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OneNewsNow interviewed Interim editor Paul Tuns about relief groups in Haiti and abortion. We covered this in the February issue.

Being pro-life means more than opposing abortion and euthanasia. We must uphold the sanctity and dignity of every human life, born and unborn, and that means not using derogatory terms that marginalize vulnerable groups, especially those with mental and physical disabilities. Recently, a senior staffer within the Obama administration referred to Democrats out of his favour as "retarded" leading former Vice Presidential candidate [...]

Check out their advertisement on this site. The conference for Christian women is in Toronto March 6 and it will provide talks on how to strike the right balance in life and the medical consequences of contraception (among other topics). Book before Feb. 14 and receive a discount for registering. We will have coverage of this event in our April issue.

Our cover story -- "Creeping euthanasia: In many places, it advances by stealth" -- from the February issue is now online. In it, Alex Schadenberg examines euthanasia developments around the globe from the past year or so that are affecting the progress (if that is the right word) of the legalization of euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. The article is longer than most Interim [...]

This article about Russian journalist Aleksandr Nikonov calling for children with developmental disabilities to be killed at birth does not need comment.

We'll get off the Liberal leader's call for Canada to become abortion provider to the world to return to his call for the federal government's involvement in raising the country's children. Montreal Gazette columnist L. Ian MacDonald says:  Daycare is Ignatieff's big new idea? He has got to be kidding. He didn't say how much it would cost, and clearly has no idea. There [...]

Technology Review headline: "Brain Imaging Lets Vegetative Patient Communicate." Certainly there are some patients thought to be "brain dead" but who are, in fact, conscious and that have been euthanized. There are also pro-life concerns about people in PVS being killed in order to harvest their organs. (See a pair of Dr. John Shea articles here and here.) Such brain imaging is not inexpensive, but certainly worth [...]

Harley Price, occasional Interim contributor, has an excellent and erudite post on the Liberal leader's promotion of abortion as a form of maternal health. It concludes: Contraception and abortion are, in fact, the central sacramentsof today’s progressive gospel, whose evangelists are piously called upon to administer them throughout the world.  They have already preached that they would reduce teenage pregnancies, prevent AIDS, and [...]

MercatorNet has an article by Vincenzina Santoro of the American Family Association that is worth reading. It is highly critical of Bill Gates, his criticism of Italy's prime minister for reducing aid, and the Gates' foundation for promoting and supporting abortion and contraception in its charitable operations. How charitable is it to promote eliminating the next generation of Africans or Asians? Why are [...]

Don Hutchinson, vice president and general legal counsel for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, on Michael Ignatieff's insistence on abortion being part of Stephen Harper's agenda for tackling maternal health and infant mortality: Could Mr. Ignatieff seriously consider the improvement of maternal health to include the advancement of abortion on a global scale? The whole webitorial is worth reading.

LifeSiteNews.com reports that the Duggar family -- the famous family seen on TLC with their 19 kids --  is renting a house that was once owned by the person who founded Planned Parenthood clinic in Little Rock, Ark. The Examiner has more: During an exclusive telephone interview with Jim Bob Duggar this afternoon, he said the house they’re renting was previously owned by the lady who [...]

The New York Daily News reports that Brazilian health officials will distribute 55 million condoms during this year's Carnival, or a little more than 10% of the total that Brazilian governments will hand out in a single year. The "AIDS awareness campaign" slogan is: "The condom. For love, passion or just sex. Always use it." It's probably the "just sex" part that fuels the [...]

That was a ridiculously innocuous ad. The uproar says a lot more about abortion advocates than pro-lifers. Here is the \"controversial\" commercial. Even the Focus on the Family website is soft-selling the Tebow story, focusing as much on Christian ministry as the pro-life stuff. And, as Jill Stanek points out, the feminist (over-)reaction continues. Any sane person who has seen the ad and followed [...]

I'll be on Behind the Story on Sunday night at  7 pm. It airs on CTS in Ontario and Alberta and afterward the show is archived on the CTS website. (I was last on November 29 if you're interested.) We'll be discussing Michael Ignatieff, abortion and maternal health; Haiti adoptions and child trafficking; the Tebow Super Bowl ad; Senate reform; Khadr and the [...]

Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins has weighed in on the federal government's call on the G8 to commit to improving maternal health and decreasing child mortality. You can read the statement here, but here is the highlight: When there are so many obvious practical steps that can be taken to promote maternal and child health throughout the world, it is sad to see [...]