Monthly Archives: February 1988

Covenant House Scandal

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2025-06-16T10:59:46-04:00February 14, 1988|Issues|

Canadian Churchman: “Punish Packer”

The national Anglican newspaper the Canadian Churchman, circulation 272,000, has called for the punishment of Constable David Packer.  Packer, the January 1988 editorial said, faces disciplinary action “for refusing to guard an illegal abortion clinic from pro-life picketers…” The editorial asserts that Constable Packer must be punished because he has refused “to provide protection to the people of Toronto” from “..threats and [...]

2009-07-14T08:07:28-04:00February 14, 1988|Issues|

Packer Punished

Before a standing-room only crowd of supporters and reporters, Constable David Packer, the police officer whom Mother Teresa called a hero for his courage toward the unborn child, was ordered to resign or face being fired from the Force he has so outstandingly served for the past ten years. Superintendent Bernard Nadeau, presiding over the hearing on January 26, provided a lengthy [...]

2009-07-14T08:07:07-04:00February 14, 1988|Abortion|

No Payment For Abortions!

B.C. Premier William Vander Zalm has decided his province will not pay for induced abortions.  Thus B.C. becomes the first province to affirm that the taxpayer should not be held responsible for abortion on demand. Liberal leader John Turner and NDP health critic Marion Dewar have called upon Health Minister Jake Epp to cut off federal health funding ($700 million) to punish [...]

2009-07-14T08:33:52-04:00February 14, 1988|Abortion|

Background to the case

The January 28 decision marks the end of a legal battle which began in November 1984, when a jury acquitted Henry Morgentaler, Leslie Smoling and Robert Scott, on charges of procuring illegal abortions at 85 Harbord Street in Toronto.  That acquittal was appealed by the Crown and, in October 1985, the Ontario Court of Appeal ordered a new trial on the same [...]

2009-07-14T08:05:14-04:00February 14, 1988|Abortion|

It Pays to Advertise

Individuals who consult the TV Times supplement in our local newspapers are evidently good targets for pro-life advertising.  At least that’s what Action Life Ottawa’s experience has shown over recent months.  The impact created by running the “shark ad” in late October prompted us to give it another run during the week between Christmas and New Year’s. One highly incensed caller was [...]

2009-07-14T08:32:00-04:00February 14, 1988|Issues|

Pro-life profiles – A continuing series of profiles of pro-life MPs Ross Belsher P.C. (Fraser Valley East)

Ross Belsher has been the Member of parliament for Fraser Valley East since the election of September 1984.  His British Columbia riding includes the cities of Chilliwack and Abbotsford. Before his election to parliament, Belsher was a retail manager with a particular interest in local Chambers of Commerce.  A committed Christian, he is a member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, [...]

2009-07-14T08:33:19-04:00February 14, 1988|Politics|

Royal Bank faces pro-life protest at Calgary Olympics

Alberta pro-lifers, angered at the Royal Bank’s refusal to cancel the $220,000 mortgage that the bank holds on Robert Scott’s illegal abortuary in Toronto, plan to protest the Royal Bank’s sponsorship of the 15th Winter Olympic Games in Calgary. “To sponsor both the Winter Olympics and the financing of an illegal abortion operation that contravenes the Criminal Code is a contradiction that [...]

2009-07-14T08:33:27-04:00February 14, 1988|Issues|

Caplan sit-in

This past December 21, members of Nurses for Life and Campaign Life Coalition armed with blown-up pictures of both unborn and aborted babies, staged a sit-in at the office of Elinor Caplan, Ontario Minister of Health.  The pro-lifers were there to protest the abortion clinic policies of the Peterson government.  Caplan did not emerge to speak to them, but while they occupied [...]

2009-07-14T08:32:14-04:00February 14, 1988|Activism, Pro-Life|

Killing boy & girls for not being girls & boys Aborting ‘wrong-sex’ children

A recent survey, conducted for the Australian Doctor, showed that a number of doctors in New South Wales openly admit that they have performed abortions because the pre-born baby was “the wrong sex.”  Margaret Tighe, Chairman of Right to Life Australia, called on the New South Wales Premier to seek prosecution of the doctors concerned. She stated: “Abortions are supposed to be [...]

2009-07-14T08:31:09-04:00February 14, 1988|Abortion, Bioethics, Society & Culture|
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