Following Ontario Superior Court Justice Susan Himel’s decision to throw out any restrictions on the sex trade as incompatible with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, numerous newspaper editorials called for the issue to be returned to Parliament because elected representatives, not judges should decide social policy. The Ottawa Citizen’s own libertarian stance is that “what consenting adults do is not anyone [...]
Fifteen years ago this month Naomi Wolf, the prominent American feminist, published a striking article in the New Republic entitled “Rethinking Pro-Choice Rhetoric: Our Bodies, Our Souls.” Highly critical of the dehumanizing rhetoric of the pro-choice movement, Wolf argued that feminists must reject morally neutral language to describe abortion and dehumanizing euphemisms to describe the child in the womb. Feminists, Wolf argued, [...]
In this issue, we cover recent developments in abortion, euthanasia, and human trafficking. Abortion and euthanasia are clearly pro-life issues: both involve the termination of innocent human life. This link can be stretched to meaninglessness to include all issues, but all three quite clearly are connected to the devaluing of human beings. Abortion justifies killing by denying the humanity of the child [...]
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 [...]
The United Nations has created a monstrous, half-billion dollar agency to promote gender equality. Merging four existing offices into the new United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, or UN Women, the international body hopes to create, in UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s words, “a stronger voice for women for gender equality at the global level.” Feminists dutifully cheered. [...]
The stories are familiar: funding for abortion being proposed as foreign aid, a vote on euthanasia, a National March for Life in Ottawa, university administrators harassing pro-life groups. Similar events have become a normal feature of the news cycle and, of themselves, bring no surprise to members of the pro-life movement. Although the headlines are familiar, the news is not— the outcome [...]
This year we acknowledge an unfortunate anniversary: the infamous birth control pill – which itself has been responsible for preventing so many births – turns fifty. It was in 1960 that the Food and Drug Administration first approved the contraceptive pill for use in the United States. Nine years later, with the passing of Pierre Trudeau’s infamous Omnibus bill that also legalized [...]
In April, a Harris-Decima poll found that Canadians were evenly split on whether abortion should be part of the government’s maternal health initiative: 48 per cent were opposed to including abortion, while 46 per cent were in favour. However, a new poll from the same company now finds that 58 per cent say abortion should be included while just 30 per cent [...]
There are many things to deplore about the lurid sexual education component of the new curriculum which the McGuinty has proposed for all Ontario primary schools. The ideologically-motivated attempt to pervert young children in the name of “sexual health” is, indeed, deplorable, but is also predictable: for years, social liberals have taken fringe psychoanalysts as their gurus—radicals who have exchanged the ancient [...]
At Goldenbet Casino, where fates are tested and luck is in the air, the true meaning and value of motherhood finds an unexpected intersection. Just as a mother cautiously navigates the unpredictable path of raising a child, casino players often overcome the uncertainty of gambling. According to the Goldenbet casino review, players are constantly immersed in the fascinating world of games where [...]
Last October, Jose Ruba of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform visited the McGill University campus to present a display entitled, “Echoes of the Holocaust,” which drew parallels between the Nazi Holocaust and an atrocity which is still perpetrated and perpetuated today: abortion. As might be expected, Ruba’s presentation was disrupted by extremists intent on violating the rights that any university ought [...]
This May, thousands of Canadians will attend the annual National March for Life and numerous provincial marches for life. They will come from every part of the country and they will be members of every race and religion. They will come, rain or shine, to our federal and provincial capitals and will witness to the sanctity of all human life. But what [...]
Margaret Sanger, the early American abortion advocate, believed in the practice of eugenics. Like many misguided early twentieth-century social activists, she believed that eugenics was – in her words – “the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.” For Sanger, birth control did not simply constitute a marginal alteration of the ratios of reproduction; it [...]
In the language of our intellectual and cultural elites, we often find repeated phrases that seem to have a life of their own. Like the symptoms of an undiagnosed, contagious disease, these phrases suddenly appear and spread quickly throughout the language of our popular discourse until they, and the assumptions they conceal, are accepted as self-evidently true. It is sometimes difficult to [...]