigils were in place in front of 52 of the 83 hospitals in the province, which perform abortions. Mr. John Deans, Campaign Life organizer, estimated that in spite of the rain, more than 2500 people across Ontario participated in [...]
Members of Liberals for Life, with the assistance of Campaign Life, took an active part in the recent Liberal Leadership Convention in Ottawa. On the first day, Friday (June 15) they distributed a flyer, which pointed out that under the present Canadian abortion law, over 1,000,000 unborn babies have been destroyed. It also pointed out that a pro-abortion stand would not win [...]