Articles Tagged ‘Abortion’
Written on 29 Sep, 2011 at 11:41 in
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Pauline Kosalka The United Kingdom’s Department of Health (DoH) released detailed statistics about eugenic abortions several years after a pro-life group demanded the information. The UK-based ProLife Alliance filed a Freedom of Information request in February 2005 for more information about abortions due to fetal health. “Previously, this information had been readily available and the DoH was increasingly providing even greater detail in its annual abortion statistics, until one case for cleft palate abortion post 24 weeks became the focus of media ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Jul, 2011 at 8:32 in
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Pauline Kosalka and Paul Tuns While pro-lifers are rightly concerned primarily about abortion because it takes the life of an innocent human being in its earliest and most vulnerable stages, it has also long been clear that abortion harms women and society, too. The victims of abortion, those that pay a price for the easy destruction of the unborn through abortion-on-demand, go far beyond the womb. Multiple studies have shown that abortion has a fundamental impact ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 May, 2011 at 9:22 in
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Pauline Kosalka But pro-lifers say the comparison is accurate
The University of Calgary pro-life group is facing a backlash over a display comparing abortion to genocide. Campus Pro-Life erected a new display in late March behind a glass case at the university’s Student Centre. It consists of 290 pairs of baby shoes, symbolizing the 290 Canadian children that die from abortion every day. A small picture of the shoes of Holocaust victims in concentration camps and accompanying text links abortion to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 May, 2011 at 8:59 in
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Pauline Kosalka A pro-life billboard in Manhattan was taken down on Feb. 24 owing to its controversial but truthful content. The huge ad showed a black girl with the words “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.” The poster was part of an advertising campaign by the pro-life organization, Life Always, directing viewers to the website ThatsAbortion.com. It was displayed in the SoHo neighbourhood, half a mile away ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Apr, 2011 at 11:26 in
Abortion, Announcements, Donald DeMarco, Features | Author:
Donald DeMarco Abortion requires obfuscation, cannot survive the Truth
Ten days after Remembrance Day (November 21, 2010), the Toronto Star, Canada’s highest-circulation newspaper, ran a massive four-page “Insight” feature explaining how an abortionist can reconcile his strong support for “women’s rights” with his personal life. One might imagine a future Remembrance Day when the unborn are remembered and memorialized. Major John McCrae’s celebrated poem could equally apply to the unborn as to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Mar, 2011 at 17:12 in
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Mark Steyn Special to The Interim As I was leaving Fox News last night, I glanced up at the monitor and caught Juan Williams expressing mystification to Sean Hannity as to why Republicans in Congress were wasting the country’s time on a “little thing” like abortion.
Gee, I dunno. Maybe it’s something to do with a mass murderer in Pennsylvania, or Planned Parenthood clinics facilitating the sex trafficking of minors. From the Office of the District Attorney in Philadelphia (Grand Jury report Investigation of Women’s Medical Society):
Viable ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Mar, 2011 at 16:40 in
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On Jan. 29, the National Post ran a full-page feature article on the causes of death in Canada. Most of it was a graphic presentation, using proportionate-sized circles, showing how people died in 1967 and 2007. The National Post article stated, “Death is life’s one and only inevitable event, and it comes in many ways – officially, there are 999 causes.” However, as Interim reader and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 Dec, 2010 at 14:25 in
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Pauline Kosalka Paper also promotes Stephen Lewis, abortion, condom advocate
Abortionist Henry Morgentaler was featured on Oct. 26 in a Globe and Mail series celebrating Canadians who made a difference. The Report on Business section’s 11-week “25 making a difference” series presented “transformational Canadians” in “the fields of business, science and technology, the environment, education, health care and community.” The series also includes environmental activists, politicians, business leaders, and philanthropists such as ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Aug, 2010 at 6:22 in
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Cardinal Ouellet of the Archdiocese of Quebec probably did not expect to ignite a controversy when he spoke at a pro-life conference in May and reiterated long-held Catholic teaching on abortion. Yet within days, journalists, feminist groups and politicians across the province were expressing anger and indignation at the cardinal’s statements, in which he declared his opposition to abortion in all cases, including rape.
In answer to a reporter’s question, Ouellet had said, “The child is not responsible for how he ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Aug, 2010 at 6:43 in
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Paul Tuns 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)
Written on 29 Jun, 2010 at 6:04 in
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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
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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
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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
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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)
