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On Dec. 16, Patricia Marie Gerretsen (nee Doherty) passed away at the age of 69, leaving a legacy of pro-life involvement that went back decades and only increased after she suffered a debilitating anuerysm and stroke. Known as Pat to her pro-life friends but Patricia to her family, Gerretsen and her late husband Peter were involved in the pro-life cause [...]
The opening scene of Mother and Child, a 2009 box office dud recently recalled to life on DVD, opens with a scene that’s pitifully familiar. A boy and a girl – teenagers, and just barely at that – sit on a bed kissing; it’s the bad hair and bellbottom ‘70s, but it could really be any time since what’s next is dramatically [...]
A social conservative assessment Stephen Harper, the Liberals like to tell us, has a hidden agenda. Deep down in his black heart of hearts he wants to ban abortion. Yet, for nearly two decades, Campaign Life Coalition has rated him as “pro-abortion” or “not pro-life,” based on his public statements, CLC questionnaires he returned, and voting record. I’d like to [...]
Donald Trump might run for president in 2012 and last week he addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference where he declared himself pro-life (12:00 at this video which might require registration). He doesn't have a chance to win the Republican nomination or the White House, but the fact he says he is pro-life and opposes gun control shows how serious he is thinking about throwing [...]
MercatorNet runs an excerpt from Rocco Buttiglione's latest book, Exiting a Dead End Road: a GPS for Christians in Public Discourse, under the headline "The banality of tolerance." The first half of the excerpt is about freedom and the second half on the relationship between tolerance and freedom. Well worth reading and the bottom line is that tolerance without truth is incompatible with [...]
Brian Lilley has a great introduction on his blog before getting to his column on C-389, Bill Siksay's private member's bill granting special human rights protection to people who self-identify as transgender and transsexual by adding gender identity and gender expression to Canada's human rights laws. Lilley says: Later today MPs will vote on a number of bills, most of which are technical [...]
We report in the February issue about the Halton Catholic school board's capitulation to pressure from gay activists to abandon its Catholic approach to sexual morality in their schools. Makes you wonder why we bother with Catholic schools at all; that's not a proposal, just frustration speaking.
On Jan. 18, the Halton Catholic District School Board caved to pressure from gay activists and rescinded its Equity and Inclusive Education Policy II-45, following a media storm over the board’s policy banning gay-straight alliances. Over the past year, public and separate school boards in Ontario have been required to implement policies in line with the province’s Ministry of Education equity and [...]
A pregnant Colorado woman was mistakenly given an abortion pill by her pharmacist rather than an antibiotic. Fate of the unborn child is unknown. Pharmacy says sorry. Sure mistakes happen, but as Andrea Mrozek says, tragedies like this one wouldn't occur if health care practitioners followed the Hippocratic Oath.
The final vote on C-389, which adds transgender and transexual to the list of specially protected classes of people under Canada's human rights laws, will be Wednesday. Catholic Insight has reproduced our lead editorial from the February issue with slight amendments to the last paragraph because at the time we went to press, it appeared that the vote would be later this month [...]
There is more news from the House of Horrors story: another woman suspects Kermit Gosnell caused an infection that seriously harmed her. CNN reports: On a recent Sunday, LaToya Ransome sits near a space heater in her grandmother's living room in north Philadelphia. "I still deal with it all the time," she says, glancing at the TV and grazing two fingers over [...]
C-510,or Roxanne’s Law and C-389 providing special rights to transgendered persons Click HERE to view the voting record for these two bills.
For some reason, apparently coincidental, I'm on Behind the Story on CTS on Super Bowl weekend. The show used to broadcast Sunday nights at 7pm -- the Super Bowl starts at 6:30 pm -- so even I would miss it. This year, BTS moved to Saturday nights and you can watch the broadcast next week online. This week we are talking a lot [...]
Here's our February cover story: "House of Horrors: Philadelphia abortionist faces 39 charges in connection with death of woman, seven newborns." I posted most of this story before, but it has a new conclusion quoting Rev. Johnny Hunter of LEARN, in which he condemns Kermit Gosnell for betraying his fellow blacks.