October 13, 2023

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.

As war continues to ravage the people of the Middle East, horrific details have emerged about some of the youngest victims of Hamas terrorism: babies in the womb and newborn children. Read more about this at the end.

Ideological battles, also with real victims, continue to rage at home. Standing up against LGBT radicals, Manitoba Premier Scott Moe has invoked the notwithstanding clause to create a Parental Bill of Rights that forces schools to no longer keep it a secret from parents if a child wants to socially transition to a member of the opposite sex at school. And, despite protests from LGBT groups, Moe is standing his ground on this, stating: "This is very much a government that is being responsive to parents from across this province.” Thank you to all who contacted your MLA and the Premier’s office demanding that it stand up for parental rights.

Abbotsford MP Ed Fast gave a powerful speech in the House of Commons on Wednesday defending his Bill C-314 to ban euthanasia for the mentally ill. He quoted from the Bible. If you have not done so already, please use our online action tool to contact your MP asking them to support Bill C-314. Click here.

There’s another Million March 4 Children being planned for Oct. 21. You can read my comments in the Catholic Register about why this parental rights movement is significant.

Finally, there’s an inspiring story about how an Israeli couple saved their 10-month-old twins in a final act of sacrificial love before the couple was killed by Hamas terrorists.

Top Canadian pro-life stories you need to know about

Campaign Life Coalition: Pro-life Manitobans ready to fight anti-life-and-family NDP bills

“Slykerman said that pro-life-and-family Manitobans will not sit idly by to watch the NDP undermine the province, turning it into an ‘Orwellian nightmare.’”

Saskatchewan Government: “Parents’ Bill of Rights” Introduced In Legislature

“The bill outlines a number of rights that parents have to be involved in their children's education and invokes the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian constitution to ensure parents must provide consent if a child wants to change their gender identification in school.”

True North: Saskatchewan parents back Scott Moe’s parental rights push

“Saskatchewan parents are backing Premier Scott Moe’s education policy requiring parental consent for children under 16 to change their gender and pronouns at school.”

LifeSiteNews: Jordan Peterson attributes Canada’s low birth rate to attack on the traditional family

“Canada’s most prominent anti-woke psychologist Jordan Peterson says the reason for the country’s low birth rates is due to a society that has “demonized family and children” and not, as a recent media report suggests, because of high housing prices.”

LifeSiteNews: LGBT activists fail to cancel Saskatchewan events opposing gender mutilation of children 

“Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Coalition condemned the RCMP’s reported involvement with investigating the event.  ‘Every Saskatchewanian should be outraged and alarmed that the RCMP is investigating free Canadians for expressing opinions that may run contrary to the policies of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal regime…Is this what our once noble mounted police force has become?” he questioned. “A Gestapo-like censorship division who perceive their role as stamping out any political or moral opinions that Justin Trudeau and his army of LGBT activists don’t like?’”

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Conservative MP quotes Bible in support of bill banning euthanasia for mentally ill

“A famous world leader by the name of Moses once challenged his own people with a choice and a promise: ‘I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live’. I want my descendants to live, to prosper, to thrive, and I want the same for our mentally ill, our Indigenous peoples and indeed all Canadians. It is time to end this experiment. With so much uncertainty, surely we should err on the side of life, not death.”

The Interim: Guardian Angels program to help Canadians avoid euthanasia

“The B.C.-based Delta Hospice Society has launched a national program called Guardian Angels to provide vulnerable patients with a personal advocate in order to help them avoid being ensnared by the euthanasia trap.”

Catholic Register: Parental rights march returning

“Baklinski said ‘Catholic leaders in Canada have largely been missing in action in this battle.’ ‘There is a spirit of cowardice in many Catholic leaders when it comes to the Church’s sexual moral teachings,” he said. “It is something that must be overcome. The Muslims are showing the way.’”

Catholic Register: Catholic bishops: ‘Catholic-sponsored health associations and organizations do not permit MAiD’

“The incoming president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has served notice that so-called Medical Assistance in Dying is a no-go for institutions and associations that operate under the Church’s name.”

Inspiring stories to give you hope

Texas Right to Life: Israeli Couple Saved Their 10-Month Twins Moments Before Hamas Stormed Their Home

“Itay and Hadar Berdichevsky saved their 10-month-old twins in a final act of sacrificial love before the couple was killed by Hamas terrorists.”

UK Right to Life: ‘Octopus teddies’ are saving the lives of preemies in an amazing way

“A mum of a premature baby has explained that octopus teddies are being used to help distract babies born prematurely from tugging on their monitoring equipment.”

Epoch Times: 'Stay With Me, Buddy!': Heroic Officer Performs Life-Saving CPR on Baby Who Stopped Breathing

“Body camera footage has captured the moment a baby boy's life hung in the balance, as a police officer saved him by performing CPR atop his patrol car bonnet after the infant stopped breathing.”

Awesome pro-life social media posts this week

CLC Youth

Abby Johnson

Scott Moe

Must-see video of the week

Abortion, Chastity, Healthy Marriages, And More w/ Michael Knowles: How do you winsomely debate abortion? What is the key to a happy marriage? Can we prove the existence of God? Michael Knowles cuts to the core of some of the biggest moral questions of our day and age in this week's episode of Exclusives with Lila Rose.

Take Action

Tell your Member of Parliament to vote “Yes” on Bill C-314 to ban murder as medicine for mentally ill. Click here.

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Maureen, I was devastated to see reports and images coming from Israel of the discovery of bodies of babies who were beheaded and burned by Hamas terrorists. These included reports of babies being ripped out of their mothers’ wombs and being left to die along with their mothers. If these reports are true, then these are some of the thousand-plus victims that we've learned of so far.  

This is horrific. It is evil. It is man’s inhumanity to man.

It is right to call this out for the evil that it is, to denounce the people who commit these terrible deeds, and to mourn every innocent life lost in the Middle East.

It is all too easy to fail to recognize that such atrocious acts are being committed right now in our own time and in our own Western countries. They are being committed in the name of “autonomy,” “reproductive rights”, and “a woman’s right to choose.”

Hamas terrorists decapitate babies. And, so does Planned Parenthood and any other abortion facilities that perform second-trimester dilation and evacuation abortions. These abortions involve dismembering and disembowelling the baby, crushing the baby’s skull and ripping it away from the body before extracting all the body parts out of the uterus.

The womb should be the safest place in the world for a baby. Abortion has turned it into a torture chamber, a house of horrors, the haunt of terrorists looking for a victim.

A friend once pointed out that abortion is like an act of terrorism against the most vulnerable segment of our society. Abortion terrorism takes place in hospitals and facilities across our country. It’s funded by our governments. And, it’s made socially acceptable because it’s sanitized by doctors in white coats who commit these atrocious acts using sterile equipment under bright lights. While the ultimate goal of terrorism is to control people through fear, the goal of abortion is to give women the delusion that they are controlling their lives by killing their children. Both terrorism and abortion have murder as a common denominator. 

The West is right to condemn Hamas terrorists. But, it must also recognize that what our society is doing to children by abortion is no different than what these terrorists did to babies in Israel.

It’s time to pull away the mask, remove the guise of sanitization, and recognize the truth that abortion is a barbaric act of violence against the smallest members of the human family that strips them of their inalienable right to life.

Mother Teresa once said that the “greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.” Do we wonder if the world is plunging into war when the mother is at war with her child?

Abortion is horrific. It is evil. It is man’s inhumanity to man.

And, it must end.

With God’s help, it one day will.

Be bold and daring for life!