Joe Borowski, Canada’s foremost pro-life activist, was in Toronto in November to attend the Annual Campaign Life meeting. After the weekend meeting, Mr. Borowski went down to the Morgentaler abortuary on Monday, November 25, and spoke to the picketers on the front steps of the illegal abortion clinic. (He was later arrested at the rear for “trespassing.”) In his statement to the [...]
“That location was opened for only one purpose – to flout the law,” said Jude Di Cecco (pronounced ‘checko’) referring to the Morgentaler Toronto abortuary in the trial of three clergymen on December 9. He went on to say that abortion is “…still a serious breach of the Criminal Code carrying a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.” The three clergy, Rev. Alphonse [...]
On December 10, 1984, Morgentaler reopened his abortuary on Harbord Street in Toronto. The “Day of Death” had begun and has continued uninterrupted for a period of a full year. The pro-life movement in Ontario believed that the anniversary of death could not go by unnoticed. The regular picketers at the Harbord Street abortuary were joined by many other Torontonians, as well [...]
All these past years, reliable observers agreed to forecast that the population in France around the year 2000 would be mostly of Arab origin. Some people were afraid of that, some others thought there was just nothing which could be done about it; politicians felt concerned, demographers wrote alarming reports and talked of natality rates, of the incapacity to replace the generations, [...]
I was pregnant and only fifteen. How was I going to tell Mom and Dad? My parents would never agree to marriage especially to the father of this child. He was nothing but a dope addict. He told me he would marry me if I wanted to. I really thought I loved him until it came down to commitment. However, he mentioned [...]
Montreal On October 18 Henry Morgentaler appealed the Ontario Court of appeal ruling of October 1 to the Supreme Court of Canada. He and his two fellow abortionists cite 10 grounds where they say the Court of Appeal erred. The Supreme Court will have to decide whether or not to accept the case. Winnipeg In a telephone interview with the Toronto Globe, [...]
The United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces, a group pf 550 churches with 325 pastors in the four Atlantic Provinces, is taking a stronger pro-life stand. At the Convention Council’s spring meetings a special committee was set up to investigate the possibility of publishing a high-quality pamphlet explaining our position on abortion and giving our reasons for our position. The Convention [...]
On Friday October 11, Premier Peterson went to Emeryville (near Windsor) to honour Dick Ruston, Essex North liberal MPP for 17 years, who retired from politics earlier in the year. He was one of the 375 guests who packed the Knights of Columbus hall. As the Premier entered the hall he “received some vocal opposition from more than 100 local anti-abortion protestors [...]
A jury in Nelson, British Columbia has determined that Jim Demers, a Nelson Pro-Life activist and a founder of Nelson Future Life, the local Pro-Life organization, is guilty on a charge of theft under $200 and guilty on a charge of mischief. Demers was found not guilty on a third charge of possession of stolen property stemming from an incident at Kootenay [...]
The Magi then and now Christmas is a birthday; and though it happened long past, that first event is present in more than merely festive ways. It echoes strangely in recent events. One thousand nine hundred and eighty five years ago, three men traveled long distances to witness the birth of a baby. Each felt compelled to go, out of wonder, out [...]
A new development in the pro-life movement this year has been the ever-increasing number of charges laid against picketers in Toronto. As these cases have gone through the courts, a number of important precedents have been set. The following is a summary of cases to date. In December 1984, 14 pro-lifers were charged with trespass following an incident on the steps at [...]
The last few months have seen the gradual development of an effective sidewalk counselling operation, organized by Campaign Life Toronto. Several babies have now been saved from abortion at the Morgentaler abortuary as a result of this new effort. It is expected that improved training, more committed and capable volunteers, and further development of the support structure will result in many more [...]
There must be millions of people in the world who are trying to avoid arrest. But I’m not one of them. In consultation with some other pro-life friends I decided that the time had come to do something symbolic and dramatic in defence of the Unborn. Never enough I had written, preached, lectured and shown slides on abortion and the rights of [...]
On October 24, I padlocked the back gates of the Morgentaler abortion clinic in Toronto. As expected, I was arrested; I was charged under Section 387 1 (c) of the Criminal Code (mischief against private property). Later in the day I was taken before a judge. The Crown Attorney requested that bail consist of a simple agreement not to come within five [...]
On November 14, pro-life picketer Dan McCash was found not guilty by provincial court judge J.J. Belobradic. Mr. McCash has acted as a pro-life counselor at the abortuary two or three times a week during the noon hour since last spring. He has spoken to patients and staff on a number of occasions in an attempt to dissuade them from having or [...]