The media are full of euthanasia propaganda. Do you have the list of the effects of dehydration quoted by the judge in the Paul Brophy case? C.N., Toronto. Mr. Justice Kopelman noted these probable effects before Brophy died of starvation and dehydration: - His mouth would dry out and become caked or coated with thick material. - His lips would [...]
The effect of the report from B.C.’s Task Force on Child Care will be to erode the autonomy of families by urging the adoption of a non-parental child care system, says task force member Kathleen Higgins. Minority report Mrs. Higgins, a founding member of Westcoast Women for Family Life, refused to sign the report and instead drafted a minority report, [...]
Mark Crutcher of Dallas, Texas, captivated 200 pro-life leaders, activists and students attending a March 1991 Seminar of the Pro-Life Society of British Columbia. Marketing skills He shed light on the kind of marketing skills used by the largest corporations in North America to show how Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion movement have been able to sell the Canadian public, [...]
United Church In 1990 the United Church refused to reverse its 1988 decision to accept active homosexuals as ministers. This led a number of people – sometimes whole congregations – to leave the denomination. Among those who have departed is Rev. Gordon Ross, executive director of Community of Concern (COC), an organization that, together with the broader United Church Renewal [...]
Appointing lesbians or homosexuals to political office precisely as representatives of their lifestyle is a perversion of politics. (See front-page story) The initial perversion is the homosexual ‘lifestyle,’ as it is euphemistically called. An additional perversion is to lift this socially regressive, personal sexual activity to the status of an ‘ethnic minority’ group deserving special protection over and above the rights [...]
Brantford, Ontario. “Hundreds of people lined King George Road and Terrace Hill Street on Saturday, April 13, to tell passing motorists that abortion is wrong,” reported Brantford’s The Expositor. As lawyer Paul Vandervet, president of the Brant Right to Life, explained, 2,000 people had been the target but they were pleased with the 1,000 who turned up for the Life Chain, [...]
Dauphin, Manitoba. In December 1990, the newly elected feminist Mayor, Virginia Jamieson, refused to declare a Respect for Life Week. This deliberate gesture of contempt led Dauphin pro-lifers to take another look at their town. Resolution On February 27, 1991, the Board of Dauphin’s General Hospital voted to prohibit abortions unless a committee of three doctors determined the woman’s [...]
On March 6, Sister Elizabeth Davis, Executive Director of St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital in St. John’s, Newfoundland, issued a statement concerning a controversial decision that the hospital had made to eliminate its obstetric and gynecology department. Budget cuts Anticipating budget cuts, she said, the provincial Ministry of Health had asked the three St. John’s acute care hospitals to consider the [...]
“Dr. Holmes, a man of sterling character, total commitment to principle, unselfishness and loyalty. There is only one Ray Holmes. The world could do with more.” When Dr. Ray Holmes’ youngest daughter Genevieve was a little girl, he’d cover the polka dots on her doll’s carriage with Smarties. Then he’d exclaim, “Look what popped out of your carriage.” She’d chuckle with [...]
In early April, Ontario’s NDP government appointed two new members to the Metro Toronto Police Services Board, Catholic priest Massey Lombardi and social worker Laura Rowe. Rowe is a known lesbian, a mother of three, two of whom were born by means of artificial insemination (A1). On May 1, Ontario Cabinet Minister Elaine Ziemba appointed lesbian Carmen Paquette of Vanier, a [...]
On April 19, 1991, Toronto Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic issued a strongly-worded ‘no’ to condoms as a solution to the spread of AIDS or as a barrier to conception. The next appeared in a letter addressed to the five Catholic school boards within the Archdiocese of Toronto. However, the letter as also endorsed by all the bishops of Ontario, making it a [...]
Something worse than AIDS In November 1987, Archbishop Fiorenzo Angelini, pro-president of the Pontifical Commission for Health Care Workers, speaking at the first worldwide conference on AIDS, said efforts to stop the spreading disease must be based on “the safeguarding of ethical principles which cannot be renounced.” A policy, he said, that looks only at short-term prevention measures, outside of ethical considerations, [...]
Renovations to the proposed Edmonton abortuary came to an abrupt halt after only two days when Campaign Life Coalition/Alberta applied April 3 to have the matter brought before the Alberta Court of Appeal. The group filed to appeal the March 28 decision by the city’s Development Appeal Board (DAB), which ruled the board had no jurisdiction to rescind a development permit granted [...]
Canadian doctors are helping their patients to commit suicide, the director of medical ethics and legal affairs of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) claimed. Dr. Eike-Henner Kluge, who approves of euthanasia, explained the procedure in a recent issue of the Canadian Medical Journal (CMAJ, 1991; Vol. 144 [3]. Prescriptions Kluge described two ways in which doctors are involved in the suicides of [...]
How dangerous are abortions? L.B., Edmonton A measure of danger of medical procedures can be found the rates for medical malpractice insurance. The higher the danger, the higher the rates. In his classic book Abortion, Dr. J. Willke says that Florida rates its doctors. Until January 1, 1984, the doctors were rated Class I up to Class VI. On the date “a [...]