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Written on 23 Oct, 2012 at 7:36 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Youth Activism | Author:
Pauline Kosalka | Viewed
Alexandra Jezierski organized Letters for Life
A Grade 12 student achieved her goal of sending 100,000 letters to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and MPs asking them to support Motion-312. Alexandra Jezierski from Kingsville, Ont., launched the campaign to support MP Stephen Woodworth’s private members motion that would start a debate on when human life begins. Her inspiration was the Teenage Life Club in the United States, a group of teenage girls aiming ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Oct, 2012 at 7:30 in
Fetal Rights, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns | Viewed
When MP Stephen Woodworth addressed the Kitchener Pro-Life Forum, he was given rock-star treatment, getting a standing ovation when he was introduced. The applause was an acknowledgement of his work bringing forward for debate a private member`s bill, M-312, which if passed would require Parliament to re-examine the Criminal Code definition of human being using modern scientific evidence. Currently, Section 223 (1) of the Code says that a preborn child does not become a human being until it has fully ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Oct, 2012 at 15:01 in
Pro-Life | Author:
Interim Staff | Viewed
Interim editor Paul Tuns said The Interim will outlast the CBC or Globe and Mail.
In September, Campaign Life Coalition held local forums in two Ontario cities, Kitchener and Ajax, with another scheduled for northern Ontario in mid-October. The events are a way to give local pro-life activists a chance to hear pro-life leaders and experts in an near-by and inexpensive venue.
On Sept. 15, more than 50 area activists attended the Kitchener ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Oct, 2012 at 14:52 in
Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns | Viewed
Photo of MP Stephen Woodworth talking about M-312 to the Kitchener pro-Life Forum
On Sept. 21, in front of a packed gallery, the second hour of debate for Stephen Woodworth’s (CPC, Kitchener Centre) private member’s motion, M-312, took place in the House of Commons. Woodworth was joined by several Conservative colleagues calling for Parliament to set up a special committee that would examine the Criminal Code definition of human being in the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Sep, 2012 at 12:21 in
Bits n' Pieces | Author:
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Canada
Political pundit Lawrence Martin wrote two columns for iPolitics.com and the Globe and Mail focusing on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “evangelical creed as being at the root of much of Conservative policy-making” in which he compared Harper’s membership in the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church to “Mackenzie King’s table-rapping séances and spiritualism” … Womanspace is launching an initiative to attack M-312, a private member’s motion put forward by Stephen Woodworth (CPC, Kitchener-Center) which if passed would ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Sep, 2012 at 10:33 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Paul Tuns | Viewed
LifeSiteNews.com has coverage of the debate on M-312 yesterday that took place over an hour on a Friday afternoon to a packed gallery (so much for no one caring about this issue). It is remarkable that some politicians are afraid of having Parliament examine modern scientific evidence about life before birth to see whether the 400-year-old legal definition of human being in the Criminal Code needs amending. Section 223(1) of the Code states that a child in the womb ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Sep, 2012 at 6:01 in
Abortion Law, Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns | Viewed
The Christian Heritage Party of Canada issued a position paper outlining its support for various incremental measures to restrict abortion to offer guidance in what it seems as the best ways to limit abortion in Canada on route to eventually eliminating it. The document, signed by party leader Jim Hnatiuk and deputy leader Rod Taylor reiterates the party’s “unequivocal and unwavering defense of innocent human life from conception to natural death” as ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Sep, 2012 at 11:11 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Paul Tuns | Viewed
The pro-abortion Radical Handmaids have invited people to join them for a M-312 Debate Viewing Party which includes a drinking game for watching the parliamentary debate. Note that the party is at the Canadian Union of Postal Workers boardroom at their offices in downtown Ottawa.
M-312 is not "anti-choice" as the Radical Handmaids contend. M-312 does not mention abortion. It does not mention reproduction at all. Stephen Woodworth is simply asking Parliament to examine the scientific evidence of when human ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Sep, 2012 at 17:33 in
Fetal Rights, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns | Viewed
The Canadian Medical Association, the largest association of doctors in the country, voted August 15 to maintain the current wording of the Criminal Code definition of human being and oppose M-312, a private member’s bill that would require Parliament to examine scientific evidence as to whether the child in the womb is a human being and the human rights and Criminal Code ramifications of those findings.
Delegates to the CMA’s 145th annual general meeting in Yellowknife voted on the motion opposing ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Aug, 2012 at 14:02 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Paul Tuns | Viewed
Campaign Life Coalition's Matthew Wojciechowski addresses the news that the Canadian Medical Association has urged defeat of M-312. He says, "A 'medical association' doesn’t want to debate 'medical and scientific evidence' on something that is so central to their profession; human life." That's because the CMA is fully committed to legal abortion, and has been for a long-time.
What is interesting is that they are so committed to abortion that not only are they willing to shut ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 Aug, 2012 at 10:18 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Paul Tuns | Viewed
I was going to make this point but Campaign Life Coalition's Matthew Wojciechowski beat me to it: Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he will follow the science only when its convenient. Here's Harper on the Northern Gateway pipeline: “The only way that governments can handle controversial projects of this manner is to ensure that things are evaluated on an independent basis scientifically, and not simply on political criteria.” But when it comes to Stephen Woodworth's motion, M-312, that would ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Aug, 2012 at 6:40 in
Abortion Law, Announcements, Features | Author:
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For decades, the pro-life movement has experienced division; sometimes over strategy, sometimes over principles. It is of no use to assign blame or rehash old arguments. People of goodwill can differ over tactics and strategy, but on principles it becomes more difficult to countenance disagreement. On the (once again) difficult issue of gestational limits to abortion, as a way of reducing abortion, The Interim will offer its two cents as something ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2012 at 7:40 in
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Canada
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada released a position statement saying they were “troubled” by Stephen Woodworth’s private member’s motion, M-312, which is passed will have a Parliamentary committee examine the scientific evidence as to whether the child in the womb is a human being with an eye to amending Section 223 of the Criminal Code definition that says it is not a human being until fully proceeded from the womb. The SOGC claims ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2012 at 7:39 in
Fetal Rights | Author:
Paul Tuns | Viewed
In early June both the Globe and Mail and Toronto Sun reported that Prime Minister Stephen Harper was pressuring Conservative MPs to vote against Stephen Woodworth’s private member’s motion calling upon Parliament to create a select committee to examine the modern scientific and medical evidence regarding preborn life and the human rights implications of those findings. The Criminal Code says that a child in the womb is not a human being and that she does not become so until proceeding ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2012 at 18:41 in
Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Commentary Pauline Kosalka | Viewed
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen this level of outrage from women,” said Carolyn Egan, spokesman and pro-abortion activist for the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, in a press release regarding MP Stephen Woodworth’s introduction of a motion to create a committee to re-examine whether an unborn child should be considered as a legal person under the Criminal Code. “Women are fed up with these not-so-subtle attacks on their fundamental ... (Continue reading)
