We have a column online entitled "Labels used to shut down debate" that looks at how terms like "racist" and "homophobic" (one might add "sexist") are used to end debate on contentious issues. Author Pauline Kosalka concludes: Dismissing different points of view, especially holding “traditional” views, is the easy and cowardly way to avoid engaging in a serious debate about morals and [...]
Wesley Smith: The pro life movement often argues that abortion rights is a racist agenda because of the disproportionate number of minority babies terminated. I don’t agree with that argument, actually. I don’t think that most pro choice activists are racist or that abortionists do what they do for racially discrminatory reasons. But there are exceptions ... The video of an abortionist [...]
A press release from Campaign Life Coalition: Campaign Life Coalition announces change in B.C. leadership For Immediate Release Toronto, Aug. 3, 2012 - Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) announced today that as of Tuesday July 26, 2012, John Hof, president of CLC British Columbia, had resigned from his post to pursue other pro-life work in the province. The CLC National Office in Toronto will [...]
Actress Elizabeth Banks is plumping for Barack Obama and Planned Parenthood. The Hill reports on a pro-Obama ad featuring the actress, in which the star of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Role Models and What to Expect When Expecting says: "So for that little 5 percent that Mitt Romney decides he doesn't agree with, he's going to take away cancer screenings? What [...]
Last week I commented on our editorial questioning the wisdom of gestational limits. In the post from last Thursday, I noted: We are not working against those who are promoting gestational limits; we are trying to persuade them and the larger pro-life movement that there are better ways of advancing the cause of life. Disagreement should not be viewed as seditious to [...]
Linda Gibbons was released from jail on July 20 seven months after her latest arrest when Justice William R. Wolski of the Ontario Court of Justice found her not guilty of disobeying a court order and creating a nuisance. Gibbons was arrested Dec. 16 outside the Morgentaler abortuary and has been in jail since then. Wolski excoriated Crown attorney [...]
Editor’s Note: We asked more than 15 pro-life groups, organizations, and leaders to answer two questions: Do you support gestational limits* on abortion. Would you like to state why? (* for the purpose of this survey, gestational limits means restricting abortion after a certain point, whether by trimester or some other time period.) What kinds of incremental measures do you support. If [...]
Waiting until the second-last business day to file, Canada’s federal government appealed the June 15 decision of B.C. Supreme Court Justice Lynn Smith overturning Canada’s ban on euthanasia and assisted suicide. Smith claimed that Canada’s Criminal Code prohibiting euthanasia and assisted suicide violated the Charter rights of those seeking assistance killing themselves and those who help them carry out their lethal wishes. [...]
Pauline KosalkaCommentary In the days leading up to the Euro 2012 soccer tournament in June, the focus of headlines was not so much on which team would win, but on what was deemed to be intense racism on the part of the fans from Poland and Ukraine, the hosts of the tournament. Both countries have a predominantly Christian and ethnically homogenous population. [...]
One of our August stories, "Increase pro-abortion violence against pro-lifers" is now online. It begins: Over the past three months, pro-life activists have been physically assaulted by abortion supporters, a sign, pro-lifers say, that their message is hitting a nerve. The story features chocolate milk.
The Newseum's top ten newspaper covers today are on Chick-fil-A. (HT: Michelle Malkin) The Washington Post reported customer support for the restaurant made for brisk business and Rick Warren tweeted "#ChickfilA has already set a world record today." A quick perusal of the internet will find long lines of customers in stores and drive-throughs. It was pretty obviously a good day to be a Chick-fil-A [...]
The cover feature of the August Interim is on gestational limits. We surveyed pro-life leaders and groups and asked if they supported incrementalism (which can be a good thing) and specifically gestational limits (which we think are a bad idea). That survey will appear online shortly. Today we've posed a special editorial that we ran alongside the survey in the paper's centerspread, as [...]
For decades, the pro-life movement has experienced division; sometimes over strategy, sometimes over principles. It is of no use to assign blame or rehash old arguments. People of goodwill can differ over tactics and strategy, but on principles it becomes more difficult to countenance disagreement. On the (once again) difficult issue of gestational limits to abortion, as a way of reducing abortion, [...]
Over the past three months, pro-life activists have been physically assaulted by abortion supporters, a sign, pro-lifers say, that their message is hitting a nerve. In Thunder Bay, Ont., in June, the New Abortion Caravan saw a man berate three pro-life activists as he poured chocolate milk over them. A few days later in London, Ont., a group of pro-abortion activists confronted [...]
Mariette Ulrich writes about children, Summer, and boredom. She has a point about modern, mostly electronic entertainments offering "stimulation (but usually the wrong kind--that which dazzles the senses, but does not feed the soul or the intellect)." But when you read about Ulrich growing up you realize that there is something deeper there. She had open space on a farm and lots [...]