Liberal MP Paul Szabo (Mississauga South), an outspoken and active pro-life parliamentarian, has written a book on The Ethics and Science of Stem Cells. Szabo told The Interim he wrote the book "To promote discussion among parliamentarians and the public about this very important and timely topic." It was distributed to all MPs and senators and is available to anyone who requests [...]
The UN recently convened a meeting of demographers to discuss whether the fertility rates of developing countries like India and Brazil will continue to fall, perhaps even reaching the extremely low fertility rates found in many developed nations. The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs concluded that it is altogether likely that the fertility of much of the [...]
She was introduced by Sheila Dunn, medical director of Toronto's Bay Centre for Birth Control, as "a leading international advocate for women's health and equality" and a person who "changed the international approach to slowing population growth." As "a role model and a mentor," she was said to have displayed "vision ... courage and ... inspiration ... to implement the ‘transformative program [...]
Paladin Labs Inc., the Montreal-based Canadian distributor of the abortifacient morning-after pill. Plan B, announced that it has submitted an application to Health Canada to change Plan B, from prescription-only to non-prescription status. A Paladin press release noted that the Canadian Pharmacists Association and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada collaberated on the submission. Campaign Life Coalition urged Health Canada [...]
LifeSite News A controversial pro-choice group, whose members once attacked and vandalized a pro-life display, is now officially calling for violence to shut down countering opinions. The University of British Columbia's "Students for Choice" has stated on their new web site in an "Activists Guide – Strategy" section that: "Civil disobedience is an option you may choose as well. You can set [...]
It has been tried and tested, has failed every time, and yet we still insist on trying it again. Xenotransplantation, or animal to human transplantation, may sound very beneficial, but there are many controversial issues surrounding it. There is no mystery as to why. xenotransplantation has not been in the news only recently. In 1964, six patients received kidney transplants from chimpanzees. [...]
Poll exposes what Canadians think of moral issues Is Wynona Ryder, the actress recently charged with shoplifting, more of a moral reprobate than abortionist Henry Morgentaler? A new survey by the Montreal firm Leger Marketing would indicate that most Canadians seem to think so. A greater number of Canadians think shoplifting (89.3 per cent), infidelity (80.8 per cent), hardcore drug use (79.2 [...]
A man of science, or a child of God. Can a person be both? Perhaps, but apparently not if you're a doctor. The salty issue has been raised by a Christian doctor from Barrie Ont. who refuses to prescribe the birth control pill or the sex-enhancement drug Viagra to unmarried patients because he believes it would promote immoral activity. Dr. Stephen Dawson, [...]
Third World de-population has been U.S. strategic policy since '74 Top-secret files recently declassified from the National Archives of Australia, despite government opposition, has revealed that one of the fathers of modern biotechnology and genetic engineering advocated using biological weapons against Indonesia and other "overpopulated" countries of South-East Asia. Australia's The Age reports that world-famous microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet recommended in a [...]
The Safer Sex Illusion by Dr. John B. Shea, M.B.B.Ch (Life Ethics Information Centre, $3, 52 pages). In The Safer Sex Illusion, the latest offering from the Life Ethics Information Centre, Dr. John Shea clearly points out the illusion that any kind of contraception is safe and without consequence. In fact, Shea points out that the so called safe-sex campaign has been [...]
On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing by James V. Schall (ISI Books, US $24.95, 189 pages) Most Interim readers are probably familiar with this old saying, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." There is a great deal of truth in this statement. If a person spent every waking moment of [...]
Abortionists want mandated referrals SAINT JOHN — Pro-abortionists in New Brunswick are accusing the Saint John medical community of denying women access to abortion and birth control. The bulletin of the New Brunswick College of Physicians and Surgeons says the body is seeking input from members on whether doctors should be mandated to refer patients to other doctors. Peter Ryan of Campaign [...]
On March 20, literally hours before going to press, Stephen Harper, the former MP and president of the National Citizens Coalition, won a decisive first-round victory in the Canadian Alliance leadership race. In the first days of the campaign, Harper began to reach out to social conservatives on a number of fronts: he supported parental rights in discipline, wanted democratic reforms to [...]
The announcement that the Canadian Institutes for Health Research will fund embryonic stem cell research is bad enough, because such experimentation depends upon the destruction of tiny human beings at their earliest stage of development. There can be no forgetting this abomination. But the problem is made worse when an agency of the federal government, run by unelected bureaucrats, makes laws on [...]