The completed research report by researchers John J. Donohue III of Stanford Law School and Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, drawing a connection between abortion and crime rates is being published next month in Harvard University's Quarterly Journal of Economics. The study makes the case that there is a strong correlation between the rise in abortion [...]
When Denise Mountenay wrote her autobiography, Forgiven, in 1999, describing her life experiences and traumas that included rape at the age of 13, alcohol and drug addiction and several abortions, she did not know what effect the book would have. In fact, from the pain of reliving her own difficulties while writing the book, the lives of three preborn babies that she knows [...]
I will start out with the cold hard truth: I had an abortion. It was the most impersonal experience of my life, and it has given me a new hold on the realities of Canadian society, and a critical view of the values I had at the time. It wasn't very long ago; in fact, I should still be pregnant right now. [...]
Reflecting on the loss of a child to abortion Dear one, still missing you! Those first tears of contrition late in the night so long ago. The deep yearning then and now that can't be assuaged. How my mind grapples with the pain, imagines knowing then what I know now, reconstructs the scenario, and I see myself jumping down off the hospital [...]
They say that confession is good for the soul. Recently, for the very first time, I found myself actually celebrating an event put on by Big Abortion, Abortion, Inc. Now, before you swamp the hard-working editors at The Interim with indignant letters, let me explain. A number of years ago, an organization called Refuse and Resist started a PR program designed to undo [...]
The young man, in his twenties, rushed down the Toronto abortuary laneway urging the young woman with him to "hurry or we'll be late." Standing within view, Robert, a counsellor at Aid to Women, caught up with them. "We run a care center and if you're thinking about having an abortion, we can help you." For an instant they paused, so he [...]
During the federal election of November last, abortion surfaced as an issue in the English debate and in the media coverage at large. At one point Jean Chretien intoned that it's a settled issue for Canadians and that we have had social peace on the issue for a long time. Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark used slightly different words, but his pro-abortion [...]
The value of protests and boycotts by the pro-life movement was demonstrated recently when a British pharmaceutical company decided to discontinue sales of Preven, the so-called morning-after pill that has been referred to by its proponents as "emergency contraception," but is regarded by pro-lifers as abortifacient. Shire Inc., with its Canadian headquarters in Oakville, Ont., cited poor sales as the reason, noting [...]
Abortion is not about poverty or capital punishment. Its about one issue: What is the unborn? Canadian students are taking a leading role in keeping the right-to-life issue alive on college campuses across the country, says a leading pro-life educator. Speaking January 13 at the annual National Campus Life Network (NCLN) symposium in Toronto, Scott Klusendorf of the California-based Stand to Reason [...]
Measure would stop Ottawa from using Canada Health Act to bully provinces Pro-life MP Elsie Wayne (PC, Saint John) has committed to introducing a private member's bill that would prevent the Canada Health Act (CHA) from being used to pressure provinces to fund abortions. Wayne is responding to a letter sent by New Brunswick Right to Life President Peter Ryan to the [...]
Canada's Catholic bishops have taken a stand against the expansion of abortion through Ottawa's coercion of provinces to fund private abortuaries. The January 19 Ottawa Citizen reported that Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais said Health Minister Allan Rock's promotion of abortion funding made his "blood boil" and rebuked Catholics Rock and Prime Minister Jean Chretien for their government's support of abortion. "The fact that [...]
Talk radio listener attacks pro-lifer, decries 'millions wasted on unfit and unworthy lives' "Dr. Johnston … you has [sic] a hidden agenda." Delivered via fax machine, the letter responded to a recent morning radio interview given by Physicians for Life representative Dr. Will Johnston in Vancouver. The writer's agenda was not hidden. "I am strongly in favor of euthanasia. Millions of tax [...]
As the worldwide push for the "morning-after pill" and RU-486 increases, pro-lifers wonder about its effect on the abortion debate and on the pharmacy profession In the past few years chemical abortion has become more prevalent as country after country approved the morning-after pill (MAP) and the abortion pill RU-486. The most infamous of these was the September 28, 2000 United States [...]
Miriam, stunningly beautiful with her dark flashing eyes, gleaming white teeth and chocolate coloured skin, walked into Toronto's Aid to Women looking lost. Told by the abortuary staff downstairs "not to talk to a man standing outside on the street because he might change your mind about abortion," she came looking for him. He wasn't standing outside on the sidewalk that afternoon, [...]
The federal government released Canada's 1998 abortion stats in December 2000, figures which show a small decline form the previous year in the number of unborn children killed in this country. Quebec, Nova Scotia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Yukon, however, showed a year-over-year increase in abortions. Pro-lifers are always glad when governments release abortion statistics because of the ammunition it provides against [...]