Ottawa Planned Parenthood federation of Canada [PPLC] is demanding that the government “immediately develop and implement a comprehensive and preventive policy.” PP president Norman Barwin, M.D., released a policy paper on September 19 urging Ottawa to “protect the reproductive freedom of Canadians.” Planned Parenthood of Canada” Planned Parenthood of Canada strongly supports abortion on demand, but claims that “more education” about sex [...]
At the end of May, a high school in Qualicum Beach, B.C., announced that it hoped to introduce condom vending machines in its washrooms. “Condoms are not for birth control,” said a teacher. “It’s a health issue. We have to face reality.” A few days later, the Toronto Star reported that Toronto high school students may also be able to buy condoms [...]
New Democratic MLA Tom Perry is distributing a 60-second film on AIDS and safe sex. It was commissioned by the provincial health ministry but withheld after Premier William Vander Zalm denounced it as an ad for condoms. Dr. Perry, a physician said “it is not wimpish or nerd-like to protect yourself against AIDS.” Greg Layne, a “gay man” infected with AIDS through [...]
The following is a critique of an article in Consumer’s Report, March 1989. Statement: “Under a scanning electron microscope at 30,000 power, the surface of a latex condom appears somewhat bumpy but shows no pores.” Rebuttal: The bumps are the pores! What would you expect to see – the Grand Canyon? If latex doesn’t have pores, how could it stretch? If it [...]
We cannot escape the truth that AIDS is both a moral issue and a public health issue. We are now into an epidemic of venereal diseases including AIDS which is escalating at unprecedented levels and rapidity. (Times-Colonist, June 27, 1989) The only way we can protect our young people is to instruct them that chastity before marriage and fidelity in marriage to [...]
As school resumed this September, the Ontario Court of Appeal was being told that the Elgin County School Board is indoctrinating children in the Christian faith. Lawyer John B. Laskin, representing the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, was appealing a lower court decision that neither the curriculum nor provincial regulations authorizing religious education violates the Charter of Rights. In 1963, Laskin said, 7-year-old [...]
When a new baby arrives, it is not long before all his visitors are deciding whom he takes after. “There ‘s no denying he’s yours!” someone is sure to say. Both sides of the family happily identify whose eyes and whose nose the new baby has inherited. There seems to be a primordial need to recognize ourselves and our family in the [...]
An increasing number of Catholic parents are alarmed by the decision of the Metro (Toronto) Separate School Board (MSSB) to make a child sexual abuse awareness and prevention program compulsory in all of its elementary schools. Almost thirty parents—many of them couples—attended a meeting September 13 at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Scarborough, Ontario to hear Women for Faith and Family president [...]
While the Vancouver and Toronto public school boards consider putting condom vending machines in school washrooms and the Ottawa public board places birth control clinics on school premises, Montreal, the most cosmopolitan and sophisticated of all Canadian cities, has decided to tackle teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases in a whole new way with a program called PSI: Postponing Sexual Involvement. PSI [...]
Organized feminist lobbying is widely credited as the moving force behind the federal government’s decision to organize a Royal Commission to examine the urgent ethical issues raised by artificial reproductive technology. While pro-life leaders are generally supportive of the idea of such a Commission, they are con-corned that the Commission could be manipulated to reflect only the feminist agenda, resulting in yet [...]
A chasm lies between Roman Catholic teaching on abortion and its acceptance in the Ontario Separate Schools. The presentation of Roman Catholic teaching on abortion at the convention of the Ontario Separate School Trustees, held on April 13, 14 and 15 in Toronto was thoughtful and accurate. Father Michael Prieur, a professor of moral theology at St. Peter’s Seminary in London, Ontario, [...]
Joanne Dieleman, experienced co-ordinator of the pro-life coffee house “The Way Inn,” adjacent to the Morgentaler abortuary in downtown Toronto, is an extraordinary mother o many: eight children (two adopted), five grandchildren and 249 foster children. As well, she mothers picketers, distressed pregnant women and their mates and any others who step in to The Way Inn. As one picketer said, “She [...]
On February 23, 44 Operation Rescuers who had spent two weeks in prison, together with 61 who had not, came to trial. Judge Josiah Wood soon ruled they would face criminal contempt of court charges, instead of civil ones. What he had heard from counsel and police, he said, made it clear that the protesters deliberately obstructed access to the clinic. Such [...]
If your child attends a school in the Ottawa-Carleton region, he or she now has easy access to a birth control clinic. It may well be located right in your child’s school. The Ottawa Board of Education opened a clinic in Ridgemount in November 1988, and is planning to place clinics in tow other schools, one of which will be francophones. The [...]
“Peel plans to give out 15,000 kits in a campaign to promote safe sex,” declared a Toronto Star headline on January 31, 1989. Sue Monaghan, a nurse and health promotion officer in Peel County, just west of Toronto, said that too often the battle against AIDS couples ignore the simple contraceptive measures which are available. “Because no one knows anyone with AIDS,” [...]