The leaders of the G8 countries meeting in Huntsville, Ont., endorsed Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s signature Muskoka Initiative on maternal and infant health and pro-life leaders are cautiously optimistic that it will remain abortion-free despite loaded wording of the leaders’ statement. On June 26, the G8 released a statement committing the world’s rich countries -- Canada, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom -- to support “key interventions along the continuum of care” from pre-pregnancy through to ... (Continue reading)
On July 2, after four years of negotiation, the United Nations created a new agency for promoting gender equality. The General Assembly voted to combine four UN offices dedicated to women’s issues – United Nations Development Fund for Women, the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, Division for the Advancement of Women, and the Office of the Special Advisor on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women – into one entity: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality ... (Continue reading)
Parliamentary committee meetings feature roster of pro-abortion witnesses On May 10, the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women met to discuss maternal and child health. This was in accordance with its April 12 motion to study the issue “following the government’s announcement to make maternal and child health a priority at the G8 in June that Canada will be hosting.” The meeting was the third meeting regarding this motion. Five witnesses “specializing in maternal and sexual ... (Continue reading)
Following the National March for Life on May 13, more than 100 people, predominantly campus pro-life students, joined together for the 2nd annual Campus Pro-Life Student Dinner at the Mambo Nuevo Latino restaurant in the nation’s capital. The National Campus Life Network, together with University of Ottawa Students for Life (uOSFL) and Carleton Lifeline, co-organized the evening that brought together students from 16 Canadian campuses and three American campuses for networking and inspiration. The NCLN introduced its new executive director, Rebecca ... (Continue reading)
Some critics have called Harper’s decision not to include abortion in the G8 maternal health plan inconsistent, considering Canada is one of the only countries in the world to have absolutely no legal restrictions on abortion. Why refuse abortions to third world nations, yet put up no opposition to the practice in your own country? Perhaps the critics are right, but in Harper’s eyes, he is being perfectly consistent. After all, by leaving out abortion in the maternal health plan ... (Continue reading)
The pro-life community should be wary of Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court say pro-life groups, as Kagan’s past record indicates that she supports abortion and perhaps same-sex marriage. In 1997, after the Republican Congress passed a ban on partial birth abortion and before Clinton vetoed the measure, Kagan, the associate White House counsel, recommended that Clinton endorse the Daschle amendment “to prevent Congress from overriding (Clinton’s) veto.” The exceptions hidden in the amendment meant that ... (Continue reading)
In a motion that was unanimously adopted by the Québec legislature, Quebec MNAs have unanimously called on the Harper government to affirm the right to free access of abortion and to stop cutting funding for pro-choice women’s groups. They also asked “the federal government and the prime minister of Canada to put an end to the current ambiguity on this issue.” The motion was passed on May 19 by a vote of 109 - 0 and will be transferred to ... (Continue reading)
McGuinty withdraws but doesn’t nix liberalized curriculum Editor’s Note: There is sexually explicit content in this news article. On April 22, after two days of intense protest from parents and pro-family groups, Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty announced he would delay the implementation of a new sex ed curriculum to re-examine its contents. The controversy began after Rev. Charles McVety, president of Canada Christian College in Toronto, announced he was organizing a ... (Continue reading)
After controversy surrounding the federal government’s funding of Toronto Gay Pride festivities, Stephen Harper re-assigned responsibilities for the Marquee Tourism Events Program, which gave $397,500 to the homosexualist organization, to Industry Minister Tony Clement from Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism Diane Ablonczy. Pro-family organizations were outraged that the celebration of homosexuality, which often features scantily clad and naked demonstrators as well as simulated sex acts, received taxpayer dollars. This year, Clement announced that the MTEP would not grant ... (Continue reading)
Opposition says government intimidates opponents Opposition parties attacked the Harper government for defunding a dozen feminist organizations saying that the cuts in taxpayer subsidies to the special interest groups was retaliation against critics of the government’s policy to not include funding of abortion in its G8 maternal health initiative. The revelation by Liberal women’s affairs critic Anita Neville that initially 11 feminist organizations – and then 14 ... (Continue reading)
Every minute of every day one pregnant mother and 18 young children die prematurely. That is 500,000 mothers and 9 million children under the age five die annually, mostly due to preventable causes. Prime Minister Stephen Harper highlighted the issue in January and announced that during the G8 summit to be held in Huntsville, Ont., in June, he would promote an initiative that would focus narrowly on clean water, nutrition, inoculations, and safe deliveries in order to reduce maternal and ... (Continue reading)
Liberals insist Canada follow American abortion policy One week after a Liberal motion calling upon the federal government to provide for “the full range of reproductive options” in its international maternal and infant health initiative, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted that maternal health includes abortion and contraception during a visit to Canada. During a meeting of G8 foreign ministers in Gatineau, Quebec on March 29, Clinton called upon the Conservative ... (Continue reading)
Notably, social issues absent from negotiations between two left-of-center parties How We Almost Gave the Tories the Boot (The Inside Story Behind the Coalition) by Brian Topp (Lorimer, $24.95, 192 pp.) The coalition that almost usurped power from the Conservatives in the fall of 2008 seems like a distant memory in the spring of 2010, but How We Almost Gave the Tories the Boot (The Inside Story Behind the Coalition), the political memoir of one ... (Continue reading)
Keith Martin (Lib. Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca) equates abortion to life: “Why on Earth is the government not giving these women and children the option to choose life that we have in our country.” Martin also says that being pro-life requires supporting abortion: “When it comes to being pro-life, does it not mean enabling women and men to have full access to an array of family planning options, including the ability to access safe abortions in those countries where it is legal, the ability ... (Continue reading)
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