In 1987, pro-lifers lined a busy intersection in Yuba City, California, holding signs such as “Abortion Kills Children” and “Jesus Forgives and Heals.” The event attracted a gathering of 2500 and the organizers, Please Let Me Live (PLML), deemed this first “Life Chain” to be a modest success. Little did they know that their rally would soon gain widespread appeal and become [...]
Two dozen Canadian pro-lifers took part in the Spring of Life rescue campaign in Buffalo, willingly facing violence and abuse from pro-abortion forces and the fear of indignities and incarceration of which we can justifiably be proud. But if I may speak frankly to you, all my fellow Canadian pro-lifers- why is it that we do not have rescue campaigns in Canadian [...]
My assignment from Campaign Life Coalition President Jim Hughes was simple. Go to Port Charlotte, he said, and close down every abortion “clinic” down there. And he gave me two weeks to do it. The good news is that Port Charlotte is in Florida! I told Jim that I wouldn’t be very effective going alone. He agreed. So I brought along my [...]
In Canada we are affected by events in the pro-life arena in the U.S. as much as in any other area. Canadian and U.S. pro-life people should support each other and work together, just as our adversaries on both sides of the border do. In Saskatchewan we have the opportunity to do that by joining the Focus on Fargo. Merchants of Fargo [...]
In The Interim of October 1983, I wrote an article on an outstanding American lady named Mrs. Jean Garton, Litt. D., L.H.D. I had just read her book Who Broke the Baby, and was fascinated by her story. I did not dream at that time that I would have the pleasure and honour of introducing her at the Campaign Life Coalition Pro-Life [...]
Some 74,000 Canadians participated on Sunday, October 6, 1991, in Life Chain – 722,000 people did the same in the United States. In many cities and towns in every Canadian province, between the hours of 2:30 to 3:30 in the afternoon, people lined the streets holding up sings which read “ABORTION KILLS CHILDREN” or “JESUS FORGIVES AND HEALS.” Numbers ranged from 150 [...]
Over 25,000 Life Chain supporters peacefully lined up for life June 9 on the streets of many Ontario cities. In Toronto, 5200 Life Chain participants, holding signs which read, ‘Abortion Kills Children’, stationed themselves for 20 kilometres along Bloor and Yonge Streets, two of the city’s major intersecting arteries. From Timmins to Sarnia, pro-lifers in 14 other Ontario cities took part in [...]
Some 110 pro-lifers received an education in the complex issues surrounding euthanasia at an April 21 conference sponsored by Campaign Life Coalition (CLC). More complicated Prof. Joseph Boyle, Ph.D, of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, and Dr. Barry De Veber, M.D., of London, Ontario, made it clear that the question of euthanasia is more complicated than that of abortion. [...]
Mark Crutcher of Dallas, Texas, captivated 200 pro-life leaders, activists and students attending a March 1991 Seminar of the Pro-Life Society of British Columbia. Marketing skills He shed light on the kind of marketing skills used by the largest corporations in North America to show how Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion movement have been able to sell the Canadian public, [...]
Brantford, Ontario. “Hundreds of people lined King George Road and Terrace Hill Street on Saturday, April 13, to tell passing motorists that abortion is wrong,” reported Brantford’s The Expositor. As lawyer Paul Vandervet, president of the Brant Right to Life, explained, 2,000 people had been the target but they were pleased with the 1,000 who turned up for the Life Chain, [...]
April 18 Toronto. Campaign Life Coalition presents pro-life Law Professor Charles Rice on Thursday, April 18, in Toronto. For more information call Annette Jalsevac at 416-368-8479. April 20 Toronto. Campaign Life Coalition presents a Euthanasia Workshop, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., featuring Prof. Joseph Boyle. The cost is $20.00 per person including lunch. For more information call Annette at (416) 368-8479 [...]
While many Canadians were celebrating Mother’s Day on May 10, many others were preparing for a weeklong schedule of events paying tribute to LIFE: Respect for Life. From May 10 through 17, the three national pro-life organizations-Alliance for Life, Coalition for Life and Campaign Life-launched a nationwide protest against abortion, which became available on demand with the 1969 changes in the criminal [...]
Saskatoon City Council is commended for proclaiming March 2-8, 1987 as Respect For Life Wee. It’s one more reason why Saskatoon can justly be called Saskatoon the Beautiful. Sponsored by Alliance for Life Saskatoon, the annual Respect For Life week-long activities were kicked off by a talk given by Prof. Ernie McCullough, philosopher and professor of philosophy for the past 19 years [...]
The pro-life understanding of respect for life has always extended beyond the issue of abortion to include the lives of the handicapped, elderly and all who are threatened by the anti-life violence within our society. Five years ago at the request of the League for Life in Manitoba, Winnipeg’s mayor, Bill Norrie, proclaimed the second Week in February as Respect Life Week. [...]
Beauce County Pro-Life Week, September 22 to 28, was no ordinary pro-life week. It was the first-ever large-scale pro-life event in the area, and it provided most of the people of this huge region with their first opportunity to hear the pro-life message – which they received enthusiastically. On opening night, The Silent Scream was shown to a full house in the [...]