Britain’s Royal College of Psychiatrists, in a statement released on March 14 urged that women should not be allowed to have abortions until they are counseled on the procedure’s risks to their mental health. The College recommended adding details about the risks of depression to abortion leaflets. “Consent cannot be informed,” it claimed, “without the provision of adequate and appropriate information.” More than 90 per cent of ... (Continue reading)
Sweet Smell of Roses At urbandictionary.com, the definitions of “pro-life” include the following: “An idealistic position acknowledging that from a scientific point of view, human life begins at conception and thus, human rights should extend to the unborn. Because this (conviction) also assumes personal responsibility, it is widely despised.” We aren’t told who is allegedly shirking responsibility; the poster is probably referring to prospective parents.... (Continue reading)
Long-held code of silence broken to mark Supreme Court decision In the past two months, there have been a number of pro-life articles appearing in national and local newspapers, particularly the National Post. Generally no friend to the pro-life movement, the media have generally skirted the issue. Last spring, the National Post ran a gingerly worded article called, “The A-word” that touched ... (Continue reading)
1. All three were shaped and grounded in a Christian faith tradition that informed how they lived and engaged human events. 2. Each was prepared to call evil by its right name, to refuse it legitimacy and to resist it. 3. Their understandings of human nature were grounded in the Imago Dei (or something very much like it) and its attendant dignity, in an understanding of human failings and of the possibility of redemption and remediation. For the pope, this translated into ... (Continue reading)
Whose fault is it that there is so little Christian ownership of media in North America? Whose fault is it that there is so little Christian involvement in newsrooms in North America? Whose fault is it that there is so little Christian influence in all the major cultural institutions in North America? It's the Christians' own fault. ... (Continue reading)
The latest trend in medical t ourism is surrogate motherhood by Indian women, and reports say that ethical problems include the reinforcement of the local caste system. Not only are women in the developing world attempting pregnancy for the benefit of client parents in the West, the $200 million-per-year industry has brought dramatic changes to a handful of unskilled poor women, without bringing fundamental changes to their countries' social structure. The development has been covered in the United States by CBS ... (Continue reading)
Public demands are growing for more judicial accountability They say time heals all wounds, but it's not the case for the parent of a murdered child. Nevertheless, until this past April, Doug De Patie had somehow grown accustomed to the heartache, the anger and the sense of horror that entered his life in March 2005, when his son was killed. Coming to grips with the loss had been especially difficult because of the ... (Continue reading)
Heavy television watching parallels a decline in moral values and a sense of personal responsibility, a new study by the Culture and Media Institute of the Media Research Centre has found. In a new Special Report entitled, “The Media Assault on American Values,” released by the CMI June 6, a clear correlation was shown to exist between an increase in the number of hours a ... (Continue reading)
An attempt to force a lower age of consent for homosexual sex in Canada has failed at the committee stage, after Canadian MPs rejected two proposed amendments to a bill scheduled to come before the House of Commons in early May. Bill C-22 was introduced by the Conservative government to raise the age of consent for heterosexual sex to ... (Continue reading)
If demography is destiny, this country is in trouble In March, Statistics Canada released a report on Canada’s population that provided a very sobering picture. Well, it would be sobering, if Canadians woke up to the reality that we are not having enough children and that in doing so, we risk ... (Continue reading)
Dr. Miriam Grossman isn’t pro-life yet. She doesn’t know that “emergency contraception” can end a pregnancy. She also doesn’t know that abortion is always wrong, even when “neutral healing ground” is offered for recovery. No, Grossman isn’t pro-life yet – but her book is already a boon to pro-lifers. A UCLA campus psychiatrist who ... (Continue reading)
Civil liberties association steps into fray The Canadian Civil Liberties Association unexpectedly entered a battle for freedom of speech on the abortion issue, acting as intervenor on behalf of a Saskatchewan nurse sued for demonstrating against abortion. ... (Continue reading)
For years, we social conservatives have complained about the liberal bias in the media and the lack of coverage of issues of concern to us. And so we threw up our hands and sucked it up, figuring there was nothing we could do about it. In this day and age, we no longer have an excuse.... (Continue reading)
For far too long, the interests of the “vital centre” of Canadian society have been neglected. The term vital centre, while borrowed from American liberal thought, takes on a much different meaning in social conservative thinking. By vital centre I mean the real social mainstream – those decent, honest and hardworking people of whatever class, religion or ethnic background on whom the real perpetuation of our ... (Continue reading)
Notwithstanding inconclusive evaluations of its success, Liberal party leader Stephane Dion has praised Vancouver’s supervised drug injection facility and promised that as prime minister, he would support mayors of other cities who want to establish similar projects. Relying on favourable information from the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS – including a notable study from November 2006 – Dion made ... (Continue reading)
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