Thank you for your letter of September 10, 1985. If your impression, expressed in the first paragraph, is correct, may God forgive me. Certainly our whole thrust must be to defend the lives of the preborn, not defend any particular organization’s decisions, good or bad. Nowhere in the article, which appeared on page 6 of the September issue of The Interim, was [...]
The analysis by Rev. Abello of Saskatchewan’s Bill 53 (see September Interim) attempts to defend an initial bad decision by Campaign Life Saskatchewan, who called a news conference during the Bill’s debate to announce that they could not support Bill 53. Needless to say, their position caused much confusion and assisted our enemies in deferring passage of the Act. The article of [...]
The Moncton Hospital’s Reproductive Clinic is prescribing the birth control pill and, in some cases, a “morning after” pill to under-age teens – without parental knowledge or consent. At least one 15-year-old girl was given the “morning after” pill when she went to the clinic by herself after having intercourse without using contraception. She was also offered a prescription for the regular [...]
Pro-Life action groups are being formed along both shores of the lower St. Lawrence River. In a recent organizing tour, at the invitation of local groups, Lucille Lavoie-Gordon, president of Coalition Pour la Vie, Quebec, visited Baie-Comeau, Hauterive and Matane. She spoke on Respect for Life and Our Duty as Citizens at four Masses at the Baie-Comeau cathedral. She also spoke, and [...]
Now that Pierre-Marc Johnson has become leader of the Parti Quebecois and Premier of Quebec, it looks as if a provincial election cannot be delayed for long. The new Premier is detested by most of the old-time members of the Parti, and the Parti appears to be equally detested by most Quebecers. So, we may soon have an opportunity to test the [...]
Beauce County Pro-Life Week, September 22 to 28, was no ordinary pro-life week. It was the first-ever large-scale pro-life event in the area, and it provided most of the people of this huge region with their first opportunity to hear the pro-life message – which they received enthusiastically. On opening night, The Silent Scream was shown to a full house in the [...]
On October 2, on the occasion of the Ontario Supreme Court of Appeal ordering a new trial for abortionist Morgentaler and his associates, Morgentaler and Reverend Ken Campbell, head of choose Life Canada and Morgentaler’s next door neighbour in Toronto, held back to back press conferences at the Toronto Press Club. Morgentaler, his legal counsel Morris Manning, Carol Lindberg of the Canadian [...]
On September 21, the day of the giant pro-life rally in Toronto, Artists for Life held their first group show in the gymnasium of St. Joseph’s College School on Wellesley Street. According to spokesman Paul Arteau, one of the exhibitors, it was an unqualified success. “We had over 200 people sign our guest book and more than 3,000 came through to view [...]
Patraig G. O’Mathuna, a registered nurse, and insurance agent, Tom Brown, have both been recently assaulted by the same man in the vicinity of the abortuary while picketing. David Butt, who has been seen coming and going from Ultra Word Processing, a business in the area, was witnessed attacking both men on separate occasions. Police have refused to lay charges of assault [...]
On October 15, in courtroom 124 in Toronto’s Old City Hall, Father Lawrence Abello won an acquittal on the charge that he had “caused a disturbance by shouting” at the back of the Harbord Street abortuary in Toronto. (See p.1, The Interim, September 1985.) The judge agreed with defence counsel that Father Abello was not guilty of the charge laid by Metro [...]
On Thursday October 10, Irene Morel, a housewife from Parry Sound, Ontario, attempted a citizen’s arrest of Ontario Cabinet Minister Sean Conway in the Ontario Legislature. She was unsuccessful, but according to police, it was the first time anyone had ever attempted such an action. Mrs. Morel, 48, part-time journalist for the Toronto Star and some regional publications, had come to Toronto [...]
On October 1st, 1985 the long-awaited judgment of the Supreme Court of Ontario Court of Appeal concerning the Morgentaler Trial was handed down. In a unanimous decision the five judges set aside the jury verdict of acquittal, and ordered a new trial. Their concluding statements included the following: “The errors at trial were so fundamental that there has been no trial according [...]
Ontario Attorney General Ian Scott continues to insist that the province is powerless to close the Morgentaler abortuary. He is wrong and he is misleading Canadians. Independent lawyers have confirmed that the correct legal avenue to harness Morgentaler and his co-conspirators from continuing their illegal activities is to apply to the courts for bail conditions to be imposed. However, Scott insists that [...]
Ontario pro-lifers have vowed that Premier Peterson will not be allowed to forget that there is an illegal abortuary operating in the province. Many have stated that they will picket him wherever he goes in the province. A central grievance with the Premier is that he signed a statement prior to the election stating that he would close the illegal abortuary if [...]
Over the past ten months a number of cases concerning abortion and activities at abortuaries have come before the Courts. In Toronto some minor charges (of trespassing) against pro-lifers have been dismissed without trial, other cases are due to be heard just after The Interim goes to press, still others have been postponed for the second time. In British Columbia the case [...]