From November 6 to November 26 Family “Mr. Jean-Claude Malėpart (Montreal-Saint-Marie): Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind the Members of this House, and especially the Conservative Members, of commitments made by the Right Hon. Prime Minister (Mr. Mulroney) and his Government to our Canadian families. First of all, on November 5, and I quote: “My Government has a high priority measures [...]
Svend Robinson’s Private Member’s Bill, C-238, to remove abortion from the Criminal Code, was defeated in the House of Commons at the end of October. MPs successfully used the tactic that has been used by pro-abortion Mos in the past to block private members’ bills seeking tighter control on abortion. That is, debate following the Bill’s second reading continued until the Speaker [...]
The possibility of forming a new political party is to be examined by a special Campaign Life Committee. The Committee is to draft a platform, examine technical details of selection and nomination of candidates, and to report back to the national body. This was the decision of Campaign Life Canada at its annual meeting on November 25, 1985. Campaign Life is Pro-life’s [...]
Like it or not, each month seems to bring further evidence that pro-life faith in the politicians of Canada’s three political parties is misplaced. Even rather firm declarations of pro-life sentiments by candidates at election time are now to be looked at with extreme caution. They often prove to be no more than vote-getting devices. They certainly do not guarantee either understanding [...]
Alliance for Life has written to the Minister of Communications, Marcel Masse, protesting the showing of a pro-abortion episode of a popular TV serial. The Alliance reminded the Minister that in 1984 the CRTC has insisted on such rules as equal time for pro-abortion movies if a pro-life movie were shown; the need to carry a warning of bias, and the rejection [...]
In late October, the Saskatchewan Pro-Life Association presented a brief to federal members of parliament in Ottawa. Edward Landgraf, executive director, and Thomas Schuck, vice-president, met with many MPs and discussed the imbalance of government funding in favour of pro-abortion organizations. Below are the main points covered in the brief. Saskatchewan Pro-Life Association represents some 20,000 members of all denominations in 32 [...]
People new to the pro-life movement – and even some who are not so new to it – have great difficulty figuring out who’s who and who does what in the pro-life field. “Why are there so many different organizations with different names when you’re all promoting the right to life?” they ask. Part of the answer lies in the fact that [...]
Everyone loves to hate the Post Office. It’s almost a national pastime. However, recent incidents involving pro-life mail invite serious comments on the actions of mail handlers across the country. A majority of these incidents involve the “Forgetting Someone” brochure available from the Eastern Ontario Pro-Life Association. It was recently reported in the Globe and Mail that letter carriers in Nelson, B.C., [...]
As a missionary on home leave from the Dominican Republic, I was interested in seeing and participating in the Christian witness of life in Canada. What are Canadian Christians doing about the mass killing of the unborn? The church community is divided on the issue of abortion. The official position of the United Church, the Anglican Church and the Presbyterian Church is [...]
Joe Borowski, Canada’s foremost pro-life activist, was in Toronto in November to attend the Annual Campaign Life meeting. After the weekend meeting, Mr. Borowski went down to the Morgentaler abortuary on Monday, November 25, and spoke to the picketers on the front steps of the illegal abortion clinic. (He was later arrested at the rear for “trespassing.”) In his statement to the [...]
On November 27, Ontario Labour Minister Bill Wrye announced that the Peterson government is considering making it illegal to “discriminate” against homosexuals. Wrye promised to unveil “reforms” to the Ontario Human Rights Code within a few weeks. “I think we ought to take a real close look at it (sexual preference)” the Toronto Star (Nov. 28) reported Wrye as saying. Wrye acknowledged [...]
“You’re killing babies,” said Shirley Witt as she met Ian Scott, Ontario’s Attorney General. Witt, reported the Pembroke Advertiser on December 18, was one of about 14 quiet protestors outside the Heritage Inn during Scott’s visit to the city. Outside temperatures were – 18 degrees Celsius yet the protestors followed Scott on his tour during the day. Among the picketers were members [...]
A survey done by Share-Life, the R.C. Toronto Archdiocesan annual fund-raising campaign, shows that among its supporters awareness of the agencies it supports is low. Most supporters for example, thought that Share-Life financially supports the pro-life movement. It does not. Share-Life was started in 1976 following the withdrawal of Catholic agencies from the United Way when the latter decided to include Planned [...]
Winnipeg On December 19, 1985, Henry Morgentaler filed two notices asking the Manitoba Court of Appeal to quash the April 1985 order of the College of Physicians and Surgeons suspending his medical license. The suspension was the result of Morgentaler defying an order not to perform abortions without approval and of performing abortions while suspended. In October, the abortionist had considered abandoning [...]
A proposed private member’s bill that would have put limits on abortions is invalid, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has ruled. A panel of three judges ruled unanimously in an oral judgment on December 20, 1985, that Bill 53, the Freedom of Informed Choice (Abortions) Act, would conflict with the federal Criminal Code. “The pith and substance of the bill is to [...]