NEW YORK; A federal judge has acquitted two pro-life protesters who were charged with blocking access to a Westchester County abortuary. Citing the protesters “conscience-driven religious beliefs,” Us. District Court Judge John Spizzo said the pair were not guilty of any crimes. The protesters, retired Catholic Auxilliary Bishop George Lynch and a Franciscan Brother Christopher Moscinki, could have been found guilty of [...]
I often think of him with his cigarettes, stand there pondering things philosophically, but he was always in the action. He was a man after God’s heart.” So does rescuer Linda Gibbons describe her former colleague William de Marois, who died Dec. 22, 1996 of complication from lung cancer at St. Michael’s Hospital Toronto. He was 71. Born William Robert Fournier of [...]
More than 30 students from Manitoba, Alberta, Ontario and Newfoundland came together in Toronto recently for a pro-life symposium weekend. Students’ primary focus was activating pro-life groups on university campuses across the country. Members of Western Life and Kings College Life (University of Western Ontario), two of the limited number of university pro-life groups, provided information on bringing the pro-life word to [...]
At a stage in life when many people might start looking to wind down, one of the pro-life movement’s more colourful figures is still going strong. Ken Campbell, the 62-year-old Milton, Ontario evangelist and founder of Choose Life Canada, is engrossed in a whirlwind of activity these days –standing in the midst of controversies over the federal government’s pro-homosexual rights legislation, Linda [...]
Lord, we pray for all those who counsel pregnant women. Give them special gilts of the Holy Spirit so that they may find right words to help each woman who comes to them realize that she carries within her a new life formed in Your image. Lead women who face troubled pregnancies to Your counsellors. Never let anyone who counsels against abortion [...]
The Toronto Public Library has rejected The Interim’s bid to have the newspaper made available to the public through the periodical distribution service. According to an official with the Toronto Public Library, periodicals are ineligible for bulk distribution if they are deemed primarily of political, religious or philosophical advocacy. Other types of publications rejected for distribution include materials that would contravene bylaws [...]
The spate of “bombings” in the days leading up to the January 22 anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion made for interesting reading. Who cares if the reports were short on fact and long on innuendo? Explosions did in fact take place near abortuaries in Atlanta and Tulsa. Six people were injured in the Atlantic explosion and while no [...]
It was, as Christian activist Ken Campbell called it, a “Linda love-in.” About 50 supporters gathered at downtown Toronto’s Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church the evening of January 17 to pay tribute to Linda Gibbons. The Diminutive grandmother of four had been released earlier that day from her latest prison term for challenging Ontario’s temporary injunction against pro-life activity within 20 meters of [...]
The Interim plans to feature semi-regular columns by students and young adults covering a variety of pro-life issues. It is expected the young adult/ student columns will appear every second month. The first such, submitted by Kerri-Lee Mullan of the University of Western Ontario’s pro-life group, is scheduled for the March, 1997 issue. Kerri-Lee will discuss reflections of an ex pro-choicer on [...]
Explosions near abortuaries in three U.S. cities in late January led to the usual denunciation of “anti-abortion” violence despite a lack of evidence the pro-lifers were in any way involved in the blasts. A January 16 explosion damaged a building housing the Atlanta Northside Family Planning Services, a clinic where abortions are performed, in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs. About an [...]
Pro-life political prisoner Linda Gibbons has added a powerful voice in her one-woman challenge of the Ontario injunction against pro-life demonstrations. New York defense attorney John Broderick, best known for defending Joan Andrews and other Operation Rescue participants in the late-1980s, officially joined Gibbons’ defense in early January. Broderick also gained a reputation by defending several members of the Lambs of Christ, [...]
The Past year witnessed the usual peaks and valleys for pro-life, pro-family supporters in North America and throughout the world. While there was a measure of success in some areas, number of trouble spots, particularly growing tolerance for assisted-suicide and continuing inroads against the traditional family –continue to present major concerns. Undoubtedly one of the most significant events was a somber one [...]
Pro-life prisoner of conscience Linda Gibbons will again be the subject of a dramatic presentation at 7:30 p.m. Gibbons, who has served several prison terms resulting from a temporary injunction against pro-life demonstrations, was scheduled to be released from her latest incarceration the same afternoon. An Evening with Linda Gibbons and Friends will include reading, music and discussion of trends in the [...]
VANCOUVER—British Columbia’s bubble zone legislation restricting non-life demonstrations has again been put to the test. Vancouver police December 11 arrested pro-life activist Jim Demers outside Everywoman’s abortion clinic, after more than a week of picketing. Demers had been carrying a sign displaying article -4- of the American Convention on Human Rights. The article reads: “Every person has the right to have his [...]
British Columbia’s pro-life community will appeal a provincial Supreme Court decision upholding the province’s “bubble zone” legislation. Despite growing disenchantment with the legal system, pro-life supporters plan to continue to press for their rights to peaceful public witnessing against abortion. The bubble zone law was ruled unconstitutional by B.C Provincial Court Judge E.J Cronin in January. The decision was immediately appealed by [...]