2022 September Prolife Newsletter
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50 Years Later – A survey on abortion in Canada
Press Release: NEW National Poll on Abortion After 50 Years, Canadians Remain Unconvinced on Unrestricted Abortion Fifty years ago this month, the federal government legalized abortion in Canada, a controversial decision in 1969. Currently there are no legal...
Pro-Life Ads now Airing
The Kelowna Right to Life Society has teamed up with the Vernon and Area Pro-Life Society to organize a six month television ad campaign on Global TV. Currently, the ads are running twice per day on average, with one focusing on the value of human life in the womb and...
A Pro-Life Perspective: Andrea Giesbrecht Verdict
On July 14th, 2017, Winnipeg's Andrea Giesbrecht was sentenced to 8 and half years in prison for storing the bodies of 6 infants in a storage locker. Based on this National Post article, it is clear that the judge presiding over this case believed that it was...
Crisis pregnancy centres in Canada under attack again
It is hard to imagine a group of women more opposed to freedom of expression and choice than the cohort that just published "Review of Crisis Pregnancy Centre Websites in Canada." A similar report was published in 2009 called "Exposing Crisis Pregnancy Centres...
Our Pro-Life Students Need Our Help
Have you ever been threatened with losing your job because of your pro-life stance? Probably most of us haven’t been faced with this challenge, but it is something that happens on a regular basis to pro-life students on our University campuses in Canada. These...
Petri Dish vs Child
Lately, I've been confronted with a conundrum abortion advocates seem to think really puts us in our place. They think this rhetorical question puts an end once and for all to the pro-life claim that the pre-born are equal in value to born children. Too bad so sad,...
Dying Healed aims for a ‘beautiful death’
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News Most people don’t associate death with beauty, but a pro-life organization is trying to change that. “People can be prepared to die well,” says Natalie Sonnen, executive director of LifeCanada. “There is such a thing as...
Canada’s Pro-Life History
Canada is 150 years old this year. It was on July 1st, 1867 that the first British North America Act was signed creating the Dominion of Canada (it wasn’t until 1982 that Canada became entirely independent from Britain, but Canada’s actual “birthday” is a whole other...
Euthanasia or Palliative care?
Vancouver’s Life Community spoke to Kevin Dunn, producer of ‘Fatal Flaws’, the documentary on euthanasia. We asked him a series of questions about what we can do now that society has changed the way we define human dignity and therefore our attitudes on health care.
Global institutions ignore risks to women and infant health; classify “abortion safety” instead
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: [September 28th, 2017 Ottawa] A study released today in The Lancetrevealed that 55.7 million children were aborted between 2010 and 2014, worldwide. Instead of lamenting the staggering enormity of the numbers of global abortions or the...
Abortion Number One
Abortion had the dubious distinction again in 2021 of being the world's leading killer . According to Worldometer , a web site that publishes data from the World Health Organization , 42.6 million babies were slaughtered in their mother's womb last year . Deaths from...
True Palliative Care on Life Support in Canada
By definition, assisted suicide and euthanasia are contrary to palliative care, but that matters not to liberal governments and others who pursue death on demand for Canada. They seem to think injecting someone with a lethal substance is caring for them in their last...
The creeping evil of euthanasia
According to a recent CBC article, over 3,700 Canadians have died by “MAiD”, or “Medical Aid in Dying” (a palatable euphemism for euthanasia) since the Federal Government legalized assisted suicide in June of 2017. Over 1,500 of those deaths occurred in just the last...
Brute Censorship on College Campus
Each semester, members of the Kelowna Right to Life Society bravely expose the reality of abortion on the campuses of UBCO and Okanagan College. The images we show are difficult to look at for some, but we believe keeping abortion hidden from view only perpetuates the...
How does Kelowna feel about abortion?
New poll shows discomfort with abortion status quo among Kelowna residents. May, 2020; The Kelowna Right to Life Society has released the results of an internally-conducted poll taken in February and March of this year. A total of 102 Central Okanagan residents were...
The Power of Language
There weren’t many things on which I agreed with U.S. President Barack Obama, but his statement that “words matter” in a 2008 plagiarized speech is one. Language is a powerful tool for shaping public opinion, and abortion advocates have done a far better job over the...
A step-by-step guide to planning a memorial service for aborted babies
Several months ago, I had an idea to create A Memorial Service for Aborted Children. In recently piloting it at a church in BC, I saw over 100 people flock to the church to honor and remember aborted children. This experience taught me that everyone has a story, and...
Sex-Selection Abortion – Gender based violence that needs to be called out
LifeCanada recently spoke with Mrs. Cathay Wagantall an elected Member of Parliament for Yorkton-Melville, Saskatchewan, for the Conservative Party of Canada. Since her election in 2015, Cathay has stood up for the most vulnerable in society and worked to defend and...
Bill C-10 – Serious implications for free speech
Why the Passing of Bill C10 Matters to Pro-lifers…and Everyone Else Multiple gag orders, limited debate and a rushed vote in the middle of the night hardly sounds like the makings of a transparent and democratic legal process, but that is just what has happened with...
Report shows lack of abortion health stats
A new report from Alliance for Life Ontario highlights some disturbing trends with regard to the reporting of abortions, and the use and reporting of Mifegymiso, the RU486 abortion drug that was made available in Canada in 2017. This report highlights that in the...