Democratic mouthpiece Donna Brazile tweets, "NASCAR funding intact, but they target poor women who rely on Planned Parenthood & others for medical services like breast cancer screening." That is rich. Everyone knows that the amendment targeting Planned Parendthood is over abortion and if PP really wanted to continue providing those other services to "poor women" all they have to do is stop [...]
A wise friend of mine says that ironically pro-lifers are often arguing for choice. He pointed out that in a society where the default 'choice' position is to have an abortion, the challenge for pro-lifers is to make the decision a true choice. Once women have real choice, the challenge for pro-lifers is to switch gears and make the case for life. When women feel that the [...]
Our own columnist Michael Coren has a must-see show on CTS. The show used to be live and on at 10 pm and then moved to a taped version broadcast at 6 pm. For many people, that's too early. They don't want to watch public affairs programming during dinner or with their children still up, and many potential viewers are still commuting, either from work [...]
There is a affordable ($59) one-day conference in Mississauga (just west of Toronto) March 5 put on by Dynamic Women of Faith for women who want to learn how to deal with life's challenges and prioritize their responsibilities. There are talks about balancing work and home, making more time in one's life, and dealing with the passing of loved one. There is also a panel [...]
Life Always erected an ad in New York City that simply stated: "The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb." The New York Times reported that Bill de Blasio, the city's public advocate, condemned the ad: “This billboard simply doesn’t belong in New York City,” Bill de Blasio, the city’s public advocate, said in a statement. “The ad violates the [...]
Our February story on the need to change public opinion on adoption on numerous levels so that women are more open to adoption and that couples are open to adopting.
Michael Taube linked to our obit of Bernard Nathanson in a tweet but that is not why we are linking to him. No, we are linking to Taube because he nicely summarizes Nathanson’s life: “An interesting man. An astonishing life. An incredible legacy. Bernard Nathanson, RIP.”
We sent our March issue to the printer today. Here is the cover story, our obituary of Bernard Nathanson, the abortionist-turned-pro-life-activist, who passed away Sunday. The photo is from 1983, when Campaign Life Coalition brought Nathanson to Canada for a series of speeches and television interviews, including (as you can see in the photo) CITY TV in Toronto.
On February 10, the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, an excellent think tank based in Ottawa that studies social policy, celebrated its fifth anniversary. Here are speeches by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, former MP Monte Solberg, and conservative author William Gairdner, among others. I agree with Solberg who thanked them for their contributions to public policy when he said that what [...]
Mark Shea and Robert George both have very good posts on why people from Live Action misleading Planned Parenthood to say and do incriminating things by pretending to be someone they are not engaged in an illicit tactic for pro-lifers. As we say in an editorial in the forthcoming March issue, the Culture of Life cannot be built on a foundation of lies. Peter [...]
My editor's desk column in the February issue provides a "social conservative assessment" of five years of the Harper Conservatives in power. Bottom line: a pass on social issues in general, but a fail on abortion. Yet even that assessment is grading on a curve: Indeed, on most issues, the Conservative government has prevented a liberalizing or broadening of immorality and decadence. [...]
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Donald Trump might run for president in 2012 and last week he addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference where he declared himself pro-life (12:00 at this video which might require registration). He doesn't have a chance to win the Republican nomination or the White House, but the fact he says he is pro-life and opposes gun control shows how serious he is thinking about throwing [...]
MercatorNet runs an excerpt from Rocco Buttiglione's latest book, Exiting a Dead End Road: a GPS for Christians in Public Discourse, under the headline "The banality of tolerance." The first half of the excerpt is about freedom and the second half on the relationship between tolerance and freedom. Well worth reading and the bottom line is that tolerance without truth is incompatible with [...]
Brian Lilley has a great introduction on his blog before getting to his column on C-389, Bill Siksay's private member's bill granting special human rights protection to people who self-identify as transgender and transsexual by adding gender identity and gender expression to Canada's human rights laws. Lilley says: Later today MPs will vote on a number of bills, most of which are technical [...]