There are endless arguments within the pro-life movement about incrementalism. I have summed up my own views in an Interim cover story. "How to Chip Away at Abortion" (August 2006). Michael J. New has also written about the effectiveness of incremental laws in saving unborn human lives. Daniel McConchie of Americans United for Life points to another person who thinks incrementalism matters: [...]
Wesley Smith links to a story in the Daily Telegraph about Gunther von Hagens, the entrepreneur who plasticizes dead human beings, a form of "art" popularized in the travelling Body Worlds display. Now von Hagens is selling the skinless bodies and body parts for "scientific" purposes to scientists only. However, as Smith points out, legitimate scientists have legitimate ways to obtain bodies for research [...]
Following Ontario Superior Court Justice Susan Himel’s decision to throw out any restrictions on the sex trade as incompatible with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, numerous newspaper editorials called for the issue to be returned to Parliament because elected representatives, not judges should decide social policy. The Ottawa Citizen’s own libertarian stance is that “what consenting adults do is not anyone [...]
In unilaterally striking down three key provisions of the Criminal Code, that prohibit the operation of houses of prostitution in Canada, on Sept. 28, Madam Justice Susan Himel of the Ontario Superior Court indulged in an illegitimate exercise of raw judicial power. Her ruling overturned the law, distorts the Constitution of Canada and violates the fundamental separation of legislative and judicial [...]
During Remembrance Day solemnities in more recent years, we are frequently reminded that World War II was fought to safeguard “freedom and democracy in Canada.” We rarely hear anymore of the defense of Western civilization, or of Christian civilization, with which the Allied rhetoric of World War II was suffused at the time it was occurring (as in one of Winston Churchill’s [...]
Six Life Prize winners were announced by the Gerard Health Foundation and all six are very deserving winners: Jean Head (UN Representative for National Right to Life); Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network; Douglas Johnson (legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee); Kristan Hawkins (executive director of Students for Life America); Rev. Alveda King (niece of Martin Luther King Jr. [...]
After several weeks hiatus Harley Price continues his series The Atheist Delusion with his fourth and penultimate post. The best line in his latest offering: The opposition between religion and science has been a longstanding trope of anti-Christian polemic, and by the time that [Richard] Dawkins and [Christopher] Hitchens joined the Church of Atheistic Reason, it was already a hallowed article of faith. [...]
Opponents of social conservatives are fond of saying you can't legislate morality. Of course, that is nonsense; all legislation is morality. Micah Watson, William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Affairs at the James Madison Program at Princeton University, has an essay on this topic that is reprinted at MercatorNet. I strongly recommend the entire essay but the conclusion summarizes Watson's [...]
Liberal MP and staunch abortion supporter Keith Martin (Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca) will not run in the next federal election. During the debate over maternal health this past Spring, he has one of the leading voices that the government's initiative should include abortion, and he proposed a phony compromise that would ensure abortion was a central component of the G8's maternal health initiative (thankfully it wasn't [...]
From LifeSiteNews.com reports: "A fifty-year-old Mexican woman has given birth to a child whose biological father is her homosexual son, according to the Mexico City newspaper Reforma." Giving birth to one's own grandchild is wrong on so many levels.
The November issue of The Interim has a story on the internal debate at Campaign Life Coalition on the merits and concerns of C-510, Rod Bruinooge's anti-coercive abortion private member's bill. The important takeaway is that people of goodwill can disagree on tactics.
AFP reports: A Taiwanese woman said Sunday she had "married" herself by throwing a wedding banquet. And why not? Once the sex of the partners became irrelevant, the number becomes irrelevant, too. So while natural marriage advocates fretted that same-sex 'marriage' would lead to plural marriage (polygamy), they were blind to the possibility of singular marriage. If the procreational aspects of marriage became incidental [...]
Amidst the national debate over maternal health and whether it would include abortion this past Spring, Rod Bruinooge, the Conservative MP for Winnipeg South and chair of the Parliamentary Pro-Life Committee had his name picked to be among 30 MPs who would get their private member’s bills considered by the House of Commons. On April 14, he introduced for first [...]
A good argument could be made that it is more important that there be pro-life legislators at the state level than the federal level because of the many ways in which states can restrict and regulate abortion. According to Americans United for Life, there are now 14 more pro-life governors although there are two potential losses: there will be an election at some pointto [...]
It was a very good day for pro-lifers. Republicans have gained control of the House of Representatives, most of the Obamacare-supporting "pro-life" Democrats are no longer in Congress, we've added about a half-dozen pro-life senators (including a Democrat from West Virginia), and several pro-life governors. Congressional Quarterly says it is more likely that abortion will be an issue in the next session. Jill [...]