Fetal Rights
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Written on 13 Feb, 2000 at 7:39 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Fetal Rights, Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns
Media showing new squeamishness in covering the issue
The United States Senate voted 63-34 to end the grisly practice of partial-birth abortion (PBA) but ended up four votes short of a veto-proof majority. Since 1995, both houses of Congress have voted to ban PBA, and each time President Bill Clinton has vetoed the ban.
On Oct. 20, 1999 the Senate once again debated the issue of whether or not a doctor should be allowed to deliver 70 per cent of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Feb, 2000 at 7:24 in
Abortion, Activism, Book Review, Fetal Rights | Author:
By Donald DeMarco
The Interim
John Irving is a well-known novelist and short story writer. He established his reputation in 1978 with The World According to Garp, which was made into a film in 1982. In his latest book, My Movie Business: A Memoir (Knopf, 1999), he presents his view on abortion and his attitude toward right-to-life advocates in the following passage, appearing on pages 40 and 41:
"Meanwhile, a self-described right-to-lifer approached me in a bookstore where I was signing copies ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Jul, 1997 at 7:45 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Fetal Rights | Author:
FREDRICTON – New Brunswick’s highest court has ruled that a four-year-old Moncton boy can sue his mother for injuries he sustained while still in the womb.
In 1993, Ryan Dobson’s mother Cynthia was involved in a head-on car collision three months before she was due to give birth. The accident left Ms. Dobson in a coma from which she eventually recovered, but Ryan ended up permanently disabled. He still can’t walk or talk. Now, the New Brunswick Court of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Jul, 1997 at 7:34 in
Abortion Law, Fetal Rights | Author:
Interim staff
It’s time for the Supreme Court of Canada to recognize that the right to personhood should be extended to unborn children.
That is the position Alliance for Life is taking in a court submission in the case of a pregnant, solvent-addicted Winnipeg woman who was ordered into a mandatory treatment program to protect her unborn child. The woman, identified only as Ms. G., had previously given birth to two children who suffered mental and physical injury due to the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Jun, 1997 at 8:24 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Fetal Rights, Politics | Author:
John-Henry Westen
The pro-life movement has seen in the Reform party a hope for achieving the legal protection of life from conception to natural death. In fact, some pro-lifers have sought nomination to run for Reform in the election. I was one such aspirant and my experiences expose a flaw in Reform’s appeal to pro-lifers.
Attending the meetings of the riding associates, I found myself among concerned Canadians dedicated to reforming Canada. Conversations about fiscal concerns were prominent, as was the discussion ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 May, 1997 at 10:54 in
Abortion, Fetal Rights, Society & Culture | Author:
Tony Gosgnach The acceptance of abortion is destroying both the legitimacy of the state and the integrity of the medical profession, says a pro-life media personality, former associate professor of philosophy and one-time U.S. presidential candidate.
“Doctors perform medical miracles on pre-born babies..(while) in the very next room, the same doctor or his colleague may be killing perfectly healthy babies,” says William A. Marra. “Thanks to the philosophies of the last 200 years, human life has gotten cheaper and cheaper.”
Marra was in Hamilton ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 May, 1997 at 10:34 in
Fetal Rights, Politics, Pro-Life, Religion | Author:
Interim staff
Canada’s Catholic bishops have seized on the Brenda Drummond case to make the rights of the unborn a prominent issue in the upcoming federal election.
In a letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, the Catholic Organization for Life and Family said the results of the Drummond case – which found that the unborn are not entitled to legal protection in the Criminal Code until they fully pass from the mother’s womb – “defy common sense and offend the moral sense ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Apr, 1997 at 10:27 in
Abortion, Fetal Rights | Author:
Since President Bill Clinton’s veto last year, of the partial-birth abortion ban there have been many interesting statements with reference to it. One of the most recent is by Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers. “One of the facts about abortion is that women enter clinics to kill their unborn child. It is a form of killing.”
For those who believe that the unborn baby is not a human being, this is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Feb, 1997 at 12:24 in
Abortion, Fetal Rights, Post-abortion and Health Care | Author:
If there is anything of value to come out of the recent decision in the Brenda Drummond case, it is that it has at least got more people thinking about the humanity of the unborn child.
To be sure, pro-lifers are distressed and saddened by Madam Justice Inger Hansen’s decision not to proceed with charges against the Ottawa-area postal employee who shot her unborn child with a pellet rifle in an attempt at self-abortion. This is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Feb, 1997 at 8:51 in
Fetal Rights, Pro-Life | Author:
Mike Mastromatteo
Pro-life leaders on both sides of the border are lukewarm to the use of referenda to determine moral questions, including constitutional protection for unborn children.
The question arose late last fall when Reform party leader Preston Manning spoke in favour of a law allowing a national referendum on issues such as abortion and euthanasia. Manning’s stand generated wide debate in pro-life circles. Many expressed qualified support for Manning’s position, but argued that life and death issues should not be subjected ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Feb, 1997 at 8:44 in
Abortion Law, Fetal Rights | Author:
Gerry Brosso
Pro-lifers must continue to lobby federal politicians if the unborn in this country are to have rights at all.
That message came through loud and clear after a 28-year-old Ontario woman walked to freedom two days before Christmas after being charged with shooting her unborn son with a pellet gun.
Brenda Drummond, a postal worker in Carleton Place, south of Ottawa, was charged last June with attempted murder and using a firearm in the course of committing an offense. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Nov, 1996 at 8:03 in
Abortion, Fetal Rights | Author:
Ottawa – An eastern Ontario court has scheduled three days of hearings to determine if a woman accused of shooting her unborn child with a pellet gun will face attempted murder charges.
Brenda Drummond, 28, was arrested in May after the son she had just given birth to was found to have suffered a pellet wound to the head. The child, Jonathan, underwent successful surgery to remove the pellet, and he has been released to the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Nov, 1996 at 14:16 in
Fetal Rights | Author:
OTTAWA – Canada’s Supreme Court ruled October 18 that it will decide on the case of the government forcing a glue-sniffing addicted woman into treatment to protect her unborn child. A review is expected in the spring.
The decision comes in the case of a Winnipeg area woman who was ordered by a child welfare agency to seek treatment for her glue-sniffing addiction. The woman’s two older children had been born with brain damage after she continued to inhale glue ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Nov, 1996 at 14:00 in
Fetal Rights | Author:
Interim staff
Lloyd Schrier, who, as a preborn child was subjected to 29 electroconvulsive shock treatments and enough drugs to induce sleep in his mother for a month, has been refused any compensation by both the Canadian government and the courts.
Everyone agrees that Lloyd Schrier received these brainwashing treatments, but under the restrictive definition used by the compensation panel, Lloyd was excluded from receiving any restitution.
His mother has received humanitarian and compassionate compensation of $100,000 along with 76 other former ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Oct, 1996 at 9:03 in
Abortion Law, Fetal Rights | Author:
For one glorious month this year, from August 8 to September 14, there were limited yet real rights for the unborn child in Canada.
For the past eight years, an unborn child has had no rights. Only if the mother is found to be mentally incompetent can society protect her unborn infant.
In March, 1989, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected Joe Borowski’s constitutional argument that the unborn is a person with legal rights. Borowski, who died as this editorial was ... (Continue reading)
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