Hilary White Special to The Interim The in-vitro fertilization industry is worried that a Chicago court decision, in which an embryo was ruled to be a human being, could put an end to IVF and abortion. On Friday, Feb. 4, Cook County Judge Jeffrey Lawrence ruled that a couple’s wrongful death lawsuit for the death of their embryonic child at a fertility [...]
Feds investigating provinces' abortion funding LifeSiteNews.com Special to The Interim Health Canada is investigating all Canadian provinces for supposed breaches of the Canada Health Act by allowing patients to pay for services at private medical clinics. The government agency forbids individuals from being charged a fee to obtain what Health Canada considers any "medically necessary" service. The Health Act explicitly gives provinces [...]
John-Henry Westen Special to The Interim The February 2005 issue of Consumer Reports focuses on birth control methods. In addition to grading the effectiveness of condoms, the report also addresses the birth control pill. However, in mentioning how the pill works, the consumer advocacy organization fails to mention the abortifacient effects of the pill. "Every pharmacist in America should know how the [...]
Interim Staff Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice Jeffrey Oliphant has told the Manitoba government its refusal to cover the costs of abortions at private facilities is a "gross violation" of women's rights. In a class-action suit filed in 2001, two women who had undergone abortions at Winnipeg's Morgentaler Clinic (now Jane's clinic) claimed that having to pay for the procedure [...]
LifeSiteNews.com Special to The Interim Health Canada is investigating all Canadian provinces for supposed breaches of the Canada Health Act by allowing patients to pay for services at private medical clinics. The government agency forbids individuals from being charged a fee to obtain what Health Canada considers any "medically necessary" service. The Health Act explicitly gives provinces the authority to determine which [...]
Interim Staff Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice Jeffrey Oliphant has told the Manitoba government its refusal to cover the costs of abortions at private facilities is a "gross violation" of women's rights. In a class-action suit filed in 2001, two women who had undergone abortions at Winnipeg's Morgentaler Clinic (now Jane's clinic) claimed that having to pay for the procedure [...]
Montana lawmaker Roger Koopman is sponsoring a bill that would provide death certificates for aborted babies. He said it as "a small way for our society to acknowledge that a life did exist, even if they didn't get to see a sunrise or blow out a birthday candle." The Billings Gazette reports that pro-abortion critics are calling the measure "mean-spirited" … The U.S. Justice [...]
John-Henry Westen Special to The Interim The population control arm of the United Nations, UNFPA, and its abortion-pushing allies, most notably International Planned Parenthood, relentlessly press for legalizing abortion with the claim that it is needed to reduce maternal mortality by reducing "unsafe" abortions, particularly in the Developing World. However, Jeanne Head, R.N., the chief pro-life lobbyist at the United Nations, and [...]
Canada 1. Bill C-6 passes The government's reproductive and experimental technologies bill will lead to the deaths of untold millions of tiny human beings through destructive embryonic stem cell research and opens to the door to human cloning through poor definitions and loop-holes. 2. Social conservatism and the Canadian election Prime Minister Paul Martin and his media accomplices inject the topic of [...]
Interim Staff In a rare pro-life court victory, the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench has ruled that displays of graphic photos of aborted children are "legitimate participation in an important political and social debate in Canada." Saskatchewan activist Bill Whatcott, and members of a pro-life group called Christian Truth Activists, were taking part in a Show the Truth type of display in [...]
Voters in Florida passed a constitutional amendment permitting the state legislature to approve a bill that would require abortion facility staff to notify parents of teenage girls considering abortion. The amendment won 65 per cent to 35. Twice the Supreme Court of Florida over-rode parental involvement laws claiming it violated the state constitution's privacy guarantees. While the amendment does not bring a [...]
In a Sept. 27 feature on feminism entitled "25 years of women making progress," Toronto Star "Life writer" Trish Crawford made a common, but egregious, error when she paraphrased former National Action Committee on the Status of Women president Judy Rebick as saying "the legalization of abortion may not have been the most important milestone for women, but it is the one [...]
Interim Staff The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a motion by Norma McCorvey, known to legal history as "Roe" of Roe v. Wade infamy, to overturn the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion in America. More than 5,000 pages of evidence including affidavits from more than 1,000 women damaged by abortion were submitted by McCorvey who said that Roe should be [...]
After being unable to enter Portuguese waters, the Dutch abortion boat Women on Waves has returned home, only to be met with accusations of criminal activity. Women on Waves, founded by abortionist Rebecca Gomperts, attempted to reach an agreement with Portuguese officials when the government would not allow it to dock and threatened the floating abortuary with naval intervention if it tried [...]
On Nov. 2, Americans will go to the polls to elect a president, 435 representatives and one-third of the Senate, not to mention thousands of state and local level politicians. With fewer than 30 Congressional races considered close and only a dozen Senate races being seriously contested, most of the attention is on the presidential race. This is especially true for pro-life [...]