Yesterday, Quebec City Cardinal Marc Ouellet and Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast spoke out against abortion yesterday in a 41-minute press conference. You can view the entire press conference here . They 1) said if Canada does not fund abortions abroad they should seriously consider defunding abortion at home, 2) called upon Canada to have an open and honest abortion debate, 3) described abortion a serious violation of [...]
Canada Marylou Talbot, whose teenage pregnant daughter Olivia was murdered in 2005, has renewed calls for the enactment of an unborn victim’s of violence law ... Alberta Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett, who oversees the Alberta Human Rights Commission, said Darren Lund’s complaint against Pastor Stephen Boissoin should never have gone before the AHRC: “It’s not there to mediate hurt feelings caused by [...]
Pro-abortion justice retires WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a pro-abortion liberal appointed to the Supreme Court by Republican President Gerald Ford in 1975, has announced he will retire after the current term ends in June at the age of 89. He voted to uphold Roe v. Wade in the 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and endorses the notion [...]
Order of Canada resignation OTTAWA – Governor General Michaelle Jean has officially accepted Frank Chauvin’s resignation from the Order of Canada. Chauvin, inducted into the Order in 1987 for his work with Haitian orphans, returned his medal last Fall to protest the appointment of abortionist Henry Morgentaler to the Order in 2008. Chauvin, a former Windsor police officer, unsuccessfully launched a legal [...]
Fr. Leonard Kennedy C.S.B., a frequent contributor to Catholic Insight and Challenge magazines, passed away April 1 at the age of 88. Fr. Kennedy, tall, upright, white hair, twinkle in his eye, smile on his lips, love in his heart will be sadly missed. He was born in England in 1922, but moved to Canada when he was four. He [...]
Lilit Marcus at The Gloss on the Duggars, who, Marcus says, challenges her pro-choice beliefs: As a pro-choice woman, Michelle Duggar is the absolute test of my beliefs. I believe that choice means a woman can have kids or not have kids as she wants to, and that she should be able to control the size of her family as she sees [...]
Jill Stanek reports that the Rock for Life and American Life League seems to have parted ways, but the good news is that RFL is still operating. There is often a lot of internecine fighting within the pro-life movement and there seems to be a legitimate quarrel over who has the right to use the Rock for Life brand, but in this case [...]
Editor’s Note: LifeSiteNews.com was presented the 2010 National Award by REAL Women at its annual national conference on April 17 in North Bay, Ont. REAL Women national president Cecilia Forsyth explained that the award signifies that the recipient individual or organization has made an exemplary contribution to society. Nominees are expected to demonstrate “honesty, integrity and responsibility; respect for the traditional family [...]
In an April interview with The Catholic Herald, David Cameron, the leader of Britain’s Conservative party, advocated reducing the abortion limit from 24 to 20 or 22 weeks’ gestation. Readers of The Catholic Herald were invited to submit questions for one of Cameron’s first pre-election interviews. “I think that the way medical science and technology have developed in the past few decades [...]
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 [...]