St. Michaels School, Leamington, Ontario Winner 10-12 yr. group “Mommy, why did you kill me? Why didn’t you leave me be? I had my whole life to live. Now you want me to forgive.” This is what many women hear in their dreams from their babies that they have killed in the past. Many women [...]
St. John’s College, Brantford, Ontario Winner 16-18 yr. Group “It’s dramatic. It’s emotional. I don’t say I kill. I terminate. I end. I interfere. I intercept.” The Newspeak employed by Dr Peterson, a highly established and widely known abortionist, suggests that the 1984 projected by Orwell is by no means completely devoid of fact. His words [...]
Winner 14-16 yr. group Society seeks a perfect race. The competitors include prenatal babies. For many years scientists have tried many different techniques to detect diseases in babies, but all of them had failed. Recent developments in technology, however, have made it possible to diagnose fetal illnesses wile the baby is in the womb. Aside from the [...]
Many of the arguments in favor of “liberalizing the law,” as it came to be called, centre precisely on this idea of ridding the country of an “outmoded morality,” an expression which became standard in newspaper editorials and articles. It was claimed that opposition to legal contraceptives, divorce, homosexual activity, and abortion was based either on religious foibles [...]
The Toronto Board of Education’s Advisory Committee on Sex Education has issued its draft report. The Committee is now inviting comment from parents, teachers and other interested parties. The Committee has already considered briefs from such organizations as Planned Parenthood, the Gay Community Council and Lesbian and Gay Youth Toronto. It is recommending that the Ministry of Education [...]
C.A. Scharfe, Editor-in-chief of The Interim is led away from the Morgentaler abortuary after being arrested along with Lorraine Carbonneau for blocking the entrance by sitting on the steps. On January 8, two pro-lifers staged a sit-in on the front steps of the Morgentaler abortuary. C.A. Scharfe, Editor-in-chief of The Interim and Lorraine Carbonneau of North Bay, Ontario, a [...]
Over the last two years, more and more people have begun to publicly express their opposition to pornography business. Formerly, only the churches seemed willing to take a firm stand in public. Today, radical feminists (looking at it exclusively from a woman’s point of view) have advanced at least to the recognition that violent pornography is a menace. With the [...]
A constant cry of our pluralistic and secular society is that morality is not to be legislated. Indeed in 1969, then Justice Minister, John Turner, claimed that the Criminal Code of Canada is neutral and cannot represent ‘private moralities.’(Speaking on the abortion bill in the House of Commons.) An unexpected subsidiary theme of this is-called neutrality [...]
Access to pornography was once limited to specialty bookstores and movie houses found mainly in decaying inner areas of large cities. Most of us were once untouched by pornography and its effects. Those innocent days are over. The past fifteen years have been a period of explosive influence has spread to suburban areas and small towns, into corner [...]
On January 8, four spokesmen for a new group called the Medical Reform Group of Ontario stated in a press-conference that Ontario should permit abortion clinics. They said that the present hospital system is “unnecessarily dangerous” because it results in lengthy delays. They also denounced further prosecution of Henry Morgentaler and argued that Ontario should follow Quebec’s example which, [...]
Kingston Queen’s University has invited Henry Morgentaler to speak in its prestigious Dunning Trust lecture series in February 1985. This year the series is devoted to health and human dignity. Morgentaler has been invited to open the series on February 5 with a lecture on the medical, moral and legal aspects of abortion. The lecture series was established in [...]
In North Bay, community reaction to Morgentaler’s acquittal was instant and it was strong --- 3,800 people strong. In November, after the jury in Toronto acquitted Morgentaler of conspiring to procure an abortion, the local Right to Life group in North Bay took out a small advertisement in the North Bay Nugget which included a short list of pro-lifers [...]
Dr. Leslie Smoling, a former associate of Henry Morgentaler, was denied hospital privileges at Woodstock General Hospital for the second time. Smoling’s assistant, Christina Muench, said the doctor first applied to credentials to practice at the hospital shortly after he started his practice in Woodstock last July. He was refused hospital privileges then because his case in [...]
Saskatoon On January 9, CBC TV (CFQC-11 pm news) announced that University Hospital in Saskatoon would stop performing abortions on women more than 12 weeks pregnant. It was stated that second-trimester abortions at University Hospital accounted for two-thirds of the approx. 100 abortions done at the hospital in 1984 and that it was the only hospital in [...]
On Remembrance Day, November 11, 1984, Father Abello, S.J., addressed Calgary Pro-Life. In early December he spoke also at Edmonton’s Francis Xavier High School on abortion and it’s link to contraception. - In Edmonton, Edmonton Pro-Life and Campaign Life are looking for a central pro-life office. - - In Spruce Grove, an Edmonton satellite town, a new group has [...]