Morgentaler’s engagement at Convocation Hall at the University of Toronto was advertised as “Co-sponsored by Coalition for Responsible Choice (a “club” recognized by the U of T), Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics and the Students Administration Council (SAC). SAC official Lynda Quirk said they forwarded $350.00 to the Coalition for Responsible Choice. (All U of T “clubs” are first recognized [...]
On Tuesday April 2, delegates voted 412 to 203 in favour of the executive recommendations. The abortion debate was the most controversial one of the four-day meeting attended by representatives from 79 locals across B.C. Joe Haddock, a Prince George Secondary teacher, said “If we pass this, we’re promoting abortion in our schools.” The convention, he stated was not [...]
Shown below are the Articles from the Convention which are of particular interest to Interim readers, plus the legislation that has been put in place to bring Canada in line with the Convention and the excerpts from the 1983 Report. Many more examples of women’s rights legislation are available than are listed here. We have confined our examples to those [...]
In our March issue, under the heading “sociologists confirm what many already knew,” the Interim reported the Newsweek Magazine (January 14) poll as follows: 21 percent of Americans favour abortion on demand 21 percent favour banning abortion under all circumstances 50 percent would favour banning abortions except for rape, incest and danger to the mother’s life. This last percentage [...]
West Germany, which has the lowest birthrate in the world, has higher rates of child abuse than other European countries, according to the Irish Times (January 3, 1985) Statistics published by the Children’s Aid Society show that last year 30 000 children were mistreated, over 100 committed suicide, “several hundred” were beaten to death and 6000 school-age children were [...]
It’s not every day that one’s asked to stand up in front of a crowd and talk about why one chooses to be identified with a pro-family and pro-life organization such as R.E.A.L. Women of Canada. So I’m very happy to have been asked to speak to you on this very subject…particularly from the point of view of a [...]
AdeV The Canadian Armed Forces have dismissed five lesbian women who served at a top-secret submarine tracking station at Shelburne, Nova Scotia. They were considered a security risk. The new Minister of Defence Erik Nielsen brushed aside an NDP demand for changes in a policy that bars homosexual men and women from the armed forces. The Globe and Mail [...]
When I return from an eight hour flight (from Paris and Rome this time) I do not usually laugh until my metabolism has readjusted itself with the aid of eight hours rest. But I nearly did (laugh) on Sunday (December 2nd). I had plugged in the kettle just to welcome myself back when my eye fell on a photo of [...]
To its third annual seminar held in Toronto on February 2, Canadians for Decency attracted a crowd of over 300. The topic was “Obscenity, Violence and the Future of Society”; the speakers for the most part took for granted the existence of shocking conditions in our society, and went on to discuss fundamental reasons for their existence and possible [...]
The Mexican government recently announced that it will no longer allow Playboy magazine to be distributed and printed in Mexico. The move was taken after an investigation undertaken by Allianza Nacional para la Defensa de la Moral Familiar, an organization which works for the preservation of family morals. Allianza Nacional indicated that the magazine had brought great harm to Mexican Society [...]
The cover article of the American Newsweek magazine (January 14, 1985) points out a number of features which were more less known: -nearly 40 per cent of all Americans are not certain whether their current position on abortion is correct. -that only 21 per cent favour abortion on demand. -that 50 per cent would support banning abortions except for rape, incest, [...]
Effects on rape behavior, and the rape myth The effects of pornography are clear and disturbing. Research by the University of Indiana psychologist Dolf Zillman has demonstrated that repeated massive exposure to nonviolent, noncoercive standard-fare pornography [often labeled “soft-core”] can lead to increasing callousness toward women and to the trivialization of rape as a criminal offence by both men [...]
Deemed unacceptable to Ontarians are scenes that portray: Graphic or prolonged scenes of violence, torture, crime, cruelty , horror, or human degradation; Physical abuse or humiliation of human beings for purposes of sexual gratification or as pleasing to the victim; A person who is or is intended to represent a person under 16 years of age nude, partly nude, in a sexually [...]
The Badgley Committee on Sexual Offences Against Children and Youth made several recommendations for changes in the law to protect children from the effects of pornography. There recommendations cover the two main areas in which children are exploited by such material. Firstly, there is the direct sexual abuse of children who are used in the production of child pornography. Secondly, there is [...]
Child pornography is readily available in Canada. It is mostly imported illegally and is almost impossible for the authorities to detect because it comes to the purchaser through the mail in “plain brown envelopes.” Child pornography production is not a large industry in Canada, according to the Badgley Committee on Child Abuse. However, a substantial amount of child [...]