Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: On May 2, Politico revealed a leaked copy of the 98-page majority decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case challenging the constitutionality of a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks gestation, that would overturn the infamous Roe v. Wade ruling. Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed that the leaked draft was authentic and [...]
Paul Tuns: The Conservative Party’s Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC) did not verify two candidates green-lit by Campaign Life Coalition by discerning fundraising rules in a novel way to block the pair of pro-life candidates from being on the ballot when members vote for a new leader later this summer. While MP Marc Dalton did not raise enough money to cover the [...]
Latin America celebrates life Every year, a number of Latin American countries celebrate their National March for Life with music, festivals, parades and lots of colour. This usually takes place at or near March 25, celebrated by Christians as the Feast of the Annunciation when Mary consented to become the mother of Our Lord. This day is also called and commemorated as [...]
Paul Tuns: On Mach 27, the 50th anniversary of the Rockefeller Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, more than 30 pro-life leaders condemned the report and the mentality behind it, and urged Washington lawmakers to respect human life from the moment of conception. The Commission was created by Congress after being requested by President Richard Nixon in the aftermath of [...]
Oswald Clark: The Biden administration’s proposed 2023 budget, released March 28, did not include the Hyde Amendment which prohibits federal taxpayer dollars from being used through Medicaid or government-employee benefits programs to pay for abortions except to save the life of the woman or in cases of rape or incest. The proposed 2023 budget also included a funding increase for the United [...]
Paul Tuns: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the federal budget on April 7 and most media coverage focused on the size of the deficit, measures to address the housing affordability crisis, new defense spending and a new dental program, and tax increases for large businesses and the wealthy. But there are a number of anti-life and anti-family initiatives in the budget that [...]
Paul Tuns: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the federal budget on April 7 and most media coverage focused on the size of the deficit, measures to address the housing affordability crisis, new defense spending and a new dental program, and tax increases for large businesses and the wealthy. But there are a number of anti-life and anti-family initiatives in the budget that [...]
Janice Glover and Paul Tuns: The remains of 115 aborted babies were discovered by pro-life activists in a when they intercepted a box labelled from Washington, D.C. abortuary with dismembered babies being sent to a medical waste centre. Members of The Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) group that intercepted the box from Washington Surgi Centre, an abortion mill, said that it contained 110 [...]
Paul Tuns: Kerry Lavender, an assistant professor of biochemistry, microbiology, and immunology at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Medicine, wrote two articles based on government-funded research she has conducted on “humanized mice” experiments that used fetal tissue procured from aborted preborn babies. The mice are known in the scientific literature as “TKO-BLT mice.” The controversial experiments entail implanting human fetal tissue [...]
There are two stories in this issue that delve into ways in which the Culture of Death is sustained through deception. We have a story about how the abortion pill is being marketed as “missed period pills.” Of course, the missed period being described is not a medical ailment, but a natural occurrence during pregnancy. The pill does not treat the missed [...]
Oswald Clark: On Feb. 28, the Senate failed to invoke cloture (closure) on a filibuster in order to proceed to a vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act, which passed in the House of Representatives when every Democrat but one voted for it earlier in the month. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer knew he did not have enough votes for victory as [...]
Donald DeMarco, Commentary: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 was International Women’s Day. It was incumbent on America’s 46th president to salute women throughout the world and to offer them something encouraging and uplifting. He told half the population on the planet that women cannot “live up to their God-given potential” without abortion-on-demand. The inclusion of a reference to God is curious since hardly [...]
Rory Leishman: David French is senior editor of The Dispatch, an excellent, on-line, news magazine. He is also one of the most prominent pro-life lawyers and political commentators in the United States. In a recent address to conservative law students affiliated with The Federalist Society at Yale University, he recalled the hot reception he received upon arrival at The Harvard Law School [...]
Interim Staff: The Globe and Mail reported that data from the four western provinces and Ontario finds that Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba have lower per capita prescription rates for the abortion pill than B.C. or Ontario, and in the case of Alberta, significantly lower rates. Data from the 2020-2021 fiscal year shows that the Alberta government’s drug plan paid for 3800 prescriptions [...]
Interim Staff: On March 1, Ontario Supreme Court Justice M.J. Valente ordered pro-abortion activist Brooke Dietrich and her unnamed allies to cease and desist from activities that harassed a pro-life vigil in Kitchener. Phil Horgan, representing 40 Days for Life, told the court that Dietrich attempted to sabotage the prayerful campaign by “filling vigil spots with no intent to participate, filling shopping [...]