By Paul Tuns An American pro-life group is declaring a partial victory against Microsoft founder Bill Gates one year after beginning an education campaign directed at the billionaire's funding of population control programs. From September to November 1999, the American Life League (ALL) ran ads, entitled Windows to the Truth, in the Eastside Journal in suburban Seattle, as part of their Educate Bill [...]
By Alex Schadenberg Last year, Campaign Life Coalition experienced a serious shock when one of their valued employees, Rebecca Ducusin, experienced life-threatening health problems and become incapable of making medical decisions for herself. Questions arose pertaining to who would have the legal authority to make decisions on her behalf. The difficulties and stress associated with her needs and how to protect her [...]
By Paul Tuns Just because you don't hear much from the Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus (PPLC), that doesn't mean they aren't doing anything. Indeed, like much caucus work, this unofficial caucus (it doesn't receive funding from Parliament) works behind the scenes. While they won't release the names of PPLC members, the number of MPs in the caucus, or even the party breakdown, the [...]
By Paul Tuns The British Columbia government filed a petition in the BC Supreme Court July 20 asking the federal government to allow same-sex marriages, becoming just the latest legal challenge along with the City of Toronto, six separate Ontario same-sex couples and a Montreal couple seeking societal approval of homosexuality. Although marriage is a federal responsibility, provinces and municipalities issue marriage [...]
Britain, meanwhile, is poised to allow cloning of humans By Paul Tuns U.S. President Bill Clinton issued an executive order August 23 reversing a prohibition on the federal funding of research performed on human embryos, a sure boon to those that see a promise of cures for various diseases in the deaths of the tiniest unborn children. In the last few years, [...]
John-Henry Westen A new compilation of documentation on pro-abortion violence in Canada, the U.S. and Puerto Rico reveals thousands of cases where pro-abortionists have attacked persons with guns, cars, acid, hypodermic syringes, and baseball bats, while other pro-abortion advocates applauded and supported some of these actions. Human Life International's top researchers have assembled Pro-Abortion Violence, which lists over 55 murders committed by pro-abortionists. [...]
Pro-lifers who've been at it for any length of time have experienced many frustrations. One of the most peculiar is the tendency of so many otherwise pro-life Canadians to vote Liberal, even when the Liberal candidate in their riding is pro-abortion. Experienced pro-life leaders say that Catholics are especially loyal to the party, even though the party hasn't been very loyal to [...]
By Doreen Beagan For eighty years, the Catholic Women's League in all corners of Canada has served God and country in ways great and small. The League's range of concerns and support for worthwhile causes are well known. Its 105,000 members make its voice very strong. Resolutions passed at this year's national convention in Charlottetown included opposition to the sale of human [...]
By Catherine Fournier The Interim Pilgrimage is not a North American word. It's not a concept that fits the history of the continent. North Americans understand emigration - getting there.. We came over the oceans by ship or plane, moved through the plains by wagon, train and car, scaled the mountains, all in search of a better future. The destination was the point [...]
As I sit before my computer, my files are thick with news clippings dealing with the media response to the stabbing of abortionist Garson Romalis. It was newsworthy, to be sure, and I was happy to see the same purveyors of information provide accurate info on the reward that Campaign Life Coalition offered. Now, in the middle of all this, is the [...]
If I wasn't suspicious by nature, I'd say that elections were decided by Joe Public getting out and voting. Everybody's vote is equal - right? Wrong. It's who's got the extra clout. In five years, according to Robert MacDermid, a political science professor at York University in Toronto, who tracks such things, the Ontario Tories have received a staggering $50 million from [...]
Most people would be a tad upset if the government took one of their children away. Try to imagine how you would feel if they took away nine of your children - the nine youngest of 13! That is what happened to friends of mine in Ottawa. The incident resulted from a report given to the Ottawa-Carleton branch of Ontario's Children's Aid [...]
In the wake of recent domestic violence murders the call to introduce stricter gun control in Canada has been even louder and more strident than usual. I understand the anxiety but I cannot share the logic. Let me say immediately that I hate guns. They terrify me. I have never owned one and I have never really understood why so many Christians [...]
IRELAND Youth Defence victory DUBLIN - Youth Defence, one of the Republic of Ireland's leading pro-life groups, scored a partial victory in July with the overturning of convictions against six of its members. The six were charged with obstructing police and disturbing public order for their role in a May, 1998 picket outside a Dublin hospital that offers abortion counselling. The six [...]
UNITED STATES Unborn stay of execution WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a new bill July 25 that would prohibit the state from imposing the death penalty on pregnant women convicted of capital offenses. The bill prevents the executing of a woman "who carries a child in utero." Presumably, the bill allows the death penalty to be imposed once the [...]