February 16, 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.
The city of London is proposing a by-law to ban images or photographs of preborn babies in the public square. It is doing this at the bidding of the pro-abortion lobby which can’t bear the thought of the public seeing the truth of what abortion does to a preborn baby. CLC has been fighting similar by-laws in the past and we will launch a campaign shortly to help you get involved in the battle.
The Trudeau Liberals are looking to cover the costs of contraceptives for Canadian women in a bid to keep the NDP propping up its sinking government. This is an NDP agenda item. This must be vigorously opposed. Contraception puts women at war with their biology and harms them in numerous ways. It not only prevents new lives from coming into existence but is known to be abortifacient. With our country’s fertility rate at extinction levels, the government should be doing everything in its power to increase births, not prevent children from coming into existence.
Canada's top pro-life investigator Patricia Maloney has just received info from an Access to Information request about the Liberal’s evil plan to strip pro-life pregnancy resource centres of their charitable status, which would cripple them, forcing many of them to close their doors. Based on the documents she received, she found that the Liberals have absolutely no ground on which to make a case against these pro-life centres.
An ex-transgender is defending Alberta Premier Smith’s policy proposals to protect children from transgender ideology by sharing her own story about how she was misled into thinking she was a male. She made terrible medical decisions based on her delusion that will haunt her for the rest of her life. This is a gripping read.
40 Days for Life began on Wednesday. A baby has already been saved. Find 40 Days for Life Canadian locations by clicking here. Praying and fasting to end abortion near an abortion mill is a great way to enter into Lent.
Top Canadian pro-life stories you need to know about
CTV News: London to consider banning graphic anti-abortion posters from public view
“A proposed update to city hall's Streets By-law would forbid ‘an image or photograph showing, or purporting to show, a fetus or any part of a fetus.’”
Toronto Star: Trudeau government looks at covering birth control, diabetes drugs amid pharmacare negotiations: Sources
“According to multiple sources, the range of birth control coverage could be broad, and include contraceptive pills, injections, intrauterine devices, and so-called ‘morning after’ medications like ‘Plan B’ that prevent a pregnancy from occurring.”
LifeSiteNews: Pro-abortion Canadian Anti-Hate Network issues retraction of false reporting about Campaign Life Coalition
“‘The Canadian Anti-Hate Network just issued a HUGE correction and apology for getting the facts wrong’ about Campaign Life Coalition and a recent abortion poll, said CLC’s Pete Baklinski. ‘Facts matter!’”
LifeSiteNews: Protest against euthanasia for mental illness to take place outside Parliament Hill in Ottawa
“Join the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, February 27 from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon as we rally to stop the implementation of euthanasia (MAiD) for mental illness in Canada.”
Run With Life: Canadian government unable to justify its persecution of pro-life charities
“The mandate to remove the charitable status from pro-life groups by this Liberal government is based purely on ideological reasons, not on any evidence, and not on any facts.”
Epoch Times: Detransitioner Shares Harrowing Story, Says Alberta Is Doing the Right Thing
“The struggle and confusion Kellie Pirie has gone through have made her a vocal opponent of the trend of urging minors into gender transition.”
Inspiring stories to give you hope
Life News: 40 Days for Life Prayer Campaign Saves Baby From Abortion on Day One
“It didn’t take long to receive the news that the first baby of the Lenten 40 Days for Life campaign has been saved from abortion!”
Life News: 40 Days for Life Campaign Begins in 656 Cities, Hundreds of Thousands of People Pray to End Abortion
“40 Days for Life begins today in 656 cities worldwide! Find your closest vigil and sign up to pray by visiting 40daysforlife.com/location.”
Live Action: Woman finds hope and healing after ‘horrific’ chemical abortion
“Marnie Bello had always been a good Christian girl, and she came from a staunchly religious home where sex wasn’t discussed. At 16, she began dating a boy from church, and the couple married five years later. When the young woman became pregnant soon after marrying, she sought prenatal care, not suspecting her naïveté and innocence would be used by Planned Parenthood most egregiously.”
Live Action: Though their three-day marriage ended in tragedy, God brought new life
“Weeks went by, and Mariana and her family grieved the loss of Nate. Soon it was Thanksgiving day, and while her mother, Heather, and Gordon were at Mass, Mariana decided to take a pregnancy test she had been hanging onto.”
Live Action: She lost four siblings to abortion. Now she’s pro-life.
“Raised to be ‘pro-choice, pro-abortion,’ she explained she had to give the idea of induced abortion additional thought when faced with the news that each of her parents had lost two children to abortion at different times.”
Awesome pro-life social media posts this week
Abby Johnson
40 Days for Life
Campaign Life Coalition
Must-see video of the week
Four of my siblings were aborted: During the Washington D.C. March for Life last month, a woman marched holding a sign that read, “Four of my siblings were aborted. Choose life.” She stopped to share her story with Students for Life of America, and it was shared on the pro-life group’s social media accounts where it went viral.
Take Action
If you live in New Brunswick, please use our online tool to encourage Premier Higgs to continue NOT funding private, for-profit abortion mills like Clinic 554. Click here.
There are rumours that the Federal government is considering funding abortifacient contraceptives. Tell your MP to oppose the federal funding of contraception. Click here.
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Maureen, have you ever heard the pro-abortion statement: “Every child a wanted child”?
Planned Parenthood created this poisonous slogan. It equates the value of the preborn child with whether the child is “wanted,” the implication being that if the child is “unwanted,” then he or she is of no value and is therefore disposable.
The value and dignity of human beings along with the rights owed to them, however, are not dependent upon someone else’s desire, whether such a human is “wanted” or “unwanted,” but upon the homo-sapiens nature of this being.
Each human being ultimately derives his or her value and dignity by being created in the image of God to give and receive love. As a rational creature called into being for relationship with others, each is endowed with certain inalienable rights, first and foremost of which is the right to life.
1965 photograph of a tiny human in the womb at the embryonic stage by Swedish photojournalist Lennart Nilsson.
It matters not whether the new life is “wanted” or “unwanted,” each, from the first moment of his or her existence, is a profound treasure that is incalculably precious and whose sacrosanct right to life must be honored and protected.
Every child, both born and preborn, matters. Every child, wanted or unwanted, has the inalienable right to life.
Let’s never tire of working to protect the right to life for every child.