Taking a course in ethics can be a terrifying experience for a student since it carries with it the possibility of conversion. It can be a painful experience, psychologically, to admit that one’s attitudes towards other human beings I philosophically defective and in need of remedial attention. Thus, a teacher of ethics knows very well the defences, denials, and dodges that students [...]
A Vancouver Sun investigation into children who have survived abortions in B.C., has led to Advocates for Human Life demanding that the government take steps to protect these children. “Somewhere in B.C., “wrote Sun reporter Terry Glavin, “there is a normal healthy child, not yet five years old who survived an abortion attempt in Vancouver some years ago.” This child survived a [...]
During the recent election campaign, Manitoba’s NDP Premier, Howard Pawley, sent out letters boasting of the work his government has done to raise the provincial abortion rate – 38 per cent in one year. Premier Pawley noted that “a great deal of work was required after four years of neglect and opposition” by the previous Conservative government. He reported that increased funding [...]
For some time now, pro-life supporters have been saying that the counseling provided in so-called “clinics” can only be of a biased and slanted variety. After all, it is argued, abortuaries are not in business to dissuade women from having abortions. In the past month, I had the opportunity to experience such counseling first hand, specifically, I sat on a telephone conversation [...]
Pro-lifers in the Markham Stouffville area suffered a setback this past month in their bid to gain control of a local hospital board. The building of the Markham-Stouffville Hospital is to be completed some time in 1988. For the past three years, local pro-lifers have been attempting to gain control of the 27-member hospital board to ensure that no therapeutic abortion committee [...]
We have spoken on six previous occasions about the demands of respect for life. The teaching stands unchanged. We wish to speak once more, and with particular emphasis this time on the enduring love that should animate all efforts to assure that every human life will be respected and protected. Respect for every human life is, without doubt, a crucial test of [...]
At the March 1st Pro Vita Seminar, Pope John Paul II reminded members of the International Right-To-Life Federation to “be transformed by the renewal of your mind” in contesting against the current anti-life mentality. * * * * Dear Friends: I am pleased to welcome you to the Vatican as participants in the seminar sponsored by the International Right-To-Life Federation. You have [...]
Recently Pope John Paul II and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) expressed support for the pro-life movement. The statements are presented here side by side, readers may want to compare them. The CCCB statement expresses the desire to emphasize the love needed to promote respect for life. Without mentioning the pro-life movement by name, it recognizes its three-fold division of [...]
Steven Mosher was the first Western anthropologist ever permitted to live for a year in a Chinese village to study rural life. After leaving China, he published a series of articles and two books (Broken Earth and Journey to the Forbidden China) exposing the government’s policy of forced abortion, infanticide and sterilization, euphemistically known as “voluntary family planning.” At the time he [...]
Steven Mosher was one of the first American scholars allowed to study in China when the U.S. government established diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic in 1979. He was the only academic permitted to live in a Southern China village for a year to study the lives of the rural Chinese. His discoveries and observations are published below, taken from an edited [...]
He pro-life, pro-family organization, Realwomen of Canada, (realistic, equal, active, for life) has been bitterly attacked by the feminists in the past few months. Why? Because it dares to put forward a different approach for the advancement and equality of women. Also, it has dared to apply for grants to the Secretary of State, Women’s Programme, which has been lavishly underwriting the [...]
Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed a change on our front page this month: we have added “pro-family” to our slogan “Canada’s pro-life newspaper.” Although it’s an awkward mouthful, and one that is not really necessary since all the life issues we deal with are family issues in one way or another, we have made the change to help those who are concerned [...]
In its issue of April 28, under the above title, the Globe and Mail published a scathing editorial attacking the Pro-life people who picketed outside the home of one of the doctors who performs abortions at the Morgentaler Clinic. The editorial is characterized by pejorative language and lack of veracity. That the Globe should take this position is far from surprising. A [...]
Pro-life people, both in and out of Parliament, are helping to keep the abortion issue before the House of Commons, by petitions, by statements and questions in the House, and by Private Member’s Bills. Petitions From the end of February in the beginning of May 19, MPs have presented a total of 30 petitions which are recorded in Hansard. These petitions ask [...]
The recommendations of the jury were as follows: In view of the fact that Amniotic Fluid Embolism “is a rare occurrence and has been described as the most dangerous and untreatable condition in obstetrics,” it is the opinion of this Jury that responsible Government, Medical, and Private Associations be encouraged to undertake meaningful and continuing research into the problem, and the results [...]