Is there a correlation between the high Canadian abortion rate and the similar high murder rate for one-year-olds? A Statistics Canada report released August 2nd revealed that Canadians under the age of one stand the greatest risk of being homicide victims. This startling revelation, based on 1994 Canadian homicide statistics, reveals a substantial increase in infant deaths over the past decade, especially [...]
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 [...]
Group estimates there are 80 million children in servitude across Asia Iqbal Masih, a 12 year old Pakistani Christian who had won international acclaim for his crusade against child slavery, was shot and killed when returning to his home near Lahore, Easter Sunday, April 16. Now there are reports that his whole family has been and some fellow andti-slave activists arrested. Iqbal, [...]
Is it true that surgeons can operate on a preborn baby? C.S. Mississauga Yes, it is true. Today, such is the state of the art of medicine, a baby can be removed from his mother’s womb for surgery, and then replaced. Many conditions which require surgery are treated whilst this little “second patient” is still inside the uterus. In A Time to [...]
Off the wire A euthanasia bill was rejected by the state Parliament of South Australia on July 27. The bill would have allowed terminally-ill adults to have themselves killed within a year of their anticipated date of death. The Italian National Committee on Bioethics has rejected the idea of euthanasia and called for palliative care. The committee referred to euthanasia as “gravely [...]
There has been so much in the news recently about last year’s Cairo Conference on Populations and Development and the forthcoming Beijing Women’s Conference in September that I felt myself almost impelled to do some study on world population and the world food situation. I confined myself to three sources, The War Against the Family, by William D. Gairdner; The War Against [...]
Senator Anne Cools, a Pierre Trudeau appointee to the Senate, took considerable heat last March when she stated at an International Women’s Day Celebration that “behind every abusing husband is an abusing mother.” Were the feminists ever angry about that! Cool’s statement, in effect, discredited one of their dearest theories—namely, that women are not only helpless victims at the mercy of brutish [...]
These days, the mere suggestion of a UN conspiracy brings an immediate hail of scorn. However, by tracing the UN’s movements since the 1950s, Winifride Prestwich has put together a pretty good case. Freedom, both religious and political, can never be taken for granted. In 1995, people in Britain, Ireland, the USA, and Canada are learning, to their dismay, that many of [...]
Opinion polls clearly show Canadians’ distaste with genetic engineering. Why is the Health Minister dodging the issue? Medical and legal experts have long recognized that scientific and technological developments in regard to new reproductive technologies (NRT) have far outstripped the law. They have warned that, unchecked by legislation, this “area of research is par excellence one likely to produce problems for mankind [...]
The chronology of abortion-related violence in Canada begins with the arson at Henry Morgentaler’s abortion clinic on Harbord Street in Toronto during the early morning hours of May 19, 1992. It reportedly caused $500,000 in damage. Witnesses reported that a man and a woman ran down an alleyway near the clinic after the explosion, jumped into a grey, compact car and sped [...]
Fr. Pavone calls on priests to “preach vigorously and act decisively” Priests for Life is the only organization exclusively dedicated to motivating the clergy to bring about an end to abortion and is committed to providing information and materials of an educational nature to enable the clergy to better support and promote the Church’s teachings on life issues. The name Priests for [...]
“There is the whole rest of the province out there where anybody can speak, leaflet, do whatever he or she pleases to demonstrate their opposition to abortion services.” With those words, B.C. Health Minister Paul Ramsay attempted to defend his government’s restrictions on pro-life protests in that province. The legislation which passed last month is euphemistically called “Access to Abortion Services Act.” [...]
This poem, written by my friend Hal Roach, the famous Irish humorist, is a beautiful tribute to fathers. It may be a little late for “Father’s Day” but it is always appropriate. I am presuming Hal’s permission to print it as I would not have time to contact him. My Dad My dad was seventy two last week And he’s getting tired [...]
Anyone who has been involved in the pro-life movement for any length of time knows or suspects that the mainstream news media are generally unfavorable to the pro-life cause. However, a closer look at the issue reveals that the news media’s position extends beyond one of unfavourability into the realm of outright bias and hostility. There are numerous examples of this. In [...]
In spite of the best efforts of the social engineers, Canada’s A-generation of children, born in the era of legalized abortion, is not turning out as officially expected. Artificial contraception, abortion and other trappings of the “sexual revolution” have seriously undermined the traditional family and destroyed the major source of unconditional love and acceptance necessary for healthy development. Thrust unprepared and defenceless [...]