A common carp against the pro-life movement is that “we only care about babies in the womb.” This disingenuous dig is not heard much anymore, in part because the callous practice of euthanasia has expanded so quickly, and in part because the incoherence of the criticism is more than faintly embarrassing. Advocates for automotive safety focus their attention on the reduction of [...]
King: A Life Jonathan Eig (Picador, $31, 669 pages) Martin Luther King Jr. is probably the most famous civil rights leader in American history and as such biographies tend toward hagiography. Jonthan Eig’s King: A Life, released in hardcover in 2023 and paperback earlier this year, avoids that mistake, offering a rich and deep exploration of the slain civil rights leader. Eig, [...]
Catholic Heroes of Civil and Human Rights: 1800-Present Matthew Daniels and Roxanne King (Ignatius, $18.95, 205 pages) In Catholic Heroes of Civil and Human Rights Matthew Daniels and Roxanne King profile 16 Catholics who championed civil and human rights in different parts of the world (although mostly the United States) and in different eras. What all 16 men and women have in [...]
Paul Tuns, Review I … Do? Why Marriage Still Matters by Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell (Cascade Books, 115 pages, $30 paperback) Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell are with the Canadian Christian think tank Cardus and their recent book I … Do? is an important and timely little tract on the why marriage matters – or more accurately, why it is [...]
Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn Christoher Cox (Simon & Schuster, $46.00, 615 pages) Former Congressman Christopher Cox has written a critical biography of Woodrow Wilson, who served as president from 1913-1921 and remains, as Cox says in his introduction, “enormously consequential.” Cox outlines Wilson’s energetic presidency which sought to have government’s tentacles reach every corner of the nation but he does not [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: No One Left: Why the World Needs Children by Paul Morland (Forum, $32, 264 pages) Despite a growing number of countries experiencing rapidly declining fertility rates and falling natural population growth (that is, growth without immigration), there are still policymakers and thought leaders that insist that population growth is a problem. Paul Morland has been banging the drum on depopulation [...]
The Interim went to press days before the April 28 federal election and whatever the results, there does not appear to be much good news for pro-lifers. As we report on page 10, the Conservatives and Liberals are both committed to the abortion and euthanasia status quo which kills more than 100,000 preborn children and 15,000 vulnerable patients annually. It is a [...]
Paul Tuns, Commentary: Pope Francis died on April 21 at the age of 88, after leading the Catholic Church for 12 years as its 266th pope. There were numerous articles and essays exploring his legacy. One cannot help but think of the apocryphal comment by Zhou Enlai, the Chinese Communist revolutionary, in the 1970s, when asked what he thought of the French Revolution: [...]
Richard Dur, Commentary: Every election, like clockwork, the Liberals drag the abortion issue into the spotlight. And every time, Conservatives act surprised — as if this hasn’t happened every other election. They stumble. They mumble. They change the subject. They offer up a vague, unconvincing “we won’t touch the issue” — a line disbelieved by those already against them, and deeply demoralizing to [...]
Comment made after Carney attends Mass featuring pro-life sermon Paul Tuns: The head of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has endorsed denying Holy Communion to Catholic pro-abortion politicians like Prime Minister Mark Carney. During an April 11 interview with EWTN, Bishop William McGrattan, president of the CCCB, said pro-abortion politicians should not receive the Eucharist. Days earlier, Prime Minister Mark [...]
Paul Tuns: During an election campaign hyper-focused on Trump, tariffs, and affordability, People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier said that he would introduce a late-term abortion ban if elected. While the five largest parties and their leaders – the Liberals under Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP, the Bloc Quebecois and Yves-François Blanchet, and Elizabeth May’s Green [...]
Paul Tuns: During a podcast interview with Olivier Primeau released on April 9, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said a Conservative government would not legislate on abortion or euthanasia. During the French-language interview, Poilievre said of abortion, “We will defend women’s freedom of choice.” He elaborated, “we will never change the law on abortion, we have already adopted … a policy for the [...]
Paul Tuns: In the final week of the campaign before election day on April 28, both the Liberal and Conservative parties released their party platforms and both made commitments to either defend the abortion status quo (the Conservatives) or increase access to abortion and abortifacient contraception (the Liberals). The Liberal platform, titled, “Canada Strong,” vowed “there will always be funding” for abortion [...]
Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition gave a green light to 152 pro-life and pro-family candidates across the country in its final Voter’s Guide which rated the party platforms, leaders, and individual candidates. Candidates are given a green light when their voting record, survey information, and public comments on abortion, euthanasia, and LGBQT are collected and that data aligns with the pro-life and [...]
No aborted baby parts to be used in NIH research Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine, economics, and health research at Stanford University, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new Director of the National Institutes of Health. Bhattacharya came to international recognition and criticism when he co-authored, with Dr. Sunetra Gupta and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, The Great Barrington [...]