•President George W. Bush announced plans to enact stricter limits on embryonic research. •Congress will likely consider the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act later this year. If it is passed, the bill would ensure that parents have a right to know their teenage daughters are considering an abortion and make it a crime to take a minor across state lines to circumvent [...]
John-Henry Westen Special to The Interim A very upbeat Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas spoke with LifeSiteNews.com at the March for Life in January, saying of the United States, it “is established that this is a pro-life country.” The Republican from Kansas has been a strong voice for the pro-life movement in the Senate and is usually at the forefront of pro-life [...]
LifeSiteNews.com Special to The Interim Canadian Tire may find itself the subject of a boycott for its sponsorship of a television show promoting homosexual “marriage.” The show, My Fabulous Gay Wedding, will feature six one-hour episodes focusing on a different same-sex couple, as they prepare for, and are, “married.” The corporation has so far refused to cancel its sponsorship of the program, [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim A Toronto registered nurse, who has been lobbying Canadian nursing associations for a number of years to reform their ethics policies to better reflect a more pro-life, Judeo-Christian perspective, has been unsuccessful in a couple of her most recent efforts in that regard. The aptly named Helen Nightingale approached both the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario and the [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim He survived not just one, but two, major threats to his life even before he was born. Partially in response to his life being spared, Tom Kelly in later years has gone about working to secure for all people the right to life he has been able to enjoy. That has included a stint as the president of [...]
Hillary White Special to The Interim Doctors at Hope Hospital in Salford, England are saying that a child, now two years old, is one of the most premature children to survive a late-term abortion attempt. “Doctors tried three or four different abortive drugs,” said Dr. Paul Clarke. “It has defeated all the odds.” Clarke was one of the doctors treating the unnamed [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim A North American initiative that has been successful in letting women come forth and tell about their negative experiences with abortion is now poised to go global. International Protection for Women and Preborn Children, as it is tentatively being called, will make its presence felt at two overseas conferences in the next couple of months – the L’Chaim [...]
Interim Staff Statistics Canada released figures for the number of abortions committed in 2002, the latest year for which such statistics are available. Official figures show the lives of 105,154 unborn children were killed by abortion in 2002, down one per cent from 106,270 in 2001. The abortion rate also fell marginally from 15.6 abortions per 1,000 women in 2001 to 15.4 [...]
Albertans from all denominations attend Battle for Marriage Rally to hear Bishop Henry, David Mainse Janet L. Jackson The Interim Close to 1,200 Albertans came from near and far to attend a Battle for Marriage Rally in the heart of downtown Calgary at the Calgary Full Gospel Church, organized by the Calgary Coalition for Traditional Marriage. Featured speakers included Calgary Bishop Fred [...]
Peter Stock The Interim A few years ago, Toronto pastor Dominic Tse was an apolitical member of his Chinese-Canadian community. Today, he is one of the leading voices in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious coalition attempting to halt the progress of Bill C-38, the federal Liberals’ legislation redefining marriage. In mid-February, he found himself in Parliament, speaking in defence of marriage at a [...]
Pete Vere The Interim On Jan. 24, there was a terrible setback for right-to-life and disability advocates. The United States Supreme Court rejected Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s appeal in a case that pitted him against Michael Schiavo. Assisted by his attorney and well-known euthanasia advocate George Felos, Michael is seeking to withdraw the feeding tube currently needed by his wife, Terri Schindler-Schiavo. [...]
Interim Staff On Jan. 28, 78-year-old Marcel Tremblay of Kanata, Ont., committed suicide to gain national attention for his cause of changing current Canadian law concerning assisted suicide. Tremblay drew the media attention to emphasize that his act would be illegal if he needed assistance to carry it out. The media falsely asserted that Tremblay was terminally ill. Tremblay was not terminally [...]
Interim Staff At least 100,000 people, and perhaps as many as 250,00, from across the United States, as well as pro-lifers from around the world, took part in the annual U.S March for Life marking the 32 anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision in January. Numbers were slightly lower than expected, due to a snowstorm in the northeast that prevented pro-lifers [...]
Hilary White Special to The Interim The in-vitro fertilization industry is worried that a Chicago court decision, in which an embryo was ruled to be a human being, could put an end to IVF and abortion. On Friday, Feb. 4, Cook County Judge Jeffrey Lawrence ruled that a couple’s wrongful death lawsuit for the death of their embryonic child at a fertility [...]
Interim Staff When Conservative MP Jim Prentice announced in early February that he was going to support the Liberals’ anti-marriage legislation, Bill C-38, it came as a bit of a shock to many Calgarians, who thought they’d elected a conservative to Parliament. Yet, such voters must remember that the merger of the PCs and Canadian Alliance brought together two radically different parties. [...]