LifeSiteNews.com's Ben Johnson said three life and family issues were ignored in the foreign policy debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Johnson's list: Taxpayer funding of abortion around the world; China’s One-Child Policy; Normalizing homosexuality as an anchor of foreign policy Not that anyone would expect moderator Bob Schieffer to ask about any of these issues. Exploring any of these three [...]
One more time: contra the claims of Democrats, including President Barack Obama, and the abortion industry, Planned Parenthood does not do mammograms. Yet Obama trotted out that phony claim again during last night's presidential debate. Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life didn't like Obama's emotionally powerful but highly misleading appeal to mammogram provision: However, one of the most bald-faced falsehoods the president [...]
Because they tell us a lot about her critics. A great column by the Toronto Sun's Lorrie Goldstein which begins: The ferocity of the attack on Status of Women Minister Rona Ambrose for voting in favour of a Conservative MP’s motion to study the question of when human life legally begins is not only absurd, it says a lot about the attackers. [...]
The Globe and Mail reports on the introduction of a bill on sex-selective abortions: A second abortion-related motion proposed by a backbench Conservative MP could trigger a new debate about the parameters of a woman’s right to choose in Canada. Andrea Mrozek responds: The debate is here. It has not been triggered anew, it is simply here. For many of us, it’s [...]
Editor's Note: This originally appeared at Activate CFPL and is reprinted with permission. The following was submitted as an opinion editorial to the Kelowna Capital News, who did not return calls or emails, and subsequently the Kelowna Daily Courier, who have put us off until as late as today with a consideration to publish. This week is Protect Human Life Week in [...]
LifeSiteNews.com has coverage of the debate on M-312 yesterday that took place over an hour on a Friday afternoon to a packed gallery (so much for no one caring about this issue). It is remarkable that some politicians are afraid of having Parliament examine modern scientific evidence about life before birth to see whether the 400-year-old legal definition of human being in [...]
The pro-abortion Radical Handmaids have invited people to join them for a M-312 Debate Viewing Party which includes a drinking game for watching the parliamentary debate. Note that the party is at the Canadian Union of Postal Workers boardroom at their offices in downtown Ottawa. M-312 is not "anti-choice" as the Radical Handmaids contend. M-312 does not mention abortion. It does not mention [...]
The Daily Telegraph reports that the United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority will hold consultations with an eye to permitting fertility treatment with the DNA of a third parent in order to (get this) "spare all future generations from a host of rare and debilitating conditions." I bet this is over-promising the benefits. And of course, there is no downside. And [...]
The Silent Spring will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its publication next week and at Taki's Magazine Kathy Shaidle looks at the author, Rachel Carson, and her deadly legacy: The fact that noble, selfless humanitarians such as Rachel Carson are typically smug, self-satisfied misanthropes has been a truism since Dickens invented Mrs. Jellyby. Yet in the case of the DDT ban, good intentions [...]
On October 13 and October 30, there will be defund abortion rallies in Ontario. On Saturday, October 13 at 11 am, there will be mini-rallies at the riding level at the constitutuency offices of the MPPs. On Tuesday, October 30 from noon to 2pm, there will be a massive Defund Abortion rally at Queen's Park. Alissa Golob of Campaign Life Coalition Youth [...]
S.E. Cupp in the Daily News: Last week, after the women of the Democratic National Convention had finished making their pitches for more government assistance to help further their sexual liberation, I took to Twitter to shed a collective tear. “Feminism weeps,” I wrote, “as (Sandra) Fluke and other DNC women get on their metaphorical knees to beg for government to take [...]
Three years ago Norman Borlaug died. Borlaug was instrumental in the Agricultural Revolution that occurred in the second half of the 20th century and thus because of his work, millions of people who otherwise would have starved to death lived. In short, he proved Malthus wrong. Here's our 2009 obituary for Borlaug. From the obit: Don Boudreaux, an economist at George Mason [...]
Here's the editorial from the October 2001 edition of The Interim: The tragic events of Sept. 11 – four planes downed in three locations, New York City, Washington and rural Pennsylvania; a death toll near 7,000; the loss of innocence to the United States and the West in general – is nothing less than a wicked attack on human life. Despite what [...]
Gregg Easterbrook writes a football column for ESPN interspersed with political and cultural commentary. In his NFL predictions column (written in haiku), he has this tidbit on what he calls "après-feminism" that is appearing in dead-tree version of The Atlantic Monthly: Then this year came "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," a cover by Anne-Marie Slaughter, a Princeton dean and recent [...]
Newt Gingrich on Meet the Press: The Democratic Party plank on abortion is the most extreme plank in the United States. The president of the United States voted three times to protect the right of doctors to kill babies who came out of an abortion still alive. That plank says tax-paid abortion at any moment, meaning partial-birth abortion. That's a 20 percent [...]