Abortion statistics
Written on 4 Dec, 2005 at 7:35 in
Abortion, Abortion statistics, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns
Paul Tuns
The Interim
Polling conducted by Environics Research in October has yet again confirmed that the vast majority of Canadians are opposed to the status quo on abortion. Currently, abortion is legal and easily available for any reason, for all nine months of pregnancy, at taxpayers’ expense.
The LifeCanada-sponsored poll ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Sep, 2005 at 14:33 in
Abortion statistics, Pro-Life | Author:
Interim Staff
Two recent polls indicate that Americans in general favour specific pro-life measures and that women are becoming more pro-life.
In a national poll, the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute found that 70 per cent of repsondents favored “a 24-hour waiting period for women seeking an ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Sep, 2005 at 13:18 in
Abortion statistics | Author:
Terry Vanderheyden
Terry Vanderheyden
The Interim
A new analysis from a pro-abortion group, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, shows that U.S. abortion rates continued to decline in 2001 and 2002, although the rate of decline slowed since the early 1990s. The Institute estimated that 1,303,000 abortions took place in the United States in 2001 – 0.8 per cent fewer ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 2005 at 12:16 in
Abortion statistics | Author:
Interim Staff
Statistics Canada released figures for the number of abortions committed in 2002, the latest year for which such statistics are available. Official figures show the lives of 105,154 unborn children were killed by abortion in 2002, down one per cent from 106,270 in 2001. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Mar, 2005 at 18:00 in
Abortion, Abortion statistics, Columnist, Frank Kennedy | Author:
Frank Kennedy
Queen's Park
Ever since I quit smoking other people's cigarettes over 30 years ago, I've been known to be dead against smoking. I think that's why I was recently offered the job of managing the new Smoke Police Department. I accepted it. A gentleman known only as Zorba, a deputy in the office of the ... (Continue reading)
Giuseppe Gori
Special to The Interim
Ten times more women are dying today, as a result of abortion, than in 1972. How is this possible, if legal abortion has reduced the fatality rate by 10 times as a result of the procedure being committed ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 Dec, 2004 at 9:39 in
Abortion, Abortion statistics | Author:
Dina Kok In October, Statistics Canada released a report suggesting that teen pregnancy rates from 2001 are down a third from rates in 1974. The study also suggested that not only are fewer teens getting pregnant, but also many Canadian women are waiting until their careers are in place before starting families.
Statistics Canada reported that in 2001, the teen ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Nov, 2004 at 14:53 in
Abortion statistics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff
According to a LifeCanada-sponsored Environics poll, more than two-thirds of Canadians want abortion restricted or prohibited, informed consent and the public defunding of abortion.
The poll also indicates that support for the pro-life position on several abortion-related issues, including informed consent and taxpayer-funding of abortion, is going up across the board.
Joanne Byfield, president of LifeCanada, revealed to the National Pro-Life Conference in Winnipeg that 68 per cent of respondents favoured some legal protection before ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Aug, 2004 at 10:15 in
Abortion statistics, Columnist, Donald DeMarco | Author:
Donald DeMarco
Members of the pro-life movement are always eager to embrace encouraging news. A recent Gallup Youth Survey (Nov. 24, 2003), conducted through a scientific methodology to ensure a representative sample of the U.S. population, showed that 72 per cent of youth between 13 and 17 believe that abortion is morally wrong. An elated Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said, "We're winning the struggle for hearts and minds. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Aug, 2004 at 9:41 in
Abortion statistics, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns Joseph Goebbels said that if you tell a lie often enough, everyone will believe it. While I won't accuse the Canadian media and political elites of lying, I think they have repeatedly made a mistaken assumption so often that they honestly believe it.
It is a truism among many political journalists, backroom strategists and senior party officials that holding socially conservative views is a political albatross. But whatever they may believe about abortion ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Jul, 2004 at 15:28 in
Abortion, Abortion statistics, Society & Culture | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
Tony Gosgnach
The Interim
One of the world's top researchers into life issues made a tour of southern Ontario recently, offering information and strategies to combat the anti-life agenda - a particularly timely topic, given the federal election campaign and the prominence given to abortion within it.
Dr. Brian Clowes included a Basic Pro-Life Training Workshop in Hamilton as part of his agenda, in addition to appearing on the Toronto-based ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 May, 2004 at 9:40 in
Abortion, Abortion statistics | Author:
Fr. Ted Colleton
Faith and Life
For more than a year the daily newspapers have been giving accounts of the death of people in Iraq. The number of military casualties due to the war are not available, or at least not accurately, but one website suggests the total number of combatants and non-combatants as somewhere between 11,000 and 15,000. This is certainly tragic news and the members of their families - wives, parents, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 May, 2004 at 8:52 in
Abortion statistics | Author:
Interim StaffOn March 31, Statistics Canada released information showing that Canadian women committed 106,418 in 2001.
The 106,418, which CLC National News compares to eliminating a mid-sized city each year, is added to the more than 2 million abortions committed in Canada since 1960.
The statistics reveal that almost one-quarter of all Canadian pregnancies end in abortion, or, for every three babies born, one is killed.
Jim Hughes, national president ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Dec, 2003 at 13:12 in
Abortion statistics | Author:
By Joanne Byfield
The Interim
'Serious reservations' about abortion,
stem cell research and absence of consent laws
A poll released in November by LifeCanada, the national educational pro-life group, showed that ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 2003 at 13:06 in
Abortion statistics, Editorials | Author:
The Interim was founded because the mainstream media ignored the pro-life message of former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson while he was in Toronto. Twenty years later, the mainstream media is still ignoring life issues. Two recent examples illustrate this journalistic black hole.
On March 28, Statistics Canada released the national abortion numbers, not including those committed in private abortuaries in Ontario. Campaign Life Coalition sent out a ... (Continue reading)
