According to Statistics Canada, women in Canada are having more babies for the first time in a decade. A total of 333,744 babies were born in 2001, up 1.8 per cent from the year before. The fertility rate (the average number of children a woman between the ages of 15 and 49 will have) has risen from 1.49 in 2000 to 1.51. [...]
A series of information sheets obtained by The Interim and related to a Toronto abortuary offer a revealing glimpse into the workings, tactics and mindset of personnel within the abortion industry. They also indicate an attempt by such personnel to guard themselves against possible future legal actions by revealing some of the negative and dangerous aspects of the abortion procedure. The documents, [...]
British pro-life campaigners are critical of a High Court ruling that has awarded compensation to a couple because their daughter was born with Down syndrome. The ruling, handed down by Mr. Justice Morland, suggests that a doctor's strong Catholic faith influenced his treatment of a patient, as well as his failure to send her for an amniocentesis test. Dr. George Tse Sak [...]
On July 4, the Toronto Right to Life Association held street information sessions on abortion. More than 6,000 flyers were distributed, which outlined the facts about abortion and the damage it causes. This information card was accompanied by a bookmark showing a living six-week unborn child held by an adult's hands. Youth distributed this information to the public July 4-15 from 1 [...]
As part of a 'loving act,' girls write letters to the babies they are about to abort As pro-lifers, we have long been bemused by our lack of success in convincing the general population of the reasonableness of our position. The September 2003 issue of Glamour magazine features an article about a group of 12 abortionists and abortion "counsellors," who call themselves [...]
Researchers in China have announced the successful creation of animal-human chimeras which have survived till the blastocyst stage - at which point they can extract stem cells. The study which is published in the current issue of the peer reviewed journal Cell Research notes that human skin cells were fused with rabbit ova which had their nuclei removed to produce the cloned [...]
A major new study just released by the New York-based International Organizations Research Group (IORG) reports in great detail the gradual change of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) from a child survival agency to one that promotes aspects of radical feminism. Produced by the International Organization Research Group, an arm of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), the study [...]
The statistics on AIDS in Africa paint a stark picture. According to UNAIDS, a United Nations umbrella group that includes five UN agencies, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, 34.3 million people in the world have died from AIDS - 3.8 million of them children under the age of 15 - and 13.2 million children have been orphaned by AIDS, [...]
On July 25, 1978 the world witnessed the emergence of a new field of science. We were introduced to Louise Brown: a child who had been conceived outside her mother's body, in a glass dish; the world's first in vitro, or "test tube" baby was born. In 1978 the time was exactly right. The sexual revolution, which divorced sex from marriage and [...]
On the passing of Bob Hope, President George Bush offered this succinct and fitting tribute: "Today America has lost a great citizen … Bob Hope made us laugh. He lifted our spirits." Sir Robert Hope, who held an honorary knighthood in Britain, was honoured four times by the U.S. Congress and by every branch of the military. But it is the latter [...]
This has been a controversial summer for the Anglican church. For theological conservatives, the worst moment came on Aug. 5 in Minneapolis, when the General Convention of the U.S. Episcopal Church ratified the election of an openly gay bishop. Gene Robinson, 56, a divorced father of two who has been in a sexual relationship with another man for the past 13 years, [...]
On July 31, 2003, the Vatican released its most direct statement concerning same-sex marriage to date. The document, Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons, contains no new teaching: rather, it is intended for bishops, offering them "arguments drawn from reason", and Catholic politicians, outlining for them "approaches to proposed legislation … which would be consistent with (a) [...]
The Commission for Refugee Women and Children has praised the international community for its unprecedented readiness to deal with what it calls a potential "reproductive health crisis" that the war in Iraq threatened to unleash. A media liaison for the commission has remarked that, "Crisis preparation for the war in Iraq marked a milestone. Emergency reproductive health care supplies had been pre-positioned [...]
The Interim has discovered that the federal government has given nearly $5 million to the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada over the past five years. Furthermore, Planned Parenthood has seen its federal grants increase in each of the past five years. According to documents obtained by The Interim, specifically the Registered Charity Information Return that all charities must complete for Revenue Canada [...]
Growing public and political opposition to the government's plan to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples may delay such changes until as late as 2005. But there is pressure to pass such legislation much sooner, as Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who has failed to secure a lasting legacy, seems determined to create a massive social change like that of Pierre Trudeau's binding [...]