The National Post's Kelly McParland is correct to wonder about the outrage over sex-selection abortions, stating that if one doesn't have a problem with abortionhow does object to abortion to eliminate a child depending on whether it is male or female. As McParland says, "If a fetus isn't human, its sex becomes irrelevant." I agree with the premise of the argument but I want to state [...]
The Wall Street Journal has an article on Solicitor General Elena Kagan's position on same-sex "marriage" and how political opponents of her possible nomination to the Supreme Court could focus on such culture war issues (subscription required). Ed Whelan discusses the article in The Corner and makes the important point that "Kagan has taken actions in her SG capacity that operate to undermine Don’t Ask, [...]
From April 16 to 17, Sudbury, Ont. will once again host the annual REAL Life Film Festival, a pro-life and pro-family event. The theme of this year’s festival is “Life and justice.” Lina Madore, the festival project manager, told The Interim, it is “a Christian film festival promoting the true message about life and the family values of life.” About three to four [...]
If you talk to conservatives and Republicans in Washington, they are convinced that a die-in-the-wool liberal who supports abortion without restrictions will be appointed by Barack Obama to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. Talk to liberals and Democrat and they are convinced that Obama will reach out to Republicans by appointing a moderate justice. Ask those who liberals who a moderate [...]
We editorialize this month about racism, eugenics and abortion, and link it to both a recent New York Times story on abortion and race, and Michael Ignatieff's desire to have abortion included as part of Canada's maternal health initiative in the developing world. The editorial concludes: Women who are encouraged to cultivate their “reproductive health” through the killing of their children are [...]
The website now has the winner of the Fr. Ted Colleton Essay Contest winners. Congratulations to Matthew Hunt, Maria Samantha Navarro, and Roman Belli. The three essays are featured in the centerspread of the April issue of The Interim. We also have the cover story online already. As The Interim was ready to go to press we had to deal with the breaking story of [...]
Stridently pro-abortion U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will retire and the most pro-abortion President Barack Obama will get to name his replacement. As Kathryn Jean Lopez says at NRO, this is one reason elections matter. Justice Stevens was one of the five majority votes in Roe v. Wade that struck down state-level prohibitions on abortion in 1973 and he has [...]
Rep. Bart Stupak (D, Mich) will formally announce later today that he is not seeking re-election. You all know the story about his seemingly heroic fight against abortion funding through health care reform only to capitulate at the last minute securing a deal with President Barack Obama that does nothing to stop abortion funding. He faced a challenge within his own party from the [...]
Among most men of my acquaintance – and this probably says more about my friends than anything else – the most eagerly anticipated TV series this year is HBO’s The Pacific, which will started airing last month (after this column was submitted). It’s a companion piece to the critically-lauded Band of Brothers, the 2001 miniseries that followed a group of paratroopers from [...]
Liberal opposition party leader Michael Ignatieff is thought to be swimming in a tank of sharks. A group of top Liberal politicians thinks he’s politically dead or heading in that direction. Ignatieff’s plummeting popularity is a concern for some of the wannabes in the federal Liberal party who are sharpening their knives. His approval rating is now down to 20 per cent. [...]
In early March, the usual Hollywood types gathered at the usual Hollywood Oscar event and gave the usual people the usual awards. Avatar didn’t win much, but it hardly matters – it’s the most financially successful movie in the history of cinema. It’s also anti-Christian, anti-human and bursting with pagan and anti-life concepts and constructs. Set in 2154, it concerns [...]
Margaret Sanger, the early American abortion advocate, believed in the practice of eugenics. Like many misguided early twentieth-century social activists, she believed that eugenics was – in her words – “the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.” For Sanger, birth control did not simply constitute a marginal alteration of the ratios of reproduction; it [...]
On March 21, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 219-212 to approve the Democrats’ pro-abortion health care reform bill. The bill passed after Rep. Bart Stupak (D, Mich.) accepted a compromise from the White House that he says will limit abortion funding. Last November, Stupak co-authored an amendment that restricted taxpayer funding of abortion. A similar effort in the Senate failed although [...]
Editor’s Note: In February, we inadvertently ran only half of Donald DeMarco’s column. We are publishing the article in its entirety this month. I attended the Catholic Medical Association Conference in Springfield, Ill., last October, and presented a paper entitled, “Love and Healing.” It was most encouraging to observe the strong and courageous witness for life expressed by well over 300 participants [...]
Iain Duncan Smith, former leader of the British Conservative party, has written a major policy paper on the family, in which he urges his parliamentary colleagues to single out married couples for special tax benefits. It’s an excellent idea that politicians in Canada should be no less eager to embrace than their British counterparts. Not so long ago, special benefits [...]