Cardinal Paul Gregoire of Montreal re-iterated the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion on August 15 in his homily on the Feast of the Assumption. The Cardinal made a direct reference to the recent events, which had drawn the attention of the entire province. Human life is the most precious gift which God has given us, said the Archbishop of Montreal. Yet “Many [...]
Two members of Life Savers Moncton, a New Brunswick-based pro-life group picketed the home of Premier Frank McKenna on August 6. Life Savers wants McKenna’s Liberal government to bar access to abortion, said the group’s spokesman Michel Arsenault.
The following resolution was adopted at the national convention in Chilliwack, B.C., July 8, 1989, of the educational (Alliance for Life) and political (Campaign Life Coalition) arms of pro-life. “The Canadian pro-life movement is united in its demand for an uncompromising abortion law which protects each Canadian unborn child from the time of conception. Following weekend meetings in Chilliwack, B.C, July 6-8, [...]
In the recent Webster decision, U.S Chief Justice Rehnquist noted that the key elements of the Roe frame-work-trimesters and viability-are not found in the Constitution or anywhere else one would expect o find them. There I no reason why the state’s interest in protecting human life should come into existence only at viability, he declared. Earlier, in the City of Akron case [...]
In their June 1989 response to the Law Reform Commission proposals, the Canadian Conferences of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) found much praise:- the definition of the fetus as a human being,- the recognition that abortion is not a private concern of the mother’s- the conviction that the fetus requires the protection of the criminal law. In view of this kind of awareness, the [...]
The Ontario government is determined to make abortions legally available in every Ontario city in separate “clinics.” Some 20 “clinics” exist already. A new bill-called the Independent Health Facilities Act-envisages total government control and total government funding for dozens of free-standing clinics “for proper women’s services.” as they are called. But providing and legalizing existing and new facilities at public expense for [...]
July 3 The U.S Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling in Webster vs. Missouri upholds important parts of a 1986 law in the State of Missouri, restricting access to abortion. It rules that states can prohibit public funding and the use of public facilities for abortions. It also directs that the states interest in protecting human life is not restricted only to [...]
“All they want is a dead baby,” said Greg Murphy, the day after Morgentaler aborted the 16-week-old unborn baby of his girlfriend Barbara Dodd. No Summary of what has gone on in Canada during the month of July seems more apt than this one. And no other statement sums up more accurately the spiritual sickness whish has struck this and other Western [...]
An increasing number of Catholic parents are alarmed by the decision of the Metro (Toronto) Separate School Board (MSSB) to make a child sexual abuse awareness and prevention program compulsory in all of its elementary schools. Almost thirty parents—many of them couples—attended a meeting September 13 at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Scarborough, Ontario to hear Women for Faith and Family president [...]
My usual perusal of the morning paper – the Globe and Mail – consists of a hurried glance at the headlines and the reading of articles, which appear to be of special interest to me. But on Monday, April 24, I had more time to spare over my morning coffee, so I spent longer than usual and noted the articles which portrayed [...]
The United Church is objecting to a family life program offered in Regina schools called Teen-Aid, reported the March 6 Western Report. The program recommends that sex be reserved for marriage and refuses, therefore, to present “the contraceptive alternative.” This, the United Church says, is heavy-handed, narrow, moralistic and demeaning to students. Teen-Aid teaches that abstinence is the best policy, says provincial [...]
If men had more respect for women, we had heard, they wouldn’t use and misuse them. So my wife and I started small, with our own family. Both of us came from homes where our fathers respected our mothers. My parents were consistent in teaching their four boys that the sisters were to be treated as girls, not boys. “Keep your hands [...]
Ann Landers settles all our moral and emotional problems. Of course we don’t know whether she is still alive or who her ghost writers are. But lately they, or she, have had it in for the “pro-lifers.” Abortions On December 15, 1988 Ann’s column concerned a “woman pressured not to have an abortion.” On March 22, she held forth on how the [...]
On May 24, ten people entered the Reproductive Health Clinic of Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital and blocked the corridor leading to the examining room. Six of the people were locked together in two groups of three by means of kryptonite bicycle locks around their necks. The purpose of the action was to close the clinic down for the day. While abortions are [...]
Four of the remaining 22 pro-lifers in British Columbia jails have taken their protest a step further by exercising non-compliance behind jail walls. Alberta’s Western Report reports June 19 that this has earned them a spell in solitary. Involved are four young women: Corinne Larsen, 22; Catherine Wills, 32; Melinda Anderson, 18; and Kathryn Davies, 23. They refused to report for work; [...]