The Interim went to press days before the April 28 federal election and whatever the results, there does not appear to be much good news for pro-lifers. As we report on page 10, the Conservatives and Liberals are both committed to the abortion and euthanasia status quo which kills more than 100,000 preborn children and 15,000 vulnerable patients annually. It is a [...]
Paul Tuns, Commentary: Pope Francis died on April 21 at the age of 88, after leading the Catholic Church for 12 years as its 266th pope. There were numerous articles and essays exploring his legacy. One cannot help but think of the apocryphal comment by Zhou Enlai, the Chinese Communist revolutionary, in the 1970s, when asked what he thought of the French Revolution: [...]
Richard Dur, Commentary: Every election, like clockwork, the Liberals drag the abortion issue into the spotlight. And every time, Conservatives act surprised — as if this hasn’t happened every other election. They stumble. They mumble. They change the subject. They offer up a vague, unconvincing “we won’t touch the issue” — a line disbelieved by those already against them, and deeply demoralizing to [...]
Comment made after Carney attends Mass featuring pro-life sermon Paul Tuns: The head of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has endorsed denying Holy Communion to Catholic pro-abortion politicians like Prime Minister Mark Carney. During an April 11 interview with EWTN, Bishop William McGrattan, president of the CCCB, said pro-abortion politicians should not receive the Eucharist. Days earlier, Prime Minister Mark [...]
Paul Tuns: During an election campaign hyper-focused on Trump, tariffs, and affordability, People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier said that he would introduce a late-term abortion ban if elected. While the five largest parties and their leaders – the Liberals under Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP, the Bloc Quebecois and Yves-François Blanchet, and Elizabeth May’s Green [...]
Paul Tuns: During a podcast interview with Olivier Primeau released on April 9, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said a Conservative government would not legislate on abortion or euthanasia. During the French-language interview, Poilievre said of abortion, “We will defend women’s freedom of choice.” He elaborated, “we will never change the law on abortion, we have already adopted … a policy for the [...]
Paul Tuns: In the final week of the campaign before election day on April 28, both the Liberal and Conservative parties released their party platforms and both made commitments to either defend the abortion status quo (the Conservatives) or increase access to abortion and abortifacient contraception (the Liberals). The Liberal platform, titled, “Canada Strong,” vowed “there will always be funding” for abortion [...]
Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition gave a green light to 152 pro-life and pro-family candidates across the country in its final Voter’s Guide which rated the party platforms, leaders, and individual candidates. Candidates are given a green light when their voting record, survey information, and public comments on abortion, euthanasia, and LGBQT are collected and that data aligns with the pro-life and [...]
No aborted baby parts to be used in NIH research Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine, economics, and health research at Stanford University, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new Director of the National Institutes of Health. Bhattacharya came to international recognition and criticism when he co-authored, with Dr. Sunetra Gupta and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, The Great Barrington [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Viability has long been the line in the sand drawn by many abortion apologists so that they can tell themselves they aren’t monsters who are okay with killing – like -- real babies. Before it was overturned, Roe v. Wade, for instance, permitted states to prohibit abortion only after fetal viability, describing [...]
Mary Zwicker: A left-wing media outlet in the United States has claimed that pro-life laws are at the root of a so-called “spike” in sepsis cases in hospitalized pregnant women in their state. On Feb. 20, New York-based left-wing news outlet ProPublica published an article claiming that Texas’ 2021 pro-life Heartbeat Act is to blame for a rise in reported cases of [...]
Oswald Clark: Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY) announced it is shutting down its Manhattan abortuary and will sell its SoHo building at 26 Bleeker St., with an asking price of $39 million. The abortion facility was, until 2020, named after Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood and promoter of eugenics. In 2020, during the Black Lives Matter riots that [...]
Interim Staff: Christina Yadram was killed by her partner in 2021 when he tried to kill her preborn child. Wazhir Gafoor, 32, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years following a guilty verdict in the murder of Christina Yadram. Gafoor killed Yadram in October 2021 when he attempted to forcibly kill their preborn [...]
Oswald Clark: Ben & Jerry’s, an ice cream business well-known for its left-wing political views, posted on its official X account support for abortion on March 10, a day abortion advocates call National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day. Ben & Jerry’s tweeted “Today is National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day! We stand with abortion providers today and every day.” The tweet included a graphic [...]
Paul Tuns: Calvin Robinson acknowledges the audience at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington D.C., on Jan. 25. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network, which has a history of targeting pro-life and pro-family organizations as hate groups, published a “smear piece” against black preacher Calvin Robinson, a featured speaker at the youth conference following the National March for Life in Ottawa this [...]