Pro-life

A laudable marker of the National March for Life taking place May 14 in Ottawa is that its longevity can be measured in papacies.

Monica Roddis and her husband showed up at a baby shower at St. Matthew’s in Surrey, B.C., one day to find no expectant parents, no bassinets and no ultrasound photos.

Right to Live Canada, a Canadian start-up non-profit seeking a solution to economic, poverty-driven euthanasia.

After last year’s white smoke marked the election of Pope Leo XIV to overshadow the annual March for Life in the nation’s capital, organizers of this year’s 29th edition of the March are expecting the commitment to life to step back into the spotlight.

More than a year after President Donald Trump pardoned 23 pro-life activists convicted of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE Act, and the Justice Department announced it would severely limit prosecutions of such cases.

For many years, the pro-abortion movement has been successful in convincing men they need not concern themselves with the “women’s issue” of abortion. Looking at the students attending this year’s Youth 4 Life Expo, that may be starting to change.

Campaign Life Coalition had its day in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on March 5 to contest a decision by the Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) to prohibit the display of certain protest signs on Parliament Hill.

Canadian Physicians for Life (CPL) is fostering greater contemplation and appreciation of the importance of ethical practice through its newly created Tony Kerigan Memorial Prize.

Taking the words from Matthew 4:19-20, the Canadian pro-life movement is taking as its theme for the 2026 National March for Life “Follow Me.”

Much of Western society has become “deaf to the word of life spoken not only by the Church but also by science,” Archbishop Richard Smith said at the recent Archbishop’s Annual Mass for Life at Vancouver’s Holy Rosary Cathedral.