“Get thee to a nunnery” took on a whole new meaning May 2-5 in Edmonton when a retreat facility run by the Sisters of Providence gave space to a controversial sexuality seminar. The seminar, sponsored by the Edmonton Board of Health, has been held through out the province for some years but recently achieved notoriety when publicly criticized by several past participants. [...]
The recently released annual report of the Canadian Human Rights Commission would lead one to believe that this supposedly non-partisan government organization favors efforts by homosexual activists to redefine what the word “family” means. The report also makes it clear that the Human Rights Commission is opposed to any foreign government regulations that would require tourists to prove they are free of [...]
The eighth annual conference of Canadians for Decency, held in Toronto on April 28, opened with tributes to Nancy Pollock, the organizations founder and recently deceased president. Noreen Marshall compared her to a little tugboat hooked up to a big ship and determined to pull it straight. With her in mind, the conference chose as its theme “The Power of One.” Single-handedly, [...]
One of the major pro-life victories in the U.S. under Ronald Reagan was the initiative known as the Mexico City Policy. This policy, which went into effect five years ago, prevents American foreign aid agencies from funding any “family planning” organizations which promote and perform abortions overseas or support or participate in programmes which include coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. This policy [...]
If, as the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, “Music is the universal language of mankind,” then rock music is the universal language of youth. They get up to it in the morning, spend their waking hours listening to it, and then fall asleep to its beat. For about four to six hours a day the average North American teen becomes engrossed in [...]
In January this year Swedish researchers announced that they had the first clear evidence that fetal brain tissue can help people with Parkinson’s disease. In a study published in the U.S. journal Science, doctors at University Hospital in Lund, Sweden, reported dramatic improvements in a 49-year-old man which began a few months after material from fetuses was transplanted into his brain. Dr. [...]
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. First, pro-lifers neither deny a woman the right to bear a child, nor do they [...]
Do Not Proceed 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 [...]
Baptists 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 [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
A novena to St. Therese of Liseux has saved Campaign Life Calgary from threatened eviction, claims its president Michael O’Malley. “It’s adversity leading to a spiritual grace,” Mr. O’Malley told The Interim, as Campaign Life now plans to purchase the property, which houses a pregnancy counseling centre, Campaign Life offices and Mr. O’Malley’s residence itself. Landlord Ben Woo sent one 90-day eviction [...]
Steve Jalsevac, aged 42, once a successful business entrepreneur, is now using his sharp business skills to help Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) in Toronto. Officially, he is their office manger. But he is much more: political and financial strategist, policy-maker (part of a team), Vitality newspaper publisher, marketing director (fund raising), special projects supervisor, treasurer of the CLC national board and “ideal [...]