By Jonathon Van Maren February 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The Democrats have overplayed their hand. I’ve never seen such a suicidal strategy on the part of pro-abortion progressives—and it proves that they’re getting genuinely desperate. For decades, abortion activists and their political allies have wisely attempted to avoid the topic of late-term abortion entirely. Many…
By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve studied abortion and the reality of the different abortion procedures many times, but every once in awhile I still stumble across something that disturbs me. Recently, it was an article emailed to me by a friend in the pro-life movement titled “The Mom Who Had An Abortion At Seven Months…
By Jonathon Van Maren Vanessa Otten was fourteen years old when she first realized what abortion really was. The principal of Jordan Christian School in Jordan Station, Ontario, had decided that it was important for his high school to understand the issue in greater depth, and had asked a pro-life activist from the Canadian Centre…
By Jonathon Van Maren Not since the Center for Medical Progress videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s sale of baby body parts has there been so much widespread outrage against abortion. Despite New York State’s already-liberal abortion regime – feticide was permitted up until 24 weeks – Governor Andrew Cuomo hailed the recent passage of the so-called…
Fantastic news: Pakistan’s Supreme Court has upheld the decision to free Asia Bibi. From the BBC: Pakistan’s top court has rejected a challenge to the acquittal of a Christian woman on blasphemy charges. The Supreme Court upheld its decision to overturn Asia Bibi’s conviction and death sentence. She was originally convicted in 2010 after being…
By Jonathon Van Maren Driving through the winding, cobble-stoned village of Troy, it looks at first glance simply like another lazy Turkish town. There are old men trudging along the road, barely looking up as our car comes by. There are equally disinterested dogs sunning themselves on front steps. Only the enormous signs fastened to…
By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve noted before that the strange alliance between progressive politicians and Muslim minorities has an expiration date if religious immigrants are ever faced with the same attacks on conscience regularly faced by Christians in the West, especially on issues such as abortion and sexuality. Here in Canada, for example, Justin Trudeau…
By Jonathon Van Maren Over the past couple of weeks, Tucker Carlson has ignited a firestorm within the American conservative movement by not only questioning the infallibility of the free market, but also by highlighting an inconvenient fact: Sometimes, economic pressures hurt families, and perhaps it is time for conservatives to re-examine some of our…
By Jonathon Van Maren The Gallipoli Peninsula in January is quiet and empty. It is sporadically overcast, a bit nippy, and the perfect time to drive from place to place unimpeded by the hordes of tourists who descend on these sacred sites later in the year. My wife Charmaine and I spent a day driving…
