Interim staff Ontario's pro-life community lost two prominent supporters with the recent passing of Monsignor Ralph Egan of Toronto and Dr. Bernharda Meyer of Waterloo. Msgr. Egan, 96, died February 8 at LaSalle Manor in Scarborough. In addition to his long service in the Catholic priesthood, the monsignor was noted for his various publishing efforts, including the St. Maximilian Kolbe Apostolate for [...]
Janice Mawhinney reported in the Toronto Star February 4, 1997, that the Toronto Public Health Department has established birth control clinics in five Toronto high schools and that these clinics provide what she called ECP (Emergency Contraceptive Prevention). Children from the age of 14 upwards are accepted at these clinics. The Department of Health is contemplating the opening of further such clinics [...]
The Jericho Plan: Breaking Down the Walls which Prevent Post-Abortion Healing By David C. Reardon Acorn Books, 120 pages Book Review David C. Reardon has performed a public service in the writing of his latest book on post-abortion healing. “Public” because although the book is geared primarily to church ministers who have to deal with the often touchy subject of abortion, it [...]
Beginning Life: the Marvellous Journey from Conception to Birth By Geraldine Lux Flanagan Firefly Books, Willowdale, Ont. 120 pages, $26.00 Book Review If you thought the womb was dark and silent and that you spent your time there tightly curled up in a permanent fetal position, you need to read Geraldine Lux Flanagan’s Beginning Life: the Marvellous Journey from Conception to Birth. [...]
Morgentaler, A Difficult Hero By Catherine Dunphy Random House Canada, 1996 474 pages, $32 Book Review A child is born in the ghetto. His parents are socialist, atheist. They belong to a despised race. At school the child is taunted and reviled. He is a very clever child. Soldiers of a brutal invading army come and seal hi ghetto, then routinely break [...]
For over three decades we have experienced a growing and radical attack on the traditional family and its position as the primary unit of a stable society. Young people have adopted society’s apparent acceptance that marriage itself is a transitory, and just like any other monogamous relationship, one can go from one marriage to another until we get it right. In this [...]
Given the oceans of ink and hours of air time expended by Canada's print and electronic media over the past decade or so on the topic of violent abuse and harassment of women in our society, one might reasonably expect that an incident in which a female Member of Parliament was publicly swarmed, pushed and shoved, as well as subjected to hostile [...]
"The big lie of pornography is, 'There are no victims.' I am a victim of pornography" claims Tonya Flynt-Vega, the daughter of Larry Flynt, owner and publisher of the hard core porn magazine, Hustler. Flynt-Vega says the film, The People vs. Larry Flynt, paints her father as a free press champion. "He's not a hero. He's a pornographer, a pimp and a [...]
Interim special Efforts to present abortion seeking women with the life-affirming alternative – similar to those practised at Aid to Women – received a boost in the United States in mid-February. In a February 19 decision the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of pro-life counsellors to speak to patients entering abortion clinics. The ruling, which is seen as a tremendous freedom [...]
Interim staff Allison James and Lucy Composano – two women, separated by age, race and circumstance,. Unique lives, yet sharing an experience that would affirm life in all its happiness and struggle, uncertainty and love. Both have faced a difficult, even frightening decision. An unplanned pregnancy, a period of uncertainty and doubt. Where to turn? How to cope? One solution seemed so [...]
Patricia and Joe Bok live on a 22 acre farm with a pear orchard. The Boks have four children of their own, aged 7 to 15. For the past three years the Bok family have opened their home to six foster children through Jewels for Jesus. The oldest child was almost four. Most of the foster children stay from three to six [...]
In adoption by consent the child is voluntarily placed for adoption by the birth parent(s). It is possible through both public and private adoption agencies. The child is often a newborn but can be an older child. The adoptive parents have been approved by a home study by the Ministry of Social Services or a Children's Aid Society (CAS). The child can [...]
Joan Kosmachuk, Executive Director of Jewels for Jesus Adoption Agency in Mississauga, Ontario, spoke recently with Sue Careless of The Interim. In the 1980's much of the stigma surrounding single parenting was removed, bug a new stigma was placed on women choosing adoption. Society said, "You could abort or single-parent but heaven forbid if you place your child for adoption." In the [...]
Unborn with right to sue MONCTON – A New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench ruling allows children to sue their parents for injuries suffered while in the womb. The case involves four-year-old Ryan Dobson who was injured in a 1993 car crash near Moncton. The child was born three months premature and remains permanently disabled. The suit was launched on the boy's [...]
Priests for Life, an organization of priests, deacons and lay people working to combat abortion and euthanasia, is going international. The Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family has asked U.S. National director Frank Pavone to establish Priests for Life chapters in countries around the world. Father Pavone will also co-ordinate pro-life movements worldwide. Priests for Life is an officially approved association which [...]