We don’t have a problem in Canada with women accessing abortions. We have a problem with women waiting to conceive, and then needing to cope with media reports of how tragic it is when women get abortions–just slower than they would have preferred. Here’s my take on this in Convivium.
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On the proposed new bubble zones around Ontario abortion clinics
Ruth Shaw and I argue in this piece that we shouldn’t limit freedom of speech or association without solid evidence. Bubble zones on public property in front of abortion clinics set a bad precedent. What do they mean for other law abiding and peaceful protests? What about protesting a corporation violating good environmental practices, or […]
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One woman’s abortion, 28 years ago
On rare occasion, the World Wide Web does something positive by bringing people together. I got an email from Jennifer Rose (not her real name) who was asking for places to go for healing after an abortion 28 years ago. Something about Jennifer’s story really resonated with me. She doesn’t have other children–her aborted child […]
Waiting women
We don’t have a problem in Canada with women accessing abortions. We have a problem with women waiting to conceive, and then needing to cope with media reports of how tragic it is when women get abortions–just slower than they would have preferred. Here’s my take on this in Convivium.
On the proposed new bubble zones around Ontario abortion clinics
Ruth Shaw and I argue in this piece that we shouldn’t limit freedom of speech or association without solid evidence. Bubble zones on public property in front of abortion clinics set a bad precedent. What do they mean for other law abiding and peaceful protests? What about protesting a corporation violating good environmental practices, or […]
Normalization via legalization
Definitely unethical, and even illegal under our current law, but you can see how legalization normalizes killing and makes people bold. Going to the hospital and having someone recommend killing is a terrible thing that no one should have to endure. This is an obvious case of discrimination against people with disabilities, but really, it could happen […]
A stabbing where someone was arrested and no one died
In this country, a baby isn’t a baby until it emerges fully from the birth canal. So what happens here? Do we have a murder, or not? The mother is in stable condition. The legal non-entity in her womb, however, is not. A newborn who was delivered by emergency C-section after its mother was stabbed […]
The Liberal hidden agenda
The Liberals are giving a close to $100 million to Congo. This includes “sexual and reproductive rights”–which I put in quotation marks because that is a meaningless phrase that generally includes abortion. What I note in this Globe and Mail article is the Minister for International Development talking about how they will offer abortion, which […]
Ontario government advertises birth control
My friend André Schutten highlighted a delightful little piece of government propaganda for me today. An ad ran before he could watch a news item and it was the Government of Ontario advertising, wait for it, birth control. You can read his blog post about it and watch the ad, here. Meanwhile, let me add […]
Good news! Ontario can no longer hide abortion data
Good news! Back in 2015 I blogged about this. Some of you may have donated to the cause, too: The Association for Reform Political Action and Run with Life blogger Pat Maloney are taking legal action against the Ontario government by challenging the constitutionality of not allowing abortion to be subject to access to information […]
Pro-life poetry
Alexandra Moldoveanu wrote a comment on PWPL and since I like to feature pro-life women, let me take this moment to link to her site, Pro-Life Poetry. Interesting concept. I don’t think of pro-lifers as poetry writers (or readers). I don’t think this, because my first point of reference is me. Not fair or right, […]
Athletes having abortions
The news broke yesterday that American sprinter Sanya Richards-Ross had an abortion two weeks before the Beijing Olympics. She regrets this and has said so publicly. I am really glad she has found healing and seems to be doing well. Here’s the thing: I don’t think it was any more or less dangerous for her to […]
Women writing about abortion who don’t regurgitate talking points
Sometimes I hear pro-choice advocates on the radio and they say things like “abortion is a settled issue.” Perhaps they believe that. Meanwhile, the only reason they are on the radio is because it’s a very heated, live issue right now, particularly in my town of Ottawa, and not at all settled. I have not seen […]
“Why Everyone Should Oppose Surrogacy”
Surrogacy advocates highlight when all goes well. But when (as was published in Toronto Life magazine) a wealthy woman pulls a poor woman out of her home, where she has four children because she is concerned not about the woman, but about the baby, we don’t hear about that. Wasser’s eye then fell upon an […]
Ottawa showing of the Euthanasia Deception
I got a chance to see this documentary in the dead of winter. Much nicer to head out on a June evening. It’s well done and presents some good information about how euthanasia works in practice, not theory, both here and abroad. Important viewing. This screening is offered by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and the […]
Women’s views on abortion
A little known fact is that women tend hold pro-life attitudes. A poll from the UK shows the following results: 70% of women would like the current time limit for abortion to be lowered 59% of women would like the abortion time limit lowered to 16 weeks or lower Only 1% want the abortion time limit […]
Let’s talk about pro-life renewal–without pointing fingers
This is a challenging column. But one I needed to read. How to advance our important cause, capitalizing off the strengths of those who went before, but also include new people? All good questions, asked by my colleague Peter Stockland. A grave statistic: Angus Reid polling data freshly published by Cardus shows 94 per cent of […]