A survey done by Share-Life, the R.C. Toronto Archdiocesan annual fund-raising campaign, shows that among its supporters awareness of the agencies it supports is low. Most supporters for example, thought that Share-Life financially supports the pro-life movement. It does not. Share-Life was started in 1976 following the withdrawal of Catholic agencies from the United Way when the latter decided to include Planned [...]
Winnipeg On December 19, 1985, Henry Morgentaler filed two notices asking the Manitoba Court of Appeal to quash the April 1985 order of the College of Physicians and Surgeons suspending his medical license. The suspension was the result of Morgentaler defying an order not to perform abortions without approval and of performing abortions while suspended. In October, the abortionist had considered abandoning [...]
A proposed private member’s bill that would have put limits on abortions is invalid, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has ruled. A panel of three judges ruled unanimously in an oral judgment on December 20, 1985, that Bill 53, the Freedom of Informed Choice (Abortions) Act, would conflict with the federal Criminal Code. “The pith and substance of the bill is to [...]
The Alberta Federation of Women United for Families (AFWUF) held its fourth annual convention in Red Deer in early November. The convention attracted 150 women (and some men) from across Alberta. A much appreciated aspect of the convention was the free babysitting service offered. AFWUF arranged with the local church youth group to have babysitting provided to mothers with young children. The [...]
New Year’s resolve Often, New Year’s resolutions are broken almost as soon as they are made. This year, the pro-life movement needs solid commitments from supporters – the kind of commitment that is followed faithfully all year long. The need, both for financial support and for active volunteers, has never been greater. Everyone has talents that can be put to good use. [...]
The following is my account of two pregnant women who were persuaded to turn away from Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary, as well as an account of an abortion aftermath in a hospital. All three stories are true and all took place in November 1985. In early November, a young couple heading toward the Morgentaler abortuary, were approached by a picketer-counsellor who persuaded them [...]
“That location was opened for only one purpose – to flout the law,” said Jude Di Cecco (pronounced ‘checko’) referring to the Morgentaler Toronto abortuary in the trial of three clergymen on December 9. He went on to say that abortion is “…still a serious breach of the Criminal Code carrying a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.” The three clergy, Rev. Alphonse [...]
A Vancouver social worker has launched a law suit in the B.C. Supreme Court against the Ministry of Human Resources. Cecilia Moore, 25, claims she was fired by the Ministry after she refused to approve funds for a welfare recipient’s abortion. Moore, a Catholic, said she was fired by MHR at the end of a six-month probationary period last May when she [...]
On December 10, 1984, Morgentaler reopened his abortuary on Harbord Street in Toronto. The “Day of Death” had begun and has continued uninterrupted for a period of a full year. The pro-life movement in Ontario believed that the anniversary of death could not go by unnoticed. The regular picketers at the Harbord Street abortuary were joined by many other Torontonians, as well [...]
Our editorial on homosexuality (October) has drawn some fire. It has been read as lacking in compassion and understanding for the individual, and some who wrote or called in are puzzled as to why a pro-life newspaper should tackle the matter at all. We regret that our editorial did not clearly address these points. There is a world of difference between attacking [...]
I like Mr. David Peterson. I haven’t met him personally but, seeing him on television, I think he is a man to whom I could relate. He has a sensitive, intelligent face, a gracious manner and there is no trace of arrogance in his bearing. He also gives the impression of being a “family man,” with an attractive wife and beautiful children. [...]
Despite overwhelming support from MPs in the House of Commons, and from people across the United Kingdom, Enoch Powell’s Unborn Children (Protection) Bill failed to reach the Statute Book. In introducing his Bill Mr. Powell stated that he had felt “s deep and instinctive sense of repugnance” when he read the Warnock Report’s recommendation that Parliament should legalize experiments on human embryos [...]
While on a visit to the Principality of Liechenstein in September of this year, Pope John Paul II addressed civil authorities. As is customary with Papal speeches, his formal address was not meant to only for the ears of the local government. The English-language Osservatore Romano of September 23 carried it under the title “Respect for human life guarantees a future full [...]
All these past years, reliable observers agreed to forecast that the population in France around the year 2000 would be mostly of Arab origin. Some people were afraid of that, some others thought there was just nothing which could be done about it; politicians felt concerned, demographers wrote alarming reports and talked of natality rates, of the incapacity to replace the generations, [...]
In Russia today the family is in trouble, according to demographer Victor I. Perevedentsev, a senior researcher with the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He calls it a “demographic and social revolution” that is breaking up families, lowering the birthrate and contributing to juvenile delinquency and crime. Abortion is legal and free. According to a 1978 Western study, about 8 million abortions are [...]