Articles Tagged ‘Abortion’
Written on 29 Jun, 2010 at 6:04 in
Abortion | Author:
Pauline Kosalka In 2007, a group of New York pro-abortion activists decided to provide doulas to women undergoing abortions. Traditionally, doulas assist women throughout the last few months of pregnancy and during labour. They do not have the same education as midwives or social workers. Rather, they provide comfort to the mother through techniques such as hand-holding, breathing, visualization or pain management.
The New York City Doula Project, however, was the first to provide these services for women going through abortions. Since then, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 May, 2010 at 6:24 in
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Paul Tuns Editor Writing in the January 2010 edition of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, a pair of Canadian medical experts called for new guidelines and practices to prevent sex-selection abortions.
Dr. Brendan Leier, a bioethicist at the University of Alberta, and Dr. Allison T. Thiele, a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Saskatchewan, note that due to the widespread use of ultrasound technology and abortion, parents, “can ensure giving birth to a child of a preferred sex for ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Mar, 2010 at 18:20 in
Abortion, Human rights | Author:
Pauline Kosalka A new report by Human Rights Watch claims that Ireland’s anti-abortion regulations are in violation of international law. According to the report, “A State of Isolation: Access to Abortion for Women in Ireland,” released on January 28, “Ireland is a party to several international human rights treaties, and has been repeatedly criticized by international treaty bodies for implementing abortion restrictions that are in violation of the human rights obligations the government has voluntarily undertaken.”
Human Rights Watch, an international non-governmental organization ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Jan, 2010 at 9:08 in
Abortion | Author:
Susan Yoshihara Special to The Interim A recent submission to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) provides evidence of the potentially fatal consequences of “safe” abortion promoted by UN agencies, and includes a list of 113 studies linking abortion dangerous complications such as pre-term birth in subsequent pregnancies.
“The encouragement by (the UN Population Fund) and (the World Health Organization) of the use of mifepristone (RU-486, Mifegyne) and misoprostol (Cytotec) as ‘safe’ abortifacients in medically resource poor nations is unconscionable” the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jan, 2010 at 19:23 in
Abortion | Author:
Jim Kaine You might ask what qualifies me to stand before you and speak on the topic of destroying life in the womb. The words I am about to speak to you are my words; they are from my heart. I am a father of two daughters and grandfather of two granddaughters.
I have a heart that is saddened when I think of the two lives that were destroyed by the decision of my two daughters to end their second pregnancies by way ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Jan, 2010 at 15:39 in
Announcements, Cover stories, Features, Population | Author:
Paul Tuns
Green activists promote one-child policy,
contraception as keys to save planet
The National Post’s Diane Francis promoted the idea of a global one-child policy in her Dec. 8, column. The article ran at the beginning of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and in it Francis, the editor-at-large of the Post’s Financial Post section, said the real environmental issue is not global warming but overpopulation. Her ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Dec, 2009 at 8:10 in
Columnist, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman
In a headline story on Nov. 8, the New York Times reported that, by voting to ban federal funding for abortion from the major health-care reform bill under consideration in the United States Congress, the House of Representatives “has energized the opponents of abortion with their biggest victory in years.”
Quite so. The $1.1 trillion House health-care reform bill proposes to extend insurance coverage to 36 million uninsured Americans ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Dec, 2009 at 8:35 in
Editorials | Author:
The health care debate in the United States has become a debate about abortion. Some advocates of health care reform are blaming pro-lifers in general and the Catholic bishops in particular for delaying and perhaps even eventually scuttling the reform bill. It is true abortion politics might end up preventing the bill from passing but that is because abortion advocates in Congress are insistent that federally subsidized insurance programs cover abortion; the Senate version even mandates increased abortion subsidies.
Rep. Bart ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Dec, 2009 at 6:22 in
Abortion, Human rights, Society & Culture | Author:
Samantha Singson
15 years after Cairo, abortion controversy rages
In October, the UN General Assembly held a high-level meeting for the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development. While some have used the anniversary to try and assess progress towards realizing the ICPD program of action, the UN Fund for Population Activities and pro-abortion non-governmental organizations have sought to use the review process to expand the ICPD understanding of “reproductive health” and its related terms to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Nov, 2009 at 7:31 in
Abortion | Author:
Interim Staff
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Louise Slaughter, chairman of the House Rules Committee, 183 Congressional representatives demanded that Congress be allowed a free vote on bipartisan pro-life measures that would prohibit government funding of abortion in health care.
The House representatives warn that in the absence of a free vote, they will do everything in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Nov, 2009 at 6:54 in
Abortion, Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor 41.6 million abortions annually, yet report frets about access
The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion think tank, has released a study which says surgical abortions decreased in 2003 from 1995 levels, but decried that abortion was not universally legal and that many women have “unsafe” abortions due to the fact the procedure is illegal or restricted in much of the developing world.
In “Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress,” Guttmacher researchers used national statistics and pro-abortion ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Oct, 2009 at 8:44 in
Abortion, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff
In an attempt to address concerns about expanding abortion coverage that might result from changes to the U.S. health care system, Senator Max Baucus (D, Montana), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, amended his proposed bill to say that abortion cannot be mandated by the Department of Health and Human Services. The change echoes an amendment proposed by Rep. Lois Capps’ (D, Calf) ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Oct, 2009 at 8:36 in
Abortion | Author:
Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor It is time to say “enough is enough” with respect to “the worst type of cannibalism you can imagine” – the use of aborted fetal cell lines in vaccines.
That was the message brought by one of the world’s leading activists on the issue, who appeared at the annual meeting of the Dunnville Right to Life organization in Dunnville, Ont. on Sept. 18. Speaking on the topic of, “Vaccines From Abortion: The Hidden Truth,” Debra Vinnedge, executive director of the Children ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 2009 at 5:09 in
Abortion, Paul Tuns, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor In the spring, the National Assembly of Quebec passed Bill 34, a law that mandated minimum safety and sanitation requirements for private health care facilities that perform surgeries. It mandated, for example, sterile operating rooms and separate ventilating systems, as well as outlined procedures to protect patients who use non-hospital facilities for medical care. In August, three Montreal abortuaries said they would stop committing abortions if the law was not amended to exempt them from the provisions.
... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 2009 at 5:01 in
Bits n' Pieces, News Bits | Author:
Canada
Nature magazine reports that most developed countries have seen fertility rates rebound after steady declines over the past 40 years, but Hans-Peter Kohler of the Population Studies Centre notes there are three exceptions: Canada, Japan and South Korea. Toronto Star columnist Carol Goar said Canada needs to follow Quebec and Europe’s lead in expanding the welfare state to become “a truly family-friendly country” by paying for childcare and generous parental leave programs … Tim Hudak’s Progressive ... (Continue reading)
