Argentina joins pro-life coalition Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: On August 12, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) accepted the United States taking on the role as the next rotating Secretariat of the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD), a 2020 document affirming support for the right to life around the world. The document was signed by the U.S. and 31 other countries [...]
Gianna Baklinski: In 2023, Rosalie Markezich, a day-care worker from Louisiana, was pregnant and excited about motherhood. Then, she told her boyfriend about her pregnancy. He obtained abortion drugs and coerced Rosalie into taking them. Although she tried to vomit up the pills in an attempt to save her baby, it was too late, and, tragically, her baby died, leaving Rosalie traumatized. [...]
Catholic Register, Special to The Interim: Jim Hughes confessed to us that his life as the godfather of Canada’s pro-life movement began in a state of disbelief. Hughes died May 18 after more than 50 years of fighting the good fight against abortion and its dark shadow twin, medical assistance in dying. But as he told The Catholic Register in a 2024 interview [...]
Mary Ellen Douglas: It is difficult to write, in such a small space, my comforting and almost 48 years of memories of Jim Hughes. It would take a book. I first met Jim in 1978 when I travelled to Toronto at the request of Paul Dodds who was recruiting small pro-life groups, like our VITA group in Kingston, Ont. We were gathered [...]
Gwen Landolt: Jim Hughes possessed a rare combination of qualities seldom found in one individual. Jim understood people and dealt with them with tact, empathy, kindness, and humour, which encouraged them in their pro-life work. He never wavered in his vision for life and in his tenacity to protect it. Jim also had great resilience. No matter the catastrophe, he always came [...]
Josie Luetke: When I was still a high school student, my dad pointed out to me Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes, unassumingly standing at the back of a Halton Pro-Life event. I don’t think he spoke; I think he just attended because he was available, and his heart lay with this cause. He quickly grew fond of me (I believe), [...]
Richard Dur, Special to The Interim: By early afternoon the neighborhood has settled into its familiar rhythm. Children drift toward the park. Parents linger on benches. Traffic comes and goes. Across the street stands the old Grand Trunk School. It still echoes with the ghosts of children who once filled its classrooms. The nearby park rings with the laughter of children alive today. [...]
From sandwich bag to healthy 13-year-old Blake is a thriving British 13-year-old, with tousled blondish hair and blue t-shirt, smiling into the camera. The first time his mom, Lauren, saw Blake was as a preemie, delivered 13 weeks early by caesarean, being carried in a sandwich bag immediately after birth to the neonatal intensive care unit. As unlikely as it seems, the [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: Republican senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (Mississippi) and Mike Rounds (South Dakota) introduced legislation banning the dilation and evacuation abortion procedure (D&E abortions), which critics calls dismemberment abortion because it involves cutting the preborn child apart in utero with surgical instruments and extracting the child piece by piece. Hyde-Smith said “the fact that this horrifying procedure is still being done to [...]
Mary Zwicker, Europe Correspondent: A small European country is temporarily pausing efforts to decriminalize abortion amidst ongoing discussions with the Vatican. The Principality of Andorra, a small, majority Catholic country located in the mountain range between France and Spain, is stalling the implementation of their fully drafted bill on the decriminalization of abortion. “I hope this debate moves forward,” said French President Emmanuel [...]
Gianna Baklinski: In British Columbia, midwives will now act as abortionists after a health-policy change allowing them to prescribe the abortion pill. The policy change brings B.C. to join Quebec and Saskatchewan in a growing band of provinces that allows midwives to both assist at births and kill babies. B.C. Health Minister Josie Osbourne announced on May 7 that the role of [...]
Paul Tuns: Over the past two months, the New Blue Party of Ontario has ratcheted up its criticism of Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government. On May 14, an email blast from former PC and New Blue MPP Belinda Karahalios, titled “Clear and Terrible: The PC Record on Life Issues,” condemned the Ford government’s record on life issues, including maintaining “(Kathleen) Wynne’s ‘bubble [...]
Paul Tuns: Popular YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife, Ashley, aborted their unborn baby because of a Down syndrome diagnosis, after which they complained about the backlash they faced online. Ridgway, who runs a YouTube account called McJuggerNuggets with 4.34 million subscribers, posted a message on Instagram on June 3 saying, “This week, my wife and I made the very difficult decision [...]
Paul Tuns: On June 17, Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton-Melville) announced she was stepping down as MP effective in August and later that day gave her last speech in the House of Commons in which she noted Canada had no abortion law and highlighted her own pro-life work. Wagantall began by praising her husband, Marty, and her staff, Conservative colleagues and party [...]
Kesiah Beere: Over the past seven years, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) has received roughly $1.1 million from the federal government through Canadian Heritage and Public Safety Canada programs. Funding from those two departments expired at the end of February and March 2026 respectively with no expressed intent of renewal. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is a self-proclaimed “nonpartisan” nonprofit organization that monitors [...]