Abortion advocates often base their arguments for wider access to abortion on their belief that women have an explicit civil right to be free from any number of complications – physical, emotional, financial, etc – of an unwanted pregnancy. They tend to deny, or attempt to minimize, the many complications, physical and psychological, which frequently follow induced abortion. The Human Life Research [...]
Union dues, often compulsory for employees in industry, are being used for many purposes other than collective bargaining. These purposes include ideological warfare, often contrary to the views of those who pay the dues. They further include anti-family and anti-child policies such as abortion and homosexuality. On December 18, 1985, the Supreme Court of Ontario began hearings on a challenge to the [...]
Pro-Life activists in the U.S. have long believed that it’s important to know the strategies and attitudes of the other side. Joe Scheidler, director of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League and Andrew Scholberg, editor of Life and Family News of Collegeville, Minn., have attended the annual meetings of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) since 1979. In previous years, the two non-members of [...]
One day after the Lavigne hearing (see “Use of Union dues being challenged”) started before the Ontario Supreme Courts on December 18, 1985, an Ontario civil servant was granted partial exemption from paying union dues. On December 19, the Ontario Public Service Labour Relations Tribunal declared that Rose Marie MacLean falls under a religious exemption to that part of compulsory dues which [...]
Toronto - Shelly Peterson, wife of Ontario Premier David Peterson, told an audience of 500 high school girls that the role of motherhood has been unfairly “downplayed” and “downtrodden.” Peterson thought women today can have both happy families and successful careers and they don’t have to be “superwomen” to do it. She has been married to the Premier for twelve years while [...]
The Minister of Health, Jake Epp, has announced the establishment of a parliamentary task force on child-care. The enquiry will focus o the care of children in a broad context and will include consideration of the child-care needs of all children, not just whose with working parents. Announcing the task force in the House of Commons on November 26, Mr. Epp said [...]
Three days of hearings on an application by former Manitoba Highways Minister Joe Borowski to declare Canada’s abortion law invalid, concluded in Regina on December 18, 1985. The hearings were before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, which reserved judgment until later. Although a full complement of seven judges was originally considered for the case, second thoughts led to a hearing by three [...]
I write as a member of the Mennonite Community in respect to the problem of abortion. I have read the statements from various Mennonite Conferences, and will try to distil what appears to be a consensus of understandings on this very difficult moral and social issue. We believe that the family continues to be the basic unit of our society. The New [...]
A new national pro-life organization, LIBERTY (Living Infant Babies Everywhere, a Right of Tomorrow’s Youth), protested in front of Queen’s Park on Saturday, December 28, to call on Attorney General Ian Scott to enforce the abortion laws. Linda Gibbons, 37, the head of the new organization says she has the backing of more than 800 ministers and plans to build a $27,000 [...]
Women using Natural Family Planning can now buy a computerized device to help them keep trace of their fertility cycle. The Bioself 110, invented by Quebec resident Edmond Desjacques, is available in drug stores in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. The cost is $97. The Bioself, placed under the tongue, records the woman’s basal body temperature each morning when she wakes. Basal [...]
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 [...]