Editor's note: This article contains some graphic descriptions of a sexual education session. It was another Women's Health Matters Forum and Expo - and another opportunity for Planned Parenthood and the Bay Centre for Birth Control to impart their immoral and dangerous views on sexual health to impressionable high school-aged girls. The two joined in staging a multi-media "What's Your Sexual Health [...]
By Tony Gosgnach The InterimA talk given by an obstetrician-gynecologist from St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, a Catholic institution, at this year's Women's Health Matters Forum and Expo - and subsequent reporting on the event by Interim and LifeSite news service personnel - has prompted the hospital to correct its internal processes on how its physicians represent the hospital's mission and values. [...]
By Interim StaffA Canadian Supreme Court justice will now have the whole world as a stage for her brand of radical judicial activism. On Feb. 25, the General Assembly ratified Secretary General Kofi Annan's appointment of Justice Louise Arbour as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. In June, Arbour will be retiring from the Supreme Court of Canada, to which [...]
Interim StaffPro-lifers got a dose of encouragement recently in Toronto. Speaking at a prestigious private school conference with anti-life activists, pro-life speakers found that students, on the whole, favoured the pro-life position. The World Affairs Conference in Toronto, a symposium sponsored by Upper Canada College and Branksome Hall, two local private schools, featured several life issues as part of its 2004 event: [...]
LifeSite NewsQuebec pro-lifers have for years warned that the French-speaking population of that province is in danger of contracepting and aborting itself into oblivion. Since the so-called "Quiet Revolution" of the 1960s, which saw a catastrophic collapse of the overwhelmingly Catholic culture of Quebec, abortion rates have soared along with non-Francophone immigration. Demographers fear that the French-Canadian culture is becoming extinct along [...]
In Uncertainty reigned during heavy voting at the packed Oasis Convention Centre in Mississauga on March 11. Every parking spot for blocks around the centre was taken as a mass of over 1,800 voters flowed in and out of the building. At stake was the Liberal nomination for the riding of Mississauga South and the future political career of thrice-elected, pro-life, pro-family [...]
LifeSite NewsA study of pregnancy-associated deaths, published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has found that the mortality rate associated with abortion is 2.95 times higher than that associated with pregnancies carried to term. The study included the entire population of women 15 to 49 years of age in Finland between 1987 and 2000. The researchers [...]
Interim StaffReports from the United States and Sweden recently surfaced that illustrate the lethal consequences of the abortion culture for women who have induced and chemical abortions. It has been revealed by Fox News that in suburban Detroit, a 15-year-old girl died Jan. 8 as a result of a second-trimester abortion. Dr. Leigh Hlavaty performed an autopsy on 15-year-old Tamia Russell the [...]
Campaign Life Coalition British Columbia president John Hof placed the file on the desk at the B.C. Corporate Registry office in Victoria. Checking the financial status reports of various pro-abortion organizations has become an annual trek for pro-lifers, much as it is for those in the abortion industry who check out pro-life groups. But Hof never guessed he would come across so [...]
After weeks of lawlessness by municipal officials in granting illegal marriage licences, U.S. President George W. Bush announced on Feb. 24 that he will seek to amend the U.S. Constitution to enshrine the traditional definition of marriage in the highest law of the land, making it impervious to judicial challenges and the actions of individual states. The proposed 28th amendment would require [...]
The InterimIt's every priest's nightmare: a gay couple enters a church and asks the priest to perform a marriage ceremony. "I was raised Catholic," says one of the would-be grooms, "and I want a Catholic wedding." The priest refuses on the grounds that Catholic doctrine precludes marriage between two individuals of the same sex, yet the gentlemen are not satisfied with the [...]
By Samantha Singson The InterimAs the gavel came down and ended the annual two-week Commission on the Status of Women meeting, pro-life and pro-family advocates were able to smile and breathe a sigh of relief. Things seemed bleak at the beginning of negotiations, when the UN released a draft document that was filled with language that might be used to promote a [...]
By Eli Schuster The InterimCanada's most prominent pro-abortion, radical feminist lobby group, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC), is in serious financial trouble and may be forced out of business. In March, the National Post reported the group has been so burdened by debt over the last two years that it "has been effectively closed" as it struggles [...]
Interim StaffEuthanasia Prevention Coalition executive director Alex Schadenberg got the sanctity of life message out beyond the typical pro-life crowds when he spoke to the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA) on Feb. 19, 2004. SACPA is an organization connected to the University of Lethbridge that explores public policy issues. During his excursion to Alberta, Schadenberg also spoke with two pro-life [...]
By Alex Schadenberg The InterimIn the February Interim, it was reported that the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition's (EPC) legal counsel, Hugh Scher, obtained intervenor status in the case of an 81-year-old woman, Mrs. Holland, who was to be denied life-sustaining medical care against her previously expressed wishes. The trial was heard by Justice Cullity, Jan. 20-23, in Toronto.The trial was originally scheduled for [...]