On October 24, I padlocked the back gates of the Morgentaler abortion clinic in Toronto. As expected, I was arrested; I was charged under Section 387 1 (c) of the Criminal Code (mischief against private property). Later in the day I was taken before a judge. The Crown Attorney requested that bail consist of a simple agreement not to come within five [...]
On November 14, pro-life picketer Dan McCash was found not guilty by provincial court judge J.J. Belobradic. Mr. McCash has acted as a pro-life counselor at the abortuary two or three times a week during the noon hour since last spring. He has spoken to patients and staff on a number of occasions in an attempt to dissuade them from having or [...]
Three clergymen, two Catholic priests and a Baptist minister, were arrested for padlocking the Morgentaler abortuary on October 24, 29 and 31, respectively. Father Alphonse de Valk (53); Father Ted Colleton (72); and Rev. Fred Vaughn (59) were charged with “public mischief.” The trial date for all three has been set for December 9. Father de Valk, the first of the trio [...]
It was a long, hard fight, but for the pro-lifers of Ste. Thérèse, it was worth the effort. It started in the early months of 1985, when the Local Community Service Centre in Ste. Thérèse decided to offer abortion as one of its services, as many other LCSCs are doing in Quebec, with the support of the Quebec Department of social Affairs, [...]
Pro-lifers listened in shock as a police officer testified in a Toronto courtroom that the officers have orders from Chief Jack Marks not to arrest the Harbord Street abortionists on charges relating to Section 251 of the Criminal Code. The testimony came during the trial of five pro-lifers on November 20. The five, Barbara and Tom Brown, Antonio Conhoto, Stephen Jalsevac, and [...]
The correct address for the newly-formed Birth Control Victims Association, featured in last month’s issue of The Interim is: Unit 14, Four Winds Drive, Downsview, Ontario M3J 1K7, (416) 661-6935
The Atlantic Satellite Network has refused to air an evangelical television programme on the abortion issue. Abortion: is it murder? which features excerpts from The Silent Scream was turned down for viewing in the Atlantic region but will be seen on cable on November 17 across much of Ontario. The show is part of a three-part series on abortion produced by Food [...]
When I first became a member of the Right to Life Speakers’ Bureau, I was warned that I should not use the term “murder” when referring to an abortion. It was too “judgmental,” I was told. I did not agree but, being the subservient creature that I am, I obeyed. I euphemistically spoke of “the killing of the unborn.” I admit that [...]
On August 27, 1985 a Toronto based group of teaches held its first organizational meeting to form metro Toronto’s first “Teachers for Life.” A second Ontario chapter for South Western Ontario is under way in Sarnia, led by Jim Sekerak of St. Patrick’s High School. Initiated by Father Alphonse de Valk and concerned teacher Louise Di Rocco, the group is responding to [...]
The present writer believes that a reporter can be, and indeed will be, both objective and subjective. Like the Toronto reporter who persuaded the Milwaukee fans to back the Blue Jays, he makes no apology for being both. He has, however, put his own comments in italics to avoid confusing speakers’ statements with his own. Some 80 members of Campaign Life Ontario [...]
Ed Newell is the newly-elected president of Alliance for Life. He traveled to Toronto for the All-Ontario Justice for the Unborn rally in September. In addition to attending the rally, he took time out for an interview in The Interim’s offices. Alliance for Life is the umbrella group for the educational pro-life movement in Canada, with a membership of about 255 groups [...]
Surrey-Delta Pro-Life’s recent pamphlet blitz saved the life of at least one baby in the area. The group designed a pamphlet for door-to-door distribution throughout the area: 100,000 pamphlets were printed, at a cost of just over $4,500. Distribution through the post office was rejected as the cost was too high and the group relied on volunteers to do the postman’s work. [...]
Thank you for your letter of September 10, 1985. If your impression, expressed in the first paragraph, is correct, may God forgive me. Certainly our whole thrust must be to defend the lives of the preborn, not defend any particular organization’s decisions, good or bad. Nowhere in the article, which appeared on page 6 of the September issue of The Interim, was [...]
The analysis by Rev. Abello of Saskatchewan’s Bill 53 (see September Interim) attempts to defend an initial bad decision by Campaign Life Saskatchewan, who called a news conference during the Bill’s debate to announce that they could not support Bill 53. Needless to say, their position caused much confusion and assisted our enemies in deferring passage of the Act. The article of [...]
Beauce County Pro-Life Week, September 22 to 28, was no ordinary pro-life week. It was the first-ever large-scale pro-life event in the area, and it provided most of the people of this huge region with their first opportunity to hear the pro-life message – which they received enthusiastically. On opening night, The Silent Scream was shown to a full house in the [...]