Recently, we visited a number of women, prominent in politics but from different parties and with a range of views on the need for pro-life legislation. Three Liberal members were interviewed, two Reform Party members and one Liberal Senator. Several others either refused outright or failed to respond to our request. (Ed. Note, the article was completed prior to Roseanne Skoke’s defeat [...]
Interim Special Canadian pro-lifers stung by recent setbacks in Nova Scotia and British Columbia took some comfort in two positive international developments. In Washington March 21, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill banning a late term abortion procedure many have described as infanticide. The bill was approved by a vote of 295-136. It would outlaw partial-birth abortion and impose fines [...]
Roseanne Skoke’s failure to win re-nomination in a newly created federal constituency in Nova Scotia is a hard lesson in the realities of Liberal politics in the late 1990s, say pro-life leaders. Skoke, one of the leading pro-life, pro-family voices in federal politics, lost by 147 votes to fellow Liberal Francis LeBlanc in the March 22 nomination contest. The two incumbents were [...]
Interim Special British Columbia pro-lifers described as “frightening” a move by the provincial health ministry to exclude right to life supporters from community and regional health boards. In a March 13 announcement, health minister Joy MacPhail said the province has “weeded out” pro-life supporters from such boards. She said that in order to be eligible for the health boards, members must support [...]
The future of our country depends on the strength of our families. The Reform Party believes that this fundamental institution should be central to the formation of public policy. There is a growing consensus that not only have families been forgotten under the decisions of Liberal-Tory policy, but the cumulative effects of disregard and competing special interests have in fact done great [...]