No good comes from rioting. When groups become crowds, and crowds become mobs, otherwise lawful citizens are prone to confusion, agitation, and manipulation. Acts that no citizen would think to perform on his own, and crimes that an individual wouldn’t dare to commit: these are the rule rather than the exception amidst the social contagion of mass gatherings. Such pressure and influence [...]
BY PAUL TUNS Campaign Life Coalition premiered a 90-minute documentary on Canada’s pro-abortion foreign policy on Jan. 17. Obsessed: Canada’s Obsessed Coercive Diplomacy, is a professionally produced program that examines the Justin Trudeau government’s international abortion advocacy and features an in-depth and eye-opening conversation between former Canadian ambassador to China, David Mulroney, and African pro-life leader, Obianuju Ekeocha. CLC said in a [...]
BY PAUL TUNS The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do it Again by Robert D. Putnam (Simon & Schuster, $44, 465 pages) Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam (Simon & Schuster, $27, 580 pages) Twenty years ago, Harvard professor Robert Putnam made a splash with an essay and [...]
BY INTERIM STAFF Mary Beryl Caves, a long-time leader in the Ontario pro-life community passed away on Jan. 7 at the age of 87. Caves, who went by her middle name Beryl, and her husband, Robert “Robin” Caves, founded Windsor and Area Right to Life (now Windsor-Essex Right to Life) in the early 1970s. When Beryl suffered a debilitating stroke, Robin took [...]
BY INTERIM STAFF A study published in the December 2020 European Journal of Human Genetics reported that the number of babies born with Down Syndrome in Europe fell by half between 2011 and 2015. The study confirms the worries of pro-life activists that have argued that increased prenatal testing and capability would lead more women to kill their preborn children diagnosed with [...]
By Rory Leishman Merrick Garland is well qualified to serve as Attorney General of the United States, but will he “oversee an independent department” of justice that is free from all partisan bias and outside political pressure as promised by President Joe Biden? One sure way to find out will be Garland's determination to conduct an impartial investigation into evidence compiled by the [...]
By Jim Hughes “It’s young Jim” would begin any conversation with pro-life hero Joseph M. Scheidler. So, you can imagine how long I’ve known and admired him. Scheidler, Zeidler, Marx, & Willke sounds like a German law firm doesn’t it? But they are the names of some of the great U.S. pro-life leaders. Now Joe Scheidler joins Marx and Willke receiving their [...]
By Interim Staff Joe Scheidler, founder of Pro-Life Action League, died of pneumonia Jan. 18 at age 93. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Scheidler was known as "the godfather of pro-life activism," and praise came in immediately for the deceased pro-life leader. American Life League president Judie Brown said he was "the pro-life movement’s gentle giant" -- he stood at six feet, [...]
Last year when Conservative MP Derek Sloan made controversial remarks about Canada’s top public health officer during the party’s leadership race, a number of MPs wanted to boot him out of caucus. Erin O’Toole, who wanted the down-ballot votes of Sloan’s supporters, defended the embattled MP. Nearly a year later, O’Toole is leader, and when the NDP-associated website Press Progress revealed that [...]
Paraguayan and Brazilian politicians criticize move By Interim Staff On Dec. 30, the Argentine Senate voted 38-29 to approve abortion-on-demand up to 14 weeks of pregnancy, affirming the law supported by President Alberto Fernández. One senator abstained from the vote. Earlier in the month, the Chamber of Deputies passed the bill 131-117. It was the eighth legislative attempt in the last 35 [...]
By Interim Staff The organizers of the March for Life in Washington D.C., announced that the massive annual gathering was to be limited to a select number of pro-life leaders who were going to be invited to demonstrate in person, with the masses being asked to join the event online. “The protection of all of those who participate in the annual March, [...]
Canada On Dec. 10, the House of Commons passed C-7, the bill that expands euthanasia to include people who are not terminally ill and those who are suffering psychological pain. On Dec. 11, the House of Commons unanimously voted to create a 9-8-8 suicide prevention hotline to replace the old 10-digit phone number. We’re not saying it’s incongruous; we’re saying it’s curious. [...]
Lianne Laurence Special to The Interim The Canadian bishops’ international aid organization, Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, has admitted that it never stopped funding 52 partner groups under investigation for flouting Catholic social doctrine and moral teaching, despite telling the bishops it had imposed a moratorium on financing these suspect organizations. “It is not true that Development and Peace partners [...]
Interim writer, Joe Campbell, Light is Right By Joe Campbell When I was in Grade 10, one of the teachers bent over my desk and whispered, "Joe, you are a conceited, prodigious ass." I forget what outrage of mine prompted his sibilant complaint. I can't forget the complaint. A student spoken to in that manner today would go to his [...]
By Josie Luetke I don’t think I can recall a single pro-choicer who opposes abortion in cases of fetal disability or deformity. Usually, that circumstance is one that, if anything, buttresses their pro-choice stance. Like rape, disability is used to convince themselves of their moral superiority for supporting abortion, despite its intrinsically distasteful nature. They simply want to spare others from suffering [...]