Abortion statistics

Poll shows Canadians becoming more pro-life

Interim Staff According to a LifeCanada-sponsored Environics poll, more than two-thirds of Canadians want abortion restricted or prohibited, informed consent and the public defunding of abortion. The poll also indicates that support for the pro-life position on several abortion-related issues, including informed consent and taxpayer-funding of abortion, is going up across the board. Joanne Byfield, president of LifeCanada, revealed to the National [...]

admin2010-08-09T14:53:56-04:00November 9, 2004|Abortion statistics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture|

Winning for life in a culture of death

Members of the pro-life movement are always eager to embrace encouraging news. A recent Gallup Youth Survey (Nov. 24, 2003), conducted through a scientific methodology to ensure a representative sample of the U.S. population, showed that 72 per cent of youth between 13 and 17 believe that abortion is morally wrong. An elated Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and [...]

admin2010-08-08T10:16:27-04:00August 8, 2004|Abortion statistics, Columnist, Donald DeMarco|

Numbers prove pro-life not a liability

Joseph Goebbels said that if you tell a lie often enough, everyone will believe it. While I won't accuse the Canadian media and political elites of lying, I think they have repeatedly made a mistaken assumption so often that they honestly believe it. It is a truism among many political journalists, backroom strategists and senior party officials that holding socially conservative views [...]

admin2010-08-08T09:44:02-04:00August 8, 2004|Abortion statistics, Pro-Life|

Pro-aborts a dying breed?

Tony Gosgnach The Interim One of the world's top researchers into life issues made a tour of southern Ontario recently, offering information and strategies to combat the anti-life agenda - a particularly timely topic, given the federal election campaign and the prominence given to abortion within it. Dr. Brian Clowes included a Basic Pro-Life Training Workshop in Hamilton as part of his [...]

admin2010-08-07T15:29:44-04:00July 7, 2004|Abortion, Abortion statistics, Society & Culture|

Let’s face the truth

For more than a year the daily newspapers have been giving accounts of the death of people in Iraq. The number of military casualties due to the war are not available, or at least not accurately, but one website suggests the total number of combatants and non-combatants as somewhere between 11,000 and 15,000. This is certainly tragic news and the members of [...]

admin2010-08-06T09:42:02-04:00May 6, 2004|Abortion, Abortion statistics|

Canada’s abortion rate rises

Interim StaffOn March 31, Statistics Canada released information showing that Canadian women committed 106,418 in 2001. The 106,418, which CLC National News compares to eliminating a mid-sized city each year, is added to the more than 2 million abortions committed in Canada since 1960. The statistics reveal that almost one-quarter of all Canadian pregnancies end in abortion, or, for every three babies [...]

admin2010-08-06T08:53:24-04:00May 6, 2004|Abortion statistics|

Poll reveals encouraging numbers

'Serious reservations' about abortion, stem cell research and absence of consent laws A poll released in November by LifeCanada, the national educational pro-life group, showed that Canadians have serious reservations about unrestricted abortion, embryonic stem cell research and the absence of consent laws regarding abortion. "The poll is very encouraging for pro-life Canadians," said LifeCanada president Jakki Jeffs. "It tells us that [...]

dominic2010-08-31T13:29:35-04:00December 31, 2003|Abortion statistics|

A deafening silence – Editorial

The Interim was founded because the mainstream media ignored the pro-life message of former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson while he was in Toronto. Twenty years later, the mainstream media is still ignoring life issues. Two recent examples illustrate this journalistic black hole. On March 28, Statistics Canada released the national abortion numbers, not including those committed in private abortuaries in Ontario. Campaign [...]

dominic2010-07-29T13:20:42-04:00May 29, 2003|Abortion statistics, Editorials|

Latest Stats Can figures reveal mounting abortion death toll

Canada's pro-life community remains unimpressed by news that the overall abortion rate dropped slightly between 1999 and 2000. A March 28, 2003 report from Statistics Canada indicated that Canadian women obtained 105,427 abortions in the year 2000, down some 0.2 per cent from the previous year. The number of abortions committed in 1999 was 105,666, while the 1998 figure stood at 110,331. [...]

dominic2010-07-29T12:27:42-04:00May 29, 2003|Abortion statistics|

Canadians reject status quo on abortion

In a statement that marked one of the defining moments of the Liberals' 2000 campaign against the Canadian Alliance, Prime Minister Jean Chretien said the country is enjoying "social peace" on the abortion issue. Holding forth from a similar pro-choice podium, Health Minister Anne McLellan threatened last month to withhold transfer payments to New Brunswick unless the province funded abortions performed in [...]

marika2010-08-26T13:36:43-04:00December 26, 2002|Abortion statistics, Society & Culture|

Abotion rates drop in U.S.

The results of a national U.S. survey on abortion conducted by a pro-abortion organization is generating some controversy south of the border. The Alan Guttmacher Institute - otherwise known as the research arm of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America - said in an Oct. 8 release that its survey of 10,000 women showed "U.S. abortion rates continue to decline, especially among [...]

dominic2010-08-23T12:10:34-04:00November 23, 2002|Abortion statistics|

B.C. Liberals follow NDP lead in repression of abortion stats

B.C. pro-life activist Ted Gerk is slamming the recently elected Liberal government for following the lead of the New Democrats in refusing to make abortion statistics publicly available. In November, when Gerk made a request for the latest numbers of abortions being done in the Okanagan-Similkameen Health Region and, specifically, Kelowna General Hospital, his request was denied. Now it is apparent, he [...]

admin2010-07-22T09:25:14-04:00February 22, 2002|Abortion Law, Abortion statistics|

Polls show Canadians not settled on abortion

By Paul Tun The Interim A Gallup Poll brief obtained by The Interim indicates that the conventional wisdom on abortion - that there is a "pro-choice" consensus among Canadians - is wrong. Josephine Mazzuca, a research analyst for Gallup Canada Inc., told The Interim that Gallup conducts a poll on attitudes about abortion almost every year because "Canadians are interested in this issue." Pro-lifers [...]

admin2010-07-27T07:31:31-04:00August 27, 2000|Abortion statistics, Pro-Life|

The Glamourous choice

If Glamour readers are glad to be alive and shod by Gucci and made fragrant by Ginvenchy, they should all be pro-life, not only for themselves, but for everyone else By Donald DeMarco The Interim Having daughters around the house can occasion some decidedly unconventional reading for a professional philosopher. A few mornings ago, between the corn flakes and the coffee, sat, [...]

admin2010-08-27T12:56:28-04:00July 26, 2000|Abortion, Abortion statistics, Society & Culture|

One in 25 women hospitalized after abortion

Much lower StatsCan figure based on incomplete and misleading data, study shows By Isabelle Being The Interim A recent custom tabulation of Canada's hospitalization statistics shows that, out of 103,244 women who received legally induced abortions in 1992-1993, 3,931 women were hospitalized for an average of two days because of life-threatening complications. This yields a hospitalization rate of 3.8 per cent, or [...]

admin2010-08-27T10:17:48-04:00May 15, 2000|Abortion, Abortion statistics, Post-Abortion, Post-abortion and Health Care|

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