C.A. Scharfe, Editor-in-chief of The Interim is led away from the Morgentaler abortuary after being arrested along with Lorraine Carbonneau for blocking the entrance by sitting on the steps. On January 8, two pro-lifers staged a sit-in on the front steps of the Morgentaler abortuary. C.A. Scharfe, Editor-in-chief of The Interim and Lorraine Carbonneau of North Bay, Ontario, a [...]
Over the last two years, more and more people have begun to publicly express their opposition to pornography business. Formerly, only the churches seemed willing to take a firm stand in public. Today, radical feminists (looking at it exclusively from a woman’s point of view) have advanced at least to the recognition that violent pornography is a menace. With the [...]
A constant cry of our pluralistic and secular society is that morality is not to be legislated. Indeed in 1969, then Justice Minister, John Turner, claimed that the Criminal Code of Canada is neutral and cannot represent ‘private moralities.’(Speaking on the abortion bill in the House of Commons.) An unexpected subsidiary theme of this is-called neutrality [...]
Access to pornography was once limited to specialty bookstores and movie houses found mainly in decaying inner areas of large cities. Most of us were once untouched by pornography and its effects. Those innocent days are over. The past fifteen years have been a period of explosive influence has spread to suburban areas and small towns, into corner [...]
On January 8, four spokesmen for a new group called the Medical Reform Group of Ontario stated in a press-conference that Ontario should permit abortion clinics. They said that the present hospital system is “unnecessarily dangerous” because it results in lengthy delays. They also denounced further prosecution of Henry Morgentaler and argued that Ontario should follow Quebec’s example which, [...]
Kingston Queen’s University has invited Henry Morgentaler to speak in its prestigious Dunning Trust lecture series in February 1985. This year the series is devoted to health and human dignity. Morgentaler has been invited to open the series on February 5 with a lecture on the medical, moral and legal aspects of abortion. The lecture series was established in [...]
In North Bay, community reaction to Morgentaler’s acquittal was instant and it was strong --- 3,800 people strong. In November, after the jury in Toronto acquitted Morgentaler of conspiring to procure an abortion, the local Right to Life group in North Bay took out a small advertisement in the North Bay Nugget which included a short list of pro-lifers [...]
Dr. Leslie Smoling, a former associate of Henry Morgentaler, was denied hospital privileges at Woodstock General Hospital for the second time. Smoling’s assistant, Christina Muench, said the doctor first applied to credentials to practice at the hospital shortly after he started his practice in Woodstock last July. He was refused hospital privileges then because his case in [...]
Saskatoon On January 9, CBC TV (CFQC-11 pm news) announced that University Hospital in Saskatoon would stop performing abortions on women more than 12 weeks pregnant. It was stated that second-trimester abortions at University Hospital accounted for two-thirds of the approx. 100 abortions done at the hospital in 1984 and that it was the only hospital in [...]
On Remembrance Day, November 11, 1984, Father Abello, S.J., addressed Calgary Pro-Life. In early December he spoke also at Edmonton’s Francis Xavier High School on abortion and it’s link to contraception. - In Edmonton, Edmonton Pro-Life and Campaign Life are looking for a central pro-life office. - - In Spruce Grove, an Edmonton satellite town, a new group has [...]
On Wednesday evening, January 15, Henry Morgentaler left Toronto for a whirlwind tour of Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg. The day before, Tuesday January 14, Toronto pro-life strategists called for an “extra show of strength” at the Toronto abortuary --- with the result that, at one point, in the early afternoon, close to 300 pro-life protesters crowded the sidewalks at [...]
On Saturday, January 1, 1985, Henry Morgentaler placed an advertisement in The Montreal Gazette. “I need your help,” says the text nest to a photo of Morgentaler. “I am fighting for women’s rights to safe medical abortions against almost insurmountable odds: the governments with their unlimited power and money and a vocal, fanatical, right-wing group of anti-abortionists who use [...]
A de V Like everywhere else in Canada, P.E.I has been touched by the Morgentaler fever. At the beginning of January, Morgentaler announced that he intends to open an abortion clinic in every province. However, a report in the Island’s newspaper The Guardian (January 12) indicates that he would be in unfriendly country if he tried it in [...]
Genetic Counseling is that field of medicine which is involved in gathering genetic and family information in an effort to determine whether a particular couple would be likely to pass on certain genetic diseases to any future children. A risk ratio may be formulated and the couple would then decide whether or not to have children or perhaps they [...]
At New Year the bombing of abortuaries in the United States was featured on Canadian television and radio and on the front pages of Canadian newspapers. In Ontario the Morgentaler propaganda machine was working full speed and with maximum publicity. Naturally, the media was bound to seize upon the bombing of three abortuaries and counseling offices in Pensacola, [...]