LeRoy Goldman, a deacon at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Hendersonville, writes about the meaning of Thanksgiving in the Asheville Citizen-Times. He reminds us: That this nation's roots are deeply intertwined with God's providence was not lost on George Washington, who in his Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 stated, “It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to [...]
From ProLifeBlogs.com: "Baby Gabriel - No one should be allowed to decide that an innocent life is not worth saving." Members of the Liberal Party are attacking Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott for opposing abortion and his suggestion that men benefit from abortion because it allows them to engage in consequenceless sex. The ladies at ProWomanProLife come to his defense. National Review's Kathryn Jean [...]
Rory Leishman's review of Brian Lee Crowley's Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values is now online. An excerpt: The most glaring omission in Crowley’s otherwise fine book is any acknowledgment of the calamitous impact of legalized abortion. As a compassionate man, he should pity all the grieving mothers who have been duped into thinking of abortion as an [...]
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Kathy Shaidle, writing at NewsReal, takes on Media Matters which seems to be criticizing those who 'claim' Obamacare will fund abortions. It is an incredible take-down of Media Matters. She makes note of a New York Times story that reports "The public plan could provide abortion coverage but would have to segregate federal dollars, just like the private plans." Shaidle indirectly explains what the fungibility of money is by mocking [...]
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has a 50-page booklet, Euthanasia: In the Shadow of Death, available for download. The Saskatoon StarPhoenix reports that Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott has applauded local doctors for restricting abortion services by only doing them up to 12 weeks. Dave Andrusko of the National Right to Life Committee looks at Jesse Jackson and his transformation from pro-life minister to pro-abortion pol. [...]
The week before a parliamentary debate took place on euthanasia and assisted suicide, one of the country’s experts on palliative care spoke to a group of concerned citizens in Ottawa about the issue. Dr. Jose Pereira is a full professor and head of the division of palliative care at the University of Ottawa, medical chief of palliative medicine at the [...]
Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values by Brian Lee Crowley (Key Porter, $34.95, 360 pages) In an important new book, Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values, Brian Lee Crowley persuasively argues that the future prosperity of Canada depends on a revival of marriage and the family. For Crowley, this is a new understanding. Until [...]
On Oct. 6, pro-abortion students shouted down a presentation by Jose Ruba of the pro-life Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform at McGill University, preventing most of his talk from being heard by those in attendance of the Choose Life-sponsored event. Police were called to the scene and, after repeated requests for civility, two people were arrested, although they were later [...]
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Louise Slaughter, chairman of the House Rules Committee, 183 Congressional representatives demanded that Congress be allowed a free vote on bipartisan pro-life measures that would prohibit government funding of abortion in health care. The House representatives warn that in the absence of a free vote, they will do everything in [...]
Alex Schadenberg has an excellent post on the man who emerged a 23-year long coma (persistent vegetative state) and the dangers that such a diagnosis presents to patients. He concludes: Medical professionals need to be far more careful before diagnosing a patient as PVS. If society rejects hypocratic medicine and accepts euthanasia, the time would come where people in PVS would be treated as non-persons, [...]
Last week, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops expressed their "disappointment" in an official communication over Harry Reid's Senate health care reform bill containing language that "creates new and unacceptable federal policy for funding and coverage of abortions." It was a blunt but still tepid condemnation of Obamacare. The USCCB has long supported universal health care, and that is their right. They have [...]
Maclean`s reports that women are looking for alternatives to the contraceptive pill. Kelowna Pro-Life has some incredible photos of their Bound4Life event this past weekend. LifeSiteNews.com has the story. The Daily Mail reports on a Belgian man diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years who was actually conscious the entire time. Wesley Smith discusses the implications of this story on the practice of purposely dehydrating people [...]
Today I have meetings in regards to Aid to Women, a crisis pregnancy center in Toronto on whose board I sit, so blogging will be light to non-existent today and tomorrow (Wednesday is production day). Here's a story on ATW that The Interim ran earlier this year. In Canada, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of such centers who reach out to women to help [...]
Maclean's cover story on "The New Canadian Morality: What we believe about infidelity, the death penalty, euthanasia, abortion, wearing fur ..." The Toronto Star has a long article on the black market for human eggs. The Baltimore Sun reports that the Baltimore city council is about to force crisis pregnancy centers to erect signs that say they do not provide abortion or [...]