CPL commends Prime Minister Stephen Harper's initiative to improve maternal and child health in the developing world. Efforts must focus on reshaping society to value women and children rather than on reshaping women through abortion.

In a letter to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Dr. Will Johnston expressed concern over a draft policy relating to freedom of conscience and the lack of sufficient notice given by CPSO that a consultation process was underway.

Dr. Will Johnston, President of Canadian Physicians for Life, issued the following statement today in response to reports that Henry Morgentaler is expected to be named to the Order of Canada

Since the Supreme Court's Morgentaler decision in 1988, Canada remains the only civilized country in the world with no legal restraint on abortion.

Canadian Physicians for Life endorses the alarm of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada about sex selection blood test kits that could promote sex selection abortion as early as 6 weeks after conception. 

You shouldn’t have to believe that surgical abortion is politely hidden barbarism, our last acceptable form of capital punishment, to question the new push for prenatal screening launched last week by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.

In response to our campaign for an alternative to vaccines derived from aborted fetal tissue, Canadian Physicians for Life has received a letter from Alberta Health and Wellness confirming that the Alberta Government will make Pediacel available in publicly funded immunization programs after March 2007. 

Canadian Physicians for Life is asking Health Canada and the provincial vaccine acquistion programs to provide access to vaccines from non-objectionable sources for parents who are conscientiously opposed to immunizing their children with vaccines made from aborted fetal tissue.

Canadian Physicians for Life President Dr. Will Johnston applauded today Liberal MP Paul Steckle’s efforts to extend legal protection to perinatal children in Canada—children who have reached the point of fetal viability after 20 weeks gestation.

Canadian Physicians for Life president Dr. Will Johnston criticized a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association in which researchers concluded that a fetus likely does not feel pain before the third trimester, ruling out the need to administer anaesthesia to the fetus during second trimester abortions.

"Is Health Canada using the media to push a political agenda?" asked Dr. Will Johnston, president of Canadian Physicians for Life, after the media seized on apparent Health Canada reports that the agency had decided to allow pharmacists in Canada to dispense the 'morning after pill'...

Statement from president of Canadian Physicians for Life, Dr. Will Johnston, on the withholding of food and hydration from Terri Schiavo...

Responding to the news that Quebec is sending women whose unborn children are beyond 24 weeks gestation to Wichita, Kansas for late-term abortions at the private clinic of controversial abortionist George Tiller, Dr. Will Johnston, president of Canadian Physicians for Life, issued the following statement:

If urging third party counseling to ensure informed consent is a “dramatic shift in abortion regulations,” then well done Mr Merrifield. “We do not quite understand all this fuss,” says Jakki Jeffs, president of LifeCanada/VieCanada. “Rob Merrifield reflects Canadian thinking.

Responding to Health Minister Pierre Pettigrew's announcement on May 18 that Health Canada will move forward with allowing the "morning after pill" (MAP) to be sold without a doctor's prescription, Dr. Will Johnston, president of Canadian Physicians for Life, expressed concern that such a move could endanger the health of Canadian women and girls and raise serious issues regarding informed consent.