Writing in The Hill, Rep. Bart Stupak (D, Mich.) says he is not opposed to health care reform even though he is vigorously fighting to ensure that there will be no public funding of abortion. But this leaves the door open to Stupak and perhaps his pro-life colleagues in the Democratic Party supporting the eventual reform bill even if it does permit [...]
The Royal Society of Canada has appointed a new international commission to examine "End-of-life decision making" in Canada. As Wesley Smith notes, at least four of the six members are actively supportive of euthanasia and/or doctor-assisted suicide: Udo Schuklenk, a pro-euthanasia philosophy professor from Queen's University and Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics; Johannes van Delden, a euthanasia researcher from the Medical Council of the Royal [...]
This is essentially a how-to search and destroy manual in The Guardian, and it bothers me greatly: It's recommended that all women in England and Wales are offered a combination of tests to screen for Down's syndrome. The tests should be offered early in pregnancy, between week 11 and the end of week 13, although a slightly different set of tests can be [...]
The Guardian reports "'Death tourism' leads Swiss to consider ban on assisted suicide." The Parents Television Council has issued a report that finds that violence against women on TV has increased 120 percent between 2004 and 2009. A study published in the Journal of Happiness Studies suggests children lead to marital bliss. ScienceDaily.com has the story. The New York Times reports that [...]
CNSNews.com reported on Tuesday that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer reached out with an unsatisfactory compromise to pro-life Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) over the latter's insistence that the House vote on his amendment to explicitly prohibit any federal money from paying for abortions, directly or indirectly. LifeSiteNews.com has a story and videothat raises doubts about whether Stupak will actually vote against health care reform that [...]
LifeSiteNews.com reports: The swine flu vaccine approved for use in Canada by the country's federal drug regulator does not use aborted fetal cell lines in its manufacture. The vaccine is produced by GlaxoSmithKline under the trade name Arepanrix, and is made with chick embryos. Health Canada's Arepanrix product information leaflet says the "H1N1 antigen is prepared from virus grown in the allantoic [...]
The Aurora Daily Herald reports that the local Planned Parenthood is expanding its parking lot by 11 spaces. The Aurora PP wanted 27 parking spots but the city voted to allow only 11. I don't care if it is the city's "most controversial parking lot" this barely qualifies as news.
Children of God for Life, which tracks the use of fetal tissue in pharmaceutical and other products, announced yesterday that Neocutis is using aborted fetal cell lines in some of their anti-aging skin creams. GGL wants people to contact the company and their investors -- both of which are good things -- but merely publicizing it should hurt sales because the whole idea of a vanity [...]
In a story about attempts in California to overturn Prop 8, the New York Times describes the union of a man and woman as an "opposite-sex marriage." WorldNetDaily has more.
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has a short video on what euthanasia and physician assisted suicide is, why it is unnecessary and the dangers of legalizing them. John Couretas of The Observer, the blog of the American Orthodox Institute, notes that Metropolitan Bartholomeis of Chalcedon has said some fairly “unorthodox” things regarding the sanctity of life. In 1990, the Greek Orthodox patriarch said: "We are [...]
The Daily Telegraph reports: The figures showed that diagnoses of Down's syndrome increased from 1,075 in 1989/90 to 1,843 in 2007/8. Yet the numbers of babies born with the condition fell by one per cent from 752 to 743. That's because an average of three unborn children diagnosed as Down's Syndrome are killed by abortion every day in England and Wales, or [...]
Rep. Bark Stupak (D, Mich) was interviewed by LifeSiteNews.com about pro-life amendments to various Congressional health care reform bills. He noted: "The majority of Americans do not want to see public funding for abortion, and when it comes down to a vote most members will vote that way, if given an opportunity." "If given an opportunity," is an important qualifier and thus [...]
In Jennifer Lynch's opening statement before the Parliamentary Justice and Human Rights Committee, the Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission made the case for her federal agency without addressing the specific concerns of her critics (this newspaper, Ezra Levant, Mark Steyn, and others) that the extra-judicial body is unnecessary in the battle against hate. She offered standard human rights commission industry boilersplate about [...]
The October issue is being put online and there are now two very good profiles from that edition that can be accessed online: Denise Hounjet-Roth, president of Campaign Life Coalition Saskatchewan, by Pete Vere and Andrew Scheer, Conservative MP for Regina-Qu'Appelle, by Paul Tuns.
Ezra Levant has a dozen posts on Jennifer Lynch and Richard Moon's testimony to the Parliamentary Human Rights and Justice Committee starting with "Jennifer Lynch's testimony to the Justice Committee: a study in evasion." Jay Currie live-blogged the human rights commission industry defending itself with more than a dozen posts. Blazing Cat Fur has comment and links. CHRC commisar Lynch has posted her testimony [...]