New abortion regulations take hold in New Brunswick
Catholics doctors who reject abortion told to get out of family medicine
Catholic doctors who won’t perform abortions or provide abortion referrals should leave family medicine, says an official of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
Ontario physicians college draft policy would trample conscience rights
OTTAWA - The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario's draft human rights policy would trample religious freedom and freedom of conscience, say groups defending those rights.
Synod disagreement part of a dialogue, Pope says
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis used his weekly audience Dec. 10 to challenge media reports of “clashes between factions” at the recent bishops’ Synod on family issues.
N.B. pro-lifers demand vote on abortion
Members of Right to Life New Brunswick are demanding a vote in the provincial legislature on the Liberal government’s plans to make it easier to procure an abortion in the province.
New Brunswick to ease abortion restrictions
New Brunswick's Liberal government is removing restrictions to make access to abortion easier in the Maritime province.
Pope calls abortion, euthanasia, IVF sins 'against God the creator'
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis denounced a "false compassion" that would justify abortion, euthanasia, artificial reproduction technologies and medical research violating human dignity. And he urged medical doctors to "go against the current" and assert "conscientious objection" to such practices, which he called sins "against God the creator."
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Supporters of Amendment 1 said the measure to restore Tennessee lawmakers' authority to regulate abortion passed Nov. 4 because of the backing by Catholic and other religious leaders and their churches.
Justin Trudeau’s ‘doctrine of double truth’
OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s abortion policy is an example of the “doctrine of double truth” that leads to oppression, said McGill University Professor Douglas Farrow.
Program can reverse RU-486 abortion in first stages
SAN FRANCISCO - As soon as Rebekah Chaveste swallowed the first pill of the RU-486 abortion regimen at a Planned Parenthood clinic, she regretted it.
All life is worthy
Comments from crusading atheist Richard Dawkins offer a glimpse into a possible future world that rejects the intrinsic value of all human life. It is chilling.
OTTAWA - A recent Angus Reid Global poll shows 59 per cent of Canadians are “fine” with no law restricting abortion, contradicting LifeCanada’s consistent polling results since 2002 that show Canadians seek some restrictions on abortion.
LifeCanada is calling for solidarity in the pro-life community for its National Day of Prayer and Fasting for abortion issues.
With abortion, there are always Complications
Complications: Abortion’s Impact on Women (deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research, 433 pages, softcover, $29.95).
We often reduce human sexuality to the individual. We concentrate on personal experience, preference and desire. Which is certainly not irrelevant, but it reduces the abortion debate to a question of individual women making individual choices.
NCLN combats commodity culture
TORONTO - North America’s culture of convenience and commodities is diminishing the dignity of the human person and thus, as St. John Paul II wrote in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae, is creating a culture of death.