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 [...]
Poor Linda Groce. She’s doing 12 months in jail for illegal sidewalk counselling outside of Robert Scott’s Toronto abortuary. She is also one of the 18 pro-lifers charged two years ago by the former NDP government for their pro-life activities. Linda, 46, the mother of three children is well acquainted with the serious problems ensuing from having an abortion (having had one [...]
Group estimates there are 80 million children in servitude across Asia Iqbal Masih, a 12 year old Pakistani Christian who had won international acclaim for his crusade against child slavery, was shot and killed when returning to his home near Lahore, Easter Sunday, April 16. Now there are reports that his whole family has been and some fellow andti-slave activists arrested. Iqbal, [...]
Looking at some news stories in Ontario causes me to wonder-and worry-about the future facing disabled persons. Toronto Star columnist Thomas Walkom recently wrote about the plight of one Ontario family in the wake of welfare cutbacks. Matthew Jensen is an eight year old with severe autism who cannot speak feed or dress himself. Matthew is fed through a tube inserted directly [...]
As this paper goes to press, 40,000 of the most powerful and angry women from all around the world will gather in Beijing to rant and rave about their unjust plight. There will also be a pro-family contingent but don’t expect the press to acknowledge their presence. All rational people (men included) support the just and equal treatment of women. Holding a [...]
Judge declares a pre-born baby a “future human being, already alive.” Paris- In early July, a French court acquitted pro-life activists for blocking access to an abortion ward at Paris’ Satpetriere hospital last November. The acquittal was granted on the grounds that the pre-born baby is a “future human being.” Presiding Judge Thierry Denervoix de Bonnefond de Lavialle said a fetus is [...]
Is it true that surgeons can operate on a preborn baby? C.S. Mississauga Yes, it is true. Today, such is the state of the art of medicine, a baby can be removed from his mother’s womb for surgery, and then replaced. Many conditions which require surgery are treated whilst this little “second patient” is still inside the uterus. In A Time to [...]
Henry Morgentaler delivered the opening address at the annual convention of the Humanist Association of Canada at the University of Guelph on June 23. He used the opportunity to blame the Catholic Church for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s murder of millions of Jews. “Had the Church not persecuted Jews for centuries,” said Morgentaler, “Hitler could never have mastered the public support to [...]