Canada: Remember the Unborn

CANADA's PARLIAMENT, May 29 — Legislation is pending in Canada's Parliament to create a Children's Memorial Day — and one representative has proposed that unborn children be included among the memorialized.

“About 100,000 unborn children die in Canada each year by way of abortion,” said Maurice Vellacott, a member of the Canadian Alliance party, in a statement posted on the Web site of Canada's Parliament, www.parl.gc.ca. “Sadly, the rhetoric and the politics involved in the issue have not allowed people to recognize the emotional trauma women face when it comes to abortion. … Canadians want to remember the deaths of those unborn children rather than having them dismissed as insignificant and meaningless.”

Consensus: Life at Conception

WORLD NET DAILY, June 2 — The percentage of Americans who consider a fertilized egg human life has reached 58%, according to a Newsweek online survey. The survey also found that a comfortable majority of Americans — 66% — believe that a fetus should have the same legal rights accorded children and adults.

Dangerous Bias Exposed

U.S. NEWSWIRE, June 4 — A medical journal has exposed bias against the epidemiological evidence of the link between abortion and breast cancer.

The president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, Karen Malec, announced the publication of her article, “The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link: How Politics Trumped Science and Informed Consent,” in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

“[O]ur opponents can't dismiss the [Association of American Physicians and Surgeons] and their efforts to protect the health of women as ‘pro-life scare tactics,’” said Malec in a statement. “The article demonstrates that the abortion-breast cancer link is not a dead issue in the medical community, despite the false-hearted efforts of the National Cancer Institute's leaders to put it to rest.”

Methodists for Life

CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, June 2 — United Methodists from across eastern North Carolina are considering three resolutions at their annual meeting that attempt to change the denomination's decades-old statement of support for abortion, reports the North Carolina daily.

If approved, the resolutions would be forwarded to the national denomination's top legislative body, the General Conference. Though the General Conference might not approve the resolutions when it meets in Pittsburgh next year, the number of pro-life resolutions in the N.C. Conference signals a growing disenchantment with the denomination's support for legal abortion.

Rev. Paul Stallsworth, a pastor who edits a pro-life Methodist newsletter, submitted a resolution calling on the denomination to delete a sentence from the denomination's “Social Principles” that says, “We support the legal option of abortion under proper medical procedures,” and a resolution calling on two agencies within the denomination to withdraw their membership from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights.