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Late-term abortion is “rare” in Canada, we are told. What is the reality?

The Canadian Medical Association Journal recently published an article calling for a change in the recording of stillbirths, due to the fact that Canada's figures are abnormally high compared to other countries because abortions after 20 weeks are counted as stillbirths... The article mentions a stillbirth rate more than double that of other countries with similar economies!

This obviously leads us to wonder whether babies are being left to die after being expelled from the womb. A study conducted in Quebec and published in 2024 revealed that 11.2% of babies aborted in the second trimester were still alive at birth.

On the same subject, the media reported that in South Korea, a woman and two doctors were sentenced to prison for the murder of a baby, receiving respectively sentences of three years with probation, four years, and six years. The woman, who was 36 weeks pregnant, obtained an abortion from these doctors, which consisted of extracting the baby by caesarean section and killing it in a freezer, according to court documents. As the baby was alive outside its mother's womb, the case fell under the country's infanticide laws.

On a lighter note, good news comes from south of the border. In its March 2 ruling Mirabelli v. Bonta, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the right of parents to educate their children without state interference, condemning California for “transitioning” children in school without their parents' knowledge.

On this day, March 4, 2026, the 40 Days for Life campaign are underway, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Palm Sunday. Fifteen days have already passed, with 25 remaining. Under the leadership of our colleague Brian Jenkins, the 40 Days in Montreal are an event of prayer, witness, and offering help of great importance. They ensure a constant pro-life presence in the very vicinity of these abortion clinics where unborn children are killed. If you live nearby, will you give even one hour of your time in a week to participate in this life-saving work?

For more information, contact Brian Jenkins at (438) 930-8643.

Brian with participants in the 40 Days.

Don't forget our petition against the C-9 censorship bill. Censorship is already strong enough in Canada that we shouldn't let it get any worse. The case of British Columbia school board trustee Barry Neufeld, who was fined $750,000 for his bold criticism of teaching LGBT ideology to children, should serve as a warning to us all.

Finally, I wholeheartedly invite you to register for our Génération Vie event, which will take place on April 25 in Montreal.

Click here to register for the Génération Vie event.

For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

The Government of Quebec is currently defending itself before the Superior Court for having banned in June 2023 a Christian event under the pretext that its organizers were "anti-abortion" (i.e.: pro-life).

This ban was originally the initiative of Caroline Proulx, then Minister of Tourism, who was reported by a journalist (don’t be mistaken, their role is not so much to report news as to provoke events and influence) the upcoming holding of the event "Rallye Foi, Feu, Liberté" organized by Harvest Ministries International at the Quebec City Convention Centre.

Upon reading sentences like "the most dangerous place for a child in Canada is its mother’s womb" on the "Harvest Ministries website" (or at least a site that was owned by HMI at the time), Proulx felt "shocked" and forbade the event from taking place. At the time, François Legault fully supported his minister’s gesture: "We will not allow anti-abortion groups to be able to perform large shows in public organims."

Now, in court, defending herself against HMI’s lawsuit for discrimination, Proulx is giving a rather strange speech if it doesn’t reveal her mentality. According to Proulx, whose indignation La Presse reports:

"It’s completely false to claim that the most dangerous place for a child in Canada is his mother’s womb, she said. What this just says, [...] is that women are dangerous."

Let’s stop for a moment. According to the article in La Presse, Ms. Proulx is indignant at the conclusion that one can draw from the premises, but has not bothered to refute the relevance of these premises. If the unborn child is a child in the same way as the child already born, then yes the uterus is a statistically dangerous place for the child since one pregnancy out of five* ends in abortion, a practice that reaps its sinister harvest of about 100,000 babies in Canada per year. Are women then «dangerous»? A number of them are, and for their unborn child since they have it killed. When a practice is not prohibited by law, whatever its immorality, unfortunately a larger or smaller portion of the population will resort to it.

Proulx to outbid: "It’s against the values of the State. The State is resolutely pro-choice and we must ensure as a government that this message is very clear to the population.” We will have understood it...

Proulx also read on the site that several leaders were under "diabolical" influence. The site in question states, according to Proulx: "We pray for a reform that leads to the rewriting of the laws of the country and declare that God will have dominion from coast to coast".

Proulx had some amazing words about this last passage:

“God will not rewrite, Your Honour, the laws in Quebec, and God will not dictate to women in Quebec how and when they can dispose of their bodies.”

Are these the words of an atheist? But she would then have said that God did not exist, that invoking him was therefore not relevant to the drafting of laws. His statement implies that God exists, but that He does not have a say in public and private conduct. This discourse is more that of revolt against God than that of unbelief. When we understand this, we understand the virulence of secularism in Quebec, and we also understand that what drives the government today is not so much atheism, as it defends itself for that matter, but antitheism.

But if God does not "rewrite" the laws of the nation, what will happen to it?

We published about what had outraged Caroline Proulx and about her reaction two posts on Facebook. Don’t hesitate to express your opinion below!

I also kindly ask you, if it has not already been done, to sign our petition against the censorship law C-9.

Finally, I invite you to register for our new Génération Vie event which will take place on April 25th, come in large numbers!

Click here to register for the Génération Vie event.

For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

*Taking miscarriages into account, otherwise the proportion of abortions in relation to live births is about 1/4.

Today, Ash Wednesday, marks the beginning of Lent, a period of penance in preparation for Christ's resurrection at Easter, a period when we are especially called upon to turn away from sin.

“Sin”! Some find it “hateful” to label certain practices as such, rejecting the distinction Christians make between sin and sinner.

However, with Bill C-9 aimed at combating “hatred", Mark Carney's Liberals are precisely endangering our ability to denounce the malice of sinful practices, a necessary step in calling for conversion.

Regarding C-9, Quebec Life Coalition, represented by its president Georges Buscemi, submitted petitions against this bill in Ottawa along with several pro-life organizations. We held a press conference on the same day to explain the purpose of our action. See the video here.

From left to right, David Cooke, Brandan Tan, and Pete Baklinski from the Campaign Life Coalition, Gregory Tomchyshyn from CitizenGo, and Georges Buscemi from Quebec Life Coalition.

Our own petition against C-9 has reached 1,025 signatures, our goal is 2,000, a big thank you to everyone who signed. If you haven't signed yet, we invite you to do so. We must send a message to the Canadian government that citizens do not want to be censored under the pretext of “hatred.”

Our work to spread information on social media continues. We recently published a post on Facebook about the emerging phenomenon of young men in their early twenties undergoing vasectomies in Quebec. Our post has been viewed more than 500,000 times, attracting a large number of people who oppose our view on the issue. Nevertheless, this particular issue is troubling to a number of people.

Commentator Mathieu Bock-Côté wrote a column in the Journal de Montréal in response to an article published in the same newspaper reporting on a young man who had undergone sterilization. In his article, MBC laments that such a young man would have given up the ability to give life, a decision he may regret later, summarizing this phenomenon as an exhaustion of the vital instinct in society.

Finally, I would like to mention several of our events that are currently underway or will be taking place in the coming months:

• 40 Days for Life, a continuous pro-life witnessing effort lasting 40 days, from February 18th to March 29th, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (contact: Brian Jenkins at (438) 930-8643).
• Génération Vie: a conference to be held on April 25th to bring together pro-life advocates to establish a culture of life in Quebec.
• The Ottawa March for Life, May 14th from noon to 4 p.m. on Parliament Hill, the largest pro-life gathering in Canada.
• The Quebec City March for Life, May 30, an essential event for spreading the pro-life message in the public sphere.

Sincerely,
For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

The Liberals' Bill C-9 continues to make its way through the legislative process. C-9, entitled the “Combatting Hate Act”, would vaguely redefine "hatred" while increasing penalties for crimes motivated by “hatred”.

There is also the danger that the amendment — aimed at removing the bona fide religious defense from the Criminal Code — which was the subject of an agreement between the Bloc and the Liberals, may soon be added to the bill. And when we know that a Liberal as high-ranking as the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Marc Miller, has expressly designated certain passages of the Bible as “hateful” toward homosexuals and raised the idea that they could be prosecuted, there is cause for concern...

Read an analysis of Bill C-9 here.

To raise awareness among Canadian citizens and politicians about the dangers of C-9, several pro-life and pro-family groups, including Quebec Life Coalition, represented by its president, Georges Buscemi, and Campaign Life Coalition have decided to hold a press conference today in Ottawa. Mr. Buscemi will also participate in a Théovox Actualités program on the same subject that day.

To counter this censorship, presented under the guise of fighting “hatred,” we invite you to sign our petition against Bill C-9. If we don't make our voices heard, how far will the Liberal government (and its allies) go in their appetite for censorship against Christians and people of common sense?

Click here for the petition against Bill C-9.

Our fundraising campaign for our “Pregnant and Worried?” service was successfully completed thanks to your generosity, exceeding our goal of $15,000 to reach $18,000!

A big thank you to everyone who participated. Your support allows us to reach more pregnant women in need online and help them before they do the irreparable. Your support also allows us to organize a network of concrete assistance throughout Quebec.

Thank you again,
For Life,
Augustin Hamilton

P.S. Don't forget to sign the petition against the C-9 censorship bill.

By Augustin Hamilton (Quebec Life Coalition) — Photo: motortion/Adobe Stock

Bill C-9, entitled “Combatting Hate Act”, introduced by Mark Carney's Liberal government on September 19, 2025, poses a serious threat of censorship to the freedom of expression of Christian, pro-life, and pro-family Canadians, whose words are often labeled “hateful” by their opponents for the simple reason that their discourse criticizes the ideology of the latter.

As far as we are concerned, C-9 proposes:

• to redefine hatred,
• to create a new category of “hate-motivated” offenses as an aggravating factor in the commission of a crime.
• and to facilitate the prosecution of “hate crimes” by removing “the requirement that the Attorney General consent to the institution of proceedings for hate propaganda offences".

“Hatred” (understood here as a feeling) has been defined by case law as follows in the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in R. v. Keegstra: “hatred connotes emotion of an intense and extreme nature that is clearly associated with vilification and detestation,” and "Hatred is predicated on destruction [...] [It represents] an emotion that, if exercised against members of an identifiable group, implies that those individuals are to be despised, scorned, denied respect and made subject to ill-treatment on the basis of group affiliation."

However, Bill C-9 defines “hatred” as follows: “the emotion that involves detestation or vilification and that is stronger than disdain or dislike.” We can already see that the definition is much vaguer and does not include the idea of mistreatment, for example, which opens the door to varying degrees of interpretation within the courts and commissions responsible for judging cases of “hatred.”

We are on the last day of our blitz campaign for Pregnant and Worried. Our goal: $15,000 in two weeks. As I write this, we have reached $12,800, which is 85% of the goal.

All we need is another $2,200.

The stories you've read — the young mother in Montreal who was saved in time, the pro-life nurse who spoke up at the decisive moment, the grandmother who sought help from across the ocean — show the importance of being there at the crucial moment. It is this presence that we want to ensure with your support.

We are just a few steps away from our goal, and we can get there.

Why is this final push so important?

Pregnant and Worried does not operate on nothing or randomly. This organization has a very specific goal:

• to ensure a visible online presence when a woman searches late at night;
• to respond quickly and humanely when she calls;
• to train and coordinate a discreet network of volunteers and professionals;
• to offer a real alternative before the irreversible act is taken.

We know — studies show it — that thousands of abortions take place because of a lack of support at the precise moment of crisis. We also know that when someone intervenes in time, life can be saved.

Sometimes the difference comes down to a conversation, an explanation, a presence, a number found on the Internet. And that depends on us.

$2,200 to reach the goal

At this point, it's no longer a big mountain to climb. We will cross the finish line today if:

• 26 people donate $100;
• or 52 people donate $50;
• or a few donors make a larger donation.

So I am asking you, if you can, to make one final, generous gesture.

Make your donation now

We know you can do it. Your generosity has already helped us reach 85% in two weeks. The last 15% is within our reach. Let's not let this campaign stop just a few steps from the finish line. Let's finish it together, let's finish it strong, because at the end of the day, it's not about a number.

It's about a woman in distress who is searching.
It's about a baby who could live.
It's about a network that needs to be ready.

Thank you for being part of this concrete, strategic, and vital work.

With my deepest gratitude,
Augustin Hamilton

P.S. We are $2,200 short of our $15,000 goal.
Today is the last day.
If you've been waiting for the right moment to act, now is the time.

Donate to the campaign

There are roughly 20,000 abortions each year in Quebec and 100,000 across Canada. That means 54 abortions per day in Quebec — about two every hour — and 274 per day in Canada.

Since the 1988 Morgentaler decision, abortion facilities are no longer required to record a reason. We therefore cannot know precisely why today’s Canadian women choose abortion. But earlier large-scale studies do give us important clues.

A major pro-abortion Guttmacher study (2004) found that less than 1% of abortions were due to rape, and less than 0.5% due to incest. The overwhelming reasons given were socio-economic: financial pressure, fear of life disruption, and relationship circumstances.

More recently, a 2023 study reported something even more striking: 60% of the women surveyed said they would have preferred to give birth if they had received more support or greater financial security.

If this finding holds — and if women in Quebec and Canada are broadly similar to their U.S. counterparts — then a large share of abortions could be avoided if women in crisis were reached in time, before entering the abortion facility.

Laws and courts matter. But this tells us something crucial:
a great deal depends on whether help is visible and accessible at the exact moment of crisis.

As I write to you, $8,820 has already been raised toward our $15,000 lightning fundraising campaign for our pregnancy care service Enceinte et inquiète (Pregnant and Worried).  With 5 days left, we still need $6,180 to ensure our pregnancy care service is fully visible to women in crisis at the critical moment. Give today if you can >>

We are now 8 days away from the end of our lightning fundraiser for Enceinte et Inquiète, our pregnancy help and referral service. So far, you have helped us raise $6,074 toward our $15,000 goal.

That means $8,926 still to go.

This campaign has already shown you two powerful realities:

First, the baby saved because an African grandmother found Enceinte et Inquiète online and reached out across continents. Second, the baby saved in a Montreal hospital because a pro-life nurse had the clarity and courage to speak when everything was on the line.

If you missed them, you can read those stories here:

• The African grandmother and her grandchild in the womb.
• The hospital nurse and the mother who chose life.

Those stories show what Enceinte et Inquiète does when the moment of crisis arrives.

But today, I want to show you something else just as important: how we prepare people before that moment arrives.

One of the main purposes of Enceinte et Inquiète is not only to answer emergency calls, but to equip volunteers of all walks of life to defend life where they already live and work.

Doctors.
Nurses.
Students.
Parents.
Retirees.
Ordinary people with extraordinary love and courage.

When they are equipped, encouraged, and supported, they become instruments of life in their own circles of influence.

Just recently, our colleague Arpad was invited to speak in Edmonton at The Back Porch, a pregnancy care centre located directly across from an abortion centre. The event was hosted by Rachel, the director of the centre, and organized in collaboration with Edmonton Pro-Life.

Arpad Nagy giving a presentation in Edmonton.

Arpad's presentation that covered:

• Quebec’s early history and cultural roots
• The impact of the Quiet Revolution
• Why Campagne Québec-Vie was founded
• What Enceinte et Inquiète does today
• How the Quebec pro-life movement has grown stronger
• What the future holds for pro-life work in Quebec

There were snacks, coffee, discussion, and a long question period. People were deeply appreciative. And something important happened: bridges were built between Quebec and Alberta, between people who share the same mission, but often work in isolation.

Lori from Edmonton Pro-Life, Rachel from the Edmonton pregnancy center, and Arpad from QLC.

This is exactly what we want to do here in Quebec in 2026.

We are planning to organize an annual Enceinte et Inquiète convention for pro-life volunteers, including workshops, training sessions, and opportunities for encouragement and networking. It will be a place where people can:

• gain confidence,
• learn practical tools,
• receive moral and spiritual encouragement,
• and realize they are not alone.

Because often, all people need is encouragement and example to decide to stand against the current and do the good they were created to do as people of conscience and children of God.

Your donation today does not just respond to crises. It **equips **the people who will respond to them tomorrow.

It helps us recruit volunteers across Quebec who will save lives where they live, using the tools, wisdom, and courage they received though us.

With 8 days left, and $8,926 still to raise, we urgently need your help to finish strong.

Please give today to support:

• our networking efforts across Canada,
• our volunteer training and encouragement,
• and the future Enceinte et Inquiète convention in Quebec.

GIVE NOW >>

Together, we are not only saving lives. We are forming a generation of people ready to defend life wherever God places them.

Thank you for standing with us.

Georges Buscemi
President
Quebec Life Coalition

P.S. We have raised $6,074 so far, with 8 days left to reach our $15,000 goal. Your gift today helps fund volunteer training, networking, and our future Enceinte et Inquiète convention in Quebec. Help us build the army of conscience our province so desperately needs:

GIVE NOW >>

A quick update from our lightning campaign for Enceinte et Inquiète:

We have 12 days left.
We have raised $2,393 so far.
Our goal is $15,000.

This campaign is about strengthening a discrete but powerful network of pro-life professionals and other volunteers working for Life in Quebec—often unseen, often unacknowledged, but saving lives.

And today, we want to show you exactly how that happens.

Give now to strengthen Enceinte et Inquiète >>

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A nurse in a Montreal hospital wrote to us recently.
She asked to remain anonymous.
But her story deserves to be heard.

She was caring for a young woman who was 9 weeks pregnant and suffering from severe hyperemesis gravidarum—constant vomiting, dehydration, I.V. complications, exhaustion. After repeated failed attempts to reinsert an I.V., the patient broke down and said:

“I’m tired of all of this. I think I need to terminate this pregnancy.”

When another nurse reported this, our pro-life nurse felt what she described as “her heart being crushed.” But instead of stepping aside, she stepped forward.

Photo : Yakobchuk Olena/Adobe Stock

Here is my story with a patient from a week or two ago. It was an incredible opportunity to spread the Pro-Life message to a woman in a difficult situation. I gave many details but still left some out, as it must remain anonymous for the confidentiality of the patient. (...)
Thank you for giving me the chance to share my story.

— A Pro-Life Nurse in Montreal

I am a nurse at a hospital in Montreal, working in postpartum; however, our clientele also extends to prenatal cases of hyperemesis gravidarum (excessive pregnancy vomiting). Last week, I had a patient with this condition. She was 9 weeks pregnant and had been vomiting for two weeks. She was not able to keep anything down, to the point that even drinking water was difficult.

On the first evening that I had her, I congratulated her on the pregnancy, despite the difficulties she was experiencing. I told her how wonderful it was that she was having a baby, which made her smile, even though she was still dealing with nausea and a decreased appetite. In addition, she had an unexplained infection and therefore required IV antibiotics. She was dealing with a lot, but she had support from her husband, who encouraged her and tried to help her eat as much as she could tolerate.

The next evening, she was having complications with her IV; it had become infiltrated (no longer in the vein), and it was difficult to reinsert because she was so dehydrated. Several nurses had tried the day before and were unsuccessful, until finally someone was able to place one. So when it happened again, she was completely exhausted by it all. She said she did not want an IV anymore, even though she needed it to stay hydrated and receive the antibiotics. She eventually conceded and said we could try again. I asked another nurse to reinsert it, but after a short while, the nurse came out of the room and said, “You need to call the doctor. The patient just told me she wants to terminate the pregnancy.”