Pro-life witnessing meeting increasingly hostile response: Angelica Vecchiato Campaign Life Coalition’s co-youth coordinator Josie Luetke was assaulted at Jackson Square in Hamilton on July 14 during pro-life witnessing with CLC’s summer interns. Luetke, 26, along with CLC’S 10 summer interns were participating in peaceful pro-life activism. The students, between the ages of 16 and 27, were handing out brochures as they carried [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: A recent Ipsos Reid poll suggested that younger Canadians are far less comfortable with abortion at any gestational age than their parents and grandparents. The survey noted that 50 per cent of young adults between the ages of 18-34, which is made up of both Millennials and Generation Z, believe abortion should be permitted whenever a woman wants one compared to 63 per [...]
Infertility: a diabolical agenda When a woman becomes pregnant, she produces Human Chorioic Gonadotroin (HCG) through the placenta. It tells the ovaries to produce a second hormone called progesterone that then maintains the pregnancy. If the body creates antibodies against HCG, the moment a new baby is forming in the womb and starts producing HCG, it is destroyed like it was bacteria [...]
Mary Zwicker: Language is an important tool in every debate, including the debate on abortion. Through the manipulation of language, one is easily able to make something perverted seem acceptable or even desirable. In many instances, labels are created by those of opposing viewpoints in order to give a negative connotation to individuals who do not subscribe to their prescribed agenda. This [...]
Paul Tuns: A report by Campaign Life Coalition noted that the Trudeau government is ignoring the pleas of more than 12,000 Canadians demanding the government not punitively strip pro-life pregnancy centres of their charitable tax status. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland posted the government’s official response that the Trudeau government is “committed to taking action” against the pro-life groups. The petition, launched by [...]
Rory Leishman: In response to a leaked document suggesting that the Supreme Court of the United States is poised to overturn its 1973 Roe decision which purported to find a hitherto unknown right to abortion hidden in the United States Constitution, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a public statement alleging: “The right to choose is a woman’s right and a woman’s right [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey A few months ago, CLC Youth’s virtual pro-life club watched a bunch of clips from television and film intending to normalize abortion. Despite this agenda, the somber nature of abortion couldn’t quite be obscured, almost as if the scriptwriters, directors, and actors knew they couldn’t depart too far from reality if they [...]
Mary Zwicker: The World Health Organization, among many others, markets abortion as a “safe, timely, affordable and respectful” procedure, one that ought to remain legal in order to avoid posing “a risk to not only the physical but also the mental and social well-being of women and girls.” Unfortunately, the reality of abortion is far less sterile and safe than pro-abortion activists [...]
Interim Staff: Pro-life blogger Patricia Maloney has provided information countering the false claim in a “Fact Sheet” by Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights that states, “No providers in Canada offer abortion care beyond 23 weeks and 6 days.” Action Canada claims, “When they are beyond 23 weeks and 6 days, many Canadians end up having to travel to the United [...]
Oswald Clark: In the immediate aftermath of the Dobbs decision leak in May indicating that Roe v. Wade would be overturned, pro-life pregnancy centres and churches were targeted for vandalism and firebombs, with more than 50 such attacks and other disruptions reported to police across the U.S. between May 2 and the Dobbs decision being released on June 24. A group called [...]
Philip Tomchyshyn: On May 24, in southwestern Ontario near Sarnia, a billboard with pro-life messaging was vandalized. The billboard, belonging to Lambton Right to Life, had only been in position for a month when someone removed five panels from the sign. Two of the panels included an image of a mother holding her child and the words “Choose Life,” making the image [...]
Amir Azarvan Commentary: We in the pro-life movement may one day come to reminisce about the days when the fetus was described as a mere “clump of cells,” for often implicit in this otherwise false description was the recognition that if the fetus was more than this: if it was acknowledged to be a human being, then it merited protection. The effort [...]
A sportscaster is fired; a talking head offers a groveling apology; a media figure makes headlines for recently uncovered remarks. In each case, a crowd brays for punishment and either delights in destruction or slinks away unsatisfied. What we call “cancel culture” seems like something exquisitely modern, a contemporary ritual emerging only at the intersection of celebrity, technology, and the enduring dynamics [...]
The Supreme Court of the United States reversed one of its most grievous mistakes, when upholding Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, a majority decided to overturn its infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. June 24 will be remembered as a momentous day when the political, legal, and activist strategies of the pro-life movement gained a generational victory by removing the stain on the [...]
Oswald Clark: In May, Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, said that outlawing abortion would hurt the economy by limiting educational and employment opportunities for women. Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, she said, “I believe that eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set [...]