Women’s Health

01 Aug 2014 The politics of false mercy

Posted in Human Rights, Politics, Pro-life, Women's Health

According to a recent poll conducted by Angus Reid, Canadians are divided on the need for abortion laws in this country. This is not a new revelation; polls taken over the past number of years have shown similar results. There will always be slight changes...

21 Jul 2014 The importance of words

Posted in Action Items, Pro-life, Women's Health

The correct use of words is always important in the debate over abortion. I remember working on a pro-life campaign brochure a few years ago with a volunteer. I'll never forget him telling me it took about fourteen hours to come up with the exact assembly...

17 Jul 2014 Online abortion memorial in its second year

Posted in Abortion, Pro-life, Women's Health

Our campaign exists to bring awareness of the lack of protection for pre-born children, but there are more lives affected by abortion than that of the child. When a woman decides to have an abortion she may have made the decision jointly with her partner,...

08 Jul 2014 Do doctors have the right to refuse patients?

Posted in Abortion, Action Items, Human Rights, Late-Term Abortion, News, Women's Health

Joan Chand'oiseau, a 45 year old mother of three was shocked to find out that the doctor on duty at a Calgary walk-in clinic did not prescribe the birth control pill. Kate Desjardins, a 25-year-old from Ottawa entered a walk-in clinic earlier this year to have...

26 Jun 2014 Piercings and abortion: parental consent

Posted in Abortion, Human Rights, Politics, Pro-life, Women's Health

"We're quite outraged that all of this happened -- and shocked it was that easy." The above statement was said by a father in Winnipeg (read article here). Do you think he was talking about abortion? No, he was talking about a belly button piercing. This...

26 Jun 2014 Repeating untruths doesn’t make them true

Posted in Abortion, Human Rights, Women's Health

This post by Patricia Maloney was originally posted at Run With Life and we have been given permission to reproduce it here. Frankly, this is tiring: Joyce Arthur working reality into a fictional story on abortion in Canada. Does she ever give it a rest? Apparently not. I've...

25 Jun 2014 Abortion does not empower women

Posted in Abortion, Pro-life, Women's Health

Have you ever been told that abortion is "empowering"? That somehow by giving women the choice to kill their child, they are experiencing a level of empowerment unparalleled to anything else a woman could accomplish? Apparently murder is now synonymous with feeling empowered. Truth be...

24 Jun 2014 Check this out from Valley Against Abortion

Posted in Action Items, Events, Human Rights, Women's Health

It's been great to see different billboards and ads going up across the country. We'd like to give a shout-out to Valley Against Abortion for this great bus bench ad out in BC! The momentum continues and as more people spend time outdoors this summer, it's...

18 Jun 2014 Why we need a law: Sarah’s story

Posted in Abortion, International Standards Abortion Law, Late-Term Abortion, Women's Health

The following is a guest blog by Sarah Hekert. When my husband and I got married, we were told that we probably would never naturally conceive a child. It was possible, but the chances were slim. My husband was diagnosed with a rare condition called MEN...

10 Jun 2014 This is not surprising

Posted in Abortion, Pro-life, Women's Health

Even though it should not surprise us, it is still disturbing to know that more men than women support abortion. I came across this article today and I agree with the author's analysis. She says, We have to consider the possibility that perhaps women are not...