Nathalie Comrie: According to several news reports, laxed rules surrounding the abortion pill is making it easier for men to coerce women into having abortions, sometimes without their knowledge. In one case in September 2013, John Welden from Tampa forged a prescription using his pharmacist father's notepad to obtain the misoprostol pill. He then deceived his partner into taking the pill. ABC [...]
Luka Granic and Paul Tuns: Abortion advocates claim not only is abortion a human or civil right but that it is medical care for women, but recent incidents show that the care provided women seeking abortions is anything but caring or respectful of women. Hope Clinic is an abortion mill based in Granite City, Illinois which has become notorious for botched abortions and [...]
Rory Leishman: Former president and convicted felon Donald Trump is not and never has been, a sincere pro-lifer. As evidence, consider some of the serious damage he has done to the pro-life movement over the past year. Last September, he denounced Florida Governor Ron DiSantis for signing into law a bill banning abortion after six weeks. In Trump’s misguided opinion, the bill [...]
Paul Tuns: A short, animated video, “It’s OK,” created by Choice42 shows how preborn victims of abortion are used to create fetal cell lines used in the medical and cosmetics industries. The 4:39 video, which can be viewed for free at Choice42’s website or on YouTube, starts with doctors taking tissue from “Ellie” a baby killed through abortion more than 60 years [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Treatments for anti-aging, psoriasis, and eczema may be tainted by the use of fetal tissue originating from aborted babies. Human Life International (HLI) produced Which Cosmetics Use Fetal Cells, a free e-book outlining the use of fetal cells in cosmetics. According to their United States-based research, they have not found any companies that use fetal cells in their products. They [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Last year, the only pro-life MP to attend the National March for Life was Arnold Viersen (CPC, Peace River—Westlock). Bill C-311, the Violence Against Pregnant Women Act, tabled by MP Cathay Wagantall (CPC, Yorkton—Melville), was being debated at the time, and the mainstream media and leftist politicians were taking pains to paint [...]
Nathalia Comrie: Prenatal development videos are a huge asset to the pro-life movement to help humanize the unborn to the world which is why they are being implemented into school curriculum in some U.S. states, with several using the well-known “Baby Olivia” video made by Live Action that shows major milestones in human development from fertilization to a week before birth. The [...]
Pity for Evil: Suffrage, Abortion, and Women’s Empowerment in Reconstruction America Monica Klem and Madeleine McDowell (Encounter, $45.99. 328 pages) In Pity for Evil, historians Monica Klem and Madeleine McDowell, provide a well-documented, scholarly but accessible account of how most people, including feminists, viewed abortion in post-Civil War United States. Using the speeches of suffragists and the writings in publications of the [...]
Luka Granic: Linda Gibbons, a veteran pro-lifer, has been jailed once again. Spending nearly 11 years of her life in jail for her peaceful pro-life witnessing, Gibbons has garnered a reputation of not backing down no matter how many times she faces jail over her pro-life principles. When she is in court following an arrest, she does not speak or even nod [...]
Donald DeMarco: George Huntston Williams, an historian of Christianity known for his extraordinary range and productivity, passed away on Oct. 6 in the second millennial year at the age of 86. Sic transit gloria mundi! His legacy should not pass into oblivion. He began his career as a teacher in 1947 at the Harvard Divinity School, which was struggling to stay afloat [...]
Paul Tuns: There is a scene near the end of Billy Madison in which the title character played by Adam Sandler compares the Industrial Revolution to a puppy. Astonished at the vacuity of the answer, the principal who posed the question said: “What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in [...]
Oswald Clark: On June 13, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously dismissed a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone in 2000, saying that the group of doctors challenging the abortion pill did not have standing. The 9-0 decision in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine stated the pro-life doctors representing women injured [...]
Oswald Clark: According to a new U.S. report, pregnancy care centres provided more than 16 million clients with nearly $368 million in goods and services. “Hope for a New Generation: A Legacy of Life and Love,” issued by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, Care Net, Heartbeat International, Option Ultrasound Program by Focus on the Family, and the National Institute of Family and Life [...]
Oswald Clark: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in several interviews this spring that he supported abortion through all nine months, for any reason, only to backtrack slightly to say post-viability babies – around 20 weeks gestation – “have rights” and “deserve society’s protection.” Kennedy originally told podcaster Sage Steele and EWTN’s Raymond Arroya in separate interviews he would not [...]
Oswald Clark: During a campaign stop in Tampa, Florida, highlighting the president’s unwavering support for unrestricted abortion, Joe Biden made the sign of the cross as Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried spoke lambasting Governor Ron DeSantis for signing a law that bans abortion after six weeks. It was widely taken as a sign of opposition to the state’s abortion restrictions. CatholicVote [...]