Rita and Milana are both safe after the mother's friend Alex got her in touch with a guest speaker from Silent No More Awareness who happened to be at his school the day his friend had an appointment scheduled at Morgentaler's. Students at a Toronto-area high school experienced a pro-life “miracle,” that they helped make possible, on the day of [...]
To mark 35 years since the beginning of Campaign Life, we are providing a to-do list for pro-lifers on how to become actively involved in the pro-life movement. We understand many readers are already active, but some are not, or could do more. It is not enough to be informed about life and family issues. We must change both the culture and [...]
Many people in the pro-life and disability rights movements have heard of Gianna Jessen. Thirty-six years ago, Jessen came into the outside world, two months premature and weighing two pounds. The 18 hours before Jessen's birth were spent in a saline abortion solution as medical personnel attempted to end her life. Jessen has – please don't use the words “suffers from” or [...]
I have gotten to know many prominent members of the pro-life community in the last few years, and I keep in touch with many through social media. Last month, one of them told a story about a young relative who is enamoured with her pro-life work. Little Jenny* dreams of one day working to keep preborn children “safe” just like her role [...]
Beverly Hadland has being bringing abstinence message to schools for 25 years Beverly Hadland Straight Talk, a charity geared towards promoting authentic love and abstinence, is turning 25 this year. The head and founder Beverly Hadland was inspired to spread this message into high schools by her own experiences. A feminist in her youth and raised by a single mother, [...]
Every year from late May through to August, The Interim hires two university students, to assist in the work we do. They become involved in various aspects of the paper from writing and researching stories to developing pro-life curriculum to production and archiving. This benefits both the paper and the students. The Interim has extra hands around to help complete the many [...]
Jim Hughes, Paul Formby and Earl Amyotte at the founding of the Pro-Life Party of Canada. On May 25, 1978, a group of pro-lifers, upset with the compromise mentality of the Coalition for the Protection of Human Life, met in Winnipeg to form a new national political pro-life organization. The Coalition had presented a paper to the Ontario legislature calling [...]
Planned Parenthood recently decided to abandon the term “pro-choice,” saying abortion as too complex to be split into two opposing sides. The switch has led some pro-lifers to debate the best way to describe the pro-life movement. Labels matter for both accuracy and public relations. The way the media frames the issue can influence how people view the two sides of the [...]
When then 12-year-old Lia Mills posted her speech about abortion on YouTube, she got millions of news. The pro-life movement has taken advantage of the rising popularity of social media to spread its message and gain supporters. During the U.S. March for Life in January 2013, pro-lifers used these platforms to spread information and report on the event attended by [...]
Pope Francis The conclave has selected a pontiff likely to follow in the footsteps of his recent predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI as a vocal defender of life and family. On the fifth ballot on the second day of the gathering of the cardinals in the Vatican, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was selected the next head of [...]
The term test-tube babies seems so 1980s. IVF -- in vitro fertilization -- is now the commonly used term. Less fearful, less sci-fi, less judgmental. IVF is in the news again because Sir Robert Edwards, the pioneering British test tube baby-creating doctor died this past week. Robert George has a good piece in the Wall Street Journal about Edwards' legacy and why [...]
Conceived in rape Rebecca Kiessling is critical of the rape exception tolerated by some pro-lifers. The issue of abortion and rape was brought to the forefront with the failed candidacies of Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock during the American general election, and the Democratic exploitation of their gaffes. Akin, a Republican Senate candidate and outgoing congressman in Missouri, set off [...]
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and today is the 39th annual March for Life in Washington. I have a story on the decision and its aftermath in the February edition of the paper. It is up on the website today.
To help mark Fr. Alphonse de Valk’s retirement as editor of Catholic Insight, Campaign Life Coalition reprinted the historian-priest’s landmark book, Morality and the Law in Canadian Politics: The Abortion Controversy. Fr. de Valk wrote the book in 1974 and as Interim editor Paul Tuns says in a forthcoming review of Morality and the Law in Canadian Politics, it retells “the story [...]
The awarding of the Diamond Jubilee medal to Mary Wagner and Linda Gibbons, two pro-lifers jailed for counselling within the “bubble zones” of abortion facilities, has caused public controversy. In a statement, Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott, who nominated Wagner and Gibbons for the medals, said that they “are trying to protect defenceless, voiceless human beings in the womb from butchery and death, [...]