The Manitoba struggle with Morgentaler resumed in early March of this year after a long pause of almost a year and a half. It started with Morgentaler ‘s promise to re-open his abortion clinic; Attorney General Penner’s earlier refusal of the League of Life’s request for an injunction to close the abortuary, if re-opened; and the subsequent March [...]
In July 1981 the following was submitted to the National Canadian Teachers Federation convention: “That the Canadian Teachers Federation should seek to have abortion removed from the Criminal Code of Canada.” At the time the motion was tabled. The resolution was introduced by British Columbia Teachers Federation which has made the resolution its own. This year the B.C. union [...]
On Tuesday April 2, delegates voted 412 to 203 in favour of the executive recommendations. The abortion debate was the most controversial one of the four-day meeting attended by representatives from 79 locals across B.C. Joe Haddock, a Prince George Secondary teacher, said “If we pass this, we’re promoting abortion in our schools.” The convention, he stated was not [...]
TRURO – Positive alternatives to abortion should be actively promoted by the Board of Colchester Hospital, said Ed Newell, chairman of the Colchester Right to Life Association. Abortions at the hospital totaled: 140 in 1978 125 in 1979 119 in 1980 87 in 1981 100 in 1982 92 in 1983 71 in 1984 Mr. Newell said [...]
Quebec On March 14 Henry Morgentaler warned that a return to power by the Liberals in Quebec might put an end to abortion clinics. He said he had “qualms” about a Liberal victory. After addressing more than 500 members of Quebec’s largest medical union, the 92,000-strong Federation of Social Affairs (affiliated with the Confederation of National Trade Unions), he told [...]
On March 15, 1985 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Dr. Margrit Eichler spoke on “The Anti-Family effects of Familism on Social Policy.” In this talk she labeled the pro-family movement, consisting of groups such as R.E.A.L. Women of Canada, the Alberta Federation of Women United for Families, and the Saskatchewan Federation for Families, as being anti-feminist. [...]
On Friday, March 22 at The Treat Me Right Café on Markham Street in Toronto, Paul Art (Paul Arteau), a poet, performed perhaps the first public pro-life poetry reading in the city of Toronto. “Performed” is the key word here as Paul Art’s poetry is not read and not so much recited as it is performed. Paul Art [...]
Global TV censored a good portion of the film The Silent Scream when it appeared on the 100 Huntley Street program in late March. It superimposed a disclaimer over the screen, making viewing impossible. A few days earlier Dr. Martin Gillieson, director of gynaecological ultrasound of Ottawa General Hospital, had called the film “rank and stinking propaganda” and a “distortion [...]
Tom Harpur, former Anglican priest and religious editor of the Star, is presently a lecturer at the Toronto School of Theology and a Sunday columnist for the Toronto Star. He believes he can discern “some deeper roots of repressed anger in the opposition to liberal abortion laws” (Star, March 3, 1985) “For example,” he says, “in the case of the Catholic [...]
Practical help for women under pressure to have abortions is increasing as more and more pro-lifers realize this is a positive way to support their principles. In Watford, Ontario, a small town of 1400, Bonnie and Geoff have helped to establish the Watford Home for unwed mothers. Open since late last year, the Watford Home has already helped six [...]
Current sex education for teenagers and greater availability of birth control devices are producing an increase of unwanted pregnancies and abortions, the president of Cambridge Right to Life told Waterloo Region Council. Rev. William McEwen, a Lutheran minister, accused Planned Parenthood of favouring abortion as an option and also of failing to provide them with an insight to the trauma and [...]
An attempt by four groups to have the jury selection for the October Morgentaler trial in Toronto investigated has failed. The Hamilton Right to Life association, the Catholic Women’s League of Canada, the Alliance for Life and the Coalition for the Protection of Human Life applied to “intervene” in the Crown’s Appeal due on April 29, of the November [...]
The number of United Nations’ Conventions on human rights that have been ignored by ratifying governments when it suits is legion. Canadians then, should be concerned with the United Nations “Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women,” explained elsewhere in this issue. It appears that the Canadian government is, indeed, taking seriously its obligations under [...]
Shown below are the Articles from the Convention which are of particular interest to Interim readers, plus the legislation that has been put in place to bring Canada in line with the Convention and the excerpts from the 1983 Report. Many more examples of women’s rights legislation are available than are listed here. We have confined our examples to those [...]
Protestant churches in over forty communities across Canada will observe Sanctity of Human Life Sunday (SOHLS) on May 5, 1985. This second annual Sanctity of Human Life Sunday has been coordinated by Christians Concerned for Life Calgary, in cooperation with the Christian Action Councils of Ontario. On May 14th, 1969, the Canadian Parliament gave third reading to Bill150, legalizing [...]