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Written on 25 Nov, 1994 at 21:24 in
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Guest COLUMN
The following is a condensation of reflections by George Gilmore, President of New Brunswick Right to Life, as told to Interim writer Doreen Beagan.
The comments came following a disappointing provincial effort to block Henry Morgentaler from opening an abortuary in Fredericton.
Frank McKenna’s Liberal government has since decided to appeal the ruling and the courts have granted Gilmore’s group intervenor status. NB RTL hopes that it will be able to present evidence on the disastrous effects abortion imposes ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jun, 1993 at 11:23 in
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Charles Muggeridge The Christian Heritage Party has sorted out its leadership problems and will head into the next election with Heather Stilwell in charge.
The B.C. Supreme Court has dismissed an application by former leader Charles Cavilla to have a convention in June in Southern Ontario. The court also decided May 18 to set aside an injunction by Cavilla preventing the CHP from saying Stilwell was the new interim leader of the party.
Stilwell now officially leads the party until the national convention ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jun, 1993 at 11:19 in
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Pro-life activists in Nova Scotia are shedding no tears at the defeat of Tory Premier Don Cameron and his government in the provincial election held at the end of May. Leader John Savage swept his Liberals into power and CLC spokesperson Cynthia Haughn said there are “some hopeful things” about his victory.
“Maybe John Savage will at least look at the issue,” she said after the election campaign. Cameron never replied to repeated requests to discuss his government’s ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jun, 1993 at 11:05 in
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Charles Muggeridge The Ontario government’s plan to gag pro-life activity has met with stiff opposition and pro-life organizers are saying it’s not over yet.
“We plan to keep the pressure up until every single recommendation of the Task Group report is scrapped,” said Louis Di Rocco, of Campaign Life Coalition. Di Rocco led a campaign which collected more than 50,000 petition cards demanding that a report expanding abortion services, and banning pro-life protests at various locations, be axed.
He and two other ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 May, 1993 at 9:30 in
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Charles Muggridge Cavilla may not accept board’s decision
The Christian Heritage Party has a new leader. Or does it? It depends on who you talk to.
In a highly unusual move the national board of Canada’s only pro-life federal party suspended its leader and appointed Heather Stilwell until the 1994 leadership convention in Vancouver. According to the board, Stilwell, a pro-life activist from B.C. will lead the C.H.P. into the next federal election.
But Charles Cavilla, leader for the last year-and –a half refuses ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 May, 1993 at 9:22 in
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Paul Dodds Parliament has passed a bill which will gag politically active groups such as Campaign Life Coalition.
Under the Tories’ election reform bill, only political parties and candidates will have the freedom to do partisan advertising during election campaigns. Other groups or individuals will be allowed to spend no more than $1,000 on advertising which identifies or promotes particular parties or candidates. That limit --$1,000—will apply to a group’s entire efforts nation-wide. It is so small, that if really constitutes a ban ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 May, 1993 at 8:57 in
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Charles Muggeridge Jim Edwards vows pro-life action if elected
Pro-life support is rallying around Jim Edwards as he makes his bid for the leadership of the federal Tories. The Interim caught up with Edwards during his frantic schedule as he travels the country trying to round up delegates and get his message out.
He says the economy is dominating the debate among the leadership candidates but there are other issues which none of them will be able to leave untouched.
“Undoubtedly family issues will emerge ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Mar, 1993 at 13:23 in
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Charles Muggeridge A new radicalism is breaking out on college campuses in America. It has the familiar ring of student activism—the sit-ins, the confrontations with authority.
The students march, they talk about a “cultural revolution,” they turn current wisdom on its head. The group calls itself Collegians Activated to Liberate Life. They’ve taken the year off from their studies to immerse themselves fully in pro-life work and to stir things upon the American college scene. The streets have become their classrooms and their ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Feb, 1993 at 12:26 in
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Paul Dodds “I hope you’re not going to show us any of those gross pictures!” exclaimed the high-school student as I entered a class to give a presentation.
Nothing else the pro-life movement does earns such derogatory comment. To hear our detractors speak, you would think we do little else but hand out photographs of aborted babies. The fact is that the pro-life movement uses such pictures only rarely.
When they have been used, I’ve heard abortion supporters denounce them as “pornographic,” ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Feb, 1993 at 12:00 in
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“Political Correctness 101” becoming required course on Canadian campuses
When The Interim reported last month that 75% of Canadians would support legislation requiring informed consent for abortion, it reported that this support legislation requiring informed consent for abortion, it reported that this support was lowest among the university educated. Some might infer that the brightest minds see something in the proposal that the common fold can’t quite grasp, but more likely the exact opposite may be true.
Political correctness is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Feb, 1993 at 15:16 in
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Internationally renowned geneticist Jerome Lejeune will be speaking to pro-lifers in Montreal and Toronto on April 12 and 13 consecutively. His visit to Canada is being sponsored by Campagne Quebec Vie and Life Ethics Educational Association/Campaign Life Coalition Toronto.
Lejeune is known throughout the worldwide medical community as the scientist who dis-covered the extra chromosome which causes Down Syndrome. He is presently a profess-or of fundamental genetics at the Rene Descartes University of Paris.
As a staunch defender of life, Lejeune is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Feb, 1993 at 15:04 in
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Winifrede Prestwich Do you remember Bill C-169? That was the bill described as “a stunning breach of the right of free speech—surely the most draconian anti-demographic law written in Canada in my years.” (Edmonton Journal, January 5, 1984).
Bill C. -169 took away our right of free speech at election times. The story of how the bill was passed and later overturned bears repeating for we have been warned that our “unalienable right” of free speech at election time is once again in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Feb, 1993 at 8:06 in
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Paul Morgan Having visited England regularly as an expatriate over the past 25 years, I had gained the impression that pro-life activities and initiatives were lagging far behind those in the U.S. and Canada. I discovered that I was mistaken when I attended the LIFE International Conference n Leicester, last November.
The level of knowledge and competence is extremely high and the dedication and commitment by the ‘chosen few’ equal or exceed our own.
They have one decided advantage in that they enjoy an ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 1992 at 13:01 in
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A country rampant with AIDs, ravaged by over 20 different types of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and morally drained by thousands of teen pregnancies which end in abortion: this is the fallout created by the American government’s 20-year, $3 billion campaign to sell contraception and “safe sex” to teenagers.
Tragic statistics
The experiment has been an unqualified disaster and many groups throughout Canada and the U.S. would like to do something to rectify the situation. One such group is Focus on the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Sep, 1992 at 12:00 in
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Interim Staff Four pro-life leaders, including the president of two national organizations, Alliance for Life and Campaign Life Coalition, have rejected the opinion of R.C. Archbishop Marcel Gervais that the pro-life movement has become “tragically divisive and angry.” (See Interim, June 1992, pp 18, 19 for the text of Archbishop’s May 3 address.)
Archbishop Gervais is the President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) in Ottawa.
The pro-life leaders’ response was printed in the Catholic Register of Toronto, in its July 25 ... (Continue reading)
