On February 25, Larry Heather, the Calgary man who sprayed Morgentaler with ketchup in January, was fined $750 and was told by Alberta provincial court judge Hubert Oliver that he acted like a “ruffian”. Mr. Heather had pleaded guilty to two charges of assault: he had sprayed Morgentaler and an airport security guard with ketchup. He said that the attack [...]
Alberta Calgary City council is using taxpayers’ money to fund an abortion-referral agency, says Michael Malley, co-ordinator of Calgary Coalition for Life. He charged that the city “is simply paying the salaries of pro-abortionists to spread their views.” The Calgary Birth Control Association will soon receive $156, 055 in city funding if council agrees to the recommendations made by [...]
For the past several years Quebec has been the scene of so much political turmoil, and its population has been divided over so many issues, that pro-life activists have found it difficult to make their voices heard amidst the general clamour. It is hard to convince an anglophone parent that there is any issue more important [...]
The Leader Post of Regina, February 23, 1985 quoted the Premier of Saskatchewan, Grant Devine, as saying that Morgentaler will not be permitted to open a clinic. As long as I’m premier, Dr. Henry Morgentaler will never open an abortion clinic in Saskatchewan. Devine told 300 Progressive Conservatives in Yorkton on Friday, February 22. “The history of pro-abortion [...]
You probably saw the “Jury for Life” postcards addressed to the Prime Minister (shown on page one of February’s Interim) in your church before Christmas and, if you’re like my husband and me, took some home to distribute to friends, signed one each and dropped them in the mail. End of story? Not for us it [...]
Our February editorial was entitled “Violence, abortionist and anger.” We have received some letters of complaint about this editorial, the first part of which explained (but did not defend) why in the USA a number of abortion clinics have been bombed. The editorial ended as follows: The pro-life movement represents people who refuse to accept this corruption of society. [...]
To picket at an abortion clinic is an unpleasant task at the best of times. Without exception the men and women who take part in these demonstrations would prefer to be elsewhere, doing what they themselves would all consider to be “something more constructive.” But they picket out of a sense of duty and with the somewhat grim realization [...]
Picketers protesting the Toronto Morgentaler abortuary have been very effective. Organizers report that very few abortions are being done at the abortuary and reliable sources confirm that very few have been done since it reopened on December 10, 1984. The average now is only one or two per day and this low number is attributable almost solely to the vigilance [...]
Mrs. Monique Vezina, MP Minister responsible for CIDA Ministry for External Relations Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2 Dear Mrs. Vezina Re: International Planned Parenthood Federation funding by the Department of External Relations Thank you for your letter of January 24, 1985. We have been informed by others who corresponded with the Department that they received identical replies. Regrettably, [...]
On Saturday May 4 and Sunday May 5, 1985 The Canadian Youth Pro-Life Organization (CYPLO) will hold its annual National Conference at Don Bosco High School in Toronto. This is CYPLO’s second National Conference and the theme for this year is “Now is the time.” The theme represents the immediate necessity for youth-involvement in all the manifestations of the pro-life [...]
On March 1, 1985, Secretary of State Walter McLean (PC Waterloo), Minister in charge of the status of Woman, appointed NDP-worker Sylvia Gold to a seven-year term as president of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Woman. The appointment was highly lauded by pro-abortion feminists. Sylvia Gold It was hailed by MP Lucie Pepin, head of the [...]
Catholic church leaders in Manitoba told the faithful that if Attorney General Roland Penner won’t act, it is up to them to make it clear to Henry Morgentaler that his Winnipeg clinic is unwanted. The action followed Penner’s refusal to seek an injunction to stop Morgentaler’s Winnipeg abortion clinic from reopening, after being closed for 18 months. Abortion-related charges against [...]
Last fall, members of parliament and senators were sent a copy of the September issue of Tellus, the quarterly journal of the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada (PPFC), which contained the results of PPFC’s two surveys of sex education in Canada. In its Winter 1984 issue, Tellus printed excerpts from letters received from MPs and Senators. Some of the letters excerpted [...]
CMA supports Morgentaler’s India trip Henry Morgentaler was invited to give a lecture at a conference on law and medicine sponsored by the Indian Supreme Court and the Indian Medical Association in the second week of February, 1985. Canadian co-sponsors of Morgentaler’s trip were the Canadian Medical Association and the British Columbia Medical Association. Canadian Civil Liberties The Candaian Civil Liberties [...]
More than any other day of the year, March 25 is appropriate as a pro-life observance. Think of our other holidays: Easter, Victoria Day, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Christmas, New Year’s to name a few. Each of these already has its own tradition. It would be impossible to superimpose on any one a new theme, so strong are the established [...]