London – Nurses should notify police, said a British Catholic Bishops’ committee on bio-ethical issues, when they find handicapped newborn babies being sedated or starved to death. The Bishops referred specifically to babies born with spina bifida who were being refused surgery. If the hospital authorities refuse to rectify such a state of affairs, then a nurse has no alternative but to [...]
Pauline Buchanan of Mississauga has spent the last 15 years in a legal battle with the Ortho Pharmaceutical Company after she suffered a Pill-induced stroke. Although the Appeal Court of Ontario last month upheld a lower court’s ruling in her favour, Ortho is now considering an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. Mrs. Buchan, now 37, was partly paralyzed by a [...]
For years now Morgentaler has been attempting to change the law by violating it. His long-range business strategy depends as much on public acceptance of the killing of the pre-born as it does on Morgentaler-type abortuaries becoming an ordinary part of the Canadian service environment like the corner post-office or variety store. So, it is not an incidental public-relations ploy that, while [...]
A Stellarton, Nova Scotia, community worker was fired from her government-funded job after exposing the “radical lesbian feminist” policies of the Pictou County Women’s Centre. Judy Davidson, 39, designed a project to inform the public about all aspects of sexual abuse against women and children. Under the sponsorship of the Pictou County Women’s Centre, the project received government approval and a grant [...]
New York - Feminist Betty Friedan believes that the feminist movement is suffering from paralysis. In a recent New York Times Magazine article excerpted in the Toronto Star (November 7, 1985), she demanded a re-commitment to the original aims. Among the ten focal points of the movement’s “second stage” – Friedman calls it – are pornography and abortion. Feminists, she says should [...]
On October 1st, 1985 the long-awaited judgment of the Supreme Court of Ontario Court of Appeal concerning the Morgentaler Trial was handed down. In a unanimous decision the five judges set aside the jury verdict of acquittal, and ordered a new trial. Their concluding statements included the following: “The errors at trial were so fundamental that there has been no trial according [...]
Single pregnant women often feel isolated and afraid. Because they become vulnerable to pressure, some of these women will see abortion as their only solution. But the North York Crisis Pregnancy Centre has opened to help women and girls of all ages and backgrounds who are confused and frightened about their pregnancy. The centre [...]
The Manitoba struggle with Morgentaler resumed in early March of this year after a long pause of almost a year and a half. It started with Morgentaler ‘s promise to re-open his abortion clinic; Attorney General Penner’s earlier refusal of the League of Life’s request for an injunction to close the abortuary, if re-opened; and the subsequent March [...]
Two years ago I wrote my first column. It was for the first issue of The Interim and was on “pro-life feminism,” a constant theme of many subsequent columns. When I wrote that first column, I thought I’d soon run out of things to say on the abortion issue and I’m sure that some of you who persist in the [...]
The North York Crisis Pregnancy Centre has now been open for four months. During that time, we have had 83 clients. The age range is from 14 to 35 years; almost half of the clients (37) have been in their teens. Most clients come in for a pregnancy test and, of 73 pregnancy tests done, [...]
In July of 1983 the lead editorial in Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, stated, “We can no longer base our ethics on the idea that human beings are a special form of creation, made in the image of God singled out from all other animals, and alone possessing an immortal soul”. Last year in the United States, [...]
British Columbia Christmas at Langley Memorial 1983 Most of us in the pro-life movement at this time of the year tend to feel jaded and battle-scarred, and yes, even depressed occasionally. We’ve fought our annual hospital meeting battles, with mixed results; the current year’s national abortion statistics are again obviously going to be depressingly high; Morgentaler and his abortuaries are still with [...]
Spain on slippery slope Spain’s socialist government got Parliament approval for legalized abortions on October 6. According to a report in the Globe & Mail, abortion was legalized for cases involving rape, malformation of the unborn baby or danger to the mother’s life. The law, approved by 186 to 109 votes, was sent to the Senate for ratification. The main opposition party, [...]
Returning to Toronto after teaching for three years in the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, I have been asked to try to interpret the pro-life situation in Britain in hope of seeing what can be learned from the British experience. I believe that a look at that experience can be helpful since the present situation in Britain is considerably worse than it [...]
Calgary (CP) – Parents do not have the right to stop their children from having abortions, even if they are under 16, says a University of Alberta professor. And if they try to stop them, they could face criminal charges Ellen Picard told about 50 health-care workers this week at a discussion on children’s rights. She said the federal Criminal Code makes [...]