Paul Tuns: James (Jim) Hughes, national president of Campaign Life Coalition, died on May 18 at the age of 82. Hughes became involved in the pro-life movement in the 1970s after seeing a Toronto Right to Life presentation at the Canadian National Exhibition. After a conversation with his wife, Virginia, they agreed that he would give up his successful career in business [...]
On May 18th, Canadian pro-lifers lost a champion whose legacy is difficult to overstate. Jim Hughes was more than a leader, a founder, and an activist: he was, for decades, the face of the pro-life movement in Canada. When the media wanted to know the reaction to an event affecting the unborn, they did not call the Catholic Chancery, they called Jim [...]
Pro-lifers dodge a Molotov cocktail at Portugal’s March for Life On March 21, thousands of people marched in Lisbon and a number of other cities around Portugal. The Portuguese Federation for Life stressed the focus of the March was on “the dignity of all human beings for life from the moment of conception until natural death, and for families.” The March was [...]
Donald DeMarco: When Dante entered the vestibule of Hell, he witnessed the dreary souls “who lived without blame, and without praise; but were for themselves.” These were the apathetic souls whom both Heaven and Hell rejected. Dante was struck by sheer number of these lost souls. “So long a train of people,” he said to Virgil, his guide, “that I should never [...]
Josie Luetke: For years now, Canadians have slumbered through—or even cheered—the steady erosion of our civil liberties. It has thus been a pleasant surprise to see a notable pushback against Bill C-9, the so-called Combatting Hate Act, from a population that prides itself on hating hatred. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Labour Congress, and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and [...]
John Carpay: Until 1969, it was a crime in Canada for two men to have consensual sex in private. Then prime minister Pierre Trudeau famously said that “There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” Parliament went on to remove consensual sodomy from Canada’s Criminal Code. If the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation, [...]
Victor Penney: It sounds strange, but it’s true: the best player in college basketball this year was made in a lab. His name is Cameron Boozer. The 18-year-old just had an incredible season in the NCAA, and yet, underneath the accolades, there’s a wound at the heart of this young man’s origin story, a scar which is no fault of his own, [...]
Rory Leishman: Over the past 40 years, left-wing, secular zealots in the courts and legislatures of Canada have mounted an escalating attack on the rights and freedoms of theologically orthodox Christians -- Catholic, Protestant, and Evangelical -- who uphold the traditional teachings of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. The Supreme Court of Canada got the process underway in 1985 with its [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements At the end of last year Helen Andrews (whose book Boomers I reviewed here five years ago) published an essay in the online magazine Compact called “The Great Feminization,” looking over the world now that women have achieved parity and are edging into dominance of certain professions and institutions. It was a sensation [...]
Paul Tuns: In 2011, Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell was charged on seven counts of first-degree murder, among other charges, for murdering newborn babies and injuring female clients at his “house of horrors” abortion facility. Last month, he died in a Pennsylvania prison at the age of 85. Health inspectors closed his abortion mill, Women’s Medical Society Clinic, after discovering the remains of [...]
Jakki Jeffs, Special to The Interim: Alliance for Life Ontario believes that the pro-life movement in Canada exists to serve God, by helping to build a society that respects and protects individual innocent human beings, from their biological beginnings until their death. We accept the truth that every pre-born child is a human being and deserves total protection from societal whims and political [...]
Every few years, a debate arises within the political precincts of the pro-life movement about the merits of a dramatic shift in approach. Since so much visceral disgust remains, on the part of the public, for late-term abortions, why not seek an outright ban on this barbaric practice at some point in pregnancy? Advocates of this so called “gestational approach” argue that [...]
Oswald Clark, US Correspondent: Since the 2022 Supreme Court Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and permitting states to restrict or ban abortion, abortion advocates and their Democratic allies have claimed that limiting abortion leads to increased maternal mortality. Last month, JAMA Network Open published a study analyzing the impact of pro-life laws on maternal mortality rates that prove that narrative wrong. [...]
From the editor’s desk: Radical pro-abortion NDP MP Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre) was complaining about the Carney government’s lack of funding to support “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” people. The Alphabet People’s acronym is a fluid construction, with endless amendments and additions to ensure that everyone is included, except for, apparently, white males, Christians, and conservatives. That plus sign at the end is supposed to represent [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: The United Kingdom has removed criminal charges for women who perform their own abortions, even up to the point of birth. On March 18, the United Kingdom’s House of Lords voted to keep Clause 208 in the Crime and Policing Bill, a clause which, passed last year by the House of Commons, effectively removed any criminal penalties for women [...]