Yesterday LifeSiteNews reported on a June 2009 French-language interview with Justin Trudeau, a Liberal MP from Quebec and son of former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In it Trudeau the Younger admits he is at odds with the Roman Catholic Church into which he was born and raised on issues such as abortion and homosexuality. While claiming to be a believer, he [...]
Brian Lilley has a very good column at The Examiner on the issue of euthanasia and the dishonest talking point mistaken belief that it involves the right to "pull the plug." Euthanasia is not the ending of treatment (a passive act) to let a patient die, but a deliberate action to bring about the death of the patient. Lilley notes, "Those who say euthanasia should [...]
Brian Lilley writes in the Examiner about C-384: "Euthanasia is about killing, not the 'right to die with dignity'." LifeSiteNews.com reports that likely future Canadian Liberal leader Justin Trudeau admits that his moral positions do not reflect that of the Catholic Church in which he was raised. David Prentice at the Family Research Council blog points to some promising developments using adult [...]
Nothing could have prepared Gillian DeSouza for the news she would receive during what was supposed to have been a routine pregnancy care check-up in June of 2008. At the 20th week in her pregnancy, the doctor told Gillian and her husband, Jason DeSouza, that their unborn child had a rare anomaly called “Trisomy X.” Commonly referred to as Triple [...]
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D, MD) has an amendment (No. 2791) to the Senate health care reform bill of Harry Reid that would mandate coverage of "preventive" health care for women. That sounds benign enough but as the National Right to Life Committee notes in a letter to U.S. senators, when the Maryland senator sponsored a similar amendment earlier this year, it was endorsed [...]
The opening paragraph of this letter to the editor of the Delaware County Daily Times speaks for itself: The Stupak amendment to the House health-care bill makes insurance coverage for abortion virtually unavailable for millions of women purchasing insurance plans through the newly created health insurance exchange. This is such an unbelievable step backward for us as a society, it should be illegal [...]
Big Blue Wave: Canadians: Change the culture! Tell the CRTC what you think ... About the way cable companies operate. I know most of you hate paying for channels that you don't use. Tell them: Stop the packaging system and end cable monopolies! This is something that affects almost everyone. If we could get this changed, that would be a huge improvement [...]
The last of the November edition of The Interim is now online, including: Global battle over abortion as a right. Human trafficking law passes. Abortion, condom advocate to speak at evangelical college Stephen Lewis to lecture at Redeemer University. The person behind the aborted baby photos. Reducing abortions: The untold story of America’s pregnancy resource centres. Various Canadian news briefs. You can [...]
The Washington Post reports that the Republican rank-and-file are divided over how the party leadership has handled a number of policy files, and predictably it notes a number of 'divisive' moral issues. But read the actual poll more closely and you realize that on moral issues, Republicans do not want the party to veer left on abortion and same-sex marriage. Asked if the party gives [...]
The Centers for Disease Control released the 2006 abortion numbers for the United States: 846,181 for the 46 states that reported abortion numbers, which represents a slight increase. It does not include California. LifeSiteNews.com has the story. New York magazine has a long article by Jennifer Senior on "The Abortion Distortion: Just how pro-choice is America, really?" Senior concludes not very "pro-choice." The Catholic [...]
15 years after Cairo, abortion controversy rages In October, the UN General Assembly held a high-level meeting for the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development. While some have used the anniversary to try and assess progress towards realizing the ICPD program of action, the UN Fund for Population Activities and pro-abortion non-governmental organizations have sought to use the [...]
Redeemer University College, an undergraduate liberal arts college founded by the Christian Reformed denomination, is scheduled to host a lecture in January by Stephen Lewis, former UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. RUC’s activities and orientation co-ordinator, Micah van Dijk, who is helping to plan the event along with the university’s social justice club, admitted to LifeSiteNews.com in an [...]
“Maybe 50 per cent of the graphic images of abortion victims that you’ll find online are probably my photography.” So says Monica Migliorino Miller, associate professor of theology at Madonna University in Orchard Lake, Mich., in a recent interview with Lens, the New York Times photography blog. The interview has made waves in the pro-life world, due in large part to the [...]
By a vote of 239-46, the House of Commons passed C-268, a private members bill which would provide a minimum five year sentence for traffickers of children. Every Bloc Quebecois MP and three NDP MPs voted against the stricter penalties for child traffickers. The three NDP MPs were: Libby Davies (Vancouver East), Bill Siksay (Burnaby Douglas) and Megan Leslie (Halifax). Davies and Siksay [...]
A groundbreaking report detailing the impact of thousands of pregnancy resource centres across America has been released by the Family Research Council. Entitled “A Passion to Serve: A Vision for Life,” the report lays out in detail the manifold contributions of American pregnancy resource centres to their communities, particularly to women, children and families. The nature and scope of the pregnancy centres’ [...]