Our July cover story on 50 years of The Pill (in the US, just over 40 in Canada) is now online. Our lead editorial on The Pill as false liberator is also available. An excerpt: So, instead of fulfilling the promise of temporary infertility, that could be turned on and off like a switch, the pill has made infertility the default option [...]
Our editor is away this week. There won't be any blogging although we hope to have a selection of our July stories on the website by the end of the week.
This stories did not appear in the print edition. "Obama’s SC choice raises serious concerns" by Pauline Kosalka "March for Life media coverage" by Joseph Jalsevac
Some critics have called Harper’s decision not to include abortion in the G8 maternal health plan inconsistent, considering Canada is one of the only countries in the world to have absolutely no legal restrictions on abortion. Why refuse abortions to third world nations, yet put up no opposition to the practice in your own country? Perhaps the critics are right, but in [...]
The Wildrose Alliance held its annual general meeting and more than 40 policies were voted on. Of special interest to social conservatives, on the good side of the ledger, they voted to adopt a measure to protect conscience rights for health care workers and defeated a resolution that would have softened the party's school choice policy. However, the party did not support axing Section 3 [...]
The pro-life community should be wary of Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court say pro-life groups, as Kagan’s past record indicates that she supports abortion and perhaps same-sex marriage. In 1997, after the Republican Congress passed a ban on partial birth abortion and before Clinton vetoed the measure, Kagan, the associate White House counsel, recommended that Clinton [...]
The Campus Pro-Life Club has been reinstated at the University of Calgary. The club vows to continue with its Genocide Awareness Project witness this Fall.
Over at ProWomanProLife, Andrea Mrozek suggests that the media coverage of the science of fetal development, if not the science itself, depends on the context: wanted or unwanted. Unwanted unborn children do not feel pain up to 24 weeks, but, "With wanted babies, we are told science shows us that babies are learning in the womb. That prior to birth they are [...]
Andrea Mrozek And Rebecca Walberg, manager of research at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada and president of the Wakefield Centre for Policy Research respectively, have a very good article in the National Posttoday on how the pro-abortion side plays fast and loose with abortion numbers in the maternal health debate. Mrozek and Walberg note the multiple assumptions that pro-abortion researchers employ in [...]
Patrick Lee and Robert P. George have an article at NRO entitled "Debating when life begins." My problem is with the title: when life begins is not debatable -- the beginning of life is scientific fact, as Lee and George make perfectly clear: With the fusion of the sperm and the ovum, the tail of the sperm is lost, and the membrane surrounding [...]
Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health held an event last month to present its William K. Rashbaum, MD, Abortion Provider Award. The mind boggles at the idea. Does the PRCH honour the abortionist who eliminates the most unborn children? Or the abortionist who does so most efficiently (abortions per hour, perhaps)? Or an abortionist who contributes to some advance in technique or research-based improvements in their trade? Really, [...]
Bill Saunders, senior vice president of legal affairs at the Americans United for Life, writes in today's Roll Callabout Supreme Court appointee Elena Kagan: Elena Kagan has expressed a deep affection for the Supreme Court justice she clerked for, Thurgood Marshall. While personal affection of a clerk for her judge is certainly normal and understandable, it goes beyond that. She admired his judicial [...]
The Winnipeg Free Press issues a pro-abortion press release reports that pro-abortion feminists are calling for Stephen Harper to include abortion as part of his maternal health initiative at the G8 summit. The Freeps says: Vicki Saporta, president and CEO of the National Abortion Federation Canada, told a news conference Tuesday that Harper's decision to exclude abortion funding from his initiative will create generations [...]
The Globe and Mail reports on a Nanos poll that shows that Canadians think that the vast majority of Canadians think foreign aid recipients should receive greater (9.4%) or the same (67.7%) "access to safe abortions" as Canadians. There are so many problems with this poll. First, the wording on a couple of levels. Of course respondents will say that others should receive [...]
The Toronto Star reports that the status of women committee called upon the federal government to ante up $1.4 billion for maternal health and demanded that monies be provided for abortion to be part of the initiative. The Star reports: But the Conservative members of the status of women committee calling for the all-inclusive spending were conspicuously absent from the announcement today. [...]