Statistics Canada released the 2005 abortion numbers on May 21 and they revealed that surgical abortions declined 3.2 per cent from 2004 to 96,815 abortions nation-wide. The abortion rate edged down from 14.6 for every 1,000 women of child-bearing age (15-44) to 14.1. The rate declined for all age groups except 35-39 year olds, which remained the same. Campaign Life Coalition national [...]
New website provides Canadian stats, history and research Editor’s Note: This Pro Life BC press release was issued Jan. 23. British Columbia’s largest pro-life organization is calling on all Canadians, including members of the news media and politicians, to become better educated about the harmful consequences’ of abortion. Pro Life BC, which represents more than 30 affiliated member groups throughout the province, [...]
In 2005, the last year for which there are statistics, there were 1.2 million abortions in the United States – the lowest number since 1976. The statistics were released in a report by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, and represent a decline of nearly 25 per cent from 1990, when they peaked at 1.6 million. The numbers [...]
“I don’t have a daddy,” said the young boy or girl at the door. “And my mommy’s still sleeping.” I would not feel comfortable writing about this experience if it had only happened to me once. Like every other enumerator with the 2006 Census, I swore an oath not to divulge any of the private information I collected. Yet, this incident happened [...]
The Canadian disgrace of sex-selection abortion is receiving less attention than pollution, though both may cause skewed boy-girl ratios in particular communities and both are matters of public health and justice. The normal birth ratio is 105 males to 100 females and large deviations are cause for concern. In the first grave case, the mainstream media and scientific literature have explored the [...]
Although the situation may often appear bleak, things are actually breaking the pro-life way in the struggle to protect human life from conception to natural death, says one of modern-day Catholicism’s leading authors and commentators. Speaking May 9 at a Campaign Life Coalition clergy luncheon in Toronto, George Weigel acknowledged that it is easy to get depressed when we are surrounded by [...]
Interim Staff According to Statistics Canada figures released March 15, 103,765 unborn babies were killed by surgical abortion in 2003, the most recent year for which numbers are available. The figures are based on “detailed records” of reported abortions in hospitals and free-standing abortion sites, as well as those committed on Canadian women in some American states but paid for by Canadian [...]
An Ipsos-Reid poll released by CanWest Global has revealed that a majority of Canadians would oppose opposition parties toppling the Conservative government over abortion restrictions. The poll also found that, by an even larger margin, Canadians would oppose ousting the Conservatives if they tried to pass a law making same-sex “marriage” illegal. Even though the poll used language biased in favour of [...]
Paul Tuns The Interim Polling conducted by Environics Research in October has yet again confirmed that the vast majority of Canadians are opposed to the status quo on abortion. Currently, abortion is legal and easily available for any reason, for all nine months of pregnancy, at taxpayers’ expense. The LifeCanada-sponsored poll found that six in 10 Canadians want at least some legal [...]
Interim Staff Two recent polls indicate that Americans in general favour specific pro-life measures and that women are becoming more pro-life. In a national poll, the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute found that 70 per cent of repsondents favored “a 24-hour waiting period for women seeking an abortion before the abortion could take place,” compared to just 24 per cent opposed the idea. [...]
Terry Vanderheyden The Interim A new analysis from a pro-abortion group, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, shows that U.S. abortion rates continued to decline in 2001 and 2002, although the rate of decline slowed since the early 1990s. The Institute estimated that 1,303,000 abortions took place in the United States in 2001 – 0.8 per cent fewer than the 1,313,000 in 2000. In [...]
Interim Staff Statistics Canada released figures for the number of abortions committed in 2002, the latest year for which such statistics are available. Official figures show the lives of 105,154 unborn children were killed by abortion in 2002, down one per cent from 106,270 in 2001. The abortion rate also fell marginally from 15.6 abortions per 1,000 women in 2001 to 15.4 [...]
Ever since I quit smoking other people's cigarettes over 30 years ago, I've been known to be dead against smoking. I think that's why I was recently offered the job of managing the new Smoke Police Department. I accepted it. A gentleman known only as Zorba, a deputy in the office of the Honourable George Smitherman, the Ontario minister of health and [...]
Giuseppe Gori Special to The Interim Ten times more women are dying today, as a result of abortion, than in 1972. How is this possible, if legal abortion has reduced the fatality rate by 10 times as a result of the procedure being committed in a controlled medical environment? The answer is that the availability of free, un-prosecuted abortion has boosted the [...]
In October, Statistics Canada released a report suggesting that teen pregnancy rates from 2001 are down a third from rates in 1974. The study also suggested that not only are fewer teens getting pregnant, but also many Canadian women are waiting until their careers are in place before starting families. Statistics Canada reported that in 2001, the teen pregnancy rate was 30.6 [...]