By Jane Richard The Interim Pro-choice clergy to speak at local meeting," read the headline in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record - "Four religious leaders will lend their voices to the heated abortion issue, making an argument seldom heard in local religious circles. Representing the Anglican, Catholic, Mennonite, and Unitarian faiths, the speakers will be part of Planned Parenthood's "Religious Voices for Choice" event on [...]
Delta, B.C. sidewalk counsellor Mary Wagner has grown up ‘living and breathing pro-life' By Paul Tuns The Interim Mary Wagner is an unassuming young woman who has found herself both on the front-lines of the abortion struggle and behind bars for her beliefs, but there is no sign that she is about to quit. Indeed, her fight against the injustice of abortion [...]
It's played between ordinary, struggling human beings and an abstract notion of a preferred lifestyle By Donald DeMarco The Interim In what many critics consider to be Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece, The Seventh Seal(1956), a disillusioned knight, returning from the Crusades, encounters Death. The two sit down to a game of chess, the stakes being the knight's life. The scene, in which the knight, [...]
But UBC pro-lifers continue free speech fight By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Pro-life students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) are not giving up in their battle to win freedom of expression. As of late February, students with Lifeline, the UBC pro-life organization, hired lawyer Craig Jones of the BC Civil Liberties Association, to represent them in a lawsuit against the [...]
By Anna Halpine The Interim The North American Youth Alliance (NAYA) held their first meeting in Washington D.C. at the end of January. Represented were many of the pro-life, pro-family youth leaders from across North America, as well as representatives from local and regional organizations. The meeting heralded the beginning of the NAYA, a network of youth groups and organizations in North [...]
I sat down to write this column and as I was thinking about what to say, I realized that it was going to be in the January, 2000 issue of The Interim. Yes indeed, this would be my first column for the new year - and for a new millennium! And then, all of a sudden, I thought, "If there is a [...]
As I pen these words an anniversary is upon us. A date in history that most of you will not remember. It's probably a meaningless date to you, in a movement that sadly has to endure many distressing anniversaries. But there's one more I need to thrust upon you: January 23, 1986. On that day 18-year old Erin Shannon paid the ultimate [...]
Her choice To Heal: Finding spiritual and emotional peace after abortion by Sydna Masse and Joan Phillips (Chariot Victor Publishing, 1998). Softcover, 122 pages. Distributed in Canada by Cook Communications in Paris, Ont. Reviewed by Deborah James-Josipovic The Interim "We are everywhere. We are in churches. We are in shopping centers. We are in grocery stores. We are in daycare centers. We [...]
By Ted Gerk The Interim Soft-spoken Anita Parker was born to Thomas and Maureen Egan on July 13, 1934. Graduating from school in 1952, Anita began her career at a Catholic school in Cannock, Staffordshire, England. In 1954, Anita met her future husband Bill. They were married on Sept. 3, 1955. Moving to Canada in 1970, the Parkers quickly moved into [...]
Media showing new squeamishness in covering the issue The United States Senate voted 63-34 to end the grisly practice of partial-birth abortion (PBA) but ended up four votes short of a veto-proof majority. Since 1995, both houses of Congress have voted to ban PBA, and each time President Bill Clinton has vetoed the ban. On Oct. 20, 1999 the Senate once again [...]
National Campus Life Network symposium draws leaders from across the country By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Canada's pro-life university students have emerged from a trying year with a renewed commitment to defending human life on campuses across the country. An optimistic tone prevailed at this year's National Campus Life Network (NCLN) symposium, January 14-16 at St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto. More [...]
By Donald DeMarco The Interim John Irving is a well-known novelist and short story writer. He established his reputation in 1978 with The World According to Garp, which was made into a film in 1982. In his latest book, My Movie Business: A Memoir (Knopf, 1999), he presents his view on abortion and his attitude toward right-to-life advocates in the following [...]
World-wide abortion mortality statistics problem exposed By Isabelle Bégin The Interim To this day, certain members of the world health and political community have accepted or tolerated legal abortion because it was deemed "safe" for women. How was this conclusion drawn? Because very few deaths are ever reported under the category of abortion in cause-of-death publications throughout the world. And why is [...]
Question: Why do your pro-life groups refuse to compromise and allow some abortions, e.g. of seriously handicapped babies? You would save some lives. One Oxford dictionary definition of the word compromise is, "to modify one's principles." The pro-life principle is that to abort a baby - conceived but not yet born - is to kill a child. The pre-born child's life belongs [...]
Constitutional challenge to be launched Jan. 4 A Vancouver lawyer is mounting a novel challenge to British Columbia's bubble-zone law that invokes, among other things, the supremacy of God and the issue of federal-provincial jurisdiction. Pro-life activist Donald Spratt was arrested Dec. 17, 1998 for carrying a large cross outside an abortuary with a sign that read "Thou shall not kill." His [...]