The Ontario Ministry of Education (MOE) plans to address the issue of home schooling again (see “Divine Right of Parents,” The Interim, September 1990). Malcolm Powell, Provincial School Attendance Counsellor said that work on a policy paper “to clarify both for parents and for school boards their rights and responsibilities” is in progress. “We are looking at our options now,” he told [...]
On March 11, the Bay, Simpson’s and Zellers in Ontario announced that they would open on Good Friday. “Good Friday is a big shopping day in other provinces,” said a spokesman for the stores, “so we decided to open that day and close Easter Sunday.’ The announcement indicated the growing contempt of large businesses such as the above for the religious sensibilities [...]
On March 9, twenty people from Toronto, Brampton, Brantford, Port Perry and Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, met for quiet prayer in the lane behind Henry Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary. Injunction Planning to pray for two hours, the participants did not obstruct the lane; neither did they carry sign, hand out the literature nor speak to anyone. They just prayed the biblical devotion of the [...]
An order in Council, designed to frustrate the efforts of picketers on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, was quietly resurrected using the Gulf War and President Bush’s visit. The original Order in Council was strongly objected to by senators and MPs and who forced the Tories to back down. Trying again The Tories are trying again. What is at stake is the right [...]
Michel Arsenault of Life Savers, Moncton, N.B., stated the defeat “was rather nice.” The bill would have allowed abortions on demand. “Now we can work towards a law that really will protect both mother and unborn child.” (The Times-Transcript) Bernard Currie, President of the Kitchener Right to Life, said there will be “mixed reactions…Some of our members have not been pleased with [...]
Darryl Anaka’s five-year effort to obtain religious exemption from the B.C. Teachers Federation (BCTF) and his local teachers’ union, the Terrace Teachers’ Association (TDTA), has failed. Mr. Anaka, 41, father of three and a science teacher for 14 years at Thornhill Junior Secondary School in Terrace, had argued that the BCTF’s official ‘pro-choice’ position could not be reconciled to his religious belief [...]
Four appeals of the development permit of Henry Morgentaler’s abortuary in Edmonton’s west end have reportedly delayed the abortuary opening until July 1991. Renovations Morgentaler disclosed to the media that appeals to the Development Appeal Board heard March 14 have delayed renovations and set back the opening of the abortuary by at least four months. The original scheduled opening was March 15. [...]
When she spoke in Toronto on February 7, Carol Everett of Dallas, Texas gave a fascinating account of her life history and her involvement as the director of six ‘clinics’ with the U.S. abortion industry. Young and Immature Pregnant at 16, she married young and immature. After two children, she left her husband for another man. A divorce followed, and a second [...]
I am usually what might be termed, ‘a headline peruser of the morning paper.’ It is seldom that I devour an entire article during breakfast. But this morning, February 25, 1991, while glancing over the war news, my eye caught a headline in the London Free Press. *** Health The article read, “School Clinics would give condoms to Teens.” This came under [...]
Fr. Paul Marx, president of Human Life International, a pro-life organization headquartered in Gaitherburg, Md., has charged the State of Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) with the deliberate cover-up of two abortion deaths which occurred in Prince George’s County abortion clinics in 1989. Victims The victims were Erica Richardson, 16, and Debra Gray, both of whom died soon after [...]
Catholic Hospitals Coerced A federal court in Maryland has ruled that St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore should lose its accreditation if it does not allow its residents to learn about abortion and sterilization procedures. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, a national association, requires obstetric and gynecology programmes to provide training in abortion, sterilization and birth-control procedures. Hence, it withdrew the [...]
No. Organizations which promote contraception have failed miserably at decreasing the number of abortions and overall rate of adolescent pregnancy in Canada – both of which have continually risen since the late 1960s. Birth rates among teenage girls have decreased because of the man pre-born children who have been aborted, rather than because of the use of contraception. In a nationwide U.S. [...]
The Utah Senate approved a bill January 23, 1991, outlawing abortion ‘except incases of rape, incest, effects to the child incompatible with sustained survival, and danger to the mother’s life.” Penalties for illegal abortions range from one to fifteen years in prison. Despite the fatal flaws in this legislation, it is expected that the legislation will be challenged in the courts. (Wanderer, [...]
Father Tony Van Hee, a 55-year-old Jesuit priest from the Guelph Spirituality Centre, heaved a sigh of relief when the proposed abortion law, Bill C-43 was defeated in the Senate on January 31, 1991. Vigil Father Van Hee has kept a prayer and fasting vigil on Parliament Hill for the last year-and-a-half (since September 1989) except for a break of three months [...]
The French pharmaceutical giant Roussel-Uclaf produces RU-486, a steroid whose sole purpose is to bring about an abortion. It does so by destroying the lining of the uterus, thereby dislodging the already attached fetus (baby) who dies and is then expelled. In the summer of 1990, the French government sold its 40 per cent share of Roussel-Uclaf to Rhone-Poulenc, a leading French [...]