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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 26 Feb, 1997 at 7:59 in
Activism, Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Lianne Laurence I often think of him with his cigarettes, stand there pondering things philosophically, but he was always in the action. He was a man after God’s heart.” So does rescuer Linda Gibbons describe her former colleague William de Marois, who died Dec. 22, 1996 of complication from lung cancer at St. Michael’s Hospital Toronto. He was 71.
Born William Robert Fournier of Cregton Mines, Ont, Feb 6, 1925, the man who pro-lifers knew as Bill de Marios-his stage name-or the Professor, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Feb, 1997 at 7:53 in
Abortion, Motherhood, Profiles | Author:
The short newspaper notice announcing the death of Cathy Holt of Maple Ridge on December 9 gave no clue as to the cause of her death. It was cancer. But that tells only part of the story. It might also be said that Mrs. Holt, just 32 gave her life so he second child, Julianna, could live.
It was exactly six years ago December when, after finding some lumps in her breasts, Mrs. Holt entered hospital for tests. There she would ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Feb, 1997 at 7:49 in
Abortion, Book Review, Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
Sue Careless Review by Sue Careless
A Community Affair: Solving the problem of teen pregnancy and disease by Marilyn Bergeron. Wireless Publishing 135 pages, softcover Available for $13 Canadian, 10 U.S. plus $3.00 shipping and handling from CAC, 7 Albert St. Cornwall, ON K6H 4E7, l996
Marilyn Bergeron is an empowerer. She enables young people to master the art of sexual self-control. For the past seven years, she had spoken about sexuality, relations and dating to thousands of teens not only in North and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Feb, 1997 at 7:39 in
Activism, Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
At a stage in life when many people might start looking to wind down, one of the pro-life movement’s more colourful figures is still going strong.
Ken Campbell, the 62-year-old Milton, Ontario evangelist and founder of Choose Life Canada, is engrossed in a whirlwind of activity these days –standing in the midst of controversies over the federal government’s pro-homosexual rights legislation, Linda Gibbons’ imprisonment for pro-life picketing, prayer in public schools, the use of an obscene ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Feb, 1997 at 14:02 in
Book Review, Planned Parenthood | Author:
George Grant, Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood, 2nd edition (Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1992), 314pp. and Douglas Scott, Bad Choices: A Look Inside Planned Parenthood (Franklin, Tennessee: Legacy Communications, 1992), 294pp.
Reviews by David Curtin
In Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood, George Grant urges that Planned Parenthood was founded on a mixture of ideologies-including racism and sexual libertinism-and that those ideologies persist in the movement to this day. He bases his argument on the writings ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Feb, 1997 at 14:01 in
Book Review, Planned Parenthood | Author:
The steady growth of International Planned Parenthood Federation has spawned something of an industry of criticism and exposes. Many of the studies are exhaustive, richly- detailed works, which generally relate the life and ideals of Margaret Sanger to present-day Planned Parenthood initiatives.
A useful addition to the reading list is the Human Life International booklet Deadly Deception. This instructive and concise work offers a penetrating expose of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. The book exists in six volumes, one for ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Feb, 1997 at 13:55 in
Planned Parenthood, Profiles | Author:
Many biographies of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger are extremely sympathetic to their subject, some to the point of fawning.
The Sanger life is an interesting one, from her birth in upstate New York in 1879, to her death in Tuscon, Arizona in September, 1996. Whatever one’s views on abortion, contraception and family planning, there is little doubt Sanger’s formative years and her rise as a champion of American feminism, social reform and “reproductive choice”, make for ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Jan, 1997 at 8:39 in
Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Sue Careless
When the popular pro-life writer, Frank Kennedy, was three, the obligatory public health sign went up outside his house: Poliomyelitis. Inside little Frank kept falling down and hitting his head against a table. He had contracted polio and had to learn to walk all over again.
It was especially hard on his parents since they had already lost their first child to tuberculosis at the same age.
His father, who was a semi-invalid, spent hours massaging and then exercising the atrophied muscles ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Nov, 1996 at 8:41 in
Activism, Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Interim staff
Toronto’s pro-life community lost one of its most dedicated supporters with the October 3 death of Thomas McMorrow of Scarborough.
Mr. McMorrow, 83, died of cancer after a long illness.
Born November 4, 1912 in Dublin, Ireland, Mr. McMorrow came to Canada in 1931 and shortly thereafter began a small grocery store business in the Highland Creek area of Scarborough. The store expanded over the years and it became a popular spot for young people growing up in the neighbourhood.
Mr. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Nov, 1996 at 8:31 in
Book Review, Pro-Life, Religion | Author:
David Curtin Pope John Paul II’s 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae (“The Gospel of Life”) proclaims in our day the Catholic Church’s teaching on the sacredness of all human life. The letter is a work of great beauty and power; but to ensure that it will not become a “dead letter,” the pope has called upon all Catholics – particularly those with special responsibilities in the Church – to “ensure that the doctrine which is one again being set ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Nov, 1996 at 7:45 in
Activism, Pro-Life, Pro-life Groups, Profiles | Author:
Interim staff
Alliance for Life Ontario is welcoming Chatham resident Mary Ann Miller to her second term as president of the provincial pro-life organization.
Miller, a 15 year veteran of pro-life volunteer work, officially assumes the president’s position at the Alliance for Life all-Ontario conference November 1-2 in North Bay. She will work with Alliance for Life Executive Director Jakki Jeffs and an executive committee in co-ordinating the efforts of Alliance for Life’s 74 Ontario branches. The alliance includes 250 member ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Nov, 1996 at 7:40 in
Activism, Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Frank Kennedy
I remember the time a few years ago when Jim Hughes called and asked me if I would go out to Pearson Airport, which is just on the outskirts of Toronto, the following afternoon, and pick up Joe Borowski who was flying in from Winnipeg. Joe was supposed to arrive at Terminal III for a pro-life conference and I was to drive him down to the Bond Place Hotel where he would be staying. I agreed. I felt privileged.
I have ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Nov, 1996 at 7:32 in
Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Winifride Prestwich
“And all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.”
It is over fifty years since I read Pilgrims Progress, but these were the first words I thought of when I heard that Joe Borowski was dead. I was sure that hosts of his Pro-Life friends “on the other side” were there to welcome him home. He was unique, a legend in his day, not only in Canada but world-wide.
Joe was a politician who had his ... (Continue reading)
