Articles on euthanasia refer to patients in a persistent vegetative state. What exactly does this mean? P.M., Winnipeg, Man. Dr. Fred Plum, who is said to be the creator of this term, gave this definition when he testified as an expert witness in the Jobes case. “Vegetative state describes a body which is functioning entirely in terms of its internal controls. It [...]
Washington (CNS) – The Administrative Committee of the U.S. National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) unanimously condemned legalized euthanasia in a statement released September 12. (See full text below). They urged Catholics and “all persons of good will” to reject euthanasia proposals such as Initiative 119, a referendum facing Washington state voters November 5. The Initiative seeks to legalize “aid-in-dying” as a [...]
The New Brunswick election has come and gone and pro-lifers are none the wiser. Abortion and other moral issues were being ignored, the New Brunswick Right to Life Association stated a few days before the September 23 election. Frank McKenna’s ruling Liberal party swept to another smashing victory, winning 46 of 58 seats and with 47 per cent of the vote. The [...]
The Ontario NDP now finds itself on the side of the angels in its support for a common day of rest for all Ontario residents. The villains are both the Liberal and the Tories who have now caved into the wishes of the big retailers who want wide-open Sundays. Quagmire But it is unlikely that the new Bill 115, which was to [...]
ANGLICANS In our October issue the report on the Episcopalian triennial convention in Phoenix, Arizona, last July focused on homosexual permissiveness. It showed how deeply moral issues have divided the Anglican Church in the U.S., with leading spokesmen acknowledging a complete deadlock and a split into “two religions.” The September issue of Toronto-based Anglican Journal briefly notes that abortion, too, was brought [...]
This fifth editorial on the abortion mentality in Canada concerns pro-life tactics. Let us say at once that many people, including those who consider themselves opposed to abortion, are not fond of pro-lifers. Indeed, their faces turn grim when they speak about pro-life activists, whether the political ones who confront politicians, the educational kind when they show pictures of aborted babies, or [...]
On October 6, 1991, over 75,000 Canadians representing all ten provinces linked together to stand up for the rights of the pre-born. Together with over 772,000 Americans they formed the first international Life Chain. Each participant held a sign with simply inscribed ‘ABORTION KILLS CHILDREN” and “JESUS FORGIVES AND HEALS.” Following on the heels of its initial success, Vancouver again led all [...]
The recent U.S. Senate hearing which preceded the confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, left the nation reeling. In one of the most vicious inquisitions witnessed by Americans, much of the brotherhood which was previously spread from sea to shining sea was drowned in the muddy waters of indiscriminate character assassination. As a result of [...]
For a mall newspaper like The Interim, it is impossible to cover trustee elections adequately in view of the short campaign and the large number of candidates. In the following story, The Interim reports on the Separate (Catholic) School Board candidates who favour more doctrinal content in religious education and the elimination of secularism in family life (sex education) programs. * * [...]
A Bill intended to change the Criminal Code and allow physicians to kill their patients passed its first reading in the House of Commons, June 19, 1991. The Bill C-261, is the brainchild of the NDP member for Saskatoon-Clark’s Crossing, Chris Axworthy. * * * * Certain steps are required before a doctor inserts the needle and injects the poison. The person [...]
Ontario MPPs would be prudent to learn from U.S. experience when they consider Bill 108, Substitute Decisions, and Bill 109, Consent to Treatment Act. Living Wills and Substituted Judgment in the United States directly threaten the lives of many handicapped people as well as the old and the “unwanted.” Today, many people are afraid. The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (TASH), [...]
As long as one year ago, the International Inquiry Commission on RU-486 released a strong condemnation of the drug. It has taken a full year before the existence of the report has been revealed. The report seems to have been stonewalled by the media. The International Commission, with its headquarters in France, says that RU-486 even combined with prostaglandin’s, is ineffective in [...]
Some 74,000 Canadians participated on Sunday, October 6, 1991, in Life Chain – 722,000 people did the same in the United States. In many cities and towns in every Canadian province, between the hours of 2:30 to 3:30 in the afternoon, people lined the streets holding up sings which read “ABORTION KILLS CHILDREN” or “JESUS FORGIVES AND HEALS.” Numbers ranged from 150 [...]
Vancouver Jack Clarke, columnist for the Vancouver daily, The Province, commenting on the nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas for the U.S. Supreme Court, considered with some horror that the Court might overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion-on-demand ruling. Apparently he has just now discovered that the Supreme Court “has set itself above political opinion.” “We want nothing like this in Canada,” [...]
Toronto – On September 20, 1991, Judge Donald Graham ruled that corporate, public prayer within 500 feet of Henry Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary, at 85 Harbord Street, is prohibited under the terms of the injunction issued in May 1989 by Mr. Justice Craig. Quiet prayer On March 9, 1991, twenty people met for quiet prayer in the lane behind the Morgentaler ‘clinic.’ This [...]