Scheidler: “There was a KGB quality to the situation.” Pro-life supporters have criticized Canadian customs officials for “totalitarian” measures taken against two speakers invited to the November 10 - 12 Human Life International (HLI) conference in Calgary. Pro-life Action League executive director Joseph Scheidler of Chicago, and abortion vaccine authority Lawrence Roberge of Springfield, Massachusetts, were detained for 90 minutes by Canada [...]
HLI encounters more protest as successful Calgary conference concludes. About 150 pro-abortion, gay and feminist demonstrators sang “This womb is my womb,” chanted “Keep you rosaries off my ovaries,” and checked their watches, counting off the hour. Calgary was enduring unseasonably cold weather. “It makes our job easier,” says a cop, peering from the Calgary hotel. Meanwhile, on the hotel’s second floor, [...]
The next time you waste a dollar, remember how far it will go to save a life. “A dollar for life” goodwill message is fast catching on an gaining support for the pro-life cause. A group of people in Toronto who spearheaded a Pro-Life Symposium in August to help Canadian delegates to Beijing, started by requesting friends to give a dollar a [...]
Such is the power of Christmas that it cannot be overwhelmed, not even by the constant bobbardment of commercial schlock. God Almighty became a human being —not just any person but a poor carpenter in an obscure part of the world, subject to foreign domination. That he should be born in a stable, a place ordinarily unfit for human habitation adds to [...]
A youth conference in Ontario attracts 400. A similar conference in B.C. draws 250. It appears that the leaders of tomorrow are prepared to flex their muscles today. Ontario meet whips youth into action In October, the Ontario Students for Life held their sixth annual conference, “Life is Great?” It was a totally great, superb, fine, nice, delightful, educational, fun, amazing, but [...]
Pharmacists for Life International to uphold the humour and dignity of the pharmaceutical profession A desire to combat trends toward using medications to end or destroy human lives is one of the factors motivating the work of a group of pro-life pharmacists. Pharmacists for Life International was founded in the U.S. in 1984 and now has several thousand members in chapters covering [...]
You probably won’t find many physicians who, for eleven years, can picket a hospital they work in and get away with it. The 63-year-old family physician has been pounding the pavement with a “Justice for the Unborn” sign in front of Henderson Hospital in Hamilton, Ont. every Friday morning for just that long. His work is a response to the fact that [...]
It’s Thursday morning at McMaster University Medical Centre. Four men, placards in hand, are slowly walking back and forth on the sidewalk in front of the Hamilton, Ontario hospital, praying at some points and pausing to hand our pamphlets to passersby at others. The men are members of Hamilton-area Knights of Columbus councils and they are taking part in a weekly effort [...]
Joan Dower Kosmachuk Windflower Communications, Winnipeg 1995, pp 77, $6.95 Reviewed by Sue Careless Jenny’s secret isn’t one for long. Rumours fly fast and false in junior high. Fourteen-year –old Jenny isn’t pregnant, her mother is—and she doesn’t have a husband. Jenny’s mum says it’s going to be too hard raising the baby alone. Jenny is willing to help her, so why [...]
Habitat 11 may prove to be another testing ground for pro-family forces The next large U.N. conference Habitat 11 to be held in Istanbul June 3-14, 1996 is to address the problems of human settlements [cities]. Many fear that this conference will be an attempt to implement at the local level all the radical policies adopted in Cairo, Rio, Copenhagan and Being. [...]
For the fourth year running, thousands of Canadians took part in North America’s largest annual pro-life demonstration. This years’ Life Chain did no reach the attendance of past events but organizers say their goal was reached. Activists across the country lined the streets of their communities in peaceful yet poignant demonstration for the unborn. Signs reading “Abortion Kills Children” and “Jesus Forgives [...]
I’m not exactly an avid reader of glossy magazines, but recently I spotted an interesting cover on Macleans and I picked it up. The picture showed a beautiful young lady holding a small Asian baby. The caption ran, “Bringing Home Baby. Canadians comb the globe to adopt children.” On the contents page I read the following, “Faced with long waiting lists at [...]
Strips of attractive pro-life stamps went on sale at the National Pro-Life Conference on the June 22-24th weekend in London, Ontario produced by Campaign Life Coalition. The stark message that these “stamps” dramatically bring to the viewer is that one and a half million babies have been aborted in Canada since 1969. If we have become a nation of “old people” it [...]
“All pro-life organizations should have a thrift shop,” insists Kathy Bachman, who has run the Vernon Pro-Life Thrift Shop in Vernon, B.C., a city of 75,000. for the past six years. It’s an easy way to make big bucks. “Pro-lifers and pro-choicers—they all support us.” Kathy says that the Vernon Thrift Shop has been in existence for more than sixteen years. “We’ve [...]
What a school program in Toronto and a sexuality conference in Guelph have to do with the recently concluded Beijing Conference on Women. For years, The Interim and Campaign Life Coalition have maintained that a general moral breakdown is largely responsible for the continuing increase in the number of abortions. Three recent manifestations of that breakdown are special cause for alarm. In [...]