By Jim Hughes “It’s young Jim” would begin any conversation with pro-life hero Joseph M. Scheidler. So, you can imagine how long I’ve known and admired him. Scheidler, Zeidler, Marx, & Willke sounds like a German law firm doesn’t it? But they are the names of some of the great U.S. pro-life leaders. Now Joe Scheidler joins Marx and Willke receiving their [...]
By Interim Staff Joe Scheidler, founder of Pro-Life Action League, died of pneumonia Jan. 18 at age 93. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Scheidler was known as "the godfather of pro-life activism," and praise came in immediately for the deceased pro-life leader. American Life League president Judie Brown said he was "the pro-life movement’s gentle giant" -- he stood at six feet, [...]
Lianne Laurence Special to The Interim The Canadian bishops’ international aid organization, Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, has admitted that it never stopped funding 52 partner groups under investigation for flouting Catholic social doctrine and moral teaching, despite telling the bishops it had imposed a moratorium on financing these suspect organizations. “It is not true that Development and Peace partners [...]
By Josie Luetke I don’t think I can recall a single pro-choicer who opposes abortion in cases of fetal disability or deformity. Usually, that circumstance is one that, if anything, buttresses their pro-choice stance. Like rape, disability is used to convince themselves of their moral superiority for supporting abortion, despite its intrinsically distasteful nature. They simply want to spare others from suffering [...]
By Lianne Laurence Special to The Interim A landmark Charter challenge to the Canadian law that denies the humanity of the child in the womb has been filed with the Supreme Court of Canada. Mary Wagner, well-known pro-life advocate and inspiration for the burgeoning Red Rose Rescue movement in the United States, launched the Charter challenge during the course of her 2013 [...]
Catholic school trustee finds Church’s catechism ‘dangerous’ During debate on reopening their decision to censure Toronto Catholic District School Board trustee Michael Del Grande, one of his colleagues, Norm Di Pasquale, objected to one presentation which quoted the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality and transgenderism. Di Pasquale interrupted the reading of a passage from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, called it [...]
By Interim Staff By a 131-117 vote, with six abstentions, Argentina's lower house passed a pro-abortion bill after 20 hours of contentious debate. The bill now goes to the senate. President Alberto Fernandez's left-wing Frente de Todos (Everybody's Front) has only a minority in the Chamber of Deputies, but has a majority in the Senate so the bill, which liberalizes the country's [...]
By Paul Tuns London-based abortion giant Marie Stopes International changed its name last month to MSI Reproductive Choice in an attempt to distance itself from the eugenic views of its namesake. The organization now goes by MSI Reproductive Choices. Stopes campaigned for the legalization of birth control in England in the early 1900s and, like many progressives of her era, supported eugenics, [...]
Matthew Wojciechowski Commentary On Oct. 22, the United States, along with 32 other nations, signed the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a historic joint agreement reaffirming that every human being has the inherent right to life and that the natural family, the fundamental unit of society, must be protected. This is a significant development at the international level. It’s also the same message Campaign [...]
Interim writer, Rory Leishman, National Affairs By Rory Leishman In a press release on August 25, the World Health Organization (WHO) certified that Africa is now free of the wild poliovirus. But, alas, this does not mean that the irreversibly paralyzing and incurable virus has finally been eradicated from the entire African continent. To the contrary, in this same press [...]
By Paul Tuns Two new vaccines aimed to protect people from COVID-19, from Moderna and Pzifer, have been lauded by some U.S. pro-life groups, but still pose ethical problems. In early November, within days of each other, Moderna and Pfizer announced that they were close to getting a vaccine to market as early trials indicated a success rate of protecting 95 per cent [...]
On Sept. 29, members of the Select Special Public Health Act Review Committee of the Alberta legislature debated adding abortion access to the province's Public Health Act. The motion was put forward by NDP MLA Kathleen Ganley (Calgary-Mountain View) and was defeated in committee the following day on a straight party-line vote, with the NDP committee members supporting it and the United [...]
On Sept. 28, Amnesty International, the international human rights group, announced it was updating its "sexual and reproductive rights" policy, essentially reaffirming its pro-abortion position. Amnesty International had previously supported abortion in certain circumstances, although it released papers and launched campaigns that supported broadening abortion in numerous countries and circumstances. It now calls for full decriminalization of abortion. Amnesty International is "calling [...]
On Oct. 22, a coalition of 32 countries led by the United States and representing 1.6 billion people issued a declaration that there is “no international right to abortion.” The declaration explains its purpose is to express, “the essential priority of protecting the right to life” and promoting “strength of the family and of a successful and flourishing society.” It also states [...]
Dalhousie University in Halifax is now offering a course to its health students in an effort to make abortion “normal” in healthcare practices and society. The course, “Interprofessional Care of Surgical and Medical Abortion Patients,” is officially a “mini-course,” consisting of four 90-minute sessions. The school’s course guide says, “This mini course will help provide students with information on the history of [...]