Articles Tagged ‘Pro-Life Personalities’
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Written on 2 Jun, 2011 at 9:04 in
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Paul Tuns Fr. Ted Colleton dies at the age of 97
In the evening of April 26, Fr. Ted Colleton passed away peacefully in La Salle Manor in Toronto where he had been convalescing for four years. The pro-life movement lost one of its giants.
Edward Colleton was born in Dublin on July 20, 1913. Fr. Ted joked, “my mother was there at the time, so I wanted to be there with her.”
Born ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2011 at 12:49 in
Activism, Pro-Life | Author:
Tony Gosgnach On Monday, March 7, a downtown Toronto courtroom took a trip back in time to the early 1990s and the days of NDP rule in Ontario, when the government of premier Bob Rae and attorney general Marion Boyd attempted to squelch pro-life activism throughout the province by way of a wide-ranging court injunction. It was part of the first day of a hearing into an abuse of process application within the trial of Linda Gibbons on a charge of disobeying ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2011 at 12:47 in
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Paul Tuns Linda Gibbons, who has been arrested more than 20 times in connection to activities near a Toronto abortuary, will get her day in court. The Supreme Court of Canada, that is.
Gibbons, who prays outside abortion the Scott abortuary on Gerrard Street in downtown Toronto and counsels women to not kill their babies, has never been charged with violating the 1994 “temporary” injunction that outlaws any pro-life activity within 60 feet of specifically named abortion facilities. Pro-life leaders assume that this ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Apr, 2011 at 12:35 in
Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns
In one weekend in mid-March, three veteran pro-life federal politicians announced the would not run for re-election, two of them cabinet ministers.
On March 12 and 13, Stockwell Day, Chuck Strahl, and John Cummins all announced that they would not run for re-election whenever it is held.
Day, president of the Treasury Board of Canada and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, announced that after 25 years in elected politics, he would ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 Apr, 2011 at 20:06 in
Profiles | Author:
Paul Tuns
On Jan. 31, Walter Szetela, who edited the Campaign Life Coalition British Columbia newsletter for two decades, passed away at Vancouver General Hospital.
Born in Chicopee, Mass., in 1928, he earned a Master’s degree in Mathematics at the University of Michigan and a doctoral degree from the University of Georgia after serving in the U.S. army. In 1970 he moved to British Columbia with his wife Theresa (now deceased) and children to become ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Mar, 2011 at 13:16 in
Announcements, Features, Profiles | Author:
Paul Tuns
Bernard Nathanson, a leading abortionist in the 1970s and later a convert to the pro-life cause, has passed away at the age of 84 following a long battle with cancer.
Nathanson was born in New York City and graduated from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal in 1949.
As a member of the 12-person Planning Committee created by the First National Conference on Abortion Laws in Chicago in 1969, Nathanson was a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Feb, 2011 at 19:47 in
Profiles | Author:
Paul Tuns
On Dec. 16, Patricia Marie Gerretsen (nee Doherty) passed away at the age of 69, leaving a legacy of pro-life involvement that went back decades and only increased after she suffered a debilitating anuerysm and stroke.
Known as Pat to her pro-life friends but Patricia to her family, Gerretsen and her late husband Peter were involved in the pro-life cause since the early 1980s. The two owned a production company, Gerretsen Film Productions, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Jan, 2011 at 19:56 in
Announcements, Features, Profiles | Author:
Paul Tuns
On Dec. 3, a little more than a month after receiving LifeCanada`s Mother Teresa Award for outstanding pro-life activism, Heather Stilwell, a culture warrior and pro-life heroine, passed away after losing a two-year battle with breast cancer.
While not unexpected, the news hit pro-lifers hard. Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes told The Interim that her death is the most significant loss to the pro-life movement since the 1996 death of Joseph ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Sep, 2010 at 6:39 in
Nurses for Life, Profiles | Author:
Joseph Jalsevac
Rita Burnie, who with her sisters Helen (deceased) and Mary, long served in the frontlines of the Canadian pro-life movement. She passed away last Dec. 13th. Burnie, a nurse, had been active in the pro-life movement since 1984 when she first picketed Morgentaler’s newly opened Toronto abortuary. “I went in to nursing to save lives,” Burnie is quoted as saying Grace Petrasek’s book in Silhouette’s Against the Snow: Profiles of Canadian Defenders ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Sep, 2010 at 18:18 in
Profiles | Author:
Paul Tuns
On Aug. 3, the National Post featured Linda Gibbons on its front page in what LifeSiteNews.com called “the largest piece on the pro-life heroine yet from Canada’s national media.” Religion reporter Charles Lewis interviewed Gibbons at the Vanier Centre for Women where Gibbons told the reporter she has a constitutionally protected right and religious obligation to witness against abortion.
According to Lewis, Gibbons “believes she has a Charter and God-given right to counsel ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Jul, 2010 at 6:47 in
Activism, Human rights | Author:
Tony Gosgnach Special to The Interim Constitutional arguments and an application for a change in bail conditions consumed an entire day of Provincial Court time on June 2, when Linda Gibbons appeared for her latest hearings as part of an increasingly complex web of legal issues surrounding her more recent pro-life demonstrations outside a Toronto abortion site.
Gibbons has been imprisoned continuously since Jan. 20, 2009, when she was arrested outside the downtown “Scott Clinic,” which is protected by ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Jun, 2010 at 14:07 in
Pro-life Groups, Youth Activism | Author:
Cameron Wilson Special to The Interim Editor’s Note: Cameron Wilson, a student at the University of Calgary, gave this speech to the media on April 19, read on behalf of the team of pro-life students who were charged with non-academic misconduct for displaying the Genocide Awareness Project on campus.
We of Campus Pro-Life have been told countless upon countless occasions that the Genocide Awareness Project, and the pictures contained therein, are offensive and hurtful to look at. But if an action is too terrible to look at, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 May, 2010 at 19:44 in
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Editor’s Note: LifeSiteNews.com was presented the 2010 National Award by REAL Women at its annual national conference on April 17 in North Bay, Ont. REAL Women national president Cecilia Forsyth explained that the award signifies that the recipient individual or organization has made an exemplary contribution to society. Nominees are expected to demonstrate “honesty, integrity and responsibility; respect for the traditional family unit in society; support for the basic right to life of all human beings; and Judaeo-Christian values.” The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Apr, 2010 at 13:34 in
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Paul Tuns Editor On March 20, Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, passed away at the age of 89, ending a four-decade career opposing abortion and contraception.
Fr. Marx created the Human Life Center in 1971 – two years before Roe v. Wade – which a decade later became Human Life International. He traveled to all 50 states and more than 90 countries to proclaim the pro-life message. In a press release, Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, Fr. Marx’s successor as president of HLI, said: “In the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Mar, 2010 at 9:15 in
Announcements, Features, Profiles | Author:
Pauline Kosalka
On Jan. 25, 2010, pro-life activist Lila Rose gave a rousing speech to the San Francisco Walk for Life, which drew a crowd of 35,000 participants. “Let us be the ones who with grace, who with humility and who with joy stand up and say enough is enough. We will see every person in America protected by law, by love, protected by choices. Even the smallest in our country will be protected,” ... (Continue reading)
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