September 16 – Ottawa – By a vote of 99-62, the House of Commons passes legislation ending baby bonuses and bringing in a new child benefit system aimed at helping the working poor. The baby bonus was established by Mackenzie King in 1945, to ensure that children would have their basic needs met. The monthly payments were made directly to the mothers, [...]
Toronto pro-life activist “Jane Doe” was released on Wednesday October 2, without signing any bail conditions. On Thursday October 3, she returned to the Scott abortuary to counsel distressed, pregnant women and was promptly re-arrested. On Monday, October 5, Jane Doe was arraigned in Court. The Court date was set for Tuesday, October 13 at College Park Courthouse at 10:00 a.m. An [...]
In the campaign to make abortion illegal, activists agree that they have not been greeted by many legislative victories. Perhaps most disheartening was last year’s Sullivan v. LeMay case, which saw the Supreme Court of Canada declare that the child in the birth canal was not a person. Moreover, Henry Morgentaler continues to go from one provincial Supreme Court to another, collecting [...]
Toronto – On Oct. 20, Ross McKerron, a Toronto investor, confirmed that he has leased the second floor of a building to Henry Morgentaler, to replace his bombed-out Harbord St. death mill. Apparently, the Ontario government will cover the costs of the new mill. Both Premier Ray and Health Minister Frances Lankin are anxious to open as many abortuaries across Ontario as [...]
Ottawa hospitals performed over 4,370 abortions in 1991 and there is a freestanding abortuary in nearby Hull, Quebec. Yet the Ottawa Pro-Choice Network claims that approximately 40 women per month must seek abortions outside the area. To rectify this “problem,” Henry Morgentaler is demanding public money to establish an abortuary in the nation’s capital. When Morgentaler applied for a publicly funded facility [...]
Vancouver pro-lifer Gordon Watson is fed up. He has tried everything in his power to put a halt to the Vancouver’s sprawling abortion business. Nothing has succeeded so, in an unorthodox move, the 42-year-old screen printer has decided to take the industry to court. Under the rather obscure B.C. Trade Practices Act, any citizen may sue an institution on behalf of another [...]
While the North Shore and British Columbia continue to have one of the highest abortion rates in Canada, we are still below the U.S. where 40% of all pregnancies end in abortion. With the provincial government solidly behind taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, however, we can expect the numbers in this part of Canada to rise as people are led increasingly to feel that having [...]
Roe v. Wade is often compared with the Dred Scott case. Who or what was Dred Scott? M.M., St. John’s. Dred Scott was a slave. He was taken by his owner to Illinois, a ‘free’ state where slavery was not allowed, and then to the federal territory, part of the Louisiana Purchase where slavery was prohibited under the Missouri Compromise of 1820. [...]
Unbending faith On September 20, 1992, CBC’s popular Sunday morning radio program Centrepoint devoted the one-hour time-slot from 11:00 – 12:00 a.m. to the program “Unbending faith: profile of the pro-life.” Put together by CBC producer Mary O’Connell, the narrative had as its Centrepoint the blowing-up of Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary the previous June. For O’Connell it raised the question whether this event [...]
Are we mere biological specimens in various stages from birth till death? Do we count ourselves fortunate to have been born and not terminated in the womb by our mothers and collaborating physicians? In that misty world, we resembled unfeathered baby birds fallen from the nest. Yet everything we are was programmed from our conception amid the interplay of family genetics. Modern [...]
Life Chain is a non-confrontational way to get across the message that abortion kills children. Whether or not the numbers participating across Canada were down slightly this year, the event got good coverage in the newspapers and definitely helped to keep the abortion issue before the public. A reporter for the Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic began her story by saying, “It’s [...]
Many readers of the Globe and Mail must have been surprised at what they found on the back page of the first section on Monday morning, October 19. In a long column, Dorothy Lipovenko asked, “Now doctors can treat a fetus as a patient, how does this affect our views on abortion?” Readers of The Interim will be familiar with this question, [...]
Pro-lifers in Ireland are now gearing up for the coming struggle to prevent the Government from introducing legislation to regulate abortion in Ireland in line with the disastrous Supreme Court ruling handed down last March. At that time the Court rules that abortion could not be refused to a woman who threatened to commit suicide. This was their interpretation of the Constitutional [...]
Bonn – On June 26 , 1992, the German parliament voted a new law giving women the right to an abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, by a majority of 357 to 284. Opposed by Chancellor Kohl’s Christian Democrats and Bavaria’s Christian Social Union, the pro-abortion ranks of the Social Democrats were increased by new deputies from East Germany, where [...]
The most important state ballot measures this November 3 will appear in five states: Arizona. Proposition 110 is an abortion initiative introduced by the Arizona Family Research Council. Put forward as “the common sense” abortion measure, this amendment to the state constitution would prohibit abortion except where the mother’s life is endangered or in cases of reported rape or incest. Maryland. Question [...]