HALIFAX - The case of Dr. Nancy Morrison, a Halifax intensive care physician and Dalhousie Medical School professor charged with the first degree murder of Moncton resident Paul Mills, has shifted the debate about euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide onto the front burner in Atlantic Canada. Mr. Mills, 65, a throat cancer patient at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, died Nov. [...]
Police in the central Ontario community of Lindsay won’t be laying criminal charges against members of Campaign Life Coalition’s Show the Truth tour. As well, authorities in the town northeast of Toronto, have returned four signs seized last October, after receiving direction from the provincial Attorney-General’s office. The signs in question show aborted babies. They were used last year in a sweep [...]
Well, the MPs are back from their Christmas break, and although there are no left-related bills on the front burner for the government, there are several private members’ initiatives that you need to be aware of when you are speaking with your member of Parliament. By the way, although members try to be in their ridings as much as possible on Fridays, [...]
Americans becoming more pro-life, says poll WASHINGTON – A recent poll commissioned by the U.S. Family Research Council has found that most Americans believe abortion should not be permitted after signs of life can be detected. Sixty-one per cent of respondents disagreed that “abortion should be permitted after fetal brain-waves are detected,” while 58 per cent agreed that “abortion should not be [...]
The provisions of an international agreement to liberalize investment rules around the world are causing concern among not only social justice activists, but pro-life and pro-family supporters as well. The concern is serious enough to warrant a former federal cabinet minister calling the pact "the most frightening proposal to come before the Canadian people in my lifetime." The Multi-lateral Agreement on Investment [...]
Pro-life supporters from across Canada are encouraged to attend a march for life in Ottawa commemorating the 29th anniversary of Parliament’s legalizing abortion. Scheduled for May 14th, the event will mark what the pro-life community describes as the most tragic event in Canadian history. Parliament’s action of May 14, 1969 to amend the Criminal Code and allow for abortion has to date [...]
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Following two world wars that killed tens of millions and laid large parts of entire countries to waste, the concept of a strong United Nations that would act as an arbiter and -- to the extent it had power -- policeman seemed appealing to those for whom memories of conflict were still fresh. [...]
There may yet be a glimmer of hope in the legal situation that has seen Toronto pro-lifer Linda Gibbons languish in jail for most of the last four years. Gibbons continues to stay behind bars at the Metro West Detention Centre in Rexdale, Ont. and refuses to take steps to defend herself legally. But Milton, Ont.-based Christian activist Ken Campbell has taken [...]
A United Nations document released in mid-January reveals the international body's plans to prohibit "forced pregnancy," which many interpret as an attempt to expand abortion services. The document, entitled Implementation of the Human Rights of Women and the Girl Child, says "all violations of the human rights of women in the situations of armed conflict, including in particular murder, systematic rape, sexual [...]
I have been fortunate enough to have been raised and educated among pro-lifers. Whether these pro-lifers were teachers, students, chaplains, and of course my family, I was always surrounded by people who were dedicated to the cause of protecting human life. Well the times have changed and so has the school system. I now attend a public school where students of all [...]
WINNIPEG -- She has been the subject of debate in Canada's highest court of law, the topic of endless discussions in the media. Women's rights groups lauded the Supreme Court of Canada's Oct. 31 ruling on her case, that a pregnant woman abusing substances should not be forced into treatment. But all Ms G wants now is to get on with her [...]
BRISTOL, Tenn. (LSN) -- The Christian Medical and Dental Society, which represents more than 11,500 doctors and medical students nationwide, condemned plans announced Jan. 6 to begin cloning humans for profit. Dr. David Stevens noted that an individual would have to sacrifice hundreds of lives just to attempt a cloning procedure. Cloning a single animal, the sheep Dolly, involved killing 277 developing [...]
A national pro-life postcard campaign aiming to override U.S. President Bill Clinton's veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997, HR 1122, is gaining support from the grassroots. The 1998 Veto Override Postcard Campaign heightens the right-to-life message, and coincides with the 25th anniversary on January 22, 1998 of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion in all 50 [...]
TORONTO -- Physician-assisted suicide and the elimination of terminally ill or severely disabled patients run counter to the values of Canadian society, says the vice-president of the Catholic Civil Rights League. Speaking Jan. 22 at a debate on the legalization of euthanasia, lawyer Philip Horgan said Canadians should reject efforts to change the Criminal Code to permit anti-life practices. Horgan was opposed [...]
The following is a sampling of opinion and comments from participants in the 25th annual March for Life rally in Washington, D.C. The rally, marking the disastrous Roe vs. Wade decision which legalized abortion on demand in the United States, attracted 200,000 people. The comments shown below are taken from press reports in newspapers and from an Interim contributor who attended the [...]