We have spoken on six previous occasions about the demands of respect for life. The teaching stands unchanged. We wish to speak once more, and with particular emphasis this time on the enduring love that should animate all efforts to assure that every human life will be respected and protected. Respect for every human life is, without doubt, a crucial test of [...]
At the March 1st Pro Vita Seminar, Pope John Paul II reminded members of the International Right-To-Life Federation to “be transformed by the renewal of your mind” in contesting against the current anti-life mentality. * * * * Dear Friends: I am pleased to welcome you to the Vatican as participants in the seminar sponsored by the International Right-To-Life Federation. You have [...]
Recently Pope John Paul II and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) expressed support for the pro-life movement. The statements are presented here side by side, readers may want to compare them. The CCCB statement expresses the desire to emphasize the love needed to promote respect for life. Without mentioning the pro-life movement by name, it recognizes its three-fold division of [...]
Steven Mosher was the first Western anthropologist ever permitted to live for a year in a Chinese village to study rural life. After leaving China, he published a series of articles and two books (Broken Earth and Journey to the Forbidden China) exposing the government’s policy of forced abortion, infanticide and sterilization, euphemistically known as “voluntary family planning.” At the time he [...]
Steven Mosher was one of the first American scholars allowed to study in China when the U.S. government established diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic in 1979. He was the only academic permitted to live in a Southern China village for a year to study the lives of the rural Chinese. His discoveries and observations are published below, taken from an edited [...]
He pro-life, pro-family organization, Realwomen of Canada, (realistic, equal, active, for life) has been bitterly attacked by the feminists in the past few months. Why? Because it dares to put forward a different approach for the advancement and equality of women. Also, it has dared to apply for grants to the Secretary of State, Women’s Programme, which has been lavishly underwriting the [...]
Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed a change on our front page this month: we have added “pro-family” to our slogan “Canada’s pro-life newspaper.” Although it’s an awkward mouthful, and one that is not really necessary since all the life issues we deal with are family issues in one way or another, we have made the change to help those who are concerned [...]
In its issue of April 28, under the above title, the Globe and Mail published a scathing editorial attacking the Pro-life people who picketed outside the home of one of the doctors who performs abortions at the Morgentaler Clinic. The editorial is characterized by pejorative language and lack of veracity. That the Globe should take this position is far from surprising. A [...]
Pro-life people, both in and out of Parliament, are helping to keep the abortion issue before the House of Commons, by petitions, by statements and questions in the House, and by Private Member’s Bills. Petitions From the end of February in the beginning of May 19, MPs have presented a total of 30 petitions which are recorded in Hansard. These petitions ask [...]
The recommendations of the jury were as follows: In view of the fact that Amniotic Fluid Embolism “is a rare occurrence and has been described as the most dangerous and untreatable condition in obstetrics,” it is the opinion of this Jury that responsible Government, Medical, and Private Associations be encouraged to undertake meaningful and continuing research into the problem, and the results [...]
Pro-lifers across Canada took to the streets on several occasions in May. In addition to the traditional Mother’s Day rallies on May 11, hospital vigils were held on May 14. The May 14 evening demonstrations were co-ordinated by Alliance for Life, the umbrella organization of the pro-life education movement. Pro-lifers from British Columbia to Newfoundland picketed abortion-providing hospitals to mark the anniversary [...]
Campaign Life organizer Stephen Jalsevac has made a formal complaint to the Ontario Press Council regarding a Globe and Mail article of April 29. The article and editorial, published two weeks after the event, concerned the home picket of abortionist Nikki Colodny. Mr. Jalsevac pointed out several falsehoods and distortions in the April 28 article. The most serious concerned a brief, isolated [...]
Have you ever wondered why the true Christian never seems to achieve any changes within the existing political parties to bring about a return of Biblical morality to the Canadian Government? Have you ever wondered why we are getting the same kind of government from the Conservatives that we had under the Liberals – and the NDP is saying the same things [...]
Part Three: Catholic Theology This is the third part in a series on the Churches and pro-life issues. Part One on The United Church appeared in the April 1986 issue and Part Two, covering the Anglicans, in the May edition. Two related articles, “Pro-abortion Catholics?” and “Pro-abortion feminists and nuns” appeared respectively in the February and May editions. Two introductory articles to [...]
Father Paul Marx, Catholic Priest and founder of Human Life International, reports the following item in a report printed as an advertisement in the American weekly The Wanderer (April 10, 1986): Early in 1985, in Ottawa, Canada, a radio talk show host, Lowell Green, had me on his popular three-hour program on station CFRA. I was out to expose the evils of [...]