In the Toronto Star of Wednesday, May 27th, 1992, an article appeared under the title, “A Question of Control.” The writer is Shelagh Lynne Supeene. She is the author of a book As For the Sky, Falling: a Critical Look at Psychiatry and Suffering. The article is an attempt to find some middle ground between what the writer calls the “Pro-choice” and [...]
Abortion is now legal in practically all countries of Europe in the U.S. and Canada, in a few countries of Latin America, notably Cuba and Paraguay, in some countries of Africa, such as Zambia and South Africa, in Australia and New Zealand, and in most countries of Asia, especially India and China where it is not just legal but strongly promoted by [...]
I was in a group of twenty-two people leaving Toronto Friday afternoon, April 24, to engage in a Rescue early the following morning. About 150 of us were loaded into rented buses and off we went. Even the bus drivers (except the lead bus driver) didn’t know where we were going! There were two sites for the Rescue – one was Amherst, [...]
The May issue of Time magazine labeled the Spring of Life Rescue in Buffalo “Operation Fizzle.” Time called it “a symbolic contest” and asserted that Operation Rescue had failed, and that “the clinics were not closed down.” Why the arrests? If the clinics were not closed down, why did the Buffalo Chief of Police feel it necessary to arrest hundreds of pro-lifers [...]
Simon LeVay Last summer, Simon LeVay of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, reported on a comparative study of the brains of 19 homosexual men who had died of AIDS and 16 heterosexual men, some of whom had died of AIDS as well. He found that the hypothalamus, the part of the male brain which governs sexual urges, [...]
If there is a limit to Canadian taxpayers’ capacity to shoulder heavy and insupportable burdens with quietude, they have no demonstrated it. I believe the reason for their patience is that they keep expecting the authorities to come to their senses. Evidence of the later, however, keeps pointing in the opposite direction. Witness the following two court cases in 1991. Gerard O’Sullivan [...]
I understand that exact scientific knowledge of the beginning of human life is only recent. How recent? E.L. Saskatchewan I quote the evidence given by Sir William Liley (the Father of Fetology) in the Borowski Trial, in Regina: “It was in 1930 that the liberation of an ovum from the human ovary was first observed. In 1944 the union of human ovum [...]
New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna says the takeover of local hospital boards is a way the province can save money. Many New Brunswickers feel it is a way the province can grab power. Under the Liberal government’s new Hospital Act, the local boards of the province’s 51 hospitals are to be replaced by 8 “region boards.” The region boards are not obliged [...]
You don’t have to be in the parenting game long to realize how destructive television can be to family values. In the early years, you tend to overlook the occasional compromising situation or innuendo, figuring the kids don’t “get it” anyway. But as the children grow, the cumulative effort of the occasional objectionable material cannot be ignored. And it’s not just a [...]
Battling the Church The Coalition of Concerned Catholics (CCCC), the group of “progressive” Catholics who want to remake their Church in the current feminist image, met in Toronto on May 2 and 3, 1992, for their third annual meeting. Some 300 were in attendance. Networking The choice of American key speakers, Fathers Bill Callahan and Richard McBrien (for latter see Interim, May [...]
Publius Terentius Afer (190-159 B.C.) As the Roman playwright Terrence quoted above states, “There is a demand these days for people who can make wrong conduct appear right.” Today, just as 2,100 years ago, such people are swaying our nation into a path of destruction and misery. The most prominent among them all is Henry Morgentaler. Having – by his own estimate [...]
Calgary – I arrived to picket at the Calgary abortuary on a sunny afternoon. The man I was relieving left word that he had spoken to an East Indian woman who sat alone in a car parked in the abortuary lot near the sidewalk where we picket. She was crying. Her husband was inside the building presumably arranging an abortion. Noticing her [...]
Ottawa – On June 3, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) announced the formation of a special committee to advise it on how best to promote respect for life. “Human life, from the moment of conception through the moment of death, is a precious gift from God,” said Archbishop Austin Burke of Halifax, the committee’s chairman. “We’re determined to promote that [...]
“Youth will document for their children the moral bankruptcy of this nation,” Angela Costigan told the Canadian Youth Pro Life Organization (CYPLO) conference held in Whitby, Ontario, October 18. The Toronto lawyer and pro-life activist called for an amendment to the Canadian constitution to protect future unborn Canadians. “What is happening to Canada is the result of abortion. We’ve got a recession [...]
Due to an aging population, Canadians should brace themselves for old age pensions at 70 and no more baby bonuses, a published think tank study reports. No longer will Canadians be able to retire at 65 and lounge around the beach in Florida. Nor will there be any government funds for their children’s children’s baby bonuses, the C.D. Howe Institute predicts in [...]