BIG BLUE WAVE

Anatomie des parties de la génértion de l’homme et de la femme by Jacques Fabien Gautier D'Agoty I am researching the evolution of attitudes towards the unborn in order to understand ho...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2018/06/the-status-of-unborn-in-18th-century.html

In the first half of the 19th century, France was a very conservative country when it came to the unborn. Although abortions were performed for emergency situations, especially to save t...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2018/04/the-medicalization-of-abortion-in-19th.html

Blessed Jean-Martin Moye  (1730-1793) is remembered by the Church as the founder of the Sisters of the Congregation of Divine Providence. As a missionary in China, he organized the first gr...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2017/12/blessed-jean-martin-moye-advocate-for.html

I will follow up the blogpost on the 18th century poem on abortion with the 18th century poem on miscarriage. It was published in the November 1787 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine in Lon...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2017/11/an-18th-century-poem-on-miscarriage.html

The following poem was published in the January 1740 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine in London. No author is listed. E P I T A P H * On a Child killed by procured Abortion, in order ...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2017/11/18th-century-poem-expresses-abortion.html

So I have been busy doing some historical research. I just got back a paper I wrote on fetal imagery —specifically Lennart Nilsson’s photoessay in an April 1965 issue of Life magazine. ...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2017/11/early-20th-century-fetus-was-unknown.html

A new Civil Code goes into effect October 1, 2017 in China.  In this new civil code, the unborn will, for legal purposes, be counted as born for purposes of succession and gifts. However,...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2017/09/china-to-give-property-rights-to-fetuses.html

In the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's anatomist Davenport Hooker filmed a number of fetuses produced from induced and spontaneous abortions to document fetal behaviour. They were aged between 8.5 and...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2017/06/video-davenport-hookers-fetal.html

Paola Zacchia (1584-1659)  was a well-respected Roman medical expert. Three times he was named Proto-physician – 1638, 1658 and 1659.  He was effectively the “Surgeon-General” of the...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2017/06/paolo-zacchia-on-abortion-and-unborn-in.html

Way to go Pat Maloney and ARPA Canada for their hard work!  An Ontario Court has struck down the statute that prohibited the public from obtaining abortion stats by access to information ...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2017/06/pro-life-victory-ontario-court-strikes.html

Last night I was really shocked to catch this video on one of my social media feeds: White genocide??? I was so shocked when I saw the post, I thought it was a parody. I went to check Fait...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2017/06/dear-rebel-media-just-say-no-to-white.html

The victory of Andrew Scheer in the Conservative Party Leadership is about the best outcome that pro-lifers could have expected. It's not just that he won. But we won with the second- and...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2017/05/pro-lifers-dont-get-too-excited-over.html

I interrupt my blogging hiatus to comment on this article in The Atlantic entitled: How Ultrasound Became Political. (According to my facebook feed, the original title seems to have been Ho...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2017/01/another-feminist-distortion-on-history.html

Francesco Cangiamila Translated into French by Abbé Joseph Dinouart, 1766. Second French Edition. Originally published in Sicilian in 1745 and in Latin in 1758. In this day and age, th...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2017/01/book-review-sacred-embryology-by.html

Anglosphere conceives of the abortion debate as something that primarily takes place in the twentieth century. There was virtually no debate that abortion was ever acceptable. If abortions d...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2016/12/the-launch-of-abortion-debate-in-france.html

Glanville Williams How did we start down the road to Roe v. Wade anyway? In the 1940's and 1950's, abortion was generally opposed, and there wasn't a lot of outspoken support for it. Ther...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2016/12/how-did-we-get-to-roe-v-wade-anyway.html

In researching my Timeline of Pro-Life History, I came across a number of people whom nobody has ever heard of, but whose influence on the welfare of the unborn was monumental. And one o...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2016/11/francesco-emmanuele-cangiamila-obscure.html

The belief that life begins at conception is at the heart of the pro-life cause. But I'm amazed that virtually nobody has asked themselves how we came to believe in it. It's rather taken for...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2016/11/how-we-came-to-believe-that-life-begins.html

This Timeline of Pro-Life History is my humble attempt to document those events relevant to the rights, welfare and cause of the unborn. Every other human group seems to have a history d...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2016/11/a-timeline-of-pro-life-history_24.html

Madonna del Parto Unknown Master, Italian (late 15th century in Valsesia) Rather than write a book review, which would require more time than I care to spend on this blogpost, I thought I'd ...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2016/10/commentary-on-anne-stensvolds-history.html

I spent last night and today reading up about Paolo Zacchia , the Father of Forensic Medicine. He was the personal physician to Pope Innocent X and Pope Alexander VII and legal advsior to th...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2016/09/need-help-researching-paolo-zacchia.html

During the Middle Ages, Aristotle's views on embryology were predominant, and shaped Christendom's approach to abortion. Although abortion was always regarded as a grave sin, regardless of s...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2016/09/thomas-fienus-and-decline-of.html

From CHP leader Rod Taylor: > A couple of recent examples come to mind. In Whitby, Ontario, > Liberal MP CELINA CAESAR-CHAVANNES IS SPONSORING AN E-PETITION > CALLING�...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2016/08/combat-creeping-censorship-of-social.html

Once upon a time, it was widely believed among pro-lifers (and still is) that if we educate the public about prenatal life, we could convince them that life begins at conception and they wou...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2016/08/science-and-logic-are-not-enough-what.html

I know I haven't been blogging much lately. I wanted to get away from the model of commenting on a news article everyday. It got to the point that I felt I had to "feed the blog" every day...

http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2016/08/an-update.html