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 [...]
Senator Sharon Carstairs had been expected to introduce a Senate private members bill on assisted suicide this fall. Appointed a Senator in October l955, she began attending meetings of the Senate Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide and shortly thereafter became an official Committee member. As a member of the Committee, her line of questioning would lead one to believe that [...]
An Ontario marathon swimmer recently turned his talent and determination into a fund-raising venture for three London, Ontario pro-life organizations. John Bulsza, a religion teacher at London’s John Paul II high school completed a 56 kilometre crossing of Lake Huron August 3l-September l. He set out from Port Sanilac, Michigan and arrived nearly 27 hours later the following morning at Port Franks, [...]
Canada’s pro-life community is mourning the passing of Joe Borowski, possibly the Country’s greatest champion of unborn children Borowski, 63, died at 9:05 a.m., Manitoba time, September 23 after a one-year battle with cancer. He is remembered as a man who gave up a rising political career to devote his time and energy to the unborn. Borowski faced a crisis of conscience [...]
For quite a few years there has been in Poland a confrontation between the “civilization of life” and “civilization of death.” The enemies of our nation and of the Catholic Church try to force erroneous theories and stereotypes about family and society into the hearts and minds of Poles. The liberal and post-communist circles fight vigorously against pro-life and pro-family attitudes. They [...]
The middle-aged nursing instructor gently reached for my trembling hand. “Having an abortion isn’t such a big deal,” she said, her voice carrying the same reassuring tone that had gotten me through countless days and nights of gruelling study, exams and pre-dawn hospital shifts. She continued, “It’ll be over within five minutes and you’ll not have to deal with it (meaning my [...]
Sometime in May of this year, Father Joe Burg, ex Toronto, telephones me from Jamaica and asked me if I could take care of his parish there while he came to visit his family in Toronto. The dates he suggested were late June and into July. As schools here are closing or closed at that time. I was very glad to oblige. [...]
Michael Coren’s latest book has predictably been trashed already by the pundits who populate what passes for the mainstream media these days – Toronto’s free weekly left-wing rag Eye, for example, suggested the book should have been entitled Getting It Right while the Toronto Star cited what it saw as Coren’s “terminal pomposity” in relaying the kudos of one of this readers [...]
United States pro-life representatives are crying foul after the drug they are calling “the human pesticide” moved to within a step of official approval south of the border. The U.S Food and Drug Administration’s advisory committee on reproductive health drugs by a 6-0 vote (with two abstentions) decided July 19 that the benefits of the French-developed RU486 abortion pill, in combination with [...]
WARSAW – Protection for the unborn seems to be weakening in predominantly Catholic Poland. The country’s left-wing dominated parliament in late August moved a step closer to allowing abortion on demand. Despite strong opposition from Poland’s Catholic Church leaders, parliament kept alive a proposed law allowing women to obtain abortions up to the 12th week of pregnancy. It allows women to have [...]
While most of the country sat back and watched the exploits of Canadian athletes competing in the Atlanta Olympic Games, Marie Claire Ross of London, Ontario had training on her mind. The competitive swimmer is one of a host disabled athletes who took part in the Paralympic Games August 15-26 in Atlanta. From modest beginnings, the Paralympics have emerged to provide a [...]
Eighteen enthusiastic pro-life young people from across Ontario gathered for the Ontario Students for Life Leadership Retreat at the Manressa Retreat Centre in Pickering, August 2-4. The weekend began with ice-breaking activities. Followed by an exchange of ideas and pro-life strategies. In the later evening, young pro-lifers debated such issues as practises in various religions to initiating pro-life action in schools and [...]
The U.S. delegation to November’s United Nations world food summit is likely to promote “population stabilization” and “family planning” as a means of protecting world food security. According to a July 29 report from the CWN new service, the Clinton administration has circulated a position paper expressing support for population control measures. The U.S. position also calls on participating countries to adopt [...]