On October 6, 1991, over 75,000 Canadians representing all ten provinces linked together to stand up for the rights of the pre-born. Together with over 772,000 Americans they formed the first international Life Chain. Each participant held a sign with simply inscribed ‘ABORTION KILLS CHILDREN” and “JESUS FORGIVES AND HEALS.” Following on the heels of its initial success, Vancouver again led all [...]
Some 74,000 Canadians participated on Sunday, October 6, 1991, in Life Chain – 722,000 people did the same in the United States. In many cities and towns in every Canadian province, between the hours of 2:30 to 3:30 in the afternoon, people lined the streets holding up sings which read “ABORTION KILLS CHILDREN” or “JESUS FORGIVES AND HEALS.” Numbers ranged from 150 [...]
ROSE: Therese Weiler. For her courage and endurance during her Walk for Life across Canada. The Ontario woman began her journey April 21, 1992 and finished in August of this year. Along the way she spread the pro-life message to anyone who would listen. Her journey was made possible through the generous help of Business for Life, which supplied a mobile home [...]
Brantford, Ontario. “Hundreds of people lined King George Road and Terrace Hill Street on Saturday, April 13, to tell passing motorists that abortion is wrong,” reported Brantford’s The Expositor. As lawyer Paul Vandervet, president of the Brant Right to Life, explained, 2,000 people had been the target but they were pleased with the 1,000 who turned up for the Life Chain, [...]
Drs. J. White and K. Campbell of Brantford, Ontario, both quit committing abortions after a brave lawyer and a stubborn retired school caretaker picketed their homes. Lawyer Paul Vandervet and Mr. Bill Fuller, Brantford residents and pro-life friends, picketed the doctors’ homes after picketing their offices failed to stop them from killing the unborn. Home picketing seemed to do the trick. Dr. [...]
About 300 members of Students for Life picketed Toronto’s Bay Centre for Birth Control on November 30. The pro-life group of mostly high school students has designated Canada’s largest and oldest abortion referral agency for monthly demonstrations. On this occasion, Students for ‘Choice’ were on hand to mount a counter-demonstration in support of the activities of the Centre, originally founded by contraceptive [...]
The Canadian Youth Pro-Life Organization (CYPLO) national conference attracted 450 enthusiastic young people in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from October 12 to 14. Youth from across Canada were present to educate themselves on various pro-life topics including youth action, the media, Planned Parenthood, adoption, euthanasia, Post Abortion Syndrome and chastity. During her address on youth action, president-elect Coby Vandenberg stressed that “an individual can [...]
Teenage pro-lifers mounted a rescue at Nikki Colodny’s Toronto abortuary on January 5th, at the same time as 7 other young offenders were on trial for their part in the injunction-breaking rescue at the Morgentaler `clinic’ in August 1989. Fifteen members of Teenagers Rescuing Unborn Tiny Humans (TRUTH) were arrested after effectively shutting down the Colony `clinic’ and preventing abortions. In the [...]
On Saturday, June 24, in 30-degree heat, 1900 pro-lifers joined together in a prayer march to protest Henry Morgentaler’s abortion empire and its attack on the civil rights of Canadians. The march was sponsored by the newly-formed Ontario Pro-life Clergy Council, a coalition of Catholic and Evangelical clergy. It was called to protest Mongentaler’s court injunction against freedom of speech. Most Rev. [...]
Joan Andrews, 39, from Newark, Delaware, is a pro-life prisoner of conscience serving a harsh five-year sentence to “teach her a lesson,” for saving the lives of unborn children during a Rescue Mission in Pensacola, Florida, on March 26, 1986. The plan called for Joan and three other activists to enter a local abortuary and unplug the killing machines. Even though the [...]
This past December 21, members of Nurses for Life and Campaign Life Coalition armed with blown-up pictures of both unborn and aborted babies, staged a sit-in at the office of Elinor Caplan, Ontario Minister of Health. The pro-lifers were there to protest the abortion clinic policies of the Peterson government. Caplan did not emerge to speak to them, but while they occupied [...]
Every fall doctors in Northwestern Ontario attend a three-day Doctor’s Summer School in Thunder Bay, to keep up to date on the latest trends and changes in the medical field. The doctors attend a series of lectures given by specialists who are brought into town for that purpose. Numerous pharmaceutical exhibitors are also present. The Right to Life Association of Thunder Bay [...]
The “Crusade for Life Walk” organized by the Knights of Columbus (Our Lady of Grace Council) in October attracted hundreds of people from The Queensway-Lakeshore area of Etobicoke. Under sunlit skies, the marchers prayed and sand their way, for ten kilometers, visiting five Catholic churches en route. Walk Chairman, Frank Larkin, was obviously pleased by the success of the Walk, a first [...]
Justice wept – and well it should. Helen Burnie, David MacDonald, Dan McCash, who are they? They’re heroes – heroes of the pro-life movement. All three were convicted recently in provincial court on trumped-up charges of assault and ordered to stay away from Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary for 18 months. The conviction is being appealed by Angela Costigan, their lawyer, so they are [...]
In the 18 years since the Canadian Parliament made child killing semi-legal, the issue of this killing has never really reached a national crisis level forcing people to choose on which side of the fence they stood. It has been a constantly simmering pot, sometimes getting quite warm and other times cooling, but never boiling over. And we in the right-to-life movement [...]