Members of the European Parliament have passed the controversial Van Lancker report, by 280 votes to 240, with 28 abstentions. The report, drawn up by the European Parliament's women's rights committee, calls for the legalization of abortion and easy access to the "morning-after" pill in all European Union member states and applicant countries. The report states that "in order to safeguard women's [...]
You'd think by now there would be widespread knowledge of the link between abortion and breast cancer. There are at least 28 independent studies, going as far back as 1957, that have linked breast cancer to abortion . Yet, few seem to know about it. Denise Mountenay, a speaker and author, had three abortions in her younger years. Long after she had [...]
During the excitement of World Youth Day, Holy Trinity (Anglican) Church in downtown Toronto was holding workshops, panel discussions and other events But these were not your typical World Youth Day events. The church attracted mostly homosexuals and feminists fighting to have their political positions validated in the Catholic Church. They had one thing on their minds: "Challenge the Church." They challenged, [...]
One of the fascinating aspects of history is often the history that no one knows about. Every March the abortion industry in both Canada and the United States, seeks to honour and delouse (sorry, I mean de-stigmatize) abortion "providers," a.k.a. abortionists. A difficult job, to be sure. With so many of them languishing in jail making licence plates (their true calling), it [...]
I've written numerous times on the antics of B.C.'s pro-choice movement. Now and then you get additional information that shows how low and how desperate they really are. On March 25, 2002, the head of the Pro-Choice Action Network, Joyce Arthur, wrote to the Audit Division of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, formally calling for an audit of the Pro-Life Society [...]
Canadians marched in front of the French Embassy and consulates June 21 to proclaim they don't want any "killer" drugs allowed in this country. The protesters said Canadians are opposed to the controversial abortion pill RU-486 "RU-486 is another example of pharmaceutical companies exploiting women for financial profit," said John Hof, national vice-president of Campaign Life Coalition. The protest was part of [...]
The Spring 2002 issue of the Pro-Choice Press caught the eye of Campaign Life Coalition BC President John Hof. Included in the newsletter, written by Pro-Choice Action Network head Joyce Arthur, was this statement: "In March and April, we held two "Media Relations for Women Activists" workshops. Women activists from non-profit groups throughout the Lower Mainland were invited, and the attendees represented [...]
In May, the House debated the private member's motion (M-392) of Garry Breitkreuz (CA, Yorkton-Melville), which sought to have the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights review the current definition of human being to comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, with the hope of including the unborn child under Criminal Code protections. Predictably, abortion supporters [...]
Abortion advocate asks pro-lifers to stop doubting their lies Ongoing attempts to defund abortion - heavily based on the premise that it is not a medically necessary procedure - appear to have hit a raw nerve with the Canadian pro-abortion movement. Joyce Arthur, director of the B.C.-based Pro-Choice Action Network, has written letters to MP Jason Kenney, Report newsmagazine and The Interim, [...]
Abortionist Robert Scott opened his own abortuary on Monday, May 25. Both Premier David Peterson and the Attorney-General promised that charges will be forthcoming. "We will prosecute under the law," said Premier Peterson. "We will use the power of the law not to allow free-standing abortion clinics." Plans for the facility were discovered when ads appeared in a Toronto newspaper on May [...]
Lifesite News Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton-Melville) has been told by Health Canada that the department has no statistics on whether abortions are medically necessary or medically risky. On April 23, Breitkreuz submitted an Access to Information request asking for "Copies of documents, reports and correspondence in the department with respect to the total death risk by women having an elective [...]
We live in a society of opinion. It is opinions that shape our world and define who we are in relation to others. Yet, despite the declaration we make, we often confuse the difference between fact and opinion. Fact cannot be changed no matter what view is placed on it. Despite the inherent nature of a fact, many people still strive to [...]
A report published in the British Medical Journal has found a link between abortion and depression. The Elliot Institute funded the report, which collected data from a national study of American youths that began in 1979. A subset of 4,463 women were surveyed in 1992 about depression, intendedness of pregnancy and pregnancy outcome. A total of 421 women either had a first [...]
A U.S.-based front group, that claims to represent at least a small number of Catholics, angered orthodox and mainline members of the Catholic church recently when it arranged to have billboards hoisted at two locations in Toronto claiming that the church's stand condemning contraception has led to deaths from AIDS. The billboards, erected by Pattison Outdoor Advertising and located at Front Street [...]
Recently, Statistics Canada presented the 2001 Census, in which it was reported that population growth in this country is at a record low and that what meagre growth there has been is only due to increased immigration. To sustain a population, a country must have a fertility rate (the number of children a woman will have in her lifetime) of 2.1; Canada's [...]