July 25, 2025
July 25, 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.
It was a relatively quiet week on the pro-life and pro-family fronts, which is a welcome change.
REAL Women of Canada has penned an insightful piece about our country’s abortion regime and how it has been upheld by decades of feminist ideology, media complicity, and government funding—all of which suppress open debate and deny the physical and psychological harms abortion causes women. It’s well worth the read.
My colleague, Jack Fonseca, has written about how the Ontario government has taken over the Toronto Catholic District School Board due to severe financial mismanagement—mismanagement that includes years of wasteful, taxpayer-funded legal attacks on faithful trustee Mike Del Grande for defending Catholic teachings. Now stripped of their powers, the same woke trustees who persecuted Del Grande are facing the consequences of their own reckless, vindictive agenda.
Don’t miss the must-see video of the week about baby Nash, the world’s most premature baby, born at just 21 weeks. He’s even made it into the Guinness World Records.
Finally, be sure to check out my reflection at the end about how a 21-year-old legalized raw milk—and what it teaches us about ending abortion in Canada.
Real Women of Canada: Lies, Myths and Manipulation Surrounding the Abortion Issue
“In the current Canadian culture, the issue of abortion is off-limits for debate. There is only one position recognized – that abortions be readily available for any reason.”
Campaign Life Coalition: The woke are reaping what they sowed
“What happens when woke school board trustees waste an enormous amount of taxpayer dollars on a vendetta to silence and destroy one of their own colleagues?”
Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms: Nurse files human rights complaints over termination for opposing LGBT ideology
“Nurse Ms. Amy Hamm has filed two human rights complaints with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, arguing that Vancouver Coastal Health and the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives discriminated against her on the basis of her political belief.”
Everyday for Life Canada: The poster and definition of a woman the city of Hamilton has censored
“Today, we show readers the poster and definition of a woman the city of Hamilton, Ontario doesn't want people to see.”
Pregnancy Help News: Baby Evelyn Was Saved through Abortion Pill Reversal.
“Elizabeth and Ben are the grateful parents of Baby Evelyn, their daughter saved by Abortion Pill Reversal.”
Live Action: ‘Living testimony’: Her mother didn’t survive, but baby Miracle continues to fight
“An eight-month-old baby girl named Miracle is still fighting for her life after her mother, Taniyiah Micha’ela Bell, was shot last November while she was eight months pregnant.”
Live Action: She heard God’s voice in the Planned Parenthood parking lot… and chose life
“Despite a scheduled abortion, Tiffany knew God had spoken to her in the Planned Parenthood parking lot — saving her daughter’s life.”
CLC Youth
Abby Johnson
Lila Rose
“Meet Nash — the world’s most premature baby, born at just 21 weeks (133 days early) and told he had 0% chance of survival. But God had other plans. Today, he’s a giggly, happy, thriving 1-year-old—a miracle child whose life proves: every life is worth fighting for.”
Maureen, you may have heard about the 21-year-old in North Dakota who legalized raw milk. It’s an amazing story, and it has something important to teach us pro-life advocates about ending abortion in Canada (read the story linked above before continuing below).
Dawson Holle didn’t lose his temper at the unjust situation he faced. He got elected and rewrote the law. He didn’t posture—he produced results.
Here’s how pro-lifers can follow his model—one quiet victory at a time.
Holle was just 21 when he overturned decades of dairy regulation in North Dakota. There was no culture war. No media circus. Just common sense, coalition-building, and cows. He passed raw milk laws by speaking to real needs, writing clear bills, and moving forward with confidence that he was in the right—one step at a time.
So how do we apply this to abortion in Canada?
We need to follow Holle’s blueprint. Here’s the 7-part pro-life strategy, Holle-style:
1. Start Local, Start Real.
You don’t end abortion with slogans. You do it by stopping it where you live.
Action Plan:
We need to identify and target local policies enabling abortion (e.g., hospital boards allowing abortions, school boards promoting abortion services).
Propose clear, narrowly written local policies to protect life—such as municipal resolutions declaring towns as “safe havens for preborn children” (symbolic legally, catalytic culturally).
Get elected to school boards, city councils, and health authorities. Become insiders.
The principle here is: don’t start by banning all abortion. Start by cutting off its roots in your backyard. In other words, as CLC president Jeff Gunnarson likes to say: change your town before your country.
2. Reframe the Issue
Holle succeeded because he reframed raw milk as a question of voluntary adult choice and food sovereignty, rather than launching a war on entrenched public health doctrine. The pro-life movement can learn something from this.
Action Plan:
We can frame pro-life legislation and advocacy not as a restriction on women, but as extending rights and care to voiceless and vulnerable human beings, while supporting vulnerable women with real alternatives.
Advance “Right to Know” laws requiring informed consent, including ultrasound access, fetal development information, and disclosure of health risks (mental and physical) post-abortion.
Introduce a “Parental Rights in Health Care” bill in provinces to prohibit secret abortions on minors.
The principle here is: don’t make a big commotion on the world stage, but quietly extend protections locally.
3. Draft Narrow, Unassailable Legislation
Holle’s bills were short, clear, and to the point. He had to craft two laws to get what he wanted.
Action Plan:
Convince pro-life MPs to introduce legislation that would help stop or curtail abortion or foster a culture of respect for human life.
Incremental laws might include legislation making it illegal to coerce a woman into have an abortion; legislation that defunds abortion; legislation that protects conscience rights of healthcare professional who don’t want to be involved in any way in abortion.
Build enough laws incrementally to eventually lead to full legal protection for all preborn humans, from conception onward.
The principle here is: make it hard for anyone to oppose incremental laws without looking extreme.
4. Build Coalitions Quietly—Across the Aisle
Holle passed his bills with Democrat support and avoided grandstanding. His approach was to listen, educate, and include.
Action Plan:
We can work with like-minded groups, advocates, and communities who share our pro-life values.
Engage with physicians and nurses who are quietly opposed to abortion and get their help shaping conscience protection laws.
Don’t just preach to the choir. Build new choirs.
The principle here is: don’t posture, but partner.
5. Show Up Dirty, Not Decorated
Holle kept one foot in the barn and one in the legislature. He never stopped being part of the community he served.
Action Plan:
As pro-life advocates, we must continue to stand by women facing a crisis pregnancy who need support. We must continue sidewalk advocacy and raise public awareness about the plight of the preborn targeted for abortion.
Stay grounded by helping all those affected by abortion.
Speak from the frontlines, not a podium.
The principle here is: credibility comes from calluses, not from credentials.
6. Don’t Beg. Build.
Holle didn’t wait for federal permission to proceed. He got himself elected and wrote the bill he wanted.
Action Plan:
We must stop waiting for a “perfect” federal leader to end abortion. We need to start changing laws locally and municipally—now. That means running for local office ourselves and becoming insiders, whether in townships, municipalities, or school boards.
Forge parallel systems: pro-life medical care, schools, and pregnancy centres that embody a culture of life in action.
The principle here is: don’t wait for permission—write the future.
7. Act Like It All Depends on You, Pray Like It All Depends on God
We know that in this great battle for life, we are fighting against powers and principalities, as Saint Paul reminds us—not of this world. We need to arm ourselves with prayer and fasting, knowing that some demons can only be cast out this way.
Action Plan:
“The beautiful thing about the pro-life movement is that it is ordinary people doing extraordinary things for God.” – Saint Mother Teresa
“The battle is the Lord’s.” – The Bible
“I have come that you may have life, and have it to the full.” – Jesus, in the Bible
Conclusion:
Holle’s motto is:
“Every time a farm wins, a town wins.”
The pro-life movement is fighting for something far more noble:
“Every child protected builds a culture of life.”
The pro-life movement in Canada doesn’t need to wait for a national moment—the reopening of the “abortion debate”—to start working to end abortion. We have a fantastic blueprint in Holle’s quiet revolution. He started small, acted smart, began locally, was legally strategic, and morally firm.
If he was able to change the situation one heart at a time, one law at a time, one win at a time—we can too!
Be bold and daring for life!
Pete Baklinski
Director of Communications
Campaign Life Coalition
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