Human rights
Written on 15 Nov, 1993 at 8:32 in
Human rights | Author:
Grace Petrasek
The Interim Mike McArthur’s “vacation” to Somalia was filled with shocking sights
Last winter, Mike McArthur went to Somalia as an aid worker, helping the sick and starving in that desperate war-torn country. The 26-year-old second generation pro-lifer, youngest son of Bill and the late Laura McArthur (President of Toronto Right to Life for two decades), says that working in a Third World country was an invaluable learning experience. Although it was dangerous and frightening, and cost him $10,000 in lost wages, he ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jun, 1993 at 12:13 in
Abortion, Human rights, Politics, Society & Culture | Author:
Winifride Prestwich UNICEF’s Collaborators
Among the recommendations which UNICEF endorsed at a 1987 Kenya Conference were:
“Community education programmes should emphasize the risks involved in pregnancy in order to ensure social support of contraceptive practice.”
“This conference…calls on the sponsoring organizations to further extend their collaboration at a notional level…”
Two of the sponsoring collaborators of UNICEF are perhaps less well known. The Population Council was established in New York in 1952 as a professional organization to study all aspects of population problems: political, legal, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jun, 1993 at 11:15 in
Bioethics, Human rights, Society & Culture | Author:
David Dooley In a column in the May issue of Thornhill Month, John Stephens asked, “Must it be a matter of either job or conscience?” Until now, he wrote, the Birthplace Unit at the Markham-Stouffville Hospital has been used as the name implies. Now, nurses in the unit who abhor abortions are being told either to assist at these procedures or accept transfer to another department. “For nurses who have developed great skill at the birthing process,” Stephens pointed out, “this ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 May, 1993 at 11:02 in
Abortion, Human rights, Society & Culture | Author:
Winifride Prestwich In 1966 the controversy concerning UNICEF’s collaboration in population control threa-tened to split apart not only that organization but the United Nations itself. As a com-promise solution, the UN created a new fund especially for population-control activities, but one to which nations contributed only if they wished. In 1967 General U Thant an-nounced the creation United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA).
By the early 1970s large grants from UNFPA were funding UNICEF’s “expanded man-date” . Labouisse, at the World Population ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 May, 1993 at 9:28 in
Euthanasia, Human rights, Society & Culture | Author:
Winifride Prestwich If suicide is not a crime why is there a fuss when a handicapped or ill person wants to kill himself? L.B. Toronto.
For centuries suicide was a crime and anyone who survived an attempted suicide faced severe penalties. Today, it is realized that suicide is “a cry for help” and the criminal penalties have been removed out of compassion for the victim.
However, the law still recognizes that the state has a legitimate interest in preventing suicide, and civil law allows ... (Continue reading)
No betrayal
“I cannot vote for a bill that would take human life. To do so, to me, would be a betrayal of all the things I have tried to stand for in my personal and public life.” Liberal MP Maurice, Dionne (Mirimachi), who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, speaking against the Waddell motion in the House of Commons this motion which would have encouraged the government to amend the law against assisted suicide. (Toronto Star, March 23, 1993)
Marriage
Marriage ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Apr, 1993 at 9:09 in
Abortion, Human rights, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff Last month, the city of Edmonton was the scene of two events which have brought the ever-simmering abortion controversy back to a boil.
On March 4, doctors told a 28-year-old woman that she was “lucky to be alive” following an abortion performed on her at Henry Morgentaler’s Edmonton facility.
Nearly ten minutes after her abortion, the woman developed severe stomach pains and was rushed to the hospital from the clinic. Doctors had to remove her uterus, fallopian tubes and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Feb, 1993 at 8:20 in
Human rights, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Patricia Cashen Thousands of pro-lifers marched on Capital Hill in Washington January 22 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision guaranteeing abortion on demand in the U.S.
Along with the peaceful demonstration, which organizers said drew up to 100,000 people, there was a “call to resistance” which saw four abortion centres closed throughout the city.
There were 309 arrests during the four Rescues said Shannon Hall, a member of Collegians Activated to Liberate Life (CALL). She claimed ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Sep, 1992 at 13:52 in
Human rights, Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
Robert Eady Ottawa – Homosexual activists won a major victory August 6 when the Ontario Court of Appeal, siding with the “gay community,” declared that the Canadian Human Rights Act is unconstitutional because it does not protect “sexual orientation.”
Far-reaching
The Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen stated that the decision will, for two specific reasons, have “far-reaching implications”. First, homosexuals may use the ruling to fight for spousal benefits, challenge bans on homosexuals in the military, etc.
Second, the courts are now authorized ... (Continue reading)
Way to go, Peterborough!
Peterborough – Civic Hospital’s Board of Governors is having a hard time getting pro-lifers off their backs. Since the news that Toronto abortionist Nikki Colodny was being “united” to Peterborough to help kill preborn Peterborough babies, the pro-lie contingent has been galvanized into action. Very successful action!
Following peaceful and prayerful visits to the houses of the three local abortionists, two have decided they do not want to perform abortions. The remaining one, Jack Sheppard, is rumored to ... (Continue reading)
Shopping
St. John, N.B. In November 1991, R.C. Bishop Edward Troy wrote premier Frank McKenna deploring the sudden and arbitrary decision to permit Sunday shopping on a temporary basis.
It opens the door to the exploitation of workers and the erosion of family values, he said.
In early December, Bishop Troy wrote an open letter to Dan Cameron, leader of the CoR (Confederation of Regions) party, deploring the anti-Acadian and anti-French sentiments expressed in a press conference where the leader of the opposition ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Feb, 1992 at 11:58 in
Human rights, Society & Culture | Author:
HINA SCHOLAR John Aird worked with others in his field to distinguish between the versions of the one-child policy produced for Western consumption (and often decked out in ‘freedom of choice’ phrasing), and instructions to Communist Party cadres who actually implement the policy.
They’re eye-opening:
• “Those who insist on having a second or excessive birth must be treated according to the prescribed policies. If they are Party members or cadres, it is proposed that they be given Party or administrative discipline;
• ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Feb, 1992 at 11:49 in
Abortion, Human rights, Society & Culture | Author:
The western population lobby is reluctant to condemn China’s brutal and repressive birth control program for one critical reason: it works.
So concludes China scholar John S. Aird in The slaughter of the Innocents: Coercive Birth Control in China, a painstaking and definitive history of Communist China’s inhuman experiment in social engineering.
Working with other China watchers, Mr. Aird has assembled irrefutable evidence that the Chinese government’s birth reduction program is a gross violation of the basic human right to freedom of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Feb, 1992 at 9:34 in
Human rights, Society & Culture | Author:
Michael H. Otis In his syndicated column for October 24, 1991, U.S. columnist Jack Anderson confronted female infanticide in rural China, one of the hideous side effects of the government’s one-child policy.According to Mr. Anderson’s intelligence, and unnamed sources in China, upwards of 1 million baby girls have been killed in the country’s rural provinces since 1979 when the Chinese government mandated its one-child policy.The government’s totalitarian family planning program aggravates what is already a distressing feature of Chinese society: the inferior status ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Dec, 1991 at 12:55 in
Human rights | Author:
Michael H. Otis
Amnesty International (AI) has called upon its network of supporters to help bring an end to violations against children in Guatemala.
The London-based human rights group is deeply concerned about the harassment, threats, attacks, disappearances and extra-judicial executions carried out against the street children of Guatemala City and other urban centers in the Latin American country.
Like many other third world countries, Guatemala is troubled by uncontrolled urbanization, economic decline and a chaotic political situation. The population of the capital, ... (Continue reading)
