Articles from 1995
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Written on 29 May, 1995 at 12:42 in
Bioethics, Health Risks | Author:
Interim Staff The Consent to Treatment Act (which came into force on April 3, 1995) sets out conditions under which Health Practitioners (HPs) are permitted to administer treatment to patients. (The term Health Practitioner includes: school doctors, nurses and psychologists; public health nurses, and doctors and nurses on staff at birth-control centres and abortion clinics.)
Although one of the main purposes of the Act is to codify legal understanding of the term “informed consent,” it removes from parents their constitutional right and legal ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 12:26 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Politics | Author:
Interim Staff Imagine, you’ve done nothing wrong, nothing illegal. You’re not charged with anything by the police. But the government doesn’t like your opinion. So it seeks an injunction to prevent you from expressing this opinion, from speaking to people and giving out information, or even praying in a quiet and peaceful manner in public places, and it seeks $500,000 in damages against you. As an ordinary citizen, you can’t afford to pay all the legal costs to defend yourself against the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 12:24 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Abortion statistics | Author:
Interim Staff The essential question in determining whether the Ontario Government has the legal right to de-insure abortion is a straightforward one:
Who defines what is medically “necessary” under the Canada Health Act?
IT’S A FACT: Section 3 of the Canada Health Act states that…”The primary objective of Canadian health care policy is to protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well being of residents of Canada…”
IT’S A FACT: The Act provides that provincial health insurance plans must cover “insured health services” ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 12:21 in
Abortion, Pro-life Groups | Author:
Tony Gosnach The man who admits he “uncaged the abortion monster in the Western world” is now taking instruction in the Catholic Church
Father Frank Pavone, the leader of Priests for Life, calls Bernard Nathanson’s story a testimony to the grace of God. Indeed once you’ve heard the account, it is hard to argue otherwise.
Nathanson, in his own words, helped “uncage the abortion monster in the Western world” as a co-founder of the National Rights Action League (NARAL) and once ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 12:08 in
Activism, Pro-life Groups, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff It was, for all intents and purposes, a hit list and had it not targeted pro-lifers, they wouldn’t have gotten away with it.
In April, a free “entertainment” paper available on the streets of Montreal called the Mirror, (similar to Now Magazine in Toronto) printed an article with the banner headline “HLI’s top 10 extremists.”
The article was an attempt to discredit the pro-life organization Human Life International and steal thunder from its successful April conference in Montreal.
Filled with vague generalities and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 11:13 in
Abortion, Pro-Life | Author:
Fr. Ted Colleton It would be impossible to give an exhaustive account of this wonderful Human Life International Convention in a brief article, so I shall try to stress the salient and exciting aspects of it.
The Convention commenced with a High Mass in the beautiful Basilica of Notre Dame, in Montreal. After came the much talked about Rosary Procession from the Basilica to the Radisson Hotel, where the convention was held.
We had been warned by the police and the organizers of the Convention ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 10:27 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Politics | Author:
Paul Dodds As pro-life people in Ontario go about deciding how they should vote in the up-coming provincial election, there is one name they should bear in mind. That is Tom Wappel. Since being elected to the federal parliament in 1988, Tom has been a tireless advocate for the unborn. A crucial question for pro-life voters in Ontario is why wasn’t there a Tom Wappel in the last provincial legislature?
Even before Tom appeared in Ottawa, pro-life people have been blessed ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 10:14 in
Abortion, Bioethics, Euthanasia | Author:
Winifride Prestwich Discussion following the recent memorial service for Nazi victims raised two questions: who was the US physician at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi doctors; how did he link the euthanasia movement with their crimes? M.J.S. Ottawa
Dr. Leo Alexander, psychiatrist of Tufts Medical School, was the U.S. expert who drafted the Nuremberg Code of Medical Ethics used in the trial of Nazi doctors. In 1949 he wrote a landmark article, “Medical Science under Dictatorship” which has been quoted ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 10:11 in
Pro-Life, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff I would now like to say a special word to women who have had an abortion. The Church is aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and she does not doubt that in many cases it was a painful and even shattering decision. The wound in your heart may not yet have healed. Certainly what happened was and remains terribly wrong. But do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope. Try rather to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 9:56 in
Abortion, Pro-Life, Pro-life Groups | Author:
Guest Columnist As the large, heavy doors of Old Montreal’s beautiful Notre Dame Basilica slowly swung open, I could hardly believe what I was seeing.
Dozens of helmeted and visored riot police clutching truncheons were roaming the street in front of the church. Behind them, several hundred protestors kept back by metal barricades, were throwing various objects – glass-filled condoms, vegetables, firecrackers, bottles, eggs and sticks, among other things – at the police and those of us leaving the church.
It was the conclusion ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 9:47 in
Editorials | Author:
Interim Staff When Kate Michelman of the U.S. National Abortion Rights Action League says a Republican plan to establish voluntary prayer in public schools is “about establishing a theocracy in this nation” her words are taken at face value. Despite the ridiculousness of her claim, she is not accused of promoting a wild conspiracy theory.
When members of a pro-life contingent say that the United States, working through the UN, has an agenda to curb the ever-burgeoning Third World population, they are ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 9:41 in
Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Fr. Alphonse de Valk
The main question about Pope John Paul II’s newest encyclical, The Gospel of Life, is what are we going to do about it?
Do not be mistaken. This is not just another papal document on some religious aspect or other such as Laborem exercens (1981), on the dignity of work, or Familiaris consortio (1981), on the family, or any of the other topics such as “the work of the Holy Spirit” (1986) or “the role of the laity” ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 9:36 in
Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia | Author:
Interim Staff No jail time for doctor convicted of murdering disabled child
A Dutch doctor who ended the life of a handicapped child has been found guilty of murder.
Incredibly, not only did the judge free him without sentence but even went so far as commending the doctor for his “integrity and courage.”
This case was supposed to be a test of the controversial Dutch mercy killing law which allows doctors to end the life of a terminally ill patient if the patient ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 9:33 in
Bioethics, Health Risks, Motherhood, Population | Author:
Patricia Ryan Those who follow the workings of the various anti-population organizations have long feared the possibility of an anti-human vaccination.
These fears may now have been realized with the discovery of an anti-tetanus vaccine, administered by the World Health Organization, which may have destroyed the fertility of millions in the Third World.
Several pro-life agencies, including Human Life International and International Right to Life, have discovered that a tetanus vaccine administered to women in the Philippines and Mexico and Nicaragua also contains ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 9:33 in
Pro-Life | Author:
Interim Staff Another manifestation of the money-crunch being felt in Alberta is that some hospitals have stopped doing pre-natal tests. The January 23 Western Report notes that the Alberta Children’s Hospital (ACH) has ended doing tests to determine whether a child has Down Syndrome. These tests were carried out at $70.00 per test and often culminated in abortion if the test results were “unsatisfactory.” Pro-life doctors have always maintained that these pre-natal tests were simply “search and destroy” missions to eliminate any ... (Continue reading)
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