The arrows of decency are pointing northward. This is a good thing.







http://www.lifenews.com/int102.html





Ottawa, Canada (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll finds Canadians are more open=

limits on abortions than previously thought and reveals that a larger
percentage of Canadians want to protect unborn children in both the early
and later stages of pregnancy than some might have expected. The poll also
finds Canadians are becoming increasingly pro-life.
Canadians have a reputation as being more favorably disposed to abortion
than Americans, but the poll finds strong pro-life undercurrents in Canad=

thinking.

The pro-life group LifeCanada has contracted with the Environics Research
Group to conduct an annual survey of the attitudes of Canadians.

The poll asked Canadians when they thought the law should begin protecting
human life.

Some 31 percent said human life should be protected from conception, an
increase of one percent over last year's results.

Another 23 percent favored protecting human life after three months of
pregnancy, up from 19 percent last year; 10 percent said to protect human
life after six months of pregnancy, down from 11 percent, and 30 percent =

Canadians say human life shouldn't be protected until birth, down 3 perce=

from the last survey.

The poll shows an upwards shift of 5 percent for protecting at conception=

earlier in pregnancy and a downward shift of 4 percent for waiting to
protect life until birth or after six months of a pregnancy.

The survey also asked respondents whether they would favor American-style
laws that would require abortion facilities to give women accurate
information about abortion's risks and alternatives.

Some 71 percent of Canadians back such laws, an increase of one percent f=

last year's poll while just 26 percent (down one percent from a year ago)
said they opposed telling women the truth about the dangers abortion
presents.

In 1967, Canadian justice minister Pierre Trudeau presented a bill to
legalize abortion and it became law in 1969. In January 1988, Canada's
Supreme Court ruled, on an appeal filed by abortion practitioner Henry
Morgentaler, that Canada's abortion law was unconstitutional. Abortion is
now legal in Canada with no limitation on when to perform it.

There were 105,154 abortions performed in Canada in 2002, according to
Statistics Canada.

Some 15.4 of every 1,000 Canadian women 14 to 44 years old had an abortion
in 2002, a rate which has been steady since the Canadian Supreme Court ru=

decision in 1988.

The Environics Research Group conducted the new poll from September 18 to
October 12 with interviews with 2,021 Canadian adults. The margin of error
is 2.2 percent.

In September, Pope Benedict XVI criticized Canada for its laws allowing
abortion. He said they result in part because numerous pro-abortion Catho=

politicians are ignoring their faith and putting their own beliefs ahead =

the values of the church.

"In the name of 'freedom of choice' [Canada] is confronted with the daily
destruction of unborn children," the pope said.

He added that laws allowing abortions are the result of "the exclusion of
God from the public sphere."

He chided pro-abortion Catholic politicians for yielding to "ephemeral
social trends and the spurious demands of opinion polls."














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The arrows of decency are pointing northward. This is a good thing.

The arrows of decency are pointing northward.

This is a good thing.

The arrows of decency are pointing northward. This is a good thing.

The arrows of decency are pointing northward.

This is a good thing.

http://www.lifenews.com/int102.html

Ottawa, Canada (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll finds Canadians are more open=

limits on abortions than previously thought and reveals that a larger
percentage of Canadians want to protect unborn children

In September, Pope Benedict XVI criticized Canada for its laws allowing
abortion.

In September, Pope Benedict XVI criticized Canada for its laws allowing
abortion. He said they result in part because numerous pro-abortion Catholic
politicians are ignoring their faith and putting their own beliefs ahead of
the values of the church.

In September, Pope Benedict XVI criticized Canada for its laws allowing
abortion.

He said they result in part because numerous pro-abortion Catholic
politicians are ignoring their faith and putting their own beliefs ahead of
the values of the church.

The arrows of decency are pointing northward. This is a good thing.

The arrows of decency are pointing northward. This is a good thing.

The arrows of decency are pointing northward. This is a good thing.







http://www.lifenews.com/int102.html





Ottawa, Canada (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll finds Canadians are more open
to
limits on abortions than previously thought and reveals that a larger
percentage of Canadians want to protect unborn children in both the early
and later stages of pregnancy than some might have expected. The poll also
finds Canadians are becoming increasingly pro-life.
Canadians have a reputation as being more favorably disposed to abortion
than Americans, but the poll finds strong pro-life undercurrents in
Canadian
thinking.

The pro-life group LifeCanada has contracted with the Environics Research
Group to conduct an annual survey of the attitudes of Canadians.

The poll asked Canadians when they thought the law should begin protecting
human life.

Some 31 percent said human life should be protected from conception, an
increase of one percent over last year's results.

Another 23 percent favored protecting human life after three months of
pregnancy, up from 19 percent last year; 10 percent said to protect human
life after six months of pregnancy, down from 11 percent, and 30 percent
of
Canadians say human life shouldn't be protected until birth, down 3
percent
from the last survey.

The poll shows an upwards shift of 5 percent for protecting at conception
or
earlier in pregnancy and a downward shift of 4 percent for waiting to
protect life until birth or after six months of a pregnancy.

The survey also asked respondents whether they would favor American-style
laws that would require abortion facilities to give women accurate
information about abortion's risks and alternatives.

Some 71 percent of Canadians back such laws, an increase of one percent
form
last year's poll while just 26 percent (down one percent from a year ago)
said they opposed telling women the truth about the dangers abortion
presents.

In 1967, Canadian justice minister Pierre Trudeau presented a bill to
legalize abortion and it became law in 1969. In January 1988, Canada's
Supreme Court ruled, on an appeal filed by abortion practitioner Henry
Morgentaler, that Canada's abortion law was unconstitutional. Abortion is
now legal in Canada with no limitation on when to perform it.

There were 105,154 abortions performed in Canada in 2002, according to
Statistics Canada.

Some 15.4 of every 1,000 Canadian women 14 to 44 years old had an abortion
in 2002, a rate which has been steady since the Canadian Supreme Court
ruled
decision in 1988.

The Environics Research Group conducted the new poll from September 18 to
October 12 with interviews with 2,021 Canadian adults. The margin of error
is 2.2 percent.

In September, Pope Benedict XVI criticized Canada for its laws allowing
abortion. He said they result in part because numerous pro-abortion
Catholic
politicians are ignoring their faith and putting their own beliefs ahead
of
the values of the church.

"In the name of 'freedom of choice' [Canada] is confronted with the daily
destruction of unborn children," the pope said.

He added that laws allowing abortions are the result of "the exclusion of
God from the public sphere."

He chided pro-abortion Catholic politicians for yielding to "ephemeral
social trends and the spurious demands of opinion polls."

















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youngopinions@aol.com