Patrick Macken is a perish priest at St. Anthony’s church in Bermuda. Father Macken is a member of the congregation of Resurrectionists and he went to this particular parish in Bermuda in April 1979 to test out a thesis of his: that by focussing on the very “least” members of the parish—those who were really without any kind of power, the handicapped—that [...]
Nova Scotia 1982 abortion statistics The 1982 Abortion Statistics in Nova Scotia reported a rise in total number performed of 30 over last year. If you add those listed as not available (n/a) under approved to those performed, the total would be 1,913 (possible abortions of N.S.). at this time we don’t have information telling us that the 100 abortions done in [...]
Catherine Bolger was invited to Ireland by the pro-life movement at the time of the referendum. She spent 2 weeks speaking to the nursing staff in hospitals, to parish groups and pro-life workers. Pro-life individuals in Toronto sponsored her trip and her accommodation was provided by pro-lifers in Ireland. Ireland September 7, 1983 Liberation Day for the Unborn The people of Ireland [...]
LUTON (UPI) - An English doctor who performed an unsuccessful abortion on a 23-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder of the baby, who survived. Nurses at Luton and Dunstable Hospital told police they found the baby boy wrapped in a sheet in an isolated room after the abortion failed. He is now living with foster parents. Anthony John Hamilton, a [...]
Lynn Hilliard is one of four nurses charged following police raids on Morgentaler's Winnipeg abortion clinic. Miss Hilliard is a Roman Catholic and has been planning a July church wedding. Archbishop Adam Exner of Winnipeg stated that Miss Hilliard "has created a public scandal." He said that "to be married in the church, you have to be in conformity with the teaching [...]
The Edmonton enquiry into the morphine death of Baby Candice Taschuk died last fall, 16 hours after birth. She had suffered oxygen deprivation due to a blockage in the umbilical cord during the caesarian delivery and was immediately put on life support systems. Aware of the possibility of severe brain damage, her parents gave permission to have the support systems removed to [...]
Professor Sir William Liley , who gained international recognition for his pioneering Work into pre-natal blood transfusions, died suddenly at his Epsom home June 15 ,1983. he was 54. Sir William, who was knighted in 1973, made medical history in 1963 when he became the first doctor to give a baby a blood transfusion before birth. The technique, which he pioneered while [...]
Paul Formby's courage, intelligence, and dedication to the worker's right to a healthy environment in the workplace were tested and proven long before his arrival at Thetford. After graduating in philosophy from the University of British Columbia, he headed north to Clinton Creek in the Yukon. Here he found the noise and dust of an asbestos mill - not the hoped -for [...]
When you first meet him, Paul Formby does not impress you as an aggressive organizer, but in 1975 he set off the longest strike in the history of Thetford Mines, Quebec - a confrontation which lasted 8 months - and he did it simply be taking air samples. Formby collected the controversial air samples from the Thetford mines and mills illegally and [...]
Something very serious is coming out of the Borowski trial in Regina. It is not just a matter of deciding when life begins and whether or not abortion is murder. Truth itself is on trial. Daily at this trial a group of women marched outside the courtroom, with tape covering their mouths - to signify that this was a trial dominated by [...]
The Manitoba League for Life organized their signature campaign in six weeks. A preliminary advertisement describing the drive resulted in signed coupons and donations arriving in the League's office at over 1,000 a day. More support came from churches, schools, pro-life groups and organizations. On March 30, the Winnipeg Free Press published 37,000 names in alphabetical order. The date was planned specifically [...]
According to the doctrine of the proponents of More and Increasingly-Explicit Sex and Contraceptive Education in Schools, such a programme would lead to a sexual utopia: unwanted pregnancies would cease to be; there would be no more unwanted or battered children; life would be wonderful. If, however, we look at Sweden, the country with the longest history of school sex education and [...]
The situation in Ireland with reference to an amendment to the Constitution to outlaw the possibilities of legalizing abortion by court or parliament has suddenly changed. The situation is very fluid; anything could happen. Under pressure, Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald had agreed with his opponent Charles Haughey to submit a pro-life amendment to the Constitution in a national referendum. When Haughey became [...]