At the height of the Lillehammer Olympics, pro-lifers grabbed international attention with the theft of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” a priceless Norvegian masterpiece. A pro-life Lutheran minister told the media the painting would “emerge again” if the national TV station runs The Silent Scream, a pro-life movie made by Dr. Bernard Nathanson. So far Rev. Borre Knudsen has been cautious about revealing [...]
At his earliest opportunity following the death of Sue Rodriguez. MP Svemd Robinson introduced a bill in the House of Commons to legalize physician assisted suicide. Bill C-215 would amend s.241 of the Criminal code to read: “No qualified medical practitioner commits an offence where the practitioner aids a terminally ill person to commit suicide a) at the request of and with [...]
In December 1993, The American Medical Association adopted five strong policy statements against the practice of physician assisted suicide. “Physician assisted suicide is fundamentally inconsistent with the physician’s professional role.” “It’s critical that the medical profession redouble its efforts to ensure that dying patients are provided optimal treatment for their pain and other discomfort. The use of more aggressive comfort care measures, [...]
Toronto. It’s not yet Christmas time, but the Ontario NDP government is in a very giving mood. An investigative reporter in Toronto estimates that the government of Ontario has spent over a million dollars of taxpayers’ dollars in legal fees in its attempt to ban all pro-life activism. The court case which was concluded at the end of August involved months of [...]
Gallic wit and charm abound in this remarkable 24-minute video which touches on so many facets of the pro-life movement. In A Visit With Dr. Jerome Lejeune, famed French geneticist Dr. Jerome Lejeune is at his incisive best as he charitably and amusingly demolishes anti-life myths. Lejeune recently brought his message of hope and humour to this side of the Atlantic. His [...]
Just a day before last New Year’s Eve, the editorialists at the Globe and Mail announced that the birth of twins to a 59-year-old British woman on Christmas Day “triggered ethical alarm bells around the world.” (Although nobody commented on the birth date, I would be willing to bet that it was a deliberately timed, induced delivery.) I think the writers had [...]
Sifting through reams of research, including various articles on Freemasonry and the New World Order, among other things, it was time to close the file and begin again. Somehow it seems impossible to escape these two subjects. Something keeps drawing me back. Perhaps it is a morbid curiosity or some illusionary power that somehow might be instrumental in making a difference in [...]
When restrictions against abortion began to fall about twenty-five years ago, few people took seriously the doomsayers who warned against the slippery slope. If we are to criticize them today, however, it is only to say that their imaginations were not wild enough. While musing on two recent stories of modern Doctor Frankensteins, I envisioned a scenario where a young woman became [...]
Terry Anderson (New York, Crown Publishers, pp320, $29.95) How long could you stay sane locked in leg irons, blindfolded, housed on little more than a mattress, fearing torture and death at the whim of your captors, uncertain whether the person you love the most will be waiting for you should you survive? One year? Two? Three at the most? On March 16, [...]
The schizophrenia in the Ontario health-care system has never been more apparent than now with revelations that the abortion clinics are receiving millions of dollars annually while the province is making drastic cuts in its overall health budget, jeopardizing the quality of services available to seriously ill people. What it takes from some groups, the NDP government gives to others; it all [...]
“When people die, my name doesn’t go on it.” This is how Suzanne Scorsone, a member of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, sums up how she decided which of its recommendations to disagree with. The Commission submitted its final report to the federal government last November. Just before Christmas, Dr. Scorsone spoke to the Interim about her work on the [...]
As 1994 is “The Year of the Family” I have been reading a lot about the subject and I thought it might be a good idea to share my research. People often ask, “What does a priest know about a family anyhow? He doesn’t have one.” Well, I don’t profess to be an expert, but I was not dropped straight from Heaven. [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that a law which was originally designed to protect legitimate businesses from organized crime, can now be used by abortion centres against pro-life demonstrators. In a January 24 unanimous decision, the Court ruled that the Racketeer-influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO, could be applied to groups such as Randall Terry’s Operation Rescue and Joe Scheidler’s [...]
They say that testing will be able to foretell a person’s future pattern of illness. Maybe there are benefits, but what are the dangers to society? M.Y., Toronto I can foresee books written in answer to this question. In brief, I suppose, it will depend on who gets the information. Some genetic disorders are more prevalent in identifiable populations, ethnic groups from [...]
The promoters of abortion are currently engaged in some wild contortions in logic in their campaign to portray pro-lifers as violent. What occasions these efforts is the Ontario government’s attempt to get an injunction barring all pro-life protests at 23 locations across the province, including clinics and hospitals. Among the evidence presented to the court in support of this ban is a [...]