As pro-lifers, we sometimes forget the real emotional pain suffered by women who have had an abortion. In our genuine concern for the fate of the unborn child, we often forget to reach out with compassion to those women who have taken the wrong road. Many of those who counsel women in crisis pregnancies generally hold the view that abortion is an [...]
In order to understand some of the problems facing us as lawyers and as physicians today, it is necessary, I believe, to ask and to answer correctly, three fundamental questions. How do we attain the truth? What is human life? How do we value human life? The following will, I hope, indicate how to proceed to answer these questions. Since the unfortunate [...]
On Father's Day, June 17, 1984, Campaign Life Ontario will co-ordinate a series of pickets to demonstrate throughout Ontario outside the hospitals which perform abortions. Campaign Life recently obtained copies of the abortion statistics for every hospital in Ontario (see pages 8 and 9 of The Interim). These figures cover abortions performed from 1980 to 1982 inclusive. The Statistics clearly show the [...]
This year, Mother's Day will be marked with a different format. Laura McArthur, President of Toronto Right to Life, said, "We've consistently shown the strength of the pro-life movement in Ontario over the years. Last October, the 40,000 who walked for life past Morgentaler's clinic could not be ignored. This Mother's Day, our stand will be different." With the theme in mind [...]
For two weeks, Canadians across the country were caught up, in a legal struggle, by a father, to save his unborn baby's life. Christine Medhurst, 22-year-old mother of a year-old child was scheduled to have an abortion performed at Toronto Queensway Hospital. However, the woman's 27-year-old husband, Alex obtained an injunction (prohibition) against the abortion being performed, from the Supreme Court of [...]
There is a New Ethic broadly held in Canada today. This New Ethic assumes that there are lives not worthy to be lived and that these ought to be put to death before or after birth. The New Ethic would judge each life by its quality and meaningfulness and would put to death those whose lives did not meet the required standard. [...]
When we read that, according to official statistics, 95% of all abortions in the Western World are performed on alleged "psychiatric grounds", it would seem legitimate to ask, "How did the psychiatrists get into the act?" This is especially so when the distinguished British psychiatrist Dr. Myre Sim, M.D, F.R.C.P, F.R.C, Psych., D.P.M., states in relation to this figure, "There must be [...]
Recently, a " major-daily" columnist in Toronto ran a pro-life article that resulted in large volume of supportive mail as well as considerable flak from the paper's feminist and pro-abortion faction. When letters of support and of thanks began to arrive in response to the column (there were more in support than against), he approached the editor and suggested that a representative [...]
Doris Anderson, newly-appointed columnist for the Toronto Star, wants her readers' views on abortion - and she promises to print the letters. Anderson's February 18 column was headed, "We will publish your opinions on abortion." If she is seriously soliciting the views of the public, it would be a shame not to respond. The address is: Doris Anderson, Life Section, Toronto Star, [...]
Nova Scotia "Friends for Life" Conference Valley Action for Life is hosting the Nova Scotia Provincial Pro-Life conference, April 27 and 28 at the Regional Vocational School in Middleton, Nova Scotia. The conference will open on Friday evening with a formal opening at 7pm. A social hour has been arranged with star-studded local entertainment. Guest speaker for the evening is Joe Borowski. [...]
With Henry Morgentaler's push to establish a series of money-making abortuaries across our nation, Canadians can expect to be subjected with increasing regularity and fervour to the objectless phrase "freedom to choose." Perhaps no euphemism in history has so directly affected our society than this Madison Avenue cliché which in actual fact has nothing whatsoever to do with true freedom (which respects [...]
In January and February 1983, there was a media furor about pornography on pay television. Literally hundreds of articles, reports and editorials appeared in newspapers across the country over a six-week period until Pay-TV went on the air on March 1. At that time, many editorial writers and columnists opposed suggestions of censoring these programs, often in belittling or mocking tones. On [...]
This simple title on a large scrap book in a Toronto social worker's office has provoked much interest and discussion. The office in question is the Adoption Department at the Catholic Children's Aid Society. The model of "Jennifer's Life Book" has been developed by the Society's adoption staff in response to changing needs in adoption practice. The Society has had an active [...]
Since our press conference, February 1, 1984, the news media has been most obliging in featuring news stories on our new national women's organization - R.E.A.L Women of Canada. A recent example was a Globe and Mail article (March 1, 1984), written by an investigative reporter. He had scurried to the main pro-life offices in Toronto, "unearthing" a few selected R.E.A.L Women's [...]
It doesn't take a genius to see that the family is, and has been for many years, under attack. The current alarming trend is, accept social disasters as the norm and, on the assumption that there is going to be an increase in the number of disasters, set up a superstructure of professionals and government bureaucracy to sort out the mess. One [...]