On Feb. 2, Toronto-area pro-lifer Rita Holmes, passed away in her 89th year. Rita had a perpetual dedication to her family – her husband Ray and sons Jim, David, and Bill, and daughters Lorie (Futch), Cathy (Roth), Honey (Ellerby), and Genevieve (Carson). She also had 26 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Married for 67 years to Ray, her love, care and [...]
Canada According to an Angus Reid Public Opinion poll, just 20 per cent of Canadians are aware that there are absolutely no restrictions in law on abortion, while 43 per cent believe that under current law women can obtain an abortion only in the first trimester while nearly a quarter believe that women can get an abortion when their life/health is endangered, [...]
A pro-life witness that extended 5,000 km from Vancouver to Ottawa was completed on August 14 when the Crossroads Walkers arrived in the nation’s capital, welcomed by dozens of local pro-life supports, including Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast. The group of six arrived at the Hill around noon, where they were awarded a certificate of accomplishment by Audrey Lemieux, wife of [...]
The African Union (AU) finished its annual summit at the end of July with governments agreeing to make maternal and child mortality a continent-wide priority. The summit in Kampala, Uganda, ended with member states extending the controversial, non-binding Maputo Plan of Action (PoA) for an additional five years and expanding a new initiative called the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction on Maternal Mortality [...]
At a press conference for her new comedy The Switch, about an unmarried middle-aged woman who decides to conceive via artificial insemination rather than waiting for the right man to come along, Jennifer Aniston sparked controversy by telling journalists, “Women are realizing more and more that you don’t have to settle, they don’t have to fiddle with a man to [...]
Actress Patricia Neal passed away Aug. 8 at the age of 84. The Oscar-winning actress who starred in such films asBreakfast at Tiffany’s and The Day the Earth Stood Still often expressed sorrow for having an abortion at age 23 after an affair with Garry Cooper. In a life marred by tragedy, including the death of a child, a life-threatening illness, [...]
A writer who practices his art at home does not want to turn his place of residence into a library warehouse. And so, every so often, in order to maintain a dynamic equilibrium between acquisitions and dispersals, he must sift through his material and separate the transitory from the enduring. It is a practice akin to gardening in which one separates the [...]
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Pro-life has ‘invaded’ my life: UC’s Alanna Campbell As the school year begins, many pro-lifers might be wondering what will happen next at the University of Calgary and the campus pro-life club, Campus Pro-Life. Alanna Campbell is the president of the club and ready to take on whatever the year brings. She is only 21 years old and starting her [...]
I envy people who’ve maintained a constant connection to their faith, but not just for the bedrock of moral certainty that’s been beneath their feet their entire life. If you haven’t walked a meandering path all over the political and spiritual landscape, you probably won’t have experienced the panic that overwhelms you the morning after you’ve returned from that tacitly secular, hyperbolically [...]
Canada now has a “developing national network” that connects pro-choice student groups on campus across Canada. Synergy was created by the Abortion Right Coalition of Canada (ARCC), which is the only nation-wide political pro-abortion group in Canada, to counter the growing pro-life presence on university campuses. Synergy stands for Student and Youth Network for Reproductive Justice and it seeks to raise awareness [...]
Pro-life activism in high schools in Canada is essential. According to Statistics Canada just over 16 per cent of abortions were performed on girls aged 15-19 in 2006. That works out to be 15,217 abortions for girls in their teens. Meanwhile, 15,731 girls in the same age group became pregnant and either had their baby or suffered a miscarriage. Most of these [...]
I’m about to make my annual visit to Britain, the land of my birth and where I spent the first 27 years of my life. Also, the country of John Wesley, who was born a little over 300 years ago. Wesley was, of course, the founder of Methodism, an evangelical grouping that began within the Church of England but eventually [...]
In February 2007, 24-year-old Roxanne Fernando was brutally beaten and left in a snowy ditch outside Winnipeg; she died from extensive blood loss. Roxanne’s murderer was not a violent stranger, but the man who had gotten her pregnant. She was killed for exercising a right which abortion proponents often invoke, but seldom defend: her “right” to choose. Roxanne was violently murdered because [...]
While Rod Bruinooge’s proposed bill lays bare the coerced context of so-called “free choice,” crisis pregnancy centres around the country help women who think they have no way to make the decision they really want: to keep their children. These centres offer expectant mothers vital information about the mental and physical consequences of abortion (which they are usually denied by the medical [...]