David Daleiden wins landmark lawsuit David Daleiden, an American pro-life activist who founded the Center for Medical Progress in 2013, produces undercover video recordings to expose Planned Parenthood’s (PP) nefarious activities around the “aborted baby parts trade” (i.e. the selling of aborted fetal tissue and organs for profit). This has resulted in PP being discredited, but has also led to civil and [...]
Paul Tuns: Pope emeritus Benedict XVI died on Dec. 31 at the Vatican, and while most legacy media coverage focused on his history-making retirement in 2013, only eight years into his pontificate, and his role in the liturgical conflicts within the Catholic Church after Vatican II, he also left a legacy calling for universal respect and protection of human life. As an [...]
Donald DeMarco, Commentary: An Epiphany is a revelation or awakening that is a life-changing event. It is an illumination that allows a person to see something in a new light. The Feast of the Epiphany celebrates the revelation to the world of Christ, associated with the Magi. There has been a number of personal epiphanies that not only changed lives, but also the [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Josie Luetke: I find it helpful to make sense of the world through various dichotomies—good versus evil, light versus darkness, life versus death, existence versus non-existence, something versus nothing. In the movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, tasked with implanting an idea in a sleeping target’s subconscious. To accomplish “inception,” he needs “the simplest [...]
Born-Alive protection act passes House of Representatives Paul Tuns: According to research from the Abortion Survivors Network, an average of 1700 babies survive abortions in the United States each year. Examining data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the Network found that the average rate of infants born alive after botched abortion is 0.21 per cent. The CIHI recorded 766 late-term, [...]
Oswald Clark: According to a study from the pro-abortion WeCount coalition, the number of abortions in the United States fell by 10,000 in the first two months following the Dobbs decision in June 2022 that overturned the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion across the United States. While Dobbs did not recriminalize abortion, it permitted states that had “trigger” laws [...]
The March for Life in Washington D.C. was a rousing success with at least 100,000 people marching in the U.S. capital. The focus this year was moved from the Supreme Court of the United States to Congress, befitting the new reality of abortion that occurred after the Court’s decision last June overturning Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs decision. That ruling said [...]
By Angelica Vecchiato: A cohort of young Canadians attended the American March for Life on Jan. 20, marking the first annual pro-life rally since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. The pro-life delegation of 37 youth, led by Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) coordinators Maeve Roche and Kim Headley, set off by bus on the evening of Jan. 19 [...]
Paul Tuns: On Jan. 26, Campaign Life Coalition held a press conference in front of the Supreme Court of Canada calling upon Parliament to pass a law protecting all human beings from the moment of fertilization and, if the federal legislature fails to do so for the Supreme Court to provide Charter protection to preborn children. The press conference was held two [...]
Interim Staff: Pro-life activist Mary Burnie died on Nov. 30, the last of three of her sisters – along with Rita and Helen – who spent a life dedicated to protecting the preborn. The Burnie sisters prayed in front of abortuaries, assisted Joanne Dieleman at the Way Inn (the precursor to Aid to Women), took part in Operation Rescue, and attended pro-life [...]
Donald DeMarco, Commentary: “Inherit” is a generational term. It implies the passage from one generation to another. If all the unborn were aborted, no one would be alive to inherit the Earth. The question arises: are some less worthy of inheriting the Earth than others? It seems outrageous to our moral sensibilities that anyone could determine who is [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: Campaign Life Coalition Youth’s newest outreach endeavour, “Womb with a View,” hopes to fill the pro-life apologetics void in the podcast world. Available for listening through Apple Podcast’s audio streaming services, listeners can tune into a 15-minute episode set to discuss “all things anti-abortion” through the lens of philosophy and apologetics. Podcast hosts CLC youth coordinator Maeve Roche and her [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist, academic, and author, has largely evaded the abortion issue. On one rare occasion when he was publicly asked for comment, he claimed that discussions about the legality and morality of abortion are “nested inside a larger discussion about the proper place of sexuality in human behaviour and, to [...]
We understand that many pro-life activists already do a lot for the movement to restore moral sanity in a Culture of Death, but if we are honest with ourselves, all of us can do a little more. Let us resolve to act like 2023 will be the year we work to end abortion—even though barring some great unforeseen development that is not [...]
Religious Freedom After the Sexula Revolution: A Catholic Guide Helen M. Alvaré (Catholic University of America Press, $32.95, 243 pages): Helen M. Alvaré, the Robert A. Levy Chair in Law and Liberty at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, has written a primer, Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution, on how to think about a genuine freedom (freedom of religion) in [...]