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 [...]
Interim StaffNew statistics indicate that British women are eliminating their unborn children because of non-life-threatening deformities such as deformed feet or cleft lips and palates. They are also increasingly aborting children suspected of having physical or mental deformities. Ground E of the Abortion Act makes abortion legal up to nine months if a child has a serious risk of physical or mental [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim One of the world's top researchers into life issues made a tour of southern Ontario recently, offering information and strategies to combat the anti-life agenda - a particularly timely topic, given the federal election campaign and the prominence given to abortion within it. Dr. Brian Clowes included a Basic Pro-Life Training Workshop in Hamilton as part of his [...]
LifeSite NewsA new study published in the June American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse strengthens the case for a causal connection between abortion and substance abuse. The study found that among women who had unintended first pregnancies, those who had abortions were more likely to report, an average of four years later, more frequent and recent use of alcohol, marijuana and [...]
Commentary by Donald DeMarco The Interim In the year 1508, Pope Julius II ordered a reluctant Michelangelo Buonarroti - who considered himself a sculptor and not a painter - to paint the huge vault of the Sistine Chapel, which, since the time of Sixtus IV, displayed nothing more resplendent than a blue field sprinkled with golden stars. Despite his initial reluctance, Michelangelo [...]
Richard John Neuhaus Special to The Interim The demographics of the abortion controversy are often overlooked. Recent months have seen a number of reports indicating that opposition to abortion is growing dramatically among young people. In a Gallup survey of youth aged 13 to 17, only 19 percent said that abortion should be legal in all circumstances (the current regime of Roe [...]
Dina Kok The Interim As abortion became a key election issue, an "independent" website of a new pro-abortion group, Women Demand Better, attacked Conservative leader Stephen Harper for his alleged pro-life position. The day after the media reported on this non-partisan and independent attack on Harper, a Vancouver paper revealed that the organization was founded by a teen with Liberal connections. Cassandra [...]
"This (abortion) really does cut to the core of one of the key women's issues in this country and gradually these people are taking their sheep's clothing off, sort of one sleeve at a time." - Liberal MP and Public Health Minister Carolyn Bennett "The notion of state-imposed, third-party counseling as if we are children, as if we are not able to [...]
Commentary by Tony Gosgnach The Interim Two of the great media guru Marshall McLuhan's most notable slogans were "the medium is the message" and "all news is fake." Given the recent Canadian federal election campaign, one can verily say that truer words were never spoken. "Mainstream" media outlets and their reporters exhibited a shocking degree of selective, slanted and outright biased coverage [...]
Embryonic stem cell research Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry attacked President George W. Bush for his views on embryonic stem cell research (ESCR), saying he is putting politics before science. "The American people deserve a president who understands that when America invests in science and technology and higher education, we can build a new and stronger economy for the 21st century [...]
Martin's abortion attacks 'a miserable failure' Analysis by Paul Tuns The Interim Following a campaign that saw the topic of abortion raised to a prominence not seen in recent elections, pro-lifers can count on nearly a dozen new pro-life MPs taking up the cause in the next Parliament. While some social conservatives may be disappointed that Paul Martin won a sizeable minority, [...]
She was with us for only a short time, but her legacy will live on in the babies she helped save from abortion through her crisis pregnancy work, as well as in the numerous other accomplishments she achieved in helping those who could not help themselves. Tina Arruda died on Good Friday at the age of 38 after a battle with cancer. [...]
The federal health agency Health Canada is proposing to allow the dispensation of the abortifacient "morning-after pill" levonorgestrel without prescription from a physician and has established a time period ending August 5 for submissions from interested parties on the proposal. Pro-life advocates note that despite Health Canada claims to the contrary, the pill - distributed in Canada by Montreal-based Paladin Laboratories, a [...]
A decade ago, Elizabeth Taylor was going from one celebrity AIDS rally to another, urging us to make sure we "use a condom every time you have sex, every time." Every time, Liz? Apparently so, until one day mankind is extinct and giant condoms roam the earth, bouncing across the ruins of our civilization like playful prophylactics in animated Scandinavian health ministry [...]
In the debate on regulating abortion in Canada, some people have suggested that access to abortion should not be restricted in "hard cases" - pregnancy caused by rape or incest, or when a pregnancy appears to threaten a woman's life. In responding to such proposals, we must consistently return to the basic principle of the pro-life movement: the direct taking of innocent [...]