Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside is the latest on a lengthening list of Canadian municipal officials to suffer harassment from human rights tribunals over refusals to proclaim Gay Pride Day in their communities. Mayor Woodside says he has no intention of proclaiming any sort of pride days, gay or otherwise, despite a New Brunswick Human Rights Commission ruling that he discriminated against gays [...]
WASHINGTON -- Douglas R. Scott, president of Life Decisions International, Jan. 9 called the significant increase in Planned Parenthood's abortion business "scandalous" and said the organization's leaders have "created a lucrative climate for abortion." The 1996-1997 Planned Parenthood Federation of America Annual Report notes that the organization's personnel committed 153,367 abortions during the last reporting period, compared to 139,899 in the previous [...]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Investigators probing the fatal bombing of an Alabama abortion clinic said Jan. 30 they were seeking a man whose truck was seen parked near the site. A material witness warrant has been issued for Eric Robert Rudolph, a 31-year-old white male from Marble, N.C., U.S. Attorney Doug Jones said. He stressed Rudolph was only wanted as a witness, not [...]
Two packages recently received by The Hamilton Spectator led to a media frenzy in Steeltown which ended as quickly as it began when police concluded the packages were not related to the shootings of three Canadian abortionists in recent years. The sending and contents of the packages made front-page headlines for days at a time in the Spectator and also received prominent [...]
The turning of the calendar page at the end of the year is often a time for reflection on things past, and hopes for what is to come. It's a hopeful time for many. Despite whatever setbacks and failings might have occurred over the last 12 months, we have a clean slate of sorts, a tabula rasa on which to set about [...]
Violence begets violence. It's a self-evident truth known to man. And after almost 30 years of legalized abortion on demand in North America, should anyone really be surprised to see that life, which has been entrusted to mankind as a gift, is under attack, not only in the womb, but also throughout the entire human race? For decades, abortionist and secular humanist [...]
U.S. pro-lifers fear noted activist Joan Andrews Bell could face a life sentence following her latest court appearance Jan. 16 in Pittsburgh. Bell was sentenced to three to 23 months in county jail stemming from a 1985 trespassing conviction at a Pittsburgh abortuary. However, her refusal to promise to stay away from abortion mills could keep her behind bars indefinitely. "Go ahead, [...]
A Milwaukee-based pro-life activist has just returned from Peru with disturbing reports of a population-control program nearly out of control. Dan Zeidler, an official with Milwaukee's Family Life Council, returned from a visit to the South American country Jan. 28. Zeidler has long monitored population-control and sterilization programs through his association with the Latin American Alliance for the Family. He told The [...]
Canada's pro-life groups have renewed calls for Parliament to pass legislation protecting the unborn child as the country marks the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court's striking down of the former abortion law. The Supreme Court ruled January 28, 1988 that the former abortion law conflicted with what it saw as security of person guarantees in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. [...]
Two anniversaries that occurred in late January provided ample cause for pro-lifers to reflect on where we sit in the battle to protect unborn children. The 25th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision in the United States, and the 10th anniversary of the Canadian Supreme Court's overturning of the former abortion law, have produced a tremendous amount of commentary in the [...]
The other night our kids started discussing the Robert Latimer case at the dinner table. I know where I stand on euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide generally, and I want none of either. But absolutism in such matters can seem such a heartless and cruel stance when you're confronted with a uniquely difficult and agonizing case. Agonizing choice And Robert latimer's murder of [...]
Donald Fraser McPhee, a man whose musical ability, spirit and dedication were welcome additions to the Canadian pro-life community, died November 24 at age 48. Don was executive director of Coalition for Life from 1980 to 1982. He was introduced to several of today's Campaign Life Coalition activists through Ruth Hoy, a well known pro-life worker in Ottawa. Ruth, who is also [...]
Current and former state senators said December 28 that they wre appalled Jack Kevorkian apparently has continued to assist in suicides only weeks after a bill was approved making the practice a felony. It's insulting to our Legislature," said former senator John Kelly, D-Detroit, an Oakland University poltical science professor. Kevorkian has no respect for the law. He feels he is outside [...]
In the Baker Library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, hangs a fresco mural by the revolutionary Mexican painter, Jose Clement Orozco, that is, ironically, a mordant social comment on the ineptitude of the bookish world of modern academe. Gods of the Modern World portrays an array of cadaverous and immobile university professors standing off to the side as an academic [...]
You can meet many new and interesting people on one of the Campaign Life Coalition's bus trips. The recent Festival of Lights tour to Our Lady of Fatima Shrine was no exception. With two buses full of people, off we went to the Fatima Shrine in Lewiston, New York. November 29 was a clear, sunny day with great blue skies, and only [...]