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uOttawa Students For Life: 95% of Canadians Want Better Palliative Care

uOttawa Students For Life — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:38:55 +0000

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by Alana Beddoe An Environics poll commissioned by Life Canada found that 95% of Canadians think palliative and hospice care should be a high (66%) or medium (29%) priority for the government. Only about a third of Canadians have good access to palliative care. Palliative care focuses on pain management, emotional and comfort care at [...]

uOttawa Students For Life: End of Life or Ending Life?

uOttawa Students For Life — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:01:43 +0000

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Check out this article on assisted suicide in the University of Ottawa’s English-language student newspaper, The Fulcrum: http://thefulcrum.ca/2011/11/assisting-the-suicidal/ Assisted suicide conveys a brutal message as to who our society really cares about. It tells the elderly, the weak, and those in pain that we are unwilling to foster their well being. Instead, we propose an [...]

uOttawa Students For Life: Review of Randy Alcorn’s ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments

uOttawa Students For Life — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:29:07 +0000

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by Kate Larson Randy Alcorn’s ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments is a book I’d like to have on hand at all times. I think it should be required reading in high schools and in university ethics, journalism, public policy, and women’s studies classes. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Divided into sections by type of [...]

uOttawa Students For Life: Legalized Abortion: Harm Reduction or Just Harm?

uOttawa Students For Life — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:27 +0000

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by James Richmond I somewhat recently attended a debate hosted by uOttawa Students for Life in mid-November. At this debate, the pro-choice debater, Jovan Morales, posed an often used argument which presents abortion as a ‘harm-reduction’ solution. Essentially, this position proposes that without legalized abortion, women will seek ‘back-alley abortions’ in non-sterile environments where the [...]

uOttawa Students For Life: New Year’s Resolution

uOttawa Students For Life — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:19:18 +0000

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by Nicole Pachla Here we are, at the beginning of a new year. Some of us may have made a few resolutions to try to keep throughout the year… I would like to encourage you to make one more resolution. It does not require a whole lot of time or energy, but it does requires [...]

University of New Brunswick (Fredericton) Students for Life Finally Get Status!

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:12:17 +0000

[Picture: Sara Hall (NCLN Maritime Campus Coordinator) and Stacy Anderson (NCLN board member) with Amanda Magee and other students from the new club shortly after receiving status at the Student Union Meeting.] In December we informed you that the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton) Students for Life had their application for club status denied. (For [...]

Press Release: Student Union applies double standard to pro-life students at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton)

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:52:46 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Student Union applies double standard to pro-life students at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton) Dec. 19, 2011. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Pro-life students at the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) Fredericton campus were shocked last week to learn from their student newspaper, The Brunswickan, that their club would not be recognized by [...]

uOttawa Students For Life: Abortion: Empowering or Eliminating Women?

uOttawa Students For Life — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:00:10 +0000

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uOttawa Students For Life: uOSFL Christmas Social and Baby Shower

uOttawa Students For Life — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:12:35 +0000

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Come one, come all this Thursday, Dec. 8, starting at 6:30 p.m. for an evening of fun, food, games, and awesome people! Bring a treat to share and a gift for a mother and/or baby in need! If you don’t know what to get, here is a list of suggestions: - baby clothes (birth to [...]

Youth Protecting Youth: What’s in a name?

ypyvicepresident — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:49:55 +0000

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I am a clump of cells. I am tissue. I happen to be a collection of cells that comprises an entire individual of the human species. And you know what? So is an embryo. From the moment of fertilization, we are each human individuals. This is a biological fact. I am a product of conception. [...]