Interim staff In an effort to promote prayer as a response to the abortion problem in this country, The Interim is considering a plan to reproduce different pro-life prayers in upcoming issues. The purpose of the prayer initiative is simple. In order to come up with a solution to the evil of abortion, we should look to a power higher than our [...]
Mark Pickup, a former board member of Campaign Life Coalition and a long-time pro-life supporter, is this year’s winner of the Kurelek award. Presented annually by Alliance for Life, the Kurelek award recognizes outstanding work in promoting respect for life in Canada. The presentation took place June 22 at the National Pro-Life Conference at King’s University College in Edmonton. Alliance for Life [...]
Interim Staff Priests for Life, an association of clergy who give special emphasis to promoting and defending the sanctity of life, has recently been established in Canada, with the support of Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of PFL in New York. Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Vatican City has said, “I remember when I first came [...]
Students at Hawthorn School for Girls in Don Mills observed the week of May 6-10 as a Pro-Life Week. The Hawthorn Pro-Life Club, under the leadership of its president, Leilani Nolan, organized a variety of activities for the student body over the lunch-hour. The week began with an inspiring talk on pro-life activism for the senior students, given by Kathleen Ross of [...]
Interim Staff The organizer of the National Hour of Prayer for the unborn in the U.S. is enthusiastic about the success of this first-time effort. Rev. Johnny Hunter, National Director of the Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN), encouraged U.S. blacks to go to the nearest abortion clinic May 11 for an hour of prayer in defence of the unborn. Although it’s [...]
Interim Staff A bright new pamphlet is being featured by the Toronto Metropolitan Separate School Board during Respect for Life Week in May this year. Called “Who Will Be Today’s Wilberforce?” it draws a startling parallel between the ready acceptance of slavery 200 years ago and the ready acceptance of abortion by many people today. William Wilberforce was a Methodist British Member [...]
Hope to pressure A.G. into action Interim staff Members of the Knights of Columbus are going to bat for 16 activists stung by Ontario’s injunction against pro-life witnessing. The Knights of Columbus Rideau council 2444 in Smiths Falls, Ontario is circulating a petition calling on the province to lift the injunction and lawsuit against the 16 pro-lifers. Nora McNeely of Smiths Falls [...]
Although attention has been focused almost exclusively on violence and harassment against abortionists in recent years, pro-life activists and supporters in both Canada and the US have also been regular recipients of various forms of abuse. One of the most serious of these incidents took place in Baton Rouge, LA., in October 1994, when pro life protester Richard Mahoney was shot at [...]
Although attention has been focused almost exclusively on violence and harassment against abortionists in recent years, pro-life activists and supporters in both Canada and the US have also been regular recipients of various forms of abuse. One of the most serious of these incidents took place in Baton Rouge, LA., in October 1994, when pro life protester Richard Mahoney was shot at [...]
My first reaction when I looked at the return address on the envelope was, Oh No! Some, parishioner or sister in Christ, has managed to get themselves thrown into the Vanier prison for women. Then as I read the letter, I remembered that just before Christmas when The Interim had suggested that we write to Linda Gibbons, that I had sent her [...]
Tony Gosgnach The black American community is bringing to the pro-life sphere the spiritual principles which guided Martin Luther King’s civil rights campaigns. U.S. blacks are planning their first Annual National Hour of Prayer between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on May 11, says Reg. Johnny Hunter, National Director of Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN), which is sponsoring the event. LEARN [...]
Activists in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and Montreal challenge standing injunctions Interim staff It did not take long for the fallout from a controversial B.C. ruling to be felt across the country. In February, Justice E.J. Cronin struck down B.C. legislation which placed a bubble-zone around, abortuaries, barring pro-lifers from picketing, counseling or leafleting. Following this decision, pro-life activist Linda Gibbons challenged a [...]
Berton, Callwood, Hall, Forrester, Christie and Morgentaler honour founders of abortion group Pro-lifers put a crimp in plans to honour long-time abortion supporters Norma Scarborough, founder of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL) and Toronto Star columnist Michelle Landsberg. Guests attending a January 29 dinner for Scarborough and Landsberg ran headlong into an orderly line of demonstrators, who braved cold temperatures [...]
Linda Gibbons: “Common Sense Revolution is meaningless if it doesn’t protect life” Pro-life defender Linda Gibbons has wasted no time in again sacrificing her personal comfort and security in defence of the unborn. Gibbons, who was released from the Vanier Correctional Institute February 16, was re-arrested February 19 after demonstrating in front of the Scott abortuary on Gerrard St. East in Toronto. [...]
A Colorado man’s unauthorized detention in a psychiatric hospital was the direct result of his opposition to abortion, say several U.S. pro-life officials. Kenneth Scott of Denver, a long-time pro-life activist, was arrested December 20 and spent the next 42 days in the Boulder Community Hospital psychiatric ward. He was released without conditions January 30. Scott plans to file a lawsuit against [...]