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Written on 6 Dec, 1983 at 8:56 in
Abortion, World Briefs | Author:
CAS In July of 1983 the lead editorial in Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, stated, “We can no longer base our ethics on the idea that human beings are a special form of creation, made in the image of God singled out from all other animals, and alone possessing an immortal soul”.
Last year in the United States, one and a half million babies were aborted. (One every twenty seconds.) One in four pregnancies in the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Nov, 1983 at 13:50 in
Abortion, World Briefs | Author:
Interim Staff
Spain on slippery slope
Spain’s socialist government got Parliament approval for legalized abortions on October 6. According to a report in the Globe & Mail, abortion was legalized for cases involving rape, malformation of the unborn baby or danger to the mother’s life.
The law, approved by 186 to 109 votes, was sent to the Senate for ratification.
The main opposition party, the Popular Alliance, is challenging the law. They will appeal ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Nov, 1983 at 12:12 in
Pro-Life, Society & Culture, World Briefs | Author:
Interim Staff Returning to Toronto after teaching for three years in the University of Aberdeen, in
Scotland, I have been asked to try to interpret the pro-life situation in Britain in hope of
seeing what can be learned from the British experience. I believe that a look at that experience can be helpful since the present situation in Britain is considerably worse than it is in Canada, while we can look forward to a similarly bad situation here if pro-life efforts are not ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Oct, 1983 at 8:34 in
Abortion, World Briefs | Author:
Michael St. John
Patrick Macken is a perish priest at St. Anthony’s church in Bermuda. Father Macken is a member of the congregation of Resurrectionists and he went to this particular parish in Bermuda in April 1979 to test out a thesis of his: that by focussing on the very “least” members of the parish—those who were really without any kind of power, the handicapped—that this, in turn, would help the other members of the parish to go out and be the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Oct, 1983 at 6:23 in
Abortion, Politics, Society & Culture, World Briefs | Author:
Interim Staff
Catherine Bolger was invited to Ireland by the pro-life movement at the time of the referendum. She spent 2 weeks speaking to the nursing staff in hospitals, to parish groups and pro-life workers. Pro-life individuals in Toronto sponsored her trip and her accommodation was provided by pro-lifers in Ireland.
Ireland September 7, 1983 Liberation Day for the Unborn
The people of Ireland have spoken. They ignored the ongoing media propaganda. They ignored the urging of the FitzGerald government ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 1983 at 8:39 in
Abortion, World Briefs | Author:
LUTON (UPI) - An English doctor who performed an unsuccessful abortion on a 23-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder of the baby, who survived.
Nurses at Luton and Dunstable Hospital told police they found the baby boy wrapped in a sheet in an isolated room after the abortion failed. He is now living with foster parents.
Anthony John Hamilton, a consultant at the hospital, was suspended after being issued a summons to appear in court.
Police said yesterday Hamilton ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Jul, 1983 at 6:25 in
Activism, Pro-Life, World Briefs | Author:
New Zealand Herald, June 16, 1983.
Professor Sir William Liley , who gained international recognition for his pioneering
Work into pre-natal blood transfusions, died suddenly at his Epsom home June 15 ,1983. he was 54.
Sir William, who was knighted in 1973, made medical history in 1963 when he became the first doctor to give a baby a blood transfusion before birth.
The technique, which he pioneered while working as a senior research fellow at national Women's Hospital in Auckland, was aimed at saving the lives of babies having ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 May, 1983 at 14:11 in
World Briefs | Author:
Winifred Prestwich
According to the doctrine of the proponents of More and Increasingly-Explicit Sex and Contraceptive Education in Schools, such a programme would lead to a sexual utopia: unwanted pregnancies would cease to be; there would be no more unwanted or battered children; life would be wonderful. If, however, we look at Sweden, the country with the longest history of school sex education and officially promoted contraception, we find a sexual revolution that has caused social havoc that is nothing less than ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Apr, 1983 at 11:38 in
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Fr Paul Marx, O.S.B The situation in Ireland with reference to an amendment to the Constitution to outlaw the possibilities of legalizing abortion by court or parliament has suddenly changed. The situation is very fluid; anything could happen.
Under pressure, Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald had agreed with his opponent Charles Haughey to submit a pro-life amendment to the Constitution in a national referendum. When Haughey became Prime Minister, he proposed a tight, no-exceptions amendment, but his government fell before it could be processed through parliament. ... (Continue reading)
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