A recently published study in The Lancet indicates that people primarily desire euthanasia and assisted suicide not because of intolerable pain and symptom management but rather because they fear a "loss of self." The study, carried out by the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, interviewed 32 people with HIV-1 or AIDS, questioning them on their thoughts concerning euthanasia, assisted suicide, [...]
Excerpt from a speech by Senator Anne Cools (Liberal-Ontario) to the Senate on June 13 on the second reading of her Bill S-9, An Act Respecting Marriage: Hon. Anne C. Cools: Honourable senators, I rise to speak to the second reading of my bill, Bill S-9, to remove certain doubts regarding the meaning of marriage. Bill S-9 will create a statute called [...]
Legislative and court battles over everything from child pornography to euthanasia are so common now that it is difficult to keep track of the ever-changing frontline in what Pope John Paul II has dubbed "the culture war." Nevertheless, pro-family groups in Canada believe they may have identified a political battle they can win and sustain: defending the definition of marriage in court. [...]
In the hot days of summer in Winnipeg, the abortion battle is heating up inside the courtrooms of the Court of Queen's Bench. Two Winnipeg women, represented by lawyer Robert Tapper, have launched a class-action suit against the Manitoba government for its refusal to fund abortions at private clinics. The women, referred to as Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. [...]
I'm Still a Radical: An Anthology of the Writings of Father Ted Colleton, C.S.Sp. Interim Publishing Company Ltd. Toronto $15 Good old Father Ted. What an inspiration he has been for an entire generation of pro-lifers throughout this country and beyond. First taking up his pen for pro-life upon returning to Canada in 1971 from mission work in Kenya, Father Ted has [...]
Whenever a politician delivers an address, his audience simply assumes that his message is going to be political. So deeply entrenched is this assumption that it prevails even on the relatively rare occasion when a politician delivers an address that is essentially ethical. It is like assuming that your lottery number is never going to be a winner and not noticing, on [...]
The reaction to President George W. Bush's announcement restricting US government funding of embryonic stem-cell research to 60 existing stem cell lines has been widely praised as a suitable compromise with representatives from both sides of the debate-for instance, the National Right to Life Committee and stem-cell research advocates Mary Tyler Moore and Michael J. Fox-congratulating the president on his decision. But [...]
Official delegate admits 'reproductive services' include abortion A Canadian delegate at the recent PrepCom leading up to September's Child Summit astonished pro-family advocates and social leftists alike when he acknowledged publicly that the euphemism "reproductive health services" means abortion. He added that it may not refer to abortion in the minds of other delegates, but it does when Canadian delegates to United [...]
The expression of deep ethical concerns by the prolife movement parallels the development of contemporary "bioethics." Those ethical concerns relate to the death-dealing "shining wires" and controls hidden in the undergrowth of human determination, not only to heal but to achieve the unlimited perfection of the human race. That determination is eugenic in nature. Darwin is noted to have written, "We civilized [...]
Well, she's done it again. Canada's mistress of anything abortion, Barbara Hestrin, has written another unethical swipe at those who oppose her means of putting bread on the table. I am talking of course of the former president of Planned Parenthood of Canada. You know her as the abortoholic that runs the abortion mill at the Children's and Women's Health Centre of [...]
About the week in which Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection I read in an American newspaper that doctors are not allowed to administer the injections - "because it would be against the Hippocratic Oath." Hippocrates was a physician who lived in the fifth century before Christ, and the Oath is attributed to him. Up to relatively recent times, well into this [...]
I hate to say I told you so. But my goodness, I told you so. Not just me, of course. Everyone who believes in family, marriage and unchanging morality. All those people, in fact, who have been routinely chastised by the trendy powers that be and their fellow travellers. I refer to a report from Statistics Canada that concludes that people who [...]
I knew Jerry Young for 13 years, since the Family Coalition Party of Ontario had a small office on Dundas Street East in downtown Toronto. He was on the executive of the party as vice-president, president and past president for most of those years. Jerry's approach to business and to politics was very direct and professional. You did not have to guess [...]
Mrs. Notten's 'prayer quilts' Little did Harriet Notten realize that when she lovingly crafted one of her colourful "prayer quilts," it would help change a mother's mind about having an abortion. Mrs. Notten, a Hamilton grandmother with health problems, hand sews dozens of beautiful quilts decorated with lively nursery rhyme characters and themes and donates them to Toronto's Aid to Women. She [...]
One More Soul seeks to 'convince people that children are a blessing from God' "Contraception is probably worse than abortion. We have to preach the whole story. I think this is one reason why we haven't got further in the battle," announced Joe Scheidler at the National Pro-Life Conference in Toronto last October. This is a position that has been taken by [...]