Abortion

Document request shows bureaucrats question Trudeau policy on pro-life charities

Paul Tuns: Pro-life blogger Patricia Maloney filed Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) requests to the Canadian Revenue Agency for information regarding the Liberal government’s promise to take away the charitable tax status of pro-life groups such as pregnancy care centres. In the 2021 federal election campaign, the Liberal platform vowed to strip pro-life groups of their charitable tax status for trucking [...]

2023-01-12T13:20:58-05:00January 12, 2023|Abortion|

Campagne Quebec Vie to start Montreal pro-life student group

Mary Zwicker: As attacks on life continue on all fronts, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) Quebec brand, Campagne Quebec Vie, is attempting to found a Montreal Students for Life group in the city. Set to launch this month, the new pro-life group -- the first of its kind in Montreal, as no campuses currently have pro-life groups -- will provide pro-life students from [...]

2023-01-12T13:11:47-05:00January 12, 2023|Abortion|

Top stories of 2023

10. Pelosi banned from receiving communion On May 20, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone wrote to Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, whose congressional district is in his archdiocese, to inform her that as a pro-abortion politician she can no longer present herself for Holy Communion when she is in San Francisco. Archbishop Cordileone reiterated the Catholic Church's "clear and [...]

2023-01-09T16:05:33-05:00January 9, 2023|Abortion, Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

Pro-life not merely a religious view

Rory Leishman It is astonishing that even today so many prominent advocates of legalized abortion still think the point at which human life begins is a matter of philosophical debate and religious dogma rather than settled science. In an article entitled “Atheists and the Pro-Life Movement,” Mary FioRito of the Ethics and Public Policy Center cites the example of Justice Sonia Sotomayor [...]

2022-12-22T17:21:00-05:00December 22, 2022|Abortion, Religion, Rory Leishman|

40 Days for Life in Winnipeg saves baby

Mary Zwicker In a moving tribute to the power of spiritual warfare, a 40 Days for Life group in Winnipeg has recently informed The Interim that their prayers during a 40-day prayer initiative have saved a child from abortion. Maria Slykerman, the 40 Days for Life coordinator in Winnipeg, said that despite losing many volunteers over the years to age or sickness, [...]

2022-12-08T09:27:01-05:00December 8, 2022|Abortion|

NDP calls for more abortions in Saskatchewan

Paul Tuns On Nov. 9, a pair of NDP MLAs called upon the Saskatchewan Party government of Scott Moe to guarantee more surgical abortions be committed in the province by introducing a province-wide intake system and opening two abortion centres in Saskatoon and Prince Albert. Official Opposition Status of Women Critic Jennifer Bowes and Democracy and Ethics Critic Meara Conway were leading [...]

2022-12-08T09:26:05-05:00December 8, 2022|Abortion, Politics|

Pope Francis appoints three pro-aborts to Pontifical Academy for Life

Paul Tuns Pope Francis recently named six new members to the Pontifical Academy for Life for five-year terms, including five who oppose the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion and contraception: economist Mariana Mazzucato, former Botswana health minister Sheila Dinotshe Tlou, Monsignor Phillipe Bordeyne, Father Humberto Miguel Yáñez, and bioethics professor Roberto Dell’Oro Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Pope John Paul II founded the Academy [...]

2022-12-08T09:19:34-05:00December 8, 2022|Abortion, Religion|

Medical student group pushing for mandatory abortion training

Mary Zwicker In an alarming new threat to the sanctity of human life and the integrity of medicine in Canada, a group of medical students at a Canadian university are calling for medical schools across the country to provide comprehensive abortion education to all future doctors as a mandatory part of their programs. On March 10, an organization known as SexMed, founded [...]

2022-12-07T12:43:59-05:00December 7, 2022|Abortion|

N.B abortionist still killing babies despite selling abortuary

Mary Zwicker Despite selling its building due to lack of government funding, an abortion mill in New Brunswick has been given temporary permission by the building’s new owners to continue offering its gruesome services from that location.   Clinic 554 in Fredericton, the only privately run abortion mill in New Brunswick, was forced to shut its doors and sell their building in September [...]

2022-12-07T12:38:50-05:00December 7, 2022|Abortion|

Tearing Us Apart

Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis (Regnery: $38, 296 pages) Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis have written the definitive book that works as both an extended critique of abortion and as an invaluable and insightful reference about its detrimental effects. The authors note in their introduction that “Abortion harms every single [...]

2022-12-06T11:13:00-05:00December 6, 2022|Abortion, Reviews|

No Choice

No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental Right Becca Andrews (Public Affairs, $37, 267 pages) In No Choice, Mother Jones journalist Becca Andrews offers accounts of abortion before and during the Roe v. Wade era to argue that the battle for abortion is not merely part of a larger battle for women’s rights, but [...]

2022-12-06T11:01:00-05:00December 6, 2022|Abortion, Reviews|

Charges dropped against Fr. Van Hee

Catholic Civil Rights League vows to challenge bubble zone Paul Tuns On Oct. 28, Crown Attorney Meaghan Cunningham advised the Ontario Court of Justice that the state was dropping the charges against Fr. Anthony Van Hee, 87, for allegedly breaching the anti-free speech bubble zone outside the Morgentaler abortuary in Ottawa, more than four years after he was arrested. While Fr. Van [...]

2022-11-30T12:51:14-05:00November 30, 2022|Abortion|

Fallout of U.S. midterms

We are not going to sugarcoat the results of the U.S. midterm elections: it was not a good day for pro-lifers. But neither was it a great day for pro-aborts. This election delivered stunning victories and disappointing defeats for both sides. The pro-life losses were significant, perhaps more so than the wins. Several states enacted constitutional protections for abortion through referenda and [...]

2022-11-29T13:07:16-05:00November 29, 2022|Abortion, Politics|

Abortion and the U.S. midterms Did Dobbs help the Democrats? Yes. And no.

Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns When the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade leaked on May 2, the politics of returning the abortion issue to the states and elected representatives predominated the media coverage of the momentous decision-to-be. Would overturning Roe, which discovered a right to abortion out of whole cloth, help Democrats in the midterm elections when the United States faced [...]

2022-11-29T12:58:39-05:00November 29, 2022|Abortion, Politics|

And then there was this, December 2022

Mobile abortuaries The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the regulation of abortion to the states. Planned Parenthood had to rethink and regroup to ensure that its facilities continued to be available to pregnant moms. That is, it had to ensure that its annual revenue of $1.6 billion was not sacrificed. It’s OK to sacrifice unborn babies and their [...]

2022-11-21T12:25:13-05:00November 21, 2022|Abortion, Euthanasia, Society & Culture|
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