Dr. Bernard Nathanson, one of the bravest and most persuasive pro-life activists, has died at the age of 84. For an obituary of how he converted from being one of North America’s foremost abortionists to being one of the greatest advocates for the child in the womb, click here. . .

Training in Natural Family Planning, by which a woman can tell when she in a fertile or infertile period with a high accuracy, is now being provided by two practitioners in Burlington. The method assists couples who are having difficulty conceiving or who wish to postpone conception. Experience has also shown that couples who use this method hardly ever divorce and enjoy happier marriages than the general population.

 The training is being provided by Sylvia Heald and Pilar Gordillo, who are associated with the Marguerite Bourgeoys Family Centre. They teach the Creighton Model FertilityCare system. To contact them or to register for introductory sessions, call the Marguerite Bourgeoys Family Centre at 416-465-2868 or email info@fertilitycare.ca.

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Following David Bereit’s inspiring talk at our Halton Pro-Life 2010 Respect Life Fundraising Banquet, Louise Villalta and Freda Kantor of Oakville have taken up his challenge and are organizing a 40 Days for Life vigil for the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, to be held from March 9 to April 17. Louise told Halton Pro-Life that the vigil will be held for 12 hours each day, and she hopes that enough people will volunteer so that at least two people will be present for each hour.

This first 40 Days for Life in the Halton Region is just one of many that have been held worldwide since 2007. These vigils have mobilized more than 400,000 people to witness outside abortion facilities and hospitals. Their witness has yielded outstanding results:

• More than 3,500 women were prompted to change their minds about having abortions and thereby to save their babies.
• 43 abortion workers quit their jobs.
• Nine abortion facilities have completely closed down.

To find out more, email Louise Villalta at loui_vill@yahoo.ca or click here: flyer33

3.3 million lives lost - that is the ugly toll since May, 1969, when babies in the womb began, by act of Parliament, to lose their legal protection. One of the great misconceptions is that, 20 years later, when the Supreme Court struck down the 1969 law, the Court had decided that abortion should be legalized. That is not what the Court said, but the Justice’s decision has led to children in the womb being declared “non-citizens.” To find out what the Court really decided and how children in the womb lost not only legal protection but their status as persons, click here.

More and more premature babies are being born with very low birth weights at the same gestational ages as babies being aborted. This proves that the humanity and personhood of the child in the womb can no longer be denied. And who do we have to attest to this? None other than Henry Morgentaler. For more, click here.

The CBC recently broadcast the conflicting views of Dawn Fowler, Canadian director of the National Abortion Federation, and Rod Bruinooge, the Conservative MP who introduced a bill into Parliament recently, “Roxanne’s Law,” that sought to make it a crime to coerce a woman into an abortion. Dawn Fowler claimed that abortion clinic staff counsel women to ensure they are making a free and informed decision to abort. The truth is otherwise, say Angelina Steestra (pictured here) and other women of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.To find out, click here.

How many abortions committed in Canada? We usually use the figure of 100,000, but the truth is that the organizations entrusted with collecting and disseminating this information don’t know, or, if they do, they’re not telling us.

This raises at least two critical questions:

• Why are tax-payers not informed of this procedure for which they pay by public funding?
• Why is an important statistic of hospital and clinic abortions now concealed, even though it was published before?

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Halton Pro-Life wishes all members, friends, donors and visitors to this website a very happy and blessed Christmas and many blessings for the New Year.

What better way to illustrate Christmas than this picture of a child in the womb developed by a group in England called Church Ads as part of an advertising campaign to “place a Christian message at the very heart of ‘Christmas consumerism’.”

The picture, which has been widely viewed in posters and advertisements, is an amalgamation of several ultrasound images of babies in the womb. Although not intended to be specifically a pro-life image, but one which graphically anticipates the celebration of the coming of the Christ child, it reminds us of the humanity of babies in their mothers’ wombs and that, as Pope Benedict XVI said in his homily at the Vigil for Nascent Life held at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, “the mystery of the Incarnation of the Lord and the beginning of human life are intimately connected and in harmony with each other within the one saving plan of God, the Lord of life of each and every one of us. The Incarnation reveals to us, with intense light and in an amazing way, that every human life has an incomparable, a most elevated dignity.”

Halton Pro-Life thanks The Unborn Word of the Day for bringing us news of the advertisement.

Several hundred people attended the vigil of prayer held for “the safeguarding of all nascent human life” by the new bishop of Hamilton, Bishop Douglas Crosby, on Saturday, November 27, in the Cathedral of Christ the King, Hamilton, in union with the world-wide call for a vigil by the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI.

Bishop Crosby, in his homily, echoed sentiments expressed by the Pope during a vigil in Rome in which the Pope spoke of “experience itself and reason” showing the “innate value” of each human being with a “right not to be treated as an object of possession or something to manipulate at will.”     Read more . . .

A moving testimony by a woman called Abby who left her job at an abortion clinic and joined the 40 Days for Life prayer vigil is part of a video shown on Salt + Light television during an interview with David Bereit, founder of 40 Days for Life. Mr Bereit was interviewed on the day he spoke at the Halton Pro-Life annual Respect Life Banquet on November 5. The video is on the Salt + Light website. To hear Abby tell her story and David Bereit talk about pro-life victories, please click on: http://saltandlighttv.org/perspectives/pro-life.php.