I know of the Vatican Declaration on Abortion. Is there one on euthanasia? L.P., Belleville, ON. The Declaration on Euthanasia was prepared by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and published in May 1980. It is very short, but it is invaluable. I have used one paragraph to provide the answers to three questions from many people. (Editor: See [...]
In his syndicated column for October 24, 1991, U.S. columnist Jack Anderson confronted female infanticide in rural China, one of the hideous side effects of the government’s one-child policy.According to Mr. Anderson’s intelligence, and unnamed sources in China, upwards of 1 million baby girls have been killed in the country’s rural provinces since 1979 when the Chinese government mandated its one-child policy.The [...]
A Canadian chapter of the U.S.-based Rutherford Institute has opened in British Columbia. Members of the international organization say they’re dedicated to fighting for traditional values in the courts. One of the first issues to be tackled, according to B.C. founder Charles Lugosi, is a recent Calgary Art Exhibit that went unchallenged by civil authorities. “There was a pornographic art display involving [...]
A radical review of the Canadian Constitution in the offing could be seized as a chance to destroy the publicly-supported Catholic school system in all of Canada. This is what Tom Reilly, the Superintendent of Education of Dufferin-Peel RC Separate School Board, fears to some extent, as expressed in a letter dated September 19, 1991, to Donald Clune, the Chairman of the [...]
The Ontario NDP government has presented a bill that angers both pro-lifers and the pro-abortionists. Let’s not stop there. It angers a coalition of twelve churches (including Anglicans, Catholics, Baptists and Mennonites). It angers Jewish rabbis. It also angers a host of social workers and previously non-regulated people such as naturopaths and other private counseling groups. The new legislation includes Bill 43, [...]
One cannot but have the greatest sympathy for Nancy B, the 25 year-old quadriplegic in a Quebec City hospital, who is paralyzed from the neck down due to Guillian-Barré syndrome. Yet her request to be allowed to die by unplugging her respirator cannot but fill us with sadness, sadness for her and sadness for us. For her, because she lacks the will [...]
In the effort to fulfil its agenda of making abortion more accessible to women, Ontario’s NDP government has instituted Heath Travel Grants for Northern Ontario Residents. The Ministry’s brochure explains that a “ministry-approved health centre” means, among other things, “facilities providing abortions.” Patients who live more than 63 miles from a referral within Northern Ontario or Manitoba or 126 miles to “other [...]
A brief survey of Ontario Members of Provincial Parliament (MPP) vying for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party indicates that all six contenders are pro-abortion. The leader selection will take place in mid-February. Charles Beer (MPP – York North) believes that abortions should be done in hospitals. Abortion should not be “criminalized”. Although he doesn’t like abortion, it should be available, [...]
On October 31, 1991 (Halowe’en), Dawn Black (NDP, New Westminster-Burnaby, B.C.) introduced a Private Member’s Bill in the House of Commons in favour of funding for birth control. Pro-lifers have been saying for years that the contraceptive mentality increases rather than decreases abortions and the dissolution of the family, but feminists and others won’t listen. Dawn Black’s bill proposed to reinstate a [...]
Kitchener abortionist quits Kitchener – Dr. Fred Ufflelmann, the only abortionist in the Kitchener-Waterloo region in Ontario, announced on January 16, 1992, that he had stopped committing abortions. Some of the women, he said, are undecided, make arrangements, then change their minds. “From time to time you get pretty discouraged wondering whether you are doing the right thing,” he said. Dr. Uffelmann [...]
Calgary’s Kensington “clinic”, owned by abortionist Theodore Busheikin, obtained an injunction on December 17 prohibiting protesters from coming within 90 metres of it. Lawyer Wendy Best argued the abortionist’s case, claiming that demonstrators should not be allowed to and out literature that could interfere with Busheikin's “business”. Injunction Michael O’Malley of Campaign Life Calgary, and Gil Ludwig, attorney for Christians Concerned for [...]
This plea was broadcast on CBC’s “Metro Morning”, January 7, 1992. “Nancy B. has the right to die…I agree. But I don’t think that’s the issue. The debate is about dying, but Nancy is living with a severe physical disability…like me and hundreds of other Canadians. Nancy has been made into a pawn for all the people who are interested in the [...]