On Thursday, December 15, 1988, at six o’clock in the morning, Operation Rescue went into action at Everywoman’s Health Clinic at 44th and Victoria Street. Goal: to shut down, if only for a few hours, Vancouver’ free-standing abortuary opened the previous month. More than six hours later abortuary personnel were ready to resume executions after police had removed 69 protestors blocking the [...]
The Interim The time is April, 1988. Three months have passed since the Supreme Court struck down the 20-year old federal law on abortion. In Great Britain, surgeons implant cells from an aborted baby in the brain of patient with Parkinson’s disease. In the U.S., Milwaukee pro-lifers discover that a crematorium at a pet cemetery is being used to incinerate aborted children. [...]
P.C. David Packer’s appeal against his dismissal from the Metro Toronto police force for refusing to guard the Morgentaler clinic was heard by the Board of Police Commissioners on December 19 and 10, 1988. Defence lawyer Harry Black relied heavily on labour law concerning the relations between employers and employees, to try to show that his client did not act unreasonably. When [...]