“LIVES OF GREAT ONES ALL REMIND US, WE CAN MAKE OUR LIVES SUBLIME; AND DEPARTING LEAVE BEHIND US, FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME.” In her beautiful book, Silhouettes Against the Snow, Grace Petrasek devoted the first chapter to Laura McArthur. Although it was written some time before Laura’s death, it is an eloquent tribute to one who, in a very special [...]
Ottawa. Sex clinics have become permanent fixtures in Ottawa high schools. After operating as pilot projects out of five Ottawa schools for the past two years, school board trustees voted last month to make the “ health clinics” permanent. Trustee Molly O’Connor says she voted in favour of the clinics because students and parents want the counseling and contraceptives they provide. “ [...]
Some people on the Montreal Catholic School Commission can’t seem to take no for an answer. After pressing for the installation of condom machines in Montreal’s high schools last spring (a motion that was defeated in August 1991,despite media support), commissioners representing the Movement pour une Ecole Moderne et Ouverte (MEMO) were trying again at the November 1991 meeting. They proposed that [...]
“Aids in this country remains overwhelmingly a gay disease. Why don’t we say this? Why does every AIDS campaign I have seen pretend an equality of risk? Perhaps we could all get AIDS, but in fact only a certain limited category of men are mostly getting it,” the Globe and Mail’s science columnist Stephen Strauss wrote a little over two years ago. [...]
In The News… Forthcoming Encyclical on Morality Rome The Roman whisper was that the encyclical was ready in October 1990, complete with the title Veritatis Splendor, ( The Splendour of Truth). Then it ran into objections from the theologically-minded German Bishops, according to the rumors. This sent Cardinal Ratzinger back to the drawing board. Be that as it may, Cardinal Ratzinger, perfect [...]
James Brooks is on the job. Mr. Brooks, a long-time Campaign Life Coalition supporter spotted an ad in Time magazine ( November 11,1991). It made his blood boil. At first glance, Mr. Brooks thought it was an ad for Eaton’s department store. Actually it was an ad for Andrew Fezza, a manufacturer of high quality men’s clothing. With quality clients like Holt [...]
Against the (false) accusation that pro-life people don’t care for the economic and social quandary of women thinking about abortion stands Mary Cunningham Agee, executive director of the Nurturing Network. Mrs. Agee- business woman, mother and Christian- established the Nurturing Network in the aftermath of a miscarriage: ”If I could feel the intensity of pain and loss of a child I wanted,” [...]
Pro –life. What Image does that word bring to mind? Placard waving ‘fanatics’ or warm caring individuals? For one women on the phone, the image I snow warm and caring. Late one August night in 1991, Marilyn (not her real name) saw an ad on TV offering to help pregnant women. “ I was scheduled to have an abortion,” she says, “but [...]
Pennsylvania Washington D.C. On January 21,1992, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the 1989 Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act. Planned parenthood v. Casey is the first abortion law to come before the Court in 1992. The Pennsylvania law ensures a woman’s right to know the facts about the development of her unborn child and the alternatives to abortion. In ruling on the [...]
The Tory caucus in Ottawa is split on the issue of homosexual rights. Justice Minister Kim Cambell wants to fulfill a promise made by John Crosbie when he was Justice Minister six years ago to add “ sexual orientation” to the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act. A number of conservative MPs agree with her. Others [...]
On March 25, New Brunswick Health Minister Russell King introduced legislation to seize control of the province’s thirty-three hospitals. Just over a week later, the bill had passed through its three readings and become law. The hospital boards had ceased to exist, to be replaced by regional boards under the direction of the Health Minister when these are set up. Given the [...]
Montague, PEI. In December, 1991 students here in south-eastern PEI petitioned the school board to install condom dispensing machines in the regional high school. The first such request in the province, it caused a furor. The students claimed to have some teacher support. The school superintendent said, “ I have no difficulty with the suggestion, but the board makes the decision.” This [...]
A family physician answers Pro-life physician Dr.Larry Reynolds believes that when women achieve equality they will demand to know the truth about the consequences of abortion to women, and the pro-life position will be validated. One hot night last summer at 3 a.m., Dr.Larry Reynolds delivered a baby boy at St. Joseph’s Hospital in London, Ontario. After a few hours’ sleep, he [...]
A telephone life-line: Ita Venner The soft voice on the telephone sounded close to tears as the question was whispered; ‘is this where I can get some information about having an abortion?” An equally soft voice, but cheerful with the lilt of an Irish brogue, answered, “I’ll help you in any way I can. Why do you want to abort your baby?” [...]
The “librarian’s choice” bookshelf, prominently located opposite the checkout desk in our small, impoverished library, displayed five copies of Eleanor Pelrine’s adulatory biography of abortionist Henry Morgentaler for months after its publication. Meditate on the chances of finding five copies – of finding one copy – of Grace Petrasek’s charming and heartening Silhouettes Against The Snow: Profiles of Canadian Defenders of Life [...]