Ottawa – On May 12, 1992, a sub-group of the House of Commons Justice Committee started public hearings on changes for Canada’s Criminal Code. By the end of the summer the committee hopes to draft some guiding principles. Among the topics to be discussed is the controversial issue of euthanasia. The Committee has before it a proposal from the Law Reform Commission’s [...]
KIDNAPPING Washington. By a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court in Washington in May 1992 declared it legal to kidnap foreigners in their own countries for trial by American courts. Chief Justice Rehnquist applied a longstanding doctrine that courts may try defendants without regard to how they were brought before them. But dissenting justices called the decision “monstrous,” American diplomats were embarrassed by [...]
Is there any solid scientific evidence of differences between IVF babies and those conceived normally? W.K.P., Toronto. Dr. Patricia Baird, who is chairing the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, has quoted a number of studies on the subject in recent speeches. She has made the following observations: in Vitro-fertilization results in more multiple births; in the general population these are 1:100; [...]
In a recent article entitled “Goodbye to Catholic Ireland” (Tablet, June 27) a well-known British pro-life writer, Mary Kenny, writes: “the law is shifting to reflect a preference for ‘private choice’ over the more archaic notion of the State as the guardian of public morality.” Please spot the error, one which is common to those who mistake secularism for neutrality, or tolerance, [...]
On May 13, 1992, after six months of waiting, the NDP government of Saskatchewan made its decision not to halt provincial funding of abortion, even though 63 per cent of Saskatchewan voters voted to end abortion funding in the election of October 21, 1991. According to the government, it would be “illegal and unconstitutional” to do so! This statement is totally false [...]
When Morgentaler went to court seeking payment for abortions performed at his Winnipeg clinic, he won his case but didn’t get his money. On June 12, Judge Vern Simonsen agreed that it was discriminatory for Manitoba to pay for abortions done in hospitals but not in clinics; the Health Act did not give anyone authority to exclude medical services on the basis [...]
Ninety days for Lianne Laurence Lianne Laurence, 32, was arrested at Morgentaler’s Edmonton abortuary for the ninth time on Monday, 29 June 1992, Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The next day she was sentenced to 90 days in jail. Lianne had gone on the morning to picket on the west side of 150th Street. Morgentaler is located on the East side. [...]
Ottawa: – Liberal party policies have been announced by Chaviva Hosek, a director of Jean Chrétien’s National Liberal Committee, in a June 5, 1992 response to a questionnaire from NAC, the National Action Committee of Canada’s feminists. Hosek, a former Ontario MPP and Housing Minister, is totally committed to the feminist agenda. She herself is a former president of NAC and her [...]
Abuse of Canada Council Ottawa, Ont. – MP Don Boudria (Lib. Glengarry), who helped quash a bill to legalize mercy killing last winter, expressed outrage that Vancouver’s John Hofsess is using Canada Council money to promote his Right to Die Society. In a newsletter obtained by the Ottawa Sun, Hofsess said that he wanted to buy television time to show people “the [...]
Part 1: L’informateur catholique The Bishop’s criticism…introduces elements of ambiguity and even contradiction. On May 3, 1992, Ottawa’s Archbishop Marcel Gervais addressed the Human Life International (HLI) Conference during a closing liturgy. American-based HLI is the world’s largest Catholic pro-life group. Through his homily the Archbishop, who is also the President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), hoped to reach [...]
In the Toronto Star of Wednesday, May 27th, 1992, an article appeared under the title, “A Question of Control.” The writer is Shelagh Lynne Supeene. She is the author of a book As For the Sky, Falling: a Critical Look at Psychiatry and Suffering. The article is an attempt to find some middle ground between what the writer calls the “Pro-choice” and [...]
Abortion is now legal in practically all countries of Europe in the U.S. and Canada, in a few countries of Latin America, notably Cuba and Paraguay, in some countries of Africa, such as Zambia and South Africa, in Australia and New Zealand, and in most countries of Asia, especially India and China where it is not just legal but strongly promoted by [...]
I was in a group of twenty-two people leaving Toronto Friday afternoon, April 24, to engage in a Rescue early the following morning. About 150 of us were loaded into rented buses and off we went. Even the bus drivers (except the lead bus driver) didn’t know where we were going! There were two sites for the Rescue – one was Amherst, [...]
The May issue of Time magazine labeled the Spring of Life Rescue in Buffalo “Operation Fizzle.” Time called it “a symbolic contest” and asserted that Operation Rescue had failed, and that “the clinics were not closed down.” Why the arrests? If the clinics were not closed down, why did the Buffalo Chief of Police feel it necessary to arrest hundreds of pro-lifers [...]
If there is a limit to Canadian taxpayers’ capacity to shoulder heavy and insupportable burdens with quietude, they have no demonstrated it. I believe the reason for their patience is that they keep expecting the authorities to come to their senses. Evidence of the later, however, keeps pointing in the opposite direction. Witness the following two court cases in 1991. Gerard O’Sullivan [...]