U.S. President Bill Clinton, who broke new ground in “style over substance” politics, has again vetoed a ban on the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure. The president attempted to obscure his motives by suggesting that partial-birth abortion is needed in “... the small number of compelling cases where use of this procedure is necessary to avoid serious health consequences.” Although the possibility exists [...]
LOS ANGELES - Citing a teenager's right to privacy, the California Supreme Court August 5 overturned the law here that requires minors to get parental consent or a judge's approval before having an abortion. The so-called parental consent law, which was passed by the California legislature in 1987, generally has not been enforced as it wound its way through the courts. But [...]
Campaign Life Coalition is adding its name to a drive for a "conscience clause" which would protect health care workers from participating in abortions and other practices which would be contrary to their moral values. The issue came to a head in August when Catholic nurses at Thunder Bay Regional Hospital reported they were being pressured to assist in abortions. Several of [...]
A Toronto lawyer, arguing for legal protection for unborn children, says the law must be updated to account for the distinctness of the child in the womb. In brief filed to the Supreme Court in the case of a pregnant Winnipeg woman who won the right not to undergo mandatory addiction treatment, Angela Costigan said the law is out of date when [...]
FREDRICTON – New Brunswick’s highest court has ruled that a four-year-old Moncton boy can sue his mother for injuries he sustained while still in the womb. In 1993, Ryan Dobson’s mother Cynthia was involved in a head-on car collision three months before she was due to give birth. The accident left Ms. Dobson in a coma from which she eventually recovered, but [...]
Interim staff It’s time for the Supreme Court of Canada to recognize that the right to personhood should be extended to unborn children. That is the position Alliance for Life is taking in a court submission in the case of a pregnant, solvent-addicted Winnipeg woman who was ordered into a mandatory treatment program to protect her unborn child. The woman, identified only [...]
Someone said that our courts are often like a stand-up comedy act only you can get in for free. It appeared in the Globe & Mail of May 24, 1997 – page A20 – Sport’s section – for you people that think I made it up. Former hockey czar Alan Eagleson was previously ordered by Mr. Justice Joseph O’Brien to pay Boston [...]
Alliance for Life hit the nail on the head in its submission to the Supreme Court of Canada in the case determining the state’s responsibility in protecting unborn children. The Alliance argued that it is time the courts abandoned the “legal fiction” that unborn children have no rights until they fully emerge from the mother’s womb. The case came up in response [...]
Interim Staff Pro-life pastor Rev. Ken Campbell was fined $100 June 16 for his part in the January 22 protest outside Dr. Robert Scott’s Toronto abortion clinic. Rev. Campbell was arrested with pro-life activist Linda Gibbons for obstructing a peace officer in connection with a long-standing injunction against pro-life activity near abortion clinics and hospitals. “I’m not jailing a person for his [...]
Campaign Life Coalition official shave reiterated the need for social policies which emphasize childbirth and strengthen the family unit as a prelude to safeguarding the rights of the unborn in Canada. The call comes in light of a study published in the U.S. Family Planning Perspectives showing a rising abortion rate in Canada. The study, using data collected by Statistics Canada, indicates [...]
Campaign to target U.S. Senators WASHINGTON – A pro-life group planned to run television ads in Georgia May 10-11 asking supporters of a proposed ban on so-called “partial- birth” abortions to urge Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga., to vote for the ban. The Senate is expected to vote May 12-16 on legislation that would ban the controversial procedure, in which the unborn is [...]
Hidden by a blue curtain identifiable only by his raspy voice, “Dr. Doe” told a Detroit federal judge what it’s like to perform thousands of second-trimester abortions. “They’re unpleasant and gory. It’s destructive surgery,” the doctor said. “None of us are pro-abortion. Some may be pro-choice. But they’re necessary.” Doe was the first witness in three scheduled days of testimony before U.S. [...]
The pro-life movement has seen in the Reform party a hope for achieving the legal protection of life from conception to natural death. In fact, some pro-lifers have sought nomination to run for Reform in the election. I was one such aspirant and my experiences expose a flaw in Reform’s appeal to pro-lifers. Attending the meetings of the riding associates, I found [...]
Interim special OTTAWA- The eastern Ontario region’s top public health physician is being sued for prescribing birth control pills to a teenaged woman who shortly after suffered a paralyzing stroke. The civil suit, now being heard in an Ottawa court-room, alleges negligence on the part of Dr. Robert Cushman, who became the region’s medical officer of health in November 1996. In May [...]
Interim staff Ontario’s justice officials seem to be increasing the stakes in their treatment of pro-life political prisoner Linda Gibbons. At an April 2 court appearance, Gibbons was found guilty of breaking probation in connection with her continuing refusal to recognize the provincial injunction against pro-life demonstrations near abortion clinics and hospitals. She had also been charged with disobeying a court order, [...]