AT HOME

Wrapping and trashing pornography

For the week of October 29 to November 5, White Ribbons Against Pornography (WRAP) hung in the store windows and from the trees in the farming community of Wyoming, Ontario. The ribbons were the most visible aspect of a campaign for public decency organized by a mother of four, Femmy Anjema, and others. Canadians who would like to do the same should write to Canadians for Decency, P.O. Box 637, Stn. B, Willowdale, Ontario M2K 2P9

No fifth estate

Over the past two years Calgary Pro-Life Association president Lynda Turner has routinely complained of an unmistakable pro-abortion bias in the pages of the Calgary Herald. Jim Scott, Ombudsman for the newspaper, finally admitted in an October 15 column that “there has been minimal representation of the pro-life viewpoint,” but columnists do not “march in lock-step to some preconceived agenda.” A shame Scott wasn’t at the Calgary Public Library a month before to hear Catherine Ford, Associate Editor of the Herald, brag about how she had swung the paper’s columnists around to a pro-abortion stance.

Lesbianism 101

Concordia University’s Winter/Spring 1990 course catalogue will offer Canada’s first accredited lesbian studies course. Said Shari Clarke, a member of the Lesbian Studies Coalition at the Montreal university, “This course finally acknowledges lesbianism as a legitimate area of study.”

Fast forward

Concordia University’s Winter/Spring 2010 course catalogue will offer Canada’s first accredited necrophilia studies course. Said Count Dracula, a member of the Necrophilia Studies Coalition at the Montreal university, “This course finally acknowledges necrophilia as a legitimate area of study.”

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Pro-abortionists “Bushed”

Twice in one week, President George Bush stood firm against legislative threats to human life. A Health and Human Services bill would have bankrolled abortions for rape and incest. President Bush vetoed the bill October 21.

Champions for life

Six members of the 1987 Super Bowl-winning New York Giants football team appear in a pro-life video produced by the American Life League’s Athletes for Life division.

Fifty bucks a body part

H. Fred Voss, president of Hana Biologics admitted before the Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Panel Sept. 15 that the company buys the tissue of aborted babies.

The beginning of the end?

Following the recent protective law easily passed in the Pennsylvania legislature, Pro-Life Action League president Joe Scheidler predicted that “within 18 months, at least 30 states will’ve passed legislation restricting abortion and, thereby, protecting unborn children.”

The people have spoken?

New York’s Pro-Choice Coalition recently published a list of its supporters including: Bill Baird Institute, Freedom Socialist Party, Hunter College-Third World Women’s Collective and Revolutionary Communist Party.

Huddled, pregnant masses

By a vote of 300-115 November 2, the House of Representatives amended the Emergency Chinese Refugee Act to allow U.S. asylum for those fleeing China’s repressive abortion, sterilization and contraception programs.

“Personally, I’m against murder…”

It has properly passed laws to abolish slavery, end discrimination and proscribe murder because these are intrinsically evil. The next moral frontier for the state, said the RC Bishops of New Jersey October 30, is to ban abortion.

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Saving lives in New Zealand

We are engaged in a spiritual battle for the lives of children, Ross Bolton told an October organizational meeting of New Zealand’s growing Operation Rescue movement. New Zealand’s answer to Joan Andrews, Bolton has been arrested a dozen times for trespassing at the Epsom Day Hospital abortuary in Auckland.

Blood Red China

From 1985 to 1987, one out of every three Chinese babies died at the hands of abortionists – 32 million according to an official government report.

RU-486 Axis

France, China – and now Sweden permit chemical warfare on the pre-born. Beginning in 1990, the Karolinska Institute will initiate field trials of RU-486 as a “preventive pill.”

And the winner – Dr. Contragestion

In the October 6 volume of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Etienne-Emile Beaulieu – this year awarded the prestigious Planned Parenthood-supported Lasker Medical Research Prize – describes the development and action of his own “contragestion” (literally, “against pregnancy”) pill, RU-486.

Pill pushers in

In the run-up to a public policy decision, Britain’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists declared October 26 that RU-486 is safe and cheap.

Pill pushers out

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the National University recently halted joint trials of RU-486 in Singapore.

A growing club

Chile joined the pro-life nations of Ireland, Malta and the Philippines when its government totally banned abortion August 22.