Abortion

Poilievre wins Tory leadership contest, Lewis strong third

Paul Tuns Analysis: In the last two federal Conservative leadership races, the eventual winner scored victory only after a critical mass of socially conservative party members who backed pro-life leadership candidates with their first and second preferential votes, backed another candidate that some significant portion of rank-and-file pro-life Conservatives found more palatable than the alternatives. In 2017, Andrew Scheer eked past Maxime [...]

admin2022-09-29T09:50:33-04:00September 29, 2022|Abortion, Politics|

And then there was this, September 2022

In defense of fatherhood The Florida legislature, at the urging of Governor Ron DeSantis, passed the Responsible Fatherhood law to help men become better fathers. Studies prove that children do best in a two-parent home where fathers are involved in their children’s lives and where children are statistically less likely to be abused or neglected and have fewer behavioral and psychological problems. [...]

admin2022-09-16T10:11:55-04:00September 16, 2022|Abortion, Euthanasia|

A reasonable person

Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey They say you should never read the comments, but we all do anyway. I was interviewed on CBC’s Power and Politics on the overturning of Roe v. Wade. I came home that day to a bunch of notifications on Twitter – not that many, really, but more than I usually have. Your consummate CBC [...]

admin2022-09-16T10:07:00-04:00September 16, 2022|Abortion, Josie Luetke|

The Kansas wake-up call

Andrew Lawton: Man does not live on Supreme Court decisions alone. The Kansas abortion referendum should serve as a reminder that culture matters far more than politics does. Last month, Kansans rejected a ballot measure that sought to affirm the Kansas state legislature’s right to restrict abortion access. The proposal was defeated 59 per cent to 41 per cent, which is about [...]

admin2022-09-15T11:33:20-04:00September 15, 2022|Abortion, Andrew Lawton, Politics|

Who decides?

Rory Leishman: In addition to overturning the unfounded and outrageous abortion decision in Roe v. Wade (1976), the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health raises another fundamental issue: Who should have primary responsibility in a democracy for determining public policy -- unelected judges or elected legislators? It is a question that Canadians [...]

admin2022-09-15T11:03:32-04:00September 15, 2022|Abortion, Politics|

Pregnancy care centre an important part of the community

Angelica Vecchiato: The Haldimand Pregnancy Care and Family Centre, located in Dunnville, Ont., south of Hamilton, has been helping women with their pregnancy and maternal care needs for 18 years. The 22,000 square foot facility, formerly a school building repurposed as a pregnancy care centre, wasn’t always located on Adler Street West. Carol Butler, director of the Haldimand facility, avows that the [...]

admin2022-09-13T10:29:12-04:00September 13, 2022|Abortion, Society & Culture|

Physical and political attacks on crisis pregnancy centres

Angelica Vecchiato: The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24 overturn of Roe v. Wade means that abortions in the United States are no longer (and never were) deemed a constitution right. In protest, the pro “choice” side has gone up in arms — and quite literally at that. As early as the Dobbs leak in May — when speculation surrounding the possibility of Roe’s [...]

admin2022-09-13T10:14:39-04:00September 13, 2022|Abortion, Politics|

Dealing with the Devil

The English phrase, a “deal with the devil,” usually refers to pragmatism pushed to the point of compromise or to an arrangement with unlovely characters, daunting costs, or likely downsides. Yet the idiom draws its resonant power from significant sources: deals with devils have been immortalized in literature by the likes of Christopher Marlowe and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the image [...]

admin2022-09-13T09:52:22-04:00September 13, 2022|Abortion, Editorials, Society & Culture|

Newfoundland abortuary gets million-dollar bailout

Interim Staff: The Athena Health Centre abortion mill in St. John’s, Newfoundland received a $1 million bailout from Andrew Furey’s Liberal provincial government after claiming it would close its doors if it did not get taxpayer funding for its operations, according to a report by Campaign Life Coalition. The privately owned abortuary, run out of a two-storey, red house on Lemarchant Road [...]

admin2022-09-08T09:33:29-04:00September 8, 2022|Abortion|

Quebec drops ultrasound requirement for Mifepristone

Angelica Vecchiato: Beginning on July 4, physician training and ultrasounds prior to prescribing Mifepristone were no longer required in Quebec. More than 300 pro-abortion doctors from across the province signed an open letter calling for these changes. The doctors condemned the requirements for the Mifepristone abortion pill as “unjustified” because, they argue, the barriers impede access and increase patient delays for chemically [...]

admin2022-09-08T09:28:11-04:00September 8, 2022|Abortion|

Pro-lifer among Alberta UCP leadership hopefuls

Paul Tuns: Jason Kenney announced in May he would resign as leader of the United Conservative Party of Alberta, forcing a leadership election to replace him and choose a new premier ahead of next year’s provincial election. Kenney had won 51.4 per cent in a leadership review but immediately announced he would vacate the leadership once the party chose a new leader; [...]

admin2022-09-06T10:11:12-04:00September 6, 2022|Abortion, Politics|

Bernier blasts late-term abortions, calls for abortion debate

Paul Tuns: In early July, People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier criticized the fact Canada permitted late-term abortion and said political parties should not be afraid of an honest debate about abortion, charging the Conservatives with running away from the issue. In a newsletter to party supporters, Bernier, a former Conservative MP and cabinet minister who split from the party after [...]

admin2022-09-06T09:58:07-04:00September 6, 2022|Abortion, Politics|

Political and legal ramifications of overturning of Roe

Biden signs executive order to increase access In the weeks after the Dobbs decision, President Joe Biden convened a task force to monitor states that cracked down on the abortion license, directed his Attorney General to sue states over their abortion restrictions, and issued guidance for pharmacists and physicians to require ease-of-access to the abortion pill and privacy issues surrounding chemical abortions. [...]

admin2022-09-02T09:51:34-04:00September 2, 2022|Abortion|

Beaujeu Park in Montreal to be renamed in honour of Morgentaler

Angelica Vecchiato: Montreal’s Opposition party, Ensemble Montreal, wants to rename Parc de Beaujeu, east of Highway 25 in the Mercier neighbourhood, in honour of abortionist Henry Morgentaler. The small park in Tétreaultville, boasting few trees and sparsely furnished with several benches, is a few blocks from Morgentaler’s first abortion mill, which he operated illegally from a bungalow in the 1960s. The motion [...]

admin2022-09-02T09:41:49-04:00September 2, 2022|Abortion|

Two social liberals vie to replace Boris Johnson

Paul Tuns: U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned on July 7 after several senior cabinet ministers resigned from the scandal-plagued government, setting off a leadership race to replace Johnson as both the Conservative Party leader and United Kingdom prime minister. In the U.K., the caucus votes to winnow down the list of leadership contenders to two candidates who are then presented to [...]

admin2022-09-01T17:20:41-04:00September 1, 2022|Abortion, Politics|

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