From the editor’s desk: Global Updates reported on the parliamentary victory for Alliance for Germany (AdF), which is invariably referred to as “far right” or “extremist,” in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt: “Alice Weidel becomes the first leader in the world who is anti-immigration but has an immigrant wife, is anti-LGBTQ+ but is a lesbian herself, opposes LGBT adoption but has adopted [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: According to research published in Health Policy in August, “interstate travel for abortion increased” after state-level restrictions were implemented after the 2022 Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade, which had declared women had a right to abortion. The research, led by Kelsey B. Loeliger, was titled “Out-of-State Travel for Abortion Care Before [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: Lawyers for two pro-life pregnancy care centres being sued by California Attorney General Rob Bonta for promoting Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) said in their closing brief the State had not met the burden in any element of the lawsuit being brought against Heartbeat International and RealOptions Medical Clinics. APR is permitted in California, but the Attorney General is trying [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 9, Saskatoon city councilor Bev Dubois proposed that the city restrict the distribution of flyers featuring abortion victim photography. The Saskatoon Abortion Support Network launched a petition in support of banning such flyers and it has reportedly received more than 3200 signatures. Angie Kells, a volunteer abortion doula at the Network, spoke at the meeting considering restrictions, saying, [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: In response to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Illinois Republican U.S. congressman, Rep. Henry Hyde, introduced the Hyde Amendment banning the use of federal funds to pay for abortion through the Medicaid program, at a time when federal programs were estimated to be paying for 300,000 abortions annually. Hyde argued, “An innocent, defenseless human life, in a caring [...]
Interim Staff: Nova Scotia’s last Catholic hospital, St. Martha’s Regional Hospital in Antigonish changes its name to the Antigonish Memorial Regional Hospital Oct. 1, and with the hospital’s Catholic Mission Assurance Agreement expiring Sept. 30 it will no longer be restricted from committing abortion and euthanasia. The Sisters of St. Martha announced in the spring that it would withdraw its name and [...]
A dad fights for his unborn children Fathers are an important part of a woman’s pregnancy. They are the fathers of the unborn children, but they so often retreat from voicing their opinion and providing support to the pregnant mother. Society insists that it is a woman’s “choice” about whether or not to abort the child. Often the father is given no [...]
Victor Penney: Summer’s lease on my sports brain hath all too short a date. I shifted into September-mode at the end of July, back when NFL training camps were getting underway. What can I say? The call to fall is strong, but the truth is, I’m still thinking about the other football. There were so many memorable moments from the World Cup, [...]
Josie Luetke: On May 10, 2023, Campaign Life Coalition planned to display abortion victim photography during its National March for Life press conference, but the Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) prohibited us from doing so. I was aghast—how could we be allowed to display the same signs on the city sidewalk, but not on Parliament Hill? Of all places to protest in the [...]
From the editor’s desk: Research Connections published a study, supplemented by further study by researchers at the Manhattan Institute, that examined insurance data for minors aged 8-17 between 2016 and 2023 in Oregon, one of the most progressive states in the U.S. They found that one in 240 girls and one in 630 boys received cross-sex hormones to treat gender-confused youth and [...]
Jeff Gunnarson, Special to The Interim: Editor’s Note: These remarks were given by Campaign Life Coalition national president and Interim editorial advisory board member Jeff Gunnarson at an August 13 celebration marking the 25th anniversary of Paul Tuns as editor of The Interim (August 8, 2001). What can one say about a faithful Catholic man, pro-life and otherwise mostly traditional, who loves professional [...]
Paul Tuns: Jeanne Head, who led pro-life efforts at the United Nations for decades, died on July 1 at the age of 94 in Omaha, Nebraska. Born in Selby, South Dakota in 1932, Head earned a nursing degree and went to New York City in 1965 to pursue an acting career. She became a nurse at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Manhattan [...]
Paul Tuns: On July 14, Angela Costigan died at the age of 83. Costigan, originally a high school teacher, left that profession at the age of 33 to attend law school, and after she became a lawyer took on numerous cases in pursuit of obtaining legal rights for the unborn child, leading Jakki Jeffs, director of Alliance for Life Ontario, to call [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: A former Irish Republican Army member and later Irish politician has revealed that she had an abortion in the 1980s while preparing to join a bombing mission in England during the Troubles. Martina Anderson, a former IRA member who spent more than a decade in prison for her involvement in a plot to carry out bombings in England, made [...]
Donald DeMarco: The year was 2003, Oct. 6, to be exact. The Boston Red Sox were playing the Oakland Athletics in the American League Division Series. The Beantowners had come back from an 0-2 deficit and had a chance to win the series with one more victory. Victories in playoff games, however, are seldom easy. The situation was tense. Oakland, trailing by [...]