September 26, 2025
September 26, 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.
My colleague Josie Luetke gave an excellent interview about why the upcoming Life Chain demonstration is so important to attend. Did you know this event has saved lives? Make sure you set aside Sunday, Oct. 5, to attend the location nearest you.
Pro-Life Alberta has launched a powerful new campaign to demand protections for children born alive after failed abortions in Alberta. In 2024 alone, at least 28 babies were born alive after failed abortions in Alberta hospitals. Make sure you check out what this group is doing.
Did you know Canadian doctors can make big money from killing the sick and elderly via MAiD? I didn’t either. A BC payment schedule shows doctors bill much more than the public fee — a single MAiD death can net physicians $1,300, and total costs per case approach $2,600. MAiD was sold to Canadians as compassionate. But the mask is now coming off. We now know what MAiD really means: Medical Assassination = income for Doctors.
My colleague Jack Fonseca has made some powerful comments about children’s author Robert Munsch and his plan to end his life by MAiD. Yes, this man, and all who have contemplated suicide, are in need of prayer.
There are some excellent “good news” stories this week. In one of them, my daughter Perina writes about her experience using abortion victim photography to defend life on the streets of Toronto during a school break. “Yes, I recognize that these pictures of aborted babies are extremely difficult to look at,” writes Perina. “I do not want to look at them either. However, if we don’t show the truth about abortion, no one will ever be moved to oppose it.” Make sure you check out her piece.
The Canadian pro-life group Choice42 has released a new video—the fourth in its “Exposed” series—that highlights the abortion pill. The film raises the question: When it comes to the abortion pill, who is the abortionist? The video is based on a true story. While animated, it is still difficult to watch.
Finally, I was practically shocked this week to see our Canadian Senate admit in the first reading of a new bill that preborn children deserve one kind of protection. But don’t rejoice too quickly. Read my reflection to find out why.
LifeSiteNews: Thousands to join National Life Chain in Canada to defend unborn babies on October 5
“Pro-lifers across Canada will participate in the National Life Chain next Sunday, standing along roadways to pray and hold signs advocating for the sanctity of human life and an end to abortion.”
LifeSiteNews: Alberta pro-lifers demand protections for infants born alive after failed abortions
“Prolife Alberta's 'Left to Die' campaign demands protections for the hundreds of babies born alive after failed abortions, urging policy changes to ensure they receive medical care.”
BC Catholic: MAiD can make B.C.’s euthanasia doctors rich, hidden figures show
“Some doctors are being really well paid to do this. They are very well paid to just ask people if they want to die, and then to kill them.”
LifeSiteNews: Children’s author’s planned euthanasia should be national wake-up call: Canada’s top pro-life group
“Campaign Life Coalition warns Canadians that Robert Munsch’s planned death by lethal injection shows how 'reckless' and easy it is for anyone to be approved for assisted suicide.”
LifeSiteNews: ‘Pray’ for author Robert Munsch’s family to change his mind on euthanasia: pro-life advocate
“Campaign Life Coalition's Jack Fonseca says there's still hope for the Canadian children's author to be persuaded not to go through with assisted suicide.”
Western Standard: Alberta to use notwithstanding clause to defend laws protecting children from transgenderism
“Alberta’s government will continue to vigorously protect the safety and well-being of children using all available legal and constitutional means at our disposal.”
Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform: I spent my school break defending babies
“Why are pro-life activists like me willing to go to the streets to make the case for life? The answer is simple: abortion will not end, there will not be laws enacted that recognize and protect the pre-born as full members of the human family, until the public cries out for this to happen.”
Catholic Saskatoon News: Knights of Columbus dedicate pro-life monument and memorial signs for area cemeteries
“Inscribed with ‘In Loving Memory of all the Unborn Babies’ the monument is permanently located at St. Mary Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in Rose Valley.”
Live Action: Alabama Safe Haven Baby Box installed in May sees first infant surrender
“The surrender is the first time the baby box was used since its installation three months ago.”
Live Action: Woman recounts rescuing crying newborn from trash dumpster: 'It broke me'
“The baby appeared to be less than a day old, and still had her umbilical cord attached. She was covered in dirt and trash.”
Campaign Life Coalition
Pro-life Canadian Man
Lila Rose
Maureen, the Senate has just introduced Bill S-234, a national framework on fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. The bill recognizes that alcohol consumption during pregnancy can cause lasting harm to babies in the womb, impacting their brains, bodies, and future quality of life.
It's great to see the upper house of Parliament officially acknowledge that preborn children deserve protection from harm.
And yet, in this very same country, those same children can be poisoned, dismembered, or delivered dead through abortion right up until birth—with full legal sanction.
Canada is worried about protecting preborn children from alcohol, but not from abortion.
This is cognitive dissonance at a whole new level. It exposes the absurdity of our laws: a society that claims to care about babies’ health while simultaneously denying their very right to life.
If the government truly wants to protect children from harm in the womb, it must start with the most basic protection: the right to life.
I’m glad to see the Senate taking this step toward protecting the lives of preborn children. It’s a very small step, but it’s in the right direction.
Be bold and daring for life!
Pete Baklinski
Director of Communications
Campaign Life Coalition
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