Bits n’ Pieces
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Written on 6 Jun, 2004 at 9:49 in
Bits n' Pieces | Author:
Canada
Globe and Mail reported that the Conservative Party's new "Policy Advice to the Leader" document that will serve as the party's campaign policy guide, "eschews hardline notions such as MP recall and social conservatism in favour of a more centrist approach," because it does not mention abortion and permits free votes for MPs on the "sticky issue" of the definition of marriage … Gay activist EGALE - Equality for Gays and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Feb, 2004 at 12:48 in
Abortion, Bioethics, Bits n' Pieces | Author:
Abortion
The Minnesota Medical Association calls a state health department website mentioning studies linking abortion and breast cancer "misleading" and "confusing," while the state branch of the American College of Obstretricians and Gynecologists says the site is deceptive. The health department also claims there are studies that say there is no link ... The Centre for Reproductive Rights tells Focus on the Family, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute and other pro-life services and organizations to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Dec, 2003 at 13:48 in
Bits n' Pieces | Author:
Canada
Prime Minister Jean Chretien will hand power over to new Liberal leader Paul Martin on Dec. 12 … At the Liberal convention, delegates heard ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Dec, 2003 at 16:13 in
Bits n' Pieces | Author:
Canada
Prince Edward Island Premier Pat Binns##' Progressive Conservatives wins re-election. Binns is pro-life. About four out of five Islanders vote, proving that being pro-life is not an impediment to political success ... Ernie Eves, the defeated premier of Ontario, says he will stay ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Nov, 2003 at 8:36 in
Bits n' Pieces | Author:
Canada
Prince Edward Island Premier Pat Binns##' Progressive Conservatives wins re-election. Binns is pro-life. About four out of five Islanders vote, proving that being pro-life is not an impediment to political success ... Ernie Eves, the defeated premier of Ontario, says he will stay ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Oct, 2003 at 13:00 in
Across Canada, Bits n' Pieces, US Briefs, World Briefs | Author:
United States
Rep. Mark Souder (R, Ind.) and former Congressman Tom Coburn (R, Okla.) send letters to the federal Centres ... (Continue reading)
Canada
The Canadian Press reports that "a part-time job counselling United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is almost a certainty" for Jean Chretien once he steps down as prime minister ... The National Post reports that one-world advocate and depopulation extremistMaurice Strong, currently a special adviser to Annan, will become a senior adviser for international and environmental issues to Paul Martin if he wins the Liberal leadership in November ... Martin accepts so-called same-sex marriage: "We can't ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Dec, 2002 at 14:16 in
Bits n' Pieces | Author:
Canada
Liberal MP Pat O'Brien on his government's attempt to redefine marriage: "At the moment, we have a bit of an uphill fight, but we aren't giving up and we are going to wage that fight. And I think the side who wants this to pass might be ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Dec, 1996 at 14:19 in
Bits n' Pieces | Author:
Canada
More than 30 pro-lifers picket a fundraiser for Kitchener’s Catholic Family Counselling Service which featured former U.S. president Bill Clinton, a notorious pro-abortion politician and philanderer ... Glen Pearson, the Liberal candidate in the London North Centre by-election, says Prime Minister Stephen Harper is muzzling the Tory candidate in the riding, Diane Haskett, a former mayor who refused to proclaim a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Jul, 1991 at 11:48 in
Bits n' Pieces | Author:
Vitality Staff Spare the Rod and Save the Child?
Reports from the province of Sichuan in Southwest China continue to highlight the brutal measures enforced by the Communist Government to maintain population control.
When fifty women became pregnant without Government permission, they, together with their husbands were forced to attend lectures on the evils of defying the state.
When ten of the husbands refused permission for their babies to be aborted, they were stripped of their clothes and caned – one stroke for each day ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Jun, 1991 at 12:08 in
Bits n' Pieces | Author:
Doreen Beagan St. Eleanors, PEI. At its recent annual meeting here, the PEI Federation of Home and School Associations called for AIDS education programs to emphasize abstinence as the only authentic protection, and to promote high moral standards and positive ideals for young people.
The meeting resolved to challenge Health and Welfare Canada (which is heavily involved in producing and disseminating AIDS education materials), to produce more accurate, less ambivalent material.
Parent Power
It all came about because a small group of committed parents, whose ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Jun, 1991 at 12:07 in
Bits n' Pieces | Author:
Michael Otis -At Home
Strike against life
Even when Manitoba burses went on strike January 1, 1991, babies still died in the province’s hospitals. “We consider abortion an essential service. There’s been no increase in the length of time a women has to wait for an abortion and we expect to keep it that way,” said James Rodger, assistant to the president of the Health Sciences Centre.
Pampering, but no Pampers
Vancouver’s newest abortuary, the Elizabeth Bagshaw Women’s Clinic, named after the doctor who first peddled ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Jul, 1988 at 11:59 in
Bits n' Pieces | Author:
Sabina McLuhan
Alert readers may have noticed a difference in The Interim last month: my only contribution to that issue was my column. I am now taking a much needed (although probably not deserved) break and will not be contributing very much now until the October issue.
It does feel rather strange. It is something like standing on the doorstep that first Tuesday after Labour Day as you watch the youngest head off sown the street for the first day of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Mar, 1985 at 7:12 in
Bioethics, Bits n' Pieces, Pro-Life | Author:
Sabina McLuhan
Two years ago I wrote my first column. It was for the first issue of The Interim and was on “pro-life feminism,” a constant theme of many subsequent columns.
When I wrote that first column, I thought I’d soon run out of things to say on the abortion issue and I’m sure that some of you who persist in the reading my ramblings would agree that I had.
I was prepared for neither the sheer amount of material I would ... (Continue reading)
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