David Bolton The Interim In December, The Interim ran a story of a single mother of twin boys who had, through the ministry of Aid to Women, changed her mind about aborting her twins 10 years earlier. Although Amelia and her boys, Jim and Bob, had been doing well since the birth of the twins, recent setbacks meant the family was once [...]
LifeSiteNews A recent report reveals the incidence of sexually transmitted disease is skyrocketing among Toronto's homosexual community. Since 1998, HIV infections have increased by 49 percent. In 1999, there were 19 syphilis cases reported, by 2002, this number had soared 10-fold to 195. Among heterosexuals, chlamydia and gonorrhea rates are also out of control, up by over 50 percent in the last [...]
Say women who become pregnant from sexual assault don't want or need abortions LifeSiteNews A group of women who have experienced pregnancies resulting from rape or incest are petitioning Congress and state legislatures to hear their stories, saying women who become pregnant from sexual assault don't want or need abortions. The petition comes on the heels of a Defence Department appropriations amendment [...]
LifeSite News The Florida Supreme Court has decided 4-3 to take on the case of Terri Schindler-Schiavo and the constitutionality of the law that saved her life last October. "Terri's Law," passed in emergency session of the state legislature, ordered the re-insertion of a feeding tube, the only "life support" Terri needs, after her husband Michael had ordered it removed. Michael Schiavo's [...]
LifeSiteNews The Canadian government, under the Liberal party, has long funded radical feminist organizations whose objective has been the transformation of society according to their vision. The same strategy has been used to advance the homosexual agenda. EGALE, the group that fought three court cases resulting in legalization of same-sex unions in Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec, has posted on its website [...]
LifeSite NewsStem cell scientists have wasted no time in going ahead with research using discarded embryos from IVF clinics. Dr. Ronald Worton, scientific director of the Stem Cell Network, is co-ordinating a national effort to create stem cell lines from living human beings in the embryonic stage. Many studies have shown that embryonic stem cells have proven to be virtually useless in [...]
Six churches in Ontario will be venues for the general showing of the "Holy Shroud of Turin" exhibition this summer. This non-denominational presentation has been touring the world for several years. The exhibit features a full sized replica of the Holy Shroud, many photographs, historical and archeological findings as well as results from forensic and scientific research. A crucifix with the markings [...]
LifeSiteNews The Durham Catholic District School Board (DCDSB) in Ontario has issued a clarification of its position in the Marc Hall case after the airing of a made-for-TV movie which it says "took serious liberties with reality." In the spring of 2002, Marc Hall, a Grade 12 student at Monsignor John Pereyma Catholic Secondary School in Oshawa won a court battle that [...]
Pete Vere The Interim My belongings are safely tucked into boxes that surround me. In a few days, I will pick up the U-Haul, load it up with the boxes and depart for the Great White North. I never thought I would miss the United States, but these past few years have seen me living the American dream as a social and [...]
Paul Jalsevac The InterimDana Rosemary Scallon, the singer-turned-politician and Ireland's most famous champion of the pro-life cause, narrowly lost her seat in the June 14 European parliamentary election. Scallon became famous as a singer, radio and television personality in Ireland in the 1970s and used her talents to spread her faith and beliefs through religious music and singing at several World Youth [...]
Interim StaffNew statistics indicate that British women are eliminating their unborn children because of non-life-threatening deformities such as deformed feet or cleft lips and palates. They are also increasingly aborting children suspected of having physical or mental deformities. Ground E of the Abortion Act makes abortion legal up to nine months if a child has a serious risk of physical or mental [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim One of the world's top researchers into life issues made a tour of southern Ontario recently, offering information and strategies to combat the anti-life agenda - a particularly timely topic, given the federal election campaign and the prominence given to abortion within it. Dr. Brian Clowes included a Basic Pro-Life Training Workshop in Hamilton as part of his [...]
Raises concerns that assisted suicide will be legalized Alex Schadenberg The Interim A Canadian study that was sponsored by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine has found that seniors have the highest rate of suicide in Canada. As people age or become sick, the risk of suicide goes up substantially, with the highest suicide [...]
LifeSite NewsA new study published in the June American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse strengthens the case for a causal connection between abortion and substance abuse. The study found that among women who had unintended first pregnancies, those who had abortions were more likely to report, an average of four years later, more frequent and recent use of alcohol, marijuana and [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim Administering a punch in the face, fifteen hours of community service and a letter of apology. Not a bad deal for Douglas Chase of Vancouver Island, B.C. Chase, apparently upset by certain pro-life signs, attacked without warning Campaign Life Coalition B.C. president John Hof while the latter was picketing with other pro-life supporters outside a Vancouver abortuary in [...]