“IN ALL MY WANDERINGS IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE GRACE OF GOD IS IN COURTESY.” So wrote the famous English writer of the 1930s, Hilaire Belloc. As this is my first column for 1992 – the January column was written in December 1991 – I was trying to think of something positive as a subject. Then on Sunday last I happened [...]
At its annual strategy meeting in Halifax, N.S., in November 1991 Campaign Life Coalition asked all Canadians to reject the appeal of Mr. Ed Broadbent for a ‘penny per Canadian’ to raise $250,000 for the International Centre for Human Rights in Montreal. “CLC Canada condemns the Centre’s plan to provide funds for pro-abortion propaganda in Poland, as announced in the Centre’s press [...]
“It is difficult to conclude that Nancy has good reason to shorten her life.” Kurt Gayle’s thoughtful letter together with a re-examination of the principles involved in such cases and further information about Nancy’s condition, has in face led me to a different conclusion from the one I reached before. People hold very strong opinions about whether or not suicide and euthanasia [...]
Editor: On January 6, 1992 Mr. Justice Jaques Dufour handed down his ruling in favour of Nancy B’s request to discontinue her respirator. The following is a summary of his conclusions. Judge Jaques Dufour “It would be nature taking its course.” Summary The plaintiff, Nancy B., is twenty-five years old. She suffers from a progressive motor paralysis caused by Guillain-Barré syndrome. She [...]
HINA SCHOLAR John Aird worked with others in his field to distinguish between the versions of the one-child policy produced for Western consumption (and often decked out in ‘freedom of choice’ phrasing), and instructions to Communist Party cadres who actually implement the policy. They’re eye-opening: • “Those who insist on having a second or excessive birth must be treated according to the [...]
The western population lobby is reluctant to condemn China’s brutal and repressive birth control program for one critical reason: it works. So concludes China scholar John S. Aird in The slaughter of the Innocents: Coercive Birth Control in China, a painstaking and definitive history of Communist China’s inhuman experiment in social engineering. Working with other China watchers, Mr. Aird has assembled irrefutable [...]
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 [...]