I was pregnant and only fifteen. How was I going to tell Mom and Dad? My parents would never agree to marriage especially to the father of this child. He was nothing but a dope addict. He told me he would marry me if I wanted to. I really thought I loved him until it came down to commitment. However, he mentioned [...]
There appears to be confusion about the role of the jury in the administration of justice in Canada, and also with regard to the December 1984 jury decision in the Morgentaler case in Ontario. A recent article on the Opinion page of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, by freelance writer, William C. Heine, is a case in point. Mr. Heine implies that it is [...]
In the first two parts of this series, we focused on testimony presented to the parliamentary sub-committee considering how federal legislation should be changed to reflect Section 15 of the Charter, the “equal rights” section, which came into effect in April of this year. In Part I, we reported on the testimony given by feminist, pro-abortion and homosexual rights’ organizations. These various [...]
Montreal On October 18 Henry Morgentaler appealed the Ontario Court of appeal ruling of October 1 to the Supreme Court of Canada. He and his two fellow abortionists cite 10 grounds where they say the Court of Appeal erred. The Supreme Court will have to decide whether or not to accept the case. Winnipeg In a telephone interview with the Toronto Globe, [...]
PM names women’s advisor OTTAWA – Michele Bedard, former chief of staff to Walter McLean, Minister responsible for the Status of Women, was named as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s special advisor on women’s issues in September. Bedard replaces Jocelyn Cote-O’Hara, who left to return to the private sector. (Toronto Star, September 11) Juries An editorial in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record of October 3 [...]
Family “Mrs. Lucie Pépin (Outremont): Mr. Speaker, this week is National Family Week. This even does not aim at glorifying unduly this institution, but simply at pointing out the difficulties faced by families in a world where children are more a problem than a source of happiness. The structure of the labour market and our whole social organization do not favour the [...]
It is extraordinary that a man like Morgentaler, the abortionist, flouts the law under police protection, while those who are trying to uphold the law are jailed. How could our laws have come to this? The answer is that our society has gone from Realism to Relativism. Realism A common-sense realism maintains that there is a reality outside the mind that is [...]
The United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces, a group pf 550 churches with 325 pastors in the four Atlantic Provinces, is taking a stronger pro-life stand. At the Convention Council’s spring meetings a special committee was set up to investigate the possibility of publishing a high-quality pamphlet explaining our position on abortion and giving our reasons for our position. The Convention [...]
In October, the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine hosted a major symposium on “Human Embryo Experimentation and Childhood Cancer: The Right to Die.” The two panels of experts included medical doctors, lawyers, ethical philosophers and representatives from the media. All the distinguished experts on the panels were in favour of the right to die and human embryo experimentation. Their comments and [...]
Mr. Frank Shoofy, the lawyer who had volunteered to work free of charge to assist boxer Reggie Chartrand in his court action against the Morgentaler abortion clinic, was gunned down as he let his office after working late, on the night of October 15. His body was found in the corridor, outside his office door, by the cleaner, at about 11 p.m.; [...]
I woke Reggie Chartrand up when I phoned him in Montreal from Toronto. (He works shifts in a Montreal restaurant.) The former militant separatist was a bit groggy but quickly got the cobwebs out of his head and was soon busy denouncing “Dr. Morgentaler Millionaire” for his killing of helpless babies in the womb. Reggie is mounting a vigorous crusade against establishing [...]
On Friday October 11, Premier Peterson went to Emeryville (near Windsor) to honour Dick Ruston, Essex North liberal MPP for 17 years, who retired from politics earlier in the year. He was one of the 375 guests who packed the Knights of Columbus hall. As the Premier entered the hall he “received some vocal opposition from more than 100 local anti-abortion protestors [...]
Charging that existing political parties subscribe to a “religion” of “humanistic socialism,” a group in the Vancouver area has formed a new national political party, the Christian Party of Canada. William Stillwell, the interim party president, says that the group began to organize in the spring of 1984, working on a constitution and policies. When the last federal election was called, supporters [...]
A jury in Nelson, British Columbia has determined that Jim Demers, a Nelson Pro-Life activist and a founder of Nelson Future Life, the local Pro-Life organization, is guilty on a charge of theft under $200 and guilty on a charge of mischief. Demers was found not guilty on a third charge of possession of stolen property stemming from an incident at Kootenay [...]
A new development in the pro-life movement this year has been the ever-increasing number of charges laid against picketers in Toronto. As these cases have gone through the courts, a number of important precedents have been set. The following is a summary of cases to date. In December 1984, 14 pro-lifers were charged with trespass following an incident on the steps at [...]