Oswald Clark, Review: Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women by Batya Ungar-Sargon (Encounter, $30, 225 pages) White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman (Random House, $42, 299 pages) Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by David Leonhardt (Random House, $42, 492 pages) Since Donald Trump’s surprise [...]
Paul Tuns: Professor Christopher Lyon published a study titled “Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying System can Enable Healthcare Serial Killing” in HEC Forum – HEC stands for HealthCare Ethics Committee -- concluding that Canada’s euthanasia law enables serial killers within the health care system. Lyon, who teaches at the University of York in the United Kingdom and whose 77-year-old father was killed [...]
Interim Staff: Linda Gibbons with the sign she witnesses with, “Why mom? When I have so much love to give.” Two witnesses – a police officer and an abortion mill employee -- in the criminal trial against pro-life demonstrator Linda Gibbons testified that she did not interfere with the operations of the abortion facility at which Gibbons was demonstrating in [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements While promoting her new book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, journalist Annie Jacobsen landed a choice spot on Joe Rogan’s podcast where she laid out the dismal story she tells in her book. “One of the reasons why nuclear war is not spoken about by the general public,” Jacobsen told Rogan, “is that it’s [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law by Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze (Harper, $39.50, 291 pages) In Over Ruled, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and his former clerk Janie Nitze, make the case that there are way too many laws and regulations that carry criminal punishments in the United States, and that this excess is a [...]
The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No Carl Elliott (Norton, $39.99, 355 pages) Medical ethics professor Carl Elliott’s The Occasional Human Sacrifice is unlikely to engender greater trust in the medical profession as it explores six controversial cases in which medical researchers treated human beings as guinea pigs. Often the patients consented to the interventions, albeit without [...]
On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service Anthony Fauci, M.D. (Viking, $48, 464 pages) The autobiography of Anthony Fauci, the public face of both the Trump and Biden White House responses to COVID, provides plenty of fodder for both fans and critics of Fauci’s handling of the pandemic. The books’ errors of fact and evasion of controversies might be forgivable but [...]
Interim Staff: Scientifically accurate fetus at 12 weeks gestation In May, Denmark broadened its abortion law by expanding the permissible window for abortion-on-demand from 12 weeks to 18 weeks gestation. In August, Norway announced it would follow suit similarly increasing its 12-week abortion limit to 18 weeks. In the Danish legislature, the Socialist People’s Party, Red-Green Alliance, Danish Social Liberal [...]
Tim Walz’s deadly record on life Tim Walz is the vice-presidential candidate for the Democratic Party in the upcoming national elections. As governor of Minnesota, Walz was the first in the country to enact state pro-abortion legislation after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and sent the issue of abortion back to the states. Abortion was already legal in Minnesota through [...]
Gideon Spevak: In June 2022, Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly introduced the Aid and Support After Pregnancy (ASAP) program to offer financial and material support to pregnancy care centres and other pregnancy support organizations in the United States and Canada. This program was introduced by the Knights of Columbus after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson that overturned Roe v. [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Often claiming to be as essential as penicillin, the pro-abortion movement claims to be an evidence-based and medically necessary treatment. A US-based study published on June 30, 2024 in the Medical Research Archives by the European Society of Medicine revealed insufficient data in abortion-related studies, thereby calling into question the medical basis for pro-abortion policy. Researchers James Studnicki, ScD, and [...]
John Carpay: In March 2020, Dr. Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London predicted 40 million COVID deaths globally, including 2.2 million deaths in the United States. Dr. Ferguson publicly compared COVID to the Spanish Flu of 1918, which had killed between 20 and 100 million people world-wide, at a time when the world’s population was roughly one-fourth of what it is today. [...]
Paul Tuns: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith appeared on the podcast of Shaun Newman in which she called for Alberta’s population to grow to 10 million inhabitants through immigration, leading Prolife Alberta to take issue with the government’s silence over the death of 12,000 preborn babies annually. In her interview with Newman, Smith said she wanted to more than double Alberta’s population from [...]
Rory Leishman: According to the latest, most reliable information on COVID 19 vaccines, are they ethical? Have they really been a safe and effective means of drastically reducing hospitalizations and deaths due to the COVID-19 virus? Consider, first, the ongoing controversy over the ethics of the Moderna and Pfizer-BionTech mRNA vaccines. Some well-meaning, but misguided, pro-lifers maintain that no one in good [...]
As our story on the U.S. election (p. 8) makes clear, both the Republican and Democratic parties under their respective leaderships of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are moving in a more pro-abortion direction. (The story does not report on another development, but both Trump and Harris are moving in more pro-gay positions – Trump vowing to fight for the “rights” of [...]