Yearly Archives: 1992

LATE NEWS FLASHES

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 [...]

2009-07-17T08:41:27-04:00February 17, 1992|Abortion, Pro-Life|

GAG ORDER in CALGARY ABORTION NOT MURDER IN THE CITY

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 [...]

2009-07-17T08:38:19-04:00February 17, 1992|Abortion, Pro-Life|

Nancy B., choose life! -The plea of a quadriplegic-

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 [...]

2009-07-17T08:26:56-04:00February 17, 1992|Euthanasia|

Manitoba curbs invasion of pornography

A Manitoba Court of Appeal verdict handed down November 1, effectively closed the doors of Winnipeg’s estimated 20 video-porn stores. In a split decision, a majority of the judges ruled that Manitoba’s obscenity law is constitutional. “Sexual stimulation is not protected by the charter of rights and freedoms,” the judges maintained, overturning the August 1989 arguments of Court of Queen’s Bench Justice [...]

2009-07-31T09:51:28-04:00January 31, 1992|Society & Culture|

‘Obscenity law needs tightening’

In the recent case involving a Cincinnati art gallery, jury members deemed the late Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs “lewd,” “grotesque,” and “disgusting” but still they didn’t find them obscene. The jurors had been convinced by a parade of “experts” that the pictures possessed artistic merit. Even though they thought the sexual practices depicted were patently offensive, the weight of the defense testimony made [...]

2009-07-31T09:50:11-04:00January 31, 1992|Society & Culture|

Ontario rescuers sentenced

On November 20, 1990, ten Toronto rescuers appeared before Judge Mercer. They were represented by counselor, Paul Chumak. Charges went back to July 14, 1990, when the ten pro-lifers were arrested and charged with mischief and blocking the entrance to Dr. Monole Buruiana’s abortuary in the east end of Toronto. Receiving sentence were: Adriana Bannon, Stratford George Denish, London Rev. Ken Campbell, [...]

2009-07-29T10:53:28-04:00January 29, 1992|Abortion, Activism, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

UPDATE – RELIGION

Alberta Report On November 7, the editor of the Edmonton Catholic weekly, the Western Catholic Reporter (WCR), was fired. He had been hired August 1. According to Mr. John Gill, lawyer and member of the WCR board, Mr. Rodney Stafford-Mayer was dismissed because the newspaper’s board of directors “were not generally satisfied with the way he was performing his job.” Reports that [...]

2009-07-29T09:49:07-04:00January 29, 1992|Pro-Life, Religion, Society & Culture|

Sex education is anti-education, says author

Dartmouth, N.S. – Some 250 people gathered here November 9-11 for the first Human Life International strategy weekend in the Atlantic area. Randy Engel, editor, award winning journalist, and author of the recently published Sex Education: The Final Plague, was one of the speakers. “There is no good form of classroom sex education, any more than there can be a good form [...]

2009-07-29T09:21:33-04:00January 29, 1992|Society & Culture|

Union wants to ‘crucify’ teachers

Peace River (FNIF) Teachers in northern British Columbia endure religious persecution from the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. Two dozen teachers in the Peace River area, most of them Protestants, received notice in a BCTF Newsletter that the organization planned to “nail them to their respective crosses” after they defied union picket lines last spring to continue teaching. The two dozen are part of [...]

2009-07-17T09:07:40-04:00January 17, 1992|Religion, Society & Culture|

Ontario’s Bill 125 ends public school religion

For years a few atheists and influential sectors of the Jewish community have lobbied to ban Christianity from public schools in Ontario and elsewhere. Christianity in public schools, it must be understood, meant Protestantism.  Public schools in Ontario had always been Protestant schools.  That’s why from the 1840’s onwards, Catholics in Ontario fought to have their own schools. In recent years, the [...]

2009-07-17T08:13:13-04:00January 17, 1992|Religion, Society & Culture|

Religion ebbs in public schools

Toronto – The Ministry of Education policy allowing only education about religion, effective from the beginning of 1991, has been the subject of mixed reviews. It is seen by some as an attempt to be fair to all.  Others view it as a non-solution to the problem it attempts to address.  Under the new policy, boards of education are permitted to offer [...]

2009-07-17T08:08:27-04:00January 17, 1992|Religion, Society & Culture|

Rosary for Life, Canada

Rosary for Life Canada hosted its second annual world-wide Rosary for Life in London, Ontario, on October 12. The event began with Mass for the protection of the unborn in Holy Rosary Church.  Afterwards, over one hundred participants formed a procession to Victoria Hospital to pray the Rosary for the conversion of abortionists and their supporters. Other groups were praying the Rosary [...]

2009-07-17T08:04:47-04:00January 17, 1992|Abortion, Pro-Life, Pro-life Groups, Religion|

European Court upholds Irish ban

On October 4, the European Community Court of Justice handed down its verdict in the Abortion Information Case. Outlaw The verdict upholds the right of the Irish State to outlaw the supplying of information about abortion services by officers of the students’ Union of Dublin’s Universities. Unfortunately, the court confined its ruling to the circumstances of the particular case referred to it [...]

2009-07-17T12:27:52-04:00January 17, 1992|Abortion, Society & Culture|

Calgary abortionist meets opposition

Alberta abortion entrepreneur Theodore Busheikin, apparently not satisfied with traveling some 300 km every week to Edmonton to ply his grisly trade there, plans to open an abortion mill in his hometown of Calgary as soon as possible.  But the abortionist is meeting opposition at every turn. The Hillhurst community (in Calgary) erupted with anger when the site of his future ‘clinic’ [...]

2009-07-17T07:56:28-04:00January 17, 1992|Abortion|

Where have all the families gone?

It’s impossible these days to open a newspaper or turn on the radio or TV without reading or hearing or seeing more about violence towards women. There are numerous articles in papers and magazines analyzing this sad and shocking phenomenon and suggesting solutions. There is some truth in most of these opinions, but I don’t think I have read anywhere the suggestion [...]

2009-07-17T07:47:18-04:00January 17, 1992|Marriage and Family, Motherhood|
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