In an article entitled “The two-minus-one pregnancy,” published in The New York Times on Aug. 10, Ruth Padawer examined the case of Jenny, a mother of healthy twins, who had one of her babies aborted because she did not feel up to the responsibility of caring for two new infants. How could any mother justify such lethal selfishness? Jenny explained: “If I [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about ducks. Ducks, like us, are either male or female. They also, like us, bear a label that, in some contexts, refers to one sex, but in others, to both. At least this is so in English. Just as man can refer to males alone, duck can refer to females alone. But, like man, duck [...]
The Fall TV season is debuting as I write this and from a distance it looks and sounds like the usual anxious three-legged race, with all of the networks somehow bound to each other by their rosters of copycat shows, an annual ritual that, at least until the cancellations begin, gives the illusion of themes and trends that only makes TV critics’ [...]
Late in August my TV show debuted on Sun News. The Arena with Michael Coren airs at 7pm ET weeknights, repeated at midnight – so that people in the west can see it at a reasonable time. I should give you all a public health warning right now, I suppose: “What you’re about to see each evening is not suitable for people [...]
Campaign Life Coalition says that there were more than 2000 people at the CLC Youth Defund Abortion Rally at Queen's Park (Ontario's provincial legislature) on Saturday. We are preparing our report for the dead tree edition of the paper and we'll post it later this week. The speakers made two essential points: 1) abortion is not health care and should not be funded [...]
David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner says that Herman Cain, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, has been less than clear about his position on abortion. Cain on John Stossel recently was clear: he is pro-life, women shouldn't be able to get an abortion, women should be able to make their own choice, and the government should not tell people what to do. [...]
The Canadian government is still paying maternal benefits to women who had abortions. The story was reported in The Interim in March 2008, after the Canadian Taxpayers Federation issued its January 31 communiqué, Let’s Talk Taxes, which first brought the issue to light. According to a clarification of the Canadian Labour Code by the Labour Program of Human Resources Development Canada enacted [...]
In an age of instant information, the lack of widely-known facts about abortion is scandalous. To be sure, the mini-industry surrounding the brutal practice of prenatal infanticide is hardly transparent, but the real dearth of clear information about abortion proceeds from the public’s incorrigible lack of curiosity. It is not that such information is unattainable; instead, it is simply unwanted. While corrupt [...]
National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews Edward C. Green, former director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard School of Health and author of Broken Promises: How the AIDS Establishment Has Betrayed the Developing World. The Q&A is most definitely worth reading. Here's an excerpt which demonstrates a key point: the self-interest and ideology of those who want to condomize [...]
Campaign Life Coalition's Defund Abortion Rally is in ten days at Queen's Park in Toronto.
Abortion costs Canadians taxpayers at least $80 million a year. Government is less than open about the costs of abortion (and other abortion numbers). If abortion is real health care, why is everything about it a secret? When Alissa Golob, head of Campaign Life Coalition Youth, started to prepare for the Oct. 22 Defund Abortion Rally at Queen’s Park she began researching [...]
The Interim is co-sponsoring a poll -- the first time we've done that in our 28-year history -- with LifeSiteNews.com and Campaign Life Coalition to explore public opinion on abortion funding in Ontario. We ask about knowledge of abortion funding, whether the government should release information about abortion funding, and under which circumstances abortion should be paid for by taxpayers. We'll have results next [...]
The Toronto Sun begins its editorial on Canada's human rights commission industry when some good, old, plain truth: Hurt feelings aside, the greatest human rights abusers in Canada are the human rights commissions and tribunals themselves. It's a power thing. It's not that difficult to explain to people that human rights commissions have very little to do with human rights (see Kathy Shaidle/Pete [...]
Canada The British Columbia Catholic Civil Rights League condemned the Burnaby School Board’s equity policy with director Sean Murphy declaring, “It is now time to recognize that parents are the first line of defense against the abuse of state power in education, and the first protectors, not just of children, but of civil liberties.” The CCRL’s B.C. wing released its “Declaration on [...]
In August, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Lynn Smith made two important decisions in cases challenging Canada’s laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide. On August 4, Smith fast-tracked the Carter/Taylor case and on August 17 she rejected a lawsuit filed by the Farewell Foundation for the Right to Die challenging Canadian laws against assisted suicide. The Carter/Taylor case will be heard Nov. [...]