Paul Tuns: Presenting to the UAE World Governments Summit 2025 by video conference, the world’s richest man and President Donald Trump’s right-hand man Elon Musk envisioned a future in which humanoid robots directed by “deep intelligence” would produce a nearly infinite array of products and services that would render money meaningless. The answer came from a question at the United Arab Emirates [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I came across an Instagram reel of a massive centipede-like creature in the desert and the only reason I thought it was generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is because I have never—in my over 28 years on this planet—seen anything like it before, which made me wonder if, had I been younger, I would [...]
By J.M. Glover: Billboards and the ‘culture of fear’ True North Centre reported that the mega-giant Pattison Outdoor billboard company has “cancelled a contract” with the Manitoba pro-life group, Life Culture, saying that the requested image “creates too much controversy” and that the company received “a lot of back-lash for similar designs in the past.” What is controversial about a picture of [...]
Mary Zwicker: The Spanish Ministry of Social Rights proposed a new law to extend human rights to apes (chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas) due to their “genetic closeness” to human beings. A European country has proposed to extend certain human rights to apes while the lives of unborn babies remain unprotected in their society. In Spain, where unborn children can be [...]
The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No Carl Elliott (Norton, $39.99, 355 pages) Medical ethics professor Carl Elliott’s The Occasional Human Sacrifice is unlikely to engender greater trust in the medical profession as it explores six controversial cases in which medical researchers treated human beings as guinea pigs. Often the patients consented to the interventions, albeit without [...]
On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service Anthony Fauci, M.D. (Viking, $48, 464 pages) The autobiography of Anthony Fauci, the public face of both the Trump and Biden White House responses to COVID, provides plenty of fodder for both fans and critics of Fauci’s handling of the pandemic. The books’ errors of fact and evasion of controversies might be forgivable but [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Often claiming to be as essential as penicillin, the pro-abortion movement claims to be an evidence-based and medically necessary treatment. A US-based study published on June 30, 2024 in the Medical Research Archives by the European Society of Medicine revealed insufficient data in abortion-related studies, thereby calling into question the medical basis for pro-abortion policy. Researchers James Studnicki, ScD, and [...]
Rory Leishman: According to the latest, most reliable information on COVID 19 vaccines, are they ethical? Have they really been a safe and effective means of drastically reducing hospitalizations and deaths due to the COVID-19 virus? Consider, first, the ongoing controversy over the ethics of the Moderna and Pfizer-BionTech mRNA vaccines. Some well-meaning, but misguided, pro-lifers maintain that no one in good [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Houston, you have a problem. This past May, one of your own, “strongly pro-life” Texas senators Ted Cruz (R) co-sponsored a bill to protect access to IVF. Actually, Houston, we have a lot of problems, because Cruz is far from the only big “pro-life” name to come out in support of in [...]
Leire Douros: Tracy Polewczuk of Quebec was born with spina bifida, a birth defect that causes weak bones. Recently she told CTV that twice she was told of her eligibility to be euthanized despite not initiating the topic herself. Several years ago, Polewczuk suffered an accident which caused her leg to break. She hasn’t been able to heal properly which requires her [...]
By J.M. Glover: Dermot Kearney: Pro-life hero Dr. Dermot Kearney, a British Catholic cardiologist who spoke at the National March for Life in May, has been honoured for his work on the medical abortion pill reversal (APR). (See The Interim, June 2024.) In April, he received the Anton Neuwirth Prize for the Protection of Life Award in Slovakia “for providing medical care [...]
Paul Tuns: A short, animated video, “It’s OK,” created by Choice42 shows how preborn victims of abortion are used to create fetal cell lines used in the medical and cosmetics industries. The 4:39 video, which can be viewed for free at Choice42’s website or on YouTube, starts with doctors taking tissue from “Ellie” a baby killed through abortion more than 60 years [...]
Joanna Alphonso: Treatments for anti-aging, psoriasis, and eczema may be tainted by the use of fetal tissue originating from aborted babies. Human Life International (HLI) produced Which Cosmetics Use Fetal Cells, a free e-book outlining the use of fetal cells in cosmetics. According to their United States-based research, they have not found any companies that use fetal cells in their products. They [...]
Home Hospice Association prenatal and perinatal hospice with services available in cities including Cambridge, Guelph, Hamilton-Halton, Kitchener, Niagara, Ottawa, Toronto. Alberta Calgary: Alberta Children's Hospital Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Service, also accepting referrals for perinatal hospice. Contact: Clinical nurse specialist Kathryn da Silva, (403) 955-5460. Calgary Family Physician Navigator program, accepting referrals (from physicians or self-referrals) for family physician support to [...]
Joanna Alphonso: If choosing death for one’s child is health care, choosing life for that same child must also be health care. But how accessible is the health care choice for life for women when facing a prenatal diagnosis of severe illness and likely death shortly after birth? Palliative care, according to SickKids Hospital in Toronto, expands beyond end-of-life care, as many [...]