Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: June 24 marked the first anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the infamous 1973 decision which created a “right to abortion” and severely limited the ability of states to restrict abortion in the United States. Dobbs permitted abortion to be returned to state legislatures for regulation or prohibition. Over the last 12 months, [...]
Liana Gordon: The Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform is in the middle of their largest tour ever this summer, bringing never-before-seen photos of abortion to the streets for the Canadian public. According to their website, the CCBR is an “educational human rights organization dedicated to speaking out on behalf of the youngest and most vulnerable members of the human family.” Part of [...]
Hungary fights for the family The European Union, presently comprised of 27 nations, operates through a hybrid system of supranational and intergovernmental decision-making. The larger countries such as Germany and France, are run by governments that are at the vanguard of social liberalism’s many experiments, and they control many decisions in the EU. Currently, they are fighting to strip Hungarian parents of [...]
From the editor's desk: We have reported in this paper (and to their credit, the corporate media has done a good job covering, too) stories about Canadians being euthanized due to their social circumstances. Men and women, some middle-aged, are choosing to be killed by their doctor because they have trouble paying the rent, live in subsidized housing that does not accommodate [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Hundreds of Canadian youth gathered at the 26th National March for Life the week of May 8, which included the candlelight vigil, rally and march, as well as the youth banquet and summit. Since its liberalization in Canada in 1969, abortion has killed more than four million preborn babies, and is currently permitted at any stage of a pregnancy for [...]
Paul Tuns: The Interim asked those in attendance at the National March for Life their motivations for taking part in the rally on Parliament Hill and marching through the streets of the nation’s capital. While united in their desire to give a voice to the unborn, they came to the pro-life issue for a myriad of reasons. Kris Shoemaker traveled with a [...]
Interim Staff: Former one-term MP John Oostrom died on March 4 at the age of 92. The pro-life MP had a short political career, but one in which he clearly stood up for his pro-life beliefs. Oostrom, was born in the Netherlands, the eldest of 13 children. As an adult, he moved to Canada with his parents and 12 siblings in 1952. [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: Denver Coleman was born without complications at 4.2 pounds following never-before-attempted brain surgery. The successful surgery comes as a big win for pro-lifers trying to prove the personhood of the unborn child. Campaign Life Coalition director of advocacy and education Josie Luetke is enthusiastic about what the new cutting-edge abilities of preborn healthcare technology logically means for pro-life arguments. She [...]
Mary Zwicker While societal conversations on abortion continue to revolve primarily around women, celebrating the murder of the preborn as a “women’s right,” a new study has revealed the extent to which men, the oft-forgotten victims of abortion, are impacted by the trauma of abortion. In April, the Florida-based pro-life organization, Support After Abortion (SAA), released a white paper summarizing the findings [...]
Paul Tuns: The Story of Abortion in America by Marvin Olasky and Leah Savas (Crossway, $53, 494 pages) Marvin Olasky, author of the Tragedy of American Compassion and Abortion Rites, and Leah Savas, who writes about abortion for World magazine, have written a remarkable work of scholarship, a deep dive into what the subtitle promises, “A Street-Level History, 1652-2022,” of abortion. The [...]
Paul Tuns: People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier announced on May 17 that he was seeking a return to Parliament by running in the Portage-Lisgar by-election to be held June 19 and in his announcement speech appealed directly to socially conservative voters in the rural Manitoba riding by vowing to table at the first available opportunity his the Protection of Preborn [...]
Paul Tuns: The NDP launched an online petition calling for "abortion services" to be made "accessible to every Canadian," suggesting that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government was insufficiently pro-abortion. The petition stated, "Many Canadians seeking abortion services can’t access them – this must change," claiming, "in Canada many individuals seeking abortion services can’t access them," with "only one hospital in six [...]
Paul Tuns: According to a study published in the medical journal Cureus, one in four American women who have had an abortion described having one as coerced, and most others describe their abortion as unwanted. The study by Dr. David Reardon, an associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute and director of the Elliott Institute, and Tessa Longbons, Charlotte Lozier’s senior research [...]
Paul Tuns: On May 9, Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton-Melville) moved that Bill C-311, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (violence against pregnant women), be read the second time and referred to a committee, with the Liberal, NDP and Bloc Quebecois condemning the Conservatives for what they claim is an attempt to reopen the abortion issue. If passed, Bill C-311 would [...]
Mary Zwicker: Between July 2021 and June 2022, the year before the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, the United States saw the second-highest number of abortions carried out by Planned Parenthood in its history, new data indicates, despite the total number of abortions in the United States trending downward since the 1990s. Under the theme of “Relentless,” the Planned Parenthood Federation [...]