Available as a pdf here. The amendment seems to address the issue of direct and indirect taxpayer funding of abortion. Of course, there is so much more wrong from a pro-life position in the House and Senate health care bills beyond taxpayer funding of abortion. The rationing of care and possible extension of physician-assisted suicide beyond Oregon and Washington state is another. Putting bureaucrats [...]
In the December issue of The Interim we review As I See It, Michael Coren's new collection of columns, and interview the famous Canadian journalist. From the Paul Tuns interview with Coren: The Interim: How did you become a columnist? What did you want to be growing up? Michael Coren: Growing up I wanted to be soccer player, then a rugby player, then an RAF pilot, [...]
The Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner and Politico both had stories over the past couple of days on how abortion could derail health care reform. It appears that Senators Ben Nelson (D, Neb.) and Orrin Hatch (R, Utah) will introduce an amendment similar to Rep. Bart Stupak (D, Mich.) to prohibit taxpayer funding of abortion, perhaps as early as today. There are a [...]
Wesley Smith on Rom Houben in The Weekly Standard: "The Long Awakening: A Belgian case revives the Schiavo decision." Bioethicist Art Caplan responds on his Bioethics Blog and Smith responds to the response at Secondhand Smoke. The New York Times reported Friday on how Nebraska abortionist LeRoy Carhart has taken up the cause of late-term abortion following the death of George R. Tiller last May. Dave Andrusko of the [...]
You might have seen this story a couple of days ago about Carl Urquhart, a New Brunswick Progressive Conservative MLA (provincial elected representative), who said on Facebook, "Girls we need more babies or we will never be able to support our future." That is true, though he had to understand the firestorm he would unleash. Still, the reaction has been predictably shrill and over-the-top. Liberal MLA Joan MacAlpine-Stiles called [...]
LifeSiteNews.com has a story on how MP Rod Bruinooge (C, Winnipeg South) is disappointed that Bloc MP Francine Lalonde keeps trading dates to prevent a vote on C-384, her private member's bill that, if passed, would legalize abortion. Bruinooge said, "I was looking forward to seeing this bill defeated," and he suggested that Lalonde will continue pushing back the date for a vote on C-384. The [...]
The Interimran an article about Baby Jayla and her parents in the December issue (Family thankful for the time they had with child) which is one of the feature stories on the website this month. You don't want to miss it. It's the story of the DeSouza family. When mother Gillian found out that the child she was carrying had triple X syndrome [...]
I was going to title this blog post "4 years is less than 60 years" alluding to the four years Red China's leaders waited for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to visit is a lot shorter than the 60 years the Chinese people have been waiting for democracy. Put another way, the communist leadership in Beijing waited one year for every 15 years they have [...]
CNSNews.com reports that Senator Bob Casey Jr. will not say whether he agrees with the statement by Philadelphia Cardinal Justin Regali who said that Catholic politicians cannot in good conscience vote for the Senate health care reform bill without substantial changes because the bill would fund abortions. Casey refuses to comment: "I’m not one who compares what I say versus what someone else says about the bill." CNSNews also [...]
The deadline for the Fr. Ted Colleton Scholarship, an essay contest open to Grade 11 and 12 high school students co-sponsored by The Interim, is December 8.
Michael Coren is Canada's most prominent pro-life journalist (and a columnist for The Interim). Readers of SunMedia-owned papers can read his column every weekend. Now you can read Coren regularly at his SunMedia blog. Welcome to the blogosphere, Michael.
Denise Burke writes about "Obama Administration Ups Anti-Life “Ante” on Bioethics" at the Americans United for Life blog, looking at Barack Obama establishing the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and the National Institutes of Health approval of $21 million for research on 21 embryonic stem cell lines. CNSNews.com reports that Rev. Carlton Veazy, president and CEO of the Religious Coalition [...]
A press release from MP Rod Bruinooge (C, Winnipeg South): Francine Lalonde moves to prevent MPs from defeating her euthanasia bill, for now Today, Members of Parliament were prevented from defeating bill C-384, which proposes legalized euthanasia. Francine Lalonde, the Bloc MP who created the bill, delayed the scheduled vote. Bill C-384 was scheduled to come before the House for second reading [...]
The Washington Post reports: The Obama administration on Wednesday approved the first human embryonic stem cells for experiments by federally funded scientists under a new policy designed to dramatically expand government support for one of the most promising but also most contentious fields of biomedical research. Of course, ESCR's promise is itself contentious. For starters, read Maureen L. Condic's January 2007 First Things [...]
Linda Gibbons has spent seven of the past 15 years behind bars for peacefully witnessing, mostly praying, outside a Toronto abortion facility. (We reported on her legal fight last Spring, although the optimism that the injustice of the Ontario bubble injunction is nothing new.) LifeSiteNews.com is encouraging pro-lifers to write to her, with instructions on how to go about doing that, here. [...]