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 [...]
Although immediate media analysis of the Supreme Court judgment on the Morgentaler case claimed it a victory for women, ensuring abortion on demand, the judgment itself shows that the door has not been slammed shut on the pre-born. Indeed, the Justices write clearly that the state has an interest in prenatal life and that parliament has a right to enact legislation to [...]
Abortion is not a medical necessity and therefore should not be covered under provincial health insurance plans. This is stated in a brief to be presented to Health Minister Jake Epp by Alliance for Life and Campaign Life Coalition. The Brief is the first collaborative effort of its kind on the part of the two national organizations. The Interim has learned that [...]
The regulation of Sunday shopping in Ontario is now thoroughly muddled and likely to become more so. That is because Ontario Solicitor General Joan Smith has announced that instead of maintaining province-wide legislation, the government will hand the responsibility over to the municipalities. The pressure on municipalities to allow Sunday opening of all stores will be immense, if not irresistible, should a [...]
From the time Bill C-54 was introduced in the spring of 1987, Canadians have been subjected to one of the most massive and blatant disinformation campaigns ever carried out in their country. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Writer’s Union, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists and countless other group s have banded together to discredit – and misrepresent [...]
Michael Gross, the yuppie father and star of the hit TV show “Family Ties,” gives messages of support and encouragement in the hour-long telethon, Feel the Heartbeat, the production of which was completed in the last week of January. This half million dollar pro-life spectacular also features Catherine Swing, a former Miss Canada, who shares the pro-life messages of support and encouragement [...]
The United National Working Group which is drafting a new Convention on the Rights of the Child has approved a Preamble to the draft Convention which excludes reference to the child’s rights before birth. This difference from the existing UN document, a Declaration adopted in 1959, which includes in its preamble an acknowledgement of the child’s need for protection before birth. The [...]
Overview The course of events was as follows: In 1966 the CCCB announced that the Bishops would no longer object to the legal sale and distribution of contraceptives forbidden under Article 150, this despite the fact that the Catholic Church considered them an evil. They advised Catholics and other legislations that the question was really for them and not the Church to [...]
The previous article discussed the CCCB’s reluctance to face sexual-marital issues and its attitude toward the Mitges motion. Of central interest here is the justification provided by the two secretaries, namely that “there was the matter of the freedom of each Member of Parliament to make a personal decision about the motion; and the Bishops wished to safeguard their freedom of informed [...]
Canadian pro-life leaders have demanded a public apology from the Chairman of a Senate Committee which last summer identified pro-life groups a possible terrorist threat. The Report of the Senate Special Committee on Terrorism and the Public Safety identified “extreme elements of certain anti-abortion groups” in its listing of “those groups that have recently been, are currently viewed to be, or could [...]
Joan Andrews, 39, from Newark, Delaware, is a pro-life prisoner of conscience serving a harsh five-year sentence to “teach her a lesson,” for saving the lives of unborn children during a Rescue Mission in Pensacola, Florida, on March 26, 1986. The plan called for Joan and three other activists to enter a local abortuary and unplug the killing machines. Even though the [...]
Editor’s note: Bernard N. Nathanson, M.D., is the best known convert to the pro-life movement. He once directed the world’s largest abortion centre in New York City and killed about 10,000 unborn children himself. He was also co-founder of NARAL (now the National Abortion Rights Action League), and pushed for the legalization of abortion on demand. He is the author of Aborting [...]
Many Catholic parents in Toronto were relieved to hear that a letter from Cardinal Carter, to accompany the AIDS education package into the separate schools, would clarify the intent of the programme. Others, instinctively uneasy that young children were to be exposed to such a programme, were reassured to learn that they would be notified before the programme was introduced and that [...]