Pro-life speaker & activist. Poet. I also write on disability, theology, literature, & more.
Originally posted on April 11th, 2018 for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform It’s a cold but sunny morning in Toronto. We set up for “Choice” Chain at various street corners around Ryerson University. I’m excited because we are there for a full day of outreach, and because there are so many of us—around 20 people spread … Continue reading Watching the Culture Shift
Originally posted on November 10th, 2017 on the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform In late October, I was doing a campus “Choice” Chain with my local community group. I asked a student named Arjun what he thought about abortion, and he told me that he was pro-choice. “Where I come from in India, there are a … Continue reading What about Suffering?
Originally posted on October 13th, 2017 for the Canadian Center for Bio-Ethical Reform I was doing “Choice” Chain earlier this month with some friends through my community’s activism group, London Against Abortion. We had set up outside of one of the colleges in London to reach post-secondary students with the truth about abortion. While some … Continue reading Outreach Testimonies: Using the Human Rights Argument
Originally posted on October 31, 2017 for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. I’m standing on a street corner in Toronto, holding a sign with an image of a first-trimester abortion victim on it. Many passers-by tend to avoid my gaze and the pamphlets in my outstretched hand. A few pause to vent about why … Continue reading Truth and Healing
Originally posted on March 17, 2016 for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. Several years ago, I encountered the ideas of the Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas while I idly skimmed my high school religion textbook. I was intrigued by his philosophy of “the face-to-face.” Levinas argues that when we encounter another human being face-to-face, we … Continue reading The call for an ethical conversion: seeing the faces of the pre-born
Maria McCann 