Pete Baklinski: There are so many reasons why I’m attending this year’s National March for Life on May 11, 2023, the 26th march since the event was first begun by Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of Canada’s pro-life movement. Not only is it lots of fun to be openly pro-life in a crowd of thousands of like-minded people standing on Parliament [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: Pro-life youngsters across the country are looking forward to the annual March for Life (M4L) taking place this year in the nation’s capital the week of May 7-12. Organized by Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), this year’s march is slated to feature a number of interesting keynote speakers such as Oxford University Research Associate Dr. Callum Mitchell, Students for Life spokesperson [...]
Paul Tuns: Dave MacKenzie resigned his Oxford seat in southwestern Ontario in December 2022, leading to a highly competitive race to replace the long-time MP in what is considered a safe Conservative riding. Among the candidates seeking the party’s nomination was Gerrit Van Dorland, a Parliament Hill staffer green-lit as pro-life by Campaign Life Coalition as pro-life and endorsed by former Conservative [...]
Brain-dead women as ‘baby machines’ We have learned that a German molecular biologist, Hashem Al-Ghaili, is developing Ectolife, transparent artificial wombs where babies will be conceived and “housed” until birth, while their parents can look on as spectators. He said the technology could be used to reverse declining birth rates in countries such as Bulgar, Japan, and South Korea. LifeSiteNews reports that [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I regularly do activism with abortion victim photography (AVP)—“Choice” Chains, through which we show what “choice” looks like. I’m convinced of the merit of this action, reassured that regardless of whether or not I have productive conversations, passersby likely will feel more negatively towards abortion, and—at minimum—can no longer claim ignorance. I [...]
Editor’s Note: It is with a heavy heart that The Interim reports on the laicization of Frank Pavone and the fallout from the announcement in December. But as the pro-life paper of record, we have a duty to factually report about the events that transpired before and after the announcement of the laicization of a major international pro-life figure. Paul Tuns: On [...]
On Feb. 1st, a nurse at a Montreal hospital reached out to a pro-life group on Facebook; she was distressed about an upcoming procedure that had been scheduled for the next day: “A 38-week abortion, is that still called an abortion?” The question is worth considering, since it offers a snapshot of the landscape of the abortion issue in Canada in 2023. [...]
Mary Zwicker: Abortion has a disproportionately negative effect on and specifically targets black people in America, a new study says, confirming what pro-lifers have observed for years: abortion mills are disproportionately located in minority neighbourhoods. In January, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) released a comprehensive report, “The Impact of Abortion on the Black Community,” that details the extent to [...]
Interim staff: On Feb. 14, Richard Coates appeared in a Hamilton courthouse to plead guilty to charges related to three separate incidents, including one on July 14, 2022, when he uttered a threat to and assaulted Josie Luetke, who, at the time, was serving as youth coordinator for Campaign Life Coalition. In the afternoon on that date, Luetke, now CLC’s director of [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: A recently published study in JAMA Psychiatry analysed how state-level abortion restrictions in America affected the suicide rate of young women between the ages of 20 and 34, although a pro-life researcher has critiqued the findings saying the researchers had not proved that a lack of abortion access leads to higher suicide rates. The study claimed to find a positive [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s appearance at a local Hamilton, Ont., restaurant during the Liberal cabinet retreat in the city, was met with protest by pro-life activists. Around a dozen young people-- members of Campaign Life Coalition and Campaign Life Coalition Youth, Hamilton Against Abortion, Oxford Against Abortion, Niagara Against Abortion and Peel Against Abortion-- held photos of abortion victims as [...]
Editor’s Note: The following statement was drafted by Jonathan Van Maren (Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform), Eric Scheidler (Pro-Life Action League), Charles Camosy (Creighton University), and Josh Brahm (Equal Rights Institute) in response to the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and published Jan. 19. More than 100 pro-life leaders, scholars, and authors, including Interim editor Paul Tuns, Fr. Shenan J. Bouquet [...]
Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition reported that an unidentified 19-year-old Canadian girl died after taking the abortion pill on July 4, 2022. Pro-life researcher Patricia Maloney discovered that Health Canada’s online adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs tracking system revealed that a hospital reported that a 19-year-old female who had used the abortion pill Mifegymiso to kill her preborn child died herself. Maloney [...]
Oswald Clark: During his Feb. 7 State of the Union address to Congress, President Joseph Biden vowed to expand abortion in the United States and attacked states that are protecting the preborn. Biden said, “Congress must restore the right the Supreme Court took away last year and codify Roe v. Wade to protect every woman’s constitutional right to choose.” Biden said the [...]
Interim Staff: On Feb. 2, a child close to birth was killed by abortion, Campagne Quebec Vie (CQV) reported after they became aware of the situation through a social media post of a nurse. Montreal Against Abortion (MAA) informed CQV about the social media post by an anonymous source – since verified by local pro-life activists – that a local hospital, Sacré-Cœur [...]