January 20 started off much like any other day at the "Cabbagetown Women's Clinic" in Toronto. In fact, the abortuary was preparing for the installation of a large, shiny, blue sign that would proudly proclaim its presence to the local community. But plans went awry around noon, when an ambulance raced to the small, non-descript structure that houses the abortuary, even as [...]
HLI ruled 'political,' while abortuaries given charity status Weird things have been coming out of Ottawa recently. Planned Parenthood, a $462-million-dollar-a-year operation that operates 915 abortuaries under its own name in the U.S., has been ruled a charity by Revenue Canada. In a letter to this writer, sent Nov. 27, 1998 in response to my charge that Planned Parenthood was a business [...]
Imagine the following scenario, if you will: A local hit-man operates out of a store-front made to look like a legitimate business. There's a huge demand for his services; so for the sake of efficiency, and to ensure the bodies won't start piling up on the streets, he has his clients bring their victims to him at his office. The people they [...]
World financial institutions key leverage in de-population of Third World On Oct. 15, the U.S. Congress decided to approve an $18-billion funding package for the International Monetary Fund - one that will, for the first time in three years, be accepted by President Bill Clinton. U.S. monies to the IMF had not been approved of for two years previous to this, since [...]
On Oct. 18, 1859, John Brown's ragtag band of fanatical anti-slavery activists, with the blood of several slavery supporters already on their hands, attacked the U.S. government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. John Brown was insane in that special way that all fanatics are - he held his cause above the lives of those who got in his way. The abolition of [...]
First conference hears of link between abortion and Holocaust The Institute for Religious Values is an interfaith Virginia think-tank that has recently begun a project to increase pro-life activity among Jewish people. Chris Gersten, president of both the Institute and the Jewish Coalition Against Abortion (JCAA), told The Interim that the JCAA will present a religious perspective on life issues, and will help [...]
The issue of an unborn child's right to life didn't make it to the agenda of the Nov. 26-28 International Human Rights Conference in Edmonton. But that doesn't mean it wasn't discussed among delegates, says conference delegate Pauline Burkinshaw. "The debate is out there, and there are others who share the (pro-life) viewpoint," says Burkinshaw, but the fact that an unborn child [...]
Regular pro-life demonstrations begin at London's RC hospital Protesters call for removal of abortionist Fraser Fellows from staff David Curtin Approximately 80 people picketed St. Joseph's Health Centre in London, Ont. Dec. 12, protesting the presence of abortionist Fraser Fellows on the hospital's staff. "We want the hospital not to renew his contract, or to fire him," said Campaign Life Coalition London [...]
Almost as quickly as a sniper's bullet in the back ended the life of mass abortion perpetrator Barnett Slepian, his apotheosis into a "saint for choice" began by the media. The nonstop coverage of his death - more hagiography than journalism - from early Saturday morning, Oct. 24, to his friends' final farewell four days later, testified to something much bigger than [...]
The Canadian Abortion Rights Action League is claiming to have found a company interested in manufacturing RU-486 in Canada. Discussions are said to have already taken place between the U.S. Population Council, CARAL and the potential manufacturer. But Joanne Ford of Health Canada told the Vancouver Sun recently that there have been no submissions from drug companies interested in marketing RU-486 in Canada. [...]
- U.S. Attorney-General Janet Reno has announced the formation of another federal task force to probe "anti-abortion violence," despite the fact that a similar effort a few years ago failed to find evidence of a planned, co-ordinated campaign against the abortion industry (see this month's U.S. Digest for more details). - Evidence has been found in the area around Slepian's home that [...]
Although Canadian media have generally been silent on the issue of the RU-486 abortion "pill" for some time, a number of developments have taken place, and reports been issued (particularly in the U.S.), concerning the drug. These developments reflect the see-sawing nature of the debate over whether the drug is safe, effective and appropriate for widespread distribution and use. Although the pill [...]
Fr. Alphonse de Valk, CSB, editor of the Toronto-based Catholic Insight magazine, arranged a press conference for Oct. 5, 1998, to explain that recent changes to Roman Catholic church law now make it absolutely clear where the dividing line is that separates faithful Catholics from heretics. The Vatican's June 30 letter, Ad tuendam fidem (In Defence of the Faith), introduces changes to Canon [...]
Pro-life movement condemns attack on Slepian Police in Canada and the U.S. are on the trail of James Charles Kopp, said to be a material witness - but not a suspect - in the slaying of Buffalo ob-gyn Barnett Slepian. Slepian was shot in the back through his kitchen window, by a sniper hiding in the bushes outside, on Oct. 23. Slepian [...]
Immediately on hearing of the brutal murder of Buffalo abortionist Barnett Slepian, pro-life groups across Canada and the U.S. did what they've done in response to similar crimes in the past: they condemned the shooting, sincerely, firmly, and unequivocally. On the one hand, it seems strange that pro-life groups should have to issue such extraordinary statements. Any well-informed and fair-minded person would [...]