Articles Tagged ‘Abortion’
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Written on 15 Mar, 2013 at 10:33 in
Abortion, Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Maurice Vellacott - Saskatoon-Wanuskewin (left), Wladyslaw Lizon - Mississauga-Cooksville (centre), and Leon Benoit - Vegreville-Wainwright (right).
On January 23, three Conservative MPs wrote a letter to RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson calling for a criminal investigation into the deaths of 491 babies born alive after abortions but left to die. The deaths occurred between 2000 and 2009.
Last Fall, the Run with Life blog reported that according to official mortality numbers from Statistics ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Feb, 2013 at 9:06 in
Abortion | Author:
Paul Tuns In 1969, Parliament effectively introduced abortion-on-demand in Canada when it amended the Criminal Code to permit abortions when a hospital’s therapeutic abortion committee (TAC) deemed it necessary for the health of the mother to have one; by definition, free-standing abortion facilities that did not have these TACs were illegal. TACs were to take into account the health of the mother, but the definition of health was so broad it included emotion and psychological consideration, and any distress the mother reported ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Feb, 2013 at 19:34 in
Announcements, Columnist, Features, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Rick McGinnis While the political battle over abortion has hardened into a seemingly intractable stalemate, the pro-life side of the issue can take some small comfort in the fact that, at least on the cultural front, abortion remains a hard sell.
To be sure, secularized liberals whose support for abortion remains an article of faith almost wholly occupy the strategic high ground – the movie studios and production houses, performing arts and publishing. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Feb, 2013 at 9:16 in
Planned Parenthood | Author:
Pauline Kosalka As Planned Parenthood celebrated its 96th anniversary on October 16, Americans United for Life (AUL) released 22 backgrounders throughout the month of October that emphasized why the organization should be investigated and de-funded. AUL’s project, titled “The Planned Parenthood Exhibits: The Continuing Case for Investigating the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider,” was a follow-up to its July 7 report, “The Case for Investigating Planned Parenthood,” which helped to inspire a Congressional investigation of the organization. Dr. Charmaine Yoest, head of the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Feb, 2013 at 19:28 in
Announcements, Columnist, Features, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren Journalist for Life
It happens on a horribly regular basis. A child is abducted and killed, and often assaulted first. The media transforms the story into headline news, the community activates, the police do all that they can, but the tragedy still occurs and cuts like a razor into the flesh of our being. Such events will occur again and again because there will always be evil people in the world ... (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 1 Feb, 2013 at 11:02 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Paul Tuns Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and today is the 39th annual March for Life in Washington. I have a story on the decision and its aftermath in the February edition of the paper. It is up on the website today. (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jan, 2013 at 10:08 in
Abortion statistics | Author:
Patrick B.Craine Special to The Interim Statistics Canada
Pro-life advocates are calling for a federal investigation after Canada’s official statistics agency has confirmed that 491 babies died after they were born alive during abortions between 2000 and 2009.
Statistics Canada confirmed the information in an e-mail to LifeSiteNews. Pro-life blogger Patricia Maloney of Blog for Life first discovered the data about the abortions in the federal agency’s online database.
Mary Ellen Douglas, National Organizer for Campaign Life Coalition, called the revelation “outrageous.”
“The federal government needs ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jan, 2013 at 9:50 in
Issues | Author:
Interim Staff Planned Parenthood is facing a Canada-wide shortage of condoms after a major donor stopped supplying them to the organization for free. Ansell Canada Inc., in a program that lasted for about 10 years, supplied 30 affiliates of the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health (the Canadian version of Planned Parenthood) with free lubricants and 500,000 Lifestyles condoms.
The St. John’s, Newfoundland, branch, which received 40,000 Lifestyle condoms per year, is one of the branches that is most affected. “Our education co-ordinator brings ... (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 18 Dec, 2012 at 8:27 in
Abortion | Author:
Chris McGarry The bulk of the Baby Boom Generation came of age during a period of great social change. Unlike previous generations, the boomers, the sons and daughters of those who had sacrificed so much for their native countries during World War II, were not content to simply follow the status quo of their parents. No, the first cohort in a long time to be raised in an era of relative peace and economic stability felt a necessity to buck the established ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Nov, 2012 at 22:42 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Paul Tuns You hear about Savita Halappanavar endlessly, who supposedly died due to lack of access to legal abortion. The abortion rights movement and its media allies present the deaths of women in places where abortion is not legal as evidence that it should be permitted in order to save women's lives. However, you never hear about the women who die after procuring legal abortion, and according to Americans United for Life, last year a record 12 women died in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Nov, 2012 at 9:03 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Paul Tuns LifeSiteNews.com reports:
The UNFPA’s 2012 annual report, which declared birth control a “human right,” was released this week.
It states that UN general comments are “the authoritative interpretation of the standards” that “help translate the right to family planning at the abstract…level into policies and programs.”
Not only is birth control -- many of which are abortifacient -- declared a human right, but the United Nations Population Fund report states that religious objection to birth control is a violation ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Oct, 2012 at 11:47 in
Abortion, Health Risks | Author:
Pauline Kosalka A new study published in the European Journal of Public Health shows that women are more likely to die after having an abortion. “Reproductive history patterns and long-term mortality rates: a Danish, population-based record linkage study,” co-authored by P.K. Coleman, D.C. Reardon, and B.C. Calhoun, used records of Danish women born from 1962 to 1993 to find a relation between pregnancy outcome and mortality within a 25-year period.
Coleman, a professor of human development and family studies at Bowling Green State ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Oct, 2012 at 8:06 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Paul Tuns The Globe and Mail reports on the introduction of a bill on sex-selective abortions:
A second abortion-related motion proposed by a backbench Conservative MP could trigger a new debate about the parameters of a woman’s right to choose in Canada.
Andrea Mrozek responds:
The debate is here. It has not been triggered anew, it is simply here. For many of us, it’s been here for a long while. So we all ought to get used to this ... (Continue reading)
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