Monthly Archives: April 1991

Ontario Film Board yields to porn

Since September 1990, the Ontario Film Review Board has left uncut scenes of sexual intercourse between consenting adults, board head Robert Payne explained early in February. Mr. Payne said that the board has no problem with explicit sex “as long as it doesn’t involve violence, kids, degradation or humiliation or necrophilia.”  Films containing such scenes are classified as ‘adult sex movies’ restricted [...]

2009-09-03T07:41:52-04:00April 3, 1991|Society & Culture|

Ontario Film Board yields to porn

Since September1990, the Ontario Film Review Board has left uncut scenes of sexual intercourse between consenting adults, board head Robert Payne explained early in February. Mr. Payne said that the board has no problem with explicit sex “as long as it doesn’t involve violence, kids, degradation or humiliation or necrophilia.”  Films containing such scenes are classified as ‘adult sex movies’ restricted to [...]

2009-09-03T07:06:21-04:00April 2, 1991|Issues|

Maryland Health Office in cover-up

Fr. Paul Marx, president of Human Life International, a pro-life organization headquartered in Gaitherburg, Md., has charged the State of Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) with the deliberate cover-up of two abortion deaths which occurred in Prince George’s County abortion clinics in 1989. Victims The victims were Erica Richardson, 16, and Debra Gray, both of whom died soon after [...]

2009-09-02T13:00:48-04:00April 2, 1991|Issues|

American Notes Catholic Hospitals Coerced

A federal court in Maryland has ruled that St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore should lose its accreditation if it does not allow its residents to learn about abortion and sterilization procedures. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, a national association, requires obstetric and gynecology programmes to provide training in abortion, sterilization and birth-control procedures.  Hence, it withdrew the hospital’s accreditation.  St. [...]

2009-09-02T12:59:49-04:00April 2, 1991|Society & Culture|

Canadians fight porn

In a circular sent out recently, the Toronto-based Canadians for Decency, called attention to two items in particular.  One was the disclosure by Robert Payne, head of the Ontario Film Review Board, that his board is giving its seal of approval to films and videos containing explicit sex scenes. Canadians for Decency maintains that by allowing the distribution of such material the [...]

2009-09-02T09:02:59-04:00April 2, 1991|Society & Culture|

A Contraceptive Primer – Does the use of contraceptives decrease the number of abortions?

No. Organizations which promote contraception have failed miserably at decreasing the number of abortions and overall rate of adolescent pregnancy in Canada – both of which have continually risen since the late 1960s.  Birth rates among teenage girls have decreased because of the man pre-born children who have been aborted, rather than because of the use of contraception. In a nationwide U.S. [...]

2009-09-02T08:42:54-04:00April 2, 1991|Abortion, Society & Culture|
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