A legal battle between the province of New Brunswick and Henry Morgentaler ended on August 17 when the Supreme Court rejected a provincial application for an appeal hearing. The lengthy legal battle began in the summer of 1994 when Morgentaler opened an abortuary in Fredericton. The province reacted swiftly and firmly by denying Morgentaler his medical licence and by using a 1985 [...]
Is there a correlation between the high Canadian abortion rate and the similar high murder rate for one-year-olds? A Statistics Canada report released August 2nd revealed that Canadians under the age of one stand the greatest risk of being homicide victims. This startling revelation, based on 1994 Canadian homicide statistics, reveals a substantial increase in infant deaths over the past decade, especially [...]
U.S. government stays silent relying on Canadian delegation to push radical agenda at women’s conference. A frustrated African delegate summed up the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing by asking, “Is this conference on women, or is it about population and sex.” Many other delegates left the conference with the same question. They also left feeling it could have been [...]
What a school program in Toronto and a sexuality conference in Guelph have to do with the recently concluded Beijing Conference on Women. For years, The Interim and Campaign Life Coalition have maintained that a general moral breakdown is largely responsible for the continuing increase in the number of abortions. Three recent manifestations of that breakdown are special cause for alarm. In [...]
Parliament is due to return September 18. In the past six years of praying, fasting and witnessing on Parliament Hill some of the victories I have noticed are these: The defeat of Bill C-43, the essentially flawed abortion bill passed by the Mulroney government at the end of May 1990, by a 43-43 tie vote in the Senate at the end of [...]
Next year is an election year in the U.S. and President Bill Clinton is once again worried about family values. Acting on the advice of his handlers, the president has begun to shy away from liberal interest groups, trying to position himself as a more moderate president. Thus, the U.S. delegation could not afford to look like radicals at the United Nations [...]
I know that US policy ties international aid population control. I need to quote a specific example. K.C. Vernon, B.C. The following information comes from a speech given by Dr. Marie M. Mascarenhas at an international symposium which was held at the American Family Institute in Washington D.C. The conference (The Wealth of Families: Ethics and Economics in the 1980s) was opened [...]
Sharon Hayes, Reform MP for Port Moody-Coquitlam, has challenged the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Status of Women to clearly state the “utter rejection by Canadians of Chinese Government policies that endorse the mandated one child policy, the murder of inmates for body parts and now the consumption of human fetuses’ as health food.” As Health and Family Critic for the Reform [...]