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CBC Interviews Pro-Woman Pro-Life Founder, Andrea Mrozek

June 24, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment


Click on the image to play the CBC interview with Andrea Mrozek about the overturning of Roe v Wade and the newly formed coalition of women who are celebrating the fall of Roe.

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Newly Formed Coalition of Women Celebrate the End of Roe v Wade

June 24, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Press Release:

It’s been almost one hundred years since the infamous Person’s Case in Canada that inspired the simple headline: Women are Persons. That case reminds us that too often it takes a long time to correct bad law. Waiting for the Supreme Court in the United States to release their final decision about Roe v. Wade caused three Canadian women to consider how long overdue, it is that this bad law be overturned. Three unaffiliated women, Jakki Jeffs, Executive Director of Alliance for Life Ontario, Tabitha Ewert, Legal Counsel for We Need A Law, and Andrea Mrozek, Senior Fellow at Cardus and creator of ProWomanProLife.org led the charge to make it clear that pro-life women exist en masse in Canada and we want our voices to be heard.

We decided to aim for an initial one hundred women to sign our statement on why it is encouraging that Roe v Wade be overturned. While this is an American decision with no bearing on Canadian law, we are aware that this decision will be discussed in Canada. We await the day that no living person be denied personhood, born or preborn, male or female and every pregnant woman has access to life affirming help in her community.

One hundred women signed easily and quickly. Sailing through that goal we now go public seeking a thousand and then a hundred thousand signatures of women across Canada, unaffiliated but for the purpose of saying we unabashedly applaud the overturning of Roe v Wade.

“It’s emotional for me. For so many women, who feel underrepresented in the public square, the fall of Roe is deeply significant and encouraging,” said Andrea Mrozek. “While there remains a long way to go in making abortion unthinkable, this is a very encouraging step, and long overdue, Women deserve way better than abortion,” said Jakki Jeffs. “Roe was very bad law, based on a fabricated right to privacy,” said Tabitha Ewert. “On that basis alone, it could not stand, and the court was right to overturn it,” she added.

It is the hope of this limited coalition that the voices of pro-life women would be heard. Other women who wish to sign on can do so by going here.

We are non-religious, non-partisan and non-sectarian and stand united in opposition to abortion. One hundred women, seeking personhood, for all, so that one hundred years from the personhood case, the voices of all, with or without power in the world, might be heard.

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Contact:  

Andrea Mrozek – 613.241.4500 ext..503

Tabitha Ewert – 604 220 1258

Jakki Jeffs – 519 820 3399 (cell) 519 821 9604 (office)

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A Statement on Roe v Wade from Pro-Life Women in Canada

June 21, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Today the US Supreme Court officially released a decision overruling Roe v. Wade. While this is an American decision with no implication for Canadian law, some politicians north of the border have already politicized the issue. For all of the undersigned women, however, overturning bad law marks a point of immense encouragement. We speak out because those leaders who defend abortion do not speak for us. We speak out in defence of all human beings from their biological beginnings until death. We speak out because defending and advocating for women also means defending and advocating for our preborn children.

The following outlines some of what we believe as regards the possibility of overturning Roe v. Wade:

  • Roe v Wade was bad law because it fabricated a constitutional right that did not exist.
  • Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey aided the falsehood that women need abortion in order to achieve equality with men. This had the consequence of idealizing male biology and pressuring women to mimic a man’s ability to walk away from sex seemingly consequence free while, for many of them, still facing the horrendous consequences of abortion.
  • Women’s ability to be pregnant and carry a child is not a disability to overcome, but a reality to treasure.
  • A woman who has made the choice to end her pregnancy understands how difficult this can be.
  • Supporting “a right to choose” both ignores what that choice entails and does nothing to address the circumstances that led to that decision, but instead allows society to ignore them. By supporting women’s choices in the abstract, we minimize the very real difficulties women face and discourage real solutions.
  • There is much more work to do for the pro-life community and society at large to truly support women. We need to change hearts, allay fears, and provide courage alongside practical and emotional support. This work is ongoing and will continue.
  • Social and cultural change is needed to allow for the well being of both mother and child alongside attaining legal protection for every human life from its biological beginnings until natural death.
  • It is a good thing when unjust laws are overturned. Therefore, we are deeply encouraged and hopeful that future laws will no longer adhere to an immoral, reprehensible standard that harmed so many women and men and killed so many children.

We, the undersigned, are women who stand united in opposition to abortion. We see the end of Roe v Wade as encouraging, yet find our voices inadequately represented in the public square. We pledge to ensure that this changes in the future as we make this joint statement.

 

Contacts

Tabitha Ewert – 604 220 1258
Jakki Jeffs – 519 820 3399 (cell) 519 821 9604 (office)
Andrea Mrozek – 613.241.4500 ext. 503

Current Signatories

The following 301 women have signed up. The list will be updated daily.

  • Albertha Bosch - Mother of Three, Director of Communications (ON)
  • Amanda Overduin - Mother (ON)
  • Anna Kim - Mother (ON)
  • Anna Nienhuis - Policy Analyst & Editor (BC)
  • Annette VanGrootheest  - (ON)
  • Audrey Lemieux - Mother, Educator (ON )
  • Aura Zamora - Disabled Mother (ON)
  • Betty Ann Braun - Musician (BC)
  • Betty Barrett - Mother-of 3 - GrandMother- of 7  Great GrandMother  of 14 (ON)
  • Bobbi-Jo Haynes - Mother (ON)
  • Carmel Dear - CCBR Intern (BC)
  • Carol Gaboury - prefered to add no title (ON)
  • Caroline Heikoop - Mother (AB)
  • Charmaine Van Maren - Editor, Mother (ON)
  • Cheryl Roberts - Mother & Retired Nurse (AB)
  • Cheryl Schatz - Mother (BC)
  • Cindy Kwok - Nurse (ON)
  • Clara Creglia - (ON)
  • Deborah Woelders - Mother, grandmother, Administrator/Board Member (BC)
  • Denise Chun - Mother and Teacher (ON)
  • Diane Watts - Researcher (ON)
  • Dianne Wood - Mother, Grandmother (N/A)
  • Didi Andrews - Mother (N/A)
  • Dolores Mckernan - Mother (ON)
  • Doreen Yung - Mother, Therapist (BC)
  • Dorothea Charters - Mother (ON)
  • Dr. Jane M Hosdil - BSc, MD (ON)
  • Ebelien Wattel - (ON)
  • Eileen Ramsay - Mother, Grandmother, Retired Insurance Broker (ON)
  • Elizabeth Smith - Teacher (ON)
  • Elyse Vroom - Office Manager (BC)
  • Ena Malvern - Mother (ON )
  • Evelyn Nieuwenhuis - Mother/Teacher (ON)
  • Faye Sonier - Lawyer (ON)
  • Georgine Willemsma - mother (ON)
  • Gilberte McGrath - Great Grandmother (ON)
  • Ginny Roth - Mother and Public Affairs Consultant (ON)
  • Hannah Van Manen - Mother (ON)
  • Heather Berghuis - Teacher (ON)
  • Helena Fleming - (ON)
  • Iry Lee - Mother (ON)
  • Janet Desroches - Mother, retired social worker (ON)
  • Janice Fiamengo - Retired university professor (BC)
  • Jean Gairdner - Mother, grandmother (ON)
  • Jeanette Van Ginkel - Mother/Nurse (ON)
  • Jeanne Lefebvre - (AB)
  • Jeanne Maxim - Mother, grandmother (AB)
  • Jennifer Darwent-Amato - (N/A)
  • Jennifer Snell - Mother RN (ON)
  • Jessica Campbell  - (MB )
  • Joanna Simpson - Mother, Retired Business Woman (ON)
  • Joanne Byfield - Mother, Grandmother, Journalist (AB)
  • Johanne Brownrigg - Mother (ON)
  • Judy De Martin - Mother (ON)
  • Kateri Keras - Volunteer Coordinator (BC)
  • Kathleen Braden - Aerospace Engineer, Capt (Ret'd) (ON)
  • Kathleen Denninger - Aunt, Godmother, Children's Caregiver (N/A)
  • Krista Huver - Teacher (ON)
  • Kristin Swaving  - Mother, prolife advocate (ON)
  • Laura Klassen - anti-abortion activist (ON)
  • Laurena Hensel - (BC)
  • Laurenne Wattel - (ON)
  • Linda Smith - Mother, Teacher (BC)
  • Luz Gálvez - Mother (N/A)
  • Lydia VandeStroet - Student (AB)
  • Maaike Rosendal - Mother and International Pro-life Speaker (ON)
  • Madeleine Roberts - Student (ON)
  • Marcia McGuire - Mother, lawyer (ON)
  • Marie Connolly - Mother (N/A)
  • Marielle Pion - Wife (ON)
  • Marilyn Langlois - Mother, Grandmother, retired EA (ON)
  • Mary Togretz - (ON)
  • MaryAnne Brown - Mother/Educator (ON)
  • Maureen Charron - 71 year old mom & grammy because my mom refused to let the doctors abort me for her health (N/A)
  • Maureen Ward - Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandmother (ON)
  • Melanie Miedema - Wife, Mother, Nurse (ON)
  • Miranda King - Pro-life Activist (ON)
  • Mrs Cathy Kroeker - Grandmother (MB )
  • Muriel Mccash - (N/A)
  • Natalie Sonnen - Mother, educator, former executive director of LifeCanada (BC)
  • Nathalie Casey - Mother (QC)
  • Nathene Arthur - Musician, teacher (AB)
  • Netty Vanleeuwen - Mother, Foster Parent (ON)
  • Nicole Scheidl - Lawyer (ON)
  • Patricia Maloney - Mother, RunWithLife blogger (ON)
  • Patricia Sky - Dept Head Special Education Emeritus (ON)
  • Rachel Di Fonzo - Mother, Grandmother (ON)
  • Regina Gedge - Mother, Grandmother of Adopted Child (ON)
  • Ria Vanleeuwen - Mother (ON)
  • Ruthann Attia - Mother (ON)
  • Sara Chang - Daughter, Writer (BC)
  • Sharlene Reinink - (ON)
  • Sharon Pasivirta - Mother/Grandmother (BC)
  • Sockee Mendiola - Grandmother (N/A)
  • Sophie McGuire - MA (ON)
  • Stephanie Gray Connors - Mother, author, public speaker (N/A)
  • Suzanne Atkinson - Mother and Grandmother (ON)
  • Teresa Borda-Chan - Mother (ON)
  • Teresa Chan - Accountant (ON)
  • Theresa Kim - Educator (ON)
  • Tracy Sedens - Mother (AB)
  • Trish Smith - Mother, teacher (ON)
  • Ulrika Drevniok - (BC)
  • Vanessa Otten - Human Rights Advocate (ON)
  • Vicki Gunn - Executive Director CHP Canada (ON)
  • Y. R. Grossi - Mother, Grandmother (ON)
  • Nicola Bartel - Executive Director of Mercy Canada (BC)
  • Julie Smulski - Mother (ON)
  • Ann M - Mother, Grandmother, Former RN (N/A)
  • Diane Pamenter - Wife, Mother, Grandmother (N/A)
  • Stella Mott - Mother, Teacher (N/A)
  • Melinda Burns - (N/A)
  • Follie Vanleeuwen - Mother (N/A)
  • Debbie Swaving - Mother, Grandmother (ON)
  • Judy Hannaford - Retired trade-show owner (AB)
  • Nicole Pletz - Mother, Home Stager (ON)
  • Nicola Bartel - Executive Director: Non Profit Charity (BC)
  • Cathy Dienesch - Executive Assistant (ON)
  • Gloria Faber - Mother (BC)
  • Tershia Lambrechts - Grandmother (BC)
  • Camilla Gunnarson - Small business owner (ON)
  • Laurie J - Consultant (BC)
  • Kristin Zekveld - Teacher (ON)
  • Rachel Cannon - Mom (BC)
  • Katelyn - Mom and teacher (BC)
  • Ewert Esther - Mother (BC)
  • Sandy Vroom - Mother (BC)
  • Marian Meinen Gagne - Mother, grandmother (ON)
  • Norah Madden - Mother, retired Teacher (ON)
  • Vanessa Montague - Anti-abortion activist (ON)
  • Vanessa Montague - Anti-abortion activist (ON)
  • Hannah Balogh - Stay at home mom (BC)
  • Hannah Gutjahr - Mother (BC)
  • Suzanne Fortin - (ON)
  • Elizabeth Tanguay - Labour and Delivery nurse (ON)
  • Martha DeGelder - Retired (AB)
  • Corinna Bulthuis - Mother (BC)
  • Debbie Wilker - Social Worker (BC)
  • Robyn Campbell - Mother (AB)
  • Angie Kohlen - Retired (BC)
  • Lauren Darroch - Marketing professional and author (MB)
  • Rachel B - Mom (BC)
  • Pauline Bulthuis - Homemaker (BC)
  • Carol Baker - Mother/Grandmother/Systems Analyst (AB)
  • Michelle Archibald - (AB)
  • Sheila Harding - Physician (SK)
  • Caroline Noorloos - Mom of 7 ???? (ON)
  • Brenda Lobbezoo - Mom/homemaker (AB)
  • Ebelien - E.A. (ON)
  • Colleen Pritchett - (BC)
  • ML McPherson - Ret RN (ON)
  • Melissa McCracken - Mother (AB)
  • Esther VanManen - Mother, wife and Business partner (ON)
  • Janice Jordaan - Ward Clerk (MB)
  • Sarah Martin - (AB)
  • Trinity Thibault - University Student (SK)
  • Courtney - (ON)
  • Laura Hudson - Stay at home mom (AB)
  • Kristine Stringham - Mother/Masters student (AB)
  • Hannah Gutjahr - Mother (BC)
  • Jaclyn Fixsen - Nurse, mom (AB)
  • Jared Ayer - HR professional (ON)
  • BEHRENZ CHANDRA - Registration Clerk (SK)
  • Dorothy Wilchynski - (SK)
  • Janet Baker - (AB)
  • Devin Vanleeuwen - Daycare Worker (ON)
  • Caroline VanGrootheest - mother, grandmother, daughter, teacher (ON)
  • Debbie Ouwersloot - Personal Support worker and SAHM (ON)
  • LAUREN POORT - Nursery Owner (ON)
  • Christina Hopman - Teaxher (AB)
  • F De Vuyst - retired teacher and mother (BC)
  • Charlotte Kamminga - Homemaker, Mother, Crafter (MB)
  • Darcy Engel - Retired Healthcare worker (SK)
  • Trevor Mintz - Farmer (SK)
  • Irene Baron - Mom, cleaner (ON)
  • Debbie Hipkiss - Receptionist (AB)
  • erika vossebelt - Post secondary Student (AB)
  • Lena Schuck - Mom of 8 (SK)
  • Sheila Van Delft - Teacher (BC)
  • Sara Wiegers - Mom (AB)
  • Jackie Vossebelt - Mom (AB)
  • Zofia Broniek - Mother ,Grandmother. (ON)
  • Jean Greer - (NB)
  • jean greer - Grandmother (AB)
  • Melissa Van Den Assem - Small business owner, customer service representative (ON)
  • Janelle Vossebelt - (AB)
  • Maria Sajan - Student (ON)
  • Taunia Phillips - Catholic teacher (ON)
  • Kathie Garahan - Mother, Pro-Life Activist (ON)
  • Anna M - ECE, mother, farmer (ON)
  • Naomi LeBlanc - Pro-Life Activist (ON)
  • Lyne Archambault - Retired (QC)
  • Marijke Ezinga - Homemaker (BC)
  • Carol Brandt - ECE III (MB)
  • Stephanie Lorinda Vanderpol - MOM (BC)
  • Louisa Steele - mother (AB)
  • Anne Booker - Mother (SK)
  • Lorraine Milne - Business Owner and mother of 4 (ON)
  • Joanne DeBoer - Mom (MB)
  • Leanne Van den Bosch - Mom, bookkeeper (BC)
  • Heidi Riley - Mother of 6 and Homeschool educator (SK)
  • ODonnell Sonya - Momma (ON)
  • Bronwyn Gray - Grad Student (BC)
  • Leanne Kikkert - Mom and poultry manager (ON)
  • Anne Grace - Student at university (ON)
  • C Thompson - Self employed (ON)
  • Deanna Belanger - Mother (AB)
  • Catharine Klop - Teacher (BC)
  • Rhonda Vandenbos - Administration (MB)
  • Babette Zach6 - Receptionist (MB)
  • Julia Oswald - Mom (AB)
  • Kathryn Van\'t Foort - Mother (BC)
  • Jamie Den Boer - Homeschool mom (AB)
  • Samantha Leonard - Teacher (ON)
  • Hannah Z - Educator and Mom (MB)
  • Hannah Z - Educator and Mom (MB)
  • Barb VanRaalte - Mom and Grandma (AB)
  • Denyse I O\'Leary - science writer (BC)
  • Anna Marchand - Wife, friend, aunt (ON)
  • Jeanette Devries - Mom and Bookkeeper (BC)
  • Jess Van Warby - (ON)
  • Kirsten Bethlehem - (ON)
  • Joanne Voorhorst - Mom and farmer’s wife (AB)
  • Petra ter Haar - Mom/grandma (BC)
  • Maggie Van Seters - Mom (BC)
  • Maggie Van Seters - Mom (BC)
  • Emma I - Teacher (SK)
  • Mary-Alice Boyer - Accountant, mom, grandmother (BC)
  • Marilyn Phillips - Mother, Grandmother, Musician (SK)
  • Grace Post - Grandmom (BC)
  • Marlene Borchardt - Wife and mother (SK)
  • Mary-Ann Van Den Assem - Mom (ON)
  • Anita Vermeulen - Mother and grandmother to many blessings (ON)
  • Jennifer Tucker - (ON)
  • Marlene Guliker - Mom (BC)
  • Lorraine Bolton - (ON)
  • Yoli - Pro-life advocate - mother, grandmother, sister, aunt (ON)
  • Lorraine F Young - Mother and Grandmother (AB)
  • Cindy Kuntz - Mom and Grandma (AB)
  • Christine Bos - Mom (ON)
  • Sylvia Schouten - Teacher and Mom (ON)
  • Jessica Veldman - Mom (AB)
  • Anna - Grandma (BC)
  • John Cameron Towler - (ON)
  • John Cameron Towler - (ON)
  • Michelle Dick - Mother of 4 on earth, 1 in heaven (BC)
  • Marian S - Mom (AB)
  • Jessica Kerr - (AB)
  • CHERYL MACDONALD - MOTHER & GRANDMOTHER/RETIRED SECRETARIAL/CURRENT FARM LABOURER/SEAMSTRESS (ON)
  • Ann Stevenson - Elder Care (AB)
  • Catherine Benoza - Mother & Educator (ON)
  • Lisa Van Maren - Mother and grandmother (ON)
  • Maureen K. - Mother and Teacher (BC)
  • Sue Doerksen - (MB)
  • Stacey - Teacher (BC)
  • Ashley Klyn - Mom (ON)
  • Ann Staines - Retired (ON)
  • Angelina Jans - Educational Assistant (ON)
  • Ashley Scholefield - Icu RN (SK)
  • Farren Roy - Housewife, mother of 7. (SK)
  • Sibylle VP - Mom of 6 (ON)
  • Anne Booker - Mother (SK)
  • Valerie Edwards - Mother and Retired Registered Now urse (SK)
  • neil Block - (SK)
  • Janet Vander Kooi - Pastor’s wife, mother of 7, mother-in-love to 7, grandma to 13+, 3✝️ (AB)
  • Angela Hulst - Administrator (AB)
  • Pauline MacDonald - Mother and grandmother (ON)
  • Rachel R. - Author (NS)
  • Retired teacher - (ON)
  • Kim Currie - (ON)
  • Ruth Pallek - (ON)
  • Margaret Dykstra - (BC)
  • Sylvia - Domestic engineer (AB)
  • Lise W - Data analyst & mother of 2 (ON)
  • Jeannette Lee - Church Custodian. Retired Medical Laboratory Technologist (ON)
  • Suzanne Rose - Mother (AB)
  • Kim Richter - Mom (AB)
  • Josie B - Mom of two (BC)
  • Carmella S - Homemaker and Mother (BC)
  • Leona VandenBrink - Teacher (AB)
  • Meagan Zylstra - Receptionist (MB)
  • Evelyn O Cortes - (ON)
  • cynthia onerwater - mom (BC)
  • Mary Riendeau - (SK)
  • Amy Benton - Daycare Teacher (BC)
  • Olivia Blair - Homeschool Mom (AB)
  • Elly Oskam - Homemaker, Church Administration (AB)
  • Diane Dengler - Retired (SK)
  • Cindy Geiger - Retired Senior Mom Grandma Wife (AB)
  • Kim - Nurse/Mother (AB)
  • Sandra Vanderveen - Grandmother (BC)
  • Marijke Vanderveen - Mother (BC)
  • Angela Hulst - Administrator (AB)
  • Yvonne Slaney - Personal support worker (ON)
  • David Dombowsky - General Contractor (SK)
  • Catherine D. - Mother, Wife, Human Services (AB)
  • Annette Veenendaal - Mom (MB)
  • Ruth Trekofski - Retired (BC)
  • Ray Blaze - Actor, security guard (QC)
  • Boeve Jane - Self employed (BC)
  • Laurie Eberhardt - Mother, Operations Manager. Priests For Life Canada (ON)

 

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The Mythical Gender Dichotomy in the Abortion Debate

June 7, 2022 by Lia Milousis Leave a Comment

Last summer, I was privileged to listen in on two fascinating online debates between pro-life and pro-choice activists.

The first debate was hosted by Harvard Right to Life and Massachusetts Citizens for Life. It featured Stephanie Gray Connors, an astoundingly articulate pro-life activist, gifted apologist, published author, and founder of the Love Unleashes Life ministry. The pro-choice representative was infamous ethicist Dr. Peter Singer, who is often known for his controversial comments about disabilities, including asserting that parents should be permitted to euthanize children with disabilities like Down Syndrome and spina bifida.

The second debate was a joint effort by three student clubs—the Health and Medical Law Society, Students for Free Speech York U, and Youth Protecting Youth—at York University. Maaike Rosendal, who works for the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform, similarly did an extraordinary job communicating the pro-life position with compassion, clarity, and conviction. The pro-choice representative was Dr. Fraser Fellows, a now retired late-term abortionist.

While I of course appreciated the lengthy and in-depth debate, I couldn’t help but notice that there was a clear gender division. In both debates, the pro-life movement was represented by a female speaker and the pro-choice movement was represented by a male speaker. This seems to run completely contrary to the mainstream mythology that the pro-life movement is filled with grouchy old Catholic men wanting to force their beliefs and rosaries onto women (seen, for instance, in the “keep your rosaries off my ovaries” chant) and that the pro-choice movement is filled with female feminists who are resisting male oppression (see, for example, the “no uterus, no opinion” slogan).

I do not find the fact that these debates featured female pro-life speakers and male pro-choice speakers as inherently problematic or particularly surprising. As someone who has been involved with pro-life activism for over a decade, my experience with the abortion debate is that women make up the vast majority of the pro-life movement (contrary to the stereotypes peddled by abortion advocates). And, as someone who has been a student of this issue for the better part of 13 years, I’m also very alive to the fact that men have been intimately involved in promulgating and perpetuating the practice of abortion (including the all-male group of judges in the Supreme Court of the United States Roe v Wade decision, the mostly male group of judges in the Supreme Court of Canada R v Morgentaler decision, the mostly male politicians who will have crafted the permissive abortion regime in Canada, and the many male abortionists who have performed countless abortions over the course of their careers – including the venerable Henry Morgentaler himself).

And so, we return to these two debates. I think these two debates make it quite clear that there is no such thing as the mythical anti-abortion male mob seeking to enslave the bodies of the pro-abortion female freedom fighters. Stephanie Gray Connors and Maaike Rosendal are eloquent, articulate, and passionate pro-life women who have committed their lives to being a voice for the pre-born, including taking a stand in public debates against the pro-choice men who seek to preserve the status quo on abortion.

In short, contrary to how pro-choice activists and pro-abortion feminists have tried to frame this debate, there are women and men on both sides of the issue. To frame the issue of abortion as being about women only—women’s rights, women’s interests, and women’s efforts—is patently untrue and deliberately misrepresentative of the depth and breadth of the issue.

I am not someone who believes that only women should have a voice on the issue of abortion, which has severe consequences on men and women across the country.

If there can be pro-choice men like Dr. Peter Singer who defend abortion access and pro-abortion men like Dr. Fraser Fellows who perform abortions, then there can also be pro-life men who work to protect vulnerable pre-born children and promote a culture of life.

This is not simply a woman’s issue. It is ultimately a human issue.

This is not simply about women’s rights. It is ultimately about human rights.

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Settle down or ‘lean in’?

January 7, 2019 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Women! Settle down sooner! As someone who received this advice often enough, it’s worth mentioning why it’s unhelpful. Women certainly are not exempt from making wise relationship and life decisions, but there’s no point in gearing this advice exclusively to women when men need it too–along with just about every aspect of our culture. In this article, published in National Review, I touch on why it’s harder than many think to simply settle down. 

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Feminists must ‘reconcile with their roots’, pro-life mission

November 15, 2018 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

An article about a recent talk I did for the deVeber Institute about the interplay between being pro-life and the feminist movement.

The original feminist movement, the abolitionists seeking an end to slavery and then the suffragettes of the late 19th and early 20th century, were actually more pro-women and would have more in common with pro-lifers today, argues Mrozek, who spoke on the issue at the annual deVeber Institute Lecture Nov. 8 in Toronto.

“Really, the onus isn’t on pro-lifers to reconcile that,” she told The Catholic Register. “The onus is on the second-wave feminists to reconcile with their own roots.”

The evolution of thought came in the 1960s and the “Sexual Revolution” with its strong emphasis on “so-called reproductive rights.” That launched this second wave and took the women’s movement on a hard turn away from its roots, said Mrozek. It led to a splintering of the movement, with a “lack of a common cause because it has left behind its classical liberal roots that would allow for freedom to prevail.”

Second wave feminists silence pro-life women, where they should be embracing their own pro-life roots.

 

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Freedom is a pro-life talking point

June 19, 2018 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

An unlikely pro-life spokeswoman in Mindy Kaling. Read more on Convivium.

When I think pro-life talking points, I think freedom; the freedom to live a life that is not scripted or part of a checklist because even an unwanted pregnancy can become wanted. The world is filled with women, who moved from weeping at the sign of two lines on a stick to joy at the birth of their children.

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And they call this “feminist”

March 1, 2018 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

The Canadian budget document, #YourBudget2018, is easily one of the more patronizing government documents I’ve ever read.

So I wrote this column about it in the National Post.

Imagine with me for a second that the budget focused so much on men. Imagine that Budget 2018 referenced men 708 times instead of women. Men — we need to coax you into nursing! Men — not enough of you are kindergarten teachers! Men — don’t take time off with your children when they are young! Men — you can’t choose more paternity benefits — these are “use it or lose it” for women, only! If that sounds pushy, it’s because it is.

Welcome to the world of “feminism means what I say it means,” courtesy of our current Liberal government.

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“Trudeau can call abortion a right but that won’t make it true”

January 24, 2018 by Andrea Mrozek 6 Comments

A slightly re-written version of the Convivium article by Faye Sonier and myself posted on Huffington Post. I’m grateful for their willingness to engage both sides of the Canada Summer Jobs debatedebacle.

There are many hostile thoughts below the piece. Few of them constitute an actual argument, however. Very few engage the thinking in the piece, or mention the concept of competing rights. And God bless the lone man for stating over and over that abortion is killing and therefore not a choice. Wouldn’t you know it–he gets slandered for being backward because he is Muslim (which incidentally, the rude commenters are guessing at. It may be a reasonable guess, because he comments under the name Muhammed, but we don’t know this for sure.)

Witness the grosteque face of “diversity” among those who pat themselves on the back for being “progressive” and “tolerant.”

There are, in fact, numerous democratically legitimate arguments against declaring abortion a right. In the early days of the abortion debate, “the clump of cells” argument worked. Not so in an ultrasound era. In the early days of the abortion debate, stigma was attached to having a child “under the wrong circumstances.” Not so today. Surveys and polls today consistently show more women than men lean pro-life. Abortion, an issue that was supposed to be “settled,” is as hotly contested as it ever was.

Just not to our bold “women’s rights” campaigner of a prime minister, surrounded by “yes” women in an apparent echo cabinet. Saying a falsehood over and over doesn’t make it true. Naming abortion as a right doesn’t make the choice any better.

It’s a choice, so that bulge in her belly? It could be anything, really. We just can’t be totally sure. Until she tells us. Got it? Got it. 

 

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Eight myths of choice

November 24, 2017 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Does abortion support women’s rights or detract from them? Here, I put forward some questions and reasons why access to abortion detracts from women’s rights. Please forward to your friends who are pro-choice and feel free to tell me whether any of these arguments resonate.

Those of us who are against abortion understand that abortion attempts to equalize men and women in a manner that is both impossible and undesirable.

Does access to abortion make women the strongest they can be?

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