EDMONTON- On June 12, 1984, Planned Parenthood was denied a $12,868 grant request and their application for membership in the United Way of Edmonton was turned down. This was not the first time a Planned Parenthood application to the United Way had been rejected. They applied twice before but in previous years their application never made it past the investigation committee to [...]
HAMILTON---In June the Ontario New Democrats not only reaffirmed the Party's strong pro-abortion commitment but also extended their position to include support of private abortion clinics and of dropping criminal charges against Henry Morgentaler. About 900 NDP delegates attended the three-day policy-planning meeting in Hamilton over the Canada Day weekend. Unlike the Liberals and the Conservatives, NDP leaders are bound to any [...]
Last month, I wrote on Germaine Greer's attack on contraception and her repots of how the West has foisted artificial means of birth control on third-world women. As I pointed out then, Greer's concern in Sex and Destiny (Soddart Publishing, Toronto, 1984, $18.95) is solely for those women, who she feels have been manipulated. Presumably, Western women are far too sophisticated to [...]
In the year 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus startled England and eventually the world - it took a little longer in those days - with his theory of population. In a nutshell, his theory was that the growth of population always tends to outrun the growth of production. Poverty and hunger are therefore man's inescapable fate. Although the "Malthusian Theory" has been proved [...]
May 1, 1984 MEDICAL CARE Need for Hospital Ethics Committees Mr. Stanley Hudechki (Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of National Defence): Mr. Speaker, the time has come when all large hospitals and medical schools must have a formal ethics committee. With the current rapid social transformation, and with the continuing advances in medical technology and techniques, doctors and society at large face dilemmas [...]
The Federation of Women Teachers Association of Ontario (FWTAO) has put forward the following resolution to be voted on at its annual meeting in Toronto, on August 13, 1984. Be resolved that FWTAO support the policy of Pro-choice in regards to the reproductive rights. Underneath the resolution, two rather curious reasons were given in support of the resolution by the board of [...]
Some of the letters that Doris Anderson (pro-abortionist) did not print in the Toronto Star Dear Mrs. Anderson, I would like to respond to your request. What people think of abortion. To me it is a very simple issue. God creates life, God takes life. I'm sure you agree with me, if you read Ps. 139:13-16 in your Bible. Nothing more, nothing [...]
Some of the letters that Doris Anderson (pro-abortionist) did not print in the Toronto Star Dear Mrs. Anderson, I would like to respond to your request. What people think of abortion. To me it is a very simple issue. God creates life, God takes life. I'm sure you agree with me, if you read Ps. 139:13-16 in your Bible. Nothing more, nothing [...]
Last month, in a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Ontario awarded Pauline Buchan of Mississauga over $800,000, plus legal costs, against Ortho Pharmaceutical (Canada) Limited. Mrs. Buchan, now 35, suffered a stroke in 1971, 34 days after she started taking Ortho Novum 1/50, an oral contraceptive pill. She has suffered permanent brain damage, and partial paralysis of her left arm and [...]
When a Catholic priest speaks or writes about marriage - or even human love - the natural tendency among the readers or hearers is to say, "What does he know about marriage anyway?" And I must admit that there is a certain validity in this reaction. Obviously an ordinary priest can't know "all about marriage" as he hasn't experienced it. But then, [...]
The prevalent mood in Canada is "shoot the messenger," reports film-maker and friend Peter Gerretsen. In centuries past, they usually slit the throat of the bearer of bad news. Today the messenger is stifled or, more often, merely ignored. Campaign Life works in the political arena, with candidates and politicians who represent each of the major political parties in Canada. We attempt [...]
George Washington Carver once asked God to tell him about the universe. According to Carver, the Lord replied, "George, the universe is just too big for you to understand. Suppose you let me take care of that." Humbled, George persisted along a less ambitious track. "Lord, how about a peanut?" The Lord replied, "Now, George, that's something your own size. Go to [...]
There have been indications for some time that the next big push from the permissive lobby in Britain will be to legalize incest. In 1975, the British Sexual Law Reform Society (SLRS) produced a report recommending that the age of consent should be reduced to 14, including incestuous relationships. The Family Planning Association (FPA - a public-funded charity) tacitly supported this report. [...]
The British government is at present considering whether or not to ratify the UN "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women," reports the Family Bulletin of The Responsible Society, a British group. Since this Convention was opened for signature in 1980, 81 countries, including Canada have signed, but many of these have not yet taken the more drastic [...]
It is a rather simple fact, in biological terms, that the unborn child develops continuously in a continuum. There are no particularly arbitrary points in it where anything dramatic or different happens. It is just part of an ongoing stream and although one uses terms like zygote or morular or blastocyst or embryo or fetus, one uses these no more technically or [...]