By Ted Gerk The Interim Soft-spoken Anita Parker was born to Thomas and Maureen Egan on July 13, 1934. Graduating from school in 1952, Anita began her career at a Catholic school in Cannock, Staffordshire, England. In 1954, Anita met her future husband Bill. They were married on Sept. 3, 1955. Moving to Canada in 1970, the Parkers quickly moved into [...]
National Campus Life Network symposium draws leaders from across the country By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Canada's pro-life university students have emerged from a trying year with a renewed commitment to defending human life on campuses across the country. An optimistic tone prevailed at this year's National Campus Life Network (NCLN) symposium, January 14-16 at St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto. More [...]
By Donald DeMarco The Interim John Irving is a well-known novelist and short story writer. He established his reputation in 1978 with The World According to Garp, which was made into a film in 1982. In his latest book, My Movie Business: A Memoir (Knopf, 1999), he presents his view on abortion and his attitude toward right-to-life advocates in the following [...]
Pro-Life 101: A User-Friendly Guide to Making Your Case on Campus by Scott Klusendorf (San Pedro, CA, Stand to Reason Press, 1999, 37 pp, $6 in Canada)Reviewed by Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Campaign Life Coalition's effort to establish a new youth wing is especially timely with the release of Pro-Life 101, Scott Klusendorf's new book on pro-life argumentation. The director of bioethics at [...]
Disabled and anti-euthanasia activists alarmed at treatment of attempted mercy-killer By Paul Tuns The Interim The dangerous and disturbing trend of treating disabled victims of crimes as second-class citizens unworthy of the protection of the law was evident in the sentencing of Lisa Thompson on Nov. 30, 1999. Thompson, a 37-year-old divorced mother of four from Niagara Falls, Ont., tried to kill [...]
Andrew's Pilgrimage for Life By Tanya M. Granic The Interim Today's youth are taking on greater challenges than ever before. Andrew Fournier, a Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) member, is no exception. A bright-eyed 19 year old from Arnprior, Ont., Andrew has decided to walk across Canada to raise awareness and money for the pro-life cause. "I am walking across Canada to [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim British Columbia pro-life activist Mary Wagner was acquitted Jan. 11 on all but one of her six counts of breaking a Vancouver bubble zone injunction on two separate occasions. Wagner, a 24-year-old graduate student at the University of Victoria, was found guilty on a one count of interference with a client of the Everywoman's abortuary, and was [...]
By Tanya M. Granic The Interim Has it really been that long? Twenty-seven years since that pivotal Roe vs. Wade decision wiped out millions of pre-born children in the United States of America. Has it really been that long? Twenty-seven years since that first march where 20,000 assembled to mark the day when legalized slaughter of the innocent began. That's what they [...]
John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe says the question for pro-lifers is: 'Are you fighting abortion with your strong right arm or with your broken heart?' Interview by Sue Careless The Interim Editor: John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe, director of Pro-Life Century in Laytonsville, Maryland, has been called the fahter of the rescue movement, and is widely regarded as an authority on the principle of non-violence. A leading speaker [...]
Babies aren't the only targets of the abortion industry and its supporters. The record shows that pro-aborts in Canada and the U.S. often direct their extremism at pro-life activists, tooBy Tony Gosgnach The Interim Although violence perpetrated against abortion providers and associated personnel has garnered mounds of media coverage in the last few years - reaching a peak with the 1998 murder [...]
PRO-LIFERS PONDERING IMPLICATIONS OF UNPRECEDENTED DECISION Christmas came early this year for Linda Gibbons, Ontario's pro-life prisoner of conscience. On Dec. 14, 1999, Linda was found guilty of one count of obstructing a peace officer and two counts of breaking probation, stemming from her peaceful pro-life witness within the government's no-protest "bubble-zone" outside Toronto's Scott abortuary Oct. 15, 1999. The convictions were [...]
Ontario's pro-life students once again pledged their commitment to developing a right-to-life ethic among their peers during this fall's 11th annual Ontario Students for Life (OSFL) conference. More than 250 students from across the province took part in this year's gathering at Bishop Smith High School in Pembroke, titled "Get a life, eh!" Principal speakers included Angelina Steenstra, who runs a ministry [...]
Campaign Life Coalition is in the process of forming a new organization that will link young people's pro-life efforts coast to coast. Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) will be led by Tanya Granic, 19, a second-year science student at the University of Western Ontario. Granic is currently on a four-month sabbatical and is working with Campaign Life Coalition. She recently served as [...]
But maybe not the kind that makes the textbooks In early August, the quiet streets of several Nova Scotian communities were stirred into activity by the presence of modern-day heroes. At least, that's how I think of them. The men, women and children who made up the Show the Truth Tour broke out of their ordinary Canadian lives to travel days by [...]
Anyone born after the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision is a survivor of the abortion holocaust, says a group of some 30 young adults who have sacrificed their summer to walk over 5,500 kilometres in recognition of the sanctity of life. When Pope John Paul II called on America's youth to stand up and defend life, at World Youth Day in Denver [...]