Federal Health Minister’s crackdown on private health facilities leaves abortion clinics untouched. Early in January, two kinds of scandal concerning abortion clinics came to public attention. Federal Health Minister Diane Marleau announced that she was cracking down on private clinics which charge “facility fees”; they might be the beginning of a two-tier health system, she said, in which the well-off can get [...]
On February 1, the PEI Supreme Court struck down the regulations by which the province pays only for those off-Island in-hospital abortions a screening board deems medically necessary – 4-10 women a year. Justice David Jenkins said the regulations seem designed to thwart access to a basic health service, impose unnecessary and artificial requirements on women seeking abortion, and are outside the [...]
In a 2-1 decision, the New Brunswick Court of Appeal ruled January 23, that the province cannot prohibit Henry Morgentaler from operating a free standing abortion clinic. Chief Justice William Hoyt and Mr. Justice Lewis Auyles stated that the existing provincial legislation is not about professional standards and the quality of health care. Rather it deals with conduct that comes under criminal [...]
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’ [...]
A Nebraska Juvenile Court judge resigns instead of giving a minor the go-ahead to have an abortion On August 25, 1993, I resigned as Juvenile Court Judge in Douglas County, Nebraska, rather than accept an abortion case assigned to me. Robert Destro, a law professor at Catholic University in Washington, commented that my resignation was “a pretty drastic step.” This is the [...]
The American pro-life movement is hailing the Republican landslide in the November elections as a tremendous victory. For the first time since the fifties, the Republicans now control both House of Congress. I think that any serious look at the Republican Party platform will reveal that pro-lifers have nothing to cheer about. What the Republicans intend to do will dramatically increase the [...]
Fredericton, N.B. – Henry Morgentaler won another victory when the Court of Queen’s Bench declared unconstitutional the New Brunswick’s 1985 laws prohibiting abortions outside hospitals. However, Premier Frank McKenna’s provincial Liberals have decided to appeal the Sept. 14 decision. Mr. Justice Ronald Stevenson ruled that the measures in the 1985 legislation reflect criminal laws, intended to limit abortions. Since provinces have no [...]
With the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development on hand for September 1994, The Interim provides a background on past United Nations population conferences and documents how the resolutions for this year’s conference were formed. Karen Murawsky works for the Campaign Life Coalition and attended the 1984 Mexico conference as a pro-life observer. 1974 – The World Population Conference in Bucharest, [...]
I often ask why Henry Morgentaler isn’t in jail today for the murder of thousands of unborn babies. He had been convicted of performing illegal abortions and jailed for the same offences in Quebec, why not Ontario? Eighteen Ontario pro-lifers would not be on trial today if justice had been served and Morgentaler had been convicted. I feel that our problems would [...]
Life sentences Two recent U.S. rulings have gained close scrutiny from both sides of the abortion battle. In September ’93, Month in Review reported on a case of a man who shot a pregnant woman during a hold-up, and caused her to miscarry. The 4th District Court of Appeals in San Diego has since sentenced Robert A. Davis to life in prison [...]
U.S. Senate passes pro-abortion bill Led by Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, the U.S. Senate has approved measures to curb Operation Rescue and other forms of pro-life activity. U.S. pro-life leaders worry that the new measures will lead to similar attorney general-backed injunctions which Canadian pro-lifers have endured since 1988. The Canadian experience has been that these injunctions not only clamp down on [...]
Restricting abortion is a federal responsibility and should properly be dealt with in the Criminal Code by the federal government, Canada’s top court has ruled. The Supreme Court has again declined to address the individual rights of pre-born children, leaving it to Parliament to deal with the issue. Campaign Life Coalition leaders, working for legislation which respects life, say the ruling makes [...]
On July 26, 1991, Judge James Karswick of the Ontario Provincial Court overruled the wishes of the parents of a pregnant 12-year-old girls and said that she could have an abortion – to protect her health, Toronto papers revealed at the end of October. The parents who belong to the Pentecostal Congregation believe that abortion is equivalent to murder. CARAL Canadian Abortion [...]
Humphrey Waldock is a B.C. lawyer who has defended pro-lifers who have disobeyed injunctions and broken trespassing laws out of the belief that justice should be done for the pre-born. In Toronto for a week in early July, Mr. Waldock dropped into The Interim offices long enough to discuss the gathering secular assault on Christianity. Everywoman’s Health Centre “I’ve been dealing with [...]
In 1986, B.C., public health nurse Cecilia Moore was fired for refusing to sign an abortion referral. Since then, The Interim has followed Miss Moore’s dogged efforts to win justice for the pre-born child and for herself. She has taken her case to the British Columbia Government Employees’ Union, the British Columbia Supreme Court , the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the [...]