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Written on 14 May, 2013 at 10:45 in
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Stephen Woodworth
The Interim has learned that Stephen Woodworth will be presented with Campaign Life Coalition’s Joseph P. Borowski Award, which is presented to a politician who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to the cause of protecting innocent human life. Woodworth will be presented with the Borowski Award at the Rose Dinner on May 9 following the National March for Life and he is being recognized for his work on ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 9:15 in
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Pro-life women have urged Rona Ambrose, Minister for the Status of Women, to support M-408, a private member’s motion that condemns sex-selective abortion.
Last Fall, Ambrose shocked some political observers when she joined ten of her cabinet colleagues and a majority of her caucus to support Stephen Woodworth’s private member’s motion calling for a scientific inquiry about the child in the womb. The motion was defeated and unions and feminist groups called for Ambrose’s resignation. Ambrose stated that she supported the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Apr, 2013 at 16:14 in
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On March 13, a Member of Parliament visited the University of Waterloo to make an address to a group of students. In the middle of his speech, this elected representative was interrupted by a handful of protesters, one of whom was not even a student at the university. But campus police did not intervene during this disruption, so the speech was cancelled and the audience dispersed. The university ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Apr, 2013 at 11:45 in
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Editor’s Note: Material in this article might offend some readers.
On March 13, pro-life MP Stephen Woodworth was forced to cut short his talk to a group of students at the University of Waterloo when nearly a dozen abortion activists interrupted his speech, took control of the microphone, and started to use vulgar language to make their point.
Woodworth was about one third through his presentation at an event organized ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Feb, 2013 at 9:06 in
Abortion | Author:
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In 1969, Parliament effectively introduced abortion-on-demand in Canada when it amended the Criminal Code to permit abortions when a hospital’s therapeutic abortion committee (TAC) deemed it necessary for the health of the mother to have one; by definition, free-standing abortion facilities that did not have these TACs were illegal. TACs were to take into account the health of the mother, but the definition of health was so broad it included emotion and psychological consideration, and any distress the mother reported ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 Feb, 2013 at 19:01 in
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With the start of a new year, pro-lifers can begin looking forward to the National March for Life on Parliament Hill on May 9. Wanda Hartlin, of Campaign Life Coalition Ottawa, told The Interim that people should go to the March for Life “because unborn children in Canada have no rights,” and “we have to remind our government that life begins at conception.” Hartlin explains, “everyone deserves the right to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Jan, 2013 at 10:30 in
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Shortly after Barack Obama won the 2008 United States presidential election, Republican Congressman Paul Ryan ruefully observed: “Whenever Republicans lose an election, a factional dispute arises about ‘economic issues’ versus ‘moral or social issues.’ ‘Traditionalists’ and ‘libertarians’ blame each other, each claiming Republicans would do better without the other.”
Now some libertarians are back at it again, blaming the Republicans’ defeat in last year’s presidential election on the majority of social conservatives in the Republican Party who steadfastly uphold the natural family ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Jan, 2013 at 9:31 in
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In 2012, the conservative MP for Kitchener Centre, Stephen Woodworth, filed a modest motion proposing a re-examination of Canada’s seventeenth-century definition of human personhood in light of 21st century scientific knowledge. His motion proposed no new laws and merely recognized the fact that a 400-year-old notion of prenatal life might be a little out of date. Predictably, however, this sensible measure met with the breathless indignation and spluttering condemnation of pro-abortion pundits and opposition politicians alike. But precisely by opposing ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Jan, 2013 at 8:50 in
Announcements, Features, Fetal Rights, Politics | Author:
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Mark Warawa launches his campaign to have Parliament condemn gendercide during a Dec. 5 press conference.
Immediately after Stephen Woodworth’s M-312 was defeated in September, Conservative MP Mark Warawa (Langley) announced he was introducing a private member’s motion condemning the practice of sex-selective abortion. The motion – which expresses the view of the House of Commons and does not affect any law – states “that the House condemn discrimination against females ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Jan, 2013 at 13:22 in
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12. Moral issues prominent in Alberta election: Alberta’s Progressive Conservative government was bleeding support to the upstart and more socially conservative Wild Rose Party in the April election when leader Alison Redford attacked Wild Rose’s libertarian leader Danielle Smith for supporting conscience rights and scrapping the Alberta Human Rights Commission and tolerating so many social conservative candidates. The Tories won 61 seats with 44 per cent of the vote, down 11 seats and 8.8 per cent compared to 2008. Wild ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Jan, 2013 at 9:44 in
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Stephen Woodworth
Seldom do Canadians discuss the status of preborn life. Parliament has not examined issues associated with abortion or matters related to or touching upon it, in a substantial way, since Brian Mulroney was prime minister. But thanks to the efforts of a Conservative backbench MP, for nine months, Canadians, their political representatives, and the media talked about whether or not the current law that defines a child in the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Dec, 2012 at 13:26 in
Soconvivium | Author:
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Stephen Woodworth. An obvious choice. It is the only second time The Interim has named a Person of the Year since I've become editor in 2001. The first? Ezra Levant in 2008 when he took on the human rights commission industry. (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Nov, 2012 at 15:16 in
Abortion Law, Fetal Rights, Politics | Author:
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On Sept. 26, four Liberal MPs and more than half the Conservative caucus, including 10 members of the government, voted for M-312, Stephen Woodworth’s private member’s motion calling for a debate on the beginning of human life.
Woodworth, a Conservative MP from Kitchener Centre, hoped to launch a special committee to re-examine section 223 of Canada’s Criminal Code, which stipulates that a child only becomes a human being once he or she has fully proceeded from the womb. While pro-life leaders ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Nov, 2012 at 9:23 in
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Rona Ambrose is under fire for supporting a pro-science, pro-debate motion.
Feminist groups, the abortion lobby, and unions organized a campaign within minutes of Rona Ambrose’s vote for M-312. Ambrose, who said she is especially concerned with sex-selective abortion, was one of ten members of Stephen Harper’s cabinet who voted for Stephen Woodworth’s motion, but pro-abortionists singled the minister out for attack because she is the Minister of State (Status of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Oct, 2012 at 14:49 in
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Watching the debate on M-312 does not inspire confidence in Canadian parliamentary democracy. Those who spoke in favour of Stephen Woodworth’s private member’s motion were eloquent in their defense of why the Criminal Code definition of human being, based on a 400-year-old law, needs to be re-examined. Sadly, the opposition MPs were hysterical in their criticism of M-312 which they believe rolls back “hard-fought” “women’s rights” on abortion.
M-312 does not mention abortion, but that did not prevent the opposition MPs ... (Continue reading)
