Toronto – The 1989 court injunction that prevented all pro-life activities within a 150 meter radius of Henry Morgentaler’s Toronto abortion clinic on Harbord Street now applies to his new location at 157 Gerard Street East (several doors west of the Scott abortion clinic) – and to any new location to which he may move his clinic. During the two days of [...]
Organizers of the upcoming Lift up Life Conference in P.E.I. are hoping that the positive mood generated from Toronto’s Save the Planet’s People conference will carry up the St. Lawrence and into the Maritimes. The list of speakers for the October 16, 17, 18 meet is extremely impressive and serves as an early indication that the conference will be as successful as [...]
My assignment from Campaign Life Coalition President Jim Hughes was simple. Go to Port Charlotte, he said, and close down every abortion “clinic” down there. And he gave me two weeks to do it. The good news is that Port Charlotte is in Florida! I told Jim that I wouldn’t be very effective going alone. He agreed. So I brought along my [...]
Newfoundland Newfie abortuary one year old St. Jon’s, Nfld. – On the Morgentaler ‘clinic’s’ first anniversary here, CBC’s regional radio newscast featured an interview with Peggy Meisner, the abortuary’s head nurse and office manager. She stated that the past year has gone very smoothly. “Except for a couple of rowdy demonstrations in the early days, Right to Lifers have been really very [...]
Edmonton: Lianne Laurence, 32, The Interim’s western correspondent and Edmonton’s persistent champion of the unborn, was sentenced to 60 days in jail on February 11, 1992. Miss Laurence had been arrested on seven previous occasions for picketing and protesting at the local Morgentaler abortuary which opened in September 1991. She has spent a total of 35 days in jail. She has vowed [...]
On December 17, ten people were arrested for blocking access to Edmonton’s four-month-old abortion “clinic.” By blocking the rear and front entrances, they violated the terms of a blanket injunction that was obtained by the “clinic” after the first Operation Rescue on November 17. At 7:00 a.m. on a very crisp winter morning, rescuers went to a special Mass offered for them [...]
On November 20, 1990, ten Toronto rescuers appeared before Judge Mercer. They were represented by counselor, Paul Chumak. Charges went back to July 14, 1990, when the ten pro-lifers were arrested and charged with mischief and blocking the entrance to Dr. Monole Buruiana’s abortuary in the east end of Toronto. Receiving sentence were: Adriana Bannon, Stratford George Denish, London Rev. Ken Campbell, [...]
In Canada we are affected by events in the pro-life arena in the U.S. as much as in any other area. Canadian and U.S. pro-life people should support each other and work together, just as our adversaries on both sides of the border do. In Saskatchewan we have the opportunity to do that by joining the Focus on Fargo. Merchants of Fargo [...]
Summerside, PEI – “In pro-life work, we should leave nothing to chance: we should put the spiritual first,” say Olive Moore, Eileen Lantz and Esther Steele, of East Prince (County) Right to Life, the second largest chapter in the province. And they do. The day we talked, chapter president Olive and secretary Eileen had started by attending morning Mass for the Unborn, [...]
In hundreds of human rights abuse cases, Amnesty International can attest to the effectiveness of letter writing from concerned individuals. Please take a moment to write out and mail the following letter, adding your own signature. You can be sure that your letter will help curtail the terrible indignities suffered by the street children of Guatemala. S.E. Jorge Serrano Elias Presidente de [...]
For a breakdown of the Canadian numbers city by city, see below. Good to very good Media coverage of Life Chain ranged from good to very good, except in Toronto. There the TV and radio coverage of the demonstration was adequate. As for the newspapers, the Sun covered both the local and the international side (but gave only 127,000 as the U.S. [...]
Vancouver – Three pro-lifers were named October 10 in a new injunction obtained by an abortion center here. According to another unnamed demonstrator, two men and one woman were inside the Hycroft Medical Building which houses the Elizabeth Bagshaw Abortion Centre. They were not blocking doors or access to the business, but only talking to women going inside. Staff On Monday, abortuary [...]
When the police paddy wagon pulled up to Robert Scott’s abortuary in downtown Toronto one October day recently, Mary Burnie and Jan Copps wondered what was going on. A surly police officer stepped out, approached them as they picketed and said, “You’re trespassing on private property.” Now Mary understood. Earlier she had rested against the fence that separates Scott’s property from the [...]
People are singing the praises of French teacher Louis Di Rocco, organizer of Ontario’s two recent Life Chains. The latest one, held on October 6, was a great success. It attracted 7,000 people in the Toronto area alone, an increase of 33 per cent over the first one held last June. On the Life Chain weekend, pro-lifers lined main streets and highways [...]
On day 42 of the now famous Wichita, Kansas, Operation Rescue, Wichita R.C. Bishop Eugene Gerber was one of the several speakers at a rally in support of the event. The Wichita “Rescue” lasted six weeks, led to the arrest of over 2,000 pro-lifers and was seen almost nightly on American TV. Speaking of the last 18 years Bishop Gerber said, “So [...]