Lewis is the only pro-life candidate among six vying for Tory leadership Paul Tuns: Of the six contenders for the Conservative leadership, only one, MP Leslyn Lewis, has been rated pro-life by Campaign Life Coalition. CLC was hoping that former Ontario MPP Roman Baber would be a viable down-ballot candidate for pro-lifers because he has vowed to allow MPs to vote their [...]
Oswald Clark: Both sides claim the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution for their side. The main text of the Amendment, which is known as the “Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses,” states: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of [...]
Decision returns abortion to be decided by elected representatives Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: On June 24, in a 6-3 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a Mississippi law that banned abortion after 15 weeks, with the majority opinion, joined by five justices, holding that abortion is not a constitutionally protected right [...]
Population collapse in South Korea In the May issue, editor Paul Tuns wrote about “the social consequences of the housing affordability crisis” in Canada. A look into similar problems in South Korea, outlined by the Population Research Institute (Athan Clark, “Sunset in South Korea”), might give Canadians pause at the direction our country is going. Koreans very rarely marry and have children. [...]
Oswald Clark: On May 20, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone wrote to Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, whose congressional district is in the prelate’s 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. He wrote that the Roman Catholic Church has been “clear and [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey The news about the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade has re-illuminated our ultimate goal of criminalizing abortion, for no human rights injustice should be legal. The inevitable question, which already arose at our press conference preceding the National March for Life, is whose actions we want criminalized. Are we going to [...]
Interim Staff: In the aftermath of the leaked Dobbs decision that could overturn Roe v. Wade, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government would “move forward as necessary on ensuring that not just under this government but under any future government the rights of women are properly protected.” Trudeau insisted that the majority of MPs “will always defend women’s rights and if [...]
Paul Tuns: The Canadian Institute for Health Information released abortion statistics for 2020, the last year available, indicating that there were 74,155 reported surgical and chemical abortions in Canada. The data reflects almost all hospital abortions in Canada which must report the number of abortions committed, but may not include abortions carried out through free-standing abortion mills or so-called medical abortions (the [...]
Commentary - Donald DeMarco: “The sovereignty of the unqualified” is a bon mot that belongs to the Spanish existentialist Ortega y Gasset. It appears in his 1933 classic, The Revolt of the Masses. The clash between civilization and rule by the masses is a perennial problem. In his book Man Against Mass Society, the French existentialist Gabriel Marcel states that “the masses are [...]
Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition’s National March for Life attracted approximately 6000 people to Ottawa, gathered on Parliament Hill, and proceeded to march through the streets of the nation’s capital, demanding an end to abortion. CLC national president Jeff Gunnarson told The Interim he was thrilled with the March, which he thought had a special buzz about it coming a week after [...]
Rory Leishman: In a proposed judgment for the majority of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson, Justice Samuel Alito persuasively argued that the Court’s calamitous 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade that struck down every state law restricting abortion was so completely and wrongly decided that it has no authority as a judicial precedent and should [...]
In 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a decision that has lived in infamy. Setting aside the history and traditions of that country, the longer legacies of common law, and the will of the people as established by their own legislatures, the seven justices who endorsed the majority opinion of Roe v. Wade imposed a regime that menaced [...]
Paul Tuns: Following the publication of a leaked early draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could result in the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Canadian politicians and activists responded to the news with pro-lifers saying it could reinvigorate the abortion debate in Canada and the Liberal government vowing to welcome American women seeking abortions abroad. “If Roe is officially overturned, [...]
From the editor’s desk: Cook at Mercatornet made an excellent point about the abortion debate in the United States following the leak of a Supreme Court decision that indicates that the five-decade old Roe decision is about to be overturned: the pro-abortion side is going to have to learn to debate their position. For nearly five decades, the pro-abortion side has been [...]
Oswald Clark: In the days after Politico reported on the leaked Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health that could overrule the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, pro-life offices and churches were targeted with violence and vandalism. On May 7, the Wisconsin Family Action office in Madison, Wisconsin, [...]