University of Saskatchewan medical school backs off controversial volunteer placement

By The Canadian Press
Fri., July 23, 2021

SASKATOON - After months of student advocacy, the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Medicine has backed off a plan to ask its students to volunteer at the Saskatoon Pregnancy Options Centre.

The centre is not a clinic and has no medical or health-care professionals on staff, requires all staff and volunteers to “profess a belief in Jesus Christ” and encourages pregnant clients to “choose the gift of life,” says its website.

Continued: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/07/23/university-of-saskatchewan-medical-school-backs-off-controversial-volunteer-placement.html


USask med school ends placement at pregnancy centre after students raise concerns

By Kelly Skjerven  Global News
Posted July 22, 2021

The University of Saskatchewan college of medicine will no longer offer a placement at the Saskatoon Pregnancy Options Centre (SPOC) after a group of students raised concerns almost a year ago.

Pro-choice advocates refer to SPOC as a crisis pregnancy centre — a type of clinic that advocates say are not transparent about their beliefs around abortion and that spread false medical information.

Continued: https://globalnews.ca/news/8052955/usask-med-school-ends-placement-pregnancy-centre/


Canada: Should anti-abortion groups be allowed to register as charities?

Should anti-abortion groups be allowed to register as charities?

By Amanda Connolly National Online Journalist Global News
January 16, 2018

Of the close to 300 branches of anti-abortion groups listed in a new accounting of such organizations in Canada, 77 per cent appear to hold charitable status.

But should they be?

For years, the answer from reproductive rights advocates has been a resounding “No,” but those calls have gained little traction politically among successive governments, either Conservative or Liberal.

Continued: https://globalnews.ca/news/3961321/anti-abortion-groups-registered-charity/


Ireland: FactCheck: What do HSE guidelines actually say about the effects of abortion?

The Pro Life Campaign’s Sinead Slattery made a bold claim on Tonight With Alison O’Connor this week. Does it hold up?

The Journal, Ireland
Fri 7:35 PM 22,517 Views 137 Comments

On Tuesday, TV3′s Tonight With Alison O’Connor hosted a debate on the issue, during which the Pro Life Campaign’s Sinead Slattery made an interesting claim.

According to her, the HSE’s recently published maternal bereavement guidelines had said that “abortion actually causes more distress” than carrying a pregnancy to term.

Is that actually what they say?

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Source: The Journal