A new coalition for abortion on demand is organizing activities throughout the country to pressure Members of Parliament to vote against any restrictions. The announcement came at a news conference in Ottawa in October. Some 25 groups belong to the Coalition, a number of them tax supported. Among them are the following organizations: Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL), Quebec Coalition for [...]
How do you answer people who define the fetus as only a potential human being? S.J., Simcoe, Ont. Sir William Liley – the father of fetology – once said, in court, in answer tot his assertion: “Well first, it is a non-definition; it does not explain what a fetus is, it only tells us what they think it will become.” It is [...]
“All we want is an n even break,” said a spokesman for A&P. This was at a news conference announcing that his supermarket chain has joined Loblaws, Miracle, and Oshawa Group (IGA and Food City) to form something called the committee for Fair Shopping. The committee is going to lobby Ontario municipalities to permit supermarkets to open on Sundays. Their arguments: - [...]
I have long been concerned with the environment and have attempted to live in a reasonable ecologically conservative fashion for over twenty years now-since well before environmental issues became a chic cause. Granted, back then, we did not know about acid rain, the greenhouse effect, holes in the ozone layer, chlorofluorocarbons , vanishing tropical rain forests, and overflowing garbage dumps. Back then, [...]
Ottawa Planned Parenthood federation of Canada [PPLC] is demanding that the government “immediately develop and implement a comprehensive and preventive policy.” PP president Norman Barwin, M.D., released a policy paper on September 19 urging Ottawa to “protect the reproductive freedom of Canadians.” Planned Parenthood of Canada” Planned Parenthood of Canada strongly supports abortion on demand, but claims that “more education” about sex [...]
Ontario’s First Choice TV plans to show The Last Temptation of Christ in November. The film is a blatantly sacrilegious film in which Christ is portrayed as a wimp and Judas as a strong, dominating character. It will be shown at least three or four times during November, but not consecutively, according to a spokesperson with the pay TV firm. No specific [...]
Members of parliament have no choice but to vote for a law which protects life from the time of conception till natural death, and this for two reasons. The first is the feeble, nay hopeless position of the so-called pro-choice faction. Disguised as true liberty and progress, the feminist “solution” to individual and communal concerns is nihilistic, as killing new life must [...]
The pro-life battle for civil rights continues unabated. Cambridge, Ontario On September 11, 1989, Madame Justice Mable Van Camp granted lead of appeal to Cambridge Right to Life with respect to the injunction prohibiting picketing of the office of 2 abortionists. (see The Interim, September 1989, page 14) One of 2 doctors has announces he is leaving for New Mexico. Meanwhile, the [...]
On October 5, the 76 pro-lifers on trial in Toronto were given a suspended sentence and one year probation to stay away 500 feet from 85 Harbord St. The Interim’s Dr. David Dooley attended the trial and here presents an analysis of the argumentation and judgments. Elsewhere I this issue there is another account of the trial by the Interim’s reporter Frank [...]
Since August 27 hundreds of men, women and children have gathered each Sunday evening to keep a prayerful, candlelight vigil outside Toronto jails holding the Christian men and women who stay there rather than promise not to try to prevent the deaths of preborn children. Two women and ten men – including two Roman Catholic priests, Frs. Ted Colleton and Giovanni Battaglini [...]
Stephen Bohus Number of Reported Abortions Province Ontario 32,619 Quebec 24,053 British Columbia 10,525* Alberta 5,898 Manitoba 3,027* Saskatchewan 1,233* Nova Scotia 1,746 New Brunswick 373* Newfoundland 433 PEI 6 NWT 373** Yukon 139** Total 80,435 *87/88 financial year data **projected from 86 figures from Statistics Canada Notes: The statistical figures were obtained from [...]
At the end of May, a high school in Qualicum Beach, B.C., announced that it hoped to introduce condom vending machines in its washrooms. “Condoms are not for birth control,” said a teacher. “It’s a health issue. We have to face reality.” A few days later, the Toronto Star reported that Toronto high school students may also be able to buy condoms [...]
New Democratic MLA Tom Perry is distributing a 60-second film on AIDS and safe sex. It was commissioned by the provincial health ministry but withheld after Premier William Vander Zalm denounced it as an ad for condoms. Dr. Perry, a physician said “it is not wimpish or nerd-like to protect yourself against AIDS.” Greg Layne, a “gay man” infected with AIDS through [...]
The following is a critique of an article in Consumer’s Report, March 1989. Statement: “Under a scanning electron microscope at 30,000 power, the surface of a latex condom appears somewhat bumpy but shows no pores.” Rebuttal: The bumps are the pores! What would you expect to see – the Grand Canyon? If latex doesn’t have pores, how could it stretch? If it [...]
We cannot escape the truth that AIDS is both a moral issue and a public health issue. We are now into an epidemic of venereal diseases including AIDS which is escalating at unprecedented levels and rapidity. (Times-Colonist, June 27, 1989) The only way we can protect our young people is to instruct them that chastity before marriage and fidelity in marriage to [...]