As our story on the U.S. election (p. 8) makes clear, both the Republican and Democratic parties under their respective leaderships of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are moving in a more pro-abortion direction. (The story does not report on another development, but both Trump and Harris are moving in more pro-gay positions – Trump vowing to fight for the “rights” of [...]
Paul Tuns: From left: New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, and B.C. Conservative Party leader John Rustad, have all become champions for parental rights in the face of LGBTQ extremism in schools, although none of the three has vowed to place any limits on abortion, an area of provincial jurisdiction. Three provinces representing nearly one-fifth of the [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Houston, you have a problem. This past May, one of your own, “strongly pro-life” Texas senators Ted Cruz (R) co-sponsored a bill to protect access to IVF. Actually, Houston, we have a lot of problems, because Cruz is far from the only big “pro-life” name to come out in support of in [...]
Leire Douros: London City Council defeated a proposed bylaw that would have restricted the size and proximity of signs to roads by pro-life groups that use abortion victim photography (graphic images of aborted babies). At the July council meeting, city councillor Paul Van Meergen argued that to live in a democratic society means to be exposed to “a variety of speech and [...]
Oswald Clark: Photo credit: Post Millennial After the June debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump, it became obvious that the incumbent was unable to mount a vigorous campaign for re-election and about a month later he was convinced that it would be better for the Democrats if he would step down as the party’s presidential candidate. [...]
Oswald Clark: American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified our Nation – and Could Again by Yuval Levin (Basic Books, $41, 341 pages) For the last century, the American Left has been frustrated by the U.S. Constitution’s limits on government because, they claimed, it prevented necessary political action to remedy all of life’s ills. In recent decades, some on the American Right have likewise [...]
Rory Leishman: Former president and convicted felon Donald Trump is not and never has been, a sincere pro-lifer. As evidence, consider some of the serious damage he has done to the pro-life movement over the past year. Last September, he denounced Florida Governor Ron DiSantis for signing into law a bill banning abortion after six weeks. In Trump’s misguided opinion, the bill [...]
John Carpay: Bad laws are the result of bad politics. Bad politics result from a rotten culture. A rotten culture emerges when too many people embrace bad ideas. A complete description of all the bad ideas that are now wrecking Canada’s culture, society, and economy would fill many volumes. But here follows a partial list. “Most parents are dangerous and abusive.” This [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Last year, the only pro-life MP to attend the National March for Life was Arnold Viersen (CPC, Peace River—Westlock). Bill C-311, the Violence Against Pregnant Women Act, tabled by MP Cathay Wagantall (CPC, Yorkton—Melville), was being debated at the time, and the mainstream media and leftist politicians were taking pains to paint [...]
Paul Tuns: xr:d:DAFvAWe_UX8:35,j:433883658353322572,t:23121319 On July 2, the Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda (STNSEA) announced it had “undergone a big change” as it bid adieu to its founder and president, Queenie Yu. Yu first ran as an independent candidate in the 2016 by-election in Scarbough-Rouge River to bring awareness to Kathleen Wynne’s sex-ed curriculum. She finished fourth with 582 votes, good [...]
Paul Tuns: There is a scene near the end of Billy Madison in which the title character played by Adam Sandler compares the Industrial Revolution to a puppy. Astonished at the vacuity of the answer, the principal who posed the question said: “What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in [...]
On July 4, the British voters elected a Labour 411-seat majority (out of a total of 650 seats). The Conservative Party was reduced from majority government to a party low 121 seats. Various other parties split the remaining 128 seats. Pro-life MP Miriam Cates, who lost her seat, said that her party lost because it governed to the left of the average [...]
Paul Tuns: Liberal MLA Keith Irving (Kings South) introduced Bill 440, which, if passed, would provide evidence-based data about Down syndrome to parents informed of a prenatal diagnosis of the chromosomal anomaly. A law respecting Down syndrome, or so-called Harvey’s Law, would require medical staff to provide up-to-date and evidence-based information on Down Syndrome, including data about life expectancy, education and psychosocial [...]
Oswald Clark: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in several interviews this spring that he supported abortion through all nine months, for any reason, only to backtrack slightly to say post-viability babies – around 20 weeks gestation – “have rights” and “deserve society’s protection.” Kennedy originally told podcaster Sage Steele and EWTN’s Raymond Arroya in separate interviews he would not [...]
Oswald Clark: During a campaign stop in Tampa, Florida, highlighting the president’s unwavering support for unrestricted abortion, Joe Biden made the sign of the cross as Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried spoke lambasting Governor Ron DeSantis for signing a law that bans abortion after six weeks. It was widely taken as a sign of opposition to the state’s abortion restrictions. CatholicVote [...]