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, [...]
Pro-lifers in Ireland are now gearing up for the coming struggle to prevent the Government from introducing legislation to regulate abortion in Ireland in line with the disastrous Supreme Court ruling handed down last March. At that time the Court rules that abortion could not be refused to a woman who threatened to commit suicide. This was their interpretation of the Constitutional [...]
Bonn – On June 26 , 1992, the German parliament voted a new law giving women the right to an abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, by a majority of 357 to 284. Opposed by Chancellor Kohl’s Christian Democrats and Bavaria’s Christian Social Union, the pro-abortion ranks of the Social Democrats were increased by new deputies from East Germany, where [...]
The most important state ballot measures this November 3 will appear in five states: Arizona. Proposition 110 is an abortion initiative introduced by the Arizona Family Research Council. Put forward as “the common sense” abortion measure, this amendment to the state constitution would prohibit abortion except where the mother’s life is endangered or in cases of reported rape or incest. Maryland. Question [...]
Sixty thousand letters that swamped her Ministry, complaining about the taking over Catholic hospitals in Ontario, appear to have caused second thoughts and sent the Hon. Frances Lankin scrambling for a new position. Ms. Lankin, Ontario’s Minister of Health, stated in a closed meeting of hospital chief executive officers and members of district health councils on September 21 that her government “has [...]
In 1987, pro-lifers lined a busy intersection in Yuba City, California, holding signs such as “Abortion Kills Children” and “Jesus Forgives and Heals.” The event attracted a gathering of 2500 and the organizers, Please Let Me Live (PLML), deemed this first “Life Chain” to be a modest success. Little did they know that their rally would soon gain widespread appeal and become [...]
(Counter-Witness is a column of record for those who have eyes and never see, ears and never hear. (Ezek. 12:2) Perhaps one day they will see and hear.) United Way In 1976 Toronto’s RC Archbishop Philip Pocock objected to the United Way’s decision to start funding Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is the chief promoter of the anti-life, anti-family mentality in Canada and [...]
August 17- Vancouver Betty Baxter, 40, former Canadian volleyball team member and spokeswoman for Vancouver’s “gay games” in 1980, will run for the NDP in the coming federal election as Canada’s first openly lesbian candidate. She became a lesbian in her twenties. Baxter will run in Vancouver Centre, now held by current Justice Minister Kim Campbell, former NDP member- turned Social Creditor-turned [...]
Early one sprng mornig a few weeks ago, in downtown Toronto, Tom Brown was handing out pro-life pamphlets on the streets in front of Buruiana’s abortuary. He was waiting for his partner , Mary Burnie. Nearby, he noticed a man and a woman approach the abortuary but then hesitate. Politely, he asked if he could speak to them before they went inside. [...]
Two dozen Canadian pro-lifers took part in the Spring of Life rescue campaign in Buffalo, willingly facing violence and abuse from pro-abortion forces and the fear of indignities and incarceration of which we can justifiably be proud. But if I may speak frankly to you, all my fellow Canadian pro-lifers- why is it that we do not have rescue campaigns in Canadian [...]
Until September of this year, Joanna Manning was the head of the religious department of Monsignor Percy Johnson Secondary School of the Metropolitan (Toronto) Separate School Board (MSSB). She resigned the position, of her own accord, and has become a part-time history teacher in the same school. Manning is the leading spokeswomen for the Coalition of Concerned Canadian Catholics (CCCC), an organization [...]
There is a federal election on the horizon. We ask readers to begin writing, or contacting by telephone, their local candidates, inquiring where they stand on abortion legislation, the direct and deliberate killing of hospital patients and legislation outlawing fetal experimentation. Campaign Life Coalition headquarters in Toronto would appreciate hearing from you, receiving your original letter and candidate’s response, or copies thereof, [...]