The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) sprang a surprise at its annual convention. The ethics committee recommended that a fetus be considered a baby after all, sometime around its 20th week of life. Feminists were enraged. Women will continue to be slaves to their wombs, said one. Abortion hearings In November, 1990, at the Senate abortion hearings on Bill C-43, the CMA delegation [...]
The funding was communicated privately by telephone to the four Toronto independent abortuaries on June 13. It might never have been made public if it weren’t for the fact that Henry Morgentaler and CARAL (Canadian Abortion Rights Action League) decided to honour, with a press conference on June 18, what they thought was “a historic occasion.” Ontario then learned that the NDP [...]
A recent pro-life newsletter from the U.S.A. said that the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that if Nancy Cruzan had clearly stated that se would have chosen death, then Missouri would have been obliged to starve and dehydrate her to death. Did the Court say that? W.C., Willowdale, Ontario. No. The issue before the Court was whether it was constitutional for Missouri [...]
Vatican City – On June 21, Pope John Paul II released a letter to all the bishops of the world (over 4,000), asking them to toughen their stand against abortion. He told the bishops not to allow legislators to enact laws which permit the crime of abortion and to stand firm until existing laws permitting abortions are withdrawn. Said the Pope: When [...]
Under the auspices of the Independent Health Facilities Act, introduced by the former Liberal Government, abortions performed in private abortuaries will be financed by Ontario taxpayers. Making the announcement at Queen’s Park, Health Minister Frances Lankin said abortion services will be expanded across the province while a program to recruit and train doctors to become abortionists will be studied. While spokespersons from the [...]
When Etienne Baulieu, the scientist most closely associated with RU-486, visited Toronto on May 27, the welcoming committee organized by the Ontario Coalition of Abortion Clinics was overshadowed by the Grim Reaper and two dozen black robed, skeletal –masked mourners who followed bearing a coffin. While funeral music played, several other pro-lifers distributed literature informing passersby that RU-486 kills babies and has [...]
John Devlin, school trustee and active member of the Knights of Columbus [KOC] in Stratford, Ontario, expressed his disgust when he heard that the Knights had once again overwhelmingly voted in favour of financially supporting hospitals that kill unborn babies. Convention At their annual Ontario State Convention held in Toronto, May 17-20, the Knights voted heavily for a resolution that read: Be [...]
George Grant has had his life threatened. He wears a bullet-proof vest whenever he is in public. He tells the truth and the truth hurts. Mr. Grant does not mince words as he pins the blame for destroyed lives on the number one promoter of abortion and birth control in the world, Planned Parenthood. One would expect that his book Grand [...]
A few weeks before the REAL Women conference was held, Ottawa’s St. Paul’s University was the site of a conference on reproductive technologies, sponsored by the Ottawa branch of the of the Canadian Federation of University Women. NO QUALMS Although St. Paul’s trains future Canadian Catholic priests, its administration seemed to have no qualms about allowing the university facilities to be used [...]
On March 21, 1991, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a baby who died in the process of being born was not a “legal person” and therefore could not be counted as a human being. The Supreme Court judgment in the midwives case was welcomed by representatives of radical feminist groups. “It’s a good decision …consistent with the Women’s equality,” said [...]
Dr. John Wilke, 66, the man who quit delivering babies to fight legalized abortion, relinquished his two-decade tenure as president of the National Right to Life Committee on June 4. Sometimes reproached for blurring the line between realistic political goals and compromise, Dr. Wilke is still credited by many for building a grassroots, pro-life organization with considerable political clout. “Everyone in the [...]
Radical feminism has affected society greatly for the worst over the last 40 years. Its chief characteristic of total freedom of choice in all marital-sexual-moral matters is well known. This hard-core feminism is surrounded by a large network of subsidiary and associated ideas and organizations which have sprung up in its wake, or alongside it, or completely independent of it. While the [...]
Over 25,000 Life Chain supporters peacefully lined up for life June 9 on the streets of many Ontario cities. In Toronto, 5200 Life Chain participants, holding signs which read, ‘Abortion Kills Children’, stationed themselves for 20 kilometres along Bloor and Yonge Streets, two of the city’s major intersecting arteries. From Timmins to Sarnia, pro-lifers in 14 other Ontario cities took part in [...]
Nothing was spared in CLC Alberta’s campaign to keep Henry Morgentaler out of its province. CLC leaders met with Health Minister Nancy Betkowski in an attempt to secure changes To the Health Act. However, the Minister’s position that abortion is a legitimate medical procedure which must be funded remains firm. The College of Physicians and Surgeons, which was picketed and presented with [...]
Dr. Judy Kazimirski is the current Chairman of the Canadian Medical Association’s [CMA] board of directors. At the end of April she threw radical feminists into consternation by stating that fetal rights must be enshrined in law. In a speech to the women’s section of the Hamilton Academy of Medicine, she suggested that the rights and legal protection of the fetus should [...]