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 [...]
Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries does wonderful post-abortion work and they are holding retreats across Canada this year: March 5 - March 7, 2010 -- Pointe-aux-Outardes, Quebec March 19 - March 21, 2010 -- Edmonton, Alberta April 16 - April 18, 2010 -- Ottawa, Ontario April 30 - May 2, 2010 -- Kelowna, British Columbia May 28 - May 30, 2010 -- Vancouver, British Columbia [...]
Ipsos Reid finds that the Conservatives lead the Liberals 37%-29% and that Canadians think Stephen Harper would make a better prime minister than Michael Ignatieff 46%-21%. After two full months of almost no political coverage other than prorogation stories, how can that be? Some pundits might offer the Olympic afterglow effect benefiting the government, but here is an alternative explanation: Ignatieff's support of abortion [...]
Our March cover story is now online: "The politics of maternal health and child mortality." It begins: The numbers are staggering. A half-million women die during pregnancy every year. Nine million children in the developing world will die before their fifth birthday. That’s one pregnant mother and 18 children every minute of every day of the year will die prematurely, unnecessarily. Their [...]
Ignatieff pushes abortion as Harper calls for G8 to help world’s poorest The numbers are staggering. A half-million women die during pregnancy every year. Nine million children in the developing world will die before their fifth birthday. That’s one pregnant mother and 18 children every minute of every day of the year will die prematurely, unnecessarily. Their dire circumstances cry [...]
Is it racist to point out that abortion hurts blacks disproportionately? I find it amusing that the Washington Independent even considers it necessary to defend Trent Franks (R, Az) against charges of racism for noting the eugenic effect of abortion on American blacks. Mike Starks interviews Franks says, “I don’t think he sees the racism (or paternalism) in what he’s saying.” That's probably because [...]
Opposition to abortion, homosexuality cited as reasons The Canada Revenue Agency has revoked the charitable status of Kings Glory Fellowship, a Christian church in Calgary. The CRA cites a number of issues with KGF’s application, but the decision is based, in part, on the ground that certain KGF board members have spoken out strongly against abortion and other moral issues. “The members of [...]
Canada Governor General Michaelle Jean has formally accepted the resignations of Father Lucien Larré and Renato Giuseppe from the Order of Canada. Both had objected to the awarding of the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler in July 2008. Fr. Larre, who started the Bosco Centers for troubled youth in Saskatchewan, said Morgentaler’s investiture “was a terrible mistake.” In total, nine medals [...]
Jill Stanek has provided extensive coverage of one woman's live tweeting her RU-486 abortion. When I first heard of this stunt, I had the same thought that Stanek came to after writing five posts about it: "By live tweeting her abortion, Angie has performed a different kind of public service than she intended. No one can read her exhaustive and exhausting dismal account [...]
Yesterday Statistics Canada released a report on "deaths" (life expectancy), the bottom line of which is: Life expectancy at birth in Canada reached 80.7 years for the three-year period between 2005 and 2007, up from the average of 80.5 between 2004 and 2006, and 78.4 a decade earlier between 1995 and 1997. Increased life expectancy is good for individuals, but it is not so clear cut for society in general in countries with large, redistributionist welfare programs (health and pensions). [...]
Two columns and one article from the February issue are now online. "Professor displays puerile, atheistic, anti-life mentality," by Rory Leishman. "Puppy mills bad, abortion mills okay," by Michael Coren. "Pro-life mission work in Cyprus," by Allison Kach. The March issue went to press today, so regular blogging will return tomorrow.