PP Politically motivated exaggeration in Nairobi Botched abortion in England Dutch doctors balk at euthanasia requirements Japanese euthanasia case Politically motivated exaggeration NAIROBI - The International Planned Parenthood Federation told participants at its conference in Kenya, which included the health ministers of Ghana, Mozambique and Namibia, that liberalizing abortion laws in African countries could prevent as many as 30,000 maternal deaths. Campaign [...]
Mr. & Mrs. R.M. Abernethy Mary Acommando Denis Adams Evangeline Adams Evelyn Aitchison Helen Albertson Fr. Carl T. Albury Mrs. Isobel A. Allen Gordon Anderson Sister Mary Andre Marguerite Anglin Frank & Mary Arrigo Dialina São Jose Furtado Arruda Herni Arsenault Mary & Alfred Ashfield Raymond Atance Josephine Attard André Audette Carmelo Azzopardi Evelyn Azzopardi Adrienne Bachand Henri Bachand Antoinette & Gus [...]
United States Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation says the vote by most Democrats to maintain the legality of partial-birth abortion demonstrates that the party is captive to the "radical lifestyle lobby" … Pro-life Congressman Pat Toomey (Penn.) announces he will challenge incumbent pro-abortion and pro-cloning Senator Arlen Specter in the Republican primary next year. Pro-life stalwart Senator Rick Santorum announced he will support [...]
A new bishop has waded into the troubled waters of a Vancouver-area diocese, in the hope of resolving a pastoral emergency so critical it threatens to destroy the Anglican Communion worldwide. Terrence Buckle, Anglican bishop of the Yukon, offered "alternative episcopal oversight" to eight orthodox parishes in New Westminster that oppose the blessing of same-sex unions. But Michael Ingham, the official bishop [...]
On Katie's first appointment at the abortuary, next door to the Aid Women Office in downtown Toronto, she didn't see any pro-life signs. However, on the second day, when she returned to the abortuary for a laminaria insertion (a seaweed-like substance that facilitates abortion in late pregnancy), she noticed Anne standing across the street with her favourite sandwich-board sign that read, "Please [...]
Book on health effects of abortion an excellent resource Women's Health after Abortion. The Medical and Psychological Evidence By Elizabeth Ring-Cassisdy and Ian Gentles (The de Veber Institute, $24.95, 333 pages) I was working for a pro-life group in Los Angeles when I first heard about Women's Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence by Elizabeth Ring-Cassisdy and Ian Gentles. My [...]
On April 5, the Christian Heritage Party held its spring conference at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ont. Although the last vestiges of Ontario's April ice storm made travel difficult, 126 supporters, some from as far away as Walkerton, gathered to hear speakers address the theme of "Strategies to Advance the Christian Heritage Party of Canada." The group included a healthy contingent [...]
Terence Westerhoek is the only worker at the Magna subsidiary that the receptionist knows who can't wait to get to work. Every Friday, he arrives all smiles at the P & F Tool and Die plant. First, he greets his oldest brother, John, in his office with a big hug and kiss. Then, he sets to work, cheerfully bundling the workers' gloves [...]
One of the most puzzling questions regarding stem cell research has been: why are researchers so hungry for embryonic stem cells, despite the controversy and dangers over their use, and at the same time, seem to be shunning non-controversial and much more successful adult stem cells? MP Paul Szabo, the resident expert on the matter in the Canadian House of Commons, posited [...]
Researchers have announced that the human genome sequence is now almost completely deciphered. The decoding of three billion letters of the genetic code in human DNA was completed two years ahead of schedule thanks to advances in computer technology, and gives scientists "the chance to explore everything that is genetically (pre-)determined about our lives," according to a BBC report. Researchers are already [...]
This year is turning out to be one of anniversaries. Our very own Interim newspaper is marking 20 years of publication. Pope John Paul II celebrates 25 years in the papacy this October. And this month, Canada's dynamic political pro-life organization will have been in existence for a quarter-century. It was on May 25, 1978 that representatives from pro-life groups across Canada [...]
The leading British medical journal The Lancet reported last month that the use of oral contraceptives can more than double a woman's risk of developing cervical cancer. British and French researchers with Cancer Research U.K. found that being on the pill for less than five years was associated with an increased risk of 10 per cent, while subjects who took the drug [...]
Like 22.3 million other Canadians, I recently completed my taxes. It is always a painful experience, less fun than the dental work I had done earlier in the month and actually more expensive. But for social conservatives and other people of common sense, forking over hard-earned dough to the government is made even more pernicious when one considers where the money goes. [...]
Every week, I am made more nervous by bioethicists. Every day, some new set of biotech horrors slithers across my desktop, tempting me to despair, go home to Nova Scotia, adopt an alias, live in the woods and pretend I don't speak English. In the last year, a group of suspiciously similar bills have been proposed in legislatures all over the U.S. [...]
Murder of pregnant mom thrusts life issue into spotlight The California deaths of Laci Peterson and her unborn son are sending shockwaves across America, as the issue of when human life begins has been reignited. Laci's husband Scott was arrested in April following the discovery of what prosecutors say is Laci's body and that of their "biological child." Scott Peterson, who was [...]