The Interim was founded because the mainstream media ignored the pro-life message of former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson while he was in Toronto. Twenty years later, the mainstream media is still ignoring life issues. Two recent examples illustrate this journalistic black hole. On March 28, Statistics Canada released the national abortion numbers, not including those committed in private abortuaries in Ontario. Campaign [...]
Amy Brennerman on birth control Actress Amy Brenneman, star of Judging Amy, sent a video message to the Feminist Majority Foundation as it launched its nationwide "Never Go Back" campaign. Brenneman said: "Reproductive freedom is the most important issue facing our leaders today … It is not a feminist issue. It is not a liberal issue. It is a women's health issue." [...]
Eliminating the unwanted via IVF testing of embryos Ontario Catholic university honours Trudeau Pro-life MP to jump to Saskatoon city politics Kelowna mother scheduled for abortion against her will Vancouver editorial on Bill C-13 and the abortion issue Eliminating the unwanted OTTAWA - The Victoria Times Colonist reports that there is a growing demand for pre implantation genetic diagnosis, which the paper [...]
Florida's 'Choose Life' plates upheld Court rules against God Presidential politics and abortion S.C. readies for pro-life battles Florida's 'Choose Life' plates upheld ATLANTA - The Federal Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit rejected a challenge to Florida's Choose Life licence plates brought by several pro-abortion groups and individuals. Mathew D. Staver, president and general counsel for the Liberty Counsel, which represented [...]
PP Politically motivated exaggeration in Nairobi Botched abortion in England Dutch doctors balk at euthanasia requirements Japanese euthanasia case Politically motivated exaggeration NAIROBI - The International Planned Parenthood Federation told participants at its conference in Kenya, which included the health ministers of Ghana, Mozambique and Namibia, that liberalizing abortion laws in African countries could prevent as many as 30,000 maternal deaths. Campaign [...]
Mr. & Mrs. R.M. Abernethy Mary Acommando Denis Adams Evangeline Adams Evelyn Aitchison Helen Albertson Fr. Carl T. Albury Mrs. Isobel A. Allen Gordon Anderson Sister Mary Andre Marguerite Anglin Frank & Mary Arrigo Dialina São Jose Furtado Arruda Herni Arsenault Mary & Alfred Ashfield Raymond Atance Josephine Attard André Audette Carmelo Azzopardi Evelyn Azzopardi Adrienne Bachand Henri Bachand Antoinette & Gus [...]
United States Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation says the vote by most Democrats to maintain the legality of partial-birth abortion demonstrates that the party is captive to the "radical lifestyle lobby" … Pro-life Congressman Pat Toomey (Penn.) announces he will challenge incumbent pro-abortion and pro-cloning Senator Arlen Specter in the Republican primary next year. Pro-life stalwart Senator Rick Santorum announced he will support [...]
A new bishop has waded into the troubled waters of a Vancouver-area diocese, in the hope of resolving a pastoral emergency so critical it threatens to destroy the Anglican Communion worldwide. Terrence Buckle, Anglican bishop of the Yukon, offered "alternative episcopal oversight" to eight orthodox parishes in New Westminster that oppose the blessing of same-sex unions. But Michael Ingham, the official bishop [...]
On Katie's first appointment at the abortuary, next door to the Aid Women Office in downtown Toronto, she didn't see any pro-life signs. However, on the second day, when she returned to the abortuary for a laminaria insertion (a seaweed-like substance that facilitates abortion in late pregnancy), she noticed Anne standing across the street with her favourite sandwich-board sign that read, "Please [...]
Book on health effects of abortion an excellent resource Women's Health after Abortion. The Medical and Psychological Evidence By Elizabeth Ring-Cassisdy and Ian Gentles (The de Veber Institute, $24.95, 333 pages) I was working for a pro-life group in Los Angeles when I first heard about Women's Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence by Elizabeth Ring-Cassisdy and Ian Gentles. My [...]
On April 5, the Christian Heritage Party held its spring conference at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ont. Although the last vestiges of Ontario's April ice storm made travel difficult, 126 supporters, some from as far away as Walkerton, gathered to hear speakers address the theme of "Strategies to Advance the Christian Heritage Party of Canada." The group included a healthy contingent [...]
Terence Westerhoek is the only worker at the Magna subsidiary that the receptionist knows who can't wait to get to work. Every Friday, he arrives all smiles at the P & F Tool and Die plant. First, he greets his oldest brother, John, in his office with a big hug and kiss. Then, he sets to work, cheerfully bundling the workers' gloves [...]
One of the most puzzling questions regarding stem cell research has been: why are researchers so hungry for embryonic stem cells, despite the controversy and dangers over their use, and at the same time, seem to be shunning non-controversial and much more successful adult stem cells? MP Paul Szabo, the resident expert on the matter in the Canadian House of Commons, posited [...]
Researchers have announced that the human genome sequence is now almost completely deciphered. The decoding of three billion letters of the genetic code in human DNA was completed two years ahead of schedule thanks to advances in computer technology, and gives scientists "the chance to explore everything that is genetically (pre-)determined about our lives," according to a BBC report. Researchers are already [...]
This year is turning out to be one of anniversaries. Our very own Interim newspaper is marking 20 years of publication. Pope John Paul II celebrates 25 years in the papacy this October. And this month, Canada's dynamic political pro-life organization will have been in existence for a quarter-century. It was on May 25, 1978 that representatives from pro-life groups across Canada [...]