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6. Québéc National Assembly Panel Begins Debate On Euthanasia Measure – February 15, 2010
A committee of the Québéc's national assembly began hearings today on a bill that would examine doctors killing patients in assisted suicides. About 30 people, including members of the Federation of Medical Specialists and physicians, were expected to speak. The committee is holding the first hearing since the provincial government, at the request of the opposition Parti Québécois, announced it would hold hearings on the pro-euthanasia measure. Read the full story here.
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7. Safe Pregnancies For Moms, Babies – February 9, 2010
Like anything that involves killing babies, abortion tends to be controversial, and remains so in Canada more than 40 years after a bunch of white males decided to relax the common-law restraints on this practice. It is controversial in other countries, too: check out the United States, for instance, or the various European countries, in most of which it has long been "open season" on the unborn. On the other hand, there is no public controversy in China, where abortions are not only legal but, thanks to the "one child policy" of the communist state, often mandatory. The politburo that runs that immense dystopia does not brook opposition to its population control measures, nor otherwise recognize the dignity or independence of born or unborn. Read the full story here.
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8. Guttmacher’s Spin On ‘Teen Pregnancy’ – February 5, 2010
If you count adolescents old enough to vote and enlist, sure the pregnancy rate went up. Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation provides a succinct debunking of the study the study found that the pregnancy rates for girls 14 and under actually dropped. As Rector notes, this same group was most directly impacted by abstinence education during the time period covered by the study. Read the full story here.
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9. PRI Follows Up Overpopulation Cartoon With Second In Series – February 21, 2010
By Colin Mason
PRI has released the second in its series of short, humorous YouTube cartoons designed to refute the myth of overpopulation. This short cartoon is the sequel to the cartoon released in the middle of last year. Click here to watch PRI's hilarious new cartoon!
This second video follows up on the first installment in the series, available here. This latest video, just over two minutes long, deftly refutes the common misconception that world population is exploding, demonstrating how fertility rates all over the world are shrinking.
“No one who views this video will ever be taken in by the myth of overpopulation again,” says Steven Mosher, PRI's president.
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10. Abortion In Canada (Posted From 40Days Halifax) – February 21, 2010
Most of you know that abortion in Canada is legal in all provinces throughout all nine months of pregnancy. This means that no one who wants to have an abortion will ever be refused. In fact, Canada is the only country in the western world that has absolutely no law on abortion at all. It is not that abortion is legal in Canada; the truth is that there is no law about abortion whatsoever. Therefore we have absolutely no restrictions on abortion. Most countries have at least some restrictions on abortion, but in Canada – none.
Eleven days ago, Michael Ignatieff challenged Prime Minister Harper on his proposal for the upcoming G8 summit to be held here in Canada. Harper wishes to address the problem of maternal health and infant mortality in the third world by granting funds to improve the conditions for pregnant women. He wants to help provide poor countries with good nursing care, with nutritional information, with birthing helps, with care for newborns, all with the intention of reducing maternal and infant mortality.
I know personally that this is a huge problem. Our first child was born in Malawi 36 years ago. That night, five other women were giving birth in the hospital in Mzuzu, Malawi. My husband said to me that night, "you know our daughter will probably be the only child alive out of these six babies in five years time."
Malaria, measles, meningitis, infections, inadequate nutrition, lack of inoculations, lack of clean water, lack of the basics that we take for granted, would bring about the early deaths of all five of those children. If any of them survived those five years, they would have beaten the odds.
So when Harper made that statement about helping the third world, it rang true to me. And when Ignatieff made the response that Harper's aid should include abortion and contraception, I also knew that he was speaking a lie.
Malawi does not want the importation of abortion; those Africans treasure life precisely because they know how precarious it is. To offer them abortion is the very opposite of what they know to be valuable; they love children; they do not need some western ideology shoved upon them. They need what we take for granted: basic medical care, basic clean food and water, and the education to show them how to do this for themselves in a hemisphere that is often hostile to life.
If you are the slightest bit interested in this issue, I would encourage you to write to Michael Ignatieff and let him know that you don't want abortion and contraception included in this health package that Harper is proposing. And for goodness sake, please write to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and thank him and encourage him for taking the brave stand that he has.
It really does make a difference if we speak to our politicians. I read today that one MP said that, in all his mail, the only letters he gets on the topic of pro-life amount to only two per year. Hundreds of letters on other topics, but only 2 on pro-life issues. Let us speak up: our voices need to be heard.
You can e-mail Michael Ignatieff at:
Liberal Party of Canada
81 Metcalfe Street, Suite 400
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 6M8
Phone: (613) 237-0740
Fax: (613) 235-7208
E-mail: info@liberal.ca
…and Stephen Harper at:
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A2
Fax: 613-941-6900
E-mail at pm@pm.gc.ca
For those who have been dismayed by the seeming lack of stand on pro-life issues by this Conservative parliament, this is our chance to thank them for taking this stand. Because this statement about aid to the third world really is a pro-life stand.
We need to give Mr. Harper the support that he needs to stay strong in the face of those who think that abortion is a "done deal" and that we should export it to the rest of the world.
God bless you, and please remember to pray during the next 40 Days for an end to abortion in our country. I believe that it is the fact that abortion is even being discussed publicly (where it has been silent for so long) is the result of prayers. The issue is being uncovered, because it has not gone away, and it will not go away until there is justice for all our brothers and sisters, including those in the womb.
Julie Culshaw
E-mail: Julie culshaw@ns.sympatico.ca
40 Days For Life Blog
Concerned For Life Blog
Family Research Council
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11. Partners In Primetime: Wal-Mart And P&G Launch Must-See TV – February 16, 2010
Most Americans know Proctor and Gamble as the name brand behind some of their favorite household products – things like shampoo, dish soap, and laundry detergent. After years of helping to tidy up homes, P&G is ready to clean up television as part of a blockbuster partnership with Wal-Mart. Together, the companies have kicked off a new campaign to produce TV programs that are profanity-free and morality-filled.
Launched last week, the collaboration between two of the United States' corporate powerhouses is part of a broader effort to give parents a refuge from the around-the-clock filth on American networks. Read full store here.
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12. Government To Decide Who Lives And Who Dies In Canada – February 10, 2010
Government To Decide Who Lives And Who Dies in Canada
Sad Girl Photo - The worst nightmare for any parent is the thought of losing a child. For Isaac and Rebecca May this nightmare has become a reality. After complications with their son, Isaiah’s, birth the May family has experienced one trial after another. For Isaiah’s grandmother and grandfather, Kathy and Bob Griffis, this nightmare began when Kathy received a phone call from her crying son who told her, “Mom, there are about ten doctors around his bed. I don’t think he’s going to make it.”
Other articles at United Families International: Euthanasia, Health Care, Parental Rights, Physician Assisted Suicide, Sanctity of Life.
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13. MIM Paper Shows That Online Exposure To Adult Pornography Adversely Affects Children's Sexual Behavior And Attitudes – February 21, 2010
Morality in Media has published a 10-page paper reporting evidence that exposure to hardcore adult pornography on the Internet can adversely affect children's sexual behavior and attitudes about sex. The evidence includes published observations of clinical psychologists, police and prosecutors, educators, rape crisis professionals, social workers and others, as well as social science research.
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