Rebecca Pontisso remembers cringing when a parent told her that she decided to send her child to a Catholic school mainly because there was less of a chance he would get beaten up there, versus in the public school system. "I thought: has it really come to this?" says the principal and co-founder of Mary, Mother of God elementary school in the [...]
A Saskatchewan family has not let hardship and loss get in the way of their longstanding commitment to pro-life ideals. Ken and Rita Wolfe of Saskatoon are the parents of four children, the oldest of whom suffers from Nieman-Pick Type C disease, an extremely rare disorder that obstructs the body's ability to break down cholesterol. Eventually, the individual affected loses control of [...]
Last month, the subject was buying a new computer. Amazingly, some of that advice is already obsolete, although you will not have gone wrong following it. The price of computers is dropping like a rock. New and faster processors are coming out at a furious pace. I would now raise the minimum processor for a new computer purchase to a 266 MMX [...]
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick pro-lifers are ready for higher-profile picketing following news that Henry Morgentaler's Fredericton abortuary will be relocating next to a junior high school. Pro-lifers learned in mid-May that Morgentaler's Ferry Street location will close down to make room for expansion of a shopping centre in suburban Fredericton. Dead-end Abortuary operators have purchased property on Barracks Lane, a dead-end street [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling which found Joe Scheidler and two other pro-lifers guilty under federal anti-racketeering laws holds a lesson for those concerned with the progress of civil rights. Scheidler, head of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League, was found guilty of extortion April 20 in a 12-year-old court action initiated by the National Organization for Women (NOW). The verdict opens the door [...]
Staunch pro-life MP Tom Wappel has been named this year's winner of the Joseph P. Borowski Award, which honors pro-life and pro-family advocates in the political sphere. Since he was first elected to the House of Commons in 1988 following a career in law, Wappel, 48, has been consistently in favor of protection for unborn children from the time of conception with [...]
British doctors coerced green paper denounced LONDON - The British medical newspaper Hospital Doctor says young British doctors are being coerced by their superiors into performing abortions. Junior doctors told a British Medical Association conference they were harassed by senior staff who said abortion was part of their training. Conference delegates responded by urging hospitals to discipline senior doctors who force juniors [...]
James Dobson is sick and tired of empty promises. Fed up with what he sees as the U.S. Republican party's failure to act conservatively on vital social and moral issues during the last few years (despite having a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives), the respected founder and head of the influential Focus on the Family organization has [...]
A recent press report has disturbing inplications for all concerned with the sanctity of human life. The report described efforts by health officials in California to pay crack cocaine-addicted women to undergo sterilizations. According to the report, the program is a privately run enterprise involving Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union. The program is known by the provocative name CRACK [...]
The value of people getting involved to effect positive change at the grassroots level has been demonstrated once again, this time by a group of family activists in the Durham region, just east of Toronto. Citizens were prompted to action by an explicit sex education program directed at public school children with severe disabilities. One observer described the drawings used in the [...]
The lower house of the Western Australian parliament has ended weeks of protracted debate by passing a liberal abortion bill. The legislation still needs upper house approval before becoming law. However, even if the legislation is enacted, criminal sanctions will remain against doctors who perform illegal abortions - much to the chagrin of pro-abortion Labor MP Cheryl Davenport, who put forth the [...]
In early May, the Nova Scotia Supreme Court awarded damages of $725,000 to a woman who had crashed her car into an oncoming vehicle on the way home from having an abortion at the Halifax Morgentaler abortuary in 1993. A doctor and nurse at the clinic were found liable for letting her drive home after the abortion in a state of extreme [...]
United Nations Watch During its 50th anniversary session in December 1995, the UN General Assembly initiated a Preparatory Committee for the purpose of creating a permanent international criminal court. While it is generally understood that the finalization of the document will be completed by the delegates and 800 participating non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the final session of the Preparatory Committee to be [...]
The following are excerpts from each of the speeches given by featured speakers, in order of appearance, at the May 14 March for Life on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Jason Kenney, Reform MP for Calgary Southeast, Alta. I am 29 years old. I, through my entire life, have known nothing but the legal availability of abortion on demand in Canada. My generation [...]
Campaign Life Coalition played an important role in alerting parliamentarians and church leaders to a United Nations move to declare "enforced pregnancy" a crime through the proposed international criminal court. The international pro-life community is concerned that defining "enforced pregnancy" as a war crime could be used by the United Nations to undermine right-to-life legislation in some countries. Instead of properly attacking [...]