According to a recent study, a large majority of doctors and other health workers who care for the terminally ill oppose all active forms of euthanasia. In a timely survey, The Human Life Research Institute (H.L.R.I.) determined that 74 per cent of those health care professionals who responded to their questionnaire felt that any direct action undertaken to terminate a patient’s life [...]
Vancouver pro-lifer Gordon Watson is fed up. He has tried everything in his power to put a halt to the Vancouver’s sprawling abortion business. Nothing has succeeded so, in an unorthodox move, the 42-year-old screen printer has decided to take the industry to court. Under the rather obscure B.C. Trade Practices Act, any citizen may sue an institution on behalf of another [...]
On September 1, 1992, the Ontario Human Rights Commission made public its decision to grant gays and lesbians partners equal status with legal marriage, including all financial benefits such as health coverage, and survivor benefits. This announcement sent a shockwave of anger across the province, with people venting their frustrations on public radio talk shows and by phoning their members of the [...]
Recently I obtained the results of a survey of MPs done by homosexual rights lobbyists and collected by NDP MP Svend Robinson. Robinson, parliament’s self-proclaimed homosexual, asked his lobbyists to find out whether MPs would support an amendment to the Canadian Human Rights Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. I also learned something about the so-called “family caucus” [...]
The technological revolution has produced a new type of assault on decency: the computer can be put to other uses besides the storage and communication of useful information. Internet, the biggest computer network in the world, linking millions of people, is widely used for the transmission of scientific and academic material. But it also has “alternate news group” which deal with subjects [...]
Rome The participants in the meeting of the Religious Alliance Against Pornography and representatives of the Pontifical Council for the Family on 29-30 January, 1992, released a declaration of concern and common conviction regarding the problem of pornography. “We are in unanimous agreement,” stated the Declaration, “that it is our shared responsibility to alert people to the degradation that all pornography inflicts [...]
In February of this year, in the Regina v. Butler case, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that obscenity laws are a justifiable limit on constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech. The case involved a Winnipeg video store owner, Donald Butler. Justifiable limits On this basis, Judge Ian Donald of the B.C. Supreme Court decided late in June that the City of [...]
While the North Shore and British Columbia continue to have one of the highest abortion rates in Canada, we are still below the U.S. where 40% of all pregnancies end in abortion. With the provincial government solidly behind taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, however, we can expect the numbers in this part of Canada to rise as people are led increasingly to feel that having [...]
Roe v. Wade is often compared with the Dred Scott case. Who or what was Dred Scott? M.M., St. John’s. Dred Scott was a slave. He was taken by his owner to Illinois, a ‘free’ state where slavery was not allowed, and then to the federal territory, part of the Louisiana Purchase where slavery was prohibited under the Missouri Compromise of 1820. [...]
A country rampant with AIDs, ravaged by over 20 different types of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and morally drained by thousands of teen pregnancies which end in abortion: this is the fallout created by the American government’s 20-year, $3 billion campaign to sell contraception and “safe sex” to teenagers. Tragic statistics The experiment has been an unqualified disaster and many groups throughout [...]
Consultations are under way to safeguard the mission, values and ethics of Catholic health care facilities in Saskatchewan. “Mission control is the bottom line,” Bishop Blaise Morand, of Prince Albert, told The Interim. The provincial government has proposed the establishment of 20 to 30 health districts to replace the 500 boards that now control facilities and programs. The districts will integrate, coordinate [...]
Unbending faith On September 20, 1992, CBC’s popular Sunday morning radio program Centrepoint devoted the one-hour time-slot from 11:00 – 12:00 a.m. to the program “Unbending faith: profile of the pro-life.” Put together by CBC producer Mary O’Connell, the narrative had as its Centrepoint the blowing-up of Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary the previous June. For O’Connell it raised the question whether this event [...]
Are we mere biological specimens in various stages from birth till death? Do we count ourselves fortunate to have been born and not terminated in the womb by our mothers and collaborating physicians? In that misty world, we resembled unfeathered baby birds fallen from the nest. Yet everything we are was programmed from our conception amid the interplay of family genetics. Modern [...]
Life Chain is a non-confrontational way to get across the message that abortion kills children. Whether or not the numbers participating across Canada were down slightly this year, the event got good coverage in the newspapers and definitely helped to keep the abortion issue before the public. A reporter for the Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic began her story by saying, “It’s [...]
Many readers of the Globe and Mail must have been surprised at what they found on the back page of the first section on Monday morning, October 19. In a long column, Dorothy Lipovenko asked, “Now doctors can treat a fetus as a patient, how does this affect our views on abortion?” Readers of The Interim will be familiar with this question, [...]