Big Blue Wave links to About A Girl who says that the work of the abortionist is "about life. I will say that again. Our work is about life." As BBW responds, "Did you ever get the feeling that abortion supporters just want to get away from abortion as a subject in and of itself?" Partly the abortion is about life line [...]
Ross Douthat has a good column in the New York Times about the bad arguments pro-traditional marriage advocates make (it is 'natural' and 'marriage has always been between one man and one woman') which are patently false and why social conservatives are losing the same-sex marriage debate using those arguments. The good argument is precisely that marriage is not natural, but creates a [...]
From Liberal MP Keith Martin's blog: That’s turnoff, as in turn off the TV and computer once a week as a way to confront a dangerous trend of physical inactivity among Canada’s children and youth. MP Dr. Keith Martin is advocating a national turnoff day for children and adults. So Martin is concerned about how the television and computer affect children's development [...]
Liberal MP Keith Martin tweets, "We must work together to stop the extinction of Africa’s wildlife." Along with Bob Rae, Martin was the point man for Liberals on insisting that maternal health for women in the developing world included abortion.
Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) is hosting a ‘Dance for Life’ August 21 to raise money for their group and for Aid to Women, a Toronto crisis pregnancy center. The event is aimed at university and high school students ages 15 and up, and will feature a live DJ playing top 40, House, Hip-Hop, and Dance classics. "Young people are of inestimable value [...]
Great post at Five Feet of Fury. Three key takeaways: 1. On left-wing hypocrisy: [Y]our 'the State should get out of the marriage business' argument is too cute for words. I notice you desperately want the State to stay in the 'healthcare' business. 2. On (modern) marriage as a form of welfare entitlement: [T]hat's what all this is about: getting your "right" [...]
We have a pair of intelligent commentaries on the courts and religious freedom in Canada in the August issue: "Quebec court affirms freedom of religion," by Rory Leishman which looks at the Loyola case (religious instruction in schools) in Quebec. "Religious freedom in the wake of R. v. Big M. Drug Mart," by John von Heyking which examines how the Supreme Court has dealt with the [...]
A church in Greenville, S.C., has turned a former abortion facility into a center for pregnant teens and a drop-in center for young parents and their children. This is simultaneously a creepy and nice story.
As Joe Carter says at First Things, "Disappointing, though not really surprising" decision by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker in overturning Proposition 8, the state's constitutional amendment banning same-sex 'marriage' -- a law that was supported by a majority of state voters in a 2008 ballot initiative. Read Judge Walker's decision and you'll see that he is just making up reasons [...]
Linda Gibbons is one of those brave pro-lifers who attempt to counsel abortion-minded women on the sidewalk before they enter abortion facilities. I say brave because it takes something special to stand on the sidewalk, wait for women who may (or may not) be going into the abortion clinic and try to talk them into choosing life for their unborn child. It [...]
The Regina Leader-Post reports that the National Parole Board has refused to grant convicted child murderer Robert Latimer expanded parole privileges. Latimer won his parole release in 2008, seven years after beginning his prison sentence for the 1993 gassing death of his daughter Tracy, who had cerebral palsy. Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, says of the news that he [...]
Our lead editorial for the August issue is now online. An excerpt: This series of events heralds a new day for the pro-life movement. The recent legislative victories demonstrate that being publicly pro-life is no longer beyond the pale, but is, instead, a politically viable position. This change in the political landscape corresponds with a shift in the public’s perception of the [...]
Democrats for Life has three followers on Twitter. Just saying.
The debate we have had about maternal health and abortion here in Canada is taking place at the United Nations where U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R, NJ) told a UN committee on the the Millennium Development Goals that promoting legal abortion will not reduce maternal and infant mortality. LifeSiteNews has the story about how the "Outcome Document for the High-Level Summit on the Millennium [...]
I understand that those who support abortion are not all of one mind. (That is true for those who oppose abortion, also.) There are abortion supporters who say they want abortion safe, legal and rare which implies that there is something wrong, or at least problematic, about the procedure. But there are other abortion advocates who think that abortion isn't very different than a [...]