Interim special WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives February 13 approved a request from President Bill Clinton allowing the expenditure of $385 million for international family planning programs, including abortion services. The vote approving the funding was the first congressional test of the right to life issue since Clinton's re-election in November. American pro-lifers expressed immediate disappointment with the vote. Although [...]
A Canadian disabled rights activist invited to address the U.S. Bishops' conference was hoping to include a visit with President Bill Clinton on his agenda. Mark Pickup of Beaumount, Alberta, will be in Washington March 7-8 to take part in the Life At Risk: A Closer Look at Assisted Suicide conference, sponsored by the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference, Doctor-assisted suicide is especially [...]
Pro-family advocates alienated until now by the antics of mainstream federal political parties may find hope I the Reform Party's recently announced "Commitment to the Canadian Family." However, the news for pro-life supporters may not be as encouraging. Reform included a pledge to make family life a priority as part of its six-point platform in preparation for a federal election expected this [...]
Pro-life officials are concerned over a public health department campaign to promote the so-called morning after pill among Toronto area young people. Public health officials launched the morning after pill educational campaign in early February. The campaign uses mail-outs, public transit advertising and promotion by youth workers and educators in an effort to increase awareness of Emergency Contraception Prevention (ECP). One of [...]
Pro-life, pro-family, Liberal backbench MP Roseanne Skoke faces a challenge for re-nomination due to federal electoral boundary redistribution. Skoke's Central Nova riding will be eliminated, with most of it being incorporated into a new Pictou-Antigonish-Guysborough constituency for the next federal election. Antigonish and Guysborough Counties and currently part of the Cape Breton Highlands Canso riding, held by Liberal Francis LeBlanc, although Guysborough [...]
Pro-life groups across the country welcome the February 6 Supreme Court of Canada decision granting a new trial for Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer. While there exists a possibility of a second jury acquitting Latimer of murder charges, pro-lifers hope a new trial will refocus attention on the innocent victims of so-called mercy killings. Convicted of second-degree murder in the November, 1994 death [...]
Campaign Life Coalition official shave reiterated the need for social policies which emphasize childbirth and strengthen the family unit as a prelude to safeguarding the rights of the unborn in Canada. The call comes in light of a study published in the U.S. Family Planning Perspectives showing a rising abortion rate in Canada. The study, using data collected by Statistics Canada, indicates [...]
Campaign Life Coalition has finalized plans for a federal election, expected in early June. The official election strategy has been formulated, and will centre on evaluating each candidate for his or her position on pro-life, pro-family issues. The results of a questionnaire will be made into an information kit which will be made available to voters throughout the country. The questionnaire contains [...]
Since coming to office in 1993, the Liberal Government has been engulfed in the struggle to repair Canada's finance after a decade of complete neglect and short-sightedness. Without the fiscal discipline spearheaded by Finance Minister Paul Martin, Canadians would not today have the means to deal with social or moral imperatives in a constructive way. Child poverty is a renewed focus for [...]
NEW YORK; A federal judge has acquitted two pro-life protesters who were charged with blocking access to a Westchester County abortuary. Citing the protesters “conscience-driven religious beliefs,” Us. District Court Judge John Spizzo said the pair were not guilty of any crimes. The protesters, retired Catholic Auxilliary Bishop George Lynch and a Franciscan Brother Christopher Moscinki, could have been found guilty of [...]
When I first read that Dalton McGuinty Junior, the son of the late Dalton McGuinty Senior, had been elected leader of the Liberal party and saw his smiling face in the paper, I felt optimistic about the future of the Liberal Party’s position on abortion. However, my enthusiasm was short-lived. On CBC Radio’s Metro Morning, the day after his election, Dalton made [...]
I often think of him with his cigarettes, stand there pondering things philosophically, but he was always in the action. He was a man after God’s heart.” So does rescuer Linda Gibbons describe her former colleague William de Marois, who died Dec. 22, 1996 of complication from lung cancer at St. Michael’s Hospital Toronto. He was 71. Born William Robert Fournier of [...]
More than 30 students from Manitoba, Alberta, Ontario and Newfoundland came together in Toronto recently for a pro-life symposium weekend. Students’ primary focus was activating pro-life groups on university campuses across the country. Members of Western Life and Kings College Life (University of Western Ontario), two of the limited number of university pro-life groups, provided information on bringing the pro-life word to [...]
Membership key to Nfld. RTL ST.JOHN’S, Nfld. – The new head of Newfoundland Right to Life lists increased membership as a top priority for 1997. Lorraine Cole recently took over as head of the provincial pro-life organization from Philomena Rogers. She plans to liaise with a number of church and community groups in an effort to build a stronger base for Newfoundland [...]
The short newspaper notice announcing the death of Cathy Holt of Maple Ridge on December 9 gave no clue as to the cause of her death. It was cancer. But that tells only part of the story. It might also be said that Mrs. Holt, just 32 gave her life so he second child, Julianna, could live. It was exactly six years [...]