In the 1970s and 1980s, a solitary figure wearing a hat and dark glasses would slip into the back pew of Ottawa’s Notre Dame Basilica on Sussex Drive, several times a week, just in time to attend Mass. Forty years ago, this solitary devotee of the Mass began his tenure as Prime Minister of Canada, and instigated and institutionalized a legal, ... (Continue reading)
Pro-life photographer harassed by cops Long-time Canadian pro-life activist Linda Gibbons was arrested May 15 after silently protesting at the Scott abortuary on Gerrard Street in downtown Toronto. Just before 9 a.m., Gibbons dumped approximately 100 headless plastic dolls on the steps of the abortion facility. She carried a sign with a ... (Continue reading)
Bill C-484, Ken Epp’s private member’s bill entitled the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, has passed First Reading and has had its first hour of debate. Thus far, there has been no political maneuvering to try to prevent discussion on it, nor have Department of Justice shenanigans declared the bill unconstitutional because it infringes on a woman’s “right to choose.” It is still a ... (Continue reading)
Seven Moncton-based women’s rights activists are preparing to take New Brunswick to the Supreme Court to force it to pay for all abortions. At present, it covers only those deemed “medically necessary” by two specialists, and those performed in a hospital by a gynecologist-obstetrician. Only two ob-gyns in the province commit abortions. The group claims to include doctors who ... (Continue reading)
First pro- life legal win in recent years ends government crackdown and breaths new life into pro-life witnessing. Pro-life groups across the country are hailing the decision of the B.C. Provincial Court to strike down the bill 48 (Access to Abortion Services Act), the legislation banning picketing around B.C. abortion clinics. In January 23 decision, Judge E.J Cronin said Bill 48 violates freedom of conscience and religion guarantees under the Canadian Charter Of Rights and Freedoms. The judge ruled the act is ... (Continue reading)
Urged by pro-abortion advocates, Clinton may veto ban on grisly abortion procedure Pro-lifers on both sides of the border are watching with interest the latest developments in the partial-birth abortion debate in the United States. Late last year, both U.S. Congressional Houses approved the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, a bill outlawing the gruesome abortion procedure. With a partial-birth abortion, the unborn child is manipulated in its mother’s womb so that it can be delivered face down, feet first. Once the child’s legs, torso, ... (Continue reading)
Vancouver sees the first challenge to very restrictive anti-picketing law It’s not the first time that B.C.’s “prisoner for the Lord” has been in jail. Nor is it likely to be the last. But John Doe, a.k.a. Maurice Lewis is determined to do what he can to test British Columbia’s new draconian “bubble law.” The bubble zone law keeps anyone voicing public disapproval to abortion 50 metres away from abortion mills. Lewis sits in a Vancouver jail cell, the first ... (Continue reading)
Planned Parenthood tries to join forces with Clinton and the American Medical Association to block bill which would end gruesome abortion practice On November 1, 1995, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to bn the “partial birth” abortion method known as D&X. The method consists of partially delivering a baby feet first, inserting scissors into the baby’s skull and sucking out the contents of the brain while the baby’s head is still in the birth canal. The House voted 288 –139 to ... (Continue reading)
Habitat 11 may prove to be another testing ground for pro-family forces The next large U.N. conference Habitat 11 to be held in Istanbul June 3-14, 1996 is to address the problems of human settlements . Many fear that this conference will be an attempt to implement at the local level all the radical policies adopted in Cairo, Rio, Copenhagan and Being. In the September Habitat 11 newsletter, Countdown to Instanbul, Wally N’Dow, Secretary-General of Habitat11, proudly announces that this issue is ... (Continue reading)
Premier Ralph Klein and the Alberta College of Physicians and surgeons play a shameless game of political football in an effort to defuse a popular movement In the end the Alberta government’s efforts to de-fund abortions seemed to vapourize into thin air. However, Premier Ralph Klein’s decision not to handle this hot potato may have landed him in hot water with ma y of his strongest supporters. After months of pressure from taxpayer groups and ordinary Albertans, Klein was forced to ... (Continue reading)
A legal battle between the province of New Brunswick and Henry Morgentaler ended on August 17 when the Supreme Court rejected a provincial application for an appeal hearing. The lengthy legal battle began in the summer of 1994 when Morgentaler opened an abortuary in Fredericton. The province reacted swiftly and firmly by denying Morgentaler his medical licence and by using a 1985 amendment to the New Brunswick’s Medical Act referring to abortions performed outside of hospital. In September, 1994, Court of Queen’s ... (Continue reading)
U.S. government stays silent relying on Canadian delegation to push radical agenda at women’s conference. A frustrated African delegate summed up the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing by asking, “Is this conference on women, or is it about population and sex.” Many other delegates left the conference with the same question. They also left feeling it could have been a lot worse. Forty-seven countries made reservations on parts of the Beijing document, mostly sections dealing with sexual and reproductive health, ... (Continue reading)
Parliament is due to return September 18. In the past six years of praying, fasting and witnessing on Parliament Hill some of the victories I have noticed are these: The defeat of Bill C-43, the essentially flawed abortion bill passed by the Mulroney government at the end of May 1990, by a 43-43 tie vote in the Senate at the end of January 1991. This was a great ... (Continue reading)
Next year is an election year in the U.S. and President Bill Clinton is once again worried about family values. Acting on the advice of his handlers, the president has begun to shy away from liberal interest groups, trying to position himself as a more moderate president. Thus, the U.S. delegation could not afford to look like radicals at the United Nations Women’s Conference in Beijing. Clinton is no ideologue – he knows few Americans care about a women’s conference in China. ... (Continue reading)
Sharon Hayes, Reform MP for Port Moody-Coquitlam, has challenged the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Status of Women to clearly state the “utter rejection by Canadians of Chinese Government policies that endorse the mandated one child policy, the murder of inmates for body parts and now the consumption of human fetuses’ as health food.” As Health and Family Critic for the Reform Party, Hayes referred to reports that “aborted human fetuses in China are being consumed by doctors and sold or ... (Continue reading)
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