A Federal Court ruled that the Governor General’s 2008 induction of Henry Morgentaler into the Order of Canada cannot be legally contested. Frank Chauvin, a retired Windsor police officer and a member of the Order of Canada, challenged the abortionist’s award, objecting to the secretive process by which the Order’s Advisory Council made its selection and taking issue with reports that the Council abandoned its own protocols to drive through Morgentaler’s nomination. Chauvin also argued that the Council’s chair, Chief ... (Continue reading)
Frank Chauvin, a retired Windsor police detective and an Order of Canada memer, has launched a legal challenge against the Advisory Council for the Order of Canada, which granted the award to abortionist Henry Morgentaler. Chauvin is basing his challenge on irregularities in the decision process regarding Morgentaler's appointment and on the fact ... (Continue reading)
Representatives of the Canadian Chinese community have joined in the chorus condemning the awarding of an Order of Canada citation to abortionist Henry Morgentaler. At a press conference in Markham, Ont. on July 24, a range of Chinese Christian organizations joined representatives of Campaign Life Coalition, REAL Women of Canada and the Right to Life Association of Toronto and ... (Continue reading)
30,000 signatures presented to governor-general, judicial review requested of McLachlin On August 20, Campaign Life Coalition presented the signatures of 30,000 Canadians opposed to the awarding of the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler at Rideau Hall, the official residence of the governor-general. Angelina Steenstra, national co-ordinator of the Silent No More Awareness ... (Continue reading)
A random telephone poll of more than 13,000 households found that 56 per cent of Canadians are opposed to the awarding of the Order of Canada to abortionist Henry Morgentaler. The national KLRVU poll, sponsored by Campaign Life Coalition, found that a clear majority of respondents in every province but Quebec opposed naming Morgentaler to the Order of Canada and that even ... (Continue reading)
1970: Morgentaler arrested in Quebec for performing an abortion in a free-standing abortuary, without approval from a hospital therapeutic abortion committee. 1973: Morgentaler announces he has performed 5,000 abortions. 1973: The Quebec Ministry of Revenue orders Morgentaler to pay $354,799 in unpaid income taxes. Following an out-of-court settlement, he pays $101,000 in back taxes. 1973-76: ... (Continue reading)
At least eight Order of Canada recipients – or their families or inheritors of their legacies – have returned their awards to protest the governor-general giving abortionist Henry Morgentaler Canada’s highest civilian honour. Among those who have publicly returned their awards are Gilbert Finn, Fr. Lucien Larre and Frank Chauvin. As well, there is Madonna House, which returned the medal of its foundress, Catherine Doherty, as did ... (Continue reading)
The July 1 announcement by the governor-general that Henry Morgentaler is being named a member of the Order of Canada led to an unprecedented debate over the usually ignored award. Newspapers were full of opinion pieces and letters to the editor, talk radio debates were ignited and at least nine OC members returned their medals in protest, exposing Morgentaler as the most divisive OC recipient.... (Continue reading)
Pro-lifers have long known that the Canadian political elite of the 1960s and 1970s was strongly in favour of abortion, at least in principle. After all, it was a Liberal government - supported by a liberal media - that first legalized the practice in 1969. But Canadians now know that those elites supported abortion, not just in principle, but in practice as well. And our source for this ... (Continue reading)
It’s been more than 30 years, but social worker Vicky Green still vividly remembers her abortion experience with Dr. Henry Morgentaler. She tells part of her story in the short film 1st Degree Morgentaler by John S.C. Hetherington. The powerful short film juxtaposes shots of Morgentaler explaining his rationale for supporting the “right to choose” abortion against the testimonial ... (Continue reading)
20 Years after Morgentaler On Jan. 28, 1988 the Supreme Court of Canada threw out the country’s abortion law. The Interim’s coverage of this sad anniversary includes a reprint of our immediate reaction, an excerpt from David Dooley’s 1992 pamphlet, “Supreme Court and Morgentaler Against Biology” and original contributions from Donald DeMarco (on Morgentaler as a feminist ... (Continue reading)
Faithful readers will remember the horrendous problems that our family experienced when somebody stole our car about a year ago. Well this is like one of these Hollywood movies—just when you think the hero has escaped unscathed, he’s being attacked by the same villain again but much more violently! Our Honda’s electrical wiring failed miserably recently and left us riding around in the dark—no brake lights, no back lights, no dashboard lights and no gear box lights. I refer to it as ... (Continue reading)
Toronto abortionist’s letter to Pope and Bishops written off by pro-life leaders as publicity stunt Canadian pro-life leaders are portraying Henry Morgentaler’s recent letters to the Pope and Canadian Catholic bishops as a publicity stunt, and are supporting the bishop’s refusal to meet with the abortion crusader. Morgentaler called on the Pope to end what he sees as rhetoric which is endangering Canadian abortionists. At a press conference later in Toronto, he chastised the pontiff for an “obsessive pre-occupation with abortion” which ... (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)
Henry Morgentaler delivered the opening address at the annual convention of the Humanist Association of Canada at the University of Guelph on June 23. He used the opportunity to blame the Catholic Church for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s murder of millions of Jews. “Had the Church not persecuted Jews for centuries,” said Morgentaler, “Hitler could never have mastered the public support to perpetrate his Second World War Holocaust.” He referred to Catholicism as a “culture of death,” and called for the ... (Continue reading)
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