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Pro-Life TV Ads on NB Television!

We are pleased to announce that almost 100 pro-life ads will appear on New Brunswick television beginning February 13!

Please find attached the program schedule for the English ads. Those ads will appear on Global TV programs like Survivor and House. French ads will appear on CHAU / CIMT.

These ads are directed primarily to young women aged 18-35 …read more|en savoir plus

Abortion In Canada: Stephen Woodworth And Brad Trost Become Voice For Silent Social Conservative MPs

By Althia Raj, Huffington Post, 02/11/2012

When pro-life Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth stood in front of a podium facing a room packed with journalists Monday he knew he wasn’t facing a friendly crowd.

“You’re here to get a nice controversial story,” he told reporters at the National Press Theatre as he began pleading with …read more|en savoir plus

Planned Parenthood receives $6M from Ottawa

Lee Berthiaume, Postmedia News · Feb. 1, 2012

OTTAWA – An internal government document says $6-million in funding to an organization that provides abortions in developing countries was guided by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Muskoka Initiative on maternal and child health – but not actually part of it.

Postmedia News obtained the document through …read more|en savoir plus

MP Exposes CTV’s Biased “Investigation” of Crisis Pregnancy Centres

Maurice Vellacott, MP Saskatoon-Wanuskewin

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Vellacott’s exposé of CTV’s so-called “investigation” of crisis pregnancy centres

Upon seeing CTV’s “investigative report,” Vellacott acting on his own initiative decided to investigate the circumstances that led to it as part of his responsibility as a parliamentarian, to be certain that the broadcast regulations …read more|en savoir plus

UNB pro-life club accuses student council of prejudice

Delay | Student union president says decision took longer than normal to do its due diligence

By Heather McLaughlin, Daily Gleaner, Jan. 21, 2012

A 20-member pro-life student group at the University of New Brunswick has finally been granted club status from the UNB student union, but getting there was a path fraught with …read more|en savoir plus

New Brunswick abortion debate could reopen as province seeks to block doctor’s human rights complaint

Tamsin McMahon, National Post,  Jan. 12, 2012

In a case that could reopen New Brunswick’s abortion debate, the provincial government has gone to court to block a hearing into a doctor’s human rights complaint that the province’s restrictive abortion laws prevent her from providing proper medical care and discriminate against her as a …read more|en savoir plus

The female screams we don’t want to hear

J. De Souza, National Post · Jan. 19, 2012

On Tuesday and Wednesday in these pages, my fellow National Post columnists took up the question of sex-selection abortions – i.e. the selective abortion of fetuses following a scan that reveals the sex of the child. Their debate followed the publication of an editorial in …read more|en savoir plus

Barbara Kay on abortion: Too controversial to question

Barbara Kay National Post Jan 18, 2012

Two interesting abortion-related news items this week.

Texas passed a law imposing informed consent on women seeking abortions. In future, women there will have a sonogram, with the heartbeat audible and the image of the fetus visible to them. They will also hear a description of how …read more|en savoir plus

Canada is haven for parents seeking sex-selective abortions: medical journal

By Michel Viatteau, National Post, Jan 16, 2012

An editorial in a major Canadian medical journal Monday urges doctors to conceal the gender of a fetus from all pregnant women until 30 weeks to prevent sex-selective abortion by Asian immigrants.

A separate article in the same issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal warns that …read more|en savoir plus

Pro-Abortion Vandalism at Mother and Child House

Jan. 13, 2012

Another incident of pro-abortion vandalism has occurred at NB Right to Life’s Mother and Child House in Fredericton. Sometime Wednesday night-Thursday morning the word “Choice” was spray-painted in large letters, along with a heart shape, on the side of the building facing the Morgentaler Clinic.

Vandalism to Mother & Child …read more|en savoir plus