Interim Staff Show the Truth, the Ontario-based pro-life organization that uses graphic photographs of aborted babies to witness to the truth of the humanity of the unborn and what happens during an abortion, raised more than its usual ruckus when it went to Fredericton, N.B. in July. Although executive member Rosemary Connell reports a better-than-typical reception among the public in the New [...]
Strongly pro-life lawyers have successfully defended the right of a 16-year-old Virginian to pursue an alternative cancer treatment with the support of his parents, who had been adjudicated medically neglectful in a child maltreatment case before the Accomack Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Abraham Cherrix was diagnosed last year with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph nodes. Beginning in August [...]
Incremental victories are indeed pro-life victories George Weigel, the noted papal biographer, senior fellow at the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Centre and board member of Americans United for Life, addressed a Campaign Life Coalition clergy luncheon in May in Toronto and offered some sage advice: incremental victories are indeed pro-life victories and their importance should not be discounted. He offered this [...]
The worlds of philosophy and humour often intersect so that philosophers can sometimes be mistaken for comedians and vice versa. To the age-old question, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” one might not be certain whether to respond with a frown or a smile. A contemporary variant of [...]
In the intenational media furor surrounding East Timor’s recent resumption of political unrest, what has often gone unremarked is the fact that the tiny, embattled nation has an overwhelmingly Catholic majority population with deeply conservative social values. East Timor’s Christian social values have been under attack for decades, first from invasion by the Islamic Indonesian state that undertook a project of social [...]
On June 21, Liberal MP Paul Steckle (Huron-Bruce, Ont.) introduced Bill C-338, an Act to Amend the Criminal Code (procuring a miscarriage after 20 weeks of gestation), in the House of Commons. In doing so, Steckle noted that Canada is one of the few countries that have absolutely no legal protection for the unborn. Steckle’s bill would restrict abortion after 20 weeks’ [...]
Many stories come across the desk (and computer) that make their way into this paper. Many, many more don’t. It is a difficult decision sometimes figuring out what gets substantial coverage, what deserves analysis or commentary or an editorial, what gets a news brief and what ends up as a sentence or two in the Bits ‘n’ Pieces section on page two. [...]
Interim editor Paul Tuns’s article last month, “Chipping away at abortion,” explained the logic of pro-life incremental strategies in the battle against abortion. The article brings to mind constantly resurfacing, bitter and unsupportable charges by some individuals that the nation’s pro-life organizations have opposed such strategies and persistently followed a self-defeating “all-or-nothing” approach. This, they say, has resulted in the deaths of [...]
A recent flyer depicted a nesting hen saying, “We’ll pray for you,” and a pig saying, “We love you”. It described a vegetarian diet as “compassionate, noble” and spoke of “the gruesome sacrifice of billions of our sweet domestic animals.” Each year in Canada, there’s a more gruesome sacrifice of 100,000 sweet baby humans – but that’s considered a woman’s right. Promoters [...]
A woman’s decision to abort due to gestational breast cancer is popularly termed the “hardest case,” but to pro-life researcher Joel Brind, PhD, that perception is actually the “cruelest myth of all.” Abortion has not been shown to help a mother with breast cancer, nor has a mother’s breast cancer been shown to harm her unborn child. Indeed, evidence has emerged that [...]
Amnesty International Canada is joining the global human rights watchdog’s New Zealand and British branches in advocating for abortion. During its annual general meeting May 27-28, the Canadian branch endorsed a proposal by international headquarters, asking if Amnesty International should begin advocating for a global right to abortion. Amnesty has proposed actively fighting against the right to life for unborn children by [...]
The Canadian disgrace of sex-selection abortion is receiving less attention than pollution, though both may cause skewed boy-girl ratios in particular communities and both are matters of public health and justice. The normal birth ratio is 105 males to 100 females and large deviations are cause for concern. In the first grave case, the mainstream media and scientific literature have explored the [...]
In mid-May, Fredericton’s Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital unexpectedly announced it no longer has the necessary staff or resources to commit abortions. This announcement galvanized abortion supporters - Henry Morgentaler, for example, renewed his call for the New Brunswick government to pay for abortions at his site. Rosella Melanson, executive director of the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women insisted [...]
The recent, disturbing news uncovered by Western Standard magazine that sex selection abortions are taking place in Canada is quite simply the inevitable result of the abortion-on-demand ideology that has taken hold in this country, thanks in large part to the agitation of feminist zealots in co-operation with certain other influential and powerful elements that have a grip on key power points [...]
The current, troubled moral state of the Western world vindicates the predictions of the late Pope Paul VI in the 1960s concerning what would happen if the use of contraception became widespread, says one of the world’s leading scholars on the issue. Speaking at the Humanae Vitae 2006 – A New Beginning conference in Ottawa, staged by The Rosarium organization May 12-14, [...]