Abortion Law

Alberta Tory MLA introduces ‘conscience clause’ for pro-life health care workers

By Tim Bloedow The Interim Alberta has now bypassed Ontario in terms of progress on the matter of protecting the job security of health care workers who refuse to participate in abortion procedures. On March 1, Alberta Progressive Conservative MLA, Julius Yankowsky (Edmonton Beverly-Clareview), introduced in the provincial legislature a Private Member's Bill 212 that would protect health care workers who refuse [...]

admin2010-08-27T10:18:40-04:00May 15, 2000|Abortion, Abortion Law, Pro-Life|

Pro-lifer convicted and fined for ‘causing a disturbance’

Witnesses deny Bill Whatcott interfered with abortuary clients By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Veteran pro-life activist Bill Whatcott was found guilty of causing a disturbance in an incident stemming from his participation in a demonstration outside the Scott abortuary in Toronto last August. The decision was handed down March 27 at Toronto's College Park courthouse. The Crown had sought a 15-day jail [...]

admin2010-07-14T12:56:59-04:00April 14, 2000|Abortion Law, Activism|

Chantal Daigle case was legalistic gobbledygook

„Az 1983 óta megjelenő The Interim című élet- és családi lap a társadalmi struktúrákat, a családi értékeket és az egyéni jogokat érintő sürgető kérdéseket vizsgálja. Az újság felbecsülhetetlen értékű perspektívát nyújt az olvasóknak a társadalomépítésről és az emberi fejlődésről egy gyorsan változó világban. Hasonlóképpen, a digitális kor online játéktrendjeiről szóló tudósításban az olvasók az informatív és releváns tartalmak érdekes keverékét találják. [...]

admin2026-02-24T07:35:06-05:00April 14, 2000|Abortion, Abortion Law, Profiles|

U.S. Congress looks at sale of aborted babies

Body parts trade probed By Paul Tuns The Interim The Commerce Committee of the United States Congress has finally begun an investigation into the grisly trade in human body parts procured from aborted babies. During the partial-birth abortion debate last October, New Hampshire Republican Senator Robert Smith had been unsuccessful in his attempt to rein in the gruesome trafficking of body parts [...]

admin2010-07-14T10:26:35-04:00March 14, 2000|Abortion, Abortion Law, Fetal Rights|

Courage on the streets, in court, and in jail

Delta, B.C. sidewalk counsellor Mary Wagner has grown up ‘living and breathing pro-life' By Paul Tuns The Interim Mary Wagner is an unassuming young woman who has found herself both on the front-lines of the abortion struggle and behind bars for her beliefs, but there is no sign that she is about to quit. Indeed, her fight against the injustice of abortion [...]

admin2010-08-27T09:43:30-04:00March 14, 2000|Abortion, Abortion Law, Activism, Profiles, Religion, Youth Activism|

Pro-lifers see hope in Canadian Alliance

New party to keep Reform's pro-family plank, but ‘consensus' policy on life issues remains Analysis by Paul Tuns The Interim For years the only federal party which could claim the full allegiance of pro-life and pro-family voters has been the Christian Heritage Party. But now a new federal party is being given a serious look by Canadian pro-life and pro-family leaders as [...]

admin2010-07-14T08:58:56-04:00March 14, 2000|Abortion Law, Equal Rights, Fetal Rights, Politics, Pro-Life|

What will you be doing when Christ returns?

I sat down to write this column and as I was thinking about what to say, I realized that it was going to be in the January, 2000 issue of The Interim. Yes indeed, this would be my first column for the new year - and for a new millennium! And then, all of a sudden, I thought, "If there is a [...]

admin2010-07-14T08:53:36-04:00February 14, 2000|Abortion, Abortion Law, Activism, Bioethics, Columnist, Euthanasia, Politics, Pro-Life|

We must remember abortion anniversaries

As I pen these words an anniversary is upon us. A date in history that most of you will not remember. It's probably a meaningless date to you, in a movement that sadly has to endure many distressing anniversaries. But there's one more I need to thrust upon you: January 23, 1986. On that day 18-year old Erin Shannon paid the ultimate [...]

admin2010-08-27T09:31:23-04:00February 14, 2000|Abortion, Abortion Law, Columnist, Post-abortion and Health Care|

New partial-birth ban passed

Media showing new squeamishness in covering the issue The United States Senate voted 63-34 to end the grisly practice of partial-birth abortion (PBA) but ended up four votes short of a veto-proof majority. Since 1995, both houses of Congress have voted to ban PBA, and each time President Bill Clinton has vetoed the ban. On Oct. 20, 1999 the Senate once again [...]

admin2010-08-27T09:34:37-04:00February 13, 2000|Abortion, Abortion Law, Fetal Rights, Politics, Pro-Life|

Pro-lifers differ in qualifying republican presidential hopefuls

The Interim The race to become the Republican presidential nominee highlights the issue of what it means to be a pro-life politician. Five men - Texas Governor George W. Bush, Arizona Senator John McCain, publisher Steve Forbes, former head of the Family Research Council Gary Bauer, and former ambassador Alan Keyes - are vying for the GOP nod. They know that without [...]

admin2010-08-27T09:38:48-04:00February 13, 2000|Abortion Law, Politics, Pro-Life|

Mary Wagner released after six weeks in jail

By Paul Tuns The Interim British Columbia pro-life activist Mary Wagner was acquitted Jan. 11 on all but one of her six counts of breaking a Vancouver bubble zone injunction on two separate occasions. Wagner, a 24-year-old graduate student at the University of Victoria, was found guilty on a one count of interference with a client of the Everywoman's abortuary, and was [...]

admin2010-07-07T09:03:17-04:00February 7, 2000|Abortion Law, Activism|

Judge tells Toronto pro-lifers not to expect courts to end injunction

Fighting the Ontario injunction, which prohibits pro-life activity from taking place outside the province's abortuaries, should be addressed at the political level rather than the legal one, said Judge H. Porter in the trial of Linda Gibbons, Emidio Galea, and Bernard Crawley. The three pro-life witnesses were tried on July 21 in the provincial court at College Park in Toronto. Gibbons and [...]

dominic2010-07-30T12:20:07-04:00August 22, 1999|Abortion, Abortion Law|

Court re-affirms non- person status of unborn

N.B. boy denied right to sue for in utero injury Children cannot sue their mothers for injuries sustained while in the womb, according to a recent Supreme Court ruling. The 7-2 decision on July 10, in which six-year-old Ryan Dobson sued his mother for prenatal negligence, revealed something pro-life advocates already know: the top court in Canada is not prepared to grant [...]

dominic2010-07-22T06:55:58-04:00August 22, 1999|Abortion Law|

Judge in Demers case bows out

A British Columbia man is challenging the province's "bubble-zone" law, arguing that all life, including the baby in womb, must be accorded human rights as spelled out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 11 other international law documents. Jim Demers of Nelson, B.C. was before the B.C. Supreme Court Jan. 12-14, arguing that from conception, children in the womb are [...]

dominic2010-07-30T09:52:13-04:00February 15, 1999|Abortion Law|

Louisville, Kentucky Law Firm seeks justice for women exploited by abortion

Safe and legal abortion? It's a concept you might not want to defend around the Louisville, Kentucky-based law firm of Amshoff and Amshoff. That's because the firm has dealt with more than five dozen cases of significant, abortion-related injuries caused to women in the last decade—including one case that resulted in a $10-million judgment against an abortionist. "We have been involved in [...]

admin2010-07-12T13:23:16-04:00September 12, 1998|Abortion Law|

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