“It’s the biggest pro-life project ever undertaken in Canada,” said Ken Post, the Executive Producer of ‘Feel the Heartbeat’, a telethon special to be broadcast in April of next year. Months of preparation have already gone into it. The mammoth telethon is aimed at the 16 to 24 age group but will have broad appeal for all. It will seek to present [...]
“If pro-abortionists were in power in Canada at the time I was born,” said Rev. Bernice Gerard, MA, “I wouldn’t have been.” Her mother had been institutionalized in a psychiatric institute for 40 years. Today, a pregnant woman in such circumstances would be a prime candidate for abortion. Fortunately for Rev. Gerard, her father and the authorities at the time held more [...]
The results of the recent provincial election in Ontario must have given cold comfort indeed to Ed Broadbent and the federal New Democratic Party. While achieving official opposition status at Queen’s Park and successfully resisting the Liberal tidal-wave in terms of popular vote, the Ontario NDP failed to capture the imagination of the uncommitted, of disaffected “Red Tories,” or of left-wing Liberals. [...]
During and after every election Campaign Life Coalalition finds itself the subject of attack. The recent Ontario election was no exception, when our detractors included two Catholic priests. They wrote to complain about our tactics and one of them suggested that we were “abrasive and self-riteous” Well that’s not the stuff that swelled heads are made of and so we took a [...]
Honestly, if you didn’t know better, you might begin to wonder: just whose side is the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on anyway? First, Gus Mitges gets a pro-life motion over all the hurdles and actually before the House of Commons for a vote. Next. Gus Mitges gets a pro-life motion over all the hurdles and actually before the House of Commons [...]
Commentators such as the distinguished Canadian thinker, George Grant, have noted that it is difficult today to know what to do, in terms of practical politics, about stopping the current epidemic of abortions. This is because of a decay, these authors assert, in the philosophical underpinnings of Western society that might be summarized in the phrase “the twilight of justice.” In view [...]
A bone-weary Pope John Paul II ended his U.S. tour in Detroit by saying that America’s greatness will be measured by its treatment of the “weakest and most defenceless ones, those as yet unborn.” “America, defend life!” he urged. The Pope raised the abortion issue in a farewell speech before he flew to Edmonton and Fort Simpson, Yukon. In every country he [...]
Vancouver Pro-Life Society President Betty Green was in Vernon just prior to the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Society Board elections to join other pro-life organizers in a massive advertising campaign to inform the public about abortion. “Education is the main thrust of the current campaign to precede the hospital board elections, and pro-life supporters want an anti-abortion board to remain in power,” said [...]
Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” of the Roe v. Wade decision, recently revealed that her challenge to state laws was based on a lie McCorvey now says she made up her story of becoming pregnant through being gang raped when she discovered that Texas only allows abortion when the life of the mother is at risk. In a television documentary aired in [...]
I have no problem with science as such. But I do, sometimes, have trouble with the scientists. Science has done wonderful things for us and for the world in general. Cars, radios, telephones, computers and aeroplanes are just a few of the tremendous benefits of science and the scientists who invented and developed them. Neither have I problems with most of the [...]
Despite strong criticism from parents and school trustees, the Archdiocese of Toronto has given the go-ahead to an AIDS education programme for grads 7 to 10. At the heated management committee meeting of the Metro Toronto Separate School Board in early October, several parents objected to the programme, saying it is “disturbing, deplorable and sickening,” that “there is nothing Catholic about it,” [...]
Carlton Johnson, a black baby boy, was born on September 12, 1982. he was found to have myelomenin-gocele (spina bifida) and hydrocephalus, and shortly after birth he was transferred to Oklahoma’s Children’s Memorial Hospital. There he became first a statistic and later a key player in what has become known in medical/legal history as the Oklahoma Experiment. The public first learned of [...]
Father Edward Markley, the Benedictine monk who was sentenced to five years in prison after he smashed suction equipment in an abortion facility in Birmingham, Alabama, has been released after serving only a little more than a year of the sentence. Scott Hauser, the director of Birmingham’s 1,000 for Life and Abortion Watch, told The Wanderer that local pro-lifers were “a little [...]
The Manitoba Committee on Unplanned Pregnancy was formed in June of 1985 and is a coalition of six organizations, all of whom support abortion, one of the most notable being Planned Parenthood Manitoba. The Committee, instituted to address the issue of adolescent unplanned pregnancies, developed a slick campaign, well-funded by the provincial government. Planned Parenthood was given $40,000 to establish a 24-hour [...]
Physiologist Dr. Thomas Shaffer, of the Temple University of Medicine, has developed an experimental breathing technique which may eventually be sued in neonatal units to keep premature newborns alive. The breathing technique, called Liquid Ventilation (LV), relies on fluid (fluorocarbon) instead of air to deliver oxygen to the lungs and remove carbon dioxide. It has given premature animals a chance to survive [...]