It is a cool, cloudy Friday morning in mid-July. It has rained throughout the night. The seagulls soar high above the wet pavement of Harbord Street in search of food. Its about ten thirty and two courageous pro-life counselors maintain their lonely vigil at the rear of the Morgentaler abortuary. They have been there since eight o’clock, and have been drenched by [...]
Abortion clinics will not be allowed in New Brunswick and doctors who perform abortions other than in qualified hospitals will be subject to disciplinary action – if legislation is successfully completed. The bill was passed on to the third reading by the legislature. The bill followed a statement by Premier Richard Hatfield on April 25, saying that free-standing clinics would not be [...]
More than 8,000 people gathered at Moncton Coliseum to see Mother Teresa officially open the Catholic Foundation for Human Life last June 23rd. In her 40-minute address, Mother Teresa implored Canadians to “never allow in this beautiful country . . . a single unborn child to feel unwanted, unloved.” She called abortion “the greatest destroyer of peace, love and joy.” Mother Teresa [...]
Representatives from across the country gathered in Sydney, Nova Scotia, during the last week of June to attend the Conference and Annual General Meeting of Alliance for Life. Cape Breton Right to Life entertained their guests with a distinctive Cape Breton hospitality. The theme of the Alliance Conference was “Caring for Life: from conception to natural death,” and an impressive line-up of [...]
Four pro-life delegates were elected to the Lions Gate Hospital’s board of directors last June. The delegates defeated pro-choice incumbent board nominees. The new pro-life directors, from the Vancouver area, each won by a slim margin. One delegate won by 17 votes. The new members are Col. H.F.G. Boswell, Philip Mansfield, Colleen Donald, and Victor Bennington. They join 12 other members who [...]
The most dramatic of the three abortion cases that have hit the headlines in the Vancouver press during recent weeks concerns an unnamed father. Distraught because his girlfriend was having an abortion, he entered the Vancouver General Hospital, snatched some green hospital garb from the laundry and burst into the operating room to prevent his child from being killed. Unfortunately he chose [...]
Mrs. Rachel Tasker, a former official with the Alberta Medical Association, stated recently that twenty babies died during delivery in the last year in Alberta because of late arrivals of the attending obstetricians. She implied that the doctors were more concerned with their own convenience than with their patients’ well-being. According to Mrs. Tasker, Alberta had a very good record for live [...]
“I can’t pay for the killing of babies,” says pro-life activist, Leo Coyle who is in trouble with Alberta Health Care insurance Plan for non-payment of health care insurance premiums. Recently AHCIP employed a collection agency to try to collect from Mr. Coyle the $800 it is alleged Mr. Coyle owes. Mr. Coyle has not paid his Medicare for five years. “As [...]
Interim: I understand a group of Edmonton pro-lifers have been making “house-calls?” Liston: Yes, we’ve decided to turn the tables on the medical profession. We plan to make house-call – on baby killers only, however. Interim: When did these house-calls being? Liston: We began during the Stanley Cup playoffs on a Tuesday evening, when the Oilers were thumping the Black Hawks with [...]
A new group of pro-life activists has started a series of rotating protests outside the homes of the roughly twenty-five Edmonton abortionists who together perform most of the 2,500 abortions in three City hospitals. The group is not affiliated with any other group. Numbers vary between six and twelve. They march up and down in front of the doctor’s house and apartment, [...]
I am a native son of Saskatchewan and in September 1983 I partook in the “Run for Life” from Saskatoon to Regina. I have been asked to analyze Bill 53 (Saskatchewan), proposed by M.L.A Gay Caswell. This is my analysis. The intention of those who formulated Bill 63 is very laudable, that is, to ensure that a woman contemplating an abortion is [...]
Another example of befuddled thinking on the part of a local MPP occurred at the end of June after the election of nine new trustees to the 27-member board of the as-yet-non-existing Stouffville-Markham hospital. The nine democratically elected pro-life trustees were chosen by a majority of the 427 people present, a number of whom were members of two local Catholic parishes. Following [...]
Mother Teresa the Nobel Peace Prize-winning missionary whom many call a living saint, visited Toronto on June 24 (The Christian calendar feast day of St. John the Baptist) to open a convent in St. Sebastian’s Parish. Her Sisters of Charity will serve the mentally and developmentally disabled and psychiatric patients discharged from chronic-care institutions in the Parkdale area. There was a brief [...]
We have been informed by reliable sources that the Liberal provincial government is presently considering setting up abortion clinics in Ontario. They would be of two kinds. Firstly, in districts where abortions are not easily obtained, clinics would be set up and affiliated to hospitals outside the area. This would give them a semblance of legality. Secondly, within Toronto, and perhaps other [...]
Pornography destabilizes marriage. It is desensitizing and affects “normal people” whether or not they realize it. It is addictive. And it is “the literature of the sex offender.” These are all conclusions reached by psychotherapist and author, David Scott, in a recently-published U.S. study. “Pornography and its Effects on Family, Community and Culture” was funded by the Washington-based Free Congress Foundation. It [...]