“Selection” is the practice of withholding necessary medical treatment to handicapped newborns with the intention to facilitate an early death. Those who defend “selection” (for non-treatment) argue that they are motivated to do so out of noble compassion for the handicapped child. Selection is not limited, however, to those infants for whom treatment would provide no hope [...]
The Christian Action Council of Metropolitan Toronto has designated the first Sunday in May (May 5, 1985) as Sanctity of Human Life Sunday (SOHLS). On May 14, 1969, the Canadian Parliament gave third reading to Bill C-150 a reform of the Criminal Code of Canada, which liberalized the abortion law in Canada. Mr. Howard McPhee, president of the Toronto Christian Action Council [...]
The recent published report of a working party of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) calls for: - full and free access to all methods of fertility regulation, including abortion and sterilization for all, irrespective of age or marital status, as a “human right”; - the right of children to contraception and abortion from the age [...]
Geoffrey is six years old. He is part black with fine features, dark brown eyes, brown hair and a light complexion. Geoffrey is an affectionate child but at the moment is insecure and tense. Geoffrey’s health is generally good although he is prone to upper respiratory infections. Geoffrey is small boned and thin although his diet is now [...]
In shock and dismay I heard the announcement on the radio on that Thursday morning: “Not guilty – acquitted.” First: Unbelief “God, how can this happen? How did you let it happen? We prayed so much and were so sure You heard us.” I personally was very hopeful as I left the courtroom the day before! There was also [...]
Oh boy! Dull moments around here are about as plentiful as white blackbirds. I returned from Europe to find The Interim office bussing with questions, counter-questions and speculations regarding the morality of using vaccine extracted from an aborted baby to inoculate school children against Rubella. According to reports, the vaccine being used in Canada was extracted [...]
Conversations concerning the rubella vaccine and fetal experimentation in general have jammed our telephone during the last month. I have heard such statements as, “let’s drop this: it’s not an issue we can win,” “there’s nothing wrong with this vaccine,” “good can come from evil,” and so on. Most opinions are strongly-held. This had touched a number of nerves. [...]
In 1729, the Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, published an essay entitled A Modest Proposal. The title is ironic because what he proposed was a scheme to solve the problem in Ireland by butchering children. In a carefully reasoned argument, he explains how the parents will be paid for raising small children who will then be [...]
In 1979, the League for Life of Manitoba publicized fetal experiments conducted at Winnnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre in 1973, 1974 and 1975. Babies of up to 25 weeks gestation, aborted through hysterotomy, had blood taken and their adrenals, gonads and pituitary glands removed. 213 babies were used in these experiments. Some had up to 8 ccs of blood taken [...]
The following two letters were sent to the Star and the Globe by Campaign Life in an attempt to correct their editorial presentation of the WI-38 Rubella vaccine story as the product of an irrational “fringe” group. The Editor The Toronto Star Dear Sir: Your December 2 editorial “Vaccine isn’t Abortion Issue” finds it “ironic” to see [...]
God as “Lawgiver” and “Judge” is precisely what is at stake in Canada today. In an age of economic, social, and cultural transition the rules of God, so to speak, have to be relearned and reaffirmed all over again on pain of losing them altogether and thereby becoming “secular.” The greater the intensity of the transition, [...]
Picketers at the Hamilton-Civic Henderson Hospital have been marching every Friday for a year and a half now. Joanne Bassi and Brenda Giavedoni made resolution in 1983 to picket during the Lenten season. But when Lent was over they decided to go on. And they’re still marching. They’re joined by a group of faithfuls and the occasional newcomer, [...]
The November issue of Flare magazine ran an ad for Julius Schmid condoms (on page 58) which pictured a baby and labeled it a “mistake.” Printing a photograph of innocent healthy newborns and labeling them “mistakes” is a blatant promotion of the anti-life philosophy of the pro-abortionists. The last issue of the advertisement copy even suggests that an unwanted pregnancy [...]
On Monday, November 19, Dorval City Council approved a zoning bylaw that would banish massage parlours, strip joints, erotica shops, tanning studios and abortion clinics to an industrial part of town. The businesses would be relegated to a district now used mostly by trucking firms. The draft bylaw “depicts the moral pasture of the community,” said Dorval Mayor, Peter [...]
In the last week of November, Ontario pro-life groups from across the province met in Toronto to discuss the Mongentaler acquittal and action that should be taken to close the abortuary. Several possible actions were discussed and it was agreed by all that the abortuary must be closed. Leaders of the following Ontario pro-life groups were in attendance: [...]