On Black Thursday (January 28) while picketing in front of Rev. Ken Campbell’s Way Inn on Harbord Street, a number of thoughts raced through my mind. I will share them with you now, knowing full well that they have been expressed more eloquently before, but in the expectation that somebody will read them here for the first time. I reflected on the [...]
Preachers and politicians got together at a pro-life rally and it was something to see. “Any church that calls itself Christian and doesn’t have a sermon against abortion this Sunday doesn’t deserve to be called Christian!” charged Rev. Ken Campbell, Baptist minister and founder of Choose Life Canada. Rev. Campbell said this to an enthusiastic crowd of 1,500 at the Queensway Cathedral [...]
In Calgary this year, pro-lifers will take their battle for the preborn to the courts. Within a two-week period in January, Michael Malley, President of Campaign Life Calgary and an indefatigable defender of pre-born children for many years, initiated statements of claim in the Court of Queen’s Bench against what he calls the “abortion establishment” in that city. Last fall, Malley won [...]
In 1980, the National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI) was established “to procure human tissues and organs for bio-medical research.” Operating from a central facility at Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia, the NDRI processes tissue shipped to it from across the U.S., and then delivers “fresh tissue to researchers.” A variety of sources supply human tissue to the NDRI, including “seven clinics that supply [...]
On February 12, 1988, the eve of the eve of St. Valentine, the patron saint of love, Global TV aired what was billed as a “debate” on abortion, reporter Richard Brown acting as M.C. The pro-life side is easily summarized Rev. Ken Campbell said that compromising one human life was an attack on all human life, and lawyer Angela Costigan said similarly [...]
Did the January 28, 1988 Supreme Court decision grant Canadian women the “right” to abortion? Despite newspaper headlines and first impressions, it did not. Only one of the seven judges, Mme Justice Wilson, argued the case for every woman’s right to kill her pre-born baby. The others rejected this idea outright or based their decisions on different grounds. One must understand that [...]
Mr. Justice Beetz in his concurring opinion on the Morgentaler case before the Supreme Court compared the views of Justice Sandra O’Connor, of the U.S. Supreme Court, with those of Madam Justice Bertha Wilson of the Canadian Supreme Court. The argument at issue relates to the question when the state’s interest to protect the foetus would become compelling. O’Connor Justice O’Connor, who [...]
The January 28,1988 decision of the Supreme Court has thrown the issue of abortion back into the lap of Parliament. What did the Supreme Court say? What are Mps to do? How should they face legislation? Q. Why did the Supreme Court rule that the abortion law ( section 251 of the Criminal Code) contravened the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? A [...]
The Edmonton Court house was the scene of a massive pro-life demonstration on the afternoon of Saturday, February6, 1988, just ten days after the Supreme Court decision declaring S.251 of the Criminal Code unconstitutional. Undeterred by- 15 temperatures and a stiff, northerly breeze, n estimated crowd of between 1,500 and 2,000 people from all over Alberta marched round, totally encircling the city [...]
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 [...]