Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Parliament Hill has been cleared, but the memory of the Freedom Convoy and the extreme actions government took to crush it will remain. Snapshots of the move by the police against peaceful protesters were splattered across social media with proclamations like, “This is not my Canada.” Except it is. Anyone who was [...]
Oswald Clark: In 2020 on the campaign trail, then-candidate Joe Biden promised to appoint a pro-abortion, black woman to the top court and he fulfilled his promise by naming Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring liberal judge Stephen Breyer, for whom she once clerked. Breyer’s retirement takes affect after the current term meaning that he will be ruling on the challenge to [...]
Paul Tuns: In 2021, Ms. Magazine and the New York Times published articles touting “missed period pills” – the chemical abortion cocktail of mifepristone and misoprostol, which goes by the name Mifegymiso in Canada. The two American news outlets promoted the efforts of the National Working Group on Missed Period Pills in the U.S., a coalition of 21 organizations and individuals that [...]
Paul Tuns: The World Health Organization released an updated, 210-page “Abortion Care Guidelines,” calling for the removal of all legal and regulatory barriers to accessing abortion, greater use of telemedicine abortion to reach people in remote and rural locations, and the elimination of conscience protection rights for healthcare professionals who oppose abortion on moral or religious grounds. Claiming that there are 25 [...]
Paul Tuns: The Non-Government Organization Committee on the Status of Women, New York (NGO CSW/NY) banned pro-life NGOs from holding official side-events at the Commission on the Status of Women, from March 14-25. Pro-life groups such as Campaign Life Coalition and the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) have held parallel events to present an alternative view to the predominant pro-abortion [...]
Oswald Clark: The process to amend the Vermont state constitution is lengthy and arduous. The state house and state senate must pass bills approving a constitutional amendment in back-to-back sessions and then the state voters must approve it in a referendum. In 2019, both houses of the state legislature passed the Right to Personal Reproductive Autonomy which would recognize abortion as a [...]
Paul Tuns: A CareNet study released in January showed that men play a significant role in the abortions women get. Based on a survey of 1000 American men whose partners had an abortion, the CareNet study found three-quarters of men talked to their spouse or girlfriend about the abortion prior to the woman making her decision to have an abortion. There were [...]
Oswald Clark: According to data released by the Texas Health and Human Service Commission, the number of abortions committed in the state fell by more than half in the first month that the so-called heartbeat law took effect in September 2021. The heartbeat law, which took effect on Sept. 1, prohibits abortion after a heartbeat is detected, typically around six weeks gestation. [...]
Paul Tuns: The New York Times ran a long article on Jan. 1: “When they warn of rare disorders, these prenatal tests are usually wrong.” The examination by the New York Times found that non-invasive blood tests taken in early pregnancy that look for missing chromosomes are wrong 17 out of 20 times when they indicate a genetic problem other than Down [...]
Interim Staff: Catholic Canadians have joined a global movement of praying the rosary in public to ask Mother Mary to intercede to end COVID restrictions such lockdowns, forced masking, and coercive vaccine mandates. Canada Prays is a weekly recitation of the Rosary in a public place in 50 communities across the country. The first one took place on Jan. 26 at 6 [...]
Abortion leading global cause of death WASHINGTON -- Worldometer is a database that keeps track of statistics on health, the global population, and other metrics in real time based on data obtained from the World Health Organization. It has released its 2021 causes of death for a number of health categories globally. If you watch the news, you would be forgiven for [...]
Interim Staff: Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said that on March 9 his country will declare itself the pro-life capital of Latin America with a solemn act pronouncement. Giamattei has already instituted pro-life laws including the Public Policy for the Protection of Life and the Institutionalization of the Family for 2021-2032, which guarantees the right to life. Guatemala also bans any organization “that [...]
Commentary By Donald DeMarco: An important factor that has been ignored in the ongoing discussion concerning the constitutionality of abortion is the U.S. Constitution’s Preamble. While this important statement is part of the Constitution, it does not specify on how the government should operate, but it does allude to its goals thereby providing a context for what the Founding Fathers were aiming [...]
Paul Tuns: While supporting vaccinations for COVID, Pope Francis has urged pharmaceutical companies to pursue ethical vaccines that do not utilize cell lines derived from aborted fetal tissue in either the manufacture or testing of their treatments. Even before Health Canada approved a vaccine in Canada, Campaign Lifte Coalition urged the government to only approve ones that were sourced from ethical research [...]
Paul Tuns: In his mandate letter to the finance minister, released on Dec. 16, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau instructed Chrystia Freeland, who also serves as Deputy Prime Minister, to “introduce amendments to the Income Tax Act to make anti-abortion organizations that provide dishonest counselling to pregnant women about their rights and options ineligible for charitable status.” The mandate letter means that Trudeau [...]