Family, colleagues, and fellow Christians rallied when freedom of the press was threatened By Sue Careless The Interim When there is danger for journalists, there is danger for freedom, danger for democracy. UNESCO Secretary-General Frederico Mayor, in awarding the World Press Freedom Award 2000 to Jesus Blancornelas, a Mexican journalist shot by the drug traffickers he was exposing "The Lord hear thee [...]
Program enables women to choose life and continue their education By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim The Rosalie Hall Foundation has added scholarships to its range of services to young women in crisis pregnancies. The scholarships, eligible to up to 10 high-achieving graduates of the Rosalie Hall secondary school program, enable young mothers to continue their education at the college or university level. [...]
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 [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim Pro-lifers around the world are worried about the British courts setting a precedent that appears not only to allow but to dictate the killing of a young child to save the life of her sister. On Aug. 25, the English High Court ruled that "Jodie" and "Mary," conjoined or "Siamese" twins born earlier that month, were to [...]
Divisions among Catholics over church sponsorship continue By Paul Tuns The Interim The World March for Women 2000, a feminist event that has caused tremendous controversy within the Catholic Church in Canada, wrapped up its activities Oct. 15-17. The Canadian march committee led a demonstration on Parliament Hill and presented a list of demands to the Prime Minister, while the global contingent [...]
Jakki Jeffs, on the pro-life challenge: As pro-lifers, we're behind the rock, and we think we have to move the rock … but our job is to be faithful, to get out there … and together, we're all there behind that rock, and one of these days God is going to come and say, ‘Faithful servant, let Me do the job.' Merle [...]
By Mike Girard The Interim After breakfast Thursday morning I was off to the Annual General Meeting of Alliance for Life Ontario. I met Jakki Jeffs and we shared remembrances of our meeting in Sault Ste. Marie a few years ago. Soon the room was full and the "business of the day" carried us along for the next full hour. I tried [...]
By Ted Gerk The Interim Mary Wagner didn't plan on going to jail this week. The 26-year-old pro-life activist found herself under arrest at 11:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 25, as officers from the Delta Police Force responded to a warrant for her arrest. It was, in fact, the second such arrest for Wagner, since her release after being charged under British [...]
Rosemary Connell also in prison awaiting trial for pro-life witness at Toronto abortuary By Tony Gosnach The Interim Linda Gibbons is to stand trial Nov. 28 on a charge related to her latest challenge of a temporary injunction prohibiting pro-life activity outside Ontario abortuaries. Gibbons was arrested along with Rosemary Connell outside the Scott Clinic on Gerrard Street East in Toronto Oct. [...]
By Tim Bloedow The Interim Planned Parenthood has probably had better days. Facing setbacks at the local level and even to their international operation, the national branch in Canada is also facing an attack. Not long ago, the pro-abortion purveyor of sex education and contraceptives was seen as unassailable by many of its opponents, having become entrenched as the organization of preference [...]
Even the media are growing weary of the government as Canadians prepare to cast their ballots By Paul Tuns The Interim The Liberal Party is adrift in a sea of arrogance which some observers hope will finally lead to a chastisement at the polls. The mainstream, often times sycophantic media has even criticized Prime Minister Jean Chretien for his last minute manipulations [...]
Editorial The Interim, Nov. 2000 The basic principle of pro-life voting is the following: being pro-abortion (or "pro-choice") disqualifies a person for public office. This includes those who claim to be "personally opposed" to abortion, but are unwilling to do anything to stop it. The right to life is the fundamental human right, on which every other right depends. It follows that [...]
Party Policy Although the Liberal Party has never voted on abortion as party policy, the party as a whole is staunchly pro-abortion, leading Prime Minister Jean Chretien to declare on two occasions this year that "We Liberals support a woman's right to choose." The official Liberal Party response to the CLC Election 2000 questionnaire states that "the Liberal Party supports a woman's [...]