On Oct. 26, Henry Morgentaler called upon the Québec government to fully fund abortion performed at private clinics in the province. According to the National Post, Morgentaler complained that the federal government covers the full $450 cost of clinic abortions for refugee claimants, but citizens in Québec must pay a facility fee of around $400. The province does cover some of the cost [...]
We live in a country that condones abortion. Some of us attend churches that do not condemn it. As a pro-life Anglican, I was unsettled by comments made recently by the head of the Anglican Church, Dr. George Carey, on a London radio show. Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, appeared on Radio 4 Today earlier this fall to promote his newest book, Jesus 2000. [...]
But Toronto pro-lifers weren't laughing as pro-aborts tried to sabotage Aid to Women fundraiser Pro-life supporters narrowly averted efforts by a "Catholic" abortion rights activist to scuttle Halloween fund-raising efforts on behalf of Aid to Women. At issue was a 1996 decision by the Toronto Catholic District School Board to oust UNICEF as the recipient of its schools' Halloween fund-raising project. The [...]
Journalists arrested while covering Linda Gibbons' latest protest GIBBONS HANDLED ROUGHLY, GOES WITHOUT FOOD FOR 26 HOURS On October 15, police arbitrarily suspended freedom of the press when they arrested three journalists covering a peaceful pro-life demonstration in downtown Toronto. Freelance journalist and Interim editorial board member Sue Careless, CLC director Steve Jalsevac who was video-taping the event for LifeSite News, and Gord [...]
Stephen Leacock, Canada's most honoured humourist, once proclaimed: "When I state that my lectures were followed almost immediately by the union of South Africa, the banana riots in Trinidad and the Turco-Italian war, I think the reader can form some opinion of their importance." Leacock, of course, was being facetious. But his audience could not have been receptive of his humour if [...]
But maybe not the kind that makes the textbooks In early August, the quiet streets of several Nova Scotian communities were stirred into activity by the presence of modern-day heroes. At least, that's how I think of them. The men, women and children who made up the Show the Truth Tour broke out of their ordinary Canadian lives to travel days by [...]
A hardy group of pro-life demonstrators didn't let the potentially hostile environment of the University of Toronto intimidate them when Canada's abortion king Henry Morgentaler appeared there on Sept. 15. Morgentaler brought his travelling propaganda show to U of T's Hart House, speaking after what had been billed as a "debate" on abortion, but which actually turned out to be a vehicle [...]
The recent Dobson case signalled abortion pill makers that they won't be held accountable for ‘complications' in Canada The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of five-year-old Ryan Dobson is applicable to the thousands of pregnant women who drive their born children to school, to music lessons, to sporting events etc., or even if they share the [...]
On Aug. 3, Justice Hood of the Supreme Court of British Columbia ruled that pro-life activist Jim Demers was guilty of violating that province's "bubble-zone" law. Demers was appealing a lower court decision, arguing that the bubble-zone law, formally the Access to Abortion Services Act (1996), is unconstitutional. Demers argued that unborn children have rights under Section 7 of the Canadian Charter [...]
The attention and focus is lost on Ximena Renaerts. She has no comprehension of the stir caused over her birth, and the subsequent legal battle that ensued. For Ximena's parents, some form of justice has been done - and, more importantly, Ximena's needs will be taken care of for the rest of her life. It all started in December 1985. Ximena's birth [...]
On July 30 news broke out of Québec City that Judge Paul Vezina ordered a 37-year-old psychiatric patient to undergo an abortion and sterilization against her will. For pro-lifers this sad story should come as no surprise, given the pathetic state of morality that is permeating Canada's mental health system. Nurses and psychiatrists working in Canada's various institutions frequently hand out condoms [...]
Police ‘investigation' fails to allay concerns about ‘genetic termination' abortions An "investigation" into eugenic infanticides at a Calgary hospital has failed to exonerate the hospital, and pro-lifers vow to continue searching for the truth. In April, Alberta Report magazine broke a horrifying story about babies born alive and left to die after "genetic terminations" at Calgary Foothills Hospital. A "genetic termination" is [...]
An idealistic American lawyer just out of law school is hoping to move the breast cancer-abortion controversy to a new level by finding one or more women prepared to launch a lawsuit against an abortion provider for not warning about the abortion-related risk of breast cancer. Abortionists may not be the only ones at risk, though; John Kindley says that medical bodies [...]
There is justice after all. For some time now rumours have been circulating about the settlement reached in the Ximena Renaerts abortion case. You know the one, where Ximena was born alive at Buchenwald General in Vancouver and left to die by their courageous medical staff? Well, risking the possibility that I am showing "disdain" for this fine medical institution, I will [...]
In an earlier column, I commented on the fact that B.C.'s pro-abortion community refuses to debate or appear publicly with anyone who values all human life. The head of the B.C. Pro-Choice Action Network, Joyce Arthur, was invited to participate in a debate with pro-lifer Scott Klusendorf. Arthur put on her best brave face and declined the invitation. However, in the days [...]