Recently I attended the National Pro-Life Conference, sponsored by Alliance for Life (Ontario) and Campaign Life Coalition (Canada). It was held at the Regal Constellation Hotel, Toronto, October 26-28. The title of the conference was, "No Exceptions, No Compromises, No Apologies." I have attended many pro-life conferences during the past 20 years but I have no hesitation in saying that this was [...]
It has all the trappings of a deliberate, calculated set-up. I'm talking, of course, about the recent CTV W-Five television program dealing with pro-life crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs). You know the program. W-Five are the slobs who, many years ago, televised a Henry Morgentaler abortion on Mother's Day. Brave buffoonery at its finest. W-Five used a hidden camera and went in on false pretenses, [...]
You couldn't make it up. I mean, really, you couldn't make it up. The way various actors, media figures and fellow travellers have rallied around Al Gore and Hillary Clinton, often motivated by support for abortion and homosexuality. Ted Turner was there, of course. And he is typical of the breed. Remember Ted? In 1990 the founder of CNN and vice-chairman of [...]
By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Officials with the new North American Youth Alliance (NAYA) are optimistic their organization can translate the natural pro-family sentiments of young people onto the international stage. The NAYA, formed in January, 2000, is the most prominent of regional youth organizations formed to combat the abortion-contraception mentality espoused by United Nations-backed youth groups. The group works in support [...]
Pressure brought to bear on Poland and Nicaragua at international gatherings By Anna Halpine The Interim In June of this year, the pro-life community registered its greatest victory in over a decade at the "Beijing+5" conference, the five-year review of the international conference on women held by the United Nations in New York. This victory was not without its price however, and [...]
By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Angels for Life are once again set to put a much-needed financial present under the Campaign Life Coalition Christmas tree. For the fourth consecutive year, the small Toronto-area craft-making enterprise will offer its nativity angel figures for sale during the Christmas season. All proceeds from the sales are turned over to Campaign Life Coalition to assist its [...]
Representatives of Canadians with disabilities decry Edmonton 'Anno Domini exhibit By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Disabled rights activists in Alberta and across Canada are again fighting attempts suggesting that Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer was motivated only by mercy in the 1994 murder of his handicapped daughter Tracy. The latest effort centres on the Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries exhibit at the Provincial [...]
Caring Foundation ads designed to appeal to feelings and concerns of abortion-minded women By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Alliance for Life Ontario is optimistic that its soon-to-conclude TV ad campaign will convince young women in crisis pregnancies that there are several readily available alternatives to abortion. The Alliance for Life Campaign 2000 featured pro-life television commercials broadcast on 19 TV stations, including [...]
Real Choices for Women and Children shares space with several pro-life organizations By Linda Wegner The Interim It took three years of planning, two years of fundraising, the cooperation of several organizations and many hours of training and preparation, but on November 6, 2000, a site housing the Campaign Life Coalition office, the Canadian Survivors of Abortion office and the Saskatoon Crisis [...]
Being a student pro-life leader on campus today takes uncommon courage and humility By Karen Stiller The Interim When I told my Gender and Health class at Dalhousie University that I was against abortion, they were shocked. I transformed, right there in the seminar room, from a benign student into a fire-breathing dragon dripping intolerance from under my scales. The late 'eighties [...]
Pro-lifers maintain seats in House of Commons By Tim Bloedow The Interim The final seat count for the federal election gives the Liberals 173, the Canadian Alliance 66, the Bloc Quebecois 37, the New Democrats 13 and the Progressive Conservatives 12. The Liberals and the Alliance were the only parties to make seat gains. The Liberal gain of 18 seats from the [...]
Paul Tuns The Interim The November 25 National Post reported that a poll released in the closing days of the recent federal election campaign found "most [respondents] support abortion rights" but a closer look at the numbers - and the questions - paints a different picture. The COMPAS survey of 512 Canadians on what the Post referred to as "hot-button issues" including abortion, [...]
By Grace Petrasek The Interim The outside of the building needs a facelift and the inside needs fixing, but now Fredericton has a much needed crisis pregnancy center. Located next door to the well-appointed downtown abortuary, in the area that encompasses a Catholic church, a public school and gathering places for many of the city's 5,000 university students, the new Mother and [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim The head of the political arm of Canada's pro-life movement took a better-late-than-never approach to the prominence some religious leaders gave to abortion as an election issue for Christians to consider as they cast their votes on November 27. Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes told The Interim he would have preferred a generally stronger and earlier [...]
By Margaret Bright The Interim They say the future of the pro-life movement lays in the hands of our young people. One hundred young adults kept this in mind as they attended the eleventh annual Youth Pro-Life Conference held in Surrey, British Columbia last weekend. After a few "break-the-ice" games and prayer led by Fr. Tom Lynch of St. Augustine's Seminary in [...]