Almost as far back as we can trace, people have worried about increasing population. In the year 500 B.C. both Plato and Aristotle worried about over population in Greece and neighbouring countries. In the same year Confucius worried about it in China and Terullian scratched his head about it in Carthage in the second century A.D. In 1798, Robert Malthus startled England [...]
Did we win or lose in Cairo? To answer this question, one has to make a full study of the Final Draft Document, delving into the language that the Conference agreed upon, the intensive behind-the-scenes negotiations, and all the confused media coverage. At the outset, I must caution that I did not have day-to-day access to the Governments’ side of the Conference. [...]
Toronto police seemed bent on making sure that an Ontario Court injunction is not ignored by pro-lifers. Two elderly ladies who were strip-searched call it harassment. On August 31, just one day after the injunction was set down, Rosemary Connell, Bill Whatcott and Linda Gibbons resumed their usual sidewalk counseling practises outside Manole Buruianna’s and Robert Scott’s abortuaries in downtown Toronto. Police [...]
Halifax—On September 22, nine protestors accused of mischief for blocking acces to the Morgentaler clinic in October of 1992, received suspended sentences. The nine included Kenneth Biso, Paul Cheverie, Ellan Chesal, Paul Morre, Noreen Mosher, Pauline Mullen, Sharon Keddy, Anne Ashford-Hall and Anne Marie Tomlins. They were also placed on probation for a year and ordered to refrain from blocking access to [...]
Halifax – On September 22, nine protestors accused of mischief for blocking access to the Morgentaler clinic in October of 1992, received suspended sentences. The nine included Kenneth Biso, Paul Cheverie, Ellan Chesal, Paul Morre, Noreen Mosher, Pauline Mullen, Sharon Keddy, Anne Ashford-Hall and Anne Marie Tomlins. They were also placed on probation for a year and ordered to refrain from blocking [...]
Fredericton, N.B. – Henry Morgentaler won another victory when the Court of Queen’s Bench declared unconstitutional the New Brunswick’s 1985 laws prohibiting abortions outside hospitals. However, Premier Frank McKenna’s provincial Liberals have decided to appeal the Sept. 14 decision. Mr. Justice Ronald Stevenson ruled that the measures in the 1985 legislation reflect criminal laws, intended to limit abortions. Since provinces have no [...]
Before leaving for the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development I had fears of being one of only a handful of pro-lifers in attendance. However, it soon became apparent there were many pro-life people there among the Non Government Organization (NGOs) representatives, the government delegates and even the press. I met at least 100 pro-lifers, many of whom met every evening [...]
A couple of years ago, a Montreal paper broke the story that a young local doctor had stopped treating patients because he was in the last stages of AIDS. It revealed that he had worked in obstetrics at several of the city’s teaching hospitals over the previous four years. This despite the fact that his colleagues were aware that he appeared gaunt [...]
From the moment I got off the plane in Cairo it was a delight to experience the warm cordial greeting of Egyptians. Everyone was smiling, friendly, courteous and eager to be of assistance – from the shuttle bus drivers to security personnel who were everywhere. “Welcome to Cairo” was the refrain that was heard often from morning til night. Some conference attendees [...]
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 [...]