A good argument could be made that it is more important that there be pro-life legislators at the state level than the federal level because of the many ways in which states can restrict and regulate abortion. According to Americans United for Life, there are now 14 more pro-life governors although there are two potential losses: there will be an election at some pointto [...]
It was a very good day for pro-lifers. Republicans have gained control of the House of Representatives, most of the Obamacare-supporting "pro-life" Democrats are no longer in Congress, we've added about a half-dozen pro-life senators (including a Democrat from West Virginia), and several pro-life governors. Congressional Quarterly says it is more likely that abortion will be an issue in the next session. Jill [...]
Our November cover story on the decline of the traditional family in Canada is now online. It looks at two recent reports, one by the Vanier Institute for the Family and another by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. Bottom line: the glass is half-full/half-empty because the family as defined as married mom, dad and 2.1 children is disappearing but the ideal still exists.
The New Brunswick Human Rights Commission will hold hearings on whether the province's abortion funding policy is a violation of the human rights of women. The National Post and Telegraph-Journal have reports. Under New Brunswick's Medical Services Payment Act the province will only pay for abortions committed at hospitals and which are referred by a family doctor. The NB HRC is not [...]
Two new reports by Canadian think tanks indicate that the traditional family of mother, father and children is becoming a relic of a bygone era with consequences for individuals and society. According to a new report, Families Count: Profiling Canada’s Families, by the left-leaning Vanier Institute for the Family, the traditional family of married parents with children is no longer the norm. [...]
Yesterday, Bill C-510, Rod Bruinooge's private member's bill that would add "coercion of pregnant women to abort" to the Criminal Code, had second reading. The bill is also known as Roxanne's Law. LifeSiteNews covered the debate. We have written about Roxanne's Law previously. Andrea Mrozek wrote in the Calgary Herald that C-510 should not be controversial -- how can so-called pro-choice advocates oppose legislation that [...]
Rick McGinnis reviews recent books by the Hitchens brothers (The Rage Against God by Peter Hitchens and Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens) in the October Interim. Here's a sample, on Hitch-22: If the book ends weakly, it’s largely because, after dropping names for several hundred pages, he expresses his contentment at ending up in the company of a “party of positive non-belief” – [...]
Ignore the background noise This was released by Gary Bauer, noted conservative leader in the United States: This is it, folks -- Election Day. If you have not already voted, please go out and do so right now. We are getting too many reports of low turnout in Republican areas of the country. This morning, Howard Dean confidently predicted that Democrats would [...]
Pro-life victory The midterm elections will result in a massive repudiation of Barack Obama and his liberal friends in Congress. Most of the backlash against Democrats is rooted in opposition to the overreach of the health care reform bill and much of that opposition was based on the overreach to include federal funding for abortion. It will be more difficult for Obama [...]
LifeSiteNews.com reports on the goings-on of the Building a Global Culture of Life conference taking place in Ottawa Thursday through Saturday. John Smeaton's speech sounds like it was a real barn-burner; we ran a feature on Smeaton and Dr. Jack Willke and the more than three-quarters of a century pro-life experience they have between them in the October issue. Dr. Willke is a featured speaker on [...]
Canada MP Francine Lalonde (BQ, La Pointe-de-I’lle), who has introduced three private member’s bill to legalize euthanasia, announced she will not seek re-election as she continues her personal battle against cancer. Her latest attempt to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide was defeated in April by a 228-59 vote … The National Parole Board relaxed Robert Latimer’s parole conditions and will now permit [...]
The Rage Against God by Peter Hitchens (Zondervan, $26.99, 224 p.) Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens (McLelland & Stewart, $32.99, 435 p.) As Peter Hitchens began his adult life, like his brother, in the bosom of the British left during its penultimate revival – the ‘60s, when youth and Marxism were popularly supposed to be twinned in sympathy and aspiration. Like his brother he [...]
More than 25 seminarians from across Canada came together for five days of pro-life training as they attended the first ever Seminarians’ Pro-Life Congress hosted by Priests for Life Canada (P4LC). The theme for the week, starting Aug. 30 and closing on Sept. 3, was “Loving Life Through Life.” Each day the seminarians were presented with information on the life [...]
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I have noted contributor Harley Price's blog running commentary about The Atheist Delusion in past posts. I want to draw your attention to part three of his series. Samples from his latest critique of Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins: Dawkins is already a post-speciesist, of course. He really does regard the killing of a baby in the womb as ontologically and morally indistinguishable from the killing of [...]