In preparation for AIDS Awareness Week at the University of Toronto (Oct. 15-21, 1990) the Ontario Ministry of Health placed full-page ads in the student newspapers asking, “Are you having sex in the dark?’ Ignorance is far from bliss, the message below said; enlightenment means using condoms, “Not occasionally, not usually, but always.” “If you’re embarrassed about buying condoms,” the ad declared, [...]
The abortion issue was raised in East Germany for the first time this year with the coming of democracy and the unification of the two Germanys. Under Marxist totalitarianism the killing of the unborn on demand was an unquestioned feature of the legal structure. But in July of this year statements such as “an abortion is always murder” (from legislator Sabina Landgraf) [...]
A visitor from another planet arriving in Canada could be excused if he thought himself to be in cloud-cuckoo land. A spokesman for the Employment and Immigration Ministry said recently that the target of 175,000 immigrants for the current fiscal year should be raised to 235,000 in 1991, and to 265,000 the following year. “Various studies also have concluded that immigration levels [...]
See Censorship, page 12 for background. On October 5, an eight-man jury found that Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs did not violate community standards; artists and gallery directors celebrated a major victory. What emerged subsequently, however, was that this ‘victory’ was won because the jurors were first misled, and then had their hands tied. When one juror voted against acquittal on the first ballot [...]
In August of this year, Vancouver was the site of the international “Gay Games”, entitled Celebration ’90. As Ted Byfield, editor of the weekly Western Report has pointed out, the title Celebration” was well chosen: the event marks another mile-stone in the victory of secularism over Christianity in this country. The games were preceded by such fundraising events as the Mr. Jock [...]
Charlottetown. An announcement this spring that two local high schools were to undergo extensive renovations was recognized by local promoters of institutional day care as a golden opportunity. Chief among them was Dianne Porter, immediate past Chairperson of the PEI Advisory Council on Status of Women, a longtime daycare advocate who was active for years on the executive of the Canadian Child [...]
In September and October, trustees of the Kent and Huron-Perth RC school boards in Ontario voted 8-6 and 8-7 respectively to oppose UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) boxes in their schools. UNICEF does much good work helping under-privileged children in third world countries. Unfortunately, it works closely with the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the world’s leader in promoting anti-family and [...]
ACT-UP is a North America-wide organization of militant homosexuals and lesbians who publicly and physically confront prominent members of the ‘straight’ community who are hostile to ‘gay rights.’ In the U.S., ACT-UP/New York invaded St. Patrick’s Cathedral in December 1989 during a religious service conducted by Cardinal John O’Connor. They proceeded to disrupt it with screaming and yelling obscenities and trampling upon [...]
When she delivered the keynote address to the annual conference of the Ontario Association of Catholic Families (OACF) held in Ottawa in late September, U.S. pro-life activist Maria Zacaria strongly condemned sex education, referring to it as “the fountainhead of abortion.” Zacaria, who is executive director of the pro-family organization Parent’s Round Table, has participated in numerous rescues in the U.S. She [...]
JOHN PAUL II AND LIFE No one defends the dignity of human life more persistently than Pope John Paul II. Wherever he goes- and he has now been to almost one hundred different countries – he repeats the basic teachings of the Gospel about human life. This constant repetition in ever different words is a great consolation to the pro-life movement. Why [...]
As indicated in The Interim’s October editorial, the Ontario NDP will not innovate but, rather, intensify the anti-life mentality which already prevails in the province of Ontario. Most likely it will broaden the attack on the moral foundations of the family in such areas as schooling. For over a hundred years the socialist/materialist philosophy has called for abolition of the family. Free [...]
Attorneys of Chicago’s Pro-Life Action League filed an appeal with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals against an April lower court decision permitting any form of fetal experimentation. Stated League director Joseph Scheidler: “If this decision were not appealed, Dr. Mengele-type of experimentation on live human subjects would be allowed to be performed on unborn children. A civilized society cannot allow such [...]
David is not his real name, but it could easily be. He lives with his mother and his father, but he could live with a single parent or relatives. He has a brother and a sister, but he could just as easily be an only child or one of many. He lives in New Brunswick, but his story could be that of [...]
Rome. The Senate of the Polish Parliament voted by a large majority, September 29, to approve a legislative proposal which will punish abortionists with up to two years imprisonment. The proposal, entitled “Law to protect Conceived life” now goes to the lower chamber, or Sejm, for study and approval before being signed into law by the President. If enacted, it will replace [...]
Mr. Justice Samuel Darragh of the Ontario Court of Justice punished twenty one pro-life activists October 3 with fines as high as $600 and jail terms of up to 15 days. The defendants were found guilty June 30 of this year on the charge of obstructing a peace officer. Police had laid the charges March 3 when the rescuers refused to leave [...]