Abortion

Norwegian pastor thwarted

In the most recent development in the Pastor Nessa case (see The Interim, October 1991), it appears that the Norwegian government is becoming even more intransigent in regard to the country’s liberal abortion law. An October 12, 1991 letter from Pastor Tom Haenglse reveals that Pastor Lugwig Nessa, an outspoken opponent of Norway’s permissive abortion law, was refused the right to appeal [...]

2009-07-21T09:36:28-04:00April 21, 1992|Abortion, Religion, Society & Culture|

Feminists appointed

Judy Rebick named to council On March 5, NDP Premier Bob Rae appointed Judy Rebick to the Ontario Judicial Council.  Short of Henry Morgentaler himself, Ms. Rebick is one of Canada’s most strident defenders of abortion on demand.  The appointment is for three years. A few years ago, the Liberal government of David Peterson had appointed pro-abortion feminists Doris Anderson and June [...]

You were asking

What is the objection of pro-life people to being called “anti-abortion?”  After all, they are anti-abortion.  R.P., Whitehorse, Yukon True enough, but that is only half the story. Pro-lifers are also against other evils: euthanasia; infanticide of handicapped new-borns by starvation and dehydration; the creation of human embryos (ex utero) to be vivisected in experimentation; fetal transplants and so on. Anti-abortion is [...]

2009-07-20T15:59:58-04:00April 20, 1992|Abortion, Bioethics, Euthanasia, Politics|

Update – Religion

Coalition of Concerned Canadian Catholics Pro-lifers are very much aware of the battle for the “soul” of their respective religious communities: will they, or will they not adopt the immorality of the permissive society and thereby earn the world’s approval as “progressive”? CCCC Within the Catholic Church in English Canada, the Coalition of Concerned Canadian Catholics (CCCC) is the current vehicle through [...]

2009-07-20T15:52:09-04:00April 20, 1992|Abortion, Pro-Life, Religion, Society & Culture|

Wake up, voters!

At their policy convention in Hull (Feb. 20-23, 1992) the Liberals did it again, to the applause of the media. Back in the years of 1967-1969 Pierre Trudeau “hijacked” the Liberal Party of Canada for his permissive society ideals.  Parachuted into the leadership by a party clique, he launched his career by wondering out loud in December 1967 what God could possibly [...]

2009-07-20T14:58:36-04:00April 20, 1992|Abortion, Editorials, Euthanasia, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

U.S. A-G: “Dump Roe”

During his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the new U.S. Attorney-General, William P. Barr, said that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on demand, was “wrongly decided” and should be rescinded.  The Roe v. Wade judgment opened the way to the mass killing of unborn children. Mr. Barr, 41, who succeeds Dick Thornburgh as the [...]

2009-07-20T14:19:07-04:00April 20, 1992|Abortion, Politics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

Bush for life

On January 22, 1992, American pro-lifers gathered in large numbers in the nation’s capital to mourn the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. President George Bush, like his predecessor Ronald Reagan, reiterated his opposition to abortion.  “I am with you in spirit,” he told the crowd by telephone. Unlike Reagan and Bush in the U.S., no Canadian Prime Minister has championed [...]

2009-07-20T12:55:55-04:00April 20, 1992|Abortion, Politics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

BC stamps out choice Orders hospitals to do abortions; taxpayers to fun them.

On March 22, NDP Health Minister Elizabeth Cull ordered 33 pubic hospitals in her province to provide “abortion services.”  This includes such hospitals as the Vernon Jubilee Hospital, where the board of directors had ended the practice. From now on Boards of Directors, despite being elected by the people of the local community, will no longer have a say.  Thus in the [...]

2009-07-20T12:52:17-04:00April 20, 1992|Abortion, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

God writes straight with crooked lines

Whenever I find myself in the vicinity of Brampton, Ontario, the car veers almost automatically in the direction of the home of Ray and Rita Holmes, where I am always sure of a good meal. Dr. Ray invariably has something interesting to tell me or show me, usually within the pro-life context. The other day he met me with the words, “I [...]

2009-07-20T12:06:32-04:00March 20, 1992|Abortion, Motherhood, Pro-Life|

Pro-life sisters

A pro-life religious order to be known as the Sisters of Life has recently been formed in the United States. As reported by Chuck Lindberg in the Knights of Columbus publication Columbia (January 1992), the new order was founded to provide spiritual support for the pro-life movement. The Sisters of Life are committed to pray and work for the protection of life [...]

2009-07-20T12:02:50-04:00March 20, 1992|Abortion, Pro-Life, Religion, Society & Culture|

Fighting “clinics” in Port Charlotte

My assignment from Campaign Life Coalition President Jim Hughes was simple. Go to Port Charlotte, he said, and close down every abortion “clinic” down there. And he gave me two weeks to do it. The good news is that Port Charlotte is in Florida! I told Jim that I wouldn’t be very effective going alone. He agreed. So I brought along my [...]

2009-07-20T11:43:43-04:00March 20, 1992|Abortion, Activism, Events, Frank Kennedy, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

Mike Farnan: ideology over conscience

In June, 1991, Mike Farnan, former Ontario Solicitor General, MPP for Cambridge, and a Catholic, handed a statement on abortion to a member of the Galt Council, Knights of Columbus. (see sidebar) It is another exhibit in the continuing saga of Catholic politicians taking wrong stands on the abortion issue. It is a good example of the kind of self-deception which pro-life [...]

2009-07-20T11:19:25-04:00March 20, 1992|Abortion, Politics, Pro-Life, Religion, Society & Culture|

IN THE NEWS…

Newfoundland Newfie abortuary one year old St. Jon’s, Nfld. – On the Morgentaler ‘clinic’s’ first anniversary here, CBC’s regional radio newscast featured an interview with Peggy Meisner, the abortuary’s head nurse and office manager. She stated that the past year has gone very smoothly. “Except for a couple of rowdy demonstrations in the early days, Right to Lifers have been really very [...]

Ontario’s Lyn McLeod: style, no substance

On her first day in office after her election as the new leader of the Ontario Liberal Party on February 9, 1992, Lyn McLeod (MPP, Fort William) vowed tough opposition to Bob Rae’s current NDP regime. But it’s unlikely it will amount to much. Audrey McLaughlin For one thing, Mrs. McLeod, 49, resembles too closely the NDP’s leader at the federal level, [...]

2009-07-20T10:55:09-04:00March 20, 1992|Abortion, Politics, Society & Culture|

Nunziata attacks Liberals for Life

MP John Nunziata (York South-Weston) has charged that Liberals for Life are subverting the democratic process in the party and using the pro-life issue to further their own political ambitions. He has accused them of blackmailing prospective candidates for party positions and riding nominations. Mr. Nunziata also demanded that Liberal Leader John Chrétien should stop “accommodating the group within the party. If [...]

2009-07-20T10:51:39-04:00March 20, 1992|Abortion, Politics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|
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