The following are excerpts from each of the speeches given by featured speakers, in order of appearance, at the May 14 March for Life on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Jason Kenney, Reform MP for Calgary Southeast, Alta. I am 29 years old. I, through my entire life, have known nothing but the legal availability of abortion on demand in Canada. My generation [...]
Campaign Life Coalition played an important role in alerting parliamentarians and church leaders to a United Nations move to declare "enforced pregnancy" a crime through the proposed international criminal court. The international pro-life community is concerned that defining "enforced pregnancy" as a war crime could be used by the United Nations to undermine right-to-life legislation in some countries. Instead of properly attacking [...]
Newfoundl and pro-life community is outraged that the province will provide full funding for abortions at Henry Morgentaler's St. John's clinic. In response to federal government pressure to fully insure what it deems a medically necessary service, the Newfoundland health ministry said in January that it would cover the total cost of abortion at the Morgentaler abortuary. In the past, the Newfoundland [...]
Most pro-life advocates are fully aware that in order to change the law on abortion, we need legislators to introduce that legislation and a sufficient number of them to vote in favor of it - in the House of Commons and in the Senate. I dare say that the lack of activity in this area since the failure of the controversial Bill [...]
Is Planned Parenthood good for our communities? Those in the Canadian pro-life, pro-family scene face the challenge of trying to relate to the public at large why the world's foremost proponent of contraception and so-called reproductive rights is, in fact, bad news. Attendees at this year's National Pro-Life Conference in Ancaster, Ont., just outside of Hamilton, will get some expert insights into [...]
Pro-life and pro-family advocates in southern Ontario who have been frustrated by the media's inability (or refusal) to report accurately and fairly on life and family issues may find some relief in the recent decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to grant the Burlington, Ont.-based Crossroads Television System a licence for a television station. The decision, released April 9, gives [...]
Disabled rights advocates and pro-life supporters are once again dismayed over a lenient sentence given a Toronto physician who assisted in the suicide of a patient. Dr. Maurice Genereux, an AIDS specialist, was sentenced to two-years less a day for prescribing lethal doses of pain killers to patient Aaron McGinn in 1996. He is the first doctor in North America to be [...]
Pro-lifers will monitor the course of a private member's bill in the Ontario Legislature, which would protect the right of health care workers to refuse to participate in practices they find morally objectionable. An act to protect the consciences of health care workers is expected to be introduced in the Legislature in the near future. According to Progressive Conservative MPP Jim Brown [...]
It's probably no coincidence that the status of fathers has declined in proportion to the overall depreciation in family life, morality and culture during the last few decades. Much has been written in recent years about the negative portrayal of fathers in the news media and in the entertainment world. Indeed, the incompetent father has become something of an icon in North [...]