The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:59:31 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Mail-order abortion pills sourced in Toronto /item/36514-mail-order-abortion-pills-sourced-in-toronto /item/36514-mail-order-abortion-pills-sourced-in-toronto

A Canadian non-profit has become a major player in the drive to help women “self-administer abortion at home” through the distribution of abortion pills by mail, all below the radar of Health Canada. 

]]> afarrow@catholicregister.org (Anna Farrow) Canada Wed, 06 Mar 2024 09:49:54 -0500 Assisted suicide numbers on the rise /item/29419-assisted-suicide-numbers-on-the-rise /item/29419-assisted-suicide-numbers-on-the-rise

More than one in every 100 deaths in Canada is administered by a doctor, according to the latest national statistics on euthanasia and assisted suicide.

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Wed, 01 May 2019 12:08:54 -0400 Access to abortion drug is expanded /item/29399-access-to-abortion-drug-is-expanded /item/29399-access-to-abortion-drug-is-expanded

Ottawa - Pro-life advocates are raising alarms over a move by Health Canada to lift the ultrasound requirement to obtain a prescription for the abortion drug Mifegymiso.

]]> ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Thu, 25 Apr 2019 14:00:36 -0400 Euthanasia misses the message /item/26192-euthanasia-misses-the-message /item/26192-euthanasia-misses-the-message

Medicine in Canada has been undermined by the most permissive assisted dying laws in the world, physician and medical ethicist Sr. Nuala Kenny told about 150 Catholics gathered at the University of TorontoƵapp Regis College on Oct. 4.

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:03:10 -0400 Assisted suicide on the rise in Canada, report shows /item/26153-assisted-suicide-on-the-rise-in-canada-report /item/26153-assisted-suicide-on-the-rise-in-canada-report OTTAWA – Euthanasia and assisted suicide deaths in Canada could soon exceed the rates of such deaths in Belgium and the Netherlands, warns the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.]]> ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:09:01 -0400 One year later: The reality of legalized medically assisted death /item/25392-one-year-later-the-reality-of-medical-assistance-in-dying /item/25392-one-year-later-the-reality-of-medical-assistance-in-dying

In the year since state-sanctioned, medicalized suicide became legal on June 17, 2016, doctors have deliberately caused the death of their patients at a rate of about three a day.

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:00:00 -0400 Abortion drug to be available by July /item/22203-abortion-drug-to-be-available-by-july /item/22203-abortion-drug-to-be-available-by-july

OTTAWA – With Health Canada expected to make an abortion drug available in July, pro-life groups and doctors are concerned with how it will change perceptions surrounding abortion.

]]> ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:33:37 -0400 Politicians trump people /opinion/columnists/item/20714-politicians-trump-people /opinion/columnists/item/20714-politicians-trump-people

Green Party leader Elizabeth May made the perceptive point recently that democracy is too important to be left only to politicians. A nuance that might be added is that as a keystone of democracy, free, fair and above all vigorous elections should never become the exclusive preserve of the political actors seeking to benefit from them.

]]> peterstockland@catholicregister.org (Peter Stockland) Peter Stockland Thu, 13 Aug 2015 08:00:00 -0400 Pro-life groups condemn Health Canada abortion drug approval /home/international/item/20675-pro-life-groups-condemn-health-canada-abortion-drug-approval /home/international/item/20675-pro-life-groups-condemn-health-canada-abortion-drug-approval

OTTAWA - Pro-life groups and at least one pro-life Member of Parliament have condemned Health CanadaƵapp July 29 approval of abortion drug RU-486 or mifepristone.

]]> ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) International Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:00:00 -0400 March takes aim at abortion drug /item/18070-march-takes-aim-at-abortion-drug /item/18070-march-takes-aim-at-abortion-drug

Campaign Life Coalition has stepped up the fight against the approval of RU-486, evident from this yearƵapp March for Life theme — RU-4LIFE.

]]> evan.boudreau@catholicregister.org (Evan Boudreau, The Catholic Register) Canada Thu, 01 May 2014 20:00:00 -0400