LifeSiteNews.com reports that Advertising Standards Canada has closed the file on a complaint against a television ad aired by the New Brunswick Right to Life Association last October and November. The ad, which can be viewed here, features a female firefighter thanking her mother for choosing life and that "her decision saved more than one life." Last Fall, LSN reports, "an anonymous complainant to ASC [...]
After the 2007 provincial election in Ontario I stirred the pot a bit with a cover story in The Interim titled "Is the FCP still relevant." My argument was that the Family Coalition Party is not a political party in the usual sense but rather a vehicle to advance the pro-life cause in the political arena by 1) raising the abortion issue in election campaigns in [...]
Lisa Graas has the Top Five Lies of the Pro-Abortion Left at NewsReal from “Personally Pro-life” to “We Should Not Use Science in Debating the Abortion Issue.” It is worth reading and the videos are worth watching -- a fine use of 15-20 minutes if you are going to spend that time on the 'net anyway. That said, I want to pick at one bone (of contention). [...]
Shades of a blog post from after the defeat of the Bruinooge bill to outlaw coercive abortion in our January editorial, "Time for something bolder." We call upon pro-life politicians to address the abortion issue directly, for example, by putting forth a bill to ban dilatation and evacuation abortions. It is not that we think it would be more likely to pass, but it would begin a [...]
From the January edition of The Interim: "Top 10 Canadian stories of 2010." Seven of the ten, and the complete top five are all good news stories. Some are glass-is-half-full observations, such as the push-back by pro-life students on the university campus who will not be intimidated and continue to stand up for the unborn. Other might see the harassment of students as [...]
Writing at The American, Ralph Kinney Bennett urges people to just say Merry Christmas: For those who tend to agree with various personal advice gurus that Christmas is (a) too commercial (b) an imposition on non-Christians (c) an unfair challenge for the lonely and out of sorts (d) a phony concoction of false merriment (e) all of the above and much worse, [...]
Both the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and Campaign Life Coalition seem to take a harsher view of the Supreme Court's reference decision yesterday on Canada's reproductive technologies regulations than I did in my original post. I don't substantially disagree with their critiques, although it seems to me that their ultimate criticism is with the lack of legal protection for newly created life [...]
Having read the Supreme Court's Reference re Assisted Human Reproduction Act decision this morning, I will provide my Coles Notes take on it in a moment. A longer analysis, for which I am woefully unprepared and unqualified to write, is necessary and will appear in the February issue of the paper. Here is the takeaway: the majority of the Court have upheld most of the [...]
In the final days before we went to press, we had to downsize the paper from 20 to 16 pages which is always a lot of work. It is unpleasant having to cut stories -- shortening stories or taking them out completely. Still, it's a packed paper with articles on the defeat of C-510 (anti-coercive abortion bill), the report stage passing of C-389 [...]
Yesterday NDP MP Irene Mathyssen (London-Fanshawe) once again brought up in Parliament the fact that the government's maternal health initiative proposed last January and accepted by the G8 in June, did not include abortion. Mathyssen rose in the House and stated: Mr. Speaker, 2010, like all years, has had its ups and downs, but when it comes to women's equality, 2010 has [...]
C-510 or Roxanne's Law, Rod Bruinooge's private member's bill that would outlaw coercing a woman to have an abortion was defeated 97-178. Bruinooge is quoted saying he expected only 75 votes in favour of his bill. Still, this is a disappointing result because whatever flaws the bill may have contained, the defeat of Roxanne's Law before it even went to committee will send a signal to society [...]
We have a review of A Matter of Conscience by John Haas, Douglas Farrow, Francois Pouliot, and Maria Kraw. The book is a collection of presentations from the first annual meeting of the Canadian Federation of Catholic Doctor's Guild in 2009. The review is good, the book is excellent and the points both make about how conscience is formed is important. The bottom line on the [...]
Toronto Star columnist Heather Mallick writes hysterically about abortion -- which is the only way Mallick writes about anything -- implying that the procedure is difficult to obtain in many places and that darn it, there are still nasty pro-lifers all across the country who disagree with the abortion license. Mallick slyly suggests that only men are pro-life by appealing to the sisterhood in the [...]
Michael Taube's review of two religious books from the Classics Illustrated series -- The Story of Jesus and The Ten Commandments -- appeared in the December issue of the paper. Both books make excellent Christmas presents for young children.
Marg Baker in a letter to the editor of the National Post today: Nothing demonstrates the poverty of spirit of our society more than this subject. It seems to me that the most risky/violent place to be these days is a mother's womb. With about 100,000 surgical abortions committed in Canada each and every year -- and more than a million in [...]