My career choice hasn’t been a gateway to riches, but it has a few perks, one of which is the appearance of dozens of DVD screeners in my mailbox in the weeks before Christmas. “Academy screeners” is their full name – DVDs of movies made for members of the Motion Picture Academy of America so that members can nominate Oscar winners without [...]
It’s always astounded me that people who accuse pro-lifers of being obsessed with abortion are actually some of the first people to mention the subject whenever they think they can win an argument, even when it’s not directly relevant. One example is whenever an act of Islamic extremist terror occurs. “All religions produce murderers and fanatics,” runs the moan. “Look [...]
Stephen T. Asma writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education about how environmentalism has many religious elements: Instead of religious sins plaguing our conscience, we now have the transgressions of leaving the water running, leaving the lights on, failing to recycle, and using plastic grocery bags instead of paper. In addition, the righteous pleasures of being more orthodox than your neighbor (in [...]
Chuck Donovan at The Foundry, the blog of the Heritage Foundation, takes note of the threat of government-funding of abortion not only through the direct or indirect subsidies to private health insurance plans but through community health centers. Donovan says: According to a new analysis just released by National Right to Life Committee legislative director Doug Johnson, Sec. 10503 of the Reid “Manager’s [...]
The Times of London reported earlier this week that babies 'concieved' through in-vitro fertilization are at greater risk for diabetes and obesity. The paper reports: The changes are not in the genes themselves but in the mechanism that switches them on and off, the study of which is known as epigenetics. “These epigenetic differences have the potential to affect embyronic development and foetal [...]
LifeSiteNews.com has a story in which they note which charities pro-lifers should eschew when looking for ways to help Haitians in these tragic times for them. A couple notable charities that deserve support: Cross International Haiti Mission Unfortunately, we must remind readers that the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (U.S.) both have what [...]
Several stories from the January 2010 issue are now online. Interim editors list the Top 10 stories of 2009 Editor Paul Tuns examines Anti-human life environmentalism and there is a related editorial "A deadly climate." Canadian pro-life politicians past and present look ahead at 2010. We have our annual general meeting today. Blogging will resume Thursday.
From The Interim's January editorial: [A]ll of the causes of climate change are euphemisms for man. The problem is not the carbon footprint, but the person who leaves it; the problem is not carbon consumption, but the carbon consumer; the problem is not even pollution, but the hidden polluter. The real pollution is always the same thing, and it is always a person. In [...]
The Wall Street Journal had an excellent article on Bart Stupak, the Democratic Congressman who is trying to address the egregious aspects of Obamacare by ensuring that there will be no direct or indirect taxpayer funding of abortion. The article is worth reading in its entirety, but the first and last paragraph explains everything you need to know about the political calculus [...]
National Journal has a video worth taking a look at. The point of the three-minute news segment is that the older generation of pro-abortion leaders are out of touch with today's young women. As Overbrook Research discovered in 2007, young people are more likely to be pro-life than pro-abortion. I would suggest that this is more of a backlash against the rhetorical excesses of abortion advocates [...]
Editor’s Note: The Interim asked past winners of Campaign Life Coalition’s Joseph P. Borowski Award (for outstanding pro-life leadership in the political sphere), “What do you foresee in the future for the pro-life movement?” We attempted to contact Roseanne Skoke but they did not return our calls. Rob Merrifield was contacted several times but did not respond. Senator Stanley Haidasz passed away [...]
In our day and age, the reality of climate change cannot be doubted: it is experts’ grave concern, the popular politicians’ top priority, the famous film stars’ fashionable cause. Last month, the leaders of the world gathered in Copenhagen to avert an impending ecological disaster – an effort (so we are told) that may already be too little, too late. Indeed, it [...]
Green activists promote one-child policy, contraception as keys to save planet The National Post’s Diane Francis promoted the idea of a global one-child policy in her Dec. 8, column. The article ran at the beginning of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and in it Francis, the editor-at-large of the Post’s Financial Post section, said the real [...]
Edwin Meese has a column in the Wall Street Journal on the battle in California to overturn Prop 8 which banned same-sex marriage in the Golden State. Instead of examining the legal arguments of the case, Judge Vaughn Walker will examine the religious and moral beliefs of the advocates of traditional marriage and put those views on trial. Worse, he will be [...]
Another thought the Globe and Mail (finally) taking notice of the abortion-breast cancer link which I noted this morning. The media covering up the ABC link is nothing new, but it is enlightening because it tells us something important about the advocates of so-called "choice". I wrote about it in an editor's desk column in December 2007: The ABC link is one [...]