In the early stages of this election campaign, there was much discussion in pro-life circles over the way in which economic issues were going to overtake moral issues as the prime subject of political debate. I think we are fooling ourselves if we believe that abortion will ever become the major issue on which an election is decided. This is not at [...]
Rose NDP candidates who broke party lines over abortion. The Interim salutes the few and brave NDP election hopefuls who answered “yes” to a Campaign Life Coalition questionnaire asking whether they would support measures to pass a law to protect every pre-born child from the time of conception onward and work to defeat any pro-euthanasia legislation. Please see election insert for their [...]
Would you vote for a person who believes that the answer to Canada’s economic problems is to kill people? Of course not, you say, such a position is totally unacceptable. And yet, you will be doing precisely this, unless you look at where your candidates stand on abortion and euthanasia, and then vote pro-life on October 25. Well, the life issues are [...]
“Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station.”……..Joseph Addison The Conservatives have lost touch with the people. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Kim Campbell’s Vancouver Centre riding. As we watch her flip-flopping around the country trying to figure out just what the voter wants to hear, [...]
Restricting abortion is a federal responsibility and should properly be dealt with in the Criminal Code by the federal government, Canada’s top court has ruled. The Supreme Court has again declined to address the individual rights of pre-born children, leaving it to Parliament to deal with the issue. Campaign Life Coalition leaders, working for legislation which respects life, say the ruling makes [...]
Take the Interim election quiz and see why you should vote pro-life. Question # 1 A Gallup Poll (August 2, 1993) showed that 66 per cent of Canadians think that abortion should be illegal under certain circumstances. Do you feel that abortion should be provided on demand? YES [ ] NO [ ] Question #2 According to an Environics Poll (November 25, [...]
Last election it was free trade. This time it’s jobs and the deficit. The economy is front and centre again among the candidates, the media and most voters and this hampers efforts to get the pro-lifers elected to Parliament To counter this, pro-life election organizers across the country are loudly proclaiming the urgent need to vote pro-life. The political arm of the [...]
PUT JACK IN JAIL It took 17 deaths before a Michigan prosecutor finally decided to charge Jack Kevorkian of assisting in a suicide. Kevorkian has clearly broken the law and should serve the four years in prison but it does not seem likely he will serve any time. Kevorkian’s lawyer Geoffrey Fieger has publicly dared prosecutors to charge his client and appears [...]
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick Try finding a movie acceptable to two middle-aged males (who prefer the shoot ‘em up macho stereotype), one middle aged female (who rarely goes to the movies because of the no-smoking policy) and one 18-year-old female (who rarely goes to anything with anyone over the age of 25). The other three honoured my choice [...]
The publicity surrounding the custody fight over two-and-a-half-year-old Jessica de Boer has prompted a lot of emotional discussion about the rights of people involved in adoption. After mounting an intensive media campaign, Jessica’s adoptive parents won in the court of public opinion but the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court were not persuaded. They granted custody of the little girl to her [...]
Queen’s Park, Ont. A few months ago I was summoned to serve my jury duty. The first thing that I did was call Clare Dodds, the legal counsel for Campaign Life Coalition, with a bad case of apoplexy. “Get me out of this!” I begged. Calmly Clare told me that it was my civic duty to serve – and I might even [...]
When Gilles Grondin was posted in Niger, West Africa, as Resident Representative of the United Nations, he received a worrisome telegram. His married daughter, Marie Lou, then living in Montreal, wired “Worried about pregnancy. Husband position insecure.” Gilles wired back, “Best news ever. How happy I am. Absolutely nothing to fear. Behind you one hundred percent. Is that clear? Love Papa.” Now, [...]
Life Chain organizers in both Canada and the U.S. are emphasizing the spiritual in this year’s Life Chain on October 3. Suggested prayer topics for the conversion of abortionists and all abortion industry workers. for the healing of women suffering from abortion. for the forgotten fathers of aborted children. for a law to protect human life from conception to natural death. for [...]
The Law Society of Upper Canada has Ontario’s lawyers in a fit. The Society, which governs the province’s lawyers, has proposed that new anti-discrimination rules should come into effect. It is being proposed that law firms be prohibited from discriminating against lawyers who reduce their work loads in order to take care of family responsibilities. This remarkably pro-family proposal would be a [...]
Clement Loscher (Gaithersburg, MD, Human Life Int., 1992, pp 193) How abortion entered Ireland The word “scandal” is written all over this book. It is not the scandal of a 14-year-old girl (referred to simply as X) being denied an abortion – the event which brought Dublin students into the streets chanting “keep your rosaries off our ovaries,” brought shocked denunciations from [...]