We editorialize this month about racism, eugenics and abortion, and link it to both a recent New York Times story on abortion and race, and Michael Ignatieff's desire to have abortion included as part of Canada's maternal health initiative in the developing world. The editorial concludes: Women who are encouraged to cultivate their “reproductive health” through the killing of their children are [...]
The website now has the winner of the Fr. Ted Colleton Essay Contest winners. Congratulations to Matthew Hunt, Maria Samantha Navarro, and Roman Belli. The three essays are featured in the centerspread of the April issue of The Interim. We also have the cover story online already. As The Interim was ready to go to press we had to deal with the breaking story of [...]
Stridently pro-abortion U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will retire and the most pro-abortion President Barack Obama will get to name his replacement. As Kathryn Jean Lopez says at NRO, this is one reason elections matter. Justice Stevens was one of the five majority votes in Roe v. Wade that struck down state-level prohibitions on abortion in 1973 and he has [...]
Rep. Bart Stupak (D, Mich) will formally announce later today that he is not seeking re-election. You all know the story about his seemingly heroic fight against abortion funding through health care reform only to capitulate at the last minute securing a deal with President Barack Obama that does nothing to stop abortion funding. He faced a challenge within his own party from the [...]
This is not the first time that Liberal MP Keith Martin has brought up this compromise for the Harper government's maternal health care plan: each G8 country should be responsible for one aspect of maternal and infant health so that one nation will take micro-nutrients and another safe deliveries and a third "reproductive health" including abortion and contraception. At first glance this might [...]
Run With Life's Patricia Maloney has done a great job discovering that the taxpayer-funded Status of Women Canada gave the Pro-Choice Action Network more than $27,000 to do a smear job on crisis pregnancy centers. Not surprisingly, SOW hasn't given money to any CPC. Disturbingly untrue ProCan says in its application for funding that their goal was to "publicly expose the anti-woman and [...]
An Ekos poll released today trumpets that Canadians are "decisively" pro-choice. On the rather straight-forward question of "Thinking about your general views on abortion, would you say you are more pro-life or pro-choice." I consider that a non-leading question and yet it allows for ambiguity. It says nothing about policy or restrictions. Indeed, other polls show a majority of Canadians to be "pro-choice" but [...]
I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who is on a committee to save an elementary school (our childhood elementary school) from being closed by the school board. There are simply not enough students to warrant keeping it open, so the board is adjusting school zones to justify boarding up St. Rita's and sending its dwindling population to two [...]
Check out the website Parental Choice that opposes full-day kindergarten which is just universal daycare in disguise. Not a lot at the website right now but sign up for updates. Full-day kindergarten for four- and five-year-olds is too costly and totally unnecessary.
I'm thinking of dealing with the topic of pornography in an upcoming issue of The Interim, but it is difficult to address the subject without delving into details that cannot be comfortably discussed in a family publication. Any way, the Witherspoon Institute has a book and excellent website dedicated to the issue of social costs of pornography that is worth examining. The website has some papers and all [...]
April is Abortion Recovery Month. Jill Stanek has the appropriate links.
CNSNews.com reported on Friday that Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D, RI) wants taxpayers to cover the costs of abortion. It is a matter of health policy, not morality, the ostensible Catholic claims. Asked if he thought it was "morally right to take tax money from pro-life Americans and give it to health plans that cover elective abortion?" Teddy's son stammered like a Kennedy: "Again, it's [...]
Five years ago tomorrow Terri Schiavo suffered a court-ordered death. The family and Priests for Life remembers the day to "foster education, prayer, and activism regarding discrimination against the disabled, and advocacy for people in situations similar to what Terri and her family faced so that no one will again suffer as she did." LifeSiteNews.com has a short report. Our coverage of Terri's [...]
The Vancouver Sun reports that comedian Guy Earle's lawyer Jim Miller left the hearings yesterday because he considered the process illegal. He asked the tribunal if it had jurisdiction to accept the complaint of a lesbian who claims discrimination and the tribunal said they would deal with that issue after evidence had been presented. The Sun reports: Miller's argument is that his [...]
This piece by Edward Feser is too harsh on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, but it sounds like a plausible explanation for Rep. Bart Stupak's (D, Mich.) sell-out of pro-life principles. Most of the post is about why the USCCB is wrong to support state-directed health care, which represents an abandonment of the Christian principle of subsidiarity, and it is worth reading for the [...]