A Colorado man’s unauthorized detention in a psychiatric hospital was the direct result of his opposition to abortion, say several U.S. pro-life officials. Kenneth Scott of Denver, a long-time pro-life activist, was arrested December 20 and spent the next 42 days in the Boulder Community Hospital psychiatric ward. He was released without conditions January 30. Scott plans to file a lawsuit against [...]
Attention all Pro-Life Youth! Have you ever found yourself in a discussion and you couldn’t defend your beliefs? Are you interested in meeting people who know exactly where you’re coming from? Well, Students Against Violation of Life (SAVOL of the Greater Toronto Area understands this growing problem. We also realize that a greater respect for life needs to be established in the [...]
Toronto As pro-life people, part of our goal is to change the way people act. We hope to see a world in which no one chooses to end the lives of their unborn children. However our goal is not to control people, but to instill a genuine respect for human life. The struggle to restore respect for the unborn is proving to [...]
Group dedicated to the spiritual, moral and ethical development of men hopes to hold future rallies in Canada. The Promise Keepers phenomenon is spreading to Canada. Representatives of the Christian men’s organization held a press conference in Burlington, Ontario recently to announce the start of a Canadian affiliate, making the first time the movement has gone beyond American borders. The groups leader’s [...]
Scheidler: “There was a KGB quality to the situation.” Pro-life supporters have criticized Canadian customs officials for “totalitarian” measures taken against two speakers invited to the November 10 - 12 Human Life International (HLI) conference in Calgary. Pro-life Action League executive director Joseph Scheidler of Chicago, and abortion vaccine authority Lawrence Roberge of Springfield, Massachusetts, were detained for 90 minutes by Canada [...]
Action days Here is some hot news!! Pro-life students around the province are working on OSFL Action Days. An OSFL Action Day is an exciting one day youth pro-life event. The schedule includes informative and inspirational speakers, practical “How to” workshops, a visible pro-life activity in the community, uniting together in a prayer service and then winding it up with a hip [...]
A youth conference in Ontario attracts 400. A similar conference in B.C. draws 250. It appears that the leaders of tomorrow are prepared to flex their muscles today. Ontario meet whips youth into action In October, the Ontario Students for Life held their sixth annual conference, “Life is Great?” It was a totally great, superb, fine, nice, delightful, educational, fun, amazing, but [...]
I think it is true to say that people who have dedicated their lives to the pro-life cause often feel pessimistic about the success of their efforts. The news seems always to be bad. There are more and more abortions and an even like the Beijing Conference does not augur well for the future of unborn life in Third World. But the [...]
Pharmacists for Life International is disputing mainstream media reports of “safe and quick” home abortion techniques using drugs already available for other uses. The reports say an American researcher has discovered that a combination of methotrexate (a drug used in chemotherapy) and misoprostol (a gastr-intestinal medicine) can induce abortions in 96 per cent of women during their first nine weeks of pregnancy. [...]
Pharmacists for Life International to uphold the humour and dignity of the pharmaceutical profession A desire to combat trends toward using medications to end or destroy human lives is one of the factors motivating the work of a group of pro-life pharmacists. Pharmacists for Life International was founded in the U.S. in 1984 and now has several thousand members in chapters covering [...]
You probably won’t find many physicians who, for eleven years, can picket a hospital they work in and get away with it. The 63-year-old family physician has been pounding the pavement with a “Justice for the Unborn” sign in front of Henderson Hospital in Hamilton, Ont. every Friday morning for just that long. His work is a response to the fact that [...]
Local press quick to put entire movement on trial. At a recent news conference held by Choose Life Canada, Randy Dyer, a Hamilton area pro-life activist, asked members of the media, “Where was the call for the beefed-up security for my son, and the other million-and-a half of his brothers and sisters, who were killed by abortion?” Dyer, had been interviewed the [...]
On October 25, a group of 40 pro-lifers demonstrated on the sidewalk in front of the Attorney General of Ontario’s office at 720 Bay Street in Toronto. The group was asking for the release of Linda Gibbons, the pro-life activist who is in jail for disobeying the injunction in effect at the abortuaries in Toronto, 60 feet from the front door. Signs [...]
It’s Thursday morning at McMaster University Medical Centre. Four men, placards in hand, are slowly walking back and forth on the sidewalk in front of the Hamilton, Ontario hospital, praying at some points and pausing to hand our pamphlets to passersby at others. The men are members of Hamilton-area Knights of Columbus councils and they are taking part in a weekly effort [...]
Not just another protest organization says president Jim Garrow At a time when the traditional family structure is under greater attack than ever, a new national organization has arisen to come to its defence. The national Parents Coalition of Canada was launched at the beginning of July by Jim Garrow of Guelph, Ont., who says he intends to keep the organization from [...]