The homosexual activist who pursued Alberta pastor Stephen Boissoin on a complaint of discrimination since 2002 has re-launched his campaign, after a December court defeat, by taking his case to the Alberta Court of Appeal. Dr. Darren Lund is appealing the Dec. 4, 2009 Court of Queen’s Bench decision by Justice Earl C. Wilson, who overturned a 2008 ruling against Boissoin [...]
Every minute of every day one pregnant mother and 18 young children die prematurely. That is 500,000 mothers and 9 million children under the age five die annually, mostly due to preventable causes. Prime Minister Stephen Harper highlighted the issue in January and announced that during the G8 summit to be held in Huntsville, Ont., in June, he would promote an initiative [...]
The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada has responded to Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge’s (Winnipeg South) proposed bill to ban coercive abortion by calling instead for a ban on “coerced childbirth,” and even suggesting that Canada outlaw pro-life activism. “The entire anti-choice movement has been trying to force women into pregnancy and motherhood for decades, by working to outlaw or restrict abortion,” said [...]
The Canadian Press has discovered that the Canadian International Development Agency advised the federal government that its maternal health initiative should include abortion (where legal). The Toronto Star thought this article so important, it splashed the wire story at the top of its paper today. No doubt that to a certain type of mind, this seems scandalous, but it really is not. Policy is [...]
Rebecca Walberg writes about the Harper government's maternal health initiative from a Jewish-notion-0f-charity perspective: The medieval philosopher Maimonides developed a ladder of tzedaka that tells us how best to give. The ideal is to give in a manner that is not begrudging, that is respectful of recipients, and that helps them to become self-sufficient... Providing abortions for women in developing countries does [...]
The National Post reported the Prime Minister will vote against Roxanne's Law when it comes before Parliament and will recommend the Conservative caucus do likewise although the vote will not be whipped. A spokesman for the Liberals said that they won't whip the vote either, although not many Liberals are expected to support the private member's bill to outlaw coercing a woman [...]
I don't think that the abortion debate ever went away. The social peace, as Jean Chretien called it, was a combination of media-imposed silence and politically inspired cowardice, but there are hundreds of thousands of Canadians who passionately oppose the status quo and polls show the public is deeply divided. In most years, there are more members of pro-life groups in Canada than there [...]
Norman Spector in a Globe and Mail blog post this morning notes: For that, Quebec MNAs — whose own days these days are filled with allegations of corruption and such — will be able to turn to La Presse.There, a “reliable source” (meaning Dimitri Soudas is my guess) tells reporter Joel-Denis Bellavance: “If a private members bill criminalizing abortion were tabled, it [...]
Norman Spector in the Globe and Mail this morning: Perusing my morning read, I read that Premier Jean Charest has told The Globe and Mail that “abortion is an inalienable right.” That would be the same Jean Charest, by the way, who as an MP voted in favour of the Mulroney government’s abortion law that would have restricted this supposedly inalienable right. [...]
Today Quebec's National Assembly unanimously passed a motion (109-0) that said: “That [Quebec’s] National Assembly reaffirms the right of women to free choice and to free and accessible abortion services, and asks the federal government and the Prime Minister of Canada to put an end to the current ambiguity on this issue, and that the National Assembly reaffirms that the fact of supporting [...]
Dunn Media & Entertainment has four very good videos of the National March for Life in Ottawa last week. We especially encourage educators to look at the fourth video, the one on the youth conference. See also the Campaign Life Coalition video with the reaction from its national president Jim Hughes following the March.
Almost on its deathbed a few short months ago, Canadian Nurses for Life is back, perhaps stronger than ever, with two national co-ordinators taking the reins and ready to steer the organization through the stormy seas of pro-life activism in the medical sphere. Outgoing national co-ordinator Mary Lynn McPherson had sounded the alarm in 2009, warning that Canadian Nurses for Life faced [...]
Liberals insist Canada follow American abortion policy One week after a Liberal motion calling upon the federal government to provide for “the full range of reproductive options” in its international maternal and infant health initiative, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted that maternal health includes abortion and contraception during a visit to Canada. During a meeting of G8 foreign [...]
Writing in the January 2010 edition of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, a pair of Canadian medical experts called for new guidelines and practices to prevent sex-selection abortions. Dr. Brendan Leier, a bioethicist at the University of Alberta, and Dr. Allison T. Thiele, a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Saskatchewan, note that due to the widespread [...]
The Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) has applied special restrictions on the activities of the campus pro-life club, Choose Life. After initially voting to recognize the club in the fall of 2008, the SSMU gradually increased its opposition to Choose Life after the club held events such as the Silent No More Awareness Campaign on Sept. 24, 2009 and [...]