“A precedent-setting victory for the Canadian unborn,” said Campaign Life Coaltion PEI President Paul Cheverie when the Nova Scotia Supreme Court squashed criminal charges against himself and eight other pro-lifers. The nine included Cheverie and Kenneth Biso of Prince Edward Island, Ann Marie Tomlins of Borden, Ontario, and Ellen Chesel, Paul Morre, Noreen Moser, Pauline Mullen, Sharon Keddy, and Anne Ashford-Hall, al [...]
To Ontario pro-life voters, the main task of the June 8 provincial election was to get rid of the New Democrats. It seemed this was uppermost in the minds of all voters as Mike Harris and the Progressive Conservatives were swept into Queen’s Park with a strong mandate to clean up the five year mess left by the NDP. Harris’ tough talk [...]
Though not all completely agree with his method, Ralph Reed and his Christian Coalition are making important politicians stop and listen. Congressman pondered legislation, he first had to curry favour with one of the huge Washington lobby groups: the National Rifle Association, the Manufacturers Association or the National Organization of Women. Now there’s a new player making waves in political circles. Ralph [...]
Imagine, you’ve done nothing wrong, nothing illegal. You’re not charged with anything by the police. But the government doesn’t like your opinion. So it seeks an injunction to prevent you from expressing this opinion, from speaking to people and giving out information, or even praying in a quiet and peaceful manner in public places, and it seeks $500,000 in damages against you. [...]
The essential question in determining whether the Ontario Government has the legal right to de-insure abortion is a straightforward one: Who defines what is medically “necessary” under the Canada Health Act? IT’S A FACT: Section 3 of the Canada Health Act states that…”The primary objective of Canadian health care policy is to protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well being [...]
As pro-life people in Ontario go about deciding how they should vote in the up-coming provincial election, there is one name they should bear in mind. That is Tom Wappel. Since being elected to the federal parliament in 1988, Tom has been a tireless advocate for the unborn. A crucial question for pro-life voters in Ontario is why wasn’t there a Tom [...]
Don Pennell answers the critics on the feasibility of running pro-life candidates in the upcoming Ontario elections Don Pennel Leader of the Family Coalition Party of Ontario is gearing his party up for the upcoming provincial election. (No definite date has been announced by press time.) In this candid and forthright interview, Mr. Pennel gives an overview of the pending Ontario election. [...]
Mr. Justice George Adams’ decision not to order the Ontario government to pay the legal costs of the pro-life picketers is nothing less than a stroke against democracy. The case is the one in which the Ontario government is seeking an injunction to ban all pro-life activity at 23 locations across the province. Last August, Judge Adams granted an injunction that was [...]
Pro-family delegates effectively block contentious language rendering Beijing conference virtually impotent. At the conclusion of the New York Preparatory Committee meeting held March 15- April 7 in preparation for the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, the Draft Platform for Action is heavily bracketed. Square brackets around words in the text mean that there is no agreement of consensus; the bracketed sections [...]
One of the United States’ most repressive anti-demonstrating laws has now been declared unconstitutional by two U.S. judges. In Milwaukee, U.S. District Judge Rudolph T. Randa ruled that the 1994 Freedom to Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) was unconstitutional. The judge declared that the part of the law which bans “nonviolent, physical obstruction of reproductive health services clinics is unconstitutional,” noting [...]
I was told at the time of the Cairo Conference that a Vatican statement on abortion had warned that governments could impose contraception and abortion on people. Is there such a warning? A.P. Ontario In fact such a warning was given six years before the Vatican Declaration on Abortion. In 1968, the encyclical Humane Vitae (On Human Life),after discussing and condemning abortifacients, [...]
The province of Alberta has been hit with a wave of budget-cutting fever and a local group is attempting to ride this wave to remove abortion from the federal rolls. The Committee to End Tax-Funded Abortions, an Edmonton-based group, plans to organize a media and lobbying campaign to raise public awareness. “We are convinced that the majority of Albertans feel that abortions [...]
In a move which caught pro-lifer observers off-guard, a judge ruled that 16 of 18 pro-life activists who were named in an Ontario lawsuit will not receive legal expenses. With the exception of Erroll Alchim, Justice George Adams ruled that the 16 other defendants must cover their own legal expenses. Jane Ubertino (also dropped from the suit), who was represented by Peter [...]
Abortion in Ireland A new bill would “stem the flow” of Irish women seeking abortions in England, said Irish Justice Minister Nora Owen. However, the pro-life movement and the Catholic Bishops have their doubts. The Bill was introduced in February by the government to act on the results of a 1992 referendum which saw 60% of the country voting that abortion information [...]
Attempts to settle the Ontario government’s suit against the pro-life movement have failed and the case will now go to trial. In August 1994, Justice George Adams issued a temporary injunction which placed restrictions on pro-life activities in front of 18 locations across the province. The Attorney General’s office, representing the abortion industry, has decided it is not pleased with Justice Adams’ [...]