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 [...]
The Alberta Federation of Women United for Families (AFWUF) held its fourth annual convention in Red Deer in early November. The convention attracted 150 women (and some men) from across Alberta. A much appreciated aspect of the convention was the free babysitting service offered. AFWUF arranged with the local church youth group to have babysitting provided to mothers with young children. The [...]
New Year’s resolve Often, New Year’s resolutions are broken almost as soon as they are made. This year, the pro-life movement needs solid commitments from supporters – the kind of commitment that is followed faithfully all year long. The need, both for financial support and for active volunteers, has never been greater. Everyone has talents that can be put to good use. [...]
About 50 pro-life demonstrators showed up in front of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver on Tuesday, December 10, reported the Vancouver Sun on December 11. (30, according to the Province). The demonstration was directed against Ontario Premier David Peterson, on his first visit to B.C. Walter Szetela, spokesman for Campaign Life’s B.C. chapter, said he was pleasantly surprised by the turnout: [...]
The following is my account of two pregnant women who were persuaded to turn away from Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary, as well as an account of an abortion aftermath in a hospital. All three stories are true and all took place in November 1985. In early November, a young couple heading toward the Morgentaler abortuary, were approached by a picketer-counsellor who persuaded them [...]
“That location was opened for only one purpose – to flout the law,” said Jude Di Cecco (pronounced ‘checko’) referring to the Morgentaler Toronto abortuary in the trial of three clergymen on December 9. He went on to say that abortion is “…still a serious breach of the Criminal Code carrying a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.” The three clergy, Rev. Alphonse [...]