Paul Tuns A private member’s bill, Motion 36, that called upon the Ontario Ministry of Health to provide universal access to contraception, was defeated by a vote of 61-23 on Nov. 30. The motion, introduced by NDP MPP Jennifer Stevens (St. Catharines) in March 2023, stated, “That, in the opinion of this House, the Ministry of Health should expand the Ontario Health [...]
Paul Tuns On Dec. 11, Anaida Poilievre, wife of Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, told French-language media outlet TVA Nouvelles, “We are pro-choice,” in the latest attempt by the Conservative leader to distance himself from his pro-life past. Anaida Poilievre explained, “We have spoken out on this. I am a woman from Quebec, I grew up here. And it’s part of my [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I completely understand why “pro-choicers” use rape as their trump card. If the preborn are simply clumps of cells lacking moral status or the mother’s bodily autonomy takes precedence regardless, then how much more justified is abortion when her bodily autonomy has already been grossly violated, when there’s a thing inside her as a [...]
In recent years, the world has been treated to shockingly inhumane episodes, repeated with minor variations but with the same inevitable end whenever they occur: namely, the slow-motion annihilation of human life presided over by the medical establishment. Examples of this horrific spectacle include Alfie Evans in 2018, Charlie Gard in 2017, and even Terry Schiavo in 2005. Except for that last-named [...]
Joanna Alphonso: The story of eight-month-old English baby, Indi Gregory, rocked the world for weeks as her life-saving treatment turned into end-of-life care against her parents’ wishes. Born with an incurable mitochondrial disease on Feb. 24, 2023, Indi spent her life fighting to remain alive. Her parents, Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, supported their baby girl in the hospital and eventually fought [...]
Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn James Walvin (University of California Press, $30, 197 pages) The origin story of the hymn “Amazing Grace” is well-known: John Newton, the captain of a 18th century English slave ship, had a dramatic conversion after surviving a story which led him to become an abolitionist and pastor, with “Amazing Grace” written as a [...]
Oswald Clark: According to the Pennsylvania Family Council, nine abortion facilities in the state are putting the safety of women at risk after failing routine health and safety inspections, including more than half of the Planned Parenthood abortion mills in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Family Council’s Family Institute scoured figures from the Pennsylvania Department of Health and found that nine of 22 abortion [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 30, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops released a statement reiterating the Church’s unequivocal moral teaching against euthanasia and assisted-suicide, reminding Catholic health care facilities that they cannot be complicit in so-called Medical Assistance in Dying. The statement, “On the Non-Permissibility of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide within Canadian Health Organizations with a Catholic Identity,” noted that “Catholic dioceses [...]
Paul Tuns On Dec. 13, it was announced that the Trudeau government may once again delay the expansion of euthanasia to people suffering solely from mental illness. In March 2021, Parliament passed Bill C-7, which expanded euthanasia to those whose natural death was not reasonably foreseeable as well as to those suffering solely from mental illness. The law’s liberalization of the euthanasia [...]
Paul Tuns Statistics Canada released its analysis of death in 2022 and found that for the third consecutive year, life expectancy for Canadians fell with the average Canadian living to 81.3 years in 2022, a full year less than the life expectancy registered three years earlier in 2019. Globe and Mail health columnist Andre Picard wrote, “a one-year loss in life expectancy [...]
The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a World Without Us Adam Kirsch (Columbia Global Reports, $16, 99 pages) Adam Kirsch’s The Revolt Against Humanity is the best short introduction to the posthuman world imagined by futurists fascinated by the imagined combining of technology and humanity in what is called the singularity. He briefly lays out the literary, philosophic, and scientific literature that imagined [...]
Paul Tuns According to an annual report by Operation Rescue on the state of the abortion landscape, 49 abortion mills closed and one more state became “abortion-free” in 2023, although the total number of abortion facilities have increased. Operation Rescue’s Anne Reed and Sarah Neely report that in the two years since Dobbs overturned the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, 137 [...]
Paul Tuns A new report reveals that pregnancy resource centres (PRCs) provided nearly $360 million in services and goods in a single year, even as Democrat-controlled states reduce funding and try to restrict their operations. The “Hope for a New Generation” report covers 2022 and is a joint “collaboration of Charlotte Lozier Institute, Care Net, Heartbeat International, and National Institute of Family [...]
Paul Tuns The Vatican has once again muddied the waters of Catholic moral teaching with the release of Fiducia Supplicans – On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings, which was widely reported on the front pages of newspaper and the leads of many news broadcasts as the Roman Catholic Church officially sanctioning the blessing of same-sex unions. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of [...]
Paul Tuns Dec. 6 tweet from Veterans 4 Freedom According to a directive issued by Employment and Social Development Canada, beginning Dec. 15, all federally regulated workplaces, government offices, and military bases must provide menstruation products in men’s bathrooms as part of the government’s program to promote “inclusivity.” Feminists have lobbied for free feminine hygiene products to battle what they [...]