Disabled and anti-euthanasia activists alarmed at treatment of attempted mercy-killer By Paul Tuns The Interim The dangerous and disturbing trend of treating disabled victims of crimes as second-class citizens unworthy of the protection of the law was evident in the sentencing of Lisa Thompson on Nov. 30, 1999. Thompson, a 37-year-old divorced mother of four from Niagara Falls, Ont., tried to kill [...]
Andrew's Pilgrimage for Life By Tanya M. Granic The Interim Today's youth are taking on greater challenges than ever before. Andrew Fournier, a Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) member, is no exception. A bright-eyed 19 year old from Arnprior, Ont., Andrew has decided to walk across Canada to raise awareness and money for the pro-life cause. "I am walking across Canada to [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim British Columbia pro-life activist Mary Wagner was acquitted Jan. 11 on all but one of her six counts of breaking a Vancouver bubble zone injunction on two separate occasions. Wagner, a 24-year-old graduate student at the University of Victoria, was found guilty on a one count of interference with a client of the Everywoman's abortuary, and was [...]
Alleges Catholic facility removed food and water to hasten deathBy David Curtin The Interim The family of a 94-year-old woman from Windsor, Ont. is suing a local Catholic nursing home for, among other things, trying to starve the woman to death. In a 14-page Statement of Claim obtained by The Interim, Florence LaDouceur's daughters are suing Villa Maria Home for the Aged for [...]
By Tanya M. Granic The Interim Has it really been that long? Twenty-seven years since that pivotal Roe vs. Wade decision wiped out millions of pre-born children in the United States of America. Has it really been that long? Twenty-seven years since that first march where 20,000 assembled to mark the day when legalized slaughter of the innocent began. That's what they [...]
World-wide abortion mortality statistics problem exposed By Isabelle Bégin The Interim To this day, certain members of the world health and political community have accepted or tolerated legal abortion because it was deemed "safe" for women. How was this conclusion drawn? Because very few deaths are ever reported under the category of abortion in cause-of-death publications throughout the world. And why is [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim British Columbia MP Svend Robinson confronted pro-life activist Father Tony Van Hee on Parliament Hill in December, in what many observers feel is an assault on religion and free speech. On Dec. 7, the gay NDPer, who last year introduced a petition that sought to remove references to God from the Constitution, grabbed the Jesuit priest's pro-family [...]
Novelist and painter Michael O'Brien reminds us that, even in our present culture of death, ‘the darkness cannot overcome the light' By Sue Careless The Interim No one, least of all Michael O'Brien, expected his novel Father Elijah to be a publishing success. O'Brien had established himself as a painter and received commissions from churches that enabled him to modestly support his wife [...]
John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe says the question for pro-lifers is: 'Are you fighting abortion with your strong right arm or with your broken heart?' Interview by Sue Careless The Interim Editor: John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe, director of Pro-Life Century in Laytonsville, Maryland, has been called the fahter of the rescue movement, and is widely regarded as an authority on the principle of non-violence. A leading speaker [...]