As all book reviewers know, sometimes the biggest chore is preserving to read the book through to the end. Because I’m asked to review many ‘lifestyle’ books—about families, divorce, children, grief, etc.—a lot of trite and ‘junk-food’ genre publications come across my desk. So it’s with great delight I draw The Interim readers’ attention to a new publication Nazareth, a Catholic Family [...]
Johanna Rubin, M.D., writing in the August/September 1990 editionof the American Life League (ALL), All about issues, reports that a landmark medical achievement could revolutionize prenatal medicine. Pre-born baby Doctors at the University of California in San Francisco repaired a hole in the diaphragm of a 24-week old male pre-born baby, which allowed parts of a stomach, spleen and intestines to crowd [...]
The following letter, dated November 28, was addressed to Mr. John Carroll of Thunder Bay, Ontario who is the Chairman of families and Friends of the Handicapped. Mr. Carroll is pro-life. In 1990 he appeared before the House of Commons Committee on Bill C-43 objecting to the proposed legislation. Recently he wrote the editor of Scarboro Missions, a monthly magazine ostensibly devoted [...]
Pro-life activists, like everyone else, are concerned about war. On the surface nothing is more anit-life than war. Yet ours is a different perspective from that of political commentators, be they professionals or amateurs. We are not about to bestow darts or laurels on one or other party in the Gulf. Nor are we prepared to judge whether war or sanctions is [...]
There is a joking reference often made over a beer in Queen’s University’s pubs about the increasing number of homosexual and lesbian activists at the university that goes something like this: “They don’t call Queen’s University Queen’s for nothing.” If taken out of the pubs to the public domain, this tasteless joke would likely have all those who dare to utter it [...]
Under the headline “Witness in demand around the world,” New Zealand’s national pro-life paper, Humanity reported the following about Dr. Philip Ney of Victoria, B.C. “In a feat of endurance, Professor Philip Ney of Canada gave expert evidence in two court cases on opposite sides of the world last month—within two days of each other. “Dr. Ney, a professor of psychiatry from [...]
Nancy Beth Cruzan, a 33-year-old Missouri woman reported to be in a coma since a 1983 car accident, died December 26, 1990, in Mount Vernon, Missouri, 12 days after the liquid diet fed to her through a stomach tube was stopped. Pro-life activists who opposed this action maintained that Miss Cruzan was not in a coma. She was not terminally ill, they [...]
In the last attempt to prevent our country from falling into a tragic error, The Interim sent the following statement to all Canadian senators. Interim editor Fr. Alphonse de Valk appeared before the Senate Committee on Legislation on January 21, 1991 and submitted the same statement In a word swirling with pragmatic accommodations to evils of one kind or another, it is [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration December 10, approved the first new contraceptive device since the IUD was introduced in the 1960s. Developed by the New York-based Population Council and marketed by the pharmaceutical giant Wyeth-Ayerst of Philadelphia, the device, called Norplant, consists of six matchstick-size rods that are implanted just under the skin. These rods time-release a hormone into the woman’s [...]
AT HOME Just working girls Alexandre Highcrest, the AIDS-Educator with the Toronto-based Prostitutes for Sage Sex Project (PSSP), writes in the most recent issue of The New Facts of Life, the newsletter of the Canadian Public Health Association: “We advocate a positive attitude towards sex, sexuality, and sex trade workers, and we’re constantly trying to educate the public as to the realities [...]
City Council in St. John’s, Newfoundland recently overruled an appeal board that had declared the new Morgentaler abortuary suitable for the area it was operating in. Six out of the eight sitting councilors voted to overrule the appeal board, pro-life councilor Dorothy Wyatt told The Interim. Eviction notice Council is resisting a threatening letter from Morgentaler’s lawyers (all the way from Cambridge, [...]
A recent decision by the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons to allow Henry Morgentaler to establish an abortuary in Alberta has been met by outrage and opposition from pro-life groups in the province. Campaign Life Coalition President Lorraine Stark was especially critical of the College’s decision, noting that she had presented well-documented information about Morgentaler’s “questionable medical practices” to the College [...]
Dr. Donald Demarco presented a brief to the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies in Toronto on November 20, 1990. Because of time restrictions on that occasion, he has been given space in The Interim to expand and clarify his remarks to two of the Commissioners, Maureen McTeer and Grace Jantzen. Disease and desire Ms. McTeer stated that one of the chief [...]
How do you counsel a woman in crisis pregnancy? The North York Crisis Pregnancy Centre (NYCPC), in Toronto, has had six years of experience. “We are not here to save babies. We are here to glorify God and speak the truth about abortion. If babies are saved, we rejoice,” says Mary Turner, the current director of NYCPC. “We are here to help [...]
As we begin 1991, I want to relate this true story to the readers of The Interim. It is a story I go back to, from time to time, when my flagging faith, hope and courage need a little jolt. In 1983, I was a visitor to the city of Santo Domingo, in the Caribbean country of the Dominican Republic. It was [...]