Last week, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops expressed their "disappointment" in an official communication over Harry Reid's Senate health care reform bill containing language that "creates new and unacceptable federal policy for funding and coverage of abortions." It was a blunt but still tepid condemnation of Obamacare. The USCCB has long supported universal health care, and that is their right. They have [...]
Maclean`s reports that women are looking for alternatives to the contraceptive pill. Kelowna Pro-Life has some incredible photos of their Bound4Life event this past weekend. LifeSiteNews.com has the story. The Daily Mail reports on a Belgian man diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years who was actually conscious the entire time. Wesley Smith discusses the implications of this story on the practice of purposely dehydrating people [...]
Today I have meetings in regards to Aid to Women, a crisis pregnancy center in Toronto on whose board I sit, so blogging will be light to non-existent today and tomorrow (Wednesday is production day). Here's a story on ATW that The Interim ran earlier this year. In Canada, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of such centers who reach out to women to help [...]
Maclean's cover story on "The New Canadian Morality: What we believe about infidelity, the death penalty, euthanasia, abortion, wearing fur ..." The Toronto Star has a long article on the black market for human eggs. The Baltimore Sun reports that the Baltimore city council is about to force crisis pregnancy centers to erect signs that say they do not provide abortion or [...]
The National Right to Life Committee responds to the cloture vote tonight: National Right to Life to Obama and Reid: You wanted debate? Now you'll get debate – on government-funded abortion. More here.
With the cooperation of ostensible pro-lifers Ben Nelson (D., Neb.) and Robert Casey Jr. (D, Penn.) the motion to bring the health care reform debate to the Senate floor was passed 60-39. They had the chance to defeat a bill that will expand abortion, but didn't. The relevant passages in Senator Harry Reid's bill, HR 3590, can be found on pages 116-124 -- see [...]
Recent stories and editorials that relate the human rights commission industry that have appeared in recent years in The Interim, and we also published The Tyranny of Nice: How Canada Crushed Freedom in the Name of Human Rights (And Why It Matters to Americans) by Kathy Shaidle and Pete Vere, which can also be purchased in the United States from the Conservative [...]
Rep. Lois Capps (D, Calf) complains that the amendment offered by Rep. Bart Stupak (D, Mich) goes beyond the status quo (the Hyde Amendment) restricting federal subsidies for abortion. She is right. At the time is was written in the 1970s, Henry Hyde's Congressional colleagues would never imagined a state-run, all-encompassing, bureaucratic and centralized health care system in America. The Stupak amendment casts a wider net because a wider net [...]
Lauren Wilhelm has a letter to the Windsor Star complaining about pro-lifers demonstrating along the road near the University of Windsor. Wilhelm writes: Abortion is 100 per cent legal in this country, it is not a crime, it is a choice, a choice that is rooted in every woman's right to control her own body, sexuality and reproduction. It is a difficult [...]
The Washington Times reports that the Senate version of the health care bill will increase the marriage tax penalty which treats legally married couples differently than other taxpayers. Senate Democrats' health care bill would create a new marriage penalty by imposing a tax on individuals who make $200,000 annually but hitting married couples making just $50,000 more. It is a little more [...]
We have heard very little from Republicans over Barack Obama's judicial picks (although there have not been many of them), but we should have heard a lot more about his appointment of federal judge David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The Senate confirmed Hamilton by an almost straight party-line vote of 59-39 with fellow Indianan Richard Lugar the sole Republican defector. The New York Times assured us in [...]
The United Nations Population Fund has jumped on the bandwagon and tied "reproductive health" and population control to climate change in it's State of the World Population 2009 report, subtitled "Facing a changing world: women, population and climate." Piero A. Tozzi Jr., of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, which monitors the UN and international issues, writes about the report, saying it [...]
AEI's Jay Richards on the rightful role of the Catholic bishops in the Obamacare/abortion debate: Religious groups, including the U.S. Conference on Catholic Bishops, make statements on public policy all the time. In fact, I think many of them dilute their influence by opining on subjects far afield from both their competence and the clear deliverances of their theological traditions. But taxpayer [...]
From Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Motion 388, the motion to clarify the assisted suicide law in Canada concerning Internet Suicide Predators unanimously passed at second reading today. The Motion will now go to the Justice Committee for further discussion. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition worked hard supporting Harold Albrecht MP (Kitchener-Conestoga) to develop and present Motion 388. M-388 [...]
The Calgary Sexual Health Center is celebrating today's 40th anniversary the legalization of birth control and abortion, and the decriminalization of homosexuality -- the law was passed in May 1969 but did not take effect until November 19 -- with a '60s-themed dance party called Revolution 69. The Pill is celebrated as a great breakthrough for women, but as some of the ladies [...]