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Written on 13 Dec, 2010 at 9:31 in
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A famous quip, attributed to Otto von Bismarck, has it that “politics is the art of the possible.” One often hears it on the lips of pragmatic politicians and savvy strategists, and, as a practical principle, this dictum is a sound and sober counsel for those actively engaged in the messy affairs of politics.
In his opening remarks at the Building a Global Culture of Life international pro-life conference in Ottawa, John Smeaton, the director of the Society for the Protection ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Dec, 2010 at 16:14 in
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According to the laws of ancient Israel, in addition to the Sabbath observed every seventh year, the people of the Lord were to celebrate a Sabbath of Sabbaths, a Jubilee year: “You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year… It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family” (Lev 25:10).
This festival ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Nov, 2010 at 7:41 in
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Following Ontario Superior Court Justice Susan Himel’s decision to throw out any restrictions on the sex trade as incompatible with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, numerous newspaper editorials called for the issue to be returned to Parliament because elected representatives, not judges should decide social policy.
The Ottawa Citizen’s own libertarian stance is that “what consenting adults do is not anyone else’s business.” They would basically like Parliament to debate and approve what Judge Himel has dictated: the decriminalization of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Oct, 2010 at 6:47 in
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Commentary Mark Wegierski Fifteen years ago this month Naomi Wolf, the prominent American feminist, published a striking article in the New Republic entitled “Rethinking Pro-Choice Rhetoric: Our Bodies, Our Souls.” Highly critical of the dehumanizing rhetoric of the pro-choice movement, Wolf argued that feminists must reject morally neutral language to describe abortion and dehumanizing euphemisms to describe the child in the womb. Feminists, Wolf argued, should accept the fact that abortion is, in her words, a “sin” which ends a human life.
The most ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Oct, 2010 at 6:43 in
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In this issue, we cover recent developments in abortion, euthanasia, and human trafficking. Abortion and euthanasia are clearly pro-life issues: both involve the termination of innocent human life. This link can be stretched to meaninglessness to include all issues, but all three quite clearly are connected to the devaluing of human beings. Abortion justifies killing by denying the humanity of the child in the womb or claiming the unborn life is meaningless. Euthanasia justifies killing by downplaying the sanctity of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Sep, 2010 at 18:24 in
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In February 2007, 24-year-old Roxanne Fernando was brutally beaten and left in a snowy ditch outside Winnipeg; she died from extensive blood loss. Roxanne’s murderer was not a violent stranger, but the man who had gotten her pregnant. She was killed for exercising a right which abortion proponents often invoke, but seldom defend: her “right” to choose. Roxanne was violently murdered because she had refused to submit to her boyfriend’s depraved demands and abort their child.
The pro-abortion movement wrapped itself ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Sep, 2010 at 18:22 in
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While Rod Bruinooge’s proposed bill lays bare the coerced context of so-called “free choice,” crisis pregnancy centres around the country help women who think they have no way to make the decision they really want: to keep their children. These centres offer expectant mothers vital information about the mental and physical consequences of abortion (which they are usually denied by the medical establishment), as well as the material assistance they need to choose life.
These centres, however, have recently come under ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Aug, 2010 at 8:22 in
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The United Nations has created a monstrous, half-billion dollar agency to promote gender equality. Merging four existing offices into the new United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, or UN Women, the international body hopes to create, in UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s words, “a stronger voice for women for gender equality at the global level.” Feminists dutifully cheered.
It is folly to think the UN does not already ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Aug, 2010 at 7:43 in
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The stories are familiar: funding for abortion being proposed as foreign aid, a vote on euthanasia, a National March for Life in Ottawa, university administrators harassing pro-life groups. Similar events have become a normal feature of the news cycle and, of themselves, bring no surprise to members of the pro-life movement. Although the headlines are familiar, the news is not— the outcome of these recent events is surprising.
Instead of being included ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jul, 2010 at 14:09 in
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This year we acknowledge an unfortunate anniversary: the infamous birth control pill – which itself has been responsible for preventing so many births – turns fifty. It was in 1960 that the Food and Drug Administration first approved the contraceptive pill for use in the United States. Nine years later, with the passing of Pierre Trudeau’s infamous Omnibus bill that also legalized abortion, contraception was decriminalized in Canada. Now, with half ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Jun, 2010 at 7:14 in
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In April, a Harris-Decima poll found that Canadians were evenly split on whether abortion should be part of the government’s maternal health initiative: 48 per cent were opposed to including abortion, while 46 per cent were in favour. However, a new poll from the same company now finds that 58 per cent say abortion should be included while just 30 per cent think it should not.
The Canadian Press reported that Megan Tam, vice president of Harris-Decima, said the shift in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jun, 2010 at 7:40 in
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There are many things to deplore about the lurid sexual education component of the new curriculum which the McGuinty has proposed for all Ontario primary schools. The ideologically-motivated attempt to pervert young children in the name of “sexual health” is, indeed, deplorable, but is also predictable: for years, social liberals have taken fringe psychoanalysts as their gurus—radicals who have exchanged the ancient medical maxim, “first, do no harm,” with their hoary ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 May, 2010 at 8:36 in
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The second Sunday of May, Mother's Day, gives families a chance to thank, honour and celebrate the people who are closest to us and who teach us how to love: our mothers. Indeed, mothers make families possible. As such, motherhood is necessary and essential for society itself. This fact, of course, is rarely acknowledged and motherhood is not highly esteemed ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 May, 2010 at 11:50 in
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Last October, Jose Ruba of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform visited the McGill University campus to present a display entitled, “Echoes of the Holocaust,” which drew parallels between the Nazi Holocaust and an atrocity which is still perpetrated and perpetuated today: abortion. As might be expected, Ruba’s presentation was disrupted by extremists intent on violating the rights that any university ought to cherish most: free inquiry, free assembly and free expression. The real scandal, however, is not that thugs ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Apr, 2010 at 12:05 in
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This May, thousands of Canadians will attend the annual National March for Life and numerous provincial marches for life. They will come from every part of the country and they will be members of every race and religion. They will come, rain or shine, to our federal and provincial capitals and will witness to the sanctity of all human life. But what good is such a witness? Why, for a 13th ... (Continue reading)
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