The steady growth of International Planned Parenthood Federation has spawned something of an industry of criticism and exposes. Many of the studies are exhaustive, richly- detailed works, which generally relate the life and ideals of Margaret Sanger to present-day Planned Parenthood initiatives. A useful addition to the reading list is the Human Life International booklet Deadly Deception. This instructive and concise work [...]
When Life Decisions International President Douglas Scott was asked to deliver an address on Planned Parenthood in 1981, little did he know it would lead to a significant career shift. The former executive director of Arizona Right to Life and vice-president of the Christian Action Council, Scott found a receptive audience for his speech. The response led him to further research into [...]
Planned Parenthood’s international efforts to promote birth-control and the abortion/contraception mentality have not gone unchallenged by the pro-life community. In 1992, a group of North American pro-life authorities came together to form Life Decisions International (LDI), an Amherst, New York-based organization dedicated to challenging Planned Parenthood’s agenda worldwide. Led by president Douglas Scott and executive director Patricia Bainbridge, LDI offers parents concrete [...]
A reading of various Planned Parenthood publications gives only a vague explanation of the aims of the organization both globally and on the national scene. The literature attempts to paint a picture of a caring, social committed organization dedicated to providing education and information on matters relating to sexual health, family stability and women’s empowerment. Often the language appearing in these publications [...]
CHARLETTETOWN –Planned Parenthood’s efforts to reestablish a Prince Edward Island chapter reveal restlessness on the part of the worldwide contraception-promoting organization. Despite being rejected by local residents in 1982, Planned Parenthood spent a good part of 1996 attempting to convince the provincial government that it enjoys a measure of community support. “If ever there was a place that needed Planned Parenthood, it’s [...]
Many biographies of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger are extremely sympathetic to their subject, some to the point of fawning. The Sanger life is an interesting one, from her birth in upstate New York in 1879, to her death in Tuscon, Arizona in September, 1996. Whatever one’s views on abortion, contraception and family planning, there is little doubt Sanger’s formative years and [...]
Writers reflect on Planned Parenthood impact Interim Special A number of voices over the years have described the International Planned Parenthood Federation in terms not likely to be found in the organization’s self-serving literature. Many of these sources cite Planned Parenthood’s participation in attempts to undermine the traditional family as a means of promoting its new vision. In her 1988 work, The [...]
Part II of II Last month’s adoption feature centered on adoption problems faced by children in foster care. This month, we look at adopting the older child. “It is a struggle [adopting an older child] but a struggle that is worthwhile. It can work,” says Elspeth Ross of the Adoption Council of Canada. “Some children cannot make an attachment but others come [...]
Lord, we pray for all those who counsel pregnant women. Give them special gilts of the Holy Spirit so that they may find right words to help each woman who comes to them realize that she carries within her a new life formed in Your image. Lead women who face troubled pregnancies to Your counsellors. Never let anyone who counsels against abortion [...]
The Toronto Public Library has rejected The Interim’s bid to have the newspaper made available to the public through the periodical distribution service. According to an official with the Toronto Public Library, periodicals are ineligible for bulk distribution if they are deemed primarily of political, religious or philosophical advocacy. Other types of publications rejected for distribution include materials that would contravene bylaws [...]
My New Year’s resolution this year was to try to be more charitable towards my friends and adversaries. Summed up –it means for me to stop calling liars “liars.” After all to ‘lie’ is to break one of the Ten Commandments and that is a very serious charge. And there’s always the distinct possibly that I could be wrong. Or even worse [...]
Interim special A new program of international awards will expose the absurdity and injustice of legal decisions that cheapen human life. To be called the Bumble Awards, they are named for the character in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, who said “the law is an ass.” Winners of the Bumble Awards will each receive a scroll or certificate depicting a donkey wearing a [...]
To the feminists it is all about power. They will allow no exceptions to their principle of absolute power over life in the womb. In all their literature, in all their rhetoric and slogans we witness this. But they go further. When a pregnant woman immediately before an abortion is ambivalent about exercising such morbid power, the abortion-providing, radical feminists are there [...]
Contrary to the article, Finding some room for theory of evolution (Interim, December 1996) a natural reading of Genesis does not support the authors’ position of theistic evolutionism. The Bible states 10 times in its first chapter that God created all living things after its own kind. Nowhere does the Bible allude to or support the doctrine of evolutionism. In life, compromise [...]
The spate of “bombings” in the days leading up to the January 22 anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion made for interesting reading. Who cares if the reports were short on fact and long on innuendo? Explosions did in fact take place near abortuaries in Atlanta and Tulsa. Six people were injured in the Atlantic explosion and while no [...]