Last month, the city of Edmonton was the scene of two events which have brought the ever-simmering abortion controversy back to a boil. On March 4, doctors told a 28-year-old woman that she was “lucky to be alive” following an abortion performed on her at Henry Morgentaler’s Edmonton facility. Nearly ten minutes after her abortion, the woman developed severe stomach [...]
Thousands of pro-lifers marched on Capital Hill in Washington January 22 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision guaranteeing abortion on demand in the U.S. Along with the peaceful demonstration, which organizers said drew up to 100,000 people, there was a “call to resistance” which saw four abortion centres closed throughout the city. There were 309 arrests [...]
Ottawa – Homosexual activists won a major victory August 6 when the Ontario Court of Appeal, siding with the “gay community,” declared that the Canadian Human Rights Act is unconstitutional because it does not protect “sexual orientation.” Far-reaching The Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen stated that the decision will, for two specific reasons, have “far-reaching implications”. First, homosexuals may use [...]
Way to go, Peterborough! Peterborough – Civic Hospital’s Board of Governors is having a hard time getting pro-lifers off their backs. Since the news that Toronto abortionist Nikki Colodny was being “united” to Peterborough to help kill preborn Peterborough babies, the pro-lie contingent has been galvanized into action. Very successful action! Following peaceful and prayerful visits to the houses of the three [...]
Shopping St. John, N.B. In November 1991, R.C. Bishop Edward Troy wrote premier Frank McKenna deploring the sudden and arbitrary decision to permit Sunday shopping on a temporary basis. It opens the door to the exploitation of workers and the erosion of family values, he said. In early December, Bishop Troy wrote an open letter to Dan Cameron, leader of the CoR [...]
HINA SCHOLAR John Aird worked with others in his field to distinguish between the versions of the one-child policy produced for Western consumption (and often decked out in ‘freedom of choice’ phrasing), and instructions to Communist Party cadres who actually implement the policy. They’re eye-opening: • “Those who insist on having a second or excessive birth must be treated according to the [...]
The western population lobby is reluctant to condemn China’s brutal and repressive birth control program for one critical reason: it works. So concludes China scholar John S. Aird in The slaughter of the Innocents: Coercive Birth Control in China, a painstaking and definitive history of Communist China’s inhuman experiment in social engineering. Working with other China watchers, Mr. Aird has assembled irrefutable [...]
In his syndicated column for October 24, 1991, U.S. columnist Jack Anderson confronted female infanticide in rural China, one of the hideous side effects of the government’s one-child policy.According to Mr. Anderson’s intelligence, and unnamed sources in China, upwards of 1 million baby girls have been killed in the country’s rural provinces since 1979 when the Chinese government mandated its one-child policy.The [...]
Amnesty International (AI) has called upon its network of supporters to help bring an end to violations against children in Guatemala. The London-based human rights group is deeply concerned about the harassment, threats, attacks, disappearances and extra-judicial executions carried out against the street children of Guatemala City and other urban centers in the Latin American country. Like many other third world countries, [...]
On September 25, 1991, an Ontario judge ruled that Canada’s Human Rights Act is unconstitutional because it does not include “sexual orientation” among its prohibition grounds of discrimination. The decision is another example of trying to legislate from the judicial bench. It is also an attempt to change Canadian law to sit the agenda of homosexual activists, said Gwen Landolt, legal counsel [...]
With the objective of following the Human Rights Code, one of the goals of police departments is to hire ‘minority’ groups. One of these minority groups is the Sikh community and young men from their community are being actively recruited. Respect for their religious beliefs is necessary to encourage Sikhs to join the police department. The Sikh religion has many rules and [...]
On June 2, a majority of federal MPs voted against a private member’s motion, introduced by MP Gus Mitges, seeking to amend the Charter of Rights to give protection to the unborn child. The 89 to 62 vote, which was recorded showed that 41 per cent of the MPs present in the House of Commons for the vote favored amending the Charter [...]
In a Belleville court, a landmark decision to protect an unborn child may be a big step forward for the pro-life movement. In the early April Family Court Judge D.K. Kirkland made an unborn child a ward of the Children’s Aid Society. The ruling make the “fetus” a ward of the society for just three months-until birth and for a brief time [...]
The fourth hour of debate on the motion of Dr. Gus Mitges (Grey0Simcoe) to amend the Charter of Rights to explicitly protect the unborn child took place on Thursday, April 2. Six Members of Parliament spoke to the motion, five in favor and one against. The dissenting MP was long-time abortion proponent Svend Robinson (Burnaby). Predictably, he stated his support for the [...]
In January this year an In Vitro Fertilization clinic opened at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre. This prompted meetings and considerable correspondence between members of the IVF team and the League of Life in Manitoba. As a result;, the recent Vatican document, “On Respect for Human Life and its Origins and the Dignity and Procreation,” which formally condemned IVF, has created more than [...]