No abortions Charlottetown. More than a thousand members attending the Annual General Meeting of Queen Elizabeth Hospital here on June 20, defeated a motion by the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL) to grant abortion privileges to the doctors on the staff of Prince Edward Island’s largest hospital. The motion was defeated 874 to 70. Three candidates who were nominated by CARAL [...]
Ottawa, Monday, July 11. In a surprise, last minute, move the government suddenly called off its procedural debate that was to clear the way for further discussion of abortion of the three pro-abortion versions to be selected later that week. Deputy House Leader Douglas Lewis claimed to have read opposition arguments against the procedure only on the weekend before. The motion took [...]
A recent political skirmish over late abortions in Britain brought out some attitudes that Canadian pro-life people can expect to face as our own battle continues. The British battle was over a private members’ bill, sponsored by backbench Liberal David Alton, which sought to reduce the upper-age limit for abortion from 28 weeks to 18. Abortion legislation based on gestational-age limits reflects [...]
The Abortion (Amendment Bill, designed to reduce the time limit for a legal abortion in Britain from 28 weeks to 18, was defeated in the in the House of Commons on May 6. The private member’s bill was “talked out” by its opponents. For the second time pro-abortionists have prevented a free debate in the H of C and once again Prime [...]
Provincial announcements concerning abortion have been coming almost daily since the Supreme Court judgment of January 28. The information given below is correct as of February 29. British Columbia Premier William Vander Zalm has announced that the province will only pay for abortion if it is necessary to save the life of the mother. No exceptions will be allowed for rape, incest [...]
The United Nations: The International Right To Life Federation has been granted Observer Status as a Non-Governmental Organization (N.G.O.) by the United National Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The ECOSOC is very active in forming and implementing population-control programmes throughout the world – particularly in the Third World – through its Population Division and the United Nations’ Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). [...]
Nikki Colodny received a cold welcome in Edmonton on April 11, when she addressed a public forum sponsored by the Abortion Caucus of the Alberta Status of Women and other feminist groups. Colondy was in Edmonton attempting to set up an illegal abortuary along the lines of the Toronto clinics. Since extra billing was banned in Alberta in November 1986, many doctors [...]
The three national pro-life groups, Alliance for Life, Coalition for Life and campaign Life, met in Ottawa last December to discuss further initiatives aimed at unifying the pro-life groups across Canada. The meeting came at the end of a year during which all three groups had worked closely together. The two political groups, Campaign Life and Coalition for Life, [...]
Across Canada Socreds for Life, a newly formed pro-life lobby group within the Social Credit Party in British Columbia, was well received by delegates at the recent leadership convention at whistler. The group, consisting of 15 Party supporters and delegates and organized by Campaign Life B.C., was present at the convention handing out flyers and buttons, and speaking to delegates. The flyer, [...]
St. John’s Newfoundland Elizabeth House, a home for unwed mothers in St. John’s, was opened in 1980 when a two-story house was donated to the local Right to Life Association by the Sisters of Mercy. The facility has accommodated about 20 expectant mothers every year since it’s opening. They are limited to five mothers at a time by local housing by-laws. [...]
In a precedent-setting case, a British Columbia woman has been awarded $10,000 damages against a doctor who failed to abort her twins, now seven years old. In 1978, Beverley Hack, a 17 year old high school student, underwent a suction and curettage abortion, performed by Dr. Ellen Wiebe, at Vancouver’s Shaughnessy. She was in her fifth week of pregnancy, having become pregnant [...]
Steven Mosher was one of the first American scholars allowed to study in China when the U.S. government established diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic in 1979. He was the only academic permitted to live in a Southern China village for a year to study the lives of the rural Chinese. His discoveries and observations are published below, taken from an edited [...]
Moscow. Authorities are worried that the more than 10 million annual abortions have had unwelcome effects on women’s health. Medical demographer, A. A. Popov said: “The current abortion rate is a major factor in determining the incidence of gynecological diseases and childless marriages, infant mortality, miscarriages and child morbidity. Lowering the abortion rate would have a colossal effect on public health.” There [...]
A Vancouver couple has taken the provincial social services department to court in protest over the apparent right of social workers to remove children from their parents. It promises to be a precedent-setting case, since it is the first of its kind in Canada. Wanita and Maurice Gareau, a Mormon couple, are suing three social workers and the provincial superintendent of family [...]
Picketer Dan McCash was charged with trespassing on April 3 at the rear of the abortuary. Mr. McCash was walking beside a woman who was heading for an abortion, asking her if she would consider alternatives. He followed her on to the property of the abortuary where he was told by the Barnes Security guard, R. Fletcher, “You are not supposed to [...]