Articles Tagged ‘Pro-Life’
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Written on 22 May, 2013 at 8:50 in
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Paul Tuns Jim Hughes, Paul Formby and Earl Amyotte at the founding of the Pro-Life Party of Canada.
On May 25, 1978, a group of pro-lifers, upset with the compromise mentality of the Coalition for the Protection of Human Life, met in Winnipeg to form a new national political pro-life organization. The Coalition had presented a paper ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 9:42 in
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Pauline Kosalka Planned Parenthood recently decided to abandon the term “pro-choice,” saying abortion as too complex to be split into two opposing sides. The switch has led some pro-lifers to debate the best way to describe the pro-life movement.
Labels matter for both accuracy and public relations. The way the media frames the issue can influence how people view the two sides of the issue. For years, the media favoured abortion advocates with the ostensibly positive term “pro-choice” while seldom calling abortion opponents ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 7:36 in
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Pauline Kosalka When then 12-year-old Lia Mills posted her speech about abortion on YouTube, she got millions of news.
The pro-life movement has taken advantage of the rising popularity of social media to spread its message and gain supporters. During the U.S. March for Life in January 2013, pro-lifers used these platforms to spread information and report on the event attended by hundreds of thousands of participants, which the mainstream media ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 7:16 in
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Paul Tuns and John-Henry Westen Pope Francis
The conclave has selected a pontiff likely to follow in the footsteps of his recent predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI as a vocal defender of life and family. On the fifth ballot on the second day of the gathering of the cardinals in the Vatican, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was selected the next head of the Roman Catholic Church. He chose Francis as his ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Apr, 2013 at 10:18 in
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Paul Tuns The term test-tube babies seems so 1980s. IVF -- in vitro fertilization -- is now the commonly used term. Less fearful, less sci-fi, less judgmental. IVF is in the news again because Sir Robert Edwards, the pioneering British test tube baby-creating doctor died this past week. Robert George has a good piece in the Wall Street Journal about Edwards' legacy and why pro-lifers should care about IVF. George writes:
For many of Edwards's critics, his legacy is irredeemably ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 2013 at 9:00 in
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Pauline Kosalka Conceived in rape Rebecca Kiessling is critical of the rape exception tolerated by some pro-lifers.
The issue of abortion and rape was brought to the forefront with the failed candidacies of Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock during the American general election, and the Democratic exploitation of their gaffes. Akin, a Republican Senate candidate and outgoing congressman in Missouri, set off a media firestorm when asked last Summer on KTVI-TV about his ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Feb, 2013 at 11:02 in
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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 1 Jan, 2013 at 11:17 in
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Interim Staff To help mark Fr. Alphonse de Valk’s retirement as editor of Catholic Insight, Campaign Life Coalition reprinted the historian-priest’s landmark book, Morality and the Law in Canadian Politics: The Abortion Controversy. Fr. de Valk wrote the book in 1974 and as Interim editor Paul Tuns says in a forthcoming review of Morality and the Law in Canadian Politics, it retells “the story of the agitation to change Canada’s prohibition of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Dec, 2012 at 11:33 in
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Pauline Kosalka The awarding of the Diamond Jubilee medal to Mary Wagner and Linda Gibbons, two pro-lifers jailed for counselling within the “bubble zones” of abortion facilities, has caused public controversy. In a statement, Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott, who nominated Wagner and Gibbons for the medals, said that they “are trying to protect defenceless, voiceless human beings in the womb from butchery and death, and trying to let vulnerable women know that ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Dec, 2012 at 11:18 in
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CHAPTER IX
Summary of Positions
The politics of abortion had advanced to what some believed to be its final stage: the debate in parliament and its enactment into law. Positions had been stated and solidified; yet, a certain uneasiness remained, perhaps because few people really understood exactly what had been set in motion. After 1969, of course, an increased radicalization and polarization would occur as each side began to understand its position better.
As late as 1968 there ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Dec, 2012 at 13:26 in
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Paul Tuns Stephen Woodworth. An obvious choice. It is the only second time The Interim has named a Person of the Year since I've become editor in 2001. The first? Ezra Levant in 2008 when he took on the human rights commission industry. (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Dec, 2012 at 10:53 in
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Pauline Kosalka The new building that houses Right to Life Kent.
A pro-life organization in Chatham in southwestern Ontario has roared back to life after its office was destroyed by a fire. Right to Life Kent, forced to rejuvenate itself, has now moved into its own building and provides more services geared towards women in need and youth outreach, and its number of clients and participants is growing.
On March 10, 2011, Right to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Dec, 2012 at 13:55 in
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Paul Tuns As LifeSiteNews.com reports, a group of students at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia are suing their school's student association after it rejected their application to form an officially sanctioned pro-life club. LSN reports: "The student union has adopted an officially pro-abortion stance, an increasingly common occurrence on Canadian campuses. They claim recognizing a pro-life club would violate policy."
Sadly, such stories are far from rare. In the December edition of The Interim, we cover the new report from ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Dec, 2012 at 9:47 in
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Paul Tuns Carleton pro-life student Ruth Lobo was arrested in 2010.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has released its 2012 Campus Freedom Index which measures and rates the state of free speech at Canadian universities and gives 28 F grades and just three As. The JCCF’s Index, and an accompanying longer report, The State of Campus Free Speech in 2012, examines 35 universities and student unions across Canada to measure both ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 Nov, 2012 at 9:18 in
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Paul Tuns In October, we ran a feature story on the Democrats fully embracing its Party of Death status, running on an extreme pro-abortion position. As Rory Leishman noted in his column, for pro-life and pro-family voters in the United States, the choice between the candidates (Mitt Romney and Barack Obama) is clear. I also have a review of several books that show Obama is 1) not competent to be president and 2) a dangerous radical. I conclude:... (Continue reading)
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