A new book entitled Infertility, a collection of essays edited by Renate D. Klein and published in England, maintains that the new reproductive technologies are in general failed technologies. They raise false hopes, she states; they expose women to serious medical dangers, and the estimates of their success rates are far lower than their practitioners claim. Clinics which have never sent a [...]
Did you know that it is possible today for a newborn child to have up to five parents? This is not some wild science-fiction fantasy but the practical application of modern artificial-reproduction technology. The child who has five parents has been affected by the techniques of artificial insemination, surrogacy and embryo transfer before birth. First, there is the sperm donor, who is [...]
The February 7, 1989 Rescue in Vancouver inevitably led the media to consult the academics, principally, to contradict the pro-lifers. The Globe and Mail printed an attach by retired religious studies professor Leslie Dewart entitled “Uncivil disobedience” (March 24), while earlier The Vancouver Sun had consulted Charles Anderson, Professor of Ethics at the Vancouver School of Theology, and Eike Kluge, a University [...]
After the Morgentaler decision of January 11988, Anglicans Primate Michael Peers appointed a committee of three to study the three issues surrounding rounding abortion and make recommendations concerning it: Phyils Creighton, a feminist who has favoured abortion for so-called compassionate reasons since 1966 when she authorized the report of the Anglicans Task Force ; Diane Marshall, assistance clinical director of an institute [...]
Prince Edward Island is the one Canadian province where in-hospital abortions are not available. The local chapter of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL), claims that this forces some 500 women a year to seek abortion outside the province. There is, of course, no way to check on their figures. But if they are accurate, our population will soon be decimated. [...]
On April 4, 1989, the following five defendants were sued for one million dollars by the operators of the Morgentaler abortuary in downtown Toronto: Denise Wiche, 32; Tom Brown, 52; Anne Packer, 39; Dan McCash, 42; Joe Bissonnette, 25. This unconscionable suit has shocked and dismayed the defendants, all ordinary people with financial as-sets. These Toronto Five are being singled out, sued [...]
I expect Stephen Lewis will be speaking at the Cardinal’s Dinner next year if the feel is right. Get your cheque books out, you pro-abortionist fans – Stephen Lewis doesn’t come cheap. His fee runs from $2500 to $5000 for a one-hour talk. I heard him speak at a foundation where I am on the advisory board and he had disappeared so [...]
The rescue movement is growing. Unmistakably. In both the numbers of people in participating, and perhaps most importantly in the determination of those people to persevere, the pro-life rescue movement is markedly more robust than it was only a year ago. This growth and strength are reflected by the number of rescues, the number of those risking arrest, and the numbers actually [...]
In our article on “Abortion teaching in Catholic Schools,” June 1989, page 21, paragraph 5, the OSSTA was erroneously identified as the Ontario Separate School Teachers Association. It should read Ontario Separate School Trustees Association.
On Saturday, June 24, in 30-degree heat, 1900 pro-lifers joined together in a prayer march to protest Henry Morgentaler’s abortion empire and its attack on the civil rights of Canadians. The march was sponsored by the newly-formed Ontario Pro-life Clergy Council, a coalition of Catholic and Evangelical clergy. It was called to protest Mongentaler’s court injunction against freedom of speech. Most Rev. [...]
While the Vancouver and Toronto public school boards consider putting condom vending machines in school washrooms and the Ottawa public board places birth control clinics on school premises, Montreal, the most cosmopolitan and sophisticated of all Canadian cities, has decided to tackle teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases in a whole new way with a program called PSI: Postponing Sexual Involvement. PSI [...]
Sign of the Cross: Greeting: Let us pray… Holy God, we praise you for your love for us, for sending us Jesus Your Son, and for giving us Mary as our spiritual Mother. We ask you to lead us by Your Holy Spirit so that we may continue to live as your holy family. We thank you for your unending strength and [...]
Recently someone had buttons made showing prison bars and the words “In jail for Jesus.” A priest saw the rather large button for the first time when a well-tattooed motorcycle rider came up for communion on Sunday morning. Afterwards he mused out loud that “another nutty group like the Baysiders of New York” must be getting started in the Church. Actually, the [...]
Organized feminist lobbying is widely credited as the moving force behind the federal government’s decision to organize a Royal Commission to examine the urgent ethical issues raised by artificial reproductive technology. While pro-life leaders are generally supportive of the idea of such a Commission, they are con-corned that the Commission could be manipulated to reflect only the feminist agenda, resulting in yet [...]
In the Washington Post (Feb. 26. 1989), Dr. Blake Kerr reported on China’s program of coerced abortion, sterilization and infanticide in Tibet. Dr. Kerr was in Tibet during the fall 1987 to help organize a U.S.-Tibet medical expedition. While there he met a woman who said that her baby had been killed by a lethal injection and that she herself had been [...]