Activists in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and Montreal challenge standing injunctions It did not take long for the fallout from a controversial B.C. ruling to be felt across the country. In February, Justice E.J.Cronin struck down B.C. legislation which placed a bubble-zone around, abortuaries, barring pro-lifers from picketing, couselling or leafletting. Following this decision, pro-life activist Linda Gibbons challenged a similar injunction in [...]
Amidst the chaos of U.S. inner city-life, whites and blacks strive to free their community from the cycle of welfare and abortion A unique and independent community service center in Orlando, Florida, is crossing racial lines and avoiding government handouts while putting a pro-life philosophy into action. Frontline Outreach is based out of a 3,780 square meter facility in inner Orlando and, [...]
On Monday, February 5, a head-on collision south of Parry Sound, Ontario, claimed the life of Oakville psychiatrist Dr. Murray McGovern. The McGoverns were driving into town from their winterized cottage, first to see one of the doctor’s patients and then to go 10:45 Mass. On a slippery road, with blowing snow, a 1988 Toyota driven by Richard Lewis rammed right into [...]
Will Catholics and Evangelicals ever agree? Evangelicals and Catholics Together Charles Colson and Richard John Neuhaus Word Publishing, Dallas and Vancouver 236 pages; paperback; $14.99 US Reviewed by Joseph Woodard, Ph.D. It’s an old maxim that civil wars are the most vicious wars. But brothers fight not only with the greatest bitterness. They also show the greatest blindness toward “third party” threats. [...]
Since securing the Republican Party nomination, Bob Dale has been thanking Ralph Reed and his Christian Coalition for their support. Critics say Reed’s support of Dole shows he is more interested in the power of the White House than he is in his Christian revolution. Supporters counter that having the President’s ear is tantamount to completing the revolution. His biography may hold [...]
Bill Gates was on the phone. I knew it was Bill because he always calls me collect. (How do you think the president of Microsoft got to be worth 18 billion?) Bill sounded frantic. “Frank, is that you? What are you doing up there?” (‘Up there’ always meant Canada to Bill). “What do you mean? What am I doing?” “I just read [...]
For years, radical groups have succeeded where it counts the most---in the courts. Now, a Canadian lawyers’ group is providing pro-family Canadians with a voice in the legal system The Interim Canadian pro-life activists have an ally they can count on when legal problems arise. For the last three years, the Ottawa based Canadian Centre for Law and Justice has been providing [...]
Some worry that new councils will push dangerous agendas while others sense yet another layer of bureaucracy. A number of Ontario parents are concerned over a Ministry of Education and Training plan to establish parent councils in every school in the province, The councils, expected to be in place by June, are touted as a way of increasing communication between schools and [...]
Two comprehensive studies recently commissioned by The U.S. National Conference of Catholic Bishops demonstrate both media bias on the abortion issue and the continuing strength of the pro-life constituency south of the border. One of the studies’ findings shows that the pro-life movement is “unfairly disadvantaged in the court of public opinion,” says Helen Alvare, director of planning and information for the [...]
A recent article by a prominent feminist may signal the beginnings of a shift in the feminist attitude toward abortion. Naomi Wolf, in Our Bodies, Our Souls: Re-Thinking Pro-Choice Rhetoric, acknowledges that the pro-choice movement has hurt itself by relinquishing the moral frame around the abortion issue. “The movement’s abandonment of what Americans have always and rightly, demanded of their movements—an ethical [...]
I have often thought of writing an article under the above title but I thought it might sound too pious. However, I was inspired to do so from reading an article in the “New York Post” on February 5, 1996. The writer was Maggie Gallagher and that is all I know about her. She does not say to what religion she belongs [...]
To the immense dismay of sex gurus and Planned Parenthood operators, a growing number of young Canadians are hearing why “yes” is the answer to these questions. Are you guys actors or are you for real?” one student in the assembly asks the teens on the school stage Dan Gillespie and Monique Bergeron, both 18, Juliet Labossiere 17 and Mitch Champagne 16, [...]
Toronto Patrick Buchanan’s has been sealed in the race for the Republican Party candidacy. It is a good time for pro-life people to stop and consider just what his experience means for the pro-life movement. The height of Buchanan hysteria occurred the night that he won the New Hampshire primary. In the first big test among presidential contenders, Buchanan emerged as the [...]
Where is the line between “family planning” and “population control”? J. D. Waterloo In its true sense “family planning” is fundamentally different from “population control.” “Family planning” implies that each couple makes the decisions about the number and spacing of their children, according to their circumstances and their beliefs. “Population control,” however, means that the decisions about family size etc., are made [...]
San Francisco gathering draws all the big names from the world of politics, media, business and entertainment A few months ago in late September 1995 a group of stellar performers from the world stage got together in San Francisco to discuss the future of the planet. The “State of the World Forum” was convened by Mikhail Gorbachev, along with co-chairs President Askar [...]