Articles Tagged ‘abortion law’
Written on 6 May, 2013 at 10:00 in
Abortion Law, Fetal Rights | Author:
Paul Tuns Mark Warawa did not take the decision to nix his private member’s motion condemning sex-selective abortion laying down. After the sub-committee on private member’s business deemed M-408 non-votable on March 21 claiming the House of Commons already dealt with a similar issue earlier this Parliament and that it infringed on provincial jurisdiction, the Langley, British Columbia, Conservative MP attempted to speak about his bill on the House floor but was prevented from doing so by Chief Government Whip Gordon O’Connor.
It ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 7:30 in
Abortion Law, Politics | Author:
Patrick Craine and Paul Tuns MP Mark Warawa’s motion to condemn sex-selection abortion was declared non-votable March 21 in the ongoing joint effort by Canada’s Conservative government and opposition parties to keep the abortion debate out of Parliament.
The question was brought up unexpectedly at the Sub-Committee on Private Members’ Business on the day the government released its budget for 2013, meaning parliamentary reporters are “locked up” and unavailable to report on the issue.
The sub-committee vote, believed to be at the instigation of the Prime Minister’s ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Apr, 2013 at 16:10 in
Abortion Law, Editorials | Author:
Some nine months after our in-depth examination of the issue of gestational limits to abortion, we continue to receive correspondence on the issue. We don’t want to beat a dead horse because our position is well-known: aside from the semantic and philosophical arguments for or against gestational or other time limits on abortion, The Interim does not think this flawed incremental approach works. That is, by the standard of our critics – pragmatism – gestational limits fail.
We have no illusion ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Feb, 2013 at 12:30 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Oswald Clark I've written here before about Governor Andrew Cuomo's aggressive attempt to make New York State the most pro-abortion state in America and S438-2013. National Review Online editorializes against Cuomo's abortion-expanding Reproductive Health Act:
The anodyne-sounding “Reproductive Health Act” is a very bad proposal indeed. Where it regulates, it regulates the wrong parties in the wrong way. But it also deregulates with equal disregard: It would among other things allow persons other than physicians to perform abortions. That ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jan, 2013 at 10:10 in
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Pauline Kosalka The reporter who broke the story that set off a storm of worldwide criticism of Ireland’s abortion laws is questioning Praveen Halappanavar’s account of the death of his wife, Savita. Kitty Holland reported in the Nov. 14 edition of the Irish Times that Praveen claimed his wife requested an abortion and was denied one because the child had a heartbeat and “this is a Catholic country.” Although the article stated that Savita died of septicaemia and E. coli ESBL, the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jan, 2013 at 22:40 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Oswald Clark The New York state senate will consider S438-2013, legislation proposed to expand abortion services in the Empire State, and supported by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who will likely run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. Cardinal Timothy Dolan has condemned the bill and the Catholic Conference has issued a document with point-by-point criticism of the bill. According to Americans United for Life, NY already is among the states with the most permissive abortion laws. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Dec, 2012 at 11:30 in
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Pauline Kosalka The death of a pregnant woman has led to international media coverage as abortion advocates condemn Ireland’s ban on abortion. Savita Halappanavar died on Oct. 28 at University College Hospital in Galway from septicaemia after a miscarriage. The case is now being investigated by the hospital and Ireland’s Health and Safety Executive.
Halappanavar’s husband, Praveen, told the media that on Oct. 20, his wife had experienced back pain and asked if the baby could be aborted. The request was denied. The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Nov, 2012 at 14:59 in
Announcements, Features, Fetal Rights, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Mark Warawa wants Parliament to condemn gendercide.
On Sept. 26, immediately following the defeat of M-312 in a House vote, Conservative MP Mark Warawa (Langley) announced he would introduce Motion 408 which condemns sex-selective abortion, which will likely come up for debate in early 2013.
Warawa, an MP since 2004, introduced his motion on a topic that has garnered increased media attention over the past year, with the Society of Obstetricians ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Nov, 2012 at 15:16 in
Abortion Law, Fetal Rights, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns On Sept. 26, four Liberal MPs and more than half the Conservative caucus, including 10 members of the government, voted for M-312, Stephen Woodworth’s private member’s motion calling for a debate on the beginning of human life.
Woodworth, a Conservative MP from Kitchener Centre, hoped to launch a special committee to re-examine section 223 of Canada’s Criminal Code, which stipulates that a child only becomes a human being once he or she has fully proceeded from the womb. While pro-life leaders ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Oct, 2012 at 7:36 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Youth Activism | Author:
Pauline Kosalka 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 16 Oct, 2012 at 14:42 in
Abortion, Announcements, Features | Author:
Jim Hughes There are no shortcuts to eliminating abortion
Jim Hughes
More than 30 years ago, when I was still “wet behind the ears” in terms of my knowledge of the pro-life movement, I joined the fledgling pro-life organization Campaign Life (Canada). During the ensuing years I earned an education that was founded on a bedrock principle that all human life is sacred.
This new organization, with its mandate to work in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Sep, 2012 at 6:01 in
Abortion Law, Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns 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 24 Aug, 2012 at 6:34 in
Activism, Society & Culture | Author:
John-Henry Westen Special to The Interim Canada Day celebrations in the nation’s capital were given a new twist this year as youth activists with the New Abortion Caravan descended on Ottawa with billboard-size abortion images. At 2 pm on June 30, they formed a funeral procession and delivered a white child’s coffin to 24 Sussex Drive – the residence of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
“Today we are presenting Prime Minister Harper, as the elected leader of our country, with ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Aug, 2012 at 8:35 in
Abortion Law, Announcements, Features | Author:
Editor’s Note: We asked more than 15 pro-life groups, organizations, and leaders to answer two questions:
Do you support gestational limits* on abortion. Would you like to state why? (* for the purpose of this survey, gestational limits means restricting abortion after a certain point, whether by trimester or some other time period.)
What kinds of incremental measures do you support. If yes, can you give an example? If no, why?
We originally also ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Aug, 2012 at 9:06 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Paul Tuns The cover feature of the August Interim is on gestational limits. We surveyed pro-life leaders and groups and asked if they supported incrementalism (which can be a good thing) and specifically gestational limits (which we think are a bad idea). That survey will appear online shortly. Today we've posed a special editorial that we ran alongside the survey in the paper's centerspread, as opposed to the usual page four slot on our editorial page. In it we lay out our ... (Continue reading)
