"How many of you are 'pro-choice'?" she asked her grade-school pupils. Immediately, all hands shot up, except one. "Why are you not 'pro-choice'?" the teacher queried her lone dissenter. "Because I am 'pro-life'," she said, with a confidence that seemed to belie her seven years. "And why are you 'pro-life?'" the teacher continued. "Because my Mommy and Daddy are 'pro-life'," was the [...]
Gianni Versace's murder on the front steps of his Miami Beach mansion shook the very foundation of the fashion world. As with an earthquake, powerful after-shocks followed as it was revealed that this slaying was only one of many committed by a mad man on a campaign of terror -- a campaign which authorities now believe began when Cunanan discovered he had [...]
The charitable foundation set up by multimillionaire software magnate Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates, has awarded more than $2 million to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health to help develop programs to train professionals in emerging nations about population control. The school's new Family Planning Leadership Education Institute, based in the department of population dynamics, intends to offer [...]
Dutch courts and physicians have turned euthanasia into a "cure" for chronic illnesses like depression and diabetes, says the author or a new book on euthanasia in Holland. Dr. Herbert Hendin, medical director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, said the Dutch like to boast that their suicide rate has dropped in the 20 years since their courts became the first [...]
Metropolitan Toronto Separate (Catholic) School Board trustees are surprised the board would consider a recommendation from three senior staff that the UNICEF organization be allowed to continue its fund-raising efforts in Toronto-area Catholic schools. UNICEF, a once great world-wide organization that helped children in need, lost its way in 1974 and, along with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has become a [...]
MANILA (CWN) - The Philippines saw an enormously successful pro-life rescue operation in Manila August 29 as hundreds of Filipinos converged on the offices of suspected abortionists, preventing all abortions that day. Abortion is technically illegal in the strongly Catholic nation, but some doctors get around the restrictions by prescribing oral contraceptives in dosages that would cause a spontaneous abortion in pregnant [...]
Carrying on their vendetta against the pro-life/pro-family movement, the Saskatchewan NDP government has suspended Randy Kirkham, a crown prosecutor without pay since June of 1996. Kirkham has been charged with "attempting to obstruct justice". Kirkham successfully prosecuted Robert Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer, who was convicted of second degree murder in November 1994 when he used his truck's carbon monoxide to kill his [...]
Canadians deserve a say in how they will be treated on their deathbeds, says Wilbert Keon, a Conservative senator and leading heart surgeon. Dr. Keon says physicians have to make complex medical and ethical decisions in about four of 10 deaths, and we should all have a say in framing national guidelines to regulate those decisions. "When the time comes for a [...]
Linda Gibbons, the pro-life activist who has been jailed repeatedly for picketing outside a Toronto abortion clinic has found that her personal sacrifice has proved a blessing to some of Ontario's most hardened female criminals. "When one of the inmates says that they're going to have an abortion, the girls say 'uh oh' Linda won't like that," Gibbons explains from her sterile [...]
The Canadian abortion movement had Dr. Henry Morgentaler. Now, the Canadian euthanasia movement may have Dr. Nancy Morrison. Morrison, a respirologist at Victoria General Hospital in Halifax, is facing a first-degree murder charge in connection with the death last November of 65-year-old Paul Mills. The Moncton, N.B. resident, who was under Morrison's care, died after a battle with cancer of the oesophagus. [...]
The Earth Summit II -- held at the United Nations in New York City from June 23 - 27 -- was viewed by environmentalists with a renewed hope and commitment to sustainable development, but after months of arduous negotiations, it was obvious that governments had paid lip service to past financial commitments and priorities for environmental protection. Nevertheless, there was a concerted [...]
The Earth Summit II -- held at the United Nations in New York City from June 23 - 27 -- was viewed by environmentalists with a renewed hope and commitment to sustainable development, but after months of arduous negotiations, it was obvious that governments had paid lip service to past financial commitments and priorities for environmental protection. Nevertheless, there was a concerted [...]
Campaign Life Coalition is adding its name to a drive for a "conscience clause" which would protect health care workers from participating in abortions and other practices which would be contrary to their moral values. The issue came to a head in August when Catholic nurses at Thunder Bay Regional Hospital reported they were being pressured to assist in abortions. Several of [...]
Ontario's pro-life community hopes to make some impact in provincial municipal elections scheduled for Monday, November 10. While the provincial government's mega-city legislation is expected to dominate the municipal election agenda, voters will be curious to note what measure of pro-family sentiment might be found among candidates vying for city councillor and school board trustee positions. Pro-family elements will also note what [...]
What began as a single letter questioning the tactics of a pro-life activist has developed into something larger. That activist Linda Gibbons sits week after week in a jail cell should be no surprise to regular readers of The Interim. Linda's activities in defence of unborn children, and her willful defiance of an Ontario injunction restricting pro-life witnessing in the province, have [...]