I'll be on Behind the Story on CTS Sunday night at 7 pm local time in Ontario and Alberta (re-broadcast the following Friday at 11 am) and available elsewhere in Canada if you are a Rogers digital subscriber. At some point after it has broadcast, it is available here at CTS's website. We'll be talking about torture in Afghanistan, not mentioning the Muslim connection [...]
In the Lon Jacobs article noted earlier by Paul Tuns, the conclusion reminds us why the pro-abortion side is not really about choice and not really neutral, but very much pro-abortion: In my mind, President Bill Clinton had it about right when he called for abortion to be safe, legal and rare. If that is to be more than just a convenient [...]
The New York Times has an article on Senator Robert Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania who pretends to be pro-life but whose primary credential on this file is that his late father, one-time governor of the Keystone State, was a principled pro-lifer who was denied a platform to speak (about anything) at the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Casey says he is often compared to [...]
Lon Jacobs writes in the Wall Street Journal about Sarah Palin's advocacy on behalf of those with Down syndrome, his own Down syndrome child, and the abortion debate. He says: What separates me from many other pro-choicers I encounter is that I strongly believe we need to make abortion rare. In too many quarters we have moved from a society that protects [...]
Often we don't see the fruits of our labours in the pro-life movement. We don't know how or even if our witness or our prayer has moved others. Values Voter News has a video of a Planned Parenthood facility in Montana that closed down during 40 Days for Life, in part due to the decreased business that often accompanies these prayerful witnesses.
In C-Fam's Friday Fax, Samantha Singson writes about pressure on the United States to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child as the CRC celebrates its 20th anniversary. In 1993, Interim columnist Winifride Prestwichanswered a letter-writer's question about what is wrong with the treaty, noting that it violated numerous age-old rights of the parent. This theme is picked up by Singson: Conservative [...]
LifeSiteNews.com reports on the Life Canada-sponsored Environics poll that shows a majority of Canadians oppose the country's regime of abortion-on-demand. CNN reports that Spain moves closer to broadening their abortion law. The Catholic Register reports on the sixth annual medical student forum put on by Canadian Physicians for Life. Jill Stanek noted that Barack Obama's Thanksgiving Proclamation was essentially cribbed from George Bush with [...]
Liberal MPs continue to attack Maurice Vellacott over some relatively innocuous things he said about abortion. (Andrea Mrozek points out that in the current culture his uncontroversial comments are likely to be viewed as outrageous by a certain brand of feminist.) Anyway, the silliness has seeped into parliamentary proceedings. From Hansard (House of Commons, November 25, 2009): Mrs. Lise Zarac (LaSalle—Émard, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, [...]
LeRoy Goldman, a deacon at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Hendersonville, writes about the meaning of Thanksgiving in the Asheville Citizen-Times. He reminds us: That this nation's roots are deeply intertwined with God's providence was not lost on George Washington, who in his Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 stated, “It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to [...]
From ProLifeBlogs.com: "Baby Gabriel - No one should be allowed to decide that an innocent life is not worth saving." Members of the Liberal Party are attacking Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott for opposing abortion and his suggestion that men benefit from abortion because it allows them to engage in consequenceless sex. The ladies at ProWomanProLife come to his defense. National Review's Kathryn Jean [...]
Rory Leishman's review of Brian Lee Crowley's Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values is now online. An excerpt: The most glaring omission in Crowley’s otherwise fine book is any acknowledgment of the calamitous impact of legalized abortion. As a compassionate man, he should pity all the grieving mothers who have been duped into thinking of abortion as an [...]
Rosaries for Life are one of our new advertisers, both here at the website (check out the banner and the ads at the right-hand side and the bottom of non-blog pages) and in the print edition of the newspaper. Catholics interested in a prayerful commitment to end abortion should check it out.
Kathy Shaidle, writing at NewsReal, takes on Media Matters which seems to be criticizing those who 'claim' Obamacare will fund abortions. It is an incredible take-down of Media Matters. She makes note of a New York Times story that reports "The public plan could provide abortion coverage but would have to segregate federal dollars, just like the private plans." Shaidle indirectly explains what the fungibility of money is by mocking [...]
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has a 50-page booklet, Euthanasia: In the Shadow of Death, available for download. The Saskatoon StarPhoenix reports that Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott has applauded local doctors for restricting abortion services by only doing them up to 12 weeks. Dave Andrusko of the National Right to Life Committee looks at Jesse Jackson and his transformation from pro-life minister to pro-abortion pol. [...]
Alex Schadenberg has an excellent post on the man who emerged a 23-year long coma (persistent vegetative state) and the dangers that such a diagnosis presents to patients. He concludes: Medical professionals need to be far more careful before diagnosing a patient as PVS. If society rejects hypocratic medicine and accepts euthanasia, the time would come where people in PVS would be treated as non-persons, [...]