National Review has a long editorial in its September 20 edition making "The case for marriage." It all sounds so wonderfully antiquated. NR takes note that society regulates sex through marriage, that biologically it takes a man and woman to create a child and thus: That does not mean that marriage is worthwhile only insofar as it yields children. (The law has never [...]
Two of our four stories on our cover feature, "The attack on CPCs," are online. "The campaign against CPCs" focuses on a NARAL study that calls crisis pregnancy centers "fake clinics." "Toronto Star attacks crisis pregnancy centres" is pretty self-explanatory.
A record nine Canadian cities will have 40 Days for Life starting September 22. There's a story at LifeSiteNews and here are the links for each Canadian location: Calgary, Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Sudbury, Ontario; Perth, Ontario; Ottawa, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; Moncton, New Brunswick; Halifax, Nova Scotia. In May, we wrote about the success of the Spring 40 Days for Life campaign [...]
This is not really news. The Globe and Mail reports: Despite its refusal to consider abortion in its maternal-health plan, the Harper government has given financial support to an international agency that provides abortion illegally in some African countries. A number of things to clarify. I'm not crazy about the fact that Canada funds abortion abroad, but there is no hypocrisy in not [...]
Reuters and CNN have reports on the hostage situation at Discovery Channel headquarters. As Business Insider reports about James Jay Lee, the man who has explosive strapped to himself and taken hostages at DC HQ: "He is an anti-capitalist Malthusian who wants the Discovery Channel to stop any programming that promotes capitalism, human birth, progress..." Lee's11-point manifesto includes this: 2. All programs [...]
It's taken a year, but every issue and every article from The Interim, since 1983, is now online. We'll be highlighting some interesting articles over the next week or so. Here are the archives.
A silent war on abortion The campaign against CPCs Crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs) in North America continue to face new attacks from the abortion industry, including a recently released NARAL Pro-Choice California Foundation report titled “Unmasking Fake Clinics: The Truth About Crisis Pregnancy Centres in California” and a brand new documentary by the directors of the controversial documentary Jesus Camp, not to [...]
As part of what appears to be a campaign against crisis pregnancy centres by abortion advocates and their supporters, the Toronto Star ran a hit piece on centres in the Toronto area, charging them of employing “misleading” information to get women to choose life rather than abortion. On July 22, Joanna Smith, a reporter from the Toronto Star’s Ottawa bureau, [...]
Crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs) in North America continue to face new attacks from the abortion industry, including a recently released NARAL Pro-Choice California Foundation report titled “Unmasking Fake Clinics: The Truth About Crisis Pregnancy Centres in California” and a brand new documentary by the directors of the controversial documentary Jesus Camp, not to mention a Toronto Star hit piece on Toronto-area CPCs [...]
Canada A grassroots network opposed to euthanasia has been created in Quebec. Vivre dans la Dignite (Living with Dignity) will respond to the travelling provincial commission that is holding summer and fall hearings on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Linda Couture, the group’s director, said “We cannot allow killing to be confused with health care in Quebec” … C-389, the private member’s bill [...]
Public relations gimmick or genuine ‘choice’ A pro-abortion adoption agency? The very idea may sound like an oxymoron. What about a pro-adoption abortion facility? Nevertheless, to Corinna Lohser and Cristina Page, co-founders of the recently created Adoption Access Network, these are newly stated goals of the so-called pro-choice movement. It is no secret that the term pro-choice is understood by pro-lifers as [...]
Cardinal Ouellet of the Archdiocese of Quebec probably did not expect to ignite a controversy when he spoke at a pro-life conference in May and reiterated long-held Catholic teaching on abortion. Yet within days, journalists, feminist groups and politicians across the province were expressing anger and indignation at the cardinal’s statements, in which he declared his opposition to abortion in all cases, [...]
Our esteemed editor is in Ottawa until Wednesday. We'll be updating the main site with the last of the August issue and first stories from our September issue. For now, check out Michael Coren's column on `Family Values` from the August issue. Also, Rick McGinnis on `The Shrinking Male`about how men are portrayed in the media. On Monday, we`ll have a story on the [...]
The leaders of the G8 countries meeting in Huntsville, Ont., endorsed Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s signature Muskoka Initiative on maternal and infant health and pro-life leaders are cautiously optimistic that it will remain abortion-free despite loaded wording of the leaders’ statement. On June 26, the G8 released a statement committing the world’s rich countries -- Canada, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, [...]
A new report by Human Rights Watch accuses several nations of failing to provide access to adequate reproductive health care, especially abortion. The report, ‘Unaccountable: Addressing Reproductive Health Care Gaps,” uses Human Rights Watch’s interviews with so-called victims to make recommendations to governments and international health organizations. According to Human Rights Watch, “logistical, cultural, and financial barriers to services and information, inadequate [...]