A Planned Parenthood (PP) Ontario policy position paper, mailed in October 1991 to all school board chairpersons in the province, recommends mandatory attendance for sex ed programmes. These “should start in kindergarten and continue to grade 12,” the paper urges. But PP Ontario alleges the following problems with provincial sex ed programs. • “A lack of standardized content because the Ministry of [...]
ANNOUNCEMENT THE INTERIM IS CONCLUDING ITS DISCUSSION OF FULLY ALIVE IN ITS FEBRUARY ISSUE. ANYONE WISHING TO PARTICIPATE SHOULD SEND US A LETTER RIGHT AWAY. CUT OFF DATE WILL BE JANUARY 13. Subheadings and numbers have been added to some letters in order to aid comprehension. ‘Overwhelmingly positive’ To the Editor: I am bewildered by the overwhelmingly negative perspective in the October [...]
How many abortions are performed worldwide each year? L.A., Vancouver No one really knows. The most recent ‘guesstimate’ I have seen is 70 million, but the number could be much higher. Added to these abortions are the very early abortions caused by abortifacients such as Intra-Uterine Devices (IUDs) and birth-control pills; it is suggested that these could triple the 70 million. Does [...]
Dr. Robert McClure was the first layman to serve as Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1968-1971). He died at the age of 91 on November 10, 1991. There were many tributes to a life of astonishing variety and achievement. During his life he had received many honours. McClure had served as a medical missionary for 25 years in China. He [...]
In Canada we are affected by events in the pro-life arena in the U.S. as much as in any other area. Canadian and U.S. pro-life people should support each other and work together, just as our adversaries on both sides of the border do. In Saskatchewan we have the opportunity to do that by joining the Focus on Fargo. Merchants of Fargo [...]
Teresa Ann Parsons passed away in Sherwood Park, near Edmonton, Alberta, on October 8, 1991 at the age of 60. Mrs. Parsons pioneered pro-life educational work in Alberta in the early 1970’s. She was a founding member of Coalition for Life in 1973. Mrs. Parsons was very effective in presenting the pro-life argument in the media. Since the mid-1970s she was Executive [...]
NATIONAL BORDERS ARE NOT IMPORTANT IN GOD’S EYES. WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT IS THAT ALL PEOPLE RESPECT THE LAW OF GOD AND IN PARTICULAR THE SANCTITY OF LIFE. IF BABIES ARE NOT SAFE EVERYWHERE THEY ARE NOT SAFE ANYWHERE. Mike Gerrety Police Chief Mike Gerrety had only six years to go before retirement on a comfortable pension. He might have retreated from [...]
The case of Nancy B., a young Quebec woman of 24, exposed the confusion over euthanasia which exists among members of the legal and medical professions and the media. Nancy suffers from a rare neurological disease called Guillain-Barré syndrome, which is curable in most cases but not in hers. The brain and spinal cord remain intact, but the disease attacks the central [...]
• A Commons committee holds hearings on the Robert Wenman bill (intended to protect doctors who might have hastened the deaths of terminally ill patients); • The State of Washington holds a referendum on legalized euthanasia (it lost, but in a very close vote, 54 to 46 per cent); • Derek Humphrey’s suicide book Final Exit, is a bestseller. (A Montreal woman [...]