We report in the February issue about the Halton Catholic school board's capitulation to pressure from gay activists to abandon its Catholic approach to sexual morality in their schools. Makes you wonder why we bother with Catholic schools at all; that's not a proposal, just frustration speaking.
A pregnant Colorado woman was mistakenly given an abortion pill by her pharmacist rather than an antibiotic. Fate of the unborn child is unknown. Pharmacy says sorry. Sure mistakes happen, but as Andrea Mrozek says, tragedies like this one wouldn't occur if health care practitioners followed the Hippocratic Oath.
The final vote on C-389, which adds transgender and transexual to the list of specially protected classes of people under Canada's human rights laws, will be Wednesday. Catholic Insight has reproduced our lead editorial from the February issue with slight amendments to the last paragraph because at the time we went to press, it appeared that the vote would be later this month [...]
There is more news from the House of Horrors story: another woman suspects Kermit Gosnell caused an infection that seriously harmed her. CNN reports: On a recent Sunday, LaToya Ransome sits near a space heater in her grandmother's living room in north Philadelphia. "I still deal with it all the time," she says, glancing at the TV and grazing two fingers over [...]
For some reason, apparently coincidental, I'm on Behind the Story on CTS on Super Bowl weekend. The show used to broadcast Sunday nights at 7pm -- the Super Bowl starts at 6:30 pm -- so even I would miss it. This year, BTS moved to Saturday nights and you can watch the broadcast next week online. This week we are talking a lot [...]
Here's our February cover story: "House of Horrors: Philadelphia abortionist faces 39 charges in connection with death of woman, seven newborns." I posted most of this story before, but it has a new conclusion quoting Rev. Johnny Hunter of LEARN, in which he condemns Kermit Gosnell for betraying his fellow blacks.
Josh Brahm has a good guest post at the Life Training Institute blog about the pro-life reaction to stories such as the House of Horrors abortuary in Philadelphia and Live Action's exposing Planned Parenthood's cooperation with someone they thought were pimps for underage sex workers. Brahms says of the latest scandals: As atrocious as Gosnell's barbaric acts were, and as bad as covering up sex trafficking [...]
Great video helps show how large the crowd was for the March for Life in Washington DC. Time Lapse March for Life
Live Action exposes Planned Parenthood as a bunch of low lifes. This time, Live Action shows PP's cooperation with people who are running an underage sex ring. My problem is shared by Big Blue Wave: Live Action gets their information from PP by posing as people they are not. In other words, they are lying. This might be fine for 60 Minutes but pro-lifers [...]
With the polygamy case in British Columbia, there has been a lot in the media about polygamy. It is certainly good copy, a real-life Big Love. Our lead editorial in the January issue noted that in an age of same-sex 'marriage' it was only a matter of time until plural marriage became legal. If the gender doesn't matter, why then should the number? [...]
Jeff Jacoby has a column in the Boston Globe about the evasions surrounding pro-abortion rhetoric, starting off with calling abortion anything but abortion (choice, reproductive freedom, etc...). Definitely worth reading although there won't be much new to most people who have thought about the issue. I take some issue with the conclusion, however: Abortion is always a violent and awful thing, whether it [...]
Joe Campbell is a very funny writer, but our Light is Right columnist had reservations about tackling abortion directly. That is understandabe; the topic does not easily lend itself to laugh-lines and comic asides. I think Campbell hit a homerun of a column this month in "Parsing 'pro-choice' prose," which shreds the rhetoric and arguments of abortion advocates. A sample: Maybe rights depend on location, and carry [...]
We congratulate and applaud all those who are commemorating Roe v. Wade by participating in the March for Life in Washington DC, in sub-freezing temperatures. Since Roe, 50 million American babies have been killed in utero. It is not a day worth celebrating as President Barack Obama believes, but a day of mourning and a day to re-commit ourselves to renewing the Culture of [...]
Here's the first draft of our February cover story about Philadelphia abortionists Kermit Gosnell. House of horrors Philadelphia abortionist faces 39 charges in connection with death of woman, seven newborns Paul Tuns A Philadelphia abortionist has been arrested in connection to the murders of a pregnant woman and seven newborn babies in a case that has garnered international attention. On Jan. 19, [...]
NRO's Robert VerBruggen writes about abortion being little more than birth control (every year 2% of women of child-bearing age have an abortion and half of them are not having their first!) and the article has numerous important and interesting facts that are not widely known but which go a long way to raise doubts about the abortion license. However, VerBruggen raises [...]