There are two responses to the question of morality. One says that we can distinguish between right and wrong, because there is a real difference between them. The other says that morality is whatever the individual wants to make it. Today’s media The second view of morality and approach to education has produced today’s Yuppies. They are, by and large, pre-eminently comfortable, [...]
Arriving in Vancouver on the last weekend of April for their sixth annual meeting and convention, members of REAL Women found themselves again under attack. This time the furor was caused by a newsletter signed by Peggy Steacey, the president of the B.C. chapter of REAL Women, and sent to members across the country. The letter discussed such topics as abortion, the [...]
This year (1990), was the first time in over 20 years that I found myself part of a permanent parish staff for Holy Week. I must admit that I had forgotten how busy the last three days are – Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday morning. By Sunday evening I felt as if I had climbed Mount Everest at [...]
Somewhere in the picture morgue of the Halifax Chronicle Herald is a faded photograph of a nine-year-old runaway from St. Joseph’s Orphanage. If the photo were to be unearthed, it would depict a cheeky little girl seated on a pickle barrel, feasting on chocolate bars and sipping coca cola. Between unladylike bites, she was pontificating at large to a small but most [...]
I know that the I.U.D is an abortifacient, but is the diaphragm also an abortifacient? J.M. Toronto. I checked wit two very pro-life doctors to make certain that I answered you correctly. Both doctors say that the diaphragm is a contraceptive, but it is not an abortifacient. How do we answer the charge that pro-lifers deny women the right to reproductive freedom? [...]
On May 22, Parliament will once again discuss the crime of abortion. This new debate will come 21 years after the original one concluded with the passing of Omnibus Bill C-150 on May 14, 1969. The Toronto Globe and Mail called that moment “a great day for Canada” and thanked Pierre Trudeau for settling the issue. It never occurred to the editorial [...]
In March, a Baptists Church in Salem, NH, denied membership to State Rep. Stephanie Micklon because she sponsored pro-abortion legislation. Rep. Micklon said the church’s action amounted to “religious blackmail.” She stated, “I’m not pro-abortion, and now they’re saying that is a sin.” Explaining his church’s decision, Senior Pastor Clement Sutton III of the First Baptists Church observed, “We feel that if [...]
Twenty teachers in Terrace B.C. will be fired at the end of June if they refuse to join the local union, Terrace District Teachers Association (TDTA), and the British Columbia Teachers Federation (BCTF). A number of these teachers object to union membership because of the pro-abortion policies of the provincial federation, admitted TDTA president Greig Houlden. Union membership was required in a [...]
The Canadian government announced its plans to establish a Royal Commission on Reproductive Technologies in the Speech from the Throne which opened the second session of the thirty-fourth Parliament (April 3, 1989). The Commission will inquire and report on current and potential medical and scientific developments related to new reproductive technologies. It will also consider social, ethical, health, research, legal and economic [...]
The Speaker of the House of Commons has ruled out of order 13 proposed amendments, while permitting 14, of which a number cover the same ground. Ruled Out Of Order - Prohibition Of Abortion After 20 Weeks; - Insistence On Abortions Being Done In A “Medical Facility”; - Insistence on a second medical opinion; - Prohibit abortions “to prevent the birth of [...]
Third and final reading on Bill C-43 will begin on May 22. The Mulroney government hopes the Commons will pass the re-legalization of abortion before the end of the month. It will be just over 21 years that the original approval in principle of abortion in Canada took place. On May 13, 1969, the House of Commons approved an Omnibus Bill (C-150), [...]
At the Globe 90 Conference in Vancouver in March, wrote Globe and Mail columnist Terence Corcoran facetiously, the term “sustainable development” was employed 4,279 times by 500 speakers – and none of them knew what it meant. It was wrapped in conceptual fog. When Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard committed our government to “vigorous promotion of the concept of sustainable development,” did that [...]
At Home The killing fields Toronto is a dying city. According to 1988 Department of Health figures, 13,185 children died at the hands of abortionists, as opposed to 8,995 who beat the odds and were born. Gutless Department Speaking at a public forum hosted by Concerned Citizens of B.C. in January 1990, Vancouver Alderman Don Bellamy tried to justify the city’s right [...]
Ontario’s Ministry of Health, headed by Elinor Caplan, has initiated the numerical registration of every man, woman and child in the province. Preceded by a flurry of news reports describing the fraudulent use of Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) cards. Mrs. Caplan unveiled her plan to assign individual plastic health I.D. cards to replace the current “family system” now in use. Incorrectly [...]
The Companions of the Holy Family, an organization of lay Roman Catholics, mounted a successful conference April 7, on the family at Toronto’s St. Anselm’s Church. It was highlighted by the presence of Edouard Cardinal Gagnon, a Canadian stationed in the Vatican, who is President of the Pontifical Council for the family. The Cardinal was kept busy during his stay in Toronto. [...]