Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) is hosting a ‘Dance for Life’ August 21 to raise money for their group and for Aid to Women, a Toronto crisis pregnancy center. The event is aimed at university and high school students ages 15 and up, and will feature a live DJ playing top 40, House, Hip-Hop, and Dance classics. "Young people are of inestimable value [...]
Great post at Five Feet of Fury. Three key takeaways: 1. On left-wing hypocrisy: [Y]our 'the State should get out of the marriage business' argument is too cute for words. I notice you desperately want the State to stay in the 'healthcare' business. 2. On (modern) marriage as a form of welfare entitlement: [T]hat's what all this is about: getting your "right" [...]
We have a pair of intelligent commentaries on the courts and religious freedom in Canada in the August issue: "Quebec court affirms freedom of religion," by Rory Leishman which looks at the Loyola case (religious instruction in schools) in Quebec. "Religious freedom in the wake of R. v. Big M. Drug Mart," by John von Heyking which examines how the Supreme Court has dealt with the [...]
Every political regime, whether ancient Sparta or 21st century Canada, contains within it a vision of what it means to be a human being. Whereas the Spartans held up the ideal of the manly warrior, it is unclear what a Canadian is supposed to be. Some say we are tolerant, but others say being tolerant of everything is empty of content and [...]
In a compelling ruling on June 18, Mr. Justice Gérard Dugré of the Superior Court of Quebec emphatically backed Montreal’s Loyola High School in its determination to uphold the fundamental teachings of the Catholic Church on life and family issues over the objections of the Liberal government of Quebec. However, it’s far from certain that this fine judgment will stand [...]
A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement by Wesley J. Smith (Encounter Books, $32.95, 312 pages) Wesley Smith is well known to Interim readers. He is a leading authority on euthanasia and bioethics, having written extensively on both topics, and spoken about related issues. He has now turned his attention [...]
A church in Greenville, S.C., has turned a former abortion facility into a center for pregnant teens and a drop-in center for young parents and their children. This is simultaneously a creepy and nice story.
As Joe Carter says at First Things, "Disappointing, though not really surprising" decision by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker in overturning Proposition 8, the state's constitutional amendment banning same-sex 'marriage' -- a law that was supported by a majority of state voters in a 2008 ballot initiative. Read Judge Walker's decision and you'll see that he is just making up reasons [...]
Linda Gibbons is one of those brave pro-lifers who attempt to counsel abortion-minded women on the sidewalk before they enter abortion facilities. I say brave because it takes something special to stand on the sidewalk, wait for women who may (or may not) be going into the abortion clinic and try to talk them into choosing life for their unborn child. It [...]
The United Nations has created a monstrous, half-billion dollar agency to promote gender equality. Merging four existing offices into the new United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, or UN Women, the international body hopes to create, in UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s words, “a stronger voice for women for gender equality at the global level.” Feminists dutifully cheered. [...]
The stories are familiar: funding for abortion being proposed as foreign aid, a vote on euthanasia, a National March for Life in Ottawa, university administrators harassing pro-life groups. Similar events have become a normal feature of the news cycle and, of themselves, bring no surprise to members of the pro-life movement. Although the headlines are familiar, the news is not— the outcome [...]
The Regina Leader-Post reports that the National Parole Board has refused to grant convicted child murderer Robert Latimer expanded parole privileges. Latimer won his parole release in 2008, seven years after beginning his prison sentence for the 1993 gassing death of his daughter Tracy, who had cerebral palsy. Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, says of the news that he [...]
Our lead editorial for the August issue is now online. An excerpt: This series of events heralds a new day for the pro-life movement. The recent legislative victories demonstrate that being publicly pro-life is no longer beyond the pale, but is, instead, a politically viable position. This change in the political landscape corresponds with a shift in the public’s perception of the [...]
Democrats for Life has three followers on Twitter. Just saying.
The debate we have had about maternal health and abortion here in Canada is taking place at the United Nations where U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R, NJ) told a UN committee on the the Millennium Development Goals that promoting legal abortion will not reduce maternal and infant mortality. LifeSiteNews has the story about how the "Outcome Document for the High-Level Summit on the Millennium [...]