By Grace Petrasek The Interim The outside of the building needs a facelift and the inside needs fixing, but now Fredericton has a much needed crisis pregnancy center. Located next door to the well-appointed downtown abortuary, in the area that encompasses a Catholic church, a public school and gathering places for many of the city's 5,000 university students, the new Mother and [...]
By Margaret Bright The Interim They say the future of the pro-life movement lays in the hands of our young people. One hundred young adults kept this in mind as they attended the eleventh annual Youth Pro-Life Conference held in Surrey, British Columbia last weekend. After a few "break-the-ice" games and prayer led by Fr. Tom Lynch of St. Augustine's Seminary in [...]
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 [...]
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 John-Henry Westen The Interim The United Nations Millennium Summit, the largest gathering of world leaders in history, concluded in New York Sept. 8. The Summit Declaration, a statement agreed to by a vote of the vast majority of world leaders, is regarded by the United Nations as having "sketched out clear directions for adapting the organization to its role in the [...]
By Paul Tuns An American pro-life group is declaring a partial victory against Microsoft founder Bill Gates one year after beginning an education campaign directed at the billionaire's funding of population control programs. From September to November 1999, the American Life League (ALL) ran ads, entitled Windows to the Truth, in the Eastside Journal in suburban Seattle, as part of their Educate Bill [...]
By Doreen Beagan For eighty years, the Catholic Women's League in all corners of Canada has served God and country in ways great and small. The League's range of concerns and support for worthwhile causes are well known. Its 105,000 members make its voice very strong. Resolutions passed at this year's national convention in Charlottetown included opposition to the sale of human [...]
By Paul Tuns The Interim The United States House of Representatives is considering a law that would protect newly born infants, including those who survive abortions. The Born-Alive Infants Protection Act would guarantee that babies who survived abortion attempts have the same legal rights as other newborns and that they could not be killed with impunity. According to the Act, a child [...]
By Linda Wegner The Interim In June, pharmacists from across Canada gathered in Saskatoon for their annual convention. Maria Bezecki and Mike Izzoti, both pharmacists active in the pro-life movement, travelled to the event with serious concerns about the erosion of their professional right to refuse to dispense drugs based on their freedom of conscience and religion. Nothing happened to alleviate those [...]
By Susan Schadenberg The Interim Editor's note: As The Interim went to print, the Catholic Women's League of Canada was about to begin its annual conference, held this year in Charlottetown beginning August 13. It is expected that the CWL national executive's endorsement of the pro-abortion World March of Women 2000 will be the subject of heated debate. A full report will [...]
Stabbing incident provides pro-abortion groups with ideal propaganda tool By Paul Tuns The Interim The July 11 stabbing of Vancouver abortionist Garson Romalis was denounced by pro-life groups across the country, but that hasn't stopped the abortion industry from milking the incident for all its propaganda value. In a July 12 press release, Canadian Physicians for Life president Dr. Robert Pankratz condemned [...]
By Linda Wegner The Interim In a first-in-Canada decision, members of the Manitoba Pharmaceutical Association recently endorsed the right of pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions they believe are morally inappropriate and which violate their commitment to provide care for all members of the public. Ronald Guse, association registrar for the Manitoba College of Pharmacists, referred to the existing standards which give [...]
Marie Vandenberg The Interim A motion to dissociate the Ontario Catholic Women's League from the World March of Women 2000 was defeated 71 to 43, with 6 abstentions, during the CWL's provincial conference in Waterloo July 9-12. The feminist anti-poverty event, which has received the endorsement of the CWL's national leadership, as well as the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, became the [...]
By Tim Bloedow The Interim Feminists at the University of Quebec recently spent (or at least were given to spend) $98,000 of Canadian taxpayers money to research the apparently dangerous involvement of "right-wing anti-feminist groups" at the United Nations. They have released an initial report, prepared by Anick Druelle, and many pro-lifers aren't sure whether to greet it with humour or outrage; [...]