The pro-life movement has begun an intense education campaign to train its leaders of tomorrow. It is being billed as the most extensive program designed for the express purpose of educating pro-lifers, leaders and political activists. The correspondence course, called “Life Issues, What You Need to Know about Abortion,” was developed and is administered by Campaign Life Coalition. Retired high school teacher [...]
The ordeal has ended for Linda Gibbons. The pro-life prisoner of conscience met friends and well-wishers in Toronto after her release from jail March 18. She served four moths of a six month sentence which she spent in four different jails. This was her seventh time in jail since 1989 and she served almost continually since September of 1992. “It’s great getting [...]
Internationally renowned geneticist Jerome Lejeune will be speaking to pro-lifers in Montreal and Toronto on April 12 and 13 consecutively. His visit to Canada is being sponsored by Campagne Quebec Vie and Life Ethics Educational Association/Campaign Life Coalition Toronto. Lejeune is known throughout the worldwide medical community as the scientist who dis-covered the extra chromosome which causes Down Syndrome. He is presently [...]
Charlottetown – Teens in Eastern Canada are learning that peer pressure is not an insurmountable problem, and can even be an asset. They are turning enthusiastically to Peer Pressure Reversal, a program used to promote chastity and other positive values. “If peer pressure can be used negatively, it can also be used positively,” says Ray Malone, a guidance counsellor with the provincial [...]
How many times have you heard pro-lifers called single issue “fetus worshippers?” Far too many, according to one group who, over the past few years with very little fanfare, have gone about changing this misconception. Business for Life, an organization formed in 1989 to give business people an opportunity to help in the fight to save the unborn, have decided to contribute [...]
I was invited to be a speaker at the Human Life International Conference in Cork, Ireland. The Conference was held at the Blarney Park Hotel, outside Cork City, October 30 to November 1, and it was a great success. I had intended to stay in Ireland with my family until November 16. But, just before taking off for my native land, I [...]
Environics survey says 75% favour Informed Consent laws The results for a national survey released November 25, indicate that nearly three-quarters of Canadians believe women seeking abortions should be informed about the development of the unborn child and the negative effects of abortion. In the survey, conducted by Environics for the Citizens’ voice Association, 74 per cent of those polled responded affirmatively [...]
When Karen and James Hanlon of Langley B.C. were married four years ago, little did they know that after only one year of marriage, they would be abruptly separated and sent to jail. In fact, that’s where James spent Christmas of 1989. Their “crime”? Disobeying a court injunction prohibiting pro-lifers from picketing or rescuing outside the Everywoman’s Health Center, a newly opened [...]
Toronto – Pro-life activist Linda Groce was sentenced to six months in jail on Wednesday, November 18 (See November Interim, page 19). Linda remained silent throughout the trial, refusing to speak or offer any defense on her behalf. Because of her refusal to speak with or to cooperate with the court and prison system in any was – including performing prison work [...]
Charlottetown – Five hundred youths from all across Canada gathered here in mid-October for the national conference of the Canadian Pro-Life Youth Organization (CYPLO). They described the experience as awesome. MLA Leone Bagnall, House Leader of the provincial Opposition, showed her support by making time to drop in. However, the local media didn’t find the province’s first national youth conference important enough [...]
Toronto pro-life activist “Jane Doe” was released on Wednesday October 2, without signing any bail conditions. On Thursday October 3, she returned to the Scott abortuary to counsel distressed, pregnant women and was promptly re-arrested. On Monday, October 5, Jane Doe was arraigned in Court. The Court date was set for Tuesday, October 13 at College Park Courthouse at 10:00 a.m. An [...]
In the campaign to make abortion illegal, activists agree that they have not been greeted by many legislative victories. Perhaps most disheartening was last year’s Sullivan v. LeMay case, which saw the Supreme Court of Canada declare that the child in the birth canal was not a person. Moreover, Henry Morgentaler continues to go from one provincial Supreme Court to another, collecting [...]
Life Chain is a non-confrontational way to get across the message that abortion kills children. Whether or not the numbers participating across Canada were down slightly this year, the event got good coverage in the newspapers and definitely helped to keep the abortion issue before the public. A reporter for the Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic began her story by saying, “It’s [...]
In 1987, pro-lifers lined a busy intersection in Yuba City, California, holding signs such as “Abortion Kills Children” and “Jesus Forgives and Heals.” The event attracted a gathering of 2500 and the organizers, Please Let Me Live (PLML), deemed this first “Life Chain” to be a modest success. Little did they know that their rally would soon gain widespread appeal and become [...]
Early one sprng mornig a few weeks ago, in downtown Toronto, Tom Brown was handing out pro-life pamphlets on the streets in front of Buruiana’s abortuary. He was waiting for his partner , Mary Burnie. Nearby, he noticed a man and a woman approach the abortuary but then hesitate. Politely, he asked if he could speak to them before they went inside. [...]