Mary Zwicker, Europe Correspondent: The world’s largest island is home to the world’s highest abortion rate, a history of forced sterilization, and extreme anti-family policies. “Greenlanders deserve better than abortion, and a government that protects and provides for both women and their preborn children,” said Focus on the Family, a global pro-family ministry group. Following Denmark’s legalization of abortion in 1973, abortion [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 1, Laura Fernández Delgado was elected president of Costa Rica with 1.191 million votes and 48.3 per cent of the vote in a 20-candidate field, to become the second female president of the Central American country. If she had not won 40 per cent of the vote, the two candidates with the most votes would have faced each [...]
Josie Luetke: Like a kicked dog coming back for more, I flew to Calgary for the 2026 Conservative Party of Canada convention at the tail end of January. As pro-life candidates have been disqualified by the party and leader Pierre Poilievre has gone over to the dark side—fully embracing abortion, same-sex “marriage,” and even the status quo on euthanasia—many of Campaign Life [...]
Interim Staff: At their recent national convention, the Conservative Party of Canada transformed an opportunity to lead the charge on the protection of Canada’s founding values into an exercise in defending the modern political status quo. Voting delegates from ridings across Canada gathered in Calgary from Jan. 29-31 to network with fellow party members, hear from distinguished speakers, and vote on amendments [...]
From the editor’s desk: In the United Kingdom, the House of Lords is debating whether to legalize euthanasia. We have a report on it in “And then there was this” on p. 17. I wanted to highlight one part of the on-going debate on that side of the lake, namely Lord Falconer’s comment during the third committee stage debate that the Terminally [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: As Congressional leaders worked on a deal to extend Obamacare subsidies where Democrats insisted on funds for abortion and Republicans resisted, President Donald Trump told the Republican leadership on Jan 6. “you have to be a little flexible on Hyde, you know.” The Hyde Amendment, federal law since 1976, bans federal funds from being used in Medicare, Medicaid, [...]
Josie Luetke: Officially, in Canada, there were 326,571 deaths in 2023. If you add the abortion volume for that year to that number, you’re looking at 428,124 recorded deaths. Tallying up abortion (101,553), “MAiD” or “medical assistance in dying” (15,427), (legally recognized) homicide (778), and suicide (approximately 4,447), 28.5 per cent of deaths were not tragic accidents or the sad succumbence to [...]
In their university philosophy classes, undergraduates are sometimes asked to grapple with thought experiments. The so-called “trolley problem,” for example, places an observer in view of an out-of-control locomotive. This on-looker is also, somehow, located at a switch which will divert the runaway train’s course and reduce the number of casualties—at the cost of the moral agent making a direct intervention. What [...]
Donald DeMarco: Some time ago, I was involved in an abortion debate at the University of Waterloo before a large gathering of students who were largely “pro-choice.” I was one of the panelists, the only one who was pro-life. I was fully aware that my presence that evening was not going to be kindly received. I was pegged as “behind the times.” [...]
Paul Tuns: Kelowna Right to Life Society has been erecting billboards along B.C.’s Highway 97 for with pro-life messages for years, but now B.C. Billboards, the company that sells the ad space, said it will no longer run any advertising related to abortion. Sophie Harms, a local pro-abortion advocate, attempted to purchase pro-abortion advertising that said abortion is safe, normal, and common, [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: Operation Rescue investigates and documents botched abortions, abuse and negligence, and other “wrongdoings” at American abortion mills, and in its year-end report the organization said it conducted 56 investigations in 15 states. Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, describes the process of investigating the abortion industry’s harms to women. “Many of these investigations begin with reports from dedicated sidewalk [...]
Mary Zwicker, Europe Correspondent: A self-governing territory in the EU has cast aside their formerly pro-life views in favour of more permissive abortion laws in a historic vote. On Dec. 4, 2025, the Faroe Islands, a group of self-governing islands under the Kingdom of Denmark, narrowly overturned what had been one of the most restrictive abortion laws in all of Europe when the [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: According to the annual report on the number of abortion mills operating in the United States, there are 657 abortuaries, down from 667 the previous year. It marked the fourth consecutive decline in the number of individual abortion facilities operating in the country. As recently as 2021 there were 718 abortion mills, that last time that the number [...]
Mary Zwicker Europe Correspondent: Dutch MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen condemned the ‘My Voice, My Choice’ initiative, saying the European Parliament should ‘give a voice to those who do not yet have one, namely the unborn children in their mothers’ wombs.’ A pro-abortion movement in Europe is pushing to expand abortion access to countries in the European Union in an alarming threat [...]
Mary Zwicker European Correspondent: There is an ongoing push by European countries to promote abortion in African nations where pro-life values still remain strongly enshrined. In recent years, various countries throughout the European Union and the United Kingdom have been working to extend abortion access to pro-life African nations, with investigative reports from the European Conservative revealing that the pro-life values of [...]