By Grace Petrasek The Interim Recently, Robert Hinchey, co-counsellor with Joanne Dieleman at Toronto's Aid to Women, was chatting with a couple headed for the abortuary located next door. As they spoke, an abortuary employee darted from within and screamed, "Don't listen to him. He's crazy. They're all crazy up there. He's crazy. Don't listen to him." Later, while reflecting on this [...]
By Donald DeMarco The Interim In 1974, a fish processing plant employee by the name of Eleanor Donoghy was formally charged with "cruel treatment to prawns" ("Prawn-Frying Fracas Boils Over Into Court,"Midnight, March 18, 1974). Plant workers reported the 16-year-old British girl to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which took her to court. During the trial, government [...]
A Canadian moral theologian criticizes the use of new productive technologies when they leads to the objectification of people. Bridget Campion, assistant professor of moral theology at St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto, told The Interim that recent uses of in vitro fertilization (IVF) have created a whole new moral problem that goes beyond how human life is created to the uses to [...]
Jean Chretien - Liberal Mr. Chretien "in his main address to the Liberal Party convention on March 17, told 2,600 delegates that 'Canadians do not want a right-wing party in this country. They do not want a party that does not support women's right to choose.'" (LifeSite News, July 11, 2000) Speaking in Winnipeg, he said, "We Liberals believe in a woman's [...]
Past columns of mine have dwelt on the top-secret meeting that then-British Columbia Attorney-General Ujjal Dosanjh held with representatives of B.C.'s abortion industry, including Joyce Arthur of the Pro-Choice Action Network. I'm told that various folks are working themselves into a tizzy regarding my exposure of this meeting. Indeed, I received an ever-so-rare e-mail message from Arthur herself, "warning" me to "cease [...]
By Bill Whatcott The Interim Mexican pro-lifers have had quite a fight on their hands these days. The PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) has recently lost a national election, and after 70 years of power, patronage and corruption, they have to hand over power to the relatively conservative PAN (National Action Party). While the PAN leader Vicente Fox looks promising, Mexican pro-lifers are [...]
By Barbara Maloney McAdorey The Interim A recent article, entitled "Abortion Wars," by Leonard Stern, which appeared in The Citizen's Weekly, a Sunday supplement in The Ottawa Citizen, gave a fair and honest account of the abortion situation in Canada, something not often seen in mainstream media. As reported in the June issue of The Interim, at an outdoor Mass in Vanier, Ottawa's Roman Catholic [...]
Media commentary by Paul Tuns The Interim The Huang family of the village Caidian in the Chinese province of Hubei already had three children when local family planning officials heard about Mrs. Huang's pregnancy. The officials tried but failed to induce an abortion by injecting Huang with salt water. The baby survived the botched abortion attempt and the officials visited the family [...]
Pro-abortion doctor admits preborn children suffer, says anaesthetics should be used By Paul Tuns The Interim Pro-abortion doctor Vivette Glover, of Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London, England, recommended Aug. 28 that "all terminations [abortions] between 17 and 24 weeks be performed under anaesthetic," after recognizing the unborn child is capable of feeling pain. Her remarks came more than two months [...]
London's Bishop Sherlock denounces misrepresentation of his endorsment The Interim One of the feared outcomes of the support by Catholic leaders of the pro-abortion World March of Women 2000 has been realized. Abortion advocates are implying in their literature that Canada's Catholic bishops are fully in support of the march without reservations. The Toronto Organizing Committee of the World March of Women [...]
By Michael Coren The Interim Merle Terlesky used to kick people. And push them, scream at them and tread on their hands. Why? Because she was a pro-choice activist and for five years was at the centre of the Canadian campaign to defend and extend abortion. His victims were pro-lifers. But after an encounter with cancer and a radical change of life this [...]
The Interim As the October issue of The Interim went to press the United States Food and Drug administration announced it has given final approval to the abortion pill RU-486, which pro-lifers call a "human pesticide." The approval process was begun by President Bill Clinton, as one of his first acts in office in 1993. "Campaign Life Coalition is shocked that a dangerous [...]
By John-Henry Westen The Interim The United Nations Millennium Summit, the largest gathering of world leaders in history, concluded in New York Sept. 8. The Summit Declaration, a statement agreed to by a vote of the vast majority of world leaders, is regarded by the United Nations as having "sketched out clear directions for adapting the organization to its role in the [...]
In the days following the death of Pierre Trudeau, a memorial Mass for the former prime minister was held at the Roman Catholic cathedral in a major Canadian city. A young woman, known to us here at The Interim, attended the Mass to pray for Trudeau, and to try to come to terms with his legacy from the perspective of her faith. [...]
Former Prime Minister's legacy is abortion on demand and judicial activism By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim A newspaper article in the fall of 1999 listed Pierre Elliot Trudeau as the most influential Canadian statesman of the twentieth century. The article was prompted by the former prime minister's 80th birthday, and by the frenzy of list-producing that accompanied the arrival of the year [...]