For the first time since the legalization of abortion in 1973, a U.S. President is lending his prestige and authority to seek legal rights for the unborn. President Ronald Reagan was the first president to address the now-annual demonstration in Washington on January 22, the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion. Reagan’s comments delighted the 71,000 strong pro-life [...]
On Monday, February 11, 1985, calls went out to religious leaders and others in Toronto to help intensify the picketing at the Morgentaler abortuary for each afternoon from Feb-ruary 18 to 25. Picketing, carried out for two weeks in December, but interrupted for a two-week Christmas break when the abortuary was closed, and resumed in early January, has been organized by [...]
Perhaps one of the more curious stories to emerge in the past two months concerning the confrontation between pro-lifers and those who operate the Toronto Morgentaler abortuary is that of Carol Vanderburg, a part-time graduate student at the University of Toronto. Carol has earned three degrees from the U. of T. (she is working on a fourth) and for some [...]
Our Spadina neighbourhood is unique in many ways. Settled in the heart of Toronto, one of the largest cities of the world, we have a congenial community that has a mix of people as diverse as the architecture of our buildings. Both our buildings and people come in all ages and extremes. On a lovely spring day I can see my [...]
The Montreal Gazette of February 11, 1985 reported that about 25 anti-abortionists marched outside Henry Morgentaler’s East-end clinic on Saturday, February 9. The group also picketed the Montreal General Hospital on the same day and plans to continue staging demonstrations every weekend outside institutions where abortions are performed. The picketing was organized by the Montreal coalition Pro-Life Action. It [...]
A new group committed to the defence of unborn children was established at a recent meeting in the Halifax Holiday Inn. Twenty-five evangelical Christians from at least six denominations agreed to form an explicitly Christian Pro-Life group in the metro area under the name “Christians Concerned For Life.” The Christian commitment of the group is guarded by a [...]
The North York Crisis Pregnancy Centre has now been open for four months. During that time, we have had 83 clients. The age range is from 14 to 35 years; almost half of the clients (37) have been in their teens. Most clients come in for a pregnancy test and, of 73 pregnancy tests done, [...]
I have two objections to the bombing of abortion clinics. The first is, that it is morally wrong. Nobody has the right to take into his or her hands the decision to destroy the property of others. What is being done in the clinics is morally wrong and should be stopped or prevented by the proper authorities. But [...]
For many pro-lifers the days on the picket line in front of the Morgentaler abortuary in Toronto are long and hard, but gladly given. Picketing takes place for an average of 10 hours a day through all kinds of weather – rain, snow, sleet and bitter cold. The picketers’ generosity of spirit, of time and of their [...]
Cardinal Glemp of Poland has openly criticized the country’s communist authorities for permitting easy abortions. More human beings die as a result of the operation than are killed in wars, he says. In October 1984, a pastoral letter by the Cardinal, which was read in more than 10,000 churches, protested abortions both in Poland and throughout the world. [...]
In the middle of November, the Reagan administration sponsored a special briefing on alternatives to abortion. The day long conference brought together experienced workers in the crisis-pregnancy field and consisted of brief talks, panel discussions, workshops, planning and exchanges of organizational techniques. The first guest speaker was Dr. C. Everett Koop, the Surgeon General of the United States. [...]
St. Michaels School, Leamington, Ontario Winner 10-12 yr. group “Mommy, why did you kill me? Why didn’t you leave me be? I had my whole life to live. Now you want me to forgive.” This is what many women hear in their dreams from their babies that they have killed in the past. Many women [...]
St. John’s College, Brantford, Ontario Winner 16-18 yr. Group “It’s dramatic. It’s emotional. I don’t say I kill. I terminate. I end. I interfere. I intercept.” The Newspeak employed by Dr Peterson, a highly established and widely known abortionist, suggests that the 1984 projected by Orwell is by no means completely devoid of fact. His words [...]
Winner 14-16 yr. group Society seeks a perfect race. The competitors include prenatal babies. For many years scientists have tried many different techniques to detect diseases in babies, but all of them had failed. Recent developments in technology, however, have made it possible to diagnose fetal illnesses wile the baby is in the womb. Aside from the [...]
C.A. Scharfe, Editor-in-chief of The Interim is led away from the Morgentaler abortuary after being arrested along with Lorraine Carbonneau for blocking the entrance by sitting on the steps. On January 8, two pro-lifers staged a sit-in on the front steps of the Morgentaler abortuary. C.A. Scharfe, Editor-in-chief of The Interim and Lorraine Carbonneau of North Bay, Ontario, a [...]