Crisis pregnancy centres
Written on 29 Dec, 2000 at 7:28 in
Abortion, Crisis pregnancy centres, Pro-Life, Television Shows | Author:
Ted Gerk
Western View
It has all the trappings of a deliberate, calculated set-up. I'm talking, of course, about the recent CTV W-Five television program dealing with pro-life crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs). You know the program. W-Five are the slobs who, many years ago, televised a Henry Morgentaler abortion on Mother's Day. Brave buffoonery at its finest.
W-Five used a hidden camera and went in on false pretenses, then turned around and accused CPCs of using distortion and false information to scare women out of having abortions.
The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Dec, 2000 at 13:40 in
Abortion Law, Crisis pregnancy centres, Motherhood | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
CTV newsmagazine's allegations of deception
and manipulation are without foundation
By Tony Gosgnach
The Interim
One building houses a volunteer-driven crisis pregnancy centre, where mothers-to-be are given counselling and as many resources as possible in support of bringing their babies to birth. Right next door is an abortuary, in which preborn humans of five months gestation are regularly killed.
Guess which of the two got to be the victim of a hidden camera "expose" by the CTV newsmagazine program W-Five? If you guessed the abortion clinic, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Dec, 2000 at 13:39 in
Abortion, Crisis pregnancy centres, Motherhood, Pro-Life | Author:
Linda Wegner
Real Choices for Women and Children shares space with
several pro-life organizations
By Linda Wegner
The Interim
It took three years of planning, two years of fundraising, the cooperation of several organizations and many hours of training and preparation, but on November 6, 2000, a site housing the Campaign Life Coalition office, the Canadian Survivors of Abortion office and the Saskatoon Crisis Pregnancy Centre opened its doors to the public.... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Dec, 2000 at 10:53 in
Crisis pregnancy centres, Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Grace Petrasek By Grace Petrasek
The Interim
The outside of the building needs a facelift and the inside needs fixing, but now Fredericton has a much needed crisis pregnancy center. Located next door to the well-appointed downtown abortuary, in the area that encompasses a Catholic church, a public school and gathering places for many of the city's 5,000 university students, the new Mother and Child Welcome House opened its doors last August and was blessed in November. This will be its first Christmas - ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2000 at 10:06 in
Crisis pregnancy centres, Pro-Life, Pro-life Groups | Author:
Mike Mastromatteo
Program enables women to choose life
and continue their education
By Mike Mastromatteo
The Interim
The Rosalie Hall Foundation has added scholarships to its range of services to young women in crisis pregnancies. The scholarships, eligible to up to 10 high-achieving graduates of the Rosalie Hall secondary school program, enable young mothers to continue their education at the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2000 at 9:21 in
Abortion, Activism, Crisis pregnancy centres, Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Grace Petrasek
By Grace Petrasek
The Interim
Recently, Robert Hinchey, co-counsellor with Joanne Dieleman at Toronto's Aid to Women, was chatting with a couple headed for the abortuary located next door. As they spoke, an abortuary employee darted from within and screamed, "Don't listen to him. He's crazy. They're all crazy up there. He's crazy. Don't listen to him."
Later, while reflecting on this incident, Robert says that most women rushing into ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Mar, 1999 at 8:16 in
Crisis pregnancy centres | Author:
By Bill Whatcott The Interim
Ontario's Renfrew County may soon have a crisis pregnancy centre, thanks to the momentum created by the 15th annual Pembroke and Area Lutherans for Life conference last October. A statement of faith has been developed that all the major Christian denominations in the area were able to approve, and a 12-member steering committee is being set up to oversee the organization of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Apr, 1998 at 9:36 in
Crisis pregnancy centres | Author:
Edmonton Pregnancy Crisis Centre very successful
The Edmonton Pregnancy Crisis Centre, run by Co-Workers to Human Life has had a very successful first year of operation. The centre which opened in November of 1984, has had over 500 clients and believes to be responsible for changing the minds of 80 per cent of the people who came requesting help to obtain an abortion. January 1985, figures provide an indication of the Centre’s good work:
No. of clients 63
No. of positive ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Jun, 1997 at 9:41 in
Crisis pregnancy centres, Pro-Life | Author:
Campaign Life Coalition has nominated Aid to Women executive director Joanne Dieleman for the Governor General’s award in commemoration or the Persons Case.
The award was instituted in 1979 to salute individuals who have promoted the equality and advancement of women in Canada.
The award recalls the 1929 judicial decision, which granted women constitutional status as “persons.”
A native of Schiedam, The Netherlands, Joanne came to Canada in 1960. She worked as a nurse at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario, before settling to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 12:58 in
Abortion, Activism, Crisis pregnancy centres | Author:
Interim staff
Allison James and Lucy Composano – two women, separated by age, race and circumstance,. Unique lives, yet sharing an experience that would affirm life in all its happiness and struggle, uncertainty and love.
Both have faced a difficult, even frightening decision. An unplanned pregnancy, a period of uncertainty and doubt. Where to turn? How to cope?
One solution seemed so convenient. Find the address of that downtown abortuary and have it over with. Three hundred bucks and the problem ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Aug, 1996 at 9:41 in
Abortion, Crisis pregnancy centres, Pro-Life | Author:
Sue Careless
Many directors of crisis pregnancy centres across Canada have wanted an all Canadian organization to support their efforts. Now they have one.
On September 24 The Christian Association of Pregnancy Support Services (CAPSS) was launched.
A group of 12 leaders met over two days to design the new organization. They created a council composed of representatives from British Columbia to New Brunswick.
Loraine Currie, founding director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Crisis Pregnancy Centre, is excited about the grassroots nature if the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Apr, 1996 at 8:31 in
Abortion, Crisis pregnancy centres, Pro-Life | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
Amidst the chaos of U.S. inner city-life, whites and blacks strive to free their community from the cycle of welfare and abortion
Tony Gosgnach
The Interim
A unique and independent community service center in Orlando, Florida, is crossing racial lines and avoiding government handouts while putting a pro-life philosophy into action.
Frontline Outreach is based out of a 3,780 square meter facility in inner Orlando and, in addition to crisis pregnancy counseling, offers a number of free programs to inner city youths and their ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Jan, 1994 at 16:33 in
Crisis pregnancy centres | Author:
Fr. Ted Colleton “This is Birthright. Can I help you?”
These were the opening words of a wonderful speech delivered by Louise Summerhill, daughter of the late Foundress of Birthright—also Louise. It would be almost impossible to calculate the number of times those same words have been repeated over phones since they were first spoken by Louise Summerhill Sr. in a small rented office in Toronto, 25 years ago. They have been repeated in the U.S., Canada, Aouth Africa, Nigeria, Ghana the Cameroons, to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Jul, 1993 at 11:06 in
Crisis pregnancy centres, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Fr. Ted Colleton “Many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.” So wrote the English poet Grey in his famous poem, “Elegy on a Country Churchyard.”
I feel that in the “Pro-life Garden of Toronto,” Aid to Women is a flower which blooms almost – though not completely – unseen, even by many who are active in the movement. In the past two years, I have, as a picketer and, to some extent, counselor, become familiar ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Jul, 1993 at 8:33 in
Crisis pregnancy centres, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Patricia Cashen Pro-life organizers in B.C. confirm that three demonstrators were arrested at a prayer vigil outside the Everywoman’s Abortuary in Vancouver April 30.
John Hof, president of Campaign Life Coalition B.C., said none of the three were breaking an injunction at the abortion clinic when they were arrested. He said the three people arrested were well known to the clinic staff.
“We are certain that they were singled out from the group to set an example for the other demonstrators,” said Hof.
The three ... (Continue reading)
