A recent pro-life newsletter from the U.S.A. said that the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that if Nancy Cruzan had clearly stated that se would have chosen death, then Missouri would have been obliged to starve and dehydrate her to death. Did the Court say that? W.C., Willowdale, Ontario. No. The issue before the Court was whether it was constitutional for Missouri [...]
21-Year-Old President of CYPLO (Canadian Youth Pro-Life organization) wants the world to know she’s Pro-Life. That’s why she stuck a bumper sticker ‘Rescue Our Future: Save the Unborn’ onto the back of the family pick-up truck – a Dodge. Chevrolet But not long ago she and her younger brother, Rob, were driving along the highway near their home in Bracebridge [...]
As morality disintegrates, culture becomes ever more preoccupied with sex, especially ‘kinky’ sex. One natural consequence of this development is an increased hostility to those who stand in the way of such aberrations. In North America today, this hostility manifests itself in progressively cruder attacks on Christianity. The most malicious attack on our traditional cultural and moral standards perhaps comes from militant [...]
Vatican City – On June 21, Pope John Paul II released a letter to all the bishops of the world (over 4,000), asking them to toughen their stand against abortion. He told the bishops not to allow legislators to enact laws which permit the crime of abortion and to stand firm until existing laws permitting abortions are withdrawn. Said the Pope: When [...]
After reading the May issue of Vitality you probably feel that you know the Nova Scotia and British Columbia branches of the family very well. Now say Hello to the people from Saskatchewan and Quebec. Campaign Life Coalition, Saskatchewan, Box 8262, Saskatoon, Sask. S7K 6C5 Denise Hounjet-Roth, the President, in a very short time has given us one more reason to remember [...]
“I really didn’t think much about abortion before. That cassette of Carol Everett’s talk brought tears to my eyes. Until I listened to that tape I had no idea how poorly I understood the issue.” So said a sincere young evangelical lady now involved in planning a pro-life session for businessmen. A priest spontaneously approached a CLC staff member and said, “Thanks [...]
Carrying his message of the wisdom in the moral law, Charles Rice, Professor of Law at Notre Dame University, Indiana, spoke to groups of lawyers, doctors and clergymen before addressing a general audience during his recent whirl-wind visit to Toronto. Stating that every effect has a cause, professor Rice slammed secularism which figures in society’s sense of loss of God. He attacked [...]
Cecilia Forsyth, president of Saskatoon Pro-life, is retiring after 18 years of active pro-life work in Saskatoon. “It is with mixed feelings that I say good-bye to the organization of Saskatoon Pro-Life and to its faithful members and supporters,” Mrs. Forsyth writes in the May 1991 issue of Saskatoon Pro-Life News. “Just like many of you, I have a passionate [...]
Mark Crutcher of Dallas, Texas, captivated 200 pro-life leaders, activists and students attending a March 1991 Seminar of the Pro-Life Society of British Columbia. Marketing skills He shed light on the kind of marketing skills used by the largest corporations in North America to show how Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion movement have been able to sell the Canadian public, [...]
Campaign Life Coalition/Nova Scotia (CLC/NS) has taken ‘Tell the truth and stop abortion’ as its 1991 theme. “We’re tired of always reacting to the ‘pro-choice’, pro-abortion agenda. It’s time to take the initiative, to turn the rhetoric around, to make them react to us,” Executive Director Cynthia Haughn told The Interim. Large ads CLC/NS launched the ‘Tell the Truth’ campaign in Halifax [...]
IN THE BASKET AT HOME Black photography When photo store developers saw Helen Burnie’s baby pictures in November 1990 they called the police. The suspicious officers appeared on her doorstep wanting to know how she came to have a photo of a decapitated seven-month-old baby boy. Miss Burnie explained that she intended to reproduce the photo of the baby found in the [...]
CHURCH OF ENGLAND (Anglican) Dr. Robert Runcie’s resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury came into effect on January 31, 1991. Rt. Rev. George Carey will be his successor (on April 19). In an interview with Readers’ Digest magazine (February edition), the Anglican archbishop-to-be declared that “the idea that only a male can represent Christ at the altar is a most serious heresy.” Thus [...]
Four years ago the issue of schools and condoms was hotly debated. Some public school boards decided to teach students not only how to use condoms but to install condom dispensers for their use. Since they had adopted the contraceptive philosophy of the Planned Parenthood organization long before that, this move appeared quite natural to them. Parents in other public schools, however, [...]
On March 9, twenty people from Toronto, Brampton, Brantford, Port Perry and Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, met for quiet prayer in the lane behind Henry Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary. Injunction Planning to pray for two hours, the participants did not obstruct the lane; neither did they carry sign, hand out the literature nor speak to anyone. They just prayed the biblical devotion of the [...]
Our January front page featured the copy of a questionnaire on contraceptives and condoms used in a Grade 10 class in Notre Dame Catholic High School in Welland, Ontario. We also reported that the Public Health Nurse had explained various contraceptive devices to the students and gave them a choice of three answers to a question about abortion. Furthermore, we noted that [...]