X-rated scenes found in pro-life film Police in Manitoba and Ontario have still not discovered how X-rated sex scenes were copied on to 14 Beta-format videotapes of Bernard Nathanson’s film The Silent Scream, ordered and distributed by Canadian pro-life activist Joe Borowski. According to Mr. Borowski, the pornographic scenes were discovered by one of his helpers after most of [...]
Pro-lifers are by now well aware of media bias in reporting abortion-related stories, but two Ottawa radio stations have carried this bias a step further. Other CFGO and CHEZ radio stations refused to accept $1,000 advertising contracts from Action Life to run pro-life radio ads. The ads, used by Action Life in previous years, outline the details of fetal [...]
Once again the Mayor of Ottawa has refused to proclaim Respect for Life Week, but this year’s refusal conveyed an interesting attitude towards the phrase “Respect for life”, in her letter to Action Life, Ottawa’s pro-life group, Mayor Marion Dewar wrote, “… our policy precludes proclamations that would serve to divide the community. Regrettably the very phrase “respect [...]
Lynda Hurt’s May 7 column in the Toronto Star attacked the Catholic Church’s rejection of abortion (see my June article “Advocacy journalism”). She interviewed Marjorie Maguire, a dissenting Catholic with a PhD in religious studies, presenting her as a “devout and practicing Catholic, ” indeed, as a “Catholic theologian.” On May 21, in another column, she used the authority [...]
Today, almost all who actively struggle with the issue of abortion, whether for or against, realize the inescapable link between abortion and contraception. Last month, Canada’s leading newspaper, The Globe and Mail, printed a full-page article entitled “Abortion and the pill,” subtitled “When women got control over conception, why did the abortion rate increase?” The article, extracted from a recent [...]
Anti-family, anti-child pressures contrary to the good of our society and contrary to Christian and other religious convictions are mounting steadily. In big cities low-income seniors, families and single parents are pushed out of affordable housing, especially in city centres, as older, low-rise buildings are demolished and converted into luxury apartments. Another trend favours “adult only” buildings, once again [...]
This year’s U.S National Right To Life Convention, held in Washington, D.C, saw Dr. Bernard Nathanson honour a young married couple from Toronto for composing what he called “by far the best pro-life song I’ve heard in my years as a pro-life advocate.” The song in question, entitled “Where the Miracle Takes Place” was performed live at the Convention [...]
The Ontario Hospital Appeal Board over-ruled the decisive by Woodstock General Hospital to bar abortionist Leslie Smoling, colleague of Morgentaler. The ruling claimed that the hospital showed no evidence the hospital’s image would be tarnished. Smoling fled Canada in 1968 to escape abortion charges (dropped in 1977). He practiced medicine while in Australia from 1968 to 1982 when he returned to [...]
The situation struck me as ironic. I was at a meeting on women’s rights, attended mostly by older women, women wealthy enough that they had been able to stay at home to raise their children (and to have nice homes to raise them in). Yet they were sitting around me discussing how today’s young mothers could get out of [...]
Unmarried couples, single people and homosexuals have as much right to adopt children as do heterosexual married couples under the Charter of Rights. This directive from Ontario government civil servants to Children’s Aid societies was reported in Ontario newspapers on May 30 and 31. This directive claims to speak with authority. In reality it is an example of [...]
Mr. Michael Wilson’s first budget speech on May 23 included a sentence on charitable institutions that is of interest to pro-life educational groups. According to the Globe’s report (May 24): Charitable institutions need no longer be concerned about having their registered tax-exempt status cut off when they carry out lobbying campaigns on public issues as long as charitable institutions are not [...]
Just after noon on Friday, June 28, two pro-life picketers were attacked by abortionist Robert Scott outside the Morgentaler abortion clinic on Harbord Street in Toronto. Provoked by the activities of pro-life counselors with regard to two approaching female clients, abortionist Scott (6’4”) rushed out the door and threw Fred Huston, a 71- year old man off the steps [...]
On Tuesday, June 12, private member’s bill No. 53, died a natural death in the Saskatchewan legislature when Minister of Justice, Gary Lane, moved that the bill be referred to the Court of Appeal for a legal opinion on its constitutionality. Bill 53, originally titled the Freedom of Informed Choice (Abortions) Act, proposed that women seeking abortion [...]
Forgive me for interrupting the peaceful moral slumber of CBS Morning News, but in the interest of balance (something to which the national media profess a ferocious commitment) certain observations are in order regarding the segment dealing with the videotape film The Silent Scream aired on March 4, 1985. To begin with, the terms of the debate were [...]
Recently, while driving home on one of the cold and stormy nights so familiar to us Canadians, my mind composed the following story. I was driving along the wind-swept highway. The rain was so heavy that I could barely see the road. I whispered a prayer of thanks for the Lord’s protection and a warm automobile on such [...]