Abortion
Written on 20 Aug, 2006 at 9:27 in
Abortion, Issues | Author:
Hilary White
Reporter
In the intenational media furor surrounding East Timor’s recent resumption of political unrest, what has often gone unremarked is the fact that the tiny, embattled nation has an overwhelmingly Catholic majority population with deeply conservative social values.
East Timor’s Christian social values have been under attack for decades, first from invasion by the Islamic Indonesian state ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Aug, 2006 at 9:26 in
Abortion | Author:
Paul Tuns
Editor
On June 21, Liberal MP Paul Steckle (Huron-Bruce, Ont.) introduced Bill C-338, an Act to Amend the Criminal Code (procuring a miscarriage after 20 weeks of gestation), in the House of Commons. In doing so, Steckle noted that Canada is one of the few countries that have absolutely no legal protection for the unborn.
Steckle’s bill would ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Aug, 2006 at 9:21 in
Abortion, Morgentaler | Author:
Paul Tuns
Editor
Many stories come across the desk (and computer) that make their way into this paper. Many, many more don’t. It is a difficult decision sometimes figuring out what gets substantial coverage, what deserves analysis or commentary or an editorial, what gets a news brief and what ends up as a sentence or two in the Bits ‘n’ Pieces section on page two. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Aug, 2006 at 9:19 in
Abortion, Abortion Law | Author:
Steve Jalsevac
The Interim
Interim editor Paul Tuns’s article last month, “Chipping away at abortion,” explained the logic of pro-life incremental strategies in the battle against abortion. The article brings to mind constantly resurfacing, bitter and unsupportable charges by some individuals that the nation’s pro-life organizations have opposed such strategies and persistently followed a self-defeating “all-or-nothing” approach. This, they say, has resulted in the deaths of many ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 2006 at 11:51 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Columnist | Author:
Doreen Beagan
A recent flyer depicted a nesting hen saying, “We’ll pray for you,” and a pig saying, “We love you”. It described a vegetarian diet as “compassionate, noble” and spoke of “the gruesome sacrifice of billions of our sweet domestic animals.”
Each year in Canada, there’s a more gruesome sacrifice of 100,000 sweet ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 2006 at 11:46 in
Abortion, Post-abortion and Health Care | Author:
By Theresa Smyth
Family and Society Reporter
A woman’s decision to abort due to gestational breast cancer is popularly termed the “hardest case,” but to pro-life researcher Joel Brind, PhD, that perception is actually the “cruelest myth of all.” Abortion has not been shown to help a mother with breast cancer, nor has a mother’s breast cancer been shown to harm her unborn child. Indeed, evidence has emerged ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 2006 at 11:37 in
Abortion | Author:
Paul Tuns
Editor
Amnesty International Canada is joining the global human rights watchdog’s New Zealand and British branches in advocating for abortion.
During its annual general meeting May 27-28, the Canadian branch endorsed a proposal by international headquarters, asking if Amnesty International should begin advocating for a global right to abortion. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 2006 at 11:36 in
Abortion, Abortion statistics, Equal Rights | Author:
Theresa Smyth
Family and Society Reporter
The Canadian disgrace of sex-selection abortion is receiving less attention than pollution, though both may cause skewed boy-girl ratios in particular communities and both are matters of public health and justice. The normal birth ratio is 105 males to 100 females and large deviations are cause for concern. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 2006 at 11:32 in
Abortion, Activism | Author:
Doreen Beagan
The Interim
In mid-May, Fredericton’s Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital unexpectedly announced it no longer has the necessary staff or resources to commit abortions. This announcement galvanized abortion supporters - Henry Morgentaler, for example, renewed his call for the New Brunswick government to pay for abortions at his site.
Rosella Melanson, executive director of the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 2006 at 11:29 in
Abortion, Editorials, Equal Rights | Author:
The recent, disturbing news uncovered by Western Standard magazine that sex selection abortions are taking place in Canada is quite simply the inevitable result of the abortion-on-demand ideology that has taken hold in this country, thanks in large part to the agitation of feminist zealots in co-operation with certain other influential and powerful elements that have a grip on key power points here. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jun, 2006 at 12:13 in
Abortion, Events, Sex Education, Society & Culture | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
The current, troubled moral state of the Western world vindicates the predictions of the late Pope Paul VI in the 1960s concerning what would happen if the use of contraception became widespread, says one of the world’s leading scholars on the issue.
Speaking at the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jun, 2006 at 12:10 in
Abortion, Post-abortion and Health Care | Author:
Interim Staff
On the morning of the March for Life, breast surgeon Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, clinical assistant professor of surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey and co-founder of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, explained the biological reasons for the link between abortion and breast cancer, noting the physiological changes ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jun, 2006 at 12:09 in
Abortion, Pro-Life | Author:
Doreen Beagan
Increasing numbers of couples from across the Maritimes visit private sonogram clinics in the United States for three-dimensional ultrasound photos of their unborn babies. They can’t get photos of their unborn babies at home, because most Canadian hospitals refuse to perform non-medical ultrasounds, often because of the cost.
Nova Scotians Tracey Gray and John ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jun, 2006 at 12:08 in
Abortion | Author:
Interim Staff
June 30 will be the last day that abortions will be committed in New Brunswick hospitals, after Fredericton’s Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital announced that it would cease committing them on that date. Pro-lifers are applauding the move, saying they expect the number of abortions committed in the province to continue to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jun, 2006 at 12:05 in
Abortion, Activism | Author:
Jon Dykstra
“Hey, what’s with the shirt? What’s Abort73.com?”
“I could tell you, but better yet, why don’t you go online and check it out?”
On school campuses across ... (Continue reading)
