On her first day in office after her election as the new leader of the Ontario Liberal Party on February 9, 1992, Lyn McLeod (MPP, Fort William) vowed tough opposition to Bob Rae’s current NDP regime. But it’s unlikely it will amount to much. Audrey McLaughlin For one thing, Mrs. McLeod, 49, resembles too closely the NDP’s leader at the federal level, [...]
MP John Nunziata (York South-Weston) has charged that Liberals for Life are subverting the democratic process in the party and using the pro-life issue to further their own political ambitions. He has accused them of blackmailing prospective candidates for party positions and riding nominations. Mr. Nunziata also demanded that Liberal Leader John Chrétien should stop “accommodating the group within the party. If [...]
Are there any arguments against euthanasia that are not based on religion or the sanctity of life argument – ideas that an atheist might accept? L.J., Willowdale, Ontario The well-known British medical journal The Lancet published an article on this topic, December 1989. Amongst the most important arguments is that euthanasia destroys the doctor-patient relationship, as is evident in Holland. Throughout history [...]
Conservative Jews Montreal. In December 1991 the Canadian Council for Conservative Judaism (CCCJ) passed resolutions on Quebec, AIDS, firearms, rape, social services, nuclear weapons, war and abortion. The Conservative movement claims 50,000 members in Canada. The abortion resolution states the Council’s opposition to “any attempt by the federal and provincial governments to legislate control of abortion, leaving all decisions in this area [...]
The purpose of The Interim is to set forth the truth about the freedom and dignity of the individual human person in the area of family, marital and sexual morality. Insofar as religion and politics, law and medicine, economics and culture impinge upon this sphere, The Interim makes these areas her own. Erring clergy, indifferent politicians, lawless magistrates, doctors of death, abusers [...]
Euthanasia bill dies Ottawa: Robert Wenman’s euthanasia bill died in Committee on February 18. The bill, described as “dangerous” because of much vague wording allowing multiple interpretations, was sponsored by Robert Wenman, Conservative MP for Fraser Valley West, BC. Black Out Ottawa: NDP Dawn Black’s Motion asking for more federal funding for Planned Parenthood was defeated in the House of Commons 95 [...]
Edmonton: Lianne Laurence, 32, The Interim’s western correspondent and Edmonton’s persistent champion of the unborn, was sentenced to 60 days in jail on February 11, 1992. Miss Laurence had been arrested on seven previous occasions for picketing and protesting at the local Morgentaler abortuary which opened in September 1991. She has spent a total of 35 days in jail. She has vowed [...]
Law Reform Commission to review abortion ban The Irish Law Reform Commission plans to study the legal situation arising out of Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion, stated the Chairman, Mr. Justice Ronan Keane, November 17, 1991, in an address to a criminal law conference. Mr. Justice Keane said that the Commission would soon begin work on proposals for re-drafting the Offenses Against [...]
Last December 13, the first fetal tissue transplant in Canada for Parkinson’s Disease took place at the Victoria General Hospital (VGH) in Halifax. Parkinson’s is a neurological disorder characterized by loss of motor functions and coordination; it affects about 70,000 people in Canada, most of them over age 50. The transplant of fetal tissue from an aborted child into an adult brain [...]
On Monday, January 6, 1992 the official opening of the new Way Inn and Aid to Women offices in Toronto’s Cabbagetown neighbourhood took place. Since the premises are right next door to the Cabbagetown Women’s clinic at which Dr. Monole Buruiana performs abortions, a pro-life picket preceded the reception. The opposition came out in force too, and helped make the opening a [...]
On December 17, ten people were arrested for blocking access to Edmonton’s four-month-old abortion “clinic.” By blocking the rear and front entrances, they violated the terms of a blanket injunction that was obtained by the “clinic” after the first Operation Rescue on November 17. At 7:00 a.m. on a very crisp winter morning, rescuers went to a special Mass offered for them [...]
At its annual strategy meeting in Halifax, N.S., in November 1991 Campaign Life Coalition asked all Canadians to reject the appeal of Mr. Ed Broadbent for a ‘penny per Canadian’ to raise $250,000 for the International Centre for Human Rights in Montreal. “CLC Canada condemns the Centre’s plan to provide funds for pro-abortion propaganda in Poland, as announced in the Centre’s press [...]
The western population lobby is reluctant to condemn China’s brutal and repressive birth control program for one critical reason: it works. So concludes China scholar John S. Aird in The slaughter of the Innocents: Coercive Birth Control in China, a painstaking and definitive history of Communist China’s inhuman experiment in social engineering. Working with other China watchers, Mr. Aird has assembled irrefutable [...]
I know of the Vatican Declaration on Abortion. Is there one on euthanasia? L.P., Belleville, ON. The Declaration on Euthanasia was prepared by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and published in May 1980. It is very short, but it is invaluable. I have used one paragraph to provide the answers to three questions from many people. (Editor: See [...]
The Ontario NDP government has presented a bill that angers both pro-lifers and the pro-abortionists. Let’s not stop there. It angers a coalition of twelve churches (including Anglicans, Catholics, Baptists and Mennonites). It angers Jewish rabbis. It also angers a host of social workers and previously non-regulated people such as naturopaths and other private counseling groups. The new legislation includes Bill 43, [...]