Newfoundl and pro-life community is outraged that the province will provide full funding for abortions at Henry Morgentaler's St. John's clinic. In response to federal government pressure to fully insure what it deems a medically necessary service, the Newfoundland health ministry said in January that it would cover the total cost of abortion at the Morgentaler abortuary. In the past, the Newfoundland [...]
Most pro-life advocates are fully aware that in order to change the law on abortion, we need legislators to introduce that legislation and a sufficient number of them to vote in favor of it - in the House of Commons and in the Senate. I dare say that the lack of activity in this area since the failure of the controversial Bill [...]
Is Planned Parenthood good for our communities? Those in the Canadian pro-life, pro-family scene face the challenge of trying to relate to the public at large why the world's foremost proponent of contraception and so-called reproductive rights is, in fact, bad news. Attendees at this year's National Pro-Life Conference in Ancaster, Ont., just outside of Hamilton, will get some expert insights into [...]
Pro-life and pro-family advocates in southern Ontario who have been frustrated by the media's inability (or refusal) to report accurately and fairly on life and family issues may find some relief in the recent decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to grant the Burlington, Ont.-based Crossroads Television System a licence for a television station. The decision, released April 9, gives [...]
Disabled rights advocates and pro-life supporters are once again dismayed over a lenient sentence given a Toronto physician who assisted in the suicide of a patient. Dr. Maurice Genereux, an AIDS specialist, was sentenced to two-years less a day for prescribing lethal doses of pain killers to patient Aaron McGinn in 1996. He is the first doctor in North America to be [...]
Pro-lifers will monitor the course of a private member's bill in the Ontario Legislature, which would protect the right of health care workers to refuse to participate in practices they find morally objectionable. An act to protect the consciences of health care workers is expected to be introduced in the Legislature in the near future. According to Progressive Conservative MPP Jim Brown [...]
It's probably no coincidence that the status of fathers has declined in proportion to the overall depreciation in family life, morality and culture during the last few decades. Much has been written in recent years about the negative portrayal of fathers in the news media and in the entertainment world. Indeed, the incompetent father has become something of an icon in North [...]
Ted van der Zalm wanted to make the most of his retirement years and today, the Warehouse of Hope in St. Catharines, Ontario stands as a monument to that ambition. A strongely committed pro-lifer, van der Zalm died in St. Catharines April 15 at age 67. After retiring from the flower business in 1987, van der Zalm became active with the Warehouse [...]
Interim special The pro-life community suffered a double blow in March with the deaths of committed supporters Dr. Art Dunn of Toronto, and Anthony Kuttschrutter of Madoc, Ontario. Dr. Dunn, 73, died suddenly March 24 at his home in mid-town Toronto. Born in Almonte, in eastern Ontario, Dr. Dunn was a proud member of the University of Toronto’s School of Medicine class [...]
BRAMPTON, Ont. - Pro-lifers in Brampton, northwest of Toronto have scheduled a National Memorial of Mourning (MOM), for 11 a.m. Saturday, May 9 to raise community awareness of the wide-ranging impact of abortion. The event, to be held at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Brampton, is part of Respect for Life Week, May 4-9. It is similar to memorial events held throught the [...]
Mother of Mercy and of Love Therese Marie Green WinePress Publishing 95 pages, $7.95 (U.S.) Three brief diary entries in 1975 of a pregnant, unmarried 19-year-old pressured into having an illegal abortion is the first stirring witness in author Therese Marie Green’s transformation. She had tender conversations with the “living one” inside her, and acknowledged more than a month later that “my [...]
Ann Shields is one evangelist who walks the talk. She is perhaps best known for her appearances with Ralph Martin on The Choices We Face, a Catholic evangelistic television program that airs weekly in Canada on the Vision network. The program attracts some 700,000 viewers in North America, the Caribbean and the Philippines. But Shields not only talks about the love of [...]
A Toronto-area woman is currently on the first leg of a four-month speaking tour of Ireland to bring a fresh perspective to the hotly-debated abortion situation. Emma Maan, 21, of Georgetown, Ont., is the public relations director with Ontario Students for Life (OSFL), an organization coordinating pro-life efforts among the province’s high school students. She was invited to Ireland by the Dublin-based [...]
A national television program based out of Whitby, Ont. is serving as a unique and exciting platform for the pro-life message. The Eh JJ Show has for seven years been providing positive and moral programming as an alternative to the trashy, sex-laden and violent fare that dominates most of the television air waves these days. According to producer Jerry Jonkheer, the show [...]
In the decade of the 1960’s, two important revolutions intertwined: the sexual and contraceptive revolutions. The sexual revolution promised a more healthy, less inhibited sexual lifestyle, and the contraceptive revolution made possible, at least theoretically, its immediate delivery. Together, this revolutionary tandem promised an attractive array of human improvements: less sexual frustration, better marriages, fewer divorces, better child spacing, fewer unwanted pregnancies, [...]