Paul Tuns: According to data obtained from Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information, researcher Patricia Maloney, who blogs at Run with Life, has found that more than 1500 babies born-alive after a failed abortion have been left to die over the past 23 years and Campaign Life Coalition has renewed calls for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to investigate [...]
Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition said 5000-6000 people participated in the National March for Life through the streets of the nation's capital on May 11, and many others also attended the week's numerous events including a screening and panel discussion of the documentary Roe Canada: The True North in a Post-Roe World, songs for life coffee house, the Candlelight Vigil, pro-life church [...]
Mother’s Day always comes in May, a celebration which seems as permanent as the cycle of the seasons. Yet, as our culture continues to fissure its very bedrock of self-understanding, it increasingly seems like the calendar will outlast the category of motherhood itself. May will always come—but when it does, will we still have mothers? The question admits no easy, automatic answer. [...]
Donald DeMarco: The word “potential” is mesmerizing. It conjures up a dreamland in which one can become anything he wants to be. It has not yet crossed into the realm of the actual where it loses its unsullied attractiveness. A young woman yearns for the perfect mate. She can maintain this yearning as long as it remains in dreamland. When she marries, [...]
Oswald Clark: In the six months following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Clinic decision in June 2022, which overturned the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, there were 32,260 fewer abortions than expected according to a study released by the pro-abortion Society of Family Planning (SFP). According to the #WeCount Report, States that banned or restricted abortion saw a net decline [...]
Paul Tuns: According to the latest Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) figures, more than 87,000 preborn children were killed by abortion in 2021. The official figures collected by CIHI are incomplete because not all abortions committed outside a hospital setting or are captured by physician billing data are recorded. This incomplete data persists despite “CIHI’s ongoing improvement efforts … to address [...]
The very idea of murder by mail sounds like something out of Agatha Christie. But it was, in fact, the American Food and Drug Administration which allowed, under the auspices of COVID, abortifacient pills to be dispensed, not even by a doctor (in violation of the Hippocratic Oath), but via post. A federal district court ruling, issued early in April, has overruled [...]
Higher courts suspend the decision pending hearing appeals Paul Tuns: On April 7, U.S. Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Amarillo Division of the Eastern District, ruled in favour of a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone during the closing months of the Clinton administration. Within two weeks, the decision was partly set aside by [...]
Interim Staff: Justin Trudeau’s federal government tabled its budget on March 28 and among the items announced by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is $36 million in new funding to promote abortion in Canada, in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars already spent by provincial healthcare systems to commit at least 87,000 abortions annually and $700 million annually to commit and [...]
Heterosexual students happier, healthier than LGBQ+ students The U.S. Centres for Disease Control has completed and released its annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey. High school students were grouped into heterosexual and LGBQ+ categories. (Subsequent assessments will include transgender students.) Here are a few of the disturbing results. Among heterosexual students, 22 per cent experienced poor mental health, in contrast to 52 per [...]
Jim Hughes: Mary Ellen and Allan Douglas with Rep. Chris Smith (right). “The late Allan Douglas was a quiet gentle man” said one of our Campaign Life Coalition regulars. “He was one of those strong silent types” said another, adding, “people like Allan and so many other men and women across Canada are responsible for building the foundation of this [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Josie Luetke: Included in the LGBTQ community’s ever-expanding lexicon for their fantasy world is the phrase “trans erasure.” In an Everyday Feminism article, “non-binary” writer Ayesha Sharma claims, “Trans and gender variant people’s existences are overlooked, invalidated, and erased every single day.” Of course, it is the height of gaslighting, of deceit, to attempt [...]
The last canticle of Dante’s Divine Comedy begins with the poet taking stock of his unprecedented enterprise. Thus far, his imaginative journey has taken him, like the epic heroes of old, to the depths of the underworld. But, unlike them, he does not return to the world. Instead, he passes through the realm of forsaken souls to ascend the purgatorial terraces of [...]
How do contraception, abortion, transgenderism and euthanasia fit in? Paul Tuns Editor’s Note: Part I appeared in the March edition of The Interim. Technology, as the writer Sean Haylock points out in a 2017 essay in Crisis “is mechanistic (reductively focused on efficient causation), utilitarian (reasoning by a calculus and willing to treat persons as means to an end), and voluntaristic (taking [...]
Paul Tuns: Lucy Akello, a member of the Ugandan Parliament, presented in person to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on March 7 as the committee examined the topic of global sexual and reproductive health, telling the Canadian legislators that Africa does not want or need abortion and contraception exported to their continent from Western nations. The Trudeau government [...]