Practical help for women under pressure to have abortions is increasing as more and more pro-lifers realize this is a positive way to support their principles. In Watford, Ontario, a small town of 1400, Bonnie and Geoff have helped to establish the Watford Home for unwed mothers. Open since late last year, the Watford Home has already helped six [...]
I ended my column last month with an item of good news for a change. The bad news was that, as usual, my column was too long and the good news was announced on the next page of the paper. Unfortunately, the direction to continue reading on the on following page was taken by the gremlins somewhere between the [...]
What is it about a simple pro-family position which poses such a threat to International Women’s Week? The question hit the headlines in Ottawa recently after R.E.A.L. Women of Canada was excluded from participation in International Women’s Week in 1985 on the grounds that its “philosophy” was “diametrically opposed to the goals and objectives” of International [...]
A new group organized by Baptist Minister Ken Campbell under the name “Choose Life Canada” has purchased half the building on Harbord Street, the other half of which is occupied by Henry Morgentaler’s abortion clinic. Rev. Ken Campbell dedicated the site for the new group during a rally at People’s Church on Monday evening, March 11. Said [...]
On February 25, Larry Heather, the Calgary man who sprayed Morgentaler with ketchup in January, was fined $750 and was told by Alberta provincial court judge Hubert Oliver that he acted like a “ruffian”. Mr. Heather had pleaded guilty to two charges of assault: he had sprayed Morgentaler and an airport security guard with ketchup. He said that the attack [...]
For the past several years Quebec has been the scene of so much political turmoil, and its population has been divided over so many issues, that pro-life activists have found it difficult to make their voices heard amidst the general clamour. It is hard to convince an anglophone parent that there is any issue more important [...]
The Leader Post of Regina, February 23, 1985 quoted the Premier of Saskatchewan, Grant Devine, as saying that Morgentaler will not be permitted to open a clinic. As long as I’m premier, Dr. Henry Morgentaler will never open an abortion clinic in Saskatchewan. Devine told 300 Progressive Conservatives in Yorkton on Friday, February 22. “The history of pro-abortion [...]
You probably saw the “Jury for Life” postcards addressed to the Prime Minister (shown on page one of February’s Interim) in your church before Christmas and, if you’re like my husband and me, took some home to distribute to friends, signed one each and dropped them in the mail. End of story? Not for us it [...]
Our February editorial was entitled “Violence, abortionist and anger.” We have received some letters of complaint about this editorial, the first part of which explained (but did not defend) why in the USA a number of abortion clinics have been bombed. The editorial ended as follows: The pro-life movement represents people who refuse to accept this corruption of society. [...]
To picket at an abortion clinic is an unpleasant task at the best of times. Without exception the men and women who take part in these demonstrations would prefer to be elsewhere, doing what they themselves would all consider to be “something more constructive.” But they picket out of a sense of duty and with the somewhat grim realization [...]
Picketers protesting the Toronto Morgentaler abortuary have been very effective. Organizers report that very few abortions are being done at the abortuary and reliable sources confirm that very few have been done since it reopened on December 10, 1984. The average now is only one or two per day and this low number is attributable almost solely to the vigilance [...]
On Saturday May 4 and Sunday May 5, 1985 The Canadian Youth Pro-Life Organization (CYPLO) will hold its annual National Conference at Don Bosco High School in Toronto. This is CYPLO’s second National Conference and the theme for this year is “Now is the time.” The theme represents the immediate necessity for youth-involvement in all the manifestations of the pro-life [...]
Catholic church leaders in Manitoba told the faithful that if Attorney General Roland Penner won’t act, it is up to them to make it clear to Henry Morgentaler that his Winnipeg clinic is unwanted. The action followed Penner’s refusal to seek an injunction to stop Morgentaler’s Winnipeg abortion clinic from reopening, after being closed for 18 months. Abortion-related charges against [...]
The recent opening of the Morgentaler abortuary and the seeming inability of the Canadian judicial and legal systems to deal with him and the atrocities of abortions being committed all throughout this nation is forcing the evangelical community to re-examine its position with regards to a Christian’s obligation to promote social justice. As an evangelical myself, I would [...]
By Corrine Fischer, 16 years old, St. John’s College, Brantford, Ontario, Winner 16-18 yr. group In the February issue of The Interim the last two paragraphs of Ms. Fischer’s essay were inadvertently removed. It is reprinted in full below with apologies to Ms. Fischer. “It’s dramatic. It’s emotional. I don’t say I kill. I terminate. I end. I interfere. I [...]