Thursday May
13, 2010
12,500
Gather on Parliament
Hill for Canadian
March for Life
By John Jalsevac
OTTAWA, May 13, 2010
(LifeSiteNews.com)
– Under balmy
skies that were
greeted with prayers
of thanksgiving by
those recalling last
year’s cold and
blustery weather,
thousands of
pro-life Canadians
gathered on
Parliament Hill in
Ottawa for the 2010
Canadian March for
Life on Thursday - a
crowd that Jim
Hughes, president of
Campaign Life
Coalition, estimated
at about 12,500
people.
 “This
is something that
God sent us as a
special gift,” said
Hughes, the main
organizer of the
annual pro-life
event, about the
weather. “Other
special gifts
include all those
that have come up
here. I want to
congratulate all the
teachers and the
chaperones and you
young people who’ve
come.”
“God bless you all
and let’s continue
to bring life to
Canada!” Hughes said
to cheers.
Other speakers
joined Hughes in
praising the huge
number of teens and
young adults that
made up a large
percentage of the
crowd. They also
thanked the group of
Members of
Parliament, the
significant number
of Catholic bishops,
and other prominent
clergy who traveled
to the event to show
their support.
Cardinal Marc
Ouellet, the Primate
of Canada, commended
the Canadian
government for its
recent decision not
to include support
for abortion in its
G8 maternal health
plan. But he also
urged the government
to do more to
protect life at
home. “We would like
some more courage,
some more courage to
do something more in
Canada,“ he said.
ª Full Story
May
1st, 2010 (London
Free Press)
WINNIPEG - Women who
have had an abortion
are nearly four
times as likely to
have problems with
drugs and alcohol as
women who have not,
according to a study
conducted by
University of
Manitoba
researchers.
The authors of
the study caution
though, that their
research shows only
that abortions and
substance use
disorders are
linked; they have
not established any
causal relationship.
The study
did not demonstrate
whether women who
have abortions are
more prone to
develop substance
abuse problems or
whether women with
such problems are
more likely to have
abortions.
"These are
associations only,"
said Natalie Mota, a
PhD student in the U
of M's clinical
psychology
department who
co-authored the
study along with
Margaret Burnett and
Jitender Sareen.
"Further research
needs to look at the
different factors
that might be
playing a part."
Mota said the
study, published in
the April issue of
the Canadian Journal
of Psychiatry, found
that women who had
abortions were 3.8
times more likely to
have substance use
disorders than those
who had not, even
when an exposure to
violence -- which
increases the odds
of substance abuse
-- was factored in.
The study
also found
connections between
abortion and other
mental health
conditions like mood
disorders, but
substance use
disorders showed the
strongest link.
Previous studies
in this area have
found similar links,
but Mota said the U
of M study used a
larger and more
representative
sample of women than
any before it. She
said the results
show more research
is needed to try to
further explore the
link between
abortion and mental
health and perhaps
sort out some of the
causal
relationships.
In the meantime,
the authors suggest
that when women
present for
abortions,
clinicians should
screen them for
substance use
problems and other
mental disorders,
and vice versa.
paul.turenne@sunmedia.ca
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