Oswald Clark Last year running for re-election, Donald Trump vowed to increase support for in vitro fertilization, calling himself the “father of IVF,” and last month he followed through with that promise by announcing new federal guidance for insurance coverage. President Trump’s new system would allow employers to offer insurance which employees may opt-into providing fertility benefits, including giving discounts to couples [...]
Tanis Cortens: The Heritage Foundation, an American conservative think tank, released a report on March 24 entitled “Treating Infertility: The New Frontier of Reproductive Medicine.” The report contrasts two methods of dealing with infertility: assisted reproductive technology (ART) and restorative reproductive medicine (RRM). “One of the major differences between ART and RRM,” wrote Natalie Dodson in the introduction to the report, “is [...]
Paul Tuns: According to the Catholic Register, Karina Gould, chair of the House of Commons Committee on Finance, has denied the Carney government has any plans to follow through with a proposal from the committee in 2024 to rescind the charitable tax status of religious organizations by removing the promotion of religion as a valid charitable end. The Register obtained a copy [...]
Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich has been a painful disappointment for pro-lifers. A long-time ally of the since-defrocked abuser, Theodore McCarrick, Cupich has been, at best, a reluctant defender of the unborn. Although he did hail the demise of Roe v. Wade as an opportunity for “a national conversation on protecting human life in the womb,” he criticized a statement made by his brother [...]
Interim Staff: On Oct. 16, the Uruguay Senate passed a euthanasia law which permits a medical professional to kill an adult patient but does not permit assisted suicide in which a patient self-administers a lethal dose of a deadly medication. The vote was carried 31-20, supported by the governing left-wing coalition government of President Yamandú Orsi. The South American country lower house, [...]
Paul Tuns: Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, estimates that in 2024 there were “about 16,500” euthanasia deaths, bringing the total to 76,800 since Medical Assistance in Dying was legalized in 2016. With numbers steadily increasing each year, Schadenberg estimates that about 90,000 patients have been euthanized when you include this year’s numbers which will not be available until [...]
Paul Tuns: Inclusion Canada’s Krista Carr said she hears weekly from people with disabilities who are tentative accessing public health care because of concerns about being pressured into Medical Assistance in Dying. During testimony before the parliamentary Finance Committee, Krista Carr, CEO of Inclusion Canada, a disabilities group, told MPs that she is aware of Canadians who are concerned about [...]
Paul Tuns: The National Post reported that woman in her late 80s was killed by euthanasia after “a family member brought forward a request for an assisted death.” The woman, identified only as Mrs. 6F in a recent coroner’s committee report, was subsequently killed by medical staff after a MAiD provider, the Post reported, “deemed the woman had given her final expressed [...]
Paul Tuns: According to Open Doors, a Christian advocacy group, one in seven Christians worldwide suffer persecution or discrimination due to their religious beliefs. The numbers for 2024 are stark. 380 million Christians suffer persecution or discrimination based on their religious beliefs. 50 countries are rated by Open Doors as having “high,” “very high,” or “extreme” persecution and discrimination – 13 are [...]
November is a solemn month, one which is marked by many memorials. On Remembrance Day, we commemorate not only the conclusion of the Great War, but all of the fallen who made the ultimate sacrifice in the course of Canada’s other military conflicts as well. To this annual anniversary, further occasions to reflect in a similarly somber way have been added. The [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: James Burnham: An Intellectual Biography by David T. Byrne (Northern Illinois University Press, $45.95, 242 pages) James Burnham, like many of those on the political Right in the second half of the 20th century, migrated there from the Left. Historian David T. Byrne examines the intellectual journey of this foundational conservative thinker from literary critic and Trotskyite philosopher to one [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: The Man who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer by Daniel Flynn (Encounter, $54.99, 544 pages) Frank Meyer is the most important conservative whose name you never heard. Perhaps more than anyone not named William F. Buckley, he shaped American conservatism to adopt the seemingly contradictory stances of promoting a socially dynamic economic freedom with respect for [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Buckley: The Life and Revolution that Changed America by Sam Tanenhaus (Random House, $54, 1018 pages) The conservative columnist George F. Will says that before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, that before that there was Goldwater there was National Review magazine, and before NR there was its founder William F. Buckley. Buckley was without doubt, the most influential [...]
Paul Tuns Ottawa’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Fund gave the University of British Columbia faculty of Medicine’s Contraception and Abortion Research Team (CART) $4.3 million in taxpayer funding to pay for research into expanding abortion to “underserved” groups such as individuals who identify as LGBTQ+, the homeless, and youth. UBC Medicine said in a press release, the funding will “address barriers to [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 25, Statistics Canada reported data that showed the country’s official fertility rate is 1.25 children per woman, the lowest figure Canada has ever recorded, down from its previous low of 1.26 children in 2023. The figures for 2024, the latest year for which data is available, provide data for births and stillbirths. In total numbers, there were 368,928 [...]