We now have our lead March editorial on conscience rights online. Coercing doctors to do abortion or making marriage commissioners preside over same-sex weddings, the editors write, "prove that religious freedom in Canada falls outside the internal system of human rights." Read the whole thing.
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Ramona D’Addazio was adopted as a baby. All of her siblings were adopted as well. Her parents were very open with them about their adoption. “I don’t remember not knowing,” she told The Interim. “I grew up knowing that my parents loved me,” she said, and she did not feel that her childhood was significantly different from that of her friends. Ramona [...]
In her study, The Origins of Totalitarianism, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt notes that all declarations of human rights have overlooked the most essential human right of all, a right so obvious that it only emerged after massive numbers of stateless people appeared in the aftermath of World War II: without a nation state which could bestow upon them the rights enumerated [...]
A Rasmussen poll shows that 62% of likely voters support repeal of Obamacare, with about five in six of those "strongly" supporting repeal. Only 33% of respondents oppose repeal. Support for repeal is highest among Republicans (more than 80%), while just under half of Democrats (48%) oppose it. Independents favour repeal 64%, while just 30% are opposed. It is the first poll which has [...]
Baby Joseph has been airlifted from London, Ont., where a Canadian hospital (the London Health Sciences Centre) refused to provide treatment that would extend the life of a Joseph Maraachli and let his family take him home, where he will probably die within the next few months. LifeSiteNews has the story about Fr. Frank Pavone and the US-based Priests for Life's intervention in the [...]
Here's a great essay by the late Joseph Sobran from National Review in 1974 on Hugh Hefner and the Playboy philosophy entitled, "The Sage and Serious Doctrine of Hugh Hefner." Here's a sample: The philosophy is no longer a regular part of the magazine, but it is briefly reformulated here and there: “Not coercing or injuring others is, we believe, essential to a free society. [...]
If abortion was just another surgical procedure devoid of serious moral implications, it would not be cloaked in so much secrecy, would it? The Institute of Marriage and Family Canada has released an eReview on the "mess" surrounding Canada's abortion numbers, pointing out there is no consistency in how free-standing abortion facilities report their numbers, if they do at all, and that [...]
Maclean's reports on the growing incidence of cancer of the oropharynx, base of tongue, and tonsils among younger people (20-49) who have never smoked or drank. There is an established "link between sexual behaviour and HPV in the oral cavity" -- and some types of HPV or the human papillomavirus cause various cancers. Maclean's titles its story, "A cancer for the young," but perhaps "A [...]
Media gets story wrong about conscience, misses need for informed consent On Feb. 4, the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons released revised guidelines for dealing with patients who face an unplanned pregnancy. The early media reports erroneously stated that doctors who refused to carry out an abortion had to refer them to one who would. The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix reported [...]
PWPL blogger/full-time mother & wife/part-time political staffer Veronique Bergeon shares with readers how she spent her International Women's Day and concludes with a bit of wisdom denied by most feminists: Here’s your International Woman’s Day wisdom from the trenches, one day late and rushed between making lunches and wiping runny noses with my power suit: children need taking care of. Bosses need [...]
Sun TV, dismissed by the Left as Fox News North, will begin airing April 18. Last month, Sun columnist Michael Coren wrote a column about the refreshing new voice Sun TV will provide Canadians. Coren wrote: The real reason the Fox North title is being used over and over again is that to most in the Canadian media it feels like an [...]
NARAL Pro-Choice America has launched its Birth Control for Me campaign to make free birth control an election issue. NARAL's Blog for Choice describes why free birth control is necessary: 30 million women use birth control and "one in three women has struggled with the high cost of prescription birth control at some point in her life." Does struggling to pay for something [...]
Family Facts is a great new one-stop resource for statistics and studies on family issues from the Heritage Foundation. I've been lost in it for hours already. Professor Moynihan is calling: 40% of babies are born to unwed mothers and fewer than 70% of children are living with two-parents although that number is brought down by the 39.4% figure for blacks in the United [...]
Fr. Raymond Gravel, a priest in the Roman Catholic diocese of Joliette, Que., has sued LifeSiteNews for $500,000, claiming that the pro-life internet news provider damaged his reputation and career as a priest by reporting on his public stances on abortion and gay rights. Fr. Gravel represented the Repentigny riding from 2006-2008, and as an Blocc Quebecois MP he defended [...]