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Pro-Life Champions — obligatory Super Bowl post
Information about the American Life League ad from 1987. That was 23 years before Tim Tebow and his mom made headlines about the abortion issue. (Continue reading)
Planned Parenthood and ‘choice’
John McCormack of the Weekly Standard has a good piece looking at the whole Susan G. Komen Foundation ending its support to Planned Parenthood (to the tune of about $600,000) which shouldn't really be a controversy. PP claims that they aren't just about abortion and that terminating pregnancies is only about 3% of their business as measured by the services they provide. But as McCormack points out, abortion contributes 38% to PP's bottom line; if you asked the average ... (Continue reading)
McGinnis on Hollywood pedo-scandal
Rick McGinnis writes in the January Interim about a pedophilia scandal in Hollywood. Properly speaking the real scandal is how little attention the scandal of child abuse in Hollywood receives. As McGinnis says: More than any other business, Hollywood is a place where talent, youth and beauty are exploited, with a premium paid for all three. It’s also an industry that’s learned to shield itself from criticism by celebrating its venal and amoral customs with skilful self-parody, so ... (Continue reading)
GOP politics & 39 years of Roe
Yesterday marked the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision which made abortion-on-demand the law of the land in America. Today hundreds of thousands will march in the nation's capital to demand justice for the unborn. Rick Santorum has an article in the Wall Street Journal about abortion. Santorum, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination and has been a steadfast defender of the unborn in his public life, says: We don't judge hearts but we ... (Continue reading)
Pro-choice is a misnomer
National Post columnist Lorne Gunter explains why pro-choice advocates are actually pro-abortion: The default position of pro-choicers, whether or not they frame it this way themselves, amounts to a belief that abortion is always the right choice for women who have given it even a moment’s consideration. Once a woman has so much as considered the possibility of abortion, any effort to change her mind – or even just to give her more information to consider – is an attempt ... (Continue reading)
Porn becomes passe?
Susannah Breslin writes in Slate's The XX Factor blog: TMZ reports the San Fernando Valley-based adult production company Vivid Entertainment has offered Nadya Suleman $1 million to star in an adult movie. Taken at face value, this story is all kinds of wrong. How the story of a freak-mother has twisted itself into a tale of a would-be MILF? OctoMILF? is beyond the scope of my limited brain capacity. Whatever those parties involved or not ... (Continue reading)
Ron Paul reaches out to pro-life voters
You could take a cynical view of this new Ron Paul video and see it as an attempt to win over evangelical/Religious Right voters in the Iowa Republican caucus (and other primary voters assuming he is still in the race as a legitimate contender past New Hampshire), but it is a very good advertisement: the personal stories about his being a doctor who delivers babies, the testimony of others appreciating his Christianity, and women praising the fact that Washington D.C. hasn't changed him. ... (Continue reading)
Storseth’s HRC bill
It's one of our top stories in the December issue: "Bill would delete human rights commission hate speech provisions." The vote on this could come next month. If it does, it looks like the bill will pass. (Continue reading)
Christopher Hitchens, RIP
Christopher Hitchens has died. He will probably be remembered for two things: as a Man of the Left, he broke with other liberals and supported (to use the euphemism) the War on Terror and he was an annoyingly preachy, intolerant, and adolescent atheist. Yet, he was so much more than that, including an exceptional literary critic and principled liberal who stood with the victims of oppression everywhere. He wasn't like most on the Right and the Left who only care the victims ... (Continue reading)
Pro-aborts using Tebow to raise money for abortion
LifeSiteNews.com reports that Sophia at the Abortion Gang blog suggested readers donate $5 or $10 to a local pro-abortion group every time Tim Tebow scores a touchdown. Considering Tebow's public Christian and pro-life witness, I applaud their sense of humour and ingenuity, but what is it about Tim Tebow that elicits the reaction he does. His team is doing well and depending on the football metric he is either pretty darn good (83.9 Passer Rating, 11:2 TDs to interception ratio, ... (Continue reading)
Maple Leaf tickets pro-life fundraiser
Campaign Life Coalition is auctioning pairs of tickets for four Toronto Maple Leaf games against the Winnipeg Jets (January 5), Montreal Canadiens (January 21), Edmonton Oilers (February 6), and Canadiens (February 11). During the Feb. 11 Leafs-Canadiens game, former Leaf great Matt Sundin's jersey will be raised to the rafters as his number is officially retired by the team. These would make a great Christmas gift for hockey fans and the proceeds go to support Canada's pro-life efforts. The ... (Continue reading)
7 billion people
Our December cover story offers a Cornucopean take on the world's 7 billion people. There is no such thing as overpopulation -- just more people, and as editor Paul Tuns notes in the article: Whether by abortion or contraception, population control fanatics think the solution to the problem of famine, global warming, or war is fewer people. But why eliminate the babies. Population growth is the result not of too many babies being born but an ever-increasing ... (Continue reading)
Following the science … to the pro-life position
One of the more annoying criticisms of conservatives from the Left is that they are ideological and won't "follow the science" as if "science" should free us from making moral distinctions. What the Left seems to be saying on any issue from supposed climate change to embryonic stem cell research to how to deal with crime is that the state should permit what is possible or the social science research -- which isn't "science" -- suggests works. "Science" says temperatures are rising and therefore ... (Continue reading)
Maternal health — Canada doing it right (without abortion)
The Globe and Mail interviewed Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Heath Organization, about maternal health. Nowhere was abortion mentioned despite the Opposition's insistence in 2010 that maternal health included abortion, but I found this interesting: Q: Are Canadians using their money in a smart way? A: I think the Canadian government’s investment in overseas development is smart, investing in the areas with the greatest return on investment. Why do I say that? Women are an important ... (Continue reading)
The indignity of IVF
Our lead November editorial is on in vitro fertilization. We conclude our editorial addressing a seeming paradox (to some) that IVF is not pro-life -- which is commonly misunderstood because it results in a baby: The pro-life movement’s unflinching opposition to IVF may seem, to some, as backward as certain Christian sects’ prohibition against blood transfusions. But it is not. Rather, we insist upon the dignity of human life – the act that engenders it and the promise ... (Continue reading)
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