By now, even I am getting tired of reading about embryonic stem cell research. Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry has made it a campaign issue and the deaths this year of Ronald Reagan, who had Alzheimer's, and Christopher Reeve, who had a spinal cord injury, have focused attention on the political debate over such research. Two recent items, though, caught my [...]
In the September issue, Peter Stock's column, "Civil unions no way to renew the culture," examining lawyer Iain Benson's proposal to recognize civil unions, erroneously attributed quotes to Benson that were, in fact, from a National Post editorial. While The Interim and Peter Stock regret the error, the Post editorial did indeed summarize Benson's argument, as Benson himself had noted at the [...]
After effectively being barred from participating at a local fair in 2003, a Port Colborne, Ont. pro-life group wasn't able to file an application to get in this year. A 12-member committee overseeing the annual Port Colborne Canal Days event had voted last year to not allow the Welland-Port Colborne Pro-Life Association to take part by having a display booth, which was [...]
LifeSite News A Chinese woman imprisoned for activism against China's restrictive one-child rule is a victim of inhuman torture in prison, according to a civil rights organization. According to the New York-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) report, Mao Hengfeng was fired from her job at a Shanghai soap factory in 1988, after becoming pregnant with her second child, in contravention of [...]
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has been actively supporting homosexual organizations and events for years through corporate donations and sponsorships. It publicly trumpeted its sponsorship of Toronto's gay pride parade and a number of gay and lesbian groups list RBC as a benefactor. Yet the bank's support of homosexual causes seems to go beyond donations. It made the news a couple [...]
Interim Staff The Telegraph newspaper has found that a publicly funded "charity" - and the United Kingdom's largest committer of abortions - the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, has been facilitating hundreds of illegal abortions on healthy preborns over six months' age without medical justification. The newspaper described the racket as "a horrific underground industry" that trafficked with a Spanish abortuary. An undercover [...]
Interim Staff The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition's fifth euthanasia symposium, this one co-hosted with the EPC of British Columbia, and held in Vancouver on Sept. 25, was a great success. The 100 participants were pleased by the speakers, from whom they learned about euthanasia and eugenics, the law and disability issues, advances in pain and symptom management and world-wide developments. The symposium was [...]
The National Campus Life Network held its annual Symposium Oct. 1-3 at St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto. There were 23 students in attendance, representing pro-life campus clubs from across Canada. Some clubs have been active for years, while others are fighting for club status on campus. No matter what stage they are at, everyone had a common goal during the weekend - [...]
The University of Waterloo Students For Life campus club brought Stephanie Gray to its campus for a talk entitled, "Echoes of the Holocaust: Abortion and the Genocide Awareness Project." The event was based on a comparison between abortion and historical atrocities such as the Holocaust. Gray made it clear that abortion is genocide. The definition of genocide she works with is found [...]
A judge has ordered Ann Arbor Public Schools in Detroit, Mi. to pay over $100,000 in attorney fees and costs to the Thomas More Law Centre, because the school community there refused a student, Betsy Hansen, the right to express her religious views against homosexuality during her school's annual Diversity Week in 2002. Detroit Federal District Judge Gerald E. Rosen ordered the [...]
Canada Silent No More is a growing group of women whose lives have been torn apart following an abortion. These courageous women held a rally and press conference in Winnipeg, Man. in conjunction with the national pro-life conference, "Alive and Loving It." "With one in four pregnancies being aborted, there are potentially millions of silent victims in this country who fear talking [...]
Interim Staff The Supreme Court of India upheld the decision to disqualify a member of a village council in the north-western Indian state of Haryana for violating the region's two-child norm, even though the norm is not legally binding. The court claimed it is "in the national interest to check population growth" and that included the use of "legislative disincentives." This disqualified [...]
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has been closely following the trial of Evelyn Martens in Duncan B.C. Bev Welsh, a retired palliative care nurse, has been attending the trial on a daily basis, to ensure that the information the organization has is accurate. Martens was charged with aiding and abetting the suicide deaths of Monique Charest and Leyanne Burchell of British Columbia. The [...]
Parents consider new tactics as daughter's life back in jeopardy In old Greek plays, the main character often finds himself trapped in tragedy when, unexpectedly and out of nowhere, the miraculous means of his survival appears. Students of classical literature call this the Deus ex machina - the god from the machine. While the plight of Terri Schindler-Schiavo is a tragedy for [...]
Pro-life leader warns that the burden of pensions and healthcare costs will mean more people must die. In his book Don't Trust Anyone Over 30: A History of the Baby Boom, Howard Smead called the boomers "the most egocentric generation in the history of mankind." From hippies to yuppies, from war protesters to corporate lobbyists, the sheer number of baby boomers - [...]