The New York state senate will consider S438-2013, legislation proposed to expand abortion services in the Empire State, and supported by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who will likely run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. Cardinal Timothy Dolan has condemned the bill and the Catholic Conference has issued a document with point-by-point criticism of the bill. According to Americans United [...]
I want to thank all our readers of both the dead tree and online versions of The Interim for your support. We hope that you have a merry Christmas and peaceful holiday. We'll be off until the second week of January to recharge our batteries for 2013. Some of the December issue still has to be posted, but that will probably be [...]
Stephen Woodworth. An obvious choice. It is the only second time The Interim has named a Person of the Year since I've become editor in 2001. The first? Ezra Levant in 2008 when he took on the human rights commission industry.
There is so much discussion about the attempt to take Christ out of Christmas. The expunging of the word and the spirit is regrettable of course. I wonder, however, if we’re missing the point. One doesn’t have to be a Christian to be a supporter of life, but it’s impossible to doubt that most in the pro-life community are indeed Christian, and [...]
There were many recent headlines about a study suggesting that homosexuality stems not from genetics, but epigenetics. The original study hasn't been released, except perhaps to io9.com, which has a story seemingly more complete than the abstract or press release of the study on which it is reporting. Sheepcat has an excellent, long post on the issue and what the study says [...]
The Daily Beast reports on the decline of the war on Christmas : Jon Stewart recently introduced his annual skewering of the “war on Christmas” with a montage of Fox News personalities breathlessly reporting the latest outrages against the holiday’s religious origins. “Let’s face facts,” Stewart said. “The annual Fox ‘war on Christmas’ has become a little predictable.” And: How did this [...]
As LifeSiteNews.com reports, a group of students at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia are suing their school's student association after it rejected their application to form an officially sanctioned pro-life club. LSN reports: "The student union has adopted an officially pro-abortion stance, an increasingly common occurrence on Canadian campuses. They claim recognizing a pro-life club would violate policy." Sadly, such stories are [...]
You hear about Savita Halappanavar endlessly, who supposedly died due to lack of access to legal abortion. The abortion rights movement and its media allies present the deaths of women in places where abortion is not legal as evidence that it should be permitted in order to save women's lives. However, you never hear about the women who die after procuring legal abortion, [...]
The very fact that the term bestiality is being replaced by "zoophilia" is evidence that the act is becoming normalized as the (new) latter term attempts to overcome the (justifiably) negative connotations of the former. Yet even before bestiality becomes officially okay, one European country is taking the leap to animal prostitution. J. Christian Adams at PJ Media notes: If you ever wondered [...]
Timothy Cardinal Dolan of New York, writes in the New York Post about Thanksgiving in which he mentions how he and others he was with during a trip to the Netherlands on New Year's Eve. Everything closes that evening, so he was left without a restaurant to eat at. The hotel owner had Dolan's party join his family for a meal, conversation and prayers. Cardinal Dolan [...]
LifeSiteNews.com reports: The UNFPA’s 2012 annual report, which declared birth control a “human right,” was released this week. It states that UN general comments are “the authoritative interpretation of the standards” that “help translate the right to family planning at the abstract…level into policies and programs.” Not only is birth control -- many of which are abortifacient -- declared a human right, but the United [...]
There is a unique argument by William J. Haun at First Things on why those who believe in limited government should oppose expanding the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples. It sounds counter-intuitive, but it is not. Haun says that, "The new basis of marriage, same-sex marriage advocates tell us, is not procreation or sexual difference, but love. For them, the personal promises [...]
Tim Carney begins his Washington Examiner column: As an old saw has it, "your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose." The Obama administration says your right to live as a Christian ends if you go into business. Christian institutions will be required to provide employees insurance that includes coverage for abortifacient contraception even if it violates [...]
In October, we ran a feature story on the Democrats fully embracing its Party of Death status, running on an extreme pro-abortion position. As Rory Leishman noted in his column, for pro-life and pro-family voters in the United States, the choice between the candidates (Mitt Romney and Barack Obama) is clear. I also have a review of several books that show Obama [...]
It is pretty standard for pro-life candidates to be asked about the rape and incest exception and for pro-life candidates to be asked about how they would handle a child having an abortion. But candidates who support abortion are never asked difficult questions probing the limits of their position. Trevin Wax at the Gospel Coalition has a list of "10 questions a pro-choice [...]