Last week, I opened a mailing from American Life Lobby. In it was a colour photo of aborted fetuses with the caption, “Our Throw=Away Society.” For those who are opposed to abortion, it is a gruesome sight. But for someone like me, who had an abortion as a young girl, it is much worse than that. I [...]
Montreal Reggie Chartrand, a former boxer who now manages a Montreal restaurant, has launched a suit against Henry Morgentaler for performing an illegal abortion for the benefit of the National Film Board’s pro-abortion movie Abortion: Stories from North and South, produced by women’s Studio D. Mr. Chartrand is backed by Virginia Moore, a wealthy pro-life lady, who has made funds available to [...]
Single pregnant women often feel isolated and afraid. Because they become vulnerable to pressure, some of these women will see abortion as their only solution. But the North York Crisis Pregnancy Centre has opened to help women and girls of all ages and backgrounds who are confused and frightened about their pregnancy. The centre [...]
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It is July 23rd, and I have just returned to the office from the abortuary on Harbord Street. Things have been happening there and these are some random thoughts on what I witnessed. Yesterday afternoon I received a call from Campaign Life Office saying that Dan McCash had been arrested on a charge of “harassment” or some such legal term. Dan and [...]
At an informal meeting the other day a number of pro-life people were discussing what we could do to stop the daily killing of unborn babies at the Morgentaler abortuary. The picketing was assessed and some felt that it is not effective enough when weighed against the amount of input by so few dedicated people. It is estimated that more than one [...]
Thirty-three people attended a silent vigil at the Henderson General Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, on a rainy Father’s Day, June 16, 1985. A protest presentation in honour of Father’s Day was read at the start of the vigil and in part it said: “The Henderson General Hospital through acts of abortion has shown this hospital to be anti-family. What kind of family [...]
Windsor Outspoken pro-life activist Earl Amyotte retrieved five pro-life picket signs from Windsor police a month after they were taken from him and other protestors demonstrating against abortions being performed at Windsor Western Hospital. Mr. Amyotte said that the officer who took the signs July 14 cited a bylaw against putting them in the ground or against a fence. However, no charges [...]
Reverend Ken Campbell was twice thwarted by police in his attempts to make successful citizen’s arrests of abortionists at the Toronto Morgentaler abortuary during the last week of July. On Tuesday July 20, Reverend Campbell scheduled a press conference at 87 Harbord Street, his National Headquarters for Choose Life Canada. The press conference was to coincide with a planned citizen’s arrest of [...]
It is a cool, cloudy Friday morning in mid-July. It has rained throughout the night. The seagulls soar high above the wet pavement of Harbord Street in search of food. Its about ten thirty and two courageous pro-life counselors maintain their lonely vigil at the rear of the Morgentaler abortuary. They have been there since eight o’clock, and have been drenched by [...]
“I can’t pay for the killing of babies,” says pro-life activist, Leo Coyle who is in trouble with Alberta Health Care insurance Plan for non-payment of health care insurance premiums. Recently AHCIP employed a collection agency to try to collect from Mr. Coyle the $800 it is alleged Mr. Coyle owes. Mr. Coyle has not paid his Medicare for five years. “As [...]
Interim: I understand a group of Edmonton pro-lifers have been making “house-calls?” Liston: Yes, we’ve decided to turn the tables on the medical profession. We plan to make house-call – on baby killers only, however. Interim: When did these house-calls being? Liston: We began during the Stanley Cup playoffs on a Tuesday evening, when the Oilers were thumping the Black Hawks with [...]
A new group of pro-life activists has started a series of rotating protests outside the homes of the roughly twenty-five Edmonton abortionists who together perform most of the 2,500 abortions in three City hospitals. The group is not affiliated with any other group. Numbers vary between six and twelve. They march up and down in front of the doctor’s house and apartment, [...]
Mother Teresa the Nobel Peace Prize-winning missionary whom many call a living saint, visited Toronto on June 24 (The Christian calendar feast day of St. John the Baptist) to open a convent in St. Sebastian’s Parish. Her Sisters of Charity will serve the mentally and developmentally disabled and psychiatric patients discharged from chronic-care institutions in the Parkdale area. There was a brief [...]
“You must stand ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” (Luke 12:40). Indeed, the “hour you do not expect” was nearly fulfilled for three pro-life picketers standing at the back of Morgentaler’s abortuary at 85 Harbord Street, Toronto. The three are Marcian Cotter, Sam Dieleman (a boy of 11) and myself. At 12:15 on [...]