If Ontario Premier David Peterson’s Liberal government presses ahead with its proposed Independent Health Facilities Act, also known as Bill 147, the number of abortuaries could multiply across Ontario. But abortionist Henry Morgentaler, whose 20-year total of murdered preborn human beings approches 50,000 want abortuaries exempt from the penalties of the proposed law. Under the provisions of Bill 147, the Health Minister [...]
Statement to the Government of Canada from Ontario Pro-Life Clergy Council Text is as follows: “On January 28th, 1988 the Supreme Court of Canada struck down Canada’s abortion law. Since then Canada has been without any restrictions on abortion – a distinction we share with only Communist China. We expect Parliament to enact abortion legislation which will protect all unborn children without [...]
Magistrates across the country are fining and jailing pro-lifers who defy court injunctions. In Vancouver, Judge John Bouck handed out sentences of six months jail on July 14. In Calgary, on September 5, Judge Ernest Hutchinson fined one pro-lifer $500 payable in 15 days, or six months in jail. In Toronto, Judge A.E. Charlton imposed a $750 fine, payable in 60 days, [...]
On August 11, following the court rulings on the Barbara Dodd and Chantal Daigle cases, the President of the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops, James Hayes, Archbishop of Halifax, sent the following one-liner to Prime Minister Mulroney: “The events of the summer demonstrate clearly that the federal government must assume its responsibility and introduce legislation which will effectively protect the right to [...]
The movement is called Operation Rescue. It acts on the Biblical injunction, “Rescue those unjustly sentenced to death” (Proverbs 24:11). Rescuers prevent the killing of unborn children by sitting in large numbers in front of the doors of an abortuary, preventing the entry of employees and clients. Some of the Rescuers get arrested – those who refuse to budge if the police [...]
Calgary Three men and three women say their sentence is a clear example of the double standard now prevailing in the justice system. On Tuesday, September 5, 1989, Justice Ernest Hutchinson sentenced Michael Malley to pay a $500 fine or, in default, spend six months in jail for disobeying an injunction prohibiting pro-lifers from protesting at the Peter Lougheed Centre. The other [...]
Toronto Two priests and a bus driver say they would rather go to jail than pay a $750 fine for protesting outside the Morgentaler “clinic”. Judge A. E. Carlton described the men as “pillars of the community” but said the “severe” penalty was justified. “If they decided that the law is not to their liking, then they have to stand the consequences,” [...]
On August 25, Joe Bissonnette, a 26-year-old teacher and pro-life activist, told Toronto Provincial Court Judge Sydney Harris that he would not pay “a dime” of the $400 he was fined for “trespassing” at Morgentaler’s abortuary in May. Mr. Bissonnette, wearing a T-shirt which compared slavery to abortion, said outside the courtroom, “If I were to pay the fine, I would be [...]
“Campaign Life Coalition has been working since January 1988 to get a full protection law,” said Jim Hughes, president of pro-life political arm. “Pro-lifers on the grassroots level are asked to intensify their efforts to make their MP aware that we will accept nothing less than full protection.” Hughes was speaking at a Campaign Life Coalition, all-day provincial strategy session at the [...]
On August 23, 1989, a grandmother of 80 years, a 76-year old priest and 11 youths under 18 were among 91 people arrested for peacefully blocking access to the Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary. What made that sweet grandma and others face criminal charges? Criminal charges for a sit-in? Yes! What was trespass has been, since May 5, contempt of an Ontario Supreme Court [...]
After five days of argument, the B.C. Industrial Relations Council decided to exempt two Catholic teachers, Nancy and Justin Wasilifsky, from membership in the North Vancouver Teachers’ Association and the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. They objected to union policy statements supporting Planned Parenthood and abortion. The IRE stated: “If the depth of an individual’s religious beliefs has a profound impact on the way [...]
According to a confidential source at the Greater Niagara General Hospital in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in mid-July a 16-to-18-week-old baby girl weighing one-half pound received no care and died two hours after birth. The mother did not want to see her baby. Hospital staff were advised that a death certificate had been issued and that the infant was buried from Henry’s Funeral [...]
Our family goes on holiday the last two weeks in August. We go to a cottage where we have no television, a radio that strangely only plays classical music, and my newspaper addiction is restricted to the Ottawa Citizen. It was a shock to return home on Labour Day weekend to find that friends had been in jail in Toronto for over [...]
Frank Mountain is going back to school this fall to teach history and religion to his grade eight kids at Frank Ryan Senior Elementary School in Ottawa. After 33 years of teaching full-time, he’ll mornings only this year because of his new way of life. He’s in a wheelchair now, the result of a serious car accident on June 5, 1988, when [...]
Introduction One of the reasons why people believe in abortion is that they think that it is necessary to control population growth. In Newsletter No. 25 I sought to show that population growth is not in fact responsible for the problems attributed to it. Policies of population control will not only solve these problems; in many cases they will make them worse. [...]