Population conference says 10-year-olds have right to contraception and ‘safe' abortions Between June 30 and July 2, a special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations reviewed the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development. Planners of Cairo+5, including the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, sought to expand abortion rights and contraception access, as [...]
There was just the right mix of fun, prayer, recreation and reflection at the recent Catholic Family Weekend July 9-11 at Springwater Catholic Campground, located just northwest of Barrie, Ont. During the weekend, Pharmacists for Life had the opportunity to dedicate a cross to the memory of children whose lives have been taken due to the effects of abortifacient drugs or devices. [...]
After public pressure was applied to police in Toronto, it seems that an investigation into an assault case against a Toronto pro-life activist is finally proceeding. In early June, Bill Whatcott was assaulted and had his pro-life sign stolen from him when he demonstrated across from a downtown Toronto abortuary. As The Interim reported last month, police were slow to respond to Whatcott's [...]
‘ What becomes of the tiny human being, if doctors find in their pre-implantation diagnosis that it possesses a bad gene? Is it a candidate for therapy, or for extermination?' As we all know only too well, the media have seized upon the dying of our present century to engage themselves vigorously in ranking and evaluating the past hundred years' most distinctive [...]
Despite the fact that a Toronto man seen malingering outside Henry Morgentaler's former Harbord Street abortuary shortly before it was firebombed in May 1992 was recently charged in connection with the murders of both of his parents, Toronto police investigators say they have no intention of re-questioning him about the bombing. "He was cleared 100 per cent," John Boyce, the lead investigator [...]
As reported briefly in the last issue of The Interim, Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott (Reform, Wanuskewin) gathered the 100 signatures that he needed from members of Parliament to push his "conscience clause" bill forward for debate in the House of Commons. As many pro-lifers already know, Mr. Vellacott has taken up the fight to protect the education and employment of health care workers [...]
Fighting the Ontario injunction, which prohibits pro-life activity from taking place outside the province's abortuaries, should be addressed at the political level rather than the legal one, said Judge H. Porter in the trial of Linda Gibbons, Emidio Galea, and Bernard Crawley. The three pro-life witnesses were tried on July 21 in the provincial court at College Park in Toronto. Gibbons and [...]
But leader says country is ‘too close to America, too far from God' Mexico's most influential pro-life and pro-family organization is facing some serious challenges these days. Comite Pro-Vida Mexico is almost the only voice to counter the powerful culture-of-death mentality that is sweeping the nation. All is not lost in Mexico; however all is not well, either. Police armed with machine [...]
The directors of Prince Edward Island Right to Life were in for a shock when they began to study the 50-year-old United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, says president Pauline MacDonald. Reading Interim columnist Winifride Prestwich's booklet, UNICEF: Guilty as Charged, they learned that: UNICEF is not a true charity, but an international organization controlled by a board of UN representatives, each [...]
On the morning of June 9, Linda Gibbons, Emidio Galea, both of Toronto, and Bernard Crawley of Kitchener were arrested for violating Ontario's injunction against peaceful pro-life witnessing near abortuaries.They were outside the Scott abortuary on Gerrard St. E. at 10 a.m., carrying placards with pro-life messages, counselling women entering the abortuary, and praying, as police cruisers began circling around the block. [...]
I feel uneasy walking along Toronto's Gerrard Street East, wondering where the young Asian couple in front of me may be heading. I am visiting Aid to Women, at 300 Gerrard. Next door in the same duplex is the Cabbagetown Women's Clinic. Do they have an early morning appointment for an abortion with Dr. Manuel Buruiana? They seem college age but could [...]
Reform's Jim Pankiw tables bill to keep politicians from hiding behind the Canada Health Act On June 2, Reform MP Jim Pankiw (Saskatoon-Humboldt) introduced a private member's bill in Parliament that could lead to the end of government - or taxpayer - funding of abortion. Bill C-515 calls for a referendum on whether or not the Canada Health Act should be amended [...]
A Toronto man recently charged in connection with the murders of both of his parents was seen - and photographed - outside Henry Morgentaler's former Harbord Street abortuary in the days before it was destroyed by a still-unsolved bomb explosion in May 1992. David Patten, 44, was charged May 14 with two counts of first degree murder after a man beat 80-year-old [...]
A contingent of pro-life parliamentarians proved that life issues are far from dead at the federal level, when they appeared at a press conference to mark the opening of the two-day March for Life event in Ottawa. More than a dozen MPs went before cameras, tape recorders and notebooks in the media room of the Congress Centre to make it clear that [...]
Provincial medical authorities will also investigate ‘genetic termination' abortions at hospitals A police investigation may shed new light on late-term abortions of genetically-flawed babies at two Alberta hospitals. As reported in last month's Interim, nurses at Calgary Foothills Hospital revealed that they had been forced to participate in abortions on babies medical staff had determined to be genetically handicapped. In some cases, [...]