By Jonathon Van Maren The National Post is reporting a significant victory for pro-lifers in Tennessee: In a victory for opponents of abortion, the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal in a case that has made it easier to restrict abortion in Tennessee. Abortion-rights supporters had hoped to overturn a 2014 change…
By Jonathon Van Maren On December 16, 1985, a little girl was born in Vancouver General Hospital. No joy greeted her arrival—her birth mother had already tried to have her aborted at an abortion clinic just across the border in Bellingham, Washington and had only come to VGH due to complications. Hospital staff delivered her…
By Jonathon Van Maren I did not expect to read good news coming out of California this week, but here it is: On Sunday, a group of University of California Berkeley student activists was very close to seeing years of hard work culminate in a huge success for reproductive rights. Instead of finishing the day…
By Jonathon Van Maren Last month, I noted the utter self-absorption of trans activists who were actually complaining that mastectomies for women suffering from life-threatening breast cancer were taking precedent over their own “top surgeries,” in which healthy breasts would be removed in order to make them look more male. Some trans activists, however, are…
By Jonathon Van Maren A round-up of a few of the latest developments: *** The Daily Beast is reporting that New York City is set to allow a gender-neutral option on birth certificates, a policy that does not appear to be thought through: A new bill in New York City will soon allow non-binary people born in…
By Jonathon Van Maren September 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – One of the most fascinating aspects of the transgender movement’s meteoric rise over the past half-dozen years is the increasingly overt hostility between old guard feminists and transgender activists. Veteran sexual revolutionaries like Germaine Greer have been “de-platformed” and protested for stating that biological males identifying…
By Jonathon Van Maren September 28, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Shortly after forming government, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals announced that the Office of Religious Freedom, set up by the Harper Government to defend religious liberty around the world, would be closed down. It was an unnecessary project, they contended—and their contempt for freedom of conscience over the next several…
By Jonathon Van Maren Alberta’s NDP government has made the next move against religious schools in the province—and this time, they’ve dropped any pretence that their ongoing attacks on religious schools are anything short of crass bigotry. At the end of August, Education Minister David Eggen announced that funding would be pulled from Christian schools…
By Jonathon Van Maren Good news out of Louisiana—another pro-life law has been upheld. From the National Post: A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that a Louisiana law requiring that abortion providers have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals does not violate women’s constitutional abortion rights. The 2-1 ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court…
By Jonathon Van Maren It is a matter of fact that sometimes, babies that are being aborted manage to survive and are born alive—and that when this happens, they are often left to die. I have interviewed both survivors of abortion who are part of a miniscule number of people who survived a procedure specifically…