The slipshod and slovenly way in which Ontario hospitals make their official reports on abortions is both startling and shocking. The Report on Therapeutic Abortions, which hospitals are required to complete, gives specific instructions to "record by designated code number ALL operative procedures performed." (The stress on ALL is the ministries.) Despite this very explicit directive, the official reports for 1982 state [...]
Members of Liberals for Life, with the assistance of Campaign Life, took an active part in the recent Liberal Leadership Convention in Ottawa. On the first day, Friday (June 15) they distributed a flyer, which pointed out that under the present Canadian abortion law, over 1,000,000 unborn babies have been destroyed. It also pointed out that a pro-abortion stand would not win [...]
On February 13,1984, Mr. Donald Blenkarn, member of parliament for Mississauga South, introduced Bill 216, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Protection of Innocent Human Life), in the House of Commons. Mr. Blenkarn explained to the House that the Bill "is intended to limit the right to have a therapeutic abortion to circumstances involving the actual physical health of the mother." [...]
Politics as politics have never interested me. I have lived as a citizen in three countries and have never belonged to a political party in any one of them. But I do come to life when moral and political issues blend into one, and this has certainly occurred in Canada with regard to abortion. So, I must admit that I am vitally [...]
WASHINGTON - More than 70,000 cheering, chanting pro-life activists flooded Constitution Avenue January 23, 1984 as a dynamic witness to the commitment of the large and vocal right-to-life movement. From Alaska to Florida, from California to Maine, busloads of partisans for the civil rights of unborn children brought their message of love and justice to Capitol Hill and, for the first time, [...]
American sexologist sues American sexologist and Planned Parenthood advocate, Sol Gordon, is suing Gay Caswell, conservative MLA in the Saskatchewan provincial government, for libel. Mrs. Caswell had written as a private citizen, to the Saskatoon City Council in January, 1982, protesting the funding, by the City's Family Service Bureau and by Planned Parenthood, of Gordon to speak to youth and professionals on [...]
On behalf of the Toronto Right to Life Association, I have sat in the courtroom on University Avenue almost daily, listening to the testimony presented at the Morgentaler abortion clinic pre-trial hearing. Defence Counsel Morris Manning is challenging the validity of the abortion law in light of the new Canadian Constitution with its entrenched Charter of Rights. Mr. Manning is arguing that [...]
With regard to the Liberal leadership race it might be prudent for pro-lifers to note that in 1979 Campaign Life asked a number of political candidates two questions: 1) If elected, will you work towards amending the Criminal Code to recognize the civil rights of children conceived but not yet born and to provide them with the same legal protection as anyone [...]
No present candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Party is worthy of pro-life support. Not one of them would go out of his way to protect the smallest and most powerless of humans. The following brief lineup of the candidates' views gives a glance at their practice of family morality [insofar as it is known to this writer] and some slight [...]
Last year, free on bail, pending trial in both Ontario and Manitoba, abortionist Henry Morgentaler was asked by the National Film Board to star in a film about his own life. Morgentaler played himself in an NFB "docu-drama" which described his attempt to change the abortion laws to thus provide more business for his abortion mills. His numerous trials and imprisonments for [...]
The passing of Bill C-169 on October 25, 1983, appears to be a concerted attempt, on the part of the three Federal parties, to muzzle free speech during future elections. The substance of the Bill has been examined and explained in previous issues of The Interim, so I presume that readers are aware of its contents. It is couched in the usual [...]
House of Commons debate The National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) claim a membership of more than 220 women's groups (they do not permit individual membership) across Canada from the Peterborough rape Crisis Centre to the National Chapter of the I.O.D.E. and the Anglican Church of Canada. Many women belong to groups which have affiliated themselves to the NAC [...]
B.C. court to clarify the meaning of "health" in Criminal Code Two former board members of the Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, George Carruthers and Michael S. Whelton, have launched a legal action in the Supreme Court of British Columbia against that hospital, claiming that abortions are being performed there for non-medical reasons, contrary to the Criminal Code. By launching this [...]
Chief Justice Bora Laskin, of the Supreme Court of Canada, died at the end of March. It was well-known in legal circles that former Chief Justice Laskin was in favour of his court actively addressing political issues that in an earlier era the Supreme Court of Canada would have considered beyond its authority. Chief Justice Laskin has been criticized for his "Americanization" [...]
The following is my recollection of what events took place during and after the meeting I attended with Deacon Thomas Pillisch. On March 19, 1984, Deacon Thomas Pillisch and I attended a public meeting held by Bob Kaplan our member of parliament. Discussion on whether or not North York should have the Dome stadium took most of the time during the meeting. [...]