Everything from the January issue of The Interim that hasn't already been posted is now online: "Family Coalition Party boasts new leader." "U.S.Senate opens door to Obamacare abortion funding." "Legal challenge to Morgentaler Order of Canada rejected." (Background to that story can be found in our November issue.) "CLC sign taken off crèche display." "National Campus Life Network expands" in Atlantic Canada The latest [...]
Information about the Institute for Marriage & Family Canada event in March can be found here. Two of the speakers are Miriam Grossman, author of You’re Teaching My Child What? and Brian Lee Crowley, author of Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values. Grossman was interviewed for our September cover story on how young people can maintain their values when they head off to [...]
The Guttmacher Institute (a pro-abortion research outfit) has released a report stating that teen pregnancy rates are rising and they speculate that the reason for this is abstinence education is failing. The Washington Post and Reuters both have stories on the report that also question the focus on abstinence in sex-ed. The GI press release says that in the years following a focus on abstinence-only education, teen pregnancy [...]
The Washington Times has one of the more thorough reports from the mainstream media on Friday's March for Life in Washington DC. Good coverage from OneNewsNow and LifeSiteNews. The Washington Post photo gallery gives equal treatment to the pro-aboriton and pro-life sides despite the pro-life march being at least 3000 times bigger. If the editors at the paper's website read their own news report on the march, [...]
The Interim is getting ready to go to press on Monday so blogging will be light to non-existent until next Tuesday unless something big happens. Until then, you can go to LifeSiteNews, ProLifeBlogs and Jill Stanek for March for Life coverage.
Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation has a short report showing how the Senate health care bill establishes what is effectively a federal marriage tax: The Senate health care bill sends a clear message: Married couples are second-class citizens. On the other hand, the bill establishes cohabiters as a privileged special interest, quietly channeling tens of thousands of dollars to them in [...]
Many pro-lifers are excited and happy with Scott Brown's Senate victory in Massachusetts. Some are declaring comprehensive health care reform dead, others think a chastened Democrat Party will compromise and put forth a more reasonable reform bill. In reality, no one knows what is going to happen. My fear is that the Democrats will move with incremental steps on health care that still [...]
The January issue of The Interim features a column by Jim Kaine, a grandfather whose daughters both had abortions, robbing not only the child of its life, but their parents of their own grandchildren. It is a touching story and one that we at the paper were very happy to publish. The voice of people affected by abortion is seldom heard in the media, [...]
If you can't make it to Washington DC for the March for Life on Friday, take part in the Virtual March for Life.
Using the culture of death against pro-lifers by Michael Coren Dismal offerings in recent cinema by Rick McGinnis American religious leaders set worthy example by Rory Leishman Is cheating self-defeating? by Donald DeMarco Saving a famous icon by Frank Kennedy Latimer’s lax treatment, an Interim editorial
Wesley Smith is interviewed about his new book A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement, by John J. Miller of National Review. Worth listening to in full. We will publishing a review of this book in our March issue.
Tomorrow in Toronto there is a rally in solidarity with Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician behind the short-film Fitna, about radical Islam and the islamification of society, whose trial for upsetting the feelings of radical Muslims begins this week. Details on the rally are here. Mark Steyn explains why Wilders is being prosecuted and persecuted by the politically correct and cowardly powers that be: [...]
Andrea Mrozek at ProWomanProLife juxtaposes the National Post's defense of graphic images from disaster-torn Haiti and the reaction from some regarding the use of graphic images of abortion employed by certain pro-lifers. The Washington Post reports on the increased graphicness of the images coming out of Haiti. Make your own conclusion on how this applies to pro-life activism: The fear of violating the victim's privacy -- [...]
There is a lot to unpack in this Angus Reid poll of abortion in Canada, but first I want to draw your attention to this contradiction: When informed about existing regulations on abortion, three-in-ten Canadians (30%) endorse the status-quo: Women being able to have an abortion at any time during their pregnancy, with no restrictions whatsoever. And: When asked about their personal [...]
From Donald DeMarco's January column: Fidelity means playing the course from the first to the last in the proper sequence. For marriage, it happily adheres to the order of friendship, love, marriage, children and grandchildren. Fidelity binds time as it binds loved ones. It enlarges our lives and gives us our rightful place in history. And, in being faithful to one’s spouse, [...]