In the early morning hours of March 7, fax machines in the newsrooms of British Columbia were buzzing with the message “Rescue in progress. Stop the violence.” Responding to the many voices echoing the significance of International Women’s week, three women with equally important message decided to do their part to expose a view often downplayed by the media. “In trying to [...]
A survey of federal politicians by the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League has confirmed what pro-lifers established during the election campaign. MP Jean Augustine (Etobicoke-Lakeshore), former principal at a Catholic high school, is one of a large number of politicians who have had their true colours revealed. The survey by the abortion lobby group reveals 61 federal MPs are “pro-choice,” 21 “waffle,’ [...]
It’s been a generation since the struggle began. May 14 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the infamous Omnibus Bill, passed by the federal Liberals under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Justice Minister John Turner, which legalized widespread abortion in Canada. The pro-life movement has been there from the beginning, dogging the steps of the abortion movement and providing a witness to the [...]
Svend Robinson’s private Member’s bill, which aims to change the Criminal Code with regards to euthanasia, has been declared non-votable by a Parliamentary committee. No official reasons have been given but Ottawa insiders suggest that further-reaching, Liberal-backed legislation will replace it. •••• American Life League predicts that President Clinton’s Fiscal Year 1995 budget for world population control will hit $585 million, a [...]
THE MONTH IN REVIEW Radical feminist censorship A group calling themselves P.O.W. (Pissed off Women) broke into the editorial offices of a University of Miami student-run newspaper, The Hurricane, and destroyed 10,000 pro-life supplements which were to be inserted into the paper’s next edition. The destroyed newspaper supplement is a 12-page, full colour mini-newspaper called She’s a Child. Not a Choice. Over [...]
On Feb. 3, 1994 Mother Teresa spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. Before an audience of 3,000, which included President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore, Mother Teresa called for an end to abortion, “the greatest destroyer of peace today.” A disconcerted Clinton did not take part in the standing ovation which followed the speech. Observers called it the [...]
I once read that as one gets older all Christmas memories blend into one. There is some truth in this saying, but there are certain Christmases that stand out in one’s memory as clearly today, as decades ago. For me, Christmas 1943 is such a memory. It was war-time in England, and Christmas shopping was very different from today. Not only was [...]
LORDS FOR LIFE In mid-February, Britain’s House of Lords unanimously rejected a call for England to follow the Dutch lead and liberalize their euthanasia laws. The Lords felt that any acceptance of euthanasia would, “place pressures on elderly and vulnerable people to request it,” and that it would be “next to impossible to ensure that all acts of euthanasia were truly voluntary.” [...]
This past January-eighteen years after leaving Calcutta for Canada, Saraden Bok visited the orphanage she had been raised in, and the woman who had saved her life, Mother Teresa. At Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, “Home of the Little Children,” not much has changed. One hundred and fifty babies sleeo on the top floor while a hundred young children are housed on the lower [...]
Pro-lifers have always wondered where the movement would be if the churches were solidly behind them. Standing out on the picket line, or organizing for another election, they often ask what it would be like if, with one voice, churches of all denominations in this country put their values into action and came down solidly in opposition to the rampant anti-life ethic [...]
Ontario’s NDP government has launched a program which is a major assault on freedom of speech, and has profound implications for pro-life people in the province. The government has issued a “zero tolerance” program which it expects universities across the province to adopt. The policy is an attempt to stamp out all forms of discrimination in the province’s post secondary institutions. It [...]
The Association of Lesbians and Gays of Ottawa is throwing its support behind Sears Canada for its decision to extend family benefits to same-sex partners. “People like myself who might not normally shop at Sears will alter their shopping habits,” said Anne Molgat of the Ottawa-based gay and lesbian lobby group. “I support companies who support my community.” Sears announced in a [...]
Andree Ruffo is co-chairperson of Canada’s international Year of the Family Committee. A Quebec Youth Court Judge, Ruffo is considered a maverick by her supporters, but others see her controversial statements and decisions as arrogant and not in the best interests of children despite her claims to the contrary. Her frustration with the juvenile justice system and with the dysfunctional families she [...]
At a press conference January 13, 1994, Wyeth-Ayerst Canada announced plans to start distribution of the controversial. Norplant birth control device in March, 1994. Six paper matchstick size capsules, 35 mm long x 2.4 mm in diameter, are placed under the skin of the upper arm of the woman, steadily releasing a synthetic hormone to inhibit ovulation. The “contraceptive” implant was developed [...]
A few weeks ago, on the advice of my friend Vince Robson, I watched a television show called “What’s Wrong with the World?” When one of the speakers, psychiatrist, was asked his opinion, he said, “The answer is very simple. The world was given to us with a set of rules called the Ten Commandments. If these had been observed we wouldn’t [...]