On April 16, 1985, Margaret Mitchell, NDP (Vancouver East), requested the Minister of Justice to “celebrate equality” (according to the Charter of Rights): by designating major funding for an independent endowment… through a credible organization such as the Legal Action and Education Fund, so that women may fight equality cases under the Charter. The Minister of Justice pointed out [...]
On March 26 the House of Commons Justice Committee agreed to refer the issue of “sexual orientation” to a sub-committee to see whether it qualifies as a form of discrimination prohibited in the Charter of Rights. New Democrat MP Svend Robinson, (Burnaby) introduced a private member’s bill calling for the inclusion of sexual orientation in the [...]
The Attorney-General of Ontario’s appeal of the jury acquittal of Morgentaler and his two associates on November 8th, 1984, and, the request for a new trial, began on Monday April 29, 1985, before a panel of five judges from the Ontario Supreme Court of Appeal. Because of the importance of the appeal, which will require rulings from Ontario’s highest [...]
How may parents listen to the rock music that most children and adolescents dance to, do homework to and fall asleep with? How many parents realize that rock lyrics have become sexually explicit and background sound effects crudely reinforce the intent of this musical pornography? Prince, one of today’s biggest stars, has sold over nine million copies of [...]
The Canadian Nurse of March 1985, printed a summary of the Canadian Nurses Association’s (CNA) position on “nursing’s role in family planning.” It noted that the CNA had developed a number of position statements on nursing in health care and stated: In its statement on nursing’s role in family planning, adopted in June, 1982, CNA recognizes that family planning is [...]
In a period of one month, six provinces rejected Henry Morgentaler’s request to set up medicare-funded, provincially-recognized, abortuaries. “We have no intention of allowing Dr. Morgentaler to enter Saskatchewan,” Health Minister Graham Taylor declared on April 25. “In fact we will be doing everything within the power of this Government to prevent him from establishing a clinic in this province.” [...]
In our March 1985 issue, p.24, The Interim passed on newspaper reports that Henry Morgentaler’s attendance at the International Conference on Law and Medicine held in India in February 1985 was co-sponsored by the Canadian Medical Association and the British Columbia Medical Association. In a letter to Dr. Carmelo Scime, Hamilton, dated April 18, Dr. T.A. McPherson, President of [...]
Montreal. Henry Morgentaler announced on May 9 that he would campaign in the next Quebec election if anti-abortion groups try to force political parties to make abortions more difficult to obtain. Abortion laws have not been enforced since 1976 when the Parti Quebecois formed the government. In August 1984, during the federal election campaign, Morgentaler endorsed the NDP [...]
A recent medical journal article out of Sherbrooke, Quebec, details the fact that fetal experimentation has not ceased in Canada. Titled, “Explant Culture of Human Fetal Small Intestine,” the article, by D. Menard and P. Arseneault from that university, was quite specific. It states that small intestines “from fetuses varying from 10 to 14 weeks post fertilization were obtained [...]
“I’m here to warn and support you in that I’ve found abortion is not the answer,” keynote speaker Barbara Kolby told Moncton pro-lifers on Mother’s Day eve. Ms. Kolby is a member of WEBA (Women Exploited by Abortion) and she told the crowd that members of WEBA are the voices of experience. “We are just beginning to speak [...]
St. John’s on April 5, Good Friday, the sixth annual pro-life demonstration at the Health Sciences Centre of Memorial University attracted some 2,500 concerned citizens. The Health Sciences Centre is responsible for 412 – or most of Newfoundland’s official recorded – annual abortions. The demonstration started at 9:30 a.m. and lasted about 90 minutes. Among the participants were [...]
Joe Borowski’s large pro-life sign, placed on the side of his Winnipeg store, was vandalized recently when someone threw black and red paint on it. Mr. Borowski did not believe juvenile vandals were responsible. “My guess is that it’s either an NDPer or an abortionist,” he said. The sign, nine foot by fourteen foot, shows a graveyard [...]
On Saturday April 13, some 3,000 pro-life demonstrators protested Morgentaler’s visit to Vancouver. Speaking at John Oliver secondary school, Morgentaler, once again, received a standing ovation from his audience (900 people) for telling them that he will bring them an abortuary, train more doctors who then “will have the tremendous satisfaction of offering nice, secure, confident medical help to women in [...]
Just before 6:00 p.m on Sunday, January 27,1985, Jim Demers entered the reception area of Kootenay Lake District Hospital. He returned the smile of the receptionist and then casually proceeded down the hallway into the operating area of the hospital, located on the main floor. The operating rooms were not in use and the area was completely deserted. [...]
Gay Caswell, MLA (PC—Saskatoon Westmount) told the 250 pro-lifers attending the Moose Jaw Right to Life 10th anniversary banquet recently that they are trailblazers, “fighting the most important fight in the world today.” Pro-lifers are fighting “all those who have declared war on the family – those who would see the institution of the family destroyed,” Mrs. Caswell said. And, [...]