A U.S.-based front group, that claims to represent at least a small number of Catholics, angered orthodox and mainline members of the Catholic church recently when it arranged to have billboards hoisted at two locations in Toronto claiming that the church's stand condemning contraception has led to deaths from AIDS. The billboards, erected by Pattison Outdoor Advertising and located at Front Street [...]
An April 17 letter from Danco Labs, the New York company that manufactures and distributes the abortion pill Mifeprix (RU-486) sent to health care workers warned of severe complications associated with its abortifacient and admited that six women have developed serious illnesses and two have died after taking the drug to induce abortions. The letter also warned doctors that they must report [...]
Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism, By Paul C. Vitz, Ph.D., (Spence Publishing Co, $24.95 U.S., 174 pages) Should religious beliefs be subject to psychological analysis? Psychology should be irrelevant. Dr. Paul Vitz, a professor of psychology at New York University and at the Institute for Psychological Sciences in Virginia, bases the entire premise of Faith of the Fatherless, the [...]
The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis By Robert P. George. Forward by John J. DiIulio (ISI Books, $24.95 U.S., 387 pages) In a day and age when the upholders of traditional morality and people of faith are finding it increasingly difficult to gain a hearing in the public square where they are marginalized by the reigning liberal orthodoxy, [...]
On page 20, we highlight a nine-year-old story; namely The Interim's coverage of then attorney-general Marion Boyd's announcement that Ontario's NDP government would seek a court order restricting pro-life activity (such as the counselling of women or peacefully protesting against abortion) at certain locations in the province. The Ontario Court (General Division) issued a "temporary" injunction - and nine years later, it [...]
Recently, Statistics Canada presented the 2001 Census, in which it was reported that population growth in this country is at a record low and that what meagre growth there has been is only due to increased immigration. To sustain a population, a country must have a fertility rate (the number of children a woman will have in her lifetime) of 2.1; Canada's [...]
Campaign Life Coalition's Ottawa office is always encouraged when it receives reports from "the field" about how pro-lifers have met their MPs to educate and encourage them to support pro-life measures in Parliament. CLC exists to encourage politicians to do the right thing on life issues, but it emphasizes that the best influence comes from a politician's own constituents. It is an [...]
I was going to write a column about family when I read the most recent issue of Catholic Life and Family, a publication of Priests for Life, Canada. Fr. Jim Whalen, PFL Canada's president, put into words much better than I what I wanted to say, so I received his permission to reprint his column here in The Interim. Becoming a pro-life [...]
In September 1993, at a Seattle Wash., seminar put on the National Abortion Federation, Australian abortionist David Grundmann stated, "Abortion is still a very fringe-type practise. There aren't a lot of people who want to get into abortion provision. And the ones that we do have applying to us for training often have very dodgy histories and backgrounds. And if you dig [...]
I think everybody must have gotten a good laugh when they read the news story "Passengers halt flight," in the Toronto Star. Passengers on a charter flight from Italy to Cuba voted to turn back after noticing flames coming from an engine, overruling the pilot who insisted all was safe. Shortly into the March 3 Air Europe flight from Milan to Varadero, [...]
A southern Ontario pro-life advocate, who has supported the cause in several ways over the years, is now moving his support into the musical sphere. Peter Green is most well known in the pro-life community as the man who, for a number of years and for no cost, deejayed annual Campaign Life Coalition dinner-dances in Toronto. More recently, the St. Catharines, Ont. [...]
Interim columnist becomes new leader, sees challenges ahead Luc Gagnon brings a wide-ranging background to his role as the new president of Campagne Quebec Vie. In addition to extensive involvement in pro-life work for a number of years (which included the founding of a pro-life medical student organization at Laval University), Gagnon has at various times studied medicine, philosophy, literature and at [...]
Right to life observer finds panelists prefer to discuss science over ethics On Feb. 1, York University's Bethune College held a Stem Cell Symposium, attended by about 200 students and a smattering of professors. The science of stem cells was presented with clarity as the six-member panel examined this exciting new ground of regenerative medicine. But despite giving lip service to the [...]
REAL Women of Canada President Gwen Landolt believes Canadians ought to remember the words of former U.S. president Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." Unbeknownst to most Canadians, the federally funded Law Commission of Canada released a report titled Beyond [...]
The kind of police and private-citizen harassment that took place in Regina recently is nothing new to Bill Whatcott. It's all part of his determined pro-life and anti-homosexuality stand. According to Whatcott, he and four others were peacefully protesting near Regina's City Hospital Feb. 18, when police officers arrived in three cruisers and a pick-up truck. It was 4:25 p.m., a busy [...]