Pro-lifers are by now well aware of media bias in reporting abortion-related stories, but two Ottawa radio stations have carried this bias a step further. Other CFGO and CHEZ radio stations refused to accept $1,000 advertising contracts from Action Life to run pro-life radio ads. The ads, used by Action Life in previous years, outline the details of fetal development. Action Life chose the stations because they comprise the largest listening audience in the under 24-age group.

CFGO and CHEZ refused the ads because they did not conform to “station policy”. CFGO Station Manager Paul Nattal has refused to speak to Action Life personnel. A request for a written explanation of the matter was also refused. CHEZ salespersons were similarly unhelpful in providing an explanation of their station’s position.

Two other radio stations CFRA and CJSB agreed to run the ads, showing a degree of professionalism far beyond that of CFGO and CHEZ. However, by using these stations Action Life was not able to reach the young listening audience it had intended to reach.

Pro-life night-Ontario

A Kingston-area women’s league raised over $1800 for Vita Pro-Life last month.

The Catholic Women’s League of St. Barnaby’s Catholic Church in Brewers Mills raised $1813 through a night of pro-life activities and a Mother’s Day raffle.

The fund-raising night included a showing of the film, the Silent Scream, followed by a panel discussion. The guest panel included Dr. Michael Ferri, Mrs. Therese Ferri, Mrs. Mary Ellen Douglas and Rev. J.P. Ainslie.

The CWL also sold raffle tickets for a donated Cabbage Patch Doll. Tickets were sold in the local separate schools and in the Kingston Shopping Centre. The winner was Tana Gordanier of Kingston.

The CWL presented the money to Mrs. Mary Ellen Douglas, president of Vita in June.

Toronto adoption? Wait seven years

Some Children’s Aid Societies in Ontario have stopped accepting applications for home studies of childless couples. The number of available newborns has dwindled to practically nothing due to contraception, sterilization and abortion.

According to the Globe ( May 26), Peel Children’s Aid Society cut off applications in 1980 and still has 80 families on its waiting list. The Durham CAS is telling applicants that it will be “up to five years before we can do a home study for placement.” Another Metro Toronto agency, York CAS, had closed its list but then re-opened it in 1983 only to advise applicants they face a delay of seven years until a home study would be done for an infant placement.