On June 16, the Family Coalition Party (FCP) held its first information meeting for the coming Ontario election. Fifty-two members gathered at Toronto’s Skyline Hotel to go over the fundamental points of organization, riding associations and state of readiness. The three-hour information and discussion meeting was followed by a successful $30-a-plate fund raising banquet at a Scarborough church hall, attended by 200 [...]
As the April Interim reported, The Hon. Kim Campbell’s first statement as Justice Minister was to announce that if Bill C-43 was defeated, no other abortion law would be brought forward by the Conservative government: in other words, the government is resorting to legislative blackmail. As the last witness to appear before the commons committee examining the legislation, she also announced that [...]
In early April King Baudouin of Belgium was forced to abdicate for 48 hours. The government used this time to go through a constitutional signing procedure invented for the occasion to circumvent the need for obtaining a royal signature on the bill legalizing abortion; the King had refused to sign. Thus the world was given another example of how legalizing the killing [...]
“We’re signing up as many people as we can,” said Liberals for Life spokesman Dan McCash in early February. “I think people will be quite shocked by how effective we are.” The powers-that-be kept grinning until the startling news that Liberals for Life in Peterborough, Ontario, had flooded the Liberal riding association with 350 new members. Liberals beware The grinning faded and [...]
The Interim’s regular contributor, Winifride Prestwich is vacationing in Arizona. In place of her column “You were asking” she has sent the following report on local developments. Democrats Arizona Democrats follow the abortion-on-demand line of federal Democrats. Delegates at their state convention, January 13, passed a number of anti-family resolutions. One supported “freedom of choice for abortion.” A second resolution, calling for [...]
The various groups appearing before the Parliamentary Committee reviewing Bill C-43, the proposed law on abortion, have at least one thing in common: they all oppose the legislation. Pro-abortion groups naturally argue that criminal sanctions against abortion are an infringement on a “woman’s right to choose.” This requires the now-familiar dismissal of medical facts showing that the unborn child is a human [...]
The federal government’s proposed re-legalization of abortion would do “the greatest disservice to the disabled community possible” says a brief from a national non-profit organization representing people with mental handicaps. The Toronto-based Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL) warns that Bill C-43, now under study by a parliamentary committee, will perpetuate “the misconception that a disabled person or fetus (baby) is a [...]
A group of Alberta Catholic lawyers have proposed amendments to Bill C-43. The St. Thomas More Guild of Northern Alberta undertook this project because of a concern over lack of legislation governing abortion, according to Guild president Theodore Bosse. The Guild states in its report that Bill C-43, in its present form, “only loosely specifies the circumstances in which a legal abortion [...]
“And now Israel, take notice of the laws and customs that I teach you today, and observe them, that you may have life… “Keep them, observe them and they will demonstrate to the peoples your wisdom…” (Deut 4:1, 5) Easter tells us that God who created the world also intervened through Christ, God the on, to save mankind from its own created [...]
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney continues to appoint to key positions people who believe that government should endorse women’s choice to kill pre-born children. At the end of February, Mr. Mulroney shuffled his Cabinet, naming Vancouver’s Kim Campbell as Minister of Justice. The 42-year-old MP (Vancouver Centre) and lawyer, was elected in 1988 after earlier bolting BC’s Social Credit Party. She replaces Douglas [...]
In a letter to his fellow New Democrats, NDP President Norman MacAskill of Cambridge, Ontario has called for support for “Citizens for Choice.” He reminds party members of the repeated affirmations at NDP conventions of support for abortion on demand and the prominent role NDP’ers have played all across Canada “in the struggle for abortion rights.” The need for Citizens for Choice [...]
On February 7, Liberal MP John Turner stepped aside as Leader of the Opposition. When he arrived in the Commons for question period he was greeted with applause from all parties. “John, you served Canada well,” said Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. The Interim is probably the only paper in Canada to disagree with the PM. John Turner served Canada in a variety [...]
From his jail cell where he was serving 15 days in January of this year for rescuing at an abortuary last summer, New York auxiliary Bishop Austin Vaughan has warned New York Governor Mario Cuomo that his pro-abortion position puts him in danger of going “straight to Hell if he is to die today.” Cuomo, a Catholic, has held the view until [...]
Campaign Life Coalition, presented a clear message January 31 to the special Parliamentary Committee studying the government’s abortion Bill C-43. “Compromise on abortion means legalizing the deaths of some unborn children. We would not legalize the rape of some women; or legalize the abuse of some children already born. The theft of some money is not legal; nor is the murder of [...]
Catholic pro-abortion or, as some call themselves, “pro-choice” politicians are meeting growing criticism from fellow Catholics. So are Catholic politicians who claim that while personally opposed to abortion, they must support pro-abortion measures “for the common good.” Each category is under fire in the United States and elsewhere. The one-million-member Catholic fraternal organization, the Knights of Columbus, is under pressure to expel [...]