Among a list of 145 supposed Conservative broken promises, the Liberal Party charges the Harper government with breaking its promise not to raise the abortion issue: 144. A Conservative Government will not initiate or support any legislation to regulate abortion. Government Action: Broken. The Conservative government further isolated Canada from the rest of the developed world and breaking with 25 years of Canadian [...]
Sargent Shriver, brother-in-law to John and Teddy Kennedy, has passed away. CatholicVote notes: As the Democratic candidate for vice president in 1972, Sargent Shriver remains to this day the last pro-life candidate to run on the presidential ticket as a Democrat. But Ted Kennedy was pro-life in 1972 as well, right? But unlike other Kennedys, Shriver remained pro-life for the rest of his life. [...]
William McGurn begins his Wall Street Journal column today with a question: "Are babies better than abortions?" To be fair to abortion supporters, they will say the answer is context-dependent and therefore every woman should decide for herself. But then why do abortion advocates so strenuously oppose efforts (such as crisis pregnancy centers) that seek to persuade women to choose life rather than abortion? That's the [...]
Tomorrow Republicans will introduce a bill to repeal Obamacare. It is going to fail because it will get bogged down in the Senate and will be vetoed by the president, so this political move is not only foolish and a waste of time, but possibly counter-productive. Throwing this bone to the Tea Party and conservative base and losing the battle to repeal will [...]
I understand the pro-life community trying to wrap itself in the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., and it is even more powerful when a member of the deceased civil rights leader's family does it. Priests for Life reports: Dr. Alveda King, full-time Director of African American Outreach for Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said today that [...]
Enshrining special rights for transgender, transsexuals a step closer to law On Dec. 8, the House of Commons approved C-389 at the report stage by a vote of 143-131. C-389 is Bill Siksay’s (NDP, Burnaby-Douglas) private member’s bill that would enshrine “gender identity” and “gender expression” in the Canada Human Rights Act and hate crime provisions of the Criminal Code, thereby providing [...]
On Dec. 15, the House of Commons voted down C-510, a private member’s bill that would have amended the Criminal Code to add coercing an abortion to its list of offenses. Rod Bruinooge (C, Winnipeg South), who introduced the bill, said it was necessary to ensure that pregnant women did not have to choose between protecting themselves and the children [...]
Interimcolumnist Rory Leishman looks at President George W. Bush's memoir Decision Points and finds affirmation of a very pro-life president. Leishman concludes: Pro-lifers are deeply indebted to George W. Bush. We should hope and pray that the United States and Canada will soon have another leader no less dedicated than he to upholding the sanctity of human life from fertilization to natural death.
LifeSiteNews.com reports that Advertising Standards Canada has closed the file on a complaint against a television ad aired by the New Brunswick Right to Life Association last October and November. The ad, which can be viewed here, features a female firefighter thanking her mother for choosing life and that "her decision saved more than one life." Last Fall, LSN reports, "an anonymous complainant to ASC [...]
After the 2007 provincial election in Ontario I stirred the pot a bit with a cover story in The Interim titled "Is the FCP still relevant." My argument was that the Family Coalition Party is not a political party in the usual sense but rather a vehicle to advance the pro-life cause in the political arena by 1) raising the abortion issue in election campaigns in [...]
Lisa Graas has the Top Five Lies of the Pro-Abortion Left at NewsReal from “Personally Pro-life” to “We Should Not Use Science in Debating the Abortion Issue.” It is worth reading and the videos are worth watching -- a fine use of 15-20 minutes if you are going to spend that time on the 'net anyway. That said, I want to pick at one bone (of contention). [...]
From a pro-life perspective, President George W. Bush may have been less than perfect, but in comparison to his successor, he is looking ever better. Bush devotes an entire chapter of his compelling memoir Decision Points to the controversial decision he announced in a televised address on Aug. 9, 2001, to authorize federal funding for embryonic stem cell research using [...]
It’s a rare film that justifies its running time, and if over two decades’ worth of movie reviewing has taught me anything, it’s that every film, no matter how good, is probably too long. That proved itself once again with The Social Network, one of the films tipped early on as an Oscar favourite when it was released this fall. It’s just [...]
Editor’s Note: Interim editor Paul Tuns interviewed Family Coalition Party leader Phil Lees by email on Dec. 17. The Interim: Tell us a little bit about your background, including your leadership of the Hamilton-Wentworth Family Action Council? Phil Lees: As an educator for more than 30 years I worked as a teacher, teacher consultant and curriculum designer, at all levels [...]
Shades of a blog post from after the defeat of the Bruinooge bill to outlaw coercive abortion in our January editorial, "Time for something bolder." We call upon pro-life politicians to address the abortion issue directly, for example, by putting forth a bill to ban dilatation and evacuation abortions. It is not that we think it would be more likely to pass, but it would begin a [...]