By Jonathon Van Maren As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world and governments call on their citizens to stay home, many pro-life organizations have been impacted as well. I serve as communications director for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, which has five offices across Canada, and in nearly every major city where we…
Last year’s documentary, on the abortion debate and the pro-life movement, has now been released online for free. I reviewed the film here–I believe it is a good overview of Canada’s greatest tragedy and the movement that rose up to fight it. For full disclosure, both myself and several of my colleagues were interviewed for…
By Jonathon Van Maren On Twitter this week, right-wing wags sarcastically inquired as to long it would be before the “pandemic hits trans community hardest” stories began to emerge. It would appear that Vice has beaten Vox to the punch, and the inevitable stories have begun: One of their latest headlines solemnly declares that “As…
By Jonathon Van Maren Plans for a public referendum on the decriminalization of abortion in New Zealand were scrapped by lawmakers today in favor of a parliamentary vote, and legislators voted 68 to 51 to remove abortion from the 1961 Crimes Act. Abortion already had been essentially legal, with women being required to obtain the…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier this year, the National Post published an excellent essay on the state of the abortion debate in Canada, and with a bit more time for writing (social distancing is hard on pro-life public outreach), I thought I’d walk through some of the relevant excerpts and add a bit of context…
By Jonathon Van Maren Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the American abortion wars have continued unabated. Last night, for example, one of the last pro-life Democrats—Representative Dan Lipinski of Illinois’s Third Congressional District—lost his primary race to pro-abortion challenger Marie Newman. Newman had campaigned explicitly on the premise that Lipinski is not a real Democrat, and…
By Jonathon Van Maren At 11:31 PM on January 27, 2015, as Boris Nemtsov strolled down the sidewalk of the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge with his Ukrainian model girlfriend, Anna Duritskaya, a young man emerged from one of the stairwells on the side of the bridge that led to the paths along the river below and…
This news is tragic. You’ll notice that the activists for suicide, for the transgender cause, and for abortion are so relentless and so strategic that they hammer away at institutions until they finally crumble. They work to redefine things on their own terms, and once they succeed, they add the new weapon to their arsenal:…
For religious freedom—and freedom in general—the Scandinavian countries are becoming terrible places to live. Some of you may have watched or listened to my recent shows on what is going on in Norway, where children are being taken away from their parents at a shocking and disturbing rate. (My conversation with a Christian mother who…