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 [...]
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 [...]
The U.S. pro-life movement must decide what to do with Ralph Reed and the Christian Coalition RALPH REED: A WASHINGTON MOVER AND SHAKER. On the first weekend of September, 4,000 people attended a convention which could well define the future of the American people. Those present at the Christian Coalition’s “Road to Victory” Convention say it could be the necessary tonic to [...]
The Christian Heritage Party of Canada will hold its fifth National Convention from November 15-18, at the Radisson Hotel in London, Ontario. Delegates from across Canada will deal with a challenging agenda including policy updates on abortion and euthanasia. Both issues will be discussed at workshops presided over by special guest speakers Partricia Bainbridge, Executive Director of Life Decisions (U.S), together with [...]
Strips of attractive pro-life stamps went on sale at the National Pro-Life Conference on the June 22-24th weekend in London, Ontario produced by Campaign Life Coalition. The stark message that these “stamps” dramatically bring to the viewer is that one and a half million babies have been aborted in Canada since 1969. If we have become a nation of “old people” it [...]