Newfoundland Newfie abortuary one year old St. Jon’s, Nfld. – On the Morgentaler ‘clinic’s’ first anniversary here, CBC’s regional radio newscast featured an interview with Peggy Meisner, the abortuary’s head nurse and office manager. She stated that the past year has gone very smoothly. “Except for a couple of rowdy demonstrations in the early days, Right to Lifers have been really very [...]
“Catholic leaders fail to stop theologian,” said the Globe and Mail (Jan. 17, 92). “Barred from Churches, priest speaks at civic hall,” stated the Toronto Star (Jan. 20). “Using condoms no sin to priest,” reported the Toronto Sun (Jan. 20), while The Ottawa Citizen headed its report, “Liberal and Conservative Catholics clash at lecture” (Jan. 24). Finally, the Toronto Star devoted most [...]
Winnipeg, MB A Manitoba driver runs a stop sign at 90 kilometers an hour, hitting a woman who is eight months pregnant. The woman survives and regains her health. Her baby dies. The driver is fined $54 for running a stop sign. The judge rules that no one died, since the child is not a “person.” He bases his argument on the [...]
On her first day in office after her election as the new leader of the Ontario Liberal Party on February 9, 1992, Lyn McLeod (MPP, Fort William) vowed tough opposition to Bob Rae’s current NDP regime. But it’s unlikely it will amount to much. Audrey McLaughlin For one thing, Mrs. McLeod, 49, resembles too closely the NDP’s leader at the federal level, [...]
MP John Nunziata (York South-Weston) has charged that Liberals for Life are subverting the democratic process in the party and using the pro-life issue to further their own political ambitions. He has accused them of blackmailing prospective candidates for party positions and riding nominations. Mr. Nunziata also demanded that Liberal Leader John Chrétien should stop “accommodating the group within the party. If [...]
Judy Anderson, national president of REAL Women of Canada has accused Joe Clark, Minister of Constitutional Affairs, of excluding from the constitutional Affairs, of excluding from the constitutional process the organization which represents some 50,000 Canadian women. Mr. Clark is defrauding the Canadian public by stacking the constitutional conferences now under way with feminists, Mrs. Anderson stated in Toronto in early February. [...]
Conservative Jews Montreal. In December 1991 the Canadian Council for Conservative Judaism (CCCJ) passed resolutions on Quebec, AIDS, firearms, rape, social services, nuclear weapons, war and abortion. The Conservative movement claims 50,000 members in Canada. The abortion resolution states the Council’s opposition to “any attempt by the federal and provincial governments to legislate control of abortion, leaving all decisions in this area [...]
The purpose of The Interim is to set forth the truth about the freedom and dignity of the individual human person in the area of family, marital and sexual morality. Insofar as religion and politics, law and medicine, economics and culture impinge upon this sphere, The Interim makes these areas her own. Erring clergy, indifferent politicians, lawless magistrates, doctors of death, abusers [...]
Quebec. On February 13, a week after the end of the 30-day period in which an appeal was possible against Mr. Justice Dufour’s ruling that she had a right to be taken off her life support system, Nancy B.’s respirator was taken off; she died seven minutes later. When she was unplugged, a hospital spokesman said, she was unconscious because of tranquilizers, [...]
Ottawa. The Vatican has warned an Ottawa priest to bring his teaching views of moral theology into harmony with Church teaching. André Guindon On Jan. 29, 1922, Father André Guindon, of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, professor of Moral Theology at St. Paul’s University in Ottawa, was presented by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) The CDF is [...]
Edmonton: Lianne Laurence, 32, The Interim’s western correspondent and Edmonton’s persistent champion of the unborn, was sentenced to 60 days in jail on February 11, 1992. Miss Laurence had been arrested on seven previous occasions for picketing and protesting at the local Morgentaler abortuary which opened in September 1991. She has spent a total of 35 days in jail. She has vowed [...]
Law Reform Commission to review abortion ban The Irish Law Reform Commission plans to study the legal situation arising out of Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion, stated the Chairman, Mr. Justice Ronan Keane, November 17, 1991, in an address to a criminal law conference. Mr. Justice Keane said that the Commission would soon begin work on proposals for re-drafting the Offenses Against [...]
Last December 13, the first fetal tissue transplant in Canada for Parkinson’s Disease took place at the Victoria General Hospital (VGH) in Halifax. Parkinson’s is a neurological disorder characterized by loss of motor functions and coordination; it affects about 70,000 people in Canada, most of them over age 50. The transplant of fetal tissue from an aborted child into an adult brain [...]
In the ‘Charge’ he delivered last September to the 139th Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto, Bishop Terrence Finlay stated, “I need people who will reach out and listen to someone on the other side, to act with care, to know how to give and take.” Such care and sensitivity were required, he thought, in “an effort to understand how the [...]
The Ontario Association of Catholic Families issued a letter in December 1991 addressed to fellow Catholics asking to oppose sex ed in school. School is not the automatic social context for sex ed, the letter says, despite what people are saying. The association was founded several years ago and has some 100 member families. Its current president is Brian Taylor, a father [...]