By Angelica Vecchiato: A cohort of young Canadians attended the American March for Life on Jan. 20, marking the first annual pro-life rally since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. The pro-life delegation of 37 youth, led by Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) coordinators Maeve Roche and Kim Headley, set off by bus on the evening of Jan. 19 [...]
Paul Tuns: On Jan. 26, Campaign Life Coalition held a press conference in front of the Supreme Court of Canada calling upon Parliament to pass a law protecting all human beings from the moment of fertilization and, if the federal legislature fails to do so for the Supreme Court to provide Charter protection to preborn children. The press conference was held two [...]
Interim Staff: Pro-life activist Mary Burnie died on Nov. 30, the last of three of her sisters – along with Rita and Helen – who spent a life dedicated to protecting the preborn. The Burnie sisters prayed in front of abortuaries, assisted Joanne Dieleman at the Way Inn (the precursor to Aid to Women), took part in Operation Rescue, and attended pro-life [...]
Donald DeMarco, Commentary: “Inherit” is a generational term. It implies the passage from one generation to another. If all the unborn were aborted, no one would be alive to inherit the Earth. The question arises: are some less worthy of inheriting the Earth than others? It seems outrageous to our moral sensibilities that anyone could determine who is [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: Campaign Life Coalition Youth’s newest outreach endeavour, “Womb with a View,” hopes to fill the pro-life apologetics void in the podcast world. Available for listening through Apple Podcast’s audio streaming services, listeners can tune into a 15-minute episode set to discuss “all things anti-abortion” through the lens of philosophy and apologetics. Podcast hosts CLC youth coordinator Maeve Roche and her [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist, academic, and author, has largely evaded the abortion issue. On one rare occasion when he was publicly asked for comment, he claimed that discussions about the legality and morality of abortion are “nested inside a larger discussion about the proper place of sexuality in human behaviour and, to [...]
We understand that many pro-life activists already do a lot for the movement to restore moral sanity in a Culture of Death, but if we are honest with ourselves, all of us can do a little more. Let us resolve to act like 2023 will be the year we work to end abortion—even though barring some great unforeseen development that is not [...]
Religious Freedom After the Sexula Revolution: A Catholic Guide Helen M. Alvaré (Catholic University of America Press, $32.95, 243 pages): Helen M. Alvaré, the Robert A. Levy Chair in Law and Liberty at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, has written a primer, Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution, on how to think about a genuine freedom (freedom of religion) in [...]
Paul Tuns: Pro-life blogger Patricia Maloney filed Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) requests to the Canadian Revenue Agency for information regarding the Liberal government’s promise to take away the charitable tax status of pro-life groups such as pregnancy care centres. In the 2021 federal election campaign, the Liberal platform vowed to strip pro-life groups of their charitable tax status for trucking [...]
Mary Zwicker: As attacks on life continue on all fronts, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) Quebec brand, Campagne Quebec Vie, is attempting to found a Montreal Students for Life group in the city. Set to launch this month, the new pro-life group -- the first of its kind in Montreal, as no campuses currently have pro-life groups -- will provide pro-life students from [...]
10. Pelosi banned from receiving communion On May 20, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone wrote to Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, whose congressional district is in his archdiocese, to inform her that as a pro-abortion politician she can no longer present herself for Holy Communion when she is in San Francisco. Archbishop Cordileone reiterated the Catholic Church's "clear and [...]
Rory Leishman It is astonishing that even today so many prominent advocates of legalized abortion still think the point at which human life begins is a matter of philosophical debate and religious dogma rather than settled science. In an article entitled “Atheists and the Pro-Life Movement,” Mary FioRito of the Ethics and Public Policy Center cites the example of Justice Sonia Sotomayor [...]
Mary Zwicker In a moving tribute to the power of spiritual warfare, a 40 Days for Life group in Winnipeg has recently informed The Interim that their prayers during a 40-day prayer initiative have saved a child from abortion. Maria Slykerman, the 40 Days for Life coordinator in Winnipeg, said that despite losing many volunteers over the years to age or sickness, [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 9, a pair of NDP MLAs called upon the Saskatchewan Party government of Scott Moe to guarantee more surgical abortions be committed in the province by introducing a province-wide intake system and opening two abortion centres in Saskatoon and Prince Albert. Official Opposition Status of Women Critic Jennifer Bowes and Democracy and Ethics Critic Meara Conway were leading [...]
Paul Tuns Pope Francis recently named six new members to the Pontifical Academy for Life for five-year terms, including five who oppose the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion and contraception: economist Mariana Mazzucato, former Botswana health minister Sheila Dinotshe Tlou, Monsignor Phillipe Bordeyne, Father Humberto Miguel Yáñez, and bioethics professor Roberto Dell’Oro Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Pope John Paul II founded the Academy [...]