Drs. J. White and K. Campbell of Brantford, Ontario, both quit committing abortions after a brave lawyer and a stubborn retired school caretaker picketed their homes. Lawyer Paul Vandervet and Mr. Bill Fuller, Brantford residents and pro-life friends, picketed the doctors’ homes after picketing their offices failed to stop them from killing the unborn. Home picketing seemed to do the trick. Dr. [...]
The following are some of the most commonly asked questions about the government’s abortion law, Bill C-43. At the time of writing, the Bill has yet to be passed by the Senate. Doesn’t the fact that some doctors say they will stop doing abortions prove that the new law is better than no law? Kim Campbell, the Minister of Justice, who is [...]
In the U.S., a lawsuit has been brought against an Ohio abortuary. According to the complaint, Dr. Raymond Robinson, an abortionist at the Dayton Women’s Clinic, put out a bleeding patient when she couldn’t pay an extra $225 for a more expensive type of abortion. She found her way to St. Elizabeth Medical Center where, after labour was induced, she delivered a [...]
A British Columbia court on December 4, 1990, awarded $900,000 in a botched abortion case. The money, which is to be added to at a later date, goes to Jody Cherry, a B.C. woman and her eight-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, who survived the abortion. Elizabeth was born with severe mental and physical handicaps as a result of the abortion. Still pregnant In 1982, [...]
About 300 members of Students for Life picketed Toronto’s Bay Centre for Birth Control on November 30. The pro-life group of mostly high school students has designated Canada’s largest and oldest abortion referral agency for monthly demonstrations. On this occasion, Students for ‘Choice’ were on hand to mount a counter-demonstration in support of the activities of the Centre, originally founded by contraceptive [...]
If ill opinions cannot be quite rooted out, and you cannot cure some received vice according to your wishes, you must not therefore abandon the commonwealth.” Sir Thomas More. In the December 1990 editorial, “The spiritual battle for Canada,” we described the formidable forces arrayed against a society founded on and held together by respect for God and the Christian tradition. Within [...]
Today is the 28th of November 1990. Last evening I watched the CBC news with horror. In the first news item, Douglas Archer, the Ontario Auditor, reported that the care of seniors and mentally handicapped people in homes is so inadequate that a number of deaths have resulted. He gave the opinion that the Ministry of Community and Social Services is “kind [...]
Fighting provincial government policies that are skewed in favour of mothers working outside the home is a major preoccupation of a newly formed group in British Columbia. West Coast Women for Family Values are established recently to “promote laws and policies promoting family life,” says one of the foundress, Kathleen Higgins of Delta, B.C. “The work of mothers at home really needed [...]
The following questionnaire was given to Grade 10 students at Notre Dame High School in Welland, Ontario. On December 10, 1990, the school nurse first explained various contraceptive devices. She then invited the children to come up and inspect them and learn how they are to be used. The children were told that some time later, in the year someone would come [...]
The following story first appeared in the September 24, 1990 issue of the Brandon Sun, under the headline “Natural mother makes unique sacrifice by giving up her child.” It’s reprinted here with permission. I remember that it was a sunny morning, a nice one to sit on the front steps of my parents home and think about the future. I was my [...]
Queen’s Park, Toronto Ontario Premier Bob Rae’s office claimed they had never seen the letter from the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops (OCCB), urging the NDP government to reconsider its new policy of providing easier access to killing of the unborn. The letter from the president of the OCCB, Bishop John O’Mara, was dated November 19, 1990. It was reported in a [...]