Sex discrimination and abortion in South Korea On December 26, the Globe and Mail reprinted an item from the Economist saying that the stork was delivering fewer girls in South Korea. In 1980 there were 79 men in the country for every 100 women. By 2000 there will be 120 men to 100 women. Lee Hee Baik, a professor in the graduate [...]
A month after his wife Ann began breast cancer treatment last fall, head of the Hemlock Society and the best known euthanasia advocate in the U.S.A., left her and thereby shook the confidence of his organization, American Life League (ALL) News for March 6 reports. Humphry was removed from Hemlock’s board in early January, although he continues to hold office as the [...]
How do we reply to the argument that, in a democracy, issues such as abortion and euthanasia should be decided by public opinion? J.S., Toronto, Ontario The democratic legal system aims at justice for all people. Unfortunately, as history shows as in Nazi Germany and the oppression of black people in the U.S.A., public opinion can run counter to democracy. A basic [...]
On Mother’s Day this year, Pat (Patricia) Gerretsen, 49, wife of Peter Gerretsen and co-partner in the firm of Gerretsen Film Productions, will be at home with her husband and children. Last year on Mother’s day she was in hospital recovering from neurosurgery, but afterward she suffered a stroke. Pat spent last summer and fall in hospital recovering from the effects and [...]
About 100 outraged parents demonstrated outside the St. Albert Separate School board office March 14 to protest the installment of condom machines in the system’s two high schools. St. Albert is one of the few places in Western Canada where the separate school is not for Catholics but for Protestants. According to Peter Heaton, a spokesman for PAVE (Parents Advocating Values Education), [...]
On January 30 the Ontario Court of Appeal declared that “mandatory religious education in the province’s public elementary schools [is] unconstitutional.” It struck down the portion of the law that requires religious instruction in the regular curriculum of public elementary schools. This judgment was viewed as a cause for celebration by the Canadian Jewish News and the three principal newspapers. These papers [...]
Late in March, The Interim received a letter from one of the two Canadians jailed in what has been called the first “detention camp” for rescuers in the U.S. We reprint excerpts here. Letter from prison Today [March 21] marks the fourth week of our internment, following our arrest on February 21 at the Women’s Health Centre in Burlington. I say illegal, [...]
In early April King Baudouin of Belgium was forced to abdicate for 48 hours. The government used this time to go through a constitutional signing procedure invented for the occasion to circumvent the need for obtaining a royal signature on the bill legalizing abortion; the King had refused to sign. Thus the world was given another example of how legalizing the killing [...]
“We’re signing up as many people as we can,” said Liberals for Life spokesman Dan McCash in early February. “I think people will be quite shocked by how effective we are.” The powers-that-be kept grinning until the startling news that Liberals for Life in Peterborough, Ontario, had flooded the Liberal riding association with 350 new members. Liberals beware The grinning faded and [...]