Pro-life activist Father Ted Colleton has been known to draw on other sources when preparing his regular column for The Interim. Perhaps in this season of giving, it is appropriate that we draw on Father Ted for a reflection on the Christmas season. The following passage about the family is taken from an audio cassette prepared by Gather Ted on the real [...]
Interim Staff Liberal MP Albina Guarnieri is not giving up in her fight to introduce legislation she hopes will eliminate “volume discount” sentencing. Guarnieri (Mississauga East) first presented private member’s bill C-321 (formerly C-274) in May. It calls for Criminal Code changes which would end the practice of concurrent sentencing for serial rapists and multiple murderers. Concurrent sentencing allows these criminals to [...]
Interim Special United Nations - The Vatican mission to the United Nations is withdrawing symbolic contributions to UNICEF, saying the U.N children’s charity supports birth control programs and abortion advocacy. In a November 6 statement, the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family said it has uncovered evidence of UNICEF promoting abortifacients and other contraceptive measures. The Vatican also cited UNICEF’s efforts to [...]
Many directors of crisis pregnancy centres across Canada have wanted an all Canadian organization to support their efforts. Now they have one. On September 24 The Christian Association of Pregnancy Support Services (CAPSS) was launched. A group of 12 leaders met over two days to design the new organization. They created a council composed of representatives from British Columbia to New Brunswick. [...]
Pro-life and pro-family advocates who have long felt they’ve been getting a raw deal from the mainstream news media received ample support for their views from most of a panel of journalists at the recent Ernscliffe College Media Seminar in Toronto. Panelists including McLaughlin Group debater Fred Barnes, Canadian Press general manager James Poling and Canadian Society of Magazine Editors president Alex [...]
SCARBOROUGH- Refining tactics for the next federal election is a top priority for Campaign Life Coalition according to delegates at CLC’s national strategy meeting in November 15-17 in Scarborough. Nearly 70 delegates from across the country gathered to discuss priorities and concerns during the three-day meeting. With talk of a federal election in the wind, delegates shared ideas on making protection of [...]
Interim Staff Pro-Life organizations give qualified support to a call by Reform leader Preston Manning that the Canadian Constitution be amended to protect the unborn children from abortion. Speaking in British Columbia in late October, Manning said he favors a law allowing a national referendum on abortion, euthanasia and other moral issues. He added, however, that he was expressing his own views [...]
Charlottetown, PEI – Planned Parenthood wants to re-open here after an abrupt departure 13 years ago. “If ever there was a place that needed Planned Parenthood, it’s PEI,” declared a fund raising letter circulated nationally this summer by Bonnie Johnson, the Federation’s Executive Director. An astute BC recipient promptly faxed the letter the REAL Women’s national leaders, who alerted the PER chapter. [...]
A Walkerton, Ontario woman’s decision 22 years ago to carry an unplanned pregnancy to term is today paying tremendous dividends in terms of happiness and personal fulfillment. The story of Jeannie Hedley and her biological son Greg Tremblay is a valuable reminder of the role of adoption as a life-affirming alternative to abortion. In the late summer of 1973, 17 year-old Jeannie [...]
The pro-life Christian Heritage Party is rebounding after several years of declining membership as it prepares for a federal election campaign expected next year, says its leader. “We are growing rapidly overall, most rapidly in Quebec, which is a very encouraging development,” says Ron Gray. “We’re attracting disaffected Reformers who are fed up with the political correctness beginning to seep in since [...]
U.S. clerics are keeping up the heat on President Bill Clinton for his spring veto of a Congressional ban on partial-birth abortion. During a July 11 Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, Cardinal John O’Connor called on the Congress to override the Clinton veto. He also described partial-birth abortion as “infanticide.” The Mass was celebrated as part of the [...]
Pro-life supporters will monitor the situation in Australia where the world’s first voluntary euthanasia law has survived its latest legal challenge. In a July 24 decision, the Northern Territory Supreme Court struck down a legal challenge led by doctors and aboriginal people. The world’s first assisted suicide law came into effect July 1 in the Australian province of the Northern Territories. It [...]
A report out of Columbia, South Carolina could have implications for pro-lifers concerned with the protection of the unborn children in the womb. The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled July 17 that pregnant women who use drugs can be charged with child abuse. According to the Eternal Word Television Network news service (EWTN), the state Supreme Court ruled 3-2 in defense of [...]
The Interim Book Review: How Could You Do That? The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience By Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Harper Collins 270 Pages, $31.00 Laura Schlessinger is talk radio’s hottest hostess. Nearly one million Canadians listen daily to the Dr. Laura Schlessinger Show. “Dr. Laura” as she is called, talks ethics without being academic and morals without being sanctimonious. If Geraldo’s [...]
Interim special Pro-family supporters on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are applauding the July 12 move by the House of Representatives to pass the Defense of Marriage Act. In a vote of 342 to 67, the House approved the motion, which defines marriage as the union of a man and woman in federal law. The law also prevents individual states from [...]