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 [...]
If there is anything of value to come out of the recent decision in the Brenda Drummond case, it is that it has at least got more people thinking about the humanity of the unborn child. To be sure, pro-lifers are distressed and saddened by Madam Justice Inger Hansen’s decision not to proceed with charges against the Ottawa-area postal employee who shot [...]
The Pro-Life Society of British Columbia has learned that the national president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada –a long time activist of Planned Parenthood of British Columbia –is helping run a Vancouver abortuary, and possibly conducting her Planned Parenthood work out of a taxpayer-funded hospital. Barbara Hestrin is the Program Director at the British Columbia Women’s Hospital and Health Centre [...]
A suburban Detroit prosecutor has dropped all assisted suicide charges against Dr. Jack Kevorkian and two assistants. But a prosecutor in another country is not giving up. The charges stemmed from 10 suicides last year and were filed by former Oakland County Prosecutor Richard Thompson against Kevorkian, psychologist Dr. Georges Reding and Neal Nicol. The newly elected prosecutor, David Gorcyca, says his [...]
It was, as Christian activist Ken Campbell called it, a “Linda love-in.” About 50 supporters gathered at downtown Toronto’s Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church the evening of January 17 to pay tribute to Linda Gibbons. The Diminutive grandmother of four had been released earlier that day from her latest prison term for challenging Ontario’s temporary injunction against pro-life activity within 20 meters of [...]
Pro-life leaders on both sides of the border are lukewarm to the use of referenda to determine moral questions, including constitutional protection for unborn children. The question arose late last fall when Reform party leader Preston Manning spoke in favour of a law allowing a national referendum on issues such as abortion and euthanasia. Manning’s stand generated wide debate in pro-life circles. [...]
The Interim plans to feature semi-regular columns by students and young adults covering a variety of pro-life issues. It is expected the young adult/ student columns will appear every second month. The first such, submitted by Kerri-Lee Mullan of the University of Western Ontario’s pro-life group, is scheduled for the March, 1997 issue. Kerri-Lee will discuss reflections of an ex pro-choicer on [...]