1. Clinton Blasted For Pushing Abortion In Canada's G8 Maternal Health Plan – March 31, 2010
Canadian and U.S. pro-life leaders are denouncing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she weighed in Tuesday on the debate over the Canadian government's G8 maternal and child health initiative, insisting plainly that abortion is necessary for maternal health. "You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion," she told reporters when asked about Canada's G8 initiative. Read full story. 2. 75% Of Canadians Say "Abortion Is Morally Wrong": Poll – March 16, 2010 A new national poll indicates that a large majority of Canadians are increasingly embracing conservative values, including opposing abortion and supporting the true definition of marriage. The Harris-Decima poll was commissioned for the Manning Centre Barometer, an annual survey of Canadian's attitudes towards values and policies generally ascribed to conservatives, by the Manning Centre for Building Democracy. Read full story. 3. Canadians Lead Global Fight Against Child Porn – March 29, 2010 A trio of Canadian organizations is leading the global fight against online child pornography, a growing crime that knows no national boundaries and allows victims no closure because the images of their abuse are always out there. The new mission of Kids Internet Safety Alliance, known as KINSA – find, rescue, heal – brings police from other countries, particularly developing nations, to Canada to learn about the latest techniques and collaborate on global investigations into online child sexual abuse. Read full story. 4. Doctors Say Schools May Be Spreading Misinformation About Homosexuality – April 5, 2010 By Nima Reza, managing editor – Education on hot-button issue could mean students miss out on opportunity to change. The American College of Pediatricians (ACP) is sending a letter to school superintendents asking that they not tell students who may experience same-sex attractions to simply accept that they are homosexual. The group has launched the Web site FactsAboutYouth.com with material for educators and students. The letter cites studies that "demonstrate most adolescents who initially experience same-sex attraction, or are sexually confused, no longer experience such attractions by age 25." Read full story. 5. Dispelling Myth Behind Conception, Contraception And Abortifacient Drugs – February 2010 (Focus On Asia): "Dispelling the Myths behind conception, contraception and abortifacient drugs" – There is a significant amount of misinformation circulating regarding human fertilization, embryo implantation and the first week of life. Here are the known scientific facts. Read full story. 6. Large Majority Of French Women Agree That Abortion Has Detrimental Psychological Effects – March 26, 2010 A large majority of French women say that there are too many abortions in their country, and that abortions "leaves psychological traces that are difficult for women to experience" according to a recent national poll. The study, which was done at the behest of the French Right to Life Alliance (l'Alliance pour les droits de la vie – ADV), found that 83% of women believe that abortion does lasting psychological damage, and 61% believe that there are too many abortions in France. Read full story. 7. Girls; 'We Want Parents To Protect Us From Sex' – March 10, 2010 Many teenage girls are being forced by their boyfriends to engage in sexual acts taken from pornographic films which can be easily accessed through the internet and mobile phones. Read full story. 8. Man Believes Euthanasia Dignified End For Wife Suffering From Alzheimer's And My Comments – March 25, 2010 Comment: Back in the late 1980s, I wrote an op-ed for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the Nancy Cruzan case. In it, I predicted a "rapidly expanding pool of potential victims" if we accepted starving and dehydrating the so-called "vegetative." It didn't take long for people with dementia to become the next target of alleged compassion. Kevorkian's first public victim was in the early stages of Alzheimer's. And now, merely being "tired of life" is being used to justify euthanasia. My mom had Alzheimer's. My dad is now in failing health with blindness and other debilitating problems and he resides in a nursing home. As a nurse, I see all sorts of human problems but I would never kill my parents or my patients. The real issue isn't how awful Alzheimer's, "vegetative state", etc. might be. It's what euthanasia supporters consider the answer: actually killing these people. And those of us who oppose euthanasia are being demonized as religious fanatics, death deniers, people who want other people to suffer, etc. to help sell euthanasia to the public. Remember the outrageous campaign against Terri Schiavo's family? However, the most basic of our social contracts is that we don't kill each other. Euthanasia supporters might try to rationalize their actions by citing that the person wants to die or that their condition is an affront to human dignity or now even how that we must conserve our "scarce health care resources" for other, more "productive" people. But note the last line in this article where the husband says he wants to spare others "the pain he has endured watching his wife die in increments." Euthanasia supporters really want to put these vulnerable people out of our misery, not theirs. – Nancy Valko, RN. Read full story. 9. Teen Mom: Problem Or Symptom? – March 30, 2010 “Every minute a woman dies from maternal causes,” proclaimed Dr. Yves Bergevin of the UNFPA, as he took the podium on the opening day of the United Nations 2010 Commission on the Status of Women. Read full story. 10. Canada's Population Rises To 33.9 Million – March 25, 2010 Canada's population increased by 57,500 people in the fourth quarter of 2009 to 33,930,800, Statistics Canada reported from Ottawa Thursday. Read full story. 11. What Happens In New York, Doesn't Stay In New York – December 8, 2007 Did you know that in March there are prestigious meetings at the UN that will attempt, among other things, to implement policies that will legalize prostitution, make abortion – at all stages – legal around the world, negate parental rights, promote explicit sex education to children, and will aggressively work to advance homosexual rights. Yes, the radical feminists will be there in full force and working hard to undermine the family, especially the role of mothers. The United Nations' annual meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women ("CSW") takes place this year from March 1 through March 12 at UN Headquarters in New York City, and United Families International will be there to remind the delegates that one important role women play in the societies of the world is in the bearing, nurturing, and moral education of each new rising generation. CSW is traditionally dominated by a radical feminist agenda that perceives the role of "mother" as a "negative stereotype." When the radical feminists speak of the "status of women," it is motherhood that they perceive as the problem to be overcome, not as a vital component of human life. Read full story. 12. Public Religion In A Privatized Society – April 7, 2010 Speaker: Ray Pennings is one of Canada’s leading public intellectuals, writing on faith and public life as a Senior Fellow with Cardus: www.cardus.ca. Who: MP's and Senators This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or calling 1-866-691-2772. Please invite your MP: Public Religion in a Privatized Society. 13. The Truth About Abortion Polling In Canada – April 6, 2010 Well that’s it; Canadians are pro-choice when it comes to abortion. That’s what Ekos is telling me from their poll released last Thursday. Ekos released its poll on the issue in response to two different issues, the ongoing maternal health debate on abortion as part of Canada’s foreign aid program and the competing poll for the Manning Centre, which finds that Canadians view abortion morally wrong. The implication that Canadians are pro-choice is that the general population would agree with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her call for Canada to include abortion as part of the program to save the lives of mothers and children in the third world. Not necessarily. Another poll by Harris-Decima shows Canadians are split on this issue with 46% saying yes but 48% saying no. Does this mean Canadians are more pro-life than pro-choice? It is hard to make firm a judgement of where Canadians stand on this issue because 1.) We don’t normally have discussions about it in our national politics or national media and 2.) From examining several polls, asking different questions about abortion, it is safe to say Canadians have mixed views. The Manning Centre, a conservative group, asked the question is abortion morally wrong and 74% said yes (60% strongly agree, 14% somewhat). What Ekos asked is “Thinking about your general views on abortion, would you say you are more pro-life or pro-choice?” The result, 52% said pro-choice and 27% said pro-life. Neither of these polls negates the other especially when you think of how many people would say, “Well, I find abortion wrong but I would not want to impose my view on others.” Let’s add another poll to the mix. Environics Research has been conducting a poll for the last 7 years on behalf of Life Canada. The questions have been fairly consistent and a representative from Environics assures me, with quite a bit of indignation, that they do not “throw the poll” in favour of the client paying for it. In October 2009, the latest telephone survey of 2002 Canadians found that only 34% of Canadians agree with the status quo on abortions in Canada. The exact question asked was “In your opinion, at what point in human development should the law protect human life? Should it be …? The option of “From the point of birth” was selected by 34% while 30% said “From conception on.” In the middle of the pack 17% said, that the law should protect human life, “After three months of pregnancy” and 8% chose “After six months of pregnancy” and 11% did not know or refused to answer. The poll also finds that, with the exception of cases of rare cases, abortion should be paid for with private tax dollars, not by the public health care system as it is now. Like the Ekos survey comparing the pro-choice/pro-life answer over the course of 10 years, the responses to Evironics surveys since 2002 have been quite consistent. So if we put all four polls together what we find is that Canadians likely find abortion to be morally wrong, something they think should be restricted at some point before birth, something that should receive limited public financing, something that should remain legal and a true hot button issue as to whether Canada should fund abortions overseas. What we currently have in Canada or have had is a policy that is completely different. Abortion is legal right up until the point that the baby takes its own breath; independent of the mother, the best estimates are that of the nearly 100,000 abortions in Canada each year, 5,000 or so are in the last trimester. In all provinces but New Brunswick, abortion is funded entirely by the public health system even when performed in private clinics like the one that sits a block and a half from Parliament Hill. Canadians, as Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has been reminding us lately, have been funding abortions overseas for 25 years or more through foreign aid grants. The reason our domestic and foreign policies surrounding the issue are so out of line with the views of Canadians on abortion is that until recently we have refused to speak of the issue. When the issue of restrictions has been raised, normally by a pro-life lobby group or MP, the reaction from the pro-choice lobby groups has been swift and effective leaving politicians from both sides to scurry. Media reports often portray those opposed to abortion as angry old men and women clutching rosaries and citing religious opposition while those supporting abortion are bright young women fighting for women’s rights. Neither stereotype shows the full and complex picture on the issue. It is time for Canadians to have an adult conversation about this issue, perhaps the first in more than 20 years. Brian Lilley is the Ottawa Bureau Chief for radio stations Newstalk 1010 in Toronto and CJAD 800 in Montreal. Follow Brian on Twitter to get the latest as it happens. Read full story. 14. “Gendercide; The Worldwide War On Baby Girls” – March 31, 2010 A must read in Abortion, Birth Rate, Demographic Decline. Read full story. 15. Cartoons Poke Fun At Pro-Abortion Opposition To Tim Tebow Pro-Life Commercial – February 10, 2010
16. Oregon Doctor Warns Canadians To Reject Assisted Suicide Legislation - April 6, 2010 By Thaddeus M. Baklinski PORTLAND, Oregon, April 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A doctor practicing in one of the two U.S. states where physician-assisted suicide is legal has written an open letter to Canadians advising them to beware of the "misguided legislation" of Bill C-384, the bill that would legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. "A message to my Canadian neighbors" was written by Dr. William Toffler, the national director of Physicians for Compassionate Care in Portland Oregon, a national organization of physicians who oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide in the U.S. Dr. Toffler writes that, "Since assisted suicide has become an option in my state of Oregon, I have had at least a dozen patients discuss this choice with me in my practice. Most of the patients who have broached this issue weren’t even terminal." "Many studies show that assisted suicide requests are almost always for psychological or social reasons," Dr. Toffler observes. "In Oregon there has never been any documented case of assisted suicide used because there was actual untreatable pain. As such, assisted suicide has been totally unnecessary in Oregon." Furthermore, "the legislation passed in Oregon does not require that the patient have unbearable suffering, or any suffering at all for that matter." In his practice Dr. Toffler has found that requests for suicide are very often cries for help rather that demands for death. "How physicians respond to the patient’s request has a profound effect, not only on a patient’s choices, but also on their view of themselves and their inherent worth." "When a patient says, 'I want to die'; it may simply mean, 'I feel useless.' When a patient says, 'I don’t want to be a burden'; it may really be a question, 'Am I a burden?' When a patient says, 'I’ve lived a long life already'; they may really be saying, 'I’m tired. I’m afraid I can’t keep going.' And, finally, when a patient says, 'I might as well be dead'; they may really be saying, 'No one cares about me.'" Dr. Toffler has observed a two-fold consequence of the introduction of assisted suicide in Oregon: 1) Fear of the motives of doctors or consultants arising in the minds of patients, and 2) A change in attitude toward patient care within the healthcare system itself. "People with serious illnesses are sometimes fearful of the motives of doctors or consultants," Dr. Toffler notes. "Such fears were never an issue before assisted suicide was legalized." "Most problematic for me has been the change in attitude within the healthcare system itself," Dr Toffler continues. "In Oregon, I regularly receive notices that many important services and drugs for my patients – even some pain medications – won’t be paid for by the State health plan. At the same time, assisted suicide is fully covered and sanctioned by the State of Oregon and by our collective tax dollars." "I urge Canadian leaders to reject the seductive siren of assisted suicide embodied in C-384," Dr. Toffler concludes. "Oregon has literally tasted the bitter pill (barbiturate overdoses) and many now know that our legislation is hopelessly flawed. I believe Canada, with its tradition of excellent palliative and hospice care, should continue to strive to be a model for the rest of the world by rejecting this misguided legislation." Bill C-384 had its first hour of debate in Canada's parliament on March 16, 2010. The bill is currently scheduled to receive its second-hour of debate on Tuesday, April 20 and to be voted on Wednesday April 21. Alex Schadenberg of Canada's Euthanasia Prevention Coalition said he "believes that Francine Lalonde, the Bloc Quebecois MP who sponsored C-384, will once-again try to trade-back in the order of precedence to delay the defeat of Bill C-384. She may not be able to trade-back." "You need to contact your MP NOW," Schadenberg urged, "and tell them that you oppose Bill C-384." Dr. Toffler's letter has been posted to the website of Canadians for Care, a grassroots movement among doctors in Canada that proposes comprehensive care for the needs of patients as an alternative to assisted suicide and euthanasia. Contact info for all MPs is available here . An analysis of the proposed euthanasia and assisted suicide legislation is available for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition website here . Print this Story | E-mail to a Friend | View Story on LifeSiteNews.com 17. International Harvesters for Christ/CJLU/CITA/CIOG – April 8, 2010 Dear Friends of Life; I would like to introduce you to CJLU radio station, (Christian Broadcast) in NS, NB, PEI and doing good works abroad. Jeff Lutes, Pastor and President of CJLU has been most generous with the promotion of Life, and projects that further enhance the message. He has provided his sound equipment to CLC NS "March for Life" for the past two years in Halifax. Recently, he interviewed me after an impromptu visit to discuss nothing but coffee and related to me about an invitation he has to visit the Holocaust Museum in Israel, ironically after reading a book on the "Abortion Holocaust" by John Powell, from my library. It must have been meant to be. CJLU broadcast Focus on the Family segments daily and now for those who like Gospel Music of Gaither Homecomings on Sunday afternoon. CJLU is a Christian Broadcaster and sometimes has to put on opposing views to the life issues, because of government regulations, (CRTC). In NS you listen in to Halifax, Bridgewater and the Valley, or to Broadcast streaming via the Internet. Consider giving a listen. – Herm H. W. Also, please visit the following site: Visit International Harvesters for Christ’s website here. |
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