September 27, 2024
September 27, 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.
40 Days for Life kicked off on Wednesday in twenty cities across Canada. If you wish to join 40 Days For Life in your community, please visit our website to find a campaign nearest to you.
Corporate media continues to draw attention to our successful postcard campaign in New Brunswick, in which we defend parental rights and seek to protect children from transgender ideology. The most recent news is that Canada Post has suspended postal workers who have refused to work due to our postcards. Canada Post, of course, is required by law to deliver the mail. While we respect the conscience rights of individuals who refuse to do something they disagree with, we are glad Canada Post has found employees who will deliver our postcards.
The One Million March for Children last Friday, organized by Hands Off Our Kids, was a mixed bag. Some locations had over a hundred people show up to demonstrate. Other locations had very few, and even no one, show up due to organization issues. Still, the event was covered by a number of media outlets sympathetic to the cause of parental rights.
Some good news. A coalition of disability rights organizations filed a Charter challenge with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to ban Track 2 MAiD deaths. They assert that the Track 2 protocol, which provides euthanasia to people with a disability who are not dying, has resulted in premature deaths and an increase in discrimination and stigma towards people with disabilities across the country.
The next episode of Focus on Life Podcast has been released. This one focuses on abortion pill reversal. One of the world’s leading doctors who performs these reversals is interviewed on the show.
The must-see video of the week highlights the inspiring story of how a family opened their hearts of love to their daughter with trisomy 18, who was deemed ‘incompatible with life.’ The daughter defied medical expectations, living beyond birth. She is now a thriving 5-year-old. This video pulls at the heartstrings and shows what real love looks like.
Finally, don’t miss my reflection at the end, in which I call out CPC leader Pierre Poilievre for mistakingly claiming that Canada has an “abortion law.”
Top Canadian pro-life stories you need to know about
Campaign Life Coalition: Join the next internationally coordinated 40 Days for Life campaign
"Save lives this Fall from September 25 - November 3, 2024."
Catholic Register: 40 Days for Life vigil kicks off Sept. 25
“The annual 40 Days for Life vigil of peaceful prayer and fasting for the protection of the unborn returns.”
Focus on Life Podcast: Abortion Pill Reversal 101 with Dr. Dermot Kearney
CLC vice president Matthew Wojciechowski and African pro-life leader Obianuju Ekeocha sit down with Dr. Dermot Kearney, a consultant cardiologist and former President of the Catholic Medical Association (UK), who is a leading expert in Abortion Pill Reversal. Tune in to learn more about chemical abortions, the antidote, and the wonderful success stories of lives saved.
Pro-life Alberta: Children are being born alive after failed abortions. What are we doing to help them?
“At the very least, every life—no matter how fragile or how it entered this world—deserves our care, our compassion, and our protection. To deny even one child that dignity is to deny the very essence of what makes us human.”
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Disability groups legally challenge Canada's euthanasia law
“The coalition is petitioning the court to strike down Track 2 approvals in Canada's MAiD law, arguing that providing assisted death solely on the basis of disability is unconstitutional.”
Campaign Life Coalition: Secret Gender Transitioning for Kids in Ontario
“I wish it weren’t so, but this is no imaginary dystopian tale. It is a parent’s worst nightmare come true.”
True North: Canada Post suspends employees who refused to deliver flyers opposing child sex-change operations
“Two Canada Post employees in New Brunswick have been suspended for their refusal to deliver a flyer calling for a provincial “child sex-change ban,” according to a union representative.”
LifeSiteNews: Saskatchewan to defend pro-family laws in court battle with LGBT activists next week
“On September 23 and 24, Saskatchewan will be in court to defend pro-family legislation bolstering parental rights in school that is being challenged by an LGBT activist group.”
LifeSiteNews: Jordan Peterson condemns ‘trans-butchery of minor children’ as ‘a crime against humanity’
“In an interview late last week with Piers Morgan, the Canadian psychologist expressed outrage regarding the epidemic of trans ‘mutilation’ procedures on children, stating the ‘butchering sadists’ responsible for them should be imprisoned for life.”
One Million March for Children stories:
LifeSiteNews: Pro-family protesters, city councilor demand parental rights outside Toronto-area school board
LifeSiteNews: Thousands of Canadians hit the streets for the second annual Million Person March
Rebel News: Large group of radical activists show up at Ottawa '1 Million March 4 Children'
Rebel News: Calgary protesters rally for second annual '1 Million March 4 Children'
Catholic Register: March against gender ideology numbers shrink
Quebec Life Coalition: Thousands of Canadians protest against LGBT indoctrination in schools
The Post Millennial: EXCLUSIVE: Second annual Million Person March for Children continues fights against gender ideology in Canada's classrooms
Western Standard: WATCH: About 125 people attend One Million March for Children in Edmonton
Western Standard: Government faces criticism as parental rights march draws millions nationwide
National Catholic Register: ‘Remember the Unborn’: Pro-Life Relay Set to Run Across America
“The annual LIFE Runners’ ‘A-Cross America Relay’ event is gearing up to bring its simple, powerful message of “Remember the Unborn” to all four directions of the nation.”
LifeNews: 25,000 Pro-Life Americans Join Prayer Campaign to Stop Pro-Abortion Ballot Measures
“Voters in ten states (AZ, CO, FL, MD, MO, MT, NE, NV, NY and SD) will see on their ballot this Fall a proposal to amend their state constitution to permit unlimited abortion. Stopping these measures has become a top priority of the pro-life movement this year. Stopping these measures has also become a top prayer intention for believers.”
Live Action: Toni experienced first hand that ‘abortion destroys a woman’s soul, but God offers redemption’
“I learned about Jesus and started running toward him. I felt Jesus wooing me, calling to me.”
Live Action: NFL Hall of Famer Tony Dungy defends pro-life Christianity: ‘We should not take any life unjustly’
“NFL Hall of Fame Football coach Tony Dungy reaffirmed his commitment to protecting life recently, as he posted a tweet maintaining that the true Christian faith does not support abortion.”
Campaign Life Coalition
LifeNews
Lila Rose
Five-year-old Brianna has Trisomy 18, and her life is bringing hope to families. Brianna was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, also known as Edward's syndrome, when she was 24 weeks in the womb. Doctors labeled her "incompatible with life" and offered abortion... but her parents had hope. Thanks to her parents' love and courage, Brianna just celebrated her 5th birthday.
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Maureen, earlier this week (Sept. 25) in the House of Commons, Liberal leader Mr. Trudeau and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre spared over abortion.
Mr. Trudeau accused Mr. Poilievre of only “pretending” to be pro-choice, despite the fact that the CPC leader has said as much on various occasions – namely that he is in favour of a woman having the option to choose to kill her offspring.
Mr. Poilievre responded, stating that “we are not going to change the abortion law.”
Mr. Poilievre, however, is quite mistaken on this matter.
There exists no “abortion law” in Canada.
In the 1988 R. v. Morgentaler decision, the Supreme Court threw out the previous 1969 abortion law, put in place by Justin Trudeau’s father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, deeming it “unconstitutional.” The majority opinion was that the procedural requirements for an abortion violated a woman’s Charter Right to “security of the person,” though two of the seven justices dissented.
The court established no right to abortion, a point acknowledged not only by legal professionals but also by corporate media, such as the CBC.
The ruling, which was rife with faults, effectively removed every obstacle barring pregnant mothers from obtaining an abortion. This allowed mothers to kill their preborn children at any stage during the pregnancy, for any reason at all. And, sadly, millions of Canadian mothers have chosen to destroy the new human lives growing and developing inside of them.
The Supreme Court justices, moreover, did not want the Canada we live in today when it comes to abortion, where a preborn baby can be killed throughout all nine months of pregnancy for any reason or no reason whatsoever.
In fact, the court was unanimous in finding that the state has an interest in protecting the lives of humans in the womb. Chief Justice Dickson, with Justice Lamer concurring, wrote: “Like Beetz and Wilson JJ., I agree that protection of foetal interests by Parliament is also a valid governmental objective.”
Justice Beetz, with Justice Estey concurring, wrote that the “primary objective” of the Criminal Code’s section 251, which was repealed, was the “protection of the foetus.” “The primary objective does relate to concerns which are pressing and substantial in a free and democratic society and which, pursuant to s. 1 of the Charter, justify reasonable limits to be put on a woman's right [to security of the person],” they wrote.
Beetz continued: “I am of the view that the protection of the foetus is and, as the Court of Appeal observed, always has been, a valid objective in Canadian criminal law...I think s. 1 of the Charter authorizes reasonable limits to be put on a woman’s right having regard to the state interest in the protection of the foetus.”
Issuing a dissenting opinion, Justices McIntyre and La Forest wrote: “Historically, there has always been a clear recognition of a public interest in the protection of the unborn.”
The majority opinion concluded that the “solution” to the “abortion question,” namely how to balance the rights of the mother with the state’s interest in protecting life in the womb, “must be left to Parliament” since Parliament, the court stated, is “elected for that purpose in a free democracy.”
Parliament has yet to honour the Supreme Court’s invitation that it pass legislation protecting human lives in the womb.
Such legislation must reflect what science and medical advancements reveal to us about life in the womb, namely, that it is a fully human life. Such legislation, if it is to truly remedy the current wrongs suffered by preborn humans, must restore their legal protection from the first moment of their existence.
Yes, Canada needs a law. It needs a just law that protects children from being killed in their mothers’ wombs.
It has been said that a nation will be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members. Preborn human children are the most vulnerable among us. These smallest members of the human family are waiting for a day of justice.
Until that day comes, be bold and daring for life!
Pete Baklinski
Director of Communications
Campaign Life Coalition
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