Articles from 1997
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 13:15 in
Activism, Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Interim staff
Ontario's pro-life community lost two prominent supporters with the recent passing of Monsignor Ralph Egan of Toronto and Dr. Bernharda Meyer of Waterloo.
Msgr. Egan, 96, died February 8 at LaSalle Manor in Scarborough. In addition to his long service in the Catholic priesthood, the monsignor was noted for his various publishing efforts, including the St. Maximilian Kolbe Apostolate for the Printed Word which he established six years ago at the age of 90.
Many of the themes discussed by ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 13:12 in
Abortion, Abortion statistics | Author:
Dr. John Shea
Interim Special
Janice Mawhinney reported in the Toronto Star February 4, 1997, that the Toronto Public Health Department has established birth control clinics in five Toronto high schools and that these clinics provide what she called ECP (Emergency Contraceptive Prevention). Children from the age of 14 upwards are accepted at these clinics. The Department of Health is contemplating the opening of further such clinics in other high schools. This is their response to an increasing teen pregnancy rate in Toronto, which has ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 13:11 in
Abortion, Book Review, Post-abortion and Health Care | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
The Jericho Plan: Breaking Down the Walls which Prevent Post-Abortion Healing
By David C. Reardon
Acorn Books, 120 pages
Book Review
David C. Reardon has performed a public service in the writing of his latest book on post-abortion healing. “Public” because although the book is geared primarily to church ministers who have to deal with the often touchy subject of abortion, it is of value to anyone whom the abortion issue touches in some way – which these days (in light of the legacy ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 13:09 in
Book Review, Morgentaler | Author:
Sue Careless
Beginning Life: the Marvellous Journey from Conception to Birth
By Geraldine Lux Flanagan
Firefly Books, Willowdale, Ont.
120 pages, $26.00
Book Review
If you thought the womb was dark and silent and that you spent your time there tightly curled up in a permanent fetal position, you need to read Geraldine Lux Flanagan’s Beginning Life: the Marvellous Journey from Conception to Birth.
“I have never found this to be ‘cold science’,” says Flanagan, “but colourful and vivid.” Combining stunning photographs with a lucid text, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 13:08 in
Abortion, Book Review, Morgentaler | Author:
David Packer
Morgentaler, A Difficult Hero
By Catherine Dunphy
Random House Canada, 1996
474 pages, $32
Book Review
A child is born in the ghetto. His parents are socialist, atheist. They belong to a despised race. At school the child is taunted and reviled. He is a very clever child.
Soldiers of a brutal invading army come and seal hi ghetto, then routinely break the inhabitants through violence and deprivation. The child’s father is taken and killed. The family is taken to an extermination camp. On ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 13:06 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Jakki Jeffs
For over three decades we have experienced a growing and radical attack on the traditional family and its position as the primary unit of a stable society.
Young people have adopted society’s apparent acceptance that marriage itself is a transitory, and just like any other monogamous relationship, one can go from one marriage to another until we get it right. In this maelstrom what happens to our children? We have developed a lifestyle in which parents’ responsibilities towards their children ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 13:05 in
Society & Culture | Author:
Given the oceans of ink and hours of air time expended by Canada's print and electronic media over the past decade or so on the topic of violent abuse and harassment of women in our society, one might reasonably expect that an incident in which a female Member of Parliament was publicly swarmed, pushed and shoved, as well as subjected to hostile verbal intimidation by a group of males, would elicit some editorial condemnation – even outrage.
Think again, at ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 13:02 in
Sex Education, Society & Culture | Author:
Sue Careless
"The big lie of pornography is, 'There are no victims.' I am a victim of pornography" claims Tonya Flynt-Vega, the daughter of Larry Flynt, owner and publisher of the hard core porn magazine, Hustler.
Flynt-Vega says the film, The People vs. Larry Flynt, paints her father as a free press champion. "He's not a hero. He's a pornographer, a pimp and a child molester."
Flynt-Vega, 32, made the allegations during a media blitz in Toronto, Feb. 4-5. She says her ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 13:00 in
Abortion, Activism, Pro-Life | Author:
Interim special
Efforts to present abortion seeking women with the life-affirming alternative – similar to those practised at Aid to Women – received a boost in the United States in mid-February.
In a February 19 decision the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of pro-life counsellors to speak to patients entering abortion clinics. The ruling, which is seen as a tremendous freedom of speech victory, allows counsellors to speak to and walk alongside abortion-seeking women, so long as the counsellors do ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 12:58 in
Abortion, Activism, Crisis pregnancy centres | Author:
Interim staff
Allison James and Lucy Composano – two women, separated by age, race and circumstance,. Unique lives, yet sharing an experience that would affirm life in all its happiness and struggle, uncertainty and love.
Both have faced a difficult, even frightening decision. An unplanned pregnancy, a period of uncertainty and doubt. Where to turn? How to cope?
One solution seemed so convenient. Find the address of that downtown abortuary and have it over with. Three hundred bucks and the problem ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 12:54 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Sue Careless
Patricia and Joe Bok live on a 22 acre farm with a pear orchard. The Boks have four children of their own, aged 7 to 15. For the past three years the Bok family have opened their home to six foster children through Jewels for Jesus. The oldest child was almost four. Most of the foster children stay from three to six months. Only one child is placed in their home at a time, unless they are siblings.
"We still ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 12:53 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
In adoption by consent the child is voluntarily placed for adoption by the birth parent(s). It is possible through both public and private adoption agencies. The child is often a newborn but can be an older child.
The adoptive parents have been approved by a home study by the Ministry of Social Services or a Children's Aid Society (CAS). The child can go straight from hospital into an approved adoptive family if the birth parents request it. The birth mother, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 12:51 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Sue Careless
Joan Kosmachuk, Executive Director of Jewels for Jesus Adoption Agency in Mississauga, Ontario, spoke recently with Sue Careless of The Interim.
In the 1980's much of the stigma surrounding single parenting was removed, bug a new stigma was placed on women choosing adoption. Society said, "You could abort or single-parent but heaven forbid if you place your child for adoption."
In the last couple of years we have come to see the fallout from the push for single-parenting in the eighties. Some ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 12:50 in
Across Canada | Author:
Unborn with right to sue
MONCTON – A New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench ruling allows children to sue their parents for injuries suffered while in the womb. The case involves four-year-old Ryan Dobson who was injured in a 1993 car crash near Moncton. The child was born three months premature and remains permanently disabled. The suit was launched on the boy's behalf in 1995, alleging that the boy's mother, who was also injured in the crash, was negligent. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 12:48 in
Pro-Life, Pro-life Groups | Author:
Mike Mastromatteo
Priests for Life, an organization of priests, deacons and lay people working to combat abortion and euthanasia, is going international.
The Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family has asked U.S. National director Frank Pavone to establish Priests for Life chapters in countries around the world. Father Pavone will also co-ordinate pro-life movements worldwide.
Priests for Life is an officially approved association which prepares educational materials and information kits to help priests respond more readily to right to life issues.
Father Pavone ... (Continue reading)
