Paul Tuns: On August 22, then Saskatchewan Minister of Education Dustin Duncan announced the implementation of a parental consent policy to ensure parents and guardians were notified and gave permission to schools before teachers began using a student’s chosen name and pronouns at odds with their biological sex if the student is under 17 years of age. After a Saskatchewan judge temporarily [...]
Paul Tuns: Canadian archbishop Adam Exner died on Sept. 5 at the age of 94. He served as Bishop of Kamloops, Archbishop of Winnipeg, and Archbishop of Vancouver. Born and raised in Saskatchewan, he entered the Oblate novitiate near Winnipeg, was ordained a priest in 1957, and was appointed bishop of Kamloops in 1974 – a position he said he was unsuited [...]
Donald DeMarco: In the novel The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan poses a soul-searching question to his brother, one that over time has invited no end of comment. “Suppose,” he asks, “that you are building up a fabric of human destiny with the object of making people happy at last and giving them peace and rest, but that in order to do so it [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Lucy Letby, Elizabeth Wettlaufer, and Charles Edmund Cullen all had something in common: they were all registered nurses who killed their patients. Lucy Letby, Registered Nurse, Chester, U.K. Lucy Letby, a 33-year-old registered nurse in the United Kingdom, was convicted in August for her murder spree of seven babies over the span of two years at the Countess of Chester [...]
Paul Tuns: In August, the Commission on End-of-Life Care in Quebec issued a memo to the province’s physicians who provide so-called medical aid in dying (MAiD) urging doctors to ensure that any euthanasia or assisted-suicides they carry out comply with the law. The memo, penned by the Commission’s president, Dr. Michael Bureau, a supporter of Canada’s liberal euthanasia laws, suggested that there [...]
Paul Tuns: Eduardo Verástegui, producer of Bella and Sound of Freedom, declared his candidacy to become president of Mexico. On Sept. 8, he tweeted that he “made the most important decision of my life,” announcing he “just registered with the INE (Instituto Nacional Electoral) my intention as an aspiring independent candidate for the presidency of the Mexican Republic, for the elections on [...]
Oswald Clark: During a Sept. 17 interview on NBC's Meet the Press with new host Kristen Walker, former president Donald Trump said six-week abortion bans are hurting Republicans and that he would broker a compromise on abortion that would satisfy both pro-life and pro-abortion activists so the country and the Republican Party could move on from the issue. Pro-life activists were quick [...]
The promotion of abortion in Northern Ireland’s schools In 1979, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) as a sort of ‘international bill of rights for women,’ to “ensure the elimination of all acts of discrimination against women.” The United Kingdom’s Conservative government has imposed legislation on Northern Ireland which the London-based [...]
Anna Kennedy : The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) released a report examining the research on a study JAMA Surgery conducted on trans-identifying women who underwent mastectomies, and they found the research did not support the authors’ conclusion that women who remove their breasts to pose as males did not demonstrate regret with their decisions. JAMA’s study, titled “Long-Term Regret and Satisfaction with [...]
Paul Tuns: From the editor's desk Typical headlines on a local crime story read “Nebraska teen who used pills to end pregnancy gets 90 days in jail” (New York Times) and “Nebraska teen sent to jail over illegal abortion” (Rolling Stone). The first is misleading, the second an outright lie. Read the actual news story and one discovers that Celeste Burgess, 18, [...]
Warren McArthur: Maltese lawmakers successfully stopped an attempt by pro-abortion activists to demand concessions for legal and widespread abortion in their country. This is happening in light of a recent Pew research poll which shows widespread support for abortion across Europe. An amendment to the Criminal Code in Malta would have legalized abortion in cases where the mother’s health was at risk. [...]
Alex Schadenberg: Kelsi Sheren, a Canadian military veteran, witnessed the horrific death of a comrade in Afghanistan. Sheren who lives with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) told the Daily Mail in July 2023, “It's disgusting and it's unacceptable,” that authorities would rather euthanize a soldier than foot the bill for their recovery. The story of Veterans Affairs employees who advocated euthanasia for veterans [...]
Donald DeMarco: “All men by nature desire to know,” Aristotle asserted. The eyes and ears are the organs of sensation which serve, as are the doorways to knowledge. Blindness and deafness are dreadful handicaps. In our desire to know, we use technology to open new doors to knowledge. The telescope, microscope, the X-Ray machine, radar, amplifiers, and so on, broaden our field [...]
Anna Kennedy: On July 19, a British charity oriented towards helping pregnant women in the workplace published research demonstrating that 1 in 61 employed, pregnant women have had their bosses suggest they abort. Pregnant Then Screwed is a registered charity aiming to promote better working conditions for parents across the United Kingdom by raising awareness on the challenges that many working mothers [...]
Joanna Alphonso: The monumental Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision rendered in June of 2022, overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade (1973), sparked a digital wave promoting early abortion access to women with unwanted pregnancies. The Roe decision held that abortion was a constitutional right. For this reason, no state could outright outlaw abortion – but they could enforce various legal [...]