Texas abortion law upheld Abortion in Texas is mostly illegal. An abortion can only be carried out when the mother’s life is in such danger that “a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that, as certified by a physician, places the woman in danger of death or a serious risk of substantial impairment of a [...]
Paul Tuns: A new report reveals that pregnancy resource centres (PRCs) provided nearly $360 million in services and goods in a single year, even as Democrat-controlled states reduce funding and try to restrict their operations. The “Hope for a New Generation” report covers 2022 and is a joint “collaboration of Charlotte Lozier Institute, Care Net, Heartbeat International, and National Institute of Family [...]
Paul Tuns: Former U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor died Dec. 1, at the age of 93. O’Connor, whom Ronald Reagan appointed as the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, betrayed the president’s pro-life views by often voting with the pro-abortion justices in a court that was often divided 5-4. Born in El Paso, Texas and raised on a ranch, [...]
Interim Staff: David Anthony Hogg, who served as a trustee with the Metropolitan Toronto Separate Catholic School Board, in the 1990s, died Dec. 13 at the age of 94. Hogg, then a director with the Federation of Catholic Parent-Teacher Associations of Ontario, was elected trustee in 1991 – along with Peter Johnson and Michael Del Grande -- with the support of Campaign [...]
Oswald Clark: Henry Kissinger, a former U.S. Secretary of State, died at the age of 100 on Nov. 29. Kissinger was the author of a 1974 National Security Study memo calling for global depopulation. Kissinger served as Secretary of State during the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations in the 1970s and had served since then as a foreign policy guru to [...]
What Jordan Peterson and Alexander Solzhenitsyn have in common Donald DeMarco There is an old Russian saying that a lie can get around the world faster than one can get his boots on. The lie, being a half-truth, can travel faster than the truth which is weighed down by its complexity. In addition, the pleasant lie is more appealing than the naked [...]
Paul Tuns A private member’s bill, Motion 36, that called upon the Ontario Ministry of Health to provide universal access to contraception, was defeated by a vote of 61-23 on Nov. 30. The motion, introduced by NDP MPP Jennifer Stevens (St. Catharines) in March 2023, stated, “That, in the opinion of this House, the Ministry of Health should expand the Ontario Health [...]
Rory Leishman Among the nine judges on the Supreme Court of Canada, Justice Malcolm Rowe stands alone in that he is the only current justice who has demonstrated a clear understanding that the separation of legislative and judicial powers is essential to the preservation of democracy and the rule of law. In a perceptive in the UBC Law Review and a series [...]
Paul Tuns On Dec. 11, Anaida Poilievre, wife of Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, told French-language media outlet TVA Nouvelles, “We are pro-choice,” in the latest attempt by the Conservative leader to distance himself from his pro-life past. Anaida Poilievre explained, “We have spoken out on this. I am a woman from Quebec, I grew up here. And it’s part of my [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I completely understand why “pro-choicers” use rape as their trump card. If the preborn are simply clumps of cells lacking moral status or the mother’s bodily autonomy takes precedence regardless, then how much more justified is abortion when her bodily autonomy has already been grossly violated, when there’s a thing inside her as a [...]
In recent years, the world has been treated to shockingly inhumane episodes, repeated with minor variations but with the same inevitable end whenever they occur: namely, the slow-motion annihilation of human life presided over by the medical establishment. Examples of this horrific spectacle include Alfie Evans in 2018, Charlie Gard in 2017, and even Terry Schiavo in 2005. Except for that last-named [...]
Joanna Alphonso: The story of eight-month-old English baby, Indi Gregory, rocked the world for weeks as her life-saving treatment turned into end-of-life care against her parents’ wishes. Born with an incurable mitochondrial disease on Feb. 24, 2023, Indi spent her life fighting to remain alive. Her parents, Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, supported their baby girl in the hospital and eventually fought [...]
Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn James Walvin (University of California Press, $30, 197 pages) The origin story of the hymn “Amazing Grace” is well-known: John Newton, the captain of a 18th century English slave ship, had a dramatic conversion after surviving a story which led him to become an abolitionist and pastor, with “Amazing Grace” written as a [...]
Oswald Clark: According to the Pennsylvania Family Council, nine abortion facilities in the state are putting the safety of women at risk after failing routine health and safety inspections, including more than half of the Planned Parenthood abortion mills in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Family Council’s Family Institute scoured figures from the Pennsylvania Department of Health and found that nine of 22 abortion [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 30, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops released a statement reiterating the Church’s unequivocal moral teaching against euthanasia and assisted-suicide, reminding Catholic health care facilities that they cannot be complicit in so-called Medical Assistance in Dying. The statement, “On the Non-Permissibility of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide within Canadian Health Organizations with a Catholic Identity,” noted that “Catholic dioceses [...]