The July 4 issue of Time magazine reports that a number of liberal Protestant groups in the United States are having second thoughts about abortion. In 1958, the American Baptist Convention officially sanctioned abortions during the first three months of pregnancy “at the request of the individual.” Later it became a charter member of the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, a pro-choice [...]
I wanted to take a moment to introduce you all to my new grandson Zachary. You are probably wondering hwy he would be so special and, friends, it is because he wasn’t supposed to be. Zack was supposed to be an abortion and you can’t imagine how my heart overflows every time I lift him into my arms. His mom is a [...]
Pro-life leaders from across Canada met in Sharon, just north of Toronto from December 2-4, 1988, for Campaign Life Coalition’s Annual Strategy Meeting. There were representatives from eight of the ten provinces. With a large contingent from Nova Scotia; only Newfoundland and New Brunswick were missing. The meeting was a golden opportunity for “reckoning and learning” for it was held in the [...]
Moncton, N.B. – David Little, President of the Catholics Foundation for Human Life, and Rev. Charles Mersereau, former Navy Chaplain, visited the Moncton Hospital on December 16, 1988, entered an operating room in which abortions are done, and set up a manger on the abortion table with a Christ Child in it. Little said the protest was held so that he could [...]
Evangelical Christians shared their concerns with Ontario pro-lifers at the second annual all-Ontario Pro-life Conference held in Barrie, Ontario, November 18-19, 1988. Hosted by the Right to Life Association of Simcoe County, the two-day event had as its theme, “God has an Army.” One hundred and thirty pro-lifers attended the event to hear an array of speakers including Rev. Hudson Hilsden of [...]
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) Board of Directors approved the following three paragraphs at its meeting on May 21, 1988: “Induced abortion is the active termination of a pregnancy prior to fetal viability. (Viability is understood to be the ability of the fetus to survive independently of the maternal environment. According to current medical knowledge, viability is dependent on fetal weight, degree [...]
Denyse O’Leary, ed. “No Easy Answers” Burlington, Ontario, Welch Publishing Co., 1988. 165pp. Can abortion be viewed as a necessary service for women? Pro-life organizations, of course, oppose this view; and in support they can point to the serious physical and psychological damage abortion may cause. In the last two essays in this collection, Mary Parthun and Anne Kiss describe the evidence [...]
During an amniocentesis test, a small sample of amniotic fluid surrounding the fetus of a pregnant woman is extracted by a needle inserted through the abdomen into the uterus. The fluid is used for a variety of tests that can determine the sex of the child, the state of development, and the presence of various abnormalities Intended to help plan for medical [...]
In December 1988, Mr. Justice Alex Campbell of Prince Edward Island Supreme Court awarded over $3 million in damages to Heather and Gordon Rayner for the care of their seriously handicapped son, Aaron. It is the largest personal injury award in the history of the province. The judgment took the Island community by surprise for there had been no advance publicity. “We [...]
Both Alliance for Life and Campaign Life Coalition have hired new Ottawa staff members to continue a pro-life presence in Ottawa. Nancy Jahn, Alliance for Life’s new Federal Liaison Officer was vice-president of the pro-life group in Arnprior, just west of Ottawa. She has several years’ experience on Parliament Hill as both secretary and assistant to Members of Parliament. The liaison officer [...]
Vancouver was the setting for the second Canadian Operation Rescue. On December 15, more than 100 rescuers blocked the entrances to the Everywoman’s Health Clinic, Vancouver’s first freestanding abortuary recently opened at 44th and Victoria Drive. The rescuers followed the now standard practice of every Operation Rescue: they blocked the three entrances to the abortuary and then passed the time quietly in [...]
While researching the euthanasia issue recently, I came across an article, now forty years old, that deserves widespread consideration even today. Called “Medical Science under Dictatorship,” it was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in July 1949. Written by psychiatrist Leo Alexander, the article discussed the atrocities committed in Germany during World War II and how Nazi propagandists manipulated public [...]
Scarborough, Ontario – The General Hospital in Scarborough, Ontario, a Toronto suburb, may be committing abortions soon. At one time the hospital was administered by the Sisters of Misericordia who saw to it that the killing of pre-born babies was not a part of “medical treatment.” When the Sisters left, the hospital continued the policy as before. Recently, however, a Dr. R.N. [...]
I am a single male, aged 29. This statement may be irrelevant on its own and may not even relate to the issue of abortion at all. However, one must consider that as a single male (or as a male at all), I am one part of the equation which states: one male plus one female plus one intimate evening equals a [...]
It is impossible to open a newspaper any day without being disturbed by the “news.” It may be the report of an earthquake, a flood or some other disaster. Those which disturb us most are the tragedies caused by deliberate and hateful human action. The most recent, of course, is the air crash in Scotland. But the item of news which disturbed [...]