After working for 15 1/2 years with pregnant girls and women, and from the experiences of our 600 Birthright centres, we know how right the Manitoba bishops are when they say that "pro-choice" means "pro-abortion." However, I would go further and say that, for the greatest number of girls who obtain abortions, "pro-choice" really means "NO CHOICE." What choice does a 17-year-old [...]
In order to grasp at once the seriousness with which the question of pluralism and secularism today must be treated, let us recall the issue which has become its most controversial sign: the legalization of abortion. Part of an article I wrote in 1971 summarizes this contradiction: In our democratic society people believe that political problems, whatever their nature, can always be [...]
American sex-educator Sol Gordon has lost his libel case against Gay Caswell, (MLA, Saskatoon Westmount) in the Court of Queen's Bench in Saskatoon. In dismissing Gordon's claim, the judge ordered that court costs be paid by him. Caswell's co-counsel Len Andrychuck stated that the award will not cover the full legal bill incurred by his client. Caswell is pleased, although not surprised [...]
On April 13, Joe Borowski dropped into the London, Ontario, Marconi Club to speak to a crowd of about 500 at a London Right to Life Association dinner. Mr. Borowski told the audience that abortionists " are killing innocent Canadian babies on a scale that has never been seen in the history of the world." "If you look at the total numbers [...]
One thousand delegates will hear more than thirty speakers at the National Alliance for Life Conference July 5 to 8, 1984, at McMaster University in Hamilton. Among the speakers will be California Attorney Robert Sassone, outspoken critic for "the overpopulation myth." Dr. Heather Morris of Women's College Hospital in Toronto and former president of Alliance for Life will also give a talk. [...]
Halton Pro-life held its 8th Annual Silent Candlelight Vigil at Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital in Burlington on the eve of Mother's Day. Two hundred and twenty-five citizens concerned about abortion gathered at the hospital to mourn the lives of the 545 babies destroyed in the four hospitals in the Region of Halton. (The four hospitals were: Joseph Brant, 300 abortions; Georgetown & [...]
Joe Borowski at the Conference At the Middleton "Friends For Life" conference, Mr. Borowski began his speech by thanking the clergy in the audience for attending. He said that the clergy should be encouraged to come out to pro-life events because parishioners from whatever faith like to see their shepherds at these meetings as it gives them courage and it encourages them [...]
Teresa Hare is President of Nova Scotians United for Life and has been involved in the pro-life movement in Nova Scotia since 1977. Teresa was the chief organizer for the Halifax end of Friends for Life Conference, held April 27-28 at Annopolis Regional Vocational School, in Middleton, Nova Scotia. She is quick to point out that the conference itself was the provincial [...]
Pickets for Joe On Saturday, May 19, Canada's best-known pro-life advocate, became a target of protesters as Borowski Health Foods in St. Vital, Manitoba, was picketed for one hour. Mr. Borowski commented that it was a switch, "having someone picket me instead of me picketing someone else." Eight men, members of a group called Men's Action Collective Against Sexism, marched in front [...]
New Brunswick Canoe for life Two New Brunswick men plan a canoe crusade for life this summer. Mike Murphy and Marcel Arsenault will travel along the St. John River from Edmunston, N.B., to St. John N.B., a distance or 270 miles (430 km), between August 8 and 19. Pro-life prayer rallies will be held in communities along the route. The canoeists are [...]
In June we celebrate Father's Day So conspicuous have women become of late, so much an "issue", or a focus of issues, that pop tends to be forgotten, After all, who is this election year is angling for the "man's vote"? No one has started a "masculinist movement"-the Real Man business was never more that adolescent joie de vivre. Yet behind the [...]
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 [...]