For the 23rd anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre, Amish lessons in mourning
by Jonathan Kay. December 5, 2012.
Twenty-three years ago, on December 6, 1989, Marc Lépine walked into École Polytechnique and shot 28 people, killing 14 of them, and then himself.
To this day, his rampage is remembered principally as a gesture of misogynistic hatred — a symptom of a more general malign […]
MP’s Join to Call on Canadians to Help End Violence Against Women and Girls
by Mark Warawa, MP
Ottawa, ON – Today Mark Warawa, Member of Parliament for Langley, was joined by several other MP’s in announcing a national call to action for all Canadians to work together to end violence against women and girls, during […]
Ireland: Wrong to Blame Pro-Life Catholics for Savita’s Death
by Julia Kiewit
Washington D.C. November 28, 2012. Recently, Savita Halapannavaran, an Indian woman residing in Ireland, suffered a miscarriage and died in a public hospital. Her parents claimed that the hospitals refusal to give her an abortion (while her baby still had a heartbeat) lead to her death, even though […]
Legal Abortion Not The Answer In Ireland Deaths
by Stephanie Gray
Do the tragic deaths in Ireland of Savita Halappanavar and her pre-born daughter Prasa really make a case for legal abortion? Many across the world are coming to that conclusion but overlooking an important piece of information recently reported in The Irish Times and The Guardian: an autopsy […]
WHO Prescribes Unsafe Abortion for Poor Women
By Wendy Wright
WASHINGTON, DC, November 16 (C-FAM) A new manual by the World Health Organization (WHO) on how to do abortions is facing criticism for advocating substandard medical care and a ban on all limits to abortion. Aimed particularly at poor women in developing countries, the manual downplays medical oversight […]
UNFPA’s Crass Debasement of “Human Rights”
By Wendy Wright. November 15, 2012. Parroting UNFPA’s talking point, news stories on the UN’s family planning agency’s annual report focus on the claim that contraception is a human right. The media seem unconcerned that UNFPA has no authority to declare […]