Index - Interim, January 1997

Latimer appeal welcomed by disabled

Mike Mastromatteo

Cheryl Eckstein, executive director of the Compassionate Healthcare Network said the appeal will bring groups representing the disabled together with one voice. We are really one-minded about this. Tracy Latimer had a right to life and justice and she was not served".
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Dark shadows and bright hopes on a new year

Recent events and court decisions have cast dark shadows on the struggle to defend life. Maintaining a pro-life presence in a throw-away world will require a steady focus on ultimate aims, with an openess to new ideas and approaches. We have the bright hope of a possible new appreciation for pro-life, pro-family objectives
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Canadian Senator Ann Cools urges restraint on judicial activism
A pro-life Senator is taking a small step to combat what she claims is a drift toward judicial activism" on the part of Canada's high court officials.

1997: a look at a trying year
Highlights from the pro-life community during 1997, and a look into 1998.

BC Judge dismisses Demers' challenge
Judge McGivern said that the Canadian Charter words every" and every individual" do not include the unborn child.

Assorted musings from Parliament HIll
Now is a good time to contact MPs to voice support for pro-life issues.

Hamilton's Redeemer College is '98 site for Alliance- CLC gathering
Thursday, July 2 - Saturday, July 4, 1998
Alliance for Life and Campaign Life Coalition are enthusiastically preparing for what promises to be an excellent conference.

RIO Meeting offers receipe for a defence of family
Delegates came together from all over the world to a major Catholic family conference in Rio de Janeiro. They shared strategies for defending the family from external pressures.

Euthanasia Part 2: Caring attitude defeats sense of despair
Tina Allerellie— Now my goal in life is to make sure that everybody that I know knows they are loved".

25 years after Roe vs. Wade
A look at the effect of Roe vs Wade and where we've come, along with concrete suggestions on what we still need to do.

State senate bans controversial procedure
Trenton, N.J. bans late-term abortions.

New push to defund abortions
Garry Breitkreuz (Reform, Yorkton-Melville) reintroduced his Bill M-268 and brings fellow MPs' attention to the United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child.

Pope says the family is threatened

Couples decision to avoid abortion rewarded in life of young daughter
Despite the recommendations of two specialists to abort their child, this couple chose life.

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The Christian Heritage Party rejects the federal government's latest Aids strategy. CHP leader Ron Gray calls on the government to end its political protection" for the fatal communicable disease.
Carleton Place, Ont.—Happy ending to Drummond case? Brenda Drummond has been reunited with her son Johnathan—the child she wounded by firing a pellet gun into her womb two days before he was born.
Burlington, Ont.—The pro-life advertising billboard, This is a Child. Not a Choice" is catching on.
Edmonton - The Supreme Court shows willingness to create new Charter Rights to protect homosexuals in the Vriend case, while steadfastly refusing to do the same for the unborn.
Abortionist Garson Romalis resurfaces as the featured speaker at a secret abortion symposium at the University of BC. Campaign Life Coalition of BC criticized the University which claimed the secrecy was due to a previous attempt on Romalis' life.
Victoria, B. C.—The downside of amniocentesis was illustrated when a mother of a Down's Syndrome child sued for damages associated with her son's condition. The mother would have terminated" her pregnancy had her doctorreferred her for amniocentesis which would have indicated down's syndrome.
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When friends reject your children you get the job. Some suggestions on how to be a friend to your child. Dr. Dobson discusses some of the changes that occur with the aging process.

Bill Clinton for PM. A look at the PM's from the past

If others do not believe life begins at fertilization, why object to abortion on demand for them?
Operation media— reveals examples of the media's definite bias and careless use of facts.

Population bomb a dud, the explosion becoming a desperate whimper.

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