October 11 marks the International Day of the Girl, a day to highlight the needs and challenges faced by women and girls around the world. In considering injustice, it is always best to start with unflinching self-examination. We quickly see that this is not a day...
The United States’ Supreme Court recently struck down a California law that imposed on the freedom of pregnancy care centers. I wrote about the case previously here. In brief, the law required pregnancy care centers to include a notice in all their advertisements and at...
Abortion rights and access have become in some ways synonymous with feminism, framed as crucial to women’s equality and autonomy. Prime Minister Trudeau is one who makes this connection regularly, and distributes funds accordingly. Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa doesn’t see it that way. Leader of New...
When Parliament learned in April that Mifegymiso, or abortion pills, were dispensed more than 4,000 times in Canada last year, abortion advocates celebrated. Provinces that do not yet fund the pills are being pressured to do so. Abortion advocates continue to call for fewer restrictions...
This is a guest post by Tabitha Ewert, articling student with ARPA Canada. On March 20th the United States Supreme Court heard arguments about whether pregnancy centers can be forced to publish information about abortion. The California law in this case requires pregnancy centers to display...
A brief National Post article this month shows again the strange legal gap in Canada that happens when we do not recognise the humanity of life in the womb. A Montreal man has been charged with the attempted murder of his partner, who was 8...
Reading websites for abortion clinics is not the most fun you’ll have on a Friday night. It is, however, useful in learning what matters to these for-profit clinics, and seeing how they market to women facing an incredibly difficult situation. It is especially important because...
Parents are given responsibility for, and authority over, their children in almost all cases. In the case of abortion, however, girls as young as 12 are being given abortions in secret, with no need to tell their parents. This blatant disregard for parental care and...
A recent study led by Bela Ganatra and published in The Lancet investigated the safety of abortion worldwide. According to the study, there are an estimated 55.7 million abortions in the world every year. While calling any abortion “safe” makes me cringe, the study finds that about...
A recent study from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute looked at women in the U.S. who have had multiple abortions. They found that 45% or more of patients seeking an abortion had already had one or more previously. Their news release on the study concluded that...
