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...
Two years have passed since the first video released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). These videos, which feature interviews with various Planned Parenthood employees, were meant to incite public outrage about the goings-on at Planned Parenthood and slow down or stop the abortion machine. A...
Canada’s Minister of International Development, Marie-Claude Bibeau, recently announced $97 million in funding for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in line with Canada’s “Feminist International Assistance Policy”. This funding comes in the context of 20 years of violent internal conflicts in the DRC. Currently, their...
The Liberal party released their gender-based violence strategy this month. The strategy aims to address issues ranging from investigating street harassment to focusing on Indigenous women, looking at impacts on LGBT communities to studying the potentially harmful effects of social media algorithms. It seems they tried to leave...
An article in the June 2017 National Geographic is excited about the prospect of advances in prenatal diagnostics. Extensive prenatal brain studies are occurring via MRI technology, with the goal of mapping neural connectivity to identify and understand potential developmental delays. It is thought that many long-term...
Too often the abortion debate tends towards extremes, and both sides try to "force" their choice. This can leave women feeling intimidated, pressured, and defensive. Sometimes the best thing to do is to clearly and objectively present all the options and let women decide for themselves. The video...
On October 19, 2016, our Members of Parliament voted down Bill C-225 (Cassie and Molly’s Law), a law that would have allowed additional charges to be laid against a killer who took the life of a woman he knew to be pregnant. The law was...
Alberta's NDP government has introduced a motion, M-514, to look into increasing abortion access in remote areas of the province. Alberta has many rural and northern communities where health care access is an on-going issue. Who's asking for increased abortion access? Apparently no one is actually asking for this...
