March 8, 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.

Some good news. Bill C-62 delaying the expansion of euthanasia to the mentally ill for three years passed the Senate and received royal assent on February 29th. That gives the pro-life movement three years to work to reverse the law allowing for this expansion. Reversing this is also something that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has promised he would do if he becomes Prime Minister. We have to hold him to his promise.

CLC President Jeff Gunnarson has called on the RCMP to investigate Canadian babies allegedly born alive after failed abortions and left to die. You can read Jeff’s excellent letter to the RCMP here.

Here's some more good news. The City of Hamilton in Ontario has been ordered by a judge to pay a pro-life group $20K after the city conceded it failed to properly consider free expression rights when it rejected the group’s pro-life bus ads. Bravo!

A new do-it-yourself abortion mill has recently set up shop in Calgary, Alberta. The death shop offers women chemical abortions in person or over the phone. Mixing chemical abortion with telemedicine is a recipe for disaster, certainly for the preborn baby but potentially for the mother as well. Alberta UCP Health Minister Adriana LaGrange must act to prevent women from being harmed by removing the chemical abortion process from telemedicine.

Our March edition of CLC National News is now available online. Please check it out! It’s a great way to catch up on all the news.

And, don’t miss my reflection below about what’s really behind the Liberal/NDP coalition’s push for universal contraception.

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March CLC National News available online

The March edition of CLC National News is now available on our website here. Stories include:

‘I will never forget you’: Theme for May 9 National March for Life
Government delays euthanasia for mental illness
New Brunswick abortion facility Clinic 554 closes
CLC to UN: Don't end poverty
The history of Canada’s pro-life movement: conversations with Jim Hughes
How to answer pro-abortion claim: “Every child a wanted child”

Don’t miss CLC president Jeff Gunnarson’s March letter to pro-lifers about moving the yardstick on the pro-life cause. Read here.

Inspiring stories to give you hope

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: 24 Years ago, Jeanette Hall had terminal cancer and she wanted assisted suicide. She is happy to be alive today.

“Jeanette told me that at the time of her assisted suicide request, she had lost hope. Her Aunt had died by cancer, her mother had Alzheimer's and her brother had recently died by suicide. She felt that there was no reason to live.”

Pregnancy Help News: Choosing life takes courage, but is “a wonderful journey that makes you strong”

“An unexpected pregnancy can cause women panic and confusion, and many times they will feel abortion is their only option, because they think they have no support. Pregnancy help often makes the difference when a woman is conflicted about choosing life.”

Pregnancy Help News: New children's book teaches the truth about unborn life

“As children are inundated with the often-skewed information in their reading material, media, and even the classroom, one writer is “sparking” a light of truth. Courtney Siebring is the author of Little Spark of Life: A Celebration of Born and Preborn Life. Siebring’s children’s book features a poetic approach of a mother explaining to a child “where babies came from” – the truthful version.”

Live Action: Record-setting micro-preemie born before 22 weeks is now home with family

“When Sherrye began to go into early labor at 21 weeks into her pregnancy, she and her husband Jamar were afraid, knowing their daughter had a very small chance of survival.”

Awesome pro-life social media posts this week

Choice42

Abby Johnson

March for Life

Must-see videos of the week

Better Off Dead: Pro-life satire at its best from Choice42. This 2020 video pokes fun at the pro-abortion position that some preborn babies are better off dead. After watching this, you’ll realize the absurdity of their position.

The Story of Euthanasia: Angelina Ireland from the Delta Hospice Society teams up with pro-life Dr. Will Johnson and Orthodox spiritual leader Abbot Tryphon to explain the philosophical, moral, and social impact of euthanasia and assisted suicide legalization.

Take Action

Tell your MP to reject the dangerous Online Harms Act that creates an online police state. Click here.

Sign our new petition telling Hamilton City Council: “Don’t censor images of preborn humans.” Click here.

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Maureen, it is with good reason that the Catholic Church strongly condemned the use of contraception in its 1968 teaching Humanae Vitae, prophetically warning that its widespread acceptance would lead to infidelity, a general lowering of morality, and loss of respect for women, all of which has sadly come to pass.

The mechanism at play here is that while spouses destroy their power to create new life by means of contraception, they, at the same time, also poison their marital love for one another, a love that demands everything of the beloved, including fertility. True love is thus replaced with a counterfeit—and with selfishness. And this leads to the fulfillment of the prophetic warning of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical.

Prime Minister Trudeau, who is himself a Catholic, would do well to pay heed to the teachings of his faith when it comes to life and family matters in order to prevent the country from slipping further into error and immorality.

It’s deeply troubling that the Liberal/NDP coalition government is putting forward a pharmacare plan that includes coverage of contraception. Contraception, meaning “against conception,” refers to pills, devices, patches, implants, inserts, injections, barriers, etc., that are used to deliberately frustrate the natural consequence of the sexual act, rendering procreation impossible. Its use in marriage is contrary to authentic sexual love, breeding a mentality in its users that is anti-life and anti-family.

At a time when Canada’s fertility rate is at an all-time low of 1.3 and plummeting, the government should be doing all in its power to create incentives for couples to have children, not paying for immoral medical interventions that suppress their fertility.

Some methods of contraception have the added ethical problem that they can terminate a new human life at its earliest stage.

The primary mechanism in many hormonal-based methods of contraception is to prevent ovulation from occurring thereby preventing fertilization from happening. A “backup” mechanism of some of these contraceptives if an egg is released and unites with a sperm, however, is the prevention of the newly-formed zygote from implanting on the uterine wall (endometrium) of the mother. Since a new human being is created at the moment of fertilization, contraception that acts in this way destroys human life and is, in reality, abortifacient.

By the government opting to cover the costs of contraception, it is also bringing onto its hands the blood of countless children whose lives will be snuffed out by the life-destroying capacity of these contraceptives. The blood of these innocents cries out to God for justice and those responsible for their demise will one day have to give an account.

Widespread contraception use leads to an increase in abortion.

This at first might seem counterintuitive, but the mechanism at play has been recognized by abortion activists for decades. Contraception creates child aversion in those who use it. When contraception fails, which happens 10-15 percent of the time depending on the method, couples turn to abortion to deal with the problem of an “unwanted” pregnancy—unwanted because the couple was using contraception in the first place in an attempt to prevent the life from happening.

Abortion thus becomes the backup for failed contraception.

Abortion proponents know this link full well. “Most abortions result from failed contraception,” Joyce Arthur, founder and executive director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, has stated. Arthur’s statement parallels a prediction made in 1973 by Dr. Malcolm Potts, former medical director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, who stated: “As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.” Elizabeth Sully of the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute told the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development in Canada on March 7, 2023 that the real reason why abortion must be made available in the developing world is because “contraceptive methods fail…they all fail at some point or another. And so, we need a second line of defence – and, that’s safe abortion.”

I fear that as this pharmacare plan drives more and more Canadians to access contraception, there will be a subsequent spike in the abortion rate—the tragic loss of more and more of the youngest members of the human family.

In the final analysis, the Liberal/NDP pharmacare plan with its offer of free contraception is a profound indictment of our country’s anti-life and anti-child mentality, highlighting how deeply the culture of death has wounded our nation.

Be bold and daring for life!

Pete Baklinski
Director of Communications
Campaign Life Coalition
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