John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe says the question for pro-lifers is: 'Are you fighting abortion with your strong right arm or with your broken heart?' Interview by Sue Careless The Interim Editor: John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe, director of Pro-Life Century in Laytonsville, Maryland, has been called the fahter of the rescue movement, and is widely regarded as an authority on the principle of non-violence. A leading speaker [...]
By Alex Schadenberg The Interim In the recent article, "Successor to Alliance for Life Canada in the works" (Dec. 1999), I was quoted as being opposed to a new national educational pro-life organization. This is not entirely accurate. What I am convinced is necessary for the pro-life movement to be successful in the 21st century is that we develop a unified vision [...]
Ontario's pro-life students once again pledged their commitment to developing a right-to-life ethic among their peers during this fall's 11th annual Ontario Students for Life (OSFL) conference. More than 250 students from across the province took part in this year's gathering at Bishop Smith High School in Pembroke, titled "Get a life, eh!" Principal speakers included Angelina Steenstra, who runs a ministry [...]
Jorge Teles has some big shoes to fill as the new coordinator of Campaign Life Coalition's annual Christmas cake sale program. Also serving as director of the Yesterdays Treasures thrift shop in Toronto, Teles takes over from long-time cake sale coordinator Tom Brown, who died August 31. Brown had supervised CLC's cake sale effort for the last 10 years. Teles assumes control [...]
We didn't win the prize," said Saskatchewan Party leader Elwin Hermanson, "but we sure surprised the winners." That statement pretty well sums up the mood of Saskatchewan Party members after the September 16 provincial election. While polls, pundits and the media loudly proclaimed the inevitability of another majority NDP government, the people of this province spoke even louder. Premier Roy Romanow's predicted [...]
If the recent In Defence of Marriage and Family rally in Hamilton is any indication, Christians and social conservatives in Ontario are mad as heck and they aren't going to take it any more. Stunned by recent court rulings driving toward the decriminalization of the possession of child pornography and the alteration of the traditional definition of the family, about 300 people [...]
Anyone born after the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision is a survivor of the abortion holocaust, says a group of some 30 young adults who have sacrificed their summer to walk over 5,500 kilometres in recognition of the sanctity of life. When Pope John Paul II called on America's youth to stand up and defend life, at World Youth Day in Denver [...]
The story of an Ontario woman's trek across Canada to raise awareness of pro-life efforts will soon be available in book form. Therese Weiler, who walked from Newfoundland to British Columbia between April 1992 and August 1993, is eager to share her story with pro-life supporters throughout the country. Weiler's story, tentatively titled Fire Under Foot, will be published jointly by Campaign Life Coalition [...]
Adrian Keet, a longtime pro-life activist in his 80th year, is planning to walk from his hometown of Ingersoll, Ont. to Midland, Ont. and back again - a journey of approximately 600 kilometres - from Sept. 13 to Oct. 8. Readers might remember that in 1977 Mr. Keet walked from his then hometown of Wingham, Ont. to Ottawa (again, approximately 600 kilometres), [...]
Much will depend on them if young people, trained in true freedom, are to be able to preserve for themselves and make known to others new, authentic ideals of life. - Pope John Paul II, Evangelium vitae Young people have a unique call in building the culture of life. Their vitality, honesty, and willingness to serve can prove beneficial in a world [...]
I am writing this with a very red face. That is not due to embarrassment but to the fact that I have just returned from the "March for Life" in Ottawa, and we sat in the blazing sun for some three hours outside the Parliament Buildings. As most readers know, May 14 was the thirtieth anniversary of that "Day of Infamy" when [...]
New Tory premier promptly rebuffs Morgentaler New Brunswickers say it is too early to discern the bent of their new Conservative government elected on June 7, making 33-year-old Bernard Lord the youngest Canadian premier. Yet among social and moral conservatives there is cautious optimism that new blood will mean positive changes. The Tory victory was an unexpected landslide. Lord had been leading [...]
Victim has witnesses, licence plate of assailant, but officers say complaint ‘isn't going anywhere' On June 8 pro-life activist and Interim board member Bill Whatcott was assaulted and his sign was destroyed as he was demonstrating outside the Scott abortuary in downtown Toronto. Whatcott told The Interim that he was standing across the street from Scott's, peacefully bearing witness to what happens inside. He [...]
About 1,600 women, men and youth committed to the sanctity of life attended a Focus on Life dinner in Vancouver on May 10. The dinner launched Phase 1 of a three-week television campaign to let women know they have options if faced with a crisis pregnancy. The crowd was treated to a preview of three 30-second ads that began running last Friday [...]
Being heavily involved in youth ministry as well as pro-life work, it is often a challenge to keep those two worlds from colliding. "How can that be?" you might ask. Well, let me tell you. Everyone who strives to be active in the pro-life movement has a role to play in building a culture of life. But I have experienced situations where [...]