Opponents of social conservatives are fond of saying you can't legislate morality. Of course, that is nonsense; all legislation is morality. Micah Watson, William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Affairs at the James Madison Program at Princeton University, has an essay on this topic that is reprinted at MercatorNet. I strongly recommend the entire essay but the conclusion summarizes Watson's [...]
Liberal MP and staunch abortion supporter Keith Martin (Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca) will not run in the next federal election. During the debate over maternal health this past Spring, he has one of the leading voices that the government's initiative should include abortion, and he proposed a phony compromise that would ensure abortion was a central component of the G8's maternal health initiative (thankfully it wasn't [...]
From LifeSiteNews.com reports: "A fifty-year-old Mexican woman has given birth to a child whose biological father is her homosexual son, according to the Mexico City newspaper Reforma." Giving birth to one's own grandchild is wrong on so many levels.
The November issue of The Interim has a story on the internal debate at Campaign Life Coalition on the merits and concerns of C-510, Rod Bruinooge's anti-coercive abortion private member's bill. The important takeaway is that people of goodwill can disagree on tactics.
AFP reports: A Taiwanese woman said Sunday she had "married" herself by throwing a wedding banquet. And why not? Once the sex of the partners became irrelevant, the number becomes irrelevant, too. So while natural marriage advocates fretted that same-sex 'marriage' would lead to plural marriage (polygamy), they were blind to the possibility of singular marriage. If the procreational aspects of marriage became incidental [...]
A good argument could be made that it is more important that there be pro-life legislators at the state level than the federal level because of the many ways in which states can restrict and regulate abortion. According to Americans United for Life, there are now 14 more pro-life governors although there are two potential losses: there will be an election at some pointto [...]
It was a very good day for pro-lifers. Republicans have gained control of the House of Representatives, most of the Obamacare-supporting "pro-life" Democrats are no longer in Congress, we've added about a half-dozen pro-life senators (including a Democrat from West Virginia), and several pro-life governors. Congressional Quarterly says it is more likely that abortion will be an issue in the next session. Jill [...]
Our November cover story on the decline of the traditional family in Canada is now online. It looks at two recent reports, one by the Vanier Institute for the Family and another by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. Bottom line: the glass is half-full/half-empty because the family as defined as married mom, dad and 2.1 children is disappearing but the ideal still exists.
The New Brunswick Human Rights Commission will hold hearings on whether the province's abortion funding policy is a violation of the human rights of women. The National Post and Telegraph-Journal have reports. Under New Brunswick's Medical Services Payment Act the province will only pay for abortions committed at hospitals and which are referred by a family doctor. The NB HRC is not [...]
Yesterday, Bill C-510, Rod Bruinooge's private member's bill that would add "coercion of pregnant women to abort" to the Criminal Code, had second reading. The bill is also known as Roxanne's Law. LifeSiteNews covered the debate. We have written about Roxanne's Law previously. Andrea Mrozek wrote in the Calgary Herald that C-510 should not be controversial -- how can so-called pro-choice advocates oppose legislation that [...]
Rick McGinnis reviews recent books by the Hitchens brothers (The Rage Against God by Peter Hitchens and Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens) in the October Interim. Here's a sample, on Hitch-22: If the book ends weakly, it’s largely because, after dropping names for several hundred pages, he expresses his contentment at ending up in the company of a “party of positive non-belief” – [...]
Ignore the background noise This was released by Gary Bauer, noted conservative leader in the United States: This is it, folks -- Election Day. If you have not already voted, please go out and do so right now. We are getting too many reports of low turnout in Republican areas of the country. This morning, Howard Dean confidently predicted that Democrats would [...]
Pro-life victory The midterm elections will result in a massive repudiation of Barack Obama and his liberal friends in Congress. Most of the backlash against Democrats is rooted in opposition to the overreach of the health care reform bill and much of that opposition was based on the overreach to include federal funding for abortion. It will be more difficult for Obama [...]
LifeSiteNews.com reports on the goings-on of the Building a Global Culture of Life conference taking place in Ottawa Thursday through Saturday. John Smeaton's speech sounds like it was a real barn-burner; we ran a feature on Smeaton and Dr. Jack Willke and the more than three-quarters of a century pro-life experience they have between them in the October issue. Dr. Willke is a featured speaker on [...]
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