Did you know that the pro-family movement is being labeled as “supporting the restoration of a patriarchal family?” No doubt we can expect to see frequent references to “the pro-patriarchy movement’ from now on – in just the same way that the positive, life-affirming philosophy of the pro-life movement is denigrated as “anti-abortion” or “anti-choice.” On the other hand, dear reader, perhaps [...]
A synopsis of who has said what on pro-life, pro-family issues in Parliament. Abortion – John Oostrum urged the reinstatement of Statistics Canada record keeping on abortion; Alan Red way called for more frequent publication of statistics on abortion; Gordon Taylor compared “the murder of 60,000 human babies a year” to the atrocities of Nazi death camps; Ross Belcher revealed the efforts [...]
October 28, 1984 The Ontario Tory leadership race is under way. Candidate Dennis Timbrell declares that he accepts the federal law on abortion (Section 251 of the Criminal Code). However, he opposes abortion on demand and any further liberalization of the abortion law. December 4, 1984 Then Ontario Attorney General, Roy McMurtry, appeals the jury acquittal of Morgentaler of November 4, 1984, [...]
The following is the third summary of party policies and activities concerning abortion and other family-related legislation. The first, “New Democrats and abortion,” appeared in February 1985 (off-prints are available). It covered the period 1965-85. The second summary, “Crumbling mortality under Ontario Grits. How Ontario Liberals have helped to undermine the family since 1985,” appeared last month. The summary covered abortion, the [...]
Secretary of State David Crombie recently stopped payment on an $8,000 cheque to an Alberta pro-family group, following allegations that the funds would be used to promote pro-life activities. “We fund neither pro-life nor pro-choice,” Crombie’s press aide told the Ottawa Citizen. “We have nothing to do with abortion,” she said, noting that activities promoting either side of the abortion issue are [...]
One pro-family group REAL Women of Canada has had its requests for funding consistently denied by the federal government. Another, the Alberta Federation of Women United for Families, actually got so far as to have a cheque for $8,000 in the mail, only to have Secretary of State David Crombie stop payment. Why? These groups are contaminated in bureaucratic eyes by standing [...]
On March 10, 1987, the Vatican reaffirmed the special character of marriage and the dignity of human life before birth in a new document on genetic engineering. The document, Instruction on Respect of Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation, was published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith after wide consultation with many experts around [...]
Helen Burnie, a retired nurse, was at daily Mass on the morning of Friday, March 6, when three Toronto police officers arrived at her home to place her under arrest. A 14-year-old student at a Christian high school was in one of his grade nine classes when members of the same police force arrived to remove him to 14 Division police station. [...]
At 32 years of age, Lawrence O’Neil is one of the youngest Members now sitting in the House of Commons. A native of Mulgrave Nova Scotia, near Antigonish, Mr. O’Neill is a lawyer and father of three children. His wife is also a lawyer, and is now studying in Ottawa to become a physician. Mr. O’Neil attended St. Francis Xavier University, Dalhousie [...]
Saturday, January 24th, a courageous man with an interesting brogue blew in from Australia, carrying with him a message of hope. On his hurried trip around the world, the famous “Abortion Priest,” as he is known in his homeland, made a brief stop-off in Toronto. Reverend Eugene Ahern is a 41-year-old man, who has spent the last fifteen of his eighteen years [...]
Private citizens in Ontario and Quebec are seeking to have the abortion law enforced, and they are receiving markedly different reactions from the courts in those attempt. In Quebec, the courts have backed pro-life activist Reggie Chartrand in his attempt to prosecute privately a Montreal abortionist. At the same time, in Ontario, a Supreme Court judge has sided with Ontario’s Attorney-General Ian [...]
In December I received a thank you card from Michael Bray, the American minister “accused of” and jailed for bombing several abortion mills in the United States. Recently Bray was acquitted of the charges. However, anti-lifers in America are outraged and plan to re-try Bray. Bray’s new trial is set for this month.. He writes “for the mean time , [...]
Prolifers may see little reason for optimism in the recent report on abortion in Ontario made by Dr. Marion Powell for the provincial government. In fact, however, by showing just how normally bankrupt the so called “pro-choice” position has become, the doctor will probably alienate far more people in her position than she will gain. The Powell report, reported and discussed elsewhere [...]
On January 15, 1987 Secretary of State David Crombie (PC, Toronto Rosedale) refused REAL Women a sustaining grant for operations of an office and office staff. The Tories have spent millions ($11 million in the past year alone) on annual subsidies to women’s groups, many controlled by pro-abortionist and pro-lesbian feminists. But they cannot find money [...]
It was truly ironic. During the Christmas season we celebrate the birth of a special Child, and many of us are blessed by having time to spend with family and friends. Just then, the nation’s newspapers covered the fight of the Alberta couple to save the life of their grandchild. As we all know, they lost that battle [...]