LifeSite News The French Parliament passed a government bill aimed at reversing a Supreme Court decision which has been slammed for creating a "right not to be born." The decision will not however change very much in the way of doctors' fears of being sued by parents whose children are born disabled. In early Dec., France's highest appeals court ruled that children [...]
B.C. pro-life activist Ted Gerk is slamming the recently elected Liberal government for following the lead of the New Democrats in refusing to make abortion statistics publicly available. In November, when Gerk made a request for the latest numbers of abortions being done in the Okanagan-Similkameen Health Region and, specifically, Kelowna General Hospital, his request was denied. Now it is apparent, he [...]
I am grateful to Timothy Bloedow for providing me with word that Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz's (Yorkton- Melville) new motion on redefining "human being" is different from his previous one, which was debated last March 22,. The motion, M-228 debated on March 22 said "that in the opinion of this House, the government should bring in legislation defining a 'human being' [...]
A Moncton newspaper has determined that the federal government has threatened fines against New Brunswick if the province continues its principled refusal to pay for abortions at Henry Morgentaler's private abortuary in Fredericton. Canadian Press reported on August 7 that Federal Health Minister Allan Rock had threatened to fine the province, a fact revealed after the Moncton Times and Transcript obtained documents [...]
The author of legislation that legalized abortion in Canada will be the chair of the annual Toronto Cardinal's Dinner on Oct. 18. Former Prime Minister John Turner, as Pierre Trudeau's Justice Minister, wrote and guided through the House of Commons the Omnibus Bill that led to the legalization of abortion and homosexuality in 1969. Catholic pro-lifers are scandalized that for the second [...]
CLC report revisits the 1969 legalization of abortion in Canada With each federal election, the number of parliamentarians in the House of Commons who personally remember the introduction of the 1969 Omnibus Bill (C-150) that legalized abortion, dwindles. Recognizing this trend, Campaign Life Coalition national affairs director Karen Murawsky recently decided it was past time to produce a new report explaining how [...]
Alberta Tory Premier Ralph Klein has closed the door to re-examining public funding of abortion. The Edmonton Journal reported that Alberta's standing policy committee on health was looking at deinsuring various procedures in order to save health care dollars for more serious health concerns and that several MLAs were hoping to have abortion funding on the table for discussion. A provincial pro-life [...]
How good is a politician's word? Not very, if the results of promises made by outgoing Ontario Premier Mike Harris are any indication. Although he certainly did not characterize himself as pro-life, Harris did toss a small crumb to appease Ontario's pro-life movement during his 1995 campaign to become premier. He pledged "no new abortion clinics," according to a front-page headline in [...]
Pressure brought to bear on Poland and Nicaragua at international gatherings By Anna Halpine The Interim In June of this year, the pro-life community registered its greatest victory in over a decade at the "Beijing+5" conference, the five-year review of the international conference on women held by the United Nations in New York. This victory was not without its price however, and [...]
CTV newsmagazine's allegations of deception and manipulation are without foundation By Tony Gosgnach The Interim One building houses a volunteer-driven crisis pregnancy centre, where mothers-to-be are given counselling and as many resources as possible in support of bringing their babies to birth. Right next door is an abortuary, in which preborn humans of five months gestation are regularly killed. Guess which of [...]
Commentary Paul Tuns The Interim Abortion was thrust upon the national stage during the federal election campaign after party leaders and the media lambasted Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day's pro-life position and the party's pro-referendum policy. Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes told The Interim, "Abortion has always been discussed at the door but is usually stifled at the upper levels," during [...]
Somewhere in Winnipeg is a little-known institution that is oh-so-Canadian. Its a typical bureaucratic monstrosity, depending largely on secrecy in order to operate and extend its tentacles into the business of Canadians. I am, of course, speaking of Advertising Standards Canada. Set-up to monitor truth in advertising, the top-secret group even tries to tackle moral issues, or should I say, when the [...]
Family, colleagues, and fellow Christians rallied when freedom of the press was threatened By Sue Careless The Interim When there is danger for journalists, there is danger for freedom, danger for democracy. UNESCO Secretary-General Frederico Mayor, in awarding the World Press Freedom Award 2000 to Jesus Blancornelas, a Mexican journalist shot by the drug traffickers he was exposing "The Lord hear thee [...]
By Ted Gerk The Interim The young woman in the photograph demands that no attention be focused on herself. Instead, Mary Wagner's challenge and focus is the Christian community. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, Mary was again arrested at the notorious Everywoman's Health Centre in Vancouver. Her crime? Once again Mary was offering roses to women arriving for their abortion. Four appearances in [...]
By Bill Whatcott The Interim Mexican pro-lifers have had quite a fight on their hands these days. The PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) has recently lost a national election, and after 70 years of power, patronage and corruption, they have to hand over power to the relatively conservative PAN (National Action Party). While the PAN leader Vicente Fox looks promising, Mexican pro-lifers are [...]