Interim Staff Metro Toronto Separate School Board officials ignored a motion passed unanimously by the school trustees and denied over 4,000 Grade 8 students the opportunity to receive the ‘Who Will Be Today’s Wilberforce?’ pamphlet. The Wilberforce pamphlet offers a startling comparison of the attitude 200 years ago towards slavery and the attitude many people have today towards abortion. The board had [...]
Interim staff Canadian pro-life workers increasingly rely on religious faith to overcome feelings of loneliness, isolation, persecution and lack of support, according to a recently released attitude survey. Entitled “Compassion Fatigue in the Pro-Life Movement,” the survey was prepared by Mary-Lynn McPherson, national co-ordinator of Canadian Nurses for Life. It indicates that despite a lack of support from their own churches and [...]
I find myself taken aback by the September, 1996 article in The Interim pertaining to stress and “burn-out” with the struggle to defend preborn children. The one in question concerns a survey examining compassion fatigue. “Burn-out,” according to popular usage, means fatigue, discouragement and dismay. But in more literal definition, “burn-out” actually means a heightened form of mental fatigue and distress just [...]
Interim staff Conservative columnist and broadcaster Michael Coren has defended his criticism of UNICEF before an October 17 meeting of the Ontario Press Council. Coren, host of a CFRB radio talk show program, exposed UNICEF in a column written for The Financial Post/Toronto Sun newspapers in November, 1995. The column linked UNICEF to support for abortion and contraception in Third World countries, [...]
Organizers of the 1996 Life Chain in the Toronto area are pleased with turnout despite decreased numbers from the previous year. The sixth annual Life Chain attracted more than 2,600 participants to 37 major intersections in the greater Toronto area. Last year’s effort saw a turnout of 3,000 people. Participants held up signs reading Abortion Kills Children, Abortion Hurts women, And Adoption: [...]
Interim special The head of Priests for Life in the United States has offered new insights into preaching about abortion for school-age children. In an article published in the Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Father Frank Pavone of New York said it is key to stress the equality message when telling young people about abortion. He said children are especially receptive to issues [...]
In the wake of Lyn McLeod’s decision to resign as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, seven would be successors have emerged. One of them will be chosen leader at the party’s convention on November 30. On life and family issues, the candidates are similar; and none stands out as a strong pro-lifer, to sat the least. They do differ, however, in [...]
Lay people can make the pro-life movement stronger and more effective, active pro-lifers said. Father Stephen Somerville, Father Vincent Hefferman, Louis Di Rocco, and Campaign Life Coalition National President Jim Hughes expressed their views on how lay people can strengthen the movement, how they got started in the movement, the gains achieved or the weak spots, and their plans for the future. [...]
As Ontario doctors grapple with the consequences of wrongful birth lawsuits, malpractice insurance premiums and the impact of abortion on the entire medical profession, at least on practitioner retains a reasoned, pro-family perspective. Dr. Andrew Simone, dermatologist, athlete and humanitarian, believes most doctors today have taken up the abortion issue for the wrong reasons. Doctors are feeling defensive; he says “they resent [...]
The pro-life office of the London, Ontario diocese has stressed euthanasia as one of the most important life issues facing the community. In a statement issued to parishes in the diocese, the pro-life office said it is crucial that people be motivated to oppose any legislative plans to decriminalize assisted suicide. The push to oppose the practice has been inspired in part [...]
Campaign Life Coalition will participate in an October 25th prayer assembly to protest against the Chinese government’s one child per family policy. The prayer assembly is part of an international effort organized by the Global Society for Life. It is designed to draw attention to the anti-population position of the People’s Republic of China. Bowing to overpopulation fears, the Chinese government has [...]
CHICAGO – Thousands of delegates to the recent Democratic Party Convention Chicago walked to the United Centre passing through a wall of abortion signs and hearing the chanting of “Life, yes, Abortion, no, Bill Clinton has to go.” Pro-Life Action League Executive Director Joseph Scheidler said supporters of the public protest against abortion were earlier marched into a pen at the United [...]
Two women. Both are 48 years old and both are mothers of daughter. One is wealthy. The other has forsaken earthly riches for a greater reward. One is powerful. The other has relinquished control – even over her life. Ironically, both women have given stirring speeches on similar topics over the past few weeks. But only one of those speeches was attended [...]
The “Mission Impossible” theme ought to have been playing: Mr. Moore, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a column about what pro-life, pro-family people have to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.” In a year that saw: passage of Bill C-33, U.S. President the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ cash donation to the anti-life National Action Committee on [...]
Birthright, the internationally renowned pregnancy counseling service, has been denounced by The Varsity, the University of Toronto’s subsidized student newspaper. The Varsity will no longer carry Birthright ads because the ads did not specify the service was pro-life and because Birthright does not provide abortion referrals. The rejected ad was innocuous: “Somewhere along the way, you may be pregnant and need help. [...]