Interim staff Lloyd Schrier, who, as a preborn child was subjected to 29 electroconvulsive shock treatments and enough drugs to induce sleep in his mother for a month, has been refused any compensation by both the Canadian government and the courts. Everyone agrees that Lloyd Schrier received these brainwashing treatments, but under the restrictive definition used by the compensation panel, Lloyd was [...]
In the wake of Lyn McLeod’s decision to resign as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, seven would be successors have emerged. One of them will be chosen leader at the party’s convention on November 30. On life and family issues, the candidates are similar; and none stands out as a strong pro-lifer, to sat the least. They do differ, however, in [...]
The British Columbia Supreme Court has reinstituted Bill 48, the provincial legislation severely restricting pro-life activity near abortion clinics and hospitals. In an October 8 decision, Justice Mary Saunders overturned an earlier court ruling that found restrictions on pro-life activity violated freedom of speech and religion guarantees. Justice Saunders ruled that a January 23 decision by Provincial Court Judge E.J. Cronin is [...]
Is it true that the American Medical Association (AMA) has approved the removal of vital organs, e.g. the heart, from newborn anencephalic babies who are still alive? The AMA’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs has certainly recommended this action. Any organ transplant, but especially that of an unpaired organ such as the heart, demands very strict medical-legal rules. In the USA, [...]
A Pro-Life Day all across Canada, preferably on a Sunday, will make people more aware of the pro-life cause, says Father Vincent Heffernan, founder of Second Chance which is counseling women who have had an abortion. “I would like to see in archdiocese and all across Canada a Pro-Life Day on a Sunday. All the homilies will be about pro-life, chastity, abortion, [...]
Lay people can make the pro-life movement stronger and more effective, active pro-lifers said. Father Stephen Somerville, Father Vincent Hefferman, Louis Di Rocco, and Campaign Life Coalition National President Jim Hughes expressed their views on how lay people can strengthen the movement, how they got started in the movement, the gains achieved or the weak spots, and their plans for the future. [...]
It is gratifying for the Toronto Right to Life Association to note the generally favorable reception speakers receive at schools throughout southern Ontario. For an organization whose main thrust is educating the community about respect for live issues, a receptive younger audience is of prime importance. “Many of the students we speak to are open to the pro-life message,” said Toronto Right [...]
I spent three weeks in Ireland in August and September. When people ask me “How was your trip? I have to give a double answer. Personally it was very enjoyable, seeing my sisters and various cousins and nephews and nieces. But when they ask me, “How are things in Ireland.” I have to make some distinctions. I gathered that, economically, things are [...]
“Probably one of the most difficult things, is believing in the Church and her teachings. Christ’s teaching, and at the same times having feelings or tendencies toward homosexuality. You feel like you are the only one, alone.” That’s the way a friend we’ll call Tim described his plight in carrying the cross of homosexual orientation, while striving to live life within the [...]
CHARLOTTETOWN - a PEI court ruling has upheld the province’s policy of paying only for hospital abortions deemed medically necessary. The ruling came September 17 after a court action launched by abortionist Henry Morgentaler who is attempting to establish another of his free-standing abortion clinics on the island. No hospitals on PEI perform abortions and island women seeking the procedure must travel [...]
A group of U.S. physicians has joined Catholic and Evangelical Protestant churches in condemning President Bill Clinton’s veto of a Congressional bad on the partial-birth abortion procedure. A group called Physicians’ Ad Hoc Coalition for Truth (PHACT) began a print and TV advertising campaign in mid-September to educate Congress and the public about partial-birth abortion. In the meantime, the U.S. House of [...]
The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind Bernard N. Nathanson, M.D. Rege\nery, 206 pages $33.95 Reviewed by Sue Careless The Interim What kind of man aborts his own child, a child his partner begged him to keep? What kind of man overturns virtually all American laws restricting abortion and oversees 60,000 abortions? [...]
The efforts to sanctify and promote human life can take any number of forms. While any think of “pro-life” as the struggle to change hearts, minds and legislation in favour of unborn children, the term has implications outside the political arena. Christian Child Care International organization is comfortable being “pro-life.” Although the group does not work directly to counter abortion and euthanasia [...]
A study published August 7, 1996 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows that, in effect, a husband can take cancer home to his wife. The number of deaths from cancer of the cervix is 500,000 a year, world wide and the incidence of this caner is 40 per 100,000 women world-wide. (Human papilloma virus infection – HPV virus – [...]
As Ontario doctors grapple with the consequences of wrongful birth lawsuits, malpractice insurance premiums and the impact of abortion on the entire medical profession, at least on practitioner retains a reasoned, pro-family perspective. Dr. Andrew Simone, dermatologist, athlete and humanitarian, believes most doctors today have taken up the abortion issue for the wrong reasons. Doctors are feeling defensive; he says “they resent [...]