Pelican Project Pro-Life

By Suzanne Fortin Where was I last Sunday at 5 am? Praying at the abortion clinic, downtown. I was taking part in the 40 Days for Life vigil, an event during which pro-life activists pray for an end to abortion around the clock in front of the local abortion clinic. I couldn’t sleep that night. So I decided to make good use of my insomnia. With “40 Days”, there are no more excuses to miss out. When it’s time for other pro-life events, there’s always something else crowding it out – work,

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—– Original Message —– From: Citizens for a Pro-Life Society News Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:31 AM Subject: This is BIG!: Abortion Photos in New York Times From Monica Migliorino Miller, Ph.D. Director of CPLS www.prolifesociety.com Oct. 9th – New York Times does FRONT PAGE story on use of graphic images in pro-life work – and prints the images in online edition! Please make pro-life comments on the site…see below for a few outstanding comments already posted!

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Rejecting the basic premise of freedom of speech on campus, pro-abortion protesters shouted down a sanctity of life address by Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform co-founder Jose Ruba this week at McGill University – the event also faced censure by the university’s student council. Organized by the campus Choose Life club, the event, entitled ‘Echoes of the Holocaust’ was silenced as student activists prevented Ruba from even uttering a word. Responding to the censorious actions of the p

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Pro-life and pro-faith advocates made a visible stand for life yesterday as Life Chains were held in over 1,400 cities across Canada and the United States. Held annually on the first Sunday of October, most Life Chains were held between 2:30 to 4:00 PM. One of the country’s most prominent Life Chains was staged in Niagara Falls, just steps away from the majestic cataracts . Drawing hundreds of peaceful advocates of life, the local event was just one of hundreds of Life Chains held across Ont

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Pro-life and pro-faith advocates are set to make a stand for life, Sunday, October 4 as more than 1,400 Canadian and U.S. cities stage National Life Chains. On sidewalks and churches across North America, pastors, priests, parishioners and all supporters of life are being called to a time of solemn prayer, meditation and public witness in support of the unborn. Held annually on the first Sunday of October, most Life Chains are scheduled to be held locally between 2:30 to 4:00 PM. Local Canadi

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Writing in the National Post, Alberta columnist Lorne Gunter wieghs in a private member’s bill (Bill C-440), co-sponsored by Toronto Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy and British Columbia New Democrat MP Bill Siksay, that would shelter U.S. war deserters in Canada . Gunter calls for consistency, arguing if Kennedy and Siksay are willing to accommodate conscientious objectors to the ‘illegal and immoral’ war in Iraq, then they should also accommodate rogue pro-life activists who shoot abortion doctors

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This report is by Pew Forum, based on a new poll they completed on the views of Americans on abortion. Read the complete report and see the charts here. October 1, 2009 Support for Abortion Slips Issue Ranks Lower on the Agenda Overview Polls conducted in 2009 have found fewer Americans expressing support for abortion than in previous years. In Pew Research Center polls in 2007 and 2008, supporters of legal abortion clearly outnumbered opponents; now Americans are evenly divided o

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By Neil Dykstra Previously, I highlighted the strategy used by “progressives” to discredit the pro-life movement by equating it with hate crimes. This approach is also being used in America – and Canada – by these same progressives against anyone who does not share their ideals. Back in 1996, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a political advocacy group that has been monitoring the Ku Klux Klan for decades, published a pamphlet entitled False Patriots: The Threat of Antigovernment Extremists

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A bitter-sweet week for pro-life and pro-family advocates on Capitol Hill, the same Senate committee that voted earlier this week to restore funding for abstinence-only sex education, rejected yesterday two pro-life amendments . Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, a sponsor of the Senate Finance Committee abstinence-only amendment, was also the sponsor of two important sanctity of life amendments, one prohibiting public funding of abortions in proposed health care reform initiatives and the o

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Writing in the campus student newspaper ‘The McGill Tribune’ this week, labour and pro-abortion activist Indu Vashist offers a revisionist view of the history of abortion in Canada, arguing the country has had a strong, pro-choice legacy pre-dating Confederation . Linking traditional opposition to abortion to racism, Vashist documents the history of the Canadian abortion debate: “In Canada prior to Confederation, the majority of recorded recipients of abortions and practitioners were upper

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