Selling babies is illegal in Canada-perhaps. While there are laws which cover money changing hands in the conventional adoption process, there are no specific laws governing the new phenomenon of commercial “surrogate” motherhood. A surrogate (replacement) mother is one who agrees to conceive and bear a child for another woman. The trouble is, the “surrogate” mother is the [...]
Private Member’s bills usually attract little attention, but Mr. Enoch Powell’s measure-the Unborn Children Protection Bill- is not in this category. It’s importance is underscored by the fact that, although attendance in the House of Commons is usually sparse on Fridays, an unusually large number of Members attended the Bill’s second reading on Friday February 15 1985. The [...]
What is it about a simple pro-family position which poses such a threat to International Women’s Week? The question hit the headlines in Ottawa recently after R.E.A.L. Women of Canada was excluded from participation in International Women’s Week in 1985 on the grounds that its “philosophy” was “diametrically opposed to the goals and objectives” of International [...]
It’s not every day that one’s asked to stand up in front of a crowd and talk about why one chooses to be identified with a pro-family and pro-life organization such as R.E.A.L. Women of Canada. So I’m very happy to have been asked to speak to you on this very subject…particularly from the point of view of a [...]
A new organization, the Catholic Civil Rights League, is concerned with countering evidence of anti-religious bias in three areas: the media; the schools; and the legal-political arena. The fledgling group received its first publicity from the Catholic Register which covered its first meeting in a front page story (March 16). The editor, Larry Henderson, also devoted an [...]
In the December 1984 edition of the Presbyterian Record. Alex Calder, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, called for a change in the existing abortion law. He also referred to the weakness in his church’s position on abortion. In a letter co-signed by his wife, Helen, Calder states that he believes that “babies are babies from the beginning” [...]
In seeking justice for our nation, there are limitations and governing principles to which we must strictly adhere. First, we must be content to let God handle the retributive or punitive aspects of justice. The goal of Christians in pursuing justice is to restrain evil and to protect the innocent. This, in practical terms means that [...]
The following is an edited version of the pamphlet “Action on Abortion – the Christian Witness in a Polarized Debate.” The pamphlet is available from the Committee for Contact with the Government, Council of Christian Reformed Churches in Canada, 760 Brant Street, Suite 408, P.O. Box 5070, Burlington, Ontario L7R 3Y8. …We base our discussion on the position [...]
The Anglican Church does not know its own mind on the issue of abortion, or does it? This was the question raised recently in a controversy about a pro-Morgentaler editorial in the Church’s national monthly. The editorial was rejected outright by some Bishops and some individual Anglicans, conditionally supported by others and firmly defended by [...]
AdeV The Canadian Armed Forces have dismissed five lesbian women who served at a top-secret submarine tracking station at Shelburne, Nova Scotia. They were considered a security risk. The new Minister of Defence Erik Nielsen brushed aside an NDP demand for changes in a policy that bars homosexual men and women from the armed forces. The Globe and Mail [...]
Mr. John Gormley (The Battlefords-Meadow Lake) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-226, an Act to amend the Criminal Code (abortion). Mr. Speaker: Shall the Hon. Member have leave to introduce the Bill? Some Hon. Members: Agreed Mr. Gormley: Mr. Speaker, every year over 65,000 abortions are performed in Canadian Hospitals. An overwhelming number [...]
Mr. Gordon Taylor (Bow River): Mr. Speaker, if a nuclear bomb were dropped on Ottawa probably 50 000 humans would die, and every newspaper and every government in the world would call it a disaster. Yet, every year in Canada, some 50,000 human babies are murdered and it is barely newsworthy. Perhaps it is because we do not [...]
On March 4, 1985, the House of Commons discussed for an hour the private Members’ bill of PC MP Gus Mitges. Also participation in the debate were MPs Svend Robinson (NDP), Mary Collions (PC) and Alen Redway (PC). The following are some extracts, together with summaries: That, in the opinion of this House, the Constitution Act, 1982, should be [...]
A new group organized by Baptist Minister Ken Campbell under the name “Choose Life Canada” has purchased half the building on Harbord Street, the other half of which is occupied by Henry Morgentaler’s abortion clinic. Rev. Ken Campbell dedicated the site for the new group during a rally at People’s Church on Monday evening, March 11. Said [...]
The Lethbridge and District Pro-Life Association suggests that income-tax-return time is a good moment to protest taxpayers’ money being used to fund abortions. Letters, such as the one printed below(but not exact copies), could be included with you income tax return. Another letter on the same subject could be sent to your Federal Member of Parliament, at the House of Commons, [...]