Gianna Baklinski: In 2023, Rosalie Markezich, a day-care worker from Louisiana, was pregnant and excited about motherhood. Then, she told her boyfriend about her pregnancy. He obtained abortion drugs and coerced Rosalie into taking them. Although she tried to vomit up the pills in an attempt to save her baby, it was too late, and, tragically, her baby died, leaving Rosalie traumatized. [...]
Mary Zwicker, Europe Correspondent: A small European country is temporarily pausing efforts to decriminalize abortion amidst ongoing discussions with the Vatican. The Principality of Andorra, a small, majority Catholic country located in the mountain range between France and Spain, is stalling the implementation of their fully drafted bill on the decriminalization of abortion. “I hope this debate moves forward,” said French President Emmanuel [...]
Gianna Baklinski: In British Columbia, midwives will now act as abortionists after a health-policy change allowing them to prescribe the abortion pill. The policy change brings B.C. to join Quebec and Saskatchewan in a growing band of provinces that allows midwives to both assist at births and kill babies. B.C. Health Minister Josie Osbourne announced on May 7 that the role of [...]
Paul Tuns: Over the past two months, the New Blue Party of Ontario has ratcheted up its criticism of Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government. On May 14, an email blast from former PC and New Blue MPP Belinda Karahalios, titled “Clear and Terrible: The PC Record on Life Issues,” condemned the Ford government’s record on life issues, including maintaining “(Kathleen) Wynne’s ‘bubble [...]
Paul Tuns: Popular YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife, Ashley, aborted their unborn baby because of a Down syndrome diagnosis, after which they complained about the backlash they faced online. Ridgway, who runs a YouTube account called McJuggerNuggets with 4.34 million subscribers, posted a message on Instagram on June 3 saying, “This week, my wife and I made the very difficult decision [...]
Paul Tuns: On June 17, Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton-Melville) announced she was stepping down as MP effective in August and later that day gave her last speech in the House of Commons in which she noted Canada had no abortion law and highlighted her own pro-life work. Wagantall began by praising her husband, Marty, and her staff, Conservative colleagues and party [...]
Kesiah Beere: Over the past seven years, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) has received roughly $1.1 million from the federal government through Canadian Heritage and Public Safety Canada programs. Funding from those two departments expired at the end of February and March 2026 respectively with no expressed intent of renewal. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is a self-proclaimed “nonpartisan” nonprofit organization that monitors [...]
Kesiah Beere On June 11, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled in favour of applicants Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) and Maeve Gainey in a lawsuit against the Parliamentary Protective Services (PPS). Justice Calum MacLeod held that PPS’s order requiring CLC and Gainey, then Maeve Roche, to remove images depicting abortion victims from Parliament Hill violated their section 2(b) right to freedom [...]
From the editor’s desk: By the way, between his three marriages and various mistresses, Boris Johnson has at least ten, probably 12, and perhaps even more children. ** Typically, the cover of each June edition of this paper features the National March for Life. Not this month. Jim Hughes, long-time pro-life leader, passed away days after the March. Were it not for [...]
Josie Luetke: When I entered the pro-life movement as a teenager, it seemed to be dominated by neoconservatives, influenced no doubt by former US President George Bush. The feel-good pro-life news stories I hungrily consumed would not uncommonly be complemented by tone-deaf glorification of aggressive American military action. That hawkishness seemed to wane with Donald Trump’s first presidency, but recent wars have [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: On May 11, the Trump administration launched the moms.gov website, a resource to help pregnant women bring their babies to term and assist them with their newborns. The website opens with the message, “Addressing the needs of mothers and fathers who face difficult or unexpected pregnancies and ensuring the wellbeing of mothers and the health of American families.” [...]
Tanis Cortens, Feature Writer: Father Paul Sullins, Ph.D., submitted a research article to The International Journal of Women’s Health Care. The study, published September 15, was entitled “Persistent Emotional Distress after Abortion in the United States” and consisted of a retrospective survey of 226 women aged 41-45, whose abortions had happened an average of 20 years earlier (range 0-31 years). Fr. Sullins found [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: A foreign pro-abortion activist group is interfering in a pro-life country by distributing illegal abortifacient pills to women. On April 15, Women on Waves, a pro-abortion activist group from the Netherlands, announced that it would be helping women in Malta and nearby Gozo to illegally access abortion pills through the use of secret lockboxes placed in various locations across [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: On May 14, the Supreme Court of the United States permitted the on-going mail distribution of the abortion pill when it stayed a lower court decision that sided with the state of Louisiana in its challenge against the Food and Drug Administration’s 2023 rule that allowed mifepristone to be prescribed and dispensed without an in-person appointment. Danco Laboratories [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: On May 13, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin told a U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee hearing that he did not know anything about abortion-related contaminants in the country’s water supply even though he has been personally briefed on the issue by Liberty Council Action. Zeldin was asked by Senator Patty Murray (D, Wash.) during the budget hearings [...]