Mr. Justice Allen Melvin of the B.C. Supreme Court has ruled that the law forbidding assisted suicide is constitutional and does not infringe on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The judgment, released on December 29th, 1992, dismissed arguments made by lawyers on behalf of Sue Rodrigez. They asked the Court to strike down Section 241 of the Criminal Code, which prohibits [...]
Soon after Mrs. Mary Hughes moved into her apartment at St. Joseph’s Place retirement home in Toronto, a woman knocked on her door. She was collecting money. Mrs. Hughes explains, “No one knew anyone else in this building when it opened twelve years ago. Two residents had just died and this woman wanted to send flowerd.” Mrs. Hughes thought it was sad [...]
On December 18, 1992 at Queen’s Park, Toronto, when Health Minister Francis Lankin wholeheartedly endorsed the report handed down by the Task Group of Abortion Services Providers, the NDP government took another step towards making Ontario a police state. No one should really be surprised by Ms. Lankin’s enthusiastic acceptance of the report, which dealt with access to abortion services in Ontario. [...]
“I hope you’re not going to show us any of those gross pictures!” exclaimed the high-school student as I entered a class to give a presentation. Nothing else the pro-life movement does earns such derogatory comment. To hear our detractors speak, you would think we do little else but hand out photographs of aborted babies. The fact is that the pro-life movement [...]
“Political Correctness 101” becoming required course on Canadian campuses When The Interim reported last month that 75% of Canadians would support legislation requiring informed consent for abortion, it reported that this support legislation requiring informed consent for abortion, it reported that this support was lowest among the university educated. Some might infer that the brightest minds see something in the proposal that [...]
If a pamphlet just published by Maureen McTeer represents a trend in feminist thinking, do not be surprised if the radical feminist movement joins with the pro-life movement in rejecting the final report of the Royal Commission on Reproductive Technologies (due later this year). McTeer was an orignal member of the Royal Commission, established by the federal Conservatives in 1989 to examine [...]
Irate pro-lifers braved the sub-zero January chill for an Ontario-wide protest against government plans to gag them. On January 9, virtually every New Democrat’s, constituency office across the province was hit with a protest and organizers are vowing more of the same. They plan to make the provincial government’s life as uncomfortable as possible in the wake of a report recommending even [...]
On December 28, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Archbishop Marcel Gervais conducted a special pro-life mass at Notre Dame Basilica in Ottawa. The Archbishop chose the date specifically to commemorate the lives of approximately 90,000 unborn babies who are killed each year by abortionists in Canada. The Feast of the Holy Innocents has always been a significant date for Catholic pro-lifers [...]
I have come to know and admire quite a number of non-Catholic clergymen through pro-life work, men whom I would never have met under normal circumstances. One of those is Canon Bob Greene, the pastor of St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church, just off Parliament Street in Toronto. Bob Greene – as he has reached the biblical age of 70 – has relinquished his [...]
Internationally renowned geneticist Jerome Lejeune will be speaking to pro-lifers in Montreal and Toronto on April 12 and 13 consecutively. His visit to Canada is being sponsored by Campagne Quebec Vie and Life Ethics Educational Association/Campaign Life Coalition Toronto. Lejeune is known throughout the worldwide medical community as the scientist who dis-covered the extra chromosome which causes Down Syndrome. He is presently [...]
Charlottetown – Teens in Eastern Canada are learning that peer pressure is not an insurmountable problem, and can even be an asset. They are turning enthusiastically to Peer Pressure Reversal, a program used to promote chastity and other positive values. “If peer pressure can be used negatively, it can also be used positively,” says Ray Malone, a guidance counsellor with the provincial [...]
Do you remember Bill C-169? That was the bill described as “a stunning breach of the right of free speech—surely the most draconian anti-demographic law written in Canada in my years.” (Edmonton Journal, January 5, 1984). Bill C. -169 took away our right of free speech at election times. The story of how the bill was passed and later overturned bears repeating [...]
Thousands of pro-lifers marched on Capital Hill in Washington January 22 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision guaranteeing abortion on demand in the U.S. Along with the peaceful demonstration, which organizers said drew up to 100,000 people, there was a “call to resistance” which saw four abortion centres closed throughout the city. There were 309 arrests [...]
Having visited England regularly as an expatriate over the past 25 years, I had gained the impression that pro-life activities and initiatives were lagging far behind those in the U.S. and Canada. I discovered that I was mistaken when I attended the LIFE International Conference n Leicester, last November. The level of knowledge and competence is extremely high and the dedication and [...]
Soon after Mrs. Mary Hughes moved into her apartment at St. Joseph’s Place retirement home in Toronto, a woman knocked on her door. She was collecting money. Mrs. Hughes explains, “No one knew anyone else in this building when it opened twelve years ago. Two residents had just died and this woman wanted to send flowerd.” Mrs. Hughes thought it was sad [...]