November 14, 2025
November 14, 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.
A pro-life group went undercover in Canada to expose the late-term abortion industry. While there was already much evidence that this was happening, this is the first time evidence has been caught on camera.
As we wrote in our reaction to this news, Canadians need to know that late-term abortions are being committed in our country and, when they find out about it, they are absolutely right to “abhor” them. But what are we to do with this knowledge? We at Campaign Life Coalition offer commentary in our piece titled “Equal Dignity from Day One.” Find out my deepest thoughts on this and what Pope John Paul II has to say about this in my reflection at the end.
Did you know about Canada’s upcoming plan to push euthanasia on the mentally ill? The Liberals have a plan to sweep away the lives of vulnerable Canadians struggling with depression, addiction, or any other mental disorder starting in March 2027—unless we stop it! Find out what you can do by reading my colleague David Cooke’s piece below.
There are some powerfully inspiring stories this week. The one in The Epoch Times comes from a father of a child with Down Syndrome—named Iron Will—who paints a beautiful picture of what life is really like with his precious son. “Every person with DS deserves a chance to show the world what’s possible,” he writes.
In the must-see video of the week, former Canadian ambassador David Mulroney delivers a blunt warning at the United Nations, where he warns that Canada’s “feminist international assistance” has abandoned genuine maternal and child health in favour of exporting abortion and ideological agendas, violating the sovereignty of recipient nations. He calls for a return to real diplomacy rooted in listening, respect for life, and the UN Charter’s principles, urging an end to coercive, one-way “megaphone” diplomacy.
Campaign Life Coalition: Equal Dignity from Day One
“…gestational abortion limits are both a moral and strategic mistake.”
Juno News: Pro-life group exposes late-term abortion industry with undercover video
“The Liberal government’s claims that late-term abortions are ‘rare’ and only happen for ‘serious medical issues’ have been directly challenged by a pro-life group that went undercover.”
Catholic Register: A Victory Worth Thanking God For, But Don’t Lower Your Guard
“Campaign Life Coalition President Jeff Gunnarson was so delighted by the Carney government’s refusal to include the provisions in its Nov. 4 budget that he saw the hand of the Almighty and the mighty power of Canadian democracy working to effect the blessed absence.”
LifeSiteNews: The abortion pill has changed the face of ‘access’ to pre-born killing in Canada
“Canadian physicians are increasingly outsourcing the perpetration of abortion to pharmacists and declining to offer the services themselves.”
Campaign Life Coalition: Canada Plans to Mass-Murder the Mentally Ill
“Before Canada travels one more step down this dark and demonic “euthanasia road”, we need to put on the brakes!”
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Health Canada regulations require doctors to offer euthanasia
“Whoever is in charge of ‘Death Canada,’ as I’ll call them, seems to have forgotten the promises that were made to the medical community when euthanasia was first proposed — that no one would be forced to become complicit in it.”
Epoch Times: They Were Wrong About Down Syndrome—and It’s Time to Admit It
“Unsurprisingly, the medical community got it wrong.”
Live Action: ‘Healthy' baby safely surrendered in Ohio Safe Haven Baby Box
“Safe Haven Baby Boxes, founded by Monica Kelsey who was herself abandoned at birth, has helped save hundreds of babies from abandonment.”
Pregnancy Help News: It’s time to say “Thank you” for pregnancy help
“It’s time to celebrate the heroes who serve in the pregnancy help community. Pregnancy Help Appreciation Week is November 10-14, 2025.”
Unplanned Stories: Student-mom considered abortion, but chose life after a pregnancy center offered her hope and a free ultrasound.
“Her first ultrasound gave her the courage to choose life while balancing college, work and preparing for her baby.”
Pregnancy Help News: “My mom made a courageous decision to choose life for me” - White House Media Affairs Director
“A poignant witness to the beauty of pregnancy help took place at a White House staff briefing this past Tuesday as an aide to U.S. President Donald Trump shared how her life hung in the balance because of unexpected pregnancy with repercussions for many lives across generations.”
CLC Youth
Guelph Right to Life
Lila Rose
David Mulroney warns that Canada’s foreign aid has become coercive “megaphone diplomacy” that exports abortion ideology abroad, and calls for a return to genuine diplomacy rooted in listening, sovereignty, and respect for human life.
Contact your Member of Parliament using our easy to use online tool to prevent euthanasia (MAiD) for mental illness in Canada. Click here.
Maureen, what do we as pro-lifers do with the fresh evidence presented this week that late-term abortions are happening in Canada?
Is the right response to campaign for a law that only protects preborn babies who are targeted in the third trimester, and which would leave the others behind?
I’ve been wrestling with this question all week. To help me think more clearly about this, I revisited Pope John Paul II’s 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), which sheds some powerful light on this question.
The Pope makes it clear that pro-lifers can validly support “limiting” the harm caused by an “unjust” law in relation to abortion. In the first place, there has to be such an “unjust” law in place. If this is the case, according to John Paul II, one “could licitly support proposals aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law”—such as, for example, backing a heartbeat bill in a country with a permissive abortion law that, while not ending all abortion, reins it in.
But this is not the situation in Canada. Our country has no laws pertaining to abortion. The practice exists in a legal grey area, neither prohibited nor explicitly permitted by law. Therefore, there is no unjust law to limit. Any legislation enacted would create a new law. For pro-lifers to back such a law, it would have to be a “just” law that applies to all, leaving no one behind.
A new law that would only protect children past, say, twenty weeks is fundamentally unjust and therefore morally unsupportable.
Not only that, but such a 20-week ban would affirm abortion’s legality earlier in pregnancy, thereby codifying injustice, not limiting it.
Campaigning for such a law puts pro-lifers in the indefensible position of regulating which babies live and which ones die. This is certainly contrary to the teaching of Evangelium Vitae (EV). True fidelity to EV in a Canadian context requires non-compromising measures that protect life without ever conceding any abortion as lawful.
Such non-compromising incremental measures that don’t encode any permission to kill could include the following:
Anti-coercion: “No person may, by threats or undue influence, cause a woman to undergo an abortion.”
Conscience protection: “No individual or institution shall be compelled, directly or indirectly, to participate in, facilitate, or refer for procedures that intentionally end preborn human life.”
De-funding: “Public funds shall not be used for procedures intended to terminate preborn human life.”
Born-alive protections: “Any child who shows signs of life after an attempted termination must receive the same degree of care as any newborn.”
As Jim Hughes explained to me in 2021 (when I first came to work for CLC) about the problem with gestational legislation in the Canadian context: “We can’t compromise the lives of babies to get some protection. You can’t water it down and say ‘we’ll allow abortion up to 20 weeks just to appease all those people we need on our side and then we’ll move forward.’ It doesn’t work like that.”
He added: “The UK showed us that compromised legislation was detrimental to their whole effort. In fact, pro-life leader John Smeaton was one of those people who were in favour of that. And today, as he is approaching retirement, that is the one thing that bothers him still—the fact that he was prepared to compromise in order to get some victories. But the victory is being faithful and sticking to the course. God did not tell Moses, ‘Thou shalt not kill after 20 weeks.’ He said, ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ That means that none of us has the right to advocate for the killing of children before birth in order to get some legislation.”
I like what Jim said here. We must be faithful and stick to the course. We must not compromise our pro-life principles for what we might consider a short-term win, but would really be a long-term loss.
This is one reason I am so grateful to work in a pro-life organization that believes when it comes to advocating for preborn life, it must be done with no compromises, no exceptions, and no excuses.
Be bold and daring for life!
Pete Baklinski
Director of Communications
Campaign Life Coalition
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