Yearly Archives: 1992

What’s Wrong with This Picture? Everything!

Producer: Second Look Community Arts, Toronto, 1990 Funding: Health and Welfare Canada -- $69,000.00, Ontario Ministry of Health, City of Toronto Board of Health, AIDS Prevention Program Classification: Confused Do you know what your 12-year old could hearr in her grad 7 class if she’s shown What’s Wrong with This Picture? “Out there under the full moon, it’s easy to forget your [...]

2009-07-24T09:05:28-04:00August 24, 1992|Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

Canadians misled about AIDS

“Gov’t ‘consistently misled’ Canadians about AIDS” …So the Sault Ste Marie Star headlined a story last August 24, 1991, beginning a series prepared by a news team from the Hamilton Spectator. The report as a whole confirmed what The Interim has been saying for the last five or six years. In itself AIDS is not a disease threatening the general population (though [...]

2009-07-24T09:03:44-04:00August 24, 1992|Bioethics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

Childbirth choices reflect mother’s priorities

Traditionally, men have been encouraged to indulge their wives a little during pregnancy. There is a certain stereotype of the poor soul making the rounds of the 7-Elevens at some ungodly hour searching for a particular flavor of ice cream. And although husbands may not understand how a $40 haircut is going to get a woman through the ninth month, chances are [...]

2009-07-24T08:53:22-04:00August 24, 1992|Motherhood, Society & Culture|

Surrogate Motherhood

An ethicist summed up the problems with surrogate motherhood as follows: 1.    Surrogate motherhood violates the marriage covenant between husband and wife. 2.    – dehumanizes the procreative process. 3.    – exploits women, especially those who take money for the use of their bodies. 4.    – treats the child as a commodity. 5.    – subverts the child’s relationship with his or her mother. [...]

2009-07-24T08:43:02-04:00August 24, 1992|Bioethics|

You were asking

Is there any solid scientific evidence of differences between IVF babies and those conceived normally? W.K.P., Toronto. Dr. Patricia Baird, who is chairing the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, has quoted a number of studies on the subject in recent speeches. She has made the following observations: in Vitro-fertilization results in more multiple births; in the general population these are 1:100; [...]

2009-07-24T08:41:37-04:00August 24, 1992|Abortion, Bioethics|

Update – Religion

“Species out of control?” Rio’s United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, held from June 3-14, 1992, was opened by the Conference’s secretary-general, Canadian-born Maurice Strong. “The human race,” Strong declared solemnly, is a “species out of control.” Strong is a New Age devotee and a member of the Club of Rome, which predicted in 1972 that the world would run [...]

2009-07-24T08:27:11-04:00August 24, 1992|Population, Society & Culture|

Public morality, new or old?

In a recent article entitled “Goodbye to Catholic Ireland” (Tablet, June 27) a well-known British pro-life writer, Mary Kenny, writes: “the law is shifting to reflect a preference for ‘private choice’ over the more archaic notion of the State as the guardian of public morality.” Please spot the error, one which is common to those who mistake secularism for neutrality, or tolerance, [...]

2009-07-24T08:23:44-04:00August 24, 1992|Abortion, Editorials, Pro-Life, Religion, Society & Culture|

Politics over truth

On May 13, 1992, after six months of waiting, the NDP government of Saskatchewan made its decision not to halt provincial funding of abortion, even though 63 per cent of Saskatchewan voters voted to end abortion funding in the election of October 21, 1991. According to the government, it would be “illegal and unconstitutional” to do so! This statement is totally false [...]

2009-07-24T08:20:26-04:00August 24, 1992|Abortion, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

Manitoba dilemma

When Morgentaler went to court seeking payment for abortions performed at his Winnipeg clinic, he won his case but didn’t get his money. On June 12, Judge Vern Simonsen agreed that it was discriminatory for Manitoba to pay for abortions done in hospitals but not in clinics; the Health Act did not give anyone authority to exclude medical services on the basis [...]

2009-07-24T08:11:27-04:00August 24, 1992|Abortion, Society & Culture|

Once more, with feelings

Ninety days for Lianne Laurence Lianne Laurence, 32, was arrested at Morgentaler’s Edmonton abortuary for the ninth time on Monday, 29 June 1992, Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The next day she was sentenced to 90 days in jail. Lianne had gone on the morning to picket on the west side of 150th Street. Morgentaler is located on the East side. [...]

2009-07-24T08:07:56-04:00August 24, 1992|Abortion, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

Liberals opt for feminist agenda

Ottawa: – Liberal party policies have been announced by Chaviva Hosek, a director of Jean Chrétien’s National Liberal Committee, in a June 5, 1992 response to a questionnaire from NAC, the National Action Committee of Canada’s feminists. Hosek, a former Ontario MPP and Housing Minister, is totally committed to the feminist agenda. She herself is a former president of NAC and her [...]

2009-07-24T07:59:52-04:00August 24, 1992|Abortion, Pro-Life, Religion, Society & Culture|

Toronto School Board allows “gays” to proselytize

The following report covers another shocking development in the Public School Board of Toronto. In our July issue (front page) The Interim reported that the Board had accepted a sex education program exposing students to homosexual propaganda. The same trustees have now voted to allow homosexual teachers to solicit the 74,000 students in the Toronto public schools to join their sodomite lifestyle. [...]

2009-07-24T07:55:15-04:00August 24, 1992|Society & Culture|

Canada in the news

Abuse of Canada Council Ottawa, Ont. – MP Don Boudria (Lib. Glengarry), who helped quash a bill to legalize mercy killing last winter, expressed outrage that Vancouver’s John Hofsess is using Canada Council money to promote his Right to Die Society. In a newsletter obtained by the Ottawa Sun, Hofsess said that he wanted to buy television time to show people “the [...]

The Gervais homily of May 3: some reflections

Part 1: L’informateur catholique The Bishop’s criticism…introduces elements of ambiguity and even contradiction. On May 3, 1992, Ottawa’s Archbishop Marcel Gervais addressed the Human Life International (HLI) Conference during a closing liturgy. American-based HLI is the world’s largest Catholic pro-life group. Through his homily the Archbishop, who is also the President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), hoped to reach [...]

2009-07-24T07:36:13-04:00July 24, 1992|Abortion, Pro-Life, Religion, Society & Culture|

OECTA obstructs battle for identity

The Toronto-based Catholic Register (February 29, 1992) pointed out that “the clock is ticking” for Ontario’s Catholic Schools. “Unless a few lines, inserted into the Ontario Education Act of 1986, are repealed,” stated the editorial, “the separate school system will begin to lose most of its Catholic identity in September 1995.” “From then on our school boards will no longer be allowed [...]

2009-07-24T07:31:08-04:00July 24, 1992|Religion, Society & Culture|
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