Book Review
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Written on 25 Jun, 1989 at 7:26 in
Book Review | Author:
Hugh Loughran Counter Productive Booklet
This publication, subtitled, “A workshop on Abortion,” was prepared by the Pastoral Team of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Ottawa (CCCB).
The Introduction adopts the rhetoric of the abortionists. We are told that “the abortion issue is very complex,” that “abortion is a highly emotional issue,” that we are to participate in a discussion about abortion with “compassion, integrity and faith.” The quoted words, with the obvious exceptions of integrity and faith, are stock-in-trade of those ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Feb, 1989 at 7:00 in
Abortion, Book Review | Author:
Denyse O’Leary, ed. “No Easy Answers” Burlington, Ontario, Welch Publishing Co., 1988. 165pp.
Can abortion be viewed as a necessary service for women? Pro-life organizations, of course, oppose this view; and in support they can point to the serious physical and psychological damage abortion may cause. In the last two essays in this collection, Mary Parthun and Anne Kiss describe the evidence concerning post-abortion syndrome in some detail, and Heather Morris and Lorraine Williams summarize the physical consequences of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Jan, 1989 at 11:01 in
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by T.R. Brunette
“The War Against Population
The Economics and Ideology of Population Control”
Jacqueline Kasun
Ignatius Press
San Francisco
“Overpopulation” is one of the most devoutly held dogmas of our time. The government, the media, the education system periodically issue stern forebodings of the economic, ecological and personal disasters that are just around the corner if we do not act immediately to control the proliferation of people, people, people.
Occasionally we note contradictions in this tide of information. The same groups insisting on “choice” and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Jan, 1989 at 11:01 in
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I am happy to announce the arrival of Life Lines of Verse, book of poetry, verse and stories, gathered from Canadians coast to coast for the purpose of furthering the Pro-Life cause. Dedicated to unborn human life, this book has 100 pages, in which a balance was struck between submissions on the question of abortion, as well as family and nature topics; touches of humour and art are added. I am sure you will agree that the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Nov, 1988 at 11:33 in
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Book Review: by Douglas Ball
George Grant Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood is an international network of affiliated organizations whose chief aim is the slaughter of the unborn in the name of sexual liberation, population control, and eugenic manipulation.
In this book, George Grant, an American pro-life activist, has given us almost 300 pages of compelling and extensive factual evidence, carefully and interestingly presented and replete with personal stories of people who have been touched and tainted by Planned Parenthood, from ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 Apr, 1988 at 7:41 in
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David Dooley Politics, people & the AIDS epidemic
This blockbuster of a book tells how, figuratively speaking, the band played on while the AIDS crisis got worse and worse. Lengthy and detailed though it is, it sustains the reader’s interest through its narrative method. It is divided into short segments, which switch rapidly from one scene to another- San Francisco, New York, the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, dramatis personae. They bring in a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Dec, 1987 at 14:02 in
Book Review | Author:
Doreen Beagan
Canadian feminists are outraged. A Toronto woman, Betty Steele, has published a book critical of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Canada.
In The Feminist Takeover, she dares to suggest that men never deserved the feminist image of them as evil oppressors and male chauvinist pigs. That the housewife-mother makes an inestimable contribution to our society. That our children yearn for both a mother and a father.
Subtitled “Patriarchy to Matriarchy in Two Decades,” Steele’s book outlines the rapid growth of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Nov, 1986 at 6:32 in
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“Hey Anita, would you do a review of this book? I was supposed to do it but I don’t have the time.”
“Sure!” I said, and dumped the book into my purse.
On the way home that evening, riding on the subway, I started reading. The book, Secret Child by Nancy Moore, captured my attention right from the first line: “You’re pregnant.” By the second page I felt the sadness and loneliness that Nancy had felt when her child was given ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Aug, 1985 at 13:32 in
Abortion, Book Review | Author:
David Dooley
In the prologue to this book, there is a moving tribute to Sir William Liley, who, Nathanson says, recognized the irreconcilable opposition between fetology and the abortion ethic before anyone else. He quotes a comment by Liley concerning the bitter irony of recent events. Our generation, Liley said, is the first ever to have a reasonably complete picture of the development of the human being: ”In 1930s the liberation of a human egg from the ovary was observed. ... (Continue reading)
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