According to the Kitchener-Waterloo Record (March 19) almost 2000 students filled the bleachers and the floor of the University of Waterloo’s physical activities complex and heard Morgentaler release “a vitriolic attack against anti-abortionists.” As some 300 or 500 (according to the student newspaper The Imprint), pro-life protesters paraded silently outside, Morgentaler said “I am pro-life, I am pro-choice,” and called [...]
Pro-life organizers had counted on a good turn-out in Guelph; what happened far exceeded their expectations. Morgentaler addressed 830 students in War Memorial Hall, regaling his sympathetic audience with attacks on the pro-life movement, Cardinal Carter, and Canadian law, presenting himself as the true champion of women’s interests. Outside, over 1500 people rejected the abortionist’s philosophy by singing hymns and [...]
On March 15, 1985 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Dr. Margrit Eichler spoke on “The Anti-Family effects of Familism on Social Policy.” In this talk she labeled the pro-family movement, consisting of groups such as R.E.A.L. Women of Canada, the Alberta Federation of Women United for Families, and the Saskatchewan Federation for Families, as being anti-feminist. [...]
On Friday, March 22 at The Treat Me Right Café on Markham Street in Toronto, Paul Art (Paul Arteau), a poet, performed perhaps the first public pro-life poetry reading in the city of Toronto. “Performed” is the key word here as Paul Art’s poetry is not read and not so much recited as it is performed. Paul Art [...]
Global TV censored a good portion of the film The Silent Scream when it appeared on the 100 Huntley Street program in late March. It superimposed a disclaimer over the screen, making viewing impossible. A few days earlier Dr. Martin Gillieson, director of gynaecological ultrasound of Ottawa General Hospital, had called the film “rank and stinking propaganda” and a “distortion [...]
Tom Harpur, former Anglican priest and religious editor of the Star, is presently a lecturer at the Toronto School of Theology and a Sunday columnist for the Toronto Star. He believes he can discern “some deeper roots of repressed anger in the opposition to liberal abortion laws” (Star, March 3, 1985) “For example,” he says, “in the case of the Catholic [...]
Practical help for women under pressure to have abortions is increasing as more and more pro-lifers realize this is a positive way to support their principles. In Watford, Ontario, a small town of 1400, Bonnie and Geoff have helped to establish the Watford Home for unwed mothers. Open since late last year, the Watford Home has already helped six [...]
Current sex education for teenagers and greater availability of birth control devices are producing an increase of unwanted pregnancies and abortions, the president of Cambridge Right to Life told Waterloo Region Council. Rev. William McEwen, a Lutheran minister, accused Planned Parenthood of favouring abortion as an option and also of failing to provide them with an insight to the trauma and [...]
Protestant churches in over forty communities across Canada will observe Sanctity of Human Life Sunday (SOHLS) on May 5, 1985. This second annual Sanctity of Human Life Sunday has been coordinated by Christians Concerned for Life Calgary, in cooperation with the Christian Action Councils of Ontario. On May 14th, 1969, the Canadian Parliament gave third reading to Bill150, legalizing [...]
Manitoba licensing On March 8, the registrar of the Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. James Morison, announced that Henry Morgentaler has been re-licensed to practice medicine in the province. Pro-Life spokesman, Pat Soenen denounced the decision. Morison pointed out that the license does not permit Morgentaler to perform abortions at his Winnipeg clinic, which is his announced [...]
One of the most common stones thrown at “pro-lifers” is that we are “One Issue” people. We don’t care about any other issue except abortion; we are not interested in what happens to babies who are born into difficult circumstances and we do nothing for pregnant mothers either before their babies are born afterwards. Sign on the [...]
Euthanasia is “the deliberate intervention to bring about the death of another human being,” usually because the life of that person has been judged to be of little value. Euthanasia, which is illegal in Canada, can be divided into two major types, voluntary and involuntary. Involuntary euthanasia is effected towards those who do not participate in [...]
Selling babies is illegal in Canada-perhaps. While there are laws which cover money changing hands in the conventional adoption process, there are no specific laws governing the new phenomenon of commercial “surrogate” motherhood. A surrogate (replacement) mother is one who agrees to conceive and bear a child for another woman. The trouble is, the “surrogate” mother is the [...]
What is it about a simple pro-family position which poses such a threat to International Women’s Week? The question hit the headlines in Ottawa recently after R.E.A.L. Women of Canada was excluded from participation in International Women’s Week in 1985 on the grounds that its “philosophy” was “diametrically opposed to the goals and objectives” of International [...]
It’s not every day that one’s asked to stand up in front of a crowd and talk about why one chooses to be identified with a pro-family and pro-life organization such as R.E.A.L. Women of Canada. So I’m very happy to have been asked to speak to you on this very subject…particularly from the point of view of a [...]