Magdalene, 6, Xavier, 4, and Charlotte, 2, know their Oma's in jail. Why? "Oma's saving babies." Their Oma, or grandmother, is Anneliese Steden, 61, of Cambridge, Ont. Instead of playing with her grandchildren, Anneliese is locked up in Toronto's Metro West Detention Centre. She even turned down bail conditions that would have allowed her the freedom to hug her family. "My wife, [...]
Official says permanent measure being planned The hope that Ontario's Progressive Conservative government will throw out the "temporary" injunction against pro-life witnessing was all but quashed last month. An inquiry with the Ministry of the Attorney-General revealed that the government is now committed to seeing the injunction made permanent. Ministry spokesman Brendan Crawley told The Interim he doesn't know when the decision [...]
Three Ontario pro-lifers were arrested and charged Sept. 9 for praying, picketing, and offering counselling outside Toronto's Scott abortuary. Rev. Ken Campbell of Milton, Linda Gibbons of Toronto, and Anneliese Steden of Cambridge were taken away by 51 Division police and charged with obstructing a peace officer after the sheriff read the terms of Justice George Adams's 1994 injunction against pro-life witnessing [...]
On July 15, pro-life evangelist Ken Campbell was acquitted of obstructing police by Judge Milton Cadsby, in a case relating to Campbell's peaceful pro-life witness in front of Toronto's Scott abortuary on September 2, 1997. The facts read before the court were that Campbell and renowned activist Linda Gibbons were in the government-mandated "bubble-zone" that day counselling abortuary clients to accept pro-life [...]
The time has come to move from passivity to activity, says Linda Gibbons, grandmother of four. Since her release May 5 from the Vanier Centre for Women in Brampton, Ontario, after serving her latest prison sentence for obstructing a peace officer and breaking probation, Linda has done exactly that. Instead of focusing completely on the plight of the preborn, however, her efforts [...]
Within the pro life movement there are few things that stir up as much controversy as the showing of graphic pictures of burned and mutilated babies who have died through the act of abortion. Wherever groups like Show the Truth decide to display the graphic reality of what abortion really is, they are met with arrows flung from both sides. Many within [...]
Pro-abortion counter-protestors arrested Grisly photos of aborted babies greeted motorists and pedestrians at Queen's Park Circle in Toronto July 10. "Some motorists give you the finger and others give you the thumbs up and honk," said Rita Vangelderen of London, as she held a huge photo of a dismembered baby aborted at 21 weeks. "I let the pictures talk for themselves." Rita [...]
Disabled rights advocates and pro-life supporters are once again dismayed over a lenient sentence given a Toronto physician who assisted in the suicide of a patient. Dr. Maurice Genereux, an AIDS specialist, was sentenced to two-years less a day for prescribing lethal doses of pain killers to patient Aaron McGinn in 1996. He is the first doctor in North America to be [...]
A Toronto-area woman is currently on the first leg of a four-month speaking tour of Ireland to bring a fresh perspective to the hotly-debated abortion situation. Emma Maan, 21, of Georgetown, Ont., is the public relations director with Ontario Students for Life (OSFL), an organization coordinating pro-life efforts among the province’s high school students. She was invited to Ireland by the Dublin-based [...]
Red faces in the Ontario Attorney General’s office after a major break in the trial of four pro-lifers. The four, Rosemary Connell, John Bulsza, Ann-Marie Tomlins and William Whatcott were charted last July 3rd during a Show the Truth demonstration in the southwestern Ontario community of St. Thomas. The group had signs showing aborted babies in various stages of development and were [...]
In a development some pro-lifers are hailing as a miraculous event, longtime American activist Joan Andrews Bell has left prison, in spite of a sentence of up to 23 months levied against her in January. Bell, 49, walked out of Pittsburgh’s Allegheny County Jail March 26. She had been sentenced by Judge Raymond Novak for failing to comply with the terms of [...]
The pro-life community addresses itself to a myriad of issues, strategies and projects, but its unifying factor is each member's selfless commitment to life, to love and to one another in the movement. In consideration of the unity issue, I was reminded of the chap who jumped to his feet in church shouting out, "Praise the Lord." From across the aisle the [...]
British Columbia activist Jim Demers’s long-standing battle with the provincial government’s Access to Abortion Services Act may be coming to a close. Demers, of Nelson, B.C., received a two-year suspended sentence in February for a series of protests outside Vancouver-area abortion clinics. Provincial Court Judge Jack McGivern ruled that Demers would be arrested and fined up to $500 if he appears outside [...]
TORONTO - Canada’s pro-life university students will use the latest information technology to promote a stronger right to life attitude on the college campuses throughout the country. Students plan to use the internet and electronic mail bulletin boards to complement their regular newsletter in an effort to link post-secondary pro-life efforts coast to coast. Leading the way in this effort is the [...]
On Jan. 28th, pro-life forces in Winnipeg rallied together to commemorate the loss of those babies killed through abortion since the Supreme Court of Canada declared the existing law with respect to abortion unconstitutional 10 years ago. The main event was a demonstration at the Law Courts Building at Kennedy and York Streets, during the noon hour. Other than the attention we [...]