Interim Staff On the morning of the March for Life, breast surgeon Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, clinical assistant professor of surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey and co-founder of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, explained the biological reasons for the link between abortion and breast cancer, noting the physiological changes that occur during pregnancy and the cessation of pregnancy. [...]
Increasing numbers of couples from across the Maritimes visit private sonogram clinics in the United States for three-dimensional ultrasound photos of their unborn babies. They can’t get photos of their unborn babies at home, because most Canadian hospitals refuse to perform non-medical ultrasounds, often because of the cost. Nova Scotians Tracey Gray and John Boulay were especially eager to learn the gender [...]
Interim Staff June 30 will be the last day that abortions will be committed in New Brunswick hospitals, after Fredericton’s Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital announced that it would cease committing them on that date. Pro-lifers are applauding the move, saying they expect the number of abortions committed in the province to continue to decline. Peter Ryan, executive director of New Brunswick Right [...]
A bill protecting the freedom of Albertans to opt out of teaching homosexual material or performing same-sex “marriages” ran out of time on May 8, as opposition members used stalling tactics to ensure it did not have a chance to pass. The private member’s bill, the Protection of Fundamental Freedoms (Marriage) Statutes Amendment Act, offered protection to those who oppose homosexual activity. [...]
On May 4, the B.C. Court of Appeal heard testimony from pro-life and civil liberties intervenors in the case of Gordon Watson and Don Spratt, who were arrested in December 1998 for having stood inside a “bubble zone” in front of Everywoman’s abortion site in Vancouver. The two men are appealing convictions of violating B.C.’s Access to Abortion Services Act, which prohibits [...]
“Hey, what’s with the shirt? What’s Abort73.com?” “I could tell you, but better yet, why don’t you go online and check it out?” On school campuses across the U.S., Canada, and even England, students are showing up to class with shirts emblazoned with a distinctive “Abort73.com” logo. Each day, they’re showing up wearing a different shirt, in a different style or different [...]
He rose to more public prominence during battles over the same-sex “marriage” issue that saw him become the target of human rights complaints and threats from the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency to take away his church’s charitable tax status. At a fundraising dinner for the Kitchener, Ont.-based Defend Traditional Marriage and Family organization April 21, Catholic Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary [...]
Abortion is typically presented by its advocates as a women’s issue, but pro-lifers know better. As Vicki Thorn, who founded Project Rachel, has taught: unborn children will only be protected when both men and women come together on their behalf. In this month of Father’s Day, The Interim salutes a few good men who are boldly defending life and family. In the [...]
Despite scoffs, polygamy does follow same-sex ‘marriage’ Among serious Catholics in our riding, Tony Martin is known as “the Irish Souper.” This is not a reference to our MP’s former position with Sault Ste. Marie’s soup kitchen. Rather, it refers to the Irish immigrant and one-time Catholic seminarian’s vote on BillC-38. Like certain Irishmen during the Great Potato Famine, the NDP MP [...]
The Family Coalition Party of Ontario is setting its sights on having at least one member elected to the Ontario Legislature by the year 2011. At the FCP’s annual convention and general meeting in Mississauga April 22, leader Giuseppe Gori said the prospect of proportional representation, or a mixed proportional representation system, coupled with “a lot of hard work,” will see the [...]
Since the speech delivered Dec. 1, 2005 by Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin in Wellington, New Zealand, several pro-life leaders have zeroed in on her remarks about judicial activism and how, in her opinion, judges should identify unwritten constitutional principles for a “new natural law.” When I read the speech, however, I understand that she would also positively support a law [...]
The ‘slippery slope’ argument proves valid One argument against euthanasia - one worth putting forward as it appears that Francine Lalonde’s private member’s bill is to be re-introduced in Parliament - is that it is wrong. Quite simply, that killing people for any reason other than immediate self-defenxe or in the course of a just war is immoral. There are, alas, a [...]
In politics, success and failure are usually measured in terms of how many seats a party has won in the last election. If it has won a lot, it is successful. If it hasn’t won many – or hasn’t won any at all – then it must be a failure. That’s the way we generally view things in politics. But how does [...]
A psychologist, who accompanied a friend to a Swiss suicide clinic, was before a professional appeals panel on May 17, accused of misconduct. The College of Psychologists revisited the complaint against Peter Marshall, who wrote a letter to the National Post in December 2004 describing his trip to Switzerland with his friend ‘Su’ who killed herself with the help of Dignitas, a [...]
The aftermath of abortion is as at least as devastating for men as for women, say clinicians and researchers advocating for healing. Men who have experienced a wife or girlfriend’s abortion commonly feel rage, anxiety, grief and depression, shame, guilt and a sense of helplessness and impotence. While much more research on men’s aftermath is needed, post-abortive men clearly suffer in multiple [...]