Pro-life activists, like everyone else, are concerned about war. On the surface nothing is more anit-life than war. Yet ours is a different perspective from that of political commentators, be they professionals or amateurs. We are not about to bestow darts or laurels on one or other party in the Gulf. Nor are we prepared to judge whether war or sanctions is [...]
Under the headline “Witness in demand around the world,” New Zealand’s national pro-life paper, Humanity reported the following about Dr. Philip Ney of Victoria, B.C. “In a feat of endurance, Professor Philip Ney of Canada gave expert evidence in two court cases on opposite sides of the world last month—within two days of each other. “Dr. Ney, a professor of psychiatry from [...]
In the last attempt to prevent our country from falling into a tragic error, The Interim sent the following statement to all Canadian senators. Interim editor Fr. Alphonse de Valk appeared before the Senate Committee on Legislation on January 21, 1991 and submitted the same statement In a word swirling with pragmatic accommodations to evils of one kind or another, it is [...]
City Council in St. John’s, Newfoundland recently overruled an appeal board that had declared the new Morgentaler abortuary suitable for the area it was operating in. Six out of the eight sitting councilors voted to overrule the appeal board, pro-life councilor Dorothy Wyatt told The Interim. Eviction notice Council is resisting a threatening letter from Morgentaler’s lawyers (all the way from Cambridge, [...]
A recent decision by the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons to allow Henry Morgentaler to establish an abortuary in Alberta has been met by outrage and opposition from pro-life groups in the province. Campaign Life Coalition President Lorraine Stark was especially critical of the College’s decision, noting that she had presented well-documented information about Morgentaler’s “questionable medical practices” to the College [...]
How do you counsel a woman in crisis pregnancy? The North York Crisis Pregnancy Centre (NYCPC), in Toronto, has had six years of experience. “We are not here to save babies. We are here to glorify God and speak the truth about abortion. If babies are saved, we rejoice,” says Mary Turner, the current director of NYCPC. “We are here to help [...]
LEAF, the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund, is a national feminist group dedicated to taking women’s equality issues into Canada’s courts. It was mobilized on April 17, 1985, the day the equality rights clauses of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into force. Objectives LEAF strives: - to educate the public concerning rights and the significance, interpretation and enforcement of [...]
The U.S. media has run yet another in a long line of pro-abortion polemics. This time it was Abortion Denied: Shattering Young Women’s Lives, a half-hour pseudo-documentary, produced by the Feminist majority organization. It was aired December 7, on Ted Turner’s Atlanta-based TBS Cable Network. The program is a hysterical attack on ‘parental consent laws,’ and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision [...]
Drs. J. White and K. Campbell of Brantford, Ontario, both quit committing abortions after a brave lawyer and a stubborn retired school caretaker picketed their homes. Lawyer Paul Vandervet and Mr. Bill Fuller, Brantford residents and pro-life friends, picketed the doctors’ homes after picketing their offices failed to stop them from killing the unborn. Home picketing seemed to do the trick. Dr. [...]
The following are some of the most commonly asked questions about the government’s abortion law, Bill C-43. At the time of writing, the Bill has yet to be passed by the Senate. Doesn’t the fact that some doctors say they will stop doing abortions prove that the new law is better than no law? Kim Campbell, the Minister of Justice, who is [...]
A British Columbia court on December 4, 1990, awarded $900,000 in a botched abortion case. The money, which is to be added to at a later date, goes to Jody Cherry, a B.C. woman and her eight-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, who survived the abortion. Elizabeth was born with severe mental and physical handicaps as a result of the abortion. Still pregnant In 1982, [...]
If ill opinions cannot be quite rooted out, and you cannot cure some received vice according to your wishes, you must not therefore abandon the commonwealth.” Sir Thomas More. In the December 1990 editorial, “The spiritual battle for Canada,” we described the formidable forces arrayed against a society founded on and held together by respect for God and the Christian tradition. Within [...]
In a most memorable tribute to one who has dedicated his life to the service of God and His children, more than 800 people paid tribute to Father Ted Colleton on the occasion of his 50th Anniversary as a priest. Following a Mass, attended by 500 people. Business for Life organized a banquet which saw more than 800 of those whose lives [...]
The All-Ontario Pro-life conference was held in Trenton in November and attracted almost one hundred leaders from across the province. The conference is an annual seminar sponsored by the educational pro-life groups in the province. This year it was hosted by Frankford Right to Life. Ottawa area theologian Dr. Richard Ganz gave the keynote address at the opening banquet. He reminded his [...]
The 1991 National Strategy Meeting of Campaign Life Coalition, held November 30 to December 2, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, was attended by approximately 90 leaders from across Canada. Every province (except Newfoundland and New Brunswick) was represented at this meeting. Following a welcome address by National President Jim Hughes, the participants engaged in discussions dealing with Bill C-43 and the Senate; long-term [...]