1. Manitoba U Study Links Abortion And Mental Illness & Suicide – April 30, 2010 Researchers at the University of Manitoba have published findings of a study showing a link between abortion, mental illness and suicide. The researchers, from the departments of psychology and psychiatry, as well as obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, found that abortion was associated with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and suicide attempts. They report that depression and drug dependence followed abortion in about half of the women studied. – View full article here. 2. Chinese Accused Of Vast Trade In Organs – April 27, 2010 China's hidden policy of executing prisoners of the forbidden quasi-Buddhist group Falun Gong and harvesting their organs for worldwide sale has been expanded to include Tibetans, "house church" Christians and Muslim Uighurs, human rights activists said Monday. – Read full article here . 3. Hospital To Open Drop-Off For Abandoned Babies – April 29, 2010 A Vancouver hospital plans to offer a safe haven for troubled mothers who want to abandon their newborn babies anonymously. According to St. Paul's Hospital staff, a so-called angel's cradle will be set up in a private area accessible from just outside the entrance of the downtown hospital's emergency room on Burrard Street, as well as from inside the emergency room itself. – Read full article here. 4. Women Who Have Abortions 4 Times More Likely To Abuse Drugs, Alcohol – May 3, 2010 A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Manitoba finds women who have had abortions are about four times more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol as those who carried their pregnancy to term. The authors confirmed a link between abortion and the substance abuse issues. – View full text here. 5. Aborting Facts For Political Purposes – May 4, 2010 "We know that abortion is evil. We know that those who advocate it are literally working for the father of lies, and we will continue to say it. Abortion is an act that takes the life of a person and the antidote is human personhood. A focus on that child's humanity is the only educational tool that has lasting power to turn the tide. God does not expect us to engage in political bickering, nor does His Word give us permission to relegate His babies and their fate to nothing more than a mere political issue! God expects us to tell the truth. If not us, who?" – View full article here. 6. Punishing Religious Beliefs – May 4, 2010 Would you give up your career rather than violate your religious beliefs? Sadly, more believers than ever before are having to answer that question. woman – just 14 weeks pregnant – arrived at Nassau University Medical Center in New York, her water broken. Doctors told her that her tiny baby could not survive and recommended an abortion to avoid infection. The mother agreed. But eight nurses on duty that day refused to take part in the abortion. The baby, they said, still had a heartbeat, and the mother's life was not in danger. – View full article here. 7. Quebec Committee To Decide Life And Death Questions – May 25, 2010 Public will have chance to weigh in on whether euthanasia, assisted suicide should be legalized. Story By Rhéal Séguin. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are issues that raise vivid and at times acrimonious debate, but they have now become unavoidable in Quebec as the province seeks answers to perplexing questions involving life and death. Should euthanasia or assisted suicide be legalized? How do we reconcile the will of an individual with the rights of society? How far should we go in the name of compassion? These questions are but a few that will be considered in a public debate this fall aimed at striking a balance between society’s aversion to any sort of suicide and a suffering individual’s right to die with dignity. “These are tricky questions; they are very emotional questions. And I think there will be a great deal of interest right across the country,” said Liberal MNA Geoffrey Kelley, who will preside over the hearings as part of a 15-member National Assembly committee. In a consultation document entitled “Dying in Dignity,” released Tuesday, questions examined last winter with experts from across Canada and abroad outlined the scope of the debate the committee will address. Mr. Kelley said he was well aware of the passion the issues arouse, pointing as an example to the controversial case of Sue Rodriguez in British Columbia. In 1993, Ms. Rodriguez, who was diagnosed with a degenerative and incurable disease, fought for the right to assisted suicide and lost her legal battle before the Supreme Court of Canada. She later ended her life with the assistance of an anonymous doctor. Her fight touched off a heated debate that, for many people, called into question some of their most profound convictions and values. Public opinion polls in Quebec indicated that the vast majority – 83 per cent according to Mr. Kelley, 77 per cent according to an Angus Reid poll in February, 2010 – believe that people struggling with terminal illness should be entitled to decide the timing of their death. The province’s family doctors and specialists urged the government to tackle the issue. Mr. Kelley insisted the committee will conduct an open debate and has no preconceived notion of what will be decided. “It’s not just a question of public opinion polls. These are very deep principles and very deep values for Quebec society. So we’ll be listening for those as well,” Mr. Kelley said. Under the Criminal Code, assisted suicide and euthanasia are illegal in Canada. However, one possible solution that the committee will consider was the decision taken in B.C. after Ms. Rodriguez’s death. Since the provinces have the responsibility of enforcing the federal Criminal Code, B.C. decided that only under certain strict conditions would it lay charges in cases of assisted suicide. Quebec adopted a similar directive involving abortion before the Supreme Court of Canada decriminalized the act. It could do the same with respect to euthanasia or assisted suicide in the event a consensus emerges from the public hearing process. “But we want to be very cautious and we are not there yet,” said the committee vice-president, Parti Québécois MNA Véronique Hivon. “We aren’t trying to define solutions right now. We really want to hear what people have to say first.” The public has until July 16 to table briefs and request to be heard by the committee, which will then prepare for public hearings in 10 cities beginning some time in mid-September. View story here. 8. Margaret Somerville Says Harper Should Support Bruinooge's Bill To Ban Abortion Coercion – May 18, 2010 Barbara Kay: A Catholic cardinal opposes abortion. This is news? – Posted by NP Editor Barbara Kay: Abortion, Gendercide, Cardinal Ouellette Cardinal Marc Ouellette, archbishop of Quebec City, caused a stir when asked for his views on rape and abortion last weekend by a reporter. He stated what anyone not living in a cave for all his past life already knows: It is Roman Catholic doctrine that abortion is always a "moral crime," even in the case of rape. Cardinal Ouellette was not suggesting that Church doctrine be elevated to a legislative plane. He was expressing a religious opinion, which is his right. There is no story here. But the alacrity with which the media pounced on his remark indicates that there is indeed a burgeoning story on the lack of an abortion law in Canada. The Prime Minister's G8 maternal health initiative has opened the door to a floodgate of suppressed opinion on abortion in this country. It proves that the absence of a law is by no means evidence that the matter is settled, or ever was, but merely a reflection of the power wielded by a relative handful of leftwing juggernauts, for whom abortion on demand is the litmus test of a properly liberal society according to their radically feminist perspective. Tasha Kheiriddin's very lucid column today lays out the fundamental issues at stake in any abortion discussion – measuring the rights of women against the rights of unborn children – and makes clear where the majority of Canadians stand on them. There are few Canadians at the margins: i.e. those who believe, like the Cardinal, that abortion is always a moral crime, and conversely there are few that believe abortion for any reason and at any stage of gestation is never a moral crime. The problem has always been to find a framework for discussion that allows the vast middle ground of Canadians to have their say without being attacked by vociferous defenders of the status quo. Here are four emotion-free suggestions that all Canadians should find reasonable, or at least not unreasonable, as a way of breaking the logjam on this emotion-charged issue:
The same people who think Cardinal Ouellette has no right to call abortion a moral crime think it is perfectly okay to label those calling for a national discussion on abortion moral criminals. Enough with the name-calling. Let's have that long-deferred discussion, and let's make it civil. – View story here. 9. World Congress Of Families IV & Importance Of Mothers – May 28, 2010 The great author C. S. Lewis, said, "The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only""and that is to support this ultimate career." Women you are the makers of homes and homes are the foundation of society! – Read full article here. 10. We Should No Longer Allow A Mother To Be Defined As 'Just A Mom – 2003-2006 “We should no longer allow a mother to be defined as 'just a mom.' It is on her back that great nations are built. To play down mothering as small""is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands. The world can only value mothering to the extent that women everywhere stand and declare that it must be so. We affirm other mothers and as we teach our sons, husbands and friends to hold them in the highest regard, we honor both the mothers whose shoulders we have stood on...and the daughters, who will one day, stand tall on ours." – Read full article here. 11. Harper Should Get Behind Abortion Bill – May 25, 2010 National Post – Let's make sure we understand what our politicians and their staffs are telling us about Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge's private member's bill that would "add new Criminal Code penalties for those who coerce women to have an abortion." As expected, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is obviously politically terrified of the "A word," will vote against it and "a senior government official... says it will be 'very strongly recommended' that Conservatives vote to defeat the bill." Mario Lague, the director of communication for Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, said that "a Liberal government would also not initiate or support legislation that restricts abortion access in Canada." – Read full article here. But this is a bill against coercion to have an abortion, which means that Mr. Lague sees prohibiting coercion as restricting access. We are truly entering a Kafkaesque "word world," when "access" includes coercion, as Mr. Lague believes. Moreover, if pro-choice advocates were truly pro-choice and not just pro-abortion, they would support this bill. Instead of characterizing it as "restricting access" to abortion, it can be seen as a positive thing in relation to a woman's freedom of choice – her choice to give her unborn child a chance at life. That's a choice one would hope most Canadians, whether they are pro-life or pro-choice, would consider worth defending. Margaret Somerville, McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, Montreal. 13.
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18. Why not this summer? Make it a point to contact your MP and have a talk about the future of Canada and where is it headed with an aging population? Families are struggling and are given up on having children who are the future. Is there not more that government can do to encourage families and marriages that foster children and to see children as a gift. Why not give families a break in taxes for they do raise the next generation. Can the government do more to assist women who want to keep their babies and not abort them? Is there not more that government can do promote family values before it's to late? Or is it to late? Can we make them understand that the family is the first community that a child is born into and if that family is broken it serves as a reminder that the larger community will too be broken. For it is true,. that strong families make for a strong community and even stronger country. Want to contact your MP or MLA, just go to the menu bar at the top of this page and click on MP/MLA link.
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