A visit with Laura McArthur and Helen Slattery is an informative and amusing experience. Both are devoted grandmothers. In manner, each is straight talking, street-wise, warm and witty. In spirit each is generous to a fault. Theirs is a story of loving and protecting endangered unborn babies, and of looking after their vulnerable mothers. It is the story of two pro-life guardian [...]
The media will give pro-lifers a fair shake if they just produce better press releases, try to understand the difficulties, under which the average reporter works, don’t lie, and assume that news people are honest and reasonable unless proven otherwise. So runs an article in the August/September 1989 issue of About Issues, the American Life League’s excellent magazine as reported by Arthur [...]
An activist is one who acknowledges the truth of Edmund Burke’s famous quotation, “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” If you want to do something for pro-life or other worthy causes but don’t know where to begin, read on. I write out of my own context, that of a parent in the educational [...]
On October 10, York South Right to Life wrote to the Canadian Judicial Council, arguing that Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, has been placed “in a position incompatible with the due execution” of her office as a Supreme Court Justice The Right to Life group cited tow grounds: - In 1982 she accepted an award from a radical feminist organization, the National Action [...]
The Fast for Life, on Parliament Hill that Fr. Tony Van Hee of Guelph and Kurt Gayle of Toronto began September 27 continues. Each day from morning to night in any kind of weather, the fasters and their supporters are in place directly opposite the members’ door to the House of Commons. The position is ideal. MP’s entering or leaving the House [...]
. Build self-esteem—masturbate, fornicate, sodomize and condomize! This was the theme for 800 school teachers and public health nurses attending the eleventh Annual Guelph Conference on Human Sexuality, June 19—21 1989. Before relating some of the outright obscenities of the conference, a little background information on those responsible and those financing the destruction of our present and future generations. The conference was [...]
Toronto. “We feel the fetus is completely and utterly unprotected by the new law,” stated Dr. Paul Ranalli, at a weekend conference November 5. Ranalli, a Toronto neurologist, acted as a spokesman for 1600 member Physicians for Life, together with Dr. Williard Johnston of Vancouver, and Dr. Colin Merry of Winnipeg. Physicians for Life, he said, disagree with the Canadian Medical Association’s [...]
Is there any connection between the Titanic tragedy and the abortion tragedy? Is there sad, ironic similarity between the cruel unfair and sudden death of hundreds of innocent victims in the Titanic sinking and the cruel, unfair and sudden death of thirteen babies in the Halifax abortion clinic of Henry Morgentaler? A group of Halifax pro-lifers feel there is an obvious heart-breaking [...]
How do we reply when people say that a law banning abortions would mean going back to sleazy back-alley abortions and the deaths of thousands of women? D.E. Langley, B.C. This is the old wire coat hanger myth of the pro-abortionists. Dr. Bernard Nathanson has told the world, many times that he and the other founders of the National Association for the [...]
November 1 Henry Morgentaler pleaded not guilty to committing seven abortions in his free standing Halifax “clinic.” He violated a Nova Scotia law restricting the killing of the unborn to hospitals only. A provincial court judge set March 5 for trial. The next day the abortionist committed six more abortions. Media coverage was national in scope. November 3 The Nova Scotia government [...]
The Interim spoke with Margaret Purcell, Vice-President of Campaign Life Coalition, on the response and plans of Campaign life to the abortion bill tabled by the Mulroney government. What is the stand of Campaign Life Coalition on the new bill? Campaign Life Coalition regards the proposed legislation as being totally pro-abortion. There is nothing of a compromise nature in the legislation and [...]
Ottawa. The health standards of bill C-43 “are so subjective and vague” states Bishop Robert Lebel, president of the Canadian Conference of the Catholic Bishops (CCCB), in a terse statement “as to be practically meaningless.” “The absence of any mechanism for confirming that the health standard has been met makes abortion almost a private matter. The effect risks being the totally unacceptable [...]
Baltimore. American bishops have called upon all Catholics, including politicians, to shun “pro-choice” positions. According to the Steubenville Register (November 10) the American bishops passed a resolution on November 7, stating that “No Catholic can responsibly take a “pro-choice” stand when the “choice” in questioning involves the taking of innocent human life.” The bishops urged “public officials, especially Catholics, to advance these [...]
Toronto. Catholics Active for Life have rebuked Prime Minister Brian Mulroney Minister Don Mazankowski, and External Affairs Minister Joe Clark as Catholics unworthy of the name. Their support of the new abortion-for-any-reason bill introduced in the House of Commons on November 3, is utterly shameful and a disgrace to all Canadian Catholics, said Father Alphonse de Valk, president of Catholics Active for [...]
How Ottawa would amend the wording of Criminal Code On Friday, November 3, 1989, Justice Minister Doug Lewis introduced a bill that would regulate abortion in Canada. Following is a partial text of the proposed amendment to the Criminal Code: Sections 287 and 288 of the Criminal Code are repealed and the following substituted therefore: Every person who induces an abortion on [...]