Interim Staff Pro-life officials have serious reservations about right to die legislation now being debated in the Canadian Senate. Bill S-13, also known as a live-and-let-die law, was introduced by Liberal Senator Sharon Carstairs of Manitoba. The bill, which reached second reading in early March, would amend the Criminal Code to allow doctors to withhold or remove life support treatment from terminally [...]
Alberta pro-life supporters are cautiously optimistic with news of Premier Ralph Klein’s landslide victory in the March 11 provincial election. Klein’s Conservative government captured 51 per cent of the popular vote to win 63 of the 83 seats in the Alberta legislature. The premier rode a wave to fiscal conservatism to win another mandate from to a generally complacent electorate. He ran [...]
Recently, we visited a number of women, prominent in politics but from different parties and with a range of views on the need for pro-life legislation. Three Liberal members were interviewed, two Reform Party members and one Liberal Senator. Several others either refused outright or failed to respond to our request. (Ed. Note, the article was completed prior to Roseanne Skoke’s defeat [...]
Interim Special Canadian pro-lifers stung by recent setbacks in Nova Scotia and British Columbia took some comfort in two positive international developments. In Washington March 21, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill banning a late term abortion procedure many have described as infanticide. The bill was approved by a vote of 295-136. It would outlaw partial-birth abortion and impose fines [...]
Roseanne Skoke’s failure to win re-nomination in a newly created federal constituency in Nova Scotia is a hard lesson in the realities of Liberal politics in the late 1990s, say pro-life leaders. Skoke, one of the leading pro-life, pro-family voices in federal politics, lost by 147 votes to fellow Liberal Francis LeBlanc in the March 22 nomination contest. The two incumbents were [...]
Interim Special British Columbia pro-lifers described as “frightening” a move by the provincial health ministry to exclude right to life supporters from community and regional health boards. In a March 13 announcement, health minister Joy MacPhail said the province has “weeded out” pro-life supporters from such boards. She said that in order to be eligible for the health boards, members must support [...]
The future of our country depends on the strength of our families. The Reform Party believes that this fundamental institution should be central to the formation of public policy. There is a growing consensus that not only have families been forgotten under the decisions of Liberal-Tory policy, but the cumulative effects of disregard and competing special interests have in fact done great [...]
A letter purportedly sent by an ultra-fundamentalist group called the Army of God claimed responsibility for the February 22 bombing of a lesbian nightclub and January’s attack on an Atlanta abortion clinic. According to the Los Angeles Times News Service, federal investigators were attempting to determine if the letter was legitimate. A spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said [...]
WASHINGTON – A major player in the abortion rights movement admitted lying when he claimed a form of late-term abortion is rare and that it is used primarily to save the lives of women bearing severely handicapped babies. Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, said he was deliberately misleading in remarks about intact dilation and evacuation abortion [...]
A Barrie Ontario artist plans to put her talents and creativity to work in promoting pro-life efforts. Colleen Nagle, a part-time art teacher at Sacred Heart High School of the York Region Separate School Board, may donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of limited edition prints to support the Canadian pro-life effort. This means $25 or every $125 print [...]
The Unites States Supreme Court February 26 ordered lower courts to reconsider the validity of laws in Arizona and Colorado that restrict the activities of protesters outside abortion clinics. The lower courts had upheld both measures. The action, contained in two brief orders, was not surprising in light of an earlier Supreme Court ruling supporting the free-speech rights of protesters outside abortion [...]
Pro-life journalist and broadcaster Michael Coren will be the guest speaker at this year’s Campaign Life Coalition fund-raising dinner/dance, at 7 p.m. April 18 at St. John the Evangelist parish, 49 George St., Weston, Ontario. Author, speaker and activist Father Ted Colleton is also expected to attend the popular pro-life event The $20 ticket includes a dinner catered by Johnny’s Country Kitchen, [...]
LISBON – The Associated Press reported in late February that a bill relaxing abortion restrictions in Portugal was recently defeated in this predominantly Catholic country. Under existing law, abortion is legal if the mother's life or long-term health is at risk, or until the 16th week if the unborn has it serious illness or deformation. Pro-abortion groups, including the Family Planning Association [...]
A priest friend of mine claims that there are no such things as "coincidences" but only "God-incidences." The Oxford Dictionary defines a "coincidence" as "a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection." I am not intellectually skilled enough to say whether or not my friend is correct in his opinion, but I did have an experience recently, which I [...]
Interim special Pro-family forces are monitoring the actions of Liberal Senator Sharon Carstairs of Manitoba who recently moved second reading of a bill making it a crime for parents to use corporal punishment against their children. Carstairs' Bill S-14 would repeal Section 43 of the Criminal Code which allows the use of force in disciplining a child. Section 43 also exempts parents, [...]