Interim staff Canadian pro-life workers increasingly rely on religious faith to overcome feelings of loneliness, isolation, persecution and lack of support, according to a recently released attitude survey. Entitled “Compassion Fatigue in the Pro-Life Movement,” the survey was prepared by Mary-Lynn McPherson, national co-ordinator of Canadian Nurses for Life. It indicates that despite a lack of support from their own churches and [...]
Coast to coast for Life Chain ST. JOHNS’S – The Right to Life Association of Newfoundland made the October 6 Life Chain a coast-to-coast even in Canada. Newfoundland pro-lifers took part in the high-profile event to draw attention to women and unborn children harmed by abortion. The provincial Right to Life group also scheduled its annual meeting and banquet for October 26, [...]
Bubba was on the phone. I got a call from Bill Clinton. Bill wanted me to come up with a slogan for his re-election bid for the presidency of the United States in November. Right off the top of my head, I suggested: ‘Crud Wins – Vote Clinton!’ Bill loved it and thanked me profusely and said that he would use it. [...]
At a time when health care cutback have resulted in many Ontario obstetricians refusing to deliver babies, public funds continue to pour into a program to train even more abortionists to practise their dubious art. An advertisement in the August edition of Canadian Family Physician has drawn the fire of those who believe that the Ontario Ministry of Health’s priorities are severely [...]
I find myself taken aback by the September, 1996 article in The Interim pertaining to stress and “burn-out” with the struggle to defend preborn children. The one in question concerns a survey examining compassion fatigue. “Burn-out,” according to popular usage, means fatigue, discouragement and dismay. But in more literal definition, “burn-out” actually means a heightened form of mental fatigue and distress just [...]
Two events half a world apart to add some extra chill to the cold November days. In British Columbia the Supreme Court upheld the province’s Bill 48 which severely restricts pro-life witnessing outside abortion clinics and hospitals. The ruling comes on appeal of a January court decision in the Maurice Lewis case, which found Bill 48 to a violation of freedom of [...]
It’s delightfully ironic that researcher Dr. Joel Bring should give credit to the mainstream media for spreading awareness of the abortion-breast cancer link. Dr. Brind, an endocrinologist at Baruch College (City University of New York) is a leading authority on studies first-time induced abortion and breast cancer. He was in Toronto in late October to discuss the impact of a new “mata-analysis” [...]
OTTAWA – Canada’s Supreme Court ruled October 18 that it will decide on the case of the government forcing a glue-sniffing addicted woman into treatment to protect her unborn child. A review is expected in the spring. The decision comes in the case of a Winnipeg area woman who was ordered by a child welfare agency to seek treatment for her glue-sniffing [...]
Interim staff Conservative columnist and broadcaster Michael Coren has defended his criticism of UNICEF before an October 17 meeting of the Ontario Press Council. Coren, host of a CFRB radio talk show program, exposed UNICEF in a column written for The Financial Post/Toronto Sun newspapers in November, 1995. The column linked UNICEF to support for abortion and contraception in Third World countries, [...]
Organizers of the 1996 Life Chain in the Toronto area are pleased with turnout despite decreased numbers from the previous year. The sixth annual Life Chain attracted more than 2,600 participants to 37 major intersections in the greater Toronto area. Last year’s effort saw a turnout of 3,000 people. Participants held up signs reading Abortion Kills Children, Abortion Hurts women, And Adoption: [...]
A former official with the Philippine government’s population control organization has released an official medical report affirming that Filipina women were injected with sterilizing agents without their knowledge or consent. Antonio (Sonny) de los Reyes served from 1978 to 1982 in a number of Pilipino population control agencies. He was in Toronto recently to attend meetings of a Catholic charismatic prayer group. [...]
Pro-life Member of Parliament Tom Wappel (Scarborough West) plans to introduce a Private Member’s bill which will ensure a “valid” marriage includes a single male and a single female. The bill is titled An Act and the Interpretation Act. “There is a pressing need for this legislation,” Wappel said, “as the courts have repeatedly pointed out that there is currently no statutory [...]
Interim special The head of Priests for Life in the United States has offered new insights into preaching about abortion for school-age children. In an article published in the Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Father Frank Pavone of New York said it is key to stress the equality message when telling young people about abortion. He said children are especially receptive to issues [...]
The failure of liberal sex education programs and their affiliated organizations has been reiterated once again with the disturbing news that Canadian abortions figures have reached another record high while the teenage pregnancy rate has soared 20 per cent. A total of 106,225 hospital and clinic abortions were reported in 1994, the latest year for which figures are available. That is up [...]
Awareness of a link between induced abortion and breast cancer has grown by leaps and bounds recently, says one of the world’s leading researchers into the issue. “Eight or nine days ago, a million people in the world were aware that abortion and breast cancer are linked,” said Dr. Joel Brind in Toronto on October 20. “Right now, I would put that [...]