Campaign Life Coalition has launched a website with a petition and social media campaign to "Demand Justin Repeal This Policy of Exclusion, Intolerance & Discrimination" -- the policy, of course, being Justin Trudeau's diktat that all Liberal candidates in the future must be "pro-choice." The Toronto Sun has a story on CLC's campaign, reporting, "Canada's largest anti-abortion group says that for democracy [...]
One of our two cover stories from the June edition of the paper is now online: "Massive National March for Life." There are also plenty of photos. The Interim thanks and congratulates everyone who participated in the National March for Life organized by Campaign Life Coalition, as well as the many thousands who took part in eight regional marches across the country [...]
As usual Liberal Party activist Adam Goldenberg doesn't get it. He says in the Globe and Mail that Justin Trudeau is right to demand a pro-abortion litmus test on candidates for the Liberal Party and religious leaders are wrong: It’s one thing for clergy to express their views on a policy issue, but it’s quite another for them to assert that their [...]
A researcher found that 12.5% of women at the University of Quebec at Montreal have had an abortion with about a quarter of them having more than one. Needless to say the researcher, UQAM "sexologist" Sylvie Levesque, says there needs to be more sex ed and/or sexual health services on campus. I'm not sure how anyone can argue with a straight face [...]
The far left-wing Katrina vandenHeuvel tweets: The late Senator Paul Wellstone liked to say,"if politics is the art of the possible, then organizing is art of making more possible." Until we have politicians of courage and leadership, pro-lifers must work to change hearts and minds of the voting public so elected officials in both the United States and Canada will follow. We [...]
Andrea Mrozek, executive director of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada and blogger at ProWomanProLife, is one of the most thoughtful and compassionate commentators on abortion in Canada today. The IMFC has released a paper, "Interconnected: How abortion impacts mothers, families and our society," in which Mrozek "examines research that is typically ignored about abortion’s effect on the family. The impact of abortion [...]
The Japan Times reports: Japan’s population has shrunk for the third year running, with the elderly making up a quarter of the total for the first time, government data showed Tuesday. The number of people in the world’s third-largest economy dropped by 0.17 percent or 217,000 people, to 127,298,000 as of last Oct. 1, the data said. This figure includes long-staying foreigners. [...]
iPolitics reports that Health Canada is not likely to decide whether to approve the abortion drug RU-486 (mifespristone, or as iPolitics calls it, the "gold standard" in abortion pills). The Interim reported in February that Health Canada confirmed that an unnamed company had applied to have mifepristone approved and that last year a group of doctors called for an expedited approval of importation [...]
Agronomist Norman Borlaug was born 100 years ago today. I think he was one of the greatest human beings who ever lived, and because he did, millions of others who might have died due to starvation also lived. I wrote an article for The Interim about Borlaug when he died in 2009, entitled "Borlaug proved Malthus wrong." Here's a snippet: In 1968, [...]
Arguments have begun in what, for faithful Christians, is one of the most important cases ever to come before the Supreme Court of Canada: at issue, is the fundamental right of Canadians to have their children educated in accordance with the basic principles of Christian faith and morality. This matter has been brought before the Court by the relentlessly secular government of [...]
At Public Discourse, Michael Stokes Paulsen, Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas, in Minneapolis, and co-director of its Pro-Life Advocacy Center, discusses an abortion storyline from the British television program Downtown Abbey. There are spoilers in the article but Paulsen's piece illustrates the way in which art (television) can delve into serious topics such as abortion and shine a light [...]
This is hardly news anymore, as campus pro-life activists routinely are assaulted and have their signs stolen or damaged. The College Fix reports on an altercation at the University of California, Santa Barbara: A department of feminist studies professor has been accused of going berserk after coming across a campus prolife demonstration that used extremely graphic displays, leading a small mob of students [...]
Hot Air's Guy Benson draws attention to a section of Barack Obama's proposed budget (p. 930) that commits $575 million to population control (family planning and abortion) in "areas where population growth threatens biodiversity and endangered species." Benson notes that the Obama administration is very liberal on abortion and includes radical depopulation advocates, but wonders, "what’s the explanation for the environmentalist stipulations?" [...]
Andrea Mrozek reports on a presentation given by a pollster at the Manning Networking Conference this past weekend: [T]he pollster identified that abortion falls into the quadrant of issues that the Conservatives don’t care about and Canadians don’t care about. Ie. It’s not an issue the Government should be raising. I was sitting next to a pro-life friend and she asked, “do [...]
This past weekend the Liberal Party of Canada adopted a resolution at its biennial policy convention calling for decriminalization of euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide in a vote by show of hands. The resolution said: "Be it resolved that voluntary medically-assisted death be de-criminalized after a public consultation process designed to make recommendations to Parliament with respect to the criteria for access and [...]