Just before 6:00 p.m on Sunday, January 27,1985, Jim Demers entered the reception area of Kootenay Lake District Hospital. He returned the smile of the receptionist and then casually proceeded down the hallway into the operating area of the hospital, located on the main floor. The operating rooms were not in use and the area was completely deserted. [...]
Gay Caswell, MLA (PC—Saskatoon Westmount) told the 250 pro-lifers attending the Moose Jaw Right to Life 10th anniversary banquet recently that they are trailblazers, “fighting the most important fight in the world today.” Pro-lifers are fighting “all those who have declared war on the family – those who would see the institution of the family destroyed,” Mrs. Caswell said. And, [...]
Former Manitoba cabinet minister, Joseph Borowski is slated to appear before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal on December 16, 1985. Mr. Borowski filed appeal papers in the fall of 1983, after Justice William Matheson of the Court of Queen’s Bench in Regina had rejected his bid to strike down the 1969 amendment to the Criminal Code. In 1969 the Canadian [...]
Saskatchewan Weyburn Pro-Life President, Thomas Schuck, continues to demand clarification on the 1984 CRTC ruling that TV stations showing pro-life programs must give “equal time” to pro-abortion programming. Recently the group received a letter from Mr. Marcel Masse, the Minister of Communications, in which the following paragraph occurs: However, the CRTC did not rule that any [...]
The fact remains that the judge’s decision cannot be taken to mean that the jury was properly composed. Moreover, although we did not succeed in getting our complaints raised in the appeal, we did succeed in putting them to the press and the public. In order to ask permission to intervene we had to show why intervention might be [...]
Was the Morgentaler jury fairly chosen? The pro-life observers who were in the courtroom when the jury was being selected last October were convinced that the process was irregular, and that the defence and the Crown co-operated to exclude prospective jurors who admitted having religious or moral beliefs. In April, Hamilton Right to Life, in co-operation with the [...]
“A young couple came toward us. She was wrapped in a scarf and had a toque on and sunglasses and I really felt sorry for both of them because they seemed really nervous.” So begins Carmen Smith’s story of “sidewalk” counseling with a couple heading for an abortion down the back alley of the Morgentaler abortuary in Toronto. [...]
It becomes clearer by the month that “pro-life” Canadians, i.e, all those who reject abortion as an abomination, are in process of being disenfranchised. That is to say, they no longer can find a political party which even promises – let alone is actually prepared – to act in defense of the unborn. Canada has had legal abortions for sixteen [...]
Total number of PC and Liberal candidates ………………… 250 No response due to lack of Campaign Life Canvassers in rural and outlying areas……………………… 33 Total ……………………………………………………. 217 100% Total number of candidates for office who Answered “YES” to both questions…………………………… 154 71% Candidates who answered “YES” to Question 1 Bu did not answer Question 2 (or who [...]
The Campaign Life strategy for the recent May 2 election in Ontario centered first and foremost on strengthening efforts to close down the Morgentaler abortuary. Thus the strategy differed from previous elections by not searching directly for “pro-life” candidates, but for those who, “pro-life” or not, were opposed to Morgentaler-style abortuaries. Campaign Life asked all candidates the following two [...]
Prayers for Life, a spiritual arm of the pro-life movement, has been active for the past four years in the Toronto area. Our purpose is to encourage people to pray for greater reverence for life and for the guidance of the Holy Spirit in all pro-life activities. For the past several months, there has been at least one Mass (and often two [...]
The evidence is in: the deliberations are over; our subject is found guilty; and the sentence is passed. Not one word is spoken in his defense, and there is no appeal. What if the crime? The crime is most serious. He has been determined to be mentally handicapped. The penalty is clear, death by saline poisoning. The Human [...]
Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the creator of the film The Silent Scream was in Toronto on March 30 to show his film at a press conference. The Silent Scream is a film of a realtime sonograph of an abortion of a 12 week old unborn child. Dr. Nathanson explained that he first made an ultrasound videotape of [...]
A recent article, published in the United States, compares the film The Silent Scream with the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Just as the book opened the eyes of many Americans to the evils of slavery, and thus helped to end one major injustice, so too this film shows the reality and horror of abortion and pricks the consciences of all [...]
While Morgentaler’s visits to Guelph, London, Waterloo and Halifax received much media attention and spirited pro-life protests, his public appearances recently at universities in Toronto and Montreal almost passed by unnoticed. Press reports were few and ignored for the most part the low-key pro-life protests. In Montreal, Morgentaler told McGill University students that he was happy to be on [...]