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05 Feb 2019 Parental Consent for Abortion Should be Every Parent’s Concern

Posted in Featured, Parental Involvement, Women's Health

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A story out of New Zealand tells of a school nurse booking a student for an abortion, driving her there during school hours, bringing her home late, and lying about why they were late. A year later, as the girl deteriorated emotionally and physically, it came out...

04 Feb 2019 Who Should Consent to a Minor’s Abortion?

Posted in Abortion, Featured, Parental Involvement, Women's Health

Parental consent for abortion is not mandatory for minors in Canada. Teen girls can have an abortion performed without notifying anyone, and they are then left alone to deal with the physical and emotional consequences. One common argument is that no one should be able...

04 Feb 2019 College of Pediatricians Gives Clear Case for Parental Consent

Posted in Abortion, Parental Involvement, Pro-life, Women's Health

The American College of Pediatricians has an excellent position paper on the importance of parental consent and involvement in a minor's decision to have an abortion. This document quickly and clearly covers all the important points for why parental consent for abortion is necessary. They...

22 Jan 2019 Pressure to Abort: A mother’s story

Posted in Abortion, Featured, Pro-life, Women's Health

Thank you to supporter Kim Kampen for sharing her story in this guest post. At the time this story took place, she wrote a letter to the editor, pictured here. This letter was published in the local paper, and her husband has saved a copy...

16 Jan 2019 A brief history of the Canada Summer Jobs “kerfuffle”

Posted in Action Items, Featured, Politics, Pro-life

A glance at the history of the Canada Summer Jobs kerfuffle makes it apparent that it was and is all about the pro-life movement. It all started when the government realized that groups like the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform (CCBR) were using the program to...

14 Jan 2019 In memory of Baby E.

Posted in Abortion, Featured, Late-Term Abortion, Pro-life, Women's Health

Thank you to Laura Klassen, founder of CHOICE42, for writing this powerful guest post. CHOICE42 is pro-woman, pro-baby, and pro-life. They provide support to women who are facing unplanned pregnancy or dealing with post-abortion problems, and work to increase awareness and recognition of the humanity of...

08 Jan 2019 Should medical school include abortion education?

Posted in Abortion, Featured, News, Women's Health

In 2016, about 1,500 family medicine residents were surveyed regarding their abortion education and it was found that only 20% had received more than an hour of instruction on abortion throughout the course of their studies. 57% reported having received no formal education on abortion....

04 Jan 2019 2018 Year in Review

Posted in Abortion, Featured, Pro-life

Let's do a quick review of 2018 before we launch into 2019! We want to take the time to thank you for connecting with us, helping out at flag displays or events, emailing your elected representatives, following, sharing, and commenting on social media, and otherwise engaging...

12 Dec 2018 Pro-Life: A focused defense of life starts at the beginning

Posted in Abortion, Featured, Pro-life

The Globe and Mail published an interesting piece last week titled, “Finally, a meaningful definition of pro-life.” As though all definitions of pro-life until now have been distinctly absent of meaning, Balkissoon looks at climate change, poverty, and immigration as issues people should care about...

27 Nov 2018 Manitoba “Bubble Zones”

Posted in Abortion, Action Items, Pro-life

*UPDATE: This bill was defeated on second reading, and bubble zones did not come into effect in Manitoba! Reason for thankfulness - and thank you to those of you who spoke up and encouraged your MLA not to support this bill! Bill 200, a private member’s...

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