Pro-Life

Many pro-life groups have written articles about how population policy is being forced upon Third World nations through the World Bank, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, UNICEF, and other government and non-governmental agencies. Pro-life people should know that Third World nations are being coerced into accepting the culture of death based on their acceptance of loans and assistance from the wealthier nations. [...]

Seeks to 'set things right' with former pro-life adversaries This article appeared originally in the B.C. Catholic, and is reprinted here with permission. If life is a journey, Merle Terlesky has climbed a couple of mountains recently. Diagnosed last July with leukemia and given only a 10 per cent chance of surviving more than two months, he was told that only a [...]

Saved by sidewalk counsellor 5 years ago, child returns to say 'thank-you' When Sabah's four-and-a-half-year-old son Abell burst into their North York, Ont. apartment, he was clutching a piece of cardboard that his kindergarten teacher had given him. "Mummy, mummy, we put money in here to help kids." Sabah took the flat cardboard and helped her son fold it into a box [...]

At an Oct. 28 protest demonstration organized by the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics, Campaign Life Coalition was denounced as one of "the intellectual authors" of recent acts of violence against abortion providers. Representatives of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League, AIDS Action Now, the Ontario Federation of Labour, and the International Socialists joined OCAC at the noisy protest outside Campaign Life [...]

After a confidential in-house review, St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ont. has concluded there is "no evidence of any breach of the pro-life values of St. Joseph's Health Centre." Kathy Burrill, the Roman Catholic hospital's public affairs manager, told The Interim there is "no tangible evidence or reason" to believe the anonymous abortionist featured recently in Chatelaine magazine could actually be St. Joe's staff [...]

Pro-lifers at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) in St. John's gained a victory recently, just two weeks after suffering a major set-back. In 1997, the Council of the Students' Union granted the student society MUN for Life the right to operate on campus. The following year the group was "ratified," and granted funding. Then just one semester later, on June 30, CSU [...]

Two Toronto women, recently back from a pro-life speaking tour of Ireland, say the experience has left them more vigilant in defending the right to life of the unborn. Emma Maan, 21, and Ada Wong, 19, are both active with Ontario Students for Life (OSFL), an organization working to spread the right-to-life message among the province's high school and university students. Maan [...]

This summer a record nine students are taking part in Campaign Life Coalition's summer internship programme. The programme is an opportunity for students from various educational disciplines to contribute to the pro-life movement, while gaining valuable work experience during the summer months. The students are not the only ones who benefit from this opportunity. While many companies and businesses begin to slow [...]

"Those who believe one aspect of a charity's objectives is to inform the public about pressing social issues should be appalled at this turn of events, that might threaten the preferred tax status of many charitable organizations." So said Financial Post contributing editor Arthur Drache, in his column April 7. The Ottawa lawyer was commenting on a recent decision by the Federal [...]

Interim editor-in-chief David Curtin interviewed Paul Swope during the recent University Faculty for Life conference in Toronto. What follows is a transcript of their conversation. DC: Reading your article, at times I got the feeling you think the pro-life movement has failed. Is that the case? PS: No. Actually the title I submitted when the article was first published was "Abortion: The [...]

Rebecca Pontisso remembers cringing when a parent told her that she decided to send her child to a Catholic school mainly because there was less of a chance he would get beaten up there, versus in the public school system. "I thought: has it really come to this?" says the principal and co-founder of Mary, Mother of God elementary school in the [...]