Interim Staff: The Gender Identity Development Service for Children and Adolescents (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman National Health Service trust (hospital) in north London was established in 1983, and on July 28, it announced it was winding down its services and closing its doors after charges that it overdiagnosed gender dysphoria (transgenderism) in kids and teens. GIDS is the only child- and adolescent-focused [...]
Interim Staff: The Athena Health Centre abortion mill in St. John’s, Newfoundland received a $1 million bailout from Andrew Furey’s Liberal provincial government after claiming it would close its doors if it did not get taxpayer funding for its operations, according to a report by Campaign Life Coalition. The privately owned abortuary, run out of a two-storey, red house on Lemarchant Road [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: According to a recent report from Statistics Canada entitled, “Violence against seniors and their perceptions of safety in Canada,” elder abuse is on the rise in Canada. Although estimates vary, violent victimization affects approximately one in eight seniors, especially those who are socially isolated, cognitively impaired, physically frail, living in institutionalized settings or dependent upon others for care. Although elder abuse [...]
Paul Tuns: On August 11, the Associated Press ran a 2300-word story, “’Disturbing:’ Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws,” which shone an international light on the country’s permissive euthanasia regime and how numerous families felt pressured to accept so-called Medical Assistance in Dying in lieu of proper medical care. Maria Cheng, the AP reporter, interviewed the families of Alan Nichols and Sean [...]
Paul Tuns: In early July, People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier criticized the fact Canada permitted late-term abortion and said political parties should not be afraid of an honest debate about abortion, charging the Conservatives with running away from the issue. In a newsletter to party supporters, Bernier, a former Conservative MP and cabinet minister who split from the party after [...]
Biden signs executive order to increase access In the weeks after the Dobbs decision, President Joe Biden convened a task force to monitor states that cracked down on the abortion license, directed his Attorney General to sue states over their abortion restrictions, and issued guidance for pharmacists and physicians to require ease-of-access to the abortion pill and privacy issues surrounding chemical abortions. [...]
Paul Tuns: U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned on July 7 after several senior cabinet ministers resigned from the scandal-plagued government, setting off a leadership race to replace Johnson as both the Conservative Party leader and United Kingdom prime minister. In the U.K., the caucus votes to winnow down the list of leadership contenders to two candidates who are then presented to [...]
Infertility: a diabolical agenda When a woman becomes pregnant, she produces Human Chorioic Gonadotroin (HCG) through the placenta. It tells the ovaries to produce a second hormone called progesterone that then maintains the pregnancy. If the body creates antibodies against HCG, the moment a new baby is forming in the womb and starts producing HCG, it is destroyed like it was bacteria [...]
Mary Zwicker: Language is an important tool in every debate, including the debate on abortion. Through the manipulation of language, one is easily able to make something perverted seem acceptable or even desirable. In many instances, labels are created by those of opposing viewpoints in order to give a negative connotation to individuals who do not subscribe to their prescribed agenda. This [...]
Mary Zwicker: In a world where men can become women and women can become men, Matt Walsh and the Daily Wire attempt to uncover an answer to a seemingly simple question in their new film, What Is a Woman? In order to define womanhood, Walsh questions different “experts” on the topic of gender and sex. He interviews therapists, surgeons, and university professors, [...]
Rory Leishman: In response to a leaked document suggesting that the Supreme Court of the United States is poised to overturn its 1973 Roe decision which purported to find a hitherto unknown right to abortion hidden in the United States Constitution, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a public statement alleging: “The right to choose is a woman’s right and a woman’s right [...]
Mary Zwicker: The World Health Organization, among many others, markets abortion as a “safe, timely, affordable and respectful” procedure, one that ought to remain legal in order to avoid posing “a risk to not only the physical but also the mental and social well-being of women and girls.” Unfortunately, the reality of abortion is far less sterile and safe than pro-abortion activists [...]
Interim Staff: Pro-life blogger Patricia Maloney has provided information countering the false claim in a “Fact Sheet” by Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights that states, “No providers in Canada offer abortion care beyond 23 weeks and 6 days.” Action Canada claims, “When they are beyond 23 weeks and 6 days, many Canadians end up having to travel to the United [...]
Philip Tomchyshyn: On May 24, in southwestern Ontario near Sarnia, a billboard with pro-life messaging was vandalized. The billboard, belonging to Lambton Right to Life, had only been in position for a month when someone removed five panels from the sign. Two of the panels included an image of a mother holding her child and the words “Choose Life,” making the image [...]
Oswald Clark: In May, Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, said that outlawing abortion would hurt the economy by limiting educational and employment opportunities for women. Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, she said, “I believe that eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set [...]