Rep. Bart Stupak has a guest column in the New York Times: "What My Amendment Won’t Do." The Nelson-Hatch-Casey amendment to the Senate health care bill was rejected by a vote of 54-45, effectively killing it. Operation Rescue has released a report, Project Daniel 5:25, that shows that more than two-thirds of all abortion clinics have closed since 1991. LifeSiteNews.com reports that a Dutch doctor wants to permit euthanasia [...]
The Korea Times reports on a restaurant in Thailand that is aggressively promoting population control measures: The Condom Santa Claus stands outside a restaurant called "Cabbages and Condoms" in Bangkok. According to the Metro Online News in the United Kingdom, it was founded by a non-profit organization dedicated for the campaign of birth control and condoms usage in preventing the spread of HIV [...]
About three dozen Republican senators are warning Democratic leaders in the Senate not to use an omnibus appropriations bill to lift existing restrictions on abortion funding. The National Right to Life Committee notes: The possible abortion-related provisions at issue would: -- lift a longstanding ban on funding of abortions by the city government of Washington, D.C., allowing funding of abortion on [...]
He wouldn't violate the sixth/fifth commandment "Thou shall not murder," let alone subsidize its violation, although some of His followers seem not to care. The Baptist Press reports: The Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church (USA), United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church's General Board of Church and Society all are members of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a pro-abortion rights organization that took [...]
Senator Ben Nelson (D, Neb.) has been joined by Senators Orrin Hatch (R, Utah) and Robert Casey Jr. (D, Penn) in introducing an amendment to the Senate health care bill designed to prohibit direct taxpayer funding of abortion and restrict indirect subsidies to private insurance plans that cover abortion. CNSNews.com coverage of the amendment is here. LifeNews.com reports that seven other Republicans have attached their names [...]
The Los Angeles Times reports that the producers of the teen dramumentary (a blend of drama and documentary), South Dakota: A Woman's Right to Choose, is meant to provoke discussion. Some complain that the film leans too much to the pro-life side. Here's a trailer. The Washington Times reports, "Abortion re-emerges as top issue: Health care debate puts divisive topic at forefront," although [...]
Our December editorial: "Abortion is not health care." The editorial concludes: Abortion is not health care and it does not belong in the health care bill. If the legislation goes down because it expands abortion access and funding, it deserves to be defeated. Read the whole thing here.
Last week, Alberta Court of Queen's Bench Justice Earl Wilson overturned a December 2007 rulingby the province's human rights tribunal which found Stephen Boissoin, a youth pastor who questioned the gay agenda, had been guilty of promoting hate against homosexuals. Some people see this as something worth celebrating (see the Canadian Constitution Foundation, the Equipping Christians for the Public Square Center, lawyer Gerald Chipeur, [...]
Available as a pdf here. The amendment seems to address the issue of direct and indirect taxpayer funding of abortion. Of course, there is so much more wrong from a pro-life position in the House and Senate health care bills beyond taxpayer funding of abortion. The rationing of care and possible extension of physician-assisted suicide beyond Oregon and Washington state is another. Putting bureaucrats [...]
In the December issue of The Interim we review As I See It, Michael Coren's new collection of columns, and interview the famous Canadian journalist. From the Paul Tuns interview with Coren: The Interim: How did you become a columnist? What did you want to be growing up? Michael Coren: Growing up I wanted to be soccer player, then a rugby player, then an RAF pilot, [...]
The Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner and Politico both had stories over the past couple of days on how abortion could derail health care reform. It appears that Senators Ben Nelson (D, Neb.) and Orrin Hatch (R, Utah) will introduce an amendment similar to Rep. Bart Stupak (D, Mich.) to prohibit taxpayer funding of abortion, perhaps as early as today. There are a [...]
Editor’s Note: Interim editor Paul Tuns interviewed journalist and broadcaster Michael Coren, who recently released a collection of columns, As I See It. The Interim: How did you become a columnist? What did you want to be growing up? Michael Coren: Growing up I wanted to be soccer player, then a rugby player, then an RAF pilot, then a jazz [...]
As I See It by Michael Coren (Freedom Press, $21.95 paperback, 306 pages) When I went to university in the United States, I stopped following Canadian news, but I did continue reading a few Canadian columnists on the internet. One of those columnists was Michael Coren. There are many reasons why I should not have read him. He supports more government intervention [...]
The health care debate in the United States has become a debate about abortion. Some advocates of health care reform are blaming pro-lifers in general and the Catholic bishops in particular for delaying and perhaps even eventually scuttling the reform bill. It is true abortion politics might end up preventing the bill from passing but that is because abortion advocates in Congress [...]
On Nov. 2, a column by Steven Fletcher appeared in the National Post about C-384, a private member’s bill that would legalize euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. Fletcher’s opinion could be influential; not only is he a Conservative MP and cabinet minister, he is a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair since a 1996 automobile accident, He said more should be done to improve the lives [...]