New Brunswick Right to Life

Canada’s pro-life movement gets a slick, youthful rebranding

nbrl — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:46:10 +0000

by Wendy Gillis, May 08 2012, www.thestar.com

They will fight to protect the unborn, raise their voices against abortion in Canada — and maybe win an iPod.

Pro-lifers will rally on Parliament Hill by the thousands Thursday for the March for Life, an ever-growing annual rally attended by, yes, older activists, but ...read more|en savoir plus

Sorry, We Started Debating Without You.

nbrl — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:24:11 +0000

by Jonathon Van Maren, May 9, 2012, http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/blog/2012/05/09/sorry-we-started-debating-without-you

The cat is out of the bag.

For the last several months, politicians and commentators have been debating about whether or not the abortion debate should be opened (as my colleague Jojo Ruba noted, if you have to debate that a debate is closed, it probably ...read more|en savoir plus

Andrew Coyne: The idea we can’t debate abortion is unworthy of a democratic country

nbrl — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:46:37 +0000

Andrew Coyne, National Post, Apr 27, 2012

Finding for the appellants in Regina v. Morgentaler, Justice Bertha Wilson nevertheless found herself in agreement with the Crown, that “the situation respecting a woman’s right to control her own person becomes more complex when she becomes pregnant, and some statutory control may be appropriate.”

A woman had a ...read more|en savoir plus

Father Raymond J. de Souza: An abortion ‘consensus’ that never existed

nbrl — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:37:21 +0000

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post, Apr 26, 2012

Canada’s “consensus” on our unlimited abortion licence — any time, for any reason, fully funded by tax dollars — is a strange one. First of all, it’s not really a consensus, as only a minority of Canadians, when polled, support the extreme ...read more|en savoir plus

Natalie Hudson Sonnen: Canada hides from its embarrassing abortion statistics

nbrl — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:19:50 +0000

By Natalie Hudson, National Post,Apr 26, 2012

The silence is deafening. Every year that abortion statistics have been released there has been some commentary in the mainstream news media. When the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released its 2010 figures last week, citing 64,641 abortions – a 40% decrease since 2004, ...read more|en savoir plus

2012 March for Life Program

nbrl — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:57:19 +0000

2012 March for Life Program

The Urgent Need to Build a Culture of Life

nbrl — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:08:14 +0000

The Urgent Need to Build a Culture of Life

Threats to Life

nbrl — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:35:00 +0000

New challenges to ethics, and to civilization

By Conrad Black, National Review Online 2012, April 12, 2012

Last week, I broached the question of an attempted shift in the long-standing cultural balance in America between the paramountcy of the Judeo-Christian values of the sanctity of life and primacy of the individual will in pursuit of conventional ...read more|en savoir plus

‘Heart-rending’: Young Slovakian sculptor captures post-abortion pain, mercy and forgiveness

nbrl — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:55:41 +0000

April 2, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As an art student, Martin Hudáček of Slovakia was moved to create a sculpture to draw attention to the devastation abortion can bring to the woman, and to the fact that through the love and mercy of God, reconciliation and healing are possible.

The sculpture shows a woman ...read more|en savoir plus

The profound complexities of informed consent to abortion

nbrl — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:05:59 +0000

Ending an unplanned pregnancy is not the simple quick-fix solution that’s often presented, writes Margaret Somerville

By Margaret Somerville, Ottawa Citizen, March 23, 2012

Anna (not her real name) came to see me to discuss the research she was doing on abortion. We talked about the articles she’d read, when I asked her, “How ...read more|en savoir plus