With a provincial election only weeks away in Ontario, and fast approaching in several other provinces, we would all do well to remember the basic principle of pro-life voting: being pro-abortion (or "pro-choice") disqualifies a person for public office. This includes those who claim to be "personally opposed" to abortion, but are unwilling to do anything to stop it.The right to life [...]
In a March 27 Toronto Star column, Michele Landsberg refers to Human Life International's world conference in Toronto April 7 to 11 as "purveyors of hate and violence com(ing) to town, 2,000-strong." "This is not an innocuous event," Landsberg warns, accusing HLI of being "true fascists," preaching "the most abysmal kinds of prejudice against lesbians, gays, Muslims and Jews." In an open letter [...]
On Jan. 20, I was a guest on the Crossroads Television System program,The Michael Coren Show. The subject was The Nuremberg Files website. The other guest, by telephone, was Rev. Donald Spitz, of a group called Pro-Life Virginia. Spitz is a close friend of NF creator Neal Horsley. The Nuremberg Files is what we at Campaign Life Coalition call "anti-abortion" rather than pro-life. [...]
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity - W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" Unfortunately, these oft-quoted lines ring true now even more than when they were written in 1920. They point to one of the most peculiar tragedies of modern culture: while Error asserts itself aggressively with unblinking self-confidence, Truth can barely clear its throat [...]
On hearing that U.S. suicide champion Jack Kevorkian is to be tried again for "helping" someone to commit suicide, we were tempted to say, "Put us out of our misery! Convict the man already!" So far, no jury has been willing to hold the de-licensed "Dr. Death" responsible for even one of the scores of deaths he has presided over in his [...]
Imagine the following scenario, if you will: A local hit-man operates out of a store-front made to look like a legitimate business. There's a huge demand for his services; so for the sake of efficiency, and to ensure the bodies won't start piling up on the streets, he has his clients bring their victims to him at his office. The people they [...]
No other story, or pagan legend or philosophical anecdote or historical event, does in fact affect any of us with that peculiar and even poignant impression produced on us by the word Bethlehem. -G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man In The Everlasting Man, G.K. Chesterton reflects on what is special about Christianity, and on what is unique about Jesus Christ Himself. In the chapter [...]
Immediately on hearing of the brutal murder of Buffalo abortionist Barnett Slepian, pro-life groups across Canada and the U.S. did what they've done in response to similar crimes in the past: they condemned the shooting, sincerely, firmly, and unequivocally. On the one hand, it seems strange that pro-life groups should have to issue such extraordinary statements. Any well-informed and fair-minded person would [...]
We must admit it's not too often that an editorial is, in a sense, a movie review. But the issues raised by the Oscar-touted new film One True Thing are just too important to be left unaddressed. And those issues are profoundly relevant to our particular quest to build a culture of life. The film stars Meryl Streep as Kate Gulden, a radiantly [...]
President Clinton's recent "confession" was more like a soft-pedalling of his involvement with Monica Lewinsky. Like abortion, it was an experience he would probably want to be either unnecessary or extremely rare. And the rhetoric he employed to soften his illicit relationship with Miss Lewinsky bears a striking resemblance to the standard pro-abortion rhetoric that he and other like-minded supporters of abortion [...]
UN secretary general Kofi Annan called the new International Criminal Court a "gift of hope to future generations, and a giant step forward in the march towards universal human rights and the rule of law." Campaign Life Coalition fears the ICC will be a "powerful instrument of forced social change by feminist, homosexual, and other radical groups." Many pro-lifers also see the [...]
It's probably no coincidence that the status of fathers has declined in proportion to the overall depreciation in family life, morality and culture during the last few decades. Much has been written in recent years about the negative portrayal of fathers in the news media and in the entertainment world. Indeed, the incompetent father has become something of an icon in North [...]
The phrase has sort of odd ring to it. It seems peculiar that Canada, the true north strong and free, would be associated, at least in recent decades, with something as troubling as a day of infamy. On the other hand, we’ve heard stories from the past; stories about the internment of foreign nationals, or the harboring of war criminals, or CIA-sponsored [...]
If there’s one thing that history has taught the pro-life and pro-family movements over the three decades or so, it’s that the subtlety of evil must never be underestimated. This principle once again came back to the fore during the recent imbroglio in Halifax concerning Dr. Nancy Morrison, the murder charge laid against her, and - almost predictably - the dropping of [...]
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Following two world wars that killed tens of millions and laid large parts of entire countries to waste, the concept of a strong United Nations that would act as an arbiter and -- to the extent it had power -- policeman seemed appealing to those for whom memories of conflict were still fresh. [...]