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. [...]
P.C. David Packer’s appeal against his dismissal from the Metro Toronto police force for refusing to guard the Morgentaler clinic was heard by the Board of Police Commissioners on December 19 and 10, 1988. Defence lawyer Harry Black relied heavily on labour law concerning the relations between employers and employees, to try to show that his client did not act unreasonably. When [...]
“All we are saying is give life a chance!” That was the feeling put into constructive action outside one of the biggest abortion centers in Toronto. On October 13 at 85 Harbord Street, Students for Life rallied for Justice for the Unborn, and with the attendance of well over 400 students, it was a great success. The demonstration began with the arrival [...]
Since 1983, the Washington-based Human Life International (HLI) has sponsored a yearly gathering of pro-life scholars, leaders and activists from around the world. This year, 650 people from 27 countries came to Toronto, October 28 to 30, to talk about sex education, in-vitro fertilization, daycarism and other topics. Some did not than talk. About 50 joined local pro-lifers October 28 in Canada’s [...]
Now and then we are asked to put our money where our mouth is and that time came for me at the end of October, when the first Canadian Operation Rescue took place in Toronto. Although I agreed a couple of weeks before to take part, I remained far from convinced that I could actually carry out my commitment. I am, essentially, [...]
A New York Times headline, November 10, 1988, read “3 State Referendums Give New Impetus to Anti-Abortion Efforts,” and the journalist commented on speculations by political analysts whether these three pro-life victories indicate “the shift in public attitudes towards abortion.” At present, federal law in the United States prohibits Medicaid funds to be used for abortion, except when the mother’s life is [...]
Pro-lifers’ successes in saving babies through sidewalk counseling outside abortuaries and hospitals are often unknown to the public and ignored by the secular media. Here are some success stories… Joanne Dieleman and friends Joanne Dieleman, despite having two disabled children at home, manages The Way Inn, a counseling service-come-snack-bar adjacent to Morgentaler’s notorious Toronto abortuary and a considerable pain in the neck [...]
Bill Sherwin is the Executive Secretary of the International Right-To-Life Federation (IRLF_, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. In Toronto to attend the Human Life International Conference of October 26-20, Sherwin dropped into The Interim office to discuss the IRLF’s latest concerns, especially the “pesticide against humanity,” the drug RU-486. Interim: You were established in 1984. What occurred in that year to precipitate the [...]
On January 27, 1988, Helen Walsh’s dream of the day when all pre-born Canadians would have the right to live was known only to her family and her friends and neighbours in the town of Bedford, Nova Scotia. The slim, blonde mother of five – four her own and the youngest adopted – took an ordinary part in her local pro-life group, [...]
Do good things happen to pro-lifers? Yes, they do, all the time, quietly, behind the scenes – like rays of sunshine breaking through the clouds. The harshest blows strike pro-lifers publicly – and yet blessings abound privately. For instance, the disastrous Supreme Court of Canada decision last January was probably the worst blow ever. To understand what happened to pro-lifers – on [...]
Murphy’s Law is this, “If something can go wrong, it will go wrong.” I sometimes think I must be related to Murphy – but not always! On the weekend of September 17-18, things went right. I was already committed to preaching on the Missions at Canadian Martyr’s Church in Ottawa and had booked my passage on the train. Then a few day [...]
As estimated 15 to 30,000 Canadians endured cool, drizzly weather in Ottawa September 17 to hear religious leaders, evangelists and the leaders of the pro-life movement denounce a government and a nation that permits the killing of its youngest and most defenseless citizens. Of the 35 speakers who addressed the day-long rally, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was the star attraction. The 78-year-old [...]
For years pro-life Roman Catholics in the United States and Canada have been accused of caring only about abortion. Beginning in the mid to late sixties, some people began to argue that housing, taxes, immigration, Guatemala, El Salvador and South Africa, and other economic-political issues were as important, if not more so, than contraception, divorce, abortion, homosexuality or extra-marital sex. In the [...]
The ad says it all: “Aid to Women saved our lives.” What a great thrill it is to look at the three babies pictures and know that they are alive and well today – know that they wouldn’t be if it wasn’t for Lifeline, a new pro-life organization. Lifeline operates Aid to Women, a pregnancy crisis centre in Toronto committed to changing [...]
Canadians For Life, sponsor of Lifeline expects a large turnout in Ottawa when a cross-country relay that started in the west at Prince Rupert, B.C., and in the east from St. John’s, Newfoundland, converges on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Saturday, September 17. Organizers hops the finale will take place during the forthcoming federal election, thus pressuring all members (and would-be members) [...]