Interim Staff On Nov. 2, NDP MPP Terrance Kernaghan (London North Centre) reintroduced a private member’s bill that will, if passed, outlaw the use of abortion victim photography in pro-life activism unless certain conditions are met. Bill 41, an “Act to regulate the mailing of images of fetuses” or the “Viewer Discretion Act” is the same as Bill 259 that Kernaghan introduced [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 10, Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman introduced a bill to ban all non-labour protests within 50 metres of a hospital. Bill 48, “The Public Health (Safe Access to Hospitals) Amendment Act, 2021,” is the Scott Moe government’s response to calls to ban anti-COVID restrictions and vaccination policy demonstrations near so-called frontline workers. Merriman said in a press release, [...]
Paul Tuns In 2019, a Nova Scotia woman sought an injunction to stop all abortions in Canada, the funding of abortions, and $500 million in punitive damages, and legal protection from discrimination for those who take part in pro-life activities. She argues that Canada is illegally killing preborn babies by permitting abortion. Last month, Federal Court of Appeal Justice J.D. Denis Pelletier [...]
Oswald Clark Analysis The Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Dec. 1. The outcome of the case will not only determine the fate of the Mississippi state law outlawing abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, but possibly the fate of the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that found within [...]
Interim Staff On Sept. 1, the Texas Heartbeat Act, which protects preborn children at six weeks gestation, took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request (on narrow procedural grounds) to throw out the law. The Texas Heartbeat Act provides no criminal sanctions for abortions committed after a heartbeat is detectable, typically around six weeks. Instead, the law, also known as [...]
Joanna Alphonso: As if it were not enough for adults to be bombarded with pro-abortion slogans such as “my body, my choice,” or “abortion is empowering,” and even “abortion is a human right!” now children can be propagandized, too. According to a Rewire News Group article, author Carly Manes came up with the idea for a childrens’ book, What’s an Abortion Anyway?, [...]
Interim Staff: Patricia Maloney, who writes about pro-life issues at the Run with Life blog, has reported that Nunavut territory sends women elsewhere for second trimester abortions. The discovery was made when she asked the territorial ministry of health in June 2020 about it not tracking abortions through doctor billing, yet the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) reports abortion numbers. The [...]
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: The Center for Medical Progress and Judicial Watch announced on August 3 that they had received “252 pages of new documents” exposing the University of Pittsburgh’s lucrative “quest” to become a “tissue hub” for fetal organs taken from preborn children 6-42 weeks gestation. The documents, acquired as part of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against [...]
Paul Tuns: In July, both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland took aim at the New Brunswick government. On July 22, Trudeau re-announced that the federal government would withhold Canada Health Transfer funds from the province, claiming the provincial policy of not funding private abortion facilities limits women’s access to abortion. In the 2021 federal budget, Ottawa announced it [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Ahead of the National March for Life, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition executive director Alex Schadenberg and I gave a joint webinar on euthanasia and abortion. Attendees, hearing about how Canada has been without any restriction on abortion for over three decades and how Bill C-7 has transformed our euthanasia regime from bad to [...]
Richard Dur While businesses and ordinary Albertans are increasingly feeling the pinch from wave-after-wave of government lockdowns, many of those in the public-sector, whose salaries are assured and whose pensions remain untouched, appear increasingly out-of-touch with the rest of us. Many Albertans feel abandoned, forgotten, left-behind, and alone. The names of those who have unfortunately died with COVID-19 are read aloud like [...]
Donald DeMarco The task of the commencement speaker is a curious one. After all, what more can students learn inside of an hour that they have not learned over the long haul of four years? However, the show must go on in spite of its rich potential for inducing boredom. Humorist Garry Trudeau has stated that, “Commencement speeches were invented largely in [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Ontario New Democrat MPP Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre) introduced Bill 259, the Viewer Discretion Act (Images of Fetuses) on March 8. Bill 259 directly targets the efforts of pro-life groups such as the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform (CCBR), which uses abortion victim photography in “Choice Chains” in high-traffic locations, but also distributes the images in residential mailboxes. The [...]
Paul Tuns: At its annual meeting in Nashville on June 15, messengers (voting members) at the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) voted for a resolution opposing abortion and calling for maintaining the Hyde Amendment which prohibits federal funding for abortion. The SBC said the Hyde Amendment is necessary to “to prevent taxpayers from being complicit in the moral evil of abortion” and the [...]
Paul Tuns On June 17, 73 per cent of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) voted during their annual spring meeting to draft a position paper on the “meaning of the Eucharist,” with an eye to reiterating the Church’s position that politicians who dissent from key moral teachings such as abortion should not present themselves to receive Holy Communion during Mass. [...]