It is gratifying for the Toronto Right to Life Association to note the generally favorable reception speakers receive at schools throughout southern Ontario. For an organization whose main thrust is educating the community about respect for live issues, a receptive younger audience is of prime importance. “Many of the students we speak to are open to the pro-life message,” said Toronto Right [...]
The efforts to sanctify and promote human life can take any number of forms. While any think of “pro-life” as the struggle to change hearts, minds and legislation in favour of unborn children, the term has implications outside the political arena. Christian Child Care International organization is comfortable being “pro-life.” Although the group does not work directly to counter abortion and euthanasia [...]
Campaign Life Coalition will participate in an October 25th prayer assembly to protest against the Chinese government’s one child per family policy. The prayer assembly is part of an international effort organized by the Global Society for Life. It is designed to draw attention to the anti-population position of the People’s Republic of China. Bowing to overpopulation fears, the Chinese government has [...]
The “Mission Impossible” theme ought to have been playing: Mr. Moore, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a column about what pro-life, pro-family people have to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.” In a year that saw: passage of Bill C-33, U.S. President the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ cash donation to the anti-life National Action Committee on [...]
Birthright, the internationally renowned pregnancy counseling service, has been denounced by The Varsity, the University of Toronto’s subsidized student newspaper. The Varsity will no longer carry Birthright ads because the ads did not specify the service was pro-life and because Birthright does not provide abortion referrals. The rejected ad was innocuous: “Somewhere along the way, you may be pregnant and need help. [...]
OTTAWA- REAL Women of Canada has criticized a Status of Women report calling for additional research into feminist policy issues. The report, said to reflect “different realities faced by women in Canada”, excludes mention of traditional families. According to REAL Women, the report recommends further expansion of the feminist, anti-family agenda allowing the STATUS of Women council to obtain funding from other [...]
The pro-life Christian Heritage Party is rebounding after several years of declining membership as it prepares for a federal election campaign expected next year, says its leader. “We are growing rapidly overall, most rapidly in Quebec, which is a very encouraging development,” says Ron Gray. “We’re attracting disaffected Reformers who are fed up with the political correctness beginning to seep in since [...]
Members of the pro-life, pro-family community are realizing the great urgency to form and join an international “Alliance of the Two Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary” to offset the impact of abortion, euthanasia, pornography, radical feminism and the anti-family mentality. The alliance is also aimed at ending the “culture of death” and its harmful effect on the family. The goal of [...]
Saying that “God feels you are the people to instruct,” anti-euthanasia crusader, Father Thomas Lynch, challenged the 480 women gathered at the annual Toronto’s Catholic Women’s League convention to “let the true facts be known.” Father Lynch, a professor of moral theology at St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto, used statistics and tales from pro-euthanasia Holland as proof that the push for euthanasia [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim While other kinds of expression have been stifled by political correctness in Canada, Catholic-bashing still seems to thrive. However, the Catholic Civil Rights League is working to see that the anomaly is addressed. The Toronto-based CCRL was founded inl985 with a desire to make the Catholic presence on the Canadian political scene more evident, as well as to [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim For almost 15 years, a Toronto-based institute has been serving as a one-of-a-kind research resource for Canadian pro-life supporters. The De Veber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research (formerly known as the Human Life Research Institute) retains experts from a variety of fields to perform research which has resulted in the publication of several reports and books. “We [...]
Interim Staff Priests for Life, an association of clergy who give special emphasis to promoting and defending the sanctity of life, has recently been established in Canada, with the support of Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of PFL in New York. Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Vatican City has said, “I remember when I first came [...]
Berton, Callwood, Hall, Forrester, Christie and Morgentaler honour founders of abortion group Pro-lifers put a crimp in plans to honour long-time abortion supporters Norma Scarborough, founder of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL) and Toronto Star columnist Michelle Landsberg. Guests attending a January 29 dinner for Scarborough and Landsberg ran headlong into an orderly line of demonstrators, who braved cold temperatures [...]
The fifth annual Skate for Life was held on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa on February 10. “The Skate,” as it has become to be known, is an event where young pro-lifers come together and encourage one another in their pro-life views. It sends a powerful message to Ottawa: These young people stand for Life. This year highschool students from London, Sarnia, [...]
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 [...]