Pro-life quilt project deserves attention

Pro-lifers in Parry Sound, Ontario have reached their goal of making 100 quilts commemorating the unborn child. Sister Lucille Durocher of St. Joseph’s Workers for Life and Family hopes to have up to 3,500 of the quilts to spread out on Parliament Hill on Mother’s Day, 1999.

Her newsletter has a circulation of about 1,200 and some pledges have come forward, but only two other quilts have come in.

It would be important for The Interim and other pro-life media to promote this project. Can you imagine the impact of 3,500 quilts saying no to abortion? The top of the quilts are made up of hand-decorated patches, each in the memory of an unborn child.

Here is Sister Lucille’s address: St. Joseph’s Workers for Life and Family, P.O. Box 7369, Station V, Vanier, Ontario, K1L 8E4, tel: (613) 742-7012.

I believe this is an important step in the battle to protect the lives of little children.

Theresa Aitken,
Parry Sound, Ontario
 

The truth will out

Regarding your coverage of the Show the Truth tours - if we do not show the truth, are we not hiding the truth?

How can it be illegal to display photographs - however graphic - of aborted babies? This is what we are all paying for with our tax dollars. Don’t we all want to see what we are getting for our money? Perhaps another sign should be added to the Show the Truth tour - “You Paid For This.”

Jean Hedley,
Holyrood, Ontario
 

Chrétien and faith

I was surprised to see Jean Chrétien, the Prime Minister of Canada, participating in a funeral Mass at St. Patrick’s Basilica in Ottawa in early March.

Mr. Chrétien and other Catholic members of government who have opposed and voted against pro-life legislation are directly cooperating in the grave sins of the mothers, fathers, doctors and nurses who are committing abortions. They are approving, not hindering the act by protecting the perpetrators.

By supporting abortion, providing funds for abortion, and refusing to enact laws to protect the unborn, they are accomplices to these grave sins.

Jean Chrétien is part of the government that has destroyed our Christian heritage and principles in Canadian law. Over the past quarter century, the federal government has replaced law based on Christian principle with laws contrary to the will of God. 

I pray to God to have mercy on Canada.

Mike Pawlikowski,
Pakenham, Ontario
 

Refocus on woman

I am pro-life, but I am disturbed by the articles in the March, 1998 Interim focusing on the baby. I truly believe the articles should focus on the mother in a crisis pregnancy.

If she chooses abortion, she is choosing alienation from God. The child does not yet bear any guilt, but the mother is in danger of serious sin.

The woman choosing abortion will reap in this life the consequences of alienation from God - a hardened heart, an inability to discern the truth, the possible ruin of her future by damage to her reproductive organs, emotional death, sexually transmitted disease, and other harmful consequences which might not show up until many years have passed.

Bernice Van Hof,
Toronto.
 

Facts and cover-ups

I am forwarding a copy of a letter I sent to the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) after I attended a recent workshop on breast cancer information.

I was appalled at the “facts” presented and that they came from a booklet sponsored by the Avon company. These facts basically concur with the pamphlet “Facts on Breast Cancer.”

Here are some of the “facts” presented:  Cause: unknown. Risks: being a woman living in North America; age; lateness of first pregnancy; heredity; diet.

Question: Has breast cancer increased over the past few years? Answer: Up “a bit,” but on a downward trend - probably due to earlier and better diagnostic procedures.

Except for some discussion of research, that was the gist of the presentation. Is the Canadian Cancer Society unaware that there is a near epidemic of breast cancer in women? Is the society unaware of published reports, under the names Brind, Sommerfelt, Briton, etc. - all pointing to a link between abortion and breast cancer.  The risk of breast cancer increases from 50 per cent to as high as 350 per cent when a woman’s first pregnancy results in abortion.

If the society doesn’t know this, then I don’t think much of their research program.

If the society does know, why is it not telling women? Does the CCS really not know of the research that links abortion and breast cancer? I believe the CCS knows, but it is keeping silent, for reasons known only to itself.

I predict the Canadian Cancer Society will be the “Tainted Blood Scandal” of the year 2000. The CCS knows about the link between abortion and breast cancer, and it says nothing.

Margaret Lambert,
Edson, Alberta.
 

Sympathy for Latimer

Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer was likely under undue stress and strain and was worried about what would become of his daughter Tracy if anything happened to him and his wife.

It was wrong of him to kill Tracy, but I still believe we need to have compassion for the Latimers, especially Robert.

No one can punish him more than he will punish himself. I believe that at the time he killed his daughter, he thought it was the right thing to do. The mind can work strangely when put under extreme pressure.

What good can it do to incarcerate Mr. Latimer for a long period of time? I think Mr. Justice Noble was correct (in imposing a lenient sentence). It is so easy for those of us who have not been in this position. As Christians we believe Tracy is in a better place. If she is to be avenged, God will take care of it.

It is not for us to judge the actions of another human being. The Latimers have suffered enough. Let it be.

Mary Agbakli,
London, Ontario.
 

Feature appreciated

I really enjoyed the International Round-up feature in the March, 1998 issue of The Interim.

The brief summaries of pro-life, pro-family news from the international scene is a welcome complement to the Across Canada feature you introduced some months ago.

It helps readers understand that the battle to protect unborn child and the family goes on not only in our own backyard, but across the country and around the world.

Vince Batcha,
Toronto.
 

Some kind of right

Regarding the March Interim article UN citing abortion as a universal right:

What kind of society kills its own children? Perhaps the UN should be asking this question.

I cannot believe we are a civilized world when a child’s right to live is not protected by the United Nations.

Just because a child is unborn does not mean that he/she can be violated. Human rights activists decry the treatment given people who are tortured or murdered by governments around the world, but will not or can not protect the child in the womb from being destroyed by abortion.

No other species destroys its own in the womb, yet we humans push for such a right.

Why is the UN declaring this attack on children as a right? When we take a life to prove our humanity, we only diminish ourselves and our world. If this is declared a right, then life is forever cheapened and all meaningful human rights will no longer exist.

Please consider the safety of all silent humans so that we will know all persons’ rights are upheld.

Laura Piatkowski
Brampton, ON.
 

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