This story is so sad it is hard to celebrate that justice was ultimately done. The AFP reports that a Edward Erin, a 44-year-old British doctor, was sentenced to six years after a judge found him guilty of attempting to administer a poison to induce a miscarriage on his former lover, Bella Prowse, 33. She later gave birth to a boy, whom she named [...]
The New York Post reports: Club owner John "J.E." Englebert is planning an "Anti-Gosselin" fundraiser for Planned Parenthood at his Suzie Wong sake lounge to make "a point of thinking of the victims, the children of their loveless marriage" So Englebert is 1) using the tragedy of the Gosselin family (Jon & Kate and their eight) to promote his company and Planned Parenthood and 2) [...]
Daniel Allott in The American Spectator Online: But does anyone believe that the man who brushed off a question about when human life begins as being "above my pay grade" gives more than a passing thought to life issues, aside from considering their political implications? Obama's earnest-sounding words collide with a voting record over more than a decade that reveals an abortion [...]
University of Toronto Students for Life notes that last week the McGill University student union revoked club status from campus pro-life group Choose Life, leading them to revisit a lengthy letter from from SSMU from early October that shows the lengths by which the union will go to oppose the club. Fox News reports that David Axelrod, an advisor to Barack Obama, says the [...]
The Daily Telegraph reports that more abortions are committed in Great Britain than any other country in the EU, and that its 209,699 abortions ranks only behind China, India, Russia and the United States. The Wall Street Journal reports on the balancing act Nancy Pelosi has to make the Catholic bishops and pro-life Democrats happy on one side, and her pro-abortion allies in Congress, on [...]
The bizarre saga of Canada’s censorious human rights commissions took another freakish turn in September, when one of its own suddenly declared the very system that employed him “unconstitutional.” Even longtime HRC critic (and victim-turned-victor) Ezra Levant was taken aback. As Levant put it at his blog when the news broke: “Two years ago, Athanasios Hadjis was a human rights hack, sitting [...]
An appreciation of the gift of being a dad The arrival of this past June’s Father’s Day caused me to reflect on what the occasion means to me. As I gazed around the table and viewed my family, I observed my partner in life, affectionately known as mom, and my children, each with his or her own uniqueness. The good Lord is [...]
On Sept. 23, the Madam Justice Sunni Stromberg-Stein of the Supreme Court of British Columbia quashed polygamy charges against Winston Blackmore and James Oler. The legal reasoning is rather technical and narrow – the defense claimed and the justice agreed that former Attorney General Wally Oppal had gone “special prosecutor shopping” – but that doesn’t change the reality that the decision will [...]
In early October, a former Roman Catholic bishop, Raymond Lahey, was charged with the possession and distribution of child pornography. Whether he is guilty or not is yet to be decided, but the case does look extremely bad. Beyond what he is accused of having had on his laptop computer recently, it is also alleged that he was seen in [...]
There are two rituals at the onset of every fall television season; in the first, someone looks over the crop of failed shows from the last season and announces some venerable genre – the three-camera sitcom, the police procedural – as being creatively dead, followed by the unexpected success of a show that singlehandedly revives it. The cycle’s tedious regularity is just [...]
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I was thinking of calling this post "NH passes up chance for new motto: 'Live free and die'." Earlier this week the New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee voted against a proposed bill that would legalize euthanasia in the state by allowing terminally ill patients to obtain lethal prescriptions. The margin wasn't even close -- 14 against legalizing euthanasia and three in favour. State Rep. Nancy Elliott said, [...]
In the long-term there is little doubt that Obamacare will diminish the right of all Americans to make their own choices about health care coverage, but all the debate in Washington and the punditocracy right now is about the supposedly lost of the "right to choose" abortion. Yet, as the the Manchester Union Leader editorializes: Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus wrote about [...]
Mary Harned of Americans United for Life explains in detail why the Stupak-Pitts amendment was necessary by going into great detail about what it does and doesn't do and why the Hyde Amendment was insufficient to prevent taxpayer subsidies covering abortion.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Japanese scientists are close to producing a "three parent baby" after successfully fertilizing an egg with two biological mothers. The first question that comes to mind is "Why?" Are scientists deliberately attempting to attack the sanctity of human life and undermine conjugal relationships, or is it just so much fun to play God that there are no rules [...]