Post-birth abortion as a solution to disabilities
This article about Russian journalist Aleksandr Nikonov calling for children with developmental disabilities to be killed at birth does not need comment.
Iggy’s wrong turn on daycare
We'll get off the Liberal leader's call for Canada to become abortion provider to the world to return to his call for the federal government's involvement in raising the country's children. Montreal Gazette columnist L. Ian MacDonald says: Daycare is Ignatieff's big new idea? He has got to be kidding. He didn't say how much it would cost, and clearly has no idea. There [...]
This could save people from being killed prematurely
Technology Review headline: "Brain Imaging Lets Vegetative Patient Communicate." Certainly there are some patients thought to be "brain dead" but who are, in fact, conscious and that have been euthanized. There are also pro-life concerns about people in PVS being killed in order to harvest their organs. (See a pair of Dr. John Shea articles here and here.) Such brain imaging is not inexpensive, but certainly worth [...]
Harley Price on Iggy’s pro-abortion stance
Harley Price, occasional Interim contributor, has an excellent and erudite post on the Liberal leader's promotion of abortion as a form of maternal health. It concludes: Contraception and abortion are, in fact, the central sacramentsof today’s progressive gospel, whose evangelists are piously called upon to administer them throughout the world. They have already preached that they would reduce teenage pregnancies, prevent AIDS, and [...]
An appropriately uncharitable view of Bill Gates
MercatorNet has an article by Vincenzina Santoro of the American Family Association that is worth reading. It is highly critical of Bill Gates, his criticism of Italy's prime minister for reducing aid, and the Gates' foundation for promoting and supporting abortion and contraception in its charitable operations. How charitable is it to promote eliminating the next generation of Africans or Asians? Why are [...]
EFC on Iggy’s pro-abort maternal health position
Don Hutchinson, vice president and general legal counsel for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, on Michael Ignatieff's insistence on abortion being part of Stephen Harper's agenda for tackling maternal health and infant mortality: Could Mr. Ignatieff seriously consider the improvement of maternal health to include the advancement of abortion on a global scale? The whole webitorial is worth reading.
The universe has a sense of humour
LifeSiteNews.com reports that the Duggar family -- the famous family seen on TLC with their 19 kids -- is renting a house that was once owned by the person who founded Planned Parenthood clinic in Little Rock, Ark. The Examiner has more: During an exclusive telephone interview with Jim Bob Duggar this afternoon, he said the house they’re renting was previously owned by the lady who [...]
Condom carnival
The New York Daily News reports that Brazilian health officials will distribute 55 million condoms during this year's Carnival, or a little more than 10% of the total that Brazilian governments will hand out in a single year. The "AIDS awareness campaign" slogan is: "The condom. For love, passion or just sex. Always use it." It's probably the "just sex" part that fuels the [...]
Why was there any Tebow controversy?
That was a ridiculously innocuous ad. The uproar says a lot more about abortion advocates than pro-lifers. Here is the \"controversial\" commercial. Even the Focus on the Family website is soft-selling the Tebow story, focusing as much on Christian ministry as the pro-life stuff. And, as Jill Stanek points out, the feminist (over-)reaction continues. Any sane person who has seen the ad and followed [...]
40 Days for Life launches spring witness
The 40 Days for Life campaign will be launched Feb. 17 and run through March 28 in more than 160 cities in Canada, Australia and the United States. Canadian locations will include Montreal, Toronto, Guelph, Edmonton, Red Deer and Kelowna. There will also be regular pro-life witnessing outside the Morgentaler abortion mill in Ottawa and Cabbagetown abortuary in downtown Toronto, although these [...]
Creeping euthanasia: In many places, it advances by stealth
Where are we now? Where do we go? This article is written to establish the current concerns related to the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide and the direction in which we must turn in order to reverse the trend toward giving physicians the right to intentionally and directly cause the deaths of their patients. In Canada, the debate surrounding euthanasia and [...]
Global warming baloney is profitable
No way. To go to Copenhagen and hang out with a huge number of closed-minded people addicted to junk science I felt would’ve been just a waste of time, like trying to talk Stalin into going to church. At that big 12-day showy international climate change junk science schmozzle held recently in Copenhagen, a lot of toothless and half-baked resolutions were passed [...]
Interim on TV
I'll be on Behind the Story on Sunday night at 7 pm. It airs on CTS in Ontario and Alberta and afterward the show is archived on the CTS website. (I was last on November 29 if you're interested.) We'll be discussing Michael Ignatieff, abortion and maternal health; Haiti adoptions and child trafficking; the Tebow Super Bowl ad; Senate reform; Khadr and the [...]
Archbishop Collins speaks out on maternal health
Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins has weighed in on the federal government's call on the G8 to commit to improving maternal health and decreasing child mortality. You can read the statement here, but here is the highlight: When there are so many obvious practical steps that can be taken to promote maternal and child health throughout the world, it is sad to see [...]
Ignatieff re-ignites abortion debate in Canada
You can't buy this kind of PR. Thanks, Mr. Ignatieff. Michael Ignatieff, the Liberal leader and former Harvard professor, has done more to raise the abortion issue than anyone or anything since Governor General Michaelle Jean gave Henry Morgentaler the Order of Canada in 2008. Earlier this week he called for the Harper government to ensure that abortion is part of any foreign [...]