Traditionally, men have been encouraged to indulge their wives a little during pregnancy. There is a certain stereotype of the poor soul making the rounds of the 7-Elevens at some ungodly hour searching for a particular flavor of ice cream. And although husbands may not understand how a $40 haircut is going to get a woman through the ninth month, chances are [...]
An ethicist summed up the problems with surrogate motherhood as follows: 1. Surrogate motherhood violates the marriage covenant between husband and wife. 2. – dehumanizes the procreative process. 3. – exploits women, especially those who take money for the use of their bodies. 4. – treats the child as a commodity. 5. – subverts the child’s relationship with his or her mother. [...]
Is there any solid scientific evidence of differences between IVF babies and those conceived normally? W.K.P., Toronto. Dr. Patricia Baird, who is chairing the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, has quoted a number of studies on the subject in recent speeches. She has made the following observations: in Vitro-fertilization results in more multiple births; in the general population these are 1:100; [...]
“Species out of control?” Rio’s United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, held from June 3-14, 1992, was opened by the Conference’s secretary-general, Canadian-born Maurice Strong. “The human race,” Strong declared solemnly, is a “species out of control.” Strong is a New Age devotee and a member of the Club of Rome, which predicted in 1972 that the world would run [...]
In a recent article entitled “Goodbye to Catholic Ireland” (Tablet, June 27) a well-known British pro-life writer, Mary Kenny, writes: “the law is shifting to reflect a preference for ‘private choice’ over the more archaic notion of the State as the guardian of public morality.” Please spot the error, one which is common to those who mistake secularism for neutrality, or tolerance, [...]
On May 13, 1992, after six months of waiting, the NDP government of Saskatchewan made its decision not to halt provincial funding of abortion, even though 63 per cent of Saskatchewan voters voted to end abortion funding in the election of October 21, 1991. According to the government, it would be “illegal and unconstitutional” to do so! This statement is totally false [...]
When Morgentaler went to court seeking payment for abortions performed at his Winnipeg clinic, he won his case but didn’t get his money. On June 12, Judge Vern Simonsen agreed that it was discriminatory for Manitoba to pay for abortions done in hospitals but not in clinics; the Health Act did not give anyone authority to exclude medical services on the basis [...]
Ninety days for Lianne Laurence Lianne Laurence, 32, was arrested at Morgentaler’s Edmonton abortuary for the ninth time on Monday, 29 June 1992, Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The next day she was sentenced to 90 days in jail. Lianne had gone on the morning to picket on the west side of 150th Street. Morgentaler is located on the East side. [...]
Ottawa: – Liberal party policies have been announced by Chaviva Hosek, a director of Jean Chrétien’s National Liberal Committee, in a June 5, 1992 response to a questionnaire from NAC, the National Action Committee of Canada’s feminists. Hosek, a former Ontario MPP and Housing Minister, is totally committed to the feminist agenda. She herself is a former president of NAC and her [...]
The following report covers another shocking development in the Public School Board of Toronto. In our July issue (front page) The Interim reported that the Board had accepted a sex education program exposing students to homosexual propaganda. The same trustees have now voted to allow homosexual teachers to solicit the 74,000 students in the Toronto public schools to join their sodomite lifestyle. [...]
Abuse of Canada Council Ottawa, Ont. – MP Don Boudria (Lib. Glengarry), who helped quash a bill to legalize mercy killing last winter, expressed outrage that Vancouver’s John Hofsess is using Canada Council money to promote his Right to Die Society. In a newsletter obtained by the Ottawa Sun, Hofsess said that he wanted to buy television time to show people “the [...]
Part 1: L’informateur catholique The Bishop’s criticism…introduces elements of ambiguity and even contradiction. On May 3, 1992, Ottawa’s Archbishop Marcel Gervais addressed the Human Life International (HLI) Conference during a closing liturgy. American-based HLI is the world’s largest Catholic pro-life group. Through his homily the Archbishop, who is also the President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), hoped to reach [...]
The Toronto-based Catholic Register (February 29, 1992) pointed out that “the clock is ticking” for Ontario’s Catholic Schools. “Unless a few lines, inserted into the Ontario Education Act of 1986, are repealed,” stated the editorial, “the separate school system will begin to lose most of its Catholic identity in September 1995.” “From then on our school boards will no longer be allowed [...]
Ottawa-area Guardian Drugstores and local knitters have teamed up to provide sets of clothing for premature babies or ‘preemies,’ the small patients of hospital neonatal intensive care units. Weighing in at between one and four pounds, ‘preemies’ need the high technology and round-the-clock-care of neo-natal intensive care units. But they also need something quite simple: warm clothing tailored to their small size. [...]
In the Toronto Star of Wednesday, May 27th, 1992, an article appeared under the title, “A Question of Control.” The writer is Shelagh Lynne Supeene. She is the author of a book As For the Sky, Falling: a Critical Look at Psychiatry and Suffering. The article is an attempt to find some middle ground between what the writer calls the “Pro-choice” and [...]