Paul Tuns: Ontario Superior Court Justice Carissima Mathen denied Claire Brosseau and Dying With Dignity an injunction to approve Brosseau to be killed by Medical Assistance in Dying based on mental illness as the sole criteria. Brosseau, a 49-year-old Toronto woman, is an actress and comedian, who filed a motion in May seeking a constitutional exemption from Canada’s euthanasia law that currently [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: In response to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Illinois Republican U.S. congressman, Rep. Henry Hyde, introduced the Hyde Amendment banning the use of federal funds to pay for abortion through the Medicaid program, at a time when federal programs were estimated to be paying for 300,000 abortions annually. Hyde argued, “An innocent, defenseless human life, in a caring [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: The United Kingdom House of Commons has voted down the latest attempt at legalizing assisted suicide in England and Wales. On Sept. 11, the UK House of Commons voted down the Terminally Ill Adults Bill in a 286 to 270 vote. If passed, this bill would have legalized assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and Wales. “This [...]
Interim Staff: Nova Scotia’s last Catholic hospital, St. Martha’s Regional Hospital in Antigonish changes its name to the Antigonish Memorial Regional Hospital Oct. 1, and with the hospital’s Catholic Mission Assurance Agreement expiring Sept. 30 it will no longer be restricted from committing abortion and euthanasia. The Sisters of St. Martha announced in the spring that it would withdraw its name and [...]
Mary Zwicker, Europe Correspondent: A Dutch commission has confirmed that the euthanasia death of a two-year-old boy, the first case under the age of 12 in the Netherlands, was handled with “due care.” A commission from the Netherlands has just confirmed that the euthanizing of a child just under 24 months old was handled with “due care,” despite also admitting that other doctors [...]
A dad fights for his unborn children Fathers are an important part of a woman’s pregnancy. They are the fathers of the unborn children, but they so often retreat from voicing their opinion and providing support to the pregnant mother. Society insists that it is a woman’s “choice” about whether or not to abort the child. Often the father is given no [...]
Rory Leishman: It is remarkable how progressive leaders of the fast-dwindling Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and United churches of Canada are so determined to wipe out what few sparks of vibrant, theologically orthodox life still remain within their respective denominations. Thus, in June, leaders of the Anglican Church of Canada released a set of Pastoral Liturgies at the Time of Death in Contexts [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: A former Irish Republican Army member and later Irish politician has revealed that she had an abortion in the 1980s while preparing to join a bombing mission in England during the Troubles. Martina Anderson, a former IRA member who spent more than a decade in prison for her involvement in a plot to carry out bombings in England, made [...]
Donald DeMarco: The year was 2003, Oct. 6, to be exact. The Boston Red Sox were playing the Oakland Athletics in the American League Division Series. The Beantowners had come back from an 0-2 deficit and had a chance to win the series with one more victory. Victories in playoff games, however, are seldom easy. The situation was tense. Oakland, trailing by [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: France has legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia after a long struggle and apparent stalemate between the French Senate and the National Assembly. On July 15, the French National Assembly voted to adopt the final draft of a bill to enshrine the “right” to assistance in dying and, in some circumstances euthanasia, in a 291 to 241 vote with 29 [...]
Gianna Baklinski An Ontario woman who carried a baby for a same-sex couple is being sued after she refused to abort at their request. The woman was engaged to act as a surrogate by two men. Part-way through the pregnancy, routine ultrasounds indicated that the baby might have a cleft lip and palate, as well as other minor defects. When the intended [...]
Interim Staff: On July 28, Superior Court Justice Alain Trudel ruled against former Quebec tourism minister Caroline Proulx, declaring that in pressuring the Quebec City Convention Centre to cancel its contract with Harvest Ministries International to host the Faith, Fire, Freedom Rally in 2023, she had exercised her ministerial authority in “an arbitrary and abusive manner.” Proulx said that Harvest Ministries, [...]
Gianna Baklinski: An Ontario family is grieving their matriarch who was killed through euthanasia, despite having refused it, stating that it was contrary to her Christian beliefs. Her family also opposed her death but found themselves powerless to prevent it. Stegemann’s family has chosen to share the story, and posted it on the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition blog. Brigitte Stegemann, known by her [...]
Tanis Cortens, Feature Writer: Here & Queer, a CBC talk series celebrating LGBTQ artists, interviewed a “nonbinary drag king” on April 2. Heath V. Salazar is a biological female performer across various artistic disciplines who uses the stage name “Gay Jesus” and is on Instagram as @theirholiness. In early 2020, she wrote a CBC article that touched on the division her transition caused [...]
Gianna Baklinski: In 2023, Rosalie Markezich, a day-care worker from Louisiana, was pregnant and excited about motherhood. Then, she told her boyfriend about her pregnancy. He obtained abortion drugs and coerced Rosalie into taking them. Although she tried to vomit up the pills in an attempt to save her baby, it was too late, and, tragically, her baby died, leaving Rosalie traumatized. [...]