Ed Whelan looks at the 20th anniversary of Planned Parenthood v. Casey and says: By a vote of 5 to 4, the Supreme Court bungles an opportunity to dismantle the regime of Roe v. Wade and to restore abortion policy to the democratic processes. In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Justices O’Connor, Kennedy, and Souter combine to produce a joint opinion so breathtaking in [...]
Ray Pennings of Cardus discusses Nadine Schweigert and "a world without love." Pennings says Schweigert sounds surprisingly reasonable, at times even noble, but that ultimately with our now different understandings ("when words cease to have shared meaning, life becomes so much more difficult") of what were once common ideals, we are in serious trouble as both a society and individuals.
Blazing Cat Fur exposes the Toronto District School Board's plans to have elementary schoolboys cross dress. BCF knows this because he's read the curriculum guide used in the TDSB (and which gay activists, school trustees and Liberal/NDP politicians will claim is a figment of the imagination of 'homophobes'). BCF says: "The Guide is entitled Both/and.. This section makes it plain that students [...]
Campaign Life Coalition's Matt Wojciechowski looks at the new federal anti-smoking warning labels featuring graphic messaging and wonders why the government doesn't also require warning labels for abortion. Wojciechowski says: If the Ministry of Health can regulate one industry by mandating the use of graphic and disturbing images on their products in order to reduce consumption and save lives, why aren’t they [...]
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has provided six talking points in response to the Carter decision. Here's an important one: Canada prohibited capital punishment based on the possibility that the death of an innocent person may occur. Euthanasia and assisted suicide may result in the deaths of people without request or consent. Canada needs to continue prohibiting euthanasia and assisted suicide.
A press release from Alexandra Jezierski, who is organizing the Letters for Life initiative. Prime Minister pressures MPs; Teen's campaign puts pressure back on Harper Kingsville, ON, June 20, 2012 - Just as the news leaks out of Parliament that Stephen Harper is putting pressure on his Tory MPs to vote against Motion 312, which would strike a committee to investigate scientific [...]
Writing in the New Yorker Jeffrey Toobin asserts but does not prove that Mitt Romney and the Republicans have an "aborton problem." That argument is not terribly original as it's repeated every four years and then exit polls invariably show that in most battleground states that Republicans generally get a small bump in support because of their pro-life position. What is interesting [...]
The B.C. Supreme Court's Carter decision (permitting euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide) has been posted online. Have fun, it's nearly 400 pages. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition hasn't yet provided an in-depth analysis but EPC executive director Alex Schadenberg has posted/linked to a number of commentaries including Will Johnston, Rosie DiManno, Margaret Somerville, and Margaret Dore. All are worth reading.
Toronto Star columnist Chantal Hebert says that the courts might end the "collegial conspiracy of parliamentarian silence" on the issue of euthanasia and assisted-suicide by forcing the issue back into the public square. Hebert ignores the fact that all-too-often politicians outsource law-making to the courts so they don't have to address so-called controversial issues; rather than being forced to debate euthanasia, parliamentarians will hide behind the [...]
Radio broadcaster and Toronto Sun columnist Jerry Agar says that instead of banning bullets in Toronto, we need to tackle the real root cause of crime and violence: fatherlessness. Poverty, Agar points out, is connected to missing fathers (and husbands): "money and employment are symptoms of a disease; lack of fathers." Agar doesn't state what he means by "advocate against teen motherhood and [...]
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition responds to the B.C. Supreme Court decision to legalize both euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. The EPC will have a full analysis of the 395-page decision* next week and we'll link to it when it becomes available. In short Justice Lynn Smith found not allowing doctors to kill vulnerable patients to violate those people's Charter rights. The EPC has called [...]
Details are available here. Keynote speaker at the banquet this Friday evening is broadcaster Damian Goddard. It is the pro-life event of the year in Toronto. Here's our coverage of last year's Toronto Pro-Life Forum.
Our June cover story is now online. It's about the huge National March for Life in Ottawa. Make sure you don't miss the photos. As part of our coverage we included the EFC's Don Hutchinson's moving Prayer for Life.
LifeSiteNews.com has the story. Here is the decision. Linda Gibbons is a pro-life protester who has demonstrated inside the bubble zone. The technical legal question -- the basis of the appeal -- is whether or not the Crown should use the criminal court to enforce a civil injunction. It should be noted that is was a "temporary" injunction granted in 1994 that is [...]
Assuming that Brian Storseth's private member's bill removing Section 13 from the Human Rights Code of Canada passes in the Senate. It passed the House of Commons by party-line vote last night. Section 13 severely impinged on freedom of thought and freedom of speech.