April 12, 2024
Dear Maureen, I’m Pete Baklinski and this is your Canadian Pro-Life News Bits where I let you know what’s happening on our country’s pro-life and pro-family front.
A Catholic school trustee in Toronto is seeking to have the International Pro-life Flag flown at all Toronto Catholic schools in May. While this should be completely uncontroversial for a Catholic school board, it is causing quite a stir. The Toronto Star even weighed in with a smear job on the trustee behind the motion, Mike Del Grade. Any trustee who opposes this motion is simply unworthy of holding office on this school board.
The Canadian Bar Association has adopted a resolution on “protecting and realizing abortion rights in Canada.” It’s sickening that an association that represents over 38,000 lawyers, law students, notaries, and academics defends the greatest injustice of our time, the murdering of preborn babies. The Canadian Bar Association has become completely corrupt. Shame!
We’ve launched a campaign to help protect the conscience rights of doctors in Nova Scotia which are under attack by the pro-death lobby. If you live in Nova Scotia, please do your part to help protect your province’s pro-life doctors.
And, some good news. A 27-year-old autistic Calgary woman will not be allowed to be killed by euthanasia after a judge ruled that the Court of Appeal must weigh in first. The woman’s father is fighting for her life. While this woman’s life is not in the clear yet, her murder is no longer imminent. Please keep up the prayers as this case continues to unfold.
Top Canadian pro-life stories you need to know about
Abortion
Campaign Life Coalition: All Toronto Catholic schools might fly pro-life flag
A motion, if passed, will require every TCDSB school, plus the board office, to fly the international pro-life flag, annually, throughout the entire month of May, starting this year. Read Toronto Star’s piece here.
Catholic Register: Canadian Bar association pushes abortion
“For Philip Horgan, lawyer and President and General Counsel of the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL), the CBA vote is not at all surprising. Horgan told The Catholic Register the CBA has been ideologically captured by abortion-rights activists for decades.”
Campaign Life Coalition: Nova Scotia's Pro-Life Doctors Could Lose Thier Jobs
“The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia has announced that it will impose a new policy called the ‘Professional Standard Regarding Conscientious Objection’. Under this policy, a doctor’s morals and ethics must no longer be considered when administering certain controversial "treatments" to a patient or referring that patient for ‘treatment’ elsewhere.”
Run With Life: Ontario abortions up by 9,361
“Ontario abortion numbers from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care report 49,674 abortions in 2022. That's a whopping 9,361 more than CIHI just reported for the same year.”
Euthanasia
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Great news: Judge prevents euthanasia death of Calgary Autistic woman.
“The woman will not be allowed to be killed by euthanasia until after the Court of Appeal makes a decision in this case. The trial is tentatively set for October 2024.”
Inspiring stories to give you hope
LifeNews: Caleb’s Story: Unborn Baby Deemed “Incompatible With Life” is Now a Flourishing 20 Year-Old
“‘We decided that whether we had him for five minutes or 50 years, we were going to give him whatever chance we could,’ Ashleigh said.”
Live Action: Meet Dorothy, the preemie born with multiple organs outside her body
“Dorothy Montgomery, born at 32 weeks gestation on February 12, 2024, is a special little girl who was born with many of her internal organs outside her body.”
Live Action: IN MEMORY: After a cancer diagnosis while pregnant, she fought for her life and her child’s
“As a Catholic person who stood strong in her pro-life values, Jessica told EWTN that learning she had cancer while she was pregnant forced her to truly live out those values.”
Live Action: Despite a trisomy diagnosis and multiple miscarriages, they didn’t give up hope
“Nothing went as Kristin Hernandez and her husband Chris had imagined when trying to conceive. About a year after they were married they were ready to have a baby, but God had other plans.”
Awesome pro-life social media posts this week
Campaign Life Coalition
Seth Dillion
Matt Walsh
Must-see video of the week
Lila Rose vs Pro-Abortion Journalist on BBC HardTalk: Watch Lila Rose, one of the pro-life movement’s best speakers, take on a pro-abortion journalist and leave him in tatters.
Take Action
If you live in Nova Scotia, please use our Action Alert Email platform to reach out to your MLA asking that they legislate conscience protections for the province’s medical professionals. Click here.
If you live in Manitoba, please use our online Action Alert Email platform to send a message to your MLA telling them to vote NO on the abortion buffer zone Bill 8. Click here.
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Maureen, I was outraged to see the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) adopt a resolution on advancing “abortion rights” in our country.
It’s now CBA policy to “oppose any efforts to restrict abortion rights and access in Canada” and “to commit to working with governments and other stakeholders to expand abortion access across Canada.”
The Association states in its resolution that “abortion rights are fundamental to bodily autonomy, and enable people to control their futures, shape their families, and fully participate in society, in accordance with principles of reproductive justice.”
All of this is complete rot.
Abortion kills a human being. It destroys their future, does not allow them to have a family, and completely removes them from participating in society by murdering them. And, of course, “reproductive justice” should be about reproduction, that is having children, not killing them.
The CBA’s resolution is filled with so many outright lies and misinformation when it comes to abortion.
For instance, the resolution states that the Supreme Court in the 1988 case R v Morgentaler “confirmed constitutional protection for abortion rights.”
This is simply false.
The Supreme Court did not find a right to abortion. The Court did not settle the abortion question. And, finally, the Court invited Parliament to pass a new law balancing the rights of the mother with the state’s interest in protecting the life of the fetus. Parliament has yet to take the Supreme Court up on its invitation.
The CBA should be deeply ashamed of itself that it has passed a resolution that tramples on the most fundamental of rights, the right to life, of the youngest members of the human family.
This organization has now lost the purpose of its existence, to pursue justice for the downtrodden, and it must be allowed to collapse under the weight of its moral corruption.
The time is now ripe for the birth of a new association of lawyers who will defend life and who will see it as their first duty to pursue justice for all, not only the born, but the preborn as well.
Be bold and daring for life!
Pete Baklinski
Director of Communications
Campaign Life Coalition
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