In December, 1985, twenty married couples from around the world who were members of Cardinal Gagnon’s Pontifical Council for the Family met in Rome to discuss Pope John Paul II’s teaching on Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s prophetic teaching on the family and the transmission of human life. Their presentations, together with four papers presented by other members of the Council, have [...]
On December 14, 1990, Pope John Paul II addressed a group taking a course on the Billings method of Natural Family Planning (NFP). What follows is a translation of the Pope’s address from the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, English edition. In giving you a heartfelt greeting, I wish to express my deep joy over this important initiative, sponsored by the Center for [...]
The 1989 abortion statistics, made public April 3, were the worst ever – over 79,000 abortions in Canada. This figure includes the thousands performed in’ clinics’ inside Quebec, but not in those of the rest of Canada, not those done in U.S. border cities. When will the plague stop? One simple answer is, “When doctors stop performing abortions!” When will that be? [...]
Why are the heads of newborn and unborn babies so large and out of proportion to the whole body? S.T., Windsor We can see that different systems of the body develop at different rates and different stages, e.g. at puberty. So too with the unborn baby. The head contains the brain, which develops earlier, faster and more dramatically than all the body [...]
On March 21, 1991, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a baby who died in the process of being born was not a “legal person” and therefore could not be counted as a human being. The Supreme Court judgment in the midwives case was welcomed by representatives of radical feminist groups. “It’s a good decision …consistent with the Women’s equality,” said [...]
On March 17, the Alberta Court of Appeal quashed Jim Keegstra’s 1985 conviction for willfully promoting hatred against the Jewish people and ordered a new trial. In December 1990 the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the conviction for willfully promoting hatred against Jews in a 4 – 3 decision, but it referred Keegstra’s other grounds of appeal back to the Alberta court. [...]
Confederation of Regions Party not Pro-life The Confederation of Regions (CoR) political party has adopted the same unprincipled approach to pro-life issues as the Reform Party. Moral issues of consequence are to be settled by constituency referendum, not according to moral principles. This is made clear in the April issue of the CoR/New Brunswick newsletter. The party hopes to participate in a [...]
Dr. John Wilke, 66, the man who quit delivering babies to fight legalized abortion, relinquished his two-decade tenure as president of the National Right to Life Committee on June 4. Sometimes reproached for blurring the line between realistic political goals and compromise, Dr. Wilke is still credited by many for building a grassroots, pro-life organization with considerable political clout. “Everyone in the [...]
In early June, the Ontario New Democrats introduced legislation to end the wide-open Sundays which have prevailed since the municipal option clause passed into law by the previous Liberal government was struck down. Under the new law, the municipality may still make the decision but only within a general framework which emphasizes a common pause day. It must hold a public hearing [...]
Radical feminism has affected society greatly for the worst over the last 40 years. Its chief characteristic of total freedom of choice in all marital-sexual-moral matters is well known. This hard-core feminism is surrounded by a large network of subsidiary and associated ideas and organizations which have sprung up in its wake, or alongside it, or completely independent of it. While the [...]
Over 25,000 Life Chain supporters peacefully lined up for life June 9 on the streets of many Ontario cities. In Toronto, 5200 Life Chain participants, holding signs which read, ‘Abortion Kills Children’, stationed themselves for 20 kilometres along Bloor and Yonge Streets, two of the city’s major intersecting arteries. From Timmins to Sarnia, pro-lifers in 14 other Ontario cities took part in [...]
Pro-life activity in British Columbia is undergoing a renewal. Two of the country’s most successful Life Chains were held in the province in May. The Family Coalition Party has been established as a provincial party ready to fight the provincial election expected this fall. On Saturday, June 15, Campaign Life Coalition held its most successful strategy meeting when over eighty activists from [...]
In a close vote, the Yorkton-Melville NDP Riding association, at its annual general meeting, carried a resolution calling for cessation of abortion funding. What is interesting here is the fact that the local MP, Lorne Nystrom, once touted as a possible successor to Ed Broadbent, failed in his attempt to have the resolution defeated. The NDP’s pro-abortion tradition has, in the past, [...]
At its Annual General Meeting and Policy Convention, held June 14-16 in Hamilton, the Ontario wing of the Federal Liberal Party, using a two-part vote, gave high priority to two pro-life resolutions – one on abortion and one on euthanasia. Delegates from 99 Federal Ridings in Ontario were eligible to vote on the 120 policy statements submitted to the Policy Forum. The [...]
Speaking at the CLC Ontario Annual General Meeting in Niagara Falls, Campaign Life Coalition President Jim Hughes urged the ninety participants to discuss Federal Election Strategy in their local and regional areas. Reminding them that the pro-life movement is a grassroots organization, Mr. Hughes said that collective input from CLC supporters across Canada was necessary if we were to reach a consensus [...]