On May 24, Moncton MP Dennis Cochrane was presented with a petition containing the names of almost 40 000 New Brunswickers who are asking their federal legislators to “protect, defend and respect” the rights of unborn children. We the vote on new abortion legislation slated soon, a delegation of New Brunswick Right to Life Association members submitted the petition to Cochrane in [...]
Regina – Through the treat of rain hung over the crowd walking from a local school to the Kiwanis Waterfal Park across the street from the constituency office of NDP MP, less Benjamin, 200 people enthusiastically joined in the third annual Walk-for-Life in Regina on Saturday morning, May 7. Sponsored by the Regina League for Human Life, the annual walk raised money [...]
Toronto, Ont. The Christian Heritage Party has over 10 000 paid up members all across Canada, most of them in Ontario. “No matter when the next federal election is called,” said Ed Vanwoudenberg, the national leader, on a visit to Toronto “we will have fifty candidates running and the majority of them in Ontario. We have to full-time organizers, one in the [...]
Toronto Henry Morgentaler expected 300 physicians to attend his conference on new abortion techniques. He got 39 – even though he dropped his fee from $750 to $350. The conference was held at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto the last weekend in May. A dozen pro-life demonstrators were out to protest. One of them, Dan McCash, said, “It’s a beautiful flop.” [...]
London – Dr. Steptoe, British pioneer of in vitro fertilization, died at age 74, on March 21. He was responsible for engineering the conception of the world’s first test tube baby, Louise Joy Brown. When criticized by the Roman Catholic Church, he responded, “I am not a wizard or a Frankenstein. All I want to do is help women whose child producing [...]
The educational TV programme “Feel the Heartbeat,” a one-hour pro-life production of Alliance for Life and all its many supporters, shown across Canada in March and April 1988, has 1870. “One of the chief accomplishments of the programme is proven by the incredibly large number of counselling calls we received. We reached a significant number of people who were not part of [...]
For quite some time I had been hearing the name of Joan Andrews. I knew she was in prison in the States because of her stand for life. But I have to admit that I did not take the trouble to find out much about her. She was just another one of those brave people who make me feel ashamed. It was [...]
The Quebec government has decided to tackle what Premier Robert Bourassa called the province’s “demographic deficit”. Families will be given tax breaks and cash incentives to have more children, but the true cause of Quebec’s demographic crisis – the state-sanctioned availability of abortion on demand – remains unadmitted and untouched. “I believe it is important to encourage Quebeckers to have larger families [...]
Between 4000 and 4500 people, police estimate, participated in the Grand Rassemblement Pour le Droit a la Vie (Great Rally for the Right to Life) on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City. The rally, organized by Coalition Pour la Vie under the leadership of Mme Lucille Lavoie-Gordon, drew pro-life groups from across the province of Quebec. Before the rally got underway, [...]
Popular Notion of Sex Humanae Vitae (On Human Life), an encyclical or papal letter to all the faithful was issued in 1968 by Pope Paul VI, who was pope during the years 1963 to 1978. It had been preceded by a papal letter summarizing traditional Christian teaching on marriage in 1930. But HV was the first challenge in post World War II [...]
Bishop John Sherlock of London was elected a vice-president during the CCC’s Triennial Assembly in Montreal during the second week of May, 1988. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops joined the Council as an associate member in May 1986, and Bishop Sherlock is its first Catholic officer. “Associate membership in the CCC,” said a news release, from the Canadian Conference of Catholic [...]
A recent political skirmish over late abortions in Britain brought out some attitudes that Canadian pro-life people can expect to face as our own battle continues. The British battle was over a private members’ bill, sponsored by backbench Liberal David Alton, which sought to reduce the upper-age limit for abortion from 28 weeks to 18. Abortion legislation based on gestational-age limits reflects [...]
The Abortion (Amendment Bill, designed to reduce the time limit for a legal abortion in Britain from 28 weeks to 18, was defeated in the in the House of Commons on May 6. The private member’s bill was “talked out” by its opponents. For the second time pro-abortionists have prevented a free debate in the H of C and once again Prime [...]
The vote was 28 in favor and 60 against. The bill would have required a pregnant woman seeking an abortion to be provided with information concerning the life of an unborn child; to be told of the risks that may result from an abortion; and be informed of the social services available to care for the child before the decision to abort [...]
The eyes of pro-life activists in small-town Canada are focused on Almonte, Ontario as the battle there intensifies over the local hospital’s recently instituted policy allowing abortions. Early in March the Almonte General Hospital Board decided at its monthly meeting that abortions could be performed at the hospital until the end of the first trimester of pregnancy. The decision was a direct [...]