In this little book of just 120 pages, James Hanlon and David Forsyth make a powerful case for physically impeding access to abortuaries in order to save the unborn. They say, “Abortion has been legal in our country for twenty years now because we, as Christian churches, have not sacrificed to try and save our pre-born neighbors.” Given that failure, and the [...]
Author: Catherine Bolger Therapeutic Abortion, The Effect On The Mother, The Family, Society. Fidelity House (Toronto), 1989, 78pp. In this small text, Catherine Bolger assembles a vast amount of information from sources as varied as Hippocrates and the World Medical Association to document the pervasive effect on society of “therapeutic” abortion. The application of “therapeutic” to this procedure is part of the [...]
Counter Productive Booklet This publication, subtitled, “A workshop on Abortion,” was prepared by the Pastoral Team of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Ottawa (CCCB). The Introduction adopts the rhetoric of the abortionists. We are told that “the abortion issue is very complex,” that “abortion is a highly emotional issue,” that we are to participate in a discussion about abortion with “compassion, [...]
Denyse O’Leary, ed. “No Easy Answers” Burlington, Ontario, Welch Publishing Co., 1988. 165pp. Can abortion be viewed as a necessary service for women? Pro-life organizations, of course, oppose this view; and in support they can point to the serious physical and psychological damage abortion may cause. In the last two essays in this collection, Mary Parthun and Anne Kiss describe the evidence [...]
“The War Against Population The Economics and Ideology of Population Control” Jacqueline Kasun Ignatius Press San Francisco “Overpopulation” is one of the most devoutly held dogmas of our time. The government, the media, the education system periodically issue stern forebodings of the economic, ecological and personal disasters that are just around the corner if we do not act immediately to control the [...]
I am happy to announce the arrival of Life Lines of Verse, book of poetry, verse and stories, gathered from Canadians coast to coast for the purpose of furthering the Pro-Life cause. Dedicated to unborn human life, this book has 100 pages, in which a balance was struck between submissions on the question of abortion, as well as family and nature topics; [...]
George Grant Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood [Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Brentwood, TN: 1988] Planned Parenthood is an international network of affiliated organizations whose chief aim is the slaughter of the unborn in the name of sexual liberation, population control, and eugenic manipulation. In this book, George Grant, an American pro-life activist, has given us almost 300 pages of compelling and [...]
Politics, people & the AIDS epidemic This blockbuster of a book tells how, figuratively speaking, the band played on while the AIDS crisis got worse and worse. Lengthy and detailed though it is, it sustains the reader’s interest through its narrative method. It is divided into short segments, which switch rapidly from one scene to another- San Francisco, New York, the Centre [...]
Canadian feminists are outraged. A Toronto woman, Betty Steele, has published a book critical of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Canada. In The Feminist Takeover, she dares to suggest that men never deserved the feminist image of them as evil oppressors and male chauvinist pigs. That the housewife-mother makes an inestimable contribution to our society. That our children yearn for both a [...]
“Hey Anita, would you do a review of this book? I was supposed to do it but I don’t have the time.” “Sure!” I said, and dumped the book into my purse. On the way home that evening, riding on the subway, I started reading. The book, Secret Child by Nancy Moore, captured my attention right from the first line: “You’re pregnant.” [...]
In the prologue to this book, there is a moving tribute to Sir William Liley, who, Nathanson says, recognized the irreconcilable opposition between fetology and the abortion ethic before anyone else. He quotes a comment by Liley concerning the bitter irony of recent events. Our generation, Liley said, is the first ever to have a reasonably complete picture of the development of [...]