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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 21, in remarks to reporters at the United Nations after addressing the General Assembly, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once again declared his support for abortion, with his Foreign Minister, Melanie Joly, reiterating the message six days later at the UN. In response to a journalist's questions about what, if any limits Trudeau supported when it comes to abortion, [...]
Oswald Clark: March for Life president Jeanne Mancini announced Oct. 13 that the theme of the 2023 march will center on moving into a post-Roe world by re-routing the event to pass Congress rather than the Supreme Court, acknowledging that the abortion issue is now primarily a political rather than legal issue. The forthcoming March for Life will be the 50th anniversary [...]
Mary Zwicker: Image: Globe and Mail On Sept. 24, Hurricane Fiona touched down in eastern Canada, wreaking havoc on the Atlantic provinces. While the hurricane destroyed homes, left some Canadians without power for weeks, and even forced the cancellation of some pro-life events, the pro-life movement has taken this opportunity to comment on how such a terrible event can further [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Imagine someone intent on climbing Mount Everest asks a sherpa for the lowdown. The sherpa would be doing nobody any favours if he omits the dangers of this climb, or focuses only on the joys of summiting, because he wants to spare the climber’s feelings rather than voice his doubt about the [...]
Rory Leishman: In a nationwide poll conducted shortly after the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on June 24 to overturn Roe v. Wade, the authoritative, non-partisan Pew Research Center found that 57 per cent of Americans disapproved of the ruling. In this same poll, 62 per cent said they believed abortion should be legal “in all or most [...]
On so-called “Safe Abortion Day” in September, most pro-abortion MPs acknowledged the day. In May and June when the Dobbs decision was leaked and officially released, overturning the infamous Roe decision, many federal and provincial pro-abortion politicians criticized the decision while you could count on one hand the number of pro-life MPs who applauded it. When Queen’s Park resumed in the summer [...]
Prime Minister, cabinet celebrate abortion, insist there should be more Paul Tuns: Sept. 28 was International “Safe Abortion Day,” and numerous Canadians acknowledged it on Twitter and in the House of Commons. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted: "Canadians have had access to safe and legal abortions for almost 35 years. To those who continue to fight for their safety and bodily autonomy: [...]