The Canadian Youth Pro-Life Organization (CYPLO) held its annual general meeting and conference, March 2-4,1984, in Niagara Falls, Ontario. 70 youth delegates gathered from as far as British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec, despite the blizzard that hit the Niagara Peninsula. The theme of the conference was "What is Responsibility." Discussion centered on pro-life strategy - what has worked so far [...]
The Canadian Youth pro-Life Organization is a far-flung group of young people from across Canada who has banded together to fight abortion, euthanasia, infanticide and the pro-death forces active in our society. We are single individual in Penticton, B.C., an established group in Saskatoon, a struggling two or three in Lawn, Nfld., a new group in Lindsay, Ont. We are people just [...]
In many ways we have reached a crossroad in the Right to Life movement. As a latecomer to the movement, I can only deeply admire and respect the people who were involved in the late sixties and early seventies. We, the silent majority stood by and watched as this small vocal for our cause and the cause of God. The saw our [...]
For the first time in the history of the regional municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, a picket licence has been issued into in perpetuity. It was granted to Action Life here to protest every Sunday afternoon outside the Civic Hospital in Ottawa. Two- year-old Timmy Mountain picks up the march here. His mother is pregnant.
Current public debate on pornography has prompted many of us to examine our views on this distasteful subject. My research started at the Ontario Censor Board where I viewed their 18-minute composite of cuts made from a selection of commercially-shown movies. I then persuaded my husband (I'm not quite as liberated as I often think I am) to visit our corner store [...]
A recent article published in the United States stresses the importance of keeping in close touch with politicians at all levels of government. This communication, it says, "serves as a limitus paper" for all elected representatives in judging public reaction to important issues. Because the life of the unborn child is of paramount importance (and because the proponents of euthanasia are awaiting [...]
Guest Column How is apathy overcome? Complacency is so entrenched in our attitude that it has become almost a Canadian characteristic. Our civilization is at the most important crossroads of its history, and still people cocoon themselves in their own illusory existence. We cannot escape taking stands today. We cannot ignore that which is a direct attack upon us and pretend it [...]
Youth for Life The Canadian Youth Pro-Life Organization (CYPLO) came into existence in 1974 with a purpose: to bring together pro-life high school, college and university students and young working people to educate themselves, grow in leadership and effectiveness in the pro-life movement, to transform society, to ensure respect for all the weak, defenseless and helpless. In April 1983, the new executive [...]
The September Run For Life in Saskatchewan has raised more than $300,000 – and not all pledges have been collected yet. Sixteen people ran the entire distance of 260 km from Saskatoon to Regina. Another eight walked. Doris Merkovsky was one who walked the entire route and she said she would do it again. Mrs. Merkovsky has been blind from the age [...]
The brightest spot in the ongoing struggle between the government of British Columbia and the members of Surrey Memorial Hospital Society is the latter’s annual candlelight procession around the hospital. Hospitals in British Columbia are run by societies whose paid-up members elect a board which establishes policy. In Surrey’s case the board’s policy on abortion was not supported by the doctors who [...]
Kingston respect for life week Iona Campagnolo must have felt we weren’t busy enough because she breezed into town on Sept. 20th for the Kingston and Island Liberal Association and then again on Sept. 27th for the neighboring riding. Sunday, Sept. 18th: We asked all Catholic Parishes, Protestant churches and the Synagogue to join together in a prayer of Respect for Life. [...]
TORONTO, October 2, 1983. Canada’s largest pro-life rally was held at Queen’s Park in front of the Ontario Legislative Building’s yesterday. A pro-abortion rally held at the same time at Nathan Phillips Square, outside Toronto City Hall, drew 350 people, according to Toronto Police. Police also estimated attendance at the pro-life rally as 30,000 to 35,000. “Even the Cruise protest wasn’t this [...]
Friends of the Unborn: October 1st, 1983 will go down in the pages of Canadian History as the day the enemies of the unborn were turned back. The people of Ontario set aside personal comfort and convenience and marched on Queen’s Park under the banners; “Defenders of the unborn”, or “Defenders of human rights”, or “Equal opportunity for all”. Tell the politicians [...]
Professor Sir William Liley , who gained international recognition for his pioneering Work into pre-natal blood transfusions, died suddenly at his Epsom home June 15 ,1983. he was 54. Sir William, who was knighted in 1973, made medical history in 1963 when he became the first doctor to give a baby a blood transfusion before birth. The technique, which he pioneered while [...]
When I read my Campaign Life bulletin telling me that Iona Campagnolo, President of the Liberal Party of Canada, must be picketed wherever she goes, I hoped she would never come to Thunder Bay. However, when I read in the newspaper that Iona was coming May 10th, I got on the phone and got support from my two cohorts in the fights [...]