On Tuesday, April 23, Bill 53, The Freedom of Informed Choice Concerning Abortions in Saskatchewan, was introduced as a private member’s bill by MLA Gay Caswell (PC Saskatoon Westmount). The abortion law itself is a federal matter, and it is beyond the powers of provinces to alter it. However, health care and family relationships are provincial concerns, and Mrs. Caswell’s Bill [...]
Former Manitoba cabinet minister, Joseph Borowski is slated to appear before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal on December 16, 1985. Mr. Borowski filed appeal papers in the fall of 1983, after Justice William Matheson of the Court of Queen’s Bench in Regina had rejected his bid to strike down the 1969 amendment to the Criminal Code. In 1969 the Canadian [...]
The fact remains that the judge’s decision cannot be taken to mean that the jury was properly composed. Moreover, although we did not succeed in getting our complaints raised in the appeal, we did succeed in putting them to the press and the public. In order to ask permission to intervene we had to show why intervention might be [...]
We said in our brief that it was unfair to exclude from jury duty in criminal proceedings, citizens having religious or moral beliefs relating to the crime. We argued that the courts might just as well reject from murder or rape trials anyone who believes such crimes are morally wrong. There was no one in that courtroom last October [...]
Was the Morgentaler jury fairly chosen? The pro-life observers who were in the courtroom when the jury was being selected last October were convinced that the process was irregular, and that the defence and the Crown co-operated to exclude prospective jurors who admitted having religious or moral beliefs. In April, Hamilton Right to Life, in co-operation with the [...]
It becomes clearer by the month that “pro-life” Canadians, i.e, all those who reject abortion as an abomination, are in process of being disenfranchised. That is to say, they no longer can find a political party which even promises – let alone is actually prepared – to act in defense of the unborn. Canada has had legal abortions for sixteen [...]
The Fraser Report on pornography, with its assumption that pornography is a matter of inequality, rather than sexual immorality, is of great concern to those already alarmed at the erosion of traditional family values. We can endorse fully the committee’s recommendation that child pornography is completely unacceptable. With the exception of homosexual activists, even those advocating the most [...]
The Campaign Life strategy for the recent May 2 election in Ontario centered first and foremost on strengthening efforts to close down the Morgentaler abortuary. Thus the strategy differed from previous elections by not searching directly for “pro-life” candidates, but for those who, “pro-life” or not, were opposed to Morgentaler-style abortuaries. Campaign Life asked all candidates the following two [...]
The attempt by Winnipeg pro-abortionists to have two Manitoba judges disqualified from abortion trials because they do not approve of abortion, has been denied by the Canadian Judicial Council. The so-called “charges” were brought against Manitoba Court of Appeal Justices Joseph O’Sullivan and Alfred Monnin by Ellen Kruger, Morgentaler’s spokesman in Winnipeg. Mr. Justice Joseph O’Sullivan is chairman [...]
Tier 1 : Pornography using children or causing physical bodily harm The most serious criminal sanctions would apply to material in the first tier, including a visual representation of a person under 18 years of age, participating in explicit sexual conduct, which is defined as any conduct in which vaginal, oral or anal intercourse, masturbation, sexually violent behaviour, bestiality, incest, [...]
The word “Infanticide” comes from two Latin words, “infans” (an infant) and “caedere” (to kill). So, “infanticide” is “killing an infant.” Up to a few years ago I was under the false impression that infanticide was a very unusual occurrence especially in “civilized” places – just as, up to a dozen years ago, I thought that abortion was [...]
On the morning of Morgentaler’s visit, London radio station CFPL-AM held an open-line show that featured an hour with Morgentaler. Mrs. Lansink emphasized that abortion denied the civil rights of the unborn, something concrete and indisputable. Despite this, reporter Helen Connell of the London Free Press concluded her news report on the show with the view she considered summed up [...]
In July 1981 the following was submitted to the National Canadian Teachers Federation convention: “That the Canadian Teachers Federation should seek to have abortion removed from the Criminal Code of Canada.” At the time the motion was tabled. The resolution was introduced by British Columbia Teachers Federation which has made the resolution its own. This year the B.C. union [...]
Quebec On March 14 Henry Morgentaler warned that a return to power by the Liberals in Quebec might put an end to abortion clinics. He said he had “qualms” about a Liberal victory. After addressing more than 500 members of Quebec’s largest medical union, the 92,000-strong Federation of Social Affairs (affiliated with the Confederation of National Trade Unions), he told [...]
An attempt by four groups to have the jury selection for the October Morgentaler trial in Toronto investigated has failed. The Hamilton Right to Life association, the Catholic Women’s League of Canada, the Alliance for Life and the Coalition for the Protection of Human Life applied to “intervene” in the Crown’s Appeal due on April 29, of the November [...]