On Dec. 20, 2002, my wife Susan and I shared in God's gift of life by having our sixth child, Thomas. There is always excitement and interest shown by family, friends, and people in general upon the birth of a child, but now that Susan and I have experienced years worth of reactions from people toward our babies, I now consider myself [...]
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has applauded phase two clinical trials for a new painkiller named Tectin, which is derived from the pufferfish, that are being carried out in cancer centres across Canada. Current clinical trials are being done on late-stage cancer patients who are experiencing uncontrolled pain and who have not undergone chemotherapy during the past month. Alex Schadenberg, executive director of [...]
The United Nations Fund for Population Activities says two American women began e-mail campaigns urging people to make up for the withdrawal of $34 million by the Bush administration for international population control. The administration withdrew its financial support because the Fund's support for abortion and coercive population-control schemes violated the Mexico City policy Bush reinstated after eight years of Bill Clinton's [...]
Over the past few weeks, Canadian judges have been unusually busy, changing the law to suit their personal preferences. Yet there has been nary a peep of democratic protest. Consider the ruling on Dec. 20 of the Supreme Court of Canada in Chamberlain v. Surrey School District No. 36. At issue in this case was a request by James Chamberlain, a member [...]
At the Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference held in Bangkok, Thailand, in December, the United States delegation bravely withstood heavy criticism from the media and members of the international community as the lone defender of pro-life principles. The conference, which is held every 10 years, was co-organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and [...]
J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - or more properly, Middle Earth, the world he created as the setting for the trilogy, the children's book The Hobbit, The Silmarillion (the prequel to the trilogy) and his 12-volume History of Middle Earth - is set in a pre-Christian world and therefore it is not explicitly Christian. But it has elements of Christianity, [...]
The Interim continues with the latest installment of an occasional series, that began in the October 2002 edition, on corporations and other organizations that support anti-life, anti-family and anti-decency agendas. This information is presented to readers so they can use it with respect to their purchasing decisions. Readers may wish to forego purchasing the products or patronizing the services of those businesses [...]
The Manitoba Medical Association says that when physicians disagree with patients and relatives about whether to withdraw treatment from the terminally ill, the doctor's opinion should be final. The Manitoba Law Reform Commission is currently looking at how to handle such cases, to ensure a right to life-sustaining treatment. The commission comes on the heels of several high-profile cases in recent years, [...]
Stanford University announced in December it is creating an Institute for Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine. An anonymous donor gave $12 million to found what will be the first major institution in the country to produce human clones for medical research. Though Stanford's announcement was controversial, its plans are completely legal; although bills to ban cloning have made their way to Congress, [...]
The day after Christmas, Eve, the first human clone, was born. Or so claims the Quebec-based Raelian cult and its research subsidiary Clonaid. Within two weeks, Clonaid claimed that another cloned baby had been born in the Netherlands to a pair of lesbians. After generating much publicity, the family, the cult and Clonaid broke their initial promise to allow the child to [...]
See Also: The 'wisdom' of Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood exposed When one thinks of abortion, Planned Parenthood usually comes to mind. That's because the organization has been integral to not only the beginnings of the abortion movement, but also a number of other things that pro-life and pro-family advocates have been battling for years - including widespread, licentious sexual education targeted at [...]
See Also: Good and moral people can make a difference Planned Parenthood exposed "Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste ... Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race." "Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent Multiplication of this bad stock." Margaret Sanger Birth Control Review April 1933 "We should [...]
See Also: The 'wisdom' of Margaret Sanger Good and moral people can make a difference The recent discoveries that Planned Parenthood may be engaged in covering up the sexual exploitation of young girls, and in protecting the men who commit the crimes, is not the only, recent black mark on the organization's record. According to Life Dynamics Inc., recordings of telephone conversations [...]
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Review by Maria VandenbergThe movie that Tolkien fans have eagerly awaited since the release of part one in December 2001, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is likely to merely whet appetites for the third and final part of this fantastical trilogy, anticipated this coming winter. Like millions of others, I ventured [...]