On December 9, at the national strategy meeting of Campaign Life Coalition in Ste. Anne de Beaupré, Quebec, Dan McCash of Liberals for Life made a strong plea to the ninety delegates from across Canada for pro-life supporters to join the Liberal Party, no matter what their political allegiances. The next six months, he said, are crucial because the Liberal Convention in [...]
Yesterday, December 11, I called to The Interim office as I was in Toronto. I found Father de Valk and Michael Otis in deep and concerned conversation. When they saw me they asked in one voice, “Have you got your article?” I said, “Er. What article?” They replied in unison, “The one for the January Interim.” I said, “When do you want [...]
A visit with Laura McArthur and Helen Slattery is an informative and amusing experience. Both are devoted grandmothers. In manner, each is straight talking, street-wise, warm and witty. In spirit each is generous to a fault. Theirs is a story of loving and protecting endangered unborn babies, and of looking after their vulnerable mothers. It is the story of two pro-life guardian [...]
One of our contributing editors recently paid a visit to England. What follows is his account of what he found there. In the country of Warwickshire, England, about 25 smiles away from Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford, is the spa or health resort of Leamington. My wife and I visited it on May 31, not to taste the waters or swim in them but [...]
Newspapers run tiny, back-page reports of the jailing of “anti-abortionists.” Feminists and pro-abortionists denounce them as wild fanatics threatening law and order. Leaders of the country – political, academic, cultural and religious – maintain a discreet silence. Who would have thought that it would come to this – pro-lifers actually going to prison? Certainly none of the people involved would have believed [...]
This is a fast paced, exhausting journey of a man whose energy, commitment, and evident love for God and His creatures, especially children, propel him around the world in an effort to slow the spreading appeal of abortion and the slackening standards of sexual behaviour. It is a tour full of vibrancy, colour, enthusiasm, and forcefulness. Fr. Marx is a man to [...]
It was, perhaps, a sign of things to come that a whirling March snowstorm suddenly enveloped the Charlottetown area just moments before the plane from Ottawa touched down. On board were two well-known pro-life missionaries from Human Life International – founder and world traveler Father Paul Marx of Washington, and Sister Lucille Durocher, director of HLI’s Canadian branch in Ottawa. They were [...]
In 1987, the Pro-life Action League, under the leadership of Joe Scheidler, organized a conference of former ‘abortion providers’- nurses, doctors, and counselors involved in the abortion industry who had ‘crossed over’ and joined the pro-life movement. The conference provided them with an opportunity to reveal publicly what had induced them to make such a radical change in their lives and careers. [...]
This is what the Lord God asks of you: To fear Him, and to love and serve Him with all your heart and soul. For the first time in Canada since the second world war a large group of men and women who are innocent in the eyes of God but guilty in the eyes of society has voluntarily gone to jail. [...]
44 B.C. Baby Rescuers Stay in Jail 104 Pro-lifers held overnight Sabina McLuhan In Vancouver, 44 pro-life activists remained in jail till February 23, following an Operation Rescue held there on February 7. And 13 rescuers have been given jail terms plus probation; following their participation in an earlier Rescue on January 21. On February 7, 104 pro-lifers were arrested during a [...]
Alone and pregnant? Rosalie Hall says you don’t have to be. Rosalie Hall describes itself as a resource and support centre, offering the single, pregnant girl almost endless help in making intelligent choices for her personal well-being. Why do pregnant girls end up at Rosalie Hall? Many because they were betrayed by someone they trusted who told them that they loved them. [...]
At the Human Life Conference in Toronto, the theatre in which the 9:00 a.m. session on Friday, October 28 was to be held was jammed full. The topic was pro-life picketing and Operation Rescue. The first two speakers, excellent as they were, were not the main attraction. John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe gave an account of the development of rescue operation, emphasizing that we are [...]
In his book, The Everlasting Man, the inimitable English writer G. K. Chesterton recounts a controversy which occurred in his parish church over a statue of the Virgin Mother and the Christ Child. The congregation was apparently concerned that undue attention would be focused on the mother, at the expense of the Child! Following much discussion, a compromise was reached – the [...]
The Right to Life movement in Australia is stepping up its campaign against abortion. On August 11, 1988, a group of 40 pro-lifers followed the tactics of Operation Rescue in the United States, sat down on the lawn and verandah in Richmond, Virginia, and refused to move. They sat, holding their signs, and sang quietly. When the clinic spokesman told them they [...]
The Interim The time is April, 1988. Three months have passed since the Supreme Court struck down the 20-year old federal law on abortion. In Great Britain, surgeons implant cells from an aborted baby in the brain of patient with Parkinson’s disease. In the U.S., Milwaukee pro-lifers discover that a crematorium at a pet cemetery is being used to incinerate aborted children. [...]