Question: What have a Lutheran pastor, two Baptists and the Knights of Columbus have in common in Cobourg, Ontario? Answer: A desire to help people with problem pregnancies. Interdenominational Beginnings is a Christian interdenominational counseling and adoption service started in Hamilton, Ontario, ten years ago to aid unmarried parents and families for whom the birth of a child may be a burden. [...]
News of Louise Summerhill’s death made me wonder just when and why she founded Birthright, M.P., Toronto, ON. By 1967 Louise Summerhill was already in the struggle against abortion as secretary to an early pro-life group in Toronto (Britain legalized some abortion in 1967 and Canada’s government was pushing to follow suit, which it did in 1969). She heard of the work [...]
Vancouver – Three pro-lifers were named October 10 in a new injunction obtained by an abortion center here. According to another unnamed demonstrator, two men and one woman were inside the Hycroft Medical Building which houses the Elizabeth Bagshaw Abortion Centre. They were not blocking doors or access to the business, but only talking to women going inside. Staff On Monday, abortuary [...]
When the police paddy wagon pulled up to Robert Scott’s abortuary in downtown Toronto one October day recently, Mary Burnie and Jan Copps wondered what was going on. A surly police officer stepped out, approached them as they picketed and said, “You’re trespassing on private property.” Now Mary understood. Earlier she had rested against the fence that separates Scott’s property from the [...]
On the expanse of highway that separates Edmonton and Calgary, there is a billboard. It stands as a conspicuous reproach to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta who have recently issued new guidelines allowing Alberta abortionists to kill up to the 20t week of pregnancy. On it there is a picture of a 16-week-old baby sucking its thumb in its [...]
Another political ruling Vancouver – The BC Supreme Court has ruled that the province can no longer exclude same-sex partners from its Medicare definition of spouses. The decision means homosexual couples will be entitled to the same medical coverage as any other couple. The Supreme Court’s ruling came in response to a court action launched by Timothy Knodel, a Vancouver male nurse. [...]
Articles on euthanasia refer to patients in a persistent vegetative state. What exactly does this mean? P.M., Winnipeg, Man. Dr. Fred Plum, who is said to be the creator of this term, gave this definition when he testified as an expert witness in the Jobes case. “Vegetative state describes a body which is functioning entirely in terms of its internal controls. It [...]
This fifth editorial on the abortion mentality in Canada concerns pro-life tactics. Let us say at once that many people, including those who consider themselves opposed to abortion, are not fond of pro-lifers. Indeed, their faces turn grim when they speak about pro-life activists, whether the political ones who confront politicians, the educational kind when they show pictures of aborted babies, or [...]
As long as one year ago, the International Inquiry Commission on RU-486 released a strong condemnation of the drug. It has taken a full year before the existence of the report has been revealed. The report seems to have been stonewalled by the media. The International Commission, with its headquarters in France, says that RU-486 even combined with prostaglandin’s, is ineffective in [...]
When Dr. Bob Walley was in his final year of training in obstetrics and Gynecology at St. Michael’s Hospital in downtown Toronto, he attended a public debate on abortion at the nearby St. Lawrence Centre. On the panel, one speaker announced his intent to tear down the Canadian abortion law, and if necessary, go to jail to do so. He did. That [...]
A clearly-worded motion demanding protection for the unborn child was unanimously endorsed by 90 Catholic Bishops attending an annual Plenary Assembly held at St. Paul’s University in Ottawa in late August. * * * * The motion urged the federal government to “enact legislation which will effectively protect the lives of the most vulnerable – the unborn.” It also called for [...]
In the upcoming provincial elections set for October 21, Saskatchewan voters will also have a chance to answer Yes or No to three questions. Should the government work towards a balanced budget; Should constitutional changes be settled by a referendum; And the following question: Abortions are performed in some Saskatchewan hospitals. Should the government of Saskatchewan pay for abortion procedures? The results [...]
ROSE: Therese Weiler. For her courage and endurance during her Walk for Life across Canada. The Ontario woman began her journey April 21, 1992 and finished in August of this year. Along the way she spread the pro-life message to anyone who would listen. Her journey was made possible through the generous help of Business for Life, which supplied a mobile home [...]
Douglas Scott, Vice President for public policy of the Christian Action Council, based in the Washington, D.C. area, gave an informative lecture on the history of Planned Parenthood from its inception to the present day. Mr. Scott began with a detailed biography of the organization’s infamous founder, Margaret Sanger. Sanger, a leading eugenicist in her day, wanted a pure society, achieved through [...]
Federal Tories voted against a pro-life resolution at their 1991 bi-ennial conference held in Toronto, August 6-10. The vote by the delegates was 341 against and 155 for, with 57 abstentions. The resolution read: “Be it resolved that the federal laws should be amended to safe-guard the right to life of all children before, during and after birth.” Two pro-abortion Tory speakers [...]