The pro-life movement has seen in the Reform party a hope for achieving the legal protection of life from conception to natural death. In fact, some pro-lifers have sought nomination to run for Reform in the election. I was one such aspirant and my experiences expose a flaw in Reform’s appeal to pro-lifers. Attending the meetings of the riding associates, I found [...]
The acceptance of abortion is destroying both the legitimacy of the state and the integrity of the medical profession, says a pro-life media personality, former associate professor of philosophy and one-time U.S. presidential candidate. “Doctors perform medical miracles on pre-born babies..(while) in the very next room, the same doctor or his colleague may be killing perfectly healthy babies,” says William A. Marra. [...]
Interim staff Canada’s Catholic bishops have seized on the Brenda Drummond case to make the rights of the unborn a prominent issue in the upcoming federal election. In a letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, the Catholic Organization for Life and Family said the results of the Drummond case – which found that the unborn are not entitled to legal protection in [...]
Since President Bill Clinton’s veto last year, of the partial-birth abortion ban there have been many interesting statements with reference to it. One of the most recent is by Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers. “One of the facts about abortion is that women enter clinics to kill their unborn child. It is a form of killing.” [...]
If there is anything of value to come out of the recent decision in the Brenda Drummond case, it is that it has at least got more people thinking about the humanity of the unborn child. To be sure, pro-lifers are distressed and saddened by Madam Justice Inger Hansen’s decision not to proceed with charges against the Ottawa-area postal employee who shot [...]
Pro-life leaders on both sides of the border are lukewarm to the use of referenda to determine moral questions, including constitutional protection for unborn children. The question arose late last fall when Reform party leader Preston Manning spoke in favour of a law allowing a national referendum on issues such as abortion and euthanasia. Manning’s stand generated wide debate in pro-life circles. [...]
Pro-lifers must continue to lobby federal politicians if the unborn in this country are to have rights at all. That message came through loud and clear after a 28-year-old Ontario woman walked to freedom two days before Christmas after being charged with shooting her unborn son with a pellet gun. Brenda Drummond, a postal worker in Carleton Place, south of Ottawa, was [...]
Ottawa – An eastern Ontario court has scheduled three days of hearings to determine if a woman accused of shooting her unborn child with a pellet gun will face attempted murder charges. Brenda Drummond, 28, was arrested in May after the son she had just given birth to was found to have suffered a pellet wound to the head. The child, Jonathan, [...]
OTTAWA – Canada’s Supreme Court ruled October 18 that it will decide on the case of the government forcing a glue-sniffing addicted woman into treatment to protect her unborn child. A review is expected in the spring. The decision comes in the case of a Winnipeg area woman who was ordered by a child welfare agency to seek treatment for her glue-sniffing [...]
Interim staff Lloyd Schrier, who, as a preborn child was subjected to 29 electroconvulsive shock treatments and enough drugs to induce sleep in his mother for a month, has been refused any compensation by both the Canadian government and the courts. Everyone agrees that Lloyd Schrier received these brainwashing treatments, but under the restrictive definition used by the compensation panel, Lloyd was [...]
For one glorious month this year, from August 8 to September 14, there were limited yet real rights for the unborn child in Canada. For the past eight years, an unborn child has had no rights. Only if the mother is found to be mentally incompetent can society protect her unborn infant. In March, 1989, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected Joe [...]
Pregnant women can legally indulge in behaviour that could severely damage their unborn infants. On September 13, Mr. Justice Kerr of Manitoba’s Court of Appeal overruled a lower court’s order that a pregnant woman who sniffed toxic chemicals be sent to an addiction treatment program against her will. Twaddle said there was no legal basis for infringing on the woman’s liberties, either [...]
The Canadian Medical Association at its recent annual meeting in Sydney skirted the question of fetal rights by deciding to refer the issue to its board of directors for study at some later, undetermined time. Dr. Granger Avery of Port McNeill, B.C. had raised a motion to have the CMA press Ottawa to review legal protection for unborn children in cases where [...]
WARSAW – Protection for the unborn seems to be weakening in predominantly Catholic Poland. The country’s left-wing dominated parliament in late August moved a step closer to allowing abortion on demand. Despite strong opposition from Poland’s Catholic Church leaders, parliament kept alive a proposed law allowing women to obtain abortions up to the 12th week of pregnancy. It allows women to have [...]
The destruction of human embryos in England can be seen as another case of reproductive technology outpacing the law. Research into in-vitro fertilization, while designed to help infertile couples, did not immediately take into account the moral and ethnical questions surrounding the treatment of “spare” embryos. Britain in fact, was a pioneering nation in the science of in-vitro fertilization, and perhaps it [...]