At one point yesterday I was convinced that the Democrats had more than 220 votes and thus enough to pass their radical plan to reform health care. At another point, I figured they were about a half-dozen short of the 216 necessary to ram it through. Depending who you talk to, the feeling on The Hill is that the Democrats have enough [...]
At the University of British Columbia, pro-abortion demonstrators show their true colours by using their signs to block the Genocide Awareness Project message comparing abortion to past genocides. How very mature of those "pro-choice" students. Of course, in many jurisdictions abortion advocates have successfully used the power of the state to block pro-life sidewalk counselling, vigils and protests near abortion facilities. One might charge [...]
Grace-Marie Turner explains the Democrat thinking and complexities on the Slaughter Strategy and what Republicans can do about it all at NRO's Critical Condition. It speaks volumes that Obamacare cannot be passed honestly. Our esteemed editor and I have had a three-day long running email conversation on whether Democrats will risk electoral suicide to ram through the unpopular health care reform and we seem to [...]
According to an NRO interview with heroic pro-life Democrat Bart Stupak, an anti-life health care reform bill will be pushed through Congress one way or another. That is, even without the Stupak amendment language, a number of his pro-life colleagues were picked off by the Democrat leadership to support Obamacare. Stupak's view is that the leadership and some weary pro-life Congressman just want the whole health [...]
In November we reported that Redeemer College in Ancaster was going to host pro-abortion speaker Stephen Lewis. This month we cover the pro-life protest at Redeemer and the college's response to our original article. Note that the college did not refute what we reported -- that they were a Christian college inviting a strongly pro-abortion speaker who holds numerous positions at odds with a Christian [...]
The Swiss reject the idea of lawyers for animals by better than a two-to-one margin. That isn't to say that the country has sane laws surrounding animal rights: Switzerland tightened its laws two years ago and now has among the strictest rules anywhere when it comes to caring for pets and farm animals. The country's 160-page animal protection law states exactly how [...]
Michael Ignatieff has famously insisted that the government’s plan to address maternal health and infant mortality include abortion. We cover this story in depth on pages 10-11, but there are two important points. First, nobody in his right mind would equate abortion with maternal health; that much should go without saying, although apparently there are some things only a Harvard professor can [...]
I would like to clarify some issues regarding a lecture and panel discussion that Redeemer University College was to host this winter (“Abortion, condom advocate to speak at evangelical college,” November 2009). Let me begin with the topic on which Mr. Lewis has been invited to speak. First, Mr. Lewis will be speaking on global health generally, not on abortion, nor even [...]
On Jan. 22, about a dozen pro-lifers, some from as far away as Brantford, London and Toronto, picketed and distributed pamphlets at a lecture given by Stephen Lewis at Redeemer University College, a Christian undergraduate arts and sciences university in Ancaster, Ont. Last November, The Interim reported that the college was going to host Stephen Lewis for a lecture, noting that the [...]
I had a post yesterday at Sobering Thoughts explaining guessing why I think the Tories opened the Pandora's Box of rethinking Canada's national anthem for its alleged sexism in the lyrics "in all thy son's command": I think what baffles people is the question of why the government would bother doing this. Let me speculate on the motivations: politics. First, be assured [...]
Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life addresses abortion and health care in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. She examines whether or not President Barack Obama's "balanced" approach to abortion in his health care reform maintains the status quo (the Hyde Amendment) as Democrats claim or whether it "opens the spigots" to abortion funding. Yoest describes how Obamacare will expand [...]
Obamacare is wrong on every level, from life issues to its budget-busting costs to its dependency-creating government interventionism. There is nothing redeeming in it. But if it dies, it will be due to the work of pro-lifers who have made the bill about abortion funding as much, if not more than health care coverage itself. That is mostly due to the heroic work [...]
REAL Women of Canada will be hosting its 2010 national conference on Saturday, April 17 in North Bay, Ont., at Clarion Resort Pinewood Park. REAL (“Realistic, Active, Equal, for Life”) Women of Canada is a pro-woman and pro-family organization that was federally incorporated in 1983 and is an NGO with special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Its purpose [...]
It is hard to too excited about the Speech from the Throne; it is theatre, the government's best face, and it seldom resembles the legislative and budgetary priorities the government eventually puts forward. But they do mean something. It is therefore notable, as David Quist of the Institute ofMarriage and Family Canada points out, that the speech referenced family and families 20 times; according [...]
Just as in Canada, there is a push by many on the political Left to implement some sort of universal preschool program. A Heritage Foundation backgrounder points out why it is unnecessary: The ultimate goal of the myriad early education bills is to guarantee access to publicly subsidized preschool for all families. Universal preschool provides taxpayer-subsidized preschool to all children free of charge [...]