Peaceful pro-life activist Merle Terlesky accused of uttering threats He used to be a militant pro-abortion activist, but Merle Terlesky, who switched to the pro-life side of the abortion conflict a few years ago, has now been arrested for protesting against abortion in Vancouver. The Kamloops Daily News reported that Mr. Terlesky was arrested and jailed Feb. 23 while attending a pro-life meeting. [...]
Candidate questionnaires help identify social conservatives and pro-lifers in new legislature On March 12, Premier Ralph Klein's Tories streamrolled the NDP and Liberal opposition taking 74 of 83 seats in the Alberta provincial election. While social issues were not a factor in the election pro-life and social conservative groups were involved in the campaign, and active informing voters about the candidates. Campaign [...]
Pro-lifer was outside 'bubble zone', but is charged with criminal harassment The police crackdown on any sort of pro-life activity near the Scott Clinic abortuary in downtown Toronto continues. Alex Vernon, a young Campaign Life Coalition office worker and volunteer sidewalk counsellor with the pro-life Aid to Women agency, was arrested by four plainclothes police officers on Feb. 27 while standing down [...]
NDP and Liberals compete for pro-abortion vote With media reports of an imminent provincial election in British Columbia - the government must call one by June - the NDP and Liberals are fighting over the pro-abortion vote, a tactic that has limited the options for the province's pro-life voters. The NDP is staking out ground as arguably the most pro-abortion government in [...]
They are articulate and young. They are educated and outspoken. They are a few of the young women of the pro-life movement in Canada. They represent different parts of Canada, and the pro-life movement, and have come to the cause in different ways. The three women profiled below spoke with The Interim about why they are pro-life, about their experiences as activists, and [...]
Prominent Montreal bioethicist opposes cloning, but aims for elusive balance on abortion The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit by Margaret Somerville (Toronto: Viking, 2000). 344 pages, $33.99 CAD. Margaret Somerville, founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, says in The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit that it is time for the [...]
In exchange for forthrightly denouncing the anti-Christian stance on abortion taken by Progressive Conservative Party leader Joe Clark, Catholic Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary has been accused of violating the sacred wall of separation between church and state. The charge, quite simply, is preposterous. At issue is Henry's condemnation of Clark's "scandalous behaviour" in supporting "a woman's right to choose," while representing [...]