The following story appeared in the Markham, Ontario Weekender of December 223, 1990. Starting in Grade 7, Catholic students in York Region are taught about condoms and foam. “The promotion of condoms and foam as a birth control method and as prevention to HIV infection was addressed at last week’s education committee meeting of the York Region Catholic Separate School Board. “Divisional [...]
In her Toronto Star column of December 14, 1990 pro-abortion, anti-life columnist Doris Anderson seized with delight on one of the recent scandals in the Catholic Church in Canada. The atrocities against boys at Mount Cashel Orphanage in Newfoundland, she declared with complete conviction, are the direct result of centuries of misguided teaching in the Catholic Church. The Church’s efforts to promote [...]
Despite the serious objections of concerned teachers, abortion defender Sheila Copps opened the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA) late January ‘Poverty Hurts’ conference in Toronto. Another pro-abortionist, ex-NDP MPP, Richard Johnson was to have closed the conference, but in the end did not appear. Ms. Copps, the third place finisher in last year’s Liberal leadership race, is party leader Jean Chretien’s [...]
On November 27, 1990, the Policy Committee of the Durham Separate School Board (DSSB) revoked an earlier motion of the full board making family life and religion programs compulsory for all students. For more than a year, some parents in the region lying to the east of Toronto had fought a losing battle with the DSSB over a long-standing rule that no [...]
Father Tony Van Hee, a 55-year-old Jesuit priest from the Guelph Spirituality Centre, heaved a sigh of relief when the proposed abortion law, Bill C-43 was defeated in the Senate on January 31, 1991. Vigil Father Van Hee has kept a prayer and fasting vigil on Parliament Hill for the last year-and-a-half (since September 1989) except for a break of three months [...]
The French pharmaceutical giant Roussel-Uclaf produces RU-486, a steroid whose sole purpose is to bring about an abortion. It does so by destroying the lining of the uterus, thereby dislodging the already attached fetus (baby) who dies and is then expelled. In the summer of 1990, the French government sold its 40 per cent share of Roussel-Uclaf to Rhone-Poulenc, a leading French [...]
I was one of those who represented Campaign Life Coalition before the Senate Committee on the question of Bill C-43. I was very honoured to be chosen. While the senators were courteous and attentive, we did not feel any optimism regarding the outcome of the meeting. Our position was one of “total non-compromise” on a bill which, had it passed, would have [...]
Quebec birth rate rises Despite expectations that the Quebec government’s policy of paying cash bonuses for newborn babies would not work, the number of babies born in the province increased for the second year running. The bonuses range from $500 for a first child to $6,000 for three or more children. Parents are also given special provincial income tax deductions. As a [...]
The year 1990 brought many ‘signs of hope’ to the pro-life movement said the executive secretary of the American Bishops’ Pro-Life Activities Secretariat, Father John Gouldrick. He noted the following successes in the United States: • An August poll found that most Americans believe human life begins long before birth and that the unborn child deserves protection; • Media bias against the [...]
Czechoslovakia In the second week of January, the Czechoslovak federal assembly passed a new human rights law which included a ‘right to life’ clause. Members of the assembly, especially those representing Christian-oriented parties called for this clause to be extended to cover life from the moment of conception, in other words, they wanted an end to legal abortion, in line with the [...]
AT HOME ‘Light under a bushel’ department Christ the King is the name of a new Catholic elementary school nearing completion in what has become a predominantly Jewish suburb in Toronto. But Richmond Hill trustee Pat Burzillo has received a number of complaints about the name, including one from ‘concerned Catholic parent’. Jo Zupnik: “We feel that the name ‘Christ the King’ [...]
It was just one tiny sign in a sea of placards with the words “Whatever happened to patriotism?” In cities and towns across the U.S. last week, citizens began taking a stand against the pacifists and peaceniks out on the streets protesting war in the Persian Gulf. The growing phenomenon of the ‘pro-troops’ demo is something I wish would be echoed in [...]
Prince Edward Island is widely regarded as a pro-life province. After all, five years ago abortion was banned in this province, and two years later the Legislative Assembly declared itself pro-life. (Politically, there was little choice.) It is true the Right to Life movement still exists, but it is struggling for membership, understanding and support. On almost all other fronts, the family [...]
The recent media disclosure of the site of Henry Morgentaler’s proposed abortion ‘clinic’ has given Alberta pro-lifers impetus to lobby fiercely against its opening at 10141-150 Street in Edmonton. The site was confirmed as having been purchased by a Morgentaler holding company, Habal Gastion. “The pro-life movement as a whole will be working hard to keep Morgentaler from opening his franchise in [...]
Halifax, N.S. In late January, the struggle for life here heated up still more with the arrests of sidewalk counselors Sharon MacPherson and Karen Levy outside the recently-opened Morgentaler ‘clinic’. After walking quietly all day with their placards, MacPherson and Levy called out (once) to a very young girl being hustled into the abortuary. Abortuary staff called police, who arrested the pair [...]