Abortion

Vaccines: Kenney vows choice, bishops sow confusion

By Interim Staff Health Canada has approved four vaccines against COVID-19: Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson. Moderna and Pfizer COVID injections utilized abortion-derived cell lines in their testing process but not their development or production, whereas the AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines utilized abortion-derived cell lines in their development, production, and testing. Last May, the Canadian Conference of Catholic [...]

admin2021-04-08T13:04:46-04:00April 8, 2021|Abortion, Bioethics|

Follow your conscience

Now that COVID-19 vaccinations are being made available across the country, Canadians find themselves facing important personal decisions about whether or not they should receive them—decisions which will require reflection, research, and prudence about a medical procedure which bears on personal physical health, social responsibility, and the inviolable dictates of conscience. From reading the headlines in the press, however, one wouldn’t think [...]

admin2021-04-07T11:51:16-04:00April 7, 2021|Abortion, Bioethics, Editorials|

After delay, Poland implements pro-life ruling

By Interim Staff On Jan. 27, three months after Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled abortions for malformed preborn babies was unconstitutional because it discriminated on the basis of disability, the ruling Law and Justice Party finally published the decision in the Journal of Laws, allowing a near-total ban on abortion to take effect. Protests against the government and churches in 60 Polish municipalities [...]

admin2021-03-26T16:10:18-04:00March 23, 2021|Abortion|

Video documents abortion-related emergencies

By Paul Tuns Operation Rescue released a video documenting 67 abortion related emergencies and one maternal death in 2020, which they say “is just the tip of a very nasty iceberg when it comes to the number of women who suffer serious complications from abortions.” The new video, released Feb. 16, reports that 67 medical emergencies took place at American abortion facilities [...]

admin2021-03-19T13:31:30-04:00March 19, 2021|Abortion|

Ontario bubble zones were groundless

By Interim Staff Pro-life researcher Patricia Maloney, who blogs at Run with Life, obtained 287 pages of documents through a Freedom of Information request that found the Ontario government lacked any evidence that anti-free speech bubble zones around the province’s abortuaries was necessary. In 2017, the Wynne government’s Bill 163, the Safe Access to Abortion Services Act, passed with all-party support. It [...]

admin2021-03-10T10:08:41-05:00March 10, 2021|Abortion|

Pro-life Evangelicals for Biden feel betrayed

Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns Pro-life Evangelicals for Biden released a letter on the weekend expressing their disappointment that Joe Biden is precisely who he says he is: a pro-abortion Democrat who wants to codify Roe v. Wade in law and force American taxpayers to foot the bill for abortions at home and abroad. Once upon a time, Biden supported the Hyde [...]

paul2021-04-01T18:57:35-04:00March 9, 2021|Abortion, Politics, Pro-life Groups, Soconvivium|

Biden revokes Mexico City Policy

On Jan. 28, President Joe Biden revoked Donald Trump’s 2017 executive order banning the use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to be used to commit or promote abortion in foreign countries. The executive order, known as the Mexico City Policy but derided by pro-abortion groups as the Global Gag Rule, was expected to be an early casualty of Biden’s pro-abortion administration. In a [...]

admin2021-03-08T16:24:53-05:00March 5, 2021|Abortion|

CLC urges UN to ban sex-selective abortions

By Paul Tuns Campaign Life Coalition has urged the United Nations to call upon all countries to end the practice of sex-selective abortions. CLC submitted a statement to the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women as part of the UN’s agency’s follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and the 23rd special session of the General Assembly [...]

admin2021-03-04T17:10:19-05:00March 4, 2021|Abortion|

Equality Act pushes abortion

Paul Tuns The Equality Act passed in the House of Representatives last week amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to add "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" as protected classes under federal nondiscrimination statutes. There has been a great deal of criticism that by adding special protections for transgenderism, the law could undermine or erase women's rights by opening female institutions from [...]

paul2021-03-05T12:30:32-05:00March 4, 2021|Abortion, Paul Tuns, Politics, Soconvivium, Transgender|

Fr. Van Hee’s bubble zone challenge proceeds

BY PAUL TUNS In advance of an expected hearing date this year, the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) announced that it had six affidavits in support of Fr. Tony Van Hee’s constitutional challenge to Ontario’s Safe Access to Abortion Services Act, the “bubble zone” law that outlaws pro-life speech near facilities that commit abortions. Among the affidavits were ones from Christian Elia, [...]

admin2021-02-10T12:55:50-05:00February 9, 2021|Abortion, Paul Tuns|

Civil liberties group sues N.B. to pay for all abortions

BY PAUL TUNS On Jan. 6, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) filed a constitutional challenge in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Fredericton. The CCLA advised the New Brunswick government in October that they would be launching a legal challenge if it did not rescind Schedule 2(a.i) of Regulation 84-20, which does not permit the paying for non-essential services in private [...]

admin2021-02-10T12:17:32-05:00February 8, 2021|Abortion, Politics|

CLC releases documentary on Trudeau’s global abortion agenda

BY PAUL TUNS Campaign Life Coalition premiered a 90-minute documentary on Canada’s pro-abortion foreign policy on Jan. 17. Obsessed: Canada’s Obsessed Coercive Diplomacy, is a professionally produced program that examines the Justin Trudeau government’s international abortion advocacy and features an in-depth and eye-opening conversation between former Canadian ambassador to China, David Mulroney, and African pro-life leader, Obianuju Ekeocha. CLC said in a [...]

admin2021-02-10T11:59:45-05:00February 3, 2021|Abortion, Issues, Paul Tuns|

Beryl Caves, Windsor pro-life leader, RIP

BY INTERIM STAFF Mary Beryl Caves, a long-time leader in the Ontario pro-life community passed away on Jan. 7 at the age of 87. Caves, who went by her middle name Beryl, and her husband, Robert “Robin” Caves, founded Windsor and Area Right to Life (now Windsor-Essex Right to Life) in the early 1970s. When Beryl suffered a debilitating stroke, Robin took [...]

admin2021-02-10T11:47:18-05:00February 1, 2021|Abortion, Pro-Life|

Fewer babies with Down syndrome born in Europe

BY INTERIM STAFF A study published in the December 2020 European Journal of Human Genetics reported that the number of babies born with Down Syndrome in Europe fell by half between 2011 and 2015. The study confirms the worries of pro-life activists that have argued that increased prenatal testing and capability would lead more women to kill their preborn children diagnosed with [...]

admin2021-02-10T11:47:50-05:00February 1, 2021|Abortion, Pro-Life|

Biden administration should investigate Planned Parenthood

By Rory Leishman Merrick Garland is well qualified to serve as Attorney General of the United States, but will he “oversee an independent department” of justice that is free from all partisan bias and outside political pressure as promised by President Joe Biden? One sure way to find out will be Garland's determination to conduct an impartial investigation into evidence compiled by the [...]

Shania2021-01-31T01:05:55-05:00January 31, 2021|Abortion, Politics|

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