The pro-life office of the London, Ontario diocese has stressed euthanasia as one of the most important life issues facing the community. In a statement issued to parishes in the diocese, the pro-life office said it is crucial that people be motivated to oppose any legislative plans to decriminalize assisted suicide. The push to oppose the practice has been inspired in part [...]
Campaign Life Coalition will participate in an October 25th prayer assembly to protest against the Chinese government’s one child per family policy. The prayer assembly is part of an international effort organized by the Global Society for Life. It is designed to draw attention to the anti-population position of the People’s Republic of China. Bowing to overpopulation fears, the Chinese government has [...]
CHICAGO – Thousands of delegates to the recent Democratic Party Convention Chicago walked to the United Centre passing through a wall of abortion signs and hearing the chanting of “Life, yes, Abortion, no, Bill Clinton has to go.” Pro-Life Action League Executive Director Joseph Scheidler said supporters of the public protest against abortion were earlier marched into a pen at the United [...]
Dr. Jack Kevorkian invited me to come along with him recently to visit some of his patients. His misunderstood me and mistook me for ‘Ted’ Kennedy. (This embarrassment happens frequently to me). Kevorkian was delighted to have a senator come along with him on his calls. Kevorkian realizes he’s a celebrity and likes to capitalize on it. He thought that in the [...]
Planned Parenthood targets PEI CHARLOTTLETOWN – The PEI Right to Life Association is monitoring the activities of Planned Parenthood after it was discovered the pro-abortion organization is attempting to reopen an office in Charlottetown. The organization recently circulated a fund-raising letter in which is announced the plans to re-establish itself on the island. Planned Parenthood left PEI in 1983 due to lack [...]
Question: Would you comment of the violence in our society at large, and the forces which are propelling it? What do you think can and should be done about it? Dr. Dobson: There are few subjects that cause me greater concerm than the exposure being given to crime and violence in North America today. A squadron of Los Angeles police cornered a [...]
Two women. Both are 48 years old and both are mothers of daughter. One is wealthy. The other has forsaken earthly riches for a greater reward. One is powerful. The other has relinquished control – even over her life. Ironically, both women have given stirring speeches on similar topics over the past few weeks. But only one of those speeches was attended [...]
The “Mission Impossible” theme ought to have been playing: Mr. Moore, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a column about what pro-life, pro-family people have to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.” In a year that saw: passage of Bill C-33, U.S. President the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ cash donation to the anti-life National Action Committee on [...]
For one glorious month this year, from August 8 to September 14, there were limited yet real rights for the unborn child in Canada. For the past eight years, an unborn child has had no rights. Only if the mother is found to be mentally incompetent can society protect her unborn infant. In March, 1989, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected Joe [...]
Pregnant women can legally indulge in behaviour that could severely damage their unborn infants. On September 13, Mr. Justice Kerr of Manitoba’s Court of Appeal overruled a lower court’s order that a pregnant woman who sniffed toxic chemicals be sent to an addiction treatment program against her will. Twaddle said there was no legal basis for infringing on the woman’s liberties, either [...]
A recent feature in a Toronto gay and lesbian magazine has some people questioning the uneven ways in which obscenity laws are being enforced in Canada. The August 1 issue of Xtra magazine reported on, and published a reproduction of, “The grand prize winner” of the Tom of Finland Foundation’s “Second Emerging Erotic Artist Contest.” The winning entry, by Garilyn Brune of [...]
The Canadian Medical Association at its recent annual meeting in Sydney skirted the question of fetal rights by deciding to refer the issue to its board of directors for study at some later, undetermined time. Dr. Granger Avery of Port McNeill, B.C. had raised a motion to have the CMA press Ottawa to review legal protection for unborn children in cases where [...]
Birthright, the internationally renowned pregnancy counseling service, has been denounced by The Varsity, the University of Toronto’s subsidized student newspaper. The Varsity will no longer carry Birthright ads because the ads did not specify the service was pro-life and because Birthright does not provide abortion referrals. The rejected ad was innocuous: “Somewhere along the way, you may be pregnant and need help. [...]
The pro-life community is gratified with the success of a newspaper supplement which is being used to educate Canadians of the dangers of euthanasia. The 12-page publication offers a series of articles on the euthanasia and assisted suicide and relates the Canadian experience to that in other countries. It also provides a list of agencies of “She’s a Child, Not a Choice”, [...]
Interim Staff PHILADELPHIA – Local pro-lifers have lost a freedom of speech case involving public displays of posters warning of the abortion-breast cancer link. In a late August decision, a Pennsylvania court ruled that signs posted at Philadelphia and Washington area bus shelters warning of the risk were “misleading and likely to cause undue public alarm.” The posters, sponsored by a group [...]