When Kate Michelman of the U.S. National Abortion Rights Action League says a Republican plan to establish voluntary prayer in public schools is “about establishing a theocracy in this nation” her words are taken at face value. Despite the ridiculousness of her claim, she is not accused of promoting a wild conspiracy theory. When members of a pro-life contingent say that the [...]
The main question about Pope John Paul II’s newest encyclical, The Gospel of Life, is what are we going to do about it? Do not be mistaken. This is not just another papal document on some religious aspect or other such as Laborem exercens (1981), on the dignity of work, or Familiaris consortio (1981), on the family, or any of the other [...]
No jail time for doctor convicted of murdering disabled child A Dutch doctor who ended the life of a handicapped child has been found guilty of murder. Incredibly, not only did the judge free him without sentence but even went so far as commending the doctor for his “integrity and courage.” This case was supposed to be a test of the controversial [...]
Those who follow the workings of the various anti-population organizations have long feared the possibility of an anti-human vaccination. These fears may now have been realized with the discovery of an anti-tetanus vaccine, administered by the World Health Organization, which may have destroyed the fertility of millions in the Third World. Several pro-life agencies, including Human Life International and International Right to [...]
Another manifestation of the money-crunch being felt in Alberta is that some hospitals have stopped doing pre-natal tests. The January 23 Western Report notes that the Alberta Children’s Hospital (ACH) has ended doing tests to determine whether a child has Down Syndrome. These tests were carried out at $70.00 per test and often culminated in abortion if the test results were “unsatisfactory.” [...]
The latest incident of violence against a member of the B.C. medical profession highlights the sorry state of west coast reporting. In early April, Dr. Michael Roburn, a Vancouver psychiatrist, was stabbed in the chest after confronting an arsonist who was trying to throw a Molotov cocktail into his house. Roburn’s attack follows on the heels of last fall’s shooting of abortionist [...]
Thanks to a concerted U.S. boycott, a movie which depicts five Catholic priests in a scandalous light appears to be heading for a box office and public relations disaster. The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and the American Life League have co-sponsored a boycott of the Walt Disney Company, which owns Miramax, the studio which released Priest. Catholic groups were [...]
Japan has come up with a series of guidelines regulating euthanasia which does nothing but further confuse an already confusing issue. The International Right to Life’s Weekly Review reports that in late March, the Yokohama District Court determined that euthanasia would be legally permissible “where a patient suffers unbearable physical pain, all measures to eliminate pain have been exhausted, death is inevitable [...]
The American Life League’s newsletter communiqué reports that Alice Ruiz Hanna who owns an abortuary in Orange County, Florida, has been sentenced to 16 years to life in prison for causing the death of Angela Sanchez. Sanchez, a mother of four, was killed along with her baby during the abortion. **** Thomas Tucker, the practitioner who performed more than 7,000 abortions annually [...]
An organization which has saved hundreds of babies from the jaws of death, marks a decade of fighting abortion on the frontlines “In as much as you did unto the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.” Matt. 25:40 Choose Life Canada was founded by the Reverend Ken Campbell on December 10, 1984, the day criminal abortions were [...]
Gibbons could face second consecutive six-month sentence Ken Campbell calls her “The Corrie Ten Boom Heroine of the Decade.” Linda Gibbons is following the example of Corrie Ten Boom’s response to Hitler’s holocaust, by risking her life and liberty in a courageous, Christian response to Canada’s “Baby Holocaust.” Linda, a grandmother of four, has been incarcerated since early September. On September 2, [...]