Just before 6:00 p.m on Sunday, January 27,1985, Jim Demers entered the reception area of Kootenay Lake District Hospital. He returned the smile of the receptionist and then casually proceeded down the hallway into the operating area of the hospital, located on the main floor. The operating rooms were not in use and the area was completely deserted. [...]
On Tuesday, April 23, Bill 53, The Freedom of Informed Choice Concerning Abortions in Saskatchewan, was introduced as a private member’s bill by MLA Gay Caswell (PC Saskatoon Westmount). The abortion law itself is a federal matter, and it is beyond the powers of provinces to alter it. However, health care and family relationships are provincial concerns, and Mrs. Caswell’s Bill [...]
The fact remains that the judge’s decision cannot be taken to mean that the jury was properly composed. Moreover, although we did not succeed in getting our complaints raised in the appeal, we did succeed in putting them to the press and the public. In order to ask permission to intervene we had to show why intervention might be [...]
Campaign Life and Toronto and Area Right to Life, with the support of the pro-life groups of Ontario have established a committee to co-ordinate a second Ontario Pro-Life rally at Queen’s Park in Toronto on September 21. Many pro-life individuals have been calling for this rally because of the worsening situation of justice for the unborn in Ontario. Hence, the [...]
Prayers for Life, a spiritual arm of the pro-life movement, has been active for the past four years in the Toronto area. Our purpose is to encourage people to pray for greater reverence for life and for the guidance of the Holy Spirit in all pro-life activities. For the past several months, there has been at least one Mass (and often two [...]
Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the creator of the film The Silent Scream was in Toronto on March 30 to show his film at a press conference. The Silent Scream is a film of a realtime sonograph of an abortion of a 12 week old unborn child. Dr. Nathanson explained that he first made an ultrasound videotape of [...]
A recent article, published in the United States, compares the film The Silent Scream with the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Just as the book opened the eyes of many Americans to the evils of slavery, and thus helped to end one major injustice, so too this film shows the reality and horror of abortion and pricks the consciences of all [...]
While Morgentaler’s visits to Guelph, London, Waterloo and Halifax received much media attention and spirited pro-life protests, his public appearances recently at universities in Toronto and Montreal almost passed by unnoticed. Press reports were few and ignored for the most part the low-key pro-life protests. In Montreal, Morgentaler told McGill University students that he was happy to be on [...]
According to the Kitchener-Waterloo Record (March 19) almost 2000 students filled the bleachers and the floor of the University of Waterloo’s physical activities complex and heard Morgentaler release “a vitriolic attack against anti-abortionists.” As some 300 or 500 (according to the student newspaper The Imprint), pro-life protesters paraded silently outside, Morgentaler said “I am pro-life, I am pro-choice,” and called [...]
On the morning of Morgentaler’s visit, London radio station CFPL-AM held an open-line show that featured an hour with Morgentaler. Mrs. Lansink emphasized that abortion denied the civil rights of the unborn, something concrete and indisputable. Despite this, reporter Helen Connell of the London Free Press concluded her news report on the show with the view she considered summed up [...]
Pro-life organizers had counted on a good turn-out in Guelph; what happened far exceeded their expectations. Morgentaler addressed 830 students in War Memorial Hall, regaling his sympathetic audience with attacks on the pro-life movement, Cardinal Carter, and Canadian law, presenting himself as the true champion of women’s interests. Outside, over 1500 people rejected the abortionist’s philosophy by singing hymns and [...]
For four days Halifax newspapers carried Morgentaler’s portrait and story on their front pages: his anticipated coming, the events in Winnipeg, his arrival, his message. On Friday, March 22, the Mail-Star staff reported that pro-life groups in the area were “threatening” large demonstrations to protest the abortionist’s presence. Jim Christian of the group, Christians for Life, expressed the [...]
TRURO – Positive alternatives to abortion should be actively promoted by the Board of Colchester Hospital, said Ed Newell, chairman of the Colchester Right to Life Association. Abortions at the hospital totaled: 140 in 1978 125 in 1979 119 in 1980 87 in 1981 100 in 1982 92 in 1983 71 in 1984 Mr. Newell said [...]
On Friday, March 22 at The Treat Me Right Café on Markham Street in Toronto, Paul Art (Paul Arteau), a poet, performed perhaps the first public pro-life poetry reading in the city of Toronto. “Performed” is the key word here as Paul Art’s poetry is not read and not so much recited as it is performed. Paul Art [...]
Tom Harpur, former Anglican priest and religious editor of the Star, is presently a lecturer at the Toronto School of Theology and a Sunday columnist for the Toronto Star. He believes he can discern “some deeper roots of repressed anger in the opposition to liberal abortion laws” (Star, March 3, 1985) “For example,” he says, “in the case of the Catholic [...]