Angelica Vecchiato, Review: Help Her Be Brave by Amy Ford (Moody Publishers, $7.90, 201 pages) Panic, fear and shame gripped 19-year-old Amy Ford. Young and in-love, she found herself facing an unplanned pregnancy. Although a steadfast Christian and pro-lifer, feeling pressured, Ford seriously considered an abortion. Too distressed at the doctor’s office to go through with the procedure, she was sent home by [...]
Margaret Mountain: “I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.” These words of St. Paul to Timothy could be uttered by Grace Labbe. It is with great sadness we mourn Grace’s death. She will be remembered in the hearts of the pro-life community especially in Ottawa, but also across Canada. Her courage in the [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Determining right and wrong for themselves, the godless have become their own gods – an aphorism with which I have been long acquainted. Another godly attribute which they seem to have bizarrely assumed: infallibility. Consider: Abortion and euthanasia are matters of life and death. Sex changes, while not quite as fatal, [...]
Angela Vecchiato: The fight for preborn life is an all-encompassing, multifaceted battle, materializing on different levels across all social strata. The modern pro-life activist is someone who must battle politically and legally, all the while making sure to keep up a positive, life-affirming outlook. Although the bulk of this half-century battle would seem to fall to Baby Boomers, the generation for whom [...]
Donald DeMarco, Commentary: How does one carry out murder with style and grace? Shakespeare explains how this can be done in his play Julius Caesar. After a sleepless night, Brutus decides that Caesar must be killed to prevent him from becoming a tyrant. He also decides to take charge of the conspiracy against Caesar. The assassination must take on a broad approbation. In this way, [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: In the wake of the June 24 U.S. Supreme Court decision which overruled Roe v. Wade, the backlash unleashed by various international agencies empowered high-intensity pro-abortion advocacy. The 5-4 verdict, returned abortion to the jurisdiction of the individual American states. Within the United Nations, working groups and committees -- under the lead of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres -- have censured the [...]
The growing popularity of the abortion pill – how unfortunate it is to use that word, popularity, in this context – is symptomatic of how casual abortion has become; instead of being a procedure that is “safe, legal, and rare” as per Bill Clinton’s formulation in 1992 (which reflected a recognition that abortion is not like benign medical procedures), it has become [...]
Mary Zwicker: Abortion pill – a chemical abortion -- usage has skyrocketed in recent years, transforming the once peaceful homes of countless women into bloody abortuaries, and transforming countless mothers into agents of death as they take on the role of abortionist. While many women choose chemical abortions because they believe that it will be safer, more private, and an overall easier [...]
The abortion pill became available in Canada in January 2017, and since then, chemical abortions have grown in usage, representing a higher percentage of abortions committed. In the United States, the steady increase in abortion pill prescriptions jumped markedly after the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court. According to the Guttmacher Institute— the research arm of Planned [...]
Mary Zwicker: As the world increasingly shifts towards online services, with more and more people working from home than ever before, this same phenomenon can be seen in the abortion industry. Today, fewer women are choosing to have surgical abortions, and instead rely increasingly on online platforms to access abortion pills for chemical abortions that can be mailed to them for use [...]
Angelica Vecchiato Review Fierce Mercy by Abby Johnson (Baker Books, $16.99, 240 pages): The work at an abortion facility is emotionally draining. Tasks, even the most minute ones — walking women from their cars, scheduling the fatal procedure, or witnessing first-hand the carnage after the abortion — tack on, even subconsciously, significant spiritual and emotional tolls for those carrying them out. Shocked [...]
Oswald Clark: More than 100 pro-life organizations, pregnancy centers, and churches have been victims of arson and vandalism since the leak of a draft of the Supreme Court abortion decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health in May and Fox News reports that neither the Federal Bureau of Investigation nor local police departments have made any arrests in connection to the pro-abortion violence. [...]
Paul Tuns: Kelly Block’s C-230, the Protection of Freedom of Conscience Act, had first reading on February 4 and was debated on March 28, but with scheduled breaks including the summer hiatus, it has not yet come up for final vote in the House of Commons. If passed, C-230 would prohibit the firing or refusal to hire medical professionals if the sole [...]
Oswald Clark: On Sept. 9, Planned Parenthood Federation of America released its annual report for 2021 revealing they committed a record-number of abortions for the organization, with 383,460 abortions carried out. The report shows that as Planned Parenthood commits more abortions -- it carried out 8.5 per cent more abortions in 2021 than 2020, or 28,589 more babies killed -- it is [...]
Interim Staff: In July 1993, Alliance for Life and Campaign Life Coalition hosted a conference that attracted nearly 1300 attendees – some from as far away as Nigeria and England – to Toronto to call on world leaders and policymakers to prioritize human beings over the planet. The national conference, held at the Toronto Holiday Inn, had international overtones with its theme [...]