Halifax, N.S. Pro-life activists Ann Marie Tomlins and Dianne Smith spearheaded the creation in January 1990 of a new organization to express women’s views on a wide range of issues. Conviction “Attending the Human Life International strategy weekend in Halifax in November confirmed our conviction that many related factors contribute to the abortion problem, and these must be addressed in a special [...]
Everywoman’s Abortion ‘Clinic’ has a new neighbour! And what a good neighbour it is, too. Who could not like a neighbour who prays for you every day? A neighbour who welcomes your visitors into her home and provides for their every need? A neighbour who keeps a watchful eye on your place day and night? Whimper Without so much as a whimper [...]
In late January, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives elected industry Minister Donald Cameron as the new leader. This automatically makes him the new provincial Premier as well. No changes The premier presents himself as pro-life, yet, according to The Daily News, he does not intend “to make any changes that would curtail abortion services” in Nova Scotia. His nearest rival for the leadership [...]
On January 31, 1991, just over three years since the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the 1969 Trudeau law, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s attempt to re-legalize abortion on demand went down to a bizarre defeat in the Senate. In many ways the tied vote 43 for, 43 against – was victory of pro-life Senator Stanley Haidasz who waged a one-man pro-life [...]
Burning Times One of the better known branches of the National Film Board (NFB) is its feminist film making branch, Studio D. • This time taxpayers' dollars have gone into the making of Burning Times, a documentary on the purported evolution of witchcraft. Originally, the film explains, witches were the wise women in villages across Europe. They were the inheritors of an [...]
People tell me how hard it is to raise a child today. I tell them it's even harder to bury a child." There is a certain coldness and distance in Steve Taylor's voice as he speaks. Although it has been almost four years since his son's death, the pain is still there. It always hurts when you bury your child. Past "We [...]
The Royal Commission on Reproductive Technology heard briefs from many individuals during its four days of hearings in Vancouver. The questions and comments of the commission members sometimes revealed their biases, but they acted professionally, said Ted Gerk, member of the Board of Directors of B.C. Pro-Life Society. Tainted The whole proceedings were tainted by the brief submitted by Dr. Steven Genus [...]
Covenant House in Toronto has abandoned attempts to build a youth hostel on part of a former school yard of St. Michael's Choir School in downtown Toronto. Des Burge, communications officer with the Archdiocesan Center said that at the moment the Canadian financial climate does not allow for much successful fund-raising. Toronto City Hall did not like the original plans and had [...]
Dr. Craig Seaton has always had a strong interest in the relationship between belief, especially religious belief, and behaviour. When he read an article in Christian Info (a Lower B.C. Mainland newspaper) featuring interviews with several of the people arrested for blockading the Vancouver abortuary, he was intrigued. What makes these people tick? What kind of person engages in civil disobedience? Why [...]
Rev. Ludwig Nessa, 41, a Norwegian Lutheran Pastor, is to appear before a court for opposing abortion. In Norway the Lutheran Church is the official church with the king as head of both church and state. As a civil servant therefore, Rev. Nessa has defied his employer, the State, which has legalized abortion. As a pastor, he has defied his bishop who [...]
They're all doing it! Shell, Du Pont, Dow Chemical, General Motors, IBM, Sears, Owens Corning Fiberglas and Pacific Bell to name a few. Having trimmed operating costs to the bone, these and many other fortune 500 companies are 'getting religion' in a renewed effort to increase profitability.BoardroomsPrayer meetings have not sprung up in boardrooms across the nation. Yet the religious jargon is [...]
During the past year or so I had heard about Bishop Austin Vaughan, the Auxiliary Bishop of New York, and his dramatic stand in defence of the unborn babies of America. He had taken part in rescues, been arrested, then tried and imprisoned. I had admired him from a distance but I didn't expect to meet him, hear him speak, celebrate Mass [...]
In our September 1990 issue, The Interim briefly reported on a change for the better in the U.S. media's abortion -reporting language. In the following article, Dr. Donald DeMarco expands on the U.S. media's shift toward greater objectivity. Between the Lines, a biweekly publication out of Los Angeles reports that the Los Angeles Times ' has banned the use of the term [...]
This is a true story that happened on Christmas Eve, 1990. This story will warm me during whatever Christmas Eves God has planned for the rest of my life. This story will also explain why I never intend to remove a silver cross and chain, put around my neck by a Moslem this holiday season. Deported Just a few days before Christmas [...]
The Interim has tried to keep abreast of the growing strength of the ‘Dying with Dignity’ movement (See, for example, the articles “Doctors hear euthanasia warning” and “Dying with Dignity recommends that right to kill,” in our June 1989 issue). For November 1989 till March 1990, The Interim published four lengthy articles by Charles Eckman on the threat of active euthanasia and [...]