August 1, 2025
August 1, 2025
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.
In a loss for free speech that targets pro-life advocates, a Quebec judge ruled that peaceful, faith-based pro-life outreach within 50m of abortion clinics is unconstitutional—but still justified. This ruling doesn’t just suppress pro-life speech; it reveals that abortion is the sacred cow of our legal culture. Christian speech is being pushed to the margins—50 metres at a time.
One of our female summer interns has penned an excellent piece about the necessity of men standing up and defending life—especially babies targeted for abortion. Men, the truth is this: the pro-life movement needs you—your voice, your courage, and your strength. When fathers step up, abortions go down. The fact remains: abortion will end when men step up and say it does.
A pro-life group in Alberta has compiled a report exposing the eugenic roots of the province’s prenatal testing regime. The data shows that Alberta’s healthcare system pressures women to abort babies with Down syndrome. Yes, this is modern ableism—not medicine.
B.C.’s Minister of Health is celebrating that free birth control in the province led to a 50 percent increase in IUD prescriptions in 2023. The truth is, B.C. is now contracepting itself out of existence. When a province’s women stop having children, the future is doomed. There’s nothing worth celebrating here.
In a big win for women and girls, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal dismissed a complaint from a man who claims to be female. He demanded that a women’s beauty pageant allow biological males to compete alongside underage girls. Parents pushed back, girls spoke up, and justice was done. It took five years, but the victory was worth the wait.
Don’t miss the must-see video of the week from Guinness World Records about the world’s most premature baby, born at a gestational age of exactly 21 weeks—or 147 days—making him 133 days premature. The viability window continues to expand.
And don’t miss my reflection at the end about why it’s time to pop the bubble that makes “bubble zones.”
Quebec Life Coalition: Free speech loses in Quebec as abortion buffer zones upheld
“The recent decision by the Superior Court upholding the legality of “buffer zones” around abortion clinics in Quebec is deeply disappointing, though not surprising. Sadly, it confirms a growing trend toward progressive illiberalism observable throughout Canada.”
Campaign Life Coalition Youth: Dear Good Men: Thank You for Speaking Up About Abortion — Signed, a Grateful Woman
“Men not only have a right, but they have the responsibility to protect the lives of unborn children from murder.”
The Wilberforce Project: Deadly Discrimination in Alberta
“New report exposes how Alberta’s healthcare system pressures women to abort babies with Down syndrome and offers real steps the government can take to stop it.”
CBC: New study finds almost 50% more IUDs, implants dispensed after B.C. made birth control free
“The study found an additional 11,375 people using those methods within 15 months of the policy taking effect.”
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Boycott Bell, Best Buy, & Paypal for propping up pro-euthanasia group
“[We’re] asking you to boycott the Dying With Dignity (DWD) corporate donors.”
LifeSite: Pierre Poilievre praises pro-life MP for speaking out against euthanasia for mentally ill
“MP Andrew Lawton, who almost died by suicide 15 years ago, launched an initiative to help those with mental illness choose life and to stop the expansion of euthanasia to the mentally ill.”
Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms: VICTORY: Ontario Tribunal Dismisses Trans Activist’s Complaint Against Girls-Only Pageant
“The Justice Centre commends Canada Galaxy Pageants for standing up for parental rights and the right of women and girls to access female-only safe spaces.”
ARPA: Twenty Years of Same-Sex Marriage in Canada
“July 20, 2025, marks the 20th anniversary of the legalization of same-sex ‘marriage’ in Canada. How did we get here?”
LifeNews: He Was Left Abandoned in a Dumpster. By 25 He Had Created 80 Software Programs
“They left him like he was nothing—just a few days old, abandoned and crying inside a dumpster. But fate had a different plan for Freddie Figgers.”
Live Action: She was trapped in a vicious cycle of abortions and shame until God opened her eyes
“A woman who had multiple abortions experienced depression, drug and alcohol abuse, and unhealthy relationships afterwards, repressing the pain until she decided to accept God’s forgiveness — and now, has founded an abortion recovery ministry.”
Live Action: ‘Hope in action’: Indiana sees first successful in-utero surgery for spina bifida
“Specialists at Indiana’s Riley Hospital for Children have successfully completed an in-utero repair of spina bifida, marking the first time such a surgery has been accomplished in the state.”
Campaign Life Coalition
Pro-life Canadian Man
Abby Johnson
"Most premature baby Nash Keen, born to Mollie and Randall Keen at a gestational age of exactly 21 weeks, or 147 days, making him 133 days premature."+++
Maureen, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute has just released a razor-sharp critique of the rise of bubble zones in Canada—a trend that is turning protest into a crime and ordinary citizens into criminals.
These zones first came into existence to silence pro-life speech. Now, they are being used to silence ordinary citizens across the country.
“If freedom of expression is the lifeblood of democracy, then bubble zones are its slow suffocation: silent, polite, and increasingly permanent,” writes author Christine Van Geyn.
Canada’s bubble zone laws are unconstitutional, overly broad, and dangerous to democracy. What began in 1995 as a narrow response to abortion protests has exploded into sweeping bans on peaceful dissent—now covering schools, libraries, hospitals, and places of worship.
“Politics motivated the creation of the laws rather than responses to actual threats,” Van Geyn explains about the rise of bubble zones.
The truth is that protest is a constitutional right—especially when it’s uncomfortable. Van Geyn reminds us: “There is no right not to be offended.” Yet bubble zones silence controversial views in public spaces where protest is most impactful. That’s not safety—it’s censorship.
Bubble laws violate content neutrality—a core Charter principle.
“Governments cannot restrict speech based on its message,” Van Geyn notes. Yet that’s exactly what these laws do: ban pro-life speech near clinics, gender-critical speech near schools, and religious dissent near libraries.
Governments are using vague terms like “emotional safety” to justify these bans. Laws now punish “disapproval,” “concern,” and even unintended intimidation. If these laws stand, any speech someone finds upsetting can be silenced—with fines, jail, or both.
Bubble zones are now spreading across Canada’s major cities. Leaders who push for them mistakenly believe they’re doing something good. But when the government decides which views are allowed, democracy dies.
“Proponents of bubble zones believe they are protecting the vulnerable. In truth, they are building a new architecture of censorship, where fear, offense, and subjective mental wellbeing become the legal standard,” writes Van Geyn.
The truth is that bubble zones are unconstitutional. It’s time to pop the bubble.
“To better preserve liberty, governments and civil society should oppose new bubble zones. It is imperative to protect the public square and to maintain spaces where controversial ideas can be expressed and debated,” writes Van Geyn. “As a society, we must resist the rhetoric of safety and recognize that subjective offense doesn’t justify speech restrictions. And we need to challenge existing laws.”
If we want to defend preborn lives, we must fight to protect the right to speak—publicly, peacefully, and boldly.
That’s why we must be bold and daring for life!
Pete Baklinski
Director of Communications
Campaign Life Coalition
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