Rome The participants in the meeting of the Religious Alliance Against Pornography and representatives of the Pontifical Council for the Family on 29-30 January, 1992, released a declaration of concern and common conviction regarding the problem of pornography. “We are in unanimous agreement,” stated the Declaration, “that it is our shared responsibility to alert people to the degradation that all pornography inflicts [...]
In February of this year, in the Regina v. Butler case, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that obscenity laws are a justifiable limit on constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech. The case involved a Winnipeg video store owner, Donald Butler. Justifiable limits On this basis, Judge Ian Donald of the B.C. Supreme Court decided late in June that the City of [...]
While the North Shore and British Columbia continue to have one of the highest abortion rates in Canada, we are still below the U.S. where 40% of all pregnancies end in abortion. With the provincial government solidly behind taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, however, we can expect the numbers in this part of Canada to rise as people are led increasingly to feel that having [...]
Roe v. Wade is often compared with the Dred Scott case. Who or what was Dred Scott? M.M., St. John’s. Dred Scott was a slave. He was taken by his owner to Illinois, a ‘free’ state where slavery was not allowed, and then to the federal territory, part of the Louisiana Purchase where slavery was prohibited under the Missouri Compromise of 1820. [...]
A country rampant with AIDs, ravaged by over 20 different types of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and morally drained by thousands of teen pregnancies which end in abortion: this is the fallout created by the American government’s 20-year, $3 billion campaign to sell contraception and “safe sex” to teenagers. Tragic statistics The experiment has been an unqualified disaster and many groups throughout [...]
Consultations are under way to safeguard the mission, values and ethics of Catholic health care facilities in Saskatchewan. “Mission control is the bottom line,” Bishop Blaise Morand, of Prince Albert, told The Interim. The provincial government has proposed the establishment of 20 to 30 health districts to replace the 500 boards that now control facilities and programs. The districts will integrate, coordinate [...]
Unbending faith On September 20, 1992, CBC’s popular Sunday morning radio program Centrepoint devoted the one-hour time-slot from 11:00 – 12:00 a.m. to the program “Unbending faith: profile of the pro-life.” Put together by CBC producer Mary O’Connell, the narrative had as its Centrepoint the blowing-up of Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary the previous June. For O’Connell it raised the question whether this event [...]
Are we mere biological specimens in various stages from birth till death? Do we count ourselves fortunate to have been born and not terminated in the womb by our mothers and collaborating physicians? In that misty world, we resembled unfeathered baby birds fallen from the nest. Yet everything we are was programmed from our conception amid the interplay of family genetics. Modern [...]
Life Chain is a non-confrontational way to get across the message that abortion kills children. Whether or not the numbers participating across Canada were down slightly this year, the event got good coverage in the newspapers and definitely helped to keep the abortion issue before the public. A reporter for the Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic began her story by saying, “It’s [...]
Many readers of the Globe and Mail must have been surprised at what they found on the back page of the first section on Monday morning, October 19. In a long column, Dorothy Lipovenko asked, “Now doctors can treat a fetus as a patient, how does this affect our views on abortion?” Readers of The Interim will be familiar with this question, [...]
Pro-lifers in Ireland are now gearing up for the coming struggle to prevent the Government from introducing legislation to regulate abortion in Ireland in line with the disastrous Supreme Court ruling handed down last March. At that time the Court rules that abortion could not be refused to a woman who threatened to commit suicide. This was their interpretation of the Constitutional [...]
Bonn – On June 26 , 1992, the German parliament voted a new law giving women the right to an abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, by a majority of 357 to 284. Opposed by Chancellor Kohl’s Christian Democrats and Bavaria’s Christian Social Union, the pro-abortion ranks of the Social Democrats were increased by new deputies from East Germany, where [...]
The most important state ballot measures this November 3 will appear in five states: Arizona. Proposition 110 is an abortion initiative introduced by the Arizona Family Research Council. Put forward as “the common sense” abortion measure, this amendment to the state constitution would prohibit abortion except where the mother’s life is endangered or in cases of reported rape or incest. Maryland. Question [...]
Sixty thousand letters that swamped her Ministry, complaining about the taking over Catholic hospitals in Ontario, appear to have caused second thoughts and sent the Hon. Frances Lankin scrambling for a new position. Ms. Lankin, Ontario’s Minister of Health, stated in a closed meeting of hospital chief executive officers and members of district health councils on September 21 that her government “has [...]
In 1987, pro-lifers lined a busy intersection in Yuba City, California, holding signs such as “Abortion Kills Children” and “Jesus Forgives and Heals.” The event attracted a gathering of 2500 and the organizers, Please Let Me Live (PLML), deemed this first “Life Chain” to be a modest success. Little did they know that their rally would soon gain widespread appeal and become [...]