On Thursday, May 2, two dozen people wearing black robes, plus a dozen other pro-life demonstrators, protested the Toronto visit of Dr. Etienne Baulieu, the inventor of RU-486. Dr. Baulieu claimed that the recently-reported death due to the RU0486 was an accident due to unforeseen external circumstances (see “Abortion pill kills woman,” The Interim, May 1991) His visit to Toronto [...]
The Church must find a way to enliven and support all who are generously waging the arduous battle in favour of the human person. In particular: Those spouses who in their families are generously open to the values of fertility and receptivity; All women who, against the many inducements to the contrary and in spite of the grave economic and [...]
From April 4 to 7, 1991, some 112 Cardinals met in Rome in a special meeting (Consistory) to discuss two topics: threats to human life and threats to the proclamation of Jesus Christ, the only Savior, by sects and false theologies promoting a world religion. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger opened the meeting with a penetrating theological survey while the Cardinals’ final communiqué [...]
Brantford, Ontario. “Hundreds of people lined King George Road and Terrace Hill Street on Saturday, April 13, to tell passing motorists that abortion is wrong,” reported Brantford’s The Expositor. As lawyer Paul Vandervet, president of the Brant Right to Life, explained, 2,000 people had been the target but they were pleased with the 1,000 who turned up for the Life Chain, [...]
Dauphin, Manitoba. In December 1990, the newly elected feminist Mayor, Virginia Jamieson, refused to declare a Respect for Life Week. This deliberate gesture of contempt led Dauphin pro-lifers to take another look at their town. Resolution On February 27, 1991, the Board of Dauphin’s General Hospital voted to prohibit abortions unless a committee of three doctors determined the woman’s [...]
On March 6, Sister Elizabeth Davis, Executive Director of St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital in St. John’s, Newfoundland, issued a statement concerning a controversial decision that the hospital had made to eliminate its obstetric and gynecology department. Budget cuts Anticipating budget cuts, she said, the provincial Ministry of Health had asked the three St. John’s acute care hospitals to consider the [...]
Renovations to the proposed Edmonton abortuary came to an abrupt halt after only two days when Campaign Life Coalition/Alberta applied April 3 to have the matter brought before the Alberta Court of Appeal. The group filed to appeal the March 28 decision by the city’s Development Appeal Board (DAB), which ruled the board had no jurisdiction to rescind a development permit granted [...]
How dangerous are abortions? L.B., Edmonton A measure of danger of medical procedures can be found the rates for medical malpractice insurance. The higher the danger, the higher the rates. In his classic book Abortion, Dr. J. Willke says that Florida rates its doctors. Until January 1, 1984, the doctors were rated Class I up to Class VI. On the date “a [...]
“Dehumanizing baby Voth” is the perceptive title used by the Western Report for its article on the March 21, 1991, Supreme Court decision not to recognize “as a legal person” the Voth baby who died while still in the birth canal during the process of being born. (See The Interim, April 1991, page 3). The Court’s actual words were: “A foetus is [...]
What do most Americans think about abortion? The answer, contained in a new Gallup Poll described as the largest…and most demographically comprehensive ever taken on the topic,” will surprise many. A majority of Americans, including those who consider themselves ‘pro-choice,’ disapprove of abortion in most of the circumstances in which abortion is allowed under federal law, the polling organization found. The confusion [...]
On September 7, 1983, the people of Ireland by a majority of 57 per cent voted in a notional referendum to amend the constitution to guarantee the right to life of unborn babies. Banned The amendment banned abortion, abolished the right of the government to pass laws authorizing abortion, and took away the power of the courts to rule in favour of [...]
Campaign Life Coalition/Nova Scotia (CLC/NS) has taken ‘Tell the truth and stop abortion’ as its 1991 theme. “We’re tired of always reacting to the ‘pro-choice’, pro-abortion agenda. It’s time to take the initiative, to turn the rhetoric around, to make them react to us,” Executive Director Cynthia Haughn told The Interim. Large ads CLC/NS launched the ‘Tell the Truth’ campaign in Halifax [...]
The February 1991 issue of the glossy, upscale monthly, Toronto Life, featured an eye-opening cover. In large letters, near a picture of an unborn baby, were the words “Rethinking Abortion.” Above was the explanation: “A pro-choice feminist explores the anti-abortion position and is profoundly challenged by what she discovers.” The cover highlights a quotation from the author of the story, Lindalee Tracey: [...]
I have heard of Pharmacists for Life and am interested. Is there a Canadian group? Where can I reach them? B.R., Toronto, Ontario. Pharmacists for Life refuse to cooperate in any way in the destruction of preborn children, and therefore they will not sell any drugs or abortifacients devices. So far as I know there is no Canadian group. The address in [...]
IN THE BASKET AT HOME Black photography When photo store developers saw Helen Burnie’s baby pictures in November 1990 they called the police. The suspicious officers appeared on her doorstep wanting to know how she came to have a photo of a decapitated seven-month-old baby boy. Miss Burnie explained that she intended to reproduce the photo of the baby found in the [...]