By J.M. Glover: Dermot Kearney: Pro-life hero Dr. Dermot Kearney, a British Catholic cardiologist who spoke at the National March for Life in May, has been honoured for his work on the medical abortion pill reversal (APR). (See The Interim, June 2024.) In April, he received the Anton Neuwirth Prize for the Protection of Life Award in Slovakia “for providing medical care [...]
Luka Granic: This year, the Silent No More Awareness Campaign marks 20 years in Canada, and in an exclusive interview with The Interim, Angelina Steenstra, the national coordinator for Canada as well as the regional coordinator for the Province of Ontario for Silent No More, reflected on the influence of the organization over the past two decades. Steenstra said, “The point of [...]
Nathalie Comrie: According to several news reports, laxed rules surrounding the abortion pill is making it easier for men to coerce women into having abortions, sometimes without their knowledge. In one case in September 2013, John Welden from Tampa forged a prescription using his pharmacist father's notepad to obtain the misoprostol pill. He then deceived his partner into taking the pill. ABC [...]
Luka Granic and Paul Tuns: Abortion advocates claim not only is abortion a human or civil right but that it is medical care for women, but recent incidents show that the care provided women seeking abortions is anything but caring or respectful of women. Hope Clinic is an abortion mill based in Granite City, Illinois which has become notorious for botched abortions and [...]
Rory Leishman: Former president and convicted felon Donald Trump is not and never has been, a sincere pro-lifer. As evidence, consider some of the serious damage he has done to the pro-life movement over the past year. Last September, he denounced Florida Governor Ron DiSantis for signing into law a bill banning abortion after six weeks. In Trump’s misguided opinion, the bill [...]
John Carpay: Bad laws are the result of bad politics. Bad politics result from a rotten culture. A rotten culture emerges when too many people embrace bad ideas. A complete description of all the bad ideas that are now wrecking Canada’s culture, society, and economy would fill many volumes. But here follows a partial list. “Most parents are dangerous and abusive.” This [...]
Things slow down in the summer months, and all our lives are touched by this welcome change of pace. The arrival of the season may herald the end of academic classes—bringing with it more precious time with children and grandchildren. It may mark a season of office vacations or adjusted summer schedules, or simply a spirit of reprieve and relaxation in the [...]
Paul Tuns: A short, animated video, “It’s OK,” created by Choice42 shows how preborn victims of abortion are used to create fetal cell lines used in the medical and cosmetics industries. The 4:39 video, which can be viewed for free at Choice42’s website or on YouTube, starts with doctors taking tissue from “Ellie” a baby killed through abortion more than 60 years [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Treatments for anti-aging, psoriasis, and eczema may be tainted by the use of fetal tissue originating from aborted babies. Human Life International (HLI) produced Which Cosmetics Use Fetal Cells, a free e-book outlining the use of fetal cells in cosmetics. According to their United States-based research, they have not found any companies that use fetal cells in their products. They [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Last year, the only pro-life MP to attend the National March for Life was Arnold Viersen (CPC, Peace River—Westlock). Bill C-311, the Violence Against Pregnant Women Act, tabled by MP Cathay Wagantall (CPC, Yorkton—Melville), was being debated at the time, and the mainstream media and leftist politicians were taking pains to paint [...]
Interim Staff: True North reported that Toronto police would not lay any charges for public nudity during the June 30 pride parade in the city’s downtown. Video footage of the homosexual fetish parade aired on social media showed various contingents of men marching naked through the city streets as on-lookers cheered and clapped, including families that brought young children. In one video, [...]
Nathalia Comrie: Prenatal development videos are a huge asset to the pro-life movement to help humanize the unborn to the world which is why they are being implemented into school curriculum in some U.S. states, with several using the well-known “Baby Olivia” video made by Live Action that shows major milestones in human development from fertilization to a week before birth. The [...]
Paul Tuns: xr:d:DAFvAWe_UX8:35,j:433883658353322572,t:23121319 On July 2, the Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda (STNSEA) announced it had “undergone a big change” as it bid adieu to its founder and president, Queenie Yu. Yu first ran as an independent candidate in the 2016 by-election in Scarbough-Rouge River to bring awareness to Kathleen Wynne’s sex-ed curriculum. She finished fourth with 582 votes, good [...]
Paul Tuns: Lou Iacobelli, a former educator who blogs at Everyday for Life, says parents should inform their children’s schools that they want to exempt their children from the province’s Human Development and Sexual Heath expectation for the child’s grade. Iacobelli said that all children in Grade 1-8 are expected to learn the sex-ed curriculum as part of the Ontario Health and [...]
Pity for Evil: Suffrage, Abortion, and Women’s Empowerment in Reconstruction America Monica Klem and Madeleine McDowell (Encounter, $45.99. 328 pages) In Pity for Evil, historians Monica Klem and Madeleine McDowell, provide a well-documented, scholarly but accessible account of how most people, including feminists, viewed abortion in post-Civil War United States. Using the speeches of suffragists and the writings in publications of the [...]