On Friday January 17, two pro-life picketers were found guilty of assaulting abortionist Robert Scott. Fred Huston, 72, and Godwin Cotter, 27, both pleaded not guilty to the offences. Mr. Huston was fined $250 and Mr. Cotter $150. Both were put on a year’s probation and ordered to stay away from the abortuary. Abortionist Scott who sustained a broken nose in the [...]
for parole for at least 10 years, for the second-degree murder of her newly-born granddaughter. The child was found buried in a garbage bag in a flower bed in the woman’s garden. An autopsy report showed the cause of death was asphyxiation by strangulation. Imogene Souliere, a registered nurse, had helped her 19-year-old daughter deliver the baby. Renee Souliere had kept her [...]
Pro-lifers across Ontario are now able to get up-to-the moment news and information via a new pro-life telephone hotline. The hotline has been set up by Campaign Life Canada, together with its Ontario co-ordinators, as an experiment. If successful, the hotline will be developed into a national news and information service. Inspiration for the telephone hotline came from a similar service established [...]
During the early part of an evening just two days before Christmas, a message was painted on the door of the Morgentaler abortuary by Anthony Canhoto, a long-time protestor of the abortion clinic. Tony had designed a mono print from a piece of foam rubber that said “murderer” and depicted a hand on either side of the word. He dipped this form [...]
RE: the messenger service There used to be tradition about handling messengers: the bearer of bad news was always killed on the spot, the bearer of good news was usually rewarded. Bad news was regarded as a sort of pollution of disease. Several people have told us lately that they find The Interim depressing to read. Why don’t we, they ask, focus [...]
Depo-Provera, the controversial contraceptive-abortifacient drug, has been given the green light for use in Canada by an advisory committee to the Department of Health and Welfare. However, the Minister of Health, Jake Epp, has said that government approval for the drug is not likely “for some months.” Depo-Provera, manufactured by the Upjohn Company, is a progesterone steroid. It is legally used in [...]
Picketing – walking up and down the sidewalk in front of the abortuary with a placard in your hand – is frustrating work. At times it does not appear to accomplish much and sometimes one wonders about its effectiveness. Picketing is in fact tremendously effective. One need only consider the reaction of the pro-abortionists and the numerous efforts they have made to [...]
The Quebec Coalition for Life petition, which has been in circulation for some months, has now been signed by over a quarter of a million people. Plans are to present it to the Quebec Assembly in March. An intensive effort is now under way to collect as many more signatures as possible in the remaining weeks. Some areas have responded magnificently to [...]
Approximately 100 pro-lifers picketed Premier Peterson at the Liberal policy convention in Windsor on January 25. Unusual and even overwhelming support was offered by passers-by in Windsor. The picketers were cheered-on by most people as they were walking or driving by. In response the protesters distributed 1000 flyers which carried a copy of Premier Peterson’s promise to close the abortuary in Toronto [...]
A Stellarton, Nova Scotia, community worker was fired from her government-funded job after exposing the “radical lesbian feminist” policies of the Pictou County Women’s Centre. Judy Davidson, 39, designed a project to inform the public about all aspects of sexual abuse against women and children. Under the sponsorship of the Pictou County Women’s Centre, the project received government approval and a grant [...]
In the early morning hours of July 17, 1984, when John Carroll was told that his newborn daughter had Spina Bifida, he asked “What’s that?” Spina Bifida, one of the most common birth defects, involves the improper development of the spinal cord. This damage is done between 12 and 28 days after conception. A section of the back fails to close and [...]
New York - Feminist Betty Friedan believes that the feminist movement is suffering from paralysis. In a recent New York Times Magazine article excerpted in the Toronto Star (November 7, 1985), she demanded a re-commitment to the original aims. Among the ten focal points of the movement’s “second stage” – Friedman calls it – are pornography and abortion. Feminists, she says should [...]
On November 20, Toronto Judge Samuel Darragh imposed a $50 fine on Tom Brown, 48; his wife Barbara, 43; Annette McLoughlin, 24; Stephen Jalsevac, 38; and Antonio Canhoto, 45. He called the act of entering the clinic in order to make a citizen’s arrest a “charade”, on the grounds that none of the accused saw anyone performing an abortion. On the same [...]
Just about the most despised word among libertarians today is censorship. They equate it with fascism and other such vile terms. Why, the strong proponent of censorship is regarded as in reincarnation of old man Hitler himself. Especially are they riled when the subject of censorship is sex. Let a few seconds be deleted from a movie called The Tin Drum, or [...]
When I was at college, I didn’t major in history – I majored mostly in meals! But I do love to dabble in history, both ancient and modern and there is a great deal to be learned from just reading history. Wasn’t it the philosopher, George Santayana, who said, “Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to [...]