Canada Silent No More is a growing group of women whose lives have been torn apart following an abortion. These courageous women held a rally and press conference in Winnipeg, Man. in conjunction with the national pro-life conference, "Alive and Loving It." "With one in four pregnancies being aborted, there are potentially millions of silent victims in this country who fear talking [...]
Interim Staff The Supreme Court of India upheld the decision to disqualify a member of a village council in the north-western Indian state of Haryana for violating the region's two-child norm, even though the norm is not legally binding. The court claimed it is "in the national interest to check population growth" and that included the use of "legislative disincentives." This disqualified [...]
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has been closely following the trial of Evelyn Martens in Duncan B.C. Bev Welsh, a retired palliative care nurse, has been attending the trial on a daily basis, to ensure that the information the organization has is accurate. Martens was charged with aiding and abetting the suicide deaths of Monique Charest and Leyanne Burchell of British Columbia. The [...]
Parents consider new tactics as daughter's life back in jeopardy In old Greek plays, the main character often finds himself trapped in tragedy when, unexpectedly and out of nowhere, the miraculous means of his survival appears. Students of classical literature call this the Deus ex machina - the god from the machine. While the plight of Terri Schindler-Schiavo is a tragedy for [...]
Pro-life leader warns that the burden of pensions and healthcare costs will mean more people must die. In his book Don't Trust Anyone Over 30: A History of the Baby Boom, Howard Smead called the boomers "the most egocentric generation in the history of mankind." From hippies to yuppies, from war protesters to corporate lobbyists, the sheer number of baby boomers - [...]
Interim Staff According to a LifeCanada-sponsored Environics poll, more than two-thirds of Canadians want abortion restricted or prohibited, informed consent and the public defunding of abortion. The poll also indicates that support for the pro-life position on several abortion-related issues, including informed consent and taxpayer-funding of abortion, is going up across the board. Joanne Byfield, president of LifeCanada, revealed to the National [...]
Justices questioning why feds put question before top court On Oct. 6, the Supreme Court of Canada began what may be the most important case before the top court since the Morgentaler and Borowski cases in the late 1980s, in terms of this country's social fabric. The court held three days of hearings on the federal government's reference question, in which the [...]
On the heels of the news that Canadian women are being shipped to the United States for pricey late-term abortions - because no Canadian doctors will commit the grisly procedures - come some hard numbers that illustrate the extent of the phenomenon. A spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of Health readily admitted that, at a time when his province's health system is [...]
Senator ties depopulation scheme to U.S. security memo In August, Philippine Congressman Edcel Lagman introduced the Reproductive Health Act to the House of Representatives in Manila. The bill calls for "the limitation of the number of children to an affordable two children per family" and calls upon the government to "encourage two-child family size to attain the desired population growth rate." The [...]
Rule #2: Losers Pay In almost every case cited last month, the money that allowed lawyers and judges to re-write Canada's social rubric, divine the intent of the original authors and thumb their noses at social conservatives, came from, you guessed it, the Canadian taxpayer. Of course the official line is that the money came from our civil government - but everybody [...]
In a Sept. 27 feature on feminism entitled "25 years of women making progress," Toronto Star "Life writer" Trish Crawford made a common, but egregious, error when she paraphrased former National Action Committee on the Status of Women president Judy Rebick as saying "the legalization of abortion may not have been the most important milestone for women, but it is the one [...]
On Oct. 9, the embryonic stem cell research movement got its martyr with the death of actor Christopher Reeve. A decade ago, the man who played Superman in a series of movies in the 1970s and 1980s fell in a horse-riding accident and became a quadriplegic. In recent years, he became the poster-child for ESCR and one of its leading activists. Not [...]
Spain lurches to licentiousness MADRID - Spain's socialist government approved a bill to legalize same-sex "marriage," but put off liberalizing the country's abortion law until at least 2005. Parliament is expected to approve gay "marriage" in January, when Spain would become the third European country to legalize homosexual nuptials. The same bill includes a measure allowing adoption by same-sex parents. Meanwhile, a [...]
Archbishop Exner worries about future of Canada OTTAWA - Speaking at the Priests for Life annual symposium, Archbishop Adam Exner, retired Catholic archbishop of Vancouver, said, "I am becoming more and more worried about the state of freedom in our country." Exner warned that growing judicial activism in Canada is changing laws and institutions beyond the restraint of democratic process. "Same-sex marriages [...]
Canada Supporters of John Tory cited his moderation and electability as reasons to choose the former Rogers CEO over the more conservative former Mike Harris-era cabinet ministers Jim Flaherty and Frank Klees as leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party. In the first post-leadership convention poll, Liberals regained the lead ... Former Alberta Report publisher Link Byfield, a vocal opponent of abortion, [...]