How do we answer those who claim that we cannot say when any one human life begins because all human life is a continuum? F.R. Winnipeg. The late Dr. Daniel C. Overduin, the well-known Australian Lutheran theologian, once said that the best way to be able to answer the question regarding the beginning of our life is simply by going backward in [...]
The Cairo Conference on Population has passed into history and as it does, it is important for us to put it into some historical perspective. I call it a conference on population because that is just what it was. Though officially called a conference on Development and Population, the draft agreement addressed only a few paragraphs to the issue of development. Specifically, [...]
Small hearts “God has created a world big enough for all the lives He wishes to be born. It is only our hearts that are not big enough to want them and accept them.” Mother Teresa, speaking on the Cairo conference on Population and Development. (International Right to Life press release, Sept. 7, 1994) U.S. dominance “This is not a United Nations [...]
In early October the headlines of many press stories proudly proclaimed that in 1992, 100,497 abortions were performed in Canada. Statistics Canada had just released its latest numbers on the industry: 275 babies are killed every day; 12 are killed every hour. For every four babies born alive in this country, one is aborted. Perhaps a visitor from another planet might have [...]
Rose Roseanne Skoke, Tom Wappel and Dan McTeague. Liberal MPs who endured political and media backlash to speak up for the majority of Canadians. During a Commons debate on a Criminal Code sentencing bill, Skoke said that sexual orientation does not merit special protection under the law because homosexual practice is immoral, unnatural and a threat to Canadian families. Thorn UNICEF. For [...]
Preparing for the road ahead “Politics, even more than misery, makes Strange bed-fellows” Francis W. Grey Signs pointed the way through the winding roads of Langley, B.C. to Gerry and Margaret’s place. It was time to join Senator Gerry St. Germaine and wife Margaret’s annual end of summer barbecue. When the invitation came we asked, “why?” Then again with all the pressures [...]
The sexual revolution coincided with “flower power” and the arrival of The Pill. But the sexual revolution of the ’90s has a whole new flavour. Consider the evidence. In July, more than 7,100 teenagers attending the National Baptist Federation conference in Hull, brought thousands of pledge forms signed by their peers across Canada, promising to abstain from sex until marriage. The pledges [...]