It is the stuff of horror movies and science-fiction novels: human body parts harvested, bought and sold on an open market. In recent years, this scenario has emerged from the depths of our nightmares to find its way into reality. Although many stories of organ thefts and "body stealing" have been debunked as urban legend, it is a problem that not only [...]
Women unwittingly have abortions, babies sold by doctors Interim Staff In a Special Report issued by Human Life International, Ewa Kowalewska, executive director of the organization's Central and Eastern Europe regional office, illustrates just how ingrained the abortion culture is Russia. Officially, there are 1.7 million surgical abortions in Russia each year, although some estimates say it is three times that number. [...]
Tom Kent, a former federal Liberal party social policy adviser, urged Ottawa to increase youth immigration to counter Canada's decline in fertility and the economic consequences for the country. Writing in Policy Options, Kent suggested immigration policy be changed to attract teens and university-aged individuals from foreign countries to create a sufficient base of workers and taxpayers so that Canada's social programs [...]
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is selling T-shirts on its website that proclaim the message, "I Had An Abortion." The shirts are advertised as "a powerful message in support of women's rights" and can be purchased for $15 (US). Although they are not currently being sold in Canada, there was swift reaction to the publicity stunt on both sides of the [...]
Media turning a blind eye to alleged misdeed In a story you would be hard-pressed to find in the mainstream media, abortionist Henry Morgentaler is being sued for at least $185,000 for an alleged botched abortion last year on an Ottawa woman, which she claims caused damage to her reproductive organs and harm to her marriage. A Canadian Press wire story reported [...]
Mother Teresa famously said that the greatest threat to peace was abortion. In Asia, high rates of abortion, fuelled by China's one-child policy and India's depopulation schemes, are leading to sex ratios so skewed that China and India may become imperialist nations just to quell the domestic problems that such ratios engender. That is the theory postulated by Valerie M. Hudson and [...]
On the day that Paul Martin announced former NDP British Columbia premier Ujjal Dosanjh would be the new federal Health Minister, Dosanjh announced he would not tolerate private healthcare in Canada as he examines ways to improve the health system. "What we need to do is stem the tide of privatization in Canada and expand public delivery of healthcare, so that we [...]
Interim Staff A recent study reported that, on average, 10.8 per cent of women across the U.K., France, Spain and Germany were either sterilized or relied on their partner having a vasectomy in order to prevent pregnancy. The U.K. levels were the highest, reaching 20.8 per cent, twice the European average. The authors of the study, which was presented at the European [...]
On June 14, some heavy news hit both the canon law community - those who oversee the Catholic church's internal legal system - and the American political scene. Marc Balestrieri filed a formal canonical petition before the Archdiocese of Boston, in which he denounced John Forbes Kerry for the ecclesiastical crime of heresy. Balestrieri is a respected lay canon lawyer fed up [...]
The Manitoba government has buckled to pressure after years of standing strong against using taxpayers' money to fund abortions at private abortuaries. As of July 1, abortions are being publicly funded at "Jane's Clinic" in Winnipeg, much to the dismay of pro-life supporters across Canada. Manitoba is joining the ranks of of Newfoundland, Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta in fully financeing abortions [...]
Press Council biased Interim staffComing on the heels of blatant liberal-left bias in media coverage during the recent federal election campaign comes disturbing news of further bias and a conflict of interest on the part of a press watchdog organization in Ontario. The Ontario Press Council has rejected final appeals into a complaint over a series of pieces by Globe and Mail [...]
We'd like to remind Interim readers that the last opportunity to make known opposition to the reclassification of the so-called morning-after pill is almost here. In May, the Health Canada agency announced its intentions to allow the drug, formally known as levonorgestrel, to be available over-the-counter at pharmacies without a doctor's prescription. Pro-life advocates have been opposing this reclassification on a number [...]
A new technology, 4-D scanning, is changing pre-natal medicine and bolstering the argument against abortion. Years ago, 2-D scanning showed us a flat, black-and-white picture of the baby in the womb. Then, 3-D scanning was developed, revealing a more realistic, but motionless, picture of a baby. Now 4-D, the fourth dimension being time, is showing an unborn child's movements in the womb. [...]
Whew! The election is over. By the time you read these words of mine, most of the signs will be gone. And every baby that was legally abortable in Canada the day before the election will still be legally abortable the day after. And, I suppose, the day after and the day after. Not to say there will not be the brave [...]
Say women who become pregnant from sexual assault don't want or need abortions LifeSiteNews A group of women who have experienced pregnancies resulting from rape or incest are petitioning Congress and state legislatures to hear their stories, saying women who become pregnant from sexual assault don't want or need abortions. The petition comes on the heels of a Defence Department appropriations amendment [...]