With the start of a new year, pro-lifers can begin looking forward to the National March for Life on Parliament Hill on May 9. Wanda Hartlin, of Campaign Life Coalition Ottawa, told The Interim that people should go to the March for Life “because unborn children in Canada have no rights,” and “we have to remind our government that life begins at [...]
Justin Trudeau once said he could support Quebec separatism over abortion and same-sex 'marriage.' In 2011, the Liberal Party suffered their worst ever federal election result, dropping to third place with a mere 34 seats. Never before had the one-time Natural Governing Party been relegated to third party status, so Michael Ignatieff stepped down as leader the day after the [...]
Quebec’s Parti Quebecois Premier Pauline Marois has said the province will follow the government-appointed commission’s recommendation that Quebec bypass the Canadian Criminal Code prohibition on euthanasia by passing so-called “dying with dignity” legislation, which would treat the deliberate killing of patients as a medical rather than legal matter. The Special Commission on Dying with Dignity’s report said Quebec could chose not to [...]
Andrea Mrozek, a great pro-life writer and speaker and leading Canadian thinker on family issues, has been promoted from director of research to executive director of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. IMFC is a great organization that does wonderful work, but knowing Andrea I predict it will become even better. Andrea is also proprietor of ProWomanProLife, an essential Canadian pro-life blog. [...]
Last week on the Sun News Network Ezra Levant and Andrea Mrozek discussed the letter three MPs wrote the RCMP asking for an investigation into the 491 babies left to die after surviving an abortion. It is an excellent discussion. Levant brings up the case of abortion survivors at Foothills Hospital, news from 1999, so this has been happening for a while. We [...]
Canadian playwright Judith Thompson has a production on in Toronto this week entitled Rare. It is about people with Down syndrome and the title refers to the sad reality that there are fewer people with Down Syndrome -- sad because they are being exterminated in utero solely due to their genetic flaw (an extra chromosone). I haven't seen the play but I've read the [...]
Justin Trudeau’s campaign stop at St. Charles College, a Catholic high school in Sudbury, was criticized by pro-lifers, defended by the local bishop, cancelled, and then held anyway. Trudeau, who supports abortion, same-sex “marriage,” and has criticized the hierarchy of the Catholic Church as “old men,” was scheduled for a campaign-style visit at St. Charles Dec. 21, just before the Christmas break. [...]
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and today is the 39th annual March for Life in Washington. I have a story on the decision and its aftermath in the February edition of the paper. It is up on the website today.
Jan. 22 marked the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a raw act of judicial imperialism that took the abortion issue out of the democratic realm and away from states, and ruled that abortion would be legal in all of the United States. The decision reverberates four decades later, affecting abortion policy, electoral politics, and the lives of millions of people touched by abortion. [...]