Jill Stanek on anti-Stupak amendment protests held today by pro-aborts: Lesbians are also participating, although I don't know why they're sticking their noses into the abortion debate. If men can't, why can women who don't naturally reproduce?
Yesterday LifeSiteNews reported on a June 2009 French-language interview with Justin Trudeau, a Liberal MP from Quebec and son of former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In it Trudeau the Younger admits he is at odds with the Roman Catholic Church into which he was born and raised on issues such as abortion and homosexuality. While claiming to be a believer, he [...]
Brian Lilley has a very good column at The Examiner on the issue of euthanasia and the dishonest talking point mistaken belief that it involves the right to "pull the plug." Euthanasia is not the ending of treatment (a passive act) to let a patient die, but a deliberate action to bring about the death of the patient. Lilley notes, "Those who say euthanasia should [...]
Brian Lilley writes in the Examiner about C-384: "Euthanasia is about killing, not the 'right to die with dignity'." LifeSiteNews.com reports that likely future Canadian Liberal leader Justin Trudeau admits that his moral positions do not reflect that of the Catholic Church in which he was raised. David Prentice at the Family Research Council blog points to some promising developments using adult [...]
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D, MD) has an amendment (No. 2791) to the Senate health care reform bill of Harry Reid that would mandate coverage of "preventive" health care for women. That sounds benign enough but as the National Right to Life Committee notes in a letter to U.S. senators, when the Maryland senator sponsored a similar amendment earlier this year, it was endorsed [...]
The opening paragraph of this letter to the editor of the Delaware County Daily Times speaks for itself: The Stupak amendment to the House health-care bill makes insurance coverage for abortion virtually unavailable for millions of women purchasing insurance plans through the newly created health insurance exchange. This is such an unbelievable step backward for us as a society, it should be illegal [...]
Big Blue Wave: Canadians: Change the culture! Tell the CRTC what you think ... About the way cable companies operate. I know most of you hate paying for channels that you don't use. Tell them: Stop the packaging system and end cable monopolies! This is something that affects almost everyone. If we could get this changed, that would be a huge improvement [...]
The last of the November edition of The Interim is now online, including: Global battle over abortion as a right. Human trafficking law passes. Abortion, condom advocate to speak at evangelical college Stephen Lewis to lecture at Redeemer University. The person behind the aborted baby photos. Reducing abortions: The untold story of America’s pregnancy resource centres. Various Canadian news briefs. You can [...]
The Washington Post reports that the Republican rank-and-file are divided over how the party leadership has handled a number of policy files, and predictably it notes a number of 'divisive' moral issues. But read the actual poll more closely and you realize that on moral issues, Republicans do not want the party to veer left on abortion and same-sex marriage. Asked if the party gives [...]
The Centers for Disease Control released the 2006 abortion numbers for the United States: 846,181 for the 46 states that reported abortion numbers, which represents a slight increase. It does not include California. LifeSiteNews.com has the story. New York magazine has a long article by Jennifer Senior on "The Abortion Distortion: Just how pro-choice is America, really?" Senior concludes not very "pro-choice." The Catholic [...]
USA Today reports: Ford Motor-funded research at Virginia Tech and Wake Forest universities is near completion on mathematical models that measure how crash forces affect pregnant women and fetuses. States are not required to report fetal deaths in data sent to the federal fatal accident system -- some do, and some don't. But researcher Stefan Duma of Virginia Tech says reliable studies [...]
The New York Times has a profile of sorts of a pair of Maine senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, in which author Andrew Miga trots out the usual line about them being "fiscally conservative, yet more socially moderate" Republicans who "part with the GOP on issues like abortion rights and the environment." There are a number of problems with this argument. The first [...]
Bill C-384 is the private members bill that was introduced by Bloc MP Francine Lalonde to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. C-384 was introduced on May 13, 2009, it received its first hour of debate on Oct 2, 2009 and it was scheduled to receive its second hour of debate on Nov 16 and to be voted-on Nov 18, 2009. [...]
Ruth Marcus has a longish piece in Newsweek on how abortion will not scuttle Obamacare. At The American Spectator, Mark Tooley looks at how the Religious Left, especially the United Methodist Board of Church and Society, is opposed to the Stupak-Pitts amendment. The Daily Telegraph had an article last week entitled "Fertility: stop all the clocks," on attempts by one doctor to maintain the [...]
From the Catholic Civil Rights League: The Catholic Civil Rights League today expressed disappointment with the recent Federal Court decision striking the application of Frank Chauvin for judicial review of the decision awarding the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler in 2008. Frank Chauvin, a retired Windsor police detective, was inducted into the Order of Canada in 1987, largely in recognition [...]