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 [...]
On April 8, pro-life students at the University of Calgary set up the controversial outdoor display the Genocide Awareness Project. They have done this for a number of years and last year were charged with trespassing by police at the request of the university administration. Though they were scheduled for a court date in the fall of 2009, the charges were stayed [...]
From Feb. 17 to March 28, thousands of people across North America participated in 40 Days for Life, a campaign that raises awareness about abortion through prayer, fasting and community outreach. Each vigil is held outside of an abortion site. The campaign reflects how God used 40-day periods in biblical history to bring about change. The first 40 Days for Life campaign [...]
The Globe and Mail reports that Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff continues to follow Frank Graves' culture war advice, telling $500-a-plate Liberal supporters in Toronto: "But let’s be clear: we didn’t end the 25-year consensus on a woman’s right to choose. They did." Except that isn't true. It was Ignatieff that brought up abortion in the context of maternal health. The Harper proposal to combat maternal [...]
Suzanne T. Poppema, chairwoman of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, writes in a letter to the editor of the New York Times: "As a physician, I firmly believe that women need access to birth control, education and abortion in order for them and their families to flourish ... It’s clear to me that a 'blue state' model — including abortion — is [...]
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A month ago, Harris Decima found that Canadians were evenly split on whether abortion should be part of the government's maternal health initiative (48% opposed to including abortion, 46% in favour) but now 58% say abortion should be included while just 30% think it should not. The Canadian Press report on the Harris Decima poll: A new poll suggests that a majority of Canadians opposes [...]