The New York Times reported that “Pope Benedict has said that condom use can be justified in some cases to help stop the spread of AIDS.” That was the gist of stories that appeared in the Toronto Star, Guardian and Associated Press after L’Osservatore Romano, a Vatican-based newspaper, printed excerpts from Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and [...]
One of the arguments that advocates of legalizing prostitution make is that eliminating restrictions on the sex trade -- prohibitions on communicating for the purpose of prostitution, living off the avails of prostitution, and running a bawdy house -- will make life safer for prostitutes. Legalization of prostitution means the state can regulate it and regulation will make it safer. But Marina [...]
Robert Latimer has been granted full parole. I am not surprised by the decision, just ticked off. It sends a terrible signal to society that the life of a person with a disability is less valuable than the life of an able-bodied person. That is sick and perverse and dehumanizing. Canada is better than that. As the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition's Alex Schadenberg says, "The EPC has always [...]
Writing in the Globe and Mail, "L. Allen" relates her feelings of pain over having two abortions. No doubt many women have the mixed feelings the author describes: the relief from responsibility for a child that abortion makes possible with the sense of some sort of loss of the child that was killed by abortion. There is no delving by Allen into why a mother would [...]
Canada According to an Ipsos Reid poll for Postmedia News and Global TV, 35 per cent of Canadians thought the federal Conservatives best reflected the values and needs of today’s families, while 27 per cent said the same of the NDP and just 19 per cent favoured the Liberals. John Wright, senior vice president of Ipsos Reid, said, “What was … more [...]
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is overselling the benefits and underscoring the costs of universal full-day kindergarten, says the program’s critics. Full-day kindergarten has already been implemented in 600 sites across Ontario. It will replace the previous half day of supervision and lessons with a full day in school for 4 and 5 year olds under the care of a teacher and an [...]
An Oct. 13 Toronto Star report claiming the Canadian government is set to add strippers and escorts to its national job bank is “completely and utterly false,” says a spokesman for the government. The Star cited an Oct. 1 ‘draft memo’ from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada that said occupations such as exotic dancer, nude dancer, striptease dancer, and escort, among [...]
Robert Edwards, the inventor of in vitro fertilization, was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. In a press release, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden declared that his discovery has brought “joy to infertile people all over the world.” The work of British physiologist Edwards, with the help of gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe, led to the [...]
The arrests of five pro-life students at Carleton University should inspire pro-lifers to step up and engage in the pro-life battle, said Fr. Simon Lobo, brother of arrested Carleton Lifeline President Ruth Lobo, in a powerful homily in Ottawa on Oct. 10. “Yes - yes I am the brother of Ruth Lobo,” said the priest, a member of the Companions [...]
Some scientists still want ESCR A faster and more efficient way of deriving stem cells from ordinary skin cells has been discovered, announced scientists in Boston on Sept. 30, who said their discovery will revolutionize an already-booming field of medical advances through adult stem cells. Meanwhile, stem cells derived from human embryos cannot claim even one success in human treatment. A technique [...]
B.C. sues contraceptive patch maker VANCOUVER – The British Columbia government has launched a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson Inc. for health care costs associated with treating women who suffered from the company’s contraceptive patch. McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc. and Janssen-Ortho Inc. were also named as defendants. The lawsuit claims that the users “did not receive any warnings about the increased risk of [...]
Science Daily reports: Reprogrammed amniotic fluid cells can generate all types of body cells. High hopes rest on stem cells: one day, they may be used to treat many diseases. To date, embryos are the main source of these cells, but this raises ethical problems. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin have now managed to convert amniotic [...]
LifeSiteNews.com reports that C-510, Rod Bruinooge's anti-coercive abortion bill, will be debated on December 13 and voted on two days later. It was originally scheduled for a vote on December 2 and then it was moved to February and now it will be voted on in mid-December. First reading was November 1 and if it passes second reading next month, it will be sent to [...]
On Oct. 3, from 2-3 pm, thousands of people across Canada and the United States stood and held signs at the side of the road to silently witness the horror of abortion. In Canada, the annual LifeChain was held in more 200 communities from coast to coast. In Winnipeg, at Notre Dame Avenue in front of the Health Science Center Women’s Clinic [...]
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