Why the abortion law was changed
Paul Tuns looks at the decade long campaign to legalize abortion leading up to the Omnibus Bill.
Regional March for Life set for cities across Canada
Gearing up to celebrate life from coast to coast.
Abortion comparison to the Holocaust holds
Editor's note: The following is in response to a speech delivered by National Post columnist Barbara Kay to the Live for Life club at Western University, and reprinted in the Post Feb. 4. Chesterton wrote somewhere that "truth alone can be exaggerated; nothing else can stand the strain." Certainly the liquidation of millions of unborn children is one of those [...]
Obama’s abortion administration
As Obama packs his administration with pro-aborts, pro-lifers are called to take a firm stand.
Q and A with: Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson
The Interim interviews Dr. Nathanson, the famous abortionist-turned pro-life activist.
Three key questions on abortion
A close examination of the key principles and modes of belief surrounding the modern abortion debate.
Gibbons freed, then rearrested
The jig may well be up for a "temporary" court injunction that has been unjustly squelching pro-life demonstrations and counselling outside some Toronto abortion sites for almost 15 years. On Jan. 12, longtime pro-life demonstrator Linda Gibbons walked out of a downtown Toronto courtroom a free woman for the second consecutive time after beating the rap for allegedly violating terms of the [...]
Medics refuse to face the truth
On Nov. 23, The Washington Post published a remarkable profile entitled, "A hard choice: a young medical student tries to decide if she has what it takes to join the diminishing ranks of abortion providers." The article focused on 24-year-old Lesley Wojcik, an activist with Medical Students for Choice who recently attended a conference for aspiring abortionists at the Johns [...]
Planned Parenthood’s business is ‘booming’ in many parts of the world
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has just released its annual performance report for 2007-2008 and boasts of pushing its abortion agenda among its member associations in traditionally pro-life countries throughout Africa, Latin America and the Islamic world. The IPPF asserts that "access to safe legal abortion is a public health and human rights imperative" and that the organization's goal is to [...]
The problem of ‘choice’
Last Summer (July 19), the Toronto Globe and Mail featured a sociological look into women who had abortions. Titled, "The hidden abortion issue," it explored why, though abortion has been unrestricted in Canada for two decades, so few women who have undergone abortions ever talk about it, even with close friends. Journalist Cate Cochran did not provide any answers to the question [...]
Brave students stare down bullies
Despite threats, University of Calgary pro-life students still held their Genocide Awareness Project display.
Abortion, mental health, and feminism
Britain’s Royal College of Psychiatrists, in a statement released on March 14 urged that women should not be allowed to have abortions until they are counseled on the procedure’s risks to their mental health. The College recommended adding details about the risks of depression to abortion leaflets. “Consent cannot be informed,” it claimed, “without the provision of adequate and appropriate information.” More [...]
LA Times exposes abortion malpractice
The Los Angeles Times details the medical malpractice and sexual abuse that occurred at five abortion facilities in southern California. The paper reported that five abortion mills were raided last year by a special unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, the Health Authority Law Enforcement Task Force. The facilities were owned by Bertha Bugarin who, along with her sister were charged with [...]
Chinese couple seek justice over forced abortion
Jin Yani is seeking damages in a civil suit against Chinese authorities for forcibly aborting her nine-month-old unborn child after the water broke, because she got pregnant before marriage – a crime in Red China. However, technically, so is forced abortion. Ten officials arrived at the couple’s home on Sept. 7, 2000 and took Jin to a nearby abortion facility, despite the [...]
Capital tizzy
When Planned Parenthood of Ottawa (PPO) and former Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick targeted the First Place Pregnancy Centre (FPPC) over the Better Halves SENSational Tree Raffle, they maligned not only FPPC, but all crisis pregnancy centres. As a CPC executive director myself, I take exception. Since 1992, Ottawa’s FPPC has been “offering compassionate support and assistance to anyone facing an [...]