The movement to cull the population of the developing world has taken a leap forward due to the work of a high-profile advocate. Melinda Gates, wife of the famous founder of Microsoft, used the multi-billion dollar charitable Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to co-sponsor, along with the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, a family planning summit in London with [...]
Linda Gibbons was released from jail on July 20 seven months after her latest arrest when Justice William R. Wolski of the Ontario Court of Justice found her not guilty of disobeying a court order and creating a nuisance. Gibbons was arrested Dec. 16 outside the Morgentaler abortuary and has been in jail since then. Wolski excoriated Crown attorney [...]
Editor’s Note: We asked more than 15 pro-life groups, organizations, and leaders to answer two questions: Do you support gestational limits* on abortion. Would you like to state why? (* for the purpose of this survey, gestational limits means restricting abortion after a certain point, whether by trimester or some other time period.) What kinds of incremental measures do you support. If [...]
Waiting until the second-last business day to file, Canada’s federal government appealed the June 15 decision of B.C. Supreme Court Justice Lynn Smith overturning Canada’s ban on euthanasia and assisted suicide. Smith claimed that Canada’s Criminal Code prohibiting euthanasia and assisted suicide violated the Charter rights of those seeking assistance killing themselves and those who help them carry out their lethal wishes. [...]
For decades, the pro-life movement has experienced division; sometimes over strategy, sometimes over principles. It is of no use to assign blame or rehash old arguments. People of goodwill can differ over tactics and strategy, but on principles it becomes more difficult to countenance disagreement. On the (once again) difficult issue of gestational limits to abortion, as a way of reducing abortion, [...]
Over the past three months, pro-life activists have been physically assaulted by abortion supporters, a sign, pro-lifers say, that their message is hitting a nerve. In Thunder Bay, Ont., in June, the New Abortion Caravan saw a man berate three pro-life activists as he poured chocolate milk over them. A few days later in London, Ont., a group of pro-abortion activists confronted [...]
An appeal is being launched into the conviction of Mary Wagner after the judge told her: “Your God is wrong.” The case dealt with Wagner’s arrest on Nov. 8 after she entered Bloor West Village’s “Women’s Clinic” in Toronto. She had already been arrested several times for entering abortion facilities to provide women with counseling and roses as part of her [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an appeal by pro-life prisoner of conscience Linda Gibbons on June 8 as she continues her 18-year battle to overturn a Toronto injunction banning pro-life activity outside abortion facilities. Gibbons was appealing a criminal charge of disobeying a court order by arguing that while the 18-year-old temporary injunction she is accused of violating was instituted [...]
On June 13 Bill 33, a private members bill in the Ontario legislature that would add “gender expression” and “gender identity” to the Ontario Human Rights Code and give special legal protection to people who self-identify as transgender and transsexual, passed with all-party support in an unrecorded vote. Opponents of Bill 33 and similar bills at the federal level have called the [...]
In early June both the Globe and Mail and Toronto Sun reported that Prime Minister Stephen Harper was pressuring Conservative MPs to vote against Stephen Woodworth’s private member’s motion calling upon Parliament to create a select committee to examine the modern scientific and medical evidence regarding preborn life and the human rights implications of those findings. The Criminal Code says that a [...]
Provinces across Canada are seeking to adopt anti-bullying legislation after a series of high-profile cases in which bullied students committed suicide. In light of these recent developments, a new report by the Institute for Marriage and Family Canada evaluates the overall effectiveness of anti-bullying legislation. “The limits of anti-bullying legislation” by senior researcher Peter Jon Mitchell warns that lawmakers are introducing such [...]
One small step to restoring our democratic rights The House of Commons passed Brian Storseth’s private member’s bill C-304 repealing Section 13 of the Canada Human Rights Act that proscribes so-called hate speech. C-304, An Act to Amend the Human Rights Act, was introduced by Storseth last October and passed third reading June 6 on a 153-136 near party-line vote. All members [...]
With freedom of religion under attack as never before in Canada, what are our church leaders doing to defend the faithful? Precious little. With rare exceptions, they have mounted only the most feeble and ineffectual protests against encroachments by the state on the inalienable right of Canadians to uphold the traditional principles of Judeo-Christian morality. Consider, for example, the supine reaction [...]
The pro-life movement in Europe has had some notable successes the previous year with the marches for life held in Italy, Spain, and France. During the weekend of May 12-13, 15,000 showed up for the March for Life in Rome. As reported by LifeSiteNews, the organizers of the march expected the numbers to be three times less and many of the participants [...]
On June 15, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Lynn Smith said that the Criminal Code prohibitions on euthanasia and assisted suicide were unconstitutional, finding that they “unjustifiably infringe the equality rights” of one of plaintiffs in the case, Gloria Taylor, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease and wants assistance to end her own life. Justice Smith also said the prohibitions unjustifiably violate the [...]