Abortion Review On February 8, Health Minister Graham Taylor announced the formation of a six-member committee to review the approval of therapeutic abortions in Saskatchewan hospitals. The committee will examine all applications to Therapeutic Abortion Committees (TACs) made during the past 12 months, to see if approved abortions meet the conditions set out in the Criminal Code. When the Conservative government, headed [...]
It is highly likely that Saturday, November 19th, 1983, will prove to be one of the most significant dates in the history of the Pro-Life movement in Canada. Only a few days before the Directors from across Canada converged on Edmonton, we had learned that Bill C-169 had been swiftly and almost silently passed by Parliament on October 25th, and that its [...]
a reply to a letter regarding the Morgentaler situation in Manitoba Dear Miss Curley: Thank you for your letter of February 1st. Members of our party and I have indeed taken notice of the unwarranted interference by Mr. Penner in altering the charges in the Morgentaler case. As you maybe be aware, our chief critic for the Attorney General, Mr. Gerry Mercier, [...]
A new Quebec "Charter of the Rights and Freedoms of the Person" came into effect on September 30th, 1983. The first article of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms reads: Every human being has the right to life as well as to the security, the integrity and the freedom of his person.... Is the fetus a "Human Being"? Is the fetus recognized as a [...]
It was October 25, 1983. The time was 11:00 a.m.; and the place was the House of Commons in Ottawa. The word was out that the morning's business would be routine - a number of small housekeeping amendments to the Canada Elections Act. It concerned the regulation of election expenses, nothing more. The Press gallery was almost deserted. There was a quorum [...]
The unthinkable has happened. Bill C-169 is now the law of the land. What is Bill C-169? Quite simply, the new Orwellian law makes it illegal for any Canadian citizen to be involved in any actively meaningful way during a federal general election or by-election. Only party hacks of the three registered political parties are going to be allowed to participate in [...]
The Editorial Dr. Bernard Nathanson held court at a press conference organized by the Physicians for Life at the Four Seasons Hotel in Downtown Toronto on January 21, 1983. He charged the representatives of the various media with ignoring the "fetal facts." Advances in fetology (the study of the child in the womb) had forced Nathanson to admit to himself that abortion [...]
On Friday February 3, 1984, Joseph Borowski was the guest speaker at the Catholic Register's First Friday lecture held in Holy Rosary Parish hall in Toronto. Joe Borowski, a former hard-rock miner and ex-cabinet minister in Ed Schreyer's N.D.P. Manitoba government, now a Master Herbologist and owner of Borowski's Vitamins and Health Foods Ltd., has done and sacrificed much to guarantee the [...]
Ontario The City of Toronto's Department of Public Health organized a "physicians" conference on contraception and abortion for minors" at the Hospital for Sick Children on February 15. This conference was part of the activities for Birth Control Week in Toronto whose theme was "Play It Safe," Promotional gimmicks during the week included 500 coffee mugs at $2 each (which were given [...]
For the first time in the history of the regional municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, a picket licence has been issued into in perpetuity. It was granted to Action Life here to protest every Sunday afternoon outside the Civic Hospital in Ottawa. Two- year-old Timmy Mountain picks up the march here. His mother is pregnant.
Pro-life men and women from one end of the country to the other have been appearing to what Ms. Campagnolo must regard as alarming regularity, at meetings in which she, in her capacity as president of the Liberal Party of Canada, is the main speaker. Ms. Campagnolo, a board member of Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL), and a hard line pro-abortionist, [...]
When the Morgentaler, Scott and Smoling hearing on the pre-trial motion to quash the abortion charges against them began on November 21, 1983, the opinion was that the hearing would last a minimum of two weeks to a maximum of three weeks. The fact that it stretched out to four weeks, until December 16, made me realize that matters did indeed move [...]
There is nothing quite so convincing as a good slogan if it is repeated often enough. Isn't that the principle on which most of our advertising is based? The slogan doesn't have to be true to be effective - a half-truth will do quite well. Half-truth A typical example of the "half-truth" slogan is the pro-abortion cry, "Every woman has a right [...]
Amendment to Limit Therapeutic Abortion Mr. Don Blenkarn, (Mississauga South) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-216, an act to amend the Criminal Code (Protection of Innocent Human Life) Some Hon. Members: Explain Mr. Blankarn: Mr. Speaker, this Bill would limit the right to have a therapeutic abortion to circumstances involving the actual physical health of the mother. Abortions are being misused; [...]
Canada Elections Act CONCERN ABOUT EFFECT ON CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS Hon. Erik Nielsen (Yukon): Mr. Speaker, I should to ask the Prime Minister if he is giving consideration to the public policy, since mounting concerns appear to be expressed with respect to the provisions of Clause 72 and its effect on the Charter of Rights and freedom of speech. An [...]