While I was staying at a well-known respected motel recently, my husband and I observed that the pay-per-view box in our room featured, among other titles, Deep Throat. Just about the only pornographic movie title I’ve ever heard, I remembered that I had known someone who was arrested for showing it to a group of engineering students nearly 20 years ago. Today, [...]
My first editor used to tell me never to put my trust in special groups. He said a good journalist should ask tough questions and go beyond the press releases and the sound bites. Maybe the rules are different when the subject is abortion. Consider the latest call by the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League for a “multi-site injunction” to curtail pro-life [...]
Two issues ago, Anneliese Steden wrote of her disgust that her local library had purchased Madonna’s book Sex. In last month’s issue, Dana Colarusso cautioned against censorship in general. It is not censorship for a publicly-funded library to refuse to purchase Sex. If people want to read Madonna’s views – and look at the photographs of her in various nude poses in [...]
For over two decades, UNICEF officials in Canada have consistently denied that their organization plays any part in disturbing contraceptives (most of which are abortifacient), or in promoting abortion or sterilization. Official records, however, tell a different story, and the history of UNICEF’s changes in policy shows just how far it has departed from its original mandate. To forestall UNICEF being attacked [...]
Due solely to the efforts of one exceptional girl, the Federal government has announced positive steps toward reducing television violence. Virginnie Lariviere, a fourteen-year old from Polycarp, PQ, presented a petition asking for legislation “with teeth.” So far, the nation-wide petition has garnered over 1.5 million signatures. Some of her petition’s recommendations included a ban on violent shows which are aimed at [...]
This April, I have been invited to give two talks in the United States. The subject is “The Family” which is in such jeopardy these days that it deserves much attention. Experts says, “The family is coming apart at the seams. There are as many divorces as there are marriages. In the U.S. 50% of marriages break up within a few years [...]
Abortionists in the U.S. have introduced a gruesome new way to ply their trade and pro-lifers are hoping that it never makes an appearance in Canada. The new procedure, called dilation and extraction (D&X), is capable of shocking the most hardened observer. During the D&X, the unborn and unanesthetized baby us delivered feet first. When all but the head, which remains in [...]
Is it true that the embryo comes from only a part of the cell after the ovum in fertilized? M.P. Toronto What happens is that soon after fertilization the first cell—the zygote—undergoes a rapid series of cell divisions, and within a few days the cells separate into two groups. One group, the smaller inner portions of the cells, gives rise to the [...]
The ordeal has ended for Linda Gibbons. The pro-life prisoner of conscience met friends and well-wishers in Toronto after her release from jail March 18. She served four moths of a six month sentence which she spent in four different jails. This was her seventh time in jail since 1989 and she served almost continually since September of 1992. “It’s great getting [...]
A pro-life witness who complained that she was intimidated by a CBC producer has been vindicated by a House of Commons Committee who found the producer to be “over-zealous.” The Standing Committee on House Management investigated the complaint following a question of privilege raised in the House of Commons by pro-life MP Don Boudria. The case involves the testimony of Cheryl Eckstein [...]
Svend Robinson hired as her spokesman and fundraiser Sue Rodriguez formally disassociated herself from John Hofsess and his Right to Die Society following his latest public-relations blunder in announcing that her death would become a public spectacle. In mid-March. Hofsess announced that more than one doctor, and at least two spectators would be on hand to “assist” Ms Rodriguez in her suicide [...]
Svend Robinson hired as her spokesman and fundraiser Sue Rodriguez formally disassociated herself from John Hofsess and his Right to Die Society following his latest public-relations blunder in announcing that her death would become a public spectacle. In mid-March. Hofsess announced that more than one doctor, and at least two spectators would be on hand to “assist” Ms Rodriguez in her [...]
Canadian’s are saying their goodbyes to Brian Mulroney – most with more than a little joy in their voices. They might be wise to restrain their enthusiastic voices alleluias. Mulroney’s replacement as Prime Minister will be essentially the same. And the leader after that, and the leader after that, will be cut from the same mould—unless we are willing to make some [...]
No betrayal “I cannot vote for a bill that would take human life. To do so, to me, would be a betrayal of all the things I have tried to stand for in my personal and public life.” Liberal MP Maurice, Dionne (Mirimachi), who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, speaking against the Waddell motion in the House of Commons this motion which would [...]
Stan Wilbee, Doug Fee, Fernand Jourdenais, Jesse Flis, Bob Horner, Dennis Mills, Peter McCreath, Maurice Dionne and Don Blenkarn. MPs whose speeches helped them kill the Ian Waddell motion which recommended that the government consider a bill legalizing euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. The Toronto Star. For blatantly irresponsible coverage of the Florida tragedy. Instead of presenting the facts, the paper chose [...]