Category: Sanctity of Life

Bill C-218 – the “Right to Recover Act” – was debated in Parliament on December 5, with Jansen making a passionate plea for her colleagues to support Canadians with mental illness rather than offering them suicide at their most vulnerable. MP Andrew Lawton shared both his own story of surviving suicide as well as the stories of Canadians who have reached out to him since the bill was launched.

In a powerful affirmation of Florida’s commitment to protecting the unborn, new state data shows that abortions performed in Florida clinics have plummeted by almost half since the implementation of the state’s six-week heartbeat protection law. According to the Tampa Bay Times, utilizing data from the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) “Just over 44,200 abortions were provided by Florida clinics last year, the fewest for more than a decade and a 46% drop from 2022 when more than 82,000 terminations were recorded.”

Students at the University of Notre Dame, a prominent Catholic institution, are rallying against the appointment of Susan Ostermann, a professor with a history of advocating for abortion, as the new director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.

The Armenian government under Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan faces mounting accusations of trampling religious freedom and free speech following the arrests of numerous clergy members. British Conservative MP Sir Edward Leigh confronted Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan at a Council of Europe meeting last week, highlighting the regime’s crackdown on the Armenian Apostolic Church as a blatant assault on Christian independence and democratic principles.

We could use a reprieve from the global birthrate crisis with fertility levels far below replacement across the developed world. Is Artificial Intelligence the answer? A number of people have argued that AI will lower birthrates further.