Since the Supreme Court judgment of January 28, attention has turned to what kind of legislation the federal government might provide to regulate abortion. The judgment acknowledges that some form of protection for the preborn is warranted and the signs point towards legislation based on a “gestational age” approach. That is, a law based on the argument that a child in the [...]
Prince Edward Island – Abolishing the TAC at Prince County Hospital in 1986 almost killed our pro-life movement. Exhausted, and concerned about neglecting their own families, leaders of the six-year battle re-tired. Woefully ill-informed about the issues and national and global trends, cinfident that abortion had been `vanquished here forever, many of their followers did likewise. Only a valiant few carried the [...]
Some Toronto area hospitals are forcing nurses to perform abortions. At a press conference called on February 16, by Nurses for Life, spokeswoman Kathleen Winarski and Helen McGee detailed the situation of nurses who face discrimination or loss of employment for refusing to assist with abortions. In a letter released to the press, Margaret Madill, President of Nurses for Life called upon [...]
In the Catholic Register (January 23, 1988) there appears an article by Joanne Sisto under the heading, “Covenant House takes to the streets.” It tells a heroic story about the work of the Covenant house staff, who take to “the streets” six days a week in a 27-foot mobile home and contact the homeless, friendless, unloved young people who frequent the “jungle” [...]
Ontario Premier Peterson has called a by-election in London –North for March 31. Running for the family Coalition Party ( FCP) is Brenda Rowe. The FCP promises to end the attacks on the family such as administrative and legislative support for abortion, surrogate mothers, in vitro experimentation on embryos, legal equality for common-law marriages, protection of homosexual activity and taxation policies hostile [...]
Internal personality and philosophical conflicts between board members of REAL Women of Canada that have been simmering over the past several years finally came to a head in Toronto on February 20. A stormy annual general meeting in the Royal York Hotel climaxed with the resignation of newly re-elected president Lynne Scime and two other board members who announced the next day [...]
A public poll commissioned by the Toronto Star showed that, abortion on demand supporters are losing influence, while those who demand full protection from conception are growing in strength. Abortion on Demand Protection From Conception 1978(Gallup) 16 per cent 14 per cent 1883(Gallup) 23 per cent 17 per cent 1984( Newsweek)U.S. 21 per cent 21 per cent 1988(Star) 10 per cent 22 [...]
Canadians are being urged to demand a strong new law to prohibit abortion at any stage, Cardinal Carter told Prime Minister Mulroney in a letter dated February 29, 1988. In a strongly worded letter, endorsed by a range of officials including the president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Emmett Cardinal Carter told Ottawa that “ permanent legislation… must be introduced [...]
Provincial announcements concerning abortion have been coming almost daily since the Supreme Court judgment of January 28. The information given below is correct as of February 29. British Columbia Premier William Vander Zalm has announced that the province will only pay for abortion if it is necessary to save the life of the mother. No exceptions will be allowed for rape, incest [...]