Interim special Reform party M.P. Sharon Hayes and St. Jerome's College philosophy professor Dr. Donald DeMarco are two central speakers at a seminar on reproductive technology and genetic engineering sponsored by the Catholic Women's League of the Ottawa archdiocese. The seminar, scheduled for April 22 at St. Augustine's Church in Ottawa, offers a Catholic perspective on these current social issues. Other speakers [...]
One of the more grotesque highlights of 1996 was watching the secular media grapple with the horrifying realization that it really is a pre-born human being that gets killed every time an abortion is committed. Naomi Wolf's controversial feature from the New Republic in October of 1995 (Rethinking Pro-Choice Rhetoric – Our Bodies, Our Souls) was the first sign that the solid [...]
Premier Mike Harris appears to be planning to erase gently the Ontario Catholic school system for the backboard. Mike is dangling a fairer share of commercial taxes – spreading the largesse evenly all over Ontario – hypnotically a T-bone steak in front of a meat lover. Ed McMahon, the able chairman of the Metro Separate School Board is also concerned about what's [...]
A Toronto Transit Commission ad purports to tell the public the truth about the Morning After Pill. Just what is the "truth," so prominently heralded by the Public Health Department? According to the ad, what they are promoting isn't just a "morning after" pill. The so-called emergency "contraceptive" can be used for three days. They claim that it is a "safe, emergency [...]
A decision in a Washington courtroom could buoy pro-life sentiments on this side of the border. The U.S. Supreme Court in late February ruled that a 15-foot "floating buffer zone", designed to prevent pro-lifers from approaching abortion-seeking women and staff on any public thoroughfare, contravenes freedom of expression guarantees in the U.S. Constitution. It's not a complete victory for pro-life interests, for [...]
It must be that Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer believes the best defence is a good offence. How else to explain his over-the-top reaction to the news that the Supreme Court of Canada had granted him a new trial in the 1994 "mercy killing" of his 12-year-old disabled daughter, Tracy? While the pro-life community has not always greeted Supreme Court decisions in glowing [...]
Los Angeles Times via Pro-Life E-News, Canada KOTOWICE, Poland – The doctors of the Silesian Medical Academy in a well-to-do suburb of this dreary mining town say they have experienced a remarkable epiphany – one that seems to be sweeping the Polish medical community with a missionary's zeal. Just five years ago, a woman could enter the modern obstetrics ward here and [...]
VANCOUVER – Pro-life activist Jim Demers of Nelson, B.C. was released from prison in February on condition that he stay away from the city of Vancouver, unless accompanied by his lawyer, or travelling to a court appearance. Demers was arrested in December for violating B.C.'s "Bubble Zone" legislation against pro-life demonstrations. He spent the Christmas and New Year's holidays behind bars. An [...]
Interim special WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives February 13 approved a request from President Bill Clinton allowing the expenditure of $385 million for international family planning programs, including abortion services. The vote approving the funding was the first congressional test of the right to life issue since Clinton's re-election in November. American pro-lifers expressed immediate disappointment with the vote. Although [...]
A Canadian disabled rights activist invited to address the U.S. Bishops' conference was hoping to include a visit with President Bill Clinton on his agenda. Mark Pickup of Beaumount, Alberta, will be in Washington March 7-8 to take part in the Life At Risk: A Closer Look at Assisted Suicide conference, sponsored by the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference, Doctor-assisted suicide is especially [...]
Pro-family advocates alienated until now by the antics of mainstream federal political parties may find hope I the Reform Party's recently announced "Commitment to the Canadian Family." However, the news for pro-life supporters may not be as encouraging. Reform included a pledge to make family life a priority as part of its six-point platform in preparation for a federal election expected this [...]
Pro-life officials are concerned over a public health department campaign to promote the so-called morning after pill among Toronto area young people. Public health officials launched the morning after pill educational campaign in early February. The campaign uses mail-outs, public transit advertising and promotion by youth workers and educators in an effort to increase awareness of Emergency Contraception Prevention (ECP). One of [...]
Pro-life, pro-family, Liberal backbench MP Roseanne Skoke faces a challenge for re-nomination due to federal electoral boundary redistribution. Skoke's Central Nova riding will be eliminated, with most of it being incorporated into a new Pictou-Antigonish-Guysborough constituency for the next federal election. Antigonish and Guysborough Counties and currently part of the Cape Breton Highlands Canso riding, held by Liberal Francis LeBlanc, although Guysborough [...]
Pro-life groups across the country welcome the February 6 Supreme Court of Canada decision granting a new trial for Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer. While there exists a possibility of a second jury acquitting Latimer of murder charges, pro-lifers hope a new trial will refocus attention on the innocent victims of so-called mercy killings. Convicted of second-degree murder in the November, 1994 death [...]
Campaign Life Coalition official shave reiterated the need for social policies which emphasize childbirth and strengthen the family unit as a prelude to safeguarding the rights of the unborn in Canada. The call comes in light of a study published in the U.S. Family Planning Perspectives showing a rising abortion rate in Canada. The study, using data collected by Statistics Canada, indicates [...]