German unification took on a new meaning when pro-lifers from both (former) East and (former) West Berlin marched November 21, 1990 through the centre of the city. At one o’clock in the afternoon, four to five thousand people assembled outside St. Hedwig’s Cathedral in what was once East Berlin. Speakers included the Bishop of Berlin and pro-life leaders. A special guest was [...]
The Assembly of Quebec Bishops (AEQ) has outlined several conditions for an independent Quebec in a submission to the Quebec Belanger-Campeau Commission. The Commission has been holding hearings on constitutional changes. Most of the submissions so far have favoured a sovereign Quebec state. In a brief presented on November 13, three representatives of the AEQ explained that ‘reform’ would require the following: [...]
What is meant by ‘organic farming’? L.W., Toronto This is a development which some scientists see as a part of the ‘Brave New World.’ It is suggested that human beings could be developed for their ‘spare parts’. Women would be paid to have babies which would be aborted in order that they be cannibalized when doctors ‘harvested’ their organs—heart, liver, pancreas, etc. [...]
As all book reviewers know, sometimes the biggest chore is preserving to read the book through to the end. Because I’m asked to review many ‘lifestyle’ books—about families, divorce, children, grief, etc.—a lot of trite and ‘junk-food’ genre publications come across my desk. So it’s with great delight I draw The Interim readers’ attention to a new publication Nazareth, a Catholic Family [...]
Johanna Rubin, M.D., writing in the August/September 1990 editionof the American Life League (ALL), All about issues, reports that a landmark medical achievement could revolutionize prenatal medicine. Pre-born baby Doctors at the University of California in San Francisco repaired a hole in the diaphragm of a 24-week old male pre-born baby, which allowed parts of a stomach, spleen and intestines to crowd [...]
The following letter, dated November 28, was addressed to Mr. John Carroll of Thunder Bay, Ontario who is the Chairman of families and Friends of the Handicapped. Mr. Carroll is pro-life. In 1990 he appeared before the House of Commons Committee on Bill C-43 objecting to the proposed legislation. Recently he wrote the editor of Scarboro Missions, a monthly magazine ostensibly devoted [...]
Pro-life activists, like everyone else, are concerned about war. On the surface nothing is more anit-life than war. Yet ours is a different perspective from that of political commentators, be they professionals or amateurs. We are not about to bestow darts or laurels on one or other party in the Gulf. Nor are we prepared to judge whether war or sanctions is [...]
There is a joking reference often made over a beer in Queen’s University’s pubs about the increasing number of homosexual and lesbian activists at the university that goes something like this: “They don’t call Queen’s University Queen’s for nothing.” If taken out of the pubs to the public domain, this tasteless joke would likely have all those who dare to utter it [...]
Under the headline “Witness in demand around the world,” New Zealand’s national pro-life paper, Humanity reported the following about Dr. Philip Ney of Victoria, B.C. “In a feat of endurance, Professor Philip Ney of Canada gave expert evidence in two court cases on opposite sides of the world last month—within two days of each other. “Dr. Ney, a professor of psychiatry from [...]
Nancy Beth Cruzan, a 33-year-old Missouri woman reported to be in a coma since a 1983 car accident, died December 26, 1990, in Mount Vernon, Missouri, 12 days after the liquid diet fed to her through a stomach tube was stopped. Pro-life activists who opposed this action maintained that Miss Cruzan was not in a coma. She was not terminally ill, they [...]
In the last attempt to prevent our country from falling into a tragic error, The Interim sent the following statement to all Canadian senators. Interim editor Fr. Alphonse de Valk appeared before the Senate Committee on Legislation on January 21, 1991 and submitted the same statement In a word swirling with pragmatic accommodations to evils of one kind or another, it is [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration December 10, approved the first new contraceptive device since the IUD was introduced in the 1960s. Developed by the New York-based Population Council and marketed by the pharmaceutical giant Wyeth-Ayerst of Philadelphia, the device, called Norplant, consists of six matchstick-size rods that are implanted just under the skin. These rods time-release a hormone into the woman’s [...]
AT HOME Just working girls Alexandre Highcrest, the AIDS-Educator with the Toronto-based Prostitutes for Sage Sex Project (PSSP), writes in the most recent issue of The New Facts of Life, the newsletter of the Canadian Public Health Association: “We advocate a positive attitude towards sex, sexuality, and sex trade workers, and we’re constantly trying to educate the public as to the realities [...]
City Council in St. John’s, Newfoundland recently overruled an appeal board that had declared the new Morgentaler abortuary suitable for the area it was operating in. Six out of the eight sitting councilors voted to overrule the appeal board, pro-life councilor Dorothy Wyatt told The Interim. Eviction notice Council is resisting a threatening letter from Morgentaler’s lawyers (all the way from Cambridge, [...]
A recent decision by the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons to allow Henry Morgentaler to establish an abortuary in Alberta has been met by outrage and opposition from pro-life groups in the province. Campaign Life Coalition President Lorraine Stark was especially critical of the College’s decision, noting that she had presented well-documented information about Morgentaler’s “questionable medical practices” to the College [...]