Universities are supposed to be bastions for free speech providing space for intellectual liberty to flourish without hindrance. While this has not always manifested in recent times it was great to read this week in review from National Campus Life Network. Conversations are taking place in...
Roadside memorials are commonplace alongside many thoroughfares in Canada. They serve as respectful reminders of people who once were alive, and are now gone. Last week a local group in Elgin County, ON set up a massive memorial along Hwy. 3 just outside of Aylmer. The...
It is encouraging to have gestational laws endorsed by elected representatives. Jonathon Van Maren of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform interviews Saskatoon—Wanuskewin Member of Parliament Maurice Vellacott on the politics of abortion in Canada. Mr. Vellacott makes it very clear that he supports a gestational...
This is great! Remember last year when pro-life ads started appearing on Halifax transit shelters? It was a simple, but powerful ad sponsored by Signs4Life. The sign showed a photo of a newborn accompanied by the phrase, "Luc was born today but his life began nine...
"We need one issue candidates. One issue candidates are good. William Wilberforce was a single issue candidate." These words are not my own. They came from the mouth of, wait for it...
From the Director's desk. Mike talks about some of the things he is working on this week. {youtube}ivdd262_Ljw{/youtube}...
In what is becoming an eerily familiar pattern, another story late last week of a woman forced to having an abortion because the fetus was a female. Samira (not her real name) agreed to tell her story to The Independent after they had run a series...
The caption says, “If abortion providers were obliged to ask women whether their decision was freely made, Charlotte Dawson might still be alive today.” Charlotte Dawson (pictured) was an Australian supermodel whose life spiraled into depression and ended when she committed suicide last week. Ms. Dawson’s...
By Niki Devereaux Two countries, two families, two babies and two very different outcomes. Last November a woman in Texas who was 14 weeks pregnant experienced a suspected pulmonary embolism. About a month later, a woman in Victoria, British Columbia suffered from a fluke random blood leak...
"I don’t think a late-term abortion law would prevent any abortions because abortionists would simply lie about the age of the pre-born child. And, aren’t late-term abortion so rare anyway?" Such a statement is not uncommon to be heard from the mouths of those opposed to...
