Pro-abortion criminality is never made the federal case that pro-life criminality is. Perhaps it is so common that it is not considered newsworthy and a pro-life memorial getting vandalized probably should not warrant national attention. But regardless of the level of criminality by pro-aborts -- never mind the law-breaking taking place in the abortion facilities that Live Action has recently exposed -- it is hardly ever reported beyond the [...]
From our June issue: "Conservatives win majority, but don’t expect much to change." The primary benefit for social conservatives with Harper's majority is that the pro-life movement and pro-family forces should not have to fight defensive battles for the next four years. But at some point, social conservatives should ask the Conservative Party "what have you done for me lately"? It was not surprising [...]
Last week his colleauges in Parliament elected Conservative MP Andrew Scheer as the Speaker of the House of Commons. As LifeSiteNews.com reported today, Scheer is rated pro-life and pro-family by Campaign Life Coalition. In 2009, we had a profile of Scheer in our paper. At the time he said he was unsure if he would run for Speaker, but expressed a strong interest in procedure. However, the [...]
Thomas Friedman trots out the over-population argument as part of his New York Times column "The Earth is full." There are too many people and the world is getting hotter and food prices are increasing and productivity is improving which aggravates climate change and the over-populated planet can't deal with it and so on and so forth. It is a vicious cycle, if you believe these nattering nabobs [...]
Material from our special coverage of Fr. Ted Colleton, a Canadian pro-life hero who passed away in April, is now online. We have an editorial, obituary (with photos), brief remembrances from various pro-life leaders, and excerpts from Fr. Ted's books. He was an Interim columnist for 25 years and an early benefactor and without his support in the 1980s, we would not be around today. This [...]
Americans United for Life is using a video campaign to encourage people to get behind the effort to defund the billion-dollar Planned Parenthood organization. The American Independent has the story. About one-third of PP's revenues come from various levels of government (federal, state and city). AUL president Charmaine Yoest quotes Rep. Mike Pence, who says it is time to let the abortion providers provide for [...]
Jack Kevorkian died last Friday. I am at something of a loss to add anything to what Andrea Mrozek said: "You always knew this was coming. It’s just hard to know what to say when a man like that dies. It takes a bit of a psychopath to kill over 100 people and then have 'no regrets' about that." It is hard to watch [...]
Ethics and Public Policy Center Fellow James C. Capretta has a must-read essay on "The Demographics of Social Security" which is sub-titled "Why Entitlement Reform Needs a Fertility Boost." The essential point is that America is not producing enough kids to produce enough workers to support the welfare state. In brief, there are too many retirees living off too few workers ("As fertility falls, [...]
Ottawa Citizen columnist David Warren on the relationship between Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his large social conservative base: Now, Harper made a fairly explicit pact with all the millions of Canadian "social conservatives," including those in his own caucus. It was, "Support me, and I will give you nothing." This compared favourably with what the other parties were offering: more [...]
Add Kathy Ireland's name to the list of people who don't think Washington should fund abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood. National Review reports she said: "There are non-profits that I’m involved with, and we don’t get government funding ... We go out there, and if you really believe in this strongly enough to fight it for it, go get the funding." Beyond [...]
For the past few months we have been linking to Interim contributor Harley Price's series of essays on The Atheist Delusion. Last month, the final instalment was posted. A taste: Today, radical Islam has in common with [John] Lennon that it has likewise imagined a world without religion: specifically, without Christianity and Judaism. In their avidity to eradicate every vestige of Christian culture, from crucifixes [...]
For the first time, Gallup has a majority of respondents supporting same-sex "marriage". The question is pretty straightforward, so the results are not tied to a faulty or biased question. I think that this represents a legitimate tilt in American public opinion. Does that mean Washington or the states should jump on board to permit homosexual marriage? Absolutely not. First, morality is [...]
EFC Legal Counsel Faye Sonier gave an excellent, three-minute speech at the National March for Life in Ottawa last week. You can watch it here.
Last week 15,000 Canadians took part in the largest annual demonstration on Parliament Hill, marking Canada's Day of Infamy and demanding justice for the unborn. (On May 13, 1969 Canada effectively legalized abortion-on-demand.) LifeSiteNews reports on the National March for Life and the media coverage it received. For years the media largely ignored the march, but when 15,000 people show up on the step of Parliament, [...]
The National March for Life will be held in Ottawa tomorrow, May 12. There are also provincial marches for life across most of the country. If you cannot attend any of them, you can watch live online. And Ottawa mayor Jim Watson has proclaimed that May 12 be honored as ‘Respect for Life Day’ in the city. As Andrea Mrozek said, "I can’t [...]