If you have been near a magazine stand lately, you've seen the cover of Time on The Pill. The story appears to acknowledge another side, but really it seeks to lead a pep rally for the 50-year-old contraceptive. The reason contraceptive pills have caused a revolution is that the technology changed the relationship between men and women, or accelerated the changes that were already [...]
That is the plea from Africa. Gaston Asitaki, a journalist and lawyer from the Democratic Republic of Congo, writes: No one can fail to weep at a stillborn child or the death of a mother in childbirth. But it is absurd; it is criminally irresponsible, for the United States and international aid agencies to argue that the solution to the DRC’s calamitous [...]
Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, the center of a ridiculous controversy for doing a pro-life ad for the Super Bowl (on behalf of Focus on the Family) was just drafted by the Denver Broncos in the first round (25th overall). Few pundits thought that this outstanding young man would be picked in the first round of the NFL draft. He probably won't start for [...]
This is what will appear in the May issue of The Interim (which goes to press today) on the vote to legalize euthanasia in Canada. Also, check out the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition's blog. C-384 decisively defeated Interim Staff On April 21, Bill C-384 was overwhelmingly defeated when the House of Commons voted 228-59 against Francine Lalonde's (BQ, La Pointe-de-l'Île) private member's bill to [...]
Kill people. No people, no unemployed. New York Times Magazine interviews Jack Kevorkian about a range of isssues (Obamacare, the death of Detroit, the economy) and Dr. Death offers his solution to the problem of unemployment: [Y]ou see this last crisis we went through that scared everybody, there was a solution, but nobody would like it. I could solve it in a [...]
This article gets to the heart of the matter regarding the scandal within the Catholic Church (or at least one part of it), namely homosexuality. (The other part of the current crisis facing the church is the failure of priests to live up to their priestly duty and bishops to exercise to their responsibilities as overseers of their archdioceses -- in other words, [...]
The Centre for Cultural Renewal has a brief commentary against "creating a right to death" that is worth reading. I want to highlight one part, entitled, "The State's Interest in Protecting Human Life": It is a well-recognized principle of Canadian law that human life should be protected and preserved. In Rodriguez, Sopinka J. rightly correlated this principle with the policy that the value of [...]
Marc A. Thiessen of the American Enterprise Institute writes in the Washington Post about the momentum for the pro-life side in the abortion debate: How did the pro-life position gain 18 percentage points in just 15 years? For one thing, scientific advances have allowed us to see inside the womb as never before. Once-experimental medical procedures, such as fetal surgery to repair [...]
The Euthanasia Prevention Coaltion is urging Canadians to contact their MPs in advance of this Wednesday's vote on Bill C-384, Francine Lalonde's private member's bill that would legalize euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. The EPC has a detailed analysis of C-384 you should read to understand the problems with the bill. They also have sample letters to send to elected officials. A list of [...]
Yesterday I looked at Bill C-510, Rod Bruinooge's (C, Winnipeg South) private member's bill to outlaw coerced abortion and having talked to people on the political and legal end of things, the bill seems solidly written. Some anti-abortion bills -- and Bill C-510 is not about abortion itself but whether women should feel coerced into having one -- concede too much by acknowledging a "right" to abortion [...]
The Winnipeg Free Press reports on Rod Bruinooge's (C, Winnipeg South) private member's bill which would make it a crime to coerce a woman into having an abortion. Joyce Arthur, one of Canada's noisiest pro-aborts, predictably responds: News of the bill was not met with open arms from pro-choice advocates. Joyce Arthur, coordinator of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, called the proposed [...]
We'll have comment tomorrow on Rod Bruinooge (C, Winnipeg South) private member's bill that would amend the Criminal Code to make it illegal to coerce someone into having an abortion. It's sounds positive but it would be premature to praise the bill without seeing it. LifeSiteNews.com has a short story on the bill being introduced in the House of Commons today. The bill is [...]
Amidst all the hoopla over Helen Guergis resigning from caucus and cabinet, John Snobolen raises a good point: why do we even have a status of women ministry? He says in the Toronto Sun: “This government has proven through its actions, time and again, that women in Canada simply do not matter,” [NDP women's issues critic Irene] Mathyssen said. This is, of [...]
The National Post's Kelly McParland is correct to wonder about the outrage over sex-selection abortions, stating that if one doesn't have a problem with abortionhow does object to abortion to eliminate a child depending on whether it is male or female. As McParland says, "If a fetus isn't human, its sex becomes irrelevant." I agree with the premise of the argument but I want to state [...]
The Wall Street Journal has an article on Solicitor General Elena Kagan's position on same-sex "marriage" and how political opponents of her possible nomination to the Supreme Court could focus on such culture war issues (subscription required). Ed Whelan discusses the article in The Corner and makes the important point that "Kagan has taken actions in her SG capacity that operate to undermine Don’t Ask, [...]