In North Bay, community reaction to Morgentaler’s acquittal was instant and it was strong --- 3,800 people strong. In November, after the jury in Toronto acquitted Morgentaler of conspiring to procure an abortion, the local Right to Life group in North Bay took out a small advertisement in the North Bay Nugget which included a short list of pro-lifers [...]
On Remembrance Day, November 11, 1984, Father Abello, S.J., addressed Calgary Pro-Life. In early December he spoke also at Edmonton’s Francis Xavier High School on abortion and it’s link to contraception. - In Edmonton, Edmonton Pro-Life and Campaign Life are looking for a central pro-life office. - - In Spruce Grove, an Edmonton satellite town, a new group has [...]
A de V Like everywhere else in Canada, P.E.I has been touched by the Morgentaler fever. At the beginning of January, Morgentaler announced that he intends to open an abortion clinic in every province. However, a report in the Island’s newspaper The Guardian (January 12) indicates that he would be in unfriendly country if he tried it in [...]
At New Year the bombing of abortuaries in the United States was featured on Canadian television and radio and on the front pages of Canadian newspapers. In Ontario the Morgentaler propaganda machine was working full speed and with maximum publicity. Naturally, the media was bound to seize upon the bombing of three abortuaries and counseling offices in Pensacola, [...]
AH The Jury for Life postcard blitz has been a smashing success. On Monday, January 14, the count passed the one million mark and the Prime Minister’s office is still counting. New cards are arriving every day. Interim spoke to Pat Soenen past president of the Manitoba League for Life and one of the four Ad Hoc Committee members [...]
The Christian Action Council of Metropolitan Toronto has designated the first Sunday in May (May 5, 1985) as Sanctity of Human Life Sunday (SOHLS). On May 14, 1969, the Canadian Parliament gave third reading to Bill C-150 a reform of the Criminal Code of Canada, which liberalized the abortion law in Canada. Mr. Howard McPhee, president of the Toronto Christian Action Council [...]
Geoffrey is six years old. He is part black with fine features, dark brown eyes, brown hair and a light complexion. Geoffrey is an affectionate child but at the moment is insecure and tense. Geoffrey’s health is generally good although he is prone to upper respiratory infections. Geoffrey is small boned and thin although his diet is now [...]
The following two letters were sent to the Star and the Globe by Campaign Life in an attempt to correct their editorial presentation of the WI-38 Rubella vaccine story as the product of an irrational “fringe” group. The Editor The Toronto Star Dear Sir: Your December 2 editorial “Vaccine isn’t Abortion Issue” finds it “ironic” to see [...]
Picketers at the Hamilton-Civic Henderson Hospital have been marching every Friday for a year and a half now. Joanne Bassi and Brenda Giavedoni made resolution in 1983 to picket during the Lenten season. But when Lent was over they decided to go on. And they’re still marching. They’re joined by a group of faithfuls and the occasional newcomer, [...]
The November issue of Flare magazine ran an ad for Julius Schmid condoms (on page 58) which pictured a baby and labeled it a “mistake.” Printing a photograph of innocent healthy newborns and labeling them “mistakes” is a blatant promotion of the anti-life philosophy of the pro-abortionists. The last issue of the advertisement copy even suggests that an unwanted pregnancy [...]
On Monday, November 19, Dorval City Council approved a zoning bylaw that would banish massage parlours, strip joints, erotica shops, tanning studios and abortion clinics to an industrial part of town. The businesses would be relegated to a district now used mostly by trucking firms. The draft bylaw “depicts the moral pasture of the community,” said Dorval Mayor, Peter [...]
Near the end of October, Joe Borowski was in Toronto for a health food convention and took time out to speak at a pro-life meeting at St. John the Evangelist parish church in Weston. The dinner and dance was organized by Mr. Bill Mullally of St. John’s parish. Additional speakers were James Hughes, president of Campaign Life Canada, Fr. [...]
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had received over 750,000 anti-abortion cards, according to news reports on December 18. The national write-in campaign was organized by Jury for Life of Winnipeg to counteract the Morgentaler propaganda following his acquittal in Toronto on November 8 and to remind the Ottawa politicians that “when they tell you abortion should a woman’s choice … [...]
A small victory was won by Hamilton Right to Life members in November 1984 when the Hamilton-based National Film Board office agreed to show The Slippery Slope – a Gerretsen Productions pro-life documentary – at its theatre for three consecutive days. Hamilton Right to Life members had been picketing in all kinds of weather at the Hamilton-based NFB [...]
When the civic centre in Brockville, Ontario showed the films, Abortion: - Stories North and South and Democracy on Trial recently, the local Right to Life group handed out the following piece of literature. - In spite of scientific and medical fact Dr. Morgentaler refuses to believe in the humanity of babies-in-the-womb. - Hitler refused to believe in the [...]