After a lull of over three months, since the Maastricht referendum in June, the pro-life movement is again getting ready for battle. The Maastricht referendum was a disaster, the pro-life movement lost by a two-to-one majority, because the public was afraid to risk the economic doom threatened by the Government in the event of a “No” vote. (I have been told by [...]
Citing the now famous section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Federal Court of Canada ruled in late October that male and female homosexuals can no longer be barred from Canada’s Armed Forces. The court had been asked to rule on the case of Michele Douglas, a woman who was dismissed from the Royal Canadian Air Force in [...]
In the coming months Canadians will be faced with a federal election. This coming election will be incredibly important for the pro-life movement. We as a movement have got to stop playing “business as usual” with politicians. Perhaps the most frustrating element in these elections is uniting pro-lifers in targeting a particular candidate. Granted, we have seen daring work by Liberals for [...]
On November 3, 1992, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinto achieved what he set out to do many years ago: become president of the United States. As is customary in the United States, oceans of ink have been spilled analyzing every facet of the campaign and the candidates, the policies and the politics. As pro-lifers we believe that the ongoing mass murder of the [...]
The following are the result of the November 3, 1992 U.S. ballot initiatives on abortion, euthanasia and homosexuality rights. (Source: Nov. 7, 1992, Globe and Mail) Abortion Maryland – Initiative 6: to ease restriction on abortion: Yes 62%; No 38% Arizona – Initiative 110: To eliminate public financing of abortion, except when woman’s life is threatened. Yes 31%; No 69% Euthanasia California [...]
On November 3, 1992 Bill Clinton, Governor of Arkansas was elected president of the United States. With the help of fly-by-night contender Ross Perot of Dallas, Texas, he took 363 votes of the Electoral College, well over the 270 he needed to win. President George Bush trailed with 118. Editor’s Announcement Father Alphonse de Valk – Editor Beginning with the January 1993 [...]
Kim Campbell has once again confirmed her standing as the reddest of Brain Mulroney’s “Red Tories”. As expected, on November 1, Canada’s Justice Minister promised that the Federal Government will not appeal two controversial pro-homosexual decisions made by the Ontario Court of Appeal. The first ruled that the Ontario government must pay survivor benefits to long-term partners of homosexual public servants. In [...]
Dr. Walter Kazun, a retired Vancouver family physician, long-time pro-life activist and co-founder of B.C. Physicians for Life, voted No in last month’s referendum. He says he’s always been politically alert, probably because at the age of four he immigrated to Canada with his hard-working Polish parents, an event that forged his deep love of Canada and concern about its future. “The [...]
Pro-lifers in Ireland are now gearing up for the coming struggle to prevent the Government from introducing legislation to regulate abortion in Ireland in line with the disastrous Supreme Court ruling handed down last March. At that time the Court rules that abortion could not be refused to a woman who threatened to commit suicide. This was their interpretation of the Constitutional [...]
Bonn – On June 26 , 1992, the German parliament voted a new law giving women the right to an abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, by a majority of 357 to 284. Opposed by Chancellor Kohl’s Christian Democrats and Bavaria’s Christian Social Union, the pro-abortion ranks of the Social Democrats were increased by new deputies from East Germany, where [...]
The most important state ballot measures this November 3 will appear in five states: Arizona. Proposition 110 is an abortion initiative introduced by the Arizona Family Research Council. Put forward as “the common sense” abortion measure, this amendment to the state constitution would prohibit abortion except where the mother’s life is endangered or in cases of reported rape or incest. Maryland. Question [...]
August 17- Vancouver Betty Baxter, 40, former Canadian volleyball team member and spokeswoman for Vancouver’s “gay games” in 1980, will run for the NDP in the coming federal election as Canada’s first openly lesbian candidate. She became a lesbian in her twenties. Baxter will run in Vancouver Centre, now held by current Justice Minister Kim Campbell, former NDP member- turned Social Creditor-turned [...]
Former Liberal Cabinet member Paul Martin died Windsor of a heat attack at 89. A popular politician, Martin represented Windsor as a MP for some 30 years. Under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Martin introduced major social welfare programs to Canada, reflecting the influence of Catholic social justice teaching in the forties and fifties. Unfortunately, in 1969 he was also one of [...]
There is a federal election on the horizon. We ask readers to begin writing, or contacting by telephone, their local candidates, inquiring where they stand on abortion legislation, the direct and deliberate killing of hospital patients and legislation outlawing fetal experimentation. Campaign Life Coalition headquarters in Toronto would appreciate hearing from you, receiving your original letter and candidate’s response, or copies thereof, [...]
How should one vote in the forthcoming referendum: an unnerving question indeed and a potentially embarrassing one in the present circumstances in Quebec, where the “in” thing to do at the moment seems to be say “no” to anything issuing from the mouth of Premier Bourassa or that of Prime Minister Mulroney. (What comes out of Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s is not any [...]